Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

On the third day of the emperor's wedding, Nan Juyi sent Andrew, the special envoy of the governor of the Netherlands, to the capital.Let Cui Jingrong say that it is unnecessary to send people over.If you want to redeem the captive captured by Daming, but you don't want to pay for the loss of Haojing and Xiamen first, it's faster to dream.

Sun Chengzong, the concubine of the left and a scholar of the lecturer, was ordered by the emperor to meet the Dutch envoy.Sun Chengzong was originally a type of character like Xiong Tingbi, a fierce-blooded, warlike and strategic Jinshi, and he got the emperor's secret decree to ask the Netherlands to lose his trousers.

After negotiating for three days without any progress, Sun Chengzong took a vacation on the pretext of catching a cold.Anyway, the people in Haojing had nothing to lose, and the Portuguese were also persuaded to leave by the Guangzhou prefect and the Xiangshan county magistrate. The more than 40 Dutch people were handed over to the Guangzhou government to do hard labor.The Dutch captured by Nan Juyi were ordered to repair the damaged local houses in Xiamen and build the Xiamen seaport.

Sun Chengzong is not in a hurry.

After the Ministry of Industry has built dozens of fast boats and hundreds of cannons, he can lead the army to Luzon, first to settle old debts with the Spaniards, and then to negotiate a new village with the Dutch.

Take it easy.

Sun Chengzong didn't see anyone for ten days after he rested.

For officials who could not wait for the Ming court to come to negotiate, Honglu Temple sent daily bills on a daily basis.Looking at the money spent every day, Andrew and the officials of Honglu Temple applied to go to the capital to find a place to live.

Sun Chengzong's answer was no.

"Who's to blame if something goes wrong? Westerners have firecrackers. What if the people are injured by fire? Many people in Xiamen were killed and injured. The people in the capital want revenge. Who is responsible for killing the special envoys?"

Then the Dutch envoy, who was in a hurry, was told in horror that it would soon be the traditional holiday of Ming officials.The holiday starts from the "Xiao Nian", and the office will not resume until after the Shangyuan Festival.

The length of the entire holiday exceeds that of the Western Christmas holiday.

Andrew looked at the money that went out like water every day, and if he didn't hurry up, he was worried that he would not be able to pay for the accommodation.A Guli man who came with him, the Dutch-Chinese translator Sun Tong, suggested to Andrew Te that he should give Sun Xueshi a gift.

But how the gift was delivered, and how it was carried back by Sun Tongyi.

Sun Chengzong refused to accept it, and told Sun Tongyi who was going to give the gift, "No one in the Ming Dynasty has accepted gifts for a long time. This official is clean and honest, but the descendants of Enyin can be officials, and there is still a pension money. I accept this little gift from you. , not only will be impeached by the censor and lose his official position, but he will also lose the qualifications of being a descendant of grace."

The officials of Ming Dynasty began to change in the direction of incorruptibility.This is more or less related to the abolition of the tax exemption for scholars, the effective implementation of the system of grace and shade, and clean pension money.

When it comes to punishing corruption and accepting bribes, Tai/Zu came more sharply. Beheading, skinning, and exile all failed to prevent L officials from accepting bribes.A very important reason is that although he has formulated the system of favor and shade, he has repeatedly expressed his dislike of relying on ancestor shade as an official.As a result, in the long years that followed, few civil servants were able to successfully find official positions for their children and grandchildren.

Therefore, civil servants try their best to save their children and grandchildren's wealth when they have power, buy land, buy shops, and save money. Whoever's children and grandchildren can guarantee that they can be admitted to Juren or Jinshi.Some children are just not enlightened, and they can't even pass the exam for scholar.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, Zhu Youxiao discussed with Zhou Jiamo and Huang Kezuan countless times, and made a lot of efforts to solve the corruption of officials.In the end, it was Huang Kezuan who suggested to implement the matter of Enyin.

"Your Majesty, except for a few officials who accept bribes for their own extravagance, most of them plan for their unpromising children and grandchildren. If every official realizes that being an honest and honest official will really benefit his children and grandchildren in the future, maybe he will not take such risks. .”

There were strict standards in the Ming Dynasty civil official's shadow narrative system. "Records of Ming Taizu" contains the following five aspects:

First, use the shade to be the eldest son.If the eldest son is disabled, then the sons and grandsons of the eldest son will arrest Zeng Xuan; Children and grandchildren; if there is no one, then the descendants of his uncles and grandchildren will be shadowed.

Second, those who use the shade are descended from their grandsons, and their great-grandsons descended from their grandchildren;

Look, as long as you become an official, even your great-grandchildren can benefit.

The third is to be an official of the first rank, and his son is used for the fifth rank; from the first rank, he is used from the fifth rank; and downgraded to the "right from the seventh rank", he is used in the ranks of the lower ranks, such as delivery. Office, post office, gate dam officer and the like."

