1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 480 Good news ([-])

On June 1643, 6, Daming, the capital.

In the building just a few hundred steps away from Daming Honglu Temple, there lived a group of special envoys from the foreign countries.They claim to be from the extreme southern continent - Hanzhou, and the country they built is Qi State.But the appearance of a group of people are all pure appearances of Ming people.Of course, except for the envoy, who looks like a native of Nanyang, but he can speak Chinese fluently.If you don't look carefully, it is roughly the same as Ming people.

Since they came to the capital in August last year, they have been arranged by the officials of Honglu Temple to live here temporarily.But with the establishment of slaves and entry into the customs, everything was complicated, and the entire court was overwhelmed by this, and they didn't even care about the audience requests of these foreign envoys.

And because the slaves entered the pass, the capital has maintained a state of martial law and a curfew. The envoys of the Qi State could only helplessly stay in the building, waiting for the summoning of the Ming court, and their lives were very boring.

After Jiannu returned north to Liaodong in June, the martial law in the capital was lifted, and the envoys of the State of Qi in the building relaxed a little. Accompanied by officials from Honglu Temple, they went out one after another to observe and visit the capital.

"My lord, I have walked around the capital in the past few days and found that the situation in the city is not very optimistic." Zhai Baoqing said solemnly: "There are a lot of dead people transported out of the city every day. Judging from the situation, there are old people, women, etc. and children, but there are also young and middle-aged people. And their death is peculiar, with many dark spots on their skin."

"Ah?" Huang Zijia asked in amazement: "Is it a plague? What caused it? A plague broke out in the capital of the Ming Dynasty!"

"I guess it might be the plague." Zhai Baoqing said: "A few years ago, when I was in Huaibei, I heard that a small-scale plague broke out in Henan and Shanxi, and the death conditions were similar to those corpses in the capital."

Plague has appeared many times in Chinese history, but the scope has not expanded too much. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the plague outbreak began in the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), initially in Shanxi.Chongzhen spread to Hebei in 14 years, and spread to more areas with the army of Li Zicheng and Jiannu.In the 14th year of Chongzhen (1641), the plague spread to Beijing, causing a large number of deaths in Beijing's population, and then spread to Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jianghuai, and Jiangnan, causing tens of millions of deaths.

The plague, and another name, is the Black Death.As we all know, the medieval period was the "darkest" era in European history, and the outbreak of the Black Death made the late period known as "the darkest era in the Middle Ages". In the 14s, the Black Death began to spread across Europe.One of the symptoms of this epidemic is that many black spots will appear on the skin of the patients, so this terrible plague is called "Black Death".

从1347年到1353年短短6年间，鼠疫就导致2500多万欧洲人丧生，占当时欧洲人口的近1/3，欧洲变成了人间地狱。

The reason why the plague is terrible is the high mortality rate!
If the plague patients are not treated, they will die within 2 to 3 days at the shortest time and within a week at the longest time.Historically, plague was a high-mortality pandemic, killing a total of about 5000 million people in Europe.

"In the future, mission personnel should try not to go out. When in contact with outsiders, they must keep a certain distance to avoid infection!" Huang Zijia said seriously.

"Yes, my lord!" Several members of the Qi State Mission and Marine Corps officers sitting in the room solemnly nodded in agreement.

You must know that whether it is in the mainland of Hanzhou or in several overseas territories, the whole country of Qi attaches great importance to various diseases.When the new arrivals arrive at each supply transfer point, they will thoroughly wash their bodies and destroy their clothing. For those who are slightly suspected of the epidemic, in addition to being resolutely isolated, the people around them will also be quarantined separately until Make sure no one is carrying the disease.

As for the overseas territories of Timor Island and Weiyuan Island (New Guinea Island), due to the impact of the tropical rainforest environment, malaria is rampant and the death rate remains high. Qi civil affairs officials and medical officials are also doing their best.In the newly opened land, a large number of native people were basically used in the early stage of development, and the Han people would gradually move in after the environment improved slightly.Even so, the annual death rate of residents of the two places remains at around 5%-10%.

It can be said that in the process of developing the mainland of Hanzhou and several overseas territories, various factors such as harsh environment, epidemic disease, and tribal disputes swallowed the lives of countless natives and immigrants.Many counties and towns established in the barren continent and dense rainforest are all buried with bones.

Therefore, in the eyes of officials and the people of Qi State, all kinds of epidemic diseases are of great concern, and they will do everything possible to eliminate them in the first time, so as not to spread them.

Why, in this Ming Dynasty, a great country with great celestial dynasties, the plague spread rampantly in the capital. Is it really because of the last years of the dynasty, the hungry people rioted, slaves were established and invaded by the invaders, the epidemics occurred frequently, and all kinds of chaos arose, so that God wanted to Let this great Ming die?
Huang Zijia couldn't help thinking of Qi Tian's assertion several times that the Ming Dynasty will perish and the Hulu will rule China.This assertion, at present, seems to be more and more confirmed step by step.

While talking, a soldier of the Marine Corps came to report that officials such as the Minister of Honglusi and Shaoqing of the Ming Dynasty came to visit and wanted to see the envoy of Qi State.

"Does your country of Qi occupy a small overseas island near the east of my Daming Mountain?" Cheng Huaili, the Shaoqing of Daming Honglu Temple, asked kindly.

