Chapter 628 The people here are extremely dirty What the translator said is quite appropriate, and this is also his main feeling after living here for so many years. In fact, no matter how strong these small countries in Southeast Asia are, they don’t have much strength at all. Most of these small countries in Southeast Asia rely on the ocean for their livelihood, so they rely on the weather for their food even more than the Ming Dynasty did. They have developed the habit of relying on whoever provides the milk for them. Maybe it's because there is no other day in their lives, so they only think about the present. As for the so-called future, they will definitely not pay attention to it, and as for the so-called long-term development, they will not care even more. What these people care about is whether they can survive and see the sun the next day. These people live just to get by. That's right. Therefore, it can be seen that these guys have calculated to the extreme for their own little interests. The translator has lived here for more than ten years. In fact, he doesn't need to see what these people are saying or thinking. He can know what they are going to do at a glance. After listening to the translation, Captain Liu said to Wang Dahai, "Now you know what these people are thinking, right? Your efforts may be in vain, and not only that, you will be laughed at as pedantic. " Wang Dahai blushed at these words.

To be honest, he actually had a lot on his mind. Mainly, he thought that since the Ming Dynasty was coming here to rule this land, he could not offend these people too much. After all, a particularly large port will be built here in the future for the Ming Navy to be stationed here. As a navy officer of the Ming Dynasty, he hopes that the common people here can accept the Ming Dynasty and provide more help to the Ming Dynasty Navy in the future instead of making enemies. Just like when the port was being built in Annan, although the progress was fast, their king was a military man, so he demanded that the people work overtime in order to obtain more funding from the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the purpose of doing this is to obtain more funding from the Ming Dynasty and to allow the small country of Annan to have more say among the countries in Southeast Asia. The King of Annan could even use this incident to threaten other small countries, but the Ming Dynasty would not help other small countries do anything about it. Because the Kingdom of Annan did pay some price and it did allow the Ming Dynasty to have a port in Annan. The Ming Dynasty was not blindly hypocritical. It would not oppress other countries just because of Annan’s contributions and then intervene. Although it is a vassal state, it is mostly in name only. When these small countries need the Ming Dynasty, they say we are your vassal states. When they don’t need it, they will sit on the sidelines and watch the fight between the two tigers. The Ming Dynasty was well aware of this, so it did not necessarily have much goodwill towards them, but would only complete some of the tasks as a suzerain state. It is for this reason that even though the Ming Dynasty is so powerful now, even if Annan relies on the power of the Ming Dynasty to bully other small countries, the Ming Dynasty will not discipline it. Because for the Ming Dynasty, a chaotic Nanyang country is in line with the interests of the Ming Dynasty. It can even be said that the more chaotic they are, the more help they will be to the Ming Dynasty in the future, because if these countries are united, it will be very unfriendly to any forces that interfere with the Ming Dynasty in the future. But if there is chaos here, these countries will rely more and more on the Ming Dynasty, which will form a kind of clamping effect on the Ming Dynasty. This is just like balancing power. Why did the emperor need to balance power? It is to prevent a certain group of people from becoming too powerful and oppressing others, so that only a small group of people can monopolize power and thus concentrate power to fight against the imperial power. This is something the Ming Dynasty absolutely does not want to see, and it will never allow such a thing to happen, so in the process these people must be dispersed and allowed to become a group of scattered sand. Take Annan today for example. Because of the presence of the Ming Dynasty’s naval port, the entire country of Annan now feels like a tiger with sharp teeth. He stretched out his greedy claws, trying to grab all the interests of other small countries into his own plate.

Perhaps even Annan itself did not expect this, because its actions have actually made all the small countries hate it to the core. Small countries will not hate the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty is too powerful. They know it is useless to hate the Ming Dynasty. But you, the Kingdom of Annan, actually dare to take advantage of the power of others. Aren’t you more deserving of death? However, the Ming Dynasty was particularly happy to see this happen, because only when this happened would it be the best thing for the Ming Dynasty. Since you small countries don’t know how to unite among yourselves, then don’t blame others for deliberately harming you. These small countries never seem to know what unity means. They only know that if I become strong and you people are not strong, then I will do my best to harm you. I only know that under this situation, if I don't harm you, why should I try so hard to curry favor with the Ming Dynasty? Since I have tried so hard to curry favor with the Ming Dynasty, then I must get the benefits that I deserve. The advantage is that I can use this thing to bully ordinary small countries like you. Although the translator didn't know about the mess between the Ming Dynasty and the Kingdom of Aneng, he understood very well the mentality between these small countries. Especially what is the mentality of these people, because these people have no so-called concept of shame at all, they only know that whoever gives them milk is their mother. It may be because the city of Linhai has been attacked by pirates for many years, which makes them attach great importance to the fact of survival. For the common people who have no tomorrow but today, as long as you can be good to us, it is enough, as long as we can benefit. As for the so-called loyalty and righteousness, we have none of it. As for the so-called loyalty, we have even less. If you can continue to give us benefits, we can also continue to be loyal to you and have no problem being your slaves. But if one day your supply is cut off, don't blame us, the people of small countries, for looking down on you. The translator traveled back and forth between the small countries in Southeast Asia for more than ten years. Of course, he was not a good person. He had spent most of his time in the past decade doing reselling. Otherwise, how could it be said that the civilization of the Central Plains Dynasty was much higher than that of a small country? Even though many of the routines that seemed very ordinary in the Central Plains Dynasty had been used for thousands of years. Ordinary people are used to it, and even ordinary people know that these skills that cannot make money at all become their trump cards when they are brought to Southeast Asia, and they can make a fortune by making a fortune. It has to be admitted that once the dimension of civilization is high, it can immediately reduce the dimension of all low-dimensional civilizations. Maybe they didn't know who they were meeting. But being harvested is a fact. Therefore, the translator has made a lot of money over the years, and he is also more grateful for the high-dimensional insights that the people of the Central Plains Dynasty have received, which allows him to reap the benefits of the Southeast Asian countries through information asymmetry. As a result, he has now been targeted because he has made too much money in the Southeast Asian countries. As soon as the government of each country heard that he was coming, they immediately put on high alert. Governments of various countries know that they have no way to deal with this kind of people. Some of them have ways to take advantage of loopholes, and some have ways to use tricks. Anyway, they can't catch you at all, and then they will empty your treasury openly. So they were on high alert against these people from the Central Dynasty. They even deliberately fabricated charges to frame the people of the Central Plains dynasty so that they could reap some benefits. Because of this, the translator hated some of the small countries here so much. So when he heard that the navy of the Ming Dynasty had gone to the small country of Srivijaya to take over the local political power, he immediately volunteered to come and serve as a translator. He was originally a businessman, he was familiar with various things here, and he had talents that others did not have, so he was quickly appreciated. He soon followed the Ming Dynasty's navy to fight east and west, and soon gained some small honors. Now, after listening to the conversation between Liu Baihu and Wang Dahai, he stood up to refute Wang Dahai's indecision and his mentality.

