Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 235 Aftermath
You know, non-woven fabrics are made of polyester fiber and polyester fiber through acupuncture technology. They are very different from the textiles of this era. You don’t need to touch and compare the two together. You can see them with the naked eye. The obvious difference comes.

In addition, Zhu Tianqi still used waterproof non-woven fabric, which is more like plastic cloth than textile, so anyone who is not a fool can see the difference.

However, the prerequisite for having the ability to distinguish authenticity is that consumers must have seen the real thing. Some Taixi people have been in Daming for a short time and are not familiar with the place. They are not clear about the situation and will inevitably be confused by some. The unscrupulous businessmen took advantage of this and took some imitation "Ming" flags and pretended to be court officials to sell them to them, and these Taixi people were deceived.

Therefore, Zhu Tianqi specially issued an announcement to the people of Thailand and Spain to buy the "Ming" flag. It was actually an explanation, which covered the court's sales channels for the "Ming" flag and the method of identifying the authenticity. It was also hung at various sales points. There is a flag with the word "Ming" for people to visit.

For those who forge the "Ming" flag, they will be punished more severely. The crime starts with beheading. Anyone who dares to forge will definitely die. One side will be beheaded, and if there are any more, it will be punished. The number of forged flags The more, the more Ling Chi has knives.

At the same time, Jin Yiwei was also asked to set up a task force to investigate the counterfeiting of the "Ming" flag. Under such a strong blow, the counterfeiting of the "Ming" flag was put to an end and eradicated.

As for the Taixi people's imitation of the "Ming" flag, Zhu Tianqi is naturally beyond his reach and cannot put an end to it all. If the Taixi people hurriedly forged it in the Ming Dynasty, they would naturally not be able to escape, but they forged it at sea and hid it as soon as they landed. Okay, what can you do against them?

Therefore, a very strange phenomenon began to appear at sea, that is, Mao Wenlong's pirate ships no longer left when they saw the "Ming" flag hanging on the ship from a distance as in the past, and each one of them turned into an "inspector". When encountering a ship flying the "Ming" flag, you should also come close to have a look, and board the ship to check the authenticity of the "Ming" flag.

If it is found that the "Ming" flag is genuine, then let it go and let them go politely. If it is found that the "Ming" flag is fake, then the "Three Lights" policy will be implemented immediately.

As a result, no one dared to be clever anymore, so people in Europe and the West had no choice but to come over obediently and buy the "Ming" flag.

However, compared with last year, as the three major customers of "Ming" Ziqi, the shopping experience of Helan and Franji people this year is not very good. It is not that "Ming" Ziqi cannot meet their satisfaction, but that They had just spent a large sum of money to buy the "Ming" flag from the Ming Dynasty, and then they received the news that their base on Dongfan Island had been taken away, and their mood suddenly became unhappy.

However, among the Frangji people and the Helan people, the Helan people are the most dissatisfied with the Ming court. After all, Dongfan Island is a cash cow for the Helan people. The investment in manpower and material resources was also very huge, and the loss of the city of Relanja was intolerable to them.

In this regard, a fierce debate began within the Helan East India Company, and more and more people began to advocate declaring war on the Ming Dynasty. They revealed the incident of the Helan merchant ship being plundered by Mao Wenlong last year. In fact, the last time They were not very satisfied with Daming's attitude and handling plan, but they didn't want to admit defeat because Mao Wenlong fell out with Daming and spent some money to ensure safety.

But this time is different. Now the Ming Dynasty has taken over the city of Relandia on Dongfan Island. Not one of the Helan people inside has escaped alive. Even Governor Hans Putmans has been arrested. The prisoners captured by the Ming Dynasty are already equivalent to the Ming Dynasty declaring war on the Helan people in the eyes of the Helan people. Do they still have to tolerate it blindly?
Of course, there are quite a few people in the Helan East India Company who can still remain rational. They believe that they cannot easily turn against the Ming Dynasty and start a war. After all, the Ming Navy is still very powerful, although the warships of the Ming Navy are not as good as those of Helan. Navy warships, but the Ming Navy has a lot of warships. The Helan Navy only has the expeditionary force here, and the number is too small to be an enemy of the Ming Navy.

Over the years, there have been constant frictions between Helan and Daming, and there have been many large and small naval battles, especially when the Helan people tried to occupy the coast of Fuguang and the Penghu Islands, Daming even sent naval forces to attack them. Arrived at Dongfan Island.

