Chapter 695 Murder "Dear Simon, I have no way to describe to you, if you can come to the East for a few months and enjoy the food here, I am afraid you will look at Europe as a daunting journey, because the food there is unbearable!"
In just one year, dozens of knights gained a full forty pounds.Especially Saraño, he was a wonderful knight, he used to have muscles full of violent beauty, and in just a few years, he became a fat man of more than four hundred pounds, and a knight weighing more than four hundred pounds, have you ever seen it?
Surely you haven't seen him, he's broken out of several chairs, and I have to remind him to go on a diet, or he's going to die of overeating.Descartes' pen stopped, he rubbed his wrist, picked up a cup of tea, and then went on to write: "The Ming people of the East, I have ever met, there is no one of the smartest people, all of them say that the Jews will do business, and they will earn your last copper plate, in fact, they have not met the Ming people, and once they meet the Ming people, they will probably only have their pants left."
After more than three years of understanding, I found that the Ming people are the best people in the world, they are brave and good at fighting, they are smart and industrious, they are already very good, but they are very good at learning, there are actually many people like me who act as translators, there are Ottomans who translated Arab medical and agricultural works for them, including the experience of the Arabs in preventing and controlling plagues and the cultivation and management techniques of flax.To be honest, I was looking forward to it, and when they finished translating, they would buy a few copies and send them back to Europe, because the Ottomans would not be so open with us about their scientific achievements.Like a dry sponge, the merchant kingdom greedily absorbs knowledge by all means, but filters out the sediment.By the way, I have always emphasized to you that the Ming people are not the Shang people, because the Ming are the suzerainty of the Shang state, similar to the federal principality of Germany.In fact, the country is also experiencing a terrible catastrophe, it is the country that seems to have lost its administrative capacity, and some stubborn and incompetent people occupy the center of the empire, who turn a blind eye to such a dangerous situation, and only care about using the power in their hands to exclude dissidents, and frantically grab profits, without caring about the lives and deaths of the common people.Many of the decrees of the rulers of the empire could not be enforced at all, except for tax increases.The emperor asked the common people to pay an extra 12 yuan in taxes for each person to use as a special fund to exterminate the rogues, and this group of shameless officials can be assigned an additional tael of silver, you may not know very well, one tael of silver is a thousand wen, and my annual salary is 7,000 taels of silver, that is, 7 million yuan, but this is only my income after tax.I should get more before taxes, outside the Shang country, those big landlords who own thousands, tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres, hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, do not pay a penny of taxes, take pride in tax evasion, and be ashamed of paying taxes, and such heavy taxes all fall on the common people.Most of their armies have lost their combat capability, and they are even more powerful in harming their own people than rogue soldiers, and officials are even more capable of harming the common people than officers and soldiers......
These most terrible things are pushing the country into the abyss of hell, and many people of insight are lamenting that the country is running out.Yes, Marco Polo's golden age of the golden kingdom ruled by the sages is in danger of being brought to an end, and the country is facing a great crisis of a second conquest by barbarians.Any empire that goes this far is bound to fall apart, and this is how the great ancient Rome came to an end, and the same is true of the current Holy Roman Empire.But the situation in this country is very peculiar, and even at such a desperate juncture, the first thought of the most brilliant generals is not to divide themselves and fight against each other, but to fight with all their might, trying to reglue the country that has begun to crumble back into a whole with their own blood, as if there is an invisible but awesome force that drives them to stand up and hold the fallen sky back up on their shoulders.The young, rebellious general, whom I have mentioned many times in my letters, is a representative of them, a man of great vitality and knowledge that even the greatest scholars of Europe can only bow to him, and with endless ambition and energy, he led a group of excellent people to work together with him, and in just three years built this Garden of Eden on earth.He seems to have come from the country's classical golden age, with the help of the gods, who has crossed the river of time and come to this miserable, desperately dark and troubled time, to hold down the crumbling sky with his own hands, and lead his beloved people to a more brilliant and brighter future.Under his rule, the Chinese civilization, which had been severely damaged by the Mongols, brushed away the dust on its body and began to bloom with an unusually dazzling light.I guess even God is curious about this, right?
