Chapter 241 The Burning of Nagasaki
In the fifth year of Wanli, all maritime merchants were spies, and trade across the ocean was full of all kinds of terrible risks. It was this terrible risk that led to interests Maximization has become a common understanding among maritime merchants.
Conquest and killing are the main themes of current sea trade.
To conquer a certain place, it is necessary to explore the hydrology, geography and mineral resources of the place. Otherwise, no one is willing to conquer a barren land, or a land where the investment exceeds the effort.
To conquer a certain place, large-scale killings will inevitably occur, which will then collapse the local will to resist and make the local area surrender to its own will.
To conquer and kill, one must ascertain intelligence, and ascertaining intelligence itself is the act of espionage.
Omura Juntada, the governor of the Omura family in Hizen Province, knew clearly that it was not as simple as doing business for the maritime traders from the Ming Dynasty to Japan, but he did not care, because what he was facing now was that he could do business without seeking outside help. He was going to die, which is why Omura Junchu dedicated Nagasaki to the Holy See.
Omura Juntada did not immediately say that he would change his faith, but the attitude of the Holy See Inspector made Omura Juntada very distressed.
Omura Juntada offered Nagasaki and Motegi for the sake of peace, but the Holy See Inspector did not want to give Nagasaki customs duties to Omura Juntada. The two sides discussed it many times, but they broke up unhappy.
But this time, Omura Junchu had a new choice, Daming.
Xu Wei had a pleasant chat with Omura Junchu. Although he did not make a clear commitment, he showed his willingness to help, and Omura Junchu left with satisfaction.
Xu Wei looked at Omura Junchu's leaving figure and felt a little emotional. This was a good start for Ming Dynasty's development in Japan.
"Let Tongshi go talk to the church people." Xu Wei said with a smile to Sun Keyi.
“Huh?” Sun Keyi looked at Xu Wei blankly. Xu Wei, who had just had a pleasant chat with Omura Juntada, immediately approached the church.
Omura Juntada even hopes that Ming Dynasty will conflict with the church. In this way, his interests can be guaranteed to the maximum extent. However, Ming Dynasty has always been extremely domineering, and even mergers and expulsions by force are possible. will happen.
Omura Junchua really wanted to see a conflict between Ming Dynasty and the church.
Sun Keyi also believed that there was a conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the church because there was a precedent.
In the 16th year of Yongping, Ban Chao led a delegation of thirty-six people to Shanshan Kingdom, also known as Loulan, to discuss joint resistance to the Huns.
King Shanshan received the Han envoy very warmly, but not long after, King Shanshan became cold. Ban Chao realized that the envoy from the Huns had also arrived.
Ban Chao knew that Chi Ze had changed, so he acted first and killed the Huns' envoy. King Shanshan had to defect to the Han Dynasty.
The allusion that you can’t catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger’s den was born from this incident.
Sun Keyi thought there was going to be a conflict with the church this time. After all, everyone was interested in Nagasaki.
“Nagasaki is indeed in the hands of Omura Juntada, but if he can’t hold it, he is not the master. We should not discuss the distribution of interests with Omura Juntada, but with the church’s overseer. Let’s communicate.” Xu Wei explained his purpose of finding a church.
Who will win in Nagasaki has nothing to do with Omura Juntada, he is just the one who signed the signature.
The Huns were different from the current Roman Catholic Church. The difference was that at that time, the Huns could go south at any time. They were a serious concern for the Han Dynasty. They had the possibility of destroying the Han Dynasty and were the fundamental contradiction of existence.
The Pope of Rome and the King of Spain want to deploy more than 10,000 troops in the Far East, which are all impossible to imagine. The conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the West is mainly focused on the struggle for interests, and it has not intensified to the point of life and death. between.
It’s really too far away.
Everyone is here to make a fortune and make contributions. In this case, there is no need to fight life and death.
Soon, Sun Keyi invited the Roman inspector to come to the post for a meeting and talks.
"Are you inviting me here to persuade us to leave Nagasaki? If so, there is no need for us to talk." The church inspector got straight to the point and had a very tough attitude.
Ming Dynasty is an extremely proud country, and this pride is natural.
Because this country has a long history, noble culture, vast territory, and rich products, the people of this country are hard-working and tenacious, gentle and polite, and this country has a huge army and loyal warriors. Naturally, it can be treated as a matter of course. A posture that is above everything else, looking down on everyone.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty still had the qualifications to call itself the Celestial Kingdom. In terms of national strength, no one could rival the Ming Dynasty.
“We have a total of fifty-nine missionaries in Nagasaki, including twenty-eight priests. We have more than ten thousand believers! If you think that with your brave warriors, you can We surrender, let’s do that!”
