Originally, Xiao Ruxun felt that what these people had done seemed to be forgivable. However, after Chen Lin told him the whole story, Xiao Ruxun felt that these people had brought this upon themselves, and there was nothing to save. However, after listening to Chen Lin's story, Xiao Ruxun suddenly realized that these people were a huge fortune that belonged to him.
He represented the Daming, and these people were afraid of the Daming and were afraid that the Daming would punish them. As Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun, who was in charge of the military expedition, if these people were charged with sabotaging the resistance against the enemy, neither the Kingdom of Daming nor the Kingdom of Siam could stop Xiao Ruxun from taking their lives. That was why they were so afraid of Xiao Ruxun and used the excuse of exonerating the King of Siam's Japanese army to ask for his forgiveness.
That was to say, these people were afraid of the Daming, and they were afraid of him as the representative of the Daming. Sometimes, in order to get the Daming's forgiveness and a peace of mind, these people would even do something that no one would think of. If he wanted to establish a foothold in this land, he needed the help of these people who were eager to be exonerated and wanted to return home.
It seemed that the civil official resources that he had been dreaming of could be alleviated to a certain extent by these groups.
Although these people did not have official titles, they had participated in the establishment and operation of the political system in foreign countries. In terms of experience and ability, they were much better than those inexperienced scholars. Moreover, the scholars of the Daming Dynasty had been poisoned by the eight-legged essay. Real scholars like Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xun Yu, and Xun You, who could do proper work when they were still inexperienced, were almost insignificant in the Daming Dynasty.
At least before the Song Dynasty, the scholars of China still had a certain initial ability before they went through ups and downs in the officialdom. Just like in games, those characters had a certain initial ability and skills, and they could start doing things as soon as they got started. Under that kind of environment and cultivation, although there were few talents and most of them were concentrated in the gentry, these people had really received elite education. After entering the officialdom, they could start doing things. They were real officials, instead of nerds who knew nothing except reading books.
Elite education and elite politics may have led to the solidification of the upper and lower classes and poor circulation, but these people were truly talented. The imperial examination system was the country's system of cultivating talents. It was supposed to be a move to mass produce talents and bring prosperity to the country, but because it happened to run into Zhao Guangyi's national policy of stopping martial arts and promoting culture, it made the originally brilliant splendor lose a lot of luster. Culture did indeed flourish, but the country might not be rich and strong.
These products of the era should have been the driving force behind China's unprecedented growth, but because of Zhao Guangyi's own selfishness, it became a real civil official system. The imperial examination system that truly belonged to the civilian era was branded with discrimination against martial artists and despised martial arts. With the development of the imperial examination system, it could not be stopped. It completely extinguished the martial customs of China before the Song Dynasty. From then on, the swords and essays that belonged to the Chinese scholars were separated. The swords became rusty, while the essays became more and more beautiful.
The difference between them and their predecessors who traveled the world with swords was really not small.
The custom of good men not being soldiers began in the Song Dynasty. Before the Song Dynasty, a strong group of scholars like the frontier fortress poetry school could appear. One could imagine how fierce the trend of scholars joining the army was at that time, and how valiant the scholars who joined the army were. How could the weak scholars of today imagine the lofty sentiments and lofty aspirations of being a centurion be better than being a scholar?
At that time, the outstanding scholars could govern the army on horseback, but they could also govern the country off horseback. They could wield their swords at the slightest disagreement, staining their scholar robes with blood. They could do things with their hands and fight with their swords. They were the real elites. But now, some of these so-called scholars were dull to the end. A very small number of talented scholars became treacherous after the ups and downs of the official world. They did not do much, but their means were all better than the other. There were very few capable officials, but there were many bureaucrats.
The souls of the scholars of the whole country seemed to be crooked.
Not to mention that few of these people were willing to follow Xiao Ruxun, even if the imperial court was kind enough to let Xiao Ruxun choose his own group of advisors, he might not be able to find suitable scholars who were willing to work hard with him from the beginning. In contrast, the descendants of the sea merchants who had practical experience were very suitable for the next step of Xiao Ruxun's development plan.
A great poaching plan slowly formed in Xiao Ruxun's mind.
"By the way, how do you plan to deal with those Wokou people?" Chen Lin skillfully bit open the crab pincer in her hand and swallowed the tender white crab meat. "This King of Siam is really powerful. He knows that we have just fought with the Wokou people and killed more than 200,000 of them, but he still dares to let the Wokou people appear in front of us. Isn't he afraid that we will kill them all on a whim?"
"Don't, don't, don't. Calm down, calm down." Xiao Ruxun smiled and said, "They explained the origin of these Wokou people. Before Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Japanese pirates were at war with each other. The big and small feudal lords merged with each other. The winners naturally expanded their power, and the losers died. In order to survive, they had to escape overseas. Some became Japanese pirates and came to Daming's place to harass. Some went to Siam, Dongmu, and other countries to fight for them. They are the same as the wolf soldiers we recruited.
So, these Wokou people are not the ones who are hostile to us. They are the remaining forces of the defeated feudal lords. They are unlucky people who were not accepted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. They came here to make a living and have never been enemies with Daming. Siam is also a loyal vassal state of Daming. We can't hurt the vassal state. Those Wokou people can stay if they want to and fight if they want to. It has nothing to do with us. "
"Admiral, are we going to let those Wokou people go so easily? Many of our brothers died in their hands during the war! "
Chen Lin fiercely bit the crab meat in her hand.
Xiao Ruxun smiled, took a sip of wine, and ate a piece of crab meat. He said, "Since they are already the army of Siam, let's not worry about whether they are Wokou people or not. We are here to deal with the barbarians of Dongwu. In order to win as soon as possible, we need to unite all the forces that can be united.
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