Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 375: What colonists?Ming Dynasty is exporting the progressive republican system! (Please subscribe, please vote)
Really won.
When Geng Jingzhong was helped to board the Castle of Santiago in Acapulco, overlooking the city below, the ocean in the distance, and the lush hills around him, he couldn't stop crying.

The battle to raid and capture this Ahe city was unbelievably easy!

Although the city is as strong as a fortress, with mountains on three sides and sea on the other, the sea is still a bay with a small entrance.Moreover, there are fortresses on the surrounding mountains, and forts facing the sea.But the Spanish army guarding here is surprisingly weak, and the number is far from the legendary three thousand, at most four hundred.

The Spanish defenders completely collapsed as soon as Kaguyama Hisakashi and Kiyohisa led his team to launch the assault.

Thirty percent of the Spanish soldiers standing on the pier were killed and injured by the sharpshooters ambushing on the ship with flintlock guns on the spot. — slipped away!They didn't sneak into the fortress to hold on, but fled directly, abandoning this easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack city, and leaving behind tens of thousands of stunned and bewildered citizens.

After the Spanish defenders fled, the occupation of Acapulco by Geng Jingzhong's troops was simple. In less than half a day, everything including Fort Santiago, the coastal fort, the city hall and the intersection leading to the Mexica Valley were all in the Geng area. Under the control of Jingzhong's men.

Those generals who followed Geng Jingzhong to the New World, no matter how faint they were when they were on the ship?Now everyone came running to tell him the good news like a lively tiger.

"General Zhengdong, the last general has already taken down the fort!"

"General Zhengdong, the last general has taken down the Spanish government!"

"The last general took down a Catholic temple and captured a presiding abbot."

"The general's men have controlled the intersections entering and exiting the city, and now no one can get out!"

"emperor."

I don't know whether it was a casual call or intentional, but one of Geng Jingzhong's subordinates blurted out and called him the emperor.Geng Jingzhong, who was quite happy at first, showed a terrified expression, waved his hands and said: "Don't, don't let me stop being the emperor, and if I don't become the emperor again, I will make you all suffer for this hapless emperor. This emperor, who Be whoever you like, anyway, I am wrong."

"If you don't become the emperor, what will you do in the future?"

Another subordinate asked questions.

"Being a general, a general of the Republic!" Geng Jingzhong had already thought about it, "then Li Zhongshan was in charge of the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't usurp the throne to become the emperor, but just became a general. Isn't he doing well now? Japan's Germany Chuan Jiayasu also took control of the country, but he was not an emperor but a general, so he could die, and his descendants could continue to be generals and live a more comfortable life than the emperor. Wu Sangui and I just couldn't see through it. As a result, one died and the other He was defeated and died! Now Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingqi has seen through it and becomes the prime minister instead of the emperor.

It can be seen from this that the emperor is really not in charge now, it is better to be a general!From now on, I will be called General Zhengdong, and I will set up a shogunate in this city of Acre and establish a republic! "

"How can this republic be established?" Someone asked again.

"This." Geng Jingzhong thought for a while and said, "Let's learn from Li Yat-sen and become national scholars and nationals!
Our own people. This time, all the people who followed me from Ryukyu, no matter what color they are, or whether they can speak human language or not, one counts as one, they are all national scholars!

As for the notice posted by the people of the country, anyone who is willing to stay in the city of Aka and build a republic with the general is a Chinese who conquered the Eastern Shogunate!

All the citizens of the shogunate can have their property guaranteed. If they have no property and no one to rely on, the shogunate will help them build manors outside Akka.Also, they can worship whatever god they want, the general doesn't care!

All the people of the country can participate in the discussion of politics and submit letters to make suggestions. "

"What if you don't want to do it with us?"

"Let them go," Geng Jingzhong said seriously, "Although I am here for the Republic, I will not force them to join the Republic with me! They are going to be slaves of the King of Spain, and I will not stop them."

"But we don't understand Spanish, how do we write this notice?"

Geng Jingzhong thought for a while, and said: "Call that Gonzalez, let him write, and then let him read it to the Aka citizens who can't read!"

"What? General, you are not here to open up colonies, but for the republic?"

In Fort Santiago, the current Spanish Consul in Guangzhou, Gonzalez, has been washed and put on a gorgeous silk robe. He looks like an oriental king who heard "come for the republic" from Geng Jingzhong's mouth After that, he was a little out of sorts.
He originally thought Geng Jingzhong and the others were bad guys who were coming to the New World to grab money and territory.As a result, they came to export the republic and liberate the oppressed people of the New World, and the villains seem to have turned into murderous Spanish colonists and the Habsburg dynasty!

