"There's no way, and I don't want to."

Zhang Gui replied in a deep voice.

Then, Zhang Gui said with great interest: "But the Ming Dynasty needs to free more Han people from the enslavement and oppression of Buddhist temples, and then go to the world to make profits for the Ming Dynasty." You should know better than me that there is no better people than the Han people, so why should we leave such people to you to enjoy? ”

"Besides, can you keep such a useful people if you are so unenterprising?"

"Now, if the imperial court does not take away these people, it will only be taken away by the powerful foreign Yi in the future. Instead of letting the Waiyi take it away, let the court take away the Han people who are controlled by you! ”

Zhang Gui said again with a contemptuous smile.

When Zhang Gui read history in later generations, he found that Huaxia did not know what was going on, and after reunification, it would either die from internal collapse or be cheap foreigners.

In short, because the meat eaters do not treat the people as human beings, the whole civilized system gradually tends to only try their best to increase the efforts to loot the people's fat and ointment, and even do not hesitate to fool the people for this, and the result is that either the people can no longer bear to start a great revolution because of the great famine, or the outsiders take advantage of your illness to kill you.

As for the latter, there will be a situation where even if there are few people in the Waiyi clan, they can ride on the heads of the Han people and and be the masters of more Han people.

The well-functioning Manchu Qing could still ride on the head of the Han people for more than 260 years, and it could also end peacefully without large-scale reprisals.

Therefore, Zhang Gui said at this time that if the imperial court did not take control of the Han people from the hands of these Han landlords, it might be taken away by the outsiders in the future.

The so-called Han landlords naturally include not only the gentry, but also the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples with vast fertile fields in the world, as well as the people of the clan and the generals.

And now, the Ming court has almost cleaned up the gentry, clans, and generals.

Only the Buddhist temple remains.

In the name of religion, these Buddhist monasteries who have widely purchased fertile land and evaded taxes, and who have also collected private slaves and private soldiers in the name of collecting lay disciples, are undoubtedly the last piece of land reserved for those who still want to live a feudal landlord life in the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhang Gui arrested Xuye and washed the Longzang Temple in blood, he was more determined to persuade Tianqi to intensify efforts to rectify and suppress Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in the future.

What's more, he has now discovered that after a few years of layout in his West Factory, there have been many people lurking in these Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, and even today, even the big disciples around this old monk are people from his West Factory.

Internally, the Han landlords were not allowed the last chance to enslave the Han people as serfs, and externally, Zhang Gui continued to turn the foreign people into slaves, so as to satisfy the instinctive desire of the Han people to become human beings.

According to Zhang Gui's idea, if there are really people in this world who live like cattle and horses in order to maintain the stability of a ruling system, then these cattle and horses might as well be let Waiyi do it.

Why is the Ming Dynasty in this era obviously the most powerful empire in the world, but it still wants to let the Han people in its country be cattle and horses?

And can't the Anglo-Saxons always be the most powerful in the world, as the Anglo-Saxons did in later history after they had the most powerful empires?

Therefore, Zhang Gui decided to take back control of Haojing, and turned all Haojing's waiyi into cattle and horses that could be enslaved.

Zhang Gui had already issued an order not to let go of any of the foreigners who occupied Haojing, because these outsiders had already committed the serious crime of interfering in the internal affairs of their own dynasty because they supported the southern puppet dynasty.

Luo Lang, the governor of Portugal, also found that after returning Wang Wenkui and other rebel ministers, the Ming fleet that surrounded Haojing did not withdraw.

This made Luo Lang also disappointed and angry.

Therefore, he had to take the initiative to send his official Dominican to contact the Ming army and ask why the Ming army had not withdrawn.

"They said that whether they withdrew or not, they only obeyed the orders of Zhang Gui, the superintendent appointed by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to run the Nanyang Military Affairs Minister."

"In addition, they also said that the return of Han people and their property is something we should do, and there is no place for bargaining."

He also said that we should keep a clear understanding that what we cannot get through a strong ship and a sharp cannon, we should not imagine that others will be kind! Not everyone is a Bodhisattva, even if you are a Bodhisattva, you will not agree to your request because you have donated a lot of incense money and kowtowed for many years. ”

After Dominime relayed the original words of Zhang Guowei, the minister of the Ming Kingdom, to Luo Langye, Luo Langye's fantasy was completely broken, so he scrubbed his face that had not slept well all night and said:

"I shouldn't have imagined that they would leave because we cooperated with their demands, but what if we didn't try? This is a powerful Eastern Empire, and we are indeed no match for it! ”

Luo Lang also has a clear understanding of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, so sober that he knows that he can't resist by force.

But because the more sober he is, the more powerless he feels now.

However, let him give up Hao Jing just like that, and he couldn't do it.

Because the mirror is so important to him in Portugal!

After all, Ho Jing is the hub of trade routes with China, Japan, and North Korea.

All three of these countries have the most developed markets in the world today.

Therefore, because of these three trade routes, how much wealth is brought to Portugal every year is immeasurable!

It is also immeasurable how much wealth it brought to the Han landlords who controlled the population and land and monopolized the export trade of raw silk, silk, tea, porcelain, etc.!

It's just that it seems that these Portuguese landlords who occupy Haojing and the Han landlords in the Ming Dynasty have already discussed, but they didn't let the former great emperor know about it, and they knew that there was still so much lucrative trade in their empire.

"Becoming an Immortal"

But now it's different, in order not to be a slave to the country, Zhang Gui let Tianqi know all this, and also let Tianqi taste the sweetness of external expansion.

Therefore, now the Ming court is coming to seize this trade hub.

And once the Ming court rectified its interior and mobilized national forces to reclaim this trade hub, no force dared to stop it.

However, what Luo Lang wouldn't have thought of was that Zhang Gui didn't just want Haojing, but also wanted them.

"What! The Ming army in Guangzhou came from the land in a big way, and I Haojing?! There are more sailors gathering here?! ”

Soon, Luo Lang also learned an even more terrible news from Lead, that is, Zhang Gui asked Zhu Xieyuan to command the army to gather in Haojing after recovering Guangzhou Mansion.

And because of this, not long after, Haojing was surrounded by the Ming Dynasty's land and water army.

Luo Lang's own country's army is also far away in Goa, India, and it can't compete with the army of the Ming Dynasty, so now he only feels hopeless.

Luo Lang and the other Franc machine people in Haojing are like a group of sheep surrounded by wolves at the moment, and they have no power to fight back at all.

So, after Zhang Gui issued an order to persuade him to surrender, Luo Lang and the other Franc Ji and the Japanese soldiers they hired in Haojing all announced their surrender.

Luo Lang was also escorted to Zhang Gui, and took the initiative to ask: "May I ask the superintendent, what crime did we commit, and why did we take away the Haojing City we rented?" ”