Poor Hiromitsu embarked on a difficult escape in this way......

It is said that with his tonnage, the escape on the Cuihan Ancient Road can indeed be called difficult, originally in history it was said that he was because of the tonnage problem, he really had no way to escape, so he could only hide in a nearby temple in Luoyang, so he was caught by Li Zicheng.

Of course, the Fulu feast is nonsense.

Li Zicheng's taste is not so heavy.

It is very clear in Tan Qian's national record that after his death, a loyal vassal knelt down and begged Li Zicheng, and then buried him in a thin coffin.

And that vassal committed suicide at his grave.

Just when he was along the ancient road of Cuihan and difficult to embark on the road of western hunting, Li Ruoqi's troops in Ruzhou City were defeated, and those soldiers who already knew that they were in trouble took advantage of the spring rain at night to open the city gate, and went south into the vast mountains, and ransacked Ruzhou by the way before leaving, and also killed Li Ruoqi by the way. These defeated soldiers are all mountain people in the Yunyang area, they know very well how to go home with the harvest, from Ruzhou to the south of the mountain road of more than 100 miles to Lushan can avoid Zu Dashou's cavalry and then turn to the main road of Nanyang.

After they fled, there was no obstacle in front of Zu Dashou, and on the same day that Hongguang arrived at Kip Shiguan and was about to start crossing the Kunshan Mountain, Zu Dashou drove into Luoyang.

And on this day, the old friend of King Zhennan was also unlucky.

Qufu.

"You can't do this to me, I'm Yan Shenggong, I'm Yan Shenggong!"

Yan Shenggong struggled and screamed in horror.

At this moment, he was being dragged by two soldiers, like dragging a pocket, to the white silk that had been hung in front of him......

"If you weren't for the Holy Father, we wouldn't need to do this!"

Plug Yinxi said.

At this time, he was the chief soldier of an infantry corps in the imperial camp.

Although most of them, who had originally withdrawn from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, were actually meritorious literati, they were all used as military generals because they were familiar with the tactics of the New Army, and these people had extremely rich experience in this regard. After all, it has been many years since they first started new tactics, and Apocalypse reorganized a total of eight infantry corps after the war, and the vast majority of the generals were from their group, and the cavalry army was led by Lu Xiangsheng.

Although he failed to realize his dream of being the top student in the Jinjin Ranks, he became the main general of the imperial camp at the age of twenty-six.

Now he also holds the title of Governor.

This is also a blessing in disguise.

He followed Sun Yuanhua to raise troops along the canal to the north, and the troops were divided into two roads in Jining, and Sun Yuanhua led an army to continue to march forward to Dongping, preparing to join Hong Chengchou in Dongchang.

And he led an army into Yanzhou, and after taking King Lu into his home, he immediately entered Qufu City.

"Father-in-law, we are here to fulfill your name.

As the Taifu of Emperor Hongguang, at this special time, of course, you have to commit suicide to be martyred, we all know that Emperor Hongguang is the Holy Lord Mingjun, and the King of Zhennan is a traitor to the country, but we people do not have the integrity of you, so we have to succumb to this traitorous minister. But you are different, you are the Holy Father, after the sage, you have to be inseparable from the traitorous minister, if you succumb to his obscenity, how can you be worthy of Kong Sheng? At times like these, you must commit suicide to show that you are not a thief.

So that future generations will remember you.

The sages and disciples of future generations will remember your integrity, and you can live on for eternity. ”

He squatted in front of Yan Shenggong and said.

Poor Yan Shenggong dragged his broken leg, was carried by two soldiers, and looked at him with stunned eyes, obviously unable to understand his strange theory for a while, what the hell is this, I am Yan Shenggong, I should have to hang myself, why are you bastards in cahoots with Yang Xin? You say that Hongguang is the Holy Lord Mingjun, so why did you stab him in the back?

"So, you'd better be martyred!"

Plug Yinxi said sincerely.

"I know you, I know you, back then in Wuxi, you and those students of Donglin Academy made trouble together, you are taking revenge for personal gain, you are taking revenge for personal gain, I want to see Your Majesty, I want to see King Zhennan, you can't do this to me!"

Yan Shenggong screamed.

"That's right, I'm just taking revenge!