“The Lord shines on us!” The inspector used a very fierce tone, like a declaration of war.
The biting dog does not bark. The louder the sound, the more guilty the inspector is. The military appearance of those plate-armored knights still makes the inspector involuntarily ask himself: If there is a conflict, what will happen? Can his followers really protect the interests of the diocese?
Xu Wei listened to Tongshi's translation, and then said with a smile: "There is no need to get so tense. Do we have to be enemies? Why can't we be friends?"
"Well ? Friend?" The inspector realized that he might have misunderstood the purpose and intention of this meeting, causing him to roar like a clown.
When will the Ming Dynasty be discussed?
Xu Wei smiled and said: "I don't like to cooperate with the Japanese. If I insist on explaining it, it will be like you don't want to cooperate with the English."
The inspector immediately clearly realized the worries of the Ming Dynasty scholar in front of him.
In the West, the English are an island country and are hated by everyone on the continent of Europe, because the English are always making trouble all day long. For example, in the Netherlands, there are English people behind them, and they are doing all kinds of things. Lippe II was in dire straits, and the area with the largest concentration of handicraft workshops in Spain was in turmoil.
Obviously, the Ming Dynasty viewed the Japanese just like the countries on the European continent viewed England.
The risk of working with them is simply too great.
"I'm very sorry. I didn't understand the purpose of this conversation and said some very outrageous things." The inspector said with some apology.
After Xu Wei signaled the inspector to sit down, he said: "Let's talk about the issue of Nagasaki Port."
"Omura Juntada's confidence in wanting long-term tariffs lies in the fact that you are here Here in Nagasaki, there is not enough military power to protect the wealth of your diocese, so you must rely on your believers, and your believers are Japanese. If you do not agree to Omura Juntada, it will be difficult to protect the wealth of your diocese, but If you agree, the tariff will be too expensive.”
“And our Tianbaolong Trading Company can provide protection.”
“What are the conditions? Is your trading company providing protection for no reason? "The inspector asked with a frown.
"We are going to set up a capital tax office, and our firm will be responsible for all defense and tax collection." Xu Wei stated his conditions.
After hearing such words, the inspector shook his head. He shook his head and said: "They all require tariffs. Why don't we cooperate with Omura Juntada? Nagasaki should be Omura Juntada's territory."
Xu Wei smiled. Said: "It seems that the inspector still doesn't understand that the tax rate of the Ming Dynasty's Metropolitan Government is 60%, which is a divided tax."
"If you talk like this, then Nagasaki is the territory of the Ming Dynasty." The inspector frowned and recalled for a moment. It seemed that the tax rate of the Ming Dynasty had always been like this. The Ming Dynasty was very stubborn. The tax rate of this merchant seemed to have never changed.
"Then continue." The smile on Xu Wei's face was very simple and peaceful, just like the smiles of priests when believers confess.
The priest opposite said calmly: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."
After the Holy See's priest inspector left, Sun Keyi asked with a strange expression: "Sir, you and The inspector seemed to have forgotten to discuss a very important issue, how to force Omura Chunchu to donate his land, and now he is waiting for a price. "
"We have discussed it," Xu Wei said with confidence.
"Have the boss, sir, discussed it with the inspector?" Sun Keyi thought he heard wrongly and looked at Ma Jin and asked.
Ma Jin shook his head. Their conversation was actually very brief, and they definitely did not discuss how to capture Nagasaki.
“I just let him continue. Some dirty things are not suitable for Ming’s guest soldiers to do. Otherwise, the guest soldiers will change from a well-organized Ming army that wants to save the head of Guizhou to burning and killing. Robbery, soldiers who do all kinds of evil." Xu Wei didn't make it clear, but he didn't want the Ming guest soldiers to have too much dirty blood on their hands.
Qi Jiguang's program for establishing guest troops was: report to the emperor and go down to rescue the head of Guizhou.
This is a very rare program. No matter how great the interests are, it cannot shake this program.
Allowing guest soldiers to do dirty things is a kind of blasphemy and very dangerous. Guest soldiers, the incarnation of violence, cannot transform into immoral and unrestrained gangsters. One day, first The one who died must be him, Xu Wei.
This is the most important thing Qi Jiguang mentioned first when he met the emperor, organization.
Organization is a system established around a program. The loss of organization is the greatest damage to military discipline.
The place where Xu Wei and others set foot is a place accustomed to suppressing superiors. They turn well-trained guest soldiers into evil ghosts who are desperate to kill people without blinking an eye, because they don't want to live long.
