Chapter 435 Power ministers on strike, if you force them, keep running!

  Port Arthur.

  A high-quality ice-free port that a big country in later generations is reluctant to return.

   But at this time, his value has not been noticed by the imperial bureaucrats of this era.

   This cannot be blamed on the short-sightedness of the bureaucrats of the Ming Empire, but that they still do not know the importance of future maritime interests.

  It will take time for a person who only grew up in the civilization system of the agricultural continent and is familiar with the rules of this system to suddenly realize how important these high-quality ice-free ports are.

  They didn't ask for the ban on the sea again, and it was not easy to confine the people in their own manor.

  Duke Sui of the Ming Dynasty and Grand Master Zhang Gui were accompanied by Huang Binqing and his cronies, standing outside Lushun Port, looking at the choppy sea, and asked, "Has North Korea made contact?"

"Contacted. When we sent 30 warships to the Han River and hundreds of cannons were aimed at the mansions and estates of these North Korean princes and ministers, their king agreed without hesitation to lease Jianghua Island to Xichang for a hundred In 2009, the land of the population on the island was at the disposal of Xichang.”

  Huang Binqing replied.

  Zhang Gui nodded.

   He was not surprised by this.

  Because the Lee Dynasty Korea in this era was also a Confucian country, and even called itself Little China.

  The common problem of Confucian countries is that they are internally tough and externally weak.

   What's more, Xichang's current strength at sea is already strong.

   Therefore, it is impossible for Lee's North Korea to be uncompromising.

   Zhang Gui wanted Jianghua Island to prepare for the Ming court's refusal to designate himself as Wang Shizhen Lushun.

   As long as he occupies Ganghwa Island first, even if the domestic emperor and bureaucrats do not agree, he can temporarily live in Ganghwa Island.

  Unless the Ming court wants to fight for him, it will not be able to control the affairs of Jianghua Island.

   In addition, Zhang Gui didn't intend to just let himself have a place to get rich.

His plan is that if the emperor and bureaucrats in the country do not compromise, then when Jianghua Island is retaken by Daming with the help of North Korea, he will use Kagoshima, which is now controlled by the former Satsuma clan under the control of Xichang, as his base of residence. Otherwise it is Ryukyu, then Java, and then all the way west, to Goa, and even to Western Europe to open up territories.

Of course, Zhang Gui did not believe that the emperor and bureaucrats of the Ming Empire would spend so much time and effort for him as Uncle Zhang Guo, and would not hesitate to use huge military expenditures to help countries around the world take back the land that was taken away by Xichang, or to return No one owns the territory.

  In fact, since Zhang Gui decided to get out and use the whole world as a chessboard to fight against the emperor and bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty, he had already decided that many rules would be broken because of his choice.

   "Where are the residents on Ganghwa Island, have they resisted?"

   Zhang Gui asked.

Huang Binqing replied: "In the beginning, some did not accept it, especially the gentry who had quite a status on the island, but we set up a medical center, a Confucian school, a nursing home, and a shipyard on it, and we also recruited them as the Western Factory Foreign Legion. , and even said that they would be selected as officials, and after the tax was reduced to the Daming Thirty Tax One standard, no one in Jianghua Island resisted and accepted this result."

Zhang Gui nodded: "That's what we want to do. Learn from Folangji people to rent Haojing to solve their problems of sickness, pension, food, housing and transportation. After a hundred years, they will take the initiative to accept their new identity. The next step is to encourage our factory The official school intermarried with the local people and further assimilated."

"yes!"

  After agreeing, Huang Binqing asked, "Marshal, do you think the imperial court will not allow us to do this?"

   "It is our ideal that the Chinese civilization unifies the world. If the court disagrees, we plan to make Ganghwa Island an independent country! After all, the unity of civilization is not the unity of the world, and the latter is simply unrealistic."

   Zhang Gui said.

Huang Binqing said: "That's right. The imperial court has absolutely no control over the overseas institutions of our West Factory and other institutions of this dynasty. Basically, they are doing things cheaply, just like establishing another country. However, because of this, some people hope that they will also be established in the country." Do it, Zemstvo."

