"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky, the evening wind blows the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountains; at the end of the sky, at the corner of the sea, acquaintances are half scattered, and the remaining joy is spent in a pot of turbid wine..."
Outside Ningbo City, on the bank of the Yongjiang River and on the edge of the Zhaobaoshan Fort, in the back garden of the Zhejiang Governor’s Office of the Qing Dynasty, melodious singing rang out again.
A singer girl bought from Yangzhou Lichunyuan was playing the piano while singing the most popular song "Farewell" in Jiangnan today... This song was brought to Jiangnan by businessmen from the "Ryukyu Kingdom". It is said that when they were leaving their hometown and going out for business, their family and friends sang it to see them off.
Well, that’s what Fan Chengmo, the governor of Zhejiang and the governor of the Nanyang Navy in the Qing Dynasty, heard!
And this song has a gentle melody and lyrics full of sadness. Somehow, less than half a year after Ningbo and Yangzhou opened their ports, it quickly became popular throughout Jiangnan...especially Jiangnan official circles.
Although everyone felt that this song was not quite right, they couldn't help but sing it. Some people, such as Fan Chengmo and his good friend Zhejiang Inspector Yu Chenglong, particularly like this song, but they cry every time they listen to it!
During this time, Yu Chenglong had nothing to do in the yamen in Hangzhou, so he went to Ningbo to find his friend Fan Chengmo. When the two got together, they liked to drink while listening to the singer sing "Farewell", and then burst into tears. ...
By the way, now all counties in Zhejiang are organizing team training and delegating power to local powerful people. As an inspector, he has nothing to investigate. Although there is a "Yao Qisheng conspiracy case" at hand, he is not very interested in the corrupt officials.
This Yao Qisheng was once the magistrate of Xiangshan, Guangdong. He was dismissed from office because he took bribes from the Portuguese and imposed a maritime ban without authorization. He then started doing business in Zhejiang and still had little assets.
But I don't know what happened, but there was actually "Zhejiang Yao Qisheng" on the "List of Renzike Tributes" of the Guangzhou imperial court who rebelled against the imperial court. When the news reached Zhejiang, Fan Chengmo, then governor of Zhejiang, sent troops to arrest Yao Qisheng and ransack his home. As a result, many military books and weapons were copied from his home!
You are a good scholar, what do you want to do with hiding military books and weapons at home? Obviously he wanted to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
So Yao Qisheng couldn't clean himself up after jumping into the Yellow River. And his eldest son Yao Yi was regarded as a rebel because of his strong martial arts and archery skills, and was arrested together with his father. However, because he could not stand the torture, when Yu Chenglong took over this counter-case, he had already committed suicide in prison...
Although Yu Chenglong felt that the Yao Qisheng case was very suspicious, first of all, it was a case handled by Governor Fan Chengmo; secondly, Yao Qisheng had already lost his family and everyone, and he must have hated the Qing Dynasty in his heart. If he was released, he might become a real rebel.
Therefore, Yu Chenglong followed the line of his predecessor and ordered Yao Qisheng to be executed at Lingchi... Now he is waiting for Emperor Kangxi's approval!
"Woo woo, woo woo..."
When the singer's singing once again touched their souls, the two old men hugged each other and cried again.
The Yangzhou singer was already used to it, so she just stood up, made a blessing ceremony, and then drifted away.
When Fan Chengmo and Yu Chenglong were crying sadly, a housekeeper from the Fan family hurried to the backyard. When he saw the two masters crying again, he just sighed, then walked up and bowed: "Master , Mr. Yu, Admiral Ba Junmen of the Nanyang Navy is asking for a meeting... He said there is an urgent military situation!"
The name of this "Bajunmen" is Balthazar Balth, a Dutchman who is the former fleet commander of the Dutch East India Company.
In the first year of Kangxi, the year when Zheng Chenggong captured Taiwan and died, he led an expedition fleet composed of seventeen warships to recapture Taiwan. Although Zheng Chenggong had already passed away when he arrived at the coast of China, and the Yanping Palace had just experienced an internal strife, which severely damaged its vitality.
However, this Balt still did not dare to attack Taiwan rashly, but chose to cooperate with the Qing court to attack Zheng Jing, who was entrenched in Xiamen and Kinmen.
