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Chapter 66 House arrest and coercion

As early as shortly after Zhu Youjian became a vassal, Zhu Youxiao received news that he had brought back from the East Factory. Even though Zhu Youjian's evil slaves in the royal palace took advantage of the tricks of taking advantage of all the fertile land in the mountains that the refugees had reclaimed.

Zhu Youxiao didn't understand it after he found out. According to reason, as a vassal king, Zhu Youjian gave him a lot of salary every year, and the fiefdom he gave him was not small.

But why did Zhu Youjian do this annexation of land like other gentry and powerful people when he arrived in the local area, destroying the foundation of his Ming Dynasty.

Later, Zhu Youxiao investigated again and found out that after Zhu Youjian was in the vassal state, the officials in the court who were dissatisfied with Zhu Youjian and secretly supported Zhu Youjian did not give up completely. Some officials who were dismissed by Zhu Youjian and lived at home even used various literary gatherings to secretly meet with Zhu Youjian.

If you want to seize 10,000 acres of fertile land, you should be a place for horse breeding in order to make a comeback in the future, it was a former Hanlin servant who once taught King Xin to study.

Since these thieves were unsuccessful, Zhu Youxiao had to escort the king of Xin Zhu Youjian to Beijing to isolate him from contact with those restless Donglin Party officials.

Zhu Youjian didn't realize that he was a chess piece used by officials of the Donglin Party.

Bewitched by the officials of the Donglin Party, he always believed that he was doing a justice for the Ming Dynasty, and his royal brother was a foolish monarch and could no longer let him do whatever he wanted.

But now Zhu Youxiao asked him about 10,000 acres of fertile land, but he didn't know how to answer. It was indeed a fact that embezzled people's land. At that time, he did this evil because he was just like the saying that a real man should be careful of the trivial matters, but he did not expect that he would be found out so soon by his royal brother.

Since there was no way to deny it, Zhu Youjian simply raised his head and said, "Since my brother is guilty, I will kill me if my brother is killed."

Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he couldn't speak. If he hadn't known that he was the Chongzhen Emperor in history who died for the Ming Dynasty, and seeing that he was still a child who was not well-informed in the world, he would have wanted to throw him into the imperial prison now.

"Don't think I dare not kill you!"

Zhu Youxiao got up and walked to Zhu Youjian, staring at him and said.

"I didn't say that my brother didn't dare. Now that the Ming Dynasty is about to perish, I would rather die at the hands of the emperor than die at the hands of others, so as to avoid the overthrow of the country. As a descendant of the royal family, I am afraid that there will be no even a roll of corpse-wrapped mat at that time."

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but thrust as he said that when he thought of the precarious Ming Dynasty, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

"You!" Zhu Youxiao, who was furious, had nothing to say about Zhu Youjian, who regarded him as a fool, so he simply left: "Wang Cheng'en, pass on my will. Zhu Youjian's rebellion against the Holy Ethnicity and immediately put his house under house arrest in the West Garden. Without my permission, he would not leave the palace for half a step! I want him Zhu Youjian and those who support him to see if the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed in my hands!"

Wang Chengen hurriedly chased after him. Seeing that Zhu Youxiao looked unhappy and did not dare to offend him, he said carefully: "Your Majesty, Johnson Chan, who was locked in the East Factory, has compromised and expressed his willingness to dedicate everything he knew to the Ming Dynasty for free, including the art of pointing and release."

The "point-and-drop technique" mentioned by Wang Chengen refers to the use of instruments such as gun rules, gun rulers and torques. These so-called point-and-drop techniques determine the fire control ability of the Ming cannon.

But Western missionaries such as Joshua Chan and others were in this regard. When Zhu Youxiao asked about this, he was also vague and pretended not to know. Therefore, Joshua Chan simply put him in prison and refused to eat and punish him. Joshua Chan and others did not expect to meet such a powerful Ming emperor, who knew the art of letting go. Under torture, he did not dare to hide it. What's more, even if he concealed it, he believed that with the ability of this emperor, these so-called key technologies would sooner or later be mastered by the Ming Dynasty.

So in order to escape from the hellish prison and the great missionary cause, he compromised.

Seeing Zhu Youxiao taking his feet away and lifting them away, and wearing shackles around his neck, he couldn't help but laugh, and couldn't help but think: "At least in the current Ming Dynasty, I, the emperor, dares to arrest and threaten these foreigners."

"Sinners pay homage to Your Majesty!"

Johnson Chan has been in China for a long time. Not only can he know the Ming Dynasty's Mandarin, but he can also speak several dialects. Therefore, there is no obstacle in language and he also understands the daily etiquette of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, he knew that he had become a prisoner and could not stand and talk to His Majesty, so he knelt down in fear.

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao was no longer the open and wise emperor who talked to him a month ago about the Bible, Crusaders, and Descartes's, but a devil who was cruel and ruthless to wave and kill several missionaries for a skill of release.

"Get up."

Zhu Youxiao replied coldly and asked again: "How is it, Johnson Tang, do you know what my Ming East Factory feels like? How is it compared to your secluded residence?"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me, and I beg you not to let the guilty minister go to that hellish place again. The guilty minister is willing to tell His Majesty everything he knows!"

Joshua Chan cried.

"Very good. From now on, remember that you are no longer a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire. You are first of all, a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, an official of the Ming Dynasty, and a Christian. The first thing you need to protect is the interests of the Ming Dynasty. If you dare to have two hearts, I can still cut you alive!"

Tang Ruowang couldn't help but feel a little shocked. He witnessed the process of killing criminals alive in the capital a few months ago.

When he heard that Zhu Youxiao was about to cut himself alive, he was so scared that he knocked on the ground: "I don't dare!"

"Just be fine if you don't dare," Zhu Youxiao said, "I have officially restored your previous official position and awarded you the rank of major general. I am the commander of the Imperial Guard Artillery Battalion. During the Imperial Guard training, you will assist Chang Yanling in training my artillery. In addition, you will also work with Song Yingxing to develop a better six-pound cannon for me within one month!"

"If you can complete these, I can allocate money from the treasury to build a church in the capital. If you can't complete them, you can continue to stay in the East Factory!"

After Zhu Youxiao said this, Joshua Chan was both excited and scared, and hurriedly said: "I will do my best and devote myself to it."

Now more than just Johnson Chan, a missionary, was forcibly forced by Zhu Youxiao to serve the Ming Dynasty's science and technology. He even ordered the Dongchang Manzi to search for missionaries walking around the country and all of them were escorted to Beijing.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao even encouraged missionaries to come to the Ming Dynasty, and personally instructed the governors of coastal provinces to offer high rewards to coastal residents to arrest missionaries and enter Beijing.

Some pirates also participated. In order to earn Emperor Zhu's money, they saw a cross-wearing person everywhere in Southeast Asia. For a while, countless missionaries disappeared, and even alarmed European countries.

Some missionaries refused to serve the Ming Dynasty court, while Zhu Youxiao simply killed several stubborn missionaries on the grounds of setting up a teaching hall to make the effect of killing chickens and intimidating monkeys.

At the same time, once the missionaries were willing to serve the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao did not hesitate to give official positions and give certain political treatment. Compared with the two, these missionaries were not allowed to not do things for the Ming Dynasty.
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