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Chapter 497 The devil is beckoning

The first time for Guangzhou workers and factory owners was also the first labor-management negotiations in the history of the Ming Dynasty and even in world history began under the pressure of Yang Qing...

I don’t care about Yang Qing’s talk about it.

It depends on their own how much the workers need and how much the capitalists can pay. He is just suppressing here to avoid fighting again.

Similarly, the election of the four people representatives in Guangdong, including Guangzhou, was also carried out under his suppression. The previous Guangzhou Four People's Congress was also cancelled. After all, the new Guangzhou Commune was not just the original inner city of Guangzhou. Originally, Guangzhou Fucheng was divided into two counties in Nanhai and Panyu, separated by a vertical street, but the two counties each have their own peripheral jurisdiction, including Foshan itself, which is also a town under Nanhai County. Since it is the Four People's Congress, there can be no only workers in the city. The Ming Dynasty's standard is that scholars, farmers, industry and commerce will draw lots, so the Guangzhou Four People's Congress must also be like this. Then the Four People's Congress will re-elect the commune committee, the head of the meeting will form a committee, and the committee will nominate the main officials of each department, and the Four People's Congress will finally review and pass the performance of the functions...

Anyway, this is also very troublesome.

In addition to the Guangzhou Commune, while military control was conducted, the Ministry of Personnel in Nanjing re-appointed officials to perform their duties in accordance with the old system, including the new governor of Guangdong. Yang Qing had already decided that the Zhang Jiayu, the original three Zhongzhong in Lingnan, would be the one who was left by Zhang Jiayu.

He was not in Guangdong before.

When Zhang Jiayu was traveling south to Chongzhen, he was already studying in the Imperial College in Nanjing. He and Gu Yanwu were a group of supervisors, and later appointed a small official by Chongzhen. He has performed well in recent years. As a Guangdong native, he is not a party, but as a marginalized political group, few Guangdong officials in the court prefer to rely on Yang Qing. After all, they must hold their thighs to survive. Among the major forces in the court, only Yang Qing does not consider the region. If they don’t hold their thighs, they will embrace the extremely xenophobic Donglin Qunxian?

Zhang Jiayu is now the governor, so he can be promoted to governor of Guangdong.

This also takes a certain amount of time.

After all, the Ministry of Personnel has to be transferred from all over the country to dispatch officials. It was not the case before. The Hanlin Academy had a lot of spares, and the court would not support idle people at this time. In addition, there were population censuses in various parts of Guangdong, land inventory, the original imperial farm reform of official fields, and even the reorganization of the guards, the General Taxation Department's taxation department on taxes outside Guangzhou, and the cleaning of heresy in various places...

There is Yawei in Guangdong.

Macao.

"Do you know who I am?"

Yang Qing stood with his hands behind his back in front of the Huawang Hall, looking proudly at the group of ghosts in front of him.

The back door was silent.

And there was sadness and anger in silence.

"I once told Bi Francis that if I see you on the land of the Ming Dynasty, I will kill you as illegal invasion. Didn't he tell you? Or did you despise me too much?"

Yang Qing said.

"Dear Duke, can we exchange ransom for pardon?"

Long Huamin at the front said with his head down.

This guy is very old. According to records, he should be over 90 years old at this time, but he doesn't look like him. These guys always like to make some silences and deliberately say that they are old and easily fool their believers. After all, in this era, he can still live and jump around in his 90s, which is absolutely amazing. He came to China after Matteo Ricci, and is currently the oldest among these people, and he is from Sicilian nobles.

"ransom?"

Yang Qing said: "This is not impossible. After all, you have adopted orphans in Guangdong over the years, which can be considered as doing some good things. These can offset your death penalty, but your property will be confiscated, so you can find another way to get your ransom!"

It is customary for these missionaries to adopt orphans.

Especially in the previous situation in Guangdong, it was their opportunity to show kindness that churches in Macau and various places adopted tens of thousands of orphans, and often sent some food to workers, which was still very famous among the people.

Of course, this is not the reason why Yang Qing pardoned them for their death penalty.

Long Huamin nodded and accepted.

They didn't care about this, it was just that the Portuguese in Macau raised them. The church would repay them for them. China's chauvinism is in the king of Portugal. The king of Portugal has the responsibility to protect their safety. Since force is impossible, then use silver to protect it! Anyway, they all know that the vampire in front of him may be some other wizard. The regent of the devil is not something they can resist. Johnson Chan has proved this with his death. Speaking of which, there are several missionaries in front of the Kaamon Hall, who watched the duel outside Nanjing. This undead monster still confused them. Every time they think of the holy and brilliance surrounding him that blocks bullets, they doubt the existence of Yawei...

