A few months later.
The Gulf of Mexico, later New Orleans.
The French colonists who occupied this place were still sleeping, but a large number of short shogunate troops had already moved over.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Suddenly, gunfire rang out.
Many French and foreigners were killed as a result.
The other Fa Yi who had not been killed were also awakened.
"Damn Eastern brat! Here we go again! Get out now!"
Frank, the French-Barbarian officer, knew that the shogunate army was conducting a sneak attack, because many cases of sneak attacks by the shogunate army had occurred in recent times.
At first, Fa Yi dared to fight back.
But after several battles, they had to admit that their backward armies were no match for the shogunate army, and there would be no other result than being tortured to death.
Yes, after the Japanese gained power in front of the Westerners, they also behaved very cruelly and liked to torture and kill wounded Westerners. Only uninjured Western captives would not be tortured and used as slaves.
Therefore, after Frank learned that the shogunate army had successfully attacked and entered the castle, he could only retreat in a hurry.
The shogunate army continued to pursue the victory and madly plundered the French and Yi colonies.
Because this place is far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty’s main energy is still digesting areas such as Rakshasa Kingdom and Japanese Islands, and these places are mainly trade, supplemented by military affairs. Therefore, the shogunate army took this opportunity to transfer their colonies to The disk is greatly expanded.
At the same time, the shogunate army also plundered a large amount of wealth in the process of expanding its colonies.
But most of this wealth fell into the Ming Dynasty's treasury.
Even the captured minerals can only be resold to Daming's company.
Because the shogunate's military equipment and energy and fuel were all supplied by the Ming Dynasty, he lacked the technology to manufacture new firearms and mine and process minerals.
However, because the shogunate army could not use advanced technology to earn more profits from the colonies they seized from the Western Yi, the shogunate army behaved more cruelly in front of the Western Yi, not just because of their nature. As a result.
In order to motivate his army to fight for him, Tokugawa Ietsuna also used the method of gathering women to win over the Ming army, and gathered the captured Western Yi women to win over his own army.
In addition, Tokugawa Ietsuna completely abandoned military discipline and encouraged his troops to carry out very brutal plundering of Western barbarians.
Therefore, Xiyi also hated the shogunate army deeply.
When these incidents about the brutality and cruelty of the shogunate army were reported back to the European continent, the nobles of various European countries were very angry.
King Louis XIV of France, who had just taken over the throne, was also very angry when he learned that his French colonies in the Americas had been taken away and a large number of French and barbarians were massacred by the shogunate army:
"These hateful little oriental devils! How can they be so cruel! How can God allow such devils to exist!"
"According to the information I learned from the people of the Ming Dynasty, these Eastern brats are often called Japanese pirates by the people of the Eastern Ming Dynasty! Obviously, the people of the Ming Dynasty do not have a good impression of these people, and they all know that these people are cruel and have no respect for life. And the reason why they appeared in America is because the Ming Dynasty decided to eliminate them, and they had to move to America."
Louis XIV's Lord Privy Seal and Chief Justice Pierre Viche reported to Louis XIV.
After hearing this, Louis XIV nodded and said: "I'm afraid there are shadows of the Ming Dynasty behind these Eastern brats. This is a terrible Eastern empire!"
"Your Majesty is right. The Ming Dynasty is indeed very powerful. Now they have destroyed the Rakshasa Kingdom. Sweden and Poland have suffered losses in his hands. Spain has been controlled by him before, and his desire for expansion is very high. Strong, we must have the ability to fight against him as soon as possible before he invades."
Finance Minister Colbert also started talking at this time.
"I hope Brother Wang and the others can successfully study abroad in Ming Dynasty and inject new vitality into France!"
Louis XIV said something, and then said: "When the time comes in the future, maybe it is necessary for me to go and see it in person."
"What your Majesty is saying is that the Ming Dynasty is so powerful that we have to admit that their civilization must have some advantages. We need to move closer to their civilization and correct our shortcomings."
Pierre replied.
"The first thing to do is to vigorously cultivate the country's nobles who understand Chinese! The last time officials from the Ming Dynasty came to visit, their royal guards all had people who knew our language, but we didn't have people who knew theirs. This really proves our insufficient!"
Louis XIV was a very ambitious king who paid great attention to science and technology in history and was also very diligent. Although he was not as crazy as Zhu Yuanzhang and Yong Zheng, he was indeed diligent among French kings.
