Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

The chief exorcist of the Holy See, Pastor Philip, is an expert. After witnessing the "wizard's practice" and "rocket to the sky", he is convinced that he has really met a magician!

A real magician, not a magician!

This is how to do?As an exorcist, he has been exorcising demons for half his life, but he has never seen a real demon. Now that he has seen it... he will not be able to exorcise it!

God, come and save me!

Leibniz is also an expert, of course he can see that this "magic rocket" is not an ordinary thing!

It's so big, it flies so high, and it has a "warhead"... He knows that flying high means flying far.

And being able to carry a "warhead" of a certain weight means that it can launch an explosive to a long distance.

The weight and range of the "warhead" can actually be "exchanged"!

If the range can be greatly sacrificed, then the Qing emperor's "magic rocket" can throw a very large and heavy explosive hundreds of yards away.

Although Leibniz is not sure whether this "magic rocket" can accurately hit a distant target?

But in an engagement where the formations of the two armies are separated by only a few hundred yards, the "magic rocket" could easily hit its target with the necessary modifications.

In addition, the propellant filled in the "magic rocket" can shoot such a large rocket so high, which means that it can release more energy when it burns. If it is filled into a bomb...

Emperor Kangxi saw the world with his eyes open, and he saw it very clearly!

Before the advent of sugar medicine, he knew that Chinese firearms were not as good as Western ones, so he asked Nan Huairen to come out and preside over the Jingshan Cannon Making Department to cast Western-style cannons.

At the same time, he was afraid that Western firearms would threaten the rule of the Qing Dynasty if they were handed over to the Han people, so he invented the concept of "Eight Banners Firearms".A series of powerful Western-style firearms such as Weiyuan General Cannon, Victory General Cannon, and Sub-Mother Cannon are included in it, and the green battalion is restricted or even not allowed to use it, so as to ensure the firepower advantage of the Eight Banners soldiers.At one point, he even wanted to use sugar medicine as a weapon of the Eight Banners!

However, after the defeat of Jianyangshui and Sanjiangkou Town, Kangxi has changed.He no longer restricted the Han army loyal to him from mastering advanced firearms...but as soon as he turned around, he began to keep his secret from his foreign master Nan Huairen again.

He knows that foreigners don't have sugar medicine, and if they don't give them enough benefits, he won't teach them.Moreover, most of the production areas of white sugar are controlled by Zhu Heqi. If foreigners learn to make sugar medicine, Zhu Heqi will not be able to make a fortune?

So Kangxi would rather play tricks than tell the truth to the foreign devils.

Anyway, Zhu and Qi kept it a secret, so he kept it a secret.Not only to pretend to be seen by foreigners, but also to be seen by the gentry of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces who don't know the truth yet.

Seeing this group of "evil gentry" tremblingly leaning over to kneel, Kangxi just waved his hands and said with a smile: "There is no need to make a grand ceremony, I will just say a few words, and after I finish speaking, I have to give a banquet to the foreign mission, so I will not get along with you." You have a meeting together.

There is one thing I want to talk about, that is, the right to set up regiments... I don't expect your regiments to fight Zhu Heqi. I have new troops, guns, spells, sailors, and so on. With the help of many Western friends, they will not be defeated.So you are asked to organize group training just so that when Jiangnan encounters war, you can close your doors to protect yourself.So this matter is related to your own wealth and lives. This training license is in my hands. You understand what I want, so you can discuss it carefully! "

Chapter 351 The Advisory Council——Huang Zongxi's Big Deal!

In the 13th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, on the first day of February, Yingtianfu, Nanjing, Jiangnan Gongyuan.

Because Emperor Kangxi never planned to open the council one session at a time, he did not set up a yamen for the council in the inner city of Yingtianfu, Nanjing, which could work for a long time.Since most of the gentry from Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang who participated in the meeting were juren and scholars, Emperor Kangxi let them be in the Jiangnan tribute courtyard.

After observing Kang Mazi's sounding rocket the day before, more than [-] real and fake gentry gathered in the Jiangnan Tribute Court to pay homage to Confucius before discussing politics.

The place where the government is discussed is not indoors, but in the courtyard behind the entrance of the Gongyuan, which is where the candidates for the Jiangnan provincial examination pay homage to the most holy teacher.In front of the hall where the tablet of Confucius is enshrined, there is an empty throne, and two high-ranking chairs are placed beside the throne.University scholar Tuhai and civilian scholar Huang Zongxi sat on the two top chairs, one on the left and the other on the right.

Next to the two top chairs, there are two desks and two chairs. The desks and chairs on Tuhai's side are used by Huang Zhisheng, a scholar in the Imperial Academy, and the desks and chairs on Huang Zongxi's side are used by his son Huang Baijia. use.

