Chapter 168 Daming still wants a face
The original name of the Red Creek in Batavia was Hong Creek. The reason why it was changed to Red Creek was because of the tragedy in 1740. In just one week, the victims of the Hong Creek in the Chinese city were killed.
The bodies were clogged and the river water was dyed red with blood.
Therefore, Hongxi is called Hongxi.
At that time, the Dutch authorities were worried that the Qing court would send troops to retaliate, so they took the initiative to give the Qing "a discount" and expressed the hope that the incident would not affect the relations between the two countries. In the second year of the incident, that is, in 1741 (Qian De6
), the Dutch East Indies Governor-General Adriaan Valier was dismissed from office.
However, after the Qing Dynasty court and Qian Deafangou learned about the Hongxi Massacre, they only said that "it was a serious injury, but in fact it was your own fault."
Don't ask."
Then he backhanded this matter to Wanli——
"Of the four peoples in China, merchants are the lowest, so how can you start a military revolution with untouchables? Among the merchants, they abandoned their homes and traveled to the sea, never to return through the winter. They are looked down upon by their fathers, brothers, and relatives. There is no regret in abandoning them. Instead, they serve as soldiers."
Does it sound like Qian Deafangou’s tone when he responded to the Hongxi Massacre?
This is the so-called "Edict to Lu Song", but the original text of this appeal has been lost! These sentences are referenced from the text of Xu Xueju, a Jinshi, deputy censor of the capital, and governor of Fujian during the Wanli period.
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As for Xu Xueju, various records in "History of the Ming Dynasty" also appear to be contradictory. First, it is said that Xu Xueju has no good impression of the Chinese. After listening to Spain's explanation, in the memorial submitted to the court, he wantonly smeared the Chinese who died, falsely claiming that they were all
The traitors who committed evil crimes deserved their own fault for being killed.
Then he immediately wrote "Report for the Retrieval of Luzon Prisoner Shang Shu", which first eased the emperor's mood and explained the difficulties of the expedition. At the same time, he warned the Spaniards with stern words: "I, Emperor Gao, unified Fang Xia, and my appearance will be eternal; the prestige of rituals and music will be preserved for the world."
"Ruyi", using the victory of the three major conquests to show the country's power and deter the Spaniards.
It is estimated that such inconsistent records can appear openly only in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, for this incident in the Wanli period, the more valuable reference is the petition written by Archbishop Benavidez of Manila to the Supreme Court:
"This danger is probably the greatest, because the powerful Emperor of China threatens us with a huge fleet, saying that if we do not comply with his two demands (namely, the return of banned merchants and looted property), he will send
If a thousand ships come... it is very possible that the Chinese emperor will at least cut off trade with these areas and impose heavy fines on violators, and this will be the complete destruction of this colony."
The Supreme Court of Manila met on June 13, 1606, to consider the Archbishop's petition, and ruled as follows: "Order the custodians of the property to present as soon as possible a list of the property in their custody, for the purpose of its return;
When the ship carrying financial allowances arrives, the arrears paid should be deposited into the royal treasury; as for the Chinese serving on the ship, the matter is being investigated so that appropriate measures can be taken, and a ruling will be made before the Chinese merchant ship leaves."
Therefore, it can be said that Wanli was devastated because of the three major levies that depleted the treasury of money. In addition, floods occurred in some areas of the Ming Dynasty and drowned 200,000 people. The earthquake lasted for two months.
It is very possible that Wanli is powerless, but if Wanli is like a deaf old dog and says such nonsense as "How can we start a military revolution with untouchables", then we really can only laugh.
Including the following fourteenth year of Shunzhi, Zheng Chenggong sent a letter to an overseas Chinese in Batavia, Java, asking him to stop trading with the West Philippine authorities, and at the same time, he was preparing to lead troops to invade the Philippines as punishment.
In the first year of Mazi, after Zheng Chenggong captured Taiwan, he sent a letter to the Governor of the Philippines, condemning his crimes of killing and plundering overseas Chinese, and strictly ordered him to correct his evil ways.
At this time, the Spaniards had already learned the news about Daming Liangliang, so they were afraid? It was impossible to be afraid. Not only were they not afraid, but they carried out another massacre.
In the ninth year of Mazi Ge and the tenth year of Mazi Ge, it is said that Zheng Jing, who was "quite useless", prepared to conquer Manila twice, but was unable to send troops due to various factors.
Of course, all the twelve emperors of the Qing Dynasty were Mingjuns and Holy Masters, and the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all faint emperors with full sub-professional skills. Diehard Ming emperors like Zheng Chenggong and others deserve to die even more.
