"Your Majesty, this is actually not the first time I have seen this kind of full-body plate armor, although it is more sophisticated." Qi Jiguang looked at the little emperor and talked about the past.
Zhu Yijun was stunned, and he said doubtfully: "Tell me more specifically."
Qi Jiguang said with a sad face: "In the 27th year of Jiajing reign, Zhejiang governor Zhu Wan swept away the Japanese nests on Shuangyu Islands in Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang Province. Among the Japanese pirates at that time, there were Xiaofo Langjiren, Japanese slaves, and black pirates. Fan and the desperadoes, and captured ninety-six people including the bandit leaders Baldy Li and Xu Dong, were able to obtain two pairs of bronze and iron suozi armors and a third pair of iron Hun armors."
"Tiehun armor is this kind of full-body plate armor, which is completely integrated."
"That's it. It turns out to be iron armor, completely integrated." Zhu Yijun nodded repeatedly. It's not that Ming Dynasty knew nothing about plate armor. Even Qi Jiguang had seen it with his own eyes. However, this kind of armor was too expensive to list. Pack.
"This Zhu Wan began to pacify the Japanese in the 27th year of Jiajing. How come I have never heard of his deeds?" Zhu Yijun was unfamiliar with Zhu Wan's name.
Qi Jiguang looked unbearable and was silent for a long time before saying: "Zhu Wan later committed suicide to express his will. The deputy envoy Ke Qiao and the Zhejiang general Lu Bor were sentenced to be beheaded in public. Later, the two generals were exempted from the death penalty. Lu Bor and his ministers leaned against each other in the southeast corner. Let’s defeat the captives together.”
"Suicide?" Zhu Yijun frowned and looked at Qi Jiguang with a slightly puzzled expression. How could Pingbo go so far as to commit suicide?
Qi Jiguang actually didn't want to talk about the dirty things in the past. Now the Ming Dynasty is regaining its strength and everything is getting better. The dirty things in the past have disappeared over time. But Qi Jiguang thought about it again and again and said: "Your Majesty, please." I’ll give you a detailed report.”
"At that time, the world had been at peace for a long time. The traitors came in and out privately, colluding with the Japanese and the Folangji people. On the Shuangyu Islands in Ningbo, various countries traded with each other. The management was governed by pledges and contracts, and it was well-documented."
"The powerful families in the southeast have propped up this mutual market, and with the support of the powerful families, naturally no one dares to touch these two mutual markets. However, there are more and more Japanese pirates, Buddhists, gangsters, and desperadoes. The Hao family cannot be restrained and frequently invades borders."
"Governor Zhu Wan arrived in Zhejiang, rectified the coastal defense, and led the general Lu Bor to exterminate the Japanese pirates everywhere. The powerful family lost a lot of money and lost a lot of profits. They wantonly created public opinion, saying that the thieves killed by Zhu Wan and Lu Bor were all good people. , not a traitor party. Officials in the court impeached him one after another."
"Zhu Wan, Lu Borong and others attacked Wen, Pan and Nanji thieves. They fought continuously for three months and defeated them. They also defeated the mining pirates in Chuzhou and finally eliminated the Shuangyu Japanese pirates."
"Zhan Rong, the minister of war, Chen Jiude, the censor of the Fujian Province, and Weng Wanjian, the minister of the war, impeached Zhu Wan for killing without authorization. The military department investigated and interrogated Du Ruzhen and Chen Zongkui, the censor of the patrol, and convicted Zhu Wan of killing without authorization."
"Zhejiang Governor Zhu Wan committed suicide to express his ambition."
Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment and said, "Just like what Wang Bai and Huang Qing did in Tuen Mun and Hao Jing?"
"Your Majesty, your Majesty." Qi Jiguang said sadly: "After the death of Zhu Wan, the governor of Zhejiang, no one dared to accept the position of governor of Zhejiang. Zhu Wan, Lu Bor and others revitalized the 41st Zhejiang Guards Station and built warships. Four hundred and thirty-nine ships.”
"Deputy Envoy Ding Zhan, I am afraid that the fire at the city gate will affect the fish in the pond, so I will send all the guards and warships away. Since then, the pirates have been on the rise and the Japanese invasion has continued, and they have been wreaking havoc on the southeast for more than ten years."
