Chapter 333 The power of industrial civilization
ah!
my god!
Why should I endure such torture!
You hateful Orientals, and you Indians who are willing to be slaves!
You pagans, you are the devil, you are Satan!
A shrill scream came from Corantis's mouth, followed immediately by the curses and cries of Corantis, the governor of Santo Domingo, Spain.
The Sinicized Indians inherited the Chinese language, inherited the Ming Dynasty Mandarin (the Ming Dynasty version of National Mandarin) that was implemented nationwide in the fifth year of Zhengde, and also inherited some of the Ming Dynasty's classic punishments, such as today's Lingchi.
Zhang Liangyuan, an Indian from Panama City in the Ming Dynasty, studied at a medical school opened by the Han in Panama City. He specialized in clinical anatomy, but now he also cuts people part-time. Now, he followed Yu Chen Dexin and others to Santo Domingo City to take charge of Criminals like Lingchi Corantis were the first to initiate the massacre.
Zhang Liang held a sharp scalpel from a distance and skillfully dissected Corantis's body quickly, just like an excellent calligrapher practicing his calligraphy with a pen. The tip of the knife was like the tip of the pen, running like flying, and the way it cut in changed. Thousands, every time it pauses, a stream of blood is thrown into the sky, and a long roar resounds throughout the world!
Corantis was in agony!
At this time, all his nerves were violently conveying the greatest pain to him, causing his face to twist in pain, cold sweat breaking out all over his body, and he stammered in Spanish:
"Noble Easterners! Noble nobles, please forgive me for the sake of God! Forgive my sins! Please! Please stop your knives! Please don't cut my skin anymore. ! I'm wrong! I shouldn't be! I am really wrong! I am willing to be your slave. I just ask you to stop cutting the roots of my reproduction! Oh, you should just kill me! Me! Kill me with one knife!”
Corantis roared for a long time, and finally sweat, tears, urine, excrement, and blood were released all at once until he died completely.
The Han people of the Ming Dynasty and the domestic slave Indians used the harshest punishment to execute the Spanish colonists in Santo Domingo City. This officially began and kicked off the eradication of the Spanish colonists by the Ming Han people and the domestic slave Indians.
Saint-Doming City became a city of the Ming Dynasty. Due to the insufficient number of Han people, Tang Kekuan had to appoint Yu Chen Dexin as the prefect of Saint-Doming City. Yu Chen Dexin also reciprocated. After taking over Saint-Doming City, he immediately promulgated a new decree, announcing that in In Santo Domingo City, Han Chinese are the first class citizens, while the Chinese Indians among the Indians, that is, the Indians with a combination of Han family surnames are the second class citizens, the indigenous Indians are the third class, and non-Yellow people such as the white pigs and Kunlun slaves are For the fourth grade.
Of course, in terms of internal affairs, taxation, laws, welfare benefits, employment, etc., citizens of different levels naturally enjoy different rights and bear different obligations.
But no matter what, the dominant position of the Han people is guaranteed, the interests of the Ming Dynasty are guaranteed, and they have many privileges in trade, mining, and engineering operations.
Gradually, the Han people who were driven away by the Spanish colonists gradually came back to trade, and the city of Santo Domingo became prosperous again.
However, this prosperous city of Santo Domingo is no longer a city of Western culture, but a city of Eastern culture. Gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, courtyard houses in the north, Taoist, Buddhist temples, and Confucian academies are all here one after another. This belongs to the Western Hemisphere where Santo Domingo appears.
Hanfu has become the most common clothing in this city, and even civilians wear Han cloth.
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"When you come to Santo Domingo City, you feel like you are still in Guangdong and Guangxi. This city seems to be no different from Guangzhou. It has Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, Qin Tower and Chu Pavilion, as well as catchy Han Chinese reading pronunciation. But please don't be fooled by the superficial phenomena. Confused, in fact, the proportion of Han people here is less than 1%, and most of them are domestic slave Indians;
This is a hierarchical, orderly and stable city. Although most of the people in this city are Indians, the Chinese Indians among these Indians want to maintain their privileges as second-class citizens and occupy the land permanently. The rights in the fields of taxation, armed force, justice, ideological propaganda, etc., tried their best to maintain the status of the Han people and themselves, and promoted the master-servant relationship and loyalty ideas between the Han people and the Indians.