Because the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to Dongfan Island before, Dongfan Island became an ownerless land, allowing the Helan people to take advantage of it. The Helan people naturally did not think that they were invading the Ming Dynasty's territory. Now the Ming Dynasty But they suddenly sent troops to attack and took away their base on Dongfan Island. Naturally, they felt that they were at a disadvantage and that they were being justified.

However, it is unwise to start a war with the Ming Dynasty. Even if you want to fight, you must be polite before fighting. Try to reason with the Ming court first. If the Ming Dynasty cannot give a reasonable explanation to the Helan people, it will not be too late to fight again!

But it is a pity that the Helan people are not even qualified to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty does not accept their envoys to visit, nor will they send people to negotiate with them. Previously, the Helan people and the British wanted to negotiate with them. When negotiating with the Ming Dynasty about the merchant ship being plundered by Mao Wenlong, wasn't it through Fran Ji in Hao Jing'ao that he could talk to the Ming Dynasty court?
But now this road is unavailable, because during the Battle of Dongfan Island, the Holan people and the Francois people had already broken up. When Gesman, the governor-general stationed in Santo Domingo City, Tamsui, fled to Manila, They also brought the news to the Franji people in Manila. It was the Helan people who joined forces with Zheng Zhilong to attack the Franji cities of San Salvador and Santo Domingo. Therefore, the Franji people had completely followed the Helan people. The Lan people broke up.

Although the Helan people later figured out that Hans Putmans had fallen into Zheng Zhilong's trap and was used by Zheng Zhilong, they were still in trouble and could not explain it to the Franji people. After all, no matter whether it was Hans Putmans or not, ·Putmans was bewitched by Zheng Zhilong, so he sent troops to jointly attack the cities of San Salvador and Santo Domingo with Zheng Zhilong. It is an indisputable fact that the Helan people tried to expel the Franji people and monopolize Dongfan Island.

When things got to this point, the Helan people finally had no choice but to go to war with the Ming Dynasty. Because the peace faction had nothing to do, the war faction finally won the argument. Then the Helan East India Company began to prepare for war on the one hand, and sent He returned home and reported the matter to Helan Royal Court, hoping that Helan Royal Court could send a fleet to reinforce.

In fact, the situation of the French people was not much better. After they heard that the cities of San Salvador and Santo Domingo were captured by the coalition forces of Zheng Zhilong and Hans Putmans, they were shocked, but they were not too worried. It felt distressing, after all, they occupied the chicken coop and Tamsui area in the northern part of Dongfan Island and built a city.

However, their two cities together are not as large as the Helan people's Relanja city, and the manpower and material resources invested are far less than the Helan people.

The most important thing is that although the Franji people occupy Dongfan Island, they cannot use the two colonies on Dongfan Island to generate income for themselves like the Helan people. Instead, they need Manila to provide food, salary and military expenses every year to support them. The cities of San Salvador and Santo Domingo are completely worthless.

Therefore, the Franji people are not as anxious as the Helan people. They don't need to find a way to recover their losses as soon as possible, they just need to slowly find a way to regain their position.

As for the Helan people, the Frang robots naturally don't have to think too much about it. Since the Helan people have already made a move against him, the Frang robots will naturally fight back.

But for the Ming Dynasty, Franjiren planned to contact the Ming Dynasty court through Hao Jing'ao to find out what was going on, and then listen to the Ming court's attitude towards the matter. After all, during this period , the Ming court was relatively friendly and polite to the Franji people.Things went round and round, and finally it fell on Mashajialu. However, Mashajialu was not very concerned about the affairs of Dongfan Island. When he heard that the Franji people were going to Dongfan Island, When the city was built on Ban Island, I felt that this was very unreliable, and it turned out that the Franji people's management on Dong Fan Island was indeed a mess.

Now that Franjiren's business on Dongfan Island was completely bankrupt, he was finally asked to "pay" for this matter. Naturally, he was very resistant in his heart, but he could not disobey his boss's order, so he had no choice but to pay for it. Sun Yuanhua, the current chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, wrote a letter asking him about Dongfan Island.

After all, for the Franji people, they have not yet figured out whether the cities of San Salvador and Santo Domingo on Dongfan Island were captured by Zheng Zhilong. Was it the instruction of the Ming court or Zheng Zhilong's personal behavior? Fan Island is recognized as unclaimed land by people in the West, so it is not impossible for Zheng Zhilong, as the most powerful maritime merchant in this area, to compete for Dongfan Island.

Therefore, the top priority is to clarify this matter, instead of blindly going directly to the Ming court to hold accountable and ask for an explanation. After the matter is clarified, the next step is to decide whether to negotiate with the Ming court or Zheng Zhilong.