"That's right!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Whoever is willing to stay in Aka City to join the Republic is a Chinese!"

This countryman should mean a citizen, right?

Gonzalez knew about the Roman Republic and the Greek city-state republic of Athens, and immediately substituted the Ming Republic into the Roman Republic.

He thought for a moment and then asked: "General, whoever you are talking about includes the native Indians?"

"Of course!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Natives are human too! Listen carefully, here in Akka, regardless of natives, Spaniards, or hybrids, as long as they are human, those who are willing to stay and join the republic are all Chinese!"

This seems to have surpassed the Roman Republic and the Athens city-state!Gonzalez thought to himself: There are still slaves in Rome and Athens!

"They are all Chinese. What rights do Chinese people have?"

Gonzalez inquired again.

"Power?" Geng Jingzhong said, "Of course, there is power. One's own property can be inviolated. You can follow any religion you want. If you are too poor, you can also get land outside Aka. To submit a letter to the shogunate, and add another countryman to discuss the government. That’s all for now!”

What do you mean by this?
Gonzalez thought to himself: Although Chinese people do not have the power to dismiss generals, it is still much better than the hereditary republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands!Here comes the trouble for the Spanish Habsburg dynasty!

This is not a matter of losing a small colony in North America, but the Habsburg dynasty, no, the entire feudal dynasty in Europe may be subverted by an advanced system from the East!
"Citizens of Acapulco! I, Gonzales from Seville, an advisor to the General of the Ming Republic, now represent the General, and explain to you why the General came here, and how the Ming Republic will be in the New World in the future. The policy adopted! The Ming Republic is not here to rob your wealth and land, they have more wealth than all other places in the world except India combined! Acapulco and even the whole New World are not worthy of them to loot wealth.

And the purpose of this expedition is only one, and that is to overthrow the inhumane and illegal monarchy implemented by Spain in the New World, and to spread the glory of the Republic to every corner of the New World.”

In the square of Acapulco, the citizens who were frightened by the sudden change have been escorted by the menacing Geng family soldiers.

All but a handful of them, though all Hispanic, had been born in New Spain, and many had lived in Acapulco for generations in peace, prosperity, and ease.So they are not at all the same thing as the "Old Spain or the Catholic Banner" in the Spanish mainland who have been living in a state of endless wars.Encountered a sudden war, completely in a state of confusion!
In addition, only a small part of them are relatively noble native whites, and the rest are of mixed Indo-European blood.They are third-class citizens in New Spain, and they have never thought that third-class citizens like them need to defend the empire and the king (Westerners generally refer to huge territories including colonies as empires).Of course, they didn't think about opposing the reactionary and conservative Spanish Habsburg dynasty. Life is going well. What's the point of opposing this and that?
As a result, this group of Hispanics lived comfortably for too long before they even organized resistance, and were controlled by the enemy.

When they were escorted to the municipal square, they thought they were going to see the Heavenly Father. Many people cried in fright, and kept making the sign of the cross to pray for the blessing of the Heavenly Father.
Now when Gonzalez spoke, these people were all stunned.

What are you doing?You came all the way here not to colonize, but to overthrow the Spanish monarchy and establish a republic in the New World?
Also, why does this Gonzalez say that the Spanish monarchy in the New World is inhumane?Does the Ming Republic want to uphold justice for the Indians?
Thinking of the extinction and suffering suffered by the Indians, the citizens of Acapulco felt guilty at once.

At this time, Gonzalez continued: "Citizens, pioneers and aborigines of America, what you have is a vast and boundless continent. Here you have the most magnificent mountains and rivers in the world, the most fertile land, and the richest land. The resources here are richer than any piece of the old continent. Although it has not been cultivated on a large scale, it also means that we can write the most beautiful poems on this land.

In the old continent, we human beings can use our industrious hands to cultivate and graze the most barren land, carry out handicraft production, trade, use our own blood and sweat, and after generations of hard work, we can finally build brilliant cities and even brilliant cities. civilization.This is civilization, a truly amazing and great civilization!
But in the New World, what are we doing?Why did the Habsburg dynasty have to rely on inhumane slavery to establish the so-called civilized colonial rule?
Can't all of us cooperate as equals to share and develop this continent together?This continent is so vast that it can give us far more than we need to live a prosperous and decent life, and everyone can live well.Then why do we still enslave each other, why do we have to be so greedy, is everything we have done and are doing in line with the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ?

