For the first time in the history of the Ming Dynasty and even the first time in the history of the world, the labor-management negotiations of the workers and factory owners in Guangzhou began under the pressure of Yang Qing......

It doesn't matter how to talk about Yang Qing.

It is up to the workers to give and the capitalists to pay, and he is only here to suppress it to avoid any further fighting.

Similarly, the election of the representatives of the Four Peoples in Guangdong, including Guangzhou, was also carried out under his suppression, and the previous Guangzhou Four People's Congress was also cancelled, after all, the new Guangzhou Commune was not only the original inner city of Guangzhou. Originally, the city of Guangzhou was divided into two counties of Nanhai and Panyu, separated by a longitudinal street, but the two counties each had their own peripheral jurisdictions, including Foshan itself, which was also a town under the jurisdiction of Nanhai County. Since it is the Four People's Congress, it can't only be the workers in the city, the standard of the Ming Dynasty is that the farmers and industrialists each draw lots, so the Guangzhou Four People's Congress must also be like this. Then the Four People's Congress will re-elect the members of the Commune, the head of the meeting, and jointly form a committee, and then the committee will nominate the principal officials of each department, and the Four People's Congress will finally approve and perform their functions......

Anyway, it's also a hassle.

In all places outside the Guangzhou Commune, while the military was under control, the officials in Nanjing were reappointed to perform their duties according to the old system, including the new governor of Guangdong, this Yang Qing had already been decided, and Zhang Jiayu, who was left from the original Lingnan Sanzhong, was in charge.

He wasn't in Guangdong before.

When Zhang Jiayu crossed to the south of Chongzhen, he was already studying in the Guozi Supervisor in Nanjing, and he and Gu Yanwu were a group of prisoners, and then Chongzhen appointed a petty official. He has performed well in recent years, as a Cantonese he is not a party, but as a marginalized political group, the few Cantonese officials in the imperial court are more inclined to rely on Yang Qing. After all, a small group like them must hug their thighs to survive, and among the major forces in the imperial court, only Yang Qing's party does not consider the region, do they not hug Yang Qing's thighs to hug the extremely xenophobic Donglin Qunxian?

Zhang Jiayu is now a political envoy, so let him be promoted to governor of Guangdong.

Again, it takes some time.

After all, the officials sent officials had to be transferred from all over the country, and this time was not the past, the Hanlin Academy had a bunch of spare, and the imperial court did not raise idlers at this time. In addition, there are also the census of various parts of Guangdong, the inventory of land and property, the reform of the original official land, and even the reorganization of the guard army, the taxation of the General Taxation Department outside Guangzhou, and the clean-up of heresy in various places......

Guangdong has Yawei.

Macau.

"Do you know who I am?"

Yang Qing stood with his hands in front of Kao Hall, looking proudly at the group of ghosts in front of him.

There was silence at the back door.

And there was a silence with grief and indignation.

"I once said to Bi Fangji that if I see you in the land of the Ming Dynasty, you will be killed for illegal invasion, didn't he tell you? Or do you despise me too much? ”

Yang Qing said.

"Your Excellency, can we exchange the ransom for a pardon?"

Long Huamin, who was at the front, bowed his head and said.

This guy is already very old, according to the records, he should be in his nineties at this time, but he doesn't look like him, these guys always like to engage in some god chatter, deliberately saying that they are old and easy to fool believers. After all, in this era, he can still be alive and kicking in his nineties, which is absolutely amazing, he came to China after Matteo Ricci, and he is the oldest of these people, and he was born in a Sicilian aristocracy.

"Ransom?"

Yang Qing said: "It's not impossible, after all, you have adopted orphans in Guangdong over the years, and you have done some good deeds, which can offset your capital crimes, but your property will be confiscated, so you can find another way for your ransom!" ”

It was customary for these missionaries to adopt orphans.

Especially in the case of Guangdong, it was their opportunity to show their kindness, and the churches in Macao and other places adopted tens of thousands of orphans, and often sent some food among the workers, and their reputation among the people was still very good.

Of course, this is not the reason why Yang Qing pardoned them for capital crimes.

Long Huamin nodded in acceptance.

They don't care about this, it's nothing more than the Portuguese in Macau who made it up for them, and the church will repay the money for them, and China's right to protect the church lies with the king of Portugal, and the king of Portugal has the responsibility to protect their safety, since force is impossible, then use silver to protect it! Anyway, they all knew that the supposedly vampire in front of them could also be some other wizard, and the regent of the devil was not something they could resist, and John Tang had proved it with his death. It is said that there are several of these missionaries in front of Kao Hall, who have seen the duel outside the city of Nanjing, and this unbeatable monster still baffles them to this day, and every time they think of the holy brilliance around him that blocks bullets, they are a little suspicious of Yahweh's existence......