Therefore, at this time, Louis XIV was also willing to learn from the Ming Dynasty for the sake of the prosperity of France, and he also had the awareness to actively cultivate talents who could understand Chinese.
As soon as he mentioned this, Louis XIV took the initiative to ask: "Will the first Chinese university in France be opening soon?"
"Yes."
Pierre replied.
"I will go there in person when the time comes! To show my importance in promoting Sinology!"
Louis XIV resolutely said something at this time.
His strong sense of crisis and sense of responsibility forced him to pay more attention to China.
After Louis XIV made this decision, he said: "We know too little about Eastern culture, but by chance, the Orientals know a lot about our culture! We will take the initiative to send missionaries to promote our knowledge, and ourselves We think that we have mastered the most noble and wisest knowledge in the world, but in fact, we are like beginners who have just acquired some knowledge. We lack enough humility and awe, so that we only know how to pass on the knowledge, but do not transfer it. Bring back the awareness! But the Orientals are always low-key to understand our knowledge, but they keep their own knowledge secret and are not eager to let anyone know. We should learn from the prudence and humility of the Orientals!"
His ministers did not doubt this, and even thought that the young King was a very knowledgeable emperor.
After all, the national power of the Ming Dynasty is there, and no one has enough confidence and confidence to question that the West is more advanced than the East at this time.
The Chinese university established by Louis XIV in Paris was called the Royal Chinese Academy.
On the opening day of the Royal Chinese Academy of Sciences, Louis XIV specially wore a Ming-style robe to attend the opening ceremony. It seemed that in his eyes, wearing such clothing made him a real king.
Of course, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty did not know about Louis XIV's transgression.
Louis XIV did not know that he was transgressing. He wore this way to express his emphasis on learning from Eastern Chinese civilization.
Because Louis XIV did this, the teachers and students of the Royal Chinese Academy also wore Confucian crowns and Confucian robes.
Although this will make their archbishop angry, in France at this moment, the monarchy has greater power than the church, so the archbishop has nothing to do with them.
When Louis XIV personally attended the opening ceremony of the Royal Chinese Academy, his younger brother Philip I had already studied abroad for a year at the Capital Humanities Hall.
"The Ming Dynasty is an absolute monarchy. This should be one of the reasons why they are strong. France is also an absolute monarchy. The only difference is that we have different beliefs, but this should not be a big difference. We should not give up on ourselves. In my opinion, what we need to do is to learn from the West as a body and learn from the West as a practical matter, learn their techniques, but still stick to our own civilization."
As a result, Philip met Descartes in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and discussed with Descartes how to make France as strong as the Ming Dynasty.
"You are wrong, Duke Philippe. The root of the Ming Dynasty's strength lies in their 'people-oriented' thinking and the world is for the public! If France wants to be as strong as the Ming Dynasty, it must innovate its own culture and just learn its superficial things. It is impossible. We need to learn its gentle and courteous Confucianism and the idea of benevolent government and caring for the people. We need the nobles to give up their hereditary privileges and put the prosperity of the people above everything else!"
After Descartes stayed in the Ming Dynasty for many years, he had been influenced by the Confucian benevolent government and the idea of the world being public, and he started to refute it.
Philip shook his head at this: "That's not the case! Our culture also has its own advantages!"
Descartes waved his hands and said: "There is no advantage! People have already proposed the idea of the world as a community thousands of years ago, and we have just learned to think independently. We no longer just follow the teachings to understand the world. They have even absorbed and tolerated us. knowledge, yet we are still being conservative and stubbornly refusing to absorb other people’s civilization!”
The two got into an argument.
Scenes like this were very common in Ming Dynasty.
Because the current Ming Dynasty has become a beacon to the world after Emperor Tianqi changed his conservative policy and took the initiative to further open the country and expand outward.
Many foreign nobles with various thoughts came to the Ming Dynasty, wanting to have a clearer understanding of this Eastern Empire.
But after Zhu Youxiao did this, Confucianism, which had always occupied the main body of Chinese culture, did not die out with the entry of a large number of outsiders and was despised. On the contrary, it was still highly respected.
Because the Confucian culture born in a continental civilization is exactly what the Western Yi Kingdom, born in a maritime civilization, lacks. For them, the Confucian culture that advocates the world as a public institution, advocates benevolent governance, and does not compete with the people for profit is indeed not a backward civilization. , on the contrary, it is what they have been pursuing.
