Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 617 Unfair Treaty

Cruy may not have fully understood what His Majesty the Ming Emperor meant.

It is not his decision to perform well enough.

Besides, it is impossible for those [-] soldiers to go back, their fate must be to be a lifetime of volunteer labor for Daming.

After taking Cruy away, Zheng Chenggong couldn't bear it any longer. He stepped forward to give a military salute:
"Your Majesty, I don't understand something. I hope Your Majesty will make it clear that although the Dutch were completely defeated this time, it also caused dozens of casualties to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. They should be executed immediately and avenge the soldiers..."

Zhu Youjian shook his head:
"Ai Qing, please be safe and don't be impatient. If you want to win the world in the future, it is impossible to kill all the people who oppose it in the world. Sometimes you need a strategy.

I know that the lives of the soldiers of the Ming army are the most precious, and it is far from being able to offset the killing of a few Dutchmen. I want to make the deaths of the soldiers more valuable, and you will understand later.

Now I announce that all soldiers who participated in this battle will be rewarded with twenty dragon coins, and non-commissioned officers will be rewarded with ten dragon coins.

The commander in charge of the battle will be rewarded with two hundred dragon coins, and a first-class merit will be recorded for the soldiers.

Except for the reward for injured soldiers, a pension of [-] dragon coins is added, and the reward for soldiers killed in battle is excepted for a pension of [-] dragon coins.

In addition, the parents and minor children of the soldiers who died in battle were raised and arranged for work by the Ming court.

For the captain who performed outstandingly in this command operation, he will be promoted to a rank and be named a baron.

As the commander-in-chief of the fleet this time, Ai Qing should be very clear about which battleship captain performed more outstandingly. "

Regarding the handling of captives, although Zheng Chenggong did not fully understand what the emperor meant.

But he was very pleased with the rewards to the soldiers, and hurriedly thanked them.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! My emperor is holy!"

"In this naval battle, our fleet killed more than 2 soldiers of the United Fleet and sank more than 100 warships.

It can be said that from ordinary soldiers to non-commissioned officers to the chief general, they all performed very bravely, and they deserve to be rewarded by His Majesty.

If we say that the most outstanding performance should be the captain of the Wendi and the entire ship's army, they started a single-handed battle with more than a dozen Dutch warships.

Even after shooting out all the shells, he drove the battleship without fear, and rushed directly to the Dutch battleship for hand-to-hand combat.

In this battle, they sank four Dutch warships and rammed and sank six Dutch warships, making a great contribution to the complete annihilation of the combined fleet.

Your Majesty, most of the casualties of the Ming soldiers this time came from the Wendi, and I feel that the captain of the Wendi is qualified to be a baron. "

Zheng Chenggong was very satisfied with this battle, especially Haijiao's performance, which made him look at it differently.

Of course, the other soldiers performed very well, including Shi Lang and Zheng Zhihu.

He himself is already a first-rank member and an earl, and his status is extremely high. If he wants to go further, this merit is far from enough.

But the other captains are still rank five and rank six generals, and even the deputy commander Shi Lang is only rank four, but he doesn't have a title.

The rank system of titles in the Ming Dynasty was quite troublesome.

In other dynasties, the setting of titles was often done by dividing the titles into princes, uncles, and barons.

However, because of the shortcomings of this enfeoffment, it has caused many bad effects. In order to avoid repeating the responsibilities of the previous dynasty, the Ming Dynasty absorbed progress and carried out great reforms on the title.

First of all, the identities of the successors of the title are divided into Zong's title and foreign relatives' title.

There are two ways of dividing, one is obtained by surname, and the other is obtained through meritorious service.

The ancients paid special attention to surnames, thinking that brothers can be trusted, but loyalty is not.

Therefore, many kings with the same surname are often sealed.

But in order to check and balance these kings with the same surname, this kind of title generally has no power and only a false name.

The title setting for the Zong family is different from ordinary titles.

For the Zong family, the eldest son was established as the prince, as the successor to the throne.

The other princes are princes, and the position of princes can be passed on.

Therefore, under the prince, county kings and various titles such as generals were established.

The method adopted is the eldest son inheritance, and then the other sons choose to downgrade to inherit the title.

And so on, but although there are many princes and kings, they don't have any power. They are all decorations and only have a name.

For the setting of the title of foreign relatives, or retain the original setting of Duke Bo Zinan, they are all obtained through military exploits and battles to be canonized.

Such titles are often important, but not hereditary.

And later, the previous viscount and baron were also cancelled, and only the title of duke duke was retained.

After Zhu Youjian defended the capital, in order to encourage the soldiers to fight the enemy bravely, he restored the viscount and baron again.

Later, all titles were abolished from hereditary titles, including duke duke, not that viscount and baron cannot be hereditary.

Although viscounts and barons cannot be hereditary, as ordinary generals of the Ming Dynasty, if they can be named viscounts and barons, they still value them very much.

No matter what, it is the title of Daming, even if it cannot be hereditary, it will bring them and even the family infinite honor.

Seeing Zheng Chenggong so excited, Zhu Youjian smiled slightly:
"Okay, Daming needs such a hot-blooded man right now. I will make Haijiao, Shi Lang, Zheng Zhihu and other captains barons, and all their official positions will be promoted to fourth-rank military generals.

I hope that under the leadership of Aiqing, they will expand the territory of Ming Dynasty and make new achievements. "

This time Zheng Chenggong did not make a military salute, but knelt in front of Zhu Youjian and bowed three times:

"According to the order, my minister Zheng Chenggong thanked His Majesty on behalf of the soldiers, long live my emperor, long live long live long live!"

Zhu Youjian raised his big hand slightly:

"Aiqing is free of courtesy, and I will be flattened! After I lead the soldiers back to the capital, I will formally confer them."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Zheng Chenggong led the decree to retire, Zhu Youjian looked at Yu Qian and said:

"Yu Aiqing, order people to print a lot of Cruy's statement and send it to the offices of various countries in Luzon.

Da Ming wants all countries in the world to see how the Netherlands, Spain, England, and Portugal oppressed Da Ming, how they occupied and invaded our Da Ming territory and vassal states.

China is a country of etiquette, and I have always convinced people with virtue, but I will not attack people if they don't attack me, and I will attack them if they attack me.

In order to protect the territory and vassal state of Ming Dynasty, the battle with the joint fleet of the four countries caused the casualties of [-] Ming soldiers.

The above four countries must be responsible for their banditry, and Ming strongly demanded that the four countries compensate for the war losses.

The Netherlands compensated 2000 million taels, Spain 1000 million taels of silver, England 500 million taels, and Portugal 200 million taels.

The compensation period is limited to three months, and there is no room for negotiation. My Ming soldiers will not shed blood in vain.

If the above four countries fail to send the compensation to Daming within the time limit, Daming will not only stop all business ties with the four countries, but also reserve the right to take more severe measures. "

Zhu Youjian's words made all the generals present and Yu Qian dumbfounded.

Now Zheng Chenggong finally understands why the emperor asked Colonel Cruy of the Netherlands to write a confession, and why he did not execute Cruy.

It is almost impossible for a small country to spend 1000 million taels of silver.

"Your Majesty, if they don't have that much silver, what will Daming do?"

Hearing what Zheng Chenggong said, Zhu Youjian showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth:
"It doesn't matter if the silver is not enough, they can give up the land as compensation."

(End of this chapter)