1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 442 The Great Qi Messenger

On September 1642, 9, Daming, Tianjin Wei.

The mission of the Great Qi Kingdom to Daming arrived at Tanggu Wharf in Tianjin on August [-]th.The sudden appearance of three western-style gunboats at Tanggu Wharf not only alarmed many fishermen, but also made the officers and soldiers of the guard near the shore feel as if they were facing an enemy.

After a small boat sailed to the shore, a marine officer landed and negotiated with a group of guard officers and soldiers who rushed here, claiming that the Great Qi Kingdom, where the southern Hanzhou Continent is located, had sent envoys to meet the Emperor Ming.

A deputy hundred-household officer of the Ming army heard that the foreign mission was on a pilgrimage, and that they were bringing two huge ships.

In the second year of Jianwen (1400) of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, king of Yan, crossed the Grand Canal and went south to fight for the throne here.After Zhu Di became emperor, in order to commemorate the "Battle of Jingnan", on November 21, the second year of Yongle, he changed the name of this place to Tianjin, which means the ferry crossed by the emperor.As an important military location, a city was built and guarded in the Xiaozhigu area in the southwest of Sancha River Estuary, which was called Tianjin Guard, and Tianjin Zuowei and Tianjin Right Guard were added later.

The Tanggu Wharf where the Great Qi Kingdom landed was under the jurisdiction of the Tianjin Youwei of the Ming Dynasty, and there were five thousand households below it, left, right, middle, front, and back.Therefore, after receiving the report from Qianhu, the avant-garde here, the officers of Qianhu still did not dare to be self-reliant, and continued to report to the commander of the guard.

After a series of reports, the Daqi Kingdom Mission insisted on waiting on the ship for three days, and the Tianjin Youwei Office dispatched a commander (Zheng Sipin) to welcome the mission ashore.

Huang Zijia (formerly Prince Boni), the representative of the envoy of the Great Qi Kingdom, presented the seal and signature of the envoy of the Great Qi Kingdom and the letter of credence to the commander, and told the other party that the purpose of this visit was to go to Beijing in order to see Daming emperor.

The commander of the Tianjin right guard was quite indifferent to the pilgrimage of foreign envoys from foreign countries, and it was a kingdom that had never heard of its name. Came to Daming to cheat the imperial court for grants and tributes.Now that the Ming Dynasty has internal and external troubles, it has been a long time since any vassal state came to Beijing for pilgrimage.Furthermore, the envoys of the vassal states on the pilgrimage have never landed in Tianjin.

This so-called envoy of the Great Qi Kingdom looks like a native of a Nanyang country, and his behavior is quite decent, but how can the officers of their guards receive and introduce Beijing to the vassal state for the pilgrimage.

The commanding officer politely told the envoys of the Daqi Kingdom to go to other places, find a regular way, and report to Honglu Temple through the local prefectures and counties, and then the imperial court sent a supporting ambassador to escort them all the way to Beijing to complete the official pilgrimage program.And this place belongs to the Tianjin Weisuo, which is an important military town, and has no handover matters with the Fanbang Kingdom.

However, when Huang Zijia said, the Great Qi Kingdom came to Daming for a pilgrimage and brought a large number of gifts. If they were transferred to other places, it would be inconvenient to transfer the gifts, not to mention the time-consuming delay.

The commander secretly laughed in his heart, the most expensive gifts brought by foreign countries are nothing more than jewelry and jade, but if they take advantage of my Ming Dynasty, they even bring seafood and spices.A few gifts, transfer back and forth, what's the trouble.

[-] shi of grain!
Twenty pairs of binoculars!

Three hundred armors!
Fifteen cannons, and they are powerful cannons, and four hundred advanced flintlocks!
After Huang Zijia spoke out the few gifts he was carrying, the commander was stunned for a moment, and then said "Your envoy will wait a moment", and immediately rode back to the guard command post to report to the commander.

