Three days later.

"We cut off the king's head, they sent the emperor to the judgment seat, I have to say that this world is really amazing!"

A white man on the city wall of Nanjing sighed.

He was the first British consul general in Daming, Dix, who had arrived last year, and it was he who brought Shire horses to Yang Qing, but because of the long distance, only twenty horses arrived alive, and all of them had been sent to the horse farm on Jeju Island. Because of the East India Company's dependence on the Ming Dynasty, they did not make a fool of themselves in this deal, and strictly followed Yang Qing's requirements to have half stallions and half mares, and all stallions were fine, but Yang Qing was worried that those little Mongolian horses would not be able to withstand enough to crush their Shire horses.

So simply come pure.

In fact, this trade continues.

All foreign merchant ships sailing into the Ming Dynasty were required to carry as many horses as possible, whether it was a shire horse or a Frisian horse, or an Andalusian horse, or even an Arabian horse from the Arabs, or a Persian horse from Persia, or a Vari horse from India.

In fact, the best military is the Mawari horse.

The cute little curly ears are adapted to all the combat environments of the Ming Dynasty, from the cold plateaus to the hot water nets, they are originally found throughout the South Asian subcontinent, from Kashmir to Bangladesh. Yang Qing's goal was to eventually make the Ming cavalry completely horse-marished, as a medium-sized war horse, it was more relevant than those large European horses. After all, the cavalry rode it to the east and west, and the most important thing was not to be picky, and it was undoubtedly very well fed when it came out of the semi-desert steppe of Rajasthan.

This is important.

As long as the merchant ships that brought such horses to the Ming Dynasty all enjoyed tariff reductions and exemptions according to the number of horses they brought and the different types of horses, the highest reduction amount was naturally the Shire horse. But even so, those merchant ships are still not very enthusiastic about it, after all, the death rate on the road is too high, and if you can't make it, all the ships will die. In particular, they can also transport cotton from India to Daming, which has no transportation losses, and is more secure than risking horses and dying on the road.

But the East India Company could not, they wanted to fight for the monopoly of court silk fabrics.

Horse mortality is not worth mentioning.

Ten horses can be transported to two, and they are still sure to make a profit, after all, the palace silk fabric is a real profiteering, and if you are lucky, a piece of silk fabric can be exchanged for a merchant ship.

And it's also a ship with goods.

Therefore, every East India Company merchant ship that sailed from England would basically try to carry as many Shire horses as possible, and this kind of thing was something that Britain had, and even maintained a million horses in the whole of Britain in its heyday. At this time, although it is much worse, there is always a hundred thousand level, and it is not worth mentioning that one or two thousand horses are shipped out every year, as long as one-tenth can reach Daming, it is enough to ensure that Yang Qing can always give them the franchise of palace silk fabrics.

It's a good deal.

Even the Dutch are burning with jealousy!

"We have Cromwell, they also have a Duke, and the East and West are playing out an almost identical drama at the same time!"

The assistant next to him said with a smile.

"Our Oliver is now the Governor of Ireland!"

Dicks said.

"But their duke is about to become the husband of the Empress, and the one-armed Empress will do little but play the role of the Madonna, and her husband will be the true ruler of the empire. And our Cromwell is only the Governor of Ireland, and he still has to continue to entangle with those guys in Parliament, and it is unknown whether he will succeed in taking power. ”

The assistant said.

At this time, Cromwell was not yet the Lord Protector, and he was in conflict with Parliament, and had been driven to conquer Ireland, which had a very loud name, the Hip Parliament, and of course, the Remnant Parliament. Eventually, in 1653 Cromwell forcibly disbanded, the poor parliamentarians approached Cromwell for freedom, and Cromwell said they had the freedom to breathe.

"Then he should work harder!"

Dicks said.

He was a supporter of Cromwell.

"Count the date, it's time for the French to arrive, right?"

The assistant said.

Mazarin had already led the formation of his Chinese company, after all, he could not hold back as a wealthy man with a fortune of 30 million livres as he watched the British and Dutch suck French blood with goods from the East. It is said that his wealth is very amazing even in the Ming Dynasty, surpassing Princess Zhaoren and Jianguo, and chasing Yang Qing and Empress Dowager Yi'an, equivalent to more than four million dragon yuan......

He is not famous only because his predecessor was too glamorous.

But he was really not much worse than Richelieu.

