Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 128 Conditions
The importance of intelligence systems is self-evident.

The reason why we didn’t set it up before was still the same reason: no money and no one to help!
However, after occupying Guangzhou Prefecture, Ming Dynasty had no shortage of money and manpower.

The words money are easy to understand. The proceeds from the Guangzhou Eight Banners' property confiscated by the Ming Dynasty really made Zhu Jing'an fat.

Zhu Jing'an is really not short of money now.

As for manpower, Zhu Jing'an is eyeing the manpower of Tiandihui.

He planned to select a group of capable and intelligent people from the Tiandihui rebel army to build the framework of Jinyiwei.

The reason for this is because he has taken a fancy to the power and channels of the Tiandihui.

With the addition of those skilled warriors from the Tiandihui, Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei will soon take shape.

The rudders and halls of the Heaven and Earth Society in various places will also become Ming Dynasty's intelligence stations.

The manpower of the Tiandihui in various places will become the offline staff of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei.

After Zhu Jing'an asked Zhu Jianzhuo for instructions, he was ready to rebuild Jinyiwei.

And Cheng Yuan was his favorite candidate to be the first commander of the new Jin Yiwei.

Cheng Yuan is loyal enough and his personal abilities are on par.

Zhu Jing'an was very optimistic about him.

When Cheng Yuan heard this, the expression on his face was stunned at first, and then surprised.

"Grand Governor, is this matter too important? I'm afraid... I'm afraid I can't do it right!"

Zhu Jing'an heard this and waved his hands slightly.

"It doesn't matter, I believe you can do a good job."

"This is the constitution of the Jin Yiwei that my governor recently put together. Please think about it."

When Cheng Yuan heard this, he took the charter from Zhu Jing'an in a daze, and then started reading it on the spot.

Regulations for the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei:
After the reconstruction of Jinyiwei, there were a total of six divisions.

The first department is responsible for supervising officials in the court and supervising whether officials have engaged in corruption, fraud, or collaboration with the enemy and the country.

The second department is responsible for supervising military lieutenant generals and ensuring their loyalty to the court.

The Third Department is responsible for the supervision of the Qing court. Various trends in the Qing court, personnel changes, military deployments, etc. are all within the scope of the Third Department's authority.

The Fourth Department is responsible for the supervision of Annan, Korea, Japan, Siam, Ryukyu and other vassal states.

The Fifth Division is responsible for the supervision of foreigners overseas, including Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, mainland Europe and other places.

The Sixth Division is responsible for the internal self-examination of Jinyiwei.

Each of the six divisions has a commander, as well as several thousand households and hundreds of households, responsible for work in different directions.

Here, the first, second, third, sixth and other four divisions need to be established immediately.

The fourth and fifth divisions don’t have to worry, they just need to make corresponding preparations in advance.

Zhu Jing'an can still distinguish the priorities of things.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty is the biggest enemy of Ming Dynasty now.

You can put everything else aside first!
Seeing Cheng Yuan reading the articles of association, Zhu Jing'an asked with a smile.

"How about it? Can it be done?"

Cheng Yuan nodded after reading the regulations.

"Don't worry, Commander-in-Chief, I promise to complete the mission and not let the Commander-in-Chief down!"

Seeing this, Zhu Jing'an nodded with satisfaction.

"Very good! In that case, I will leave this matter to you."

"The governor will give you a note later, and you can go and collect the corresponding funds, and then start to implement the preparations for Jinyiwei."

"..."

Zhu Jing'an has always done things vigorously and resolutely. Now that he has made a decision, there will be no further delay.

We must implement things as quickly as possible.

Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not give him any time to delay.

……

After Cheng Yuan resigned and left, Zhu Jing'an also got up from behind the desk, stood up, and stretched.

Listening to the crisp sound of bone friction coming from his body, Zhu Jing'an showed a happy expression on his face.

After slowly exhaling a breath and yawning, Zhu Jing'an was about to go out to inspect the military camp, but as soon as he reached the door, he saw a soldier walking in from outside.

The soldier trotted all the way to Zhu Jing'an and said.

"The Grand Governor, Huang Shilang, and Shopkeeper Pan and Shopkeeper Wu of the Thirteenth Line came together to ask for an audience."

Hearing this, Zhu Jing'an stopped, with an expectant expression on his face.

The Huang Shilang mentioned by this soldier is Huang Yingying's father, Huang Quan.

After the Ming Dynasty captured Guangzhou, Zhu Jing'an recommended him as the Minister of Household Affairs.