Uh, then they will quickly confess.

"You guys are afraid of me?"

Yang Qing looked at them and said.

"We are all servants of Yawei, not afraid of anyone or the devil."

Long Huamin said solemnly.

"Devil? Then I am very curious. If I were the devil, would you be a Ming people under my rule, or would you return to your hometown and go under the protection of Yawei to continue your life in which you could not afford to eat sugar and could only chew hard black bread that could kill people?"

Yang Qing said.

“What we pursue is eternity in heaven.”

Long Huamin took a deep breath and said.

"Then you keep pursuing! But before that, I hope you can tell me your pope that I am not interested in your world, but he will not continue to reach out to the East. If he can comply with this, then we can cooperate with others. After all, there is a vast land among us, neither you nor us. Do you not want to take back everything that your Crusaders have had? As far as I know, the Pope is becoming increasingly unpopular in Europe, and more and more Europeans are leaving the Vatican, so you do not want to take back what you have lost and bring you back to that era of control?"

Yang Qing said.

He began to fool him.

Long Huamin looked at him in surprise.

"Don't look at me like this. I don't like you but Istanbul even more, or should I call it its original name Constantinople."

Yang Qing said.

This is why he lets these people go.

"I also don't like maritime trade that is controlled by only the Dutch and the British. It is of course best for me to have more buyers. If the Crusaders reoccupate Jerusalem, I would happily deliver ships of cargo to the port of Aqaba.

Or we might as well dig a canal that communicates with the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

Let more European merchant ships come to the East.

Don't you want the commerce of countries along the Mediterranean to prosper again, don't you want the Pope's wallet to rise again? Catholic monarchs are losing control of maritime trade, Spain or Portugal are already declining, and the Protestant fleet has taken your wealth, so are you willing to continue? The gold coins of the whole Europe are flowing to the Netherlands and Britain, and Venice and Genoa, which once controlled the wealth of Europe, have been kicked out of the banquet of the great sailing. The Habsburg family coveted the wealth of the Dutch in the land barrier, and the dominants of the inland Europe have not brought gold coins to them.

Want to change all this?

Then take action!”

Yang Qing said.

Of course he did not expect these people to be of any use, but these people could report his Suez Canal plan to the Pope and spread it through the Pope to the courts of the monarchs of various countries along the Mediterranean coast.

At that time, there will always be people who are moved.

Spain has become increasingly weaker and weaker under the exclusion of the Dutch and the British. If there is a canal that connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, they will directly close the Netherlands and Britain outside the gate. Louis will also like this plan. His merchant ships can directly enter the Indian Ocean directly east without having to go around the Cape of Good Hope. This road is not only far and dangerous. Chinese companies have been sunk six ships by pirates. It is hard to say who the pirates are. The original trading republic along the Mediterranean coast, especially Venice, which still maintains a certain strength, will also cheer for this canal. They are like zombies buried in the soil, suddenly raised their hands from the coffin. The Habsburg family, who have never had the dividends of maritime trade, will immediately join the ranks of sailing east, and in this way they can also gain a group of allies to deal with the Ottomans.

More importantly.

They are all Catholic countries.

This was the most intense era of conflict between Protestantism and Old Church in Europe. They even used killing each other to resolve the conflict. The Catholics in Spain regarded killing Dutch Protestants as glorious.

Then, in the fight for the interests of trade rights, the Pope's ambition to revive the Vatican's prestige, the hostility of the old church to the Protestantism, etc., driven by various factors, especially his luring on the other side, a new crusade was not a fantasy. Then, Yang Qinghui and the Catholic monarchs, preferably with the Russian Orthodox monarchs, launched a siege against the Ottoman Empire from three directions, just as they had been in history.

Although the Ottoman at this time was not Siya's sick husband.

But it's no big deal.

The Ottomans could not resist so many hungry wolves.

After all, the Duke of Protector did not have any special feelings for the Europeans. It was impossible for Western colonists to invade this time and space, but he really had a deep relationship with the Ottomans.

"His Excellency Duke, we will tell you."

Long Huamin said in some shock.

It was obvious that he was stunned by the crazy Ming ruler.

"Then calculate their ransom!"

Yang Qing said to an officer beside him with satisfaction.
Chapter completed!
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