"The Marquis of Zhongyong wants to expel the missionaries?"

Zheng Zhilong asked cautiously.

This is all obvious, Zheng Zhilong is not unfamiliar with Tang Ruowang, to say that he is knowledgeable, he is indeed worthy of it, but if you want to say combat effectiveness, it is not worth mentioning. Although the two fought with a pistol, Zheng Zhilong didn't hear his son say that Yang Qing couldn't die once, Yuan Zongdi didn't kill him last time, how could he be injured by a pistol......

This duel was all about John.

"Ah, you believe in Yahweh."

Yang Qing said suddenly.

Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to smile awkwardly.

"I just want to do an experiment, first of all, we can be sure that there must be gods in this world, and there is a supreme god above our heads, otherwise we can't explain myself."

Yang Qing said.

After speaking, he pulled out the dagger and stabbed it in the palm of his hand, then raised his head to look at the staring eyes of the generals around him, and then he kept an indifferent smile and pulled out the dagger, raising his palm that had been penetrated. The blood gushing out stopped at a speed visible to the naked eye, and at the same time, the bloody wound disappeared at a visible speed to the naked eye......

There was amazement all around.

Yang Qing took a small handkerchief to wipe away the blood.

In just one minute, his hand was intact.

"If there is no God, how can this be explained?"

He said reservedly.

Everyone, including Zheng Zhilong, nodded solemnly.

"There may be more than one God, but there must be only one supreme God, and I believe that this God is the God of Haotian that we have been worshiping, so I don't believe in Buddha, let alone those messy Hu gods, and I also don't believe in Yahweh. But these missionaries claim that there is only one god in the world, and that only their god is the only god, so I have to test, if what they say is true, then surely their god will not sit idly by and watch this duel that will determine their future, and if there is a god who can even sit idly by, what is the use of believing in him?

If I die in this duel, then prove them right.

Feel free to believe them.

If John Tong dies in this duel.

So that means that their god does not exist at all, is it necessary to believe it?

It's not just John Soup.

I will have a similar duel with all the Hu God believers next, this is to defend my own faith, I will invite Buddhist monks, such as the abbot of Shaolin Temple, etc., to invite a certain sect elder, in short, those Hu God believers have one count, they can also come to me by themselves, and then fight a public duel with a pistol with me.

Sign a duel of life and death.

Kill me, and their god will exist.

If I kill them, I'll do something about them. ”

Yang Qing said.

I have to say that he is also too shameless.

He knew that he was dead, and he could restart or even strengthen on the spot.

In fact, his duel with John Tong was just an appetizer, his real target was the bald heads, or the temple property in the hands of the bald heads, but he lacked a suitable reason, after all, compared to Yahweh, who had few believers, there were too many bald believers. Even Zhang Yan and Princess Kunxing occasionally worship the Buddha, of course, they also worship Sanqing, so he needs a reason, a reason to be able to convince the public.

Then it's good to duel.

Duels are used to prove the existence of the gods of their respective faiths.

John Tang failed in the duel, the missionaries were expelled, the Ming Dynasty forbade the spread of Yahweh, and the bald heads failed in the duel, he sent Jinyi guards to confiscate all the temple properties in various places, and later supervised the bald heads to strictly abide by the rules and precepts of the Qing Dynasty and not to own any property. The bald people can rent land from the Huangzhuang according to the treatment of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, and their temples can be kept for residence, but the alms they receive must be taxed first, which is equivalent to the donor spending money to buy the afterlife, which is a commercial behavior, so they must pay taxes......

Pay 80 percent of the charity tax.

Then the bald heads love to chant the sutras, so continue to chant the sutras!

The Marquis of Loyalty respects their faith.

However, they cannot violate the precepts, and the Jinyi Guard will send a superintendent to station in the temple, strictly regulate their words and deeds, and those who violate the precepts will be expelled from the temple gate, and those who violate the law will be directly transferred to the judicial organs.

It's not that he's bullying, it's the result of the bald heads' losing duel.

In short, the duel first.

Decided to lose and let him deal with it.

Don't dare to come to the duel to count yourself as losing, and have the ability to beat him to death, the gods who count them exist.

In this way, quickly clean out those that are not yet a climate, such as Yahweh, and then restrict those that are not yet a climate, such as bald heads, and copy all those temple properties, this is a piece of fat, and if you get all these temple properties, it is estimated that it will be enough to build an invincible armada. In particular, these temples in Jiangnan have always been part-time lenders, although they are lending to those high-ranking officials and nobles, but they also have a lot of money in their hands, in addition to a large amount of land, money and land plus tenants, his imperial village can be expanded, and the army can also be expanded.

How can such fat be spared!

"It's coming!"

Just when Yang Qing was pretending to be pressing, a brocade guard quickly came to report to him.

Yang Qing immediately stood up.

