During the fifth year of Wanli, all maritime merchants were spies, and trade across the ocean was full of all kinds of terrible risks. It was this terrible risk that led to maximizing profits and became the common understanding of maritime merchants. .
Conquest and killing are the main themes of current sea trade.
To conquer a certain place, it is necessary to explore the hydrology, geography and mineral resources of the place. Otherwise, no one is willing to conquer a barren land, or a land where the investment exceeds the effort.
To conquer a certain place, large-scale killings will inevitably occur, which will then collapse the local will to resist and make the local area surrender to its own will.
To conquer and kill, one must ascertain intelligence, and ascertaining intelligence itself is the act of espionage.
Omura Juntada, the governor of the Omura family in Hizen Province, knew clearly that it was not as simple as doing business for the merchants from the Ming Dynasty to Japan, but he didn't care, because what he was facing now was that he would die if he did not seek outside help. This is Omura Junchu dedicated Nagasaki to the Holy See.
Omura did not immediately say that he would convert, but the attitude of the Holy See's inspector made Omura very distressed.
Omura Juntada offered Nagasaki and Motegi for the sake of peace, but the Holy See Inspector did not want to give Nagasaki customs duties to Omura Juntada. The two sides discussed it many times, but they broke up unhappy.
But this time, Omura Junchu had a new choice, Daming.
Xu Wei had a pleasant chat with Omura Junchu. Although he did not make a clear commitment, he showed his willingness to help, and Omura Junchu left with satisfaction.
Xu Wei looked at Omura Junchu's leaving figure and felt a little emotional. This was a good start for Ming Dynasty's development in Japan.
"Let Tongshi go talk to the church people." Xu Wei said with a smile to Sun Keyi.
"Huh?" Sun Keyi looked at Xu Wei blankly. Xu Wei, who had been chatting happily with Omura Juntada just now, immediately approached the church.
Omura Junchu even hoped that Ming Dynasty would conflict with the church, so that his interests could be guaranteed to the greatest extent. However, Ming Dynasty had always been extremely domineering, and even fire and expulsion by force might occur.
Omura Junchua really wanted to see a conflict between Ming Dynasty and the church.
Sun Keyi also believed that there was a conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the church because there was a precedent.
In the 16th year of Yongping, Ban Chao led a delegation of thirty-six people to Shanshan Kingdom, also known as Loulan, to discuss joint resistance against the Huns.
King Shanshan received the Han envoy very warmly, but not long after, King Shanshan became cold. Ban Chao realized that the envoy from the Huns had also arrived.
Ban Chao knew that Chi Ze had changed, so he acted first and killed the Xiongnu envoys. King Shanshan had to defect to the Han Dynasty.
The allusion that you can’t catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger’s den was born from this incident.
Sun Keyi thought there was going to be a conflict with the church this time. After all, everyone was interested in Nagasaki.
"Nagasaki is indeed in the hands of Omura Junchu, but if he can't hold it, he is not the master. We should not discuss the distribution of interests with Omura Junchu, but with the church's envoy. Let's go. "Xu Wei explained his purpose of finding the church.
Who will win in Nagasaki has nothing to do with Omura Juntada, he is just the one who signed.
The Huns were different from the current Roman Catholic Church. The difference was that at that time, the Huns could go south at any time. They were a serious worry for the Han Dynasty, had the possibility of destroying the Han Dynasty, and were the fundamental contradiction of existence.
The Pope of Rome and the King of Spain want to deploy more than 10,000 troops in the Far East, which is a fantasy that is powerless. The conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the West is mainly focused on the struggle for interests, and has not yet intensified to the point of life and death.
It's just too far away.
Everyone is here to make a fortune and make achievements. In this case, there is no need to fight life and death.
Soon, Sun Keyi invited the Roman inspector to come to the post for a meeting and talks.
"Are you inviting me here to persuade us to leave Nagasaki? If so, there is no need for us to talk." The church inspector got straight to the point and had a very tough attitude.
Ming Dynasty is an extremely proud country, and this pride is natural.
Because this country has a long history, a noble culture, a vast territory, and rich products, its people are hard-working and tenacious, gentle and polite, and it has a huge army and loyal warriors. Naturally, it can be taken for granted that it has a kind of power that overrides everything else. posture, looking down at everyone.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty still had the qualifications to call itself the Celestial Kingdom. In terms of national strength, no one could rival the Ming Dynasty.
"We have a total of fifty-nine missionaries in Nagasaki, including twenty-eight priests. We have more than ten thousand believers! If you think you can make us surrender with your brave warriors, then do that do it!"
