Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 163 Kangxi, your foreign masters are all imperialists! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
When Portuguese Macau Governor Shi Bozhi and acting Macau Bishop Luo Wenzao arrived at Xiangdao on a Portuguese galley across Lingdingyang, dozens of large bird boats were moored in the northern bay of Xiangdao.And near a certain beach on the north shore of Xiangdao, a huge construction site has already appeared.

Xiangdao was a spice smuggling center eight years ago. Although it is deserted now, the foundation is still there—there are still flattened land, ruined walls that have been burned, and dilapidated docks.And all of these have now become the basis for Wu Sanwei, the "Minister of Nanyang Trade and Commerce of the Ming Dynasty", to gain a foothold in Xiangdao.

And the first generation of Xiangdao people who were coerced by Wu Sanwei from Wenzhou are now building their new home on a large piece of ruins!

The foundation of a seaside castle has been sorted out, surrounded by wooden fences, and shallow trenches have been dug, and watchtowers to guard against sneak attacks by the Qing army have also been built on nearby heights.

On the site surrounded by wooden fences, officials in round-neck long coats and red hoods are directing the small workers from Xiangdao who speak Wenzhou dialect to clean up the abandoned buildings. They will build on the ruins. Build your own home!

The various building materials that have been cleared out, as well as materials transported by waterways, and wood taken from nearby mountains, are piled up in an open area, and the accountant with a brush and account book is in charge of counting and registering there. and redistribute.

Rows of tents were also set up in the "Nanyang Minister's Walled City". Some of the tents lived in single soldiers, and some lived in their families. A fence was built between them to prevent the two sides from disturbing each other.

Several tents formed a small tent group, and the tent groups were separated by roads.

Everything looked so orderly.

The pier has been repaired to the point where it is barely usable. The red scarf soldiers wrapped in red cloth, also under the leadership of the officers, part of them are still under construction, and some of them are running around on and off the boat, moving various items from strips to strips. A lot of goods can be stuffed into the bird boat and moved down, then loaded into a carriage, and sent to the "Nanyang Minister's Walled City" for storage.

Wu Sanwei, the "brother of Wu Sangui", and the "Hong Kong Island Oboi", who is so invincible, were all supported by Geng Jingzhong and Chen Yonghua, and naturally they were supplied by the Jingnan Palace.When withdrawing from Ryan, they took away all the supplies that could be taken away.Therefore, the things carried down from the ship at this moment are various and extremely rich.From grain, cloth, tools, chariots and horses, etc. to guns and gunpowder, there is almost everything that one expects to find.

In addition, the armored flags of these Red Turban Army are also quite distinctive!Flags and flags were flying on the pier and around the fence circle, and the Red Scarf Army who was performing the security task was all dressed in tough clothes and looked well-trained.

Passing through the "Nanyang Minister's Walled City", to the north of the "City Walled City", there is another flat land used as a school ground. When Shi Bozhi and Luo Wenzao arrived, Wu Sanwei and He Tianran were there under the sun It's military training!
There were almost two thousand neatly dressed red scarf soldiers changing their formation under the command of flags and golden drums. For a while it was a square formation of four battalions, for a while it was a horizontal formation, for a while it became a column formation, and began to circle around the The school grounds contact the march.

Although the formation is not very strict, and it was a bit chaotic when changing formations, everyone can see that the morale of these red scarf soldiers is very high, and they are also training hard!

Nanyang Minister Wu Sanwei and his deputy Xiangdao Commander-in-Chief He Tianran also seemed to be in high spirits. They received the Portuguese Governor of Macau and the acting bishop in a big tent on the edge of the school grounds, next to the walled city.

Whether it's Wu Sanwei or He Tianran, they are full of bureaucratic accents, and they have been in the officialdom for many years.

At the meeting, there was also a young official named Zhou Shujie from Dayuan Island who was wearing a Ming Dynasty-style official uniform and acted as a Latin translator. There were also several people dressed as masters who were responsible for recording.

Everything looks very formal and definitely does not look like a liar.

Now Shi Bozhi and Luo Wenzao felt relieved, and began to inquire about the "treaty" with Wu Sanwei.

"Minister Nanyang, my lord, I take the liberty to ask you, are you really the brother of His Highness Xi Wang?"

The person who spoke was Luo Wenzao, acting bishop of Macau. He is an elderly Catholic priest. He is 55 years old this year. He joined the Dominican Church during the Ming Dynasty. He once followed Tang Ruowang to preach in Beijing and knew many officials of the Ming court , and later communicated with officials sent by the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong, and met Shang Kexi in Guangzhou.But he didn't know how to call him "Minister of Nanyang". There was no such official in the Ming and Qing dynasties!So simply added "Grand Master" after the Nanyang Minister to show respect.

Zhou Shujie, the official (translator) of the Yanping Prince’s Mansion who has been engaged in the “maritime zero-dollar purchase” and “toll collection” services for several generations from Dayuan Island, smiled and said to Luo Wenzao: “Father Luo, you can be called the Minister of Nanyang.” It is called 'Xuan Fu' or 'Xuan Shuai', because Nanyang Minister not only manages trade and foreign affairs, but also promulgates and protects Ming's various vassal states in Nanyang, so he is considered a handsome minister!"

