Chapter 746: Three Requests and Three Resignations
Of course, the Zheng family has no connection with the fairy tale kingdom, outsiders don't know what's going on, but the Zheng family and Gao Jingfei understand that this is Mrs. M's side that began to fulfill her promise.
As for why it was not Brittania that spoke first, but the fairy tale kingdom that spoke first, this is naturally because the Bretanians also need to help, and the younger brother spoke out, and the big brother of the monarchy made a statement of support, which naturally did not seem so abrupt.
Especially since the fairy tale kingdom has nothing to do with the Nanyang Zheng clan at all, no one will suspect that all this was secretly planned by Brittany.
And they are indeed suspicious, after all, there were many areas in the South Seas that were colonies of the Burn Kingdom in the past, and if they wanted to promote the revival of the monarchy, the Alfred family really had the possibility of doing so.
As the two kingdoms successively expressed their support for Zheng's independence as a monarchy, a number of European monarchies such as the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Norsemen supported each other. Although these countries are not large, their strength and influence are not small.
Of course, the biggest reason for this is that Zheng's Dongning Kingdom also had diplomatic relations with some of these countries more than 300 years ago, which is also the most recognized legal principle in Western society since ancient times.
You must be a monarch in order to be qualified to become a monarch, otherwise the original Bonama Great, despite his great military achievements, will not always be resisted and rejected by all the royal nobles and his family.
Even as the emperor of Franz's First Empire, he couldn't find a qualified marriage partner, and finally had to retreat to the next best thing and rely on force to take it.
Obviously, as the leader of the monarchy, Brittania still has a lot of influence, and with the solidarity and support of these monarchies, even the originally huge opposition on the Nanyang side has calmed down a lot for a while.
Even if the Javanese Nitin still objected, but the rhetoric has eased a lot, and it is no longer as absolute as before, after all, there are so many monarchies, especially the world's top five such as Brittana, even if the Javanese Nitin climbs the relationship with the bald eagle, it can't help but be a little frightened, and I don't want to offend too many countries.
On the other hand, on the side of Nanyang, I saw that many European monarchies were supportive, and the Malayan official, which was originally a special monarchical federal system, also made some statements that seemed to support it at this time, after all, the ass cannot sit crookedly, and this matter is related to the interests of all monarchies.
Siam also subsequently made statements in support of the Zheng family, and this country, which is not weak in the Nanyang region, does not have so many concerns at this point, and no country will suppress Siam because of his support for the monarchy.
Seeing that the time came, a group of supporters marched on the street the next day to petition, shouting that they needed Zheng's restoration of the country, and Zheng Jizong immediately appeared publicly to say that he was a moral loss and did not dare to inherit the throne, and then pacified the crowd.
A few days later, another group of officials from Sanlikun and Mijiali came to petition and persuade them, but Zheng Jizong postponed it again.
At this time, people who have enough understanding of Xia culture have already seen that this is the set of three invitations and three resignations in ancient times!
Third, please be familiar with it, it is the allusion of the three visits to the thatched house.
Three words, also known as three lets.
"The Twenty-eighth Year of the Duke of Zuo": "The Marquis of Jin resigned three times, obeyed his fate, and said: 'Chong'er dares to worship the head again, and the emperor of the Son of Heaven is resigned. ’”
Liang Liu Xian's "Wenxin Carving Dragon: Chapter Table" of the Southern Dynasty recorded: "The text of the former Jin Dynasty was registered, and the three resignations were obeyed, which was based on the late Han Dynasty to let the table, and the three were broken." ”
In history, there is also Cao Cao when he was crowned king, and Cao Cao was knighted by Emperor Xian, and Cao Cao resigned three times; When Cao Pi usurped the throne, the Han Dynasty offered the throne of Emperor Chan, and Cao Pi resigned three times.
Although in the eyes of most people, this is a bit of a hypocritical trick, but it will not work without this step, and if you directly declare yourself king, it will be even more ridiculous.
The three requests and resignations do not have to be complete, but the necessary process still has to be done again, so the third time, it is a group of respected elders of the Nanyang Xia descendants as representatives, with the common wish of the Nanyang Xia descendants, to Sanlikun to persuade the lord of the Zheng family.
