On the second day of February in the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, the Imperial City.
Sir Child, who had been on a boat for several months from Madras in India to Dagukou in Tianjin Prefecture, and then arrived in Beijing by land, was trying hard to suppress the anger that was about to burst out, and Together with his translator Qiong Sen, he followed the Ming Emperor's minister Nalan Xingde as they walked in the Western Garden of the Imperial City surrounded by mountains and rivers.
The reason why Sir Child felt extremely angry was not because of the humiliation he suffered in Mrauk-U City, but because when the armed merchant ship he was riding docked at Yongjiang Port in Ningbo, he was found outside the Zhaobaoshan Fort Camp near Yongjiang Port. On the Internet, I saw a large number of Japanese military soldiers who had changed into the dark blue military uniforms of the Ming Army and started to grow their hair, conducting formation training!
Moreover, Sir Child's translator Qiong Sen also told him that around the school grounds where the Japanese military soldiers who were very short and had not yet grown their hair were trained, there were many embroidered pictures with the words "Peel down Luzon" and "Expel away". Flags with the words "Nanman" and "Fengzhixing"!
Qiongsen also told Child that "Luzon" refers to the Philippines, and that "Nanbarbarians" in Japan are not natives of Southeast Asia but white colonizers of Southeast Asia. As for "entrusted intellectuals"... Qiongsen does not I didn’t know what it meant. Later, when I asked an official from the Shipping Department in Ningbo who was responsible for receiving foreign envoys and businessmen, I found out that it meant fiefdom! The combined meaning of these three slogans is to seize the Spanish Philippines, and then use part of the Philippine land as a reward to Japanese warriors who have performed meritorious services.
Obviously, the Ming Dynasty is about to go to war with the Spanish Empire!
And they also blatantly and unabashedly mobilized and prepared for war... This is simply contempt for the Spanish Empire!
Although the Ming Dynasty, an unscrupulous invader, has invaded North Korea, the Qing Dynasty, Japan, the Zhou Dynasty, and Myanmar in the past few years, and also captured several castles of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Siberia. But this is the first time that a Western country (in Child's view, Rakshasa does not belong to Western civilized countries) has openly invaded an Eastern colony that has been operating for many years!
And if there is a first time, there will be a second, third, and fourth time... In Child's view, the Ming Dynasty attempted to take advantage of the Ottoman Empire's capture of Vienna to attack the Spanish colonies. It means that it has embarked on the path of confronting Western civilization with force. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's goals were definitely not limited to Luzon, and would not stop even after seizing high-value colonies such as Batavia, Malacca, and the Spice Islands in the South.
The goal of the Ming Empire was probably to completely subvert the world order dominated by Western civilization! This means that the Ming Empire will eventually move towards the New World of America, the cornerstone of Western civilization's triumphant rise and successful dominance of the world!
In fact, the Philippines, like Japan, is a springboard from the Asian continent to the New World. Japan is the springboard to the New World, and the Philippines is the springboard from the New World back to the Asian continent - the fleet transporting people and materials to the New World cannot just go and not return! There is a large triangular route between the Philippines-Japan-the northern west coast of the New World. Follow the ocean current all the way, saving time and effort. If you use a Western-style soft sail ship, the journey from Japan to the west coast of the New World can take up to two months, and it only takes forty days to travel from the northern west coast of the New World to the Philippines. The section from the Philippines to Japan can pass through Ningbo and Shanghai - immigrants from the Ming Dynasty can get on board at these two places, and it can take up to three months to reach their destination. Because you can rest and resupply in Japan midway, each ship can carry a lot more goods and people.
If the warships and privateers of Spain or other Western European countries that support Spain want to attack the Ming Dynasty's colonial fleet, they can only use the Philippines, Japan, and the western coast of the northern New World as bases for their activities. . Japan is now under the control of the Ming Dynasty. If the Philippines falls into the hands of the Ming Dynasty again, only the west coast of North America will be available... However, the northern and central parts of the west coast of North America are extremely underdeveloped, and it is impossible to support the fleet. and even the long-term presence of privateers. From the ports near Mexico City, it is too far to go to the northern and central coastlines of the west coast of North America, making it inconvenient for fleets and privateers to be placed there.