In order to get better treatment and social status when they are born, Indians must work hard to learn Chinese culture from the beginning, learn the culture of their masters, accept the idea that they are slaves of their masters, and must become the most loyal Confucian scholars. Enter official career.
Therefore, the Chinese Indians who occupy this metropolis, as the most loyal domestic slaves of the Han people, maintain the stability of the city, and they also unite with the Han people to monopolize the vast majority of the city's wealth;
The Han people who come here are more like the emperors here. They can get all the honors without working. They can even get endless wealth just by becoming the spokesperson of the company run by their slaves. If they are willing to stay in a certain family In the slave's villa, then it is the slave's honor. This slave will be willing to dedicate his woman to him for enjoyment, in the hope that he can be qualified to raise the master's son!
These domestic slaves are willing to serve as Han people. They are even willing to pay a certain amount of money to a Han trading company or hire employees of a Han trading company, and carry out trade under the banner of a Han trading company.
Because only in this way, the Western pirates and other pirates would not dare to provoke them, and would mistakenly think that they were Ming Dynasty trading houses, and they could even avoid the blackmail of some corrupt officials who were also Indians in Santo Domingo City! ”
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but smile after reading the report about Saint-Doming City sent back by the Jinyiwei, and said to Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet: "The model of Saint-Doming City seems to be very successful, and it contributes to the Ming Dynasty every year. The profits of millions of silver dollars can only be achieved in the American continent. This is thanks to these Westerners. It is their cruelty that gave Ming the opportunity to be regarded as his master by the Indians. "
"What your Majesty said is true. However, Huang Ming is different from the Western Yi. They only know how to kill and plunder, but they don't know that these Indians are also gold and silver. Now we are using the selfishness of the elites among the Indians to continuously seize the Americas. In the future, we can also take advantage of the elites of other races!”
After Zhang Cong said something, Zhu Houzhao also nodded and said: "But we must also pay attention to Ming Dynasty, our Han elites cannot be used by foreigners. The elites are selfish, including me and you, but as a Members of the Zhongjun Club should always keep the club’s principles in mind and take this as their belief!
The interests of the country and the people should be put first, and personal interests and class interests should be placed second. It would be better if you can have both. If you can't have both, you would rather sacrifice personal and class interests than national interests and the people. Benefit! ”
"I understand!"
Zhang Cong nodded. Naturally, he was more willing to have both, so he now strongly supports the Ming Dynasty’s external expansion and external benefits, because only in this way can the market be expanded and people from other countries can gain benefits for the Ming Dynasty’s elites and common people. More wealth will pay for it.
But Zhang Cong had to remind: "However, Your Majesty, I found that the social and political construction of Zhongjun Society needs to be strengthened now. Since the death of Wang Hua, the president of Zhongjun Society, social and political construction and management have become increasingly neglected. Many people who hold important positions in the imperial court have Members of the Zhongjun Club began to believe in Buddhism, Taoism, and even Catholicism, and some even believed in the Green Sect of the Western Regions.”
"The Ming Dynasty is a country with freedom of religious belief, but the members of the Zhongjun Society are different. The members of the Zhongjun Society can only have one belief, which is the idea reflected in the society's program. It must be a belief that aims to achieve the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and the common prosperity of the people of the Ming Dynasty. , those who believe in other ideas are no longer pure members of the Loyal Society, and such members will be asked to withdraw from the society.”
When Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhang Cong also raised his hands and said: "Accept the decree!"
The Zhongjun Society has now become a well-known political group in the Ming Dynasty, not only because its ideas are lofty and its assessment methods are so strict that it has gathered most of the elites of the empire, but also because of its role in the military and political aspects of the empire. occupy an important position in the competition for important positions.
