Chapter 656 The Secret Skill from the Ming Dynasty - Boomerang
The architectural style of the El Escorial Monastery is called 'Escape from God', and this monastery is also called: 'Mysterious Refuge' So, if Felipe is really a devout believer, why should he run away from God?
The third rank of official residence is anti-religion. Felipe hides his resistance to religion deep in his heart. This is a struggle for power.
Because part of the power that should have belonged to the king was taken away by the Holy See, just like the Holy Roman Emperor no longer accepted the canonization of the Holy See.
Because of the Holy See, Felipe II lost the right to inherit the Holy Roman Empire, which made Felipe II even more angry.
The defenders of the Holy See and the eradicators of heresy? It was just an attempt to unite the scattered Spain. Now that there was a new superior substitute, the emergence of the Great Light Sect, Felipe II chose to indulge.
Religion must be counterbalanced by the power of religion.
Galileo was able to find a job with Felipe II because he studied medicine at the University of Pisa and was deemed by the Inquisition to be a heretic who doubted God.
Galileo is just twenty years old this year, but Legaz still sees fatigue in Galileo. The oppression from the Holy See has made Galileo less sharp than a young man and a little more calm, even There is some twilight, which is rarely seen in the generally elderly courtiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Legasi has met Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu countless times. They are old but have high fighting spirit.
Galileo seemed confused and gloomy.
Felipe II looked at Galileo and seemed to see another brave self who dared to resist the Holy See, but Felipe could not do it for various reasons. Felipe remembered that he was the King of Spain first.
Galileo is just a microcosm, a microcosm of being brutally persecuted by the Holy See.
“Your Majesty does not recommend that Your Highness attack the English mainland.” Legas mentioned something that the Ming Emperor repeatedly mentioned in his credentials. It was not that he disagreed or did not allow it, but that he did not recommend it. The Ming Emperor did not There is no intention of deeply intervening in Felipe's decision-making.
“The Mongols with the whip of God once whipped all the countries in the Western Regions and Western Europe during their Western Expeditions, but Kublai Khan, the whip holder, sent troops to attack the Japanese twice. In the east, The Japanese country is roughly equivalent to England, with the same geographical location and moral standards. However, Kublai Khan's two attacks were defeated by the sea wind and big waves. The expedition to the ocean destroyed a country that had existed for hundreds of years, and Not a good choice."
"England is not a barbaric country in the New World that has not even invented the wheel or iron tools. On the contrary, they have extremely fierce competition with us in wool." Legaz's attitude was particularly special. of determination.
"The Ming Emperor's hand was stretched too far. This is a contradiction between us and England. Does the Ming Dynasty, which is 40,000 miles away, also want to interfere in our military operations? No. Attacking the Ming Emperor's vassal, Antonio of Portugal. "Felipe was very, very dissatisfied with the Ming Emperor's long-arm jurisdiction.
The Ming Emperor reached out to Taixi, which was tens of thousands of miles away, and asked Felipe not to attack England. What kind of mentality was this? This is the addiction of being a father!
It’s enough to have the Holy See in Rome above your head, but now you need to have the Holy See in Beijing as your father?
Legas could see Felipe's disapproval of this suggestion and immediately said calmly: "No, Your Highness, this is a well-intentioned suggestion from the wise prophet to Your Highness. Of course Your Highness can ignore it, but this It’s a well-intentioned suggestion, and I suggest that your Highness consider it carefully.”
"In fact, the Ming Dynasty is preparing to destroy the Japanese. Yes, it is the same thing as His Highness is preparing to do. I believe that His Highness has learned from the merchants that the Ming Navy is no less inferior to the Invincible Fleet."
Fei Lippe's vanity was satisfied at this moment.
He still knew the situation of the Ming Dynasty fleet. Ming Dynasty did not deliberately hide it from the Thai and Spanish merchants. Every time the Taixi envoy returned to Spain, he would describe to him in detail the size and well-equipped fleet of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty’s Armada consisted of six fast sailing ships, including the Youlong and Feiyun, one hundred and twenty five-masted ocean-going ships, 600 three-masted plywood ships (horse ships), and battleships. There are more than 1,000 ships and nearly 2,000 fighting ships. Envoys from Europe and the West also attended the ship review in Tianjin Port. To put it bluntly, the Ming Navy participating in the Ming Dynasty ship review can crush the Spanish invincible. fleet.