"The Lord shines on us!" The inspector used a very fierce tone, like a declaration of war.
The biting dog did not bark. The louder the sound, the more guilty the inspector was. The military appearance of those plate-armored knights still made the inspector involuntarily ask himself: If there is a conflict, can his followers really do it? To protect the interests of the diocese?
Xu Wei listened carefully to Tongshi's translation, and then said with a smile: "There is no need to get so tense. Do we have to be enemies? Why can't we be friends?"
"Huh? Friends?" The inspector realized that he might have misunderstood the purpose and intention of this meeting, causing him to roar like a clown.
When will Ming Dynasty be discussed?
Xu Wei smiled and said: "I don't like to cooperate with the Japanese. If I insist on explaining it, it will be like you don't cooperate with the English."
The inspector immediately clearly realized the worries of the Ming Dynasty scholar in front of him.
In the West, the English are an island country and are hated by everyone on the continent of Europe, because the English are making trouble all day long. For example, in the Netherlands, there are English people behind them, which makes Felipe II very anxious. The place where Spain's handicraft factories were most concentrated was in turmoil.
Obviously, the Ming Dynasty viewed the Japanese just like the countries on the European continent viewed England.
The risks of working with them are simply too high.
"I'm very sorry. I didn't understand the purpose of this conversation and said some very outrageous things." The inspector said with some apology.
Xu Wei signaled the inspector to sit down and said, "Let's talk about the issue of Nagasaki Port."
"The reason Omura Junchu wants long-term tariffs is that you here, in Nagasaki, do not have enough military power to protect the wealth of your diocese, so you must rely on your believers, and your believers are Japanese. If If you don’t agree to Omura Junchu, it will be difficult to preserve the wealth of the diocese, but if you agree, the tariff will be too expensive.”
"And we, Tianbaolong Trading Company, can provide protection."
"What are the conditions? Does your business provide protection for no reason?" the inspector asked with a frown.
"We want to set up a capital tax office, and our commercial bank will be responsible for all defense and tax collection." Xu Wei stated his conditions.
After hearing such words, the inspector shook his head. He shook his head and said: "They all require tariffs. Why don't we cooperate with Omura Junchu? Nagasaki should be Omura Junchu's territory."
Xu Wei said with a smile: "It seems that the inspector still doesn't understand that the tax rate of the Ming Dynasty's rate office is 60 per cent, which is a divided tax."
"If you talk like this, then Nagasaki is the territory of the Ming Dynasty." The inspector frowned and recalled for a moment. It seemed that the taxes in the Ming Dynasty's Rate House had always been like this. The Ming Dynasty was very stubborn. The tax rate for this merchant seemed to have never changed. Pass.
"Then continue." The smile on Xu Wei's face was very simple and peaceful, just like the smiles of priests when believers confess.
The priest opposite said calmly: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."
After the Holy See's priest inspector left, Sun Keyi asked with a strange expression: "Sir, you and the inspector seem to have forgotten to discuss a very important issue, how to force Omura Chunzhong to donate his land. Now he is waiting for a price."
"We have discussed it." Xu Wei said with confidence.
"Have the boss, sir, discussed it with the inspector?" Sun Keyi thought he heard wrongly and looked at Ma Jin and asked.
Ma Jin shook his head. Their conversation was actually very brief, and they definitely did not discuss how to capture Nagasaki.
"I just let him continue. There are some dirty things that are not suitable for the Ming Dynasty's guest soldiers. Otherwise, the guest soldiers will change from a well-organized Ming army that wants to save Guizhou to a bandit who burns, kills, loots, and commits all kinds of evil." It's gone." Xu Wei didn't make it too clear, but he didn't want the hands of Ming's guest soldiers to be stained with too much dirty blood.
Qi Jiguang's program for establishing guest troops was: report to the emperor and come down to rescue the head of Guizhou.
This is a very rare program, and no matter how great the interests are, it cannot shake this program.
Letting guest soldiers do dirty things is a kind of blasphemy and very dangerous. Guest soldiers, the incarnation of violence, cannot transform into immoral and unrestrained gangsters. One day, he will be the first to die. Xu Wei.
This is the most important thing that Qi Jiguang mentioned first when he met the emperor, organization.
Organization is a system built around a program. The loss of organization is the greatest damage to military discipline.
The place where Xu Wei and others set foot was a place accustomed to suppressing superiors. They turned well-trained guest soldiers into evil ghosts who were desperate to kill without blinking an eye, because they were afraid of their own longevity.
If Zhu Yijun were here, he would definitely agree with Xu Wei's idea.
