I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Daming really lacks a usable main warship.

The three-masted gunship, a large warship with [-] materials, carried nearly fifty cannons. Although the firepower was not as good as that of the Galleon, it was already equal in number.

The eight red cannons at the bow and stern of the ship are the most powerful [-]-pound heavy cannons in Daming. Once they are built, the combat effectiveness of the Daming Navy will definitely be different from what it used to be!

……

For Zhu Youxiao, this time it was finally worth it.

Going around this time not only greatly improved personal prestige, but also discovered a treasure, which was this three-masted gunboat.

With the research direction, it will be easy to handle.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with the result of this time. He took a boat from Penglai Water City to Tianjin, and then returned to the capital from the original road in Tianjin.

In later generations Indonesia, Java Island.

Many people may not be familiar with the name of Java, but when it comes to the place name of Manila, everyone knows it.

Indonesia is located tens of nautical miles south of Ryukyu. The Ming people called this area the Old Port, which belongs to the southeast sea area. The whole country is composed of dozens of islands of different sizes, which are smaller than Japan. It is a veritable "island country".

Manila is the largest town and capital of the Old Port Kingdom, located on the northwest coast of Java Island.

Surrounded by the sea on all sides, Java Island has a tropical rainforest climate, with no changing seasons between cold and summer. The annual average temperature is above 25 degrees Celsius, so there is abundant rainfall.

The unique natural conditions make Java island densely covered with tropical plants, the vegetation is evergreen all year round, and tobacco leaves, rubber, sugar cane, coconuts and other products are extremely rich.

In addition, Java Island is also rich in world-famous Java coffee.

Since the end of the Wanli period, the scale of this coffee delivery to Europe has gradually increased, and it has become one of the favorite luxuries of the European aristocracy.

In fact, Indonesia was completely reduced to a colony of the Spanish Empire half a century ago, and the loss of Java Island almost wiped out the Spanish Empire's hegemony in the Far East.

During the Battle of the Spice Islands, Admiral Herlander of the Royal Netherlands Navy led the Queen's fleet to defeat the Armada, and the East India Company gradually occupied Manila.

Five years after the apocalypse, the Dutch East India Company gained overall superiority in the Indonesian region, and the Spanish Far East Fleet was forced to withdraw from Java, which had been occupied for more than half a century.

The deacon Max was also formally canonized by Prince William of the Dutch Federation as the first governor of Manila, and he has only succeeded for four months.

On this day, a Dutch navy soldier rushed into Max's office in Manila Harbor, "Your Excellency, it's not good!"

Max was holding a quill pen and writing his personal diary on delicate paper. Hearing this, he frowned slightly, but still maintained a minimum of elegance, and asked:

"What happened?"

"It's the Chinese living in Manila, they're all making trouble again!" The soldier panted, pointing to the port outside the window.

Max paused, and a stroke appeared on the neat diary. He suppressed his anger and asked again:

"What are they up to?"

The soldier said: "They said that Ming defeated the Queen's fleet and asked us to give them the citizenship rights they should have in the Netherlands!"

"What!?" Max got up angrily, and he didn't even bother to write in his diary, and shouted out:

"Guards, guards!"

"Pass my order, if these Chinese continue to gather, as the governor of Manila, I will allow them to shoot!"

The soldier was stunned and hesitated for a while.

"However, Your Excellency the Governor, the council has ordered the East India Company's fleet to withdraw from the southeast waters and resume negotiations with Daming."

"At this time, if you attack the Chinese, I'm afraid you will get revenge from Daming?"

Max laughed straight, "Da Ming is a weak country, and there are only a dozen cannons on the warship. They won it once by luck. Are you afraid of them?"

"Besides, these Chinese are courting their own death this time!"

Chapter 684 The Manila Incident

There are a huge number of Chinese in Manila. Although Max hates them, he will not be stupid.

This incident was actually directed by him alone, and he had planned it for a long time. When the news of the Penghu naval battle came, he first ordered the Chinese living in Manila to surrender their weapons.

The so-called weapons include firearms and items made entirely of iron.

When the Chinese heard that the Daming Navy was victorious, they naturally no longer reconciled to being oppressed by the Dutch, and once they surrendered all their weapons, they would not even have the strength to protect themselves.

The Chinese resisted vigorously, thus causing the first conflict.

In the end, the Dutch weapon collection operation ended at a heavy price of hundreds of Chinese casualties, which also became Max's rhetoric that dominated public opinion.

After that conflict, Max secretly ordered officials from the remaining provinces of the Indonesian islands to mobilize the local aboriginals, and took advantage of the new and old hatred between the Japanese and the Chinese to summon the Japanese overseas Chinese leaders and instigate multiple forces to fight against the large Ming Dynasty. migrant.