Without the interruption of Western warships and privateers, the Ming Dynasty can immigrate to the west coast of the North American continent at a very fast speed... If they are determined enough, in at least twenty or thirty years, the Chinese in the New World will It is possible to surpass white people!
Sir Child, who was trying to figure out Zhu Heji's intentions while walking, had followed Nalan Xingde to a building at some point. Nalan Xingde stopped for a moment. He almost lost his footing and bumped into Nalan Xingde. On character and virtue.
When he looked up, he found that he was in front of a magnificent oriental palace.
The destroyer of civilized world summoned him here?
Nalan Xingde turned his head and glanced at him, and whispered in Latin: "You only have ten minutes!" After saying that, he nodded to a guard outside the main hall of Yuxi Palace and said, "Please tell me, Just say that Nalan Xingde brought the English envoy Child and his colleagues to Qiongsen to ask for an audience."
"Wait." The guard turned around and strode into Yuxi Palace. After a while, he walked out again and said to Nalan Xingde: "Minister Nalan, please go in."
"Thank you." Nalan Xingde just said thank you, and then led Childe and Qiongsen into the Yuxi Palace - Zhu Heji's guards are all graduates of the Army and Navy Academy and active duty at all levels. Not everyone is qualified to serve as an officer on a rotating basis. Being an officer is equivalent to gold-plating on your resume, so you must perform well. The bad habit of being a doorman does not exist at all.
Contrary to Child's expectation, the lighting in the main hall of Yuxi Palace was quite good. He turned to look at the window and found that the glass on the window was extremely transparent and looked very pure!
"Hurry up and salute!" Nalan Xingde's voice sounded again.
Child and Qiongsen quickly stood at attention, and then bowed to a tall man sitting on the throne, wearing a brown robe and a big beard, who was reading an unknown book with his head down.
Child Road said in Latin: "Child, the envoy of His Majesty King Charles II of England and the Governor of the British East India Company, brought Taipan Qiongsen to say hello to His Majesty the Ming Emperor."
The man on the throne is none other than Zhu Heji. He is concentrating on reading a book called "Arithmetic Principles of Natural Taoism". This book was co-authored by Zhu Heji himself and Leibouzny. Now He was reading only the first volume. The so-called "natural Taoism" is actually physics and chemistry, and this "Principles" is to combine them with mathematical methods to construct a complete set of "Taoism" (physics) and "spells" (chemistry) ) scientific theoretical system!
If this work is completed, then there will be mathematical tools for the theoretical study of "Natural Taoism"!
The significance of this matter to the development of "Taoism and Law" in the Ming Dynasty cannot be overemphasized!
Zhu Heji closed the book in his hand and seemed to be in a good mood. He glanced at Child and Qiongsen who had straightened up, and said with a smile: "You are here to negotiate for Wu Guogui and others to send troops to Tianzhu, right?"
Of course, Child's intention to come had already been reported to the Honglu Temple Division.
In fact, the officials of the Honglu Temple Division could answer him, but Zhu Heji saw that he was pitiful for coming all the way and being looted by Wu Guogui, so he mercifully summoned him in person.
"Yes." Child's answer was very straightforward, "I would like to remind your Majesty that the armies of five world powers are currently besieging India. If the Ming Empire does not want to be enemies of so many world powers, it should carefully remain neutral. "
Although Zhu Heji could not speak to Child in Latin, he could speak and understand Latin (he and Bei Jiaxin had learned Latin), so he answered directly in Chinese without waiting for others to translate: "It was eight... the Roman Pope, Sweden, and Rakshasa who joined the team that invaded Tianzhu! And our Ming Dynasty's position on the Tianzhu war is outsider neutrality. Although we sent troops to Tianzhu, we will also send troops to Tianzhu Weapons and equipment are provided, but we are neutral!
Also, we will soon declare war on Spain...because Spain has massacred our expats in Luzon many times over the decades, which is inexcusable! However, we still hope that Western countries, including England, that recognize justice and justice will remain neutral! "