The Japanese country is a place that is very good at subduing superiors. Their basic political logic is to construct layers of illusions. The shogun, Taiko, Guan Bai, and Taizheng ministers are all imaginary emperors, and the officials are very good at evading the shogun. In the local area, the great names who control the country will be ignored by various family governors.
The most typical example is Oda Nobunaga who was defeated in the Battle of Honnoji Temple.
In the tenth year of Wanli, Oda Nobunaga's trusted confidant Akechi Mitsuhide launched a coup at Honnoji Temple, killing Oda Nobunaga and his eldest son, and ending the 100-year turmoil of the Japanese War of Oda Nobunaga. In this way, he was killed by his trusted retainer.
This trend of subordinates overcoming superiors was still very obvious in later generations.
For example, there was a Japanese craftsman who made a double-barreled iron cannon and called it Abeqi. He rode alone and attacked the Japanese Taige and killed him with one blow. Abe was immediately elated.
On the mountain Tetsuya confirmed the spirit of craftsmanship of the Japanese country, the martial virtue of the Japanese country's water pipes that can really be used as gun barrels, the bravery of a cavalry attack, the enlistment of the subordinates to defeat the superiors, and the testimony of a common man's anger, blood splattered three feet, In the assassination of Yama Tetsuya, all these spirits were fulfilled.
Sun Keyi and Ma Jin soon understood that Xu Wei and the inspector had really talked and reached an agreement, because a fire that spread throughout Nagasaki began to spread among the mountains and forests.
The fire came suddenly and quickly, and soon swept through the entire Nagasaki. The flames licked the wooden houses of the Japanese. In order to protect themselves, countless people jumped into the sea one after another, and there was no trace again.
The fire burned in the port of Nagasaki all night. The mountains, wooden houses, ships, gates, trestles, etc. were all burned to the ground. Countless people were either burned to coke in the sea of fire or jumped into the water and died. sea.
Nagasaki burned, hell on earth.
Who set this fire? Naturally, it was the godfather who baptized Omura Juntada and the church's inspector.
Xu Wei took Sun Keyi, Ma Jin and dozens of Songjiang guest soldiers to the streets. The fire was over. The originally prosperous Nagasaki had turned into a scene like hell on earth. There were horrific scenes after the fire everywhere, and the air There was even a disgusting aroma of barbecue.
The fire was ignited at midnight. Many people felt the heat in their sleep. When they woke up from the fire, it was too late to escape.
"Gods love everyone equally?" Xu Wei stood on the street, looking at the two clearly distinguished Nagasakis, with a playful smile on his face.
On one side were the ruins that had been burned by the fire, while on the other side was the parish under the control of the church, which was unscathed. The guild hall where Xu Wei and others stayed was within the parish.
The Thai people were worse than he thought.
Xu Wei asked the inspector to continue because Xu Wei saw some strange things from the intelligence. Omura Juntada was bullied. In fact, most of them came from the godfather who baptized him, including the assassin who almost killed Omura Juntada. .
The godfather had obviously reached the limit of his patience. In order to force Omura Juntada to surrender completely, he directly chose to set fire to force Omura Juntada to surrender and stop asking for taxes after donating the land.
Sun Keyi and Ma Jin saw that the church was still standing because the fire did not spread to the parish. At the port, the sailing ships from the West were intact, and even the two battleships staying in the port were unharmed.
Fire and water have no mercy, but this was obviously a deliberate arson.
"What they did is so obvious. The parish is intact, but outside the parish, it was completely burned down. Isn't this... going to cause problems?" Sun Keyi, who had done so many bad things, couldn't help but shudder.
"This is why the Taixi people want to ask for souls. This is why I think your Majesty is extremely wise. Your Majesty strictly prohibited Nestorian missionary requests in the Ming Dynasty. At first, Legaz, Antonio and Francisco all requested to preach in the Ming Dynasty, but they were rejected by the Ming Dynasty. The emperor refused." Xu Wei thought for a while and further explained: "In many cases, natural disasters are interpreted by religion as a warning from heaven and man, a warning to meat eaters."
"And religion is very good at transferring the hatred, dissatisfaction and fear of natural disasters to certain meat-eaters."
Xu Wei is very clear about the propagation path of the Western Church, or most religions. In the Southeast, where Japanese invasions were frequent, this kind of moths appeared one after another, causing harm, and then appeared as a compassionate image, and then deceived people's hearts.
Xu Wei has seen it too many times.
"Isn't that the inspector? What is he doing?" Sun Keyi asked in surprise when he saw the crowd gathering in front of him.
Xu Wei said calmly: "He is saving the souls of the dead."
