.Chapter 799 Everyone is in danger (middle)
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Although the main force still exists and there is still a foggy base, it has neither eliminated the pirates of Banshilan, and lost Manila, and was captured by the Governor. This is a fatal blow to the Spanish. The local natives who had surrendered to their yinwei began to become obviously restless, and they may cooperate with the Chinese pirates in Manila at any time and completely drive them out of the Luzon Islands.
What's more serious is that this is the biggest failure suffered by the Spanish Empire since the global expansion, which has hit the Spanish soldiers who have always been arrogant and confident, and their morale is sluggish. If they don't rest, they may not have to attack foreign enemies, and the disintegrating morale will kill this unit.
At this time, the senior executives of the Expeditionary Force also had serious differences. Some said that they should stick to their support and wait for reinforcements to regroup and fight again when the reinforcements arrived; some said that they should withdraw Mexico and make plans, but no matter which faction, they actually lost the courage to fight and showed unprecedented cowardice.
Just when the interim commander Salcito was sad about this, the 'Chinese Pirates' sent a general translator to Wusu to issue an ultimatum, saying: "This place is not owned by you, but it is the barriers of the Great Ming Dynasty. Your crimes have already angered the heaven. Now the vassal lords are coming, and I am back to protect my expatriates. How dare you be calm and unrestrained?' After a change of the tone, he persuaded him: 'This place is far away from your country, how can you last long? The vassal voluntarily and cannot bear to harm you. Keller said: As long as you are not guilty, you evacuate the four islands of Luzon and vow never to return, you can return the governor and a group of prisoners, and you will return." Finally, he warned: "If you are obsessed with it, you will be surrounded by mountains and seas tomorrow, and you will be able to attack the whole. The ship will be destroyed and the city will be destroyed, and it will be beyond regret."
Salcido quickly summoned the nobles and officers to discuss how to deal with it. In the end, they agreed: 'If the fight continues, a terrible fate will come to everyone. Moreover, the lives of the Governor and the people are extremely noble, and they should not ignore their safety for the sake of fighting spirit.' In fact, with a high-sounding remark, they wanted Legaspi to come back and take responsibility, so that they would have nothing to do.
Although Salcito still wanted to fight, he could not violate the collective resolution, so he found his own translation and wrote back to the "Chinese Pirates", expressing his agreement to truce and agree to the other party's conditions. He also threatened the other party not to rob the Spanish merchant ships, otherwise he would lead a large army to wipe out them all.
But the Chinese general translation was worried that it would anger the other party and then turn against each other again, so it polished the text a little, which became a humble word like "I would like to stop the army and surrender and ask for a beg for the country." Anyway, the foreign devils didn't recognize it.
On the eighth day of July of the first year of Longqing, under the surveillance of eight Chinese warships, the Spaniards handed over all castles, weapons and supplies, and received more than 100 captives from their own side, including Governor Legaspi, and their families, and servants, and evacuated Luzon Island on five large ships. In fact, there were thousands of slaves and servants, but firstly, there were not so many large ocean-going ships, and secondly, these people were prone to contagious diseases, so they were abandoned in Luzon.
Looking at the sail shadow disappearing at the junction of the sea and the sky, Lin Feng said to a middle-aged Confucian scholar in confusion: "It's too cheap for the master to do this."
The Confucian scholar with a calm expression was Zheng Ruozeng, the president of Nanyang Company. As soon as the news of Manila's liberation was sent back to Macau, he came to Luzon under the escort of two warships to preside over the work. Releasing the prisoners in exchange for the withdrawal of the Spanish was the first order he had after arriving here.
"Yes, they are cheap." Zheng Ruozeng nodded and said sadly: "We have won now, and they have lost. It is not impossible to completely destroy them." He said, "But they are just a drop in the bucket of the Spanish Empire. If we do the best and cause the Spanish to retaliate with all our might, we will definitely lose." He paused and whispered: "Besides, this battle has been delayed for too long. If it continues, it will cause trouble."
"Oh..." Lin Feng is a smart man and has learned international politics. Of course, he can understand the teacher's words. He slapped the railing hard and said sarcastically: "After all, they have a strong country behind them to support them, but we still have to beware of the imperial court's knife behind them."
"Not bad..." Zheng Ruozeng was silent for a moment when he heard this, nodded and said, "Victory and defeat depend on the temple. Without the support of the court, we will only be powerful for a while, but we cannot develop for a long time."
"How can we get the court to support us?" Lin Feng glanced at the teacher and complained: "Maybe in their eyes, we are no different from grass-roots."
"You don't have to look at me." Zheng Ruo once glanced at him with a smile and said lightly: "I won't say a word if I shouldn't tell you."
"Then forget it..." Lin Feng said a little annoyed: "It's mysterious all day long, and it's uneasy."
"I can only tell you..." After a pause, Zheng Ruozeng said: "Our situation will get better and better. In ten years, or even five years, the court's attitude will change greatly. That is the time for us to achieve great success." This time, feelings are a test of the situation.
"Is that true?" Lin Feng was excited and said, "Aren't you fooling me?"
