Datong, people no longer pay attention to the situation in Beijing, the situation is extremely rotten, no matter how bad it is, it can't be bad, and in the end you still have to live by yourself, but this year is destined to be eventful, and the inexplicable feminist trend has just ended, just like a butterfly fanning its wings, a conflict thousands of miles away, and Datong is involved.

At the beginning of February, five armed merchant ships of the United Asia Company set off from Surat, the port of the English East India Company, and met two Spanish merchant ships on the surface of the Manraka Sea.

At this time, the shareholders' meeting of the Dutch East India Company was discussing the Formosa issue - the Ombudsman reported that the Datong immigrants were well-organized and well-equipped, and that there were more than 30,000 people including their families, and that they had cultivated land in the northern region, built ports and forts, and were also actively expanding into the central region, and their methods were by no means weaker than those of the colonial veterans, and it was recommended that the Datong people should be immediately prevented from entering the country, otherwise the company's interests in Formosa would be threatened; The Governor of Formosa, Caron, submitted a report to the contrary, saying that it is true that the immigrants of Datong are growing rapidly in Formosa, but that they are well educated, law-abiding, tax-proactive, and also help the Governor's Office to suppress illegal immigrants and indigenous riots, and he reminded the shareholders that the shortage of manpower greatly limits the commercial interests of the company, and that the Datong Federation is a rare partner, and that the Formosa issue can only be resolved through negotiation on the premise of maintaining the relationship between the two sides.

It is certainly in the interests of the company to develop relations with the Commonwealth of Pax Romana, but the interests of Formosa must also be taken into account, and Cuarón is clearly too optimistic - the shareholders are more inclined to the Ombudsman's report, but the unexpected conflict in Manraka shocked them, the Netherlands and Spain are mortal enemies on the Europa continent, and in the Far East they also dig each other in and fight each other, each side does not declare war openly but is highly wary of the other, and the Spaniards always believe that the United Asia Company is the result of the manipulation of the Dutch behind the scenes, with the aim of striking Spain, This time they suffered a big loss, and they would definitely take revenge on the surface of the Far East, and the hateful English premeditated to provoke the incident, apparently trying to fish in troubled waters.

The shareholders calculated their own strength, had to admit that Datong was the most reliable partner, and to hold them tightly in order to deal with Spain and its accomplice Portugal, so they urgently instructed the commissioner in Rizhao, Nukhov, to send an envoy to Datong, and as for the culprit, the English, find an opportunity to clean it up later.

Newkhoff was instructed to immediately turn to the Maritime Department for help, just as Osaka, Japan, had sent an envoy – the captured Spanish ship had apparently also unnerved the Japanese profiteers. The Maritime Affairs Department sent special personnel to escort them across Shandong and Zhili to Datong, but Gordon, the envoy of the English East India Company, had already arrived early.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the English people have suffered the same as you, the king is cruel and cruel, brutally persecuted the Puritans, extorted tyranny from his subjects, wantonly trampled on God-given human rights, the people of Datong won their citizenship through a heroic struggle, and we must also fight for freedom, and Mr. Cromwell will surely lead the people of England to regain their ......rights from the king," Viscount Gordon was very eloquent, and followed his seniors in the parliamentary struggle in college, and also went to war to fight the royal party, which was too much, Old Gordon couldn't bear it, and drove this unprofessional son to the merchant ships of the Far East, Gordon was handsome, and had a diploma from Cambridge University, and was quite used in the East India Company, this time he went to Datong, and soon won the favor of the Datong people, Datong University also invited him to give a speech, and the applause from time to time made this guy very proud, waving his arms and continuing, "We are Puritans who sincerely believe in God, and the European continent is self-righteous and thinks that the Anglo-Saxons are uncivilized, so let them be, We just have to believe in God in our own way, abide by the good folk customs of the countryside, and strive to do business to improve our lives, and our slogan is 'desperately earn money, desperately save money, desperately donate money'. ”

"Desperately earn money, desperately save money, desperately donate money!" The merchants who came to cheer stood and shouted, and seemed to have become Puritans.

"The Li family is willing to donate money to build a university." Li Jianji suddenly shouted - Qin Shang was preparing to build Sanqin University in Xi'an, and he couldn't lag behind, just because his brother Li Jiantai was living at home, and the brothers planned to build a university in Pingyang's hometown, and named it Datang University.

