Daming One Piece

Chapter 160 Cutting Weeds and Exterminating Roots
As soon as he returned to the capital, before Shi Yiwen could take a breather, the cabinet minister Feng Quan came to the door.

It doesn't matter if we had friendship with him in the past, the important thing is that he is a minister, so he can visit him personally, and this person is sent by Wei Zhongxian.

"...So, Nine Thousand Years means to exile all the criminals to your side."

When he heard the news that they planned to "exile" to Beigang, Shi Yiwen couldn't help but secretly felt happy. Originally, he was thinking about bringing those female relatives to Beigang. After all, there are too few women in Beigang now.

But Wei Zhongxian and the others actually had this plan, which was simply beyond his expectation. Of course, this ending is also a very natural thing. After all, for them, this is the safest and most secure thing.

If you want to prevent the defeated political opponent from counterattacking, the easiest way is to kill the opponent, preferably by cutting the grass and roots. If you can't kill it, then throw the political opponent to a place where you will never come back.

There was no such place in Daming in the past, but it is different now.There is Beigang.

That place is lonely overseas, full of savages, and miasma is rampant.

You see, what a wonderful place, it is simply a "hell on earth", sending those people to that place will surely kill them.

Of course, dying in exile and dying in the execution ground are completely different concepts.

Civil servants don't use knives to kill.

Have you seen people using knives?

However, Shi Yiwen did not immediately agree to his coming, he knew the role he played in this link.Of course, this role cannot be played in vain. The most important thing is to take advantage of Wei Zhongxian and Feng Quan's opportunity to attack their political opponents, and try to gain some benefits as much as possible.

silver?

Now the worst thing is silver.

What is missing?
It's people!

Now for Wei Zhongxian and the others, once they use the "Assassination of the King" to attack political opponents, they will never stop. They will never leave trouble for themselves. Of course, they are not capable of killing all People, in the Ming Dynasty, only Emperor Gao and Chengzu had killed other people's nine clans, and other people... didn't even kill the whole family's males.

Therefore, exile became their only choice. In fact, if there was no encounter on the way back to Beijing, Shi Yiwen would naturally be willing to accept it, even now, because after all, those people are all scholars.

What happened to the Donglin Party?
They are also scholars, and they can also become communicators of Chinese civilization.Why are those "**" missionaries in Europe "civilization disseminators" who can bathe barbarians in civilization.Ming scholars are useless?
"I understand the thoughts of Jiuqian Sui and your lords. Such a group of rebels who have no king, no father, and connections with foreign countries should naturally be exiled far away, and let them live with wild people, but, but... ..."

Shi Yiwen frowned and said.

"I'm worried that Beigang is not far enough."

"Beigang is not far enough?"

Feng Quan said in surprise.

"Beigang is far enough. I heard people say that from Fujian to Beigang, one out of ten boats returns. That's far enough."

In fact, it is far from important, what is important is that the risk must be large enough.

"Feng Xiang, what this officer means is that there are farther places where they can be exiled. Feng Xiang does not know that Beigang is not just a Beigang."

"Oh? There's not only one North Port?"

"Reporting to Feng Xiang, Xiaguan and all the families in Beigang started as maritime merchants. In addition to Beigang, we have business stations in Hoi An, Chai Gun, Siam, Luzon, Malacca and other places, but this overseas The commercial station in Ming Dynasty is slightly different from that of Ming Dynasty, just like Macau, with city walls and soldiers."

Ming officials still have a certain understanding of the world. After all, he bought a lot of books translated from the West in the capital. It is through those books and maps that they even know about Europe, France, and even Poland. understanding.

Therefore, Shi Yiwen will never deceive them as the masters of "there is a land connection between Xinjiang and England". Sometimes it is better to be honest. Of course, this confession is also a "lie". They may have a certain understanding of the world, but They don't know if there are those commercial stations in Beigang, and if there are those "colonies".

"Ah, it was unexpected that Beigang had such a family business overseas..."

Surprised, Feng Quan seemed to understand what he meant.

"Zhiyuan means to exile those people to Luzon and Malacca?"

Doesn't this mean that the exile is farther away, that place is more than ten thousand miles away from Daming!Feng Quan felt at ease in his heart, this is a good thing, and he no longer has to worry about their children and grandchildren getting justice.

There is nothing better than this!

I didn't expect this kid to be so ruthless. He really deserves to be a person who has been working overseas for so many years.

Shi Yiwen nodded, and said:
"That's almost what it means. Since you want to be more stable, you might as well exile them far away. Do you think this is the reason?"

"It's up to you to decide this matter. You are Beigang's consolation envoy. Where people will flow to Beigang, it's up to you."

Feng Quan said directly.

"But Prime Minister Feng, it's true that the next official is the consolation envoy of Beigang, but in those places, it is inevitable that he will deal with Annan, Siam, and Hongmaofan. After all, especially when so many people are exiled there, such as exiled to Luzon, right? There are Hongmao Fans over there, if any Hongmao Fans enter the court to protest, if someone takes the opportunity to propose that all the exiles return to the country, then all previous efforts will be wasted."

Feng Quan, who was silent, frowned and pondered. He knew that Shi Yiwen was telling the truth. Throughout the ages, whenever someone in the court wanted to bring back the exiled people, he would always find all kinds of excuses. Mao Fan's entry into the court is bound to cause troubles again. I don't know if he can come back, but it will definitely be a troublesome matter.The reason why they are exiled far away is so that everyone can't remember them, and only if they can't remember, will they not cause court discussions.If you don't want to cause court discussions, you have to make everyone have no reason to think of those people!

After thinking about it, Feng Quan said:
"It seems that we really have to find a way to deal with this matter, Zhiyuan. What good plan do you have?"

"Feng Xiang, have you ever heard of the Dutch East India Company?"

Shi Yiwen asked.

"East India Company?"

Frowning slightly, Feng Quan raised his head and said to Shi Yiwen:

"You're talking about the company of the Dutchman who fought with us in Penghu two years ago, right?"

Suddenly, Feng Quan's eyes lit up and said.

"That's a way, but..."

Frowning, Feng Quan said to himself again.

"This won't work. The Celestial Dynasty has its own national conditions here, so you can't copy them..."

(End of this chapter)