"Exactly, the old party still wants to make the East Palace a puppet of the world."

Shen replied at this time.

After hearing this, Luo Wanhua said: "On the one hand, I hope that the people of the world will judge the public, and on the other hand, I hope that one person will change the way the world governs the country." ”

Luo Wanhua shook his head as he spoke.

Shen Shixing smiled slightly, and said: "Now the holy will is to recover Luzon as soon as possible, develop Luzon, and further enrich the country and benefit the people, this is a decision that has already been agreed upon by the monarch and ministers, and no matter what the ghosts and spirits can't stop this decision." ”

"This time, the thieves who invaded Huangshan Town in addition to Xiyi also had a large number of Japanese invaders, so His Majesty ordered the Ministry of Rites to let the Ministry of Rites and Dongying Fu follow the line of the major names of the Japanese Kingdom, and to sign a contract promising to ensure that the peace of the four seas will not sell Japanese slaves to Xiyi, if the contract is violated, compensation and land will be ceded, which is equivalent to only allowing the people of the Ming Dynasty to store slaves in Dongying, so as to achieve the purpose of educating the Japanese people."

Luo Wanhua spoke at this time, and said: "For this reason, the Ministry of Rites has decided to send Li Tingji, a member of the Ministry of Rites, to envoy the country to negotiate this matter. ”

Shen Shixing bowed his head after hearing this: "That's fine." ”

Qi Jiguang followed at this time: "The evacuation of overseas Chinese is also beginning to be arranged, and more than 70 large ships have been mobilized, such a large scale is not only to ensure that all businessmen and people are evacuated as much as possible, but also to demonstrate to the Francophone people, they had better take the initiative to withdraw from Luzon when our Ming army officially comes to war, otherwise the next many big ships will not come to pick up people, but to kill people." ”

"Hopefully."

Shen Shixing replied with a smile.

"Difficult!"

"According to the interrogation of these thieves, these Xiyi originally had the intention of conquering the world, but because they couldn't conquer the emperor by force, they changed to preach in the Middle Earth continent, and directly conquered other weak and small barbarians overseas, their mission is to make the whole world worship their religion, which is different from us, we are all orthodox religions in the world can exist, but they all need to be unified by our emperor."

"Therefore, if you want them to give up their mission and give up going east, I am afraid that it will be very difficult, and no one wants to spit out what they eat in their mouths."

Li Chengliang also expressed his opinion.

"Speaking of their missionary affairs, I have always thought that the Ministry of Rites may ask the imperial court to strictly control the missionaries."

"One is to ensure that the people of Taixi who come to do cultural exchanges do not have the heart of conquest, at least they dare not have them on the surface, but only carry out cultural exchanges;"

"The second is that if the people of Taixi want to settle down in the dynasty and go to other places to exchange knowledge, they need to report to the government and get permission, so as not to instigate the people of the sect and the people, and even spy on the geography of the dynasty and other things for conquest;"

"The third is that all articles and notes written must be inspected by the government before they can be published and taken out of Middle-earth;"

"Fourth, those who apply to Middle-earth for the first time can only live in a fixed place arranged by the government, such as the Beijing Normal Association;"

"Fifth, when all the people of Taixi conduct cultural exchanges in one place, they need to be arranged by the government to live in one area and be closely supervised by special personnel, not only to avoid conflicts between them and the scholars because of different customs, but also to prevent them from being too free when they leave.

At this time, Luo Wanhua put forward a new idea because he thought that the Xiyi mission was for conquest.

At this time, Yin Zhengmao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "Why don't you directly prohibit non-tribute envoys from coming to the court?" ”

"It's not appropriate to ban it outright."

"Governing the country cannot rest on its laurels, and the powerful dynasty since ancient times is unwilling to pass through the four yi, and to correct oneself."

"Although most of the people of Taixi have improper purposes, some of the knowledge they bring has the effect of correcting local knowledge, and I have been in contact with them in Jiangnan, and many of them do have unique knowledge and insights."

Wang Xijue replied at this time, and said: "Therefore, it is right for the great sect uncle to only strictly control and prohibit him from entering, so that Xiyi will know the etiquette." ”

Qi Jiguang also followed: "In this invasion of Huangshan, the Privy Council concluded after the war that if my Wang Shi didn't have a lot of ships and soldiers, I am afraid that he would not be able to defeat these Xiyi!" ”

"Because their firearms are not inferior to ours, the warships are bigger and faster than ours, and the Battle of Tuen Mun also showed that the strength of Xiyi should not be underestimated, especially in shipbuilding and firearms skills, so it is necessary to maintain communication."

