Hubu Hanshang Shu Deming said that he interrupted the father-son conversation between Fulin and Xuan Ye, and took the initiative to jump out to "help" the little prince, if he didn't really know the resume of Tong'an Wang Zheng Zhilong very well, it would be self-inflicted. But Hongyi firmly believed in his own judgment - Deming said that there should be two brushes, so he took the initiative to show his skills.

"Your Majesty, before the minister served the emperor, he was the military department of the late Ming Dynasty, and his responsibilities were in the matter, so he knew a little about the past of King Tong'an. Besides, what Lord Belle said is credible! Deming replied loudly, and Hongyi on the other side suddenly realized that this person was in the military department at that time, and he had the responsibility of reviewing the correspondence, so he might have first-hand information.

"Okay, then you can talk about it." Fu Lin completely ignored the interjection behavior of this Han Chen, just like the "standard" "Ming Lord and Holy Monarch" of all dynasties, giving his subordinates full right to speak.

"Command!" When Deming spoke back, it was clearly a picture of wish-fulfillment and comfort.

"Xuan Ye is taught!" Hongyi also turned around at the right time to salute the people below, and at the same time noticed a detail: Fulin called Hu Shi'an and Li Jiqi the two Hanchens "Chu Jing" and "Fu Xian", but to the remaining three, whether it was Deming Shuo, Liu Chang, or Wei Zhouzuo, they all called him by his name! Hongyi's intuition told him that the emperor didn't like Deming very much, but just "used his strengths", and he didn't love Li Jiqi as much as he did with him.

"Lord Belle, the lower officials don't dare to stand it." Deming said that although he was polite to Lord Baylor above, he didn't see any specific actions to avoid the prince's worship.

"What Lord Belle said is true. After the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fourth year of the Lunar New Year, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, moved to Taiwan from the Wa Kingdom. Attached to Yan Siqi, the leader of the Japanese people. Shortly thereafter, however, the Dutch landed on the island and expelled him, and Zheng Zhilong returned to his hometown with his wife. Deming said to start telling the story.

Taking advantage of his pause, Hongyi originally planned to pick up the topic according to his own train of thought, but he never thought that Dai Shangshu would not give him this opportunity at all, and continued to say almost without breathing:

"In the second year, the Japanese Yan Siqi died, and Zhilong united with the leader of the pirates, known as the Eighteen Zhi. It had the strongest military force in the coastal areas of Fujian at that time. It is known as tens of thousands of pirates, specializing in looting and rampaging in the Taiwan Strait. However, at that time, the document written by the Quanzhou Prefecture and Anzhi County to the governor of Fujian said: Zheng Zhilong's place was ordered to report water (that is, to report the traces of the government), but he did not kill anyone. There are the poor. And with money and rice'. ”

"Oh? King Tong'an has some mercy! Fulin commented.

"My Emperor Shengming! Therefore, the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1628). In the engineering department, Yan Jizu said: "Pirate Zheng Zhilong." Growing in the spring, gathering tens of thousands of disciples, robbing the rich and giving to the poor. The people are not afraid of officials but of thieves. It can be seen that the momentum is getting bigger and bigger. In the same year, he led the Eighteen Zhi from Taiwan to attack Quanzhou, breaking the Ming Fujian Navy, Yanjing was shaken, so the Ming court wanted to recruit peace. Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and led his original troops to garrison the coast against pirates, pirates, and the Dutch. During this period, he personally led the naval army to crusade against the pirate Liliang who worshiped his brother in the past, and the official was the chief soldier. But soon he returned to his hometown in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, but gradually became the richest man in the local area. ”

"The richest man? Resign and don't do it, but want to be a businessman? He also got his wish and became the richest man. It seems that King Tong'an is indeed good at this! When Fu Lin said this, he looked at Xuan Ye and seemed to understand the reason why his son was happy for him.

Hongyi was just about to open his mouth to switch to his own mode, after all, there are several key points behind it, and I am afraid it is difficult to say it under the pretense of Deming's words. But Deming said that he would not give the little guy any chance at all, and it was logical that the emperor's words came to an end:

"Your Majesty! King Tong'an does have his strengths! From Weichen's point of view, there are two of his specialists. ”

"Two specialties? Wait, I'll take a guess...... Well...... one is maritime trade, and the other is naval warfare to break the enemy! Right? Fu Linman thought that he was too smart, and gave his own answer before Deming said, and waited for the following Hubu Shangshu to take the lead in praising himself as "the most holy and bright".

Unexpectedly, Deming said expressionlessly:

"Your Majesty, forgive your words. You say two things, often people who don't know the details think so, but they don't know how to underestimate this person. ”

"Ahem...... ahem" Fu Lin was robbed of a white sentence, although he saved face, but he was equated with an ordinary person, and he coughed anxiously.

"Deming said no! Don't keep courtesy! Liu Chang, the Han Shangshu of the Criminal Department, really jumped out again "in time" to distance himself from his Han colleagues.

"Ahem...... Anyway...... Ahem! Saying "it's okay", Emperor Fulin still coughed, looking like he was really "choking".

