Chapter 801: The Burning of London

If it is said that the most loyal people to Emperor Chongzhen in this world, in addition to Jinyiwei and the three factories of the insider, east and west, they may have to be selected among Xia Ezhe, Amin, and Mang Gurtai.

Even these three goods are much more loyal than Zhang Zhiji and Wan Yanhong.

Zhang Zhiji and Wan Yanhong are also nobles no matter how they are, even if they are related to Emperor Chongzhen by marriage, even if they fight together countless times in the south and north, they will still have their own careful thoughts, but Emperor Chongzhen will never be tempted.

And the three guys Xia Ezhe, Amin and Mang Gurtai are completely different.

Xia Ezhe is better, like Amin and Mang Gurtai, these two guys are all stained with the blood of their own clansmen, and the blood of others is also not less, except for hugging Emperor Chongzhen's thigh, there is no second way to go.

These "heroes" in England actually ended up in the same way, when they caught the first Englishman, they had no second way to go.

It's just that unlike Amin, Amin and Mang Gurtai directly attacked their fellow tribesmen, and Xia Ezhe's hands were also stained with the blood of fellow Mongols.

The heroes of Scotland did not attack the Scots, but targeted the English and Welsh, and the heroes of England and Wales also had the same routine and the same operation - the target was not aimed at their own kindred, and the psychological pressure was not so great.

With the advance of the overall attack on England, the Ming Dynasty also began to immigrate - the household department and local governments began to recruit immigrants, as for the expenses, the household department first paid the silver, and then asked the British government for reimbursement.

Zhang Zhiji, who followed Emperor Chongzhen and had been paying attention to the entire immigration matter, was bleeding from his heart.

The family wealth accumulated by the British government for more than 200 years is decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye almost every day.

Li Hongji and Wu Sangui did not have any psychological pressure, and the business of selling laborers took off, and every day they had to count how many piglets they had sold, and how much silver would fall into their pockets.

Cromwell and Charles I felt a little stressed.

Cromwell's original plan to rely on terrain and civilians to delay the Ming attack has come to naught, and it is these Welshmen and Scots who are most troublesome.

After retreating all the way, Charles I and Cromwell had to abandon London, the capital of England, just after winter.

Emperor Chongzhen rode on a horse, looked at London in front of him with a sneer, turned his head to Zhang Zhiji and said, "Is everything arranged?" ”

Zhang Zhiji bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, everyone in the city has been emptied, and everything that should be loaded has been loaded, and now there is nothing else except a large amount of fierce fire oil and firewood." ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, stretched out his hand to take the torch that had been prepared from Wang Chengen's hand, rode his horse to the firewood in the middle of the city gate, and then skimmed the torch to the firewood pile.

In order to ensure that Emperor Chongzhen could set fire to the whole of London, Jinyiwei made a lot of preparations - such as using firewood to fence off the whole of London, and preparing firewood on all streets, and then pouring a large amount of fierce fire oil.

As the torch fell on the firewood, Emperor Chongzhen finally had a deep understanding of what it meant to be a dry firewood.

With a snort, the flames jumped up and were nearly three meters high, making Emperor Chongzhen, who was still several meters away from the firewood pile, feel a heat wave rushing towards his face.

Emperor Chongzhen, who felt a little hot, quietly narrowed his eyes, and after riding his horse back a few steps, he just sat on his horse and watched the fire, which made the countless civil and military ministers and horses behind him feel a little confused.

Almost everyone couldn't figure out why Emperor Chongzhen insisted on lighting the first fire himself, let alone why Emperor Chongzhen had such a big hatred for the barbarian capital in front of him.

If it is because of the reason why the two Ming businessmen were detained, it is okay to tell outsiders, people like Zhang Zhiji and Wang Chengen, including the civil officials and ministers who came with them, but no one believed it.

"Those wealthy merchants are pigs raised by the imperial court!"

Although Emperor Chongzhen did not say this sentence clearly, this sentence is the consensus of everyone, especially the cruelty and ruthlessness of Emperor Chongzhen when he initially killed the Eight Great Jin Merchants, saying that Emperor Chongzhen would make a big fuss for the two merchants, who would believe it?

