The entrusted guardianship system was explained clearly to the senior officials of the expedition fleet. The expressions and performances of several "senior officials" who participated in the negotiations varied, and the first person to express their opinions was actually Zhu Yingfeng, the distinguished representative.
Zhu Yingfeng, as soon as you look at this name, you can tell that he comes from the line of Cheng Guogong, and is the same generation as the contemporary Cheng Guogong Zhu Yingzhen.
Indeed, he is Zhu Yingzhen's cousin, and his grandfather is the younger brother of Laocheng Duke Zhu Xizhong and the former Jinyi Guards Commander Zhu Xixiao. However, Zhu Yingfeng is not Zhu Xixiao's direct grandson, but a concubine, and he is the fourth eldest in the family, and his status is not very high.
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Although Zhu Yingfeng's status was average, fortunately the Duke of Chengguo's family had a great business. When he came of age, he was assigned some property. In addition to his residence, he also had about 20,000 taels of silver.
He was also a ruthless man. He gritted his teeth and poured all 20,000 taels of silver into the Chengguo government's fleet, obtaining 25% of the shares and dividends of an armed transport ship - that is, four
One ship.
By the way, although Chengguo Gongfu has a big business, Zhu Yingzhen’s fleet is really not owned by Zhu Yingzhen alone. When building the fleet, he even learned from Jinghua and developed a "joint-stock system"
"Every clan member who has not yet released the fifth server is free to participate in shares. The share capital depends on how much you can come up with.
Zhu Yingfeng's share capital at that time could only be said to be neither large nor small. He took advantage of the fact that he had hundreds of households in Jinyiwei to receive salary under his name, and his idea was "even if I lose everything, I will never starve to death."
It didn't take long for this guy to become prosperous. After all, he was a child of a concubine. He was usually quite frugal. He didn't fight crickets or walk his dog. When he had money, he continued to invest in the fleet. As a result, two years later, he owned two armed ships.
Transport ship.
Zhu Yingzhen thought that his cousin was pretty good and started to get a little close to him. Zhu Yingfeng simply took advantage of the situation and said that he wanted to quit his job as Jinyiwei and concentrate on sea trade. Zhu Yingzhen was quite surprised at the time, but after careful discussion with him, he agreed.
So Zhu Yingfeng resigned from the official position and took charge of the maritime trade affairs of the Chengguo Duke. During this expedition, he was probably the one with the highest status among the nobles. At least in terms of blood, he still belonged to the Chengguo Duke.
close brothers.
Zhu Yingfeng said at this time: "What kind of entrusted guardianship system is this? I don't care about those things like guardians. The fundamentals of this system have broken the rules. According to their system, the entire Luzon is theirs."
It belongs to the king. It is authorized by the king to the governor below, and the governor in turn authorizes it to those guardians...
And we have just made our point of view: Luzon is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not the Spaniards who have the final say on how to deal with it, but only the Ming Dynasty. Commander, in my opinion, they are afraid that they are unwilling to give up this commission.
If they are under the guardianship system, then let’s not talk nonsense to them. It’s the mule or the horse that comes out to run around, and only then can the people see the real deal.”
After all, Zhu Yingfeng's identity was here. His statement made Gao Zhenxin reluctant to say anything. He could only say: "The problem at the moment is not whether we can fight. We can definitely fight. If we want to fight this battle, we will win 100% of the time."
Ten can win. But the trouble is that my husband is worried that the Spaniards will be driven away. They will not even have a place to stay, which will affect the money from overseas."
Zhu Yingfeng frowned and asked: "Then what does Gao Situ have to say about this? I mean, which aspects can be compromised and which aspects cannot be compromised? We can't fight in vain. Luzon still has
Has it really become a Spanish land?”
"That's not possible." Gao Zhenxin said: "My master's intention is that not only Luzon must be taken back, but the entire 'Philippine Islands' must be unified, which means that they all belong to Luzon."
There is a misunderstanding in later generations that "Luzon" in history includes the entire Philippines in later generations. In fact, this is not the case. At most, Luzon is just the Luzon Island in the northern part of the Philippine Islands, and even Luzon Island may not be fully included. However,
, its core ruling area is around Manila.
"Zhangjun Zhi" says: In the East, there are the countries of Luzon and Sulu, in the West, there are Siam and the countries of Champa. Today, the merchant ships from the East and West are carried in Lingjia, and in the East, there are Luzon, Wutong, Shayao and Tortoiseshell.
This record is actually not very accurate, especially the so-called Eastern and Western divisions, which are relatively vague. However, there are still some terms worth noting here, such as "Luzon, Wutong, Sha Yao, Tortoiseshell, Cebu" and the like.
They were the major countries in the Philippine Islands at that time (of course some names are different from the mainstream translations of later generations).
As for now, the "Philippine Governor-General" regards all these places as its own "jurisdiction", and they are all included in the "Philippine Islands".
Gao's pragmatic purpose is also very clear: the above places, as long as they are the jurisdictions recognized by the Spanish and Philippine Governor-General, must be unified into a "Kingdom of Luzon", and then the entirety will become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty - even if it is only in name.
