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Chapter 137 The Common Dilemma of Ming Dynasty and Spain

Zhang Siwei actually wanted to offer a book, but he couldn't see the emperor. He was just a courtier, not a courtier. When he didn't make an announcement, he couldn't go to the Wenhua Palace to ask for an audience. If he wanted to see the emperor, he had to go through the process.

When he approached Ge Shouli with the "Precious Book of Mathematics", Ge Shouli had this 55-volume masterpiece of mathematics in his hand; "Taixi Mathematics" produced by the Ministry of Rites to claim credit; when Zhang Siwei wanted to find Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng's Quanchu Guild Hall was being decorated.

Therefore, this great contribution has nothing to do with Zhang Siwei.

The little emperor felt that Zhang Siwei was not respectful.

Chen Lin headed towards Luzon with seven hydrofoil sailing boats. It took him three hours to set off from Songjiang Prefecture Shipsi to Ningbo Shuangyu. It was Zhu Wan and Lu Tong who defeated the Japanese pirates and Zhu Wan was forced to commit suicide. Starting from this private matter, it took [-] hours to arrive at the Shipping Department of Yuegang City, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, where Chen Lin communicated with Luo Gongchen, the governor of Haiphong, in the Capital Salary Office. comminicate.

Not all hydrofoil sailboats are suitable for long-distance voyages. Two hydrofoil sailboats are really not suitable for sailing in the waves. Hours later, Chen Lin arrived at the Penghu Inspection Department.

In the 42nd year of Jiajing, the Penghu Inspection Department was re-established in order to prevent Japanese pirates. A total of 1153 conscripts went to Jiezhai. In the 45th year of Jiajing, the Penghu Inspection Department was abolished again.

In May of the third year of Wanli, Pang Shangpeng, the governor of Fujian, said: "It is only one day's journey from Penghu to Quanzhou, and the stretch is so vast that I am afraid it will be occupied by the Japanese."It is proposed to use guerrilla warfare on the south road, and to guard during the flood season to prepare for pirates.

Yu Dayou requested to set up ten inspection departments to inspect the coast of Daming, not aimlessly, but carefully planned the proceeds based on the memorials of the governors of Yingtian, Songjiang, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, and Yu Dayou's many years of fighting against the Japanese.

Although the camp of the Penghu Inspection Department is dilapidated, it is still functional.

On June [-]th of the third year of Wanli, Chen Lin set off again from the Penghu Inspection Department and arrived at the Xinglong Wharf in Wannian Prefecture (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) in two and a half hours. This is a natural harbor with few people and dense forests. , Chen Lin was keenly aware that the timber for Daming shipbuilding could be obtained from here in the future.

After Chen Lin replenished the fresh water, he went all the way south. It took eighteen hours to arrive at Miyan Port in Miyan County, where Yin Zhengmao, Deng Zilong, Liang Shouyu, and Lin Afeng first arrived at Luzon's attack from Guangzhou.

After a short rest for a day, Chen Lin went south again and headed towards Manila. This time, it took ten hours to arrive in Manila and disembark at the port of Manila.

This round of turbulence made Chen Lin's lips turn white, like a water ghost crawling out of the water. His trip was too long, from Songjiang to Tianjin, and from Tianjin back to Songjiang. Then he went south from Songjiang Mansion to Manila. After such a violent rush, Chen Lin felt dizzy and dizzy as soon as he landed, as if the earth was shaking.

Chen Lin rested for two days and recovered his complexion. Only then did he see Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Luzon, Zhang Yuanxun, the general of Luzon, Liang Shouyu, the deputy commander of Luzon, Deng Zilong, the general of the guard, and Lin Afeng, who had already started to go to sea. The largest three-masted plywood ship with 24 pairs (48) of oars and 144 oarsmen.

It was indeed not easy to use, Yin Zhengmao realized that he had overestimated it, it was okay to bully the natives, but it was impossible to bully the current Daming.

