Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 333 The Power of Industrial Civilization

Ah!
my God!

Why do I have to endure such torture!

You damned Orientals, and you slave Indians!

You pagans, you are devils, you are Satan!
A shrill scream came out of Collantis' mouth, followed by the cursing and crying of Collantis, the governor of the Spanish city of Santo Domingo.

The Sinicized Indians inherited the Chinese language, the Ming official language (the Ming version of Mandarin) that was promoted throughout the country in the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, and also inherited some classic punishments of the Ming Dynasty, such as the current lingchi.

Zhang Liangyuanfang, an Indian from Panama City in the Ming Dynasty, had studied in a medical school opened by the Han people in Panama City, and specialized in clinical anatomy. Now, he also worked as a skinner. Now, he followed Yu Chen Dexin and others to Santo Domingo, and was responsible for the slow slicing of criminals like Collantis who initiated the massacre in the first place.

Zhang Liang was holding a sharp scalpel in the distance, skillfully and quickly dissecting the body of Corantis, just like an excellent calligrapher practicing his calligraphy. The tip of the knife was like the tip of his pen, moving as fast as the wind, and the ways of cutting were ever-changing. Every time he paused, a stream of blood would be scattered into the sky, and a long roar would resound through the universe!
Collantis was in great pain!

At this moment, all his nerves were violently conveying the greatest pain to him. His face was twisted in pain, and cold sweat broke out all over his body. He stammered in Spanish:

"Noble Orientals! Honorable nobles, please forgive me for God's sake! Forgive my sins! I beg you! Please stop using your knives! Please don't cut my skin anymore! I was wrong! I was really wrong! I shouldn't have thought of slaughtering people! I was really wrong! I am willing to be your slave. I only ask you to stop using your knives and not cut off my roots of reproduction. No! Ah! Ah! Ah! You should just kill me! Kill me with one knife!"

Collantis roared for a long time, and finally sweat, tears, urine, excrement, and blood were released all at once until he died completely.

The Han people of the Ming Dynasty and the Indian slaves executed the Spanish colonists in Santo Domingo with the most severe punishments, which officially marked the beginning of the process of the Han people of the Ming Dynasty and the Indian slaves eliminating the Spanish colonists.

Santo Domingo became a city of the Ming Dynasty. Due to the insufficient number of Han people, Tang Kekuan had to appoint Yu Chen Dexin as the prefect of Santo Domingo. Yu Chen Dexin also reciprocated the favor and immediately issued a new decree after taking over Santo Domingo, declaring that in Santo Domingo, the Han people were first-class citizens, and the Sinicized Indians among the Indians, that is, Indians with a combination of Han surnames, were second-class citizens, the indigenous Indians were third-class, and non-Yellow people such as white pigs and Kunlun slaves were fourth-class.

Of course, in terms of domestic taxation, laws, welfare benefits, employment, etc., citizens of different levels naturally enjoy different rights and bear different obligations.

But in any case, the Han people's dominant position was guaranteed, the interests of the Ming Dynasty were protected, and they enjoyed many privileges in trade, mining, and engineering operations.

Gradually, the Han people who were driven away by the Spanish colonists came back to trade, and Santo Domingo prospered again.

However, the once again prosperous Saint-Domingue is no longer a city of Western culture, but a city of Eastern culture. The gardens of the south of the Yangtze River, the courtyard houses of the north, Taoist and Buddhist temples, and Confucian academies have appeared one after another in Saint-Domingue, which belongs to the Western Hemisphere.

Hanfu became the most common clothing in this city, and even ordinary people wore Han cloth.

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"Coming to Saint-Domingue, it feels like you are still in Guangdong and Guangxi. This city seems to be no different from Guangzhou, with Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, Qin and Chu houses, and catchy Han Chinese reading pronunciation. But please don't be fooled by the superficial phenomenon. In fact, the proportion of Han people here is less than 1%, and most of them are Indian slaves.