Uh, and then they will hurry to repent.

"You're afraid of me?"

Yang Qing looked at them and said.

"We are all servants of Yahweh, fearless of anyone or the devil."

Long Huamin said solemnly.

"The devil? So I'm curious, if I were the devil, would you be willing to be a Ming people under my rule, or would you like to return to your homeland and go under the protection of Yahweh, and continue your previous life of not even being able to eat sugar, and could only eat hard black bread that could kill people? ”

Yang Qing said.

"What we seek is eternity in heaven."

Long Huamin took a deep breath and said.

"Then go ahead and pursue it! But before that, I want you to tell your Pope on my behalf that I have no interest in your world, but that he should not continue to reach out to the East, and if he can abide by this, then we can cooperate against others. After all, there is a vast land among us, which belongs neither to you nor to us, and what you have owned as a crusader do not want to take back? As far as I know, the Pope is becoming less and less popular in Europe, and more and more Europeans are leaving the Vatican, so you don't want to regain what you have lost, to bring you back to that era of control? ”

Yang Qing said.

He's starting to flicker.

Long Huamin looked at him with some astonishment.

"Don't look at me that way, I don't like you but I don't like Istanbul even more, or I should call it Constantinople by its original name."

Yang Qing said.

That's why he let these people go.

"Likewise I don't like the maritime trade, which is dominated only by the Dutch and the British, and it would be better for me to have more buyers, and if the Crusaders retake Jerusalem, I will happily deliver a shipload to the port of Aqaba.

Or let's just dig a canal that connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

Let more European merchant ships come to the East.

Don't you want commerce to flourish again in the countries bordering the Mediterranean, and don't you want the Pope's purse to bulge again? The Catholic monarchs, who are losing control of the maritime trade, Spain and Portugal are already dwindling, and the Protestant fleet is draining your wealth, so are you willing to continue? The gold coins of all Europe were flowing to the Netherlands and England, and Venice and Genoa, which had been in control of the wealth of Europe, had been kicked out of the feast of the Great Voyage. The Habsburgs, separated by land, coveted the wealth of the Dutch, the rulers of the interior of Europe, and none of the ships brought gold coins to them.

Want to change all that?

Then take action! ”

Yang Qing said.

Of course, he did not expect these people to be of any real use, but these people could report his Suez Canal plan to the Pope, and then disseminate it to the courts of the monarchs of the countries bordering the Mediterranean.

At that time, there will always be people who are tempted.

Spain had been weakened by the Dutch and the British, and if there was a canal connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, they would have closed the Dutch and Britain out of control of Gibraltar. Louis would have liked the plan as his merchant ships could go east into the Indian Ocean without having to detour the Cape of Good Hope, a long and dangerous route, as the Chinese company had already sunk six ships by pirates, and it was difficult to say who the pirates were. The original trading republics on the Mediterranean coast, especially Venice, which still retains a certain level of strength, will also cheer for the canal, and they will suddenly raise their hands from their coffins like zombies buried in the dirt. The Habsburgs, who had never benefited from the dividends of maritime trade, would immediately join the sail to the east, and in this way they would gain a group of allies to work together against the Ottomans.

What's more.

All of them are Catholic countries.

This was the most intense time of conflict between Protestants and Old Christians in Europe, and they even killed each other to resolve the conflict, and the Catholics in Spain regarded the killing of Dutch Protestants as honorable.

In the struggle for trade rights, in the Pope's ambition to revive the prestige of the Vatican, in the hostility of the old Church to the Protestantism, etc., all kinds of factors, especially when he was lured by the other side, a new crusade is not a fantasy at all. Then Yang Qinghui and the Catholic monarchs, preferably the Russian Orthodox monarchs, besieged the Ottoman Empire from three directions, encroaching as it had in its original history.

Although the Ottomans at this time were not yet the sick men of West Asia.

But it's not a big deal.

The Ottomans could not withstand so many hungry wolves.

After all, the Protector has no special feelings for Europeans, and it is impossible for Western colonists to invade this time and space, but he really has deep feelings for the Ottomans.

"Your Excellency, we will tell you."

Long Huamin said somewhat shockedly.

It was clear that he was stunned by the mad ruler of the Ming Dynasty.

"Then count their ransom!"

Yang Qing said to an officer beside him with satisfaction.