Wanli 1592

Chapter 436 The Governor's Sinophobia
The military factory is a money-hungry glutton who can never get enough to feed. Xiao Ruxun doesn't know when he will see what he wants to see, but one thing is beyond doubt, the money cannot stop.

However, military factories need to invest money, and other places also need to allocate funds. City expansion needs money, village settlement construction needs money, and people who continue to arrive in Myanmar to live need shelter and heaven and earth. This is what Xiao Ruxun promised when recruiting refugees. It's a signboard, it can't be broken.

Comparing such a large investment with the limited income, it immediately appears that Xiao Ruxun is a downright poor ghost. For this reason, he wants money like crazy. living a life of luxury, not caring about the life and death of other people at all.

There is a set of very interesting statistics, from the opening of Longqing in 1572 to the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, in the period of more than 70 years, one-third of the total silver produced in the world poured into China, totaling about [-] million taels of silver.

In other words, the gold and silver plundered from the Americas by countries such as Spain and Portugal eventually flowed into China in the form of trade.

But it should be noted that according to the tax rules of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury of the [-] million taels of silver could not eat a few mouthfuls. From Wanli to Chongzhen, the commercial tax on the southeast coast has been decreasing year after year.

In the year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen gave away the little business tax left by a flicker, which led to the farce of the tea tax of seven taels of silver.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely poor, and the people were also extremely poor, so what about money?What about the five hundred million taels of silver?

It was all in the hands of the officials, merchants, tyrants and big landlords on the southeast coast. The Ming government could not get a share of the money that flowed into China through commerce. When the civil servants heard that the emperor wanted to levy business taxes, they immediately mobilized and attacked. The emperor had to take back his order, so that the money poured in like an explosion would belong to them.

Xiao Ruxun knows very well that the rich people in the three provinces of Southern Zhili, Fujian, and Zhejiang now have no less than 50 million taels of cash in their hands, which is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Ming government for [-] years. The inflow will only increase and not decrease.

Their profound background and rich wealth are comparable to those modern business giants, and even surpassed them. They are all in cash, and there are no stocks or foreign capital to participate in the shares. It's real money, not fake at all.

As long as the merchant tax can be levied, the Ming government will suddenly find that its fiscal revenue has increased several times at once, almost catching up with the level of the Song Dynasty, but no, they will never allow the emperor to levy the merchant tax. Support your own spokesperson, and try your best to prevent the emperor from collecting business taxes.

There was no resistance here for Xiao Ruxun, so he was very happy to pay taxes, and from here, he also withheld a batch of money that should have flowed into the pockets of the gentry and landlords on the southeast coast.

Although the amount of this batch of silver is not much, as time goes by, Xiao Ruxun will definitely be noticed by these people, and they will notice that the existence of Burma Town will become their confidant, and this is what Xiao Ruxun will definitely face in the future.

These moths and rats of the country were unwilling to take out a little money to help Daming deal with Manqing when they were about to die. They didn't know that foreigners would not reason with them until Manqing put a knife on their necks.

The wealth of more than 70 years has been cheap for the Manchus. The Manchus ransacked their homes and killed them. At least they got hundreds of millions of silver from these people and helped him stabilize the regime.

ridiculous!

Xiao Ruxun has no way to get money from these people now, and he doesn't want to do business with these people. There are groups of civil officials and censors standing behind them.

His only reliance in the capital is Song Yingchang. Song Yingchang has been stable as Minister of the Ministry of Justice for the past three years, but it is not enough to support Xiao Ruxun.

If you can't get through the inside, you can only go outside. In the three-acre area of ​​Nanyang, Xiao Ruxun's face is still useful. No one dares to say no to an order, so he can snatch it from the mouths of those gentry and landlords. A piece of meat to eat by oneself is obtained by force.

But this piece of meat can’t support me now, and another piece of delicious barbecue is still on the fire, so I can only go to other places to grab meat to eat. The meat in other small countries is either too small to fit between the teeth, or The vassal states with good relations can't make a move. It seems that only the Spanish-colonized Philippines can make a move, and it's just the right size.