If Zhu Yijun were here, he would definitely agree with Xu Wei's idea.
The Japanese country is a place that is very good at subduing superiors. Their basic political logic is to make up their minds at all levels. The shogun, Taige, Guanbai, and Taizheng ministers are all made up of emperors, and their leaders are very good at it. The shogun was emptied out, and at the local level, the daimyo who controlled the country would be emptied out by the governors of each family.
The most typical example is Oda Nobunaga who was defeated in the Battle of Honnoji Temple.
In the tenth year of Wanli, Mitsuhide Akechi, a confidant whom Oda Nobunaga trusted very much, launched a coup at Honnoji Temple, killing Oda Nobunaga and his eldest son, ending more than a hundred years of turmoil in the Japanese country. Oda Nobunaga was killed by his trusted retainer.
This trend of subordinates overcoming superiors was still very obvious in later generations.
For example, there was a Japanese craftsman who made a double-barreled iron cannon and called it Abeqi. He rode alone and attacked the Japanese Taige and killed him with one blow. Abe was immediately elated.
On the mountain Tetsuya confirmed the spirit of craftsmanship of the Japanese country, the martial virtues of the Japanese country's water pipes that can really be used as gun barrels, the bravery of a cavalry attack, the application of the Japanese army, and the anger of ordinary people. , blood splattered three feet, all these spirits were fulfilled in the assassination of Tetsuya on the mountain.
Sun Keyi and Ma Jin soon understood that Xu Wei and the inspector had really talked and reached an agreement, because a fire that spread throughout Nagasaki began to spread among the mountains and forests.
The fire came suddenly and quickly, and soon swept through the entire Nagasaki. The flames licked the wooden houses of the Japanese. Countless people jumped into the sea to protect themselves. There was no more Traces.
The fire burned in the harbor of Nagasaki all night long. The forests, wooden houses, ships, gates, trestles, etc. were all burned to the ground. Countless people were burned to charcoal or burned in the sea of fire. Or jumped into the water and died in the sea.
Burn Nagasaki, hell on earth.
Who set this fire? Naturally, it was the godfather who baptized Omura Juntada and the church's inspector. Xu Wei took Sun Keyi, Ma Jin and dozens of Songjiang guest soldiers to the streets. The fire was over. The originally prosperous Nagasaki had turned into a scene like hell on earth. There were horrific scenes after the fire everywhere, and the air There was even a disgusting aroma of barbecue.
The fire was lit at midnight. Many people felt the heat in their sleep. When they woke up from the fire, it was too late to escape.
"Gods love everyone equally?" Xu Wei stood on the street, looking at the two clearly distinguished Nagasakis, with a playful smile on his face.
On one side are the ruins that were burned by the fire, while on the other side is the parish under the control of the church, which is unscathed, and the guild hall where Xu Wei and others stayed is within the parish.
The Thai people are worse than he thought.
Xu Wei asked the inspector to continue because Xu Wei saw some strange things from the intelligence. Omura Junchu was bullied. In fact, most of the bullying came from the godfather who baptized him, including the fact that he almost killed him. Assassination by Juntada Omura.
The godfather had obviously reached the limit of his patience. In order to force Omura Juntada to surrender completely, he directly chose to set fire to force Omura Juntada to surrender and stop asking for taxes after donating the land.
Sun Keyi and Ma Jin, they saw that the church was still standing because the fire did not spread to the parish. At the port, the sailing ships from the West were intact, and even the two battleships staying in the port were intact. All ships were safe and sound.
Water and fire are merciless, but this is obviously a deliberate arson.
"What they did is so obvious. The parish is intact, but outside the parish, it was completely burned down. Isn't this... going to cause problems?" Sun Keyi, who had done all the bad things, couldn't help but shudder.
“This is why the Taixi people want to ask for souls, and this is why I think your Majesty is extremely wise. Your Majesty strictly prohibited Nestorian missionary requests in the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning, Legaz, Antonio and Francisco all requested He tried to preach in the Ming Dynasty, but was rejected by the Ming Emperor. "Xu Wei thought for a while and further explained: "In many cases, natural disasters are interpreted by religion as a warning from heaven and man, a warning to meat eaters."
< br>“And religion is very good at transferring the hatred, dissatisfaction and fear of natural disasters to certain meat-eaters.”
Xu Wei is very clear about the propagation path of the Western Church, or most religions. In the Southeast, where Japanese invasions were frequent, such monstrous things appeared one after another, causing harm, and then appeared as a compassionate image, and then deceived people's hearts.
I have seen Xu Wei too many times.
