Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 640 Execution of Foreign Nobles
Today is the day to deal with foreign felons.

As the saying goes, a doctor cannot be punished.

Whether it is the representative of the highest power in the National Assembly of the Republic of the Netherlands, De Laite.

It was Masiek, the governor of the Dutch East India Company who owed a lot of blood debts in the city of Batavia.

Or the Joseon king Li Hao who challenged Ming's dignity.

They are the so-called vested interests in their own country, and they are the so-called nobles. Their status exceeds the laws of their country and they can be unrestrained.

Because of this, these foreign aristocrats developed an arrogant character in their own country, and regarded the common people in their own country as worthless, so that they regarded the Ming people as worthless, thinking that killing a few ordinary Han people would not cause the wrath of the Ming court.

But they ignored that the emperor Zhu Youjian of Ming Dynasty was no longer a nobleman who was as stupid as them and only knew how to maintain his own rule.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian was basically a young man with strong idealism.

In later generations, the pressure of buying a real house deprived him of the opportunity to show his ideals and pursuits, so he had to hide his edge and be a selfish and numb ordinary person.

But in this life, he is the supreme emperor of Ming Dynasty, with the power in his hands controlling millions of modernized troops and tens of millions of square kilometers of land, and can even decide the life and death of hundreds of millions of people.

The Ming Empire gave Zhu Youjian supreme power, but Zhu Youjian's power came from the trust of the people of all classes in the entire Ming Empire. Trusting him as an emperor can still lead them to the happiest future.

People are selfish, and the entire Ming Empire is willing to recognize Zhu Youjian as the emperor, not only because of his political orthodoxy, but because everything Zhu Youjian does is in their interests.

But Zhu Youjian was also thinking about why he exhausted himself to death for the happiness of other people's lives.

As long as I am willing, I can live a very luxurious and lustful life in the next few decades. Even if I am as desperately corrupt as Qianlong, the Ming Empire can last another hundred years with its current scale.

But Zhu Youjian does not hope that one day in the future, the ordinary Han people who are the same as him before time travel will be as tired as he was back then, and even because of this, he will only hate and be bored with this world instead of love.

The world of the biosphere cannot escape the jungle law of the jungle, but the birth and progress of civilization is to make the expression of this law less bloody, and even achieve internal peace.

Only by replacing the more backward civilization with a higher civilization can the human society reduce more killings, cruelty and barbarism.

And Zhu Youjian now wants to use the Chinese civilization of the Ming Empire to replace other civilizations that are more backward.

At the same time, he also had to find a way to promote the development of Chinese civilization so that it could be cleansed and evolved.

Many officials in the empire have begun to not understand Zhu Youjian's behavior. They don't understand why His Majesty the Emperor is obsessed with unifying the world, and even wants to realize that every place is a world of Han people. Even if it cannot be achieved through reproduction, it must be grafted through civilization way to achieve.

In the eyes of some "literary" officials of the empire who just want the years to be quiet and safe, the country is already so powerful, and the emperor's greatness has far surpassed the three emperors and five emperors, so there is no need to toss so hard all day long for tens of thousands of miles of war, even He also had to go to a place of bitter cold to be an official.Seems unnecessary.

If it weren't for Zhu Youjian's use of national debt to bind the imperial nobles and first-class citizens to realize that it is in their own interest to expand the empire, no one would be willing to implement Zhu Youjian's foreign expansion policy.

After all, as the majority of people who do not have much desire for power, they would rather be an apartment in the warm and spring-like Jiangnan than go to the sandy Mobei to be the governor.

Therefore, for the punishment of these foreign recidivists, simply using the punishment of Ling Chi can no longer shock the domestic nobles and first-class citizens too much.

The people of Ming Dynasty in this era have not been under too strong ethnic oppression, so they are still full of love for this world. Although they are contemptuous of these foreigners, they are also kind, so they have little interest in Lingchi, the repeat offenders of foreigners.

In order to increase the attention of the nobles and first-class citizens of the Ming Empire to the execution of aliens, and continue to enhance their sense of superiority and happiness, Zhu Youjian instructed the Ministry of Punishment to change the execution method to increase the fun.

Roman nobles used this method.

As the top nobleman of the Ming Empire, Zhu Youjian naturally liked this method very much. After he sat down in the main hall above the Huangji Gate, he issued an order: "Start!"

Then, the gate of a pre-built animal farm was opened, and a fierce tiger was let in.

Immediately afterwards, the defender of the Dutch Republic, De Knight, was also escorted over.

Zhu Youjian and the nobles of the empire watched from the top of the city tower, while the first-class citizens of the empire watched from outside the iron fence of the animal farm.

However, as soon as Denet saw the fierce tiger, he also realized that these Ming nobles were going to put themselves into the beast field to fight the tiger, and then they would be eaten by the tiger.

Dennett couldn't help yelling: "You can't do this, you are treating me barbarously, I am a Dutch nobleman, even though I have been defeated, I should still be respected by you as a gentleman!"

However, Daming's Jin Yiwei couldn't understand Deknit's words, so he just pushed Deknitt in and closed the gate of the animal farm.

At this time, Zhu Youjian was sitting on it and watched the top leader of the Hongmaofan, Deknight, who had committed colonial crimes around the world, stood tremblingly in front of the tiger.

But at this time, the tiger just circled around Deknitt, and pounced on Deknitt after circling around.

However, this Denett was still quick to react, and he dodged it, and then seemed to be yelling at himself for mercy.

But Zhu Youjian didn't bother to talk about it. If he wanted the idea that the Ming Empire was a country that cannot be provoked into the hearts of the people, he had to use the blood of these people to strengthen the memory of the foreigners.

So, under Zhu Youjian's eyes, the Dutch guard Dennett was thrown to the ground by the tiger, and a piece of flesh was torn off.

The imperial nobles on the top of the tower and the first-class citizens of the empire below the tower watched with gusto, watching the red-haired fan being chased and bitten by a tiger as if watching a play.

In the end, the Dutch defender Dennett was eaten by the tiger.

Masiike of the Dutch East India Company, who was standing aside and was about to enter for the second time, was already trembling with fright, knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of Zhu Youjian, and said, "Respected Emperor Ming, we know that we are wrong, Please look at God's face, please forgive us, we will never dare to kill the Han people again!"

(End of this chapter)