Wu Sanwei smiled and said: "Shi Junmen, presiding officer Luo, whether I am the younger brother of King Xi, has already been mentioned in the Qing court's mansion newspaper? Don't tell me that you haven't seen it."

The Catholic Macao Bishop's Office presides over the business of the entire Chinese diocese, and of course it also includes the collection of domestic intelligence in China. Not only will it obtain the Qing court's residence newspaper through various channels, but it will also maintain direct contact with Nan Huairen——Nan Huairen Although Ren was an official of the Qing Dynasty, his true allegiance was to the Pope of Rome!

Therefore, Luo Wenzao had already fully grasped the brotherhood between Wu Sanwei and Wu Sangui by reading the bulletins from Di Bao and Nan Huairen.

His question just now was just a final confirmation!
"Xuan Shuai," Luo Wenzao said with a smile, "So, you can represent His Highness Xiwang?"

Wu Sanwei said: "Of course I can represent my brother, just like presiding officer Luo you can represent the King of the Holy See of Rome, just like Shi Junmen can represent the King of Portugal!"

Hearing what Wu Sanwei said, Luo Wenzao felt guilty that he could not represent Pope Clement X of Rome, because he was not the bishop of Macau at all, he was just an agent.

Thinking of this, he said to Shi Bozhi "Shi Junmen" in Portuguese: "Governor, he should be the real brother of Wu Sanwei and Wu Sangui, king of the West!"

Upon hearing this, Shi Bozhi immediately stood up and bowed to Wu Sanwei, and then solemnly said in Latin: "The younger brother of the future Chinese emperor, on behalf of His Majesty the King of Portugal, I would like to express my most sincere respect to you and hope that In the future, when the court of Tartar is replaced by the court established by you and your elder brother, there will be completely free trade between the Kingdom of Portugal and China, and hope that the Catholic Church will also be free to spread the gospel of the Lord in China."

"Xuanshuai," Zhou Shujie also understood Portuguese, and immediately translated Shi Bozhi's words into Chinese, "This foreign military sect calls you the emperor's younger brother, and also greets you on behalf of the king of Portugal, and hopes that the king of the West will become the king." After the world is over, Portuguese businessmen can come and do business freely in China, and I also hope that the Catholic Church can freely alms for money and fool people in China in the future.”

He Tianran interjected on the side: "Of course free trading and free alms are both possible, but a treaty must be signed first. It must be stipulated how the Portuguese country and the Roman Church will help our Ming Dynasty against the Tartars!
It must also be written how much artillery, muskets, gunpowder, and warships Portugal and the Church of Rome sold us, how many instructors they provided us, and how much information about the Qing court they provided us. How many warships can we provide to help us transport troops from the sea to the Tartar lair in Liaodong!

If these things can't be written in black and white, we can't give them the exclusive free trade rights and missionary rights!This benefit cannot be given in vain! "

Wu Sanwei nodded, "He Zongrong is right. It is necessary to make a contract in black and white. With the contract, my brother can approve it! If there is no contract, how can it be counted as empty words? And this contract has to be paid. Take it and sign it for the King of Portugal and the King of Rome.”

His words were translated into Portuguese by Luo Wenzao. Shi Bozhi originally wanted to sign a treaty with Wu Sanwei. If there is no treaty, he can't claim credit for it!
You can't say that you swore together with Wu Sangui's brothers in front of the statues of Guan Erye and Jesus, right?
Thinking of this, Shi Bozhi said to Luo Wenzao: "Father, please ask them if they have prepared a draft treaty?"

Luo Wenzao then asked: "Xuan Shuai, Zong Rong, what kind of contract are you planning to sign? Have you prepared a draft?"

"Everything is ready!" Wu Sanwei said to Zhou Shujie with a smile, "Zhou Tong, please show the draft treaty to Host Luo! If Shi Junmen and Host Luo have no objections, then we will initial it first."

"Yes!"

The treaty is of course ready!

And it's very formal, in duplicate, already on the scroll, and there's room for the Latin version of the treaty text.

As for the content of the treaty, it is also quite meticulous and reasonable.

There are mainly two or three major parts, and one part is the transactions that can be concluded immediately-mainly purchasing arms and hiring instructors.

Wu Sanwei hoped to get a batch of red-clothed cannons, heavy guns, horses and gunpowder immediately, as well as a gunnery instructor, and was willing to pay silk and sugar as compensation.

The second part is about the requirements of the Western King of the Ming Dynasty for the long-term cooperation between the Roman Church and Portugal—mainly long-term arms contracts, obtaining information about the Qing court through missionaries such as Nan Huairen, and hiring Portuguese naval forces to help transport them in the future. The army of Wu Sangui, the king of the west, took the sea route and went northward to Liaodong and Yanyun!
The third part is that after the victory of the Northern Expedition, the Western King of Ming Dynasty can give the Church of Rome and Portugal two rewards, including short-term money and long-term trade and missionary privileges.