Because of this, more and more people are willing to join the Zhongjun Society, but the purpose has gradually become utilitarian. Even some who have passed the Jinshi examination only regard joining the Zhongjun Society as a bonus point for their career.
But because of this, many officials with Zhongjun Society backgrounds began to no longer be as pure as the earlier members of the Zhongjun Society such as Xu Jin and Wang Hua.
Plus.
The Ming Dynasty is now an empire that is open to the outside world. Although it has been promoting Han culture with guns and cannons, it has not said that it excludes all foreign civilizations.
Therefore, many foreign missionaries also took advantage of the east wind of global trade, and more and more came to the Ming Dynasty. Although they also strengthened the exchanges between the East and the West in the fields of natural sciences and humanities, they made the Ming Dynasty more advanced in astronomy, physics, and mathematics. There are also better improvements.
However, it is inevitable that the religion they brought also had a great impact on the Ming Dynasty.
The Han people, who fear their ancestors more than their gods, do not have a strong demand for religion. Therefore, the imperial court is not too vigilant about the spread of religion. It is precisely because of this that crazy propagators of various religions among the people, And the struggle between religions also began to evolve into a struggle for secular rights.
It is undoubtedly in line with the current situation that Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, began to attach importance to the ideological construction of Zhongjun Society members.
Wang Tingxiang, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Hubu, no longer holds the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Hubu. Unsurprisingly, Yang Li, the left minister of the Ministry of Hubu, has the best hope of being recommended as the Shangshu of the Hubu. After all, he is a member of the Zhongjun Society and graduated from Nanjing Central University. There is even a background as the general director of the Youth League of Zhongjun Society of Nanjing Central University.
However, influenced by the spread of Western religions to the east, Yang Li divorced his three-bedroom concubine, accepted Father Ansik's baptism, and officially became a Christian.
But for this reason, Yang Li's baptism caused a great shock in the entire political and ideological circles of the Ming Dynasty. After all, Yang Li was the left minister of the household department of the empire, and even the real head of the Ming Dynasty.
But now the head of the family has joined the Catholic Church, which made Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, furious when he heard about it. Zhu Houzhao was also a little surprised when he found out. He knew that religion was different from a cult, and it mainly focused on persuading people to do good, but Zhu Houzhao also We have to admit that secular power cannot be controlled by religion, otherwise religious interests will trump everything else. In fact, missionary Ansik and others did want to rely on believers like Yang Li who held important positions in the Ming Dynasty to go further, so as to increase the influence of their Catholicism in the secular society of the Ming Dynasty.
"Shilang Yang, in order to promote God, you should do your best to become the next Minister of Household Affairs in this court recommendation, and hopefully enter the cabinet in the future. Try your best to persuade the cabinet and His Majesty the Ming Emperor to build a church in the capital, and The establishment of theology in the universities of the provinces”.
Missionary Ansik said this to Yang Li, and personally took out a note: "This is given to you by Ai Yuxiang, the general inspector of the East, fifty thousand silver dollars. I hope it can be of help to you."
Yang Li received the note: "Yang will do his best. I only hope that all the common people in the Ming Dynasty can also receive God's love."
On this day, the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not recommend Yang Li as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Instead, they recommended Cong Lanting from the National Taxation Bureau as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The reason is naturally needless to say, and it is simply the reason why Yang Li joined the religion.
Not only that.
Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, also met with Yang Li: "You should understand why you were not recommended as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs."
Yang Li put a self-reported letter back into his sleeve and held the elephant tablet tightly. Then he bowed and asked, "Master Shoukui, I really don't understand! Please give me a clear explanation, Master Shoukui!"
Zhang Cong stood up and came to Yang Li and took out the cross from his lapel: "The rules of the Zhongjun Society are that members are not allowed to believe in religion. You have two choices now, either quit being a member or quit the religion you believe in."< br>
Yang Li suddenly stood up, and with a bang, the elephant Hut fell to the ground, muttering: "Why?!"
