Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 650 From Mercenary to Foreign Scholar
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is full of cruise ships. I don’t know how many large and small ships pass by. Many busy river sections even have to line up and pass slowly due to too many ships.

At this moment, the Ming court has opened the channels for the private purchase of new large water transport ships, and the shipyards in Nanzhili have also expanded their production scale.

Two hundred ships per month, all of which are steam ships, and the price is not expensive, just like the original water transport ships. All Ming citizens registered in the "Yellow Book of Taxes and Service" can order them with the yellow pages.

However, these steamships can only sail in the inland waterway of Daming, and are not allowed to go overseas, let alone resell to other countries. Once discovered, it will be a death penalty!
This restriction is actually nothing.

Because at this moment, the mainland of Daming is already prosperous enough, and the common people are getting richer and richer, and the transshipment of goods from all over the place is even more busy.

As long as you buy a large water transport ship, you don’t have to worry about running out of business. Even if you run the canal to transship the goods between South Zhili and North Zhili, you can pay back your capital in a year or two, and the rest will be profitable.

Therefore, merchants in the Ming Dynasty were all scrambling to order large water transport ships. The orders from Nanzhili Shipyard were dispatched more than ten months later, and the large water transport ships produced were even driven to the canal to pull goods as soon as they came out. went.

In this way, it is difficult for the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal not to be crowded.

Because there are many private sailboats and paddle boats in this important river running from north to south, and most of the thousands of large water transport ships of the Daming Western Company need to pass through this river to transfer materials and personnel.

With the addition of two hundred water transport ships every month, there are naturally too many ships in the river.

Seeing this scene, Desiera couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

He really didn't expect that he, a blood-licking mercenary on the tip of his knife, could live a peaceful life for a few years, and he was still in a country as rich as Daming.

To be honest, he didn't feel like a mercenary anymore.

He has completely regarded himself as a member of Daming Western Firm, and he has already integrated into Daming. He even fell in love with Daming's culture. He likes "Four Books and Five Classics", all kinds of poems and songs, He loves watching "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" even more.

All of this is thanks to His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

The reason why he had to bite the bullet to find His Majesty the Ming Emperor was just because he wanted them to hire them to fight.

Unexpectedly, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming made them change to the household registration of Ming, and let them join the Western Firm of Ming, and let them learn the culture and language of Ming.

Suddenly, their lives changed drastically.

Originally highly nervous and always ready to fight with others, they were sent to an academy specializing in cultivating literati.

Their daily work is not to stand guard or even go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but to sit in the school and study.

In the first year, they were a little bit hard.

Because His Majesty the Emperor Ming said, give them a year to learn the language of Ming Dynasty.

The language of Ming Dynasty is not generally difficult to learn, especially for mercenaries like them who only know how to fight.

That year, they really forgot to sleep and eat, and they didn't even dare to sleep, for fear that they would not be able to learn.

He even set a rule for his subordinates, they are not allowed to communicate in Portuguese until they have mastered Daming's language.

Every day they gnaw madly on the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic".

In the common saying of Daming, hard work pays off, and within a year, they actually learned the language of Daming.

However, His Majesty the Emperor Ming seemed to have forgotten about them and never came to look for them!
The Daming Western Firm didn't seem to dare to arrange errands for them casually.

They were directly sent to the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Jinling City to continue their studies, to study the "Four Books and Five Classics".

As for the reason, the "colleagues" of Daming Western Company also explained to them.

The emperor didn't have time to look for them at that time, but the emperor will think of them one day.

They need to study the culture of Ming Dynasty well and wait for the emperor's call at any time.

The reason why they were sent to Jinlingcheng was also for the convenience of the emperor when he summoned them.

After all, Guangzhou Mansion is too far away from the capital.

To be honest, they were all dumbfounded at that time.

If the emperor doesn't look for them, what will they do?
Fortunately, the salaries given by the Daming Western Firms were not short at all. In the beginning, the salaries of ten taels of silver per person were paid to them on time every month, and their salaries even rose to 20 taels a month later.

As for the reason, it seems that the emperor said that he would double the salaries of craftsmen, increase the income of farmers, and benefit the common people.

And in the past few years, the business of Daming Western Firm has more than doubled, and the profit has doubled several times.

Therefore, the Daming Western Firm also responded to the emperor's call and doubled the salaries of all employees.

They are also full-time employees of the Daming Western Firm, and they are appointed by the emperor, so their salaries will naturally be doubled accordingly.

20 taels of silver a month, they didn't even dare to think about it before.

No one can afford such an expensive mercenary.

Who knew that they could get so much money in a month just by sitting in the school every day!

To be honest, they were all a little embarrassed.

Therefore, they all study Ming culture desperately, and if they don't study hard, they feel sorry for the salary.

This also corresponds to a common saying in Ming Dynasty, there are roads in the mountains of books, and diligence is the path, and there is no limit to the sea of ​​learning.

They have basically learned this lesson, and almost all fell in love with Ming culture.

Now they are talking a little bit more politely, and when they open their mouths, they are talking about it, and they are always saying something good or something.

They even want to take the imperial examination to see if they can get a scholar.

The prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the tolerance of the Ming Dynasty, the peace of the world, the preferential treatment given to them by the western firms of the Ming Dynasty, etc., also gave them a deep sense of belonging.

Now they really regard themselves as citizens of Daming, coupled with the loyalty, filial piety and integrity education that Daming Western Firms and Liberal Arts Academy have spared no effort, they regard loyalty to Daming and the emperor as more important than their own lives.

They are also always ready to be loyal to Daming and His Majesty the Emperor.

Now the emperor finally remembered them, and the emperor finally summoned them.

They were really excited.

The fleet of the Daming Western Company quickly crossed the North Canal and entered the Tonghui River. After about half an hour, the majestic capital city was already in sight.

At this time, Deshaeira couldn't help feeling secretly again.

The power of the Ming Dynasty is really shocking. Jinling City is already one of the largest cities in the world. Along the way, they don't know how many cities they saw on both sides of the canal. Moreover, the prosperity of many places is not much worse than Jinling City.

The capital city of Ming Dynasty was even more extraordinary. Starting from Tongzhou City, the area on both sides of the Tonghui River, which was nearly fifty miles long, was extremely prosperous, and the flow of people was even denser than the outer city of Jinling City.

Daming has a population of hundreds of millions, that's really not an exaggeration, and the prosperity of Daming has already surpassed that of European countries.

How lucky they were to become citizens of Daming from subjugated slaves!
After the fleet of the Daming Western Company entered the capital by detour through the moat, it went through multiple inspections and went directly into the legendary imperial city.

Immediately afterwards, they entered the palace under the guidance of a team of Jin Yiwei, and came to a large hall.

The one sitting high on the steps is the current emperor. Seeing this, De Xie La quickly brought a group of subordinates to prostrate on the ground respectfully, and shouted in unison: "Greetings, my emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" age."

Well, Taichang really didn't expect that he would train a group of mercenaries into a group of foreign scholars.

When he saw these burly men in Confucian robes, he was stunned.

Uh, if it's the face of a Ming commoner, it's not surprising to be wearing a Confucian robe.

The problem is that the faces of Europeans are obvious, and all of them are big men wearing Confucian robes, which is really weird.

He stared blankly at this group of "foreign scholars" lying on the ground and shouting "Long live" in unison with the most standard Ming etiquette, then he came to his senses, raised his hand slightly and said, "Excuse me, let me be flat."

(End of this chapter)