Qi Jiguang talked about this past event with a sad expression on his face. It took decades of struggle to level the Japanese and open the sea. Finally, a compromise was reached under the collision of contradictions. However, in the process of this struggle, the most injured person was Those are the people in the southeast.
"I understand." Zhu Yijun nodded solemnly. Whether the Japanese were pacified and the Japanese were not pacified completely, they also experienced frequent and bloody struggles, and finally reached the current balanced state. However, in this balance, there are many new contradictions.
No wonder Feng Bao was in the Wenhua Palace, angrily scolding the southeastern Jin gentry, fearing that adding a hurdle would be detrimental to business, and refused to do so. This was not empty talk, it was the summary of decades of struggle.
But now, the Ming Dynasty wants to set up a government-run Municipal Shipping Department in Songjiang Prefecture, and a new struggle has begun.
Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "Is something going to happen to Yin Zhengmao? He expelled the Haojing Hongmao Fan and inspected the private affairs."
Qi Jiguang looked strange and said in a slightly unspeakable voice: "No, Yin Zhengmao is a bad person."
Not only is Zhang Juzheng protecting Yin Zhengmao, Yin Zhengmao himself is a bad guy.
"Bad guy..." Zhu Yijun smiled when he heard what Qi Jiguang said. Yin Zhengmao is a corrupt official known to the world, a big bad guy, and a bad guy worse than the powerful people in Extreme South. So the powerful people in Extreme South can't do anything. Yin Zhengmao was holding the knife, so Yin Zhengmao dared to inspect the private affairs of Dianbai Port, and dared to send Wang Bai and Huang Qing to the capital to impeach them for losing their land.
Zhu Wan, the governor of Zhejiang Province, was a good man, so he committed suicide to express his ambition. Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was a bad man, even worse than Quan Hao.
The wicked still need to be punished by the wicked.
Seeing that His Majesty could understand what he was talking about, Qi Jiguang continued: "Two pieces of red-haired iron armor were seized from the southeast. They are completely different from today's iron armor. The iron armor seized from the southeast is extremely thin, and is much thinner than our Ming cloth armor." The steel lining is even thinner.”
"If the steel plate lining of my Ming Dynasty cloth armor is one thickness, then the Tie Hun armor captured in the southeast is only half as thick, while the plate armor donated by Dafo Langji's special envoy is two to three thicknesses."
Plate armor and plate armor are not exactly the same. The plate armor in front of me is what the nobles use. It is at least about three millimeters thick and weighs forty-five kilograms. Instead of nobles, the plate armor used by low-level infantry is just a thin layer.
The plate armor used by nobles and even the Thai and Western royal families was made by craftsmen who used calipers to measure it inch by inch from head to toe to get the appropriate size of the plate armor. Then dozens of craftsmen made it by hand, requiring various special tools, including hammers. They all have different types and parts, and are tailor-made according to the user's body shape.
"Qi Shuai can shoot through this kind of plate armor that is baked blue with patterns and looks very thick at first glance?" Zhu Yijun was a little unconvinced. The design of the plate armor has many curved surfaces. These curved surfaces can effectively deflect and relieve force. What kind of force does it take to penetrate it?
Qi Jiguang smiled and said, "Yes."
"Try?" Zhu Yijun's martial arts room was a shooting range. He supported the plate armor presented by Li Yashi, and then filled it with pork ribs until it was completely propped up.
Qi Jiguang walked to the school ground and picked up the Huli Bow. The Huli Bow weighed more than 120 kilograms. The draw distance was two feet, eight and five centimeters, and the arrows were two liang, four qian, flat, four-ribbed, armor-piercing arrows with clusters of arrows. All steel, cold light.
Qi Jiguang was warming up, but Zhu Yijun interrupted Qi Jiguang's warm-up and said: "Qi Shuai, let Li Rusong do it."
Qi Jiguang is already forty-five years old. At this age, his body functions have declined. If he shoots such a strong bow again, especially when testing broken plate armor, if Qi Jiguang gets injured, where will Zhu Yijun go to cry? Qi Jiguang didn't take care of his own body, so Zhu Yijun still had to take care of his general!
