Zhu Houcong remembered what Lao Qin had said. Xu Pengju, the wine bag and rice bag, first received a mission to imitate the Portuguese Red Barbarian cannon not long after Jiajing came to the throne. It seemed that it was captured after a previous victory in a naval battle.
The results of the counterfeiting are impressive.
At this moment, Zhu Houcong was silent for a moment after seeing the current activities of the Franji people from the memorial.
He knew very well that above the sea, Magellan was exploring the world, and he didn't know if he had died at this time.
But with the completion of this global voyage, more merchant ships and gunboats will set off from Europe.
At this moment, at least at the level of artillery, European technology should have surpassed that of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise Xu Pengju would not have been ordered to imitate this matter.
Zhu Houcong only heard Lao Qin complain once, so he didn't know that the Tuen Mun naval battle that took place in the second half of the 16th year of Zhengde could be regarded as the first confrontation between the East and the West on the sea.
"I remember that before I arrived in Beijing, Empress Dowager Cishou issued an edict, allowing Mr. Yang Ge and others to report some matters related to the Franji people."
"It is true." Yan Song bowed and replied, "At that time, according to the decree of Emperor Daxing and the decree of the Queen Mother, the tribute envoys from Hami, Turpan, and Franji were returned. The envoy of Franji was named Pilaizi, and his name was Pilaizi. He hired several generals, one of whom was named Huozhe Yasan. After bribing Jiang Bin, he was led to the front of Emperor Daxing. Emperor Daxing Xi Franjiyu was the one who did this. Jiang Bin was imprisoned. Later, the fire master Yasan was executed. Now that Jiang Bin has been executed, Nie Shiping, the chief guest officer of the Ministry of Rites, Liang Zhuo, the chief guest officer of the Nanjing Siyi Pavilion, and other talents jointly signed this book."
After that, he said solemnly: "The Franji envoy arrived in Nanjing first. In the Siyi Pavilion, Huo Zhe Yasan relied on the favor of Emperor Daxing to teach Franji language and humiliated Liang Liang with a mere slave. Zhuo, was whipped by Liang Zhuo. At that time, Jiang Bin was furious and wanted to frame Liang Zhuo for death. The matter caused a lot of discussion in the court at that time, and several important ministers interceded for Liang Zhuo. Later, the imperial censor He Ao Shangshu Yan Flangji was cunning and impeached Jiang Bin for being in cahoots with Flangji people and suspected of plotting to purchase Flangji firearms. Jiang Bin was quite afraid, so Liang Zhuo was not punished."
Zhu Houcong looked at him deeply again: "You know the whole story clearly, so do you think we shouldn't simply give the order to refuse the tribute of Franji and drive away the Franji people on Tuen Mun Island?"
"The Flangji people are entrenched in Tuen Mun Island and should be driven away!" Yan Song replied seriously, "Managahi once sent an envoy to ask for help. This matter is only based on an edict. I'm afraid the Flangji people will not withdraw from Manchuria. . Now Manchuria is under threat at the hands of the Franji people, and sea attacks are becoming increasingly rampant. Subsequently, the Nanyang shipping routes are not smooth, which may greatly affect the tribute. I think that Wu Shilang was very good at raising money in the past and was familiar with Guangdong affairs, so he might as well order He also went up to express his opinions."
"You are now the left minister of the Ministry of War, right?" Zhu Houxuan recalled, "The first time I saw the emperor, he also impeached Wang Qiong, Liang Chu, and Jiang Mian, and his words were extreme."
"It's true." Yan Song didn't say much.
Zhu Houcong thought for a while and said: "Then stay in the middle school first, and ask Wu Tingju to go to Shu to express his opinions on this matter."
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The eighteen top positions in the national policy meeting are currently decided by four cabinet ministers, Jiuqing, Guo Xun, one of the five ministers of honor, and Yang Yiqing, an important minister of border town.
