Chapter 981 Establishing an Overseas Country Is That Simple
Among the restaurants and teahouses in the capital, the story of "The Founding of the Nation Overseas" is becoming more and more popular.
The popularity has not diminished at all just because Pig's Feet went out to sea and started playing wild survival and farming modes.
No way, this is almost the first time the audience has heard of a novel with such a novel plot, so naturally it feels quite fresh and interesting.
Li Jun in "Water Margin" and the one among the Three Fengchen Heroes in the early Tang Dynasty are said to have founded their country overseas, but they are all powerful people of their own.
This is the first time I have heard of pig's feet, where I almost have to clear up wasteland, cultivate land, and build houses and equipment myself.
There were also people in the audience who had experience in farming and building houses, all of whom indicated that Pigfoot was an expert.
The plots in novels can be applied even in reality.
This is very simple.
Of course, that's still the same sentence. Ordinary listeners just listen to it for fun, but those who are interested will have their thoughts churning.
Should we learn from pig's feet and leave a way out for ourselves and our family?
In the past, almost no one thought about it this way.
The saying that everything in the world is not the land of the king, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers, this sentence is too deeply rooted in people's hearts.
In addition, there is also the fear caused by unfamiliarity with the open sea.
But the problem is that the power struggle within the Central Plains dynasty is too fierce.
During the period when the imperial power was strong, officials would have their families confiscated and their families exterminated at every turn.
Even if the political situation of the dynasty is stable, if problems arise, it will easily affect the family and lead to unlucky people in the clan.
He failed in the power struggle and almost had no choice but to surrender.
In other words, because they are not familiar with the barbarian land outside the sea, perhaps in their minds, even the exiled land is more prosperous and stable than the barbarian land outside the sea.
In fact it is!
The prosperity of the Central Plains Dynasty is no joke.
In addition, the upper-class beings in the Central Plains region who have become accustomed to picking peaches have lost the courage to fight hard in the wilderness with the remnants of their families.
Are you kidding me? What's the difference between asking the ungrateful old man to open up wasteland and cultivate the land himself and killing them?
Even the wealthy families on the southeast coast who have conducted trade with foreign countries for many years rarely spend energy and money to establish strongholds in offshore areas.
People are lazy, and everyone likes to live a life of peace and enjoyment. As for the barbaric life of overcoming thorns and thorns, it is too far away from the great men of the Central Plains.
But some people and forces are ready to take action.
They may have participated in something extremely dangerous, or they may have boarded a pirate ship and been unable to get off. If something happened, it would be a disaster that would bring down the entire family.
In the past, they didn't have many backup options.
Generally, the inconspicuous members of the family, or the sons of other families, live in other places in other ways, and have almost no written or interpersonal interactions with the clan.
Not only that, sometimes you have to find ways to make other arrangements, which is quite cumbersome and dangerous.
In the face of interests, no family or friendship can withstand the test.
Once a disaster strikes, who knows whether friends who were close friends in the past will stab them in the back for the sake of greater interests?
Now, the novel "Overseas Founding" gives them another direction.
Rather than letting the descendants of the family's blood remain in the Central Plains in fear, it would be better to send them directly to the open sea.
From the novel alone, we can know that there are still many descendants of the Central Plains survivors in the countries outside the sea.
Of course, I am just thinking about it now. As for whether it can be done, it will take a lot of time to explore and verify.
As for today, I have lost interest in the novel "Overseas Founding".
He had no intention of hearing how an official who had fled overseas survived and developed on an uninhabited island offshore.
If it weren't for the title, he might have just thrown the novel away.
Now I want to see how pig's feet established a country overseas?
As for other thoughts, they basically don’t exist.
At this point, the plot of the novel is almost over.
Pigfoot struggled to survive on the deserted island, and soon received a letter from a friend in Nanming.
The content is very simple. Pig's Foot's position has been overtaken by others, and the imperial court has not issued an official arrest warrant for him.
In other words, pig's feet are not considered criminals at this time!
This made the family very happy, and the eldest son eagerly clamored to return to Nanming to continue his unfinished studies and bright future.
