After explaining the entrusted custody system to the senior management of the expedition fleet, the expressions and performances of the several "senior officials" who participated in the negotiations varied, and the first person to express their opinions was actually Zhu Yingfeng, the representative of the nobles.
Zhu Yingfeng, with this name, one can tell that he comes from the line of Cheng Guogong and is the same generation as the contemporary Cheng Guogong Zhu Yingzhen.
Indeed, he is Zhu Yingzhen's cousin, and his grandfather is Zhu Xixiao, the younger brother of Laocheng Duke Zhu Xizhong and the former governor of Jinyiwei. However, Zhu Yingfeng was not Zhu Xixiao's direct grandson, but his concubine, and he was the fourth in the family, so his status was not very high.
Although Zhu Yingfeng's status was average, fortunately the Duke of Chengguo's family had a big business. When he came of age, he was still allocated some property. In addition to his residence, he also had about 20,000 taels of silver.
He was also a ruthless man. At that time, he gritted his teeth and poured all 20,000 taels of silver into the Chengguo Duke's fleet, obtaining 25% of the shares and dividends of an armed transport ship - that is, four One ship.
By the way, although Chengguo Gongfu has a great family and a great business, their fleet is not owned by Zhu Yingzhen alone. When building the fleet, they even learned from Jinghua in keeping with the times and established a "shareholding system". All tribesmen who have not yet entered the fifth server can freely participate in the shares. The share capital depends on how much you can come up with.
Zhu Yingfeng's share capital at that time could only be said to be neither large nor small. He took advantage of the fact that he had hundreds of households in Jinyiwei to receive salary under his name, and his idea was "even if I lose everything, I will never starve to death."
It didn't take long for this guy to become prosperous. After all, he was a child of a concubine. He was usually very frugal. He didn't fight crickets or walk his dog. When he had money, he continued to invest in the fleet. As a result, two years later, he owned two armed transport ships.
Zhu Yingzhen felt that his cousin was not bad, and he began to get close to him. Zhu Yingfeng simply took advantage of the situation and said that he wanted to quit his job as Jin Yiwei and concentrate on sea trade. Zhu Yingzhen was quite surprised at the time, but after careful discussion with him, he agreed.
So Zhu Yingfeng resigned from his official position and took charge of the maritime trade affairs of Duke Qi Cheng. During this expedition, he was probably the one with the highest status among the nobles. At least in terms of blood, he was a close brother of Duke Cheng.
Zhu Yingfeng said at this time: "What kind of entrusted guardianship system is this? I don't care about his guardianship and the like. The fundamentals of this system have broken the rules. According to their system, the entire Luzon is theirs." It belongs to the king. The king authorizes it to the governor below, and the governor in turn authorizes it to those guardians...
And we have just made our point of view: Luzon is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not the Spaniards who have the final say on how to deal with it, but only the Ming Dynasty. Commander, in my opinion, they are afraid that they are unwilling to give up this entrusted guardianship system, so let's not talk nonsense to them. Only when a mule or a horse is driven out can the real deal be seen. "
After all, Zhu Yingfeng's identity was here. His statement made Gao Zhenxin reluctant to remain silent. He could only say: "The problem at the moment is not whether we can fight. We can definitely fight. If we want to fight this battle, we will win 100% of the time." Ten can win. But the trouble is that my husband is worried that the Spaniards will be driven away. They will not even have a place to stay, which will affect the money coming from overseas."
Zhu Yingfeng frowned and asked: "Then what does Gao Situ have to say about this? I mean, which aspects can be compromised and which aspects cannot be compromised? We can't fight in vain. Luzon still has Has it really become the land of the Spaniards?”
"That's not true." Gao Zhenxin said: "My master's intention is that not only Luzon must be taken back, but the entire 'Philippine Islands' must be unified, which means that they all belong to Luzon."