After driving away Zheng Jing, he also signed a "Qing-Dutch Treaty" with Qing officials in Fujian. According to this treaty, the Qing-Dutch coalition forces will attack Taiwan together. After the Zheng regime is eliminated, Taiwan will be handed over to the Netherlands.
However, when the Qing-Dutch coalition forces went out to attack Taiwan, they encountered a typhoon and returned without success. Geng Jimao, who was in charge of Fujian at the time, was not interested in sending troops again. So Bart simply went it alone, sent troops to occupy the chicken coop in Taiwan, and established a colony there. However, because the Zheng family army stationed fresh water later and cut off the Dutch's supply, the Qing government began to move the border along the coast, making it impossible for the Dutch to trade, and finally had to abandon the chicken coop.
After working on the coast of China for several years, Barthes finally returned to Batavia empty-handed. He thought he would never have to deal with the incompetent officials of the Qing Dynasty again in his life... but I don't know what happened. He himself actually became a dignified military admiral of the Qing Dynasty.
What makes this Dutch slave of the Qing Dynasty even more speechless is that he, the admiral of the Qing Dynasty Navy, was not the Qing emperor who begged the Dutch East India Company to send him to do this...but the Dutch East India Company. The Indian Company asked Emperor Kangxi for permission to let the East India Company and the Spanish and Philippine Governor-General send warships flying the Qing Dragon Flag to fight against the new Ming Dynasty's navy.
His behavior probably belongs to the category of "self-motivated Qing Dynasty"!
The reason for such a thing is that on the one hand, the new Ming Dynasty claimed to use force to change the status quo in Southeast Asia. It did not recognize Spanish interests in the Philippines, nor did it recognize the Dutch interests in Java and Malacca. It also refused to recognize Vietnam, Burma, The "independence" of Siam, Borneo, Champa, Chenla and other countries.
Such a stance constitutes an extremely serious and gross violation of the interests of the Dutch East India Company!
This is unacceptable to the Dutch East India Company and the Federal Republic of the Netherlands!
Of course it is also unacceptable to Spain!
On the other hand, the Dutch East India Company and the Spanish and Philippine Governor-General were unwilling to impose severe sanctions on the new Ming Dynasty.
Because such sanctions are likely to mean a complete interruption of trade, and also mean that the new Ming Dynasty will spread "magic gunpowder" to the Ottoman Empire and the Mogul Empire of India...
Therefore, Masuek, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, and Santos, the chief justice of the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, discussed such a "self-cleaning" method.
Because he was a "self-Qing Dynasty", of course he was not qualified to show off his power in front of Fan Chengmo and Yu Chenglong, two senior officials of the Qing Dynasty. However, Emperor Kangxi also took care of it and told Fan Chengmo not to worry too much about those foreign devils who didn't know etiquette.
Why are they all international friends of the Qing Dynasty?
Bart came with Figo, the Portuguese slave of the Qing emperor. The latter was now the Assistant to the Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty...actually a general manager.
After the two foreigners in Qing Dynasty military attache uniforms bowed to Fan Chengmo, they ignored the pleasantries and let Figo directly report the urgent military situation to Fan Chengmo.
"Zhijun, we have just received reliable information from the Dutch businessmen coming from Guangzhou... Zhu Heji, the pseudo-supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, has left Guangzhou City and is leading a huge fleet to Ningbo!"
"This is impossible!" Yu Chenglong shouted, "Isn't Zhu Heji already dead? He was killed by a musket in Xiangkou, Anqing!"
Figo shrugged, "Maybe he was resurrected... His magic seems not to be inferior to that of the Qing Emperor!"
"This is not..." Yu Chenglong didn't know what to say. Kangxi could be beheaded and not die, but Zhu Heji could not be killed by a musket, couldn't he?
If this war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties continues, it will become "The Romance of the Gods"!
Fan Chengmo coughed and signaled Yu Chenglong not to say useless weird things, so as not to cause trouble.
Then he asked Figo: "What does Bajunmen say? Can we fight?"
"Yes!" Figo said, "Ba Junmen said that as long as Zhijun is willing to pay a sufficient price, he can summon a powerful fleet to defeat the hypocritical navy."
