Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 331: National responsibility, must conquer!
Looking at the blacks and whites fighting in the streets, Weng Wanda felt very troubled, but he knew that he had to deal with this matter, otherwise, this kind of fight would only make the whole Ceuta chaotic and disorderly.

So, Weng Wanda waved his hand and said, "All the fighters will be executed! What the Ming Dynasty needs are slaves who are as obedient as sheep, not people who are as belligerent as fighting cocks!"

So, two teams of Ming troops ran over with rifles, formed a formation, and faced the black and white people who were fighting in front of them.

When some black and white people saw the Ming army appear, they realized that they had violated the rules and knelt down obediently.

However, there were still some bellicosous blacks and whites who did not care about the appearance of the Ming army and continued to fight.

The Ming army was not polite either. Seeing that the blacks and whites were still fighting, they just opened fire. With a bang, they killed several people.

Seeing this, Fu Xing, the governor of Ceuta, could not bear it and could not help but suggest to Weng Wanda:
"Mr. Prefect, can you forgive these slaves for fighting? The Spanish Armada is heading straight for Ceuta, and our Royal Guards are relatively small in number. Since these slaves are good at fighting, can you organize them into slave soldiers to strengthen our army?"

"No, Brother Changfeng, you must not forget the Battle of Muye. Even if these slaves are obedient, they are still untrustworthy, let alone these slaves who are good at fighting. Before you can guarantee that they will remain absolutely loyal to us, these slaves cannot become armed.
The most important thing now is to stabilize the order in Ceuta, especially these slaves. The restless slaves must be executed!"

As Weng Wanda spoke, he looked at some white and black Confucian scholars wearing Confucian robes behind him. Seeing that there were fewer black Confucian scholars than white Confucian scholars, he seemed to understand the reason for the frequent fights between blacks and whites.

Weng Wanda could not help but turn to Fu Xing, the prefect who was in charge of education, and said, "In the future, when selecting filial and honest people, blacks and whites will be admitted separately, accounting for half each. Blacks will be in charge of whites, and whites will be in charge of blacks. We must follow the principle of whites controlling blacks and blacks controlling whites!"

"I understand, but you, the governor, don't know that when it comes to accepting Confucianism, white people do accept it faster than black people and are easier to assimilate."

Fu Xing couldn't help but shake his head as he spoke, and he also glanced at some black and white Confucian scholars behind him. Seeing these Confucian scholars in long robes with seductive smiles on their faces watching the scene of black and white people being shot in the fight, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

Fu Xing thought that after so many years of Confucian slave education, these blacks and whites had finally lessened their sense of imbalance of becoming slaves of the Han people and began to accept the fact of being first-class slaves under the Han people. Even when they saw ordinary blacks and whites who were lower than themselves being shot, they were more calm than himself, a Ming official.

Li Quangui was a guard soldier assigned to Ceuta. At this time, he participated in shooting the slaves who were still fighting. After the fighters among the slaves were shot, Li Quangui followed the orders of his superiors, holding the butt of the gun, walked over the bodies of the dead slaves, and swung directly at the obedient slaves, making their mouths full of blood.

After all, although these slaves stopped fighting when they saw the Ming army appear, they still participated, so according to the rules, they still had to learn a lesson and be punished.

This is the rule!

These slaves did not dare to resist because the Ming army had guns, and they were accustomed to being controlled by the noble Han people. After nearly thirty years of colonial rule, these people had already accepted the idea that the Han people were superior to others.

But the phenomenon of Han people being superior to others only existed in Ming colonies like Ceuta. For the Spanish Invincible Fleet that was sailing south at this time, what they wanted to prove was that they, the white people, were superior to the Han people.

With the great geographical discoveries and the opening of new shipping routes, global trade entered an era of rapid development. Coupled with the steam industrial revolution in the Ming Dynasty, the pace of development was even faster.

As a result, exchanges between the East and the West became more frequent.

Therefore, in this historical context, the Ming Dynasty made a series of responses to the eastward actions of Western colonists.

It started with the Battle of Tuen Mun, which caused Portugal to lose the opportunity to colonize the Ming Dynasty.

Then came the Battle of Malacca, which caused Portugal to lose the opportunity to control the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade, and gave China the gateway to control the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade and a base for westward expansion.

Then there was Xia Yan's western expedition, which captured the Cape of Good Hope and Ceuta, and destroyed the Papal States.

What followed was the Ming Dynasty's occupation of Goa.

These actions brought great shock to the West, making these Western colonists realize that the Ming Empire in the East was neither a country that could be plundered as easily as the Indians, nor a superpower empire without ambition.

"If we don't face up to this empire's westward expansion strategy, we in the West will not only be Portugal but also suffer from the attack of this Eastern empire. This empire is not a country that believes in Jesus. Their attack will cause our entire Western civilization to disappear!"