“Isn’t that the inspector? What is he doing?” Sun Keyi asked in surprise as he saw the crowd gathering in front of him.
Xu Wei said calmly: "He is saving the souls of the dead."
The kind priest read the scriptures very devoutly in front of a mother and son who had been burned to death, and even shed tears. Two tears, while feeling sad for such misfortune, also expressed pity for the mother and son who were burnt to charcoal black.
Apparently when the fire came, the mother held the child under her body in order to protect the child. The mother had been burned beyond recognition, but the child still retained the whole body. The child did not escape the disaster and died. In the fire.
When the fire burned until midnight yesterday, there was still no one to put out the fire. It seemed that God couldn't stand it anymore, so it rained, preventing the fire from spreading.
The priest was praying, while the believers around him could not hide their sadness and cried bitterly.
And a kind of dissatisfaction was brewed in the cries, which was dissatisfaction with Omura Junchu because he could not protect Nagasaki.
What must Omura Junchu do, either suppress or appease. Omura Junchu is a coward. He is incompetent to suppress and can only appease. However, handing Nagasaki to a reliable force will become Knowing the path Omura Junchu must take, it is obvious that the church is a good choice.
Omura Junchu found the hotel at night, and under the slightly dim light, saw the people who came from the Ming Dynasty.
"Honorable envoy of the Heavenly Kingdom, please show mercy and save me." Omura Junzhong kept kowtowing. He realized that the crisis was approaching, so he looked for the powerful man from Ming Dynasty. Soldiers, please help.
"Do you know where your misfortune comes from?" Xu Wei put down the tea cup in an orderly manner and looked at Omura Juntada and asked.
"Father Alessandro Valignano, the inspector from the West." Omura Juntada bowed again and gritted his molars and said: "I offered my faith and allowed them to To preach in my territory, I plan to completely hand over Nagasaki to the church. I even negotiated terms with the priest. When the priest returns to Rome, I will send an envoy to Taixi to worship the Holy Land."
"I am like this. His piety was rewarded with such humiliation. "
Omura Junchu really planned to send an envoy to Rome for pilgrimage, and also reached a contract with the priest. When the priest completed his mission of inspecting the parish and returned to Rome, Send envoys there.
In the tenth year of Wanli, the Tianzheng mission to Europe was promoted by Omura Juntada. It was also the first Japanese mission to visit Western Europe.
Xu Wei heard this, nodded and said: "You are not stupid."
"I actually want to know why you didn't kneel in front of your priest to confess your faults, but ran away Come here and kowtow to me, why?" Xu Wei asked curiously.
Sun Keyi and Ma Jin were also confused. They, the Ming people, were more like despicable outsiders. As soon as they arrived in Nagasaki, they set fire to the mountains, burned down the port, and burned down the city, even if it was not What the people of Ming Dynasty did, Omura Juntada should trust his priest more. Aren't they despicable foreigners the best sinners?
After all, this was only the second time Xu Wei met Omura Juntada.
"The Ming Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven and a land of etiquette." Omura Juntada bowed again and said forcefully.
Omura Junchu would never doubt the people of Ming Dynasty, because people of Ming Dynasty cannot do such things. There is a high morality in Ming Dynasty, which is a disadvantage in competition, and this kind of high morality Moral inferiority is the fundamental reason why Omura Junchu did not suspect that he was the Ming Dynasty.
"I hate morality very much." The corner of Xu Wei's mouth twitched. He really hates morality. The second reason why he doesn't like Zhang Juzheng is that Zhang Juzheng is a good person. He treats the emperor, the capital, and the powerful. Hao You, Zhang Juzheng was a good person to the poor coolies of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason Xu Wei doesn’t like Zhang Juzheng is that when Xu Jie forced Hu Zongxianyu to die, Zhang Juzheng was still Xu Jie’s ally and student. Zhang Juzheng did not stop his teacher from harming an official who had done great service to the country. , sit and watch Hu Zongxianyu die, seeking glory and being humiliated.
Zhang Juzheng is so powerful and has saved so many people. Why can't he save Hu Zongxian like he saved Qi Jiguang?
Zhang Juzheng is like the savior of the Ming Dynasty. Even Xu Wei hopes that Zhang Juzheng can bring fairness and justice, but Zhang Juzheng's kindness did not shine on Xu Wei, so Xu Wei resented Zhang Juzheng.
Just like Zhang Juzheng, for the first time in the long history, talked about the negative effect of the Jin gentry on the Ming Dynasty, treat the common people well and give them fairness and justice.
Why is Zhang Juzheng so stingy and unwilling to give Hu Zongxian some fairness and justice? At that time, Hu Zongxian was deprived of his official status and fame, and he was a harmless figure who died politically.
