I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 236

Chapter 235

"We are hostile countries to the Holy Roman Empire!"

Catherine thought that Cheng Shijie didn't know about the relationship between the Holy Roman Empire and the Venetian city-state, so she spent a quarter of an hour telling the story of the grievances between the Holy Roman Empire and the Venetian city-state.

In fact, the dispute between Venice and the Holy Roman Empire actually stemmed from religion.It is also the original origin of what is now the Thirty Years War in Europe.At the beginning of the sixteenth century, new sects emerged from the Catholic Reformation in Europe: Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and more sects that continued to diverge from these sects.Protestantism is also known as "Protestantism", "Protestantism", "Jesusism".

The state religion of the Venice City-State Republic is Protestantism, so the Pope was upset. The Pope gathered Spain, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, and the Triple Alliance jointly attacked the Venice City-State Republic.Unfortunately, the Venetian City-State Republic was defeated, and its territory was shrinking.

Catherine smiled wryly: "We have always been wary of the penetration of the Holy Roman Empire into our Venice, and it is even more impossible to absorb their population..."

"I don't intend to accuse anyone, whether it's Protestantism or Catholicism, but it's not impossible!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "You have lived in Liaodong for more than a year, right? Do you think the Ming court did not infiltrate Liaodong? The court actually sent a large number of key intelligence personnel to infiltrate Liaodong, but in fact, as long as there are enough Benefits, a person's left hand can sell his right hand, let alone his soul?"

Regarding this point, Cheng Shijie actually did a good job, and he also selectively screened. Not all refugees and refugees immediately obtained the status of Liaodong citizens and had the rights of Liaodong citizens when they arrived in Liaodong. This is a problem that everyone knows.

Especially the officers and men of the Ning Navy. There are not only the officers and men of the Denglai New Army who were born in Dengzhou, but also the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy established by Dengzhou Wei Zuoqianhu. The first batch of soldiers actually came from the Dongjiang Army. Of course, now it also includes the soldiers of the Guan Ning Army who were recruited by Cheng Shijie.

Are the more than 8000 officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army all innocent?They not only had Zu Dashou's servants, but also Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's servants. Cheng Shijie would not believe that they did not infiltrate Ning Haijun.

But the problem is that the Ning Navy can give a fair treatment to the officers and soldiers no matter what their origins are. They serve the Ning Navy, they can enjoy the military career field, they can kill the enemy for the Ning Navy, and they can also enjoy the rewards for their meritorious service. If you get promoted in the navy, you can also get promoted and make a fortune.

The biggest temptation for Ning Haijun to everyone is not to be rewarded for meritorious service, nor to get promoted and get rich, but collective welfare. As long as they become soldiers of Ning Haijun, their children can go to school for free, and their families can enjoy tax exemption for five years and half tax for ten years If you are sick, you will be treated by a doctor. Even if you die in battle, your wife and children will be supported by the collective of Ning Haijun.

As long as the families of Ning Haijun's fallen soldiers enjoy tax exemption, tax rebate, legal protection and other rights in Liaodong, this is something that Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui cannot give to their family members. So sad that I couldn't even live.

The Ning Navy officers and soldiers don't have to worry about this.

"You can set up the Venetian Foreign Legion and let them directly participate in the military operations against the Ottoman Empire. If they make military exploits, you can give them certain rewards and let them enjoy certain rights of citizens of the Venetian city-state republic!"

Catherine shook her head: "Your Excellency, you are thinking too simply. We Venetians are different from you Daming people. You Daming people don't have faith, but we, not all of us Europa people have faith!"

"It is a good thing to have faith. Are you sure all of their Europas have faith?"

"I'm sure!"

Cheng Shijie turned to Cheng Shi and said, "How many Spanish prisoners are there in Luzon now?"

"Reporting to my father, there are a total of 650 and 750 people. There were originally [-] people, but..."

Cheng Shijie didn't care how many Spaniards died, he looked at Catherine and said, "Bishop Tim is the state religion of Spain, right?"

Catherine nodded and said, "Yes! The Spaniards are all damned Catholics."

"You have a Protestant pastor by your side, right?"

"Get your priest ready to baptize the Protestants!"

"what!"

Catherine looked surprised.

Cheng Shijie was very clear about this.The so-called national integrity is not worth mentioning in front of interests.Especially the people on the grasslands have no national integrity.When the Huns were strong, the entire grassland was full of Huns.

