Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 643
After taking a sip of tea, Li Jing said: "Your Majesty, I originally wanted to accompany you to Mount Tai to take a look, but De Bauer brought the Dutch mission here, and I have to go back to Beijing to negotiate with the Dutch. Alas! Come here in a hurry, come back in a hurry, please don't be offended by the emperor."

Zhu Youjian shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Li, state affairs are important, not to mention that the envoys from the Netherlands are here. As the emperor of Ming Dynasty, I should also see them."

"It's just that in this way, the matter of inspecting the disaster area will fall on the empress. I hope the empress will not blame us for leaving her behind." Li Jing thought for a while and smiled.

"Hehe, the queen is going to help the disaster alone. I'm not sure how happy I am." Zhu Youjian laughed.

Li Jingchong stretched out his thumb to Zhu Youjian and praised: "Your Majesty, you are a good husband, which is much better than me."

Zhu Youjian shook his head: "I have only had time to accompany the queen in the past two years, so that I can make the queen happy. A few years ago, the queen was always worried about me. Speaking of which, I should thank you, even though I have no power, But life is much easier now than it used to be.”

Li Jing nodded lightly when he heard the words: "I am very happy that the emperor has such a mentality."

Zhu Youjian smiled: "Okay, let's not talk about this, when is Brother Li going to leave?"

"We were in a hurry on this journey, and it was a tossing all day when we arrived in Qufu. We will take a day off tomorrow and leave the day after tomorrow." Li Jing said.

Zhu Youjian nodded: "You should take a rest, otherwise your body will not be able to bear it."

"It's not that delicate. The main reason for taking a day off is to explain something. We can't just leave a mess and leave." Li Jing said with a smile.

Zhu Youjian smiled and said yes.

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Two days later, after finishing all the arrangements, Li Jing and Zhu Youjian set off for Beijing.

The day after Li Jing returned to Beijing, De Bauer and his party arrived in the capital.

After De Bauer and his party settled down, Li Jing immediately notified Zhu Youjian to summon De Borr and his party in the palace.

It is conceivable how shocked De Bauer and others were when they saw the majestic Forbidden City.Until they met Li Jing and Zhu Youjian, De Bauer and others hadn't recovered from the shock.

For this, Li Jing and Zhu Youjian are not surprised. People who come to the Forbidden City for the first time are not shocked, especially when they see the majestic and resplendent Huangji Hall and Qianqing Palace, people will involuntarily have a kind of worship a feeling of.

I think Li Jing was deeply shocked when he entered the palace, let alone De Bauer and the barbarians he led who had never seen the world.

Reminded by the light coughing of the accompanying official from the Ministry of Rites, De Bauer and others finally woke up from the shock, hurriedly saluted Li Jing who was standing in front of the hall, introduced the entourage to Li Jing, and solemnly followed Li Jing's guidance. To Zhu Youjian as an envoy.

When De Bauer was in Taiwan, he knew that the Chinese were very particular about etiquette. Later, when he was captured by the Ming army and received by Li Jing in Fujian, he had a deep understanding of it.

However, Li Jing is easy-going and doesn't pay much attention to etiquette, so De Bauer doesn't understand it too deeply. But this time when he came to Beijing, the officials of the Ministry of Rites repeatedly asked the interpreter to remind De Bauer and others to abide by Daming's rules when they arrived in the palace. He also reminded De Baoer that although Li Jing didn't pay much attention to etiquette, he never ignored the emperor. De Baoer must be respectful to the Ming emperor, otherwise, it would be difficult for Li Jing to get angry.

Therefore, De Bauer considered again and again, and finally bowed respectfully to Zhu Youjian.

After the salute, De Bourr took out the letter of credentials written by the King of the Netherlands to the Ming Emperor, and recited it aloud.

Although De Bauer was proficient in Chinese, he could not use Chinese when he recited his country's national book. Therefore, officials from the Ministry of Rites specially went to Qintianjian to invite a missionary who was familiar with Dutch to act as an interpreter.

After flipping through the missionary, Zhu Youjian listened to the letter of credence written to him by the King of the Netherlands, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

After Zhengde in Ming Dynasty, there was basically no scene of all nations coming to court. Now the Netherlands, which is thousands of miles away, finally surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

Looking at Li Jing, Zhu Youjian finally understood why Li Jing still used troops abroad when the national power of the Ming Dynasty was still difficult, because only strong force can make people submit.

After de Bauer finished reading his credentials, Zhu Youjian politely asked about the physical condition of the Dutch king, expressed his concern, and then asked whether De Bourg's party was going well, expressed his concern, and formally received him. It's over.

Immediately, Li Jing smiled and led everyone to the side hall, and then ordered the little eunuch to bring chairs for everyone to sit on.

Seeing that Li Jing greeted everyone to sit down, but Zhu Youjian just smiled, De Bauer couldn't help but feel a little strange.

When I saw the present just now, Li Jing only greeted everyone in front of the hall, and only said a few words, most of the time was dominated by Zhu Youjian.But now it's time to talk about official business, but Li Jing is in the lead.

This shows that the emperor of Ming Dynasty was only responsible for state etiquette, and Li Jing had the final say on government affairs.

