Xinshun 1730

Chapter 378 Still Tribute
He said so arrogantly, but in fact Liu Yu was quite conservative in his heart.

He didn't think that winning Nanyang would be the Celestial Dynasty, nor did he use France to destroy the Netherlands as Duke Qi thought. Things are far from that simple.

It's just that some things are said to be simplified in the court, and some things have to be burdened with Dashun's own national conditions.

The scene of the sailors' brawl ended quickly.

The sailors of a battleship and four cruisers can always beat the sailors of a standard 85-man Dutch merchant ship.

For the rest of the play, the ministers in the capital will finish it spontaneously. After all, the Nanyang Expansionists are only a minority, and even fewer know it, and more will oppose it even if they know it.

There is no need to act in the conservative atmosphere of the court.

The irascible style of the sailors doesn't need drama either.

Both sides were very restrained and did not use weapons, at most they used the sugar cane wine bottles commonly used by sailors to fight.

After the army maintaining order arrived, the sailors of the warship dispersed without further ado.

Phillips, who got the news, left the yamen alone, and his interpreter was detained by Qi Guogong "very unreasonably" on the grounds that no third person should know about the matter.

The interpreter was found in Guangdong, and there was no real rule of law in Dashun. It was easy for the Duke to detain someone, and Phillips had nothing to say.

Looking at the beaten sailors on his own side, he knew that Liu Yu had a grudge against the Netherlands. It might be due to religious factors, or it might be because he became an earl at a young age and had not suffered any disadvantages, so he was brooding over the arrest of the ship by the Netherlands for inspection. Probably the kind of patriots that were common in Holland many years ago.

Having experienced the diplomatic incidents of Qi State officials who only considered self-interest, Phillips understands that there is no inter-provincial conference in Dashun, the emperor and officials rule the country from top to bottom, and personal preferences may even determine national policies.

I can't help worrying.

He was anxious to return to Batavia, discuss this matter with the governor of Batavia, and come up with a "low-key and make Dashun face" solution as soon as possible.

But after this fight happened, he knew that he couldn't leave for the time being.

Watching France and the UK looked like vultures waiting to peck at dead bodies.

This brawl was obviously caused by Liu Yu's personal grievances, but Phillips would definitely think that this was Dashun's official attitude considering that the British and French envoys did not know about it.

Once Britain and France misunderstand that this is the official attitude of Dashun, they are likely to take this opportunity to add fuel to the fire and squeeze out the Netherlands' trade with China.

So he can't go yet, he has to follow, and he has to beware of these possible enemies, slander, and slander-although most of them may just tell the truth, some things Holland has done are more disgusting than slander based on imagination.

In order to prove that this was not Dashun's official attitude, he had to go to see Duke Qi again, hoping that Dashun would deal with the one who took the lead in making trouble. Earl? Or, you let me be a duke to deal with a prince? I think you are crazy."

"Do you understand the Celestial Dynasty? You don't even understand the Celestial Dynasty, and the Netherlands actually sent you to be in charge of trade with the Celestial Dynasty?"

He quickly rejected Phillips' request, only saying that only the emperor can make a decision on this matter, and he is not qualified to make a decision.

It's just that the Celestial Dynasty put benevolence and righteousness first, and still gave 100 taels of soup and medicine, and asked a doctor for bruises to take a look.

Phillips also went out of his way to welcome the doctor who had suffered a bruise with great fanfare, just to let Britain and France see that the brawl incident was not Dashun's official attitude.

He knew very well that what he wanted to keep an eye on was the United Kingdom, his ally at this time.

France has seen the Emperor of Dashun a long time ago, and it is estimated that the slander has already been slandered, and now it seems that it has no effect.

On the contrary, Britain, this is the first time it has seen the emperor of Dashun, and the first time it has contacted Dashun's foreign ministry, this suspicious ally is the one to be wary of the most.

But soon, he got a very bad news.

The British hosted a banquet for the Duke of Qi. There were not many participants in the banquet. Both sides kept secrets about what was discussed. Phillips didn't know, but he could guess that the British must have paid bribes.

This is the official British mission from London.In fact, Dashun did not invite the British to come, but the British came on their own initiative.

One is that none of the inter-provincial consuls in the Netherlands is currently in the vacancy period; the other is that the East India Company believes that the trade with China is very stable, and there is no need to talk about it; the third is that the Dutch are sure that the series of actions before Dashun are for Russia .

There was no invitation at all, and the Netherlands did not take the initiative. It could only passively let Phillips, the head of the China Trade Commission, go to Tianjin, but he is not a China hand.

The suspicion among countries had grown deeper and deeper before they went to the capital.Dashun's possible diplomatic attitude means real money to European countries. This kind of suspicion makes them inquire with each other, but they don't believe what they inquire about, even if what the other party says is obviously the truth.

Soon, news came from the capital that envoys from Western countries were allowed to visit Beijing.The Seventh Prince Li Yan boarded the ship and stayed in Tianjin. Before the return of the diplomatic missions from various countries, he was in charge of the warships that arrived in Tianjin to avoid any accidents at sea.

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Beijing.

On the second day after the Western diplomatic missions entered Beijing, another heavy news spread like the wind and sand in the capital city in spring, overwhelming the streets and alleys.