"You are so generous, donating to the university is the greatest act of kindness," Gordon saluted Li Jianji, took out a book and said loudly, "This is Francis Bacon's "New Tools", Mr. Bacon opened up a completely different path for human reason than in the past-through observation and experimentation to understand things, and use logical induction to obtain truth, he has a saying, 'knowledge is power', universities are places where knowledge is imparted, and people gain knowledge to be more powerful to get closer to God." ”

Gordon gushed about induction and positivism, and one of them could not sit still, interrupted the interpreter, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I greatly admire the devotion of the English to God and the rigor of life, but I am not willing to be a puritan, the Dutch love to have good wine and a happy life with girls, and see what gifts I bring." ”

A beautiful model of a sea-going ship was placed on the front desk, and Newhoff said proudly: "There are many people in Shandong who have embraced Protestantism, we read the Bible together, we sailed together, we became best friends, the Dutch like the Federation of Datong, and they are willing to provide you with the latest five-story sea boats, which is great, you can sail across the ocean all the way to the ...... of America."

"Don't listen to their nonsense, Protestantism distorts the Bible and turns people into mercenary, evil and cruel, as is the case with the Dutch and the English, who despise the Church in Europa, disobey the fatwa and plunder the land and kill the natives in America, and God will punish them." John Tang suddenly appeared, this Catholic priest has always been hostile to Protestantism, when he was in Beijing, he did not slander the Dutch to the Ming Emperor, and always praised the Portuguese who believed in Catholicism, he could not tolerate the Protestants to Datong to confuse people's minds, and made a special trip to expose the old background of the Netherlands and England.

"Slander, the Church is distorting the Bible by indiscriminately issuing indulgences and plundering the poor, we Dutch people are pure in our faith and spread civilization in the New World according to God's will, but what did the Spaniards and Portuguese who believed in Catholicism do, they did even more excessively in America, and until now they still trade in black slaves, they deserve God's punishment." Newkhoff immediately retorted.

"Everyone can be saved by sincerely praying to God, and the church should care more about itself, not worrying about us, knowledge can bring us close to God and receive the truth under God's inspiration." Gordon said.

"No, the lost lamb cannot approach God for the truth without the guidance of the church." Father Deng Ruoshui also stood up to help John Tang.

It turns out that not only Lamaism has the dispute between the Yellow Religion and the Red Religion, but also the Western Religion, but they are still more inclined to Protestantism, everyone is in business, as for the Dutch, the English do that little bit of bad things can also be understood, Datong's Western Pioneer Group and the Maritime Affairs Department are clean?

Li Tianjing, a fellow scholar of the Academy of Sciences, got up and said to everyone: "Maybe Mr. Gordon is right, knowledge can really make people get close to God and obtain the truth, the sky is already dark, and the moon is bright and the stars are scarce, I will show you something." ”

The big guy followed Li Tianjing to the nearby Nancheng Tower with curiosity, Li Jin, Kupilon and a group of children were looking at the sky around a cylinder-like thing, and John Tang immediately shouted: "That's the Galileo telescope I taught the second son, go and see, this is God's revelation." ”

"The Netherlands not only has Galileo telescopes, but also microscopes that can see very small things, so I'll bring you a few next time." Newkhoff said disapprerovingly.

Li Jin and Kupilon finally burned out the colorless transparent glass, and made the telescope according to the instructions in Taixi's book, but after repeated attempts and setbacks, after Tang Ruowang arrived in Datong, Li Jin specially asked the author of "Telescope Theory" for advice, re-polished the lens, adjusted the lens spacing, and the first Galilean telescope in Datong was born.

"The moon is pitted, and there don't seem to be immortals."

"Without the Heavenly Palace, where can the Jade Emperor live?"

……

Everyone lined up to look at the telescope, exclaiming from time to time, and Gordon took the opportunity to agitate: "See, this is the power of knowledge, our goal is the sea of stars." ”

The second son made a clairvoyant eye that could see the celestial phenomena clearly, and the news quickly spread throughout Datong City, and in the next few days, there was an endless stream of people who ran to the South City Tower to see the strangeness, and after the vast sea, another new world opened the window to the Datong people.