The first batch of six merchant ships of the Chinese company set off from France this spring.

It's time for the time.

"If only they hadn't sunk halfway!"

Dicks said with a shrug.

Originally, the first merchant ships of the Chinese company were later in history, but it is said that they were sunk in a storm on the way, of course, it is difficult to say whether they were sunk by some evil intentions at sea, and then they stopped because of Mazaran and died, and it was not until 1690 that the first French merchant ship arrived in Guangzhou.

The result is not known this time.

At this moment, a sea of red suddenly boiled at the Shimonoseki wharf outside the city, and a merchant ship from upstream slowly docked......

"Chen Yang Qing see Your Majesty!"

Yang Qing, who was waiting at the dock, led the civil and military officials behind him, and watched Zhu Cihong, who was escorted off the boat, bow and salute, although His Majesty the Emperor was escorted in handcuffs as a suspect of treason, but he was still the emperor before the trial and conviction, and as the ministers of His Majesty the Emperor, the necessary etiquette was still indispensable.

Zhu Cihong looked at Yang Qing.

"Chu Gong, this is how you take over?"

He sneered.

"Your Majesty, the minister follows the first emperor and is born into a bloody battle to defend it, it is the people of the country, not Your Majesty alone, and the people of the country who are loyal to the minister, not Your Majesty alone, if Your Majesty and the people of the country are opposed, the minister can only stand on the side of the people of the country, if Your Majesty is responsible for this, then you will have a clear conscience."

Yang Qing said calmly.

Immediately there was a round of applause behind him.

"Then why did you welcome me back?"

Zhu Cihong said.

"Those who welcome His Majesty, the responsibility of the minister, the minister is the chief of staff of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and it is a dereliction of duty not to welcome His Majesty to the south, but the duty of the minister does not include following His Majesty to betray the country and the people as enemies!"

Yang Qing said.

The applause continued behind him.

Zhu Cihong looked at his brother-in-law silently.

"Will you kill the king?"

He asked.

"The minister does not dare to kill the king, if His Majesty is really sentenced to death by the Four People's Assembly, it is also the ruthlessness of the national law, and Your Majesty is to blame, not who kills the king. If His Majesty really betrayed the country and the people, he would no longer be the king of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Traitors are punished for everything!"

A voice in the crowd behind shouted.

"Behead him!"

"Cut off the traitor's head!"

……

Then more shouts rang out.

Zhu Cihong looked at the angry crowd, his face showed obvious fear, after all, there were too many people in front of him, and the entire Xiaguan Pier was completely covered in red, and he subconsciously took a step back. But then the escort behind him pushed him, and he was pushed from behind, so he had to walk to the prisoner cart next to him. However, this prisoner carriage is still preferential, just a four-wheeled carriage with a few iron mullions temporarily added to the window, a symbolic prisoner carriage, after all, he is also the current emperor.

But the water behind him was too cold and the others did not have such a good treatment, they walked off the boat with difficulty with heavy shackles, dragged by those armed civilians, and then in an instant countless rotten eggs and rotten tomatoes flew over......

Poor Qian Shangshu was instantly unrecognizable.

He subconsciously raised his handcuffed hands to block in front of him, and then immediately saw the face of Liu Ruye in the crowd.

He immediately hesitated.

Then a rotten egg was hitting the bridge of his nose.

The stench of splattered eggs instantly blurred his eyes, and he screamed and hurriedly wiped it, but by the time he wiped it off and regained his sight, the figure in the crowd had disappeared. He looked at the place where Liu Ru had appeared, and in the push behind him, he dragged the chains on his shackles to the prisoner car in front.

A real prisoner car.

And behind him is Ding Kuichu.

Behind Ding Kuichu was Mao Qiling, who still wanted to show his unyieldingness, but when he saw the countless raised arms in front of him, he instantly withered, lowered his head to protect his face, and trembled forward.

Then there was King Qi.

He didn't suffer much of a crime, mainly because no one knew him at all, and then Lu Liuliang was behind, but he was not shackled, he was actually rescued from the detention room, but whether he was guilty or not as a suspect will be said after the trial. Then there are those who were caught by the waiting rabbit, except for Qu Shiyun, who really can't say that he is a suspect, the others who took the initiative to run are there, including the unlucky Chen Yutai and his nephew Chen Zhenhui. And most of the backbone of the group headed by Huang Zongxi of the Datong Society are there, they are just handcuffed and not shackled, plus Jiang Xizhe from Beiyaliguan, Zhu Zhiyu, who was arrested from Fengyang before, can almost be said that the Datong Society was served in one pot.

