Chapter 107 The little emperor made a card out of thin air
"Your Majesty, actually this is not the first time I have seen this kind of full-body plate armor, although it is more sophisticated." Qi Jiguang looked at the little emperor and talked about The past.
Zhu Yijun was stunned, and he said doubtfully: "Tell me more specifically."
Qi Jiguang said with a sad face: "In the 27th year of Jiajing, Zhu Wan, the governor of Zhejiang, visited the Zhoushan Islands in Zhejiang. Shuangyu swept away the Japanese nests and won. Among the Japanese pirates at that time, there were Xiaofu Langjiren, Japanese slaves, black fans and desperadoes. Ninety-six people including the bandit leader Li Guangtou and Xu Dong were captured. Obtained two pairs of bronze and iron suozi armor and three pairs of iron Hun armor. It turns out to be iron armor, completely integrated." Zhu Yijun nodded repeatedly. It's not that Ming Dynasty knew nothing about plate armor. Even Qi Jiguang had seen it with his own eyes. However, this kind of armor was too expensive to be installed.
"This Zhu Wan began to pacify the Japanese in the 27th year of Jiajing. How come I have never heard of his deeds?" Zhu Yijun was unfamiliar with Zhu Wan's name.
Qi Jiguang looked unbearable and was silent for a long time before he said: "Zhu Wan later committed suicide to express his will. The Deputy Inspector Ke Qiao and Zhejiang General Soldier Lu Bor were sentenced to be beheaded in public. Later, the two generals were exempted from the death penalty. Lu Bor and The ministers are leaning against each other at the southeast corner to fight against the Japanese. "
"Suicide?" Zhu Yijun frowned and looked at Qi Jiguang with a slightly puzzled expression. How could the Japanese go so far as to commit suicide?
Qi Jiguang actually doesn’t want to talk about the dirty things in the past. Now the Ming Dynasty is regaining its strength and everything is getting better. The dirty things in the past have disappeared over time, but Qi Jiguang thought about it again and again, and still He opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, please give me your detailed report."
"At that time, the world had been at peace for a long time. The traitors came in and out privately, colluded with the Japanese and the Folangji people, and at Shuangyu in Ningbo, various countries traded with each other. The management was done with pledges and contracts, and there was evidence of it."
"And The powerful families in the southeast have propped up this mutual market, and the powerful families have supported it. Naturally, no one dares to touch these two mutual markets. However, there are more and more Japanese pirates, Buddhists, gangsters, and desperadoes. The family could not be restrained and frequently invaded the border areas. "
"The governor Zhu Wan went to Zhejiang to rectify the coastal defense. He and the commander-in-chief Lu Borang destroyed the Japanese pirates everywhere. Public opinion said that the thieves killed by Zhu Wan and Lu Dao were all good people and not traitors. The officials in the court impeached him one after another. "
"Zhu Wan, Lu Dao and others attacked Wen, Pan, and Nan. The muntjac thieves fought for three months and defeated them. They also defeated the mining pirates in Chuzhou and finally eliminated the Shuangyu private Japanese pirates. Jian and other officials impeached Zhu Wan for killing without permission. Du Ruzhen and the censor Chen Zongkui investigated and interrogated the incident and convicted Zhu Wan of killing without permission. "
"Zhejiang Supervisor Zhu Wan committed suicide"< br>
Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment and said: "It's like the things Wang Bai and Huang Qing did in Tuen Mun and Hao Jing?"
"Your Majesty, you are wise." Qi Jiguang said sadly. : "After the death of Zhu Wan, the governor of Zhejiang, no one dared to take up the position of governor of Zhejiang. Zhu Wan, Lu Boring and others revitalized the 41st Zhejiang Guards Station and built 439 warships."
“Deputy Envoy Ding Zhan was afraid that the fire at the city gate would damage the fish in the pond, so he sent all the guards and warships away. Since then, pirates have become more active, and the Japanese invasion has continued, and they have been wreaking havoc on the southeast for more than ten years.”
Qi Jiguang talked about this past event with a sad expression on his face. It took decades of struggle to pacify Japan and open the sea. Finally, a compromise was reached under the collision of contradictions. However, in the process of this struggle, the most injured person was Those are the people in the southeast.