Now his main task is to manage the Thirteenth Bank, responsible for collecting statistics and collecting tariffs from Guangzhou Customs.

heavy responsibility!

In addition, he also served as the imperial merchant of the Ming Dynasty, and was responsible for purchasing guns from foreigners for the Ming Dynasty, hiring "foreign gun teams", hiring craftsmen, and many other matters together with the Thirteenth Bank.

Now, Huang Quan came to ask for a meeting. He probably had some clues about purchasing guns from foreigners and hiring foreign gun teams.

How could Zhu Jing'an not be happy?

With a smile on his face, he spoke to the soldiers.

"Go and invite people in!"

After saying this, he turned around and returned to the study, preparing to meet Huang Quan and others in the study.

……

Zhu Jing'an didn't let Zhu Jing'an wait long before he saw Huang Quan leading Pan Zhenchen and Wu Guoying in from the outside.

Zhu Jing'an raised his head from behind the desk and said warmly.

"Three please sit down!"

After the three of them took their seats, Zhu Jing'an continued to ask.

"Shilang Huang came to see the governor today. Why?"

Upon hearing this, Huang Quan stood up and said.

"To the Grand Governor, the thing is like this. The main reason why I came here today is to report to the Grand Governor that my country, Ming Dynasty, purchased guns and cannons from foreigners and hired foreign soldiers to fight."

"Xiaguan has sent people to contact the Portuguese in Macau, and then contacted business representatives from England, France, the Netherlands and other countries."

"They relaxed on the sale of foreign guns and cannons to the Ming Dynasty. The lower official has now purchased [-] Brown Bass flintlock foreign guns produced in England and [-] Charleville flintlocked foreign guns produced in France. .”

"There are also ten 24-pounders and three [-]-pounders provided by the Portuguese and Dutch."

"As for the Ming Dynasty's hiring of foreign soldiers, the foreigners also relaxed and agreed to send a thousand-man foreign gun team to our Ming Dynasty to assist in the battle."

"But those guns and ammunition have not been delivered yet. They have only been implemented in the contract. They require me, Ming, to agree to their additional conditions before they are willing to complete the transaction and send a foreign gun team."

"The lower official can't make a decision, so I came to ask the Governor for advice!"

Hearing this, Zhu Jing'an nodded slightly with satisfaction.

It's all good stuff!

The Brown Bess flintlock gun was used by the British for more than 100 years. It witnessed the glory of the British in the Victorian era and followed the British to colonize the world.

The Charvette flintlock has experienced the test of the Napoleonic Wars. Under the leadership of Napoleon, the French swept almost half of the European continent with the Charvette flintlock.

There is no need to doubt the performance of these two foreign guns!

On the earth in this era, it is still a cutting-edge weapon.Even though Ming Dynasty can now produce its own flintlock guns, it would be a good thing if the advantages of these two guns can be used in production.

Three people must have my teacher!

This sentence applies to any time and any place.

A strong nation and civilization, in its rising stage, will definitely be open-minded, inclusive, and accepting of all rivers.

For example, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, China was open to communication with the rest of the world, and was willing to learn from the advancements and merits of other civilizations.

While the clothes of all nations were admired, the Tang Dynasty was also actively learning the essence of other countries' civilizations.

Only when a civilization is on the decline will it become complacent and arrogant.

For example, the Manchu and Qing dynasties...

Although in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the constraints of Neo-Confucianism, Eastern civilization began to become conservative, stubborn, and lost some enterprising spirit.

But Ming Dynasty adopted an open-learning attitude towards the West.

In order to learn advanced Western cultural knowledge from the missionaries, many scholar-officials even joined foreign religions.

These scholar-bureaucrats who received the Confucian education of "Heaven, Earth, Lord, Prince, Teacher" and "Three Cardinal Principles and Five Constant Virtues" from an early age may not necessarily all have true beliefs in Jesus.

But the thirst for knowledge is definitely more real than gold.

But what about my Qing Dynasty?
They closed the country, moved borders and banned seas, established literary prisons, and engaged in enslavement education...

The reverse operation point is full, okay!
Zhu Jing'an pondered for a while and then asked.

"Speak!"

"What conditions did those foreigners offer?"

If the conditions offered by those foreigners were not excessive, and as long as some foreign soldiers could be borrowed to assist in the battle, Zhu Jing'an would be ready to agree.

Ming's biggest enemy now is the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. As long as he can defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty and regain China, he will have the means to settle the scores with those foreigners.

