"Charles, tell me what happened to the French court. You have to cross the ocean alone to flee to us?" January 2, 1692, was the hottest month of summer. Li Zheng skillfully peeled his llama skin while asking Charles Morrow, a French immigrant who was helping.

Charles Morrow fled to the east coast a few years ago. After a few years of life in the logging farm near the coast of Brazil, he joined the temporary miscellaneous army Youguo Army and went deep into the inland jungle to capture the Indians. After the one and a half years of service, Charles Morrow was lucky to go through the procedures for becoming a regular citizen and became a glorious East Coast national. He then chose the Pampa Plain with good development prospects and settled here.

The identity document of Charles Morrow showed that his surname was Chal. In fact, he originally wanted to use the transliteration of his French surname Morrow as his name, but the police officer at the police station who had completed the naturalization procedures gave him a blank look and said, "You are worthy of your surname Mo," and then he took the initiative to register his name as Charles.

Charles was a Huguenot. Although the proportion of craftsmen, merchants, technicians and scholars in France was very high, Charles was an absolute farmer. After his brother was captured by King Louis XIV's dragoons and was unknown, he had long lost his parents and fled to the South Netherlands. He was then taken in by an immigrant recruitment agency located in the east coast, and crossed the ocean to the New World.

In fact, Charles could have chosen to go to Chaco or the wet Pampa area, but because he wanted to buy more land (dry Pampa land was obviously much cheaper), he finally chose to settle in Zhongxing Township, and used the severance payments he received from his retirement army (including a large amount of spoils) to buy 50 acres of dry land in one go, becoming a well-known large-scale land owner.

However, because of his background, Charles is still somewhat inferior in the local area. When facing those young people born and raised on the East Coast, he always feels inferior. Even if he has been fighting for the East Coast Republic for a year and a half, he may have made much more contributions to the country than those people.

Li is the locals that Shir had the most talked about. The two families were close together, so they often had contacts. This time, Li was catching a llama in the wild, so he called Shir over and killed everything. In fact, strictly speaking, their behavior was not very legal, because the East Coast Ministry of Agriculture only allowed hunters with licenses to hunt, which is not allowed by ordinary people. But how could this kind of thing be prohibited? People who did not have licenses but hunted llamas in private. As the saying goes, the people do not procuratorate and do not investigate, and few people are willing to really take care of it. Anyway, this thing is everywhere, right?

"I can't get through it anymore." Charles sat on the ground, cutting potatoes, onions and other vegetables with a knife, while reminiscing in relatively fluent Chinese: "The dragon cavalry caught people everywhere, the church was destroyed, and many pastors were imprisoned and life was not possible."

"Well, your king is a cruel man. If you want to do it, you don't hesitate at all. It's better if you run away, but if you don't, you'll be arrested." Li Zheng held a sharp bone-clearing knife and gently scraped it on the mucous membrane between the skin and flesh of Luoma. Luoma hair is not very valuable, but the price of the skin is still good. Although it is not a rare product, it is okay to sell it at the market and then change to some handy farm tools. Therefore, Li Zheng is very careful at this moment.

"I'll help you with some help." Charles stood up, looked at Luo Ma, whose neck was hooked by an iron hook, and said, "Don't worry about eating, there's not much to be done today."

"No, no need to help!" Li Zheng waved his hand and said, "Just tell me about France, I'm very interested."

"Actually there is nothing to say. The taxes are too heavy, the income is too small, and the famine is also catching up with the continuous famine. Many people cannot eat enough." Shire tried to explain in the most concise language: "In order to pay taxes and loans, many farmers were forced to sell the land passed down by their ancestors. The nobles played with unfair means in this matter. They basically passed on the tax amount to ordinary farmers, and they did not bear a penny. The heavy taxes basically drained the last part of the farmers' blood and sweat. They had no choice but to sell the land passed down by their ancestors to make up for the deficit and pay the king's tax."

"Can you bear this?" Li Zheng shook his head when he heard this and sighed: "What are you doing that King Louis is doing? A good life, but I have to fight to death, just to occupy more land and houses and grab more money?"

