Xinshun 1730

Chapter 696

People who are addicted to religion don't like the word "coincidence".

They are more eager for someone to explain the coincidence to the gods.Rational, sometimes not flattering.

Suffering in religion is both a manifestation of real suffering and a protest against this real suffering.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed soul, the emotion of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless institutions.

The expression of real suffering and the protest against real suffering make this coincidence have an exciting effect.

If there really are Buddhas and gods, it may not be a bad thing for the poor people.

Why do we have to use reason to break these coincidences into coincidences?Even though many people are skeptical in their hearts, what more people expect at this time is that someone tells them that this is not a coincidence.

People wanted a shot of something that would lift their spirits.

As a person who easily converted for power, Rajsingh naturally gave the people such a shot.

Under the pavilion outside the palace, Rajsingh appeared in front of the public and told the public about a dream he had a few days ago; he talked about a mysterious state of mind after he converted from Hinduism to Buddhism. Above all, it is possible to communicate with the Buddha to a certain extent.

Dashun is actually a colonist, but because of the need for each other, Dashun became a liberator.

The leader of the Anti-Christ, the heavenly soldiers sent by the Buddha and Bodhisattva, and the guardian of the Eastern faith.

This is basically the general image of Dashun after the king's speech.

The monks sent by Dashun with shaved heads and cassocks also confirmed this point.

They are also Buddhists.

So, in mid-March, when Du Feng and others came to Kandy City, the people of the entire Health City crowded the streets to see the liberators sent by the Buddha.

Du Feng, who was riding on an elephant, was deeply moved by the road covered with flowers and the bodhi leaves thrown by the people along the way.

He couldn't help thinking of a very dark sentence Liu Yu once said.

If the massacre in Batavia was allowed to happen, when Dashun's warships appeared in Batavia after the massacre, the local Chinese would have to eat their own food.

But now, when Dashun is going to Batavia, there is no food pot and pulp. The owners of sugar factories, taxpayers, and big businessmen still have to be very wary of Dashun, and they may even miss the rule of the Dutch.

Judging from this level of welcome, it is obvious that the Ceylons have really felt the hatred of the Dutch and Portuguese.

After going through the first example of "changing from driving away wolves to luring wolves into the house", the people of Ceylon still haven't given up their fantasy, hoping that the next one will not be the same.

From the outside, it is indeed not a bird.

Europeans and Dashun people look different, and Dutch and Portuguese look the same to Ceyloners.

Protestantism and Catholicism, in Europe, can beat each other's brains out.But in Ceylon, how many people can understand the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism?
Perhaps the only similarity, for the time being, is that they all have weapons that can knock down Mount Sumeru.

Of course, in fact, the origin of the weapon that can shake Mount Sumeru down comes from Taoist alchemy.If things like Wudou Mi Huang Jin Dao become a unity of politics and religion, maybe it is really possible to bury gunpowder under Mount Sumeru and blow up Mount Sumeru in one wave.Religious wars, mutual destruction of holy places is also normal.

Du Feng on the elephant looked at the cheering Ceylon people on the side of the road and was convinced that he should be able to gain a firm foothold in Ceylon.

Thanks to the dark rule of the Portuguese and the Dutch, Dashun has an excellent foundation in Ceylon.As long as this foundation is well grasped, Du Feng believes that Liu Yu's plan of "two years of preparation, three years of interference in internal affairs, eight years of oppressing the French to withdraw, and 20 years of seizing South India" will have a fairly stable foundation. rear base.

As long as the relationship with the Sinhalese is improved, at least 1000 garrisons guarding the Sinhalese can be saved.

And 1000 soldiers who have undergone systematic training after the Dashun military reform are enough to change the outcome of the Indian Jiedushi's internal fighting.Those Indians have guns and cannons, but they lack a new training system, and it is useless to have a large number of people.

In view of the recognition and practice of Liu Yu's strategic conception, and also in order to find a prince for himself, Du Feng rarely pretended to be very kind and pious.

After the elephant paraded through the streets, he and the monks from Dashun visited the temple where Sakyamuni's tooth was enshrined.

When meeting the king of Kandy, he also knelt down on his knees and met the king according to the etiquette of meeting the king of the county.

This is all in line with the rules of etiquette. Except for North Korea, which is according to the prince, the rest of the tributary countries are all according to the county king.Even if Kandy really paid tribute in the future, even if Du Feng became a marquis, he would have to kneel when he saw the king: Liu Yu didn't need to kneel when he went to Ryukyu, because he was an angel at that time, and he was kneeling on behalf of the son of Ryukyu; The second is that before the imperial edict arrives, even if he has ascended the throne, he is only a son, not a king. The prince of the county must salute when he sees the five princes.

This kneeling put Rajsinghe in a good mood, and he felt the sincerity of Dashun.The Dutch also knelt on both knees at the beginning, but after driving away the Portuguese and gaining a firm foothold, they not only stopped kneeling, but also asked the King of Kandy to pay tribute.

There is no such thing as Dashun not being able to gain a firm foothold. The Dutchman who had established a firm foothold collapsed in a few days. How could there be any possibility of losing his foothold?
So it is also kneeling, which is quite different from the Dutch kneeling at the beginning.

The Celestial Dynasty itself is a state of etiquette and law, and the form of kneeling is definitely the pinnacle. Compared with the etiquette of a small country like Ceylon, it looks more formal and more "grand".

Rajsingh was greatly satisfied in face.

In the ensuing negotiations, the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also clarified Dashun's attitude in response to Rajsingh's needs.

