The Rise of the European Emperor

? As the governor of Dongfan Island instead of Marin, Kong Tai recruited a group of literati who had failed in the Ming Dynasty to help him manage Taiwan Island. 35xs

These are scholars who have the most diplomas and are scholars, and they are the kind who have no hope of relying on others. If there is hope to be admitted to Juren, they will not come to help Kong Tai.

You know, in the Ming Dynasty, there has always been a saying that "Jin Juren, Jinshi Silver". Why is it said that Juren is a "golden Juren"? In addition to being difficult to test, there is also a soaring status.

Being admitted to Juren means that you can be an official. And, no more school. Although a scholar is also famous, he still needs to continue his studies in county schools, state schools, and prefectural schools. At the end of the year, there is also a reference assessment. If you fail the exam, you will be downgraded. Even, if it is too bad, it may be deprived of the title of scholar.

But Juren is different. Juren himself is considered to be half an official, and he doesn't need to study anymore. Even, you can go to the county school, state school or something to teach. In other words, Juren itself belonged to the civil servant class. And scholars are only reserve personnel. When meeting officials, they can only call themselves "students".

If you win the Juren, you will be a member of the civilian class of the Ming Dynasty, so you don't have to worry about exams and punishments. The main thing is not to die, all kinds of cool. Moreover, many people will deliberately donate land to avoid corvee. (Corvée was the most important method for officials to blackmail the people in ancient times. There were not many real taxes, especially in the Ming Dynasty.)

The scholar is different, the scholar can only receive a limited amount of rice grain from the government every year, and there are very few people who can protect them, at most they can avoid their relatives from exempting them from corvee. Therefore, their lives are generally not well-off. Unlike Juren, you can live a very happy life just by investing in the land.

Just like Fan Jin, he was a poor scholar in front of others. But once he won the election, he immediately became Master Fan, and a lot of people gave him money and land.

Before the Zhongju, those scholars, unless their family background is very good. Otherwise, it is still not well-off. At most, it can only be regarded as better than the poor, and about the same as a middle-level peasant family.

Therefore, many scholars also have to go out to make a living in order to make a living. For example, to be a teacher in a private school in the country or something, so as to earn a living.

Some also left their hometowns to serve as aides to some officials, which is commonly known as Shiye or something.

Many civil servants are not popular, and they belong to the type who are stupid in reading. When this kind of person first became an official, if he had ample money, he would usually hire some old scholars who had become official staff to help him with the paperwork. Even Zhi Zhao competed with the old officials in the county for control.

Kong Tai was not very familiar with the affairs of Huaxia, and needed someone to help manage the recruited Ming refugees, so naturally he also recruited a group of Ming Dynasty scholar staff. At this time, it is no problem to send one to the Guangdong Navy to offer a strategy. And these staff members are also happy to swallow this kind of credit, so that they can get enough rewards from the new employer. In this way, Marin can pick himself up clean.

With the fire boat tactics, the Ming court no longer had the motivation to build big ships. In addition to being able to defeat the Portuguese fleet, the civil officials of Ming Dynasty can use this example to refute-look, what kind of ship is built? It burns right away and wastes money...

As long as this battle can burn the Portuguese warships, those who want to build ships will be pushed back by this sentence, and there is no way to refute it. Where are the living examples, how to refute?

And Marin, what he wants is an effect. Only when Daming, who is extremely manpower, does not engage in great voyages, can Marin survive. Otherwise, the Ming Empire, with a population of hundreds of millions, also went to sea to grab territory. How could Marin do it? A random natural disaster can bring out millions of refugees, how can it be compared? If millions of refugees are transported to the colonies, a civilized area can be recreated in no time.

Although it shows that the Confucian scholars and civil officials in the DPRK have little interest in colonization and even hinder them,

But it can't stand the fact that the Ming Empire has an Emperor Zhengde who likes to expand abroad.

Although Zhengde's attention is currently attracted by Mongolia, it will be hard to say if he really fights with the Portuguese and creates a large fleet. Maybe Zhengde will let a certain eunuch go on a voyage to the West or something. Once Da Ming opens his eyes to see the world, it will be terrible...