"I can still drive!" Qi Jiguang said very dissatisfiedly: "It's really possible."
"It can't be pulled. Call Li Rusong and ask him to shoot the strong bow. He can also shoot the tiger bow." Zhu Yijun still refused and signaled to call Li Rusong, Li Chengliang's eldest son. Li Rusong was in his early twenties, at his peak.
Qi Jiguang couldn't resist it. This was His Majesty's intention to protect him, so he could only wait aside.
Li Rusong came to the martial arts room with a heavy back, and saluted in a muffled voice: "Greetings to your majesty, your majesty is mighty!"
"No gifts, no gifts." Zhu Yijun briefly introduced the test. Li Rusong asked His Majesty to move a little further away to observe the ceremony and began to warm up. This kind of warm-up took a little longer, and it was the first time for Zhu Yijun to see it.
Zhu Yijun was also eye-opening and said: "No wonder in the Song Dynasty, every time those archers fired an arrow, the general had to reward them immediately, otherwise the archers would stop shooting. It turned out to be such a trouble."
Upon hearing this, Qi Jiguang hurriedly said: "Archers are expensive and difficult to train, so I have always respected muskets."
Now, in the second year of Wanli, bows and arrows can shoot far and have great power, but Qi Jiguang still highly recommends training gunmen because they are cheap.
Fireguns, gunpowder, and lead bullets are expensive, so aren't archers' bows and arrows expensive?
Li Rusong finally warmed up, held the tiger bow in his hand, closed his eyes and braced himself, constantly adjusted his breathing, placed the heavy arrow on the bow string, slowly opened his eyes, and slowly pulled the bow string to Full Moon, his eyes narrowed slightly, he let go suddenly, and the arrow shot out as fast as cold light.
"Whoosh!"
The arrow cluster shot out like a bolt, flying straight towards the plate armor. There was a loud noise and sparks flew everywhere. The arrow pierced into the plate armor. The arrow shaft bent visibly and then straightened, and the arrow bounced in again. .
Zhu Yijun saw the Tiger Force Bow fired for the first time. He was willing to call it a siege ram launcher. How could this thing be an arrow?
In his eyes, Li Rusong had turned into a humanoid Gundam.
"What happened just now?" Zhu Yijun stared at this scene in stunned silence. He just heard a sharp sound, like the neighing of a bird.
Qi Jiguang was puzzled for a moment, then he judged the little emperor's problem clearly and said: "When the arrow is fired, there is a sound when the arrow is fired, there is a sound when the sound arrow is fired, and there is a sound when the heavy arrow is fired."
If you don't shoot a resounding arrow, the sound of a buzzing arrow is indeed rare.
Li Rusong put down the Tiger Force Bow, moved his body, and kept looking forward. He was also looking forward to the result. The last time he provoked Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun, he was taught a lesson twice, which made Li Rusong lose his confidence.
He was very confident that he could penetrate the twenty-step archery target, but he was still a little uneasy when the results failed to come out.
"It's been shot through, it's been shot through." Zhang Hong ran over and took the armor that was shot through, placed it in front of the emperor and said: "It penetrated the upper left side of the lung, three inches into the flesh, and the ribs were broken."
Zhang Hong reported the results, and Li Rusong was relieved.
Zhu Yijun looked at the smashed pork chop. The arrow penetrated three inches under the meat, which was fatal. Zhu Yijun looked at the fracture on the steel surface of the plate armor and let Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong who were waiting aside take a look.
"White iron, isn't this steel?" The more Li Rusong looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. The fracture of this thing didn't look like a hundred-refined steel, but more like white iron. He asked with some uncertainty.
Qi Jiguang looked at it carefully and said, "It is indeed iron."
The square object that the Dafo Lang robot paid tribute to, the Greenwich-style plate armor, is made of iron, not steel. The carbon content of white iron is 2.5%. In general, the carbon content of steel does not exceed 1.7%. Qi Jiguang After decades of fighting, you can still tell whether it is steel or iron by looking at the fractures.
"It's shoddy! The big Buddha Langji man offered the gift and fooled me with iron!" the little emperor said angrily.