When Ma Shijialu's letter was sent to the capital, Zheng Zhilong had already arrived at the capital and reported to Zhu Tianqi. Zhu Tianqi specially received him at the court meeting and praised him in public for his recovery of Dongfan Island as "the best of all times." achievement".

Zhu Tianqi announced in public: "Dongfan Island has always been the inherent territory of my Ming Dynasty. Now that Zheng Zhilong is going to recover it, it can be regarded as a complete return to Zhao. From now on, no one should make false claims that it will be abandoned! Dongfan Island will be designated as Dongfan from then on. Envoy, Zheng Zhilong has made great achievements in recovering Dongfan Island, I will make you Dongfan Bo, hereditary and irreplaceable!"

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he was so excited that he trembled a little, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to thank: "Minister Zheng Zhilong, thank the emperor for his grace!"

"Get a life!" Zhu Tianqi continued with a smile on his face: "You have been operating on Dongfan Island for many years, and you know the customs and customs of Dongfan Island best. You are also quite famous among the local people on Dongfan Island. From now on, you will It is most appropriate for you to manage Dongfan Island!"

Zheng Zhilong straightened up, cupped his fists and saluted: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that I, Zheng Zhilong, will definitely live up to the Emperor's kindness and govern Dongfan Island well!"

Zhu Tianqi nodded and added one more message: "Dongfan Island is a treasure island. As long as you manage it carefully, you can not only ensure that the people on the island live a prosperous life, but also generate more income for the court. I am waiting for you to give the court Come back with more money!"

After retiring from the court, Sun Yuanhua came to the Qianqing Palace to meet the saint. On the one hand, he reported to Zhu Tianqi about the letter from Ma Shijialu to him, and on the other hand, he also expressed his worries about Zheng Zhilong: "Your Majesty, Zheng Zhilong is in Fukuoka. The power in the Guang area is overwhelming and deep-rooted, which is a hidden danger, and now the emperor has entrusted Dongfan Island to him to manage, wouldn't it be inappropriate?"

Zhu Tianqi looked at Sun Yuanhua with a smile on his face, "It's okay, just say what you want!"

Only then did Sun Yuanhua say: "Your boldness, as far as I know, although Zheng Zhilong has submitted to the court for many years, he has not let go of his previous business as a sea merchant, and he has used the protection of the court to make his business bigger and bigger. He came to be strong, and now even Liu Xiang, the only big merchant who can match him, has been defeated by him. Now he has become the sea king of the East and South Seas.

Moreover, although he appeared to be serving the country and the people, he repeatedly helped the victims of the disaster in Fuguang area, recruited the victims to go to Dongfan Island to reclaim wasteland, and also distributed money, grain, agricultural tools, and cattle, but in the eyes of the minister, However, Zheng Zhilong's move was actually to buy people's hearts, and it was the ambition hidden in his heart.

I don’t know if your Majesty knows that before Zheng Zhilong became famous, he worked for Yan Siqi, a merchant from the sea. Yan Siqi was also an ambitious man. He once conspired to rebel in the Japanese country in an attempt to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate and replace him. Later, the matter was exposed. , was hunted by the Tokugawa shogunate, and then fled to Toban Island.

Even so, Yan Siqi was still ambitious. He and more than 20 large merchants including Zheng Zhilong sworn sworn sworn brothers on Dongfan Island, intending to use Dongfan Island as a base to establish themselves as kings.

Then Yan Siqi died of a sudden illness. Zheng Zhilong succeeded Yan Siqi and became the new leader of the maritime merchant alliance. He also inherited Yan Siqi's business power on Dongfan Island. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong must have inherited the ambition from Yan Siqi. If he let If he wins Dongfan Island, wouldn't it be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth? "

After Zhu Tianqi heard what Sun Yuanhua said, he burst out laughing, making Sun Yuanhua look stunned.

"Sun Aiqing, I didn't expect you to actually write a lot of articles in private!"

After hearing this, Sun Yuanhua hurriedly bowed and saluted: "This matter is of great importance, I dare not not pay more attention!"

Zhu Tianqi smiled and shook his hand and said: "It's okay, I don't mean to blame you. You are loyal to the court and to me. I naturally know this, but you don't have to worry. Since I dare to use this Zheng Zhilong, I dare to Putting Dongfan Island in his hands, there are naturally ways to deal with him.

I have already known the things you mentioned, so you don’t have to worry about it anymore, I have my own arrangements! "

(End of this chapter)