"Whatever you think, the Chinese have also been plundered of land, shops, plantations, and various properties. Counting interest, the Spanish Empire has to pay 20 million taels of silver to the Ming Empire..."

Cheng Shijie's claim was actually to prevent the imperial court from intervening in the Luzon incident and to prevent the Spanish Empire from bypassing Cheng Shijie and directly sending diplomats to the capital to resolve the matter.

You must know that Emperor Chongzhen was only thinking about money. If he heard how huge compensation Cheng Shijie proposed, Emperor Chongzhen would definitely choose to leave the matter entirely to Cheng Shijie.

"This is impossible, thank you. We must admit that the Ming Empire is a powerful country. We are in diplomatic negotiations, not a place for you to act rogue. This country will never tolerate your frivolous behavior. Your words and deeds,

Everything has been recorded. We will forward the report to your court to protest..."

"Please!"

"Thank you, let's change the conditions. For example, let the Spanish Empire compensate you five million taels of silver. This amount is very sincere. It is almost equivalent to the fiscal revenue of your Ming Empire for one year."

Xie Jinglin said: "I heard that the warships of the Spanish Armada are invincible across the Mediterranean. We, the Ning Navy's more than 300 warships, really want to have in-depth exchanges with the Spanish Armada!"

"Thank you, if the Ming Empire can really send 300 European warships, not even a hundred, the Spanish Empire will re-evaluate the strength of the Ming Empire and start negotiations based on the strength of the Ming Empire!"

Xie Jinglin looked at Putmans and said: "Batavia, Mindanao, and your East India Company's thirty-five strongholds in the Far East all have Chinese presence. I hope you will pay attention to the status of the Chinese, otherwise our Ning Navy will never be able to

I will sit back and watch!”

"Are you a threat?"

"Yes, you can think so!"

As the new round of negotiations was announced, the Chinese representatives were very excited.

As Cheng Shijie's representative, Wu Shangzhi was treated mercilessly when collecting money.

Cheng Shijie is now entangled with Catherine every day. Of course, her entanglement is not because of emotional problems, but the follow-up problems of the Venice solution.

One million ducats is actually not that easy to earn.

"You can use women in Venice!"

"woman?"

"That's right!"

"You mean to let women go to war?"

"No no no!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Women can engage in civilian work in the army. You may have also seen that when Ning Haijun recruited soldiers, most of the staff were actually women, and in textile, printing and dyeing, clothing processing, catering, and medical care

Including the current banking industry, most of the staff are women!”

Although Catherine is a woman, her ability to become a Lieutenant Commander in the Venetian Navy relies not on her identity as a woman, but on her surname and her family.

Even though the status of women in ancient times was relatively low, their status was not low, but the status of the empress dowager was not low, just relatively speaking. In ancient times, the head wife of a wealthy family had the same social status as her husband.

But the problem is that reusing women is unthinkable in Europe.

Because the status of women in Europe is lower than that of Ming Dynasty... Many people just don't believe it and think that the status of women in Europe is very high. If the author does not argue this issue, it will easily lead to war.

Looking at European culture, the most important cultural systems in Europe are Christian culture and ancient Greek and Roman culture. In Christian culture and ancient Greek and Roman cultural systems, women’s status is not high, and they even demean women and more often vilify women.

Cheng Shijie said: "Women have huge advantages in many aspects. They are more approachable, work more carefully, and have irreplaceable natural advantages in nursing. Many nurses in the army are now women, and most of them come from Xinghai City, Liaodong.

Medical school and received complete systematic training.”

Cheng Shijie took the initiative to introduce that women enjoy the same rights as men in most fields in Liaodong, such as enrolling in school, working, joining the army, and engaging in politics and business.

If there were a rich list in Liaodong now, there would be at least several rich women on the list. Not counting Ning Haijun’s system, just like in private enterprises, Zhang Chen’s Oriental Company now has more than 6,000 employees and pays taxes every year.

As much as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Now Zhang Chen has switched from business to politics, serving as a member of the Jinzhou Executive Committee, enjoying the treatment of the sixth grade, which is also unimaginable in the Ming Dynasty.

Now in primary schools in Liaodong, the proportion of girls is close to 45%, and it is a mixed school for boys and girls, so there is no difference. In the medical school of Xinghaicheng, a very important major is clinical care, and the proportion of female students once exceeded 80%

.

The current Liaodong Administrative Committee Government also has many staff members who are women, especially in office desk work and reception work. Women have unparalleled advantages in this area. Therefore, it is not surprising that women appear in the army in Liaodong.

These women in the army have also changed people's inherent image of women as weak and submissive. The female soldiers at the recruitment work station all wear pistols in conspicuous places on their bodies. These pistols are not decorations. Female soldiers also need to receive basic training.

In some areas that are not good at, such as physical fitness, the requirements may be relatively low, but in shooting, the requirements are still very high. Women who can become professional soldiers must at least have good shooting scores. Even those nurses are the same.

Cheng Shijie said: "Venice's population is too small. With a small population, we must use every available force as much as possible. You can also consider hiring more female soldiers in the military system. Of course, women will not charge in the first battle."

On the front line, that is our men’s responsibility.”

Cheng Shijie still has a bottom line. Compared with Europe, Liaodong already treats women as men. It would be too much to use them as livestock.

"The army is a male group. If there are women, it will cause a lot of problems..."

As a woman, Catherine knew this deeply. When she was fourteen years old, she participated in the support battle for Crete. During the battle, it rained heavily. The situation was urgent, so she could only stick to her post.

But the problem was that she was menstruating at the time, so she suffered a tragedy.