This is a typical thinking mode of Ming people. They sincerely hope that there will be a Ming Lord who can turn the tide and let the suffering life breathe, even if it is just a breath.
And this way of thinking can really get a response.
In the Ming Dynasty alone, Yu Qian saved the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Juzheng desperately wanted to save the Ming Dynasty.
The Han Dynasty is full of loyalty and good people.
This generation of loyal and loyal people is probably the greatest benefit brought by high moral disadvantages.
Xu Wei really doesn’t like morality, but what Omura Juntada said makes sense.
"So what is the governor's plan?" Xu Wei asked with a smile.
Omura Juntada bowed again and said loudly: "I will convert, and I will dedicate the two places of Nagasaki and Motegi to your envoy. If I can't do this, these heavenly soldiers and generals will have to My life is easy. I have only one humble request: kill those evil demons!"
"I'm surprised that you can use idioms." Xu Wei's focus is strange, this Omura Junchu. Actually knowing idioms, Xu Wei asked curiously: "Do you know the meaning of this idiom? Do you know its origin?"
Omura Juntada couldn't keep up with Xu Wei's thinking. He was offering soil for peace. , why did Xu Wei stare at the fact that he could use idioms? He said dullly: "I don't know." The same article also said: The princes of the Wu Ding Dynasty had the power of luck. At least in the Han Dynasty, the idiom "Easy as the backhand" was summed up. "
"Since you are so sincere, then I agree to you."
"Thank you, angel!" Omura Juntada kowtowed several times in succession. He knelt on the ground, trying his best to be submissive, but he raised his head hard and used He asked with a strange gesture: "Angel, I have a merciless request. Can I stay at the hotel for a few days? I'm afraid I will die if I go out."
"So you know you are seeking skin from a tiger. ? Are you not afraid of seeking skin from a tiger when you beg me?" Xu Wei looked at Omura Junchu with a playful expression.
Omura Juntada is not stupid, he is just cowardly, he is very shrewd, and he knows how terrible the Taixi people are.
The Westerners are big tigers. Didn’t the Ming Dynasty eat people?
"No matter how much the Ming Dynasty wants, it is not as big as the appetite of the Westerners." Omura Juntada really thought so.
He was thinking hard. At most, the Ming Dynasty would annex the entire Japanese country and turn the Japanese country into a province of the Ming Dynasty. Is this a bad thing for the Japanese country? This is a great thing for Japan!
It is an honor to be a dog of the Ming Dynasty. It is much better than a wild dog running around and eating one meal without finishing.
"Then you can stay at Guanyi. The results will be available in two or three days at most." Xu Wei waved his hand and asked Omura Junchu to retreat.
And Sun Keyi finally understood Xu Wei's plan. The bad things were done by the Taixi people, and the good reputation was obtained by the Ming people. This is to want and want, both to have the port and springboard of Nagasaki, and to be in the city. The people's support and the foundation of governance here.
The communication between Xu Wei and the church inspector was just to intensify the conflict.
"Sir, did you know that the church was going to be set on fire from the beginning?" Sun Keyi asked with some uncertainty.
"No, I don't know. I didn't expect them to be so bad." Xu Wei waved his hand and said, "Compared with them, I am like a saint. These Thais are really damned. They are forced to I am a good person who punishes evil and eliminates evil!"
"I am obviously here to do evil!"
"Zhizhong, you have to remember, no matter what. Plans are all decided based on changes in the situation. This is determined by the situation. "
Sun Keyi's nickname is Zhizhong, which is what Xu Wei called him. It is true that he promised the priest to provide force protection. He promised. It is also true that Omura Juntada wanted to avenge those who died in the Nagasaki fire.
It’s just that the situation has changed and the decision has changed.
"The students understand." Sun Keyi figured out the reason.
"Vice Master Ma, the next thing is left to you. Communicate well with Omura Juntada and arrest all the fifty-nine missionaries of the church. Don't kill them, arrest them. , to reveal their crimes bit by bit. "Xu Wei did not intend to kill people directly, but to arrest them and reveal their crimes bit by bit.
"Yes." Ma Jin nodded, leading a group of soldiers in steel armor to prepare to clean up the parish.
The missionary was captured at the request of Omura Juntada, the governor of the Omura family.
Historically, there was indeed a fire before Omura Junzhong offered his land to seek peace and sent the Tianzheng envoy to visit Europe. Of course, all the records in the documents said it was an accident. Was it an accident? Xiaowu Isn’t it surprising that these missionaries wandered across the sea to Nagasaki to spread love and peace? Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! !
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