While listening to the Spanish translator describing the conditions put forward by Marquis Mendoza one by one, Guo Youde frowned slightly and kept shaking his big head, as if he had encountered something very difficult.
After the Spanish translator finished speaking, he smacked his lips twice before he said, "Why do Spain and Shang Fang have any hatred? Why did they use smallpox to harm other people before? Isn't this an outrageous act? Now it's still like this They are ready to kill everyone, and they are willing to pay 10 million pesos a year to buy the neutrality of the Ming Dynasty...Why is this? How come their Shang Fang country has offended your Spain? Marquis, Ni, you have to make it clear. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to report to my superiors!”
What Guo Youde said was translated into Latin by the translator from Honglu Temple. When the Marquis of Mendoza heard this, he immediately said seriously: "Your Majesty, the conflict between our Spanish Empire and the Shang Fang Kingdom is based on religious beliefs. This is a religious war! Our Spanish Empire is a divine favor under the banner of Christ. The country of Shang Fang believes in the devil. This is a battle between God and the devil! If the Ming Empire cannot stand on the side of God, please don’t stand on the side of the devil... That will be a disaster for all mankind. It would be a disaster!”
"The battle between God and... the devil?" Guo Youde listened to what the translator relayed, with a look of surprise on his dark face, "Mr. Men, what is Ni Liao doing? Ni Liao is from Spain. Envoy, shouldn’t Ni Ni take care of this matter of God and the devil? If Ni Ni is an envoy from the old Pope of Rome, then I am not here to talk to you, as the Minister of Honglu Temple. I don’t care about monsters and monsters.”
"Your Majesty the Marquis, of course I am the envoy of the Spanish Emperor." Marquis Mendoza also frowned. The relationship here is indeed difficult to explain. "In our West, religious affairs and politics are not separated. The Spanish Emperor is God's A true believer, he will never tolerate the followers of the devil who are enemies of God running rampant on the American continent! His Majesty the Emperor also sincerely hopes that Ming Dynasty can stand on the right side."
Guo Youde listened to the Spanish translator translating Marquis Mendoza's words into Chinese. His brows became tighter and tighter, and his face became darker and darker. Just looking at it gave Marquis Mendoza a headache.
Lord Guo then posed another problem to Mendoza, "Well... tell me now, God and the devil, who is good and who is bad? We have to distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil." , then decide who to help, right?"
When his words were translated into Latin, Marquis Mendoza had the urge to overturn the table and leave.
Can God and the Devil compare to each other? This is incomparable. If you ask this question, you should be burned at the stake!
But Guo Youde was the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty... was too powerful! Unless God, the Heavenly Father, and Jesus, the Heavenly Brother, come down to earth in person, no one can do anything to them.
"Of course God is good!" Mendoza had no choice but to tell Guo Youde, "Because God created the world and God loves the world! And the devil is actually one of the angels created by God. He fell because of his delusion to be equal to God and became The devil. Although the devil has a superhuman persona, he specializes in resisting God and tempting people to sin. He will eventually be thrown into the lake of fire and suffer eternal punishment at the end of the world!"
This means memorizing the Bible. The words in the Bible are never wrong.
"What do you mean by poisoning?" Guo Youde asked with a serious face, "Have you Spaniards done this immoral thing more than once? You used it against the Aztecs and Incas in the early years! By the way, you seem to want to use 20,000 people to conquer our great Ming Dynasty... Do you also want to poison smallpox first? Honestly, you Spaniards are the ones who want to do these evil things. Or was it done by God?"
This is really impossible to talk about!
After hearing Guo Youde's words relayed by the translator, Marquis Mendoza didn't know how to continue the conversation... If he continued to talk, he himself would become a damn heretic! After returning to Spain, it’s time to surrender to the Inquisition!
"Why don't you say anything?" Seeing Marquis Mendoza speechless there, Guo Youde was of course unforgiving. "If you don't say anything, you have a devil in your heart!"
"Your Majesty the Marquis!" Although he felt that the conversation was a little difficult, the Marquis of Mendoza could only bite the bullet and continue talking, "The questions you raised seriously offended my religious beliefs. I want to protest and refuse to answer!"
In fact, he couldn't answer it - if he said that God ordered the poisoning, he would be slandering God and he would go to hell! If he says that this was not done by God, then that is what the King of Spain means, that is, he is slandering the King and will be beheaded!
In short, it doesn't end well anyway.
Moreover, what is going on now is a formal diplomatic negotiation. There are people on both sides recording what they say. But you can't talk nonsense. If you turn around and let the Pope or the Emperor know that you are talking nonsense, then you don't have to go to hell immediately?