This is not only a gap in scale, but also a gap in quality. According to the explanation of change in the Theory of Contradiction, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. The huge scale supports the sophisticated equipment of the Ming Navy.
Even though he knew that what Legas said was nice, Felipe still took advantage of it. Legas compared the Ming Dynasty Navy with the Spanish Armada, but in fact the gap between the two, Felipe Know very well.
The difference between cloud and mud.
“You are saying that the fleets of the Luzon Governor’s Palace and the Old Port Governor’s Palace are comparable in strength to our Armada.” Felipe said with a smile, the Luzon Governor’s Palace and the Old Port Governor’s Palace are Even if it is a partial division, its combat effectiveness is so powerful that the Spanish army cannot match it.
Legas smiled. Luzon and Old Port each deployed a fast sailing ship. Just one fast sailing ship with sufficient ammunition can kill the entire armada.
The fully paid Ming army is really difficult to defeat.
"The Ming Dynasty had such a powerful navy. When it came to destroying the Japanese, the emperor, palace secretaries, and ministers of state all believed that it was safer to go by land. They planned to start from North Korea, so that they only needed to use Tsushima Island as a springboard to cross the sea. That’s it, don’t worry too much about the impact of waves and strong winds.” Ligas took out a pen and paper and simply drew the geographical locations of Japan, Korea and Ming Dynasty.
"The Ming Emperor was very brave, but in this matter, he seemed too cautious." Felipe criticized the timidity of the Ming Emperor's strategy.
In the small Japanese country, the Ming Emperor was so cautious that he wanted to destroy the Japanese by land instead of by sea. There was obviously another route.
"Kublai Khan stopped his expansion after he was unable to capture the Japanese kingdom twice, because the price of defeat was so expensive that even the emperor of the Central Plains could not bear it." Li Yashi said with a solemn expression. : "As a land-power country with a huge depth, the only thing that can defeat a huge land empire is arrogance."
"And I see this kind of arrogance from His Highness."
" "Legas!" Felipe became furious. This was a blatant contradiction and accusation. Of course he would be angry. No one has dared to speak to him like this for many years! This is offensive! Disobedience!
"Your Highness! I once criticized His Majesty's stinginess and greed, but Your Majesty did not embarrass me! The great thinking in Beijing is so free that even some rebels can speak! Your Majesty said: No one can never make mistakes. Only by accepting criticism from others and reviewing yourself can you be a wise ruler!" Legasi said without giving up.
“True advice is unpleasant to the ear and beneficial to action; good medicine is bitter to the mouth and beneficial to the disease; I have to examine myself three times every day! This is your Majesty’s requirement for yourself. This is also one of your Majesty’s eight virtues, humility!”
“Da Ming Being able to rise from the ashes and rise to power in the Far East again is not only the efforts of all the people, but also the efforts of His Majesty! His Majesty always said that with the efforts of thousands of people, the world is invincible! But where are the civilians? Where are the civilians when they are needed?”
“I have never seen the strength of a man, I have only seen the strength of a man!”
"I only saw His Majesty and a few loyal ministers fighting alone!"
"In an imperial country, the emperor's character and morality determine the fate of the country! This is what I saw ”
“Your Highness, as the king of Spain, as the overlord of the empire on which the sun never sets, and as an important player in the world’s maritime power, your Highness should remain humble at all times.”
Li! It can be said that these words of Yashi poked Felipe's lung tube!
Although Felipe has repeatedly claimed that he is the overlord of the empire on which the sun never sets, and hopes to maintain the same status as the Ming Dynasty, in fact, he envies the supreme power of the Ming Emperor and the tyrannical national power of the Ming Dynasty. When comparing him with the Ming Emperor, not only the prosperity, dominance, and centripetal force of the empire were crushed by the Ming Dynasty.
And now, even the king's morality has been crushed.
Felipe slapped the table and stood up, pointed at Legas, pointed hard several times, then reluctantly sat down and said: "Huh, isn't it just because he has the support of the Ming Emperor? , do you dare to be so arrogant? Where is your humility? "
Legasil had so many vests, but the one with the highest weight was the one he asked the Ming Emperor for. Felipe had no choice but to endure the fact that he was the special envoy to Teixi.
In the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he was not picky about calling him Legas, Li Tongshi, but when he arrived in Taipei, even Felipe had to call him Li Angel, the messenger of wisdom incarnate!