Xiao Ruxun has always been greedy for the spice business in Spain, and wanted to get a share of it, but the Spaniards are not stupid, they can't give Xiao Ruxun some meat for no reason, they don't think it's enough for them!

Xiao Ruxun couldn't find a suitable reason, so he kept picking quarrels and provoking troubles. This time, he sent Chen Longzheng to make troubles. He also wanted to do something so that he could have an excuse to attack the Spaniards. This is good, here comes the excuse. .

The dispute with the Spaniards is not a domestic dispute. The domestic political struggle in the Ming Dynasty is about thick blackness and harshness, and it pays attention to forbearance and surprise. This is the case in the Chinese officialdom under the influence of Confucian culture. But when it comes to international affairs, let’s summarize It can only be summed up in three words - shameless.

Therefore, the Qing government always suffered a disadvantage when it first engaged in diplomacy with foreigners. The other party was neither thick nor forbearing. The plunder of red fruit.

If you want to make friends with him and want to use your personal relationship to get a turnaround on the table, then don't even think about it. After more than a hundred years of triangular trade, the inertial thinking of these people is the robber thinking. They only look at fists and benefits. If you don't discuss interests with him, or let him notice your thoughts, then he will immediately turn against you.

At the beginning, foreigners had to change and revise the contract at every turn, and if they didn't change or repair it, they would fight. This made the Qing government's experts in thick and black palace fighting very uncomfortable, and suffered a lot for this.

And Xiao Ruxun, who is well versed in the diplomatic secrets of US imperialism rampant in the world, summed up the simple and rude way of dealing with Europeans-shameless!

Just shameless, don’t worry about anything, call black as white, right as wrong, your own mistakes as the other party’s mistakes, take the other party’s correct actions to your side, and stand on the moral high ground The public criticizes the other party verbally and in writing, arousing the public outrage of the whole people, and making yourself a messenger of justice. The purpose is to do justice for the heavens.

The cause of this incident was that Xiao Ruxun wanted to snatch back more than 3 to nearly [-] overseas Chinese in the Philippines, and brought them to Burma to fill his own population, and also to prevent these people from becoming a tool for the Spaniards to threaten him in the future.

In the first wave of contests, the Spaniards were thrown into disarray due to the intrusion of the Ming government. Xiao Ruxun seized the opportunity to give him a slap in the face, withdrew his defenses and chose to surrender.

The second wave of contests is a contest of force. The hawks in the Philippine Governor's Mansion are dissatisfied with the Governor's capitulation behavior, and privately collude with the big businessmen among overseas Chinese. Taking the same interest orientation as an opportunity to combine, they are combined together, in order to give Xiao Ruxun's plan to evacuate overseas Chinese added obstacles, and they also worked hard.

It's a pity that they encountered the great disaster of Chen Longzheng, and were directly suffocated by Chen Longzheng's suffocating operations. The 200-man army was all killed, and those large overseas Chinese merchants were also taken over by Chen Longzheng.

Burned, smashed, smashed, after a group of people boarded the boat and left, the Philippine governor who was brought by Matteo Ricci's messenger arrived with people, and when he saw the scene, he was suddenly dizzy...

Faced with such a situation, Xiao Ruxun decided to take the right to speak in his own hands, not to give the other party a chance to argue, and seize the opportunity to attack the Philippines.

First of all, write a protest letter with righteous words, saying that I sent people to coordinate and solve the problem. Shoot my advisor so that he faints, I kill you 200 people to be worthy of you!

Not only that, you also colluded with those traitors to prevent me from bringing people home. More than 3000 people died tragically and hundreds of people died for this.
There is also the Catholic Church, that Bishop of Alexandria, I am deeply disappointed by your low execution ability and weak coping ability. I no longer trust you and cannot allow you to preach in my jurisdiction.

In this way, the governor of the Philippines and the bishop of Alexandria were angered, and their dovish and Catholic forces were attacked, and they successfully provoked their civil strife.