Back then, when you followed Yang Xin to cause trouble in Jiangnan, and followed him to kill Mr. Jingyi, I Jiangnan Shilin wanted to kill you, a traitor, but unfortunately I didn't get the opportunity, so that you, a traitor, have been at large for all these years, and today I can finally comfort Mr. Jingyi and all the gentlemen in distress, today you don't want to die, you have to die, even if you have already pleaded guilty with Yang Xin, I will hang you.

Hang him up!

When I saw your face, I remembered how you followed Yang Xin to fight for the tiger back then! ”

Du Yinxi stood up and shouted.

"They were killed by Yang Xin, and they have nothing to do with me!"

Yan Shenggong screamed.

The two soldiers carried him to the bottom of the white silk, and then directly supported him under his armpit and lifted him up to hang up, the weight of Yan Shenggong, who was missing a leg, was much lighter than ordinary people, and the head was easily put into the white silk in the struggle.

"I admit that I can't kill Yang Xin, I can't avenge Mr. Jingyi, but I can't kill Yang Xin and I can't kill you? Hang this old thief up, and then throw his son into the well, Yan Shenggong is full of loyalty, swear to follow Emperor Hongguang to the death, he is really a model of my Confucian disciples, worthy of the name of the sage, and he is still looked up to by Shilin from now on, haha! ”

Plug Yinxi laughed.

It wasn't driven by his sheer hatred......

Although he did hate this guy, in fact, when he was thrown into the river by Yang Xin in Wuxi, he had already remembered the face next to Yang Xin, but letting Yan Shenggong's family be hanged was planned within their group, and letting him come to Qufu was actually for this purpose. Because of Yan Shenggong's performance over the years, especially following Yang Xin to cause trouble in Jiangnan and brutalize Zhongliang, Confucius's reputation was implicated, and it also seriously affected the image of Confucianism among the people.

This, of course, is what they themselves think.

In fact, the fundamental reason for the impact on the image of Confucianism is that scientific progress has made Confucianism more and more useless.

The people don't care about anything else, what is useful is good, practical intellectuals are becoming more and more popular, and the natural status of traditional Confucianism is declining, which is an inevitable trend.

But these Confucian elites, who take the revitalization of Confucianism as their own responsibility, are unwilling to admit this, and in their view, the decline of the Confucian image is caused by the bad image of Yan Shenggong, so in order to revitalize Confucianism, it is necessary to re-gild the image of Yan Shenggong. Kong Yinzhi's actions can't be washed away, since this is the case, let him be a martyr in this chaos, the once notorious Yansheng Gongwan woke up, followed Hongguang to fight against Yang Xin, a traitor, and after the unfortunate defeat, he would rather die than submit to Yang Xin, and took his whole family to commit suicide to show loyalty and treachery.

What a great image.

The original traitor Yan Shenggong no longer existed, and the Confucian scholars gained a righteous and awe-inspiring Yan Shenggong.

Anyway, what they have in the Confucian family is a person, it's just to find another one, the Confucian scholars don't care who is the Yan Shenggong, as long as they don't succumb to the Yang thief's obscenity.

As for themselves......

They can succumb to the prostitution of the Yang thief.

They are just a group of unscrupulous disciples of Confucianism, and they succumb to the obscenity of Yang thieves, which will not affect the image of Confucianism, and they are not Yan Shenggong.

"King Zhennan, where are you?"

Poor Yan Shenggong looked at the north with tears in his eyes and cried.

Then the two soldiers directly let go, and the shouts of Yan Shenggong, who was calling for the king of Zhennan, stopped abruptly, and then hung on it and began to kick his legs.

Capital.

"Ahh

King Zhennan suddenly sneezed.

"Am I going to catch a cold again?"

He then said in amazement.

Obviously, he didn't know that a person thousands of miles away was calling his Zhennan King, and he felt very puzzled that he would sneeze like this, you must know that he had long been immune to all diseases and poisons, and it was indeed strange to sneeze suddenly.

The king of Zhennan, who didn't know that it was just because of the powerful resentment of the poor Yan Shenggong, finally shook his head and looked at the urgent report in front of him, which was just sent by the Nanyang Navy Communication Ship, a Portuguese merchant ship that had just arrived in Macao, and brought Li Zhizao's twist. The Western envoy sent by the Ming Emperor had already concluded his visit to Europe, and had returned to the Ming Dynasty from Gothenburg, Sweden, the last leg of his visit, half a year ago.

It is estimated that it will be almost to Guangzhou in three months.

Li Zhizao's recital is very detailed, and it can even be regarded as a book.

