Chapter 640: Execution of the Outer Nobles
Today is the day to deal with the recidivism.
As the saying goes, you can't punish a doctor.
Both the highest representative of the national parliament of the Dutch Republic is the defender de laiter.
Or Maszk, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, who had a lot of blood debts in the city of Batavia.
or the Korean king Li Hao who provoked the dignity of the Ming Dynasty.
They are all so-called vested interests in their own country, so-called aristocrats, whose status is beyond the laws of their country and can be unfettered.
Because of this, these foreign nobles have developed an arrogant character in their own country, and regard the common people in their own country as grass mustard, so that they regard the people of the Ming Dynasty as grass mustard, thinking that killing a few ordinary Han people will not cause the wrath of the Ming court.
But they ignored that Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was no longer a nobleman who was as stupid as them and only knew how to maintain his rule.
Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen is still a young man with strong idealism.
In later life, the pressure of buying a house in reality made him lose the opportunity to show his ideals and pursuits, and he had to hide his edge and be a selfish and numb ordinary person.
But in this life, he is the supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the power in his hands controls millions of modern armies and tens of millions of square kilometers of land, and can even decide the life and death of hundreds of millions of people.
The Ming Empire gave Zhu Youzhen supreme power, but Zhu Youzhen's power came from the trust of all classes of the people in the entire Ming Empire, trusting him as an emperor to still lead them to the happiest future.
People are selfish, and the entire Ming Empire is willing to recognize Zhu Youzhen as emperor, not only because of his political orthodoxy, but because everything Zhu Youzhen does is in their interests.
But Zhu Youzhen is also thinking about why he wants to exhaust himself to death for the happiness of other people's lives.
As long as he is willing, in the next few decades, he can live a very arrogant and lascivious life, even if he is desperately corrupt like Qianlong, the Ming Empire can last another hundred years at its current scale.
But Zhu Youzhen doesn't want that one day in the future, ordinary Han people like him before the crossing will live so tired like his original self, and even because of this, he will only have hatred and boredom for this world and no love.
The world of the biosphere cannot escape the law of the jungle, but the birth and progress of civilization is to make the expression of this law less bloody, and even to achieve internal peace.
Only by replacing a more backward civilization with a higher civilization can we reduce the number of killings, cruelties and barbarism in human society.
And Zhu Youzhen now wants to replace other more backward civilizations with the Chinese civilization of the Ming Empire.
At the same time, he also had to find ways to promote the development of Chinese civilization, so that it could be cleansed and evolved.
Many officials of the empire have begun to disunderstand Zhu Youzhen's behavior, and they do not understand why his Emperor Majesty is obsessed with unifying the whole world, and even realizing that every place is a world of Han Chinese, even if it cannot be achieved through reproduction, it must be achieved through the way of civilization grafting.
In the eyes of some imperial "literary and artistic" officials who just want the years to be quiet and the time is safe, the country is already so strong, and the great cause of the emperor has far surpassed the three emperors and five emperors, so there is no need to toss so much, and they have to go to the bitter cold land to be an official all day long for tens of thousands of miles of war. It seems unnecessary.
If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's use of national debts to bind up the imperial aristocracy and first-class citizens to realize that it was beneficial for them to expand the empire to the outside world, no one would be willing to implement Zhu Youzhen's policy of foreign expansion.
After all, as most people who don't have much desire for power, they would rather be a prince in the warm and spring-like Jiangnan than go to the sandy Mobei to be the governor.
Therefore, for the punishment of these foreign repeat offenders, the simple punishment of Ling Chi can no longer give the domestic nobles and first-class citizens too much shock.
The people of the Ming Dynasty in this era have not been subjected to too strong national oppression, so they are still full of love for the world, although they are contemptuous of these foreign fans, they are also benevolent, so they are not very interested in Ling Chi's foreign repeat offenders.
In order to increase the attention of the nobles and first-class citizens of the Ming Empire to the external executions, and continue to enhance their sense of superiority and happiness, Zhu Youzhen instructed the Criminal Department to change the method of execution, with the purpose of increasing the fun.
The Roman aristocracy used this method.
Zhu Youzhen, as the top nobleman of the Ming Empire, naturally likes this way, and after he came to the main hall above the Huangji Gate and sat down, he issued an order: "Begin!" ”
So, the gate of a pre-built animal farm was opened, and a tiger was let in.
Immediately afterwards, the defender of the Dutch Republic, Denette, was also escorted.
Zhu Youzhen and the nobles of the empire watched condescendingly from the city tower, while the first-class citizens of the empire watched from outside the iron fence of the beast field.
However, as soon as Denet saw the tiger, he also realized that these nobles of the Ming Dynasty were going to put themselves in the beast arena to fight the tiger, and then they would be eaten by the tiger.
Denet couldn't help but yell: "You can't do this, you are barbaric, I am a nobleman of the Netherlands, although I have been defeated, I also deserve the respect you deserve for a gentleman!" ”
However, De Knight's words, Da Ming's brocade guards didn't understand, so they only pushed De Knight in, and then closed the door of the beast field.
Zhu Youzhen sat on it at this time, watching the top leader of the red-haired fan, De Knight, who had committed colonial crimes around the world, trembling in front of the tiger.
At this time, the tiger just circled around the Denette, and pounced on the Denette.
However, this Denet was also quite agile, and actually dodged, and then seemed to shout at his side for mercy.
But Zhu Youzhen was too lazy to deal with it, if he wanted the concept that the Ming Empire was an unprovoked country to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, he had to use the blood of these people to strengthen the memory of the outsiders.
So, under Zhu Youzhen's nose, the Dutch guard De Knight was still pounced on by the tiger and tore off a piece of meat.
The imperial nobles on the city tower and the first-class citizens of the empire on the city tower watched with relish, as if they were watching a play, watching the red-haired fan being chased and bitten by a tiger.
Eventually, the Dutch defender Denette was eaten by the tiger.
And the Dutch East India Company Ma Suike, who was standing aside and preparing to enter the second one, was already so frightened that he trembled directly, and couldn't help kneeling and kowtowing in the direction of Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, we know that we are wrong, please look at God's face, spare us, we will never dare to poison the Han people again!" ”
(End of chapter)