Chapter 136: The Common Dilemma of the Ming and Spain
Zhang Siwei actually wanted to dedicate a book, but he couldn't see the emperor, he was just a courtier, not a courtier, and when he didn't announce the meeting, he couldn't go to the Wenhua Hall to ask for a meeting, and he had to go through the process if he wanted to see the emperor.
When he took the "Treasure of Arithmetic" to find Ge Shouli, Ge Shouli had this fifty-five volume arithmetic masterpiece in his hand; When he took the treasure to find Wan Shihe, Wan Shihe wanted to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and took the "Taixi Arithmetic" produced by the Ministry of Rites to invite merit; When Zhang Siwei wanted to find Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng's Quanchu Hall was being decorated.
Therefore, this great credit has nothing to do with Zhang Siwei.
The little emperor felt that Zhang Siwei was not respectful.
Chen Lan took seven hydrofoil sailing boats to Luzon, he spent three hours, from Songjiang Prefecture City Bosi to Ningbo Shuangyu, that is, Zhu Kun, Lu Bo broke through the Japanese Kou, Zhu Kun was forced to commit suicide of the folk private school, and then from this private experience, it took 20 hours, rushed to the Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, Zhangzhou Yuegang City Bosi, where Chen Lan in the capital hall and Haiphong Tongzhi Luo Gongchen communicated and exchanged.
Not all hydrofoil sailing ships are suitable for long-distance sailing, there are two hydrofoil sailing ships because they are really not suitable for sailing in the waves, to go to Guangzhou for coastal aerial surveys, and Chen Lan set off from Yuegang to the Penghu Inspection Division, three hours later, Chen Lan arrived at the Penghu Inspection Division.
In the 42nd year of Jiajing, in order to prevent the Japanese from re-establishing the Penghu Inspection Division, a total of 1,153 laborers went to the village, and in the 45th year of Jiajing, the Penghu Inspection Division was abolished again.
In May of the third year of Wanli, Pang Shangpeng, the governor of Fujian, said: However, Penghu went to Quanzhou for only one day, and it stretched for a long time, and it was afraid that it would be a bad thing. It is proposed to use the south road to guerrilla, and go to guard during the flood season to prepare for the sea bandits.
Yu Dayou's request to set up ten inspection divisions to inspect the Daming coast was not untargeted, but carefully planned according to the actions of the governors of Yingtian, Songjiang, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Liangguang, and Yu Dayou's many years of peaceful warfare.
Although the camp of the Penghu Inspection Division is dilapidated, it is still usable.
On June 17 of the third year of Wanli, Chen Lan set off from the Penghu Inspection Division again, and rushed to Xinglong Wharf in Wannian Prefecture (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) in two and a half hours.
After Chen Lan replenished the fresh water, he went all the way south, and it took 18 hours to rush to the Miyan Port in Miyan County, which was the place where Yin Zhengmao, Deng Zilong, Liang Shouyu, and Lin Afeng first arrived in Luzon from Guangzhou to attack.
After a little rest, Chen Lan went south again and headed towards Manila, this time in ten hours, rushed to Manila, and disembarked at the port of Manila.
This round of bumps, made Chen Lan's lips white, like a water ghost who crawled out of the water, he traveled for too long, from Songjiang to Tianjin, and from Tianjin back to Songjiang, and then from Songjiang Mansion south to Manila, such a violent rush, so that Chen Lan went ashore, only to feel dizzy, as if the earth was jolting.
Chen Lan rested for two days and recovered his complexion, only to see Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Luzon, Zhang Yuanxun, the general of Luzon, Liang Shouyu, the deputy chief soldier of Luzon, Deng Zilong, the general of staff, and Lin Afeng, the garrison, and also saw a three-masted plywood giant ship that had begun to go to sea, with 24 pairs (48) of oars and 144 oarsmen.
It is indeed not easy to use, Yin Zhengmao found that he overestimated it, it is okay to bully and bully the natives, but it is impossible to bully the current Ming Dynasty.