There is a misunderstanding in later generations that "Luzon" in history includes the entire Philippines in later generations, but this is not the case. At most, Luzon is just the Luzon Island in the northern part of the Philippine Islands, and even Luzon Island may not be fully counted. However, its core ruling area is around Manila.
"Zhangjun Zhi" says: There are the countries of Luzon and Sulu in the East, and there are the countries of Siam and Champa in the West. Today, the merchant ships from the East and West are carried in Lingjia, and those from the East are Luzon, Wutong, Sayao, Tortoiseshell, Cebu, Wenlai, Nanwang, Dagang, Beacon Hill, Miyan, Zhongbang Yining, Malilu, Mi Liuhe, Gaoyao, Wuyun Fuhe, Lun'antang, Lupeng.
In fact, this record is not very accurate, especially the so-called Eastern and Western divisions, which are relatively vague. However, there are still some terms worth noting here, such as "Luzon, Wutong, Sayao, Tortoiseshell, and Cebu", which were the major countries in the Philippine Islands at that time (of course some names are different from the mainstream translations of later generations) ).
As for now, the "Governor-General of the Philippines" regards all these places as its own "jurisdiction", and they are all included in the "Philippine Islands".
Gao's pragmatic purpose is also very clear: all the above places, as long as they are under the jurisdiction of the Spanish and Philippine Governor-General, must be unified into a "Kingdom of Luzon", and then the whole becomes a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty - even if it is only in name. It's the so-called tributary state - that's fine too.
In short, to be pragmatic is to pack it all up and not to make it scattered. The Philippines is so big that it can create five or six kingdoms for it.
This is a bit troublesome. Land is a pragmatic and comprehensive thing; business is something he refuses to give up.
However, at this time, neither Gao Zhenxin nor Zhu Yingfeng expected that Gao Musan suddenly expressed his dissent.
Takagi San looked hesitant and said: "My master has known it for five hundred years before and five hundred years later. There is no one more knowledgeable in the world than me. Therefore, I must know the old things in Luzon during the Jiajing period, but I am stupid. I really don’t understand why the master is still obsessed with the name ‘Luzon’ under such old grievances.”
Gao Musan is from Guangdong, and he worked in the Nanyang Fleet before, so he "knows the old events in Luzon during the Jiajing period." However, Gao Zhenxin is a servant from Gao Zhenxin's hometown in Xinzheng, and Zhu Yingfeng needless to say, "Old Beijing" is also Therefore, the two of them were completely confused about this passage and were confused.
"What old things happened in Luzon during the Jiajing period?" Zhu Yingfeng asked in astonishment: "What happened... can be regarded as an old grudge?"
Takagi San was also a little surprised, and thought to himself: Could it be that only those of us in the south who live by the sea know about this?
So, he talked about this old incident.
In fact, it is more than just an old grudge. In fact, there is a murder in it. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a historical murder occurred between the Ming Empire and "Lu Song". In the final analysis, this murder was caused by Emperor Jiajing's misunderstanding of slander.
In the 30th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1551), Anda Khan in the north was knocking on the pass, Miao people in the south, Long Xubao, gathered to rebel, and Japanese pirates were rampant along the coast. The successive internal and external troubles made the Ming Dynasty's treasury increasingly empty.
Just when Emperor Jiajing was worried about his salary and silver, his ministers Yan Yinglong and Zhang Ni went to Shu and said: "Jiyi Mountain in Luzon produces gold and silver. If you mine it, you can get one hundred thousand taels of gold and three hundred thousand taels of silver every year." . Emperor Jiajing's eyes suddenly brightened, and he ordered Zhang Ni and others to go to Luzon as envoys to quickly implement the "overseas gold mining" plan.