Although Zhao Yi, a scholar of the Qian Dynasty, said that "in modern history, apart from Ouyang Gong's "History of the Five Dynasties", "History of Liao" is brief, "History of Song" is complicated, "History of Yuan" is sloppy, but "History of Jin" is elegant and clean.
The narrative is concise and somewhat impressive, but it is not as complete as the "History of the Ming Dynasty"."
In fact, scholar Zhao was completely deceived, because all the literati who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty were useless and incompetent people. They did not understand the compilation of "History of the Ming Dynasty" and couldn't do it well even if they poured some dirty water on it. It was full of errors and omissions.
It's so generous and laughable!
Of course, Zhu Jinsong has no time to pay attention to the Netherlands now.
For Zhu Jinsong, it was God's business not to forgive the Dutch barbarians and the Indian monkeys, and Zhu Jinsong just planned to pack them up and send them to God at the right time.
Obviously, the time has not yet come.
Zhu Jinsong casually threw aside the "History of the Ming Dynasty·Biography·Volume 221" and said to Zeng Cheng and other big shots: "The second soldier is marching out of Jiaozhi. Some people may not be able to sit still."
Just when Zeng Cheng and other big guys were confused, Zhu Jinsong nodded to Ke Zhiming again and ordered: "Let Zeng Futai and the others take a look too."
After Zeng Cheng and others received the information distributed by Ke Zhiming, Zeng Cheng and others' expressions couldn't help but become subtle.
As Zhu Jinsong said, as Zhu Erdan began to march towards Jiaozhi, Siam, Burma and other Southeast Asian countries could no longer sit still.
After all, there is no shortage of smart people in this world.
Bai Ziqi first marched into Jiaozhi under the pretext of returning power to the Li family, and then caused Li Weiqi's family to suddenly and inexplicably die. Then, as soon as Zhu Erdan led his troops south, Bai Ziqi couldn't wait to raise his flag and surrender.
He became the Anlehou of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, the Nanyang monkeys are not fools, so there is no way they can't understand the twists and turns here.
However, it is precisely because they can see clearly that the Nanyang monkeys plan to be fools. After all, smart people often die too early, so it is better to be stupid.
Now, these Nanyang monkeys who forced themselves to become fools have prepared credentials and gifts, and plan to come to Jinan in person, not only to "congratulate the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty on his enthronement", but also to express "the world has received the kindness of the Ming Dynasty, and I wish to be a blessing to the Ming Dynasty forever."
The attitude of "the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, guarding Nanfan for the Ming Dynasty".
The problem is that Zhu Erdan has already led his troops to attack Jiaozhi——
Although the "Ming Dynasty Newspaper" did not say that Siam and Burma were to be killed conveniently, Zhu Erdan was the brother of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Jinsong, His Royal Highness the King of Qin in the Ming Dynasty, and the former Commander-in-Chief of the Military Governor's Palace. In case he killed Jiaozhi, he would do it again.
Burma and Siam, could the Ming court still kill him?
Three drinks as a penalty is almost enough!
It is precisely because of this that the expressions on the faces of Zeng Cheng and others appear particularly subtle.
After pondering for a long time, Zeng Cheng frowned and said, "How about letting Leader Ke's men work hard?"
Ke Zhiming looked at Zeng Cheng with a stupid look, and said mockingly: "Did Zeng Futai mistake the Jin Yiwei for the Jin Yiwei from the Yongle period?"
"If the Imperial Guards of the Yongle period were to die at the third watch, no one in the world would be able to keep them until the fifth watch."
"The problem is that the current Jinyiwei is not the Jinyiwei during the Yongle period. The establishment of the fourteen thousand-household offices has not yet been completed, and the penetration of the Nanyang vassals is not in place."
"In fact, Ke also tried to send people to the Nanyang vassals to contact the remaining Jin Yiwei, but only one in a hundred could be contacted. If it takes a few more years, he probably won't be able to contact any of them."
Ke Zhiming sighed, shook his head and then continued: "Also, by the time the news comes, Meng Yun, the leader of Burma, and Chao Phraya Chakri, the leader of Siam, have already left their countries, and they will probably wait until Jin Yiwei gets the order.
, they have entered the Ming Dynasty - if nothing unexpected happens, they will probably reach Jinan Prefecture in another month."
When Ke Zhiming said this, Zeng Cheng suddenly felt numb.
If Meng Yun and Chao Phraya Chakri were still in Myanmar and Siam, the Jin Yiwei would kill them by killing them. At worst, they could be blamed on the bandits afterwards. They are all small vassal states anyway, and there are several groups.
Bandits are a very reasonable thing, right?
The problem is that they must not be killed within the Ming Dynasty. After all, he is the leader of a small vassal state, and he came to recognize his father under the banner of celebrating Zhu Jinsong's ascension to the throne. If he died in the Ming Dynasty, it would be difficult to tell in the history books.