Angels are envoys of the emperor.
The most important thing is that this messenger is still the left messenger of the Light, and the Great Light Sect has a guardian army! The Left Envoy of Light has no actual power, but is one of the symbols of the Great Light Sect.
Once the Envoy of Light is killed in Spain, those crazy believers will probably break the sky if they don’t talk about the eight virtues. With the blessing of fanatical belief, what will happen? Felipe Lian Can't even think about it.
"It would be really sad if His Highness thinks that I am arrogant." Ligas said with a gloomy expression: "In fact, I can stay in the Ming Dynasty and not come back here. I will be burned at the stake." I have witnessed it with my own eyes several times.”
“Once it is defeated and Spain loses the Strait of Gibraltar, it will become a baby swimming in the bathtub of the Mediterranean.”
“I don’t. I hope, I don’t want to see this happen.”
The common trick of cheap Confucians is moral kidnapping.
Legas risked his life and returned to his homeland. You Felipe should listen to me carefully.
"Okay, what you said makes sense." Felipe stabilized his emotions and said helplessly: "No one has said these things to me. I have been a monarch for too long. The palace secretaries looked at me as if they were seeing a tiger. Everyone among the nobles had their own concerns, and no one said these things to me. "
"The empire has many problems, and I feel like doing so on my own. I can't solve these problems, and I have made a lot of efforts, but they are all in vain."
Legas is very aware of the terror of the Holy See in the West. He knows the danger this time, but he still came back. , and try his best to prevent Felipe from making an unwise decision.
Such people are rare in the Ming Dynasty. Bigan's confession is a legend, and Hai Rui's remonstrance while carrying a coffin is a reality.
Actually, Legas did not believe the legend about Bigan's heartfelt remonstrance. It was not until he saw Hai Rui with his own eyes that he was convinced that such a skeletal official actually existed and was right in front of him.
And today, Ligas was a little shocked to find that he seemed to have become the same Hai Rui as before.
Legas took a deep breath and continued: "Your Highness, the English are as hateful as the Japanese pirates. Why do the English instigate the civilians in the Netherlands to resist Spain? It is true that Spain is in the Netherlands. The overly cruel rule in the Netherlands created conditions for this kind of resistance, but without England's instigation, it would never have developed to the current situation."
"Because the English also know that they are alone overseas and need it. A fulcrum to cross the violent Atlantic Ocean and the unpredictable English Channel."
"Your Highness, even the English people you look down on are full of awe of nature." "True. Wisdom comes from heaven and earth, from nature, and we must respect nature."
Felipe II clenched his fist, slammed it on the table, and said loudly: "Huh. No matter what you say, I am still very unwilling! These bastards looted Seville and burned down my cathedral! This is an unforgivable sin! Punish them!"
"These bastards must be punished!"
Legas' eyes became a little colder and he whispered: "There are many ways to punish them! , it is not necessary to march directly.”
"Oh?" Felipe raised his eyebrows. Since Ligasi dared to contradict him like this, he seemed to have prepared a solution. Ligasi had studied abroad in the Ming Dynasty for twelve years, and it seemed that he had really learned a lot!
"Your Highness, in the contradiction and conflict between England and Spain, the English knew that they were not our opponents and issued a privateering license in exchange for a relative advantage. That's right." Legaz's tone It is still very cold. If Zhu Yijun saw this face, he would definitely say that this Ligasi already looks like a cheap Confucian! When the cheap scholar comes up with bad ideas and plots, his expression is exactly the same as that of Legas!
Damn it, I just learned the good things from Ming Dynasty, and even the bad ones.
“That’s true.” Felipe didn’t understand what Legas was going to say.
“What are pirates?” Legas twitched the corner of his mouth and said, “Pirates are a group of desperadoes. Calling them dogs is an insult to dogs. They have no morals at all. As long as they give money, They can do anything. The reason why they help the English is because only the English give them benefits."
"Give them a piece of meat and they will beg for mercy. Your Highness, let go of some moral restraints. , use these pirates, give them some meat, and let the pirates explore the way to rob England. "
The strategy presented by Legas is a secret technique from the Ming Dynasty - boomerang, this strategy is continuous. Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, was also recruited.
If you prosper like this, you will perish like this!