And how much wealth has our sin bought us?Is this wealth really in our pockets?
No, no. They all became the war chest of the Habsburgs and were used to start one war after another in the Old Continent!And in the name of Heavenly Father!It's so evil that Spain can't get the blessing of the Father, so that it spends a continent's money and always loses in Europe!Even our Spanish Habsburg dynasty is now definitely extinct.

Isn't this a divine decision?Now the wind of the republic is coming from Asia to put an end to the crimes of the Habsburg dynasty. Isn't this the will of the Heavenly Father? "

Gonzalez said it really well. He is a diplomat who is good at fooling around!Moreover, he has also received rigorous training in the best church school in Spain, and has mastered various skills of using language to impress people.

Moreover, what he said is also true!

The Kingdom of Spain did nothing in America. Not only was it insatiably greedy, it occupied land they could not digest, exterminated countless natives, and enslaved the rest inhumanely. The wealth gained from exploitation was not used to improve the The benefits of Spain are used in the endless wars for hegemony on the European continent.

What is even more speechless is that the Habsburg dynasty still did not gain hegemony on the European continent after spending all the wealth plundered from the Americas and owed huge debts.

By now, the Habsburg dynasty in Spain is definitely going to be extinct, and the wind of the republic is coming from the west. The entire Spanish world empire is coming to an end!

"Long live the Republic! Down with the royal government!"

The people in the square suddenly became excited!
"Bang bang! bang bang!"

On the other side of the world, the footsteps of soldiers changing the guard came from outside the capital gate of the general’s mansion in Nanjing, and old cloth shoes with thick soles stepped on the bluestone floor tiles, making a dull sound.The four model soldiers of the General's Mansion Guard Regiment saluted each other, exchanged positions, and then two of them left.

Li Zhongshan raised his head from the pile of documents and rubbed his eyes.The sound of changing the guards outside reminded him that he had worked hard for the country and the people for another hour.

It is now the winter of the fourth year of the Republic, and the war between Ming, Zhou, and Qing has been suspended for several months.However, for Li Zhongshan, it was just a change of battlefield, from the battlefield of gunfire to the battlefield of fighting against the fiscal deficit and land annexation.

To be honest, compared with the battlefield of bullets and bullets, the new battlefield made Li Zhongshan feel more difficult.Because on the battlefield where there is a lot of bullets, he still has a "golden finger" that can drive him. He knows how to shoot in line, how to combine artillery, infantry and cavalry, how to use column tactics, horizontal formation tactics, hollow phalanx tactics, and slash tactics. What's going on?I also know the general development direction of artillery and rifles.

Although this knowledge is far from the level of a military strategist, the skills he has in this life include how to command a medium-sized army in the era of alternating cold and hot weapons. The original Wang Zhongxiao was regarded as a Future generals are trained from childhood.So when the knowledge from the two eras is combined, Li Zhongshan has the military "golden finger".

In addition, he also has a relatively deep understanding of the "Republic of China" and how to organize a Tiandihui that serves the Republic.

But at the same time, he also knows that relying on the above alone is actually not enough to maintain a republic system for a long time.

As long as you have a sufficient understanding of the history of Rome and ancient Greece, you will know that although a good national republic system can be very powerful, it is also difficult to maintain. Because the foundation of the national republic is actually a huge middle class, which is underdeveloped in productivity. era, they were rich peasants and small landowners.

Only when there are enough rich peasants and small landowners and can be sustained, the National People's Republic will be strong and effective.Once this class declines due to various reasons, then the Republic will also decline. Even if it survives in name, it will only survive.

For example, Rome after the Phoenician War, and Athens, which restored the republic after the Peloponnesian War, may still have the name of the Republic, but the essence has completely changed.

For the Ming Dynasty ruled by Li Zhongshan, the power of small and medium-sized landlords and rich peasants was actually not strong, while the strength of big landlords and big merchants should not be underestimated.

For example, Yi Wang Zheng Jing, Shangshu Zuocheng Chen Yonghua, Shangshu Youcheng Lu Sanhao, they actually represent maritime merchants, silk merchants and southeast gentry
Just when Li Zhongshan was thinking of Zheng Jing, Chen Yonghua, and Lu Sanhao, Zhou Chang's voice suddenly came from outside his capital: "General, King Yi and Chen Zuocheng have something to see!"

(End of this chapter)