Therefore, out of consideration for the interests of the North Sea country, Marin never wanted the Ming Dynasty to build big ships. The presentation of fireboat tactics not only caters to the way of thinking of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty who like to use tactics to solve their opponents, but also eliminates the idea of ​​​​building big ships in the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the goods of the Ming Dynasty must be resold by themselves before they can be sold to Europe. The huge profits in the middle are also monopolized by myself...

In addition, if a few more Portuguese warships can be burned in this battle, the Portuguese can also be hit hard. After all, warships are not easy to manufacture, and the cost is not low. The sailors and artillery on the ship are also not easy to train. If it is lost, the Portuguese will vomit blood...

After the Battle of Downs, Spain lost its sea power after only losing more than forty warships. If the Portuguese lose a dozen or twenty warships this time, it may be difficult to recover in a short time. At that time, it is time for Marin to play...

Although the displacement of the warships sent by Portugal was only two to three hundred tons, it was incomparable in value with the more than forty thousand-ton warships of the Spaniards. However, the national strength of Portugal is incomparable with that of Spain more than a hundred years later.

Spain in the 17th century, at any rate, had an American gold mountain and silver sea as its support, and the loss of more than forty thousand-ton warships was unbearable. As for Portugal, a small and medium-sized country whose national strength is not strong at the moment, if it loses a batch of warships, its vitality will definitely be seriously injured, and it will be difficult to recover in a short time.

At that time, Marin can take the opportunity to blackmail Portugal. For example, find a way to bring South Africa over...

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Whether it is the Portuguese fleet that is being formed, or the ships sent by Marin to inform, they cannot reach the Ming Empire in the east in a short time. When Marin gets the news next time, it will probably be a year or two later. Therefore, after arranging the relevant matters, Marin will leave it alone for the time being.

Now, Marin has received the report from the Laayoune colony. Coton, governor of Laayoune, reported that a group of slave cavalry purchased from Egypt was in place. He selected 100 honest and obedient Egyptian slave cavalry trained by Mamluk cavalry to serve as the main guard force for Timbuktu this time.

In addition, Cotton also selected 20 reliable soldiers who were good at using muskets and riding horses from the colonial army and were not afraid of hot and dry weather. Travel to Timbuktu together.

The reason why these musketeers were sent was that Marin was influenced by the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that he had seen in his previous life-an Arab swordsman had been practicing for a long time with his beautiful knife skills, which looked very powerful. But Eastwood took out his revolver in a leisurely manner, shot the Arab swordsman, and directly killed a powerful swordsman...

Although this plot is funny, it illustrates the truth of "No matter how good your kung fu is, you can be shot down with one shot".

The counterfeit version of the Mamluk cavalry composed of 100 Egyptian slaves was mainly used to guard against those jealous North African bearded businessmen. And those 20 gunmen who used spring-up and ignition carbines were specially used to deal with the kind of swordsman with strong martial arts in the bearded North Africa. No matter how exquisite your swordsman skills are, I will send you to see Allah with just one shot...

Moreover, in the cold weapon team, if someone with high martial arts skills in the team is killed, the morale of the team will be severely hit.

These 20 gunmen are mainly used to deal with the enemy's masters at critical moments. At the same time, there is also the task of monitoring those Egyptian slave cavalry.

Seeing that Laayoune was fully prepared, Marin directly approved the action plan there. The whole team will carry a large amount of fine and high-quality salt to Timbuktu to exchange for local gold.

The person in charge of leading the team was Mosingen who led the team to Timbuktu last time. If Mosingen can successfully bring back thousands of pounds of gold this time, Marin doesn't mind giving him a noble title...

On the other hand, Laayoun immediately arranged for the team to set off after receiving instructions from the Spanish transit pigeons. Mosingen took 100 Egyptian slave cavalry, 20 musketeers and a group of slaves. Everyone wore the bamboo hat and umbrella invented by Marin, led camels and bob horses, brought salt, enough fresh water, knives and guns, and set foot on the road again. Started the journey to Timbuktu...