Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Yuyao smiled:

After arriving in Nanyang, I saw that my father was invincible. In just over a month, he not only established a firm foothold in Nanyang, but also successively captured the entire Hubei province.

With Hubei, a land of plenty, in hand, and the food that Eunuch Fang brought back from Jiangnan, Zhu Aona's tense heart finally relaxed.

Zhu Yuyao knew in her heart that some time ago, her father almost soaked herself in the military camp for nearly two months, and he said less than a hundred words to her in total.

At that time, my father was also unsure.

However, after Yuan Zongdi left Xiangyang and Zuo Liangyu went to Hunan, his father finally settled down in Guanghua County Yamen with peace of mind.

Although he also went to Wangfuzhou for inspection, he ended up staying in Xingying permanently.

Zhu Yurao knew that Ming Dynasty finally had a peaceful place!

Her white-haired father could finally take a break!

Seeing that his father was well and his mother also sent him a letter of safety, this was Zhu Auao's greatest hope.

She really didn't care about eating a little - as long as her parents were well, what else could be more important?

"That!"

Zhu Youjian chuckled and pointed at a dozen dishes on the menu: "That's it."

After speaking, he looked at Fan Jingwen:

"Mr. Fan, please order a few things too."

Fan Jingwen grinned and pointed at his intact teeth:

"Big lord, little old man, I still have a mouth full of steel teeth. I can bite bones and eat rice. Whatever the big lord orders, little old man, I will eat."

"Ha ha!"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help laughing when he saw that this old minister, who had always been upright, was flattering him in a roundabout way.

He casually handed the menu to the waiter:

"That's all!"

The drunkenness filled the building very quickly, and within half a stick of incense, there was a waiter carrying a tray and serving a few complimentary cold dishes.

Fried soybeans, fried broad beans, pickled radish strips, pickled cabbage.

Four appetizers were placed on the table on a plate as big as a tea cup.

A plate of fried soybeans, fried to golden brown. Twist one and put it in your mouth. Just bite it lightly and it will be crispy.

"Oh, father, it's delicious, it's crunchy and delicious!"

Zhu Yini stretched her arms. After eating one, she stretched her arms and yelled for Zhu Youjian to pick up the soybeans for her.

Fan Jingwen saw that the little princess Zhu Yini liked to eat, so he immediately pushed the plate in front of Zhu Yini:

"Miss, eat slowly, don't choke on your nose!"

The old man with a gray beard smiled and said words of love and care.

Zhu Yini wrinkled her little nose:

"No way! My sister told me to eat slowly."

After saying that, he picked up a soybean with his white and tender hands and stuffed it into his pink and tender mouth.

Zhu Youjian burst out laughing.

Fan Jingwen also had a smile on his face.

Even Liu Tichun, who was standing guard with a short gun in his arms, had his eyes curled up.

No one can refuse a cute little girl...

At this moment, several tables of diners in the private seats on the second floor finished their meals, paid their bills and left.

Zhu Youjian winked at Liu Tichun and asked him to lead people to guard the surroundings to prevent others from eavesdropping.

Liu Tichun went with his men.

Fan Jingwen looked serious, knowing that the emperor wanted to talk about business, so he sat upright and waited for the emperor to speak.

Zhu Youjian laughed and said to Fan Jingwen:

"When Mr. Fan was an official in Nanjing, I once heard that England, a small country in the West, had a border dispute with the Ming Dynasty. What was the detailed story of this matter?"

Everyone knows that the first war between China and Britain was the Opium War.

Actually it is not.

In the autumn of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Britain fought a war with the Ming Dynasty...

"This issue……"

Fan Jingwen pondered and said: "At that time, Xiong Wencan was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and also the governor of Guangdong."

"English is very similar to the period of Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty. The Queen and the Prince took turns in power. The King of England sent people on six ships to trade with the Ming Dynasty..."

(Note: After the death of Elizabeth I, the British government was in chaos. The Ming Dynasty’s deepest understanding of Britain was during the period of Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I personally wrote a letter to the Ming Emperor, beginning with the honorific title:

Elizabeth, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Guardian of the Faith, pays tribute to the great, powerful and invincible Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. )

Zhu Youjian sneered: "The Westerners have always been domineering. They have human form but no human heart. They are like beasts in clothes. If they come here, they will do the same things they did in America again!"

Europeans' overseas trade... to put it bluntly, it is bloody overseas plunder!

They relied on their strong ships and powerful guns to bully the Americans who were still in the tribal period, and the methods they adopted were even more disgraceful, and they used all kinds of dirty things.

"What your Majesty said is true!" Fan Jingwen said:

"At that time, I was serving as the censor of Youdu in Nandu. Soon, I became the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Counselor of Machinery Affairs.

The person responsible is Jiangnan Military.

At that time, the English bribed the Portuguese and gained the right to enter the Ming Dynasty trade. However, after the English came to the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese government established near the Ming Dynasty did not recognize it. "

Zhu Youjian chuckled: "Isn't this very similar to what the Li family in Liaodong did!"

Fan Jingwen was stunned and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The Lord in front of me is really not someone who is easy to fool.

He acquiesced in the emperor's contrasting rhetoric and continued:

"The British are used to running rampant elsewhere, but when they came to Ming Dynasty, they still wanted to use their old tricks. After asking for negotiation to no avail, they immediately crossed the Pearl River with warships and bombarded the Humen Fort."

Zhu Youjian raised his eyebrows, "There is an old tradition in Britain about feelings!"

Humen Fort...

"Governor Xiong had received a warning from the Portuguese before, so he stationed more than a dozen people at the Humen Fort. At that time, there was a huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves, and the guards at the Humen Fort could not hold on and had to retreat.

The British demolished the Humen Fort and took away 35 large and small artillery pieces. "

"Governor Bear sent the Portuguese to reprimand him, and the English returned the cannon. However, the fleet continued to penetrate deeper."

"This move by English made Governor Xiong furious, so he deployed troops to set up defenses along the coast, and at the same time dispatched three ships carrying artillery and a swarm of rockets to conquer."

Paintings of the Battle between the Ming Dynasty and the British

Zhu Youjian knew what happened next.

Three smaller Ming Dynasty river ships, but with the strength of their ships and their powerful guns, they overturned six large ocean-going armed merchant ships of the British Empire...

After being severely beaten, the British fleet no longer dared to engage in a "head-on" battle with the Ming Dynasty navy.

However, the despicable English people were not willing to fail, so they vented their dissatisfaction offshore by setting fire to three merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty and snatching 3 pigs.