The Old Summer Palace was burned down by the British and French forces, how many palace maids and eunuchs were buried in the fire under Zhu Rong? How many innocent people have died as a result of this?

How many Anglo-French forces were there at that time? Thousands?

Today, I, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, with 39,200 horses, burned London!

Who's next?

France, right? I don't know if that dwarf was born? Will it be difficult to lead the troops?

Looking at the fire in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen's thinking quickly deviated to a direction that he didn't even know very well.

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have started to be in a daze again, Zhang Zhiji drove his horse forward a few steps and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you want to continue shelling London?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen, who was awakened by Zhang Zhiji's voice, hummed, turned his horse's head and said in a low voice: "No need to shell London anymore, I want this fire to burn for three days and three nights!" Not even a quarter of an hour less! ”

Zhang Zhiji bowed in response, and continued: "Your Majesty, seeing that winter is about to begin, the entire offensive against the English barbarians has to be suspended for a while, you see?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted and said, "Don't even think about it, if I don't watch England completely destroyed here, I will definitely not go back to Daming." ”

The news of Emperor Chongzhen's decision to stay in England soon spread back to the Ming Dynasty.

Queen Zhou, who had dropped an unknown number of cups in hatred, finally sat down helplessly, and snorted coldly: "Concubine Yi and Concubine Yuan will go to England to drive together, and take Luo Xiaoyu and Jiang Ling'er from the new draft to serve our master together!" ”

Why is my life so miserable!

The husband and husband are unreliable, and it seems that they are even more unreliable when they have a son, and the two of them are now relying on England and not coming back, and they have to worry about them!

Sometimes Empress Zhou couldn't help but envy those concubines - they could go to England to accompany them, but as one of the six palaces, they could only stay in Beijing and couldn't do anything.

Now I have to send my concubine and show girl to Europe to accompany me, I am afraid that if Emperor Chongzhen goes crazy, he will get a red-haired and blue-eyed person back in the harem......

The dignified mother of the country has ever been like herself in history? Has anyone ever heard of it?

However, no matter how helpless she was, no matter how unwilling she was, Queen Zhou still had no choice but to stay in the palace honestly, looking at this big family business.

……

The fire finally went out for three days and three nights, and with the falling snowflakes, there were still puffs of light smoke from time to time.

Looking at the city of London that had been reduced to ashes in front of him, Zhang Zhiji felt a little like crying without tears.

Originally, these should be their own homes, even if the English royal palace can't live by themselves, it would be good to leave it to Emperor Chongzhen as a palace, but now it's good, a fire, it's all gone!

Rebuild, spend money, don't rebuild, that child is about to marry the eldest princess, and he can't even have a place to live when the time comes, right?

The master said that the child and the eldest princess of Broad & Bright want to stay in England, which means that they can't live in the British Mansion in the capital, and they have to build a mansion here for them - they still have to spend money on the British Mansion left and right!

Emperor Chongzhen, who didn't know how painful Zhang Zhiji was, looked at the secret report in his hand with a smile, and then threw it to Zhang Zhiji casually: "Look, now the whole of England is in chaos, and the whole of Europe is also completely in chaos, and we are one step closer to our original plan." ”

After Zhang Zhiji opened the secret report and took a look, he couldn't help but smile on his old face, combined with the painful mood just now, how funny it was.

The simple thing mentioned in the secret report is that in addition to the complete chaos on the part of England, the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy See have once again announced their alliance, and then launched a counterinsurgency war against the whole of Europe.

That's right, it's a counterinsurgency war, because the Holy See, which has the right to speak in religion, officially recognizes the Holy Roman Empire as the sole legitimate ruler of all of Europe, and everything else is illegal.

After reading the secret report, Zhang Zhiji bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, was it too hasty to promise the Holy See to preach in Daming?" ”

How can a religion outlaw the rule of another kingdom? Don't even dare to write like this in the play, right? Now he is actually alive in front of him?

Zhang Zhiji couldn't help but be a little worried, if a religion like this was transmitted to the Ming Dynasty, what kind of consequences would it bring in the end?