Until now, whenever menstruation comes, I will have unbearable abdominal pain. Of course, Catherine is very strong and she has been enduring the severe pain, but can other female soldiers be as strong as her?

Catherine expressed disbelief.

Cheng Shijie and Catherine's understanding were on two different channels. He thought that Catherine was worried about the chaotic relationship between men and women.

"This can be prevented! If it is free love, then no one has the right to interfere, but if the entanglement continues, the military police cannot be used as decoration, right?"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "The longest female soldier in Ning Haijun has served for more than two years. A more serious situation has not happened so far..."

Catherine did not want to discuss this issue with Cheng Shijie because she felt that she was in trouble.

Watching Catherine cross her legs and leave quickly, Cheng Shijie seemed to understand.

…

Beijing City, Wenfu.

Wen Tiren held a hot towel and put it on his face.

Wen Tiren's three-step ax had not had time to produce a chemical reaction. Cheng Shijie was not in a hurry, but the eunuch was. Wen Tiren's three-step ax was easily resolved by Gao Qiqian. It was not Cheng Shijie's turn to use his strength, and the crisis ended without any problem.

Cheng Shijie did not suffer much loss, but Wen Tiren suffered heavy losses. Thirteen of his disciples had their homes confiscated, six were beheaded, and more than twenty were dismissed from office.

I finally heard that Cheng Shijie had a headache, and at the critical moment of his duel with Zheng Zhilong, he turned around and attacked Luzon.

However, the problem is that Ning Haijun defeated Spain miserably, which made Wen Tiren very excited. Zheng Zhilong, a loser, couldn't defeat Cheng Shijie, but Europa should be able to, right?

"What did you say?"

Wen Tiren had great expectations for the Spanish Empire. As long as the Spanish Empire issued a war threat to the Ming Dynasty, he could impeach Cheng Shijie.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is also in troubled times, and it is impossible to easily start a war with the Spanish Empire. At that time, Emperor Chongzhen will have no choice but to kill Chao Cuo with tears and use Cheng Shijie's life to calm the anger of the Spanish.

In fact, emperors are ruthless. Compared with the country and the country, personal emotions and relationships are not worth mentioning.

You must know that in the past few years, the Dutch East India Company's fleet had a total of fourteen ships, but Zheng Zhilong used more than two hundred warships and suffered thousands of casualties to defeat the Dutch.

I heard that Spain is still the co-owner of most countries in Europe, and its status is similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. The Netherlands is also a dependent country of Spain. This relationship is like the relationship between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty issued orders to North Korea, but North Korea dared not to listen?

The result was not what Wen Tiren imagined.

For a long time, Wen Renti looked at Yang Siyuan, the staff beside him, and said: "Siyuan, what do the countries in Europe mean?"

Yang Siyuan spoke in a low and deep voice: "That Cheng Shijie is blessed by heaven and earth. He has passed the test again this time!"

Wen Tiren had an unbelievable look on his face: "Is Spain the co-owner of Europa? Can they swallow this? The Western countries don't care? The Netherlands, Portugal, and those countries all don't care?"

Yang Siyuan smiled bitterly: "No matter! A cannon blast will make the foreigners polite?"

Wen Tiren immediately reacted: "Is that Spain, the co-owner of Europa..."

"They are similar to us, with internal and external troubles! They have too much time to take care of themselves at home, let alone thousands of miles away in Luzon?"

Wen Tiren sighed leisurely: "This time, it is Cheng Shijie's luck."

The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Originally, I wanted to use Zheng Zhilong's hand to let Cheng Shijie and Zheng Zhilong fight against each other. The ideal outcome would be to lose both sides. However, Cheng Shijie caused a terrible incident.

When the results of the Luzon Incident reached the capital, the imperial court was really frightened. After all, the Ning Navy bombarded Manila and actually broke into the city!

Of course, this news had not yet reached the emperor's ears. At that time, the cabinet held a secret meeting all night. Everyone in the cabinet thought that the best thing to do at this time was to pretend to be confused, and Cheng Shijie was definitely going to be unlucky.

The one who suffered the most was actually Xu Guangqi. Wen Tiren advised Xu Guangqi to try his best to keep the matter clean, but the problem was that things changed in a dizzying way. As Cheng Shijie became more and more tough on the Spanish Empire, he proposed huge compensation.

Emperor Chongzhen was very happy. Cheng Shijie not only earned him face, but also honour. If Spain compromised and compensated the Ming Empire tens of millions of taels of silver, the Ming Empire's financial crisis could be easily solved.

At this time, there was a very strange phenomenon in the court, that is, Qingliu, who had always been very cold towards Cheng Shijie, actually began to call for support for Cheng Shijie.

It would be better to investigate and find out that most of these clear currents are disciples and former officials of Sun Chengzong or Xu Guangqi. Although the power of this clear current is not very great, it makes Wen Tiren very wary.

He was really afraid that Sun Chengzong would make a comeback and make a comeback.

However, what Wen Tiren and the others never expected was that this time Emperor Chongzhen, for some unknown reason, went crazy together with Cheng Shijie, and actually promoted Cheng Shijie from Governor of Liaodong to Minister of War and Propaganda Envoy to Nanyang.

And the Nanyang Xuanfu Department was established.

As for Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts, Wen Tiren, who had a keen sense of politics, was very sure that Emperor Chongzhen was after the money.

This is to maximize the interests of Emperor Chongzhen. He does not need to send troops and does not need to spend any money. If the Luzon incident is used, it can bring a large amount of income to the court, which is very cost-effective.
Chapter completed!