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

Chapter 239 Emperor Chongzhen's interests come first

Chapter 238

Putmans can see Xie Jinglin, and it can also be said that Ning Haijun behind Xie Jinglin, including Cheng Shijie himself, has judged that the Spanish Empire is a bit overwhelmed in Europa. Even after losing Luzon, they can't even threaten or intimidate them. .

It can be said that the power of the Spanish Empire in the Far East was extremely weak.Let the Spanish Empire and the Ming Empire resolve the Luzon issue through negotiations. This is not what the United Kingdom of the Netherlands would like to see, nor is it what the Dutch East India Company would like to see.

Although Putmans was ordered to come to negotiate, he behaved very disrespectfully, with the words "arrogance and prejudice" written all over his face. He sat on a wicker chair with his fat buttocks, and his legs were crossed and he kept changing his left foot. Right foot, switch right foot to left foot.

For talking with Xie Jinglin like this, he really felt that the other party would be unable to bear it to the extreme.

In fact, Xie Jinglin was more extreme than him.

Xie Jinglin was originally a big man with boots made of sheepskin on his feet. After being stuffed for a long time, when he took off his boots in front of Putmans, the smell was really irritating to the eyes.

Putmans did not expect Xie Jinglin to do this to him.

In Europe, Spain, a super empire that has dominated Europe for more than 200 years, followed the victory of Great Britain over the Spanish Armada, which allowed the countries of Europe to see that Spain was originally a product that was in a state of failure.Therefore, including the Netherlands, no one wants to have more than one master on their heads.

In order to pull the Spanish overlord from the sacred position, and also for religion, the Protestant League and the Catholic League launched a full-scale war.

Britain, France, Holland, and even Portugal also hope that Ming can draw Spain's power in the Far East, so that it will be much easier for them in Europa.

Unexpectedly, after learning of the great changes in Luzon, Philip IV did not send his army, but instigated the king of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands to use the power of the Dutch East India Company to mediate the Luzon incident.

But the Dutch didn't want to mediate. Due to the order of His Majesty the Emperor of Spain, they could only put on a show, so the weird negotiation started like this.

In the eyes of Philip IV, the problem in Luzon is nothing more than a small problem. Tens of thousands of indigenous people were killed and injured, and more than 1000 people were killed or injured in Spain.
The Holy Roman Empire has a deep interest in the Far East. It is a pity that these Germans do not have much say in Asian affairs.

The Dutch have the right to speak and have enough strength, but they don’t think it’s a big deal to watch the excitement. The British sold old guns to Zheng Zhilong through military trade with Zheng Zhilong. If the war does not continue, how can they sell arms?
You must know that the profit of the arms trade is much easier than making money from ordinary commodities.

A negotiation broke up badly, especially when Putmans left the port area, his face livid with anger.

Xie Jinglin immediately reported the progress of the negotiation to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "We're justified in this matter. I'm afraid they will do something. Spain is a paper tiger right now. When it's time to kick him, you're welcome!"

"Marshal, I'm afraid that Spain, the suzerain, will unite all their countries in Europe. If they all unite... I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with!"

Cheng Shijie sneered and said: "If Spain had this ability, they would have unified Europe long ago. Jinglin, you may not know that the entire Europa is about the same size as our Ming Dynasty. If Nurgandus can be recovered in the future, the entire Europa A place that is not as big as ours, but it is split into dozens of countries, and they have been fighting each other for thousands of years!"

"If that's the case, it's better!"

Cheng Shijie said with a serious face: "Our Ming Dynasty recognizes dual nationality, and these Chinese are our citizens of Ming Dynasty. What we did in Luzon was to protect the overseas Chinese. The European countries recognize this. We are also reasonable. Besides, we are Shuai spent tens of millions of taels of silver back and forth, built nearly a hundred new warships, and built more than 3000 naval guns. reason!"

As Professor Ai said: "Dignity is only on the edge of the sword, and truth is only within the range of the cannon!"

A country and a nation must dare to show their swords. The world situation is by no means a joke, but the law of the jungle in the true sense, and this kind of jungle is far more complicated than the general sense of the jungle.

In later generations, Cheng Shijie was just a commoner, and at most he just had fun with his mouth. However, now he has enough strength and confidence to play this game.

"This Europa is actually like a barbarian!"

"Same?"

"That's right!"

"Fear prestige but not virtue!"

The Mongolian army swept across Europe and was called the whip of God.Until more than 400 years later, Europeans still respected the Mongols, and they would worship Mongolian music and Mongolian wrestling performances very much.There are countless people who worship the butcher Genghis Khan.