"Lord Liu, don't be impatient. Xuan Ye, may I ask Master Dai, what are the two specialties you are talking about? Hongyi, who was standing near the emperor, stepped forward with concern and rushed to take the handkerchief brought by Wu Liangfu, and respectfully gave it to the emperor, while stabilizing Liu Chang, who was like an aggressive rooster, and at the same time helping Deming to achieve his small "showmanship" wish.

"Weichen is foolish, and King An is good at dealing with the vassal states and Yangyi, and the other is good at using razors to control razors, and dares to confront them at sea! Lord Belle, is what the lower official said right? Deming said that he looked at Hongyi with some unscrupulousness and was complacent.

Really talented! ——Hongyi's heart admired. It's a pity that it's too flamboyant and quite utilitarian, otherwise it would have been a big responsibility - Hongyi regretted it at the same time.

[Recently, I found a lot of unknown pirated reading websites pirated my clumsy work, and I hate it, and I don't know how to avoid it on jishu. Losing a few small manuscript fees is really nothing, but if you are a codeword, perhaps the most hated thing is that there are many mistakes and omissions in the plagiarized text. If you don't see this text on the Internet from ~ point ~ Chinese ~ text, it means that you are at least not disgusted with Hongyi's text, so please think twice - you have read it so far, 700,000 words, can you understand the author's distress: the text thinks about your own children, parents see their pirated children, and it is pirated full of mistakes and omissions, what will you feel? The clumsy work is still a potential signing, but if you all come up~ Look, maybe I would have signed a long time ago! Think again, guys! 】

"Please make it clear." Hongyi put the handkerchief used by Fu Lin into Wu Liangfu's silver platter. Continue to ask modestly.

"Actually, what the emperor said is not bad. King Tong'an was particularly good at trading by sea, but the emperor did not know that Zheng Zhilong took the Japanese girl as his wife and gave birth to Zheng Sen (Zheng Chenggong), the king of Haicheng, so he was still able to travel back and forth between Middle-earth and the Japanese kingdom, and carried out the trade by sea alone, so as to become rich and rival the country. But if you are someone else, you can't be like him. This is because Zheng Zhilong walks on the sea all the year round, has close contacts with the Japanese people and red hair, and is quite sleek and thoughtful. As Master Tang said, the country was closed to the sea. I didn't even do the business of the Franc machine. However, Zheng was only allowed to trade back and forth with the Netherlands, not only because he married a widow, but because the king of Tong'an was old and old. Therefore, Weichen said that he was good at dealing with the vassal state Yangyi. ”

Deming said a few words. It even went to Hongyi's heart.

"The emperor said that the enemy was broken in naval battles. Indeed, the king of Tong'an can do so. But Weichen thought. Naval warfare is not as expensive as land warfare. It can be said that 'as soon as the sailor comes out, the silver is like rain'. Ship building, ship guns, muskets, sailors' rations, repair of wear and tear, etc. All of them cost a great deal of silver. At that time, Zheng Zhilong defeated the Dutch naval army in the Battle of Kinmen off the coast of Fujian, and since then he has controlled the sea routes and charged the fees for merchant ships from various countries. At that time, there was an official document from the Ministry of War, saying, 'Those who are not allowed to order the flag of the Zheng family cannot come and go.' Each ship earns 3,000 gold, and the annual income is 10 million, so as to enrich the enemy country and build the city of Anping Town. Since then, the sea atmosphere is quite breathing, selling foreign goods, domestic and foreign merchants, all using the Zheng banner, no example, businessmen have 20 times the benefits, Zhilong to Haili traffic court, to show greatly. Fujian takes the Zheng clan as the Great Wall'. The Dutch led the crowd to take Zhilong, but Zhilong was still defeated again and again. ”

As soon as Deming said the second paragraph, Hongyi was shocked - good guy, he really snatched all my lines!

"Oh! The Dutch are also afraid of King Tong'an! Hongyi hurriedly gave the "finishing touch" that he had prepared to haode, hoping to attract Fulin's attention. But other than that, there's really nothing more to add!

"That's exactly what Lord Belle said. So far, Zheng Zhilong's sailors have traveled to all parts of the East and Nanyang: Da Ni, Hun Ni, Champong, Luzon, Yonggang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, Malacca, Cambodia, Siam and other places. Its soldiers include Han Chinese, Japanese people, Koreans, etc., with a military strength of up to 200,000 people, a fleet of more than 3,000 large and small boats, and even a black ghost as its envoy......" Deming said that he elaborated according to his own ideas, but was interrupted by the emperor-

"Black ghost?" The first time Fu Lin heard this word, he couldn't help but ask.

"Exactly, Your Majesty. Therefore, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Cai Ruxian, who had served as the political secretary of Guangdong, wrote the book "Dongyi Image", which included a special "black ghost" eye, and said: "Black ghost, called ghost slave." Unable to understand speech and lust, and having no other sexual affection, he can resist the Lord. Its color is like ink, the eyes are round and yellow, and there are peons. In the raw island, the food creatures are filthy, and the people, because of the raw food, the fire food will be leaked, and after this, it is easy to live. Absolutely powerful, one person can bear hundreds, the enemy is not afraid of death, and the water can pass for one or two days. I tasted that the general bought it to charge, and it was quite straight and thick, with a Chinese woman, and the child was also black. For a long time, animals can know people's words, but they can't speak, and they are servitudes of Zhuyi, such as China's slaves. Or say: Fierce over the white ghost cloud. ’[1]”

Since it was the emperor who intervened, Deming said that he had to temporarily interrupt his train of thought, but he also recited a monograph of others, which shows that he has a solid foundation for reading a wide range of books!