For the remaining three positions, the chief bachelor of the royal study has already made a "selection" strategy, while the other two cabinet ministers are beginning to go through the process of recommendation and recommendation.
There were so many memorials submitted every day, but Yan Song solemnly did his homework on this "little matter".
Everyone knows that Yan Song went to see Yang Tinghe "on orders", and his desire to be the chief of the imperial study was not hidden from the emperor.
Zhu Houcong would not point it out. As for whether Yan Song gave him a reminder out of loyalty, or whether it was a conspiracy between Yan Song and Yang Tinghe, Zhu Houcong did not care about the difference.
He only knew two things.
First, these people are definitely not making a fuss about this matter for the sake of the matter itself. The focus is on the personnel changes at the top of the court.
Second, in their eyes, this matter is definitely just a trivial matter, just a lead.
In Dongnuan Pavilion, Huang Jin found all the relevant memorials and files from the Internal Affairs Department and the Six Section Gallery.
Zhu Qingping continued to study hard on the small desk nearby. When she occasionally took a break, she saw the emperor holding a pen and tracing on the paper.
Could it be that he is painting?
In front of Zhu Houcong is a large relationship diagram with many time nodes marked on it.
As early as twenty-eight years ago, before Zhengde ascended the throne, Western pirates arrived in Guangdong. In the sixth year of Hongzhi, Qianhu Yuan Guang, who was guarding Qianhu Station in Dongguan, led his troops to fight with him and was shot to death.
In the sixth year of Zhengde, Malacca, also known as Malacca, which Zhu Houcong was familiar with, had been invaded by the Franji people. Two years later, the Guangdong Maritime Bureau recorded that the Franji people came to request trade but were rejected.
The Tuen Mun Island area, which is now near Lantau Island in Hong Kong, was invaded by the Franji people from that time.
Wu Tingju started to implement the "Law of Tribute Transaction of Fans" a year later in the 9th year of Zhengde. However, the Franji people who invaded the original tributary country of the Ming Dynasty, Manlajia, were not among them. They could only carry out maritime trade outside official channels. Smuggling trade.
Three years later, in the twelfth year of Zhengde, Franji's fleet of eight merchant ships broke through the interception of the Ming Dynasty navy and entered the Pearl River inland. It was Chen Jin, who was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at that time, who arranged for them to learn etiquette first, report to the court, and finally get the answer that they could go to Beijing to negotiate tribute matters. At that time, Guo Xun also served as the chief military officer of Guangdong.
This group of people who entered Beijing was the mission headed by Pillaizi that Yan Song mentioned. Their translator Huozhe Yasan was eventually introduced by Jiang Bin and became Zhu Houzhao's Portuguese teacher.
Nowadays, Chen Jin is one of the nine ministers and attends the national policy meeting, but he is guilty of it.
Guo Xun, who also attended the national policy meeting, represented the five government offices and the Ministry of War and was busy with the major matter of abolishing Cai Chao and reestablishing the three major battalions.
Wu Tingju was the left minister of the Ministry of War, second only to Wang Xian, while Yang Tingyi was the third-ranked right minister of the Ministry of War.
Jiang Bin had just been executed, and Zhang Zuo said that day: Wang Qiong and the others were closely involved with Jiang Bin, and Yang Ting and the others might have more cards in their hands.
In the lobby of the Criminal Department, they did not play those cards.
Now, is this a card? Wu Tingju once impeached Wang Qiong, Liang Chu, and Jiang Mian, and his words were very rude.
The Franji mission was able to enter Beijing because Chen Jin, Guo Xun and others reported to the imperial court when they were in Guangdong. This mission later connected with Zhu Houzhao himself through Jiang Bin. The translator Huozhe Yasan dared to humiliate Liang Zhuo, the imperial official.
"The water is very deep..." Zhu Houcong looked at the event flow chart and character relationship diagram in front of him, and added a few more strokes with his pen:
A minister of the Admiral Guangdong Shipping Department.