The struggle between imperial power and divine power is definitely not a good thing, and the Central Plains Dynasty has also paid a lot of costs before it can be regarded as a combination of divine power and imperial power, and now there is a strong religion, which is definitely not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty!

Emperor Chongzhen chuckled and said, "What are you worried about, now that they have started a war, where do you still have the energy to preach to my Daming?" ”

For Emperor Chongzhen, it doesn't matter if the Holy See wants to preach to the Ming Dynasty now or in the future.

If you want to preach in the Ming Dynasty, you must obey the Ming Law, and you cannot go beyond the Law in any case.

At the same time, the Holy See must also abide by the set of rhetoric made up by Zhang Xianyong and the monk of the other side of the sea, once they do, then what is the difference between them and Taoism and Buddhism? Will it be the original Holy See?

At that time, even the Pope had to obediently accept the canonization of Emperor Chongzhen.

If they were unwilling to comply, then Emperor Chongzhen might allow them to preach to the Ming Dynasty?

Don't forget, there are many things in their teachings that run counter to the Great Ming Law......

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen's attitude was so firm, Zhang Zhiji didn't say anything anymore, but just shifted the topic to another place: "In addition to this Holy See's affairs, there is also the Polish side. If they really wanted to lure Tsarist Russia into Europe, how much more uncertain would the situation be? ”

Emperor Chongzhen's face did not change at all: "Then let them bring in Tsarist Russia, anyway, these barbarians are always dying."

By the way, send this matter back to Daming and hand it over to the Zhongji Hall to deduce it and see how it will be found in the future. ”

Let Tsarist Russia enter Europe, in fact, it has no impact on the current Ming Dynasty at all, anyway, the Ming Dynasty does not plan to use troops against the whole of Europe now, but to let the whole Europe continue to be chaotic, the entry of Tsarist Russia will make Europe more and more chaotic, but it is more beneficial to the overall plan of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially the aggressiveness engraved in the bones of the hairy people, once these Slavs entered Europe, they were willing to return to the icy world of Tsarist Russia to suffer?

The news that came a few months later confirmed Emperor Chongzhen's prediction.

After sorting out countless materials, the Central Temple decided that Tsarist Russia would definitely not let go of such a large piece of fat as Europa, especially after suffering a big loss on the North Mountain.

North of Nurgandus, north to Tiksi, east to Egvekinot, so a large piece of territory was robbed by the Ming, didn't Tsarist Russia want to make up for it from somewhere else?

Let them go to war with the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that Tsarist Russia does not have the courage yet, but with the strength of Tsarist Russia, once they enter Europe, it will not be a sweep?

Of course, the premise is that the Ming will not interfere from it.

If the Ming intervened, such as selling arms to the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy See, it would be a different matter for Tsarist Russia's plan to conquer Europe.

Along with the results of the deduction of the Middle Pole Palace, there were also Yi Guifei and Luo Xiaoyu, and Jiang Ling'er, the newly selected show girl.

When she heard that her son was sold by Emperor Chongzhen, Concubine Yi immediately exploded - the palace knew that Yi'er had no hope of inheriting the treasure, and she also knew that Yi'er would be released sooner or later, but!

Isn't this domain a little too far away? Why is it that even a princess is one of these barbarians? Isn't it okay to marry a Han girl?

Although she had been mentally prepared for a long time, Concubine Yi couldn't help but wipe her tears: "The concubine is such a son, you still put him away so far away, what should you do if you miss Yi'er in the future?"

What's more, at such a long distance, even if Yi'er gives birth to a child in the future, the concubine can't see it, and there is no way to bring it into the palace to see, Your Majesty, you are so ruthless! ”

After comforting him for a long time and not getting better, Emperor Chongzhen simply made the last killing move and threw Concubine Yi Guifei onto the dragon bed - just this one son? Isn't one more than two? If it's not enough, give birth to two more!

When Concubine Yi finally stopped, Emperor Chongzhen put his arms around Concubine Yi's plump body and said softly: "Although Yi'er's fief is far away, it also has far benefits, wait for me to talk to you slowly, don't be in a hurry to cry first." ”

PS: Today is the birthday of the alliance leader Dog Pee Moss, I wish him a happy birthday first, and add a chapter to celebrate.