This is a city with clear hierarchy, order and stability. Although most of the people in this city are Indians, the Sinicized Indians among them, in order to preserve their privileges as second-class citizens and to occupy the rights in the fields of taxation, armaments, justice, ideological propaganda, etc. for a long time, do their best to maintain the status of the Han people and themselves, and promote the master-servant relationship and loyalty ideas between the Han people and the Indians.

In order to get better treatment and social status, Indians had to work hard to learn Chinese culture and the culture of their masters from the very beginning, accept the idea that they were their masters' slaves, and become the most loyal Confucian scholars before they could enter official careers.

Therefore, the Hanized Indians who occupied this city, as the most loyal slaves of the Han people, maintained the stability of the city and also joined hands with the Han people to monopolize most of the city's wealth;
The Han people who come here are more like the emperors here. They can get all the honors without working. They can even get endless wealth just by becoming the spokesperson for the company run by their slaves. If they are willing to stay in the villa of a slave, it is the honor of the slave. The slave will be willing to offer his women to him for his enjoyment, in the hope that he can be qualified to raise the master's son!

These domestic slaves were willing to serve the Han people as their masters. They were even willing to pay a certain amount of money to a Han trading company or hire employees of a Han trading company and trade under the flag of a Han trading company.

Because only in this way, the Westerners and other pirates would not dare to provoke them, and would mistakenly think that they were a Ming Dynasty merchant company, and they could even avoid the extortion of some corrupt Indian officials in Saint-Domingue! "

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but smile after reading a report about Saint-Domingue sent back by the Imperial Guards. He said to Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, "The model of Saint-Domingue seems to be very successful. It also contributes millions of silver dollars in profits to the Ming Dynasty every year. However, it only works in the American continent. We have to thank these Westerners. It is their brutality that gave the Ming Dynasty the opportunity to be worshipped as the master by the Indians."

"Your Majesty is right. However, the Ming Dynasty is different from the Western Barbarians. They only know how to kill and plunder, but they don't know that these Indians are also gold and silver. Now we are taking advantage of the selfishness of the elites among the Indians to continuously seize the wealth of America. In the future, we can also take advantage of the elites of other races!"

After Zhang Cong said this, Zhu Houzhao also nodded and said: "But we must also pay attention, Ming Dynasty, our Han elites cannot be used by foreigners. The elites are all selfish, including me and you, but as members of the Loyal Emperor Society, we must always keep in mind the ideas of the Society's Charter and take it as our belief!

The interests of the country and the people come first, and the interests of individuals and the class come second. If we can achieve both, it would be better. If we cannot achieve both, we would rather sacrifice the interests of individuals and the class than sacrifice the interests of the country and the people! "

"I understand!"

Zhang Cong nodded. Naturally, he would rather have both, so he now strongly supports the Ming Dynasty's external expansion and external profit-making, because only in this way can the market be expanded and people from other countries can pay for the greater wealth obtained by the Ming Dynasty's elites and civilians.

But Zhang Cong had to remind him: "However, Your Majesty, I have discovered that the social construction of the Loyal Emperor Society needs to be strengthened. Since the death of Wang Hua, the president of the Loyal Emperor Society, the social construction and management have been increasingly neglected. Many members of the Loyal Emperor Society who hold important positions in the court have begun to believe in Buddhism, Taoism, and even Catholicism. There are even some who believe in the Green Religion of the Western Regions."

"The Ming Dynasty is a country with freedom of religious belief, but the members of the Loyal Emperor Society are different. They can only have one belief, which is the ideology embodied in the society's charter. This belief must be for the goal of achieving the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and the common prosperity of the people. If they believe in other ideologies, they are no longer pure members of the Loyal Emperor Society. Such members should be asked to leave the society!"

After Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhang Cong also bowed and said, "I accept your order!"

