The Southern Campaign is Over

Author: solid state drive

The Southern Campaign is Over

"Governor Xiao reported that someone recently came to the government office, drummed for help, and asked him to report a matter. He felt that he was not sure and needed a review by the cabinet.

A merchant surnamed He in Quanzhou mentioned that several caravans from Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places went out to sea at the beginning of this year and went to Luzon and other countries to trade with the Folangji people. They have not returned yet and there is no news.

Due to the fact that the Ming Dynasty is forbidden to go south, they cannot go out to sea to search. In addition, in September I just wiped out the Folangji people in Dongpan. In the past two months, the Folangji people in Luzon must have received the news.

Therefore, people in Fujian are now worried that the Francois in Greater Luzon cannot break through the Royal Navy's blockade, so they will take revenge on the maritime merchants stranded in the Ming Dynasty and massacre the people of the Ming Dynasty again.

They implored Governor Xiao to submit a petition and voluntarily raise money for the imperial court to send troops to sea, escort them to Greater Luzon to find relatives, confirm their safety, and even warn the Fo Langji people in Luzon not to harm my people.

As I watched it, I gradually felt angry in my heart."

"Eh? Your Majesty, if this is the case, why are you so angry? I remember that in September, the Imperial Master had already crossed Yanzhou and visited the hometown of Fo Langjiren. What about Europe?

At that time, the King of the Flemish people who invaded Dongfan had also promised to compensate the Ming Dynasty for the losses, which amounted to tens of millions of taels of silver.

The Folangji people in Luzon are scared when they see their king, so they will not act rashly again, right? So there is no need for your Majesty to worry about this matter. I believe that the Folangji people will not dare to act rashly.

Besides, there is still one month until the day when the prince will tour Southeast Asia on behalf of His Majesty. By then, as long as the Royal Navy in Fujian is allowed to go to Luzon, can the Folangji people in Luzon be able to rebel?

If they really don't listen to their king, or don't believe the news brought by the prince, and there are royal army and navy following the prince, I believe that those small wooden boats of the Folangji people will definitely be destroyed!"

Listening to Chongzhen telling the content of Xiao Yifu's memorial, the confusion in the eyes of Li Daiwen and others became deeper, and they also brought more thoughts.

They all still remember the newspaper at the end of September, when Chen Ye went to Europe to bring the light of peace. At that time, other kings were beaten to shit by you, and you are still angry that other people's subordinates will threaten your people?

So Li Daiwen quickly clasped his hands and complimented him, did he really believe that as long as Chongzhen was willing, Fo Langji and his group could turn the world upside down?

Liu Zeshen's mind turned around and he thought about the time it would take for the Spaniards in Luzon to return to their country, and he suddenly realized.

He thought that Chongzhen was angry because the Flemish people knew that their hometown in Europe had been stolen and yet they dared to act arrogantly. He knew that the emperor must care about this feeling of being disrespected.

"Is Your Majesty so angry that the people of Fo Langji are still trying to coerce the people of the Ming Dynasty in Luzon despite knowing that their capital has surrendered?

I remember that Nanyang has always been closed to sea, and the Folangji people had no way to read the newspapers, so they probably didn't get the news of their king's surrender.

After all, they want to receive a message from their king. It is said that there are only two opportunities a year, and judging from the time, it will take a year before they can receive a message from their king from Europe, telling them not to provoke the Ming Dynasty.

So there is no need for your Majesty to be angry, but as Li Shangshu said just now, as long as the princes and princes go on a tour in Nanyang to tell the world about our country's prestige, a small warning to the Folangji people in Nanyang will definitely make the Folangji people not dare to persecute them.

People of Ming Dynasty."

Chongzhen listened to their words and nodded. If he only needed a warning, of course he didn't have to let everyone come out. He could just follow Wang Chengen's arrangements when he went to Nanyang.

The problem is that the Spaniards in Greater Luzon are already ready to move. Although this is also a good thing, after all, if the Spaniards are not ready to move, they still have to find ways to find excuses to send troops.

Luzon and Malacca were so important to the Ming Dynasty that they must be mastered and legally occupied. The sooner the better.

"What makes me angry is not that the Folangji people have coerced the people of the Ming Dynasty this time, but because of this incident, I recall the beastly acts committed by the Folangji people many times, which directly threatened the people of the Ming Dynasty in Luzon.

of safety.

You must know that Luzon and Ming Dynasty have stopped trading and contacting each other since May due to the maritime ban. However, before May, southern maritime merchants were still going to sea normally.

Even before the national war, I asked those Folangji men to handle a batch of goods. Dear friends, do you still remember? At that time, the Royal Merchant was out of stock for half a month.

