Under Chang Yanling's frightened gaze, the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens was carried out smoothly.

Yang Qing didn't do anything wrong.

This guy carried the mysterious holy purpose in the Great Enjoyment Hall, according to the procedure of worshipping the heavens with a solemn face, and thousands of people followed on the mound behind him, and the most important sacrifice in China was carried out in this way, and around the mound were hundreds of thousands of people gathered......

There are also foreigners.

"That's how they worship their gods?"

Pushman said on the ramparts.

"To be precise, their God, the original Jesuit missionaries, translated our Lord to them as God, but they forbade it, including the original Jesuit translation of the scriptures, which was also listed as a forbidden book, according to their law, which is called transgression, and as a result, neither Protestant nor Catholic is allowed to spread here. The current de facto ruler, His Excellency the Marquis, is said to have been sent by their gods to save them, and is immortal, so that he has saved the empire in just a few years, and they have already been breached by the rebellious peasants who have already breached the capital, which is still occupied by the Tatars.

But the Marquis protected their emperor and escaped by negotiating with the peasant army.

This is their old capital.

After he returned to protect the emperor, he immediately carried out a series of reforms to restore the empire that was on the verge of collapse, and after the emperor's death, he relied on the support of the army to promote his fiancée, who was also the emperor's only adult daughter here, as the regent of the empire. He then defeated the army that supported the emperor's nephew, thus controlling power in the empire, and defeated the peasant army that had gone south, and after the Tatars attacked the peasant army from behind, he cooperated with the peasant army to defeat the Tatars who tried to invade the south.

He's a lot like Cromwell.

Even his talent is much stronger than Cromwell's. ”

Next to him, an employee of the East India Company, who had previously lived in Fuzhou, looked at Yuanqiu and said.

"There is also the fact that the Marquis was very familiar with Europe, which is very mysterious, and he certainly could not have been to Europe, nor could the Jesuit missionaries tell him much, and in fact he knew a lot of things, and the Jesuit missionaries could not have known.

Like his army tactics.

His army was currently being Swedishized, trained in the tactics of Gustav II, which the Jesuit Portuguese could not possibly understand.

The Portuguese themselves did not achieve Swedishization.

And he was also replacing the Sol arquebus with flintlock muskets, his 1st Marine Corps already had a brigade completely reequipped, and even his own musketeers were equipped with muzzle-mounted bayonets, a brigade that completely abandoned the spears and consisted entirely of musketeers and artillerymen with flintlock muskets, which even Europe did not have.

His followers were rumored to be an oracle given to this marquis by their gods.

But this is also impossible.

Jesus would describe him as a minion of the devil.

But this is not possible, the country under his rule is rich, civilized, prosperous and powerful, if this is the case under the rule of the devil, then what is Europe under the glory of the Lord? ”

The employee said with a wry smile.

It is clear that this employee who has crawled out of the East End of London, in the light of the Lord's glory, is faring much worse than here.

Pushman did not speak.

He held up the binoculars and quietly looked at the front of the Great Enjoyment Palace.

"He's not the same as Cromwell."

It was a long time before he spoke.

"Or maybe he's more like Lilbourne, just look at his Imperial Parliament, a parliament without voter qualifications, the egalitarians dream of. A Lilbourne with Cromwell's abilities, an egalitarian with a powerful army, is simply terrifying, as terrible as the end times, and fortunately he was not born in Europe. ”

Pushman shrugged and then said.

Since he was not born in Europe, there was no need to worry about it, and at this moment the figure of the official of the Ministry of Rites who invited him to consult the British parliamentary system came to his mind. It is clear that the Lilbourne who has Cromwell's abilities is already worried, this empire is not as simple as this subordinate describes, this marquis who has as much power as Cromwell, the number of enemies is no less than Cromwell's.

"It's a pleasant thing."

Pushman muttered to himself.

And at this moment, the official of the Ministry of Rites that came to his mind was looking at Yang Qing dumbfounded.

"Here, in front of Haotian God, I solemnly declare that the Ming Dynasty is in charge of the country, the governor of the five armies in Nanjing, and the princess of Kunxing who stayed in Nanjing, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are all Chinese clans, all of whom are blessed by the grace of Haotian God, and they are all brothers and sisters of the same clan, and there should be no distinction between high and low. However, those who are slaves and maids, have no personal freedom, no property rights, and no dignity of the same Chinese family, and are enslaved by the master to bully like dogs, sheep, cattle and horses, which is not only pitiful, but also violates the divine grace of Haotian God, so the slave order is hereby released before Haotian God. From today onwards, all the slaves and maids of the same Chinese clan will be given back to all the slaves and maids of the same clan in the land of the Ming Dynasty, except for the Qin Domain......"

Yang Qing, who was standing in front of the Great Enjoyment Hall with the Holy Decree in his hand, raised his head and looked at the ministers in front of him who were stunned by this heavy punch.

