Chapter 210: Colonizing Manchuria and the Minister of War’s voyage to the West
Like Andela, Alfonso was also unfamiliar when he saw the Ming Dynasty sailing warships. He had seen the Ming Dynasty's Cantonese merchant ships, but he did not expect that the Ming warships would have such a big difference from the Cantonese ships. But in any case, Alfonso Suo decided to send his own Franji warship to attack the Ming warship.
The Franco machine warship is also called the centipede ship. The biggest feature of the ship is that there are multiple rows of rowing sailors on both sides of the ship. It looks like a centipede. The ship is not only light and fast, but also equipped with a Franco machine gun, which can quickly attack enemy ships. Break out and escape.
Alfonso sent ten Franco warships. He had fifteen warships in total. He believed that with the strength of his ten warships, he could defeat the Ming's five sail warships.
The Ming Dynasty's sailing warships have been improved from the hull to the sails. Both the ship speed and the artillery firing rate, range and accuracy are far superior to the warships and cannons of the Folangji.
When Alfonso's ten Franco warships arrived, Ming's five sail warships had already formed a battle line and opened fire.
boom!
The violent shells quickly flew across the blue sea and directly hit the bow, sail or plank of the Franco warship.
Some of the French warships started spinning on the spot.
Some of the French warships were beaten so that sawdust flew across the bows and shook violently.
However, several of these Fo Lang warships still rushed towards the Ming warships under the command of Alfonso, while the Ming warships, led by Wang Hong, turned ahead of time and directly attacked the Fo Lang warships under Alfonso's command. The sides of the Langji warships were fired, and dozens of artillery fire fired simultaneously. The shells directly exploded these Francoji warships and Francojis into pieces.
Within half an hour, all ten warships under Alfonso's command had been bombed, and his own flagship also fled back in a hurry.
Alfonso looked at Ming's warships with lingering fear. He did not expect that Ming's warships would be so powerful. Looking at his nine damaged warships, he no longer had any intention of resisting, so he had to take the remaining six with him in a hurry. A warship escaped.
However, at this time, the other warships of the Ming Dynasty also surrounded them. The entire sea area near the port was full of the battle flags of the Ming Dynasty, and the large ship-borne cannon with its black metallic color poked out of the ship window, waiting for a ship The French warship left the port.
Suddenly, countless giant cannons sprayed tongues of fire, capsizing the cannonballs towards the Folangji warship.
"Ah!"
In an instant, the screams of countless Fo Lang robots were heard as they were bombarded.
Countless white giant waves stirred up and down the sea, and the Franconian warship that was beaten into pieces of wood also turned into pieces of broken wood.
As the Prime Minister of Manchuria, Fu Gui, the Minister of Rites, had no idea about military affairs, but he could see that the Ming Dynasty's artillery was far superior to that of the Folangji, and the five sailing warships that served as the vanguard were far greater than When the Folangji warships saw the Ming Dynasty's artillery all over the sea bombarding the Folangji warships, they also knew that the Ming navy was sure of victory.
"Your Majesty is right. Civilization will surely defeat barbarism. Prince Bintang, please see clearly. This is my Master of the Ming Dynasty! This is the effect of establishing a country based on Confucianism! You take Persia in the Western Region as your law and are willing to lag behind. This is Therefore, if you are invaded by the Xiaoxi barbarians, your country can be destroyed with only fifteen warships. This shows that the national laws are not popular among the people!”
Fu Gui touched his beard under his chin and stood calmly on the Ming Dynasty treasure ship behind which the artillery fire was raging. The powerful Ming Dynasty artillery in front gave him a lot of confidence and confidence, making him, a famous Neo-Confucian official, feel that he was very powerful. Face, even the prince of Jiabintang in Manala directly attributed all this to Confucian Neo-Confucianism.
The Prince of Bintang was obviously still stubbornly unwilling to believe that it was Confucianism that created everything in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he had to ask in a very polite tone:
"My Lord Prime Minister, I have heard that Confucianism does not value the skills of craftsmen. The artillery of the Celestial Empire is so sharp and the warships are so magnificent. It should be the merits of Confucianism. And I have heard that Confucianism has no regard for your current emperor. The reputation is not very good, saying that it only emphasizes miscellaneous studies and not Confucianism. Therefore, shouldn't this be the result of your king's own will rather than Confucian education? "
Fu Gui was a little embarrassed by the question from Prince Bintang, and he snorted: "What you said is just hearsay. Building a country based on Confucianism does not mean abandoning hundreds of schools of thought. Taking Confucianism as the basis is the way to build a country. If the Ming Dynasty does not Confucianism established the country , How can Li Shu be in peace, how can Li Shu be able to manage all kinds of work? No matter what, it is His Majesty’s order to allow you to establish a country with Confucianism and Confucianism. After the Buddha is expelled, you must immediately return to the Imperial Academy to study!”
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Fu Gui relied on the powerful Ming Dynasty behind him to forcefully teach Prince Bintang of Manlajia, and Prince Bintang could only obey. At the same time, he began to have some doubts in his heart. Could it be that building a country based on Confucianism can really make the country so powerful? Or does it mean that there is more to learn from Ming Dynasty?
