Chapter 831 Joint Court
"The Spanish thief is ambition and dares to offend my great power. I think these people are just killing me!" Dong Dashan said without hesitation. This sentence shocked Liao Huanzhi. He quickly looked at Dong Dashan beside him, and saw that he was generous and full of anger, but his eyes were filled with meaning. He looked at Zhu Yicheng secretly.
Liao Huanzhi understood the intention of Dong Dashan saying this in a blink of an eye. He cursed in his heart that this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes also began to learn bad things, but he actually had such a colorful intestine.
Immediately, Liao Huanzhi also agreed, saying that these Spanish people were extremely guilty and it would not be an exaggeration to kill them all, even if they were killed, they should be killed.
The two of you said and said something, and they showed extraordinary indignation, which made Zhu Yicheng laugh and cry.
That's right, Zhu Yicheng's decision to attack Luzon was to teach the Spanish a severe lesson and to avenge the Chinese who suffered in Luzon. However, as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Yicheng looked like the emperor was furious and lying thousands of miles away, in fact, his real decision was due to political considerations.
With the end of the Age of Discovery, the entire world's territory has almost been divided. Now the Ming Dynasty has forcibly intervened in North America, and has chewed the Western United States from the mouths of Britain, France and Spain.
With the emergence of the Ming Dynasty, the big cake of North America has reached the stage of division. The continued expansion of the Ming Dynasty in North America will not be as simple as before. Now the forces of the four countries have actually come into contact with each other. If you want to expand your territory, you must attack any country, but it is not so easy to completely defeat a country in North America and annex its overseas territory.
Therefore, with the truce between Xinming and France, Xinming has actually entered the level of stable territory and careful management from its crazy expansion in the early stage. Moreover, judging from the current strength of Xinming, including Xinming's population and other factors, it is not suitable to launch a war.
In addition to mainland America, the opportunity for Ming Dynasty to expand overseas was in the South China Sea, and the most suitable territory in the South China Sea was in Luzon.
Regardless of geographical location, reasons for sending troops, or due to its foundation in the South China Sea, Luzon is the only goal.
There are political reasons for fighting Luzon, military purposes, and righteousness. To be honest, Zhu Yicheng has sympathy for the experience of overseas Chinese, but at the same time he also hates him not to fight. How can the Chinese people stand up to the sky and be easily massacred by the Spanish like cattle and sheep?
If the first massacre occurred because of being unprepared, what happened one after another? What is even more infuriating is that in the message sent back this time, Wang Dong also mentioned that the Public Affairs Office had long learned that the Spanish would use local natives to launch a massacre of Chinese people. For this, the Public Affairs Office also contacted the Chinese in Manila to launch a self-rescue plan, thus saving nearly 20,000 lives.
But even so, there are still tens of thousands of Chinese who are lucky enough to hope for their lives and property on the Spanish "conscience". This is simply stupid. Their death is also caused by one's own fault and is not worthy of pity.
Just as someone in later generations said, this slave has been used to bend his knees for a long time, and that day he was not used to being a human being.
There are many Chinese in the South China Sea. Since they have no Chinese spirit, their experience is inevitable.
According to Zhu Yicheng's idea, it is easy to kill these Spanish people directly. Anyway, he doesn't take it seriously at all. However, if you want to do this, you also have to consider diplomacy. After all, the Ming Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty more than 200 years ago, and this world is not the world more than 200 years ago.
As the Ming Dynasty moves towards the ocean and the world, contacts between countries around the world will become more and more frequent. Now Britain and Portugal have already achieved formal diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. Even France, which had fought hard in the New World and the Ming Dynasty before, is also tentatively engaged in contact with the New Ming side, intending to contact the upper class of the Ming Dynasty for diplomatic exchanges.
In this way, as time goes by, the Ming Dynasty and Western countries will contact more and more frequently, and the establishment of formal diplomatic channels will gradually increase. This is the inevitability of the Ming Dynasty's real contact and going to the world, so in this case, the Ming Dynasty's external strategies must be planned for a long-term plan.
What's more, this time the attack on Luzon was not only the Ming Dynasty, but the fleet commanded by Wang Dong was a coalition force of the Ming Dynasty, Portugal and British countries. The punishment for the Spaniards was inevitable, but it also required a certain degree.
If we kill all these Spaniards regardless of the scattered scattered, we would certainly have angered, but what would we think of Western countries once such a thing is done? Although the Portuguese and the Spaniards have a feud, the United Kingdom and the Spaniards are even more rivals. When Britain defeated the Spanish fleet, it led Spain to its peak and began the rise of Britain on the ocean.