The latter was indeed stunned.

No one expected that after the sacrifice was completed, he would actually take out such a holy decree.

It was a surprise attack.

But that's what he wants, aren't you taking advantage of the Yang Jiyun incident to do something? Then let's make it bigger, you are still hesitant to hide and hide whether it is good or not, I will simply come to a thorough, tear apart all the cover-ups. Aren't you afraid that grass will grow in the hearts of slaves and maidservants? Are you afraid that Yang Jiyun will become a spark and ignite the fire of resistance in the hearts of slaves?

Then I'll pour another bucket of gasoline on this little flame.

Let it be a raging flame.

You can't stand one Yang Jiyun, then I will give you countless Yang Jiyun, if you want to fight, we will fight happily.

What can you do?

How dare you?

I will release the slaves, I will completely pick up this poisonous sore, I will tell those slaves and maids that I am the master for them, and tell them that they are no longer slaves in the legal sense! If the master dares to hit them, they can fight back, if the master dares to kill them, they can kill back, if the master dares to insult the maidservant, she can stab a pair of scissors, the law supports you, all slaves and maids are good people in the law, and there is no difference from the master.

So how dare you?

Let me ask you, do you dare to rebel?

Do you dare to rebel?

Do you dare to rebel?

"Loyal and Brave Marquis ......"

Qu Shiyun was the first to stand up, but then the Jinyi guard who maintained order next to him pressed him down.

"From this day forward, all those who keep the people of China as slaves and maidservants will release the slaves and maids as beloved, and leave them at their own choice, and those who wish to stay will sign a new contract of employment with their masters, and those who have employers who hurt their servants and maidservants shall follow the law of the beloved. Those who do not want to stay will go to the nearest imperial village to wait for the court to settle down, and those who obstruct the promulgation of this law will be punished as a great rebellion against the god of Haotian......"

Yang Qing continued to read the holy decree.

Qu Shiyun still wanted to fight, but Jiang Riguang next to him grabbed him.

In this case, the dispute is meaningless, Yang Qing is deliberately igniting the fire, but this fire is also beneficial to the Donglin Qunxian, if the Yang Jiyun incident only provoked the panic of the gentry, but this slave release order aroused their monstrous anger. The next thing Donglin Qunxian has to do is to watch the excitement, just wait and see how it will change and see how Yang Qing ends after lighting this fire.

It is said that this slave release order is purely for excitement, which gentry does not have a large number of slaves and maids at this time?

It is too naïve to make a slave and maid become a good person with a slave release order, and all the gentry will rebel against it, this is not the past Donglin Qunxian because of the government to encourage those gentry to resist, this is the gentry after they were really provoked. This is also different from the inventory of the property, the imperial examination reform and other reforms only touched the interests of some of the gentry, even if there was resistance, it was only the resistance of some gentry, the interests of the vast majority of the gentry were not damaged, and they could stay out of the matter and watch the excitement, but this is different, this is directly igniting the anger in the hearts of all the gentry.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't dare!

The most slaves and maids are not the servants and maids in the house.

It is a farmer.

It is all over every village in the south of the Yangtze River, and those gentry farmers on their fields, these people are interpreted as good books to encourage them to flee to Huangzhuang, and they all run away from those gentry's land, who planted? If you sublease to the tenants, you have to reduce the rent, because the tenants are also running to the Imperial Village, and before the peasants could not run to the Imperial Village because they sold their deeds in the hands of the gentry, but now this constraint is gone.

I want them not to run away, so that they can be held at low rents and become tenants.

In the end, the interests of all the gentry were damaged.

Before, because of the existence of the imperial village, the gentry had already begun to reduce the rent to prevent the tenants from giving up renting their land, but fortunately, they still had domestic slaves who could not run, and now Yang Qing even dared to move this bottom line, which is unbearable!

Not resisting?

If you don't resist, you'll have a ghost!

You Yang Qing was confused for a while, how could you make such a stupid move? You are carried away by success, do you really think that you are the savior, in other words, you are at war with the entire gentry class!

This can be said to be self-defeating!

It is said that Donglin Qunxian should support him, so let him go to all parts of the country where the slave release order was issued as quickly as possible, and then ignite the anger of those gentry city by city, and finally gather into a prairie fire, and then see how Yang Qing will end. There is no suspense about the civil war, it is just the size of the scale, but no matter how big or small, it is a heavy blow to Yang Qing, and the peaceful and prosperous era he created has shown its original form.

At that time, it will be interesting to see how arrogant he is.

I have to say that Yang Qing's faint move did not bring fright to Donglin Qunxian, it was a complete surprise! Donglin Qunxian, who was still helpless in the face of him, was instantly bright in front of him, and suddenly opened up, as if a new world had been opened.

Those civil and military ministers knelt down in front of the Great Enjoyment Palace, bowed their heads and listened silently to the slave release decree read by Yang Qing with complicated feelings.