Since the English used the power of pirates to plunder Spain, Felipe can also use the hands of pirates to plunder England. Can we expect the pirates to be loyal to the Queen of England and be unyielding in the face of huge profits? Loyal to the Queen? They are pirates.
"This..." Felipe looked at Ligas for a moment, and said in a daze: "My old friend, did you also live in such a...contradiction before? On one side, your morality is so dazzling, I feel strong love and moral restraint from you, but is your other side so dark?”
"My old friend, you surprised me."
What exactly did this man go through in the Ming Dynasty to become like this? Living in such a contradictory way has become so complicated.
Legasi spread his hands and said: "Contradictions are ubiquitous. Opposition and unity are the states of existence of all things, just like the yin and yang fish in Tai Chi."
"The Ming Dynasty is fundamentally No one believes in the Great Bright Sect, but everyone lives according to the basic teachings of the Great Bright Sect. Perhaps the Great Bright Sect is just a narrative method to explain the logic of the people of the Ming Dynasty. "
"Then your highness thinks. How about this punishment? The Queen of England issued a privateering license, and we declared free trade, and all ships could trade in Seville, the trading house of the New World."
"In the name of freedom. "
Felipe looked at Ligas for a long time before he said with conviction: "You were not so shameless before. I remember that at that time, you were a little reckless and a little bit reckless. You are arrogant and not as wise as you are now. What changed you? Is it the Ming Dynasty? "
"It is indeed the Ming Dynasty." Li Yashi admitted his shamelessness. If we want to use the rhetoric of the Great Light Sect, That is, after spending a long time with the incarnation of wisdom and receiving guidance from the prophet, no matter how stupid the lamb is, he will understand wisdom.
"Huh, the method you mentioned is very good. I can give it a try. Oh, by the way, in the name of freedom, what exactly should be done?" Felipe asked impatiently.
Legasil explained in detail the high-sounding style he learned from the humble Confucians of the Ming Dynasty.
"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is really so pitiful." Felipe said with lingering fear after hearing what Ligas had learned from the humble Confucians: "Does the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty deal with such creatures every day? He is only twenty-two years old. Years old, it’s really so difficult. He has survived from the age of ten to now, hasn’t he lost faith in the empire?”
Felipe is sincerely afraid of the creatures called Jianru, these people? , like a demon from hell.
"Well, your Majesty is always at an advantage in the fight against the humble Confucians, because your Majesty always firmly believes that the journey of the great road and the hot light can melt all the darkness!" Legas suddenly discovered that the Ming Dynasty In these twelve years of struggle, the emperor had never been at a disadvantage.
Legas stayed in the monastery and told Felipe the story of the Ming Dynasty.
After solving the problem of Sauron being beheaded and persuading Felipe to temporarily give up the attack on the English mainland and wait until the hydrology was thoroughly understood before advancing, the atmosphere became extremely harmonious. Legaz talked a lot about the matter. There are the Royal Institute of Geosciences in the temple, the Royal Institute of Technology and the Maritime School for cultivating the disciples of Geosciences, the Military Academy for training junior officers, the Zhengya Bell and Drum Tower for telling the hour, and so on.
The story of the Ming Dynasty is very long. Originally, Felipe only wanted to hear the story for ten days, but in the end it was extended to fifteen days, and only half of Legas’ story was told.
"I have to be busy with state affairs. My friend, you know, I am a king. It is really a pity." Felipe said with great regret: "Your travel notes, I I will read it carefully word for word, as well as the theory of contradiction, production diagram, public and private theory, and class theory that you sent back to Taixi."
"It's a pity that you have to go back now."
Legas bowed slightly and said: "Your Highness, please remember that the Ming Dynasty and Spain have different national conditions, different fundamental contradictions, and different means of struggle. If you blindly follow the script, you will become those cheap Confucians who have accomplished nothing. Your Highness, please adapt to the situation. Adjustments should be made based on different conflicts and conflicts. This is what His Majesty has always emphasized. You must not follow the book and apply it mechanically."
"Goodbye, Your Highness, I am afraid we will never see each other again. .”
Felipe II whispered to his secretary twice before saying with a smile on his face: "Oh, my friend, I have received news here. Our pirates followed the Thames River and invaded London. The Queen of England escaped. Well, I have to share this news with you. This is really the happiest thing I have done in so many years.”
“Thank you for your suggestion.”