"I've met the governor of Yin." Chen Lin saluted with a military salute. Yin Zhengmao gave an overview of the military, political, financial, and cultural powers of Lu Song. From a moral point of view, Luzon has lost the support of the Ming court at present, and there will be no difference between him and Luzon's legacy. At that time, Luzon will still be the governor-general of Spain.

After seeing the ceremony, Chen Lin cleared his throat and said, "There is an imperial decree, Yin Zhengmao, Zhang Yuanxun and others will accept the decree."

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict said:"

"The hall is in the extreme south, the accumulation of bandits has been pacified, and Li Shu is safe and blocked. This is an unworldly achievement. However, recently, people's hearts are not old, and they are prone to disagreement. With their jealous heart, they hold their opinions of the common people, but they want to favor themselves. Selfishness, disregarding the country, just like last year's victory in Luzon, the court was terrified, thinking that it would not be acceptable, fearing that it would hurt the hearts of people far away, business and trade would be blocked.

"I know that the Ministry and others have worked hard."

"To rule a country in chaos, use heavy codes. A country in chaos is also widespread. Its power cannot be shaken by the power of soldiers. The treacherous people are not afraid, and the good people have no support."

"Recording the merits of suppressing the pirates, after entering the Ministry Hall, the right governor of the military governor's mansion, the governor of Luzon, discussing the merits of Luzon's suppression of the pirates, and was granted the title of uncle of Sishui. , Lu Song’s general army, discussing Lu Song’s meritorious service in Ping Hai, he was named Ying Yang Bo, his annual salary was [-] shi, Liang Shouyu, Deng Zilong and others were promoted to three ranks.”

"Only a thread of loyalty can be learned from God!"

"The constitution of the tired dynasty, the blessing of virtue, the imperial edict to the world, and the salty envoys to hear about it."

"Chin this."

"I thank the emperor for your kindness." Yin Zhengmao and the others were stunned for a long time after listening to the imperial decree before thanking them. The emperor conferred two earls, both of whom were Liujue, one Yin Zhengmao and one Zhang Yuanxun, and the others were added officials.

Zhang Yuanxun took the seal ribbon and other things, and after a long silence, he asked in a daze, "Minister, aren't you really a relative of the emperor living among the people?"

"Probably not." Yin Zhengmao also looked at the imperial edict and couldn't believe it. He himself was not sure whether he was a relative of the emperor or not.

Deng Zilong also asked in a daze: "Isn't it?"

"No way." Yin Zhengmao repeatedly recalled the memory of when he was a child, he was not good at reading, and his father picked up a door stick with thick arms and almost disabled him. He was convinced that he was indeed his own, not the emperor living among the people. Relatives.

For a martial artist of the Ming Dynasty, it would be nice to get a compliment from the imperial court. If he can get some rewards, then thank God. How dare he ask for such a thing as a knighthood? Although Yin Zhengmao is a literary scholar, what he does all day long Well, it has nothing to do with civil servants.

The officials in Luzon would rather believe that Yin Zhengmao is a relative of the emperor than that the imperial court actually began to confer titles.

"Your Majesty and Yuan Fu have two letters." Chen Lin took out two more letters and handed them to Yin Zhengmao.

Above the court, there are still a group of lowly Confucians chattering and talking nonsense, jealous of Yin Zhengmao's achievements, using their own jealousy and mediocre views, just want to satisfy their own self-interest, regardless of whether the country needs it or not. .

Zhu Yijun's reply to this was extremely unified: If you don't accept it, hold back, and if you have the ability, go to Lu Song to wipe out Yin Zhengmao and the others.

Chen Lin and Yin Zhengmao entered into in-depth exchanges on issues such as the Luzon Metropolitan Salary Office, the Municipal Shipping Department, the Inspection Department, port berths, and ship construction, and conveyed Yu Shuai's thoughts on Daming's coastal defense. Yin Zhengmao made supplements to this matter , the two sides ended this meeting in a warm atmosphere.

Yin Zhengmao said quite affirmatively: "During the Yongle period, Daming set up a governor in Luzon, and established Daming Street in Luzon. The governor of Luzon for more than 20 years, after that, the descendants of Xu Chailao did not give any more invitations, and the imperial court no longer went south to the West. , Luzon became a tributary country again from the Governor-General of the Ming Dynasty."

