Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 641
Begging for mercy is of course useless.

Even if these "foreigners" with high self-esteem bend their knees, they will not be forgiven by the Ming Empire.

Because the Ming Dynasty is not the late Qing Dynasty in the original history.

In the eyes of the nobles and first-class citizens of the Ming Empire, these Western fans are not even worthy of their attention as second-class citizens in China. At most, they just sigh for it. No one thinks their knees can be so noble.

Masiike was also thrown into the cage.

The richer people are, the more they are afraid of death. The governor of the Dutch East India Company, Masiike, was so afraid of death that he couldn't do it in horror. Shouted in Chinese:
"Forgive your life! Forgive your life!"

And at this time, the tiger walked towards Ma Suike.

As soon as Ma Suike saw the tiger, he ran away.

Naturally, the tiger also chased after him, threw the Dutch Governor-General Masek to the ground, and then began to tear until the Dutch Governor-General Masek was torn into pieces.

The nobles and first-class citizens of the Ming Empire suddenly watched a big show, and their faces showed unsatisfactory smiles.

……

"I don't want to die alone, I don't want to die alone! Your Majesty the Emperor, please, please forgive my sins, I really have confessed my crimes, I have confessed my crimes!"

King Li Hao of North Korea was dragged to the animal farm. When he thought of being bitten bloody by the tiger, his legs became weak from fear, and he kept yelling.

"I don't want to be a king anymore, as long as your majesty is willing to spare my life, I am willing to hand over all of North Korea to your majesty, no, I will return it to your majesty, as long as you are willing to spare my life, what do you want me to do?" You can be a slave, you can be a slave! The ass of a slave is very white!... Woohoo!"

The king of North Korea, Li Hao, didn't want any morals at all, and just yelled for his life.

It wasn't until the tiger appeared behind him that the king of North Korea, Li Hao, shut his mouth, and then instinctively spread his feet and ran in the animal field. He stopped when he reached the animal gate, knelt directly by the door, and faced the door weeping. Jin Yiwei outside said: "I beg you, please open the door and let me escape, woo woo!"

Jin Yiwei naturally ignored him, but at this time, the tiger also came over, and suddenly bit the head of North Korean King Li Hao into his mouth.

……

So far, all foreign nobles who offended Ming Dynasty were executed.

Zhu Youjian stood up with a smile: "Tell the Ministry of Punishment to kill the tiger and make a feast for the foreign envoys who will be in the same hall."

"I will obey your orders!"

The imperial officials couldn't help being shocked, but the other foreign envoys who were also watching the foreign execution at the city gate showed complicated expressions. They really wanted to reject this tiger meat feast, but they didn't dare to go against Daming again. The emperor's will, fearing that he would also be thrown into the animal field and bitten by fierce tigers.

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North Korea has been pacified, and even the king of North Korea has been executed.

The Ming Dynasty will also start a more stringent Sinicization process for North Korea, and achieve the goal of using it as the advance base for the Ming Dynasty to enter the Wa Kingdom.

In addition to the northern mountainous areas of North Korea, the central and southern regions are considered to be very affluent areas. The significance of development is much greater than that of Monan and Mobei. Moreover, the population is also large, and the labor force that can be provided is also very rich.

Therefore, after the cabinet established that North Korea was changed to Daming Lelang Province, and Emperor Chongzhen personally issued an edict to appoint Wang Fuzhi as the governor of Lelang, the business groups of the empire began to eagerly raise funds to move to North Korea and began to buy land from the government. up.

After all, if you want to get your own private land nowadays, you can basically only buy it outside the customs, and the inside of the customs is basically the territory of Huangzhuang. Outside the customs, North Korea’s land is undoubtedly more popular with domestic business groups than the land in Mobei and Monan. The empire had already started to prepare for the war against Japan, and everyone could have predicted that the scale of North Korea's trade would increase, so more and more business groups began to go to North Korea to buy land, and the Ming court also gained a large amount of income as a result.

At this time in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youjian spread out a map, drew another circle in the North Korean area, and said to his son, the eighth prince Zhu Ciyun and other princes: "For my father, I will expand it for you again." No matter who you become the emperor in the future, you can't let this place become a place that is not our Han people's territory, understand?"

"I understand!" All the princes replied.

"Very well, my Ming Dynasty has grown to be extremely powerful. It is impossible to be destroyed, but it is still possible for our royal family to be replaced by a new royal family. At least if we want to continue to control this empire, the difficulty is still not less than before. Now the divine right of the king is no longer enough to make the first-class citizens who have enlightened the wisdom of the people trust us, we have to bind them with interests."

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but look out the window as he spoke. Now every time he lays down a site, he will call these princes to his side and tell them why he wants to lay down these lands and why he wants to develop these lands.

Although Zhu Youjian didn't think about continuing his life for the Zhu family, at least these children and children in front of him were his own heirs, and he didn't want his heirs to make the Ming Empire lose their ambition when they inherited their own empire.

"Father, why do we have to open up the wisdom of the people, and let the common people honestly be people who don't know how to read or write and only know how to farm? It will rise again, why bother to turn into roses with thorns, and take care of them with all my heart."

At this time, the Eighth Prince Zhu Ciyun asked.

"Common people are not weeds. Even if you don't open up their wisdom, they are still wise. They are not born to be fish for you to slaughter. Once they can't survive, they will still destroy you, and the methods are even more cruel. You have no love for them. , people are ruthless to you, people can carry a boat, and they can also overturn it, that's the reason."

"In addition, although we are the royal family, we are also Han people. We cannot be selfish and disregard the interests of the whole of China because of our own interests. If we don't open up the wisdom of the people, we will always be the family of the world;
Because of this, the Han people in China will gradually become ignorant and numb, and the Chinese civilization will also become backward because of this. At that time, the foreigners will catch up and make them become superior people. The emperor, too, must be humiliated.

Just like the foreign nobleman who was bitten by a tiger in the animal farm that day, if one day, if you don’t bring this civilization along with you, you will also be thrown into a beast field by the foreign emperor. In their eyes, you are not an emperor, and you have no place to be pitied. "

When Zhu Youjian said this, all the princes present seemed to be in deep thought, but Zhu Youjian just looked up and glanced out of the window. He hoped that the princes who would rule the empire in the future would understand that this is no longer the previous society, where the hierarchy was established by fooling the people Order is no longer possible, we can only make progress together.

(End of this chapter)