In less than an hour, Gan Wenli, the commander of the Tianjin right guard, rode to the pier with a group of officers from the guard. After a brief greeting with Huang Zijia, the envoy of Daqi, he asked tactfully why Daqi brought gifts to Daming. Such important military supplies, and intentionally or unintentionally hinted whether the other party really has such a quantity of supplies.

Huang Zi added that Daqi Kingdom is of the Chinese lineage, and he is grateful for the grace of the mother country of Daming. He learned that the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty fell into the barbaric invasion of slaves, and the north was hit by a riot of refugees. Therefore, in order to support the emperor and the court of the Ming Dynasty, Daqi specially Some excellent military equipment and food supplies were brought in, in order to alleviate the current predicament of Daming.At the same time, Gan Wenli was also invited to take a small boat and board the gunboat of the Daqi Kingdom to inspect the gifts brought as a tribute to Daming.

Gan Wenli, the commander of the Tianjin Right Guard, and Tian Chengju, the commander of the right guard, took a small boat to a gunboat parked at sea in doubt, and then climbed up the big boat along the ladder. Although there were Westerners on board, most of them were It looks like a Han Chinese.The officers of the Daqi Navy took two officers of the Ming Dynasty to inspect the cannons, muskets, iron armor, and a large amount of rice piled up in the cabin.

The officer of the Daqi Navy said that the cannons presented to the Ming Dynasty have different ranges and powers depending on the caliber, but several of the cannons are similar in power to the naval guns on the ship.For this reason, the naval officer also demonstrated the effect of naval artillery bombardment to two Ming officers.

The spectacular scene of dozens of artillery salvos really shocked the two officers of the Ming Dynasty. "The sound was loud, and the impact was several miles away, and the shocking sea was tens of feet high." The power was indeed astonishing.

After Gan Wenli, the commander of Tianjin Youwei, got off the ship, he immediately invited Huang Zijia and other envoys from the Great Qi Kingdom to temporarily stay in the guardhouse.

However, the envoys of the Great Qi Kingdom have been waiting for more than a month, and there is no news from the capital.The three armed merchant ships waiting on the shore were impatient, so they could only unload the supplies through the many small boats confiscated by the guards, and unload them at the pier, and then headed eastward to Nanchangshan Island.

Gan Wenli, the commander of the right guard in Tianjin, was also anxiously waiting. The current situation of Daming is not very good, and he is facing many difficulties.

On February [-], the city of Songshan fell, the generals Qiu Minyang, Wang Tingchen, and Cao Bianjiao were killed, Hong Chengchou and Zu Dale were defeated and captured to Shenyang.

On March [-]th, Zu Dashou led his troops to sacrifice the city and surrendered, and built slaves to occupy Jinzhou.

On April 22, Jianu bombarded the city wall of Xingshan with red cannons, and the deputy general Lu Pinqi led his troops to surrender without a fight.

The three cities of Songshan, Jinzhou, and Xingshan were completely wiped out, and most of the eight towns with 13 soldiers were trapped in Jinzhou and its vicinity.After this battle, the elite of the Ming army outside the Guan was wiped out, and the situation in Liaodong was irreversible.

At this time of crisis, there are foreign countries and small countries that have contributed military weapons to the imperial court. Although they have no power to turn things around, they are more or less a beneficial supplement to the imperial court.But I don't know why, the officials of the DPRK and China have not responded for a long time?

Officials from the Commanding Division, Ministry of War, Honglu Temple, and other ministries under the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Beijing had actually learned on the third day after Tianjin Youwei sent a messenger that a foreign country from a small country came to Ming Dynasty for a pilgrimage and donated some military equipment. [-] shi of rice, used to fund Daming to resist Jiannu and thieves.

But at this moment in Beijing City, Bo Yun is treacherous, and the important officials of the court are arguing and discussing about the private peace talks between Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Liaodong Jiannu.

In fact, after the defeat of Songjin, it was not the private operation of Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War, to establish a peace agreement with Liaodong.Earlier, Chen Xinjia sent envoys to discuss peace with Jiannu because of the difficulties between the north and the south, and privately told Fu Zonglong, the former Minister of the Ministry of War.When Zong Long left Beijing, he informed Xie Sheng, a senior scholar, of this matter.