"Until the end of Jiajing, the Japanese pirates in the southeast were in turmoil, and Luzon lost the country because of cowhide. After hearing the news, the imperial court ordered Hong Maofan to withdraw from Luzon and return the power to the Luzon legacy king."

"The red-haired fan has no morals. He wantonly slaughtered and humiliated the Han people and the Fanyi. The people of Lu Song suffered a lot from it and suffered unspeakably. The king's teacher punished the people and punished the crimes, which is the country of Guanggu chaos."

"The whole family of the remaining kings of Lu Song was killed, and there were no descendants to inherit it. Therefore, the governor was used to educate the people of Lu Song."

This is the jurisprudence of Ming Dynasty on Luzon.

The Hongmaofan said that they are also cruel rulers and colonists. The Ming Dynasty is the king who returned to his homeland. If the descendants of the Lusong queen were not killed by the Hongmaofan, the court would be willing to continue canonizing the descendants of the queen. Isn’t this Are there no descendants?
This is the face of scholars, black can be said to be white, it is obviously everyone's attack to compete for the key position of Luzon.

The lineage of Luzon's kings has also changed several times, from the Han Chinese governor at the beginning to the later big cannibal. This issue is actually very complicated, but generally speaking, the three kings of the Sulu Sultanate who ruled Luzon have always paid tribute Daming, especially the Eastern King of Sulu Sultanate, was buried in Dezhou, Shandong Province of Daming, so the connection between Daming and Luzon is very close.

Now that Luzon is being wiped out by the Hongmao Fan, Daming has to do something and do nothing, and the overseas Fan Yi will despise China and invade the sea.

Chen Lin said with emotion: "This is the truth, but the barbarians are afraid of power and do not cherish morality. They are all wolf-faced and beast-hearted people. The nature of captives is only strong or weak. If there is a gap, there will be endless revenge! The department should be careful. .”

Yin Zhengmao said with a smile: "If you can't win the battle, they naturally won't listen to my reasoning. If you win the battle, they have to accept it, right?"

After Chen Lin heard about it, he knew that Yin Zhengmao was not arrogant and contemptuous of the thieves because of his temporary victory, so he leaned sideways and said: "Silver enters the Ming Dynasty, and the court Minggong is concerned about it. Yuan Fu asked me to ask me in the Quanchu Guild Hall. Whether the ships of the Song Dynasty can arrive at the port as scheduled, the sea tax is divided into one, and the law is divided into two, and the imperial court's adjustment of Wanfang is three, so this is a big matter, so I ask one or two."

The frontiers of the Ming Dynasty are now paying military salaries in kind, and the court sends silver to the frontiers, which is a combination of salt and silver to open up China and France. Without silver, the court cannot regulate the flow of goods in the Ming Dynasty. The reduction in the amount of silver inflows in the Ming Dynasty will inevitably lead to an increase in anti-tax sentiment. It is indeed a matter of great importance and the key to the New Deal.

Yin Zhengmao looked at Dongfang and said: "They have already arrived, and they have already arrived at Cebu Island, and their vanguard has arrived near Boracay Island. Our department is planning to send envoys to communicate. If you want to fight or make peace, please listen."

Chen Lin asked suspiciously: "Who wants to go?"

"Deng Zilong and his concubine, Luo Lian, the red-haired fan." When Yin Zhengmao mentioned these two names, his expression was complicated. It would be better to chop off this red-haired fan named Luo Lian, and take good care of Deng Zilong. became more unrestrained.

Chen Lin asked curiously: "What makes the Ministry so difficult?"

"Nothing." Yin Zhengmao shook his head.

If you look at the public and private separately, from a private point of view, Deng Zilong and Luo Lian's hustle and bustle are at best considered indecent. From a public point of view, Luo Lian translated many Western and Western books to Daming, such as mathematics, Western and Western shipping methods, etc. It is of great benefit, especially in the matter of supervising the construction of the three-masted plywood giant ship, Lori Ann provided great help.