“Is it so fast? ?" Legas was slightly stunned. He thought he had to go to Lisbon or Daming to receive the good news, but he received the good news before he left Madrid.
Felipe said gloatingly: "The pirates have actually had this idea for a long time. Taking advantage of the fact that the Thames River did not freeze this year, more than 700 ships and more than 7,000 pirates rushed into London. , I think the Queen of England never expected that the pirates she tolerated would attack her. I really want to appreciate her stunned expression and her embarrassment when she ran away."
"No. There will definitely not be so many powerful pirates with a privateering license, hahaha!"
Felipe laughed as he spoke. He had never been so happy in his life. A terrible guy like England was finally taught a lesson by an even worse guy that he personally molded.
In this way, Felipe can also deal with all the forces in Spain.
“Goodbye my old friend, please send me a letter every year to tell me about your situation in the Ming Dynasty. Likewise, please finish writing your travel notes on time. I am very interested in the affairs of the Ming Dynasty. "Felipe said goodbye to Legaz solemnly.
"Goodbye, my highness." Legaz bowed his head again and left the monastery. On his way back, he was not locked in a small carriage, but allowed to move freely.
Legas met people from the Inquisition many times, but the knights of these Inquisitions seemed to have received the order and did not attack Legas. This gave him a lot of convenience, and he shuttled freely among It was indeed a bad place in his hometown. The roads outside the city were extremely muddy. The poor sanitary environment in the city made Legaz cover his nose constantly, but he still visited Madrid with great interest.
What disappoints him is that compared with the rapid changes of tomorrow, Spain has not changed much in the twelve years since he left.
Legas remembers that when he first arrived at Xingang in Songjiang Prefecture, Xingang was still deserted, with only a lonely trestle there. It was dilapidated, just a fishing village with a few broken houses, but now Songjiang Prefecture has become a metropolis with two million residents, with roads extending in all directions, row upon row of shops, extremely busy docks, and thousands of sails crossing the sea.
There are no changes in Spain, which means that there is not much development.
Development can cover up many, many contradictions. When it develops, it means that the distributable benefits are increasing, which can satisfy more people. But when development stagnates, the distributable benefits no longer increase. All kinds of contradictions will emerge, making society more fragmented.
The development of everything is cyclical and spiraling. In the downward cycle, how to redistribute the means of production, how to make the distribution satisfy the interests of the majority of people, and how to maintain the basic stability of society are very challenging. The wisdom of the rulers.
As he told Xu Fan, due to the lack of management experience in long-term and stable rule of a vast territory in the dilemma of insufficient material and money shortage, many of Taixi's decisions were like a childish child swinging a sledgehammer.
Legas took a boat and left. As he watched his homeland disappear little by little under the sea level, he knew that once he left, he would never come back.
“Why did you agree to go to the far east?” Legaz asked the twenty-year-old young man next to him, Galileo. Leaving your hometown is something that requires great determination. .
Galileo said with some confusion: "I don't want to leave, but I have to leave. I am a heretic who doubts God, which is better than you, a heretic who betrays God. In order to keep you alive, His Highness the King, A lot of benefits have been transferred to the Holy See, including the appointment and dismissal of cardinals."
"But it doesn't matter. Soon, the Great Illumination Church will tell the Holy See that it is a conservative, closed, and unprogressive Holy See. Will be eliminated, only by making changes can we exist.”
"Do you believe in the Great Light Sect so much?" Ligas was very resistant to the Great Light Sect. He felt that this thing was incompatible with the Ming Dynasty.
This kind of resistance to religion should not appear in the Thai people, so Legas subconsciously resisted it because he had already become a Ming Dynasty man.
Galileo was silent for a moment and said: "What joy is there in life? What pain is there in death? To do good and eliminate evil, there is only light."
Legas held his forehead and said helplessly: "You After you follow me back to the Ming Dynasty, don't tell others that you believe in the Great Light Sect, or you will be laughed at by those scholar-bureaucrats."
Galileo said excitedly: "I have listened to the story for fifteen days, maybe. It’s an illusion. The Ming Dynasty is very tolerant.”
Looking at the sea and the sky, the calm Mediterranean Sea, he said with a smile: “You should read the contradiction. On our way back to the Ming Dynasty, I I’ll teach you Chinese. Just memorize the contradictions. Ming Dynasty is a very complicated and contradictory world.”
“You will like it there.”
(This chapter. End)