"Hahaha, expelled from Confucianism, you are not worthy of the surname Kong... The surname Zhu has made us anxious this time! Well, Zhou Peigong finally did a beautiful job this time."
Emperor Kangxi's hearty laughter echoed in the study room south of the Forbidden City in Beijing. He hasn't laughed so hard in a long time!
The ministers in the South Study Room also showed festive expressions when they saw Kangxi smiling happily. But it was just a celebration, but no one spoke up to support Emperor Kangxi's mission of "Zhou Qiuguang"... Everyone still had little confidence! And everyone has reservations about this Confucianism.
But the Holy Duke Kong Yuqi, who was lying on the ground, looked frightened. After Kangxi stopped laughing, he kept explaining: "Emperor, brother emperor, I am really not the White Lotus Sect. My family is not the White Lotus Sect." There is nothing against the scriptures in it, my dear brother, my dear brother, I am wronged!"
Speaking of injustice, Kong Yuqi even cried!
He was wrongly accused, and it was the White Lotus Sect, and "the Holy Duke came out, and the Great Confucianism flourished", and "there is a hole in the three-thirds of the world"... This Zhu Heji wanted to destroy Beikong How is the door open? Isn't that too cruel?
Emperor Kangxi shook his head with a smile and said to Kong Yuqi: "Brother Shenggong, why are you panicking? Do you think that I will be so stupid that you believe the crime that the traitor Zhu Heji has put on you?"
"Brother I don't dare..." Kong Yuqi kowtowed to Kangxi quickly and kept saying "I don't dare", and his tears couldn't stop flowing down.
Although Kangxi had no intention of killing him yet, he still clearly felt that Kangxi's knife was already on his neck.
Kill...it's just a word!
Emperor Kangxi smiled and said, "You just don't dare?"
"Brother Chen, brother Chen, don't you dare..." Kong Yuqi was speechless.
When Kangxi saw his cowardly look, he smiled even more happily. He pointed at Kong Yuqi and said to the ministers in the south study: "I think Zhu Heji succeeded for a while by relying on that little magic. When it comes to governing the country and strategizing, It’s really not that good! He doesn’t really think that Kong Shenggong is the master of Confucianism, right? The alienation tactics he used are simply the tricks of a three-year-old!"
When Kong Yuqi heard this, he quickly echoed: "The emperor is wise, but the minister is young and ignorant and doesn't understand anything. The emperor is the one who makes the decision on Confucian affairs, so it is impossible for Confucianism to rebel."
"That's right," Kangxi said with a smile, "How can I rebel against myself?"
He paused and then said: "But I can't let Zhu Heji take advantage of his words. He can revoke the Confucian books of the Confucian disciples, and I can also revoke the Confucian books of the Confucian disciples. He can say that Sheng Gong My younger brother does not deserve the surname Kong. I can also say that he colluded with the Northern Yuan Dynasty and betrayed his ancestors. He does not deserve the surname Zhu. He said that our Confucian scholars in the Qing Dynasty are all hypocritical Confucians, and I will say that their hypocritical Confucian scholars are all thieves of the law.... ..Thieves who play with magic!”
Kong Yuqi breathed a sigh of relief... His life was saved for the time being!
Thinking of this, he quickly kowtowed to Kangxi: "Brother Huang, Shengming, Brother Shengming... They are all legal thieves who pretend to be gods and ghosts! Confucianism and law are not compatible, and I will definitely fight them to the end!"
Kangxi smiled and nodded, "Brother Shenggong, please kneel down!"
After hearing this, Kong Yuqi kowtowed to Kangxi several times as if he had been granted amnesty, then stood up and walked backwards out of the south study room.
Seeing Kong Yuqi leaving, the bachelor Tu Hai, who had been silent until now, went out to kneel to Kangxi, "Your Majesty, this Kong Yuqi may really have no objections, but this Confucian..."
Kangxi waved his hand and stopped Tu Hai, "I know...but now we can't live without Confucianism! Without Confucianism, Confucianism will be dominant."
Tuhai wanted to say something more, but Kangxi spoke first: "Pearl!"
"The slave is here!" Mingzhu quickly left work and knelt down.
Kangxi said: "Mingzhu, you are both a great scholar of the imperial court and a Confucian leader. I want you to go to North Korea as an envoy to preach to the kings and ministers of North Korea and let them regard the Confucian Holy Duke as the authentic Confucian school!"