"I understand." Zhu Yijun nodded solemnly. Whether the Japanese were pacified and the Japanese were not pacified completely, they also experienced frequent and bloody struggles, and finally reached the current balanced state. However, in this balance, there are many new contradictions.
No wonder Feng Bao was in the Wenhua Hall, angrily scolding the southeastern Jin gentry, fearing that it would add a hurdle that would be detrimental to business, and refused to do so. This was not empty talk, it was the summary of decades of struggle.
Now, the Ming Dynasty wants to set up a government-run Municipal Shipping Department in Songjiang Prefecture, and a new struggle has begun.
Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "Is something going to happen to Yin Zhengmao? He expelled the Haojing Hongmao Fan and inspected the private affairs."
Qi Jiguang looked strange, a little bit unspeakable. Said: "No, Yin Zhengmao is a bad guy."
Not only is Zhang Juzheng protecting Yin Zhengmao, Yin Zhengmao himself is a big bad guy.
"Bad guy..." Zhu Yijun smiled when he heard what Qi Jiguang said. Yin Zhengmao is a corrupt official known to the world, a big bad guy, a bad guy worse than the powerful people in Ji Nan, so Ji Nan's The powerful people had nothing to do with Yin Zhengmao, who was holding a knife, so Yin Zhengmao dared to inspect the private affairs of Dianbai Port and sent Wang Bai and Huang Qing to the capital to impeach them for losing their land.
Zhejiang Inspector Zhu Wan was a good man, so he committed suicide to express his ambition. Guangdong and Guangxi Inspector Yin Zhengmao was a bad person, a bad person worse than Quanhao.
Evil people still need to be punished by evil people.
Qi Jiguang saw that His Majesty could understand what he was talking about, and then continued: "Two red-haired iron armors were seized in the southeast. They are completely different from the iron armors today. The iron armors seized in the southeast are extremely thin. It’s even thinner than the steel lining of our Ming cloth face armor.”
"If the steel plate lining of my Ming Dynasty cloth armor is one thickness, then the Tie Hun armor captured in the southeast is only half as thick, while the plate armor donated by Dafo Langji's special envoy is two to three thicknesses."
< br>Plate armor and plate armor are not exactly the same. The plate armor used by the nobles is at least about three millimeters thick and weighs forty-five kilograms. Instead of nobles, the plate armor used by low-level infantry is just a thin layer.
The plate armor used by nobles and even the Thai and Western royal families was made by craftsmen who used calipers to measure it inch by inch from head to toe to get the appropriate size of the plate armor. Then dozens of craftsmen made it by hand, which required various tasks. A special tool, even the hammer has several types and various parts, tailor-made according to the user's body.
“This kind of blue plate armor with patterns, which looks very thick at first glance, can Qi Shuai shoot through?” Zhu Yijun was a little unconvinced. The plate armor design has many curved surfaces. These curved surfaces Effective deflection and unloading force, what kind of force is needed to penetrate it?
Qi Jiguang smiled and said: "Yes."
"Try?" Zhu Yijun's martial arts room was a shooting range. He supported the plate armor presented by Li Yashi, and then used pork ribs Fill it and hold it up completely.
Qi Jiguang walked to the school field and picked up the Huli Bow. The Huli Bow weighed more than 120 kilograms. The draw distance was two feet eight minutes and five centimeters, and the arrows were two liang, four qian, flat and four diamonds. Armor-piercing arrows, arrow clusters made of steel, with a cold light.
Qi Jiguang was warming up, but Zhu Yijun interrupted Qi Jiguang's warm-up and said: "Qi Shuai, let Li Rusong do it."
Qi Jiguang is already forty-five years old. At this age, his body functions have already improved. Descending, and then firing this kind of strong bow, especially testing the broken plate armor, if Qi Jiguang was injured, where would Zhu Yijun go to cry? Qi Jiguang didn't take care of his own body, so Zhu Yijun still had to take care of his general!
“I can still drive!” Qi Jiguang said very dissatisfiedly: “It’s true.”