It's the so-called tributary state - that's fine too.
In short, to be pragmatic is to pack it all up and not to scatter it in bits and pieces. The Philippines is so big that it will create five or six kingdoms for it.
This would be a bit troublesome. He was pragmatic and pragmatic when it came to land, and he refused to give up on business.
However, at this time, neither Gao Zhenxin nor Zhu Yingfeng expected that Gao Musan suddenly expressed his dissent.
Takagi San looked hesitant and said: "My master has known it for five hundred years before and five hundred years later. There is no one more knowledgeable in the world than me. Therefore, I must know the old things in Luzon during the Jiajing period, but I am stupid.
I really don’t understand why the master is still obsessed with the name ‘Luzon’ under such old grievances.”
Gao Musan is from Guangdong, and he worked in the Nanyang Fleet before, so he "knows the old things in Luzon during the Jiajing period." However, Gao Zhenxin is a servant from Gao Zhenxin's hometown in Xinzheng, and Zhu Yingfeng needless to say, "Old Beijing" is also
Therefore, the two of them were completely confused about this passage and were confused.
"What old things happened in Luzon during the Jiajing period?" Zhu Yingfeng asked in astonishment: "What happened... can be regarded as an old grudge?"
Takagi San was also a little surprised and thought to himself: Is this only known to those of us in the south who live by the sea?
So, he talked about this old incident.
In fact, it is more than just an old grudge. In fact, there is a murder case in it. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a historical murder case occurred between the Ming Empire and "Lu Song". In the final analysis, this murder case was caused by Emperor Jiajing's mistaken belief in slander.
caused by.
In the 30th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1551), Anda Khan in the north was knocking on the pass, the Miao people in the south, Long Xubao, gathered to rebel, and Japanese pirates were rampant along the coast. The continuous internal and external troubles made the Ming Dynasty's treasury increasingly empty.
Just when Emperor Jiajing was worried about his salary and silver, his ministers Yan Yinglong and Zhang Ni came to Shu and said: "Jiyi Mountain in Luzon produces gold and silver. If you mine it, you can get one hundred thousand taels of gold and three hundred thousand taels of silver every year."
Emperor Jiajing's eyes suddenly brightened, and he ordered Zhang Ni and others to go to Luzon as envoys to quickly implement the "overseas gold mining" plan.
Although Jiajing was in a hurry and confused, there were still quite a lot of understanding people in the court, so a minister pointed out: "Even if the opportunity is to move overseas, there is no way for anyone to take advantage of it. There is no way for anyone to take advantage of it."
Thousands and three hundred thousand silver, to be honest, it is just a matter of pretending to be ordered by the court to sneak out forbidden items and seduce various people to carry out their evil plans. Is it not only disturbing the public and private affairs, but also causing harm to Haicheng?"
Although the ministers tried their best to dissuade him, the emperor had already been blinded by gold and silver. He ignored the dissuasion of the ministers and insisted on gold mining. Zhang Ni and others took the emperor's orders and quickly organized a huge "overseas gold mining group"
, and then drove a mighty sea ship straight to Luzon.
The King of Luzon at that time was really taken aback by the uninvited motives of the Ming Dynasty. So at the banquet for the Ming Dynasty envoys, the King of Luzon asked straight to the point: "The heaven wants to send people to open mountains, and each mountain has its own owner.
Can it be opened? For example, there are mountains in China. Can our country be opened?"
The words of the King of Luzon were hidden, and he meant to warn the Ming envoy to give up his plan of traveling thousands of miles to dig mountains for gold. Then the King of Luzon said: "Golden beans grow from trees, what tree does it grow from?" The implication is that the Ming envoy gave up his plan to dig mountains for gold.
The so-called gold everywhere in Luzon is completely false.
But Zhang Ni was not here to reason. He replied: "There is gold here, so why bother asking where the beans come from?"
Seeing that the Ming envoy was unwilling to give up, the King of Luzon had no choice but to take the Ming envoy to Jiyi Mountain to dig for gold. However, after Zhang Yi and his party arrived at Jiyi Mountain, they did not find any gold. Wang Shi, who was accompanied by the Ming envoy,
He had no choice but to put a basket of sand as evidence, and then returned to the court to resume his duties. Zhang Ni was detained by the king of Luzon.
Since the sudden visit of this group of uninvited guests, the King of Luzon believed that the purpose of sending envoys from the Ming Dynasty was not to dig for gold, but to explore the reality of the Luzon Kingdom, with the purpose of wiping out Luzon in one fell swoop.
After that, the King of Luzon decided that the Chinese were a serious problem for them, and all Chinese residents were likely to act as spies and internal agents for the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the King of Luzon came up with a vicious plan to completely eradicate the "cancer" of the Chinese.
So the next step was "next year, I will declare an invasion of neighboring countries and sell iron at a high price. The Chinese are greedy for profit, so the family is defenseless. The chief then ordered to record the names of the Chinese, divide them into three hundred people into a courtyard, and annihilate them as soon as they enter."
As soon as the incident was revealed, a group of Chinese people walked to the vegetable garden.