The Loyal Emperor Society has now become a well-known political group in the Ming Dynasty, not only because its philosophy seems lofty and its assessment method is so strict that it has gathered most of the empire's elites, but also because it occupies an important position in the competition for important military and political positions in the empire.

Because of this, more and more people are willing to join the Zhongjun Society, but the purpose has gradually become utilitarian. Even some people who have passed the imperial examinations only regard joining the Zhongjun Society as a plus point for their official career.

However, because of this, many officials with a Zhongjun Society background began to no longer be as pure as the earlier Zhongjun Society members such as Xu Jin and Wang Hua.

Plus.

The Ming Dynasty is now also an empire open to the outside world. Although it has been using guns and cannons to promote Han culture, it has not rejected all foreign civilizations.

Therefore, many foreign missionaries also took advantage of the global trade and came to the Ming Dynasty in increasing numbers. Although they also strengthened the exchanges between the East and the West in the fields of natural sciences and humanities, they also enabled the Ming Dynasty to make better improvements in astronomy, physics, and mathematics.

However, it is inevitable that the religion they brought also had a great impact on the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Han people revere their ancestors more than gods, they do not have a strong demand for religion. Therefore, the imperial court is not very vigilant about the spread of religion. It is precisely because of this that various religions are spread crazily among the people, and the struggle between religions begins to evolve into a struggle for secular rights.

It is undoubtedly in line with the current situation that the cabinet chief Zhang Cong began to pay attention to the ideological construction of the members of the Loyal Emperor Society.

The Minister of Revenue Wang Tingxiang no longer holds the position of Minister of Revenue. Not surprisingly, the Left Vice Minister of Revenue Yang Li should have the greatest hope of being recommended by the court as the Minister of Revenue. After all, he is a member of the Loyalty to the Emperor Society, graduated from Nanjing Central University, and even has the background of being the general director of the Loyalty to the Emperor Society Youth League of Nanjing Central University.

However, influenced by the spread of Western religions to the East, Yang Li divorced his three concubines, was baptized by Father Ansik, and officially became a Christian.

But because of this, Yang Li's baptism caused a great shock in the entire Ming Dynasty's political and intellectual circles. After all, Yang Li was the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Empire, and even the real head of the Ming Dynasty.

But now the head of the family has joined Catholicism, which made Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, furious. Zhu Houzhao was also a little surprised when he found out. He knew that religion was different from cults and was mainly about persuading people to be good. However, Zhu Houzhao had to admit that secular power could not be controlled by religion, otherwise religious interests would be above all else. In fact, missionaries such as Ansik did want to go further by relying on believers like Yang Li who held important positions in the Ming court, so as to increase their influence in the secular society of the Ming Dynasty.

"Minister Yang, in order to spread the word of God, you should do your best to become the next Minister of Revenue in this court recommendation, and have the hope of entering the cabinet in the future. Do your utmost to persuade the cabinet and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to build a church in the capital and establish theology in universities in various provinces."

Missionary Ansik said this to Yang Li, and personally took out a note: "This is fifty thousand silver dollars from Ai Yuxiang, the chief inspector of the East. I hope it can be of some help to you."

Yang Li accepted the bill and said: "Yang will do his best, and I only hope that all the people of Ming Dynasty can also be protected by God."

However, at the court election on this day, the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not recommend Yang Li as the Minister of Revenue. Instead, they recommended Cong Lanting from the National Tax Bureau as the Minister of Revenue. The reason was naturally self-evident, it was nothing more than the fact that Yang Li converted to Christianity.

not only.

Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, also met with Yang Li and said, "You should understand why you were not recommended by the court as the Minister of Revenue."

Yang Li put the letter of self-representation back into his sleeve, clenched the ivory tablet tightly, and then bowed and asked: "Prime Minister, I really don't understand! Please explain it to me!"

Zhang Cong stood up and walked in front of Yang Li, and took out the cross from his lapel: "According to the rules of the Loyal Emperor Society, members are not allowed to believe in religion. You now have two choices, either quit the society or quit the religion you currently believe in."

