Chapter 768： Liu Laogen's consciousness

After Kong Tai taught the strong men of Jilong Village how to use the matchlock and how to build a simple earthen rock wall, he urged Columbus to turn back. After all, Marin is still waiting for their news. Before leaving, Kong Tai also specially left a batch of silver money for Liu Laogen to use as a material purchase.

Although Liu Laogen took the villagers of Jilong Village to Keelung to reclaim the wasteland, there were no basic living supplies on Taiwan Island, not even needlework, let alone iron-made farm tools. Therefore, sometimes, Liu Laogen and others would secretly drive a small fishing boat and ran to Daming Coast to purchase materials.

However, there is a Pinghai Guard on the coast of Putian County, which is specially prepared for threats at sea. Therefore, the fishing boat in Jilong Village must avoid the cruise of the Pinghaiwei warship. Otherwise, if caught, those Pinghaiwei officers and soldiers would not be polite to them.

Therefore, even if the fishing boat is secretly driven back to the mainland to purchase, the fishing boat in Jilong Village cannot be close to the land, nor can it return to the original place of Xiao Liuzhuang, although there are many acquaintances there.

Later, the people in Jilong Village discovered an important phenomenon-that is, Pinghaiwei's fleet of cruisers generally did not go out to cruise during major festivals. For example, during the New Year, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival and other festivals, Pinghaiwei's patrol ships generally do not go out to sea. After all, those soldiers also have a holiday.

As a result, the fishing boats in Jilong Village have the opportunity to purchase. However, they dare not get close to the land, they can only choose coastal islands that are also islands, and then trade with locals.

Of course, the villagers of Jilong Village had no goods to exchange for money. Jilong Village mainly lives on farming and fishing. In addition, it is possible to cook a little private salt. If you want to cook private salt in Daming, you have to go to jail. After all, the Ming Dynasty monopolized the salt trade, and private individuals dared to intervene and seized decisively ...

But in Keelung Sheliao Island, that's different. There are no officers and soldiers here, everyone can cook salt casually, not worry about eating lawsuits. Moreover, the people in Jilong Village used to cook salt to trade with the Fan people on the main island. The aboriginal people on Taiwan Island did not know how to cook salt, so naturally the villagers of Jilong Village welcomed the cooking salt. The commodities exchanged by the Fan people on the island are mainly buckskin, venison and wood.

When sneaking back to the mainland to trade on the islands, the people in Jilong Village also used the deer skins obtained from Fanmin. As for table salt, they dare not use it for trade. Because, once discovered, it is definitely a felony. Even if they dare to sell, the people on those islands may not dare to buy.

The trade object chosen by Jilong Village is the fishermen on Meizhou Island in Putian County ...

Speaking of this, although the Ming Dynasty did not pervert the movement of the sea as early as the Qing Dynasty, it generally prohibited fishermen from fishing. However, the Ming Dynasty banned the sailing boat to go to sea, but it did not prohibit the small fishing boat that manned rowing. Because such a small fishing boat can't get out of the sea. Even if it is out of the sea, it is nine deaths. Therefore, the coastal fishermen basically use small fishing boats to fish along the coastline. Meizhou Island is one of the islands where fishermen are concentrated.

Moreover, the origin of Meizhou Island is great. Because this is the hometown of Mazu. On the island, there is the Tianhou Palace specially built for Mazu.

Mazu is a patron saint that Hu Jian believes in along the coast of Guangdong. Therefore, although Meizhou Island is small, it is a relatively popular island along the coast. Because every year, many people from other islands come to Meizhou Island to visit Mazu. And this also leads to more contacts between Meizhou Island and the outside world, and it is easier to obtain goods from the outside world. Nanri Island, which is also an island, is not far from Meizhou Island and is larger, but because of its lack of popularity, even merchants are reluctant to go. Therefore, if you want to purchase goods, you have to go to a popular island like Meizhou Island.

Previously, the strong men of Jilong Village used to drive a dhow to purchase on Nanri Island. Although he avoided Pinghaiwei's ship, he didn't buy anything. Moreover, the buckskin they brought was not collected.

Later, when the villagers of Jilong Island went to Meizhou Island, they finally found a businessman willing to buy deerskin. From that businessman, they also purchased agricultural tools and various living materials.

However, in order to avoid Pinghaiwei's defending troops, such an opportunity is carried out several times a year, all during major festivals. If they are caught by Pinghaiwei's cruiser, the confiscated goods are all light, and people may be thrown into the big prison ...

It was just because only the merchants on Meizhou Island were willing to buy their goods and sell them to them. Therefore, their buckskin can't sell the price, and the goods provided by the merchants, the price is higher.

For example, the price of a piece of deerskin in Daming is more than 400 texts. However, the arrogant Merchant of Linzhou, a million-dollar merchant on Meizhou Island, was only willing to give a purchase price of 40 essays.

Conversely, when Lin Million sold something to the villagers of Jigong Village, he doubled the price. For example, an iron pan only costs 80 liters in Daming, but Lin Million sold them 160 liters. The price of a white cloth in Daming is 200 wen, but Lin Million dared to sell them 400 wen ... but the people in Jilong Village can only recognize ... because nobody wants to trade with them ...

There are only millions of forests on Meizhou Island. The roads are relatively wild, and they dare to buy their deerskin. It ’s not necessary to dare to accept someone else. Because the origin of deerskin is unclear ...

