Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

If the secret is magic... then they must also report to the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, which is his duty as a devout Anglican.

"Consul, I also bought this from one of Qiu Rong's personal soldiers, and it cost me 20 taels of silver!" Ji Dabao mysteriously took out a talisman, opened it carefully, and handed it over with both hands. To Charlie Gough.

"What is this?" Charlie Goff took the yellow paper (talisman), glanced at it, and looked at Ji Dabao in surprise, "Nicholas, did you really buy this paper with 20 taels of silver? Are you Aren't you drunk?"

"I'm not drunk," Ji Dabao said with a smile, "Consul, this is a..."

That's how the talisman paper should be said in seventeenth-century old English?

Ji Dabao pondered for a while, and finally came up with his words: "This is a piece of magic paper made by a Chinese wizard, and it is specially used to ignite magic gunpowder."

"Is this made by wizards? God..." Charlie Gough is a devout believer, and of course he is extremely opposed to wizards and witches!So he quickly made a cross on his chest before asking: "Is this true?"

"The credibility is extremely high!" Ji Dabao said, "because I saw him remove it from a bomb that looked like a small hammer... and when it was removed, it was rolled into strips of magic paper. There is also a lot of gunpowder."

Ji Dabao is a very shrewd comprador, so of course he would not casually take out the 20 taels of silver to buy a piece of paper.

He watched with his own eyes that Chen Yonghua's personal soldier pulled out the rolled talisman paper from a wooden grenade hammer!

"Where's the gunpowder?" Charlie Gough asked immediately.

"Here!" Ji Dabao took out a paper bag folded into a square, and then opened it in front of Charlie Goff. Inside was a handful of black granular gunpowder.

"It's all on paper?" asked Charlie Goff.

"No," Ji Dabao said, "I also asked that soldier to pour a little gunpowder from that copper hammer."

Charlie Gough took the opened paper bag and looked at it confidently for a while, "It looks like black gunpowder...the quality is very good, it doesn't look like it's made in India, it should come from Europe!"

What he saw was indeed black gunpowder, but it didn't come from Europe, but from the inner factory of Zhu San Taisun - the inner gunpowder factory!

The internal gunpowder factory moved there immediately after Zhu Heqi occupied Jieyang County.Not only has a pharmacist school been established, but also a black powder workshop has been established. At present, a daily production capacity of [-] to [-] catties of black powder has been formed.

The reason why the black powder produced in the inner gunpowder factory is filled into the grenade hammer is because the sweet gunpowder is particularly susceptible to moisture and has a short storage time, so it can only be prepared by the "Shen Lei Apprentice" before the battle.

Therefore, the grenade hammers issued to the "hammer soldiers" hanging on their belts every day are filled with black powder that is not so easy to get wet.

In order to ensure that the black powder grenade hammer can explode, the black powder filled inside is all high-quality granular gunpowder produced by the internal factory.Otherwise, in the event of an emergency, you can only use a hammer to hit people.

Ji Dabao has been inquiring from east to west these days, and he also knows the existence of the Nei Gunpowder Factory, so he shook his head and said, "Mr. Consul, I have asked that soldier. The gunpowder comes from the Nei Gunpowder Factory owned by the Third Grandson of Zhu!"

"What?" Charlie Gough was taken aback. "Quickly, bring me a bowl, and a flame... You will only know if the gunpowder is good or not after it is ignited!"

The gunpowder was ignited, a red flame ignited, white smoke was released, and it burned quickly and completely.When the gunpowder is burned out, there are almost no impurities in the porcelain bowl.

"This..." Charlie Goff took a breath, "This gunpowder is of excellent quality, even better than the gunpowder produced in England and the Netherlands!" He frowned deeply, "But how did they do it? Yes Stealing the advanced technology that our England is still developing, or using evil black magic to purify fire nitrate and brimstone?"

Chapter 089: Roman Town Magic!

Beijing City, Forbidden City, South Study Room.