Suffering some grievances for the time being is nothing!

Huang Quan heard this and said with a troubled expression.

"Please also ask the governor to forgive the official's innocence, otherwise he would not dare to say anything."

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he was mentally prepared.

I know that foreigners may have very demanding requirements!

But he still nodded and said.

"Tell me, it's alright!"

"It is those foreigners who are making the demands, not Mr. Huang. Even if their demands are excessive, how can I take it out on Mr. Huang?"

After Huang Quan heard this, he spoke.

"First of all, those foreigners proposed to open ports to our Ming Dynasty, allowing them to trade, settle, travel, and preach freely in the areas controlled by our Ming Dynasty."

"We, the Ming government, are not allowed to impose any restrictions!"

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, he frowned and thought for a while, but still nodded.

"can!"

This is not a harsh requirement for Zhu Jing'an. It means allowing foreigners to enter freely. Most of the countries in later generations did this.

Very normal thing!

As for opening up trade, will it lead to the destruction of the small-scale peasant economy in the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Jing'an said it didn't matter, because in this era, China is the largest trade surplus country in the world.

Opening up trade will only allow more gold, silver and precious metals to flow into China.

Besides, in later history, China's small-scale peasant economy was destroyed by the dumping of foreign goods. That was after the Industrial Revolution.

But we are still far away from the Industrial Revolution!
Therefore, the current free trade is at best caused by the influx of large amounts of gold, silver and precious metals, causing Ming Dynasty to inflate.

There is not much threat to the small farmer economy!
As for preaching...

Haha, this is the last thing Zhu Jing'an cares about.

You want to spread your religion, but Chinese people's religious belief and foreigners' religious belief are two different things.

Foreigners will go crazy for religion and belief.

For the Chinese, religious belief is not an indispensable necessity.

It is just a spice in life, a dispensable thing.

It's okay for you to make me believe in religion, but if you want to rely on religion to influence my life, that's nonsense.

Also, the Chinese people have very mixed beliefs, including belief in Buddhism, Taoism, the Father-in-law of the Land, the Moon Elder, the God of Wealth, and the Ancestors...

If you want to believe it, believe it!

But if you don’t believe it, you don’t have to believe it at all!

Adding another God to this vague belief is not a big problem.

"and then?"

Zhu Jing'an then asked.

Huang Quan then spoke.

"They also said that Ming Dynasty's legal system is not perfect, and asked foreigners to commit crimes on Ming Dynasty's land. Ming Dynasty cannot deal with them and must hand over the people to them for disposal."

"This seems to be called extraterritoriality..."

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, and he began to feel a little annoyed.

These foreigners are really going too far!
Do you dare to mention extraterritoriality?
The Ming Dynasty has not yet been defeated!

Although the legal system of the Ming Dynasty is a bit unsound now, the laws of the same period in the West are not much better.

Isn’t this extraterritorial right an infringement of Ming’s judicial sovereignty?
However, Zhu Jing'an still took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and spoke.

"What's more, keep talking!"

Huang Quan saw something wrong with Zhu Jing'an's expression, but he still spoke.

"In addition, the Portuguese asked the Ming Dynasty to cede Macau Island to them and recognize that Macau's sovereignty belonged to Portugal."

"And the Dutch asked the Ming Dynasty to cede Lantau Island and hand it over to them to build commercial buildings."

"The French asked the Ming Dynasty to cede Xiangshan, while the British wanted Xin'an and Hong Kong."

"In addition, several countries also requested to establish concessions and embassies in Guangzhou and station troops."

"Moreover, it also requires free trade. When trading with our country, our country's customs must not collect taxes."

Zhu Jing'an's face was obviously livid, but he still had the patience to continue asking.

"Then what? Let's finish it together!"

Huang Quan swallowed nervously, but still spoke.

"The foreigners also asked me, Ming Dynasty, to dismantle the forts in Humen, Shajiao and other places, and promised not to build forts along the coast, and to allow their gunboats to navigate freely in the Pearl River."

"Furthermore, they also asked His Highness the Metropolitan Governor and the Governor to convert to the Church of Jesus Christ, and promised that in the future, the Ming Emperor will be crowned by the Pope when he ascends the throne."

After Huang Quan said this, his face was full of anxiety.

Because he knew that his negotiation with foreigners was a failure this time.

I was afraid that Zhu Jing'an would take it out on him when he was angry!

……

PS: I’m sleepy, I’m sleepy, I really can’t stand it anymore. Good night!

(End of this chapter)