Goods brought by trade: Huangdian?
Smuggling profit chain.
The local wealthy families in Guangdong... Liang Chu, who can still exert some influence in the court...
The Ministry of Rites in charge of tribute matters... Yuan Zonggao, Mao Cheng, many middle-level officials...
He put down his pen and shook his head: What does it mean that one hair can affect the whole body?
If this time it was really Yang Ting and their plan, then it would be another matter-of-fact discussion.
This matter continues to ferment. Wu Tingju, the "initiator", allowed Guangdong's maritime restrictions to be relaxed, and sat back and watched the Flangji people camped on Tuen Mun Island for several years. Should he be held accountable?
Wu Tingju was not at odds with Wang Qiong, Jiang Mian, and Liang Chu, and this time he could not get the support of Yang Tinghe and others. Once he was accused, Yang Tingyi was naturally suitable for promotion to Zuo Shilang.
There is a high probability that there will be a war to drive away the Franji people. If there is a problem in the war, Wang Xian, the Minister of War, who is currently busy organizing the reorganization of the three major battalions, may be in trouble.
Chen Jin and Guo Xun were both there when the Franji fleet entered the Pearl River Inland River. Could they have left any clues in this matter?
As the war breaks out and the tribute trade is affected, will Yuan Zonggao, the Minister of Rites, be impeached? He was the guarantee for Wang Qiong and Chen Jin.
As a local boss in Guangdong, would Liang Chu do his best to protect himself from being caught by new tails in this situation?
Zhu Houcong sneered and said, "Call Zhang Jin, Zhang Zuo and Luo An to come over!"
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Yan Song pointed out Wu Tingju, and Zhu Houcong would slowly think about his intentions.
But the importance that this memorial received in the emperor's mind must have far exceeded the expectations of some thoughtful people.
Yang Yiqing said that there was no need to rush in the capital, and many civil servants were unwilling to "start provocations on the side." Perhaps at this moment, in the eyes of some thoughtful people, the problem of the Franji people could be easily solved.
There's nothing wrong with the end result, and the process can be put to good use.
What Lao Qin said about Jiajing's subsequent strike of shipping companies and further strengthening of maritime bans was one of the subsequent effects of this incident.
Therefore, Zhu Houcong will not tolerate this matter developing in certain directions.
Everything was calm for the time being, but there was news in Jinyiwei that something had almost been settled for a long time: Wang Zuo, who had first cleaned up the Jinyiwei after the Nijingmen disaster, was transferred to Beizhen Fusi.
Two days later, Wu Tingju's memorial was submitted.
"The people of the country of Folangji did not have access to China in the previous generation, which may be why the name of the Namboli country was changed. In ancient times, there was a ghost country called Langxu, which was divided into two continents. Both of them were cannibals. Before Java, the ghosts ate human flesh. Folangji The country of Ji is opposite. After the Hongzhi, there were Buddhist cannons. The country was the ancient Sanfoqi, and it was the capital of various trades and trades..."
Zhu Houcong showed Huang Jin's familiar "speechless" expression again.
He was indeed speechless. Srivijaya was an ancient country in Sumatra south of Malacca. Wu Tingju, the left minister of the Ministry of War, actually thought that the Portuguese were the people of ancient Srivijaya.
Because a large number of officials were vacant after the first inspection of the court, he, the left minister of the Ministry of War, was promoted from the right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate at that time.
At that stage, Zhu Houcong "trusted" the cabinet and asked them to solve the problem of these vacancies first.
The result is a guy who doesn't know much about the Francois: Does he really not?
Wu Tingju's point of view is that he is cunning and should be ordered not to pay tribute and to withdraw from Tuen Mun Island. If he does not comply, he should send heavenly troops to annihilate him, and also order him to withdraw his troops from Manchuria, so as not to damage the friendship between the tributary and vassal states.
Zhu Houcong asked Yan Song: "Wu Tingju's opinion is consistent with the cabinet vote."
