Wanli Youming

Chapter 565 It is to enlighten the wisdom of the people, it is to rule under my emperor (2 in 1)

Chapter 565 It is to open up the wisdom of the people, it is to rule under my emperor (two in one)

"That's right. The old party still wants to make Donggong a puppet for the world."

Shen Yiguan replied at this time.

After hearing this, Luo Wanhua said: "On the one hand, I hope that the people of the world will follow the public opinion, and on the other hand, I hope that only one person can change the way the world governs the country."

Luo Wanhua shook his head as he spoke.

Shen Shixing smiled slightly and said: "Now the Holy Will is to recover Luzon as soon as possible, develop Luzon, and further enrich the country and benefit the people. This is a decision that the monarch and his ministers have already reached unanimously. No evil or monster can stop this decision."

"This time, the bandits who invaded Huangshan Town included a large number of Japanese pirates in addition to the Western Yi, so His Majesty ordered the Ministry of Rites to write the words of the Japanese names in Dongying, and to sign a promise to ensure the peace of the world and not to sell Japanese slaves to the Western Yi. If you violate the contract, you will need to pay compensation and cede the land, which is equivalent to only allowing the people of the Ming Dynasty to keep slaves in Dongying, so as to achieve the purpose of educating the Japanese people."

Luo Wanhua started to speak at this time, and said: "For this reason, the Ministry of Rites has made a decision to send Li Tingji, the chief guest officer of the Ministry of Rites, to the Wa Kingdom as an envoy to discuss this matter."

Shen Shixing nodded after hearing this: "That's good."

At this time, Qi Jiguang followed up and said: "The evacuation of overseas Chinese is also beginning to be arranged. There are more than [-] large ships mobilized. Such a large scale is not only to ensure the evacuation of all merchants as much as possible, but also to demonstrate to the French people. Fortunately, when our Ming army officially came to fight, we voluntarily withdrew from Luzon, otherwise many of the next big ships would not come to pick up people, but to kill people."

"Hopefully."

Shen Shixing replied with a smile.

"Disaster!"

"According to what I learned from the interrogation of these bandits, these Western barbarians originally had the heart to conquer the world, but because they really couldn't conquer the Emperor Ming by force, they changed to preaching in the Middle-earth Continent and occupied by other weak barbarians overseas. Their mission is to make the world worship their religion, which is different from ours, we are the world’s orthodox religion, and we can survive, but they all need to be unified by my emperor.”

"Therefore, it may be very difficult to make them give up their mission and advance eastward. No one is willing to spit out what they eat."

Li Chengliang also talked about his own views.

"Speaking of their preaching, I have been thinking that the Ministry of Rites may ask the imperial court to strictly control the missionaries."

"One is to ensure that the Western and Western scholars who come to do cultural exchanges have no desire to conquer, at least not on the surface, but only for cultural exchanges;"

"Secondly, people from western and western countries who want to settle down in the country and exchange knowledge with other places need to report to the government and get permission, so as not to instigate and educate the people, or even spy on the geography of the dynasty for conquest;"

"Third, all written articles and notes must be inspected by the government before they can be published and brought out of Zhongtu;"

“Fourth, those who apply to come to China for the first time can only live in fixed places arranged by the government, such as the Capital Joint Hall;”

"Fifth, when all Thai and Western people conduct cultural exchanges in one place, they need to be arranged by the government to live in one area and be closely supervised by special personnel. This is to avoid conflicts between them and scholars and people due to different customs, and to prevent them from being too free when they leave. In this way, if you want to leave China and return to your country, you must ask the imperial court to allow him to leave."

At this time, Luo Wanhua came up with new ideas because he thought that the missionary mission to the Western Yi was for conquest.

At this time, Yin Zhengmao, Minister of War, asked: "Why not directly prohibit non-tribute envoys from coming to court?"

"It is inappropriate to directly prohibit."

"Governing the country can't rest on its laurels. Since ancient times, every powerful dynasty would not want to communicate with the barbarians in order to correct its own mistakes."

"It is true that most of the Taixi people have wrong goals, but some of the knowledge they brought has indeed had the effect of supplementing local knowledge. I have contacted them in the south of the Yangtze River, and many of them have unique knowledge and insights."

Wang Xijue replied at this moment, and said: "So, it is right that Uncle Da Zong only strictly controls his entry, so as to let Xiyi know how to be polite."

Qi Jiguang followed suit and said, "The Privy Council concluded after the battle of the invasion of Mount Huang that our master Wang might not have been able to defeat these Western barbarians if he hadn't had a large number of ships and soldiers!"

"Because their firearms are not inferior to ours, and their warships are bigger and faster than ours. The Battle of Tuen Mun also revealed that the strength of Xiyi should not be underestimated, especially in terms of shipbuilding and firearms skills, so keep There should be communication."