After the rise of the Xianbei people, the entire grassland was full of Xianbei people. Later, with the rise of the Turkic people, most of the entire grassland called themselves Turkic people. After the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turkic people, they called themselves Tang people. The Tang Dynasty declined, and the Uyghur people rose , they are also called Uyghurs.Of course, there is also the rise of the Jurchens. Once the grasslands used to call themselves the Jurchens. After the rise of the Mongols, all the grasslands became Mongols.

Cheng Shijie is now using the 650 captives and three Spaniards to teach Catherine on the spot.

The officers and men of the Ning navy do not abuse the captives, but there is absolutely no way to manage the captives like uncles.

Children are the future, and children are hope. This is the consensus of Cheng Shijie and the entire Ninghai Group.Because Cheng Shijie wants to establish Ning Haijun's public education system in Luzon.

Therefore, the establishment of Luzon College is urgent.

The problem of manpower shortage in Luzon is very serious. Of course, this does not include the indigenous population of Luzon. In fact, neither the Spaniards nor Cheng Shijie regards the indigenous people as human beings.

It’s just that Ning Haijun has sufficient and rich experience in managing prisoners of war. First of all, Ning Haijun will select prisoners of war who are usually low in status and bullied by others from these groups of prisoners of war, and give them power, let them serve as foremen, and be responsible for managing prisoners of war. , these prisoners of war who have gained power will not wait for revenge.

At the construction site of the future Luzon College, there were 190 Spanish foremen selected, and other prisoners of war, including the Governor of Luzon and Colonel Omor, were working.

There is no way not to work. If you don't work, you will have nothing to eat as a prisoner. After Governor Juan starved for a day, he lowered his noble head.

Even if they worked hard for twelve hours a day, they could only get enough food to barely starve to death, and the food was not oily. Ning Haijun was not a philanthropist.

In order to encourage prisoners of war to work voluntarily, for example, if you work two hours overtime, you can get an extra meal. This is the best white rice, which prisoners of war have no chance to eat. On the basis of rice, you can get a sea fish and a bowl of egg soup, which can realize the freedom of white rice for a meal.

As the colonel of the Spanish Army in Luzon, Omor actually did not come to Luzon voluntarily. At first, he was under the command of Lieutenant General Francisco, the commander of Spain in the Netherlands. During the musketeer exercise, a soldier under Omor's command sneezed while shooting.

The muzzle of the soldier's musket shook when he sneezed, and he shot at Francisco very outrageously. Of course, Francisco was very lucky and was not hit, but the bullet fired But the hit was less than two meters away from Francisco.

As a result, the unlucky Omor was kicked from the sequence of the Spanish army stationed in the Netherlands to Luzon.In fact, Omor loves his wife Maria very much. After becoming a prisoner of Ning Haijun, the people Maria offended before began to take revenge. In desperation, Omor began to compromise with Ning Haijun.

Working sixteen hours a day just to earn some white rice for Maria.

If you want to have enough food, there is only one way to do more work than others in the prisoner-of-war camp of Ning Haijun.

In the afternoon of one day, a Protestant pastor, with a large amount of food, entered the Spaniard's prisoner-of-war camp under the leadership of Ning's navy soldiers.

Of course, these foods cannot be good things. There are potatoes boiled in water, sweet potatoes baked directly on the fire, and local fruits in Luzon Island. The best food is a piece of bread baked in pure Western style.

"Joining Protestantism can get more food!"

The news spread ten, ten, hundreds, and thousands, and the news quickly spread in the Spanish prisoner-of-war camps.

In later generations, because of the principle of the policy, Shaomin can have two children, can be exempted from taxes, and can get extra points in the college entrance examination. Taking advantage of the loopholes in the policy, in fact, many Han people also changed the ethnicity on their ID cards to Shaomin.There are such examples around the author.

Therefore, many people change their ethnicity and ancestors one after another when they see that it is profitable. At the beginning, it was only for the immediate benefit, and they did not have the consciousness of being a minority in their hearts. .

Contrary to the absurd "turning Han into Hu" in later generations, Ming Dynasty has been turning Hu into Han. Without the reformation of the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi would still be in a state of disunity.

Naturally, Cheng Shijie has no intention of turning the Spaniards into Han, but he can use his interests to drive them to change their beliefs.

Of course, at the very beginning, the pastor was scolded and scolded by a group of Spaniards.

But the problem was that at night, Omor came to the pastor's tent with a sad face, and said to him, "I converted to Protestantism, can I get a piece of bread, Maria is sick, and she really wants to eat bread!"