Nan Huairen, the Jesuit missionary who is in charge of Tianjian and Minister of Taichang Temple, is also carefully handing a piece of talisman paper to the young Emperor Kangxi.

This Spanish Netherlander with a big beard is really guilty now, so he had to recite the "Psalm of the Virgin" silently in his heart to calm himself down.

And the reason why he felt guilty was because the "Fire Talisman" he returned to Emperor Kangxi was a fake!

Emperor Kangxi couldn't wait for the eminent monks sent by Zhang Tianshi and the Great Lama of Xueyu Mountain to arrive, so he asked Nan Huairen to take the "Fire Spirit Talisman" that Deng Zhong brought to Beijing and the gunpowder filled in the Tianlei Pot to study...

Nan Huairen didn't take it seriously at first, because he found that the gunpowder in the Tianlei Pot was very ordinary, and the so-called "fire magic talisman"... He believed in God, so of course he didn't believe in this "demonic method".

But these days, there have been continuous reports of defeats from Guangdong, and the "Zhuge Shenlei" has been mentioned repeatedly!

Now Nan Huairen didn't dare to take it lightly, but he was not familiar with the magic arts, so he could only draw a fake talisman, and then send the real talisman together with the report he wrote to Rome. Holy Roman Catholic Inquisition!

So now what he returned to Kangxi was the fake talisman... This is the crime of deceiving the emperor!If discovered, he will be martyred and sanctified!

Although he loves Heavenly Father so much, he doesn't want to return to Heavenly Father right away...

When the 11th year of Kangxi's New Year was approaching, the young British Emperor Kangxi was a little dizzy from one bad news after another from Guangdong, so he didn't pay much attention to whether the spell Nan Huairen gave him was true or not. ?

His current thoughts are all on the title book about "The Third Prince Zhu Runs the Court" jointly handed over by Shang Kexi and Mi Sihan.

Although the Third Prince Zhu hadn’t dared to proclaim himself emperor, his act of establishing a court in the name of the Great Ming Supervising State was still unacceptable to Emperor Kangxi... You must know that before this, his Qing court was the only court in the world, It has monopoly management rights, with a market share of 90.00%!

There were more than a thousand counties in the Qing Dynasty. Before Qiu Hui occupied Chenghai County, Jiang Sheng controlled Siming Prefecture on Xiamen Island, which is similar to the county. Zheng Jing also had two prefectures equivalent to counties in Taiwan. four counties.

Moreover, Zheng Jing did not dare to proclaim himself emperor, nor did he dare to support a supervisory state to start a court.In fact, he already regarded himself as a vassal king. If it hadn't been for the Qing court's insistence on "shaving hair" and "landing", and the death of Zheng Zhilong who had sincerely surrendered before, Zheng Jing would have surrendered.

But now... Although the market share is still very high, it has only been reduced by a few tenths, but the third prince Zhu has called the State Supervisor in Jieyang County, and he has established the imperial court openly, and shouted the slogan "The world is for the public". Declare to "restore the original Confucianism".

Although Emperor Kangxi didn't quite understand what this was all about?How did a good anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty become the world for the public?But he still vaguely felt that the court created by the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson Zhu was still a very tricky thing, maybe it was really a bigger threat than the San Francisco!

By the way, so far, Kangxi still regards San Francisco as the biggest threat to the Qing Dynasty, not one of them!

Although the names of the third prince Zhu and the grandson of Zhu San have been pasted on the column in the south study where the name of San Francisco was originally pasted...But Emperor Kangxi did not ask people to tear off the paper with the word "San Francisco" Finally, replace the paper with the names of "Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Heqi" on it.Instead, the new paper is pasted on top of the old paper to cover it.

After the two big rebels Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Heqi are killed, the "new paper" will be torn off.When Emperor Kangxi was thinking about when to "change the list" again, Nan Huairen brought the fake talisman he drew to deceive the emperor.