Yang Li stood up suddenly, and with a snap, the elephant hu fell to the ground, muttering, "Why?!"

"Once the belief changes, the belief in benefiting the people will also change," Zhang Cong replied after taking a sip of tea.

"But the God I believe in also spreads love to the world, which does not contradict loyalty to the emperor and love for the people, Prime Minister! The two can be combined," Yang Li spread out his hands, somewhat at a loss.

"I didn't say that what you believe in now is not to spread love to the world, but the secular world is the secular world, and religion is religion. Even Buddhism and Taoism can bring disaster to the world, let alone the religion you believe in. And your Majesty and I don't mean to stop you from believing, but you can no longer be a member of the Loyalty Society.

In addition, I have already requested the Ministry of Personnel in the name of the Cabinet Prime Minister to dismiss you from your position as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. This is the will of His Majesty. It is not appropriate to appoint non-members of the Loyal Emperor Society to important military and political positions in the empire, not to mention that you are a believer!"

Zhang Cong slammed the table, stood up and pointed at Yang Li and started talking. In his heart, he still respected Yang Li very much. After all, Yang Li had come up with many good ideas when helping himself, the chief minister of the cabinet, to deal with the collection of mining taxes within the country.

Yang Li was not stupid, and he understood the key point. He could not openly say that he did have the idea of ​​using his official position to use greater secular power to help spread Catholicism, but he did not expect that the emperor and the cabinet chief would directly cut off his idea. This made him feel very frustrated. He could not help but hold the ivory tablet tighter and kept shaking his head:
"Prime Minister, you can't do this, you can't do this! There is nothing wrong with believing in God. Why, why do you want to dismiss me? I don't understand, I really don't understand!"

"You have to understand even if you don't understand!"

Zhang Cong said this and then took out a document: "It seems that you are unwilling to give up your religious beliefs. This is the application for withdrawal from the society. Please fill it out yourself."

Yang Li picked up the resignation application with a heavy heart, and couldn't help but burst into tears, sobbing: "Why, why is it like this!"

However, Yang Li still chose to fill out an application for withdrawal from the society. At the same time, the Ministry of Personnel also issued a document to remove him from his post as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

During the globalization of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao and Zhang Cong drew a clear line between the secular court and religion, so that the Ming Empire did not lose its original intention of putting national and people's interests first due to the influence of foreign cultures.

Missionary Ansik was very disappointed with the Ming court's behavior. Like Yang Li, he did not understand why the Ming court allowed various religions to spread among the people but refused to allow any religion to interfere with secular power. Why could not the Ming court establish one religion as the only state religion?

Zhu Houzhao knew the purpose of the missionaries who came to Ming Dynasty to preach at this time, but he really did not want Ming Dynasty to become a Papal State. Not only he did not want to, but the ruling class of the empire would not want to.

“The people of the empire have not yet learned how to distinguish truth from falsehood, nor have they learned how to choose. As rulers, we naturally cannot choose for them, because what we think is the truth is sometimes not the real truth.
We may not pursue the truth, but we must learn to understand what their real needs are. After all, they are the majority of the Ming Dynasty. The people are the most important, the emperor is the least important, and the country is the third. But sometimes they themselves are not clear about what their needs are!
In this materialistic Ming Dynasty, the people have too many desires, and some even want to be superior to others and have the desire for privileges. This is not allowed. Within the Central Empire, among the people of the Ming Dynasty, we cannot have a hierarchical society in terms of law and personality, at least our court cannot do so, even though hierarchy and wealth do exist in reality!"

"Because only in this way can we maintain our advantage and keep our advantage over other civilizations. Why are the Indians willing to be our slaves? Because we look more civilized than other invaders! Why can we be more civilized? Because our way of plundering is more advanced, and our way of plundering is more advanced because our production technology is more advanced, so that we can continuously take wealth from others without taking their lives. The reason why we have more advanced production technology is only because we put the people first, we liberated the craftsmen, and we encouraged the people to create wealth and innovate technology. Only when we put the people first, will the people put the country first and be willing to fight!"