So, it's just indecent, just let the two of them work together.

Deng Zilong asked Chen Lin about the operation method of the hydrofoil sailing boat. The operation of this kind of boat requires weight and great strength, and the extremely bumpy boat requires stable bottom strength. Deng Zilong has all of these.

Soon Deng Zilong will be able to operate Chen Lin's car and gallop on the sea. Deng Zilong fits well with hydrofoil sailing boats, and Deng Zilong is full of adventurous spirit.

On June 27, Deng Zilong took Luo Lian out to Boracay Island, planning to have a good talk with the galleon fleet.

"Can you put on your pants?" Deng Zilong adjusted the hydrofoil sailboat, the speed was not very fast, the boat was bobbing and sinking on the water surface, what Luo Lian did was really indecent.

There were only two people on board, and Luo Lian didn't even wear pants at all. She was wearing a linen gown that just covered her buttocks. The mysterious area was looming, and her wheat-colored skin glowed like tung oil under the sea water and the sun.

Luo Lian put her long legs on the boat, rubbed her thumbs on Deng Zilong's legs non-stop, and said with a smile: "Sly man, you like me very much, of course in private, I am a devout believer, extremely Conservative nun, but you have made me like this, my devil."

Deng Zilong looked at the water surface, checked Fengwan, and then stared at the compass, kicked away Luo Lian's troublesome foot, shook his head and said, "After you took a bath, you became completely different from before."

Luo Lian stared and said in amazement: "Then what do you like, before or now? Wow, is it before? Your taste is so unique, do you like the strong smell of body odor mixed with alcohol essence? I don't even like it." , if you like me before, I can't change back to my original appearance."

Thinking of Luo Li'an's appearance before, Deng Zilong shivered suddenly, and said with disgust: "Can I not mention it? It's actually hard for me to understand that Frangji can travel across the ocean. You really do what you said In that way, you can dominate the whole of Taixi, without any opponent, defeat the big cannibal one after another and rebuild the kingdom, defeat the French five times, and the damn English hate you gnashing your teeth but there is nothing you can do."

"But why stick to these non-bathing things?"

Luo Lian shook her brown-red hair, raised her hair and smiled invitingly and said, "I knew you didn't like it. Back then when you were looking around for information in Manila, you looked at me with disgust."

"Your question is a bit complicated. We need a long time to talk about it. My Mr. Mighty, have you considered lowering the sails, let's talk about it?"

"Just to talk?" Deng Zilong lowered his sails at the beginning. He was very curious about this question, and it also involved the result of his mission this time. It was like fighting a war. win?

Deng Zilong knew Luo Lian very well, and if he wanted Luo Lian to speak, he had to feed her mouth first, both up and down.

"If there is a mouthful of spring water, you will live forever after drinking it, what would you Orientals do?" Lorian, who was full of wine and food, lay lazily and full of style on the deck, straightened her feet, letting the sun shine on them On the ground, various shadows are changing slightly mischievously.

Deng Zilong thought for a while and said, "Of course drink it."

Luo Lian said in a slightly absent-minded manner: "If it is us, the Spaniards, we must destroy it. Only God can bestow eternal life, not this heretical spring that bestows life with eternity. Therefore, destroying it, the fountain of immortality, is our only Stupid move that can and must be done."

"Isn't it stupid?"

Deng Zilong carefully tasted Luo Li'an's words, and the words of the nun Luo Li'an are intriguing, but he regards the spring of youth as the law of eternal kings, which is quite similar.

He smiled and said: "It's not stupid, just like our Ming Dynasty always clamored for the Confucian scholars who were above the third generation of the law. The soldiers won the battle and needed to defile themselves in order to protect themselves. We are also facing such a dilemma, or More generally speaking, shackles, layers of shackles."

"The indestructible shackles bind all the people in the world, moving forward with difficulty."

Zhu Yijun prefers to call this kind of thing a thought seal, or thought imprisonment and restraint. Of course, Deng Zilong's description of it as a shackle is also very appropriate.