At the tomb of Zhaojun, the Constituent Assembly was held for more than 10 days, and it was basically arguing, and there were few results -- on the question of whether or not to join the federation, the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Hui ministries outside the customs unified their voices, and not only actively joined, but also sang praises for the federation, and the opinions of the representatives in the customs were relatively clear, Fengzhou, Shanxi, and Shaanxi certainly did not separate their families, and after Huguang and Jiangxi implemented local autonomy, they could no longer turn to the imperial court and agreed to join the federation, and the representatives of Sichuan and Henan had the same opinion, and as long as Datong sent troops to exterminate the thieves, they would immediately join the federation. The situation in Shandong was special, the three prefectures of Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou were controlled by Datong, and they naturally considered themselves members of the federation, while the other prefectures hesitated, and the representatives of Nanzhili and Zhejiang were divided into two factions, with merchants resolutely demanding to join the federation and the gentry resolutely supporting the Nanjing court.

On specific issues, the deputies were even more arguing, first arguing about whether the federation should be a republic or an empire, and then whether the federation belonged to the Chinese, barbarian, or Huayi unity, which had not yet been clarified, and they also debated the division of power between the central and local governments, the distribution of seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives, and the distribution of taxes. The representatives of the ministries outside the customs showed their true colors, saying that they had worked hard to guard the frontier, but their lives were extremely miserable, so the aid inside the customs could only be increased year by year, and by no means reduced, and in order to protect their rights, half of the seats in the parliament had to be given to them - it was too shameless, did they have given less money over the years, they didn't know a few big words, what else would they do except make trouble! The deputies inside the customs were furious and scolded these people to the point of blood, and the deputies outside the customs could not move their mouths, so they simply raised their fists and started their hands, and the Constituent Assembly staged an all-out military act again.

Li Huai, who presided over the meeting, was dizzy, and invited Liu Tianren, Wang Ying, and Erle from the Grand Law Department to make a big decision, and he went to do business, and the people of the Liberal Party and the Civic Party also took the opportunity to slip away. Zhaojun's tomb left with nothing to do Guan Nei Shi and the tribal representatives who took the meeting as a vacation, Guan Nei Shi said, listen to us, it will definitely give you benefits, the tribal representatives responded, and they will listen to you if they agree to our conditions - this is still talking nonsense, everyone simply quarrels and messes around every day.

At the time of the standoff, Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, came and announced the great news with his hands and dances, and His Royal Highness King Ding was rescued from Jingshi and is now in Datong.

"Is that true?" Wang Yingxiong jumped up and asked.

"I saw with my own eyes that Wang Dehua and Wang Zhixin, who are the celebrants, are also by His Royal Highness's side."

"Okay, the old man heard that His Royal Highness King Ding was rescued but he never saw anyone, it turned out that Li Hanmin concealed the news, we all went back to Datong and snatched His Highness back." Liu Zongzhou shouted angrily.

"Snatch back His Royal Highness King Ding!" The soldiers ran away, and the tribal representatives inquired about what was going on, and they followed in a swarm.

Datong General Military Mansion, Li Yu has returned to Datong for a few days, has been closely watching the battle situation in Gyeonggi in the General Military Mansion, heard the noise outside, and couldn't help but smile bitterly at Zhao Ji - Xiaoding Wang is always a big trouble, Li Yu hinted that Wang Zhixin took Dingwang to Nanjing when he was in Juyong Pass, but Wang Zhixin is not stupid, the throne is not easy to take in the troubled times, there is no strong army to support him, and he will not be played to death by Wenchen, Wang Dehua returned to his hometown and passed by Juyong Pass, the two met the hero and saw the same, this year is to pick up the thickest thighs to hug, not only can not go to Nanjing, I also had to follow Li Yu step by step, and when I went to Datong, I found Liu Wenzhong, and the three guys took King Xiaoding to follow Li Yu closely, and they couldn't drive away.

Li Yu entered the lobby, pulled King Xiaoding to sit down amid a scolding, glanced at everyone, and coldly asked them what they wanted.

"His Royal Highness rebuilt the imperial court for the prison country, raised troops to recover the Jingshi, naturalized the marquis, whether you are loyal or traitorous, it depends on this move." Wang Yingxiong said confidently.