This great general, in this year, by His Majesty their Emperor, canonized the prince "Shang", which is similar to the Jewish state, a country that has disappeared for two or three thousand years, and now, they have renamed the name of the country after Shang.The Shang State, which had only been established for less than three months, had completed its first household registration, and you can hardly imagine that the Shang Kingdom had 5.29 million households, more than 27 million people, which was more than the total population of the Spanish Empire......
At this point, Descartes put down his pen and looked out the window......
On the side of the road outside the window, it belongs to Descartes's mailbox, and every citizen of a merchant country has his own mailbox, and he can put the things that need to be mailed in the mailbox, and every night, a special person will come to collect them.Of course, when receiving mailed items, you need to put the cash in the mailbox, clearly marked the price, ordinary letters, including things under a kilogram, the postage is two taels of silver, you can mail the letter to the Ming Dynasty, Beijing and thirteen provinces, if it is the original Liaodong of the Shang Kingdom, which is now the six provinces, only one or two silver.In Liaoyang Mansion, it only costs five hundred dollars.However, the Ming Dynasty did not have direct mail to Europe, unlike the merchant countries that could realize the delivery of goods and property, letters, Descartes wanted to send a letter to Simon who was far away in the Netherlands, then he needed to wait for the cargo ship to the Netherlands, and if he was lucky, he could have a ship within three months, and if he was unlucky, he might not have a ship for half a year.Of course, the postage would have to be more expensive, and it would have to be lost, and the percentage of this loss was quite high, so in order to prepare the money for Simon's ticket, Descartes sandwiched two notes of one thousand taels of silver in an envelope.Nowadays, many Dutch merchants, including European merchants, will directly receive the paper money of the merchant country, and a few pieces of light paper can be exchanged for goods of equivalent value, which is too convenient.Many European merchants would dock in Luzon, a merchant country, and exchange the gold and silver coins they carried for paper money of the same value, so that a person could easily carry hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to purchase goods.Eventually, Descartes put the letter in an envelope, along with two thousand taels of silver and one hundred taels of silver on the pin."
Hilde!""
Your Excellency!""
Take this letter, catch up with the postman on the street, and send it to Port Arthur as soon as possible!""
Okay!"
In my heart, even the Golden State was not as perfect as Descartes described, and with the development of the economy, the gap between the rich and the poor in the region was reflected.Just like an ordinary carved wooden chair, in the Golden State is about 500 to 800 yuan, which is equivalent to one-third or one-quarter of the salary of an ordinary wage earner, if more expensive wood is used, such as Huanghuali and other wood, a chair needs to be sold for 15 to 20 taels of silver, so that ordinary people can buy a chair with half a year's salary.Of course, there are cheap alternatives to these goods, for example, without openwork carving, that is, chairs made of ordinary poplar or paulownia trees, at most thirty or fifty yuan, folding chairs made of immortal steel pipes, which will not be broken after more than ten years, one hundred dollars can buy two, and one or two silver can buy twelve.Descartes is the chief professor of the School of Physics, equivalent to the level of vice president, so his annual salary is only as high as seven thousand taels of silver, and the annual salary of an ordinary merchant soldier plus overseas allowances and other subsidies is about fifty or sixty taels of silver, even if he reaches the rank of major and regimental commander, plus the overseas allowance, it is only about five hundred and fifty taels of silver.This salary is not low, if you reach the rank of colonel, brigade commander or major general, the annual salary can reach 1,500 taels of silver.The system of the Shang State is like this, the lower the level of officials and civil servants, the greater the gap in income compared to the Ming Dynasty, the higher the level, the lower the income gap with the Ming officials, the highest salary of personnel in the technical and educational systems, Descartes is just an accidental phenomenon, in later generations, Descartes is definitely a professor who can get the Nobel Prize, and the annual salary of 7,000 taels of silver is not high.If they were ordinary professors, their annual salary was only half that of Descartes, about three thousand five to four thousand five hundred taels of silver, and if they were teaching assistants, they were about one thousand five hundred taels of silver to two thousand five hundred taels of silver.Even if Simon could make it to the Golden State, he would pass the teaching examination at the University of Commerce, he would be able to get the status of a trainee teacher, he would be able to teach students as a trainee teacher, and if he could make it to a semester, then he would receive a salary of six hundred taels of silver.After passing another examination, you can get the status of assistant teacher, get a salary of 1,500 taels of silver, then junior teacher, then teacher, and after being promoted to senior teacher, you can be promoted to associate professor.There are at least five levels to go from a university trainee teacher to a professor like Descartes, which is almost equivalent to a promotion from ensign to colonel, which is as difficult as you can imagine, and will kill a large number of people.Even if you become a teacher, can you live a very nourishing life in the Golden State?