"It can't be pulled. Call Li Rusong and ask him to shoot the strong bow. He can also shoot the tiger force bow." Zhu Yijun still refused and signaled to call Li Rusong, Li Chengliang's eldest son. Li Rusong was in his early twenties, at his peak.
Qi Jiguang couldn't resist it. This was His Majesty's intention to protect him, so he could only wait aside.
Li Rusong came to the martial arts room with a heavy back, and saluted in a muffled voice: "Greetings to Your Majesty, Your Majesty is mighty!"
"No gifts, no gifts." Zhu Yijun briefly introduced this time For the test, Li Rusong asked His Majesty to move farther away to observe the ceremony and began to warm up. This kind of warm-up took a little longer, and this was the first time Zhu Yijun had seen him.
Zhu Yijun was also eye-opening and said: "No wonder in the Song Dynasty, every time those archers fired an arrow, the general had to reward them immediately, otherwise the archers would stop shooting. It turned out to be such a trouble."< br>
Qi Jiguang heard this and hurriedly said: "Archers are expensive and difficult to train, so I have always respected blunderbuss."
At present, in the second year of Wanli, bows and arrows can shoot far and powerfully, but Qi Jiguang is still extremely It is recommended to train Gunslingers because Gunslingers are cheap.
The firecrackers, gunpowder, and lead bullets are expensive, so aren’t the archers’ bows and arrows expensive?
Li Rusong finally warmed up, held the tiger bow in his hand, closed his eyes and braced himself, constantly adjusted his breathing, placed the heavy arrow on the bowstring, slowly opened his eyes, and slowly He slowly pulled the bow string until it reached the full moon, narrowed his eyes slightly, let go suddenly, and the arrow shot out as fast as cold light.
“Whoosh!”
The arrow cluster shot out like a bolt, flying straight towards the plate armor. There was a loud noise and sparks flew everywhere. The arrow pierced into the plate armor. The arrow shaft bent visibly and then straightened, and the arrow bounced in again. .
Zhu Yijun saw the Huli Bow firing for the first time. He was willing to call it a siege ram launcher. How could this thing be an arrow?
In his eyes, Li Rusong had turned into a humanoid Gundam.
"What happened just now?" Zhu Yijun looked at this scene in stunned silence. He just heard a sharp sound, like the neighing of a bird.
Qi Jiguang was confused for a moment, and then he judged the little emperor's problem clearly, and said: "When the arrow is fired, there is a sound when the arrow is fired. A loud arrow has a sound, and a heavy arrow also has a sound."
If you don't shoot a loud arrow, you will make a sound. The sound is indeed rare.
Li Rusong put down the Tiger Force Bow, moved his body, and kept looking with his head and head. He was also looking forward to the result. The last time he provoked Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun, they were punished twice, and Li Rusong was punished both times. Not confident anymore.
He was very confident that he could penetrate the twenty-step archery target, but he was still a little uneasy when the result failed to come out.
"It penetrated, it penetrated." Zhang Hong ran to take the armor that had been penetrated, placed it in front of the emperor and said: "It penetrated three inches from the upper left side of the lung, and the ribs were broken."
Zhang Hong reported the results, and Li Rusong was relieved.
Zhu Yijun looked at the smashed pork chop. The arrow penetrated three inches under the meat, which was fatal. Zhu Yijun looked at the fracture on the steel surface of the plate armor and let Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong who were waiting aside take a look.
"White iron, this isn't steel." The more Li Rusong looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. The fracture of this thing didn't look like a hundred-smelted steel, but more like white iron. He was a little unsure. asked.
Qi Jiguang looked at it carefully and said: "It is indeed iron."
The square object paid tribute by Dafo Langji, the Greenwich-style plate armor, is made of iron, not steel. The carbon content of white iron is 2.5%. In general, the carbon content of steel does not exceed 1.7%. Qi Jiguang has been fighting for decades. He can still tell whether it is steel or iron by looking at the fracture.
"Shoddy work! The big Buddha Lang robot offered gifts and fooled me with iron!" the little emperor said angrily.
Zhang Hong thought for a while and said: "Is there a possibility that the Thai people think this is steel?"