"You want to protest?" Guo Youde looked incomprehensible, "Why are you protesting? You guys have done so many things that are harmful to heaven and earth, and yet you don't allow others to say anything about it. Is that still reasonable? You still think that I am a noble person. , are you afraid of Spain?"
After he said these words, he opened his eyes angrily and stared at Marquis Mendoza, looking like he was about to fall out!
Seeing that Guo Youde was about to fall out, Marquis Mendoza quickly changed the subject, "Marquis, please don't dwell on these moral issues... There are only interests between countries, and there is no morality. Even if our Spanish Empire did what we did in the past Things that are not in line with your Ming Dynasty’s moral values should not be an obstacle for our two countries to pursue common interests.”
After hearing this, Guo Youde just snorted coldly and said: "My Ming Dynasty is the Celestial Dynasty. Will the Celestial Empire care about the small profits Spain gives me? Besides, Luzon Island has long been in the possession of my Ming Dynasty." . Ten million pesos a year is nothing to me, the Ming Dynasty... The Ming Dynasty now has a lot of money!
Moreover, our Ming Dynasty conquers people with virtue and builds a country with virtue! Therefore, my Ming Dynasty’s diplomacy must also be ethical! "
After hearing what the translator relayed, Mendoza's face darkened, "Marquis, do you, the Ming Dynasty, want to side with the merchants and the devil and fight Spain under the protection of God in the distant Americas?"
After listening to the questions turned over by the Spanish translator, Guo Youde sneered a few times: "Listen up, Ni, my Ming Dynasty is strong, but I don't fight, I only like to resolve fights... What we mean is to let God Let's make peace with the devil and the other two families! God and Lucifer are not outsiders either. As for the quarrel like that? Can't we talk about it?
As for Nigeria, Spain should also make peace with the merchants, demarcate the boundaries, and prevent each other from invading each other. From now on, everyone will go their own way, and the waters in the well will not infringe upon the waters in the river. Ni, do you think this is okay? "
Now the Marquis of Mendoza fell into deep thought.
Can God and the Devil make peace? Of course that is impossible!
But can Spain and the merchants demarcate the border and prevent each other from violating each other? It seems...it's possible! If the old foolish Pope couldn't invite God to help, then the Spanish army would probably not be able to defeat the merchants.
Of course, the two viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru have very vast territories and large populations, which cannot be swallowed up by the Shang Fang State. According to Spanish assessments, the Shang Fang State should have a population of dozens of people. Thousands, a small country with a total population of more than one million. It simply cannot swallow up too much land and population, so if the Spanish Empire cannot defeat it, it can still seek peace.
And what goal does this moral-speaking Foreign Minister of the Ming Dynasty (Qing Honglu Temple) want to achieve? Could it be that the Ming Dynasty wanted to gain access to the New World by mediating the conflict between Spain and the Shang Kingdom?
Thinking of this, the Marquis of Mendoza pondered and said: "Your Excellency, it is Spain, not the Shang Fang State, that is actually being attacked now... It was the Shang Fang State that supported and incited the Aztecs in the Spanish Empire. The rebellion launched by the Turks and Incas has caused heavy losses to the Spanish Empire! If the Ming Dynasty wanted to persuade peace, it should first persuade the merchant country to stop its invasion of Spain. As for the previous poisoning incident, it was actually the predecessor of New Spain The vice king’s personal behavior is not the will of the Spanish Empire. And the Spanish Empire is also willing to discuss the issue of compensation with Shang Fang.”
Mendoza's words were what Guo Youde wanted. Because Emperor Zhu Da of the Ming Dynasty had little interest in annexing Mexico, he always wanted to get rid of the United States.
This is called strategic determination. Even if the United States has not yet appeared, it must be resolutely contained!
To ensure that the future King of Shang Fang and Yin Jiahan can always regard the central part of the North American continent as their main development direction, they must maintain a strong New Spain. Otherwise, if they all went to "Old Mo" to make quick money, who would go to America?
"Okay!" Guo Youde slapped the table, "Since the nun agrees to make peace, then let's go with me to Xi'an Mansion to see the Holy Emperor."
"Going to Xi'an?" Marquis Mendoza heard the interpreter saying he was going to Xi'an and asked curiously, "Isn't the capital of the Ming Dynasty Nanjing?"
Guo Youde smiled and explained: "Isn't it that Ge Erdan, D Laihan, Sangyi Gyatso and Yinreng from the west are having too much fun? Your Majesty personally went to Xi'an at the end of last year."