Li Yu shook his head and replied: "I only respect the Ming Emperor, regardless of the Ming court, I saved the flesh and blood of the first emperor, and it is your business to rebuild the court, but it is not my business." ”

Wang Yingxiong was so angry that he couldn't speak, and Sun Qifeng pondered and suggested: "Can we let us build a court in Taiyuan with His Royal Highness?" ”

Without waiting for Li Yu to speak, Zhao Ji preemptively said: "We don't care, as long as you can convince the council, you can do whatever you want." ”

Sun Qifeng bowed his head and was silent, the court had done everything, the people of Shanxi had tasted the benefits of autonomy, and would never agree to accept the imperial court, Zhang Guowei stood up angrily and pointed at Li Yu and shouted: "The prince fell into the hands of thieves, and the king is the capital of the country, what do you want to hold the king hostage?" If you don't protect the Ming Dynasty, we will protect it, and Your Highness will go with us to Nanjing to build the imperial court. ”

"How can this be reasonable, the first emperor has entrusted His Royal Highness to the Naturalized Marquis, what are you, why should you let Your Highness go with you." The king's heart jumped out and shouted.

"Fight this eunuch?" Wang Yingxiong, Wang Yongji and others couldn't help it, and threw their fists at Wang Zhixin, Wang Dehua and Liu Wenzhong immediately jumped out to help their accomplices, and the two sides fought together, scaring King Xiaoding into Li Yu's arms.

"Shameless! Rebuild the relationship between the court and your future," Li Yu took the case, pointed at King Xiaoding and said loudly, "But he is still a child, how can he deal with the current chaos, the first emperor was betrayed, I will not hand over his blood and blood to you again." ”

"Our family has the handwritten edict of the first emperor," Wang Zhixin covered his face and got up from the ground, took out a yellow letterhead and read it aloud, "I am not the king of the dead country, everything is the appearance of the dead country, isn't it the will of heaven?" Naturalized Marquis Li Yu has repeatedly exceeded the system, but the original intention is simple, good at decisiveness, or will be promising, Qin Yu Jia Jue Jin Guogong, quasi-open the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Governor Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Zhili, Liaodong and other military affairs and also manage food and salary, Qing should do his best, the big thing depends on the heavens! ”

"Did you hear that, the first emperor entrusted the north of the river to the Duke of Jin, of course His Royal Highness has to follow him, don't dream, our family just won't give you the opportunity to get promoted to power and buy glory for the buyer." Wang Dehua said triumphantly.

"The first emperor has a good plan!" He Fengsheng, who rarely spoke, glanced at the edict a few times, and said to Li Yu with a smile, "This is the central decree, which must be signed by the imperial cabinet, if you assist the king to build the imperial court, this edict can be issued to the world, Jin Guogong, what do you think?" ”

"I said, respect the emperor, regardless of the court." Li Yu shook his head, this edict implied murderous intentions, the edict was effective and the imperial court must be rebuilt, and the reconstruction of the imperial court will inevitably attract a large number of old officials, with their power and officialdom scheming, it is easy to control the court, at that time, the people of Fengzhou must extinguish the trouble of the Qing army, and beware of the betrayal of the courtiers, which is very likely to be excluded from the customs, and the achievements of many years of reform will be in vain.

Yu Yinggui, the governor of the three sides, has always been angry with the loss of power, and at this time he was furious and shouted: "Okay, you are really a traitor, gentlemen, the power eunuch is chaotic, I will save His Royal Highness and go to Nanjing to build a court." ”

A group of people pounced on and dragged King Xiaoding out, King Xiaoding was startled, crying "Uncle, help me, I don't want to go", hugged Li Yu and didn't let go.

"What a big boldness, do you want to force Lao Tzu to kill people, come and tie them up." Zhao Ji shot the case and shouted angrily.

Li Yu waved his hand to the guards who rushed in, leaned down and picked up King Xiaoding, and walked out of the hall in a scolding of "Beiyu" and "rebellion", at this time someone shouted "There is no court like King Ding, let's go to Nanjing", Zhang Guowei, Wang Yongji, Yu Yinggui and others responded in unison, and walked out with their heads held high.

"I'm sorry, if I lose Beijing and I'm going to cause trouble in Nanjing, I'll see how long the small court in Nanjing can jump." Zhao Ji scolded at the backs of these people.

Wang Yingxiong heard the scolding and looked back, and found that He Fengsheng sat still and quietly slipped out of the crowd.