open sea

Chapter 841
If Almansa was sober, he would definitely not make such a request with Chen Mu.

He had just learned an idiom in Changsheng called seeking skin from a tiger.

However, Chen Mu's agreement was quite sincere.

He is indeed sincere.

People's decisions are often related to their positions. Chen Mu's identity determines his position. Decision-making should be based on the pros and cons for Ming Dynasty or China's future.

If it is necessary to go to war, he will bring his ancestors to fight until the end of time. No treaty or constraint is useless. It is not because Chen Mu has no spirit of contract, but his view of contract is different from ordinary people.

"Only the weak will treat the treaty as a constraint on the strong. The strong use false constraints to provide the weak with a false sense of security in order to achieve what they want. It is a contract between countries. Human beings have always been barbaric and have never changed."

The thinner Zou Yuanbiao looked a lot better, but Chen Mu still didn't like it so much. The county magistrate curled his lips and whispered to Zhao Shizhen, "You are so virtuous, you can't do it!"

Chen Mu sobered up, and Almansa was already on the road. Everyone was chatting about Almansa's 'script'. Since it was small talk, let alone Zou Yuanbiao, it was normal for him to speak freely.

"speak loudly!"

Chen Mu glanced at Zou Shouzi angrily, and said with his hand: "Virtue, virtue is very important, justice is also very important, and the inner satisfaction brought by a noble personality is especially important, but in the face of war, you have to take a step back."

As he spoke, Chen Mu raised his eyebrows, looked at Zou Yuanbiao and asked, "Who is the justice in this war between Ming and Xi?"

Yang Tingxiang hesitated to speak, and then listened to Zou Yuanbiao: "It is me! The Westerners only occupy this place but they don't love the scholars and the people. They expropriate so violently that the people's resentment boils. Only under the wrath of heaven and the people's resentment is our heavenly army going eastward to uphold justice!"

What Zou Yuanbiao said was so impassioned that Chen Mu almost felt it was true, but he still shook his head and said, "It's all just to fool the enemy in the written statement, do you really think so?"

"If it's not with me..." Zou Yuanbiao's expression turned ugly, "Could it be that he's still in the West?"

Chen Mu curled his lips and said: "I am from the Ming Dynasty, and in my opinion, justice naturally lies in the Ming Dynasty; Bernal is a Spaniard, and in his opinion, justice naturally lies in Spain; but everyone forgets that we are all outsiders , the justice of this war should be in the hands of the natives, why do I not feel their presence when I step on other people's land?"

Chen Mu thought he was logical, so he paused after speaking and waited for the effect of shocking everyone, but saw that Zou Yuanbiao looked normal, and blinked as if he was waiting for Chen Mu to say something. Seeing it, he said without even thinking: "Yes, justice belongs to the natives, and the natives belong to the Celestial Dynasty, and justice——is still mine!"

Now it was Chen Mu's turn to be dazed. The crux of the problem was that what Zou Yuanbiao said... seemed very reasonable.

Suddenly he realized that he had entered Zou Yuanbiao's bickering strengths, so he simply skipped the topic and concluded, "In the final analysis, it depends on whether the fist is big or not, and it has nothing to do with virtue. Only those with strong Arhat arms are worthy of having Bodhisattvas." Compassionate."

"Before I went to sea, I said that our cause may not be just. It will be left to future generations to judge, but I know that even if future generations say that we are full of evil, they will secretly thank us from the bottom of their hearts."

"Morality is not important. It is enough to stick to the fundamentals of being a human being and draw a bottom line between morality and greed."

Chen Mu's hypocrisy affects his every move. He knows what happened to the colonized countries in the world when the unjust war was carried out in this era in the world where Daming did not go to sea again.

It was disappointing that the scourge did not come, and they lived well for hundreds of years after that.

When you are strong, you are stronger than anyone else. Even if you are in decline, self-protection is still not a problem. The people live comfortably. If you have money, you can climb the technology tree. If your own smart people are not enough, you can hire your smart people to climb the tree and lead every step of the way. .

Even if you have no money, you can still play some art, after all, the investment in this thing is small.

Human beings have always been barbaric. If this kind of creature becomes civilized, it is not that he is really civilized, but that civilization is more beneficial to him. Once the environment is unfavorable, civilized people will quickly take off their coats to reveal their barbaric nature.

But Chen Mu didn't intend to get involved in their evil activities.

Zou Yuanbiao looked at Chen Mu suspiciously, and said, "Then the commander-in-chief really doesn't plan to send troops when Xiguo threatens us? It will damage the prestige of the country if you just cover your head like this!"

It's detrimental to the country's prestige.

"No, it has nothing to do with whether you agree to them or not. Who dares Ming to be a mine supervisor when the Spaniards are gone? Are you going?"

This is Chen Mu's sticking to the bottom line between morality and greed. He doesn't want people to dig, but someone has to dig. Either you dig or he digs or I dig. Not enough.

Let him force you to dig, I will not hurt you, I will hurt him.

Chen Mu's logic is simple and rough, which can only reduce the guilt in his heart, but he shook his head very firmly: "When the time comes to make trouble, he will threaten if he wants to. Who among us doesn't know that Daming doesn't like this. The Spaniards listen, let them play by themselves."

"When the time comes to Chen Bing's border, scare him to death!"

Chen Mu said something jokingly, then waved his hands and said, "Okay, then we will relax in terms of the situation for a while. The West Country is going to focus on Portugal, but we have a lot of work to do, so let's do our best."

"First of all, the ports in the five counties have all been repaired, and they need to add shipyards. Changsheng needs to add three, Jincheng two, and Youjing and Jiexian each have one. They can repair warships and build small boats with less than [-] materials. That’s fine, Changsheng and Jincheng must be able to build big ships.”

As soon as Chen Mu opened his mouth, everyone started to work. This feeling was actually quite annoying. Zhao Shizhen still had a smirk mocking Zou Yuanbiao on his face. Suddenly, he instinctively took out a small notebook and wrote down two lines. After realizing it, he quickly put away the smile on his face.

"Secondly is the Military Weapons Bureau. Jincheng should establish armor casting workshops, blunderbuss workshops, and cannon casting workshops in places with rivers. There is nitrate soil busy boiling nitrate in Jincheng, and there is sulfur in the south of Mexico City. Soon there will be gunpowder workshops. gone."

Zou Yuanbiao bowed his hands in response, looking very tired, and said: "I have all the armor, cannon, gunpowder, and gunpowder. Commander—where's the iron?"

There are too few iron mines here, not to mention the operation of the three iron-consuming workshops, and even the blacksmiths are not enough to manage farm tools once the immigrants come.

"The imperial court transported some. We can use those first, and let the Westerners send them later. There are also boats. As long as the Western Kingdom can afford the price, I can sell them all the guns and warships."

Not to mention Zou Yuanbiao now, even Yang Tingxiang's eyes changed, and he hurriedly said: "You mustn't do it, commander. The guns can still be sold, but this warship is a powerful weapon of the country, and it must never be sold. If you buy it, you will fight it back." So what about me?"

Chen Mu smiled: "If you sell a ship, the price must be right. The money you earn can make another three or five ships. The more you sell, the more warships we can build, and we can train more skilled shipwrights. , if their shipbuilding industry can’t compete with ours, it will decline, and they won’t be able to build good ships over time.”

(End of this chapter)