Daming, Nanjing.

The emperor's residence on the bank of the Yangtze River was full of joy. Ever since the wise and martial Emperor Hongxing ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty's bad luck seemed to have completely ended.

From January when Emperor Hongxing came to the throne to now, for most of the year, the Ming Dynasty has been filled with happy events!

First of all, of course, the weather is good and everything is safe. At least in the eight provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian that are directly under the imperial court, no major disasters have been reported in the past six months. Seeing that the autumn harvest is approaching, it seems that

It’s time to have a long-lost good harvest.

Moreover, for more than half a year, there have been no major disturbances in the eight southeastern provinces. Of course, there are small disturbances. There are at least 100 million people in the eight provinces, most of them are paupers, and at least half of them are often hungry.

Many people died of cold and starvation (the food supply in the southeast is generally not sufficient, but can barely cope with it, and it cannot be distributed fairly, so there are many people who are hungry and cold). How could there be no small troubles?

It can be said that small-scale civil uprisings occurred every month. Especially after Zhu Cixi issued an edict to abolish slavery, slave uprisings in various places became extremely frequent.

What? Slavery has been abolished, why do we need to change it?

In fact, the slave rebellions that frequently occur in the Southeast these days are not for freedom, but for food!

For example, the hordes of slaves in Zheng Zhilong's house don't cause trouble. They are all popular, drink spicy food, and get money for it. How can they make trouble? Even though Zhu Cihong issued an edict to abolish slavery, the slaves in his house are still the same. They are still doing what they should do.

Well.

However, due to various reasons, many southeastern scholar-officials had their families in decline, losing their privileges and property, which also affected their slaves. Some of the corrupt scholar-officials wanted to take advantage of their slaves, which intensified the conflict.

Because of the frequent slave changes in various places, Zhu Cihong simply issued an edict to abolish slavery. As a result, more radical changes were triggered due to the issue of property division between slaves and masters (slaves do not mean no property) and the source of livelihood of slaves after they were freed.

However, these slave rebels were not a problem at all for the Hongxing Emperor, who had a strong ability to suppress them. They basically just swirled and annihilated, and could not create any climate. However, many slave rebels were captured and thrown to Zheng Zhilong for development.

Taiwan.

The next happy news is that good news came from Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. With the efforts of Zhang Yong and Qiu Lei, Sha Dingzhou couldn't resist beating him with his little strength, and soon abandoned Kunming and ran back to Mengzi. Yunnan

Although the chaos is not over (perhaps it is getting worse), the palace of the King of Yunnan (Zhu Cizhao was renamed the King of Yunnan from Pingxi King after entering Kunming) and the Yunnan Governor's Yamen have taken root. From now on, Yunnan will be the palace of the prince and the palace.

The governor's office and a bunch of toasts were struggling together.

On the Guangxi side, Jin Shenghuan led his troops to forcefully move in. Jin Shenghuan's official paid homage to the general of Guangxi, and he was not the lord of Guangxi. However, Zhu Cixiang authorized him to work with the Guangxi governor's office to reorganize the guards in Guangxi. The chieftain also allowed Jin Shenghuan to occupy the official land in Guangxi.

Military land to maintain the expenses of the department.

The reason why he is allowed to do this in Guangxi is of course to rectify the military strength of Guangxi in order to deter Annan. Otherwise, with the current military strength of Guangxi, not to mention Lord Zheng, Lord Ruan, even Lord Mo, who retreated to Gaoping to survive, would not be able to deal with it.

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Now Zheng Sen is preparing for his trip to Annan, Champa, and Shuizhenla. Of course the Zheng family will send out warships to go with him, but they can't expect that just a few warships will frighten others.

The third happy event is that Emperor Hongxing has another princess, making her three daughters! But it doesn't matter, Emperor Hongxing is still young and has plenty of opportunities to have sons!

The fourth happy event was that the "old girl" Princess Kunxing married Xiamen Bo Zheng Jiangong. Xiamen Island belonged to Quanzhou Prefecture. After Zhu Cihong granted Zheng Jiangong a marriage, Zheng Zhilong took out Xiamen Island and asked Zhu Cihong to entrust it to his second son Zheng Jiangong.

Of course Zhu Cixiang happily agreed, but he would not let Mr. Zheng return to Xiamen to farm because the central navy of the Ming Dynasty appointed him to build it!