The report Governor Xiao gave me was related to what happened before May. He wrote that in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other areas of Fujian Province, since the maritime ban was relaxed in the Ming Dynasty, there have been merchant ships going out to sea for trade every year.

Maritime merchants who went to sea had to pay a certain amount of tax according to the regulations of the imperial court, and returned to China after an agreed period of time. In this way, Fujian maritime merchants brought in more than one million yuan of silver to the Ming Dynasty every year. Their hard work allowed the Ming Dynasty's silver to continue to grow.

It was not until the disaster happened two years ago that the flourishing maritime trade was temporarily suspended."

When Chongzhen said this, several ministers who usually did not pay attention to overseas affairs looked confused.

In addition, it was the critical moment to eliminate Zhang Xianzhong, and the whole court was paying attention to Yang Sichang's movements. Who would care about your overseas troubles?

Only the pavilion elders like Fan Fucui, Zhang Sizhi vaguely remembered the disaster two years ago that made Chongzhen angry, but was powerless.

As the Minister of Household Affairs, Li Daiwen understood the reasons for the decrease in fiscal revenue over the years, so he also knew the harm caused by the Luzon Massacre two years ago.

"In fact, before that disaster, the Francois in Greater Luzon had been oppressing the Ming people doing business there for a long time, and even tortured and killed my people at will.

They treated the people of Greater Luzon as property and like pigs and dogs. They allowed the people to do business, but charged high taxes and fees. They even lured the people to settle there, fattened them and killed them directly in an attempt to seize their family property.

Dear friends, you must have heard of the Manila Massacre that occurred during the Wanli period forty years ago, right? At that time, tens of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty were tortured and killed.

The Fo Langji people in Luzon reported to Emperor Wanli on the pretext of strangulating the rebels. Emperor Wanli was deceived at the time and thought that those killed were all foreigners who had settled in Luzon.

In addition, the country has just experienced the Goryeo War and is unable to go south, so we can only send someone to give a warning and end the matter."

As Chongzhen glanced around, all the ministers nodded, saying that they had heard about this, but their eyes were slightly dull, as if they had never heard of it.

Most of them really have no memory of this matter, especially the new generation Li Daiwen and even Li Ruolian. They were only born when the Luzon Massacre happened. How could they know about such a thing?

And the Luzon Massacre happened overseas. To the court officials, those people were all aliens and they deserved to die, so there was nothing to spread in the official circles.

In addition, the Folangji people later sent an envoy to explain, so the murder of the businessman in Fujian was ignored.

But facing Chongzhen's gaze, even those who don't know have to nod quickly and fill in the relevant information later. If you don't know now, the problem is very serious.

"What happened at that time was actually caused by the Folangji people in Luzon. They felt that the Ming Dynasty had too many people in Luzon.

The wealth of the people of the Ming Dynasty had already made them jealous. The Ming Dynasty had just finished fighting the Japanese. It was a time when the country's power was depleted and the people needed a rest, so they took the opportunity to take action!

Only forty years later, the people of the Ming Dynasty once again believed in their Flemish people, and they began to plot against the people of the Ming Dynasty in Luzon again.

After the people found out, they organized and prepared to fight against them, but they were massacred again by the Folangji people from Greater Luzon, descendants of the bandits from forty years ago.

Forty-two years ago, Fo Langjiren's fathers killed tens of thousands of innocent people, and they were all from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and they were all businessmen passing by.

Just forty years later, the descendants of the Flemish people who grew up eating the flesh and blood of the people of the Ming Dynasty awakened the cruel blood in their bodies again. They couldn't even wait for one more year. Exactly forty years later, tens of thousands of people of the Ming Dynasty were slaughtered again!

The then governor of Fujian, Shen Youlong, gave me a report. Do you still remember? I was so angry that I almost wanted to kill someone with a sword.

Even if the merchants are lowly, why should I let them kill my people, the people of the Ming Dynasty? What do you think? Why?"

After Chongzhen's last angry words fell, all the ministers finally understood what he was angry about.

When the news of the Luzon Massacre came back from Fujian at the beginning of last year, the Ming Dynasty had just experienced the eradication of Zhang Xianzhong and was recuperating.

At that time, there were many internal conflicts in the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen was already poor and had only the last bit of his family fortune, and he was still betting on Jinzhou. Under such circumstances, Chongzhen was angry and could no longer mobilize his troops to retaliate.

"Your Majesty, I express my condolences. I remember that I also sent Zheng Guerrilla to Luzon to destroy the Folangji people in Greater Luzon."

"I do remember this matter, but because the Ministry of Revenue has no money, Zheng Guerrilla cannot get enough to attack, so the matter can only be shelved temporarily."