"This is the Ming Dynasty, so naturally it follows the standards of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Yijunpo To be sure, there is a price to pay for deceiving the Ming Emperor. This is typical blackmail. The insidious and cunning little emperor is playing a political method called making cards out of thin air.
Creating trouble out of thin air and then engaging in further diplomatic fraud is a method commonly used by Angsa barbarians in later generations.
Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong were silent and said no more. The quality of this thing was already very good. Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong believed that Dafo Lang Ji Ren was not intentional.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was supreme and ruled over tens of thousands of people. As a little emperor who was supported by all the people, the things used by the emperor were naturally of high quality, such as steel and white iron. Looking at the world at present, only the Ming Dynasty had such standards.
But Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong didn't say anything. They were just generals.
Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to come over and tailor Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong to prepare a pair of steel plate armors for them.
Seeing that the little emperor really planned to make it, Qi Jiguang reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this thing can still be used during etiquette, but it cannot be used on the battlefield."
"We in the Ming Dynasty have a kind of The bed crossbow is called the Three Gong Mu Crossbow. It is about the size of a table. The arrows are made of three sword arrows. They use spears as arrows. The bed crossbow with a hair of seventy people will be a target on the battlefield if it is worn like this. The enemy knew he was a general at the first sight. "
"In the Battle of Chanzhou between Song and Liao Dynasties, Xiao Taolin, the commander of the Liao Dynasty, relied on his bravery, wore bright clothes and angry horses, and led dozens of light cavalry at the foot of Chanzhou City. During the inspection, the leaders of the Song Army's Weihu Army, Zhang Qian and Zhou Wenzhi, hit Xiao Taolin with a bed crossbow. "
The three-bow mu crossbow of Zhang Fa, a seventy-man soldier, is a weapon used to defend the city and specialize in killing Xians. The frontline generals of Yi Nu Ma still have cannons. What’s the point of having these things on the battlefield?
"If I am a wise rider, I don't need more. Three thousand people can ride heavily, and everyone is wearing such heavy armor. They will be invincible." Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, it is not suitable for large-scale deployment, so he left. Elite route.
Qi Jiguang swallowed his throat secretly. Three thousand plate armor cavalry, Your Majesty really dares to think!
Qi Shuai sighed and said: "Three thousand... I am afraid that the great Situ will resign immediately and leave the court. Eight hundred is probably the limit."
"Let's build it first for fun, just in case we What day will it be richer?" Zhu Yijun sighed after hearing this. People are poor but have short ambitions. Poverty is the shortcoming of Ming Dynasty, not the shortcoming of plate armor.
"Your Majesty, a country that can create such armor is no longer an ordinary barbarian. You should be cautious and cautious. What exactly does this red-haired fan mean?" Qi Jiguang talked about this big Buddha robot from a professional military perspective. Completely different from the barbarians around the Ming Dynasty. The construction of armor or ordnance can, to a certain extent, reflect his national power.
The firearms and other items of the Xiaoflang Machine are no different from those of the Ming Dynasty. This is already very scary. The Ming Dynasty is a behemoth in the known world, and the Xiaoflang Machine People's military, political, cultural, economic, etc. do not seem to be much different from those of the Ming Dynasty.
In less than fifty years, the Dafo Langji people once again came into the sight of the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was their merchant ships, firearms, or armor, they all had unique features, and it could even be said that With a leading position, this requires vigilance.
The sky is constantly changing, the earth is constantly changing, and people are constantly changing. It is impossible for Ming Dynasty to always maintain its arms advantage, commodity advantage, and cultural advantage. For example, in the commodity ship, Ming Dynasty has completely lost its commodity advantage.
This is a reality that is difficult to accept but has to be accepted by the Ming Dynasty, which claims to be a kingdom of heaven, or that has a distinction between China and Yi.
While calling the other party a barbarian, you still want to buy the other party's things. This kind of mentality of being both responsible and upright is not good for the country.
After losing its arms advantage, commodity advantage and cultural advantage, it will lose its political advantage. The final result is that Ming Dynasty will fall from the unattainable heaven.
On that day, the Ming Dynasty, or the Central Plains, will sink in hell.
"Everyone has his or her own merits, and so does the country. I also understand what Commander Qi is worried about. A ship can carry four million taels of silver and travel across the ocean to the Ming Dynasty. I have never been too small. Look down on them." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Weakness and backwardness are the results of arrogance."