"Jiangong, you are now the consort. According to the rules of this dynasty, the consort cannot leave the capital too far, so don't go back to Fujian."

In the Xuanhu Palace, Emperor Chongzhen came out to give a banquet today and invited the consort Zheng Jiangong and Princess Kunxing to dinner. Emperor Hongxing also came to eat eggs together. Xuanhu Gong’s boiled eggs were delicious, they were all "

"Golden eggs" are white and tender when the shell is peeled off. You can tell at a glance that they have not been poisoned.

While eating eggs, Zhu Cihong was talking to Zheng Jiangong, who had turned a lot whiter.

Emperor Chongzhen was also happy when he saw his son-in-law. He was a good son-in-law! The first sale was a bank note of 300,000 taels from the Maritime Commercial Bank. It seemed that Zheng Zhilong knew how to teach his son, much better than Wu Xiang's bad old man!

After listening to Zhu Cixiang's words, Chongzhen smiled and interjected: "Don't go back to Fujian, just stay in Nanjing forever!"

"Father," Zhu Cixiang smiled, "can't live in Nanjing forever, because I have important responsibilities entrusted to my consort."

"Important responsibility? How heavy is it?" Chongzhen asked.

Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "Father, didn't I just say what I said last time? I want my consort to take charge of the Shanghai Naval Academy. Now that the hall of the Naval Academy has been built, my consort can take up his post."

Zheng Jiangong's cheeks turned red again, he lowered his head and said in an inaudible voice: "My lord, I have little talent and little knowledge. I don't know much about naval warfare. I can't be the commander of the Naval Academy."

In fact, Zheng Jiangong is not completely ignorant. He is just a dabbler. He knows a little bit, but he is not very proficient (Japan is locked in the country, and he cannot go to sea). But even with this dabbler, he can be regarded as a "wizard" among Zhu Cixi's core group.

, others are not even half-assed!

To put it bluntly, Emperor Hongxing's Beifu Group was just a feudal warrior group, with a group of armed landowners as its core. Who knew about navigation and naval warfare?

Even Zheng Sen didn't understand that Zhu Cixiang originally thought he was very powerful, but after getting to know him for a while, he discovered that he was basically a scholar-bureaucrat!

After Zheng Zhilong brought him back from Japan, he trained him as a Confucian scholar. In contrast, Tagawa Nanzaemon, who stayed in Japan, received training as a maritime merchant and samurai. Although he had not been to the sea much, he was very good at dealing with China.

I still have a very good understanding of Western ship types and ship performance.

In addition, Zheng Jiangong must know who is knowledgeable and this is very important!

These days, you don't just find a talent in the navy. If the person in charge of running the navy is a stick, then the tuition fees will be endless.

Moreover, Emperor Zhu could not leave this matter to the Portuguese, as the Portuguese would also kill people.

Zhu Cixiang smiled and said to Zheng Jiangong: "Prince-in-law, the Naval Academy is a blank piece of paper now. There is no one else except you. I only believe in you, so go ahead and do it!"

In fact, no one else can use Zhu Cixiang! And he also knows that Zheng Jiangong is more serious and responsible, and will not be greedy for three melons and two dates. The red envelope he presented to the Supreme Emperor Chongzhen today contains 300,000 taels of silver! Navy!

This is the amount of money the school will have to fund for several years. If he wants to get greedy for these small sums, he will really lose his father's face.

But Zheng Jiangong didn't know what Emperor Zhu was thinking. He thought Zhu Cihong trusted him so much!

Zheng Jiangong was so moved in his heart! He had met his master, he was an earl (Xiamen was worth 100,000 shi), and he was married to a girl (she was a member of the same family), and he still trusted her so much!

Thinking of this, he quickly stood up and walked to Zhu Cihong's side, bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty's kindness is unforgettable. I will be loyal to you for seven lifetimes and repay it with a hundred deaths!"

Zhu Cixiang stood up with a smile and helped Zheng Jiangong up with his own hands. Just when he was about to say a few more words of encouragement, Huang Xiaobao, the director of etiquette Bingbi, trotted in from outside. Then he picked up his feet, leaned into Zhu Cixiang's ear, and whispered: "

Your Majesty, Zhu Weishuai from Jin Yiwei is asking to see you, saying that he has something great to report related to Wu Sangui!"
Chapter completed!