……

Zheng He Port Area, Wu Family Ancestral Residence.

At this time, the Wu residence is full of servants rushing to and fro in the courtyard, and now the Wu residence is full of guests. These days, there are Nanyang Chinese representatives who come here continuously!

More or less people came from these big Nanyang families scattered all over Nanyang.They all had money in their pockets, and the purpose of coming here was nothing more than to clean up the Spaniards for the Ning Haijun and the Luzon Chinese. They came to see Cheng Shijie, who had also become a legend in Nanyang, by the way.

At this time, at the gate of the Wu Mansion, a tall young man bowed towards Wu Shangzhi: "Please trouble Shibo to speak kindly in front of the commander-in-chief!"

"Nephew, don't be too polite. Considering... Qian, the friendship between our Wu and Xie families in the previous life, I will definitely introduce you to the commander-in-chief as soon as possible!"

Clapping the gift list in his hand, looking at the boxes of silver, Wu Shangzhi is also ambitious at this time, ready to do a big job.It's not that Europa is money first, in fact, Daming is the same.If you have money, you can buy food, and if you have food, you can recruit an army. Even if you spend money, Wu Shangzhi will give Cheng Shijie an army.

This army can not only create a great career for Cheng Shijie, but also become a protective umbrella for their Chinese.

Just as Wu Shangzhi was calculating accounts in the study, there was a knock on the door.

In the Wu family, there is only one person who can enter Wu Shangzhi's study without passing through, and that is his father Wu Dakuan.

"Children meet the father!"

Wu Dakuan sat on the bench opposite, picked up a cup of herbal tea, took a sip and said, "How much is the donation now?"

Wu Shangzhi said happily: "More than 560 million taels of silver..."

"Look at your prospects!"

Wu Dakuan said with disdain on his face: "You are so happy with only 560 million taels of silver?"

"Is 560 million taels not enough? You need to know the annual finances of the Ming court..."

"Then the emperor has no ability. If the commander-in-chief becomes a country in the future, how much tax do you think the court can collect in a year?"

Wu Shangzhi did not refute Wu Dakuan, because what Wu Dakuan said was correct, because the Ning Navy occupies a corner of Liaodong, and its current annual financial revenue has exceeded the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty.

Wu Shangzhi asked a little puzzled: "Will there be more?"

Wu Dakuan put down his teacup, and said calmly: "Now all eyes are on the commander-in-chief. This time the Dutch are also deflated in front of the commander-in-chief. There are quite a lot of people in Batavia and Mindanao. They should watch it now." It's the attitude of a handsome man!"

"It is indeed very encouraging. It is said that Putmans, the senior commercial commissioner of the Dutch East India Company, who stomped the entire Nanyang earthquake, almost died of anger!"

"It's time for the news to spread, and the representatives of various clans in Nanyang should have received the letter. Whether they want to buy the Marshal's ticket depends on their own ideas, and they have to do everything as early as possible!"

Wu Dakuan said: "Keep an eye on it, don't make it embarrassing and conspicuous when hundreds of thousands of people come over!"

Wu Dakuan is indeed awesome, 10 taels to 8 taels of silver, in his eyes, is just a shame.This is because he knows how much money the Chinese have.

As the so-called near-water towers come first, nearly one-third of the goods shipped by the Dutch East India Company to Europe were sold by Zheng Zhilong, and Jiangnan, Fujian, and Guangdong maritime merchants only accounted for one-third, and one-third of them were actually sold by Zheng Zhilong. It is produced by Chinese families all over Nanyang.

When Cheng Shijie and Zheng Zhilong were not at odds, Nanyang businessmen were able to buy a lot of machinery and equipment from Liaodong. In Liaodong, the winter lasted at least five months, and the freezing period even exceeded four months, so the hydraulic machinery and equipment had great limitations. Sex, however, is not an issue in Nanyang.

Nanyang has a lot of rain and rivers. Although there are not many Chinese in Nanyang, they use a lot of machinery and their production capacity is not low.

The current trade volume of the Dutch East India Company is about 600 million Dutch guilders per year, and one Dutch guilder is approximately equal to one pound, which is equivalent to 160 million pounds.According to the contribution of each Nanyang company to one-third of the share, it is equivalent to 55 pounds of micro goods.

Wu Dakuan knew that the annual profit of each Nanyang family was as high as tens of millions of taels, and they actually earned more than Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong only collected protection fees, while they produced and sold their own products, and there was no shipping fee.