The Holy Son of Heaven is going to drive Zhengyangmen, and the Ryukyu King knows that he has committed a serious crime and is bound to ask the Holy Dynasty.

After all, the Ryukyu King is also a king.

As long as Dashun continues to practice etiquette for a day, the county king will be the county king after all. When those maritime merchants who were in trouble to Ryukyu wrote "Interrogation Records" to the Ryukyu king, in fact, to the people of Satsuma, they would call them princes.

The Ryukyu country still has a high rate of appearance in the stories in the market, and many people in the capital have heard of Ryukyu.Those who are educated know that it is just a small country the size of a palm; those who are uneducated think that this is also a kingdom, how can it not be three thousand miles away?

As for what crime the King of Ryukyu committed, there are many rumors in the capital, but in general it cannot be avoided that Ryukyu has defected to the country of Wa.

The capital is not close to the sea, and even the oldest person in the capital has never experienced such memories of Japanese pirates.

But, no matter what, I have heard the story of "Du Shiniang Sinks the Treasure Box in Anger". At the beginning, it said that the Japanese government was in chaos, and Li Jianasu was imprisoned.Not only do they know about Guanbai in Japan, but they also know that the name of Guanbai who caused the chaos back then was Hideyoshi and his surname was Ping.

As for more, the common people don't know.Japan has been locked away for a long time, and has never paid tribute to the future, and the memories of the people have stayed in a long, long time ago.

Some of the storytellers in the teahouse were catching up with Du Shiniang, and said, "But it is said that the previous dynasty, from the ninth biography of Emperor Yongle to Emperor Wanli, has gone through eleven generations. Ascension to the throne at the age of ten, and reigned for 48 years, three rebellions were brought to an end. Those three? Japan’s Guanbaihei Hideyoshi, Xixia’s Cheng’en, ​​and Banzhou’s Yang Yinglong.”

"Ping Xiuji invaded North Korea, and Yan Cheng'en and Yang Yinglong were local officials who conspired to rebel, and they were flattened one after another. Yuan Yi was not afraid of submission, and fought for tribute. The truth is: one person can enjoy the peace of the people, and the world is safe and peaceful."

When it comes to the rise, the storyteller can’t help but add a few words in praise of this dynasty, saying: "But if we talk about this dynasty, then the Wanli year of the previous dynasty is not as good. The holy emperor personally conquered Rakshasa, recovered the Western Regions, and restored The old frontiers of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the defense against the North, and now all nations come to court, even the Western countries. Do you know how far the Western countries are from here?"

There were few high-ranking officials in the teahouse, and they didn't know the quarrel in the Forbidden City over "tributary" or "diplomacy". They only thought that the Westerners came to pay tribute.

The imperial court also had to pretend to be a kingdom of heaven, and naturally it would not explain what diplomacy was and what tribute was.

In addition, the Westerners really did not leave too many memories for the people in the capital. In the early years, they went to the Foreign Monk Temple to see the scenery. In recent years, the Foreign Monk Temple has also been closed.

And Liu Yu didn't give the match the chance to name it foreign fire, and the glass in the capital. The people in the capital didn't know that this thing originated from the West, but they knew that the glass in the capital was all produced in Zunhua Prefecture.

As for the firecrackers, cannons, and even Dashun's military reform, they did not cause any waves.

Firecrackers have existed since ancient times, or someone in the know knows that this musket is imitated from France, but they have no time to call it a foreign gun.In the early years, the "Lumi" blunderbuss, which was full of Roman flavor, was passed down as "Lumi blunderbuss", which means that soldiers eat food. What's more, when naming it, they bypassed the imitation name of the new flintlock gun. .

The high-end four-wheeled carriages with bogies and shock-absorbing springs running in the capital are also called Zhengxi carriages. It is said that such four-wheeled carriages were exposed in the capital for logistics purposes when the Ministry of Recruitment was recruited.

The emperor's edict separated Western learning from practical learning. In this age when efforts were made to excel, Western learning and practical learning were completely separated.

Those who study Confucius and Mencius are called Confucianism; those who study geometry are called practical studies; those who sing mass with foreign monks are called Western studies.

Now that they have been separated, in the eyes of the common people, these western countries can only come to pay tribute.

The storyteller in the teahouse lost his temper, flattered the court, and finally returned to the topic, telling the story of Du Shiniang.

But at the moment when Sun Fu met Li Jia, a few people came in from the outside and shouted: "What are you still listening to? Go and see the excitement. The King of Ryukyu bound himself to plead guilty, and the emperor drove Zhengyang door, if you go late, there will be no place to stand!"

It doesn't matter if you shout like this, people in the teahouse got up and rushed out, and in a blink of an eye, there was only a cup of tea left.

The storyteller originally wanted to earn some more money, but seeing that the business was too late, he secretly said: "Although I am a storyteller, I rely on my words to tell stories about the predecessors, but this is rare. Scenery. Why don’t you also go and see it, to gain some insight? In the future, when Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty reprimanded Jieli Khan at Shuntian Gate, can he say that the sky is rotten?”

This kind of scenery is really rare to see, so I tidied up and followed those people.

(End of this chapter)