It should be pointed out that on this island of Taiwan in this era, there are sika deer everywhere, and the total number is estimated to be several million. Later, during the Dutch colonization of the island of Taiwan, the East India Company was able to purchase 400,000 pieces of deerskin from indigenous people every year and sell it to Japan.

The indigenous people on the island, because there are more deer. Moreover, after hunting a deer, you can get hundreds of pounds of meat, enough for many people to eat. Therefore, the indigenous people are not very interested in the development of agriculture-since they can hunt prey with hundreds of pounds of meat, why do they work hard to farm? Therefore, even if there is agriculture on the island, the Pingpu indigenous people who engage in agriculture are only slashing and burning. For them, venison is the staple food, as for food, it is to change the taste ...

In fact, the villagers of the original Jilong Village also expected to resell the deerskin on Taiwan Island to make a fortune. But reality has given them a head start-ordinary coastal merchants dare not buy their deerskin, because the origin of the explanation is not clear ... And the bold Lin Lin million who dare to buy their deerskin, but desperately depresses the price ...

So, although they brought a lot of deerskin to trade on Meizhou Island every time, they could not exchange too much goods ...

In addition, the villagers in Jilong Village do not have big ships, nor craftsmen who know how to build big ships ...

It happened that this time after Kong Tai helped them defeat the group of Japanese pirates, a Japanese boat that could carry dozens of people was left to them directly by Kong Tai.

After Columbus's fleet left, some people gathered and said:

"Uncle Lagen, do we really want to surrender to these ghosts? Now that we have this big ship, we can engage in bigger trades. There is no need to surrender to ghosts!"

Indeed, before the fishermen of Jilong Village went to Meizhou Island for trade, they could only drive a rowing boat. Not to mention the danger, they could only carry a few hundred pieces of deerskin, and they were also slaughtered by Lin million.

With this Japanese boat with a load of tens of tons, the villagers of Jilong Village can completely navigate this big boat and find a more suitable place to trade. At least, it is much stronger than being slaughtered by Lin Million.

Liu Laogen shook his head and said:

"Mothers, you want to go. Indeed, we have ships and we can engage in larger transactions. But, have you ever thought about them? Isn't it safe? This time, when you come to a Japanese boat, you almost wiped out our village. . Therefore, our village needs protection! "

"These ghosts have said that they will send people to occupy this island next year. They are here and we can't stop them!"

"What should we do? Should we go back to Daming?" The people on the edge were anxious.

"Go back?" Liu Laogen chuckled and then said:

"A Rong, do you know that our little Liuzhuang's land has long been occupied. And our household registration has also been sold off long ago. If we go back now, not only will we not get the land back, but we will also be arrested as a fugitive Yes. So we ca n’t go back. Unless, you are willing to go back to jail. "

The household registration system in the Ming Dynasty was very strict, and it was strictly forbidden for people to leave the county without permission. If something goes out of the county, there must be a guide issued by the county government. Otherwise, you will be imprisoned. After the villagers in Jilong Village escaped from their hometown of Xiaozhuang, their household registration and fields were definitely gone because they had not returned for several years. And those who annexed their land must be the local giants. Back here at this time, in order to protect the land, the local tyrants will definitely report them and arrest them in jail.

"Then we can only trust those ghosts?"

"Huh!" Liu Laogen nodded and said:

"Those ghosts look pretty good, at least very reasonable. However, the ghosts are by no means great people. I wondered, they left us without even paying the tax, it is estimated that they wanted us to help them ... … "

"Do things? What can we do to help the ghosts?" The villagers were curious.

Liu Laogen pointed his hand to the south and said:

"To deal with those Fanmins! The old man understands the Fanmin dialects and is best suited to deal with those Fanmins. I wondered, these Fans, I am afraid that they had the ambition to annex Dongfan Island, otherwise, they would not commit it. Let's draw a bunch of mud legs from us ... So, if you want to mix well in the future, come and learn the local dialect of Fanmin from the old man. As long as you learn the local dialect of Fanmin, some of them will be used by Fangui later ... "

"After learning the local dialect of Fanmin ~ www.novelhall.com ~, you can have a good life?" The young man in the village asked unbelievably.

"Of course, since those ghosts want to annex Dongfan Island, they definitely need to understand the interpretation of Fan dialect. Otherwise, even if they fight down Dongfan Island, how can they be governed?"

"It turns out so ..." Everyone suddenly realized. You should know that Liu Laogen is the only "cultural person" who has read a book in Jilong Village, and his knowledge is naturally higher than that of everyone.

In fact, when he was in Xiaoliuzhuang, Liu Laogen was not only a scholar in the village, but also a talent and a child. But when the flood occurred, the two scholars ran to the county to vote for relatives, and did not follow the escape to Jilong Village. Therefore, the only "brain" in the village is naturally Liu Laogen, and everyone is very convinced.

"Okay, let's go back if it's okay. Starting tomorrow, the clever girls in the village will all come to learn Mandarin and Fanmin dialect from the old man, so that they can be interpreters for those ghosts in the future ..."

"Why do you need to learn the official language?" A group of young people grimaced.

"What do you know? The group of ghosts only understand the Ming mandarin. You want to interpret it for them. You can't even understand what they say? So, you have to learn Mandarin ..."