Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1495 Beiyang Expedition ([-])
After explaining the entrusted guardianship system to the senior management of the expedition fleet, several "senior officials" who participated in the negotiations had different expressions and performances, and the first to express their opinions was Zhu Yingfeng, the representative of the nobles.

Zhu Yingfeng, just by his name, one can tell that he is from the lineage of Cheng Guogong, and he is of the same generation as the current Cheng Guogong Zhu Yingzhen.

Indeed, he is Zhu Yingzhen's cousin, and his grandfather is Zhu Xixiao, the younger brother of the old Duke Zhu Xizhong and the former governor of Jinyiwei.However, Zhu Yingfeng is not Zhu Xixiao's grandson, but a concubine, and he is the fourth eldest in the family, so his status is not very good.

Although Zhu Yingfeng's status is mediocre, but fortunately, Cheng Guogong's family has a big business, and when he was an adult, he still got a little bit of property, besides his residence, he also had about 2 taels of silver.

He is also a ruthless person. At that time, he gritted his teeth and smashed a stud of 2 taels of silver into the fleet of Cheng Guogong, and obtained [-]% of the shares and dividends of an armed transport ship—that is, four Divide a ship.

By the way, although Cheng Guogong's family has a big business, Zhu Yingzhen's fleet is really not owned by himself.When building the fleet, they even kept up with the times and learned from Jinghua, and implemented a "shareholding system". All tribesmen who have not released the fifth server can freely participate in the shares, and the share capital depends on how much you can take out.

Zhu Yingfeng's share capital at that time can only be said to be not too big or small. He relied on the fact that he had a hundred households in Jinyiwei to get his salary, and his idea was "Even if it is all lost, I will not die of hunger".

It didn't take long for this fellow to develop.After all, he is a child of a concubine, so he usually saves money. He doesn't fight crickets or walk his dog. If he has money, he continues to invest in the fleet. As a result, two years later, he owns two armed transport ships.

Zhu Yingzhen felt that this cousin was not bad, and started to get close to him. Zhu Yingfeng simply took advantage of the situation and said that he wanted to resign from Jinyiwei's job and concentrate on maritime trade.Zhu Yingzhen was quite surprised at the time, but after discussing with him carefully, he agreed.

So Zhu Yingfeng resigned from office and took charge of the maritime trade affairs of Duke Cheng's mansion.In this expedition, he is probably the one with the highest status in the Xungui family. At least in terms of blood, he is still a close brother of Cheng Guogong.

At this time, Zhu Yingfeng said: "What is the entrusted guardianship system? I don't care about his guardians and other things. As far as the system is concerned, the rules have been broken. According to their system, the entire Luzon is theirs. The king's, the king authorized the governor below, and the governor authorized the guardians...

And we have already stated our point of view just now: Luzon is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, and it is not the Spaniards who have the final say on how to deal with it, but only me, Ming Dynasty.Commander, in my opinion, they are afraid that they will not give up this trusteeship system, so let's not talk nonsense with them. It's the mules or horses that come out for a walk, and only the hands can see the truth. "

After all, Zhu Yingfeng's identity is here. Gao Zhenxin couldn't help but say nothing when he made this statement, so he could only say: "The problem at the moment is not whether we can fight, but we can definitely fight. If we want to talk about fighting in this battle, [-]% Ten can win. But the trouble is that my master is worried that the Spaniards will be driven away. They don’t even have a foothold, which will affect the overseas money.”

Zhu Yingfeng frowned, and asked, "So what does Gao Situ say about this? I mean, which aspects can be compromised and which aspects cannot be compromised? We can't fight for nothing. Has it really become the land of the Spaniards?"

"That's not going to happen." Gao Zhenxin said: "What the master means is that not only Luzon must be taken back, but even the entire 'Philippine Islands' must be unified, that is to say, they all belong to Luzon."

There is a misunderstanding in later generations, thinking that "Luzon" in history includes the entire Philippines in later generations, but it is not.At most, Luzon is only the big island of Luzon in the northern part of the Philippine archipelago, and even the big island of Luzon may not be fully counted.However, its core ruling area is in Manila.

"Zhangjun Zhi" says: There are Luzon and Sulu countries in the East, and there are Siam and Champa countries in the West.Today's Eastern and Western merchant ships are listed in Lingjia, and the Eastern Ocean is Luzon, Wutong, Shayao, Huobi, Cebu, Wenlai, Nanwang, Dagang, Bijiashan, Miyan, Zhongbang Yining, Marilu, Mi Liuhe, Gaoyao, Wuyun Fuhe, Lun'antang, Lupeng.

This record is actually not very accurate, especially the so-called Eastern and Western, the division is rather vague.However, there are still some nouns worth noting here, such as "Luzon, Wutong, Shayao, Huobi, Cebu" and the like, which were the main countries of the Philippine Islands at that time (of course, some names are different from the mainstream translations of later generations. ).

As for now, the "Philippine Governor's Palace" regards all these places as its own "jurisdiction", and they are all included in the "Philippine Islands".