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Daming, Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Prefecture.
It is already the autumn of the eleventh year of the Grand Duke, which is October 1690 in the Western calendar. It has been almost three years since the Qing Dynasty "Yin Wumu" left Tianshan! It has been almost two years since Zhu Heda granted the title of King of Shangfang and Khan of the Yin family.
In the past two or three years, the development of the seven inner vassals in the three capitals and twenty-one provinces of the Ming Dynasty has been relatively stable... By the way, the three capitals of the Ming Dynasty are Beijing Shuntian Prefecture, Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture, and Haijing. Guangzhou Prefecture. The twenty-one provinces of the Ming Dynasty added eight provinces including Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Huaibei, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and North Korea to the original thirteen provinces. The seven major internal vassals of the Ming Dynasty were Prince Chahar, Prince Shunyi, Prince Ili, Prince Junger, Prince Khovd, Prince Turpan and General Kangxi.
Judging from the map, the current mainland of the Ming Dynasty is quite vast, reaching the Arctic Ocean in the north - according to the "Ming-Rakshasa Delimitation Agreement", the coastal area of Eastern Siberia was assigned to the Ming Dynasty, and it is now considered Entering the territory of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, although this large coastal area is extremely empty, there are only a dozen strongholds in total. However, these dozen or so strongholds are all located at the mouths of rivers and natural harbors. As long as they are defended firmly, such a large area of open land will always be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and no one can take it away.
In addition, the entire Mongolian Plateau, including the North Sea and Lake Baikal, is now also a territory firmly controlled by the Ming Dynasty! In order to firmly control the area around Lake Baikal, the Ming Dynasty not only sealed General Kangxi, but also moved tens of thousands of Ming Eight Banners from Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and other places to settle there, and also built a Beihai King City on the edge of the North Sea. , as the hub of trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Rakshasa Kingdom - now the trade volume between the Ming Dynasty and the Rakshasa Kingdom is also growing. The Ming Dynasty needs to import furs from the Rakshasa Kingdom, while the Rakshasa Kingdom needs silk, porcelain, and sugar from the Ming Dynasty. The trade between the two sides It was done successfully, so the situation on the border between the two countries was relatively stable.
What is less stable are the five territories of Yeerqiang, Kashgar, Khotan, Qinghai (excluding Xining Prefecture), and Xueyu that have not yet been included in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty... According to Zhu Heji In his mind, these five territories can also be based on the seven inner vassals. First, accept the inner vassal, and also grant the five vassal kings to rule. From now on, the mainland of the Ming Dynasty will be the three capitals, twenty-one provinces, and twelve vassals. When conditions are ripe, it will become the three capitals and thirty-three provinces.
But the problem is that Galdan, D Laihan, and Sanji Gyatso refused to accept the Ming Dynasty's kindness...especially Galdan, who didn't even think about Emperor Zhu taking care of Ah Ming for him. Nukedun's kindness in recent years must be resisted by the Celestial Empire to the end. In the past two years, they have launched several offensives against the territories under the jurisdiction of the Prince of Turpan and Prince of Ili. Although they were defeated by Cewang Alabutan and Ling Zongjun, they never suffered a fatal blow.
At the same time, Kang Mazi's second son Yinreng established Suiye Mansion in the Chu River Basin next to the jurisdiction of Prince Yili. He also set up a personal expedition camp in Suiye Mansion, and went eastward from the Tianshan Mountains twice to invade Yili. The area under the jurisdiction of the Prince's Mansion was to cooperate with Galdan's attack on the Prince's Mansion of Ili and the Prince's Mansion of Turpan County.
When Zhu Heji failed to appease them, he had to use force to pacify Yerqiang, Kashgar, Khotan, Qinghai and Xueyu. However, we cannot rely solely on force. We still need to have seven parts political and three parts military. Because the purpose of Zhu Heji's troops was not to eliminate the Mongolian nomadic groups that ruled those places, but to force them to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
In order to more conveniently win over the upper-class Mongolian forces in those places, Emperor Zhu left Nanjing in the autumn of the 10th year of the Grand Duke. With a streamlined court, he patrolled all the way and traveled westward. Finally, on the third day of the 10th year of the Grand Duke's reign, Emperor Zhu Before the arrival of Ten, he arrived in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and established a personal expedition camp in Xi'an. I started to rectify the political and military affairs of Shaanxi and Gansu, and at the same time deployed the war to pacify Galdan, Heshuote and the Snowy Plateau. At the same time, I had to deal with the confused Yinreng. I was really busy... ....
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