However, these people are only suspected of being complicit, and whether or not they are convicted and how to convict them will also have to be tried after the trial.

"A beautiful woman, why be a thief!"

Yang Qing sighed.

"Duke Chu, Huang Daozhou refused to be the people's judge, he said that he was too old and too weak to go to the southern capital."

Stilwell walked up to him and said.

The selection of people's judges and people's prosecutors has also begun......

The candidate is definitely a retired officer.

There is no one else to choose from, especially the people's judges, first of all, they must be familiar with the law, and they must have enough knowledge to deal with the defense, although the lawyer system of the Ming Dynasty has not yet been introduced, but these prisoners are all masters who can speak well, and the water is too cold These are even more veterans of officialdom. Even if their convictions certainly can't run away, at least they can't be too rampant in the trial, and the presiding judge must not be inferior to them in terms of knowledge and experience.

Such people are only those retired officials.

Young people can't do it.

Even those students of Yang Qing can't do it, even if they are talented, they are not enough to see in front of these old foxes, and any of them is enough to crush those young people in their minds. Don't think that these old bureaucrats are stupid, and none of them can reach the level of Shangshu in the intrigue of power.

Just because they don't govern the country well doesn't mean they're not smart enough.

In fact, it's often too smart.

It's just that their cleverness has never been put into governing the country, and their cleverness is only to serve the interests of their own class.

The people of the country?

That was out of their minds.

However, this is not difficult to solve, Yang Qing's party is not without retired civil officials, in fact, his party has this kind of thing, including those industrial and commercial capitalists who are also eager to convict the emperor, and they will also provide such a situation for the Four People's Congress.

Soon, the Standing Committee of the Four People's Congress, headed by Wang Fuzhi, elected the presiding judge.

Zodiac Week.

It's a no-brainer.

At present, among these retired ministers, who is more qualified than him, Xie Xuelong is qualified enough, but he is a member of the Donglin Party, but it is obvious that Lao Huang does not want to carry the reputation of judging the emperor and convicting the emperor. This is not surprising, if he convicts the emperor, then he will definitely be attacked by Confucianism, and he, as a Confucian master, still wants to keep his title, fortunately, he is only one of the candidates, in addition to him there are several spare.

"Huang Duanbo also refused!"

Stilwell said.

Huang Duanbo, who had just retired, refused on the grounds that he was a jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, and it was inconvenient for him to judge Chongzhen's son.

"But Zhu Dadian agreed!"

Stilwell said.

This person is the forty-fourth year of Wanli Jinshi, Chongzhen's main commander in the later period of the Northern Capital, the commander of the suppression of the Dengzhou Change, but Chongzhen's fourteenth year of the governor Fengyang, was impeached and dismissed at home, although later took the initiative to participate in the suppression of the Xudu Revolution in eastern Zhejiang, but still did not get Chongzhen's activation. Chongzhen also didn't use him anymore after Nandu, he was not the Donglin Party, so he didn't use him when the Donglin Party controlled the civil system, he was always in Jinhua's hometown. Originally, in history, he was a bachelor of King Lu, the superintendent stuck to his hometown of Jinhua, boiled the messenger to persuade him to surrender, the Qing army broke through Jinhua and slaughtered the city, he gathered the whole family in the powder magazine and lit a fire to martyrdom.

He didn't come from a family.

In the adjective of the article that records him, he is very poor, and he even lived in a broken temple before he made his fortune.

So he is not so elegant in terms of accumulating money after becoming an official, but this person is more elegant in character, he collects money but is not a miser, and he is willing to spend money while making money. Whether it is to suppress the change of Xu Du or to resist the Qing Dynasty, it is all his own money, breaking the family to resist the Qing Dynasty, and if the Qing Dynasty fails, he gathers the whole family into the powder magazine, and lights the fire cleanly!

This civilian official is more vigorous than the military general.

"Then he'll be fine, tell him that I'll reserve a governor's position for him!"

Yang Qing said.

Zhu Dadian is very suitable to scourge the north, and the next step is definitely to go on a northern expedition, give him a Shuntian governor to manage the current control area of Dolgon, and let this old guy liquidate the traitors It should be good.