At the same time, a gorgeous four-wheeled carriage drawn by eight horses stopped in front of them, and the two maids standing on it got out of the car first and opened the door depicting the dragon and phoenix, and Princess Kunxing, who was dressed in the court dress of the eldest princess, walked out with the help of the maids. Yang Qing, Zheng Zhilong and others hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and the surrounding soldiers and civilians saluted in unison......

It is said that Princess Kunxing is still very respected.

After all, a young and beautiful girl, the first thing she looks at will make her feel good, especially if she is missing an arm, it makes people feel caring. Although neither the army nor the people regard her as the real ruler of this empire, if someone wants to rob her country, both the army and the common people will resist for her. She does not have the majesty of an emperor, but the character of a disabled girl like her, the loyalty brought by affinity, is definitely much more useful than her father, and the loyalty of the Ming army and the people to her at this time is definitely more than that of her father. Even the gentry did not object to her, and Confucian ethics aside, this seventeen-year-old girl was the perfect choice, and it was only then that they discovered that a female ruler was more suitable than a male ruler, and of course, if this female ruler did not have a pesky fiancé who was truly perfect.

In other words, they should have envied the English gentry of Elizabeth I.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, please!"

Yang Qing said.

Princess Kunxing walked forward with a good mood brought by the good weather, and in front of her was the surging Yangtze River, but on this river, a huge fleet was slowly coming. A total of twenty battleships were divided into two columns on the river, all of them almost carved out of a mold, with a slightly slender hull, three masted Chinese hard sails, and twelve gun doors on each side of the side, but not on deck.

Rather, in the cabin below the top deck.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, this is the first batch of cruisers newly built by the Navy, and the minister has discussed with Nan Amber to name them after the founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty."

Yang Qing said.

"Accurate!"

Princess Kunxing said.

"Marquis Huaiyuan, you pick one first and name it after King Zhongwu of Kaiping."

Yang Qing said to Chang Yanling.

"This one will do!"

Chang Yanling, the only surviving member of Nanjing Xungui Group, pointed to the first ship and said.

"A No. 1, renamed Chang Yuchun!"

Zheng Zhilong said.

The signalman next to him waved the signal flag.

A soldier was immediately put down on the battleship, which was already less than a hundred feet apart, and began to paint the new name of the battleship on the side of the ship with a paint bucket, and soon the three red characters of Chang Yuchun appeared on the side of the ship, but this was only temporary, and the new copper ship nameplate would be nailed to it.

"No. 2, renamed Xu Da!"

Then Zheng Zhilong said.

These twenty warships were all built by him in less than a year, and he already had this kind of warship with a Western-style hull and Chinese-sail fitting, and his own original ship was larger than these. He has a shipyard and enough sailors, the only thing he needs is funds, Yang Qing is very happy to allocate all the funds needed by the navy, and then His Excellency the Navy Chief only needs to put these funds in his own pocket, and then order his shipyard to build at full capacity.

Although they are called cruisers, they do not actually have cruiser capabilities, they are more like coastal defense ships, they have too many guns and are too heavy for their tonnage. Although in fact the largest is only thirteen pounds, that is, the eighteen-pound naval guns in Europe, they are mainly seven pounds, and the European standard is more than nine pounds, and even the four on the deck are only three pounds.

This firepower is indeed a bit shabby.

But for now, it is enough, and there is no real enemy in East Asia anyway, it is nothing more than some armed European merchant ships.

The Dutch are the main opponents......

Well, this fleet is there to recover Taiwan.

Yang Qing was in dire need of sulfur there, and now he couldn't wait.

But the main force of the Dutch East India Company was some thin-skinned and stuffed armed merchant ships, and the Batavia only had twenty-four guns, mainly twelve-pound Kofilin cannons, which were not as good as thirteen-pound guns, and it can be said that these cruisers and the armed merchant ships of the Dutch were even stronger in a head-to-head fight.

Unless you run into a battleship.

But the Dutch in Taiwan did not have battleships.

Not to mention, but even if it was a battleship, these cruisers were not without the ability to fight back.

It is impossible for the Dutch East India Company to have three decks, at most a few forty or fifty guns, with twenty-four cannons on top, and these cruisers are beaten in groups, and eighteen pounder guns cannot be defeated by fourth-class ships. Besides, as long as he doesn't want to go to the South Seas to get involved in Batavia, just for Taiwan, the Dutch East India Company will not fight with him, they are just a group of merchants, if the cost of the war is greater than the harvest, they will not fight, and they still point to the trade with the Ming Dynasty!

In this way, the cruisers were changed to new names named after the founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty on the river, and then docked at the Shimonoseki wharf one after another.

However, the sailors did not make it ashore.

All the sailors on the battleship were all wearing red military uniforms and lined up on the side of the ship, and then Xu Da and Chang Yuchun put down the gangplank, Huang Binqing, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet that had just been established by the Ming Navy, and Zheng Cai, the vice admiral of the Ming Dynasty, walked off the ship respectively, and the two of them were also red military uniforms and carried knives, and walked towards the Ming Dynasty in the sound of drums.