Kangxi made great progress and actually learned to preach!
"This slave accepts the order." Mingzhu kowtowed.
Kangxi added: "There is one more thing that I have to tell the King of Korea... I want to use the Haizhou port in Korea to train my navy to fight thieves from the sea!
In addition, envoys from Western countries who came to pay tribute to our Qing Dynasty also had to disembark from Haizhou. If the King of Joseon finds it inconvenient, he can clear out the people near Haeju Port and lend me the place. "
When Mingzhu heard Kangxi's request for "borrowing land", she felt a bit difficult to handle. "Long live my lord, I'm afraid the King of Joseon will not be willing to borrow land, right? Now that the Puppet Ming Dynasty has established a firm foothold in Jiangnan, if it forces the King of Joseon, I'm afraid He will send an envoy to Nanjing to declare himself a vassal to the puppet Ming Dynasty."
Kangxi snorted: "Bahai!"
"The slave is here!" Shengjing General Bahai has been following Kangxi with the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Sauron soldiers outside the pass these days. Now when he heard Kangxi calling him, he quickly came out to kowtow.
Kangxi lowered his voice and said: "It's time for your new Eight Banners Army outside the Pass to go back... don't disperse. Leave five thousand elite troops stationed on the north bank of the Yalu River. If the North Korean monarchs and ministers dare to disobey, I will work hard for you." Take a trip to Hanyang!”
"This slave has received the order!" Bahai kowtowed, "As long as the emperor gives the order, my soldiers will be able to reach Hanyang City in ten days at most!"
"Okay!" Kangxi smiled, "Haizhou's port is extremely important to the Qing Dynasty, so I must win it!"
Mingzhu was a little confused, "Your Majesty, what's the big deal in Haizhou, North Korea?"
He did not believe that Shi Lang, who had been promoted in the north and now became the Beiyang Navy Minister, could train a navy in North Korea that could compete with the Ming Navy.
Kangxi smiled and said: "It's okay to tell you... The secret envoys sent by the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal have arrived at the Tianjin commercial port a few days ago. I have sent Prince An and Nan Huairen to Tianjin to talk to them. Yesterday The news came that these foreigners all expressed their support for our Qing Dynasty and were willing to pay tribute to our Qing Dynasty with the most powerful firearms they had!
The Dutch are also willing to send craftsmen to the Qing Dynasty to help me build flintlock guns and new artillery... These craftsmen and the flintlock guns and artillery provided by the Dutch are already on their way to the Qing Dynasty. I was worried that these craftsmen and weapons would be intercepted by the Puppet Navy as they passed through the entrance to the Bohai Bay, so I wanted to capture North Korea's Haiju Port. "
The Dutch and Spanish were inactive for quite some time because the warships they sent were defeated by the Ming Navy using "sea mounted shooting tactics".
However, the interests of these two countries in Southeast Asia are too great to give up. Therefore, after their home countries learned of this, they all chose to strengthen their military presence in Nanyang.
In particular, the Third Anglo-Dutch War ended in February 1674. Although the Netherlands was still fighting France on the European continent, their navy was finally free.
In addition, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, two old enemies of the Netherlands, also formed an alliance with the Netherlands in order to oppose Louis XIV's expansion.
Therefore, the Netherlands and Spain can also take a unified stance in Southeast Asia and East Asia.
However, they did not dare to use force directly along the coast of China. After all, the lessons from the previous fiasco were too profound. And they haven't figured out the secret of Tianlei until now.
In this case, of course they dare not fight anymore... If Zhu Heji is offended and exports the secret of Tianlei to Louis XIV, then the Dutch and Spanish will have to talk about it in the future French.
Therefore, the Dutch and Spanish hoped to piece together a grand anti-Ming alliance, unite all forces, and work together to contain the Ming Empire and crush Ming's ambition to change the existing order in Southeast Asia and East Asia.
After receiving instructions from the Dutch Consul William III, John Masik, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, ignored his old age and long distance and once again boarded a merchant ship bound for China. He was still in the fifteenth year of Kangxi's reign. In February, he arrived in Tianjin, the only foreign trade port of the Qing Dynasty.
Not long after arriving in Tianjin, I met the "number two man" of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial uncle Prince An Yue Le!