"I've seen Governor Yin." Chen Luan saluted with a military salute, Yin Zhengmao had an overview of the military, political, financial, and literary powers of Luzon, and it was not too much to call the king of Luzon, but Yin Zhengmao was not very interested in being a king, even if he did not pay attention to the moral level, Luzon has currently lost the support of the Ming court, and there will be no difference between him and the relict king of Luzon, and Luzon will still be the viceroyalty of Spain at that time.
After Chen Lan saw the ceremony, he cleared his throat and said: "There is a holy decree, Yin Zhengmao, Zhang Yuanxun and others will receive the decree." ”
"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says:"
"The ministry is in the extreme south, and the accumulation is flat, and Li Shu is blocked, which is also an immortal achievement. Recently, however, the people's hearts have not been ancient, and they are prone to dissent, and they hold their mediocre views with their jealousy and jealousy, and they only want to favor their own selfishness, regardless of the country. That is, just like the victory of Luzon last year, the court was frightened, thinking that it was unacceptable, fearing that it would hurt the hearts of people far away, and commerce and trade were not connected.
"I know the hard work of the ministry and the others."
"To govern a chaotic country, use heavy codes. Guanggu is also a chaotic country, and its momentum is not to use military power to shock it, the traitor is not afraid, and the good people have no support. ”
"Record the merits of Kou Ping, the right governor of the military and military governor's mansion after Zite entered the ministry, the governor of Luzon, on the merits of Pinghai Kou in Luzon, Feng Sishui Bo, Sui Lu 800 stones, Zite into Zhang Yuanxun Longhu General, Luzon General Army, on Luzon Pinghai Kougong, Feng Ying Yangbo, Sui Lu 800 stones, Liang Shouyu, Deng Zilong and other officers are each added to the third level."
"Wisps of loyalty, only the sky can learn from it!"
"Tired of becoming a constitution, Bude is benevolent, edicting the world, and the salty envoy knows about it."
"Chin this."
"The ministers thank the emperor." Yin Zhengmao and the others were stunned for a long time after listening to the holy decree before thanking him, and the emperor conferred two counts, both of which were liujue, one Yin Zhengmao, one Zhang Yuanxun, and the others were all added officials.
Zhang Yuanxun took the seal ribbon and other things, and was silent for a long time before he asked in a daze: "Ministry, aren't you really a relative of the emperor who lives among the people?" ”
"Probably not." Yin Zhengmao also looked at the holy decree, he couldn't believe it, he himself was not sure whether he was a relative of the emperor or not.
Deng Zilong was also stunned and asked, "Isn't it?" ”
"Not really." Yin Zhengmao repeatedly recalled the memory of his childhood, when he was not good at reading, and his father picked up a door bar with a thick arm and almost crippled him, convinced that he was indeed his own, not a relative of the emperor who was in exile.
For the Ming martial arts, it would be good to get a word of praise from the imperial court, if you can get a few rewards, then thank God, where do you dare to ask for such a thing, although Yin Zhengmao is a Wenjinshi, what he does all day has nothing to do with civil officials.
The officials in Luzon would rather believe that Yin Zhengmao is a relative of the emperor, rather than believe that the imperial court actually began to be knighted.
"Your Majesty, Yuanfu has two letters." Chen Lan took out two more letters and handed them to Yin Zhengmao.
Above the court, there is still a group of lowly Confucians chattering endlessly, talking nonsense, jealous of Yin Zhengmao's exploits, using their own jealousy, using those mediocre opinions, just wanting to satisfy their own selfish interests, and not caring whether the country needs it or not.
Zhu Yijun's reply to this is very unified: if you don't accept it, you will hold it, and if you have the ability, you will go to Luzon to destroy Yin Zhengmao and others.
Chen Lan and Yin Zhengmao entered into in-depth exchanges on issues such as the Luzon Metropolitan Salary Hall, the Municipal Shipping Department, the Inspection Department, the Port Berth, and the construction of ships, and conveyed Yu Shuai's thoughts on Daming coastal defense.