There are capable people in the court and some are political masters.They just lack an accurate understanding of the outside world, so they cannot make correct decisions.

After the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Liu Yu's Privy Council have clearly written the situation in the outside world, those political masters in the DPRK and China will of course know what the other party wants.

Rajsingh is a "vassal king" from South India; after this "vassal king" takes power, it is necessary to reuse his confidantes, which will inevitably lead to dissatisfaction among the old people.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dashun has a whole set of rhetoric to suit its liking, luring it to be a tributary state and come to the capital of Dashun.

In the first negotiation, Dashun did not raise any specific requirements, but took out a newly drawn world map, and introduced some Dashun's situation, land area, etc., so that Rajsinghe could have some an intuitive understanding.

Ceylon is not big, and the whole is not much bigger than Hainan Island.The map of Dashun was drawn after the border reconnaissance with Russia, and the west side has been drawn to Central Asia. From this map, it can be said to be extremely vast.

Then, members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs focused on the issue of the tributaries of Dashun.Although it is impossible to turn Ceylon into a new type of tributary relationship like that of Korea and Ryukyu, it is best to conform to the tributary relationship in form.

One is to satisfy the emperor's vanity of "all nations come to court" and make the dragon's heart happy.

Secondly, it can also be regarded as a way to gain a greater say for Dashun in the future formulation of international laws: that is, what exactly is a tributary country?

This negotiation itself is targeted.

In the Kingdom of Kandy, the understanding of Dashun is limited to legends and stories. In which corner of the world, do you know that there is a country called China?

As for Dashun's understanding of the Kandy Dynasty, Liu Yu had already started collecting information since Liu Yu made a plan to seek India.

With intentional calculation and unintentional calculation, the king of Kandy is naturally determined.

After learning about the situation in Ceylon, the political masters in the court decided that the king was most worried about two things.

First, will Dashun interfere in Kandy's internal affairs?

Second, what is the form of Dashun's tributary state system?
It's not that they think that the King of Kandy doesn't like other people's interference in internal affairs, but that he wants to interfere in his favor.

For example, the Joseon King was unable to suppress the Korean uprising, so he asked Dashun to send troops. If Dashun wanted to say that he would not interfere in the internal affairs of the tributary, the Joseon King would not be happy.

Or, in a coup in the Ryukyu Kingdom, a certain noble rebelled, and the Ryukyu King sent envoys to "cry for the Qin court" and ask the suzerain country to be the master of the Ryukyu King. Of course, I like it.

Tributaries want suzerains to interfere in their internal affairs, provided that interference is beneficial to the ruler.

Therefore, people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave a detailed introduction to the tribute situation of North Korea, Ryukyu, Annan, Siam and other countries:

In theory, Dashun does not support rebels of any kind.

The foundation of Dashun is etiquette, and any behavior that violates feudal etiquette is not allowed by Dashun.

Dashun recognizes the succession of the king, and will never interfere with the succession issue under the conditions of the succession law.

then:

Dashun unconditionally supports the legal successor in exercising his power.

Dashun will not interfere with the reasonable succession of the tributary state, nor will it interfere with the internal affairs of the tributary state, and of course it will not interfere with the religious belief of the tributary state.

The last point is really powerless.

In the Nanyang area, it should be said that Confucianism and Indian religions saw each other, but they failed miserably and were pushed all the way to the border of Guangxi.Even the country had to engage in Confucianism back then to fight against the Buddhist cosmology, not to mention Christianity, which would have fallen in the entire coastal area if the imperial court hadn't directly banned religion.

Considering that Dashun also has temples and Buddhism, although the Buddhism in Ceylon is called Buddhism, the difference is even bigger than the difference between Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period and Confucianism in Confucianism, so Dashun did not think about sending a mage to Ceylon Ideas like revitalizing Dharma.

In short, Dashun's attitude this time is unprecedentedly pragmatic and quite tolerant. If he joins the Kandy Dynasty and wants to pay tribute, he doesn't need to fulfill too many obvious obligations at all, the main thing is to go through a formality first.

As long as the economic and trade conditions are met, you can make as much trouble as you want internally.

Because the control of Ceylon has to be done step by step.

The DPRK and China define this policy as "doing nothing but managing it, and not treating it but governing it."

First stabilize Ceylon, take down South India, digest Southeast Asia, and then slowly infiltrate and influence.Try not to mobilize the interests of the Kingdom of Kandy in the early stage, and take advantage of Rajsingh's unstable status to win over Rajsingh, who has a need for stable power.

Consolidating power has never been an easy task, and it is necessary to touch old interests.

If there really is an "ambitious hero" who even tries to win over the power of the nobility and engage in the "I am the country" thing, then there must be a rebellion.

In Ceylon's current state, it will take at least seven or eight years to stabilize its position; when the position is stabilized, power begins to concentrate, and it is time to reduce the power of the nobles, and more than ten years have passed.

Dashun "doesn't matter, dies".

Let you develop on your own. If there is no hero, a bunch of chaotic little nobles will divide power, and nothing will happen;

If Dashun is left alone and dead, there is a possibility of a rebellion.How can there be rebellion and internal strife? Dashun has really become a worker for the king of Kandy.

Only when rebellion, internal strife, and noble rebellion occur in the future, can the effect of governance and governance be achieved at the minimum cost, and a puppet be supported.

If it is a waste and cannot solve the problem of national centralization, it will not be easy to find an aristocrat as an agent in the future.

(End of this chapter)