"Confucian scholars, are your Confucian scholars faculty members?" Luo Lian frowned slightly, trying to understand the various phenomena of Da Ming with her cognition. The great empire of Da Ming also had its dark side, and it was dark On one side, it has already obscured the light of most of the empire.

The Yuanfu and the emperor they talked about were doing everything they could to bring the light back to the land of Daming.

Deng Zilong thought for a while, and said with certainty: "It can be understood in this way."

"Are your Confucian scholars and faculty members evading taxes the same way?" Lori Ann blinked and asked with a smile.

Deng Zilong said earnestly, "Steal."

"It's the same as the teaching post." Luo Lian then asked: "Are your Confucian scholars also have good conduct, compassion before others, and beasts after others? On the surface, they seem to be the embodiment of morality, but in private, they will do all kinds of evil things." do it?"

"Yes." Deng Zilong nodded after thinking for a while and said, "In the residence newspaper sent by Mr. Chen, there is one thing recorded. The Lu family in Shanzhou, Henan Province, took advantage of the locust plague to occupy the fields, and the people suffered. As a result, they were sent to Beijing. The Zuo Canzheng, who was assigned to the job, was sued and committed all kinds of crimes, and they did all the evil things they thought of and unexpected."

"There was an old man who went to Hanzhong with a donkey cart to sell goods. The donkey in the donkey cart pulled dung to the courtyard wall of Lu's house. Lu's family members refused to tolerate it. The old man could only eat the donkey dung in the end."

"What happened next?" Luo Lian asked after a moment of silence.

Hearing this, Deng Zilong said with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty threw him into the Xie Jie Courtyard. Your Majesty wants to know whether Lu's Patriarch and those servants are wolf-hearted enough to do such things."

Luo Lian sighed and said: "Look, you Ming can still imagine that the emperor will solve these dirty things, but we Spaniards can't."

"Our king, Philip II Felipe II, created an invincible fleet and established the world's first empire on which the sun never sets. The sun's brilliance will always shine on our Spanish land. What a great achievement, but His wife, who could have lived just by being cleaned, died in agony."

"We can't do without religion, just like fish can't do without water, even if we all know that it should be abandoned, because we can't do it."

Deng Zilong looked at Luo Li'an helplessly and said: "It's normal for you to be proud of your country. I also think that my Ming Dynasty is invincible, and our Ming Dynasty was indeed invincible before, but when you are proud, can you stop puffing up your chest? ?”

Luo Lian said with a smile all over her face, "Don't you like them the most?"

"Can you Ming leave Confucian scholars? Or the religion created by Confucian scholars pretending to be a school."

"It's hard, I can't do it, His Majesty and Yuan Fu have to come, it should be possible, in fact, at the beginning of the Republic of China, our Ming Dynasty didn't have this kind of trouble, Confucian scholars couldn't do this." Deng Zilong shook his head and said.

Luo Lian looked at the blue sky, the seabirds flying in the sky, and the sea fish jumping out of the water and splashing crystal clear water. That was what she wanted, called freedom.

She sighed and said: "So you want to break free from the shackles, and there is still hope to break free from the shackles, and our king also wants to break free from the shackles that bind himself and the kingdom, just like I want to take a bath, with a strong desire. "

"I'm such a beautiful woman. I have lice crawling on my head all day. It's disgusting. Sorry, I won't say it."

Deng Zilong thought for a while and asked: "You can take a bath now, and you are indeed extremely beautiful. Is it difficult to break free from the shackles?"

Luo Lian nodded and said: "Of course it is difficult. I am also a prisoner to take a bath freely. My master asked me to take a bath, so I must take a bath."

"It seems that I was fooled. You deliberately became a prisoner." Deng Zilong said with a smile.

Luo Lian continued: "It is as difficult as you want to get rid of Confucian scholars. The teaching position or religion has penetrated into the blood of the empire. If you want to kill them, the empire will die. One day, the great sun never sets The empire, shrouded in darkness, will return to its original position."