The views of Professor Ofek of the University of Florence were greatly agreed by the commander of the Spanish Armada, Acro, so he also strongly supported the proposal of the merger of Portugal and Spain to jointly deal with the Eastern Empire which was showing its hegemonic intentions.

Aclaugh has been studying the Ming Dynasty. He even disguised himself as a missionary and went to the Ming Dynasty with other missionaries. He also studied Chinese and Confucianism in Haojing for ten years. Later, he went to Nanjing and met several Ming Dynasty scholars. He lamented the wealth and vitality of this empire, but he also felt the cruelty and ferocity hidden under the brocade robes and silk clothes of this empire.

Akrawa had witnessed with his own eyes the white people being enslaved as they carried steel for the Han people, and he had even seen the pain of white people being cut off their glands and certain reproductive organs because of their body odor. This was something he could not tolerate and could not accept.

Therefore, he believed that he and other Westerners must teach this empire a lesson, otherwise sooner or later they would all become slaves abused by this empire.

In fact, with the deepening of economic globalization, the West is indeed becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, including the Han people who make up the Ming Dynasty. After all, the Ming Dynasty has taken away their interests.

In today's Haiti in North America, Spanish colonists have established their own colonies and built cities such as Saint-Domingue.

After Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang, discovered the South American route, the Ming Dynasty was ordered to occupy Chile and Panama and establish many colonial and trade outposts.

And after the Ming Dynasty opened up to the outside world, many Ming Dynasty trading companies came to Haiti and other regions to establish trade relations with local Indians.

Because of this, conflict between Ming and Spain in America was inevitable.

The Ming Dynasty advanced from south to north, while Spain advanced from north to south.

Both just happen to have now advanced into Central America.

But the Ming Dynasty is not yet very primitively aggressive.

Because the Ming Dynasty had very advanced production technology, textiles such as raw silk had huge profits, so the Ming Dynasty did not need to directly take the gold and silver from the Indians through brutal means of massacre and plunder. It could make huge profits just by selling super cheap and high-quality textiles.

But Spain was different. Its backward production technology forced it to use the most brutal means to seize gold and silver from the Indians. It even seized textiles and other goods that the Indians had purchased from Ming merchants.

This also led to very different attitudes of the Indians towards Spain, other Western colonizers and the Ming Dynasty.

The Indians likened the Western colonists to jackals and the Ming Dynasty to the angel of creation.

Because the Western colonists only knew how to massacre and plunder, and even brought them diseases such as smallpox and plague, causing many of them to die from the diseases.

The Ming merchants brought them fine silk and strong cotton cloth, and even interesting operas, sturdy concrete roads, and elegant Chinese schools. They also provided them with vaccinations and various new treatments, which alleviated the smallpox and plague brought by the Western colonists.

Of course, in fact, the gold and silver plundered from the Indians by Western colonists such as Spain would still be earned by the Ming Dynasty through trade.

In other words, most of the wealth accumulated by the Indians in America was essentially obtained by the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the eyes of the Indians, the real invaders were the white pigs, and the angels from the East were God's messengers and builders.

In the areas colonized by the Ming Dynasty, the Indians were happy to be second-class citizens. After all, they could still own their own private property, have their lives and property protected, participate in fair trade, learn language and writing, and know that they were descendants of Emperor Huang.

The Ming Dynasty scholars who came to America racked their brains to make these Indians accept that they were second-class Han people. Finally, based on some anthropological views of the Imperial University of Peking, they evolved a so-called Indian history, saying that the Indians were the domestic slaves of the Han ancestors Yanhuang, and that they were arranged to live in America for this reason in order to establish a new civilization. However, domestic slaves really cannot live without the light of their masters, so before the Han people appeared in America, the Indian society was backward and barbaric, and their history was not very memorable and even humiliating.

Now, the Han masters came to liberate their slaves.

As a house slave, they should be grateful for the care of their master, and should follow the teachings of their ancestors to be the house slaves of the Han people from generation to generation, remain loyal to the Han people from generation to generation, and respect their ancestors, gods and their masters, because the master himself is the descendant of God, and they are the house slaves of God.

"We are all slaves of the Celestial Empire, therefore, we are nobler than the white pigs that invade us. These white pigs are invaders like Chi You. Although they are stronger than us, our masters will deal with them for us."

In Santo Domingo, Indian Yu Chen Dexin said this to some Indians underground.

Because of their hatred for Western colonists, Yu Chen Dexin's idea of ​​resisting Western invaders was easily accepted by the Indians. However, the spread of this idea made the Spanish colonists very vigilant. In particular, this idea led to the Indians launching rebellions many times on the grounds of regaining the territories of the Han family masters.