Gao Pragmatic's purpose is also very clear: the above-mentioned places, as long as the jurisdictions recognized by the Spanish and Philippine Governor's Office, must be unified into a "Luzon Kingdom", and then the whole becomes a vassal state of Ming Dynasty—even if it is only in name. It's the so-called tributary country - that's fine too.

In short, high pragmatism is to pack everything, don't mess it up, and the Philippines will give him five or six kingdoms.

This is a bit troublesome.As for land, he needs to be highly pragmatic; for business, he also refuses to give up.

However, at this time neither Gao Zhenxin nor Zhu Yingfeng expected that Gao Musan would suddenly express his objection.

Gao Musan looked hesitant and said: "My master has known 500 years before and 500 years later. There is no one who is more knowledgeable in the world than the master. Therefore, the master must have known the old things in Lu Song during the Jiajing period, but he is too stupid. Under such old grievances, I understand why the master is still obsessed with the name of 'Luzon'."

Gao Musan is from Canton, and he worked in the Nanyang Fleet before, so he "knows the old things in Luzon during the Jiajing period", but Gao Zhenxin is a servant from Gao Yushi's hometown in Xinzheng, and Zhu Yingfeng needless to say, "Old Beijing" is also true. So the two of them didn't understand this passage at all, so they were confused.

"What happened to Lu Song during the Jiajing period?" Zhu Yingfeng asked in amazement, "What happened... can it be considered an old grudge?"

Gao Musan was also a little surprised, and thought to himself: Is it only those in the south who live by the sea know about this?

So, he talked about this old thing.

In fact, it is more than just old grievances. In fact, there is a bloody case among them.During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a historical bloody case between the Ming Empire and "Lu Song". In the final analysis, this bloody case was caused by Emperor Jiajing's mistaken belief in slander.

In the 30th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1551), Altan Khan knocked on the pass in the north, Long Xubao, a Miao people in the south, gathered a crowd to revolt, pirates ran rampant along the coast, and successive internal and external troubles made the treasury of the Ming Dynasty more and more empty.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing was worrying about the salary and silver, and the ministers Yan Yinglong and Zhang Ni went to the symposium and said: "Jiyi Mountain in Lusong produces gold and silver. If you harvest it, you can get 10 taels of gold and 30 taels of silver every year."Emperor Jiajing's eyes suddenly brightened, and he ordered Zhang Yi and others to go to Lusong to quickly implement the "overseas gold rush" plan.

Although Jiajing was anxious and confused, there were still quite a few sensible people in the court, so some ministers pointed out: "Even if Jiyi is overseas, there is no reason for gold and silver to be everywhere and let others take it. An's gold ten 30 and [-] in silver, to be honest, it is just a pretext to remove forbidden items under the pretense of court order, to seduce all kinds of people, in order to carry out unruly schemes. Isn’t it just disturbing public and private interests, and harming the whole city of Haicheng?”

Although the officials tried their best to remonstrate, the emperor had already been blinded by the gold and silver, and he insisted on panning for gold despite the dissuasion of the officials.Taking the emperor's order, Zhang Yi and others quickly organized a huge "overseas gold exploration group", and then drove the sea boat to Luzon in a mighty manner.

At that time, the King of Luzon was really taken aback by Ming's uninvited motives, so at the banquet for the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, the King of Luzon asked straight to the point: "The heaven wants to send people to open mountains, and each mountain has its own owner. Can it be opened? For example, there are mountains in my country, can it allow our country to open?"

The king of Luzon's words were hidden in the needle, intending to warn the envoy of Ming Dynasty to give up the plan of digging mountains and gold. The so-called gold everywhere in Luzon in the mouth of the minister is purely fictional.

But Zhang Ni didn't mean it. He replied: "This place is all gold, why ask Dou Suozi?"

Seeing that the envoy of Ming Dynasty did not give up, King Lu Song had no choice but to bring the envoy of Ming Dynasty to Mount Jiyi to dig for gold.However, after Zhang Ni and his party arrived at Jiyi Mountain, they did not find any gold. Wang Shihe, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, had no choice but to pack a basket of sand as evidence, and then returned to the court to return. Lord Song detained him.

Since the sudden visit of this group of uninvited guests, the King of Luzon believed that the purpose of Daming's sending envoys was not to dig gold, but to visit the reality of Luzon, with the purpose of destroying Luzon in one fell swoop.

Since then, the King of Luzon believed that the Chinese were their confidantes, and all the Chinese who lived there were very likely to act as spies and internal agents of the Ming Dynasty.For this reason, the King of Luzon came up with a poisonous plan to completely eradicate the "cancer" of the Chinese.

So the next thing is "next year, it is said that it will send troops to invade neighboring countries and sell ironware at a high price. The Chinese are greedy for profit, so their families are defenseless. The chieftain ordered that the names of the Chinese be recorded, and 300 people will be divided into a courtyard, and they will be wiped out immediately. The incident was a little revealed, and the Chinese crowd walked to the vegetable garden.