After making preparations, Max set out to create the illusion that the Chinese took the lead in launching the riot.

On the grounds that he was not a Christian, he forcibly ordered the Chinese in Manila to leave their original residences and live in designated areas.

Dutch soldiers erected a fence around the area where the Chinese lived, with the intention of military control.

But during this process, the Chinese were extremely well-behaved and did not resist at all, which left Max with no excuse to do anything.

But soon, Max, who couldn't bear it anymore, once again used religious reasons to directly expel tens of thousands of Chinese who resisted the most fiercely to the provinces and colonies.

This move especially dissatisfied the Dutch East India Company Council, which wanted to restart negotiations with Ming at that time, but due to the relationship between Max and Prince William, no one said anything directly.

In fact, some Japanese and Indonesian natives, especially the rogues among them, have long been jealous of the superior status of the Chinese in Manila's economic life and the huge wealth they possess, and have a serious and distorted hatred of China.

The Spanish army used to have frequent conflicts with the Chinese, but since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Ming Dynasty and the West, the local Spanish governor was ordered to be replaced by Philip IV, and the new governor was more friendly to the Ming.

The Spanish navy in Manila no longer oppressed the Chinese, and regarded the Chinese as legal foreign citizens of the Spanish Empire.

Spain now had to relinquish control of Manila after defeat in the Spice Islands.

Many people were eager to drive out the Dutch navy of the Spanish army and have a large-scale conflict against the Chinese in order to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the chaos to seize wealth.

So, shortly after the news of the Penghu naval battle, some Dongying people began to publicly curse the Chinese in Manila as pigs, dogs and traitors.

Therefore, the Dongying people and the Chinese, who were already at odds with each other, quickly had continuous conflicts.

Soon after, even many local aboriginals who were squeezed penniless by the Spaniards also got involved and turned their hatred to the Chinese, thinking that the settlement of the Chinese had affected their original lives.

As the occupiers of Manila, the Dutch naval soldiers have an ambiguous attitude at this time.

Not only did they fail to stop such incidents in time, but they joined the ranks of the rioters, humiliating and mistreating overseas Chinese wantonly.

Moreover, "rumors" quickly spread in the Dutch navy, saying that the governor of Manila, Max, had asked the company's board of directors to retaliate against the Chinese after the failure of the Penghu naval battle.

And Max wants to wipe out all the Chinese here to avenge his brother.

……

Metro Manila is in chaos.

In the royal palace, Sulu, the king of the old port, became the puppet king of the Spaniards in the area early on. After the establishment of diplomatic relations, the Spaniards were more friendly to the Chinese, but they were still the same to the local Indonesians.

After Spain left, they thought they were rescued, but they ushered in even more sinister Dutch colonists.

The Spaniards are still able to allow the Old Port Palace to have local guards on the facade, which is remarkable, but the Dutch don't even leave them this "fig leaf".

According to Sulu's recollection, the Dutch who first entered Manila did not look like elegant gentlemen from the civilized world, but rather barbarians who had just landed in America.

The fact is that these European colonists who flaunt a civilized society have done dirty things that even barbarians don't bother to do.

The Spaniards are not much cleaner than the Dutch.

In the Royal Palace of Manila, there are guards at five steps and sentries at ten steps. They are all soldiers of the Dutch Navy, and Max's eyeliner is everywhere.

This is more than that, the governor of the Netherlands, Max, is even more outrageous than what the previous Spanish governor did.

The Dutch Federal Parliament fully granted the East India Company the right to colonize the Far East, mint coins, and hire mercenaries to fight, just to use it to monopolize the Far East trade.

And the colonial governors of the Far East, in this situation, are more like overseas kings, who can form fleets privately, and do not need to report military operations.

In May of this year, Max, who just became the governor of Manila, the first thing he did was excitedly ran to the palace and forcibly occupied the princess of the Old Port Kingdom.

Up to now, none of Sulu's concubines has not been defiled by him.

Thinking of this, Su Lu trembled with anger. The Old Port Kingdom, which became the tributary state of the Ming Dynasty as early as the Yongle period, did not receive the protection it deserved.

In fact, before Zhu Youxiao, Daming was also struggling with party struggles and the scourge of captives from east and west, and the tributary system in the Far East had long since collapsed.

Su Lu and his princesses were the happiest when they heard the news that the fleet of the Queen of Penghu was defeated and the fleet of Luo Fu was wiped out.

This proves one thing, Ming is about to regain control of the southeast waters, and the establishment of a hegemony system in the Far East is just around the corner!