In any case, Prince Bintang felt that he had to meet the current Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao in the future.
Although Fu Gui forcibly intimidated Prince Bintang because he was an official of the Celestial Kingdom, Prince Bintang's questioning also shocked him a little. He had to start thinking to himself: "Confucianism is good at human ethics." , but in the way of investigating things and hundreds of craftsmen, there has never been A little bit of dabbling, but governing the country is not about scholarship. If we really want to make the Ming Dynasty stable and prosperous for a long time, shouldn't the real way to govern the country be Confucianism? What kind of knowledge should it be? Should it be a legal system that can cover everything about the national economy and people's livelihood? "
Fu Gui fell into deep thought. The continuous artillery fire made him, a famous Neo-Confucian official, find that the teachings of a generation of saints seemed to be less beneficial to the empire than an invention of an ordinary technician. He couldn't help but mutter to himself again: "No, that's not the case. , maybe we haven’t understood the real knowledge yet. The real knowledge should let more people create new things instead of letting more people stick to the old things. So what is the real knowledge!”
Fu Gui fell into a daze.
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"How could it be, how could this happen? What kind of empire are we facing? Their battleships and artillery are actually so powerful. Oh my God, we, Franji, have encountered the most terrifying opponent!"
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Alfonso, the famous naval commander of Franji, chose to surrender and raised the white flag.
The commander of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Hong, also ordered the warships of the Ming Dynasty to stop the bombardment, and captured Alfonso and others on his own warship, and at the same time ordered a landing. After Wang Hong led the Ming navy to land on Batam Island in Manchuria, the Ming Dynasty sent the Prime Minister stationed in Manchuria and the exiled Manchurian aristocrat Prince Bintang to land on Batam Island.
In the ninth year of Zhengde, Manlajia was recovered by the Ming Dynasty from the hands of Fo Langji, but it also marked that Manlajia entered an era of joint rule between the Ming Dynasty and the local nobles of Manlajia. The Ming Dynasty was more like the Supreme Emperor, the Manchurian The actual ruler of Manchuria, while the royal family of Manchuria is more like a puppet.
After the Ming Dynasty restored Manlajia, according to Zhu Houzhao's request, Fu Gui established the Ming Dynasty Prime Minister's Office in the capital of Manlajia and appointed officials at all levels. At the same time, Fu Gui also headed the history of Manlajia, and was ordered to lead officials at all levels. Prince Bintang ascended the throne as king according to Confucian etiquette, and the important ceremony at the time of his accession was to read out the decree of the Ming Emperor conferring Prince Bintang as the head of state of Manchuria and the prime minister as the highest military and political officer of Manchuria.
Fu Gui was determined to help Managa establish the Confucian Neo-Confucian order. He never thought that the decree of Emperor Zhu Houzhao gave him, a Ming official, the power to control the entire Managa. However, it was precisely because of this that he, a famous Neo-Confucian official, was allowed to There is a lot of money in Manlajia In order to show his strength, he directly ordered Manlajia to remove all Persian cultural symbols and demolish all Persian buildings. At the same time, he required Manlajia to implement a prefectural and county system, use Chinese uniformly, and forced the establishment of social schools in each county. , created the imperial examination system.
Because after Bintang, the head of state of Manchuria, graduated from the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty, he was forced by Fu Gui to hold sutra feasts every day. Moreover, at that time, there were many great scholars in Manchuria, and these great scholars were even more rigid and stubborn than Fu Gui. They forced the King of Manlajia to be a virtuous king in line with Confucian etiquette.
Fu Gui originally just wanted to build a country based on Confucianism in Manchuria, but unknowingly, Manchuria also became Chinese. In addition, even the currency of Manchuria was the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, all unified by the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty. The silver dollar produced was the portrait of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, so that Zhu Yuanzhang's popularity in Manchuria many years later surpassed that of the king of the dynasty.
Of course, Fu Gui's series of measures did not arouse much resistance from the Manchurian natives. Firstly, because Fo Langji slaughtered this place first, and secondly because the remaining Manchurian nobles still recognized their identity as rulers in the Ming Dynasty. Under such circumstances, there is no one left to oppose Daming. After all, they also knew that Fo Langji would allow them to lose the opportunity to exploit the natives of Manchuria, not to mention the Ming Dynasty. In order to no longer be a nobleman in exile on various isolated islands, these Manchurian nobles accepted it. The Ming Dynasty's status as the Supreme Emperor in Manchuria.
Just like the Manchu nobles could accept foreigners riding on the heads of the Chinese people.
The Ming Empire began to frantically mine ore in Managa, and even directly smelted heavily polluting products, and later even directly seized the rubber resources here. However, these were all passed through the hands of the local rulers of Manga, so the locals in Manga Some common people who could not bear to be exploited only hated the local rulers of Manchuria.
On the contrary, because the Ming government and capitalists took advantage of these cheap Manchu labor and gave them a small amount of remuneration, these Manchu people were grateful to the Ming Dynasty and even yearned to become citizens of the Ming Dynasty.