"Your Majesty has also said that you want the cabinet to carefully analyze the improvement of firearms and warships that are mostly influenced by Xiyi, but the development of firearms and warships in this dynasty is gradually lagging behind, and even the reasons why the big ships are not as good as the beginning of the country, it can be seen that Your Majesty also supports exchanges with Xiyi and these people."

Shen Shixing said at this time.

When all the ruling ministers heard this, they all bowed their heads.

Soon after, Luo Wanhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, submitted a book asking the imperial court to strictly control the missionaries.

Zhu Yijun gave permission, and ordered the cabinet to handle it accordingly, and let the department recommend and confer officials to missionaries who have made outstanding contributions, which is equivalent to giving some sweetness and promoting exchanges while strictly managing.

Zhu Yijun knows the dangers of closing the country to the outside world, so he has no objection to this, and he even plans to send his own cultural figures to take the initiative to go out for exchanges in the future.

Not long after Zhu Yijun allowed the ruling officials to exercise strict control over the missionaries, he caused an uproar inside and outside the government and the opposition.

Therefore, there is a lot of discussion among the people.

"If the imperial court does this, it is better to directly ban the people of Taixi from coming to my Middle Earth!"

"Yidi's knowledge, it's okay for us learned people to learn about it in private houses, how can the imperial court clearly allow him to communicate in the name of strict management!"

"Doesn't this mean that they can apply to go to the academy to give lectures and go to the county school to teach and teach?"

"Is this how the children of the poor eunuchs from the small people can also know the learning of the West, and also learn some of the dross of the West?"

"What a naked painting!"

"The children of the poor eunuchs should only learn the ways of Confucius, Mencius, Cheng and Zhu, and learn the teachings of the sages, how can they be exposed to these external learnings too early before the middle stage, before the prophet Wulun and the righteous path of accepting the righteous path of destroying people and wanting to preserve heavenly principles, and be bewitched as deviants!"

After Gu Xiancheng learned about this, he expressed his opinion to Zhang Whale, the idle eunuch who invited him to listen to the music and enjoy the new drama again.

After living in Nanjing, Zhang Whale always liked to pay for the literati to organize gatherings or invite the literati to do something leisurely and happy, and in addition to letting these literati eat and drink well, he would also express his political views when they were full of wine and food, or when the sages were full.

Gu Xiancheng's family business is now in decline, and his prestige is also declining, so he loves to go to Zhang Whale's appointment even more.

Because now eunuchs like Zhang Whale still treat him as a person, and call him Mr. Donglin.

The children of the scholar clan have always been taboo to get along with eunuchs, especially when they are down, and the Donglin Party people get along very well with the eunuch Wang An and others in history.

What's more, Gu Xiancheng now has not many scholars who are willing to associate with him.

And after Gu Xiancheng said this, Zhang Jing said: "What Mr. Donglin understands, the imperial court can't understand?" ”

"To put it bluntly, now the new party wants to open up the wisdom of the people, and strictly supervise the actions of the Taixi Confucian scholars, but it has more legal permission for their academic exchanges, and it may be necessary to instigate a few Taixi Confucian scholars to help the imperial court directly conquer Europa in the west in the future, and directly go to the hometown of the Franc machine to use troops to develop foreign benefits there."

"I think that many noble families are afraid that they are unwilling to let these Taixi Confucian scholars go to the supervision of the government, and there will be a bloody storm when the time comes."

Gu Xiancheng said with a smile.

Zhang Whale shook his head after hearing this, and then asked: "Then according to Mr. Donglin's opinion, the imperial court sent a big ship to Luzon to pick up the merchants to return to China, will the merchants come back?" ”

"Naturally unwilling to go to those places to manage the trade by the order of the wealthy family, I am afraid that I will take the initiative to prevent ordinary merchants from coming back, and the court is likely to be blind and light the lamp - in vain."

Gu Xiancheng said.

After Zhu Yijun sent a fleet to withdraw to the Han merchants in Luzon and prepared to declare war on Luzon, the Ming court did prepare a huge fleet of more than 70 ships, with Chen Luan as the commander, and came to Luzon.

Along the way, because Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers had coveted Luzon for more than a year, they had already sent Jinyi Wei to sail between Dongpeng and Manila as smugglers, and summing up the climatic conditions in the waters in this area, the fleet also chose the right time and arrived in Manila particularly smoothly.

However, before the fleet organized by the Ming court arrived in Manila, there were already coastal smugglers who had already informed Luis, the Spanish governor of Manila, of the news that the Ming Dynasty was going to recover Luzon.

During this period, Louis said to Manila's infantry major Aguna and Archbishop Lei Ori: "The Ming country in the north wants to seize our Philippines, although we have asked Your Majesty to transfer more troops, but I am still very worried that they will collude with the Chinese people outside Manila to make us passive!" ”

"You should kill all the Chinese here first!"

