open sea

Chapter 865 Manuscripts
Chen Mu really didn't want to go to war with Spain, otherwise the friction on the border would be an excellent excuse to send troops.

"They killed our four people, why didn't they send troops to drive them away - the commander would rather teach them to go to the village and lead the people to practice than let them fight."

Don't look at Zhao Shizhen who is so bullish in front of foreign envoys. In Asia, he looks like the second child, Chen Mu, the third child, or the fourth child, but when he enters the military government office, he is like a complaining little daughter-in-law, talking loudly There's no end to it.

Just about the death of four common people, from morning to night, he could say it eight hundred times a day. Chen Mu pretended he didn't hear it, but he wasn't angry with Zhao Shizhen either.

Now there is an atmosphere of anti-Westernism in the entire Dongyang Military Mansion, from immigrants to officials and then to the Beiyang Army, it seems to have reversed the previous mentality in Nanyang.

At that time, Chen Mu was like a war madman, declaring war with others with his teeth and claws. Now Chen Mu seems to have entered the time of the sage, but the people below have started to be restless.

The reason why Chen Mu is not angry is that he knows why these people are restless.

In the past, the officials of the military government, including Zhao Shizhen, had some sympathy for the Westerners. Even though they didn't say it, Chen Mu could also imagine that everyone would feel sympathy for them if they followed him all day and watched how they bullied others.

At the beginning, the common people were simply worried that the existence of the Westerners would pose a threat to their safety. Some of the Banner Army’s resistance to the Westerners was due to the hatred caused by the killings in the war, and some wanted to exchange their heads for promotion. .

But it is different now, all his people are very angry, this is not only because of the integration of immigrants and aborigines, but also because the translators in the military government have recently taken on the mission of the "Ming Dynasty subtitle group", translating a large number of European books in their hands, these Some books were published to let them know the atrocities committed by the Spanish and Portuguese colonists against the aborigines. Those exterminations and massacres made them indignant.

In Chen Mu's view, publishing these translated books is a kind of education, and he has indeed achieved the purpose of education - people know that not every race in this world has kindness towards others like them.

The geopolitical conflicts brought about by the development of civilizations are inevitable. The so-called good intentions are to first try to coexist without violating their own interests after the conflict, and try one or more times until war is unavoidable.

When you fail, I will make rules for you, stop fighting and let you survive.

This is almost the greatest kindness among civilizations, but it is only a kindness of a big country. Almost all big countries will be like this, not just China. In the final analysis, it is the self-confidence brought about by the strong control ability of a dominant civilization.

As for the weak civilizations, the first consideration after a crisis arises is to destroy you, and they will destroy you by any means and without leaving any future troubles, and they cannot let you stand up again.

In the stage of China's development to the Ming Dynasty, the way of thinking about the country and the country is not perfect in Chen Mu's view-it has never suffered a disadvantage.

From the beginning to the end, the descendants look at the predecessors, and they are all pinched and collapsed by themselves.

It is true that there has been a decline, but after 100, 200 or at most 300 years, it will turn around again and always win.

Daming's way of thinking is irrelevant when he is strong, but when he is weak, he will suffer a lot because he doesn't know how to protect himself.

Now at least the immigrants learned, they knew that if they were put on the ground by Spain, the consequences would be the same as that of the natives.

Therefore, everyone was very angry, and only Chen Mu regarded these as common sense and could calm down like water.

"Can you translate books selectively? Don't bother with knight novels like this one. Just send the original Western language back to Beiyang, so that those students can use it as a teaching material for practice."

Chen Mu put a pair of military boots on the table, raised his hand and flipped a book of chivalry novels translated by officials on the table, and then answered Zhao Shizhen's previous words: "War is a means to achieve my goal, not an end. Now my goal has been achieved." There is no need to fight, why should I pay the price of killing and wounding soldiers?"

Chen Mu spread his hands and leaned on the back of the chair and said leisurely: "Just to grab land for murder? Our land can't be planted now. After the new year, we will send a new pioneer team to open up wasteland in the north without spending a single soldier. You can get almost everything from the Western Kingdom, so why go to war?"

As he said that, Chen Mu put his legs down and sat up straight, and said: "Why do you pretend to be Lin Youshuai leading troops to drill on the border? If there is a problem, the guerrilla army will clean up the people first before the common people get their hands on them; Didn’t move, just reported the news that the mistake was on our side, our armed people crossed the border and liberated the plantations, what else do you want?”

"You can save a person who fell into the water, but can you stop someone who wants to jump for the second time?" Chen Mu curled his lips: "Is this how the prestige of the people of the Celestial Dynasty is played?"

For Chen Mu, this matter was a disaster for no reason. No matter how unreasonable he was, it was impossible for him to stand up for this matter, unless it was his people, but his people were not so stupid.

He had to escape from the plantation due to all kinds of difficulties and dangers, no matter what the reason was, whether he went back to save people or take revenge, he had to bring a few people and a few guns, right?Just wearing the clothes of a smart person, dare to go back and make trouble with empty hands, is this confidence and superstition?

Also too tiger.

Zhao Shizhen thought about Chen Mu's words and found some truth, nodded slowly and asked: "Then what is Chen Shuai's purpose, to make Daming prosperous?"

Zhao Shizhen has heard such words countless times, and he always feels that Chen Mu's purpose is not the same. Although the result is good, going to sea makes Daming rich, but he fights when others think he shouldn't fight, and when he thinks he shouldn't bully others He bullied people, and when others felt that justice and war should be done, he turned off the flames.

Always feel weird.

"I was looking for something, the secret of civilization's progress."

Chen Mu squeezed his eyes and pretended to be mysterious, raised his eyebrows and said, "It's getting closer and closer. Recently, I discovered that this world will run by itself, and the development of technology is not so mysterious."

This sentence was heard in Zhao Shizhen's ears, as if Chen Mu was prevaricating him with nagging words, but this was really Master Chen's heartfelt words.

It took him ten years to figure this out.

The world runs on its own, and development is something humans can control naturally, but it is difficult to achieve a qualitative leap in science and technology. Because it is difficult to achieve, Chen Mu used to view this issue as too complicated.

But now, he already knew that he only needed to find a key key to open a new door.

He has already found several keys for Daming.

Zhao Shizhen couldn't understand, so he didn't ask any more questions. He was more willing to believe that Chen Mu was fighting for Daming Finance one after another.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Shizhen shook his head and suddenly thought of something, took out a wooden box with gorgeous and complex decoration, which looked like Spanish style from the table, and said: "By the way, this is the last time when Fu Geer came to deliver Western books, let me give it to you." Great guy, said it was a gift from him."

"It seems to be a manuscript of a celebrity in the Western Kingdom, an antique."

Chen Mu smiled, this brother Fu still knows how to give himself a gift?It didn't look very expensive, he raised his hand to take the box, and whispered the inscription on it: "Leonardo's manuscript?"

(End of this chapter)