"Once your beliefs change, your belief in benefiting the people will change," Zhang Cong replied, taking a sip of tea.
"But the God I believe in also spreads love in the world, which is not inconsistent with loyalty to the emperor and love for the people, Sir Shoukui! We can do both," Yang Li spread his hands and said at a loss.
"I didn't say that what you believe now is not to convey love to the world, but secularity is secularity, religion is religion, Buddhism and Taoism can bring trouble to the world, not to mention the religion you believe in, and I and Your Majesty do not mean to deny it. You believe it, but you can’t have the status of a member of Zhongjun Society;
In addition, in the name of the Chief Minister of the Cabinet, I have requested the Ministry of Civil Affairs to remove you from the post of Left Minister of Household Affairs. This is His Majesty's wish. It is not appropriate for important military and political positions in the empire to be filled with non-Zhongjun Society members, not to mention you are still a believer! ”
Zhang Cong patted the table, stood up directly, pointed at Yang Li and started talking. He still thought highly of Yang Li in his heart. After all, Yang Li had done a lot in helping him, the chief minister of the cabinet, to deal with the collection of mineral taxes in the customs. Good approach.
Yang Li is not a fool, and he understands the key. He cannot say clearly that he does have the idea of using greater secular power to help the spread of Catholicism by rising in official position, but he does not expect that the emperor and the chief minister of the cabinet will directly Stopping his own thoughts, this made him feel a strong sense of frustration. He couldn't help but squeeze the elephant wat tighter and kept shaking his head:
"Master Shoukui, you can't do this, you can't do this! There is nothing wrong with believing in God. Why, why should I be removed from my post? I don't understand, I really don't understand!"
"You have to understand even if you don't understand!"
After Zhang Cong said something, he then took out a document: "It seems that you are unwilling to give up your religious beliefs. This is an application for withdrawal from the society. Please fill it out yourself."
Yang Li picked up the withdrawal application letter heavily and couldn't help but shed tears for a while, sobbing: "Why, why is this happening!"
However, Yang Li still chose to fill out the application form for withdrawal from the cooperative. At the same time, the Ministry of Personnel also issued a document to remove him from the position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Revenue.
In the globalization of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao and Zhang Cong drew clear boundaries between the secular court and religion, so that the Ming Empire did not lose the original intention of the court to put national interests and the interests of the people first due to the influence of foreign culture.
Missionary Ansik was very disappointed with this behavior of the Ming court. Like Yang Li, he did not understand why the Ming court could allow various religions to spread among the people but refused to allow one religion to encroach on secular power. Why could the Ming court not Establish one religion as the only state religion.
Zhu Houzhao knew the purpose of the missionaries who came to the Ming Dynasty to preach at this time, but he was indeed unwilling to let the Ming Dynasty become a papal state. Not only was he unwilling, but the ruling class of the empire was also unwilling.
"The people of the empire have not yet learned how to distinguish truth from falsehood, and have not even learned to choose. As rulers, we naturally cannot choose for them, because the truth we think is sometimes not the real truth;
We don’t have to pursue the truth, but we have to learn to understand what their real needs are. After all, they are the majority of the Ming Dynasty. The people are the most important, the king is the least, and the country is the second. But sometimes they themselves don’t know their own needs. What is the need!
In this materialistic Ming Dynasty, the people have too many desires. Some people even want to be above others and have privileges. This is impossible. Within the Central Empire and among the people of the Ming Dynasty, we cannot At least our court cannot create a hierarchical society in terms of law and personality, even if hierarchy and wealth and poverty actually exist! ”
"Because only in this way can we maintain our advantage and maintain the advantage of crushing other civilizations. Why Indians are willing to be our domestic slaves is because we look more civilized than other invaders! Why we can be more civilized is because we plunder The way of plundering is more advanced, and our way of plundering is more advanced because our production technology is more advanced, so that we don’t need to plunder By taking someone else's life, we can continuously take away wealth from them. The reason why we have more advanced production technology is just because we put the people first, we liberated the craftsmen, and we encouraged the people to create wealth. To innovate technology, only when we put the people first will the people put the country first and be willing to fight! ”
"In short, according to your Majesty's wishes, there is only one person in the Ming Dynasty who can be the master, and that is our emperor! The emperor is a god, the god we choose. Except for the emperor, no one has higher privileges than others, including I am the chief minister of the cabinet!”
Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, said this at the Zhongjun Society meeting. In fact, he only mentioned the charm brought by the industrial civilization of the Ming Empire, but did not mention the power brought by the industrial civilization of the Ming Empire.
boom!
Hundreds of mountain cannons poured hundreds of shells into Aguixi Pass in Jiaozhi. In less than half an hour, Aguixi Pass was bombarded to the ground. Not only that, the Ming Dynasty also fired chemical gas bombs, causing The nearly 100,000 monkey soldiers in the entire Aguixi Pass area were all killed.
Yu Dayou and the officers and soldiers under his command, as the vanguard, marched all the way northward to Wuning.
The Northern Front Corps brought by Mao Bowen has also moved south, sweeping across the entire North Jiaozhi in just one month, and also drove Mo Dengyong and others into Wuning.
Mo Dengyong and Ruan Gan no longer dare to hope that they can defend their foundation. The shock brought by Ming Dynasty's steel guns and cannons is too great, and it has completely subverted their understanding of war. Therefore, they just want to escape and go to Escape to the west, because the sea is to the east, so you can't escape. Most of the Ming Dynasty's strong ships and cannons are anchored in the Thanh Hoa area.
However, Yu Dayou now held the only barrier for them to escape westward.
Therefore, Mo Dengyong and Ruan Gan pledged all the last tens of thousands of monkey soldiers, and even offered heavy rewards.
The Ming Guards led by Yu Dayou took advantage of their firepower and geographical advantages to hold off the attack of tens of thousands of monkey soldiers. The officers and soldiers could directly seize the trenches and attack from above, without having to fight with the monkey soldiers in the mountains. The Ming version of the Gatling machine gun also They can shoot freely, but the monkey soldiers don't have any decent firearms. Bows and arrows are not as useful as javelins in the rain forest.
In short, the power brought by the industrial civilization of the Ming Empire caused the small country of Cochin to collapse in a short period of time. When Wang Shouren arrived in Thanh Hoa, Mo Dengyong, Ruan Gan, and the puppet emperor of Cochin, Li Zhuangzong, also Has been captured alive.
"A great victory! Master Wang captured Wuning City in half a day and captured more than 50 princes and nobles including the Annan Emperor Li Zhuangzong, powerful ministers Mo Dengyong and Ruan Gan. The Ming Dynasty completely recovered all the territory of Jiaozhi!"
The good news spread throughout Thanh Hoa City. Mo Yu, a former Jiaozhi landowner who was working as a manure worker in Thanh Hoa City, shed tears: "There is absolutely no hope! This world has completely become the domain of the Han!"
However, for the Han people in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's recovery of Jiaozhi was undoubtedly a matter of national celebration. When the Di newspaper reached Guangzhou City, the entire city of Guangzhou was completely boiling because it meant that the price of war coupons would rise again. They I'm going to make a fortune!
The second day.
The deposits made by the Ming Stock Exchange as promised showed that the wealth from Jiaozhi began to pour into the Pearl River Estuary from the South China Sea of the Ming Dynasty and into the pockets of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
"It is difficult to describe the prosperity of that time in detail. I can only remember that the markets were empty of fruits and melons, the wine shops were full, the storytellers had hoarse throats, the prostitutes had weak legs, some rich people set up flowing water mats in brothels for ten days, and some A poor person can get a hundred gold by begging for one day!”
After the recovery of Cochin, some literati couldn't help but remember the grand occasion when the people in the country made a lot of money from the war.
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