The ministers were surprised, the Queen Mother suddenly knew her gaffe, the holy decree of the ancestors and the ancestors could not be easily opposed, her heart turned sharply, thinking about the wording, and hurriedly continued, "At this time and that time, Emperor Gaozong was kind-hearted, but I couldn't see the sand in my eyes, the Dutch were powerful in the past, but we were waterless in the Chinese Sea, so naturally we could only stand by and watch," Prince Gong raised his head and seemed to understand something, "The Beiyang Sailor has been raised for a long time, but he has not made an inch, don't say that others have opinions, even I am very confused." , how is this Peng Yulin's training? I didn't see it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Queen Mother, the slave is too talkative," Wen Xiang hurriedly said, "It is not appropriate to use swords and soldiers now, the war in the northwest still needs a lot of energy to be arranged, if the southeast starts the war again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take care of the tail of the hand." ”

"What Wen Zhongtang said is that naturally it is impossible to start a war lightly," the Empress Dowager Cixi said, "according to the meaning of the king of the council, the court of the Lifan sent a note to the king of Sulu, and the military aircraft department then drafted an edict to reprimand the Sulu country, and the Beiyang Navy Division set off from Weihaiwei to Shanghai to rest and recuperate, and then went to Fuzhou to standby. ”

Prince Gong saw that the Queen Mother made up his mind, and he did not object, in his opinion, the sailor really needs to let people see what kind of quality it is, so much silver, so many people, so many foreigners to teach, I don't know what it looks like, "Then the Prime Minister Yamen doesn't need to note Spain anymore," Prince Gong smiled, "Sulu was originally under the control of the Imperial Court." ”

"Exactly, if Spain comes to the Prime Minister's Yamen, it will be blocked." Bao Jun nodded again and again, "Naturally, there is a difference between inside and outside." ”

In the fifteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, the three kings of the Sulu Islands, the eastern king Batu Ge Horn La, the west king Mahara La, and the king of the mountain Batu Ge Horn Labu led their families to meet the Yongle Emperor and were ceremoniously received by the Yongle Emperor. The three kings stayed happily in Beijing for 22 days, and then returned to China by boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. When Emperor Yongle heard the obituary, he was deeply mourned, so he sent Lang Zhongqi of the Ministry of Rites to rush to Dezhou with a sacrificial text to bury the king of the east with the gift of the vassal king. The eldest son of the king of the east, Du Ma Han, led the people to return to China to inherit the throne, and the princess Ge Muning, the second son Wen Hara, the third son Andulu and more than ten attendants stayed in Dezhou to guard the tomb. In August of the fifth year of Qianlong, the king of Sulu sent Fanding to escort the windswept merchants back to the mainland. In the eighth year, the tribute envoy Ma Mingguang asked for the restoration of the tribute three years later, and the emperor's order still followed the five-year tribute rule set by Yongzheng in the fifth year. In the nineteenth year, the king of Sulu sent a tribute to the country, and a package of land was tributed, and the household registration was compiled into the Chinese atlas. The emperor's edict: "The kingdom of Sulu is inclined to change, and the people of the land of the country are within the reign of Zhaolin, and there is no need to send the atlas again." "In the twenty-eighth year, the king sent tribute. Since then, it has never returned.

"Sulu Benwu comes from the Fan clan, and he is brave and good at fighting. Since Spain occupied Luzon, they wanted to take Sulu as a vassal country, but Sulu did not obey, and the Westerners attacked it with troops and were defeated. Alone in China, the tribute is endless. Its country is small, there is a ridge of Yanyan, and its extreme south is Shiqi Mountain, Xijiao Island, Zhuchi, surrounded by the island. There are pearls in the sea, and the local people and the Chinese merchants are easy to trade, and the big ones are dozens of times more profitable. In addition, the local products are sumac, cardamom, incense, rattan, long pepper, parrot and the like. There are many accounts. The land is barren, there is not enough food, and it is often found on other islands. The natives practice Islam. Join forces with the Mangser people of Borneo as a pirate cloud. Gao Xinkui opened a book of "Daoyi Zhiluo", which was written by the Yuan Dynasty navigator Wang Dayuan, Gao Xinkui chose a paragraph to read to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother listened with great interest, "It seems that this Sulu country admires the Celestial Empire very much." ”

"Yes, among the vassals, there is only one country in Sulu that says it will be included in the Celestial Empire," Gao Xinkui said, "and the pearls of Sulu are very expensive compared to those produced in Shari Badan, the Third Port, etc. Chinese jewelry is used, its color does not retreat, and it is called a masterpiece. The property is very barren. Except for pearls. ”

The Queen Mother nodded, "Although the king of Sulu has no power, he is still here after all, he is just a puppet, the Spaniard is the emperor there, and now he is ready to slaughter the Chinese, it is really unbearable, the blood feud of the Netherlands back then, one day it will naturally be revenge." "The Empress Dowager Cixi was really annoyed by Gaozong's behavior, and she said such stupid things. Emperor Qianlong was a relatively outstanding emperor among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, but he was so narrow-minded. If the Celestial Empire in the future has the support of a small group of Southeast Asian countries, the international political situation will inevitably be greatly improved, and there is no need to worry about the world police choking their throats.

"The countries of Nanyang were originally vassals of the Celestial Empire, and it was naturally very appropriate for the Queen Mother to take care of this matter, but there was already a civil uprising in Sulu, and if it was not dealt with in time, it would be useless to reprimand, besides, Spain had occupied Luzon for more than 200 years, and Sulu had also fallen for a long time, if there was no instigation from the Spaniards behind him, and he would not dare to lend the king of Sulu a few courages."

Luzon is the island of Luzon in the present-day Philippine archipelago. In the 16th century, Spanish colonists invaded the northern Philippines and met with stubborn resistance in the Manila area. Under the command of King Suleiman, Manila fought valiantly against the Spanish invasion. After that, Suleiman was killed in a naval battle. Later, Luzon was gradually conquered by Spain. It is known as the land of gold and spices.

"This is natural, this time I am afraid that the matter is the same as that of Gaozong, I looked at the map, the location of Sulu, it happens to be a transit point in the South Seas, now the maritime trade is becoming more and more frequent, there are many merchant ships coming and going in China, the dynasty has not been in the past years, if the Chinese in Sulu make a fortune, the palace will not doubt it at all, and the Red River massacre, the natives are jealous of the wealth of the Chinese, coupled with the instigation of the Spaniards, it is not difficult to do so, so I have to prepare with both hands," the Empress Dowager Cixi said, "Two prongs, At the same time as the Lifan Yuan scolded, let the Beiyang Sailor go to the south! ”

Gao Xinkui also did not approve of doing it with foreigners at this time, "Queen Mother, Weichen feels that the time to do it with foreigners is not right at this time, these years by trading with foreigners, this household has some silver, if you start with foreigners, the trade route is blocked, and the economy is afraid to be difficult." The matter of commerce and trade, as the Queen Mother often said, is a win-win policy, but if the Nanyang trade route is blocked, this tax revenue will not come up, and the war in the northwest will be tightened. (To be continued.) )