Yin Zhengmao said with certainty: "During the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty set up a governor in Luzon, established Daming Street in Luzon, and the governor Luzon for more than 20 years. ”
"Until the last years of Jiajing, the southeast Japanese were turbulent, Luzon lost the country because of cowhides, and the imperial court heard the news and issued an order for Hongmaofan to withdraw from Luzon and return the government to the king of Luzon."
"The red-haired fan has no way, wantonly slaughtering and humiliating the Han people and Fanyi, the people of Luzon are deeply affected by it, and the suffering is unspeakable.
"The relict king of Luzon was killed, and there was no heir to inherit him, so he used the governor to educate the people of Luzon."
This is the jurisprudence of the Ming Dynasty to Luzon.
Hongmaofan said that they are also brutal rulers and colonists, Daming is the king of the homeland, if it were not for the Luzon queen and descendants were killed by Hongmaofan, the court is also willing to continue to canonize the queen's descendants, isn't this no descendants?
This is the face of the reader, black can be said to be white, obviously everyone is fighting for the key position of Luzon, this mouth touches up and down, and it becomes the crime of Wang Shi hanging the people.
The lineage of the king of Luzon has also changed several times, from the very beginning of the Han governor, to the later cannibal, this problem is actually very complicated, but in general, the Sulu Sultanate, which ruled Luzon, the three kings have been paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty, especially the East King of the Sultanate of Stenolog, who was buried in the eastern state of the Ming Dynasty, so the connection between the Ming and Luzon is extremely close.
Now that Luzon has been wiped out by Hongmaofan, the Ming Dynasty has to do something and do nothing, and overseas Fanyi will inevitably despise China and enter the sea frontier.
Chen Lan said with emotion: "The truth is this truth, but the barbarians are afraid of power but not virtue, they are all wolf-faced and beast-hearted, and the captivity is only strong and weak, and the gap is formed, and the revenge is endless!" The ministry is still careful. ”
Yin Zhengmao said with a smile: "If you can't win on the battlefield, they naturally don't want to listen to my reasoning, and if you win on the battlefield, they have to accept it if they don't listen, right?" ”
After hearing this, Chen Luan knew that Yin Zhengmao was not arrogant because of a momentary victory, and despised the thief, so he turned sideways and said: "The silver entered the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Duke of the Imperial Court was concerned about it, and Yuan Fu asked me to go to the Quanchu Hall to ask me, whether the Luzon ships can arrive at the port as scheduled this year, the sea tax is one, one is two, and the imperial court regulates all directions to three. ”
The border side of the Ming Dynasty is now paying military salaries in kind, and the imperial court sends the border party with silver, which is a combination of salt and silver to open the Chinese and French laws, and the imperial court does not have silver, so it will not be able to regulate the circulation of all things in the Ming Dynasty, and the reduction in the number of silver inflows will inevitably lead to an increase in anti-tax sentiment, which is indeed the key to the new deal.
Yin Zhengmao looked to the east and said: "They have already come, they have rushed to Cebu Island now, and their vanguard has arrived near Boracay Island, our department is planning to send an envoy to communicate, to fight and make peace, and listen to it." ”
Chen Luan asked suspiciously, "Who wants to go?" ”
"Deng Zilong and his concubine red-haired Fan Luo Lian." When Yin Zhengmao said these two names, his face was complicated, it was better to cut this red-haired fan named Luo Lian with a knife, and Deng Zilong, a good general, became more unrestrained.
Chen Lan asked with some curiosity: "What makes the ministry so embarrassed?" ”
"Nothing." Yin Zhengmao shook his head.
If you look at it separately from the public and private, from a private point of view, Deng Zilong and Luo Li'an's gang is at most immoral, from the perspective of the public, Luo Li'an is of great benefit to Daming's translation of many books by Taixi, such as arithmetic, Taixi's ship method, etc., especially in supervising the construction of the three-masted plywood giant ship, Luo Lian provided great help.
Therefore, if it is immoral, let the two of them be embarrassed.