However, the second half of the letter was like a bucket of cold water being poured over the head, causing the family's enthusiasm for returning home to disappear in an instant.
A direct descendant of the proprietor's family behind the pig's trotters has successfully become a third-rank official.
My family didn't have much reaction to this. On the contrary, they were quite happy about it.
However, the content of the letter informed that the owner of the pig's trotters family directly stated that it had severed ties with the pig's trotters, and by the way, the pig's trotters' wife was expelled from the clan.
This blow is really heavy!
Pig's Foot's wife almost collapsed, and Pig's Foot's eldest son was completely dumbfounded and didn't understand what was going on.
At this time, it was naturally impossible for Pigfoot to do nothing and tell him everything about his experiences and some of the actions of the proprietor family behind him.
Now the family members were completely silent, and the eldest son stopped yelling.
They all know that if they lose the support of the proprietor behind them, it will be difficult for Pig's Feet to gain a foothold in Nanming's murky officialdom.
Being abandoned in exchange for benefits is not so incomprehensible at the moment.
If you want to blame, you can only blame Pig's Feet from a bad background and serving as an official in a muddy and decadent court like Nanming.
At this time, the family members also understood that they could not go back.
Regardless of the fact that the Nanming court did not issue a sea arrest document, that was because it was impossible for their family to refer to it in the future.
After all, for the Nanming officialdom, having pig's feet out to sea basically means giving up everything in Nanming.
But if they don't know what to do and want to go back and show their face, they will probably be killed soon.
Even if the court doesn't take action, the proprietor family behind the pig's feet will not let it go.
After all, Pig's Feet is still very capable, and now that he has completely turned against him, they will definitely be worried that Pig's Feet will defect to the enemy force and become a strategist.
Don't tell me, pig's feet do have such ability.
Coupled with his understanding of the proprietor family behind him, if he gets cruel, he will definitely cause the proprietor family behind him to lose their strength and strength.
After knowing that there was no room for change, the family members completely settled down.
The eldest son, who was the most noisy, also took the initiative to apologize to Pig Knuckle.
As long as he knows that the problem is not his father's, any son in his right mind will not anger his father and ruin his future. This is very unreasonable.
Pigfoot was very happy and told his eldest son and other family members that things were not at their worst yet and that their family still had a chance.
The main thing is that the Nanming court did not convict people, so many things were easy to handle.
Pig's Feet doesn't want to go back and take risks, but there are ways to avoid going back.
In the next ten years, Zhujiao used his own connections and constantly asked friends to help him make connections, transporting thousands of Nanming refugees to his remote island by sea ship.
With the ability of pig's feet, as long as there are enough manpower, the development of remote islands will be accelerated, and it is not difficult to exchange needed money and materials through transactions with maritime merchants.
During this period, the Nanming court became increasingly decadent and the place was in chaos, but it was not much better.
Such a situation naturally led to the emergence of a large number of homeless people in the prosperous southern region, including many scholars who were originally landlords.
There are still only a few people that Pig's Feet can absorb, but even so, ten years is enough for him to build a small-scale city on the island where he lives.
The population under his rule gradually increased from tens of thousands to tens of thousands!
Not only did he actively recruit refugees, but many refugees who heard the news or small landowners who wanted a stable life moved there with their families.
Even many maritime merchants have provided enough convenience.
It's not that they suddenly burst out with kindness, but as Nanming maritime merchants, they also need to have sufficiently safe transfer stations and supply points.
The island where the pig's feet is located just meets this point.
It is not that there are no maritime merchant forces who want to occupy the pig's feet's island foundation, but unfortunately they are powerless in the face of the island defense forces that were quickly organized.
What Pig's Feet did during this period can be regarded as a standard model for county-level officials to govern local areas. Even today, I feel very rewarding after listening to it.
Isn't this nonsense? Jia Rong's political experience is so rich that just a little bit is enough for some so-called local officials to think about and study for a long time.
In the novel, Pig's Trotter once again showed his versatility in both civil and military affairs. Coupled with the increasing decadence of the Nanming court, in the next ten years the island where Pig's Trotter was located had gathered more than half a million refugees from Nanming.
