Chapter 1266 Veteran
If Gan Chao directly sends troops, the war will escalate immediately. At this time, it will definitely be unfavorable for Gan Chao.
Therefore, Gao Huan hopes to control the scale of the war first, so that the new merchant company will expand the land and develop it, at least agriculture and industry can provide some of the supplies for the military.
Otherwise, the Gan army landed in Yinzhou, but the supply was highly dependent on Ganchao. As long as the Spanish fleet raided the military and local supply lines, the Gan army would not be able to stand it.
However, it would be inconvenient for the imperial court to participate in the war directly and mobilize it.
Therefore, Gao Huan first let the media publicize the Western colonists and the indigenous people of Beiyinzhou, expose the cruelty of Western colonists, and let the soldiers who were about to go to Yinzhou to support him psychologically believe that they were doing a just thing and making their masters famous.
There is a big difference between China and the West in this regard. It is farming civilization, loves peace, focuses on construction, is hardworking and brave, and pays attention to working hard and gaining from one's own gains.
You tell the people that we will rob and kill people, seize money, and capture wives and children together. Most people do not accept it and will despise this behavior.
In history, anything that did this would gain a reputation and be despised by mainstream values.
It is different in the West. There is no psychological burden on killing people or setting fires, or there is a burden. If you buy an indulgence, you will be saved.
This is their civilization, especially the Anglo-Saxons, who directly and blatantly support pirates and share the spoils with pirates. There is only one shameless civilization in the world.
Hundreds of years later, they still cannot change their habit of talking nonsense with open eyes and being shameless.
It is impossible to be like them when you fight against others.
If the Chinese people are in charge, their thinking and logic will become the same as them, then the Chinese civilization that Gao Huan wants to protect will be alienated and destroyed.
Gao Huan must let the people of the country know that the sufferings suffered by the people in Yinzhou were saving them.
With no rapid development of productivity and no big cake, the rules of the whole world are indeed in a zero-sum game.
The East and the West unconsciously moved towards confrontation. Just as the Ganchao threat theory and the Yellow Peril theory spread rapidly in Europe, the Ganchao also began to promote the crimes of the colonists.
However, the European theory of Ganchao threat is an imagination and fabrication, describing Ganchao as a barbaric, ignorant, and dark country, which attacks Ganchao’s image and creates rationality for their subsequent invasions.
Gan Chao is seeking things here, and he just needs to tell you what the Western colonists have done.
In addition to overwhelming publicity, it also requires the temptation of interests.
In order to protect the land coupons and stabilize the price of land coupons, Gao Huan joined hands with major state-owned assets to invest more than 10 million silver dollars in silver to protect the market and recycle a large amount of land coupons from the market.
Now under Gao Huan's matchmaking, Shi Kai represents Xinshang Company and conducts large-scale transactions from various state-owned assets of Ganchao, acquires large land coupons at market prices, and announces that all mercenaries who help Xinshang Company fight and are lower than those of the colonists' attack can obtain one thousand acres of land coupons, and then directly obtains the coupons to allocate the land.
Because this batch of land coupons was transferred at a lower price, the SASAC Xinshang Company signed an agreement that this batch of land coupons would no longer be circulated in the market, and a batch of land coupons would be destroyed in batches.
As soon as the news came out, the financial industry was shocked, and major analysts agreed that favorable land bonds were on the rise.
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In the outer city of Nanjing, there were always information about workshop recruiting workers and houses for rent and sale on the signs. Today, a group of strong men came to the signs to post notices of recruiting escorts from the Chamber of Commerce.
The men who came here to look for a job immediately gathered around and watched the notice. Someone shook his head and said, "Beiyinzhou New Business Company, I will tell you all the villagers that our company has a land plant in Yinzhou, and it has a land of 10,000 mu and a gold mine. Now, due to business needs, the company urgently hires aspiring person. The recruitment information is as follows: smelters, casting workers, accounting offices, and company guards, and the treatment is better! Anyone who goes to Yinzhou, except for basic salary, signs a five-year contract. Each person in our company will issue 2,000 mu of land coupons and can directly allocate land. I hope all the heroes with skills can sign up enthusiastically..."
"Oh!" someone in the crowd exclaimed, "Such good conditions! I want to sign up, I don't know if I can pass!"
Someone laughed at the side, "You idiot, do you think the rich man gave you money for free and went to fight a war!"
When I heard that I was going to fight, many people who were preparing to sign up were hesitant.
At this time, there was a man standing in the crowd, with a strong body and straight waist. He saw that he was a retired veteran. After watching for a while, he dispersed with the crowd.
The man's name was Zhao Tai, an old soldier from Qian Army. He once served in Panshi Camp and was a heavy infantryman. Later, the imperial court reformed the military and reduced the organization of heavy infantry. He had no choice but to retire without being admitted to the officers' school.
During his years of service, he fought south and north, earning fifty acres of military land for his family, but there were too many brothers and sisters in his family.
He joined the army at the age of 25 and returned. In addition to the three younger brothers and one sister, his parents gave him two more brothers during his war.
Zhao Tai came back with the retired subsidy and got a wife. The family had sufficient labor and he didn't like farming, so he didn't stay at home for long. He found a relationship with a retired comrade. He took a job in Nanjing and lived a well-off life.
However, he inherited his father's genes and was particularly able to have children. He got married for three years, one a year, and the family had three children in a blink of an eye.
In addition, several younger brothers at home want to get married and their parents also ask him to subsidize them from time to time, so his income is a bit insufficient.
At this time, Zhao Tai walked home. His wife in the yard took care of three children. She was only in her twenties and had already become thirty years old.
"My husband, you are back, I'll prepare food for you!" The woman said while holding the crying baby.
When Zhao Tai saw this, he hurriedly said, "You coax your son, I'll just do it myself."
Zhao Tai felt a little guilty when he saw his wife's busy appearance. He had long wanted to find an old mother to help his wife take care of the children and do housework, but unfortunately he was short of money.
At this time, Zhao Tai walked in, uncovered the mesh, and a bowl of rice and two dishes were pressed upside down on the plate.
He uncovered it and started eating, but there was a noise outside the house. His wife Wang came in with her child in, "My husband, someone is looking for you!"
While speaking, the people outside were already shouting loudly, "Zhao Tai, you turtle grandson, the old coach is here, you can't come out yet!"
When Zhao Tai heard this, he quickly put down his bowls and chopsticks, walked out the door and saw a group of middle-aged men standing in the yard with a smile, looking at him with a smile.
Seeing this, Zhao Tai's eyes were a little wet, and stood at attention and saluted, "Old brigade coach, Zhao Tai, the senior scholar of the Binshi Camp Jiasi, said to you!"
The leader of a strong middle-aged man looked at Zhao Tai with a look up and down. Seeing that he was straight and his waist was standard, he nodded with satisfaction, "After a moment, he still looks like he is worthy of being my soldier!"
Chapter completed!