"In short, according to your majesty's meaning, there is only one person who can be the superior person in the Ming Dynasty, and that is our emperor! The emperor is a god, the god we choose. Apart from the emperor, no one has privileges higher than others, including me, the chief minister of the cabinet!"

Zhang Cong, the chief minister of the cabinet, said this at a meeting of the Zhongjun Society. In fact, he only mentioned the charm brought by the industrial civilization of the Ming Empire, but did not mention the power brought by the industrial civilization of the Ming Empire.

boom!
Hundreds of mountain cannons fired hundreds of shells at Agui West Pass in Jiaozhi, and in less than half an hour, Agui West Pass was razed to the ground. Not only that, the Ming Dynasty also launched chemical gas bombs, killing nearly 100,000 monkey soldiers in the Agui West Pass area.

Yu Dayou and his officers and soldiers served as the vanguard and advanced northward into Wuning with an unstoppable force.

The northern corps led by Mao Bowen had also moved south, and within just one month, it swept across the entire northern Jiaozhi and drove Mo Dengyong and others into Wuning.

Mo Dengyong and Nguyen Gan no longer dared to hope to defend their foundation. The shock brought by the Ming Dynasty's steel guns and cannons was too great, which had completely overturned their understanding of war. Therefore, they now only wanted to escape to the west. There was the sea to the east, so they naturally could not escape. Most of the Ming Dynasty's strong ships and powerful guns were anchored in the Thanh Hoa area.

But now Yu Dayou is guarding the only checkpoint for their escape to the west.

Therefore, Mo Dengyong and Ruan Gan put all the last tens of thousands of monkey soldiers into the trap and even offered a huge reward.

The Ming Guards led by Yu Dayou used their firepower and geographical advantages to hold off the attacks of tens of thousands of monkey soldiers. The officers and soldiers could directly seize the trenches and attack from a high position without having to fight the monkey soldiers in the mountains. The Ming version of the Gatling machine gun could still fire indiscriminately, and the monkey soldiers had no decent firearms, and bows and arrows were not as effective as javelins in the rain forest.

In short, the power brought by the industrial civilization of the Ming Empire caused the tiny country of Jiaozhi to collapse in a very short period of time. By the time Wang Shouren arrived in Thanh Hoa, Mo Dengyong, Nguyen Gan and the puppet emperor of Jiaozhi, Le Trang Tong, had been captured alive.

"Great victory! The royal army took Wuning City in half a day, captured alive the Annan Emperor Le Zhuangzong, the powerful minister Mo Dengyong and Nguyen Gan, and more than 50 other princes and nobles. The Ming Dynasty completely recovered all the territories of Jiaozhi!"

The good news spread throughout Thanh Hoa. Mo Yu, a former Jiaozhi landlord who was working as a dung man in Thanh Hoa, burst into tears: "There is no hope at all! This world has completely become the domain of the Han people!"

However, for the Han people of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's recovery of Jiaozhi was undoubtedly a matter of national celebration. When the official report reached Guangzhou City, the people of the entire Guangzhou City were completely excited, because it meant that the price of war coupons would rise again, and they were going to make a fortune!

Day two.

The Ming Stock Exchange loaned money as promised, and wealth from Jiaozhi began to flow into the Pearl River Estuary from the Ming South China Sea like a tide, and into the pockets of the Ming people.

"It is difficult to describe the prosperity of the time. I only remember that fruits and vegetables were sold out in the market, the wine shops were packed, storytellers became hoarse, prostitutes became weak, the rich held banquets in brothels that lasted for ten days, and the poor could earn a hundred gold coins by begging in one day!"

After Jiaozhi was recovered, some literati could not help but record the grand scene of the domestic people making a fortune from the war.

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