Zhang Hong thought for a moment and said, "Is it possible that the Thai people think this is steel?"
"This is the Ming Dynasty, so naturally we follow the Ming Dynasty's standards!" Zhu Yijun said with certainty. To deceive the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you have to pay a price. This is typical blackmail. The insidious and cunning little emperor is playing a kind of politics called making cards out of thin air. means.
Creating trouble out of thin air and then engaging in further diplomatic fraud was a method commonly used by Angsa barbarians in later generations.
Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong were silent and said no more. The quality of this thing was already very good. Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong believed that Dafo Lang Ji Ren was not intentional.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was supreme and ruled over tens of thousands of people. As a little emperor who was supported by all the people, the items used by the emperor were naturally of high quality, such as steel and white iron. Looking at the world at the moment, only the Ming Dynasty had such standards.
But Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong didn't say anything. They were just generals.
Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to come over and tailor Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong to prepare a pair of steel plate armors for them.
Seeing that the little emperor really planned to make it, Qi Jiguang reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this thing can still be used during etiquette, but it cannot be used on the battlefield."
"We in the Ming Dynasty have a kind of bed crossbow, called the Three-Gong Mu Crossbow. It is about the size of a table. The arrows are one shot and three sword arrows. They use spears as arrows. The bed crossbow with seventy men's hair is worn like this. He is a target on the battlefield, and the enemy will know he is a general as soon as he sees him."
"During the Battle of Chanzhou between Song and Liao Dynasties, Xiao Taolin, the commander of the Liao Dynasty, relied on his bravery, wore bright clothes and angry horses, and led dozens of light cavalry to patrol the city of Chanzhou. The powerful leaders of the Song army, Zhang Qian and Zhou Wenzhi, were hit with crossbows. Xiao Tarin."
The three-bowed mu crossbow used by seventy people is a weapon used to defend the city. It is specially designed to kill the frontline generals in bright clothes and angry horses. Now there are cannons. What is the point of putting this thing on the battlefield?
"If my Ming Dynasty has elite cavalry, there is no need for more. With three thousand people on heavy cavalry, and everyone wearing such heavy armor, they will be invincible." Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, it is not suitable for large-scale deployment, so he will take the elite route.
Qi Jiguang swallowed his throat secretly. Three thousand plate armor cavalry, Your Majesty really dares to think!
Qi Shuai sighed and said: "Three thousand... I am afraid that the great Situ will resign immediately and leave the court. Eight hundred is probably the limit."
"Let's build it for fun first, in case we get rich one day!" Zhu Yijun exhaled after hearing this. People are poor and have short ambitions. Poverty is the shortcoming of the Ming Dynasty, not the shortcomings of plate armor.
"Your Majesty, a country that can create such armor is no longer an ordinary barbarian. You should be cautious and cautious. What exactly does this red-haired fan mean?" Qi Jiguang talked about this big Buddha robot from a professional military perspective. Completely different from the barbarians around the Ming Dynasty.
The construction of armor or ordnance can, to a certain extent, reflect his national power.
The firearms and other items of the Little Franji people are no different from those of the Ming Dynasty. This is already very scary. The Ming Dynasty is a behemoth in the known world, but the military, political, cultural, and economic aspects of the Little Franji people seem to be the same as those of the Ming Dynasty. There is not much gap in Ming Dynasty.
In less than fifty years, the Dafo Langji people once again came into the sight of the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was their merchant ships, firearms, or armor, they were all unique and could even be said to be leading. This requires vigilance.
The sky is constantly changing, the earth is constantly changing, and people are constantly changing. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to always maintain its arms advantage, commodity advantage, and cultural advantage. For example, in the commodity ship, the Ming Dynasty has completely lost its commodity advantage.
This is a reality that is difficult to accept for the Ming Dynasty, which claims to be a kingdom of heaven, or for the Ming Dynasty, which has a distinction between Chinese and foreign countries, but it has to be accepted.
While calling the other party a barbarian, you still want to buy the other party's things. This kind of mentality of being both responsible and upright is not good for the country.
After losing its military advantage, commodity advantage and cultural advantage, it will lose its political advantage. The final result is that Ming Dynasty will fall from the unattainable heaven.
