"Chen Fufu, the commander of the Chenhai Road, knocked to see the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live"

Although Chen Yonghua was bent on opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring his sight, he still knelt down honestly for Kang Mazi at this time, and the mountain shouted long live.

Kangxi looked at the chief soldier of the "Navy Suppression", and lightly tapped a somewhat special "bullet badge" he had just received with his fingers, and then smiled, and said warmly: "Chen Fufu, I heard that you were originally a maritime merchant?" ”

Chen Yonghua raised his head, looked at Kangxi with a solemn face, and replied with sincere fear on his face: "The minister does not dare to deceive the emperor, the minister is a smuggling maritime merchant." The minister is a native of Putian, Fujian, where there are many people and little land, and there are mountains everywhere, so he can't support many people at all. Fortunately, there is no endless road, this Putian is on the seaside, and there are many good harbors, and people there have always had the tradition of going to the sea to make a living. ”

Kangxi smiled: "You honestly see that you are polite, you should have read the book, right?" ”

"The emperor's holy name, the minister has indeed read some books, but the minister's qualifications are blunt, and he is honest, he can't even read the dead book, so he can't get any fame, so he has no choice but to follow the adults in the family to go to the sea to do business."

"Honest?" Kangxi looked at Chen Yonghua, who had a "simple" smile on his face, and asked with a smile, "I heard that people say that there is no business and no treachery, how did you make so much money as an honest man?" ”

Chen Yonghua explained: "The emperor doesn't know anything, although the ministers are not shrewd enough, but the natives on the Nanyang side are more honest, otherwise they would not have been conquered by hundreds or thousands of Xiyi and become slaves of the country. After Xiyi destroyed the indigenous countries of Nanyang, he did not trust the people of those fallen countries and was unwilling to share the world with them. At the same time, Nanyang is too far away from Xiyi mainland for Westerners to move to Nanyang in a big way, and most of the Nanyang island countries are miasma-prone lands, and the climate is particularly humid and hot, which Westerners are not used to.

Therefore, they asked the Chinese in Fujian and Guangdong to be charter and tax collectors. Develop and operate for them and help them collect tax rent. There are many Han people who went out from Putian and have made a fortune in Nanyang and gained a firm foothold. The minister's family is a large family in Putian, and there are many powerful people, and many clansmen are in Nanyang to serve Westerners as charter and tax people. With them taking care of them, the business of the minister's family is naturally easy to do. ”

"I understand," Kangxi nodded, "Isn't this the same as my Manchurian use of coats to govern the Han people?" Your home turned out to be a foreign coat! ”

"Your Majesty."

Kangxi asked again: "Then you are so good at dressing, why did you go to mix with Geng Jingzhong again?" ”

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "The emperor doesn't know that Nanyang not only needs the Han people from Fujian and Guangdong coastal areas to be the coaters, but also hires coolies from Guangdong and Fujian at a high price, and also needs the big farmers in Guangdong and Fujian to contract the estate, and also needs to buy cloth, porcelain, tea, ironware, and other miscellaneous goods from Guangdong and Fujian.

Because in recent years, the imperial court has carried out coastal relocation, and coastal residents have no way to go to Nanyang, and there is a special shortage of people in Nanyang. Cloth, porcelain, tea, ironware, etc. are all expensive, and you can make a lot of money by shipping anything you want! ”

Kangxi seemed to be very interested in the affairs of Nanyang today, and asked with great interest: "According to what you say, the silver over there in Nanyang has been earned by Fujianese and Cantonese people, how can Xiyi make it?" ”

"Your Majesty, this Xiyi occupies the South Seas not to get silver, but to obtain spices." Chen Yonghua explained, "Silver is a treasure to us, but Xiyi is not too rare, because they have long occupied the land of the New World rich in silver.

Since they can drive the natives of the New World to dig gold and silver for them, gold is more precious, and silver is not very rare because there are more of them, so since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, a large amount of silver has flowed into China to exchange for our silk, porcelain, sugar and other items. ”

"So let's say that the coastal people of Guangdong and Fujian will not be able to make a profit and lose money when they go to Nanyang?"