At this time, the fame of the island where the pig's feet is located also spread throughout the South China Sea.
More and more foreign powers are coming by sea-going ships to do business, or want to occupy the magpie's nest, and the jungle survival laws of the South China Sea are clearly revealed.
The audience all yelled at the shamelessness of some foreign forces, but they were afraid of the bloody battle on the ocean. If they were not careful, they might lose everything.
Not only is it a matter of winning or losing, all efforts may be ruined, including personnel.
Pig's trotters are not something I have heard about once. Foreign forces carried out inhumane massacres against the indigenous people on certain islands, using ruthless methods that left almost no one behind.
The ordinary audience members were just timid, but they had already begun to think about it. Some of the powerful people who were ready to make a move could not help but frown.
Damn, is the order abroad as chaotic as ever?
Some forces directly gave up their plans to take action immediately.
There is no way, their own strength is insufficient, this is no joke.
A sea-going ship, including the goods and people on board, is worth at least tens of thousands of taels. Once it is lost, even big powers will feel pain.
Obviously, maritime trade has high barriers to entry, and if ordinary forces want to participate, the risks are too great.
As for today, it is an instinctive feeling of disgust.
Having become accustomed to an orderly environment, it was hard to accept Waihai's style of thinking that big fists meant big gifts.
However, the deterrence power of Daqian has its limits. If you want to make overseas countries become more orderly, you have to work hard.
Now a decision has been made, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will definitely participate in foreign trade.
The royal spies sent out have returned with news one after another.
Although the content of the news is still superficial, it is enough to shock people today.
A maritime merchant family is an industrial chain. The sum of the upstream and downstream industries is only a few million taels, and may be worth tens of millions of taels.
Not only that, there are so many people involved, tens of thousands of front-line personnel alone, and hundreds of thousands when including their families.
The total number of clans affected by their people is huge.
Once the maritime merchant family at the core is disturbed, the turmoil caused will definitely be something that today and the court are not willing to see.
It can even be said that these maritime merchants are more difficult to deal with than the top gentry families in the deep south who control large tracts of land.
Unless you must act quickly and wait for the affiliated forces to react, you must completely eliminate the core maritime merchant family and quickly organize many upstream and downstream industries and personnel in their place, otherwise you will be in big trouble.
But today, we have also seen huge benefits from it.
To maintain an industrial chain and personnel of this scale, the annual cost would definitely be in the millions.
The Maritime Merchant Family was able to sustain itself for many years, and it is conceivable that the profits it earned itself were astonishing.
At this time, my appetite is not that big. I just hope to get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from sea trade every year, which is very satisfying.
Although hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are not much, you can do a lot of things.
Of course he is not afraid of the chaotic order at sea. The royal family lacks everything except warriors who are willing to serve, but he just doesn't feel very comfortable.
At this time, I have basically figured out what is going on in the novel "Overseas Founding", and I can't help but cry.
However, I have to admire the brains of Jia Rong of Ning Mansion, he can think of such things.
Ask yourself, if there is a small country outside Daqian that is willing to become a vassal and pay tribute and become one of the vassals of Daqian, they will definitely accept it without hesitation.
No matter whether the population of the other country is 100,000 or 500,000, as long as the other country is not a tribal force with only hundreds or thousands of people and cannot withstand the slightest storm, Daqian will seriously consider it.
In fact, today's guess is correct.
This is indeed how the pig's feet in the novel "Overseas Founding" are used.
Of course, there are also safety considerations.
After all, the island where he lives has attracted the attention of foreign powers, and with the increase in exchanges, Pig's Feet is also feeling the pressure.
In addition, even though he was very familiar with the Nanming court, he also had friends who helped to bridge the gap. When the time was right, he directly submitted letters of credence to the increasingly shaky Nanming court in the name of the overseas island country, expressing his affiliation.
This time, it hit an itch in the Nanming court.
Doesn't it just prove the legitimacy of the Nanming court that there are island countries in the outer seas that actively attach themselves to it?
As for some other situations, they were not what the court bosses and the puppet emperor wanted to know, so Pigfoot successfully became the leader of the tributary state of Nanming, with the kind of credential and gold seal of Nanming...