——It doesn’t matter how the Qing Dynasty randomly changed the history books and threw dirty water, but the Ming court absolutely did not allow this kind of thing to happen.
The Qing Dynasty could be shameless, but the Ming Dynasty still wanted to be shameless.
Just when Zeng Cheng and other big guys had a headache, Zhu Jinsong also had a headache.
The emperor, who is in his twenties, suddenly has a few more sons who are several dozen years old... It's a headache to step on a horse, it's just a pain in the balls, okay!
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The closer they got to the Ming Dynasty, the more frightened Meng Yun and Chao Phraya Chokri became.
Since ancient times, the impact of Zhongyuan Tangkou on the surrounding areas has been in all aspects, from military to politics to people's livelihood, economy, and culture, which basically spread from Zhongyuan Tangkou.
Of course, this does not rule out that Zhongyuan Tangkou will actively absorb good things from outside and turn these things into things that Zhongyuan Tangkou has had since ancient times.
For example, the music of Qiuci, the dance of the Western Regions, and the suona.
How many people know that the suona, a traditional national musical instrument, originally originated in Persia?
The key is that Kucha, the Western Regions and Persia have never raised objections.
It's the same now.
When the Qing Dynasty was still relatively strong, in addition to pig tails, the clothing styles and culture of the Qing Dynasty were slowly beginning to spread to Burma, Cochin, Siam and other places. Now that the Qing Dynasty has cooled down, the monkeys in these places have begun to learn it again.
Understand the clothing and culture of Ming Dynasty.
The closer to the Ming Dynasty, the more obvious these things become.
But when Meng Yun, Chao Phraya Chokri and others officially set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, the Nanyang princes finally realized the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
Meng Yun, the leader of Myanmar, looked livid: "It's too late, it's too late, the Tatars misled me! If I had known that the Ming Dynasty was like this, I should have paid tribute to the saint earlier. Now..."
The face of the leader of Siam was equally ugly, but the leader of Myanmar sighed to himself, while Chao Phraya Chakri took out his temper on his followers: "You trash! If we had found out about the situation of the Ming Dynasty earlier,
, Didn’t I just come forward and proclaim my vassalship early? But now it’s better, my hundreds of years of foundation in Siam is about to be ruined in my hands!”
Until all the accompanying officials were scolded so hard that they couldn't hold their heads up, the leader of Siam, Chao Phraya Chakri, ordered again: "Come, get ready, I am going to visit the leader of Myanmar."
After meeting Meng Yun, the leader of Myanmar, Chao Phraya Chakri said straight to the point: "The Ming Dynasty today is no longer the Ming Dynasty before. I am afraid that during this meeting..."
Meng Yun also frowned and said, "I know that His Highness the King of Qin led his troops to attack Jiaozhi. It is estimated that Jiaozhi will completely abolish the vassal. Now I am afraid that our two families will end up in the same end."
After Chao Phraya Chokri nodded, Meng Yun continued: "Now, we can only place our hope on the Ming Emperor to see if he will have any dignity."
After hearing the words "Emperor of the Ming Dynasty", Chao Phraya Chokri's heart moved, and he said with a smile: "I guess so? In any case, the Ming Dynasty is the celestial kingdom after all."
After chatting, Chao Phraya Chakri seemed to have remembered something and said: "By the way, I suddenly remembered that I still have something to deal with, so I went back first, and I will come back to you after I finish it.
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After Chao Phraya Chakri left, Meng Yun's face suddenly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.
Because Meng Yun has figured out the reason why Chao Phraya Chokri's expression changed drastically - Chao Phraya Chokri came to find him because of the four words "Emperor of the Ming Dynasty", and Chao Phraya Chokri left in a hurry.
It is also because of the four words "Emperor of Ming Dynasty"!
In the 18th year of Shunzhi, the Qing army invaded Yunnan, and Zhu Youlang fled to Mandalay, Myanmar. Later, Wu Sangui invaded Myanmar, and the king of Myanmar at that time dedicated him to Wu Sangui. Eventually, Emperor Yongli was hanged by Wu Sangui in Kunming.
Chao Phraya Chakri must have thought of this, so he left in a hurry!
The problem is that this point is almost unsolvable for Meng Yun.
No matter how much you argue, you can't change the fact that the King of Myanmar once handed over Emperor Yongli to Wu Sangui - as a foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty, handing over the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to Wu Sangui is a betrayal in itself!
Meng Yun slumped down on the chair and murmured: "It's over, it's over. I didn't think of this before, but now it has become a reminder for my Burma. I don't know how the Ming Emperor is going to concoct my Burma."
Chapter completed!