Not to mention one hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver, even a year's profit can barely match their sincerity and attitude.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that he had spent so much effort and suffered countless scoldings that he could not get 2000 million taels of silver from the regular tax plus the Liao's salary and the suppression of the salary, but the Chinese merchants in Nanyang could produce so much. profits.

It just so happens that they don't pay Daming a penny in taxes.

In fact, Wu Dakuan also knew that the Ming Dynasty did not really have no money, but that the money was not in the hands of the court, just like the salt industry. In the Qing Dynasty, 600 million taels of silver were handed over to the court, while in the Ming Dynasty it was only 64 taels of silver, equivalent to One tenth of that in the Qing Dynasty, and the salt industry can generate tens of millions of taels of silver every year.

Maritime merchants also generate tens of millions of taels of profit every year, but Daming is also unable to collect this fiscal revenue.

These are all well-known things.

Sure enough, following Xie Jinglin's rejection of Putmans' request for negotiation.

A few days later, Putmans had another meeting with Xie Jinglin, and the two sides also broke up unhappy.

After repeated negotiations, when the negotiations reached the tenth round.

Xie Jinglin's attitude was still very tough, and he insisted on proposing the premise of solving the Luzon issue: "The prerequisite for the negotiation of the Luzon issue is that the Ming Empire needs to see the sincerity of the Spanish Empire. Luzon Chinese, whether they are naturalized locally or not, have no Officially broke away from the Ming nationality. The Ming Dynasty recognizes dual nationality, they are all citizens of the Ming Dynasty, their personal safety, property safety, and social status should be protected by the Ming Empire. The Spanish Empire has carried out inhumane persecution of the Luzon Chinese, and must be compensated!"

"I don't know how to compensate the Spanish Empire!"

"According to our statistics, in the 21st year of Wanli, the 31st year of Wanli, and the 37th year of Wanli, only in these three large-scale massacres, a total of more than [-] Chinese were massacred!"

Putmans was the commercial commissioner of the Dutch East India Company, not the Spanish Empire, and the consideration was in the interests of the Dutch East India Company, not the Spanish Empire.

"How much compensation does each person pay?"

Xie Jinglin said indifferently: "Everyone is 2000 taels of silver!"

"You are blackmailing!"

"Whatever you think, there are also Chinese people who have plundered land, shops, plantations, and various properties. Counting the interest, the Spanish Empire will pay the Ming Empire [-] million taels of silver..."

Cheng Shijie's claim was actually to prevent the imperial court from interfering in the Luzon incident, and to prevent the Spanish Empire from bypassing Cheng Shijie and directly sending diplomats to the capital to resolve the matter.

You must know that Emperor Chongzhen was only thinking about money. If he heard Cheng Shijie propose a huge amount of compensation, Emperor Chongzhen would definitely choose to hand over the matter to Cheng Shijie.

"This is impossible, thank you. We must admit that the Ming Empire is a powerful country. We are negotiating diplomatically, and this is not a place for you to play rogue. The country will never tolerate your frivolous behavior. Your words and deeds, It has been recorded. We will report to your court to lodge a protest..."

"Please!"

"Thank you, let's change the conditions. For example, let the Spanish Empire compensate you with 500 million taels of silver. How can this amount be very sincere, almost equivalent to the fiscal revenue of your Ming Empire for a year."

Xie Jinglin said: "I heard that the warships of the Spanish Armada are invincible across the Mediterranean Sea. Our Ning Navy Navy has more than 300 warships and we really want to have an in-depth exchange with the Spanish Armada!"

"Thank you, if the Ming Empire can really send [-] warships from Europe, not even [-], the Spanish Empire will re-evaluate the strength of the Ming Empire and start negotiations based on the strength of the Ming Empire!"

Xie Jinglin looked at Putmans and said: "Batavia, Mindanao, your East India Company's 35 strongholds in the Far East, there are Chinese, I hope you pay attention to the status of the Chinese, otherwise our Ning Haijun will never sit idly by. !"

"Are you a threat?"

"Yes, you can think so!"

With the announcement of the new round of negotiations, the Chinese representatives were very excited.

As Cheng Shijie's representative, Wu Shangzhi was soft-hearted in collecting money.

Cheng Shijie is now entangled by Catherine every day. Of course, her entanglement is not because of emotional problems, but the follow-up problems of the Venice settlement.

100 million Ducats is actually not so easy to earn,

"You can use women in Venice!"

"woman?"