Emperor Kangxi took the "Fire Spirit Talisman" and looked at it in the dim light of the South Study Room. He always felt that something was wrong, and asked in a low voice: "Nan Huairen, do you think the lines on this Talisman look a bit like Latin? Letters?"

was discovered?Want to see Heavenly Father?Heavenly Father hurry up and bless me... Amen!

Nan Huairen was startled, and silently recited "Heavenly Father bless" in his heart, but said: "Your Majesty, I don't look like you..."

In fact, Kangxi did not doubt Nan Huairen, he still believed in this "foreign monk" very much, never thought that he would dare to deceive the king.So after asking, he didn't mention it again, but asked about the "chamber gunpowder", "Nan Huairen, have you inspected the gunpowder in the pot?"

"Your Majesty, I have passed the inspection." Nan Huairen heaved a sigh of relief, and replied, "It's just ordinary gunpowder, of average quality."

Kangxi frowned, and whispered to himself: "Could it be that there is magic in this spell?"

Nan Huairen didn't dare to answer this question - the Department of Inquisition was in charge of this matter, he, a Jesuit missionary, didn't dare to talk nonsense, otherwise he might go to hell.

However, Kangxi still wanted to inquire, "Nan Huairen, is there anyone on your Western side who can use spells to enhance the power of gunpowder?"

Heresy again!

Nan Huairen dared not talk to Kangxi about Western spells—the spells are heresy!If you really believe in God, you only need to say "God bless you". If you practice spells by yourself, you don't believe in God!And those spells are not recorded in the bible, how can they practice casually?

But I don’t dare not to answer Kangxi all the time—accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger, can you ignore the emperor’s questions?Maybe it will be sanctified immediately!

So I had no choice but to stammer: "Your Majesty, I... I don't understand demon law. There is a special yamen in the west to take care of this. I am not from that yamen."

"Ah, a yamen that specializes in catching monsters!" Kangxi became interested and asked, "What's the name of this yamen?"

"Call, call..." What is it called?Nan Huairen was thinking hard about how to translate the Latin "Heretic Inquisition"?After pondering for a long time, he finally thought of a more appropriate name, and he said to Kangxi: "The name of this yamen is translated into Chinese, that is, Zhenmagic, Roman Zhenmagic!"

Kangxi nodded, and issued an order: "Then you pass on my will to the Roman Catholic Church, and ask them to send a magician from the town of magic to our Daqing, together with the Xueyu lama, the real person from Longhushan and our shaman from Manchuria. Let's deal with Zhuge Yaodao's demon art together!"

Beads of sweat came out of Nan Huairen's forehead. What did Kangxi mean to let the judges of the Inquisition Department and a group of heretic priests deal with heretic sorcery together?

They won't pinch themselves first, will they?

But Kangxi just said "will"!

If you resist the decree and don't obey it, you will be sanctified immediately!

Nan Huairen seemed to have seen that the Lord in the sky had opened his arms to him... so he quickly knelt down to the Qing emperor and shouted: "Hey!"

"Kneel down!"

Emperor Kangxi was busy and didn't have time to continue discussing with Nan Huairen about the Holy See's Zhenmosi, so he sent him away.

……

Nan Huairen walked away with a lot of preoccupations. After a while, the seven great scholars under Emperor Kangxi and Xiong Cilu, the head of the Hanlin Academy, Xue Zhang, who had just been awarded the Bachelor of Attendant of the Imperial Academy, and Deng Zhong, the third-class bodyguard, were on the way. They entered the south study together.

They were called by Emperor Kangxi to the South Study Room to discuss matters because the third prince Zhu and his son had privately established a court in Chaozhou, Guangdong.

This group of bachelors, the Great Hanlin, and the little third-class guard all have serious expressions and righteous indignation—how can they leave the court privately?Moreover, the actual control area of ​​the third prince Zhu does not know if there is a whole county, and then the court will be opened. If they want to conquer a province, wouldn't they have to open the court of heaven?

It's lawless!