"A sea that is open to all rivers is a big one, and learning from each other's strong points to eliminate the bad and retain the good is the foundation of the theory of contradiction."
Qi Jiguang found that his worries were completely unnecessary. The little emperor did not know that he was not doing his job properly and did not study well and did not learn Chinese culture. The difference between Yi and Yi is that it is easier to accept foreign things, or he has an innocent heart and is pure and pure. The little emperor does not seem to be very surprised that Ming Dynasty is lagging behind in a certain field, and he accepts this status quo calmly. And instead of becoming angry, he chose to deal with the distant messenger with arrogance.
"Your Majesty is wise." Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong said.
Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong to hang up the plate armor again, then took out his 34-pound soft bow, took aim and shot at the plate armor. The arrow hit the plate armor and made a loud sound. With a soft sound, it fell to the ground.
There is no doubt that Zhu Yijun's soft-armor light arrow landed on the plate armor, leaving a small hole, let alone a hole.
Zhu Yijun started practicing martial arts every day.
In the afternoon, Legaz and Antonio, who were in Guanyi, saw the pitted plate armor and the hole in the middle, which shocked Legaz.
"How is this possible? How is this possible?" Legas said with great annoyance: "Even the English longbowmen cannot leave such wounds on the plate armor! Impossible, absolutely impossible !”
“This is our two-two-four-yuan flat four-ribbed armor-piercing arrow, a tiger-force bow weighing more than 120 kilograms.” Chen Xuexue, the minister of Honglu Temple, put the armor-piercing bow and arrow on the table. Shang smiled and said: "Slow down, don't get hurt."
The general translated the words accurately. Ligas held the arrow and inserted the arrow cluster into the wound, making it a perfect seal. , it was this arrow that hurt the plate armor.
This was the bow and arrow that damaged the plate armor. Even Antonio couldn't believe it, but the fact was before his eyes.
Chen Xuexue, in the eleventh month of the first year of Wanli, was promoted from Wai Lang, a member of the Langzhong Committee of the Yunnan Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, to Zuo Shaoqing, the minister of Honglu Temple. There was no minister of Honglu Temple above him, and the previous one was the minister of Honglu Temple. Qing was dismissed because he lost his dynasty.
Chen Xuexue is the chief official of Honglu Temple and is in charge of the affairs of Honglu Temple.
The tribute trade of the Ming Dynasty has been completely destroyed due to the Japanese rebellion during the Jiajing period. Honglu Temple itself has become an idle department. Apart from North Korea and Ryukyu, Honglu Temple basically has no errands to speak of.
The tribute markets of the Jin Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty were completely controlled by the Jin Party and in the hands of Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda. They had nothing to do with Honglu Temple. The city shipping department of Yuegang no longer belonged to Honglu. It is not restricted by the temple, but is completely controlled by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the inner court.
Chen Xuexue was Zhang Dang, a Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing, and was placed in this position by Zhang Juzheng. It is necessary to bring the errands of Beilugong City back under the management of the imperial court.
Chen Xuexue did not expect that while he was waiting for the training in the Beijing camp to be successful, he would first have to wait for the errand of receiving Dafo Langji.
This is not a difficult task, because Ming Dynasty has received the envoys of Xiaofo Langji before.
Chen Xuexue said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, pays special attention to the visit of Dafo Langji, and is willing to learn the language of the other country, communicate with each other, and prevent anyone from being in the middle just like I did to the Emperor of Wumiao Temple. Deception, this is the sincerity of our Ming Dynasty, but we have not seen your sincerity. The things you offered are shoddy."
Legas sweated, and he explained anxiously: "That's not the case, no, we come to visit with great sincerity and hope to establish good diplomatic relations with Ming Dynasty. We really bring great sincerity. This pair of Greenwich-style plate armor is in our hands. The highest quality armor, although its name is Greenwich plate armor, is entirely made by Milanese craftsmen.”
After Legas' explanation, Chen Xuexue understood the whole story.