The chief sent out troops to attack, but the people had no troops to fight, and there was no hope of death, so they rushed to Dalun Mountain. The barbarians came back to attack, and everyone fought to the death, but the barbarian soldiers were defeated. The chief regretted it and sent envoys to negotiate peace. The people suspected it was fake and killed the chief.
Furious, he gathered the people into the city and set up an ambush beside the city. The people were very hungry, so they went down the mountain to attack the city. The ambush was launched, and the people were defeated. Twenty-five thousand people died one after another. The chief issued an order, and all the Chinese who had plundered were rewarded, and all the Chinese were sealed and stored.
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What does this passage mean? It means that the king of Luzon’s evil plan was to launch an attack on neighboring countries, so the news that the ironware was purchased at high prices caused the Chinese living in Luzon to sell all the ironware in their homes because they did not know what was going on. As a result, "homes"
defenseless” situation.
The King of Luzon seized this opportunity to massacre the Chinese and took advantage of the situation to rob and rob all the Chinese property in Luzon. After five months of the "Luzon Massacre", 20,000 of the original 30,000 Chinese were killed.
With more than 5,000 people, the population has almost dropped by half.
After the massacre of the Chinese people in Luzon, the king of Luzon falsely wrote to Fujian Governor Xu Xueju with the lie that "the Chinese were planning to cause rebellion and had no choice but to be the first to do so. He asked the families of the deceased to collect their children and money."
When Xu Xueju learned about the massacre of the Chinese people who stayed in Luzon, he was naturally shocked and reported it to the court quickly. Emperor Jiajing learned that Long Yan was definitely furious, so he issued an edict and reprimanded: "You deceived the court, and you are in trouble."
He provoked overseas and killed 20,000 merchants and civilians, harmed the country, and deserved his death. The leader of the owl sent a message to the sea. The chief of Luzon was good at killing merchants and civilians, and he was held accountable by officials to discuss the crime. "
However, regarding Emperor Jiajing Tianwei's anger, history books record: "Xueju and others moved to Luzon and charged him with murder without authorization. They ordered the wife of the deceased to be sent back, but they were unable to retaliate!"
What does it mean? When Fujian Governor Xu Xueju denounced Luzon’s anti-human atrocities and asked Luzon to return the Chinese people who died in the anti-China atrocities at the emperor’s command, the other party ignored him!
Why should I, Luzon, be as afraid of you as a tiger when you are a dynasty that prohibits the sea? I will kill those Chinese, so what can you do to me?
It’s nothing more than “I can’t ask for it!”
This is what Takagi San can't understand. The country of Luzon has actually been destroyed by the Spaniards, but the master not only wants to "continue the survival of the country" to help Luzon recover, but even wants to destroy other countries in the "Philippine Islands".
It’s incredible that all the countries have been merged into Luzon, isn’t it?
Gao Zhenxin and Zhu Yingfeng don't know about this matter, and Takagi San can understand it. But if you say that the master doesn't know about this matter, Takagi San certainly doesn't believe it - the "Da Ming Huidian" of the Wanli Dynasty was actually the main author of the master. What happened to the master?
Maybe you don’t know about this?
After listening to Gao Musan's explanation, Gao Zhenxin was actually full of doubts, but he also believed that Gao Jingshi must have known about this matter, so for him, he could only find rationality for Gao Jingshi's order.
Gao Zhenxin muttered: "You are right, it is impossible for the master not to know about this matter. If he still ordered the restoration of Luzon Kingdom, there must be a reason..."
Having said that, he really couldn't figure out what the reason was for a moment. Fortunately, at this time, Zhu Yingfeng, as a noble son from a "political family", had a deeper look. He laughed and said, "What's the point of doubting this?"
?Although I am stupid, I can still guess one or two of them."
Gao Zhenxin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said: "Please give me some advice."
Zhu Yingfeng said: "Our dynasty is so benevolent and benevolent that we don't care about the past and old grudges, but only put the great righteousness of survival and survival first. This is the magnanimity of Gao Situ's mind."
What a bullshit, everyone knew it was definitely not the main reason, but Gao Zhenxin and Gao Musan still nodded repeatedly to save their face.
Zhu Yingfeng probably also knew what they were thinking. He said this in one sentence, and then said: "In this land of 'Philippines', Luzon was the only country that paid tribute to our Ming Dynasty. No matter what old grudges happened at that time, it cannot change the distinction between monarch and minister."
International.
Today, Da Sinong wants to take over all parts of the Philippines. If there is no Luzon as a sign, wouldn’t we be doing this without a name? Even if it is to avenge the past, Luzon has been destroyed by the Spaniards. Da Sinong will not
So that I can put this grudge on the Spaniards... Do you two think so?"
Oh! So that’s what happened!
Gao Zhenxin and Gao Musan looked at each other and suddenly realized: What the master cares about is not "Luzon" itself, he just needs "Luzon", the signboard of the "Ming Dynasty", to approve a tiger skin for this troop dispatch, so that a military expedition will be famous.
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As for the future, I'm afraid this Luzon will not be that Luzon at all.
That's right, this is what the master of practical learning who "has changed his authority" did!
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