The kind priest recited scriptures very devoutly in front of a mother and son who had been burned to death, and even shed two tears. While feeling sad for such misfortune, he also expressed pity for the mother and son who were burned to charcoal black. .
Apparently when the fire came, the mother held the child under her body in order to protect her. The mother had been burned beyond recognition, but the child's body was still intact. The child did not escape and died in the fire.
When the fire burned until midnight yesterday, there was still no one to put out the fire. It seemed that God couldn't stand it any longer. It rained and stopped the fire from spreading.
The priest was praying, while the believers around him could not hide their sorrow and wept bitterly.
And a kind of dissatisfaction was brewed in the cries, which was dissatisfaction with Omura Junchu because Omura Junchu could not protect Nagasaki.
Omura Junchu must do something, either suppress or appease. Omura Junchu is a coward. He is incompetent to suppress and can only appease. And handing Nagasaki to a reliable force becomes what Omura Junchu must do. As for the path to take, it was obvious that church was a good choice.
Omura Junchu found the hotel at night, and under the slightly dim light, saw the people who came from the Ming Dynasty.
"Honorable envoy of the Heavenly Kingdom, please show mercy and save me." Omura Junchu kept kowtowing. He realized that the crisis was approaching, so he looked for the tyrannical soldiers from the Ming Dynasty for help.
"Do you know where your misfortune comes from?" Xu Wei put down the tea cup in an orderly manner and looked at Omura Juntada and asked.
"Father Alessandro Valignano, the inspector from the West." Omura bowed again and said through gritted teeth: "I offered my faith and allowed them to preach in my territory. I plan to completely hand over Nagasaki to the church, and I have even negotiated terms with the priest. When the priest returns to Rome, I will send an envoy to Taisi to worship the Holy Land."
"I am so pious, but in exchange for such humiliation."
Omura Juntada really planned to send an envoy to Rome for pilgrimage, and he also reached a contract with the priest to send the envoy when the priest completed his mission of inspecting the parish and returned to Rome.
In the tenth year of Wanli, the Tianzheng mission to Europe was promoted by Omura Juntada. It was also the first Japanese mission to visit Western Europe.
Xu Wei heard this, nodded and said: "You are not stupid."
"I actually want to know why you didn't kneel down in front of your priest and confess your faults, but instead came over and kowtowed to me. Why?" Xu Wei asked curiously.
Sun Keyi and Ma Jin were also confused. These Ming people were more like despicable foreigners. As soon as they arrived in Nagasaki, they set fire to the mountains, burned down the port, and burned down the city. Even if it was not done by the Ming people, Omura Chunzhong should trust his priest more. Aren't they despicable foreigners the best sinners?
After all, this was only the second time Xu Wei met Omura Juntada.
"The Ming Dynasty is a land of heaven and a land of etiquette." Omura Juntada bowed again and said forcefully.
Junchu Omura would never doubt the people of Ming Dynasty, because people of Ming Dynasty cannot do such things. There is a high morality in Ming Dynasty, which is a disadvantage in competition, and this high moral disadvantage is Junchu Omura Loyalty is the root cause of what the Ming people did.
"I hate morality." The corner of Xu Wei's mouth twitched. He really hates morality. The second reason why he doesn't like Zhang Juzheng is that Zhang Juzheng is a good person. As far as civilian coolies are concerned, Zhang Juzheng is a good person.
The reason Xu Wei doesn't like Zhang Juzheng is that when Xu Jie forced Hu Zongxianyu to die, Zhang Juzheng was still Xu Jie's ally and student. Zhang Juzheng did not stop his teacher from harming a minister who had contributed to the country, and just sat and watched Hu Zongxianyu die. , seek glory and get humiliation.
Zhang Juzheng is so powerful and has saved so many people. Why can't he save Hu Zongxian like he saved Qi Jiguang?
Zhang Juzheng was like the savior of the Ming Dynasty. Even Xu Wei hoped that Zhang Juzheng could bring fairness and justice, but Zhang Juzheng's kindness did not shine on Xu Wei, so Xu Wei resented Zhang Juzheng.
Just like Zhang Juzheng, for the first time in the long history, talked about the negative impact of the Jin gentry on the Ming Dynasty, he treated the common people well and gave them fairness and justice.
Why is Zhang Juzheng so stingy and unwilling to give Hu Zongxian some fairness and justice? At that time, Hu Zongxian was deprived of his official status and fame, and he was a harmless figure who died politically.
This is a typical thinking mode of Ming people. They sincerely hope that there will be a Ming Lord who can turn the tide and let the suffering life breathe, even if it is just a breath.