"It's not really," Chen Yonghua shook his head and sighed, "Going to Nanyang is actually exchanging his life for silver!" First, the wind and waves are high and the waves are high on the way to and fro, and if you are not careful, you will have to be buried in the sea, and there is no place to die; Second, all the islands in the South China Sea are plagued by miasma, and countless people have died of illness in foreign lands! The third is that Xiyi is the heart of a tiger and a wolf, and the Han people who go to the South Seas to make money are no different from lambs in their eyes. Fattening is also to be slaughtered! If you can't cunning the rabbit three nests or leave in time when you earn the money, when Xiyi feels that the time is ripe, I'm afraid it will be a round of bloodbath!

+ The Han Chinese who made money on the Luzon side were bloodied by the Westerners more than once."

Kangxi nodded, thoughtful, and asked after a while: "Then how much do you know about Xiyi's conquest of the New World?" ”

Chen Yonghua said: "The ministers almost know it! ”

"You know?" Kangxi said, "Then let's hear it!" ”

Chen Yonghua didn't seem to expect Kangxi to be so interested in foreign affairs, so he was stunned and said, "This is a long story."

"Then speak slowly!" Kangxi smiled, "I have time, I can listen slowly!" I think I am proficient in the knowledge of the East and the West, and I know some things about Xiyi's discovery of the New World, but I don't know the details. ”

"Then the minister will say it!" Chen Yonghua cleared his throat, and then said in the tone of a storyteller in Dashilar: "When it comes to the beginning of Xiyi's conquest of the New World, we should start from the 1492nd year of the Christmas of the Xiyi era. In this year, a sea thief named Columbus found Isabella and Ferdinand, the two kings of Spain, and proposed to sail westward and take the Atlantic Ocean to find a shortcut to China and India."

"I really didn't expect them to be so bad than me. Worse than that, that Great Mongolia! ”

In the south study, a "storytelling" that helped Emperor Kangxi open his eyes to see the world was finally finished. Chen Yonghua didn't know how long he had been talking, not only was his mouth dry, but his knees hurt a little - he was kneeling!

And Emperor Kangxi listened to it "wide open his ears", and almost blurted out the truth - he really didn't expect that Xiyi like Nan Huairen would speak better than sing "God loves the world", but he didn't expect to do bad things worse than his old lady Nurhachi, grandfather Huang Taiji, uncle Dolgon, and Duoduo!

And these people are not only bad, but also very shameless, very hypocritical, and their methods are more ruthless and superb than those of the Qing Dynasty!

The ancestors and ancestors of the Qing Dynasty had to make up some seven hates and eight hates when they did bad things, and when they entered the Central Plains, they had to pretend to be a "revenge for Ming", and until now they still have to make up a literary prison is not afraid that the bad things they have done will be recorded by Han scholars and passed on to future generations?

When these Xiyi slaughtered other people's countries, they directly pretended to be "divine will" and claimed that the natives of the New World did not believe in God, and they would destroy their countries and tribes.

And these advanced methods of slaughtering the country and exterminating the clan in Xiyi also shocked Kangxi, they already had guns and swords, and the opponent only had wooden sticks and stone knives, which was a one-sided slaughter.

But they were too slow to use smallpox!

Fortunately, the Han people are not as vicious as them, otherwise Chongzhen sent people to use smallpox as a weapon and sell the silk silk stained with acne venom to Liaodong and the grassland.

And what made Kang Mazi's spine even more chilling was that the Roman Church King actually issued a decree to endorse them, packaging their evil deeds of exterminating the country and slaughtering the people as a good act of "spreading the gospel"!

What is even more exaggerated is that the Church of Rome also declared that "if you do not believe in God, you cannot be considered a human being".

What does that mean? Emperor Kangxi said in his heart: I don't believe in God either, can't I be considered a human being?

In addition, this group of Xiyi pulled factions to fight factions in Nanyang, gradually wiped out all countries and states, and also used the Han people in Nanyang as fat sheep to raise them, which is indeed clever enough!

Compared with them, the Qing Dynasty seems to be a little more tender!

Nan Huairen, a Jesuit missionary and supervisor of the Great Qing Dynasty, has been a little restless lately. When I pray to God today, I feel a little frightened, and I always feel that something big is about to happen!

And there is a reason for his restlessness, of course!

The reason is that the news from the two Guangxi sides has been very confusing recently, and for a while, the Guangxi generals, the Guangxi commanders, the Guangxi left-wing general soldiers, and the Guangdong Gao Lei Lian generals colluded to rebel, and I don't know when their rebellion will reach Xiangshan County in Guangdong? If they hit Xiangshan, what will happen to Hao Ao?