On that day, the Ming Dynasty, or the Central Plains, will perish in hell.
"Everyone has his or her own strengths, and so does the country. I also understand Commander Qi's concerns. A ship can carry four million taels of silver and cross the ocean to the Ming Dynasty. I have never underestimated them." Zhu Yijun smiled. He said: "Weakness and backwardness are the results of arrogance."
“A sea that is open to all rivers is a great place, and learning from each other’s strong points and eliminating weaknesses to retain the best is the basis of the theory of contradiction.”
Qi Jiguang found that his worries were completely unnecessary. The little emperor didn't know whether it was because he was not doing his job properly and did not study well and did not learn the difference between Huayi and Huayi. The emperor did not seem to be very surprised that Ming Dynasty was lagging behind in a certain field. He accepted the situation calmly and did not become angry because of it. He chose to deal with the distant envoys with arrogance.
"Your Majesty is wise." Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong said.
Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong to hang up the plate armor again, then took out his 34-pound soft bow, took aim and shot at the plate armor. The arrow hit the plate armor with a soft sound and fell. on the ground.
There is no doubt that Zhu Yijun's soft-armor light arrow landed on the plate armor, leaving a small hole, let alone a hole.
Zhu Yijun started practicing martial arts every day.
In the afternoon, Legaz and Antonio, who were at Guanyi, saw the pitted plate armor and the hole in the middle, which shocked Legaz.
"How is this possible? How is this possible?" Legas said with great annoyance: "Even the English longbowmen cannot leave such wounds on the plate armor! Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"This is our two-two-four-cent flat four-ribbed armor-piercing arrow, and a tiger-force bow weighing more than 120 kilograms." Honglu Temple Qing Chen Xuexue put the armor-piercing bow and arrow on the table and said with a smile: "Slow down. , don’t get hurt.”
The general translated the words accurately. Ligas held the arrow and inserted the arrow cluster into the wound. It fit perfectly. It was the arrow that wounded the plate armor.
This was the bow and arrow that damaged the plate armor. Even Antonio couldn't believe it, but the fact was before his eyes.
Chen Xuexue, in November of the first year of Wanli, was promoted from Wai Lang, a member of the Langzhong Committee of the Yunnan Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, to Zuo Shaoqing, the Qing of Honglu Temple. There was no Honglu Temple Qing above him, and the previous Honglu Temple Qing was dismissed because of the loss of his dynasty. .
Chen Xuexue is the chief official of Honglu Temple and is in charge of the affairs of Honglu Temple.
The tribute trade of the Ming Dynasty has been completely destroyed due to the Japanese rebellion during the Jiajing period. Honglu Temple itself has become an idle department. Apart from North Korea and Ryukyu, Honglu Temple has basically no errands to speak of.
The Jin Kingdom and the tribute market of the Ming Dynasty were completely controlled by the Jin Party and in the hands of Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda. They had nothing to do with Honglu Temple. The city shipping department of Yuegang was no longer under the control of Honglu Temple, but was controlled by Honglu Temple. The Ministry of Revenue and the inner court were in complete control.
Chen Xuexue was a member of the Zhang Party. He was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing. He was placed in this position by Zhang Juzheng. The errands were brought back under the management of the imperial court.
And Chen Xuexue didn't expect that while he was waiting for the training in the Beijing camp to be successful, he would first have to wait for the errand of receiving Dafo Langji.
This is not a difficult task, because Ming Dynasty has received the envoys of Xiaofo Langji before.
Chen Xuexue said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, attaches great importance to the visit of Dafo Langji, and is willing to learn the language of the other country, communicate with each other, and prevent anyone from deceiving him. This is our Ming Dynasty, just like the Emperor of Wumiao Temple. We are sincere, but we have not seen your sincerity, and the things you offered are shoddy."
Legaz was sweating. He explained anxiously: "That's not the case. No, we come to visit with great sincerity and hope to establish good diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. We really brought great Sincerity, this pair of Greenwich-style plate armor is the highest quality armor in our hands. Although it is called Greenwich-style plate armor, it is completely made by Milanese craftsmen."
After Legas' explanation, Chen Xuexue understood the whole story.