"More than 1000 years ago, you are called the big cannibals in green clothes, and we are called Berbers. They crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, stepped into the territory of Taixi, and occupied the Andalusia area moistened by the Guadalquivir River. , which is the most fertile land in Spain."

"The resistance continued until the Kingdom of Castile and Aragon formed a coalition. It was more than 100 years ago that we drove away the green food. 83 years ago, we broke through the last important city of the green food, Gera. Nada, it can be considered that the restoration of the country has been completed, and then the conquest is over."

"Castile is a vast barren plateau where only sheep can be grazed."

"And the northeast is the plain Catalonia region washed by the Ebro River, which is the land obtained by marriage."

"Andalusia is still an autonomous state, Castile is a barren plateau, and Catalonia is the richest autonomous state."

"Did you hear the problem?"

Deng Zilong thought about it seriously and said: "Scattered, just like the canvas of this sailboat, it needs a mast to connect them together."

Luo Lian said helplessly: "Look, you, a foreigner, can hear the key issues after hearing my narration."

"Yes, it's scattered, so we can't get rid of the shackles of religion, because it is a shackle and at the same time it is the bond that unites us. Without religion, we are a mess, so we don't take a bath, because the doctrine does not allow it."

"In fact, we have been trying to replace the link that connects all our scattered territories. Silver is the link we found, but gold and silver are not without any price. Silver once briefly bonded us together, and then, silver became It became a nightmare."

"We have a total of 500 million people in Spain, but we have more than 20 teaching staff. They have a lot of wealth. They refuse to pay taxes through teachings. However, the influx of silver makes prices increase with silver. Turned into a man-eating demon, the king needed to maintain a huge war expenditure, and the Armada could run across the Mediterranean, which drained all the king's savings."

"A vicious cycle has begun. The king needs to ask the teaching staff to collect money, so he needs to compromise. These teaching staff know their role, and they will not pay taxes. They need more compromises in exchange for taxes."

"You may not be able to understand that with the vast territory and huge population of Ming Dynasty, no matter how much gold and silver poured in, your Ming Dynasty can greedily swallow it, and no matter how much it eats, it is still so hungry."

Deng Zilong said with a smile: "I can understand, it's not difficult."

The problems encountered by Flangji and Daming are almost the same, that is, the country’s financial resources are in a great loss, the imperial court begs everywhere for food, and the powerful are rich. It’s just that the violence of Daming is still in the hands of the imperial court. Langji's violence has been in the hands of religion.

To put it more simply, Felipe II of France wanted to rebel.

When Lori Ann said this, she said in a very depressed mood: "In the Greek Academy in Florence, there are people talking about the civilization and culture of Rome every day, and thus the most popular activity in Taixi is the big trip, or it's called a study tour, a big trip. Nobles, elites, and scholars from all over the West, Northern Italy, France, Germany, England, and even Tsar Russ, visited each other, visited each other, traveled, communicated, communicated, and discussed mathematics and art.”

"Only without our Kingdom of Spain."

Lori Ann is a very knowledgeable daughter. Her aristocratic education made her eager to travel. She wanted to travel to other places to study, but the large travel activities that spread throughout Taixi did not include Spain, so she could only go to sea by boat. , looking for a place where she could study abroad, along the way, all she saw was the Son of Nature who didn't even wear clothes.

"Then he was captured by the mighty general in the east, both in heart and body." Luo Lian said with a smile.

Luo Lian became Deng Zilong's captive, but gained the freedom she longed for. Logically speaking, a captive is a forced personal attachment, and Luo Lian loses the greatest freedom. But in fact, Deng Zilong treats her more as a concubine. When it’s like glue, it’s like paint. When it’s not good, it’s enough to slap it twice.

So, Lori Ann was freed by being a captive.

"Here we are." Deng Zilong looked at Boracay not far away and said with a smile.

Chen Lin's question has a definite answer. It is impossible for Frangji to give up the sea trade, so the big ship must arrive at the port as scheduled.

　The famous words of Philip II of the Kingdom of Spain (Felipe II): I would rather abdicate than rule a heathen. The problems of Ming and Spain are so similar.Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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