In the 10th year of Zhengde's reign, Zhu Houzhao officially issued an edict that the world's military forces were renamed the Army and Navy. Among them, the Guangdong and Guangdong Navy of the Ming Dynasty was reorganized into the South China Sea Fleet, and part of the South China Sea Fleet was stationed in the Manchurian sea city, which is today's Singapore.
Because, under Zhu Houzhao's instruction, Manchuria had officially agreed to lease Haicheng to the Ming Dynasty as a military base. The lease period was ninety-nine years, and the rent was one silver dollar per year.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's navy can now legally station here. Of course, a few years later, some people will say that the Ming Dynasty is colonizing this area. The Ming Dynasty will not admit it, because a few years later, even the native residents of Haicheng will be here. I am grateful to the Ming Dynasty, thinking that it was the Ming Dynasty that gave them human rights, advanced systems and ideas, and allowed them to have prosperity.
In the eleventh year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao issued another edict. Because it was difficult to stop people from migrating and prohibiting it was not conducive to people's livelihood, he abolished the road guide system and allowed people to apply for household registration transfer. At the same time, he encouraged people to cultivate wasteland and go north and go to sea, so that people as far away as North of Monan and south of Qiongzhou, there are more and more people in the Ming Dynasty, and more and more Han people.
The Prime Minister of Manchuria, Fu Gui, also followed Zhu Houzhao's instructions and issued an edict on behalf of King Bintang of Manchuria, granting permanent residence rights to the Han people in the Ming Dynasty and stating that the criminal punishment of the Han people in the Ming Dynasty would be the responsibility of their country of residence. This meant that Therefore, the Han people of the Ming Dynasty have the privilege of breaking the law without being punished in Manchuria, but Manchuria has no extraterritorial jurisdiction over the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Because of this, more and more people from the Ming and Han Dynasties came to live in Manchuria. There were even many Confucian scholars who were dissatisfied with the politics at home and settled here. They regarded this place as a paradise and enjoyed the things that the Manchurian government gave them. The privileges brought by the gentry.
The local nobles and gentry in Manchuria also tried their best to become Han Chinese, and even became people with Ming household registration, in order to obtain more privileges in Manchuria.
It is the civilians of Manlajia who are suffering. However, because the Ming Dynasty blood-sucking factories are sucking blood and feeding them, these civilians have not fallen into a survival crisis due to the loss of land and business opportunities. One or two of these civilians have even gone to heaven. Those who were favored and relied on the Manchurian imperial examination system to counterattack and become nobles would also become Manchurian nobles and then raise their families to become subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and then return to Manchuria to live the lives of privileged people.
Just like during World War II, the Japanese emperor was not punished by the then world hegemon, the United States, for his invasion of China. At this time, the Ming emperor did not execute Alfonso, a prisoner of war in Folangji. Instead, he was castrated and ordered to serve the Ming Dynasty for life.
Pires looked at Manlajia who had been controlled by the Ming Dynasty. He really couldn't be happy, but he knew that he had to be happy now, because he was now an official of this empire, and he would also enjoy the benefits of being an official of this empire. The benefits of colonizing the world.
Pires was very glad that he did not become a slave without human rights under Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang, like Andela, because of his invasion of the Ming Dynasty, and plundered Portuguese merchant ships in the waters between Manchuria and Sumatra, nor did he become like Alfonso because of He was castrated for slaughtering humans and had to dig coal in the cold north for the rest of his life.
Pires was even more fortunate that there was actually a senior official of the Ming Empire, a right minister of the Ministry of War named Xia Yan, who was willing to go on a tour of the West in person, so that he could go with him, and he was valued by this senior official of the empire. Because of his erudition, he had the opportunity to teach Western languages to this senior official of the empire, and became the guest of this senior official of the empire. Finally, he was valued by other scholars of the empire, and was called the "Great Western Confucian." .”
"Brother Dongshan, do you know these four people: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Botticchi?"
Although Pires had been teaching Western languages and cultures to Xia Yan on the sea route to the West, Xia Yan also served as Pires's Sinology teacher part-time, and the two even intended to co-translate some Chinese and Western works. At that time, because Xia Yan remembered His Majesty Zhu Houzhao's instructions to him and the accompanying Jinyi Guard Chidoda Chao before he left, he couldn't help but ask Pires about the four people His Majesty the Emperor named to bring back to the Ming Dynasty.
"They are people from Florence. Among them, Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous. He should be the same as the so-called saints and scholars in the empire. This man is especially good at painting!"
After Pires said that, Xia Yan became a little confused. He thought, how can he be called a saint and a great scholar with extraordinary paintings? Shouldn't it be just Gu Kaizhi, Yan Liben and others? Is it like Tang Bohu in this world? Why does Your Majesty pay so much attention to it? Is it possible that His Majesty likes Western paintings?
"Of course, these people are not only good at painting..." Pires continued. The more Xia Yan listened, the more he realized the extraordinary qualities of these people His Majesty wanted, and told Jin Yiwei Chitoda Chao: "Tian Qianhu, when the time comes, these people must invite me to Daming. If they are unwilling, please arrest them. If it is really impossible, please kill them!"
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