Huang Zhisheng and Huang Baijia brought by Tuhai will be responsible for the records of the advisory meeting.If there is a need to draft any joint memorial, the two of them can do it for you.

On the opposite side of the imperial seat and the top chair are rows of grand master chairs, with a total of more than 400 chairs.At this moment, there is a so-called gentry sitting on every chair... Among them, the gentry sitting in the front rows are all trembling, looking around from time to time, as if they have done something unscrupulous. A few simply closed their eyes, chanting words, wondering if they were reciting Buddhist scriptures or reciting the Analects of Confucius?In short, he dare not discuss politics.

Judging from the performance of these people, you can tell that they are real gentry—these people don’t know what sins they committed in their previous lives. Seeing that tomorrow’s soldiers will come to the south of the Yangtze River, this dreadful and miserable life will pass away, but Being killed by Huang Zongxi, an old man, he was arrested and sent to Nanjing to be a councilor...

Talk about shit!

Keep your mouth shut, hide a few books at home and read and play for yourself, otherwise it will lead to literary prison, who dares to discuss politics in front of the court officials and more than 200 court eagles and dogs?Don't say they don't dare to do this, you won't dare to let Zhu and Qi come!

And behind these Zhenyi gentry who are about to be frightened to death, there are more than 200 imperial court eagles and dogs. The purpose of Kangxi's sending them is not to arrest the literary prison, but to gather together for several provinces in the north, as well as Manchuria and Mongolia. number.

In Kangxi's view, this advisory council should be discussed by the gentry from all over the country, not just the gentry from the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huizhou, and everyone else should not participate!

In this way, it seems that there are only three provinces left in the Qing Dynasty, which is outrageous!

But Kangxi didn't have the heart to really find so many people, and the time didn't wait for me!

Zhu Heqi will call Jiangnan in the second half of the year at the earliest, even if he doesn't come...there are still 10,000+ "heavenly soldiers" of the New Eight Banners waiting to get money?

Now the finances of the Qing Dynasty are extremely poor!Stopping to pay the flag, dig out the old capital, let the eight banners below rule the yamen, and the big slaves who own a large number of farms pay in advance for the "slave recruitment fee", so they can barely gather manpower and equipment.

But 10,000+ people have to pay 10 taels of silver for a month even with military pay, rewards and rice grains!

This is not counting the cost of accumulating sugar, fire nitrate, gunpowder, guns, and arrowheads!

In addition, once the Ming army hits the south of the Yangtze River, the income of the Qing court will definitely drop sharply... If you don’t earn a lot of votes before the war starts, after the fight, Zhu Heqi will use the method of "consuming military pay" to fight. Kangxi can be exhausted.

That's why Emperor Kangxi endured the humiliation of being slapped in the face by Huang Zongxi, and accepted the obviously malicious suggestion put forward by the old thief Huang-decentralizing the power of regiment training in exchange for military expenses and sugar.

In other words, this so-called advisory meeting is actually a trade fair... It is to reach a deal in exchange for military expenses and sugar.

It is precisely because Huang Zongxi proposed this deal, and Huang Zongxi, a middleman, is still needed to facilitate it, so Kangxi suppressed his anger and did not kill Huang Zongxi's family, and even tolerated Huang Zongxi and his nephews working hard before the start of the advisory council. "Selling private goods", distributing a copy of "Ming Yi Waiting for Interview" everywhere...

But Huang Zongxi shouldn't be too happy too early, it's all recorded in Emperor Kangxi's little book!

If Huang Zongxi's "business" is messed up, then the literary inquisition will come... A literary inquisition will beat up all the local tyrants and evil gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and there will be money at that time.Even if it's "killing people for sugar", let's go through this level first!

If Huang Zongxi's "deal" is successful, let him live a few more days... Wait until the Eight Banners New Army repels Zhu and Qi, and then fight his literary prison!

In short, Huang Zongxi is a dead end!

But now is not the time to die, so Huang Zongxi, who does not cry when he sees the coffin, can still laugh now, he still laughs loudly.

"Hahaha... What are you all doing with such a mournful face? Are you going to give the old man a funeral?"

Tu Hai next to him snorted when he heard this, and said in his heart, "Be proud of yourself...the time hasn't come yet!"

Huang Zongxi also heard Tuhai's snort, glanced at him, and said: "Tutang, don't just watch from the sidelines, this business is done by the two of us together. You are the emperor's confidant, Let me tell you what this team training license is, right?"