Yan Song had naturally seen it and solemnly replied: "In that case, His Majesty will sanction it."
Zhu Houcong looked at him and thought he meant "I've already warned you."
There is more to it that he doesn’t seem to know and can’t say.
Zhu Houcong frowned: What the hell are you doing? If I have to ask, what do you know?
But this is meaningless. Yan Song is just fulfilling his duty as a bachelor's student in the Imperial Study Room. It is useful enough to remind Wu Tingju, who is familiar with the matter, to express his opinions.
If you ask about other questions, you can just say "I don't know" and you will be rejected.
Some of the things that Zhu Houcong had sorted out and speculated before were probably just Yan Song's own guesses.
After Yang Tinghe was "stabbed in the back" once, it was absolutely impossible for him to cooperate with Yan Song so heart-to-heart.
If it was just Yan Song's guess, could he just say it randomly? What if Yang Tinghe was misled?
Tribute trade...
Zhu Houcong no longer thought too much and said directly to Huang Jin: "In that case, let's play!"
This response should not be considered a sneak attack like in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice. Zhu Houcong had paid enough attention to it in advance.
Consider this a real hands-on lesson.
The edict thus departed from the capital.
At this moment, the Franji delegation, which had been driven away by Yang Ting and them after Zhu Houzhao's death, was on its way to Guangzhou.
Their speed is far inferior to the express delivery of imperial edicts via post roads.
When the imperial court repatriated Pillaizi and others, it also returned the "gifts" they had originally requested for tribute trade.
This group of people has just arrived in Ningbo, Zhejiang, and is planning to purchase a batch of Ming Dynasty goods here before taking a boat to Guangzhou.
"Oh, respected Lord Lai." Pillaizi's trade determination is quite firm, and now he is visiting an important person, "How could we outsiders know that Lord Jiang has the ambition to seize the throne? It is really unfair. Unjustly accused!”
Now, he can already speak some Ming Dynasty Mandarin.
Ryan, the eunuch guarding the Zhejiang Shipping Department, looked at the barbarian in front of him with his uncomfortable appearance, strong body odor and bad accent, and shook his head firmly: "If you are not compatible, the imperial court will not deal with you. Now that something has happened involving Jiang Bin, I can't even call him Master Jiang. It's better to leave quickly and sincerely send an envoy to the Ministry of Etiquette. Only when he is familiar with the etiquette and is suitable, can he re-enter the door of my city's shipping department."
Pilaizi looked confused and looked at his translator.
I still don’t understand some words.
Negotiations were fruitless, and he finally left behind two young women with a Western style. This made Ryan curse in his heart: Are these ghosts here to entertain me?
But the beauty of the Western Region is a very good gift. Although I have no use for him, the ancestors in the palace are probably happy to see him...
It was only later that Pillai learned that this country not only had trade ports in Guangdong, but also in this port called Ningbo.
After getting on the boat and walking to the stern, he looked at Ningbo Port with his eyes shining.
"It's incredible! What a vast and fertile land! Beijing, Nanjing... so many people, so many rich people, so many goods!!"
Pillaizi left Guangzhou early last year, first went to Nanjing and then all the way to Beijing. He witnessed with his own eyes the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, the magnificence of the city, and the wealth and luxury of its officials.
"Is that the warship they use to patrol the ocean?" Pillai looked at the newly hired translator meaningfully, "I haven't seen even one of the huge treasure ships you mentioned."
"Honorable Baron Pillai, that was many years ago. Didn't you also hear about the huge treasure ship and the existence of the Ming Dynasty, and then you traveled across the ocean to come here as His Majesty the King's distinguished envoy? "
"Yeah, it's really a pity that I can't see such a huge fleet again with my own eyes." Pillai's light blue eyes showed longing, "But it also makes people more yearning for it."
Naturally, what he yearns for cannot be a huge fleet.
All he yearns for is the wealth in this land.
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