"Your Majesty also said that the cabinet needs to carefully analyze the reason why the current firearms and warships are mostly influenced by the western barbarians, but the development of firearms and warships in this dynasty has gradually lagged behind, and even the large ships are not as good as the early days of the country. It can be seen that your majesty is also Those who support communication with Fans like Xiyi.”

Shen Shixing said at this time.

All the ministers in power nodded after hearing this.

Soon after, Luo Wanhua, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, asked the imperial court to strictly control missionaries.

Zhu Yijun approved it, and ordered the cabinet to do the same, and asked Yousi to recommend missionaries with outstanding contributions to appoint officials, which is equivalent to giving some sweets and promoting exchanges while strictly controlling them.

Zhu Yijun is aware of the dangers of seclusion, so he has no objection to this. He even plans to send cultural figures from his own country to take the initiative to exchange ideas in the future.

Not long after Zhu Yijun allowed the ruling officials to strictly control the missionaries, it caused an uproar both inside and outside the court.

Therefore, the people have a lot of discussion.

"If the imperial court does this, it's better to directly ban the Westerners from coming to China!"

"It's okay for us learned men to learn about the knowledge of Yi Di in private homes, but how can the imperial court clearly allow their exchange in the name of strict control!"

"Doesn't this mean that they can apply to give lectures in the academy and go to the county school to give lectures?"

"Does this mean that the children of poor eunuchs from humble backgrounds can also understand Western learning and learn some Western dross?"

"What a painting of nakedness!"

"Children from humble families should only learn the teachings of Confucius, Mencius, Cheng and Zhu, and learn the teachings of saints. How could they be exposed to these external learnings prematurely before they reach the middle level, before they can predict the five moral ethics and before they accept the correct way of destroying people's desire to preserve the natural principles? Bewitched to be a rebel!"

After Gu Xiancheng found out about this, he expressed his views on Zhang Jing, the eunuch who invited him to listen to the music and enjoy the new play together again.

After living in Nanjing, Zhang Jing has always liked to spend money to organize literati gatherings, or invite literati to do some happy things, and he not only makes these literati eat and drink well, but also makes them full of wine and food. Sometimes or sages always express their political opinions.

Now that Gu Xiancheng's family business is in decline and his prestige is also in decline, he loves to go to Zhang Jing's appointments even more.

Because even eunuchs like Zhang Jing still treat him as a person and call him Mr. Donglin.

In fact, the children of the gentry did not shy away from getting along with eunuchs, especially when they were down and down. Historically, the Donglin party members got along very well with the eunuch Wang An.

What's more, Gu Xiancheng now has not many scholars who are willing to associate with him.

After Gu Xiancheng said this, Zhang Jing said: "The things that Mr. Donglin understands, can't the court understand?"

"To put it bluntly, the new party now wants to open up the wisdom of the people. It has stricter supervision on the actions of Taixi Confucian scholars, but it has an additional legal permission for their cultural exchanges. Maybe it will instigate a few Taixi Confucian scholars to help In the future, the imperial court will directly conquer Europa, go directly to the home of the Frangji people, and develop foreign interests there."

"Thinking that many prominent families may not be willing to let these Taixi Confucian scholars be under the supervision of the government, there will be a bloody storm at that time."

Gu Xiancheng said with a smile.

Zhang Jing nodded after hearing this, and then asked: "Then according to Mr. Donglin's opinion, the imperial court sent a large ship to Luzon to pick up the merchants back to the country. Will the merchants come back?"

"People who are ordered by wealthy families to go to those places to manage business are naturally unwilling to do so. I'm afraid they will actively prevent ordinary merchants from coming back. The court will probably have to light a lamp in the blind - it's a waste of time."

Gu Xiancheng said.

After Zhu Yijun authorized Qi Jiguang to send the fleet back to the Han merchants and people in Luzon, and prepared to declare war on Luzon, the Ming court did prepare a huge fleet of more than [-] ships, with Chen Lin as the admiral, and went to Luzon in a mighty way. Come.

Along the way, because Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers have coveted Luzon for more than a year, they sent Jinyiwei to sail between Dongpeng and Manila in the form of smugglers, and summed up the climate in this area. Therefore, the fleet But I chose the right time, and arrived in Manila very smoothly.

However, before the fleet organized by the Ming Dynasty arrived in Manila, some wealthy coastal smugglers had already informed the Spanish Governor Luis in Manila of the news that Ming would recover Luzon.

During this period, Louis said to Manila's infantry major Aguna and Archbishop Raymond: "The Ming country in the north wants to take our Philippines. Although we have asked Your Majesty to send more troops, I am still very worried. , they will collude with the Chinese people outside Manila, and let us be passive!"