There is a country in the West called England, and England has a wife-killing king named Henry VIII. This king likes to behead his wives and has a strange passion for plate armor. Henry VIII has been collecting various kinds of armor throughout his life. All kinds of armor.
England's armor-making technology was very poor. Henry VIII liked to buy plate armor from Milan, Flanders, Innsbruck and other famous armor-making places, and then put a layer of Greenwich-style plate armor on it. Over time, Greenwich became the Zhi-style plate armor has become synonymous with high quality. It was collected by Henry VIII and became an affirmation of craftsmen.
"Our king is really sincere. He sent me here to communicate with the Ming Dynasty. Even though your country repeatedly emphasized that it cannot preach, I still came here, didn't I?" Legas explained in a slightly panic. With.
The Armada is powerful, but really expensive. Currently, Spain, the first empire on which the sun never sets, is in a weird atmosphere.
Spain is very rich and has the most gold and silver in the world. However, so much gold and silver circulates in Spain, which has caused an extremely terrible economic result, that is, skyrocketing prices. With the Age of Discovery, gold and silver were constantly being used were shipped back to Spain. As prices rose year after year, the gap between the rich and the poor widened to its limit.
Gold and silver are concentrated in the hands of a few people, prices continue to rise, and residents continue to complain.
Therefore, when Felipe II sent Legaz to the Ming Dynasty, he made a special statement: By carrying out such commercial activities, residents can immediately increase their wealth and income.
Felipe II is preparing to declare the country bankrupt again next year and the year after that, because Spain, which has an invincible fleet, is struggling to cope with many problems such as the wealth gap and taxation caused by excessive currency.
After Legas arrived in Ming Dynasty and witnessed the prosperity here with his own eyes, he fell into an inexplicable and passionate emotion!
As long as it can trade with the Ming Dynasty, Spain's economic problems will be greatly alleviated!
"Oh, really?" Chen Xuexue looked at Ligas, pointed at the plate armor and said, "But the national gift you paid as tribute was pierced by bows and arrows. This is not just our crossbow, but also artillery and firecrackers. Qi Jiguang, the great general of the Ming Dynasty, Qian'an Bo, is very interested in your artillery. I wonder if I can borrow a few to watch them?"
"You know, our general Jian is in the emperor's heart, and the holy family is prosperous. If you can make Qi Shuai happy and say a few kind words for you, this matter will be over."
"What do you think?"
Chen Xuexue came with a mission. Qi Jiguang asked for the Franco machine cannon of the big Franco machine. The cannons of the small and large Franco machines are very similar. They are both breech-mounted smoothbore cannons, consisting of a barrel, a belly and a sub-cannon. It consists of three parts, similar to the Ming Dynasty's mother-and-child cannon.
However, the artillery of the Xiao Fo Lang robot has poor air tightness, short range and low power, while the artillery of the Big Fo Lang robot seems to have another solution.
Currently, the artillery on the Ming Dynasty's accounts includes more than 30,000 naval guns, city defense guns, tank guns, field guns, infantry guns, cavalry guns and other artillery pieces. The Ming Dynasty has its own solution, but Qi Jiguang also wants to see Dafolang. Robotic solution.
It is great to be open to all rivers and to learn from each other's strong points to eliminate the bad and retain the good. This is the general program of external exchanges proposed by His Majesty.
Chen Xuexue took the pierced plate armor and forced Legas to show his sincerity.
The little emperor started to create cards out of thin air.
Legas calmed down, thought for a moment and asked, "If I can meet His Majesty, the Supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I can agree."
Legas put forward his request to meet His Majesty the Ming Emperor, which was a huge breakthrough in the diplomacy between Spain and the Ming Dynasty.
Since Spain occupied Luzon, it has tried many ways to deal with the Ming Dynasty, but at most it was local communication. The biggest official it met was Luo Gongchen, the fifth-grade governor of the coastal defense department of the capital.
This can easily lead to misunderstandings. For example, Francisco, the governor of Luzon, always confused diplomatic relations with missionary work, but in fact the king lost interest in missionary work.
This stemmed from the fact that the king had some doubts about religion after the love story between Felipe II and Queen Elizabeth Valois ended in tragedy.