These are also the reasons why Portugal and Britain supported the Ming Dynasty's attack on Luzon, and their demand for the Far East was to stand on the side of the Ming Dynasty. But once the killing was really started, Portugal and Britain would inevitably have bad influence, and even make the Ming Dynasty famous justice completely transformed into synonyms of barbarism and cruelty.
Zhu Yicheng was unwilling to see this. Moreover, Zhu Yicheng's goal next is Johor. He needs Portugal and Britain to support the Ming Dynasty in taking Johor, thereby controlling the important roads in the South China Sea. In addition, no one knows that Zhu Yicheng has a bigger plan in his heart, but this plan must be implemented after taking Johor. In this case, he must not act voluntarily.
"How about punishing the evil ones only, not as good as others?" Zhu Yicheng asked after thinking for a while.
As soon as this sentence was said, a big stone fell in the hearts of Liao Huanzhi and Dong Dashan. Both of them were worried that Zhu Yicheng would nod directly and agree, and they really ordered the killing of these Spaniards.
You know, there are nearly 30,000 people. Although these Spanish people deserve to die, the Spanish officials are really responsible for this incident. As for ordinary Spanish merchants, residents and even soldiers are involved.
Once this is done, it will be a big event. The reason why Dong Dashan said that before was because he knew that Zhu Yicheng's disgust of the Spanish. If he pleaded with love in such an occasion, it would have a counterproductive effect. If Zhu Yicheng felt that the punishment was too light and he had to be severely punished, it would be a big problem.
That's why Dong Dashan would go against the rules and deliberately directly said the most serious measures. After he said this, Liao Huanzhi instantly understood what Dong Dashan meant and agreed. But even so, the two of them were in a mess after making such suggestions. If Zhu Yicheng really went with the flow, it would be over.
Fortunately, Zhu Yicheng is not a foolish emperor, nor is he an emperor who knows greatness. This is also the reason why they dare to take this risk. Now, the facts have proved their judgment. After careful consideration, Zhu Yicheng finally gave up the idea of severely punishing all Spaniards and took this more appropriate and reasonable decision.
"The emperor is wise and magnanimous. I think those Westerners will admire him very much after learning about such kindness." The two of them hurriedly replied at the same time.
After hearing this, Zhu Yicheng burst into laughter and deliberately joked: "Okay, I understand all the little thoughts of you two. Are you not afraid that I will do what you just now and do in anger?"
Hearing this, Liao Huanzhi and Dong Dashan suddenly showed a little embarrassment on their faces. Before they could explain, Zhu Yicheng waved his sleeves and said, "As for how to severely punish the evildoers and how to determine their crimes, what suggestions do you have?"
Liao Huanzhi considered this and immediately said: "I think the power of the three judicial departments in Manila can be exercised, and send appropriate officials to examine the case, and then punish them with the clear order."
"Well, this suggestion is good." Zhu Yicheng nodded.
Immediately afterwards, Dong Dashan said: "I feel that since Portugal and Britain are present in this dispatch, I think it is possible that both countries can also send personnel to intervene in the case to face the situation."
Zhu Yicheng's heart suddenly moved and nodded to say that this suggestion was also excellent. Since this was the case, he would simply establish a joint court mainly from the Three Kingdoms in Manila, and let Wang Dong form it in the name of the Minister of Military Affairs. At the same time, he sent officials from the three judicial departments to Manila and invited Portugal and the United Kingdom to participate. By the way, if possible, he would find a way to get people from other countries to intervene, but people from these countries need to pay attention to the intervention. It doesn't matter whether it is the national, but he must stand on the side of the Ming Dynasty to ensure that the political politics of this court is absolutely correct.
To put it bluntly, Zhu Yicheng planned to use this method to establish the authority and correctness of the joint court, so as to nail the matter to death, so that the Spanish had no chance to refute the matter at all afterwards, and at the same time, he also used this trial to establish the legal rule of the Ming Dynasty in Luzon.
Perhaps based on the establishment of this joint court, a permanent international court can be established in Manila in the future, just like the later International Tribunal of The Hague, so that the Ming Dynasty can achieve the highest point in legal theory.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yicheng thought of the League of Nations and the United Nations in later generations. Perhaps when the time is right, he can even use the International Tribunal to set up an international joint organization, and then use its influence on this organization to achieve the purpose of influencing the entire world.
Of course this is a later story, at least this is impossible to do in a short period of time. However, the establishment of a joint court or a national court can be taken advantage of this opportunity.
The candidates for the Three Courts will be arranged by the Military Affairs Office, and it will be reported to Zhu Yicheng at that time. At the same time, Zhu Yicheng proposed to ask William Adams and Fernando from Macau to go to Manila together, and directly join the United Court to become one of the members of the court. At the same time, he informed the intention of Portugal and British diplomatic officials in the Ming Dynasty and asked them to send people as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!