Especially the fact that they are not allowed to preach. Those Catholics have paid everything to preach in China. Seeing the goal, the athlete who shot the goal suddenly fell to the ground with hemiplegia. What do you think this is?
After this incident happened, the Governor of the Philippines was carried back to Manila. Bishop Alexander was shocked when he learned of the incident. After seeing the Jingguan formed by more than 200 heads piled up, the hawks who have always advocated for toughness, The shock was inexplicable, and several officials who secretly supported the operation were sick and did not come to participate in the discussion, while the faction who advocated a compromise was frowning.

What is this?
I just thought that the matter was resolved, but it turned out that such a situation happened. Those opposition groups did this without telling the governor. It’s fine if you succeed. We just turn a blind eye and close our eyes to save some Chinese labor. We are also a little low on heart.

But not only did you fail, but you also lost yourself, not only did you lose yourself, but you also succeeded in angering Xiao Ruxun, the living King of Hades.

What happened was clearly written in Matteo Ricci's letter. Under his persuasion, Chen Longzheng said that he would not shoot yet, but he did not expect that Hughes was so arrogant that he shot the ground under him, killing He fainted from fright. Chen Longzheng saw that he was beaten to death, so he decided to take revenge, and this revenge buried the 200-man army.

When he woke up, it was too late, and the subsequent actions were internal affairs of the Chinese people, and they didn’t need to care about them, but Hughes’s real actions in support of large overseas Chinese businessmen killed more than 700 Chinese and a group of Chinese people. Chinese soldiers died.

When someone died, Xiao Ruxun would definitely not let it go. I hope that the Governor's Mansion and the Bishop will make preparations for him to be taken back to Burma to heal his wounds. Chen Longzheng insisted on taking him back because he stubbornly believed that he was injured.

The governor really wanted to get angry and wanted to kill people, but he couldn't find the target - because they had been killed by the Chinese in advance.

Two hundred well-trained soldiers were annihilated by the Chinese once they fought. The Chinese themselves had no losses. Only a few soldiers sprained their feet. The only Chinese soldier who died in battle was killed when they chased the overseas Chinese merchants. Yes, it means that the Spaniards sent two hundred soldiers in for nothing but got nothing.

The governor was frightened by the fighting power of the Chinese. He didn't think about the situation at the time. He only knew that his army had no strength to fight back in front of 400 Chinese soldiers, so he was killed. Then he only had more than 2000 troops. As long as [-] Chinese come, he will surely die, and it is no secret that Xiao Ruxun has [-] troops under his command.

I was frightened by the Chinese emperor before, and now I am frightened by the Marquis of China. The governor has already suffered from severe China phobia.

"It's over... It's over... They will definitely send troops! Xiao Ruxun will definitely send troops! We will all die... We will all die..."

He put his head in his hands and muttered to himself.

Compared with the serious sinophobia of the Governor General, Bishop Alexander's focus is not here at all, but in his missionary career and the road to the Pope, in his view, the missionary career in China is a necessary aid for his road to the Pope, Without the support of thousands of believers in the Chinese diocese, it is basically impossible for him to prevail over the senior cardinals.

He is relatively young, and the pope must be highly respected. He has no advantage. The only way to become the pope is to earn a lot of prestige by opening up Chinese dioceses.

Before that, he had already received Xiao Ruxun's promise, and he had already taken the first step in his missionary journey in China. However, just as he lifted his foot, a gunshot hit his knee. .

What is this?What is this all about?On my side, I worked so hard to fight for peace and missionary qualifications, but your stupid officers ruined this future with a single gunshot. Not to mention the waste of months of hard work, Xiao Ruxun is very likely to die Allow them to preach.

Bishop Alexander suddenly had the feeling that the Chinese porcelain he had been longing for for a long time was caught by a rude officer and smashed to the ground before he could play with it.

So compared to the governor's fear, he was more confused.

After Xiao Ruxun's official note was delivered, this confusion turned into anger.

Xiao Ruxun said - I don't trust you, the previous promise to allow you to preach is void, you can do it yourself, give me a reasonable and acceptable reason, otherwise, I will definitely send troops to conquer you!

(End of this chapter)