It means that when I become a seventh-rank official, my sons and grandchildren can also eat the emperor's food, and there is a place for the low-level gangsters to eat.

Moreover, the examination requirements for Enyin's children are not high, and those who are over 25 years old and can master the principles of the "Jing" and "Four Books" can use it.

The only downside is that she can only have one son.

Zhu Youxiao had no better way to deal with officials asking for bribes and accepting bribes, so he followed Huang Kezuan's proposal and began to try it out.After two years of trial, the effect will be really obvious.

Sun Tongyi, who gave gifts to Andrew, had an ancestor who was a Ming sailor who went to the West with the Sanbao eunuch, and stayed in Guli, India due to illness.Later, he married a local woman and lived in Guli.He came to the capital with Andrew this time, and he meant to find his roots.But 200 years have passed, and with the little information he provided, Sun Chengzong can only say that he tried his best to help him find his roots.

Sun Chengzong turned around and reported this to Zhu Youxiao, and then handed over the matter to Jin Yiwei for verification.For Daming at this time, there must be a guide to go everywhere, and the sailors who followed Feng Bao to the West also have records.However, even though Jin Yiwei ate a lot of dust, he still found out Sun Tongyi's ancestors.

When Sun Tongyi came to the door, Sun Chengzong naturally told him the result.Then Sun Tongyi, who was very grateful, told Sun Chengzong about the situation of the Dutch in Guli and the current predicament of special envoy Andrew and others under Sun Chengzong's intentional inquiry.

Sun Chengzong was very happy.So he revealed to him: "I will not hide from you, I will tell you a little truth. The court paid 300 million silver for the battle in Xiamen, and also embezzled part of the silver from the emperor's wedding. The Dutch must first After paying the compensation, we can talk about redemption and other things."

When Sun Tongyi heard that it was a basic compensation of 300 million taels, he immediately nodded and said that he would bring the words back to the Dutch envoy.

Sun Chengzong is now working hard and learning from Gongnai with all his heart. In the end, he can't be a minister, but he can still be a third-rank servant. The eldest son, Sun Quan, can start as a seventh-rank county magistrate.This is the same start as the two Jinshi.This is also his loving father's intention to cherish his eldest son with ordinary qualifications.

Therefore, he thought that when the emperor had the opportunity to do something, he would first do the negotiation well, and then he would be eligible to apply to Luzon with the emperor.

Sun Tong translated and went back to the Dutch envoy to truthfully report the meaning of Mr. Sun.

"300 million."

Andrew howled.The more than 600 soldiers are not worth 300 million silver, but what about the nine Galen ships?And so many guns on board.That is the property of the East India Company.Regardless of whether Daming was willing to lower the ransom in the end, he had to obtain the official documents from the Ming court before he could go back to do business.

So Andrew begged the officials of Honglu Temple to continue negotiating with Xueshi Sun.

Sun Chengzong rested at home for ten days and took enough airs before going back to Honglu Temple to negotiate.In the end, Andrew didn't want to continue this hopeless negotiation in the capital, so he hurriedly left Beijing with the conditions given to him by Sun Chengzong.

Zhang Yan accompanied Zhu Youxiao to read the negotiation report submitted by Sun Chengzong, and said with a smile: "Master Sun is really a wonderful person. If the Dutch buy the nine ships with silver, he will give them to the Spaniards. Your Majesty agrees?" "

Zhu Youxiao embraced the beauty's shoulders and said with a smile: "The Dutch can't come up with such a large sum of money to buy it back. I just took the 300 million to build nine big ships and a thousand cannons. I drove the Dutch When the warship goes to Luzon, if the Spaniards in Manila escape from the fire of these nine ships, they will report back that it was the Dutch who attacked them.”

"Let the Dutch and the Spaniards go to war?"

"Yes. Let them fight first to warm up. These Westerners came to the East with no good intentions."

The little queen nodded.

"Yeah, yeah, first use artillery to blow up the Xiamen Navy, and then ask the court to sell everything through them. If the court doesn't have Clippers and cannons, they can't beat them, wouldn't they have to follow their wishes? gone."

"Zitong is right. That's how they opened up the American continent and the African continent."

On one side of the high table is a globe specially obtained from Guangzhou. When Zhu Youxiao is free, he tells the little queen about the continents and countries on the globe.Zhang Yan seemed to have opened the door to a new world. The little queen eagerly learned new knowledge, such as math, geometry, guns, shipbuilding, etc., and forgot to compete with the emperor again.

For Zhu Youxiao, Zhang Yan's son's kung fu is not enough for him to deal with it with one hand.But since the martial arts that the little queen is most proud of have been hit, it's better to find something interesting for her to do.

It doesn't hurt the little queen's self-esteem, and she can be quiet, which can be regarded as the fun of nurturing in disguise.