Bai Minghe did not enter Temasek, it can be said that no Ming people entered Temasek, not even Fan Liang, who is preparing to be stationed here in the future, at least not yet.

The fleet began to retreat, leaving behind enough supplies that no more ships from the Ming would come over in the next month. If a ship comes, it is either a surrenderer, or a challenge.

5,000 Japanese men, 30 500 warships, and hundreds of small sea-going boats remained in Temasek.

Retreat, and it won't go too far.

A small island more than 1,000 miles east of Temasek made it a great place to stay.

It took three days to explore the whole island, and found less than a hundred aborigines, who were transported back to Manila by Molong by a ship, as Mao Sheng said, to be merciful to the common people, and would give them a good arrangement.

The wharf needs to be repaired, and new buildings need to be built.

"Nice island, estimated to be the size of Xi'an Mansion." The white crane stood on the top of a hill and looked at the island from afar.

"Today, Lao Tzu is going back to Beijing, so you can be lively here!" Mao Sheng stood next to him, his mind was no longer in Nanyang, and what was waiting for him after returning to the capital would be a bigger stage, although he was somewhat envious of Bai Minghe's doing whatever he wanted in a small place, but he was a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and he could only be on the stage he had to do, even if he faced the trouble that he couldn't solve, he had to face it.

Shirana took out a small envelope from his sleeve and placed it on the stone.

"What do you mean? Give a gift to Lao Tzu to congratulate Lao Tzu on his promotion. ”

"It's a soldering iron!" The white name crane responded with a smile.

The smile on Mao Sheng's face disappeared, and he opened the envelope, which contained two pieces of paper. One is what Da Ming now calls a promissory note, with a special imprint, and each number is recorded, and even a telegram needs to be sent to the head office for confirmation. Some merchants jokingly call this thing a silver mountain roll.

Why is it called Silver Mountain!

The white-named crane has 18 million taels of silver written on it. The industry standard silver ingot is the standard silver ingot of the Ming Dynasty, and its purity and size can be called the standard in the Ming world, so it is called the standard silver. The actual purchasing power of bank standard silver is higher than that of miscellaneous silver, which is equivalent to silver bills.

The other piece of paper is Yu Qian's handwriting. Just two sentences:

Duoyan Sanwei will prosper if it is obedient, and if the Jurchen is disrespectful, it will be destroyed!

It seems to mean the same thing, but Da Ming is Da Ming, and there is an art of using words in officialdom. Basically, it means that Duoyan Sanwei can give certain benefits, and you can also wish them prosperity. The Jurchens are different, they have the slightest uneasiness that makes the military department feel uneasy, and they can be eliminated.

"This is the military spending that Banzai will add to the north in the next three years beyond the standard, and how much will be spent on business and trade!"

Mao Sheng put the silver cashier's note back in the envelope, and Yu Qian's handwriting burned in the flames of the match. He understands. The layout of the Ming Dynasty began to turn to the south, his task is to guard the back garden in the north, and if there is a problem, he will kill people, the first to kill the person who is making trouble, if it can't be pacified, then it is he Mao Sheng who kills, and then another person will guard the backyard of the Ming Dynasty!

What a soldering iron!

"Let's go, I originally wanted to have a drink with you before leaving. Now it seems that it is better to get out of here, so as to save me a headache for Lao Tzu! Mao Sheng put away the envelope. turned around and walked down the mountain, walked a few steps without looking back, and said to Bai Minghe again: "The scar on Mo Long's face, Lao Tzu said that he would have a chance to take revenge." ”

"Got it!" The white crane responded very blandly.

There was no send-off procession, and there was no Zhuangxing wine. Mao Sheng got on a transport ship with 500 materials, and he would return to the port of Manila and then return to the officialdom in Nanjing, and then go north from Nanjing to the capital.

This island is well known to the white crane. It is only a few hundred miles away from the Great-Mother Dark Sands, west of the Great-Mother Dark Sands. To the north is the Indochina Peninsula, to the south is the waters at the exit of the Strait of Malacca, and to the west is Temasek more than 1,000 miles.

This is what the White Crane really needs, as the gate of the Daming South China Sea, the most important point in the defense island chain.

Standing on the top of the mountain, the white crane seems to be understanding life. Wang Cheng roasted a cigar and brought it to Bai Minghe, and then asked, "My lord, is that Spanish Armada really powerful?" ”

Bai Minghe smiled: "I tell you a secret, don't tell anyone, their invincible fleet just has an idea, and it hasn't really started to build yet." Let's not say ten years, but fifty years later, when we go to Spain, it will be a little more difficult than the last time we encountered a thousand Japanese ships. Bai Minghe stretched out a little thumb: "It's so big!" ”

"Then the subordinates don't understand?"

"My biggest enemy is not an external enemy at the moment, but myself. There is an external enemy that makes reporters worry about it, and there will always be internal unity, and then ten years is enough time to clear these internal troubles. At least it is necessary to do the same rule of civil and military, eliminate the servility that has been kneeling for hundreds of years for the Yuan Dynasty, and then increase the population fivefold, and then the world will be easy to govern! ”

What Bai Minghe said to Wang Cheng was already the truth.