Fu Lin didn't speak, just nodded slightly.

"Your Majesty, in the battle report sent to the Ministry of War after the Tianyou Army Line Guoan and others returned to Guilin, it was also mentioned that some Franco-musketeers and black slave spearmen fought with me that day."

The military department Shangshu Ka Dahun said a piece of information related to the "black ghost" that he had, but he didn't expect that Tang Ruowang on the side instantly looked gloomy.

Ka Dahun's words made Fu Lin suddenly remember that when he was in the reign of Yugong and Xuan Ye advised himself to set up territorial waters, he talked about the various assistance of the Francophile to the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and instantly had an impulse to liquidate them.

"Your Majesty, so Weichen said that Zheng Zhilong is good at razing and razing, he used Japanese people, Koreans, black ghosts, etc. as soldiers, and even hired Western sailors, relying on charging into battle, but he also received miraculous results - in the naval battle, King Tong'an can be said to have won more and lost less, and rarely suffered." After Deming finished speaking, he did not crave the emperor and other "praises", but stared directly at Hongyi on the royal steps, making the little guy inexplicable.

"Yes, I see." Fu Lin said lightly, noncommittal.

"Your Majesty, Weichen judged that the second son of the emperor was happy with the emperor, precisely because King Tong'an had these two directors. If Zheng Zhilong is allowed to return to his old business, not to mention the Francophile, even the Dutch will naturally bow to the wind, and the lockdown of the Japanese country will be useless. At that time, the sea frontier will really be the territorial waters of our Qing Emperor, and all the vassal states will definitely come one after another. ”

Deming said that Hongyi finally came to his senses - every sentence is on the point, and the whole article is to agree with what I said about letting Zheng Zhilong lead the fleet to trade and dominate! No wonder you stared at me unscrupulously just now, you are going to give me a big gift!

[1] The so-called blacks in ancient China had many names, such as "Kunlun slave", "monk slave", "black guy", "black guy", "black ghost", "black slave", "fan [fan] slave, Xuanyi, black fan, black ghost, ghost slave and other titles, in fact, there are two kinds. One is the Negros, that is, black Africans, who mostly live in the sub-Saharan Desert of the African continent. The second is the Negritos, that is, the dwarf black race, which is now scattered in the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. Both of them have black curly hair, except that the Negros are taller and darker than the Negritos.

During the Jiajing Dynasty and subsequent dynasties, a large number of blacks entered the Portuguese-controlled Macao area one after another, which aroused the interest and attention of the Ming scholars who came into contact with them, and the documentary records of blacks gradually increased. For example, in the 40th year of Jiajing (1561), Jiajing's "Guangdong Tongzhi" recorded, "The ghost slave is also a black little guy in Fanguo." The rich people in Guangzhong have many animal and ghost slaves, extremely powerful, can bear hundreds of catties, have a thirst for speech, and do not flee in nature, also known as savages. Its color is as black as ink, the lips are red and the teeth are white, the hair is yellow and yellow, and there are mussels. Born in the mountains of the world, eating living things, when harvesting and fire food feeding, tired days of leakage, called changing intestines. This or die of illness, if not, it can be a long-term animal. I can know what people say, but I can't say it. There is a kind of people who are near the sea, and they do not blink when they enter the water, which is called Kunlun slave, and the noble family of the Tang Dynasty has many animals. The "Tongzhi" picks local customs, which shows that at that time, it was already common for the vast land to raise blacks, and the rich families were vying to buy and raise them to show their status. According to the records of his physical appearance and habits, it is speculated that the black slaves should be mostly dwarf black races.

The same account can also be found in Ye Quan's "Xianbo Chapter" (Jiajing 44th year, written in 1565), in which it is recorded that the Portuguese on the streets of Macao often "accompanied four or five black slaves, Zhang Zhu Gai, and carried a big stick and a long sword." "To show the dignity of status." The, the people of this country are poor, most of them are slaves, they are vicious, they have a beard and wool, their skin is like ink, and their toes are very fearful. "Probably black African, by their physical appearance." The sea is bitter, the Chinese drown and die, and the can sit under the water for a long time, taking fallen things like picking up land. "Indirect means that they should have been taken from the coastal areas." There are also women who are brought to the island, as beautiful as men, with Zhu on their foreheads, and they are even uglier and shameless, but they are quite able to trade with China. The black women who were brought in had the custom of "shizhu", or red dots on their foreheads, and it was speculated that they might have come from India, and they were good at business, and they might have come from the southern trading ports of India. [The Portuguese called the "blacks from India light-skinned and with wisdom not found in others, and they had a vice, and they were excellent thieves.] Black non-Jews do not spare their physical strength and can be a very haode servant. (To be continued......)