The first Western ambassador of the Ming Dynasty set sail from Guangzhou, arrived in Goa under the escort of the fleet, and then crossed the Arabian Sea to Malindi in East Africa with the returned ships of Goa and Portugal, where they continued south along the African coastline after completing their supplies. Zanzibar in the south is a trading port, Zheng He has been there, he himself said that the king has called the tribute, it is estimated that he has made a tribute, but so far has not arrived, and Mozambique is already controlled by the Portuguese, but the front of South Africa is still wild.

The Dutch Cape Colony would not be established for decades, but by this time Dutch merchant ships were already trading through the Cape of Good Hope in large numbers.

After bypassing the Cape of Good Hope and entering West Africa, Namibia is still wild, but there are some fishing villages along the coast, and the inland is nomadic herders, at this time the southernmost tip of Africa is like this, coastal fishing, inland nomadism, and then inland are those in the movie God is crazy, but beyond this area is the territory of Portugal, that is, the area of modern Angola, the Portuguese have many cities, and Luanda is even more prosperous......

A thriving slave trade.

The next stretch along the coast of West Africa was a paradise for the slave trade.

It is said that Li Zhizao is also very confused about this in his own twists and turns, although he doesn't care much about the slave trade, after all, the Ming Dynasty also has slave status, but treating slaves like that completely like animals still makes him feel a little ruined. The slavery of the Ming Dynasty is slavery, but the slave is also a human being, and the landlord Lao Cai punished the slave with a few whips at most, but it was completely used as an animal, and it was also an animal slaughtered at will, and the brutality of the Western colonizers seriously affected his faith.

In this way, he was confused all the way to Europe.

Fortunately, he went to the commercial cities of southern Europe, Lisbon, Barcelona, Marseille and the Apennines, and he was able to redeem a little bit of his faith.

Although he was also ashamed to admit that these places could not be compared with Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Suzhou, after all, the population of Nanjing alone was about to catch up with these cities combined, but the prosperity of the commercial cities of the Apennines and the cityscape of Rome still allowed him to find something imaginary.

Eventually, the personal audience of the Vatican Pope restored his faith completely.

But then it collapsed in an instant.

Ignoring the opposition of the Pope and the warning of Yang Xin before his departure, he hired a team of mercenaries in Venice and escorted him to Vienna as a papal guest, and under the protection of the army sent by Ferdinand II, he went overland from Vienna to Paris, where he met with the fleet by sea. In Yang Xin's view, this journey to the death was purely tired of life, so that the brilliance that Old Man Li had just felt from the Vatican completely dissipated, although he had not really entered the core theater of the Thirty Years' War......

"If the people of the Ming Dynasty are in the world, then the people of Taixi are in hell."

Old man Li directly admitted the reality.

"If we compare the history of China, the interior of Taixi is tantamount to the chaos of the five times, the warlords are divided, the bandits are rampant, the famine, the plague, the killing is everywhere, the monarch is mediocre and cruel, the clergy is greedy, there is no etiquette, there is no order, but the killing is obedient, the bones are hidden in the wilderness, and the eyes are all destitute."

Xu Guangqi read with a complicated expression.

Old man Xu's three views were also seriously impacted.

Li Zhizao will not lie, the person he trusts the most is Li Zhizao, these people are full of hope to want to see a bright world in Taixi, to see a world of abundance and tranquility under the light of faith, they imagine that it will definitely be better than Daming. However, when the truth was revealed, they were dumbfounded, it turned out that what the missionaries described was all false, the city there was not as large as a city in the Ming Dynasty, and the countryside there was full of war and death......

What about Western civilization?

"It can't be said that the HRE is indeed in a civil war, and we should be considerate of this."

Yang Xin gloated.

"You already knew that."

Xu Guangqi said gloomily.

"I don't like to waste my lips and tongue persuading others, especially in this kind of thing, I prefer to send people to see for myself, and when I go back, I am going to invite all the masters to visit places like Wild Deer Park together, after all, what you read in books is not as good as what you can see with your eyes.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty in this world is what others look up to.

I admit that our Ming is not perfect, there are many kinds of problems, and even I can say that our Ming is also very bad, but if it is worse in this world, you will find that our Ming is the least bad. Tessie does not have a prosperous age, maybe they will have it in the future, but at least not now, so far the Ming Dynasty is still the paradise they yearn for, and Tessie does not have any ceremonial state under the light of faith, on the contrary, we are more in line with this word than them. ”

Yang Xin said.