Although Jiajing was in a hurry and confused, there were still quite a lot of understanding people in the court, so a minister pointed out: "Even if the opportunity is easy to cross the sea, there is no way for anyone to take advantage of it. There is no way for anyone to take advantage of it." Thousands and three hundred thousand silver, to be honest, they are just pretending to be ordered by the court to sneak out forbidden items and seduce various people to carry out their evil plans. Is it not only disturbing the public and private affairs, but also causing harm to Haicheng?"
Although the ministers tried their best to dissuade him, the emperor had already been blinded by gold and silver, and insisted on digging for gold regardless of the dissuasion of the ministers. Zhang Ni and others took the emperor's orders and quickly organized a huge "overseas gold-expanding group", and then sailed a mighty sea ship to Luzon.
The King of Luzon at that time was really taken aback by the uninvited motives of the Ming Dynasty. So at the banquet for the Ming Dynasty envoys, the King of Luzon asked straight to the point: "The heaven wants to send people to open mountains, and each mountain has its own owner. Can it be opened? For example, if there are mountains in my country, can our country be allowed to open?"
The King of Luzon’s words were hidden in words, intending to warn the Ming Dynasty envoy to give up his plan of traveling thousands of miles to dig out mountains for gold. Then the King of Luzon said again: “Golden beans grow from trees. From what tree do they grow?” The implication is that the Ming Dynasty envoy gave up his plan to dig mountains for gold. The so-called gold everywhere in Luzon, as mentioned by the minister, is completely false.
But Zhang Ni was not here to reason. He replied: "There is gold here, why bother asking where the beans come from?"
Seeing that the Ming envoy was unwilling to give up, the King of Luzon had no choice but to take the Ming envoy to Jiyi Mountain to dig for gold. However, when Zhang Ni and his party arrived at Jiyi Mountain, they did not find any gold. Wang Shihe, who was traveling with the Ming Dynasty envoy, had no choice but to put a basket of sand as evidence, and then returned to the court to resume his duties. Zhang Ni was captured by Lu The leader of the Song Dynasty detained him.
Since the sudden visit of this group of uninvited guests, the King of Luzon believed that the purpose of sending envoys from the Ming Dynasty was not to dig for gold, but to explore the reality of the Luzon Kingdom, with the purpose of wiping out Luzon in one fell swoop.
After that, the King of Luzon determined that the Chinese were a serious threat to them, and all Chinese residents were likely to act as spies and internal agents for the Ming Dynasty. For this reason, the King of Luzon came up with a vicious plan to completely eradicate the "cancer" of the Chinese.
So the next step was, "Next year, I will declare an invasion of neighboring countries and sell iron at a high price. The Chinese are greedy for profit, so the family is defenseless. The chief then ordered to record the names of the Chinese, divide them into three hundred people into a courtyard, and annihilate them as soon as they enter." When the incident was revealed, a group of Chinese people walked into the vegetable garden.
The chief sent troops to attack, but the people had no soldiers to fight, and they rushed to Dalun Mountain without any calculation of death. The barbarians came back to attack, and everyone fought to the death, but the barbarians suffered few defeats. The chief repented and sent envoys to discuss peace. People suspected it was fake and killed him. The chief was furious, gathered the people into the city, and set up an ambush beside the city. The people were very hungry, so they went down the mountain to attack the city. Fufa was defeated, and 25,000 people died. The chief issued an order to collect the plundered Chinese people's money and seal the storehouse."
What does this passage mean? That is to say, the evil plan of the ruler of Luzon was to launch an attack on neighboring countries, so the news of purchasing ironware at high prices caused the Chinese living in Luzon to sell all the ironware at home because they did not know what was going on. As a result, the situation of "their families were defenseless" .
The King of Luzon seized this opportunity to massacre the Chinese and took advantage of the situation to rob and rob all the Chinese property in Luzon. After five months of the "Luzon Massacre", 20,000 of the original 30,000 Chinese were killed. With more than 5,000 people, the population has almost dropped by half.