After kneeling three times and prostrating nine times, a group of people dropped their hands and shoulders and lined up on both sides, waiting for Emperor Kangxi to ask questions.

Emperor Kangxi didn't talk nonsense with these cabinet ministers, but got straight to the point, and said: "The third prince Zhu said that he wants the world to be public, that Confucianism and Taoism should be restored, and that he wants to be a former Confucian...do you know what that means? ?”

Chapter 090: General Shi Lang

"Your Majesty," Xiong Cilu, the academician in charge of the Imperial Academy, hurried out of class and said, "That's all deceptive nonsense, it's all a lie."

Emperor Kangxi couldn't help frowning when he looked at this Confucian official who was usually quite reasonable.What happened to this "Hanlin academy storyteller"?He can talk about the Three Kingdoms, why is he unwilling to talk about the public and the original Confucianism in the world today?I don't quite understand what Yuanru means, but the saying "the world is public" comes from "Book of Rites", how could Xiong Cilu not know?Could it be that during this period of time his mind was all talking about the Three Kingdoms, and he couldn't speak the truth anymore?

"Xiong Cilu," Kangxi asked with a frown, "what basis do you have for saying that they are lying? If they are not lying, but really want the world to be a public, want to restore Confucianism and Taoism, and want to be original Confucians, So what?"

Yes, what is the basis for your Xiong Cilu Xiong storytelling to say that the third prince Zhu and his son are cheating?

Everyone in Nan's study gloated at Xiong Cilu, who was always eloquent.

Because everyone knows that "the world is for the public" and "original Confucianism" are very dangerous problems for the head of the Imperial Academy!

"The emperor's lesson is that the minister is too arbitrary." Xiong Cilu's attitude of admitting his mistake was very good, and he immediately knelt down to Emperor Kangxi, but he would not really discuss with Kangxi about "the world is for the public" and "returning Confucianism and Taoism". "...Of course he knows what the third prince Zhu and his son are doing, but for him, a Han Confucian official, these two topics are likely to lose his head!

The "ball" must be kicked out cleanly, even if it flies!

So he went on to say: "However, I really don't believe that the third prince Zhu and his son will really make the world a public... As for the restoration of Confucianism and Taoism, it is even more nonsense. What is retro? And how?

I feel that the third prince Zhu and his son just felt that there were not many people who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored Mingxin, so they made such a move, which is really not enough to believe or worry about. "

Then he changed the subject, "The most urgent task now is to send out troops quickly, select good generals, advance both land and water, and smash into the thief's nest!"

Emperor Kangxi frowned, raised his hand and said, "Be flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xiong Cilu breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately got up and stepped aside.

Kangxi turned his attention to Xue Zhang, a Bachelor of Attendant of the Imperial Academy, "Master Xue!"

"The minister is here!" Xue Zhang hurriedly came out and knelt down to Emperor Kangxi in salute.

"You are the former prefect of Chaozhou, you should know who are the Confucianists in Chaozhou?"

"I know a thing or two." In fact, Xue Zhang didn't know at all. Confucianists in Chaozhou all spoke Chaozhou dialect, and he couldn't understand it at all.

Kangxi said: "Then you can go to Guangdong and find out the background of these original Confucianism for me." He paused, "I will give you an officer who is an admiral to study politics!"

Xue Zhang really won the lottery!I've only been a lecturer in the Imperial Academy for a few days, and now I'm talking about learning the Tao. If this goes on, it won't be too long before the Ministry and the Pavilion seal the border.

Xue Zhang thanked the emperor for his kindness, while Kangxi set his sights on Tu Hai, the chief scholar of the Manchus.

"Your Majesty," Tu Hai, like Xiong Cilu, was unwilling to talk about "the world is the public" and "returning to the original Confucianism". Instead, he recommended a good general to Kangxi. I think it makes sense, but the naval forces in Guangdong and Fujian provinces are too weak, and I am afraid it will be difficult for them to take on the important task of advancing troops and suppressing bandits by water.