In all fairness, Omor is an out-and-out good man. He works sixteen hours a day so that Maria can have enough to eat, and he does whatever it takes to make money so that Maria can live a good life.Now even for Maria's sake, she can give up her faith.

However, the problem is that Maria has been cuckolding Omor, even though Juan has become a prisoner of war. Maria uses the food that Omor has worked so hard for her to share with Juan, a big fat man.

In fact, there are too many poor and pathetic men like Omor.

"Of course, yes, child, God is merciful, lost lamb..."

At the beginning, only Omor, a depraved wife-loving maniac, compromised with the Protestantism, but as the progress of the Luzon College project accelerated, the prisoners of war were fed even worse, and if they moved slowly, they would be whipped by the Spanish overseers.

Moreover, these Spanish prisoners of war also found that as long as they converted to Protestantism and accepted the baptism of the pastor, they would not only get more food, but more importantly, those overseers would stop beating them, and Omor even became a priest The celebrities around me, their daily work is just to distribute supplies to the Spanish prisoners of war who came to convert their beliefs.

In fact, these people from the Spanish colonial authorities are not high-end talents. As long as they can survive in the country, who wants to go abroad, where the birds don't shit?

Most of the pioneering team members in these colonies were criminals, thieves, perverts, and unsteady people. Under the temptation of the interests of Protestant priests, more than 1000 prisoners of war became Protestants in just a few days.

This suddenly overturned Catherine's three views.

"How could this be?"

Cheng Shijie didn't hide his secrets, and he also counted on Venice to persist in Europa for a longer period of time, and to have more intense conflicts with the Netherlands and Spain.

"Catherine, didn't you notice it when you were living in Liaodong?"

"Found what?"

"The refugees I attracted in Liaodong were never nobles or high-end talents, but the most ordinary and poorest people. They were already desperate in their original living environment, and I gave them hope!"

Cheng Shijie actually didn't intend to attract the gentry class, because the gentry class already had enough, and it was impossible for him to give more things to the gentry class.

It's like buying a poor man, a few hundred thousand yuan is enough, and a few million is a big deal. If you spend a few million to buy a certain horse, it is an insult to others, and it is impossible to do it.

"First of all, when you Venice absorbs people from the Holy Roman Empire, you must have principles and plans to absorb people. There are three principles. First, you should not attract famous celebrities, and second, you should not attract nobles, unless the nobles are no longer in the Holy Roman Empire. Shelter. In the end, insist on not wanting those so-called talents!"

As soon as Cheng Shijie's words fell, Catherine asked in puzzlement: "Then we also lack talents in the city-state of Venice!"

"There is no talent, you can cultivate, especially the second generation of immigrants!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "When I was in Liaodong, I opened many elementary schools. Education should start with children. Don't you feel more at ease about the talents you cultivate yourself?"

"It's still a bit wrong!"

"What's wrong?"

"If they leave after finishing their studies, wouldn't our Venice lose blood!"

Catherine said: "It takes at least 1 ducats a year to raise a child in Venice, and it may even be more. If it is 20 people, the annual expenditure is [-] ducats. This is not a small amount of money!"

Catherine's thinking is very normal. Of course, she wants to get something in return after spending money. Those children who may leave after finishing their studies naturally become the object of their worries. If you run away, where can I get back the investment?
"Go away after finishing your studies? How come!"

Cheng Shijie casually pointed to a Ning Haijun soldier and said, "If you were a pauper with nothing and learned a lot of skills in a school in Liaodong, would you pat your ass and walk away?"

"Clap your ass and leave? Are you out of your mind?"

Cheng Shijie pointed to another soldier and said, "Now I will give you a sum of money to move to Beijing or Nanjing, will you agree?"

"It's no wonder I would agree! Taxes in Beijing and Nanjing are terribly heavy. You are either forced to pay taxes by tax collectors or chased by landlords all year round. You can't breathe!"

The soldier smiled wryly and said: "Beijing and Nanjing are very good, but they are places for rich people to stay there. Where is Liaodong? The child is studying in Liaodong, if he dares to move to other places after he finishes his studies, I will not break their legs!"

"Do you understand it?"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Your Venice City-State Republic is also called the most honorable Republic of Venice. I'm right. You actually have a strong attraction in the countries of Europe. As long as you give those talents the corresponding status and benefits, you don't have to be afraid. Are people running away?"

(End of this chapter)