The answer is actually no.Because there are too many rich people in the Ming Dynasty, many rich people can live a very nourishing life even if they don't do anything, they enjoy the interest in the bank.As the business atmosphere of the Shang country became more and more intense, the luxury brand of Women's Square began to become the mainstream of luxury goods, and a crocodile leather handbag sold for 1,500 taels of silver, and it was not that no one bought it.Even a university teacher with an income of 2,500 taels of silver is mostly reluctant to buy a new crocodile leather handbag for his wife, however, like those wealthy families from the Central Plains, people can not blink their eyes.After all, the infrastructure construction of the commercial country is too expensive, as well as the basic culture and education, relying on the 5% interest, the commercial bank absorbs a lot of rich funds.Comparison is a human instinct, not a patent of Chinese people.There are levels of hotels, taverns, trains, carriages, clothing, food, housing, transportation, and all walks of life in the commercial country.For example, private horses, ordinary horses can be bought for a few taels of silver, a dozen taels of silver, dozens of taels of silver can also be bought, if you want to buy a famous Arabian horse, or a West Pole horse, you need hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and even the pet pony, or even the alpaca that is not produced in China, a few hundred taels of silver, is still in short supply.If you have money and no place to spend, you can go to a high-end restaurant, such as the Japanese-style human body sheng, and a meal can not be brought down without a hundred taels of silver.The same is true for houses, the most expensive house in the Shang Kingdom is near the current Shang Wangfu, the closer to the Shang Wangfu, the more expensive the price, two broken grass houses, selling thousands of taels of silver is a normal phenomenon, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, this is a normal business behavior.When Quan Xu returned home, before he could catch his breath, he suddenly received news that there was a homicide in the port area of Jinzhou, a warehouse owner, and his family of seven were killed by his hired men, including three children, the youngest of whom was at least two years old.When Quan Xu heard this, his face was gloomy: "Has the murderer been caught?"
”"Caught, the perpetrator is a guy he hired, named Wang Er!""
Committing murder alone?"
Quan Xu asked in disbelief, "Bring me the inquest report!"
”Quan Xu looked at the report of the murder: "Xu Zongfa, lying in the courtyard when he died, holding a musket in his hand, the musket was in a firing state, he was beheaded with a knife, his cavity was blurred with flesh and blood, his head was on the ground, and there were traces of dragging......
Quan Xu hurriedly glanced at it and said coldly: "The seven people died in different ways, some were shot, some were hacked, and some were assassinated, who determined that it was one person?"
What can an average dude do?
Xu Zongfa's wife, Huang, fired four bullets from the revolver, why only three bullets?
Why is there no trace of a hit on Wang Er's body?
The musket lead in Xu Zongfa's hand, where is Huang's revolver?
Haven't you found such an obvious problem?
”At this moment, a voice from outside the porter said, "Lord Wang, there is something important to ask for a meeting!"
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