Because they brought the envoys of the Qi State into the capital all the way, and witnessed their accompanying guards calmly assisting the officers and soldiers of the guards to repel the bandits on the way, it can be regarded as some kind of friendship.Therefore, after a brief exchange of pleasantries, Cheng Huaili began to ask Huang Zijia some questions under the hint of Honglu Siqing.

"Our country of Qi has introduced immigrants from Ming Dynasty all the year round, all of them are displaced refugees. For the sake of convenience, we temporarily occupy an overseas small island abandoned by the Celestial Dynasty, which should be located on the coast of Shandong. In terms of territory, this is an expedient measure for the time being." Huang Zijia considered his sentence, and replied: "If the Ming court disagrees with this, we, Qi State, can lease it and pay a certain amount of gold and silver to the Ming court every year."

Cheng Huaili turned his head to look at Song Mengning, Minister of Honglu Temple, and seeing him nod his head slightly, he continued to ask.

"Your army of the State of Qi crossed the sea to attack Gaizhou City in Liaodong in November last year, where several fortresses were destroyed, and thousands of slaves were captured and killed?"

Huang Zijia's heart was shocked when he heard this, and he couldn't help but look at Bai Haihai, the marine platoon leader next to him, but he also had a shocked expression on his face.

"Since I came to the capital in August last year, I have lost any contact with my country." Huang Zijia said cautiously: "As for whether our army of Qi State will attack Liaodong, which established slaves, and also broke through Gaizhou City, captured and killed There are thousands of slaves, I really don’t know.”

"A report from Penglai County in Shandong states that you temporarily reside in the army of Changshan Island in the Qi State. In November last year, you attacked Liaodong, destroyed the city, captured hundreds of Jiannu and their families, and rescued all the captives of our Ming Dynasty. More than a thousand and eight hundred." Cheng Huaili said: "In the first ten days of May, your army of the State of Qi went to the seaside of Juzhou, Shandong (Ju County, Zhao City today), and smashed the slaves, killed thousands of enemies, and captured the high-ranking generals of the slaves. Six people."

"Master Cheng, if Penglai County makes a report, it should be true. They must have contacted the people who are in charge of our Qi Kingdom on Changshan Island, so they know about the two defeats of our Qi Kingdom and the establishment of slaves." Huang Zi Hearing the data Cheng Huaili said at this time, he felt a little certain in his heart that the marines on Changshan Island must have acted recklessly and brought some local soldiers to attack Jiannu twice, and made such a good record.

"However, the army of our country on Changshan Island is only about a hundred people, and the results of the battle may not be so great." Huang Zijia added: "It may be possible to kill 500 Jiannu three people. .”

Cheng Huaili couldn't help laughing when he heard this.Our Ming army generals beheaded and killed Jiannu, and they are used to making false reports. There is often a gap of five to ten times between the actual battle results and the merit documents submitted to the Ministry of War.

Even if the Shandong Baojie document says that 3000 Jiannu were beheaded, if we make a 500% discount here, there will actually be [-] people captured, which can be called a great victory.What's more, several high-ranking generals of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were also captured.

"Your envoy will stay in the embassy for a few days. If the cabinet and the Ministry of War verify the victory report document submitted by Shandong, several academicians from the court and the central government will definitely summon it. Even if you want to meet with His Majesty, it may be arranged soon." Hong Hong Song Mengning, Minister of Lusi, said in harmony.

"I'm sorry, my lords!" Huang Zijia bowed his hands and saluted.

On June 6, the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty went to Dengzhou and asked the local government to quickly send all Jiannu, their family members and coats captured by the Qi State of the Ming Dynasty to the capital.

On June 6, Zhao Chunyou, the magistrate of Dengzhou, went to Penglai County in person. Together with the magistrate and several assistant officials, he took a boat to Changshan Island in the south.

On June 6, Zhao Hongxing, commander of the Qi State stationed in Changshan Island, and the Marine Corps handed over all the Jiannu prisoners, their families, and their coats to officials in Dengzhou and Penglai counties.

Dengzhou fellow magistrate Zhao Chunyou heaved a long sigh of relief when he saw hundreds of Jiannu with pigtails of money dangling behind their heads. Look at that hairstyle, it is not a fake Jiannu who can be impersonated by shaving their hair in a short time.In addition, the captured high-ranking generals of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty also had names and surnames, especially Jin Li, who was a military Jinshi in the Wanli period. recorded.

This great victory is about to be confirmed!

Although I have never personally experienced a battle in Dengzhou, I have done some planning. I think that the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials will also make meritorious deeds according to their own circumstances.

When he was happy, he immediately asked the army of Qi State to cooperate with the people from Dengzhou to send these hundreds of Jiannu captives to Penglai County.

On June 6, Dengzhou dispatched more than 25 town soldiers to escort nearly [-] Jiannu prisoners, their families, and their coats to the capital.

On July 7, the convoy transporting the Jiannu captives arrived at the outskirts of the capital. More than a dozen important court officials, including the Minister of the Cabinet, Shao Zhan Shi and Dongge University scholar Wei Zaode, the Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, and the Governor of the Fifth Army, came to observe and inspect in person. It was reported to Chen Yan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and later reported to Emperor Chongzhen in the palace.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard about it, he was stunned at first, and then ecstatic.Immediately ordered the cabinet, together with officials from the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, Honglu Temple, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, to hold a prisoner offering ceremony and parade in the streets three days later to inspire the hearts of the people and the army in the capital.

(End of this chapter)