Deng Zilong asked Chen Lan about the operation method of the hydrofoil sailboat, which requires weight, a lot of strength, and an extremely bumpy boat, which requires stable downward force, which Deng Zilong is not lacking.
Soon Deng Zilong will be able to operate Chen Lan's car, galloping happily on the sea, Deng Zilong and hydrofoil sailing ships are very compatible, Deng Zilong is full of adventurous spirit.
On June 27, Deng Zilong took Luo Lian to sea and went to Boracay Island to have a good talk with the fleet of galleons.
"Can you put your pants on?" Deng Zilong adjusted the hydrofoil sailboat, the speed was not very fast, the boat floated and fell on the water, and what Luo Lian did was indeed immoral.
There were only two people on the boat, and Lorian didn't even wear pants, and she wore a linen robe that had just covered her cheeks, and a mysterious area loomed, and her wheat-colored skin glowed like tung oil under the sea and the sun.
Luo Lian put her long legs on the boat, kept rubbing her thumbs on Deng Zilong's legs, and said with a smile: "Cunning man, you like me like this, of course, in private, I am a devout believer, an extremely conservative nun, but you have turned me into this, my demon." ”
Deng Zilong looked at the water, checked the wind pill, and then stared at the compass, kicked away Luo Lian'an's troublesome foot, shook his head and said, "After you took a bath, it became completely different from before. ”
Luo Lian glared and said in surprise: "Then what do you like, before or now?" Wow, was it before? Your taste is so unique, do you like the smell of the rich fox smell mixed with the flavor of alcohol? I don't like it, and if you like me before, I can't change back to the way I was. ”
Deng Zilong remembered Luo Lian's previous appearance, shuddered suddenly, and said with disgust: "Can you not mention the past?" It's actually hard for me to understand, the Francophiles can cross the ocean, you are really like you say, you can dominate the whole of Tessie, no opponent, you have defeated the great cannibals and restored the kingdom, defeated the French five times, and the damned English hate you gritting your teeth but there is nothing you can do. ”
"But why do you cling to these things about not bathing?"
Lorien shook her brown-red hair, tilted her head and smiled an inviting smile, "I knew you didn't like it, when you were looking around Manila for information, you looked at me with disgust in your eyes. ”
"Your question is a little complicated, and we need a long time to talk about it, my Mr. Mighty, have you ever considered lowering the sails, and we will have a good talk?"
"Just talking?" Deng Zilong began to put down the sails, he was very curious about this question, and it also involved the result of his mission this time, just like a war, he didn't know anything about the opponent, he didn't know the other, how could he win?
Deng Zilong knows Luo Lian very well, and if he wants Luo Lian to speak, he needs to feed her mouth first, up and down.
"If there is a spring water that will live forever after drinking it, what will you Oriental do?" Full-bodied, Lorian lay lazily and full of style on the deck, straightening her feet, letting the sun shine on her feet, and changing her shadows slightly naughtily.
Deng Zilong thought for a while and said, "Of course drink it." ”
"If it were us, the Spaniards, we would have to destroy it, only God can give eternal life, not this heretical spring to give life to eternity, so destroying it, the fountain of immortality, is the only stupid thing we can do and must do." ”
"Isn't it stupid?"
Deng Zilong seriously tasted Luo Lian's words, and Sister Luo Lian's words were intriguing, but the immortal spring water was regarded as the method of the unchanging ancestors, which was quite similar.
He smiled and said: "It's not stupid, just like our Ming always shouting about the Confucian scholars above the three generations of the law, the soldiers have won the battle, and they need to defile themselves to protect themselves, and we are also facing such a dilemma, or more popularly, shackles, shackles layer after layer." ”
"The indestructible shackles bind all the people in the world and move forward with difficulty."
Zhu Yijun prefers to call this kind of thing an ideological steel seal, or ideological imprisonment and bondage, of course, Deng Zilong's description of it as a shackle is also very appropriate.