And this way of thinking can really get a response.
In the Ming Dynasty alone, Yu Qian first saved the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Juzheng desperately wanted to save the Ming Dynasty.
The Han Dynasty has great power, and there are loyal and good people in every generation.
The loyalty that comes from generation to generation is probably the greatest benefit brought by high moral disadvantages.
Xu Wei really doesn't like morality, but what Omura Juntada said makes sense.
"So what are the governor's plans?" Xu Wei asked with a smile.
Omura Juntada bowed again and said loudly: "I will change my faith, and I will dedicate the two places of Nagasaki and Motegi to your envoy. If I can't do it, these heavenly soldiers and generals will make my life easy. I I only have a humble request, kill those evil demons!"
"It's surprising that you can actually use idioms." Xu Wei's focus is strange. Omura Juntada actually knows idioms. Xu Wei asked curiously: "Do you know the meaning of this idiom? Do you know its origin?"
Omura Juntada couldn't follow Xu Wei's thinking at all. He was offering soil for peace. Why did Xu Wei focus on his ability to use idioms? He said dullly: "I don't know."
Xu Wei explained: "It comes from "Mencius Gongsun Chou Shang", which says: To the king of Qi, it is with the backhand. The same article also says: The princes of the Wu Ding Dynasty, who have the world, still use the palm of luck. At least in the Han Dynasty, the idiom "Yi Ru fliphand" was It’s summed up.”
"Since you are so sincere, I agree to it."
"Thank you Angel!" Omura Juntada kowtowed several times in succession. He knelt on the ground and tried his best to be submissive. However, he raised his head vigorously and asked in a weird posture: "Angel, I have a merciless request. Can I stay in Guanyi for a few days? I'm afraid I'll die if I go out."
"So you know you are seeking skin from a tiger? Aren't you afraid of seeking skin from a tiger when you beg me?" Xu Wei was stunned, looking at Omura Juntada with a playful expression on his face and asked.
Omura Juntada is not stupid, he is just cowardly, he is very shrewd, and he knows how terrible the Taixi people are.
The Westerners are big tigers, so didn’t the Ming Dynasty eat people?
"No matter how much the Ming Dynasty wants, it is not as big as the appetite of the Westerners." Omura Juntada really thought so.
He thought a lot. At most, the Ming Dynasty would annex the entire Japanese country and turn the Japanese country into a province of the Ming Dynasty. Is this a bad thing for the Japanese country? This is a great thing for Japan!
It is an honor to be a dog of the Ming Dynasty. It is much better than a wild dog running around and eating one meal without eating.
"Then you can stay at Guanyi. The results will be available in two or three days at most." Xu Wei waved his hand and asked Omura Junchu to retreat.
And Sun Keyi finally understood Xu Wei's plot. The bad things were done by the Taixi people, and the good reputation was obtained by the Ming Dynasty. This is both wanting and wanting, not only the port and springboard of Nagasaki, but also the people's support and the foundation of rule here. .
The communication between Xu Wei and the church inspector was just to intensify the conflict.
"Sir, did you know from the beginning that the church was going to be set on fire?" Sun Keyi asked with some uncertainty.
"No, I don't know. I didn't expect them to be so bad." Xu Wei waved his hand and said, "Compared with them, I am like a saint. These Thai people deserve to be damned. They force me to punish rape and eliminate evil." A good man!"
"I'm obviously here to be a villain! It's so abominable."
"Zhizhong, you have to remember that any plan is determined based on changes in the situation. It depends on the situation."
Sun Keyi's nickname is Chizhong, and Xu Wei called him that. It is true that he promised the priest that he could provide force protection, and it is also true that he promised Omura Junchu to avenge those who died in the Nagasaki fire.
It's just that the situation has changed and the decision has changed.
"Students understand." Sun Keyi figured out the reason.
"Vice Master Ma, I'll leave the next thing to you. Communicate well with Omura Juntada and arrest all the fifty-nine missionaries in the church. Don't kill them. Capture them and shake them little by little. crimes." Xu Wei did not intend to kill people directly, but to arrest them and show their crimes bit by bit.
"Yes." Ma Jin nodded, leading a group of soldiers in steel armor to prepare to clean up the parish.
The missionary was captured at the request of Omura Juntada, the governor of the Omura clan.
Historically, there was indeed a fire before Omura Junzhong offered his land to seek peace and sent the Tensho mission to Europe. Of course, all the records in the documents say it was an accident. I don’t think it was an accident. Xiaowu thinks it was not an accident. These missionaries Did the scholar wander across the sea to Nagasaki to spread love and peace? Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! !
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