"Is it meaningful to play with you?" Zheng Ruozeng said in a deep voice: "But this requires us to work together. We must act strictly according to our orders and not cause trouble for the superiors, but to win glory."
"Yes," Lin Feng replied in a deep voice.
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"Mr. Governor, your forearm may not be protected." After examining Leyaspi's wound, the doctor said with a sad face: "It has become inflamed and suppurated..."
"Fortunately, it's just my left arm, otherwise I might be burned to death by the church." Li Yashibi could comfort himself, which shows that his nerves were so thick. In fact, people like them, no matter how many halos they had, were essentially adventurers who were indifferent to life and death. This time he could save his life, he was very satisfied. Dantan ordered the doctor: "Schedule the surgery as soon as possible."
"Yes." The doctor had a reverent look on his face.
When the doctor left, he and Salcido were left in the captain's room.
"Thank you for caring about my life." Legaspi held up the wine glass with his right hand and toasted Salcido.
"I have swear to be loyal to you." Salcido bowed slightly and said, "I will also bear the responsibility this time."
"No." Legaspi shook his head and said, "I am the governor, and I should bear the responsibility." Salcido also wanted to say that he was blocked by his glass with a glass of wine, "I will return to his country in person and apologize to His Majesty the King..." He paused, "and lobbying to send a powerful expeditionary force to make a comeback."
"But I..." Salcido said with a little embarrassed expression: "I have signed a treaty with them."
"You are not the purview of the empire, you are not counting." Leather said with a serious look on his face: "The empire's ambition to conquer Asia cannot be extinguished, and this South Pacific channel cannot be controlled by others."
Salcido was speechless for a long time before asking in a low voice: "How confident are you?"
"From the dignity of the empire, we cannot accept such a painful failure; from the ambition of His Majesty the King, we are not allowed to lose the springboard to march into Asia." Legas was very clear-headed, and after saying the advantage, he did not avoid the disadvantage: "But our country's expansion in North and South America was too strong that the Mexican governor could not draw more troops. He could only mobilize troops from the local area, but the domestic situation was not very good. The lowly Dutch people were fighting independence, and the French were involved. The Empire also went to war with the Ottoman Empire for the sake of the pope. It was too difficult to get the parliament to agree to a huge military plan."
"His Majesty the King will not turn against the parliament for the far east." Salcido said: "After all, they just repaired their relationship."
"I will do my best to lobby." Leatherbi was unsure, but his determination was unshakable: "At least... Luzon, I must take it back."
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When the news of Luzon's revival reached Beijing, it was already Mid-Autumn Festival and the weather was getting colder.
A big rock in Shen Mo's heart finally landed, but he was only happy for a moment, because he knew that the Spaniards, who had been smooth sailing, would not be willing to accept failure and would definitely make a comeback... It was just sooner or later. He instructed Zheng Ruozon not to kill them all and give the Spaniards in Luzon a decent ending, in order to avoid angering the Spaniards, so that they would not care about it and kill them early.
Shen Mo needs this war to break out later because he still needs time to grasp power. Only by having the power to make decisions can the country's policies be better adjusted and the warriors on the ocean are no longer lonely.
Only another empire can defeat one empire. But can the Ming Dynasty adjust to that state? Thinking about the court, which is getting deeper and deeper in the quagmire of political struggle, Shen Mo's mood becomes worse...
After Gao Gong left, the political tide did not mean to calm down, but instead became more and more intense. The censors then pointed their finger at Guo Pu. At the beginning, he was impeached with "bad morality, fond of flattery, and was very incompetent as an auxiliary minister." However, Emperor Longqing refused to depose the officials of the court again, and rejected the censors with stiff words and implicitly warned them not to kill them all.
However, when the authority is lost, it will take ten times of pressure to exchange it. Emperor Longqing did not have the courage to raise the killing stick, so the censors were not afraid of him at all. Instead, they racked their brains to collect various crimes to attack him. However, Guo Pu was an honest official, fair in his work, generous in others, and had the spirit of an elder. Unlike Gao Gong, who was impatient and mean, who offended people all over the world, he had always had a good popularity.
All the ministers in the court knew that the crimes that were actually fabricated were false. Guo Pu’s real crime was that he had refused to abide Xu Ge Lao, but was in the same trench with Gao Gong. He said that he had opposed the "Jiajing Decree" with Gao Gong and publicly questioned Xu Jie. The latter, the man who wrote the bill to cut off the licence was drafted by him, which greatly offended the censors who recognized relatives and disrespect... They believed that there was a conspiracy group within the cabinet, and they were always planning to oppose Xu Ge Lao, which was not good for their censors.
Now, Gao Gong is out of here. Master Guo, why are you still staying here?
Therefore, the censors' attack on Guo Pu was continuous and fierce, and they would never give up until they achieved their goal.
However, there are many people who sympathize with Guo Pu. Many neutral factions, even the backbone ministers of the Xu Party themselves, took various opportunities to find Xu Jie to plead for him. This was a bit unexpected to Xu Jie, but what was even more unexpected to him was that he could not control the censors.