"In this way, we can use the money of the Chinese to buy and train the local natives as the new army, so that we have more troops to fight against the Chinese."

Arguna said.

Lei Yili said: "But there are too many Chinese, there are tens of thousands of Chinese outside the city of Manila, and many Chinese still have firearms and swords, we really want to kill, it is impossible for people not to know to resist, so we can't be too direct." ”

"And I have already thought of a way, first in the name of strengthening law and order, to confiscate their weapons, and to lower the tax rate for those who are willing to surrender weapons, to induce them to voluntarily surrender their weapons, and those who are not willing to surrender can be arrested and killed first, and then those who have confiscated weapons!"

"In addition, I will start by mobilizing baptized Chinese and prominent Chinese to persuade other Chinese to collect their weapons and promise them benefits."

Louis nodded: "That's a good idea. ”

Thereupon.

Soon, the Philippine governor of Francois ordered that in the name of strengthening public security and preventing spies from infiltrating, all Chinese in the Philippines should surrender all weapons, and said that those who surrendered weapons would be given money, and if they did not hand over the weapons, they would be detained and imprisoned if they found weapons after a search.

Meanwhile.

Lei Yili also persuaded Huang Kang, a big comprador and disciple in the Philippines, and other baptized Chinese to persuade the villagers among the Chinese to call on the Chinese to take the initiative to surrender their weapons.

"As you know, our religion is to promote love, so we let the Chinese people hand in their weapons for the sake of promoting love, so that they can better know how to behave in the world in a loving way instead of using swords."

"Swords should only be owned by the Governor's Palace, and should be used as a defense against pirates."

After Lei Yili persuaded him like this, Huang Kang and the others also believed it.

The main reason is that Lei Yili is different from Louis, he is a missionary, and he takes the initiative to study the Four Books and Five Classics, which makes Huang Kang and others less embankment, and he also respects Huang Kang and other wealthy businessmen.

Therefore, Huang Kang was also willing to believe Lei Xili, and he was afraid that his Chinese would really anger the authorities and officials in Manila and affect his own interests, so he agreed, and took the initiative to persuade the Chinese to surrender their weapons.

"Huang Yuanwai, the weapons have been handed in, what are we going to defend ourselves, we are in the country, and the court can't help us bring bows, arrows, knives and guns, why did we go to sea and get here, and we can't use bows, arrows, knives and guns?"

An unbaptized Chinese still had some doubts about the governor's order of the Spanish authorities, and suspected that its motives were bad, so he asked Huang Kang when he came to persuade him.

Huang Kang said: "The Governor's Mansion will guarantee your safety, because you are all law-abiding and tax-paying people, please believe me, I can guarantee the Governor's Palace, because I have already asked Archbishop Lei Yili, the Governor's Mansion is indeed doing this for everyone's safety, you don't believe in the Governor's Palace, do you still believe that you can guarantee your own safety?" ”

"Lao Huang's words are pertinent!"

"We have to trust the Doge's Palace, we have given them so many taxes, they will naturally be willing to protect us."

"Unless they don't want to collect so many taxes and let us be bullied by the natives."

At this time, another baptized wealthy Chinese businessman, Li Hai, also followed.

"The ancestors have a saying, if it is not my race, its heart will be different!"

"We are different from them, we can't be convinced!"

"Besides, the ancestors have a saying, the puppet is not guilty of his crimes, if we don't have the firearms and swords for self-defense today, we will really become puppets! Even if you have a thousand gold, you are afraid that it will become someone else's bag! ”

"So we can't hand it over!"

Some Chinese still raised opposing views.

This made Huang Kang frown.

Li Hai smiled at this time: "We are merchants, what are we divided in?" It can be said that our goods are to be sold to the world, not to any country! ”

"So, what do you share with each other?"

"Defending the country and protecting the frontier, fighting, killing and killing is the business of soldiers!"

"We do our duty, we can operate honestly, we really want to keep our weapons, but people don't feel at ease, and we don't feel that you are a pure businessman."

Huang Kang said: "It is this truth, we have to believe in the Governor's Palace, for this reason, I, Huang, hereby say, who is willing to hand over the weapons, I will add 30% of the price of the weapons to each household on the basis of the original price as compensation, so as not to make everyone suffer too much grievance." ”

"Master Huang is kind-hearted, let's listen to Master Huang."

"That's right, I believe Master Huang is always right."

Many Chinese who were baptized or who had a background of local comprador Hao You in the Ming Dynasty followed suit.

As a result, many merchants surrendered their weapons, and some unwilling Chinese were also forced to surrender their weapons.

(End of chapter)