"Confucianism, are your Confucian scholars a member of the teaching staff?" Luo Li'an frowned slightly, trying to understand the various phenomena of the Ming Dynasty with her cognition, the great empire of the Ming Dynasty also has its dark side, and its dark side has obscured the light of most of the empire.
The Yuanfu and the emperor in their mouths are doing everything they can to bring the light back to the land of the Ming Dynasty.
Deng Zilong thought about it and said quite approvingly: "It can be understood in this way. ”
"Are your Confucian students the same tax evasion as the clergy?" Lorien asked with a wink and a smile.
Deng Zilong said quite earnestly: "Steal." ”
"It's the same damn as a teacher." Luo Lian then asked, "Are your Confucian scholars also well-behaved, compassionate in front of people, and beasts behind people?" On the surface, he seems to be the embodiment of morality, but in private, will he do any evil thing? ”
"Yes." Deng Zilong thought for a while and nodded and said: "In the newspaper sent by General Chen Bing, there is a record of one thing, the Lu family in Shaanzhou, Henan Province, took advantage of the locust plague to occupy the acres of land, and the people suffered. ”
"There was an old man who went to Hanzhong to sell goods with a donkey cart, and the donkey of the donkey cart pulled dung to the courtyard wall of the Lu family's house, and the Lu family refused to tolerate it, and the old man could only eat the donkey dung in the end."
"And then?" Luo Lian asked after a moment of silence.
When Deng Zilong heard this, he said with a smile on his face: "Being thrown into the Relief Courtyard by His Majesty, Your Majesty wants to know if the head of the Lu family and those servants are wolf-hearted and can do such things." ”
Luo Lian sighed and said, "Look, you Ming can still imagine that the emperor will solve these dirty things, but we Spaniards can't. ”
"What a great feat for our king, Philip II Felipe II, who built an invincible fleet and established the world's first empire on which the sun never sets, and whose sun shines forever on our land of Spain, but his wife, who could have lived as long as she was cleaned, died in agony."
"We can't do without religion any more than a fish can do without water, even if we know it's something we should abandon because we can't."
Deng Zilong looked at Luo Lian and said helplessly: "You are proud of your country, this is normal, I also think that my great tomorrow is invincible, and our Ming Dynasty has indeed been invincible in the world, but when you are proud, can you not puff up your chest?" ”
Luo Lian shook her face with a smile on her face and said, "Don't you like them the most?" ”
"Can you Ming leave Confucianism? Or rather, the religion created by Confucianism disguised as a school. ”
"It's difficult, I can't do it, I have to come with His Majesty and Yuan Fu, it should be possible, in fact, at the beginning of the country, we didn't have this kind of trouble in the Ming Dynasty, and the Confucian scholars couldn't do it." Deng Zilong shook his head and said.
Lorianne looked at the blue sky, watched the seabirds fly in the sky, watched the sea fish jump out of the water and make a crystal clear splash, that was what she wanted, called freedom.
She sighed and said, "So you want to break free from the shackles, and there is hope to break free from the shackles, and our king wants to break free from the shackles that bind him and the kingdom, just as I want to take a bath, and I look forward to it with all my might. ”
"I'm such a beautiful woman, lice crawl around my head all day, it's so disgusting, I'm sorry, I won't say it."
Deng Zilong thought for a while and asked, "You can take a bath now, and you are indeed extremely beautiful, is it difficult to break free from the shackles?" ”
Luo Lian nodded and said: "Of course it is difficult, I am also a prisoner to be free to bathe, my master asks me to take a bath, I must take a bath." ”
"It looks like I was fooled, you were deliberately taken prisoner." Deng Zilong said with a smile.
Luo Lian continued: "If you want to get rid of the same difficulties as the Confucian students, the clergy or religion has penetrated into the blood and bones of the empire, and if you want to kill them, the empire will die, and one day, the great empire on which the sun never sets, will be shrouded in darkness and return to its original position. ”
"More than a thousand years ago, you called the Great Cannibals, and we called the Berbers, and they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, stepped into the territory of Ctessi, and occupied the Andalusian region, which is fed by the Guadalquivir River, which is the most fertile land in Spain."