The chief sent troops to attack, but there were no soldiers to fight, no death to count, and they rushed to Dalun Mountain.The barbarians came back to attack, all fighting to the death, and the barbarians were less frustrated.The chieftain repented and sent envoys to discuss peace.Everyone suspected it was fake, so they killed it.The chieftain was furious, gathered the crowd into the city, and set up an ambush beside the city.The people were so hungry that they all went down the mountain to attack the city.Fufa, the crowd was defeated, and 5000 people died successively.The chieftain issued an order, and all the Chinese who were plundered took money, and all of them sealed the storehouse of knowledge."

What does this passage mean?That is to say, the king of Luzon's poisonous plan was to launch an attack on neighboring countries. Therefore, the news of buying ironware at a high price caused the Chinese living in Luzon to sell all the ironware in their homes without knowing it. .

The King of Luzon seized this opportunity to massacre the Chinese, and took advantage of the fire to loot all the property of the Chinese in Luzon. After five months of the "Luzon Massacre", 5000 of the original Chinese were tortured and killed. More than [-] people, the population has almost dropped by half.

After the massacre of the Chinese people in Luzon, the King of Luzon hypocritically wrote a letter to Xu Xueju, the governor of Fujian, with the nonsense of "saying that the Chinese will plot chaos and have to do it first, and ask the family members of the deceased to get their children and money".

When Xu Xueju learned of the brutal massacre of the Chinese people who stayed behind in Luzon, he was naturally taken aback and quickly reported it to the court.Emperor Jiajing learned that it was certain that Longyan was furious, so he issued an order to reprimand: "Yi and others deceived the imperial court and provoked overseas, causing [-] merchants to use up their blades, harming the prestige and humiliating the country. Show the sea. The chief of Luzon kills merchants and people without permission, and the officials will judge the crime to hear about it."

However, when Emperor Jiajing Tianwei was furious, the history books stated: "Xueju and others moved to Lusong, counting the crime of murder without authorization, and ordered the wife of the deceased to return, but they can't ask for it!"

What's the meaning?That is, when Governor Xu Xueju of Fujian denounced Lu Song's atrocities against humanity, and asked Lu Song to return the Chinese people who died in the anti-China atrocities with the emperor's password, the other party ignored them!
You are a celestial dynasty that forbids the sea, why should I, Lu Song, be afraid of you like a tiger?Those Chinese, if I kill them, I will kill them, what can you do to me?
It's nothing more than a "I can't ask for it!"

This is what Gao Musan couldn't understand. Luzon was actually destroyed by the Spaniards, but the master not only wants to "survive and perish" to help Luzon restore the country, but even restore the rest of the "Philippine Islands". It's unbelievable that all the countries are merged into Luzon, right?

Gao Zhenxin and Zhu Yingfeng didn't know about this, so Gao Musan could understand.But if you say that the master didn't know about this, Gao Musan would definitely not believe it - the "Da Ming Hui Dian" in the Wanli Dynasty was actually the main author of the master, how could the master not know about this?

After listening to Gao Musan's explanation, Gao Zhenxin was actually full of doubts, but he also believed that Gao Yushi must have known about it, so for him, he could only find reason for Gao Yushi's order.

Gao Zhenxin pondered and said: "You are right, the master cannot be ignorant of this matter. He still ordered the restoration of the Luzon Kingdom, there must be a reason..."

Having said that, he really couldn't think of what the reason was for a while.Fortunately, at this moment, Zhu Yingfeng, as a noble son from a "political family", had a deeper understanding of the situation. He laughed and said, "Why do you have any doubts? Although I am dull, I can guess one or two of them."

Gao Zhenxin heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Please give me some advice."

Zhu Yingfeng said: "My dynasty is benevolent and benevolent. I don't pay attention to the past and old grievances. I only put the righteousness of survival and death first. This is Gao Situ's great mind."

What a nonsense, everyone knows that it is definitely not the main reason, but Gao Zhenxin and Gao Musan still nodded in face.

Zhu Yingfeng probably knew what they were thinking, so he said this in one sentence, and then said: "In the 'Philippines', only the country of Luzon once paid tribute to Ming Dynasty, no matter what old grievances happened at that time, it can't change the distinction between monarch and minister. occasion.

Today, Dasinong intends to take all the places in the Philippines. If there is no such sign as Luzon, wouldn't we have learned from others this time?Even if it is said that it is for the revenge of the past, Luzon has long been destroyed by the Spaniards, and it is not easy for the Dasinong to transfer this hatred to the Spaniards... Do you think so? "

Oh!That's what happened!
Gao Zhenxin and Gao Musan looked at each other, and suddenly realized: the master is not concerned about "Luzon" itself, he just needs the signboard of "Luzon", a "vassal state of the Ming Dynasty", to approve a tiger skin for this dispatch, so as to get a famous soldier. .

As for the future, I am afraid that this Luzon is not that Luzon at all.

That's right, this is what the master of practical learning who "has changed the authority" did!
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