But after all, De Bourr has dealt with Zheng Zhilong in Taiwan for many years, and knows that the emperor of Ming Dynasty is supreme in Ming Dynasty, and all state affairs of Ming Dynasty are in charge of the emperor.In other words, Li Jing is now exercising the power of the emperor.

But how could Emperor Ming take the initiative to hand over power to others?The conclusion can only be that Li Jing forcibly took power away from the emperor.

But judging from Zhu Youjian's appearance, it seems that he is not dissatisfied with Li Jing, and seems to be very close.For a moment, De Bauer felt very strange.

While De Borr was thinking, a palace attendant came in with a teacup and handed everyone a cup of tea, which De Borr hurriedly took.

Then Li Jing raised his teacup to everyone, motioning for everyone to drink tea.

Li Jing took a sip of his tea and said with a smile, "Mr. De Bauer, has the journey been hard?"

De Bauer said with a smile: "The Prime Minister is concerned about you, and the journey has been smooth."

Li Jing smiled: "Did nothing happen when we passed through the Managa Strait?"

De Borr hurriedly said: "There is an order from the Prime Minister, and no one stopped it, and Maraga even sent a ship to escort it."

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

After taking a sip of tea, Li Jing asked with a smile, "I don't know what your country means after you report back to China about my proposal?"

De Bauer hurriedly said: "Most of our country agrees with the Prime Minister's proposal, but there are two points that I hope the Prime Minister can accommodate."

Li Jing smiled and said, "Let's listen."

De Bourr continued: "That's right. After all, our country is a small country with limited financial resources. Can the five ships be cheaper, and there are captured soldiers? Can this ransom save us a little more money?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "As long as your country is willing to trade with our country, these things are easy to talk about."

"Then thank you, Prime Minister, of course we are willing to trade with Daming, so many things from Daming are very popular in our country." De Bourr said hurriedly.

After a pause, De Bauer continued: "In addition, I also hope to purchase a batch of arms from your country this time. The guns I brought back, the soldiers used said that they were far more powerful than the guns we produced. Much bigger and very convenient to use. Our country wants to order another 500 guns and [-] million rounds of ammunition.”

Li Jingwen said with a smile and shook his head: "We can't get 20 guns out, let alone [-] guns, we can't get [-] guns out, we can only sell you [-] guns, and as for the bullets, we can only sell them to you for the time being." [-] hair for you."

"Is this too little? Prime Minister, you know that it will take half a year for us to go back and forth. If I only bring back this small amount of weapons and ammunition, I really can't explain to the country." De Bauer hurriedly said.

Li Jing smiled and said: "Mr. De Bower, I also know the population of your country. A small country with a few million people buys [-] guns. Do you mean that you want to arm [-] soldiers? I'm afraid you can't support them." Do you have so many soldiers?
Then why do you buy so many guns?If my guess is correct, are you going to provide or sell these guns and ammunition to the allies?

Let me give you a piece of advice. The alliances between your country and those countries are temporary. Your country is a small country. Although it has strong maritime power, it is also temporary. It is not for your country to provide such advanced weapons to your allies. what a good thing. "

"This..." De Bauer couldn't help being startled when he heard the words. He didn't expect that Li Jing was so keen that he could see through the intentions of the Netherlands just by the quantity of guns he purchased from the Netherlands.

As for Li Jing's advice, it can be seen that Li Jing has a good understanding of the relationship between European countries. Although the European war that has been fought for 20 years is divided into two camps, these countries that formed an alliance are all for their own interests.

Just like the Netherlands joined the war because they did not want the Holy Roman Empire to expand northward, but also to weaken Spain's strength and compete for maritime supremacy.

However, Britain and France, which are allies with the Netherlands, are also developing their navies. They are potential opponents of the Netherlands at sea. These two countries are far stronger than the Netherlands in terms of territory, population, and economic strength. Sell weapons to them and help them defeat them as soon as possible. Spain, too, would lessen the losses of these two countries.Obviously, this is very unfavorable to the Netherlands in the future.

De Bauer pondered for a while and said: "Since the Prime Minister is open and honest, then I don't have to hide it. What the Prime Minister said just now is true. Our country does have this plan to buy so many guns and ammunition. Of course, there is another purpose. make money."

Li Jing smiled: "Selling weapons is indeed huge profits, but you have to do what you can. You sold tens of thousands of guns at once, have you ever thought about the consequences?
Just say France.If France has tens of thousands of guns, it can immediately form an army of tens of thousands of people. At that time, France can sweep across the European continent. Do you think France will let the Netherlands go? "

"What about the Prime Minister's opinion?" De Bauer asked hurriedly.

Li Jing said with a smile: "You sell one or two thousand guns to France, let him taste the sweetness first, and then sell one or two thousand guns to Spain, so that Spain can consume France. The interests of the Netherlands, while the Netherlands can also benefit from it."

De Bauer's eyes lit up when he heard the words: "Your Excellency has a good opinion."

"However..." De Bauer pondered for a while and said, "In this case, we have a small request. Can Daming just sell us the weapons?"

(End of this chapter)