"That's right!"

"You mean to send women into battle?"

"No no no!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Women can be engaged in civilian work in the army. You may have seen that when Ning Haijun recruited soldiers, most of the staff were actually women. In textiles, printing and dyeing, clothing processing, catering, medical care, etc. Including the current banking industry, most of the staff are women!"

Although Catherine was a woman, she was able to become a lieutenant of the Venetian Navy not by virtue of her identity as a woman, but by her surname and her family.

Even though the status of women was relatively low in ancient times, the status of golden branches, jade leaves, and empress dowagers was not low, but relatively speaking, the official wives of ancient rich families had the same social status as their husbands.

But the problem is that reusing women is unimaginable in Europa.

Because the status of women in Europa is lower than that of Ming Dynasty... Many people just don't believe it, and think that the status of women in Europe is very high.The author does not argue about this issue, and it is easy to cause war.

Depending on European culture, the main cultural systems of Europa are Christian culture and ancient Greek and Roman culture.In the Christian culture and the ancient Greek and Roman cultural systems, the status of women is not high, and even demeaning women is more of vilifying women.

Cheng Shijie said: "Women have great advantages in many aspects. They are more friendly, more careful in their work, and have irreplaceable natural advantages in nursing. Many nurses in the army are now women, and most of them are from Xinghai City, Liaodong. Medical school, received complete system training."

Cheng Shijie took the initiative to introduce that women enjoy the same rights as men in most fields in Liaodong, such as enrolling in school, working, joining the army, and engaging in politics and business.

If there is a rich list in Liaodong now, at least several rich women can be on the list, not counting Ning Haijun's system, just like in private enterprises, Zhang Chen's Dongfang Company now has more than [-] employees and pays taxes every year As many as tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Now Mrs. Zhang Chen has turned from business to politics, serving as a member of the Jinzhou Executive Committee and enjoying the treatment of the sixth rank, which is also unimaginable in Daming.

In primary schools in eastern Liaodong, the proportion of girls is close to 80.00%, and there is no difference between boys and girls in mixed schools.The medical school in Xinghai City, a very important major is clinical medical care, and the proportion of female students once exceeded [-]%.

In the current Liaodong Management Committee government, there are also many staff members who are women, especially office writing work and reception work. Women have unparalleled advantages in this area.So it is not surprising that women appear in the army in Liaodong.

These women in the army have also changed the inherent image of women as weak and submissive in people's minds. These female soldiers in the conscription workstations all wear pistols in conspicuous positions on their bodies. In some fields that are not good at, such as physical requirements may be relatively low, but shooting is still very demanding. Women who can become professional soldiers must at least achieve good shooting results.Even the nurses are the same.

Cheng Shijie said: "Venice's population is too small, so it is necessary to use every available force as much as possible. You can also consider hiring more female soldiers in the military system. Of course, women will not charge in the first battle. On the front line, that is the responsibility of us men."

Cheng Shijie still has a bottom line. Compared with Europe, Liaodong already treats women as men. It would be too much to use them as animals.

"Army is a male body, if there are women, it will cause a lot of problems..."

As a woman, Catherine has a deep understanding. When she was 14 years old, she participated in the support battle against Crete. During the battle, it rained heavily, and the situation was urgent, so she could only stick to her post.

But the problem is, she was in menstruation at that time, so she was tragic.

Until now, whenever menstruation comes, she will suffer from unbearable abdominal pain. Of course, Catherine is very strong. She has been enduring severe pain, but can other female soldiers be as strong as her?

Catherine expressed disbelief.

Cheng Shijie and Catherine's understanding are two different channels. He thought that Catherine was worried about the chaotic relationship between men and women.

"This can be prevented! If it's free love, then no one has the right to interfere, but if it's entanglement, the military police can't be used as a display, right?"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Ning's navy female soldier has served for more than two years, and the more serious situation has not happened so far..."

Catherine didn't want to discuss this issue with Cheng Shijie anymore, because she felt that she was in trouble.

Seeing Catherine leave quickly with her legs crossed, Cheng Shijie seemed to understand.

……

Beijing City, Wenfu.

Wen Tiren held a hot towel and stuck it to his face.

Wen Tiren's three tricks had not had time to produce a chemical reaction. Cheng Shijie was not in a hurry, but the eunuch was in a hurry.Wen Tiren's three-handed axe was easily resolved by Gao Qiqian, and it was not Cheng Shijie's turn to exert his strength, and the backlash turmoil ended without a problem.