There is a country in the West called England, and England has a wife-killing king named Henry VIII. This king likes to behead his wives and has a strange passion for plate armor. Henry VIII I have been collecting all kinds of armor throughout my life.
England's armor-making technology was very poor. Henry VIII liked to buy plate armor from famous armor-making places such as Milan, Flanders and Innsbruck, and then put on a layer of Greenwich-style plate armor. Over time, Greenwich-style plate armor became synonymous with high quality. It was collected by Henry VIII and became an affirmation of craftsmen.
“Our king is really sincere and sent me here to communicate with the Ming Dynasty. Even though your country repeatedly emphasized that it cannot preach, I still came here, didn’t I?” Li Ya Actually explained slightly panicked.
The Armada is very powerful, but really expensive. Currently, Spain, the first empire on which the sun never sets, is in a weird atmosphere.
Spain is very rich and has the most gold and silver in the world. However, so much gold and silver circulates in Spain, which has caused an extremely terrible economic result, that is, soaring prices. With the Age of Discovery, , gold and silver were continuously shipped back to Spain. As prices rose year after year, the gap between the rich and the poor widened to its limit.
Gold and silver are concentrated in the hands of a few people, prices continue to rise, and residents continue to complain.
Therefore, when Felipe II sent Legaz to the Ming Dynasty, he made a special statement: By carrying out such commercial activities, residents can immediately increase their wealth and income.
Felipe II is preparing to declare the country bankrupt again next year and the year after that, because Spain, which has an invincible fleet, is already struggling to deal with many problems such as the wealth gap and taxation caused by excessive currency. .
After arriving in Ming Dynasty, Legas fell into an inexplicable and passionate emotion after witnessing the prosperity here!
As long as it can trade with the Ming Dynasty, Spain's economic problems will be greatly alleviated!
"Oh, really?" Chen Xuexue looked at Ligas, pointed at the plate armor and said: "But the national gift you paid tribute was pierced by a bow and arrow. This is not our bed crossbow. There are also artillery and muskets. The great general of the Ming Dynasty, Qian Anbo, Qi Jiguang, is very interested in your artillery. I wonder if I can borrow a few to watch them."
"You know, our general? Jane is in the Emperor's heart, and the Holy Family is flourishing. If you can make Qi Shuai happy and say a few words of kindness to you, this matter will be over. "
"What do you think? "
Chen Xuexue came with a mission. Qi Jiguang asked for the Franco machine cannon of the big Franco machine. The cannons of the small and large Franco machines are very similar. They are both breech-mounted smoothbore cannons, consisting of a barrel, a belly and a sub-cannon. It consists of three parts, similar to the Ming Dynasty's mother-and-child cannon.
However, the cannon of the Xiao Fo Lang robot has poor air tightness, short range and low power, while the cannon of the Big Fo Lang robot seems to have another solution.
Currently, the artillery on the Ming Dynasty’s accounts includes more than 30,000 naval guns, city defense guns, tank guns, field guns, infantry guns, cavalry guns and other artillery pieces. The Ming Dynasty has its own solution, but Qi Jiguang I also want to see Dafo Langjiren’s solution.
It is great to be open to all rivers and to learn from each other's strong points to eliminate the bad and retain the good. This is the general program of external exchanges proposed by His Majesty.
Chen Xue Xue took the pierced plate armor and forced Legas to show his sincerity.
The little emperor started to create cards out of thin air.
Legas calmed down, thought for a moment and asked: "If I can meet His Majesty, the Supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I can agree."
Legas put forward his request to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. This was a huge breakthrough in the diplomacy between Spain and the Ming Dynasty.
Since Spain occupied Luzon, it has tried many ways to deal with the Ming Dynasty, but most of them were local communication. The biggest official I met was Luo Gongchen, the fifth-rank military officer of the Ministry of Finance and Coastal Defense. .
This is easy to cause misunderstandings. For example, Francisco, the governor of Luzon, always confused diplomatic relations with missionary work, but in fact the king lost interest in missionary work.
This stems from the fact that after the love story of Felipe II and Queen Elizabeth Valois ended in tragedy, the king had some doubts about religion.