Queen Elizabeth's first childbirth was difficult. The palace pharmacist cleaned the queen regardless of religious etiquette, and then replaced her with clean clothes and bedding. This saved Queen Elizabeth's life. The palace pharmacist was accused of offending religious etiquette. Majesty was put to death.
The fourth birth was premature, and Queen Elizabeth's health deteriorated rapidly because she did not have clean clothes and bedding for bathing, and she eventually died unfortunately.
From then on, Felipe II no longer trusted the etiquette of these religions, was no longer enthusiastic about preaching, and changed from a devout believer to a terrible king.
Felipe II became less enthusiastic about preaching, he became more pragmatic, and he had many conflicts with the Holy See.
The Ming court was extremely cautious about missionary work. Legaz had to see the Ming Emperor face to face and make it clear that missionary work was not necessary. The complementarity between the two empires was very beneficial to each other.
"A gentleman's words are hard to follow. Your Majesty has promised to meet you, so you don't have to worry about it every day." Chen Xuexue made another guarantee. Although the Ministry of Rites was not happy, Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, thought that the young emperor should Meet the foreign envoy.
On the fifth day of March, the emperor issued a request from the Ministry of Rites to conduct a drill. Before the third day of April, many communications on the meeting etiquette should be completed, and the conditions for mutual trade, purchase of ships, and other matters should be negotiated.
Chen Xuexue and Legaz began to meet frequently, and after lengthy negotiations, they established a trade treaty with each other.
It is more like a prohibition than a treaty, and there are five articles in total.
First: It is forbidden to keep and trade Japanese slaves, black people, and desperadoes, and those who trade on foreign ships will not be spared;
Second: It is forbidden to buy people. New and old barbarian merchants are not allowed to buy the children of Ming people. Violators will be killed without mercy;
Third: Forbidden warships to be paid, and those who enter the harbor to open cannons, draw bows, and fill muskets with firecrackers will have the people and cargo on board burned;
Fourth, it is forbidden to buy private goods, and those who are sneaked by traitors will be confiscated of the goods and the first reward will be rewarded;
Fifth: It is forbidden to build without authorization. Anyone who builds a piece of earth or wood without authorization will be demolished and burned, which will still be aggravated.
These five prohibitions also apply to ships from the Ming Dynasty to Luzon, or to Mexico, Peru, or even Spain in the future.
For the Ming Dynasty, the past tribute trade had completely collapsed, and the establishment of a new trade system also became a change in the Ming Dynasty's exploration of new trade policies.
The prohibitions on trading will also be continuously explored and improved in maritime trade. For example, the current trade protection ban on raw silk in the Ming Dynasty will also be gradually lifted in practice.
For the Ming Dynasty, especially for the Ministry of Rites, it was really angry and hateful to see the raw silk being practiced in this way by the red-haired fans. The good silk was woven and dyed like that by them, which really made thousands of people and students Full of anger, he cursed the barbarians for being barbarians, lacking in etiquette, and giving them good things was a waste!
Silk is one of the most important tools in the etiquette system of distinguishing between superior and inferior. Since the red-haired fan wanted to bathe and become a king, he bought raw silk, woven and dyed it into that nondescript appearance, Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites, was naturally angry, and Chen Xuexue was also specially asked to scold Special Envoy Legas again.
On the third day of April in the second year of Wanli, the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty once again held an ordinary court meeting in Huangji Hall, and Li Yashi, as the special envoy of Dafo Langji, was anxiously waiting outside Chengtian Gate, waiting for the announcement of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Antonio looked at the nervous Legas and said with a smile: "I don't think you should be so nervous. If you say the wrong thing because of nervousness, you will be spanked by the royal guards of the palace. If you pass it back, you will definitely become It’s a joke.”
"Aren't you nervous?" Legas looked at Antonio and asked doubtfully.
Antonio said very sincerely: "I am also very nervous."
The maximum poundage of the English longbow excavated from the remains of the 'Mary Rose' was 150 to 160 pounds, while one pound in the Ming Dynasty was 596.8 grams. After conversion, the maximum poundage of the English longbow was exactly 121 pounds. It is the range of the Ming Dynasty Tiger Power Bow. I have to say that the world is really wonderful. Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! ! !
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