At this time, the Spanish Governor of Santo Domingo, Collantis, also said to his subordinates:
"The recent frequent rebellions by Indians are still caused by the Han Chinese's idea of ​​​​"God's house slaves". These Indians are obviously very easy to accept the ideas of the Han people who are closer to them in skin color, and are willing to become the house slaves of the rich and cunning Han people. In this way, they think they are nobler than the people of us and no longer fear us. It is precisely because they are no longer afraid that these Indians are becoming more and more reactionary!"

“These Han Chinese are not only good at inciting the Indians to rebel against us, but the biggest harm they cause to us is actually their advantage in trade;
Because these textiles from the Ming Empire are of good quality and cheap, more than 80% of our textile industry in Saint-Domingo has declared bankruptcy!

It's not just textiles, because the steel they refine is better and the machinery is more advanced. Most of the gold and silver we mine every year falls into their hands, and our own steel and corresponding machinery are unsalable. We can only sell the iron ore we mine to Ming at a low price! This is a terrible thing!"

Korantis' subordinate, Mosev, said.

"You are all right. These Indians rebelled under the slogan of taking back the territories of the Han patriarchs. On the surface, they wanted to take back the territories for the Ming Empire and acknowledge the Ming Empire's ownership of these territories. In fact, they wanted to take back their own right to use these places. They were seeking the interests of survival!
We cannot give these Indians a chance, nor can we give these Han Chinese a chance to seduce our slaves, at least not in Saint Domingo. So, Your Excellency the Governor, I suggest that we carry out a one-week massacre of the Han Chinese and Indians in Saint Domingo, and at the same time encourage the Indians to massacre the Indians and the Han Chinese, especially let the Indians massacre the Han Chinese, so as to thoroughly provoke the contradictions between the Han Chinese and the Indians, and let the Han Chinese take advantage of the contradictions between us and the Indians to rule America fail! "

Korantis' subordinate Vixey suggested so.

Collantis agreed with this: "Your suggestion is very good. We must completely ban all activities of the Han people in the Ming Empire, including the spread of knowledge. We must organize the Indian soldiers who are loyal to us and let them go into the city to massacre the Han people and Indians. At the same time, tell all Indians that if they kill a Han person within a week, they will be rewarded with one Eagle Dollar, and if they kill five Indians, they will be rewarded with one Eagle Dollar!"

So, the Spanish Governor Collantis issued the order for the massacre.

He Rui was a Confucian scholar from Ji'an, Jiangxi Province. He resolutely resigned from his post as an editor in the Hanlin Academy because of the Emperor's words "Western scholars dare to preach Western learning to all corners of the world. Since you regard Confucianism as the orthodox learning, why are you unwilling to spread it to all corners of the world?" Influenced by Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang, who sailed around the world and discovered America, He Rui came to Santo Domingo to spread Confucianism to the local Indians as a Confucian missionary.

At this time, He Rui had just finished teaching the Indians the way of "loyalty to the emperor" and was about to announce the end of the get out of class when the Spanish official Vixey came with a team of Spanish and Indian soldiers, and personally walked over with a knife and chopped at He Rui, cutting He Rui in half, causing He Rui's blood to spill on the statue of Confucius on the wall.

At this time, Chen Guoxingxi, an Indian who had already assimilated into the Han culture, immediately shouted: "How dare you hurt my teacher!"

With a backhand blow, Vicki chopped off Chen Guoxingxi's head and dropped it to the ground. He then said to the officers and soldiers he brought with him, "This is how we chop it off. Kill all the Han people and Indians who are learning the Chinese language!"

He Zai De was also a Confucian scholar who was deeply influenced by the idea of ​​being a slave of the Han people and was highly assimilated by Chinese culture. He was also very angry when he saw his mentor He Rui being killed by Westerners. What's more, his name was given by his mentor, who hoped that he would be a gentleman with great virtue. As an Indian, he should be proud to be a slave of the Yanhuang family. Therefore, he combined the surnames of his father and mother into his own surname. He Zai De was naturally willing to use his mentor as his surname, but because he was an orphan without a mother, he was named He Zai De.

However, He Zai De was naturally very angry when he saw his mentor being killed and his classmate being killed as well. He raised his fists and was about to hit Vixey.

Pfft!

However, how could a scholar's weak fists defeat a jackal? Vixey simply cut off He Zai De's waist with one knife.

He Zai De was killed on the spot!
All the Confucian scholars present were killed.

It is no coincidence.

At this time, in another Confucian academy in Santo Domingo, Indians such as Zhao Qianzongwei were protecting Han Confucian scholars such as Yao Jian in the middle, and shouted to the Spanish colonists who were walking towards them: "You barbarians, don't harm my teacher!"

Snapped!
But the Spanish colonists ignored Zhao Qianzongwei's roar, but opened fire directly, shooting bullets into the chests of these sinicized Indians, killing them on the spot. The Han people who were protected by the Indians were not spared and were also shot!