"We should kill all the Chinese here first!"

"In this way, we can use the money of the Chinese to buy and train the local natives as the new army, so that we have more troops to fight against the Chinese."

Aguna said.

Lei Weili said: "But there are too many Chinese. There are tens of thousands of Chinese outside the city of Manila. Many Chinese still have guns and swords. If we really want to kill them, it is impossible for them not to know how to resist, so we can't be too direct."

"And I have already thought of a way to confiscate their weapons in the name of strengthening law and order, and lower the tax rate for those who are willing to hand in their weapons, so as to induce them to voluntarily hand in their weapons, and those who are unwilling to hand in can be arrested and killed first. Then kill the ones who disarmed them!"

"In addition, I will first persuade baptized Chinese believers and famous Chinese to persuade other Chinese to collect weapons and promise them benefits."

Louis nodded after listening: "That's a good idea."

then.

Soon, the Governor-General of the Philippines in Francois issued an order in the name of strengthening public security and preventing spies from mixing in, requiring all Chinese in the Philippines to surrender all weapons, and said that those who surrendered weapons would be given money, and those who did not surrender would be fined if the weapons were found after a search. Arrest and detention.

at the same time.

Lei Weili also persuaded the baptized Chinese, such as Huang Kang, a big comprador and believer in the Philippines, to persuade the villagers among the Chinese to call on the Chinese to surrender their weapons voluntarily.

"As you know, our teaching is to promote love, so we let the Chinese people surrender their weapons to promote love and to let them know how to live in the world with love instead of using weapons."

"Swords and soldiers should only be owned by the Governor's Mansion, and used to defend against pirates."

After Lei Weili's persuasion, Huang Kang and others believed it.

The main reason is that Lei Weili is different from Louis. He is a missionary, and he took the initiative to study the Four Books and Five Classics, which made Huang Kang and others less embarrassing, and respected Huang Kang and other wealthy businessmen.

Therefore, Huang Kang was also willing to believe in Lei Weili, and he was afraid that the Chinese would really anger the officials in Manila and affect his own interests, so he agreed, and took the initiative to persuade the Chinese to surrender their weapons.

"Executive officer Huang, the weapons have been turned in. How can we defend ourselves? We are in China and the court prohibits us from carrying bows, arrows, swords and guns. How come we can't use bows, arrows, swords and guns when we go out to sea and get here?"

An unbaptized Chinese still had doubts about the governor's order from the Spanish authorities, and suspected that his motives were bad, so he asked Huang Kang when he came to persuade him.

Huang Kang said: "The Governor's Mansion will guarantee your safety, because you are all law-abiding and tax-paying people, please believe me, I can guarantee the Governor's Mansion, because I have already asked Archbishop Lei Weili, the Governor's Mansion This is indeed done for everyone's safety, you don't believe in the Governor's Mansion, do you still believe that you can guarantee your own safety?"

"Lao Huang's words are to the point!"

"We have to trust the Governor's Mansion. We have paid them so much taxes, and they will naturally be willing to protect us."

"Unless they don't want to collect so much tax and let us be bullied by natives."

At this time, Li Hai, another rich Chinese businessman who was baptized, also started talking.

"My ancestors said that if you are not of my race, your heart must be different!"

"We are different from them in Huayi, so we can't believe it!"

"Furthermore, our ancestors have a saying that every man is innocent and guilty, if we don't have the firearms and swords for self-defense today, we will be real men! Even if we have thousands of dollars, we are afraid that we will become someone else's pocket!"

"So we can't hand it over!"

Some Chinese still raised objections.

This made Huang Kang frown involuntarily.

At this moment, Li Hai smiled and said: "We are businessmen, what are we divided into Huayi? We pay taxes to the country where we do business. It can be said that our products are sold all over the world, not from any country!"

"So, what's the difference?"

"Defending the country and protecting the borders, fighting and killing are the business of soldiers!"

"We just have to do our duty and operate honestly. If we really keep our weapons, it will make people uneasy and not think that you are a pure businessman."

Huang Kang said: "It is for this reason that we must trust the Governor's Office. For this reason, I, Huang, hereby express that whoever is willing to hand in their weapons, I will add [-]% of the original price of the weapons to each household as compensation, so as not to use them." Everyone has been greatly wronged."

"Master Huang is kind-hearted, let's listen to Master Huang."

"That's right, I believe Master Huang is always right."

Many Chinese who followed the baptism or Chinese with the background of local compradors in the Ming Dynasty joined in.

As a result, many merchants turned in their weapons, and some Chinese who were unwilling were also forced to turn in their weapons.

(End of this chapter)