"I don't know either." Charles said in a daze: "I only know that even Catholic peasant families have a hard time. The king wants to fight and keep increasing taxes, which makes people almost die. Some people have no land of their own. The nobles or churches who rented plants have to pay 30 livres a year, and they also have to bear 20 livres taxes. How much output can the land be? Horses that can cultivate land were confiscated by the king, and there was not much fertilizer in the field, and they could not grow much grain. The price of wine has not been very prosperous for many years, and life has been too difficult. Many people have no choice but to either join the army, become sailors, or go to overseas colonies to develop. In short, life is not easy to stay in France."

"It's such a sin." Li Zheng said sympathetically: "Let's live a good life in the future. You have been carrying a gun for two years, so don't put your head on your belt. Now you're overwhelmed and you'll be happy in the future. Look at how good the land here is. There's no need to fertilize the wheat field. There's still plenty of wheat, soybeans and corn that can grow in the field. It's not a problem to earn a few dozen yuan a year. Once you save some money, you'll go to the cooperative to sign up and find a way to buy a few calves back, so that you'll all live together."

"Who said no?" Charles grinned when he heard this man, "But I hope that all the war dealers would fall. They are all demons, demons who harm the people. A while ago, I went to Yancheng Port to meet the former elders. The chief told me that Louis XIV's envoy came to our country and wanted to talk to us about the import of advanced weapons, machinery, food and other commodities. It is said that many domestic merchants are interested in this, and they can't wait to enter the huge market with 23 million people."

Speaking of which, the French envoy did come to the East Coast a while ago. Their purpose was not only to buy goods from the East Coast, but they wanted a lot, including requesting the East Coast to withdraw support to the United Provinces, including military and trade support. Obviously, the French's "unreasonable demand" was simply rejected by the East Coast people, and they could not come up with any conditions that could be used for exchange. Just a French market that had already lost money and was poor, could it be compared with a larger market dominated by Dutch merchants?

Besides, curbing all land-powered powers is the basic national policy of the East Coast. When you, Louis XIV, clearly launched a war of annexation, would we the East Coast people just watch? What area was the territory when you Louis XIV first came to power? What area is the new territory in the hexagon now? Annexing Alsace, Lorraine, Francheconte, Strasbourg, some towns in the Southern Netherlands, some territory of Italy, and the Kingdom of France, the territory north of the Pyrenees in Spain, is also the territory of several provinces in mainland China. Most of them are essential plains, with a lot of precipitation, suitable temperatures, sufficient sunshine, and abundant nearby fishery resources. If this is not curbed, when will it be curbed?

Therefore, the French were destined to not have any promises on the East Coast people. Even the East Coast people would step up assistance to the United Provinces, vigorously promote the establishment of the Northern Italy Federation, and even relax trade restrictions in England, allowing them to import more industrial equipment. The East Coast people are now very confident and do not worry about how much threat it poses to cause trouble to the French people, in order to weaken the French population, and the war bonus brought to them by the system.

Only when all the countries in the old continent fight will it help the new continent countries siphon their population, funds, technology and resources. Otherwise, you will play by yourself. What's the matter with my East Coast? Is it fun to be an orphan in the world?

"Many times merchants are very short-sighted. They will do many things without limits to make an extra dollar." Li Zheng stripped the skin of the llama, threw the knife, then sat on the ground, took out the cowhide water bag filled with inferior earth-making soju wine, and took a sip, and then said comfortably: "Don't worry about them, that's what the men have to worry about. You and I have two mud legs, what do you want to do so far. Charles, you should think more about how to get married, haha. In fact, you are the one who wants to do more.

As a soldier (although not a serious soldier...), it is not difficult to marry a wife. But you have too high demands and want to marry an oriental wife, which is a bit troublesome. Stop, I know what you mean, but this is not easy to deal with. You stupid guy, most of your money is used to buy land and materials to build a house. Now it is tighter than me. If you don’t make any trouble, just rely on the few hundred yuan you have to make it hard, you may not be able to marry an oriental wife. But now you don’t have money, that’s difficult.”

"It's better to take this matter slowly. I can't be anxious. I'll pay attention to it anyway." Li Zheng said: "Now, don't worry about the mess. Let's clean up the meat first, and then stew it in a big pot. Eat more and eat better to accumulate strength. We will all go to the construction site to work in two days. The road planned by the man seems to be serious, and I don't know if it will be over-term. Alas, there are many things in the field."

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