After a while, Wu Sangui's brother Wu Sanwei and Ao Bai landed on Xiangdao with tens of thousands of soldiers, and Wu Sanwei also called himself the Minister of Commerce of the South Seas, and at first glance it sounded like he wanted to liaise with the countries of the South and West to win international support!

As for Nan Huairen's understanding of the spirit of the contract between the Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Portugal, as long as Wu Sangui was willing to give the Kingdom of Portugal a monopoly of free trade and the Catholic Church freedom of missionary and transformation, then they would definitely sell it to Wu

I wonder if the little emperor, who does not believe in God, has no soul, and is destined to go to hell, will be angry with the servants of the Lord in Beijing after the Governor of Hao Ao and the Acting Bishop betrayed the Qing Dynasty to Wu?

So after learning that the emperor had summoned him, he came to the south study with apprehension.

"Chennan Huairen respectfully invites Saint Ann."

Although Nan Huairen felt uneasy, he still asked Emperor Kangxi for peace as before.

"Holy bow," Kangxi said, pointing to a book and a scroll on the table, and said to Xiao Guizi who was waiting on the side, "Xiao Guizi, the "Portuguese Wu Secret Treaty" monk Kexi, Wang Fuchen, their bullet chapter for Nan Huairen to see!" ”

"Huh!"

Xiao Guizi answered, then stepped forward and picked up the tray with the secret covenant and the bullet seal, walked to the kneeling Nan Huairen, and then placed the tray on the ground, "Master Nan, please take a look." ”

"It's." Nan Huairen already knows that it's not good - the "Portugal" of "Portugal-Wu Secret Treaty" is probably Portugal, and "Wu" is probably Wu Sangui!

Although he knew that it was going to be bad, Nan Huairen still forced his composure, picked up the "Portuguese and Wu Secret Covenant", and unfolded it to read.

The "Secret Covenant" is written in Chinese and Latin, and the Latin text in it looks like Luo Wenzao's handwriting. There are also the signatures of Shi Bozhi, Luo Wenzao, and Wu Sanwei at the bottom.

And the content of the "secret covenant" was completely unexpected!

It's just that such an important "secret treaty" fell into the hands of the Qing court?

What a carelessness!

Thinking of this, Nan Huairen shook his head innocently, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you listen to the courtier's explanation that this Portuguese soldier in Haoao is just a petty official and cannot represent the king of Portugal, and Father Luo Wenzao is not the bishop of Haoao appointed by the Pope, so this secret agreement is useless!" ”

Kangxi waved his hand: "Master Nan, don't be busy arguing first, there is also a 'bullet stamp', it's not too late for you to talk about it after you read it." ”

"Bullet stamps? Is it the impeachment of the minister? ”

"Not all," Kangxi said, "mainly for the impeachment of the Roman kings and the kings of Portugal!" ”

"What?" Nan Huairen was stunned, "Your Majesty, what did you say?" ”

Kangxi said: "I said that this impeachment is mainly for the impeachment of the Roman king and the king of Portugal!" ”

"But, but they are not the emperor's courtiers, how can this be impeached?"

Kangxi waved his hand again, "Look first, and then you can talk after reading it!" ”

"Huh."

Nan Huairen had no choice but to pick up the bullet that Zhou Chang drafted according to Wang Zhongxiao's intentions, and read it word by word. After reading a few words, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Because this bullet seized the "Pope's meridian" and "Portugal's right to protect the religion in China" and launched a criticism!

According to the "Papal Meridian", all the territories now owned by the Qing Dynasty belonged to the Kingdom of Portugal. This is simply ridiculous! And what makes Nan Huairen's head bigger than the absurdity is that this bullet also states that the "Pope's Meridian" has been executed along the coast of the New World and the African continent, as well as in the Malacca region!

Spain and Portugal launched their respective conquests on the basis of the Pope's meridian, and although the Spanish conquests were more successful than those of Portugal, Portugal also did many evil deeds that could be regarded as unspeakable in the eyes of the savage and ignorant Chinese.