Yu Chendexin had no choice but to speak Indian and wear traditional Indian clothes as he moved around the city of Santo Domingo. He witnessed with his own eyes the Spanish colonists carrying out massacres of the Han people and the Sinicized Indians. He also saw with his own eyes the Spanish colonists burning the Han people's goods and merchant ships, and even directly plundering them.

Yu Chendexin was very sad and angry. He was angry that these people had destroyed the peaceful environment and the stable business order. He hated them even more for treating the Han people and the Indians so cruelly.

Yu Chen Dexin had a strong desire to immediately let the Emperor Zhengde, who was far away in the East and ruled over all living things, know about this matter. He hoped that this great Emperor Zhengde would rescue these Indians and punish these jackals!
Therefore, Yu Chen Dexin tried every possible means to bring the news of the Spanish colonists' massacre in Santo Domingo to the Panama region controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, during this period, this was not the only conflict between Spain and other foreign powers and the Ming Dynasty.

As global trade developed, the Ming Dynasty gained the upper hand in the competition for interests, which made the interest disputes between the Ming Dynasty and these Western colonists increasingly fierce. In addition to smuggling opium, countries such as Spain could only rely on banning Han trade and slaughtering Han people to solve the Han people's advantage in trade.

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Beijing.

Royal West Garden Hanbi Hall.

Zhu Houzhao angrily punched Spain. If he had intercontinental missiles and nuclear warheads in his hands, he would have wanted to pacify Spain right now.

But unfortunately, he is now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, not the head of state in the 21st century, and he does not have nuclear weapons or long-range unconventional weapons.

By now Zhu Houzhao had learned about the Spanish Armada's attack on Ceuta and the Spanish colonists' massacre of Han people and Sinicized Indians in Santo Domingo.

"Challenges are everywhere, wars are happening all the time, all the wealth in the world is gathered within our borders, and the foreigners have become vicious and evil, burning, killing, looting, and attacking cities and lands against the Han people of our Ming Dynasty! This is truly a heinous crime!"

The Minister of War Gui E said something.

Zhu Houzhao admitted that Gui E had said a lot. At the moment, the Ming Dynasty had gained too much profit overseas. It had even relied on its production technology advantages, civilization propaganda and management advantages to seriously damage the interests of Western colonists who only knew how to plunder. A series of events were inevitable. Although the Ming Dynasty was strong, it was difficult to guarantee the safety of every Han Chinese and the stability of every Han stronghold thousands of miles away.

Huo Tao, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of War and Deputy Privy Councilor, could not help but say, "But whether it is Ceuta or Saint-Domingue, they are both very far away from the Ming Dynasty, especially Saint-Domingue. It is really a loss to the people and their property to send troops to a long expedition for 40 or 50 people. I think we can only condemn the foreigners a little and prohibit our people from doing business in Saint-Domingue. We should also order the Marquis of Jianchang to find a way to transport the Han people back to the country."

"It is the responsibility of the state to protect the lives and property of its people. As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you, as Ming officials, cannot just collect taxes without taking responsibility. No matter how far away, anyone who dares to kill our Han people will be punished! In addition, we cannot cut off our trade routes just because of the brutality of foreigners!"

Zhu Houzhao then added: "Besides, the current national income of our Ming Dynasty depends entirely on foreign trade and tariffs. If we withdraw, it would be like handing America over to us!
Even if it costs a fortune, we must go on an expedition. Pass on my order. The General Staff of the Imperial Guards will immediately set up a staff group. Now that the southern part of Jiaozhi has been occupied by the Ming Dynasty, the southern corps no longer needs naval support. Immediately transfer Wang Hong to Beijing to serve as the Deputy Privy Envoy and Deputy Governor of the General Staff. He will be given the title of Minister of War and serve as the group leader. He will be responsible for establishing the opportunity for the naval expedition to America and the plan to kill the jackals! "

At this time, Qi Jingtong, the Left Commander of the Imperial Guard, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Yu Chen Dexin, who claims to be a slave of the Han family, wants to see you. This is the memorial he sent to you through someone else."

Yu Chen Dexin?

Zhu Houzhao was confused for a while, but he soon understood, because he had learned from the Jinyiwei that some Sinicized Indians would combine the surnames of their fathers and mothers into their own surnames in order to show that they were orthodox Han family slaves. Now, it seems that this man is also a Sinicized Indian.

Zhu Houzhao took the memorial from Qi Jingtong and read it. He was surprised to see that his calligraphy and writing style were no different from those of the old Confucian scholars of the Han Dynasty. At the same time, Zhu Houzhao, who was now interested in managing America, also knew that the key to ruling America was how to use the Indians. So he ordered, "Show him an audience!"

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