Wang Cheng doesn't like those sour Confucians very much, and the path of civil and military co-governance sounds good.

"And what about here?" Wang Cheng asked Bai Minghe again.

Bai Minghe didn't answer, but pointed to the location of the mountainside, where a captain was running quickly. Wang Cheng nodded and greeted him, and after asking about the situation, he returned to Bai Minghe's side: "My lord, Mo Long besieged the other party's two boats with twenty, sank one, and captured one. ”

"It's a little thing!" Shira-naka didn't seem to take it to heart.

Wang Cheng reported again: "Mo Long said that the boat seemed to be the one that injured him, and there were several blonde people on the captured ship. So he decided that it was the one who injured him. But the other party claimed that they had just come here, and the previous ones had nothing to do with them, and it was Mo Long who had found the wrong person. ”

"Is it wrong?" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically and then said: "Mo Long said yes, I don't think it's wrong." Who made them look so similar, if not them, they were all in the same group. ”

"This ......, my subordinates like it!" Wang Chengxin said that this is really called unreasonable domineering.

Bai Minghe didn't explain to Wang Cheng, hundreds of years later, they were like this to Huaxia, and now Bai Minghe has no psychological burden, not even the slightest embarrassment.

Descended the mountain and walked to the shore.

Wooden huts were being built on the shore, hundreds of people were tied to wooden stakes, and the two men were trying to communicate with a scribe who had learned Greek.

Before the white-named crane man arrived, sixty elite soldiers were already lined up on both sides.

After setting up the table, chairs, and refreshments, Bai Minghe walked over with small square steps, Mo Long personally pulled out the chair for Bai Minghe to sit down, and Bai Minghe stretched out his hand to block it: "Mo Long, you don't have to do this, you are a soldier, we are officials in the same dynasty, and I am your friend." ”

Mo Long still pulled out a chair for Bai Minghe, and Bai Minghe's words had already reached his ears just now.

He believed that Shirakawa would definitely avenge him, or give him a chance to avenge himself.

"Thank you!" After thanking him, Bai Minghe sat down and motioned for Mo Long to sit too, but Mo Long refused.

The leader brought him to the white crane, and gave a salute with his right hand on his chest, and he could tell that this was a big man, because the white crane was sitting.

The white crane didn't react, but he didn't see the leader Shi Li.

Giving another salute, Bai Minghe finally reacted and said to Wang Cheng: "I think they don't respect me, I don't like this kind of etiquette." ”

Wang Cheng gave the scribe a look, the clerk was a literati, but he said viciously: "When you see my lord, if you don't kneel, you ignore it, it's blasphemy!" ”

Kneeling, the Western kneeling salute is to kneel on one knee and give a salute with the right hand on the chest, which is already the ultimate etiquette, and it is nothing more than this in the face of the Pope. In order to survive, the Portuguese leader chose to compromise and used this supreme kneeling ceremony.

Bai Minghe shook his head, got up and left, and just said a word to Wang Cheng when he left: "Sue him, learn how to give etiquette first and then talk, this official doesn't like people who are not polite." If he doesn't, find two widows to teach him! ”

Wang Cheng passed on this meaning, and then followed Bai Minghe to leave, but Mo Long sneered and carried the whip up.

Returning to the resting place, Wang Cheng asked Bai Minghe: "Your lord's subordinates are puzzled, you can take the risk of confronting the Manchu government and civil ministers, and spend two years to eliminate the ritual of kneeling for the Ming Dynasty." Until the holy decree is issued, no kneeling is not a major ritual, and only the prince of heaven and earth can kneel on weekdays, but it is also built to kneel when worshipping. ”

"You mean, I've always hated kneeling, right?"

"Yes!" Wang Cheng nodded.

"I hate kneeling, because this kneeling shows the servility of China, but I don't reject kneeling, kneeling to the world, kneeling to parents, this is people's respect for heaven and earth, filial piety to parents. Kneel to the king, this is the respect of all the people for long live, kneel when you see people, and kneel when you are a senior official, this is what I don't like. ”

Wang Cheng pointed to the beach over there, which meant that he was already kneeling.

"Wang Cheng, I'm talking about our Daming. The people of the Ming Dynasty don't want to be servile, but I like them to have. Let them start by learning to kneel, and then slowly learn how to behave. Of course, those Japanese people who are extremely loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the official also thinks that they can be exempted from kneeling, barbaric Europe, still need to seriously learn etiquette, learn to be obedient! ”

Wang Cheng laughed dryly: "The subordinates don't understand everything, but the subordinates know how to make them understand etiquette, and they can definitely kneel to make the adults satisfied, and if they are not satisfied, they will be beaten until they learn beautifully!" ”

"That's what it means, you're better at beating people than me." Bai Minghe made a joke very easily, and Wang Cheng also laughed.

Wang Cheng smiled heartily, Bai Minghe's words seemed to have a deep meaning, and he didn't understand. But he knew it was okay to have someone kneel him. (To be continued......)