After the massacre of the Chinese people in Luzon, the king of Luzon hypocritically wrote a letter to Fujian Governor Xu Xueju with the lie that "the Chinese are planning to cause rebellion and have no choice but to be the first to do so. Please ask the family members of the deceased to collect their children and money."
When Xu Xueju learned about the brutal massacre of the Chinese people who stayed in Luzon, he was naturally shocked and quickly reported it to the court. Emperor Jiajing learned that it was certain that Long Yan would be furious, so he issued an edict and reprimanded him: "You deceived the imperial court and provoked overseas, causing 20,000 merchants to use up their talents, harming the prestige and humiliating the country, and unjustly died. That is the first biography of Xiao." Show it to the sea. The chief of Luzon is good at killing merchants and civilians, and he will be punished by officials to discuss the crime."
However, regarding Emperor Jiajing Tianwei's anger, the history books record: "Xueju and others moved to Luzon and charged him with murder without authorization. They ordered the wife of the deceased to be sent back, but they could not ask for it!"
What's the meaning? It was when Xu Xueju, the governor of Fujian, denounced Luzon's anti-human atrocities and asked Luzon to return the Chinese people who died in the anti-China atrocities at the emperor's command, the other party actually ignored him!
You are a dynasty that prohibits the sea, why should I, Luzon, fear you like a tiger? If I kill those Chinese, I will kill them. What can you do to me?
It’s nothing more than “I can’t ask for it!”
This is what Takagi San can't understand. The country of Luzon has actually been destroyed by the Spaniards, but the master not only wants to "continue to survive or die" to help Luzon recover, he even wants to destroy the other countries in the "Philippine Islands". It’s incredible that all the countries have been merged into Luzon, isn’t it?
Gao Zhenxin and Zhu Yingfeng didn't know about this, but Gao Musan could understand. But if I say that the master doesn’t know about this, Takagi San definitely doesn’t believe it—the Wanli Dynasty’s “Da Ming Huidian” was actually written by the master. How could the master not know about this?
After listening to Gao Musan's explanation, Gao Zhenxin was actually full of doubts, but he also believed that Gao Pragmatic must know about this matter, so for him, he could only find rationality for Gao Pragmatic's order.
Gao Zhenxin muttered: "You are right, it is impossible for the master not to know about this. There must be a reason why he still ordered the restoration of Luzon Kingdom..."
Having said that, he couldn't think of what the reason was for a moment. Fortunately, at this time, Zhu Yingfeng, as a noble son from a "political family", finally saw it more deeply. He laughed and said: "What is there to doubt about this? Although I am stupid, I can still guess one or two of them."
Gao Zhenxin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said: "Please give me some advice."
Zhu Yingfeng said: "Our dynasty is so benevolent and benevolent that we don't care about past grudges, but only put the righteousness of survival first. This is the magnanimous mind of Gao Situ."
What a bullshit, everyone knew it was definitely not the main reason, but Gao Zhenxin and Gao Musan still nodded repeatedly to save their face.
Zhu Yingfeng probably also knew what they were thinking. He said this in one sentence, and then said: "In this land of 'Philippines', Luzon is the only country that once paid tribute to our Ming Dynasty. No matter what old grudges happened at that time, it cannot change the distinction between king and minister." occasion.
Today, Da Sinong wants to take over all parts of the Philippines. If there is no Luzon as a sign, wouldn’t we be doing this without a name? Even if it is to avenge the past, the Luzon Kingdom has long been destroyed by the Spaniards. It is hard for Da Sinong to transfer this grudge to the Spaniards... Do you two think so? "
oh! That’s what happened!
Gao Zhenxin and Gao Musan looked at each other and suddenly realized: What the master cares about is not "Luzon" itself. He just needs "Luzon" as a sign of the "Ming Dynasty" to approve a tiger skin for this troop dispatch and have a famous military leader. .
As for the future, I'm afraid this Luzon is not that Luzon at all.
That's right, this is what the master of practical learning who "has changed his authority" does!
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