The foreign envoys who were asked to attend the ceremony were also shocked by this punishment.Abkui and Clone, who were invited to Beijing to participate in the prisoner sacrifice ceremony and entered Beijing with Shen Zhaoyun, couldn't help but have a chill on their backs at this time."
It turns out that if you disobey the decree of the Ming Emperor, you will be cut by a thousand cuts.""
Who would dare to go against the will of the Ming Emperor."
Both Abouqua and Clone recognized the other side of the Ming Dynasty.They didn't expect the Ming Emperor to be so ruthless to those who disobeyed.Zhu Youxiao has no intention of changing this harsh punishment system.Because in his view, whether order can be maintained well depends on whether the cost of betraying order is large enough.If a super empire like the Ming Dynasty wants not to be divided, it must have a top-down order, and to have such an order, there must be harsh punishments to maintain this order.Zhu Youxiao thinks that he is here to be the emperor and to maintain order, not to be a bodhisattva, and to tolerate the disobedience of order.Therefore, he will not forgive the wicked.It is not just because the bad people who betray the order put down the butcher's knife will let them become Buddhas."
Dali Temple Shaoqing Fang Yizao on the sparse words: since ancient times the Holy Ming Dynasty, are courteous to foreign countries, now Castro, Pesso and other Francois officials although disobey the emperor's order, but also for the king's affairs, in the end loyal to the commendable, now also to the crime of rebellion, is really a bit far-fetched, the governance of the country should be the foreign king of the internal law of the way, so that all countries are convinced, rather than to punish the crime strictly, strong to dominate the hegemony, so please forgive the crime of Castro, Pesso, avoid death and release, as a great country style."
Fang Congzhe handed Zhu Youxiao a report from Fang Yizao.Zhu Youxiao raised his eyebrows after hearing this, and said without anger: "When did I say that governing the country should be the outer king and the inner law?"
What I said is that the decree cannot be annulled!
”Fang Congzhe immediately stood up solemnly, bowed to the side, and cold sweat broke out slightly on his forehead.He did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor had been taught Confucianism by Xu Guangqi for many years, and he still advocated the rule of law, and was unwilling to replace the law with the Confucian way of benevolence and forgiveness."
Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the land where the sun and the moon shine should be my kingdom!
It's just that due to the isolation of geography and the lack of cultural unity, I have to temporarily endure the barbarians and stand on their own, and skillfully use the technique of combining vertical and horizontal, but since it has fallen into the hands of my Ming Dynasty, those who are controlled by me should follow the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and those who do not obey it should be punished no less lightly than the people of their own country, otherwise, will it not appear that their people are inferior to foreign captives?
It is true that Castro and Pesso, these Western fans, are the best of the outer fan, but this is not the reason for my extrajudicial grace, if the best of the foreign fan, all think that they are excellent, even if they cause a lot of trouble to the Ming Dynasty, if they become prisoners of the Ming Dynasty in the future, they will still be forgiven, then they will definitely work more unscrupulously for their masters, and deal with my Daming!
”Zhu Youxiao said."
What Your Majesty said is that this is just a scholar's opinion."
Fang Congzhe replied."
This is not a pure scholar's opinion, but a clever tongue, presumably he has received someone's favor, his hands and feet are not clean, racking his brains to defend these two foreign affairs, thinking that he is smart, and he can use a seemingly flawless remark to fool me, but he will not know that in this world, if someone hides stupidity and clumsiness, it is difficult to see, but if someone pretends to be smart, it is easy to see."
Zhu Youxiao said this.Fang Congzhe chuckled in his heart, he was a person who loved to pretend to be stupid.Then, Zhu Youxiao issued an order and ordered: "Dongchang will investigate this person closely!"
Once there is evidence of bribery, report it immediately!
”......
"Don't worry, as long as you can really get His Majesty the Emperor to forgive them for their capital crimes this time, release them for the use of my Dutch, we will give you 100,000 yuan of silver coins every year!"
When the time comes, it is a big deal to make a contract directly, and we Dutch people are the most important contracts. ”Abukui said with a bright smile to Fang Yizao, the young secretary of Dali Temple.Fang Yizao is also a Hui businessman, and he also attaches great importance to the word "interests", and after listening to Abukui, he smiled and said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, leniency and commutation of crimes, and the inner law of the outer king is the right way advocated by contemptible people, even if you don't come to intercede for them, this official will also advise on this matter." ”"I admire China very much, whether it is its culture or scenery, I love it, but the only thing I don't understand is that the punishment of your country is too harsh, if it is for civilian slaves, it is properly restricted, but it is also for nobles, it is really against the will of heaven."
Since Abquer knew that Castro and Pesso were sentenced to death by the Ming Emperor, he was a little worried that these Dutch nobles would be severely punished if they also disobeyed the will of the Ming Emperor in the future, so he decided to rescue Castro and Pesso.At the same time, Abouqua also wanted to take the opportunity of saving Castro and other Portuguese nobles to restore relations with Portugal and deal with Spain.After all, this time he sent troops to Goa, because his merchant nature in Abukui was exposed, and he was greedy for profit, which caused him to lose a lot on the Dutch side, and it was already difficult to surpass Spain in strength in the future.And now he has also learned some methods in his dealings with the Ming Dynasty, knowing that it is better to join forces and engage in bumpers than to be enemies everywhere, so he wants to unite with Portugal to deal with Spain.In addition, Aboukui also wanted to take this opportunity to bribe some Ming officials as spokesmen for his Dutch interests in the Ming court.Therefore, Abkui took the initiative to make friends with some Ming officials before leaving Beijing, and tried to collude with some Ming officials to achieve his political goals by bribing them with money and offering accompanying orchids.Now, Abukui also chatted with one of the Ming officials he colluded with, Fang Yizao, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.When Abukui heard Fang Yizao say that he advocated leniency and commutation, and the foreign king's internal law, he was very happy, and felt that Fang Yizao was a bosom friend, so he agreed to put forward the view that nobles should not be treated harshly, of course, the nobles he mentioned were not only Han scholars, but also those foreign nobles.That's exactly what I said!
Aristocrats, what is noble, lies in knowing that etiquette is decent, how can they be the same law as the common people?
You go back first and wait for the news, my Emperor Ming Emperor has the heart of the inner hero, and if he wants all the nations to come to the court, he must treat you foreign nobles with courtesy, and now he can't abolish the decree, but it is just in front of the ministers, and he can't abolish the edict lightly. ”Fang Yizao put down the teacup after speaking.And Abukui now understands some of the etiquette of Daming, and knows that the master puts down the teacup to send off the guest, so he immediately retires.However, as soon as Abukui came out of the Fang Mansion, a team of Dongchang Banner School stopped him, and one of them, the Chief Flag Officer named Lu Rong, said: "You are a red-haired fan, but you are very active, our Dongchang has been paying attention to you for a long time, presumably you should not know how powerful our Dongchang is!"
The privy envoy Lu Yi played the matter, and you bribed him with the intention of inquiring about the emperor's situation, so come with us. ”East Factory?
After Abukui came to Daming, he had also heard of some East Factory, but because he came to Daming not long ago, he did not feel very deeply about the East Factory.In addition, he really didn't expect that there would be some Ming Court officials he befriended who were not greedy.He asked himself a lot for Lu Xiangsheng, because he knew that Lu Xiangsheng was the general of the guards around the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so he invested a lot of money and directly gave up part of the shares of his East India Company to bribe.