Liu Zeshen happened to be the Minister of Household Affairs before him, so he came out to speak. Suddenly a group of people understood why Chongzhen's anger did not go away, and why his emotional anger was suppressed?

So Chongzhen is bringing up old things now, is he actually taking the opportunity to vent his anger? After all, it is unjustifiable to seek revenge for what happened two years ago, but if the old and new accounts are calculated together, double interest can be calculated.

Therefore, several ministers listened to Chongzhen and already had certain ideas in mind. Since Chongzhen had freed up his hands, and now that the war in Japan was over, if they wanted to take action, regardless of money, they could fight anywhere.

As for money, more than a dozen ministers looked at the upright Chongzhen, and no one thought about money.

"Just a few days ago, the militia branch of the Royal Navy and the maritime patrol ship of the Zheng Family Caravan encountered the Habsburg Governor-General in Greater Luzon at sea, that is, the fleet sent by the Francois.

They bluntly said that if the Zheng family continues to block the sea route and prevent them from trading in Dongfan, they will not guarantee the safety of Ming merchants. They are threatening the lives of Ming people and asking Ming to make way for them!"

"This is unreasonable! What is intolerable? Do these barbarians understand what rules are?"

"Why are you still holding back? Fight! Your Majesty, I would like to lead the troops to destroy the French barbarians in Greater Luzon. No, the French barbarians in Europe should be destroyed! Let all the small countries in the world take a look. What a big offense against me.

Those who are powerful tomorrow will be killed no matter how far away they are!"

"This kind of country is even more disgusting than the Japanese pirates! They massacred the people of Ming Dynasty several times, once in forty years, and once now, which has been passed down from generation to generation.

If we don't care this time, will the people of the Ming Dynasty be safe when they go to sea in the future? Will the people of the world be able to slaughter the people of the Ming Dynasty at will as long as they leave the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

This means that you don’t take your majesty and the Ming Dynasty seriously at all! In the next year, when the princes and princes will inspect the world on behalf of your majesty, how can we allow such arrogant barbarians to occupy the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

Your Majesty, I request you to lead three thousand elite soldiers of the Royal Navy to wipe out the Buddhist banditry in Greater Luzon! I request you to help the people of Little Luzon, restore their country, and reunite the vassal state!"

The first person to react was Song Yingxing. Although he was not sensitive to political affairs, he was still very sensitive to Chongzhen's attitude.

Chongzhen's appearance made it clear that he wanted to take out his anger on the Fo Langji people, and Wang Cheng'en would be sent as an envoy to Nanyang later in the year. At that time, he could not go with the purpose of war.

These things are part of the content of state governance and diplomacy that they received when they received the memory transfer in their minds. Now that they have understood it well, they took the initiative to ask for war.

It was the consensus of everyone that the war should be controlled before Wang Chengen's mission. After all, Wang Chengen's mission was to bring the emperor's greetings and not the emperor's war.

"Since all my dear friends think we should fight, the might of the Ming Dynasty and the might of my dragon cannot be despised by others, so let's fight!

Just how long the war should last, how the royal army and navy should spend their money and food, and how people should be dispatched to govern after the war in Greater Luzon. The cabinet needs to draw up a charter.

The Fo Langji people in Greater Luzon massacred the people of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the remnants of the original Chinese people in Luzon were also involved, so I will not let those people go."

"Your Majesty, when you go to Nanyang this time, are you going to focus on the Flemish people who destroyed Greater Luzon, or the survivors of Luzon who destroyed Greater Luzon?

I heard that the Folangji people in Greater Luzon also oppressed the original royal family of Luzon. If the royal family of Luzon is no longer there, what should we do?"

After Li Ruolian finished speaking softly, the atmosphere suddenly tightened. Chongzhen's decision will directly affect the fate of non-Europeans in Luzon as a whole.

"The main task is to destroy the Folangji people, the second is to punish the Luzon remnants, and the second is to find the Luzon royal family.

If the Luzon royal family is gone, we must find their royal family members and entrust them to those close to us. In short, I want to ensure that when the royal companion arrives in Luzon, there is someone in Luzon who can make the decision."

"I understand!"

Li Ruolian clasped his fists and said, and a group of people thought about it. Didn't Chongzhen's words mean that he wanted to re-elect a Luzon royal family?

Under this kind of operation, how can those who are brought up in the Luzon royal family not obey the Ming Dynasty? Then it will be whatever the Ming Dynasty says.

"Well, this matter will be scheduled in a week. Dear friends, you must also prepare the newspaper propaganda to ensure that the people can understand all the meaning, know the cruelty of the Fo Langji people, and know my firm determination to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty.

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"Your Majesty, please rest assured!"

All the ministers expressed their assurances, finally ending the meeting that made Chongzhen angry.
Chapter completed!