Therefore, I want to recommend a good general to the emperor. As long as the emperor uses him to rectify the Fujian navy, it will be enough to defeat the third prince Zhu and the two thieves Zheng Jing! "

"Who is he?" Kangxi asked.

"The former admiral of the Fujian Navy, the current Minister of Internal Affairs, Shi Lang!"

"Shi Lang..." Emperor Kangxi frowned slightly when he thought of this person.

This Shi Lang's current official position is Minister of the Interior. From the perspective of a first-rank official, he looks quite big, but in fact he is a useless idler. He works every day to guard the gate at the Gate of Supreme Harmony.

It turns out that the internal ministers of the Qing Dynasty are actually the officials in charge of the guards in the bodyguard office, the officials who guard the emperor... It seems very important, but the number of such internal ministers is a bit too much.There are a total of six internal ministers, two from each of the three banners of Xianghuang, Zhenghuang, and Zhengbai.In addition, on top of the six internal ministers, there are six other internal ministers leading the guards, two from each of the upper three banners.

In other words, there are twelve ministers in a small guard office!As for the guards under the supervision of their ten ministers, there are only more than 500 guards in total, with an average of more than forty guards in charge of each.

And Shi Lang is a slave of the Han Army with the Yellow Banner, and it is not the "Chen Han Army", but the New Han Army with shallow qualifications.

So among the twelve ministers in the bodyguard office, Shi Lang will always be at the bottom!

Not to mention that other ministers don't buy his account, even the guards below don't take him seriously.The guards who are a little bit higher are either from the rich and powerful of Manchuria, or the very old Chen Hanjun... For example, Deng Zhong who cleaned the toilet for Dorgon.

The most amazing thing is that there is also a girl named Kong Sizhen, who also opened the back door to enter the guard's office when Shi Lang was an internal minister, and even became a first-class guard directly!

Shi Lang, an internal minister, had to kneel and kowtow and call himself a slave when he saw her... A male boss had to kneel and kowtow and call himself a slave when he saw a female subordinate. Who has seen this in the workplace?

What makes Shi Lang even more depressed is that he has no money to make, Shi Lang is a corrupt official!Historically, after he conquered Taiwan, he encroached on two-thirds of Taiwan's fertile land, and even encircled the island of Taiwan as his own manor.

But it is impossible for him to be greedy at the guards now, and it is impossible for him to eat empty quota and drink the blood of the guards.

No matter how confused the emperor is, he can always figure out how many guards protect him, right?And most of those guards have backers, can Shi Langke detain them?And they won't give gifts to Shi Lang, Shi Lang has eleven leading guards and internal ministers!

In fact, those guards who look down on people are not willing to pay attention to him.He is a "Hu Jianren" and speaks Hokkien.And the other guards are either old Dongbei or new Beijing, and they all speak Beijing movies or Northeast dialect.The dialogue between the two sides is like a chicken talking to a duck, what a lot of effort!

Emperor Kangxi was also unwilling to talk to Shi Lang, but he was a diligent and enlightened emperor, so he had read Shi Lang's "Border Trouble Yijing Shu" and "All Chen Seen Shu".These two documents are all about how to deal with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the Yanping Palace!

What Shi Lang meant was to fight, and to solve it with force as soon as possible.Moreover, Shi Lang also thought that the Yanping Palace was a paper tiger... Because the population under the Yanping Palace was too small to support the army, the whole army was less than [-], and the warships were less than [-].

As long as the imperial court can trust him, Shi Lang, and let him train [-] sailors, the Yanping Palace can be wiped out in one fell swoop!

This is much better than the foolish way to kill a hundred enemies and lose more than three thousand to the coastal border.

However, when these two documents were handed over, Obai was still in power.And Aobai didn't believe in Shi Lang at all, not because he didn't believe in Shi Lang's suggestion, but because he didn't believe in Shi Lang!

Shi Lang is the fourth minister!