Zhu Youxiao also noticed that there were more and more foreign students in Ming Dynasty, and also asked Dongchang and Jinyiwei to send more people to keep an eye on these people, strictly identify the foreign students who came to Ming Dynasty in terms of ideology, and try their best to Make it more difficult to apply for study and residence in Daming.
But despite this, many foreign nobles still flocked to Daming, even spending a lot of money to find various ways.
As a result, taking in students has become a lucrative industry.
Zhu Youxiao hoped that the foreigners would become introverted and gentle because of studying Confucianism and take the initiative to Chineseize, but he was also worried that there would be foreign students with ulterior motives who, with the purpose of promoting the rise of their own nation, would cooperate with some people in the Ming Dynasty for the sake of freedom. People who are willing to sacrifice the interests of China as a whole collude with each other.
The Ming Dynasty has a large population and a high level of education. Although this helps the Ming Dynasty continue to remain advanced in the field of science and technology, it also makes the internal ideological structure of the Ming Dynasty very complicated. Because of the different classes and life experiences, people have different beliefs. It is not ruled out that the Ming Dynasty will An extreme person who has the interests of the nation at heart and truly sacrifices everything for the freedom of the people of the world.
"This is the drawing of the converter steelmaking method! But this technology was developed many years ago. The Ming Dynasty no longer uses it, so I was able to secretly draw it! However, although it was made many years ago, the steel smelted is completely It is suitable for making barrels for all current guns, can you understand?"
"In addition, I have also written a booklet for you about the management procedures of our steel plant!"
At this time, Ji Sisheng placed a stack of information in front of Teng Ye and Tada Rong.
Teng Ye took the information and read it in surprise.
And Tada Sakae also followed up and said: "We can make all gun barrels without using them many years ago. The Ming Dynasty is really technologically advanced. Fortunately, Mr. Yuuki, you are helping us. Otherwise, we would have to have a longer road to catch up with the Ming Dynasty." .”
"You're welcome! Only if your Japanese country becomes stronger and poses a threat to our Ming Dynasty, maybe that aloof king will be willing to limit his power and give the people of the world true freedom, and then they will know how to get along well with their neighbors. Instead of using the power God gave to the Ming Dynasty to invade and plunder!"
Ji Sisheng was a foreign scholar who graduated from the Ming Dynasty Industrial School who advocated freedom. Because he was a son of an official and had excellent grades, he entered the Ming Dynasty's official steel factory. However, because his thoughts were very holy, he took the initiative to do so. He became a spy, took the initiative to secretly give the technology banned by the Ming Dynasty to foreign students, and even took the initiative to impart knowledge to these people.
"The second prince has lost the opportunity to seize the legitimate heir! We are also very disappointed. This undoubtedly means that in the future, under the rule of the second prince, the whole world will become a Confucian society with scholars as the first of the four people. It has become a luxury. It will even make the whole world become the world of the common people! If this is the case, instead of letting the Celestial Empire unify the whole world, it is better to make our own country independent, or even become strong, and force the Celestial Empire to reform!"
Teng Ye said at this time.
"This is exactly the reason! Whether they call me a traitor or a traitor, I don't care! I only know that as long as it is for the ideal in my heart, no matter how others criticize me, I hope you can help the shogunate rebuild a true A great Confucian country, and it must be very powerful! Let the Confucian scholars in the world have their own dignity!"
Ji Sisheng said.
"Yes! If the new Japanese country does not realize all this, I will betray him too!"
Teng Ye said.
Tada Ei also nodded: "It doesn't matter what civilization or nation it is. We have to fight for the dignity of scholar-bureaucrats!"
Ji Sisheng added: "I have also prepared 300 boxes of penicillin products for you. These were originally supplied to my Ming Dynasty's Western Expeditionary Army. It is difficult for you to get them. But I thought of a way and got these. You can take them back to Shogun! Just think of me as contributing to the rise of the Japanese Empire!"
"Master! There are people from Dongchang outside!"
At this time, a report from the Holy Family of Ji Si suddenly came from outside the door.
Ji Sisheng was shocked after hearing this.
Teng Ye also panicked: "How did Dongchang find him?"
Tada Eiye said nervously: "It is not easy for our country's independence and rise. Tengye-kun, it seems that we have to be prepared to sacrifice!"