Queen Elizabeth’s first childbirth was a difficult one. The palace pharmacist cleaned the queen regardless of religious etiquette, and then replaced her with clean clothes and bedding. This saved Queen Elizabeth’s life, and this palace pharmacist The teacher was executed for offending the majesty of religion.
The fourth birth was premature, and Queen Elizabeth's health deteriorated rapidly because she did not have clean clothes and bedding for bathing, and she eventually died unfortunately.
Since then, Felipe II no longer trusts the etiquette of these religions, is no longer enthusiastic about preaching, and has changed from a devout believer to a terrible king.
Felipe II became less enthusiastic about preaching. He became more pragmatic and had many conflicts with the Holy See.
The Ming court was extremely cautious about missionary work. Legaz had to see the Ming Emperor face to face and make it clear that missionary work was not necessary. The complementarity between the two empires was very beneficial to each other.
"A gentleman's words are hard to follow. Your Majesty has promised to meet you, so you don't have to worry about it every day." Chen Xuexue made another guarantee. Although the Ministry of Rites was not happy, Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, thought that the young emperor should Meet the foreign envoy.
On the fifth day of March, the Emperor ordered the Ministry of Rites to practice drills. Before the third day of April, many communications on the audience etiquette should be completed, and all matters such as the terms of mutual trade and the purchase of ships should be negotiated.
Chen Xuexue and Legaz began to meet frequently, and after lengthy negotiations, they established a trade treaty with each other.
It is more like a prohibition than a treaty. There are five articles in total.
First: It is forbidden to buy and sell Japanese slaves, black people, and desperadoes, and those who trade with foreign ships will be killed without mercy;
Second: It is forbidden to buy people, all new and old barbarian merchants , it is not allowed to bribe the children of Ming people, and those who violate it will be killed without mercy;
Third: It is forbidden to pay for military ships, and those who enter the harbor to open cannons, draw bows, and fill muskets with firecrackers will have the people and goods on board burned;
Fourth, it is forbidden to buy private goods, and those who transport them secretly, the goods obtained will be confiscated by officials and rewarded first;
Fifth: It is forbidden to build without authorization, and those who build a piece of land or wood without authorization will be punished. Destroying and burning it will still aggravate the crime.
These five prohibitions also apply to ships from the Ming Dynasty to Luzon, or to Mexico, Peru, or even Spain in the future.
For the Ming Dynasty, the past tribute trade had completely collapsed, and the establishment of a new trade system also became a change in the Ming Dynasty's exploration of new trade policies.
The prohibitions on buying and selling will also be continuously explored and improved in maritime trade. For example, the current trade protection ban on raw silk in the Ming Dynasty will also be gradually lifted in practice.
For the Ming Dynasty, especially for the Ministry of Rites, it was really angry and hateful to see raw silk being practiced in this way by the red-haired fans. It was really a shame to have good silk woven and dyed like that by them. This made Wan Shihe very angry. He cursed that the barbarians were barbarians and lacked etiquette. Giving them good things was a waste!
Silk is one of the most important tools in the ceremonial system of distinguishing the superior and the inferior. Since the red-haired fan wanted to be a king, he bought raw silk and woven and dyed it into a nondescript appearance. Wan Shi, the Minister of Rites, He Ziran was angry, and specifically asked Chen Xuexue to scold Special Envoy Legas again.
On the third day of April in the second year of Wanli, the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty once again held an ordinary court meeting in Huangji Hall, and Li Yashi, as the special envoy of Dafo Langji, was anxiously waiting outside Chengtian Gate, waiting for the declaration of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Antonio looked at the nervous Legas and said with a smile: "I don't think you should be so nervous. If you say the wrong thing because of nervousness, you will be spanked by the royal guard of the palace. If you pass it back, it will definitely become a joke.”
“Aren’t you nervous?” Legas asked, looking at Antonio in confusion.
Antonio said very sincerely: "I am also very nervous."
The English longbow excavated from the remains of the 'Mary Rose' has a maximum poundage of 150 to 160 pounds of force, and the Ming Dynasty One kilogram is 596.8 grams. The maximum poundage of the English longbow is exactly one hundred and twenty-one kilograms after conversion, which is the range of the Ming Dynasty Tiger Bow. I have to say that the world is really amazing. Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! ! !
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