This system, for small countries like them, is tantamount to the last straw.

Some people are happy while others are angry. Coincidentally, the governor of Manila, Max, is the one who is very angry, because the vice-captain of the Rover Fleet, Skirlock, is his own brother.

The news of the complete annihilation of Luo Fu's fleet completely shattered his dream of saving his brother.

"King, let's do it, the Dutch are doing it!" A servant ran over and said with fear on his face, "The Dutch are doing it to the Chinese!"

"Could it be that Max is crazy and dares to attack the Chinese at this time?" Su Lu was shocked at first when he heard the news, and then laughed loudly:

"Do it, do it quickly!"

The princess was puzzled and asked quickly, but Su Lu looked at the Governor's Office of the Harbor with the three flags of the Netherlands flying in the distance with a gloomy face, and said viciously:

"Let Max do it. If he does it, he will surely bring revenge from the Great Ming Navy."

"In the Far East, apart from Ming, there is no other country that can resist the colonial offensive of those Westerners. We can only unite under the banner of Ming!"

As he spoke, he came to the palace on the top floor of the palace, looked down, and the scene in front of him made him unconsciously open his mouth wide.

At this moment in Manila, billowing black smoke was rising from the city, and there were chaotic shouts of killing everywhere. Suddenly, there was a loud noise that shook the entire royal city.

But a group of brave Chinese rushed into the port, killed several Dutch naval soldiers, captured a moored Galen sailing ship, and fired a cannonball at the Office of the Governor of the Harbor.

Such hasty shooting, one can imagine how rough it is.

Although the bombardment missed, it still made Max run out of the office in shock, cursing that he wanted to kill all the Chinese.

This shocking sound marked the beginning of the massacre of Chinese in Manila, which shocked both Ming Dynasty and the Dutch East India Company Council.

Chapter 685 The Eunuch's Pursuit of Wanli Sanjingcha

On October 23rd of the fifth year of Tianqi, the Great Court Meeting.

It has been ten days since Zhu Youxiao returned to the capital. During this period of time, the cabinet met and discussed, and there were different opinions and endless debates on the establishment of the Navy Department.

But everything has to be settled at today's court meeting.

At the beginning of the court meeting, the officials lined up, and as soon as Zhu Youxiao took his seat in the classical music, a censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate stood up, holding his head high:

"Your Majesty, I have the original performance!"

Zhu Youjiao was sitting on the Nine Dragon Throne, looked at the censor named Shi Sanwei who stood up, without the slightest fluctuation on his face, and said:

"speak."

Shi Sanwei raised his head, first glanced at the emperor's expression, then Gu Pan glanced at Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch who was standing on the steps, the chief inspector of ceremonies.

Wei Zhongxian's eyes changed slightly, and Shi Sanwei said loudly just now:

"The minister sorted out the conclusions of the three Beijing inspections during the Wanli Dynasty overnight, and discovered a shocking case!"

"Xinhai, Ding Si, Guihai three Beijing inspectors, Li Sancai, Gu Xiancheng, Cao Yubian, and Donglin party members such as Zhao Nanxing, Zhang Wenda, Wang Xiangchun, all united to suppress dissidents. The conclusions of the three Beijing inspections are all the same. false!"

"If you don't pursue Donglin's crime of rebelling against the party, people in the government and the opposition will be panicked, confused and uneasy, and many capable ministers and lofty figures will have doubts about serving the country!"

When the words fell to the ground, the civil and military officials of the whole court seemed to be suffocated, and the hall was completely silent.

As for Wei Zhongxian, the corner of his mouth curled up.

Zhu Youxiao naturally understood Shi Sanwei and Wei Zhongxian's petty movements in his heart, and he didn't know the right to do so. He remained silent for a long time, and said:

"It's been a long time since the Wanli Sanjing Inspection, is there any evidence?"

"Yes!" Since Shi Sanwei planned to stand up and throw this stone into the pool, how could he be unprepared, he continued:

"I have ironclad evidence that these people form cliques and cover up their disciples!"

With that said, he presented a memorial.

"I impeach Li Sancai, the leader of the Donglin Party! Next, Gu Xiancheng, Cao Yubian, and Zhao Nanxing, Zhang Wenda, Wang Xiangchun, etc., are all guilty of unpardonable death!"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly descended the steps, brought up the memorials, and presented them respectfully in front of Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao received the memorial, looking at the true or false charges made up by the eunuch party, he actually didn't have the heart to distinguish the authenticity from the false.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao looked sideways slightly, and Wei Zhongxian was hanging his head, but he still couldn't hide the excitement on his face.