"The revolt continued until the alliance of Castile and Aragon formed an alliance, and more than a hundred years ago, we drove out the Greens, and eighty-three years ago, when we broke through Granada, the last stronghold of the Greens, to complete the restoration and the end of the conquest."
"Castile is a vast barren plateau where only sheep can be grazing."
"To the north-east is the Catalonia plain washed by the Ebro River, and this is the land of marriage."
"Andalusia is still a self-governing state, Castile is a barren plateau, and Catalonia is the richest of the self-governing states."
"Do you hear what's wrong?"
Deng Zilong thought seriously for a moment and said: "Scattered, just like the canvas of this sailboat, it needs a mast to connect it together. ”
Luo Lian said helplessly: "You see, you are a stranger, and when you hear my narration, you can hear the key questions. ”
"Yes, it is scattered, so we cannot get rid of the shackles of religion, because it is the shackles at the same time, but also the bond that unites us, without religion, we are a plate of loose sand, so we don't take a bath, because the doctrine does not allow it."
"In fact, we've been trying to replace the bond that connects all our scattered territories, and silver is the bond we've found, but gold and silver don't come without a price, silver briefly binds us together, and then silver becomes a nightmare."
"We have a total of five million people in Spain, but we have more than 200,000 clergy, they have a lot of wealth, they refuse to pay taxes by their teachings, but the influx of silver has turned the price of goods into a man-eating demon with the increase of silver, and the king needs to maintain a huge war expenses, and the Armada can run rampant in the Mediterranean, which has exhausted all the king's savings."
"A vicious circle begins, the king needs to ask the clergy for money, he needs to compromise, these clergy know their role, they don't pay taxes, they need more compromises in exchange for taxes."
"You may not understand that the vast territory and huge population of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how much gold and silver pour in, you Ming can swallow it greedily, and no matter how much it eats, it is still so hungry."
Deng Zilong said with a smile: "I can understand, this is not difficult. ”
The problems encountered by the Franc machine and the Ming Dynasty are almost the same, that is, the country's financial losses are great, the court is poor and begging for food, and the powerful are so rich that they are rich, but the violence of the Ming Dynasty is still in the hands of the imperial court, but the violence of the Franc machine has been in the hands of religion.
To put it more simply, Felipe II of Francois wanted to rebel.
When Luo Lian said this, she said in a very depressed mood: "The Greek Academy in Florence, every day someone tells about the civilization and culture of Rome, thus giving birth to the most popular activity of Tessie is the big trip, or called the study tour, the big travel activities come from all over Tessie, North Italy, France, Germany, England, and even Tsar Rus, the nobles, elites, and scholars in these places walk around each other, visit students, travel, communicate, exchange, discuss mathematics, art. ”
"We are the only ones who have the Kingdom of Spain."
Lorianne is a very learned daughter, and her aristocratic education since childhood made her full of desire to travel, she would like to travel somewhere else, but the great travel that spread throughout Tessie did not include Spain, so she could only go to sea by boat, looking for a place to study, and along the way, all she saw was the children of nature who did not even wear clothes.
"And then captured by the mighty generals of the East, both mentally and physically." Luo Lian said with a smile.
Luo Lian became Deng Zilong's captive, but she gained the freedom she longed for, it stands to reason that the captive is a forced personal attachment relationship, Luo Lian lost the greatest freedom, but in fact, Deng Zilong treats her more as a concubine, when it is good, it is like glue, and when it is bad, it can be broken up in two shots.
So, Lorianne was freed through her status as a captive.
"Here we are." Deng Zilong looked at Boracay Island not far away and said with a smile.
Chen Luan's question has a clear answer, it is impossible for the Francophile to give up the sea trade, so the big ship will inevitably arrive at the port as scheduled.
The famous words of Philip II (Felipe II) of the Kingdom of Spain: I would rather abdicate than rule a pagan, and the problems of the Ming and Spain are so similar. Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!!!!
(End of chapter)