In order to avoid suspicion, Xu Jie rarely contacted the censors directly, and would not directly assign them to do this or that. Most of the time, he conveyed his meaning to several backbones through Zhang Juzheng, and then these backbones created momentum to incite others. This method has been tried and made people unable to grasp the handle. Xu Ge Lao was very satisfied.
However, its side effects gradually emerged. The control of this method was too weak. When the censors were so angry that they were jealous of others and showed off without anyone's instructions, they would take the initiative to bite people everywhere. Even because they saw that the pioneers were safe and sound, they became more unscrupulous. They were woven into deep texts, and had no bottom line at all, and were even more unscrupulous.
It’s like opening a box sealed with the Tiangang and Earth Demons. You can release it, but you don’t want to take it back.
Mr. Xu couldn't slap himself in the face and forbidden censors from impeaching Guo Pu again. Besides, he really didn't want to see Guo Pu's annoying face again.
This month, the censors finally became completely shameless. First, they wrote a letter to impeach Guo Pu, saying that he had "before his father's death, had his love for his official position, and lacked filial piety, and had long been despised by public opinion." He also said that his mother was old and sick, but he did not want to beg for her home, and refused to go to take care of her mother's old age and see her off. It was really an inhumane and cold-hearted." The vicious slander had reached an incredible level, and it was almost like saying, "Get out quickly, we don't want to see you anymore."
After more than half a year, he was worried and angry with Gao Gong, and then he was scolded to death. Guo Pu had long been unbearable and submitted a memorial to resign... but the emperor had not criticized him. This time, he was filial to others and was finally unbearable. He finally couldn't bear it. He put on seven recessions in a row and knelt outside the Qianqing Palace for a long time.
Seeing that he had decided to leave, the emperor finally summoned him in and asked, "Among the ministers, Gao Qing has abandoned me and left. Does Guo Qing also want to leave me because of the words of a mere person?"
"People say it is like a knife, and it is a knife that takes his life..." Guo Pu cried and said, "I have lost all my reputation. Even if I can spit my face, there is no place for me to stand in the court."
Long Qing felt a little sad and said, "I believe in Guo Qing."
"But you can't stop Youyou from talking." Guo Pu's words were already very straightforward.
People always grow up in adversity. After the past six months of ravage, Longqing also understood much more than before. At least he could understand the words and words of these old guys.
After a long period of silence, the emperor spoke out three words and said sadly: "What if..." In fact, Long Qing had long been unable to bear it. Just last month, he issued an order to investigate the Kedao... Just half a year ago, the Kedao official was inspected once in Beijing. Now the emperor is going to investigate again, and it is still specifically targeting the censors. Obviously, the emperor is going to attack them.
However, those who are upright and do not fear slant, and those who are honest and honest without fault will naturally not fear assessment... Taking a step back, this country belongs to the emperor, and it is not an excessive requirement to examine the censors again. However, in order to protect the censors, Xu Jie advised the emperor to stop the censors on the grounds that they were "uncompliant with the rules and suspected of cracking down on the line of speech."
What can you do, what can you do, it is the catharsis of the young emperor's heart.
I had vented enough, but there was still no way to do it. Longqing had to approve Mr. Guo's resignation...
When Guo Pu left, although he received more rewards than Gao Gong, he was much more glorious than him. His students all went to see him off, and several ministers from the ministers who had been friends with him came, and there were even old ministers like Ge Shouli and Zhu Heng. In contrast to the scene when Gao Gong left, there were only two people who gave him away. I am afraid that the difference in popularity cannot be explained by just using the difference in popularity?
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When Guo Pu left, Shen Mo did not send him off. Guo Pu refused to let him come because he was at a critical moment in the reform of the Ministry of War. Guo Pu was worried that he would cause trouble for him. In fact, he had a good impression of Lao Guo and was very grateful... If Guo Pu had not been a minister of the Ministry of War and used his own influence to help him suppress the rebound, Shen Mo's rectification of the Ministry of War would not have been as smooth as it is now:
It took only three months for him to change the government's army. As soon as he came up, he first worked as a doctor in the Arsenal Department and found nearly one million taels of wealth from several houses in the capital. It turned out to be the Arsenal Arsenal, which was both idle and rich!
Then from the Arsenal Division, we tracked down the Chejia Division. The Chejia Division doctor saw the former's fate and had no idea of ​​resisting at all. We were ready to take the initiative to explain the problem to the imperial envoy. However, on the eve of his surrender, he was found drowned in the moat.
On the same night, the doctor of the Arsenal Department was also killed in the prison. The capital was shocked for a moment, and people were wondering which doctor the next one should be killed.
However, Shen Mo did not ask too much about this case, but only urged Shuntian Prefecture to solve the case as soon as possible. Then a few days later, the order was sent down. Wang Chonggu, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, served as the governor of the three sides as the title of Shangshu; Huo Ji, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, exchanged with Tan Lun, the governor of Xuanda. Unknowingly, it was said that this showed the court's determination to consolidate the army and prepare for military affairs - the two ministers left the border, which was an unprecedented feat.
But some people say that this was simply exiling them. But they couldn't figure out what happened to the Shanxi Gang? Why did they just accept the mermaid meat?
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