Tu Hai said with a smile: "Let's talk about it... This team training license is actually two things. One is the team training badge bestowed by the emperor. With this card, you can hold the right of team training in a county, and you can open a team training office in the county. You can also recruit regiment members, and apportion the expenses for regiment training to all townships in the county.

The second is the official certificate of the regiment training envoy. Although the regiment training envoy is not a permanent position of the imperial court and has no rank, but holding this certificate in the county, it has the right to be an acquaintance, and it can also control the people of the county.It is also possible to build a village in a dangerous place in the county as the resident of the government.

However, this group training license cannot be issued easily, and you big gentry families in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui have to spend money to donate!Does anyone want it? "

no……

Who can afford to buy this?

Everyone is a good scholar, and he doesn't plan to change his career to become a military leader. Why do you want this?Maybe he will be suspected by the court!

Isn't this looking for death?

Tu Hai turned his head and looked at Huang Zongxi coldly - your idea is not working!

Huang Zongxi smiled and said: "Tutang, you don't know how to do business... You didn't explain clearly the magical effect of this training license!"

You still blame me?

Tuhai snorted: "Then Mr. Lizhou said that this license plate is useful."

Huang Zongxi said with a smile: "This license plate has one purpose, that is, it can keep you alive in troubled times!"

He glanced at the people below with burning eyes: "You will not forget what happened 27 years ago, right?"

Tuhai became annoyed when he heard this, "Mr. Lizhou, what do you mean?"

Huang Zongxi pointed at Tuhai, and said with a smile: "Look, look...how fierce! But the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu in Guangdong and Jiangxi are even more fierce than him! When the time comes, the chaos on both sides will be in our south of the Yangtze River. You come and go on the land, how can you avoid burning and killing? You are all helpless scholars, how can you protect yourself?

This group training license is your self-protection thing!Even if there are only 1000 or [-] regiments, you can find a piece of land surrounded by water in your hometown, build a city, hoard money and food, in order to protect yourself... Even if there are rebels coming, you will see that you have regiments and a city , I knew it was difficult to take lightly, so I left after asking for some money and food. "

The people below were a little tempted, but still no one dared to be the first to stand up.

And it will cost a lot!

Tu Hai snorted again, and looked at Huang Zongxi even colder.

However, Huang Zongxi remained unhurried, and said with a smile: "Don't think that a city with a thousand or two thousand regiments is not enough to protect yourself. Just think about it, if there are two counties, and the wealthy households in one county have already bought a license, They have their own fortifications and regiments. And the local tyrants in another county have no licenses, no fortifications, and no regiments..." He suddenly turned around and asked Tuhai, "Tutang, if you want to lead troops to rob them, who will you kill? Do it?"

Tu Hai laughed loudly: "Then there's no need to ask? Naturally, the persimmons are soft!"

Huang Zongxi sighed, pointed at Tu Hai and said, "After he finished pinching the soft persimmon, he might pinch the hard persimmon again... But the probability of surviving as a hard persimmon is better than being a soft persimmon! And this license is one county. Only one set is issued. You bought it at a high price, and you can share it with other gentry in the county after you go back.

This is a matter of survival. Isn't it good for everyone to contribute money together, form a group together, find a place to build a fortress together, and survive this troubled world together? "

After hearing Huang Zongxi's words, Tu Hai quietly gave a thumbs up.

Great Confucianism is great Confucianism!

Chapter 352 Foreigners love the Qing Dynasty the most

"Tfried William Leibniz, the envoy of the Kingdom of France, kowtowed to His Majesty the Qing Emperor, long live the Great Emperor, long live, long live..."

"Harry Gryffindor, the envoy of the Kingdom of England, kowtowed to His Majesty the Qing Emperor, long live the Emperor..."

"Philip, the envoy of the Catholic Church and chief exorcist of the Roman Town of Demons, respectfully invites the great emperor to be safe, and may God bless the great emperor with a long life..."

In the freshly painted Hall of Martial Arts in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, envoys from eight countries including Western France, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Holy See, Sweden and Holy Rome are standing next to each other, following the Qing Dynasty etiquette to pay respects to Emperor Kangxi three times. Worship the ceremony of nine knocks.

Although the kowtow postures of the envoys from the eight countries are not very standard, and you can tell that they have not practiced well at a glance, but no one dares to refuse to use three bows and nine kowtows to meet the Qing emperor like Macartney in history. Don't even dare to raise an objection.

Because they already know the advanced and powerful Qing Dynasty!

How could it not be advanced?

While these envoys were paying homage to the emperor, gentry from eleven provinces or localities were seriously discussing important national affairs such as apportioning military expenses and forming local regiments in the Jiangnan Tribute Courtyard by the Qinhuai River...now England and the Netherlands There may be more national affairs discussed in the parliament.

