Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 746

After all, it is the scholars who control the discourse on Ming Dynasty.

Although newspapers are still the most prosperous of the Ming Dynasty, they are the most widely disseminated, and the information content they publish is also of higher quality.

But the scholars soon became aware of the three flavors. They, who already had a partisan organization, began to apply the high-end knowledge and education they controlled to newspapers, and now they can compete with the Ming Dynasty Newspaper.

Therefore, Wang Chengen, the leader of the new eunuch party, naturally became more and more notorious.

From the emperor's standpoint, no matter how loyal the eunuch is, the power he possesses must be under control. If he cannot control it, then the eunuch is of no use.

Accept the governor and adopt other princes as god-grandsons.

Next, are we going to have five tigers, five cubs, ten children, forty grandchildren and so on?

Of course, domestic and overseas are far apart.

Even if Wang Chengen did not accept Muhammad Ali, it would not prevent Ali from considering himself a godson.

Under the erosion of many Western colonists, Brunei now only controls the coastal areas in the northern part of Brunei Island. Most of the tribes in the forests and mountains in the interior have either followed the colonists or raised their own troops.

The power of the Sultanate was also not very centralized.

If the royal family had not traded with the colonists and continuously learned to acquire many guns, and Brunei had completely become an Islamic country, and the invading colonists were pagans, otherwise the country would have been torn to pieces.

Of course, if it weren't for the recent performance of the Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang Navy in Nanyang, the King of Brunei would not have placed a bet on Wang Chengen so quickly.

After all, before this, Brunei was also trying to improve relations with Western colonists.

"General, there is a message from the company that King Huang Shiyin of Brunei has also sent troops to help."

"Oh? Why is it a Chinese name?"

Zheng Chenggong had listened to a lot of reinforcement reports recently, but he was suddenly attracted by this one.

The city of Manila is very difficult to fight.

The cannon did blow through the walls of Manila, but it was just a city, not a castle.

The city of Manila is divided into two parts, one is the city, and the other is the Santiago Castle located in the northwest of the city. It is a majestic city where many troops who want to enter the city to plunder are crying for their fathers and mothers.

But it was this news that spread, causing a large number of outsiders to know that the Spaniards were going to be doomed, and rushed over to get a bite of fat meat.

In addition to north and south Luzon, Brunei as far away as Borneo is indeed worthy of Zheng Chenggong's attention.

"This king claims to be a Miao descendant of the Han family. After meeting with the prince, he specially asked him to come to His Majesty to give him a name after his ancestor Huang's surname."

"Is it used now?"

Zheng Chenggong frowned slightly, and after taking a cursory glance at the report, he waved his hand and asked someone to take it away.

There were three thousand reinforcements, including one thousand musketeers and five artillery pieces. Among the large number of reinforcements, they were quite outstanding, unlike those natives who carried stone axes, wooden clubs and spears and clamored to make the Spaniards look good.

But that doesn't matter.

A bastion with sufficient garrison, well-guaranteed logistics, a large amount of light and heavy firepower, and a 10-meter-thick wall cannot be destroyed by sheer numbers.

The Ming Nanyang Company's previous invasion of Luzon gave the city of Manila more than a year to prepare.

From the first landing in Manila to the current siege of Manila, this battle has been going on for almost half a year.

Zheng Chenggong's patience with this kind of siege gradually wore away and he became impatient.

"Bring the Spaniard here." The treaty signed by the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty to carve up the world has gradually spread to the entire world, and now all the ships in Nanyang have something to do with the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Nanyang Company.

In East Asia, the news that colonists such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands united to fight against the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty Nanyang Company naturally fell on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

Most East Asians regard each other as mortal enemies. Europeans with a different face are obviously not trustworthy during wartime.

But this Spaniard is different.

"Honorable General, you are finally willing to see me."

A middle-aged Catholic missionary who was dressed in typical clothes and spoke Chinese with a slightly broken accent knelt down in front of Zheng Chenggong. He looked a little embarrassed. Even if he received some preferential treatment, his life in the prisoner of war camp was not easy.

"What's your name?"

"Nan Huairen, Mr. General, this is the Chinese name given to me by my mentor. There is also another Chinese name for me, called Dun Bo."

The visitor raised his head and squeezed out a flattering smile from his weathered beard, but there was some bitterness in this smile.

Zheng Chenggong glanced at him and asked him to sit down as if he didn't care very much: "You said before that you were called here by a letter from Teacher Qi. Why didn't you join your teacher who worked for the Tatars in the north instead of coming to this army? In? Furthermore, you are also a Spaniard, but you said that you would help our army attack the Spanish castle. I don’t really believe this."

As soon as he said this, Nan Huairen's smile became even bitterer.

He was still in Rome.

But his teacher Tang Ruowang sent him a letter and transferred him over. The letter told him to run as fast as he could and come to China as quickly as possible.

Nan Huairen also looked forward to starting his missionary career in the Eastern world ahead of schedule, and he set off on the road in a hurry.

The results of it?
Still on the way.

After staying in Batavia City for a while, I heard that under the auspices and witness of a group of Chinese Catholic Jesuit missionaries, the Ming Empire and the Qing Empire signed a treaty to carve up the world.

His teacher Tang Ruowang was also the leader of the Catholic Church in the Qing Empire. He also represented Catholicism in the treaty and left his name in the name of God.

At that time, Nan Huairen felt like his head was buzzing.

Needless to say, my teacher committed a serious crime, but what about him?
There is definitely no going back.

See the teacher?

It can only be said that the teacher can call him over to save his life before he commits a crime, then the relationship between master and disciple is still a little bit.

However, Nan Huairen, who was young and vigorous, upheld his devout faith in God and equated surrendering to his teacher with surrendering to a heretic.

Of course, before he could explain this clearly, there was one more thing he had to refute.

"What the general said is wrong. I am not Spanish. I am Belgian, or Dutch."

Zheng Chenggong was not interested in who he was.

He only cares about his methods.

And this method is also very simple.

Nan Huairen can help cast cannons, improve cannons, and calibrate the accuracy of cannons. In addition, he also came up with a good plan.

“The Spanish were very arrogant when they built Santiago Castle, thinking that they had no opponents at sea, so most of the cannons and forts in their castle were actually aimed at land.

Of course, when the city's defense line is complete, if a warship wants to bombard the castle, the forts outside the castle are enough to resist the warship, even the giant ships of the Ming Empire.
But now that the outside of the city has been controlled by you, the general, you can now let the warships bombard the castle at sea. As I said just now, the Spaniards believe that they have no enemies at sea, so the wall on the sea side of the castle is the weakest. "

(End of this chapter)