Cheng Shijie had no loss, but Wen Tiren suffered a lot. Among his disciples, 13 had their homes ransacked, six of them were beheaded, and more than 20 were dismissed from office.

It's not easy to hear that Cheng Shijie's head twitched, and at the critical moment of the duel with Zheng Zhilong, he turned around and attacked Luzon.

However, the problem is that Ning Haijun beat Spain badly, which made Wen Tiren very excited. Zheng Zhilong can't beat Cheng Shijie, but Europa should be able to, right?
"What did you say?"

Wen Tiren had great expectations for the Spanish Empire. As long as the Spanish Empire threatened Ming with war, he would be able to impeach Cheng Shijie.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is also troubled, and it is impossible to easily start a war with the Spanish Empire. At that time, Emperor Chongzhen can only kill Chao Cuo with tears and use Cheng Shijie's life to calm the anger of the Spanish.

Emperors are actually ruthless. Compared with Jiangshan Sheji, their personal emotions and relationships are not worth mentioning.

You must know that the fleet of the Dutch East India Company in the past few years had a total of 200 ships, but Zheng Zhilong used more than [-] warships and paid thousands of casualties before defeating the Dutch.

I heard that Spain is still the co-lord of most countries in Europe, and its status is similar to that of Ming Dynasty. The Netherlands is also a vassal state of Spain. This relationship is like the relationship between North Korea and Ming Dynasty.

Daming gave orders to North Korea, would North Korea dare not listen?
In the end, it was not what Wen Tiren imagined.

For a long time, Wen Renti looked at Yang Siyuan, the aide beside him, and said, "Siyuan, what do the European countries mean?"

Yang Siyuan's voice was low and deep: "Then Cheng Shijie is blessed by heaven, and this time he passed the test again!"

Wen Tiren had a look of disbelief on his face: "Is Spain the co-owner of Europa? Can they swallow this breath? Western countries don't care? Holland, Portugal, those countries don't care?"

Yang Siyuan smiled wryly: "Don't care! When the cannon was fired, the foreigners were treated politely instead?"

Wen Tiren immediately reacted: "Is the Spanish owner of Europa..."

"It's about the same as us, with internal and external troubles! They can't take care of themselves at home, let alone in Luzon, thousands of miles away?"

Wen Tiren sighed leisurely: "This time, it is Cheng Shijie's luck."

The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Originally, I wanted to use Zheng Zhilong's hand to let Cheng Shijie and Zheng Zhilong fight each other. Both losers would be the most ideal ending.However, Cheng Shijie made a big event out of it.

When the results of the Luzon Incident spread to the capital, the whole court was really frightened.After all, the Ning Navy bombarded Manila, and actually broke into the city of Manila!
Of course, this news has not reached the ears of the emperor for the time being. At that time, the cabinet held a secret meeting overnight.Everyone in the cabinet thinks that the best thing to do at this time is to pretend to be confused, and Cheng Shijie is definitely going to be unlucky.

The most uncomfortable one was actually Xu Guangqi. Wen Tiren persuaded Xu Guangqi to leave this matter as clean as possible, but the problem is that things changed dizzyingly as a result. As Cheng Shijie's attitude towards the Spanish Empire became more and more tough, he proposed huge compensation.

Emperor Chongzhen was very happy. Cheng Shijie not only saved face for him, but also made money. If Spain compromised and compensated the Ming Empire with tens of millions of taels of silver, the financial crisis of the Ming Empire would be solved easily.

At this time, there was another strange phenomenon in the imperial court, that is, Qingliu, who had always been very unimpressed with Cheng Shijie, began to call for Cheng Shijie's support.

It is better to investigate these Qingliu and know that most of them are former students of Sun Chengzong or Xu Guangqi. Although the power of this Qingliu is not very great, Wen Tiren is very vigilant.

He was really afraid that Sun Chengzong would make a comeback and make a comeback.

However, what Wen Tiren and the others never imagined was that this time the Emperor Chongzhen went crazy with Cheng Shijie for some reason, and actually promoted Cheng Shijie from Governor of Liaodong to Minister of the Ministry of War and Propaganda Envoy of Nanyang.

And the Nanyang Xuanfu Division was established.

Regarding Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts, Wen Tiren, who has a keen political sense, was very sure that Emperor Chongzhen was going for money.

This is the maximization of Emperor Chongzhen's interests. He doesn't need to send troops, and he doesn't need to spend any money. If he uses the Lu Song incident, he can bring a lot of income to the court, which is very cost-effective.

(End of this chapter)