Later, when Xie Sheng saw that things in Xinjiang were in serious trouble, he told Chongzhen what Zong Long had said.Emperor Chongzhen summoned Chen Xinjia to question him, and Chen Xinjia kowtowed to apologize.Xie Shengjin said: "If you are willing to negotiate peace, peace can also be relied on." Emperor Chongzhen remained silent.Soon after, Chen Xinjia was instructed to carry out this matter secretly, but none of the court officials knew about it.

Later, Xie Sheng was visited by a speech official, and Xie Sheng said: "Shangyi advocates peace, and you are lucky not to talk too much."After Emperor Chongzhen handed over the peace negotiation to Chen Xinjia, he went back and forth with his edict dozens of times, and warned him not to leak it.Although the ministers knew vaguely, there was no definite evidence.

However, one day, Ma Shaoyu, an employee of the Ministry of War, sent back a confidential letter on the terms of peace from the border, and Chen Xinjia put it on the case. In an uproar, they wrote letters to impeach Chen Xinjia.Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and severely reprimanded Xinjia, asking him to sort out the difference by himself.Chen Xinjia did not blame himself for the crime, but boasted of his merits.Chongzhen was even more angry.During the incident, Ma Jiazhi impeached Xinjia again.

On July 29, Chen Xinjia was sent to prison. Xinjia wrote a letter from prison to beg forgiveness, but Chongzhen refused.Xinjia had no choice but to bribe the high-level officials to rescue Liao Guolin, Yang Zhiqi and other parties during the incident. Xu Shiqi, the Minister of Criminal Affairs, refused to agree. Do not kill Da Sima."

Chongzhen said: "Let's not talk about him, killing and humiliating my relative, Qi Qi, is not worse than Bocheng?".

Xu Shiqi, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, said: "A minister has no foreign affairs. There is no one who is in the court and does not tell the emperor and his father, but only takes advantage of it. Xin Jia's private money humiliates the country, and it should be captured by the law of the city and beheaded."

Chongzhen was hesitant about this, but he secretly wanted to kill Chen Xinjia.After a joint trial by the Three Jurisdictions, Chen Xinjia was ordered to abandon the city on the grounds that trespassers ravaged Henan, Kaifeng was repeatedly besieged, other counties and counties were lost and killed, governors Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian went out to seek thieves, and they fell successively, and private funds humiliated the country. .

On September [-]th, Cheng Huaili, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple in Daming Ming Dynasty, and Bo Xuehengchun, the lord, finally went to Tianjin Youwei Commander and Envoy to meet Huang Zijia, the envoy of the Great Qi Kingdom, and inquired about the origin and location of his country.

Huang Zijia mentioned that the predecessor of the Daqi Kingdom was scattered among the Han merchant gangs and folk reclamation forces in Nanyang for tens of hundreds of years. Because they could not bear the oppression of the natives and Western forces, they rose up to resist and defeated the Dutch, Portuguese, and Westerners successively. Forced to retreat and suppress the natives from all sides, he established a foundation and a country on the Hanzhou mainland a year ago.But Mu Daming Fanghua of the Great Qi Kingdom, grateful for the grace of the heavenly pilgrimage, came here for the pilgrimage.

Cheng Huaili, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, nodded with satisfaction. Although the situation in Liaodong is corrupt, and thieves are rampant in Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan and other places, there are still foreign countries and small countries overseas who admire the majesty of the Ming Dynasty and come to pilgrimage.Today, His Majesty is worrying about the establishment of slaves in Liaodong, and there is a private agreement with the Ministry of War Minister. I am afraid that at this time, His Majesty really needs a good news to deliver to his face.

Immediately, Cheng Huaili ordered the envoy of Honghe Temple Zuo Youyi to send gifts to the envoys of the State of Qi, asking him to bring gifts to Beijing with the officials of Honghe Temple. Accompanied by guards.

(End of this chapter)