Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 460
Zhu Changyuan is very happy!

Because Zheng Chenggong not only won the first battle, but also sent himself a dozen Spanish captives.

"Have all the captives from Xisongya been delivered?" Zhu Changyuan asked Cao Huachun with the list.

Cao Huachun said: "Yes, Your Majesty, these captives have already arrived in the capital. If you want to see them, I will arrange them."

"No need, let these guys spend two days in prison first, by the way, especially the guy who can speak Chinese, you have to take care of it alone, let them taste the torture of our China first, and then bring it up to me."

"Go yourself, just don't kill me!"

For these guys who dared to invade Greater China, it is impossible for Zhu Changyuan to have any soft-hearted thoughts. Even if he wants to use them in the future, he must conquer them first.

"Today is really a good day, double happiness! Let's go, Mr. Cao, go out and accompany me to the Queen's Palace to see Qi Qi!" Zhu Changyuan stood up from his chair happily.

"Don't dare, Your Majesty has broken the old slave!" Cao Huachun followed closely behind him, and walked out of the gate of Qianqing Palace.

The so-called double happiness, Zheng Chenggong's defeat of the Spanish devils is one thing, and another thing is that Wu Weiye officially proposed marriage to the royal family, and the object is Jinling Princess Bian Yujing.

Zhu Changyuan walked all the way from Qianqing Palace to Kunning Palace. Apart from Cao Huachun, there were more than a dozen court ladies and eunuchs behind him. They dragged all kinds of items that Zhu Changyuan might use for the emperor to use at any time.

Zhu Changyuan obviously didn't like it, but he still had to abide by the etiquette, and secretly said: Being an emperor is really troublesome, and he doesn't even have any personal space. If it wasn't for Lao Tzu's strong refusal, he would lose the right to walk around in the palace.

According to the usual practice, although the distance from Qianqing Palace to Kunning Palace like Zhu Changyuan's is not too far, it is usually impossible to take a walk there by himself, and someone must be carrying the imperial chariot.

But Zhu Changyuan really didn't like being carried around like a dead person by a few eunuchs, so he walked around the palace by himself, and rode a horse when he went outside the palace.Unless you encounter great etiquette, you will never use eunuchs to travel!

Entering the Kunning Palace, I happened to see the empress happily watching the betrothal gift with Zhu Cihong.

"What is this?" Zhu Changyuan couldn't help asking when he saw Zhu Cihong playing around with a golden handle.

Zhang Yan first saluted Zhu Changyuan, and then said: "Your Majesty is here, just to help you see the betrothal gift that Nanjing sent to Princess Jinling."

"This is Jin Ruyi, you are getting more and more powerful now, and your knowledge is getting lower and lower!" Zhu Cihong smiled, holding Jin Ruyi and waving it in front of Zhu Changyuan.

The queen scolded, "You're rude, why did you speak to Your Majesty?" Although she looked serious, she didn't mean to blame her at all.

Zhu Changyuan didn't really care too much, after all, it was impossible for him to get to know an underage kid.

However, since this little boy entered the court, he has gradually become a concern for him. Among other things, many ministers from the outer courts have written to suggest that Zhu Cihong be sent to Nanjing.

Naturally, Zhu Changyuan couldn't do so. If he dared to send Zhu Cihong out of the capital, he would guarantee that someone would help him and get rid of Zhu Cihong quickly.In the eyes of those ministers, the existence of Zhu Cihong is a factor of instability in the country.

"There is still this ingot of silver!" Zhang Yan took out another ingot of silver from the gift box, and said to Zhu Changyuan: "The concubine didn't know about it, but I found out after asking someone from Yangzhou. Ingots of silver and gold Ruyi represent certain wishes!"

"That's right, it means auspiciousness. Is Princess Jinling here?" Zhu Changyuan snatched the gold Ruyi from Zhu Cihong's hands, looked at it, and found that although it was big, it was a pity that it was not pure gold, it should be something gilded with other metals.

"This Wu Weiye is very courageous. He dared to fool me with fake gold!" Zhu Changyuan said half-jokingly. After speaking, he looked at the other betrothal gifts.

In fact, he didn't think that the betrothal gift was too small, but he was just joking.

Zhang Yan rolled his eyes at him, and said to the emperor very bluntly: "Your Majesty, you have a good look. How can there be such a heavy dowry among the people? Generally speaking, it is replaced by gold plating. Dare to break the rules."

Zhu Changyuan nodded, and suddenly thought of something and asked: "By the way, I gave him Princess Jinling, what about his original wife? You can't just let the princess go and treat him like a baby?"

Zhang Yan said with a smile: "How is it possible, I heard that the Wu family has already divorced their first wife!"

Zhu Changyuan was slightly taken aback, seeing Zhang Yan seeming to be talking about a trivial matter, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and said to himself: My beauty as an adult also unintentionally ruined a marriage and put an innocent woman in a miserable place, I really don't know if it's right or wrong.