In short, the draft treaty looks very reasonable!Simply a Portuguese and Catholic dream!
And as long as the text of the treaty was initially signed and sent to Beijing, and placed on Kangxi's desk, Nan Huairen would probably lose his head!
And the imperial decree to take back the Portuguese stronghold in Haoao will probably be sent to Wang Fuchen, Shang Kexi and Zhu Guozhi soon.
When He Tianran arrived in Zhaoqing with the draft of the "Treaty of Xiangdao" initialed by the Portuguese Macau Governor Shi Bozhi and the Catholic Macau Acting Bishop Luo Wenzao, Wang Zhongxiao, the mastermind behind all this, was busy running a school!
He is not in a hurry to go to Xiangshan to open some Guangdong Customs Yamen because he knows that even if this Yamen is opened now, it will be useless.Because the Portuguese monks have been running a "legal smuggling" trade for several years.

You suddenly come to a yamen to collect customs duties, who would be willing to give money?
The big deal is to change places and continue "legal smuggling". There are so many places along the coast of Guangfu, and they are all gratifying worlds. It is not so easy for Wang Zhongxiao to take them all!
Therefore, his main work plan before the Spring Festival in the 11th year of Kangxi was to straighten out the Jingwu Academy and the Restoration Academy, two schools that taught rebellion.

And his way of running the school is also very strange, he divided the two schools into three parts: "Outer School", "Inner School" and "True Biography"!
Each part is taught differently, the teachers are different, and the textbooks used are different.

Among them, the outer doors of the Restoration School are mainly for cultivating "little masters at the grassroots level"-the construction of grassroots civil servants in the Qing Dynasty can only be described as poor!Of course, the Ming Dynasty is also similar.
And Wang Zhongxiao’s previous life served the people for many years, of course he knew that the “little master at the grassroots level” is very important. No matter how capable the master above you is, and want to make decisions for the people, without the help of the people below you, you can do everything. no more.

For example, Wang Fuchen is the only one in the governor's yamen who is "organized", and the others are masters, junior masters, and "official Bailao". If there are no masters and masters, how can he be the governor by himself?

And a good master. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, he was a proper high-end talent!

Usually, the master guides the apprentices, and the master guides the junior masters. Since the masters handed down from the Ming Dynasty have the most Shaoji books, and Shaoxing suffered fewer disasters in the chaos in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, there are more scholars preserved. , After entering the Qing Dynasty, he lost most of his tax privileges, and he could no longer rely on his fame to share the country's taxes.So everyone went to worship the master and become a teacher. Over time, the Shaoxing master monopolized the officialdom, forming an official ecology of "no Shao, no curtain".

But in doing so, the people who actually ruled the Qing Dynasty became people from Shaoxing!
These Shaoxing people hold the power of the officials and make a lot of money, but they don't have to bear the responsibilities of the officials-they are the masters!Officials are corrupt and pervert the law, how can the teacher take the blame?

In addition, since the masters do not have a formal establishment, they theoretically require officials to pay for their employment!

But how much is the salary of officials in the Qing Dynasty?How many masters can I invite?

For a governor like Wang Fuchen, no matter whether he has money to support his honesty or not, it is impossible for him to support the entire governor's office, right?This governor's yamen is equivalent to the military region plus the "overall situation" of the region in later generations, so how many officials are there?How about relying on the income of a governor?that must be corrupt
Therefore, it is impossible for officials in the Qing Dynasty not to be corrupt, and this kind of officialdom ecology is simply a poison with no solution for grassroots governance!

But Wang Zhongxiao now has a solution!
His method, first of all, is to cultivate a large number of usable "basic masters" through the outer gate of the Restoration School, and then hang them under the corresponding departments of the Governor's Office. The Governor's Office will pay them salaries, and then let the Governor's Office send them They go to work locally.

In this way, as long as Wang Fuchen's governor's yamen has a way to make money, the officials below will have the possibility of "not being corrupt"-you can become an official without being greedy, and let's talk about the cleanliness of officials, otherwise they will be deceiving themselves and others.

The "inner door" of the Restoration School is to train "senior masters" and revolutionaries. They must learn not only practical knowledge such as money, grain, and criminal names, but also New Confucianism, that is, "Mingyi Waiting for Interviews", Such things as "The Theory of the World is Public" and "The Tian Mu System of the Celestial Dynasty".

In addition, they have to join the Tiandihui and become the backbone of the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty!

As for the "True Biography" disciples, they are outstanding members of the inner sect disciples. They will become Wang Zhongxiao's own disciples. While receiving inner sect education, they will also follow Wang Zhongxiao to learn more advanced knowledge such as mathematics and the study of things!
As for the Jingwu Academy, the situation is similar, the outer sect disciples learn martial arts and low-level military command, and can serve as a small officer in the future.Inner sect disciples should study "Mingyi Waiting for Visits", "The World is Public", and "Tianmu System of the Heavenly Dynasty". They will have the opportunity to hold higher positions in the future.And they also have to join the Tiandihui!
As for the disciples of True Inheritance, they were also selected from the inner sect of Jingwu Hall, and they were also Wang Zhongxiao's students. They also had to learn mathematics and knowledge of things.

(End of this chapter)