However, in the aristocratic councils or three-level councils in most European countries, I am afraid that national affairs will not be discussed so seriously.

And they couldn't come up with the "Declaration of the Advisory Council" that was enough to anger their monarch... Except for the envoys of England and the Netherlands, other countries, including the envoys of the Holy See, are now having a headache for this "Declaration" Woolen cloth!

A translation of this "Manifesto" was sure to be brought back to Europe, and sure to be distributed everywhere.If the theories such as "the people are the mainstay and the emperor is the guest" and "the emperor and his ministers are comrades" come to Europe and are used by people with ulterior motives, it will be fine!

Now China is still the representative of advanced civilization in Europe.As soon as this declaration arrives in Europe, plus some magical rockets to explore the sky, the European rebel experts will not be able to boil over?

This is the advanced experience of advanced civilization, it must be the truth!

What "I am the country" and so on... It sounds like a big villain's words!

Unlike the eight envoys who were in a state of ups and downs, Kangxi was quite proud at the moment.

The current situation is good!

At noon today, Tu Hai excitedly ran over to report that the advisory meeting was very successful.Huang Zongxi is very good at "doing business", and the group practice licenses are very popular, and the gentry in various counties in the south of the Yangtze River are eager to subscribe.

According to Tu Hai's estimate, he should be able to exchange silk, cloth, sugar, rice and other materials worth several million taels for the imperial court, as well as several million taels of cash—it seems that there are still many wealthy households in the Jiangnan area. Yes, and they are still very loyal to the Qing Dynasty. After the war begins, they can rest assured that the Jiangnan area will be handed over to these people.

They have already bought the officials of the Qing Dynasty... and they also have the power to build a dock for self-defense. They should not fall to Zhu Heqi before the Jiangnan War is won or lost.

As long as the local tyrants in Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang can stand on their own feet, plus the large amount of supplies and silver they donate.

Emperor Kangxi has a bottom line in his heart!

He is now confident that he can rely on the powerful Yangtze River Navy and several fortresses such as Anqing, Yingtian, Yangzhou, and Hangzhou, as well as the New Eight Banners Army Division with a number of tens of thousands to repel the invading Zhu Hechi.

And the performance of these foreign barbarians in front of them was also good, each of them kowtowed obediently, and also offered generous tributes.

It seems that they still know who is in their best interest to unify China.

Thinking of this, the Qing emperor smiled and waved: "Pingshen...a seat!"

Hearing Kangxi's order, Xiaoguizi's father-in-law hurriedly called his little eunuchs to move out of the eight embroidered piers, and let the envoys of the eight countries sit down one by one.

Seeing that the eight envoys got up and sat on the embroidered pier, they smiled and said: "Now there is a little trouble in our country, and I think you all know it. Zheng Shizi, a pirate entrenched in Taiwan, and Wu Sangui, my rebel minister of the Qing Dynasty, have colluded, and now they have occupied a lot of territory... I must go all out to fight them.

And who are you going to support?talk about it! "

Kangxi spoke very slowly, Nan Huairen translated every sentence he said, and everything was translated into Latin.

As soon as they heard that Kangxi wanted them to take a stand, the eight foreigners stopped pretending to be "good friends of the Qing Dynasty" and all made their stand clear.

"Emperor, although the relationship between the East India Company of the Federal Republic of China and the Qing Dynasty is very good, we are outsiders after all, and we cannot interfere without reason..."

The governor of the Dutch East India Company, Masek, did not say anything dead. In fact, he had always supported the Qing Dynasty. As early as the Shunzhi period, he went to Beijing to kowtow to the Shunzhi Emperor!Later, the navy was also used to help the Qing Dynasty attack Xiamen Island.

In the last battle of Quanzhou, he also sent a fleet.Now there is still a Dutch fleet docked at the port of Ningbo!

However, because Zhu and Chi's power developed too fast, he needed to carefully assess the risk of interfering in the Chinese civil war.

"That's right, this is a war within China...it has nothing to do with England!"

Charlie Gough of the British East India Company put it more sternly - because Zhu Hexi had the perfume he wanted!

Because Louis XIV fell in love with perfume crazily, Chaozhou perfume has now become a cash cow for the British East India Company to make huge profits.

And as far as Goff knows, the Daming North Factory controlled by Zhu Hechi is the only supplier of Chaozhou perfume!

The Portuguese envoy sighed: "Even if we want to interfere, there is nothing we can do!"

Leibniz shrugged: "Emperor, the Kingdom of France I represent has no power in East Asia!"