Zheng Jizong did not directly refuse this time, but warmly received these elders, and then lamented that he was not virtuous enough, but the Ming people had such high expectations for him, but the Zheng family could not live up to it.
So the matter of Zheng's restoration was decided.
Zheng Jizong did not mention the emperor or anything, he still regarded himself as the throne of Yanping County inherited by the Zheng family, and still regarded the Ming Dynasty as the Zhengshuo, and also set up the tablets of the Ming Taizu to Chongzhen, Hongguang, Longwu, Lu Wang Jianguo and other previous generations of the Son of Heaven and the Prison State, and announced that the sacrifice would be held the next day, so that Zhu Ming's incense would not be cut off.
On the day of the sacrifice, there were a sea of people outside the Zheng family temple in the Zheng Acropolis, all of which came to worship the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Chenggong, especially the latter, who was more famous than the emperors of the Zhu family among these Xia ethnic groups in Nanyang.
After all, the Zheng family has a great influence in the sea trade, and during the Zheng Zhilong period, it was the sea king in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and even the Dutch people came to trade to see the face of the Zheng family, otherwise there would not have been several wars with the Zheng family.
In the early days, the families who went to Nanyang were basically engaged in sea trade, so they naturally remembered the majesty of the Zheng family.
The Zheng family has promised to restore the country and succeed to the throne, and sacrificed to the ancestors, only to hold the founding ceremony, the Nanyang Xia people are happy, no matter what, the establishment of a new country dominated by Xia descendants is also a good thing for them, at least the living space of Xia descendants here can also be improved.
As soon as the incident happened, the royal family of Boni, who got the news, was really panicked.
They are now in a dangerous and embarrassing situation, although they strongly oppose the independence of the Zheng clan in their hearts, and they are eager to conquer Sanlikun by force, but they are not ready to start a war with the Zheng clan, and they do not have the confidence to start a war.
Because there is no one who knows the Zheng family better than the "ally" of the Boni royal family, which has been maintained for three hundred years.
They knew that although the Zheng clan had a small number of troops, and there were not many weapons such as warships and fighters, the Bo Ni Kingdom was not a strong country in the South Seas, and these armaments were also not much, perhaps stronger than the Zheng clan, and the number of troops was also larger, but it did not reach the gap of crushing the Zheng clan, at most it was seven to five.
If you really fight, it's not necessarily who wins and who loses!
This can be seen from the jealousy and fear of the generals of the kingdom for the Zheng family and Zheng Jixing, the commander of the Zheng family.
It is true that they have not fought in twenty or thirty years, and as for the quality of their native soldiers, the old king and others really know in their hearts that eighty percent is not the opponent of the Zheng army.
Moreover, if the two really fight, no matter whether they win or lose, they will lose a lot, and the two states of the Emirates Union next to them will definitely take the opportunity to become bigger, and the royal central states will hardly have the energy and courage to continue to fight with the Emirates Alliance.
But if they don't fight, they are unwilling to watch the Zheng family go out so independently, after all, it is a piece of fat that has been worried about it for hundreds of years, and the old king feels that his heart is hurting, and he will be sorry for his grandfather and ancestors who opened up the territory for the royal family.
So he could only urgently negotiate with the Zheng family and seek foreign aid, but he couldn't find foreign aid like Javanese mud tin, so as not to drive the wolf and devour the tiger, and then his own family also suffered.
In the end, the royal family of Bo Ni is still worried about the two rich lands of Sanlikun and another Xia state, and they are reluctant to give up these, otherwise they will directly ask a Nanyang power like Java Ni Xi to intervene, and the Bo Ni royal family will definitely be able to win in the end.
It's just that it's easy to ask God to send God, and although the old king doesn't know this sentence, they also understand the truth.
Lure wolves into the house, without paying a certain price, they can't satisfy the appetite of hungry wolves at all.
In that way, instead of having a hungry wolf in the family and biting off a few pieces of meat, it is better to directly let the Zheng family become independent, so as to avoid unnecessary wars.