   "Domestic local autonomy is naturally impossible. Within Kyushu, division and rule will inevitably lead to chaos! This is different from outside Kyushu, which is separated by the sea, and chaos can't happen even if you want to."

   Zhang Gui said with a smile.

Huang Binqing nodded: "Now that the supervisor has returned from a great victory, he suddenly did not choose to return to the capital to offer prisoners and accept the title, but suddenly retreated bravely and planned at sea. It can be regarded as a surprise to the dignitaries in the capital. They probably did not expect that the supervisor Shuai will not return to Beijing. From the point of view of a humble position, it is better not to return to Beijing. The sky is high and the sea is vast outside, and the emperor can't control it, let alone civil servants and generals. In China, those who were born in Xichang were deliberately transferred to newly opened places overseas to serve as officers of the governor and general army. This is a good thing now, but in overseas, no one dares to give you face. Li Zicheng and the others have long hoped that Dushuai is going to Cochin to establish another kingdom! If you say something bold in front of you, those literati who have never seen the world will worry that Dushuai will usurp the throne, but in fact, if Dushuai really wants to be emperor, you can do it now It is absolutely possible to go to one place to be the emperor of the country, to build a Yuan and establish a country, and everyone to be a prince and minister, and it is not just his Zhu family's official shop!"

   Zhang Gui smiled slightly after hearing this. He knew that people like Huang Binqing had been domineering at sea for a long time, so he had a change in thinking. That's why he said that he didn't expect the Zhu family to let them be princes and princes.

  This is the truth, even Zhang Gui doesn’t know how many sea island owners and overlords of foreign countries such as Huang Binqing, a sea tycoon with a huge fleet in his hand, is secretly.

  Now that these people are still willing to accept the leadership of the imperial court, it is nothing more than the local complex in their hearts.

  After all, the belief of the Han people is not a religion but an ancestor. The idea of ​​returning to the root of fallen leaves based on the culture of filial piety cannot be solved overnight.

   Moreover, the lifelong ideal of many Han people is to be able to return to their homeland in rich clothes and honor their ancestors. If they do not return to their hometown to show off after success and prosperity, it is tantamount to success in vain.

   Therefore, Zhang Gui also knew that although what Huang Binqing said was the truth, the sky was high and the sea was wide and the emperor was far away, but in his heart he might not really want to see Zhang Gui and the emperor break up.

Zhang Gui then said: "Unless it is absolutely necessary, there is no need to completely cut off from the imperial court. In any case, China is the center of civilization in today's world. It is not only the largest trade place for various commodities, but also the largest export place for various commodities. With the largest population and army in the world, it is still the place where we take root. Therefore, it is impossible to cut off from it. The Grand Master just hopes that he can take on the responsibility of a central empire and devote himself to building world-wide rules. Rather than internal friction, close yourself, and even devote yourself to eliminating the most outstanding one in your own system, and even hope to return to the era of Zhou Li Daxing."

   Zhang Gui only spoke so bluntly in front of his absolute confidant.

  Because Huang Binqing and those who led Xilin scholars in the south of the Yangtze River to liquidate the landlords and gentry have long been tolerated by the scholar-bureaucrat class.

  Huang Binqing also echoed: "What you said is true! To put it bluntly, Zhou Li should have ended when Qin unified the six countries. My Han family really needs to establish new rules."

   Just as he was talking, Qi Panzong hurried over: "Uncle Guo, the imperial approval has arrived!"

  After hearing this, Zhang Gui hurriedly took over his memorial and read it, but it turned out that none of his requests were accepted, and he asked him to return to Beijing first.

  Zhang Gui suddenly felt that this was a bit of a bully, and thought: "If you want me to go back, I will go back? I am not your Zhu family's dog!"

Thinking about this, Zhang Gui said: "Go to Jianghua Island! Send a message to Liu Zongmin, Zhou Neng, and Sun Yingyuan, and all the people in the mansion will divert to Jianghua Island. If you encounter obstacles, open fire directly! But you can't be the first to fire!" Gun! In addition, let Shen Shouyue from Shuangyu Island go north, and let Wang Zhiren from Penghu go to Nagasaki to ask for the lease of Hiroshima!"

  (end of this chapter)