"I'm being absurd! Let's go back and ask Wu Zhong Zhifu to build a nunnery in Yangzhou or Jinling, give Mrs. Wu Jiayuan the title of Qingxu Daojun, and live in it, and the court will take care of her for the rest of her life."

"Your Majesty is holy!" Zhang Yan bowed to Zhu Changyuan.

Zhu Changyuan shook his head. Many things are beyond his control, and it is impossible for favors to benefit everyone. It is not bad to be able to benefit some people. There is no way for someone like Mrs. Wu who was sacrificed by himself.

Ten days after the appointment, the Wu family formally married Princess Bian Yujing of Jinling.

Zhu Changyuan asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites to preside over the arrangements, held a grand wedding, and gave Wu Weiye a house in the capital.This house is worthless to say the least, but it has extraordinary significance. It is exactly the small courtyard, the big courtyard, that Zhu Changyuan bought when he was an official in the capital.

After the wedding of Princess Jinling and Wu Weiye, the first thing Zhu Changyuan did was to interrogate the Spaniard who had been served in prison for ten days.

When Cao Huachun brought these dozen or so people from the prison in Dongchang, although they didn't see anything wrong on the surface, and there was no scar on their skin, Zhu Changyuan saw boundless fear in their eyes , and the mental state of several people is also extremely poor.

"What's your name?" Zhu Changyuan sat on the dragon chair, condescending.

The people below hardly dared to look up.

"Your Majesty asks you, what's your name?" Cao Huachun looked at the Spaniard who could speak Chinese, and said coldly.

"Yes yes yes!" The guy was afraid that Cao Huachun was still above Zhu Changyuan, and when he heard Cao Huachun's voice, he quickly kowtowed and said, "Returning to the adults, the villain's name is Ronaldo."

"Ro, Rona... I am Cao!" Zhu Changyuan couldn't help but swear softly, "Look up for me."

The man raised his head, and Zhu Changyuan looked left and right. He didn't see anything similar to the other two Ronaldos in modern society. He smiled coldly and said, "Ronaldo, are you guilty?"

"The villain is guilty, the villain is guilty!" Ronaldo quickly admitted his mistake.

Zhu Changyuan waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I'll ask you a few questions, and you answer them truthfully!"

Then, he asked some questions about Spain's current situation and military strength, and Ronaldo answered them all.

The current Spain has just ended its status as the hegemony of European seas. Not only was the Armada defeated by the United Kingdom decades ago, but Spain now has a large territory and dependent countries, but its regime is also weakening day by day.

The current king of Spain is Philip IV. It cannot be said that he is a faint king or a tyrant, but he is still a long way from a wise king.

As for the military strength of Spain, it is not weak. Although it cannot be compared with the Ming Empire, if you take care of those countries on the Indochina Peninsula or the Indian Peninsula, it is simply a matter of hand.The prerequisite is if they can run that far.

So Zhu Changyuan is even less worried that Spain will retaliate against him.

Thinking of the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces in later generations, the European powers ravaging the land of the motherland for decades, almost destroying China, and the British Empire even leasing Hong Kong, Zhu Changyuan was full of anger.

Damn it, since I have nothing to do in the future world, it is reasonable to report the revenge of the future generations to you in advance.

"So, you Sisonya is also a powerful country, and you have plundered a lot of property all over the world over the years?" Zhu Changyuan asked Ronaldo.

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty, our Spain is the strongest country on the entire continent!" Ronaldo spoke with a natural confidence.

"Okay!" Zhu Changyuan stood up from the dragon chair and said, "I will arrange someone to send you back to China, but you need to be an interpreter and tell your king, Philip IV, that you will pay for your invasion of Taiwan Island of Ming Dynasty." , I want to put forward two conditions to him!"

"What conditions?" Ronaldo asked.

"You don't need to ask!" Zhu Changyuan waved his hand, and said again: "I hope you are telling the truth, if I find out that you are lying, I don't mind asking you to stay in the prison of the East Factory of the Ming Dynasty for a while !"

"Oh, no, no, no, no!" Ronaldo stepped back a few steps as if his tail had been stepped on, his eyes filled with fear.

Zhu Changyuan drafted a document on the spot and handed it to Cao Huachun, asking him to transfer the document to the cabinet and send it to King Philip IV of Spain in the form of a letter of credence.

As for the price of invading Taiwan, Zhu Changyuan had thought about it a long time ago. It was nothing more than two points: compensation for land cession!

"This is called repaying a person in the same way!" Zhu Changyuan said proudly to himself, thinking of Philip IV's expression when he saw the letter of credence in the future, he wanted to laugh.

"The minister obeys the order!"

Cao Huachun received the imperial decree, and asked Zhu Changyuan, "I wonder when Your Majesty wants to send envoys there?"

Zhu Changyuan pondered for a while and said, "Just for a few days, I will organize a mission and send them a warship to go there by sea."

The European route has been back and forth several times, and he is familiar with the route. Naturally, it does not need to take as long as three months when sailing for the first time. If the fleet is fully activated, it may take one month.

(End of this chapter)