And it is even more difficult to explain the papal meridian in Portugal, and the papal meridian can also use "ignorance" to exonerate the pope - of course, this can only be said in front of the Kangxi Emperor, if it is taken to Rome, then Nan Huairen will have to go to the Inquisition to defend himself.

But what does "China's right to protect religion" say? On what basis was the Catholic protectorate granted to the Kingdom of Portugal in China?

It is no exaggeration to say that all Catholics in the Qing Dynasty must obey the management of the Catholic Chinese diocese under the "protection" of the Kingdom of Portugal to a certain extent, that is, to obey the management of Portugal!

This is simply an affront to the supreme imperial power of the Qing Emperor!

If it weren't for the Secret Treaty of Portugal and Wu, Nan Huairen would have been able to excuse the Pope and the King of Portugal, after all, the Pope's meridian and the granting of the right of Chinese protection to Portugal had happened a long time ago. At that time, it was not yet clear!

But now there is the "Portuguese-Wu Secret Treaty", which shows that the Kingdom of Portugal and the Catholic Church are still trying to realize the power granted to Portugal by the "Papal Meridian" and the "Chinese Protectorate".

"Master Nan, you don't have to explain, do you?" Emperor Kangxi looked at Nan Huairen, who was speechless, and spoke again, his tone cold.

"Your Majesty." Nan Huairen knew that he had to say something, otherwise all the efforts of the Catholic Church to enter China for so many years would come to naught!

"Your Majesty," Nan Huairen said through gritted teeth, "please give the Governor of Hao Ao and the church another chance. Otherwise, they will really collude with Wu Sangui to endanger the Qing Dynasty! ”

He is threatening Kangxi!

Kangxi said coldly: "Opportunity? Did I say I wouldn't give it a chance? ”

"Your Majesty." Nan Huairen looked up at Kangxi.

Kangxi said: "Hao Ao can no longer be handed over to them, I must take it back. All the Portuguese can come to Beijing to be foreign slaves! I let them be the coaters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but others can't be if they want to! Don't be embarrassed! Otherwise, I'm welcome! ”

Nan Huairen refused to back down at all, "Your Majesty, Haoao Castle is quite strong, and the Portuguese soldiers defending the city are not idle. Besides, there are still Wu Sanwei, Aobai, and Zu Zeqing in Guangdong now, if you can't attack Haoao for a long time, I'm afraid that the overall situation will be erosive and out of control! ”

As a veteran Western missionary, Nan Huairen knew all too well the role of force in missionary activities!

If Haoao can withstand the siege of the Qing army in Guangdong, then everything is good to say that now the Qing Dynasty is facing an unprecedented chaos, and the situation in Guangdong is also extremely critical, and it is impossible for Kangxi to waste too much time in the Haoao fortress.

Therefore, as long as the fortress can be held, there will be a good peace condition in the end, not only the interests of the Catholic Church can be guaranteed, but the interests of the Viceroyalty of Hao Ao and the Kingdom of Portugal can most likely be maintained and even expanded!

Kangxi smiled coldly: "A small Haoao fortress, do you still want to resist the Qing Heavenly Soldiers?" Master Nan, do you think that my Daqing is as easy to bully as that Aztec and Inca? I don't believe in your God! ”

"Your Majesty. Don't dare! Nan Huairen hurriedly bowed to the ground, "The minister just implored the emperor to think twice!" The Kingdom of Portugal has long since ceased to be as prosperous as it once was, and it is unlikely that it will pose any threat to the Qing Dynasty. This so-called secret covenant was mostly the personal act of the governor of Shipboges and Father Rowenzao, and did not represent the king of Portugal. The minister may send a message to the King of Portugal and the Roman Catholic Church on your behalf, and transfer them out."

Kangxi snorted: "Nan Huairen, you don't have to say much. It seems that if you don't fight, you foreigners don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick! ”

Nan Huairen's heart was about to cool, because he knew that this time it was inevitable to fight! If Hao Ao can hold on, it's okay, but if it can't hold on, then everything is over.

The Catholic Church in China. No, it's possible that the whole of East Asia will collapse!

Kangxi paused, and said: "But don't be afraid, I won't let you go to the heaven of your god so soon, and I still have to keep Xiao Guizi for your life!" ”

"The minions are here!"

"Send Nan Huairen to Shangfang Yuan (the predecessor of the Shen Criminal Division) to live for a few days!"

"Huh!"

(End of chapter)