Because Wang Dahai always felt that the people here should be as simple and honest as those in the Ming Dynasty, and he should talk to them in a more respectful way, so that the people here can move forward with the Ming Dynasty and jointly build the second port of the Ming Navy here. Unfortunately, Wang Dahai was just wishful thinking. In fact, the common people here would never be grateful for what the Ming Dynasty had done. Because in their eyes, the Ming Dynasty is now no different from pirates. If they can give us benefits, we will listen to them carefully. If they can't, we will just quit and leave. It is precisely because of this attitude that he never feels that he has done anything wrong. Even though they made such excessive demands, in their eyes, these were just normal demands. These were just the prices you, the Ming Dynasty, should pay after coming to our place and occupying it. This was just business. But Wang Dahai is sometimes quite naive. He always thinks that as long as he treats the local people well, they will be in solidarity with the Ming Dynasty. But what he didn't expect was that the common people in this place had no idea of ​​so-called loyalty, nor did they know so-called gratitude. They only knew how to ask for things. That’s why after Wang Dahai said those words, the translator felt that he was a little too naive at that time, so he stood up. Captain Liu was quite happy after hearing what the translator said, and asked him to continue. The translator then opened up and explained all the experiences and lessons he had learned over the past decade. “Generals, you two may be new here and do not know the local customs and practices. The reason why the locals are so snobbish is not because there is anything wrong with them, but because of the geography where they live. "For example, this city has experienced several waves of pirate looting every year, so the people have become accustomed to it. In order to avoid being looted by pirates, they will even prepare a portion of all the good things when the monsoon comes every year. “When the pirates come with the monsoon, they will voluntarily hand them over to avoid being robbed and killed by the pirates. "So, the pirates called Mandala the kindest city. Because here, the pirates don't need to do anything to get a lot of spoils. "The people here have long developed a sense of self-respect for the strong. In order to better protect this private land, the pirates will even take the initiative to trade the treasures they have robbed from outside. “In fact, it’s strange that the pirates who were burning, killing, looting, and robbing outside actually came here to trade the gold, silver, and jewelry they stole. As a result, this city formed an invisible trade, and engaged in arrogant trade with the pirates. "They exchanged the gold, silver and jewels looted by the pirates for food and returned them to the pirates, earning gold, silver and jewels from this, and then collected more food from other places. "If that's all, it can only be said that this is a helpless move. After all, even the imperial government can't fight against pirates, so how can we force the common people here to do any harm to pirates? It's still very difficult for them to save their lives and survive. "But the difference is that when the imperial court wanted to eliminate the pirates in order to reduce the invasion of other cities by the pirates, the people in the city would actually take the initiative to inform the pirates, so that the pirates could repeatedly escape the encirclement and suppression of the imperial army. As a result, every time the imperial army swore to eliminate the pirates, it became a joke." Captain Liu and Wang Dahai were shocked after hearing the translation. They never thought that the people here would sell out national justice for the sake of profit. Seeing the expressions of Captain Liu and Wang Dahai, the translator smiled and said, "Maybe the two generals are in Xing'an. Since they are both from Sanfuqi, why would they betray the court and help the pirates? “They even knew that the small country of Sanfuqi had a very long coastline, and among this series of cities, only Mandala City was immune to pirate looting, and the people in other cities often lived under the shadow of being looted. "If the people of Mandala City were united in their hatred of the enemy, the pirates would not be able to come and go as fast as the wind, and they would not even be able to know the layout of the imperial army in advance." Captain Liu and Wang Dahai nodded, saying that this was normal. This only meant that the people in Mandala City could not distinguish right from wrong and sold out their country for the sake of profit. The translator shook his head: "If that's all, then the two generals may not understand why the people of this city are like this? "The people of this city are far more filthy than the two generals imagined. Their minds are darker and their actions are more shameful." ……

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