It was clear in the morning. Zhu Gaoxu neither went to the north of the imperial city nor went to court. He went straight to Rouyi Hall to work. During the northern expedition, many government affairs Zhu Gaoxu did not ask about it. At this time, he had to read the files roughly and understand the government affairs recorded by the cabinet over the past few months.

The eunuch who served Zhu Gaoxu today was Hou Xian, the young supervisor of the Sili Supervisor. He was a castrator with clear facial contours and square appearance.

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu walked into the Rouyi Hall, he looked at the back door yard. But Hou Xian was not Cao Fu, and he didn't seem to know much about some things. Hou Xian brought a few eunuchs to send the latest memorials over.

Since a stack of memorials had been placed on the table, Zhu Gaoxu was ready to take a look and then send them to the Wuying Hall in the north, and let the cabinet and Dianbao Office deal with it first.

He opened the top memorial and saw that he couldn't understand the first two sentences; and the words were written very poorly, and each stroke reminded Zhu Gaoxu of a child who had just learned to write!

But this aroused Zhu Gaoxu's interest, because the court officials could not be so uneducated. He immediately looked through the place where the signature was to see whose memorial was. A line of strange letters came into view, which made Zhu Gaoxu realize: this was the memorial of a foreign envoy.

Chinese characters were added next to the letters, and the envoy of the King Manoba Xiedong.

The country of Manobahe is on the island of Java, Indonesia. After Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, he read the charts left by Zheng He and some records of Yonglechu's files, and he learned about it.

Zhu Gaoxu continued to read the memorial and finally understood the content. The Java envoy wrote a letter, hoping that the court would agree to the merger of the country of Manobaxie into the Ming Dynasty and become a province!

"Ha!" Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help laughing after seeing it, subconsciously thinking that this envoy was simply weird.

Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his forehead and looked up at Hou Xian. Suddenly he thought of a question: Why is this memorial at the top?

When Zheng He went to sea, Hou Xian did not follow him, but Wang Jinghong went as deputy envoy; Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong were eunuchs with nostrils. Zhu Gaoxu immediately guessed that Hou Xian, Wang Jinghong and other eunuchs also had political demands.

Zhu Gaoxu handed the memorial to Hou Xian to read.

Hou Xian bowed to take it, and then clasped his fists and said, "I reported to the emperor, the Eastern King and Western King of Manobaxie, had an internal conflict before. The Eastern King mentioned in the memorial was defeated and lost all the territory. The envoy's intention was to send troops to help them regain their territory."

"So that's it... I remembered that I seemed to have read the file, and it was true. That Western King seemed to have murdered our navy soldiers by chance?" Zhu Gaoxu said.

Hou Xian hurriedly said, "What the emperor said is very true. At that time, the official army on the ship went ashore to do business. The King of Java mistakenly believed that it was the reinforcements hired by the King of East. His words were not very smooth, so our people were killed more than 100 people. Later, the King of Western wrote a letter to apologize for the crime, hoping to pay 60,000 taels of gold, but when the memorial was sent to the capital, the former emperor had passed away. Later, the prince was deposed as the prince and no longer sent a fleet to the south, so the matter was put on hold until now."

"Sixty thousand taels of gold?" Zhu Gaoxu was surprised. He didn't know about this. "The king of Java Island is so rich?"

Hou Xian said: "To the northwest of Maluobaxie, the Three Buddhas Kingdom produces gold; Maluobaxie has also been engaged in business with the Western Hui and Hui Sect countries, and has accumulated a lot of wealth. It is really rich.

At that time, our Ming Dynasty giant ship was on the sea. After the Western King discovered it, he was very afraid of the destruction of the country, so he promised a lot of gold! The Eastern King took the opportunity to send envoys to Beijing with the fleet, and promised to use the entire territory of the Manobache country, but he made an empty promise. The emperor clearly understood."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Hou Xian again, and Hou Xian immediately bent his waist lower. The eunuch was luring Zhu Gaoxu to restart the fleet and go out to sea! Hou Xian should know that the emperor is very short of money now.

60,000 taels of gold! Zhu Gaoxu calculated in his heart that the Ming Dynasty's currency was not the gold standard or the silver standard. Except for the treasure banknotes, it is still mainly copper coins. 60,000 gold is about 300,000 jin of copper coins!

In order to support the Nanchang Railway Factory, Zhu Gaoxu allocated 200,000 guan from the inner government and the Ministry of Revenue, which made tens of thousands of people in the imperial city save money and also arrested Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Revenue, and was also arrested. The 300,000 guan of real money was considered a huge sum of money for the huge Ming court.

Zhu Gaoxu stopped reading the memorials and files, stood up from the chair, and paced around thoughtfully.

Hou Xian's voice said again: "The emperor, Chameng, Boni, Siam, Zhenla, and Java envoys lived in the capital for several years and have not been able to return to China. The Minister of Rites Hu Butang complained many times that he would provide them with food and drink..."

"I understand." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Hou Xian hurriedly stopped and bowed and said, "Yes, the emperor."

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and decided to learn more about the situation in Southeast Asia and plan a reasonable and effective long-term strategy, it is best to get the support of ministers before making a decision. Anyway, those envoys from various countries in Southeast Asia have lived for a few years, so it doesn’t matter if they live for one or two months.

Thinking of this, he sat back on the chair.

After obtaining various information since the throne, Zhu Gaoxu made some speculations and judgments in his mind. The Confucian cultural circle is mainly in East Asia. In addition to the Ming Dynasty, the North Korean, Japanese, and Annan countries have a greater influence. The countries in the South China Sea, including Myanmar and Siam, which have contact with the Yunnan border toasts, are likely to be more influenced by Indian religions and the Hui and Islamic sects.

Moreover, before the rise of Portugal and Spain, European religious civilization seemed to be relatively backward; on the contrary, the Hui and Hui sects were very strong, powerful, rich and rich, and had many followers.

What made Zhu Gaoxu feel the most was that the Tatars and Wats from Mongolia, who were far away in Mongolia, actually believed in the Hui and Huili sect. The woman who was rescued by peace once said: The Tatar nobles used horseshoes to deal with the pagans and nailed them into their heads.

Because Europe dominated the world in modern times, Zhu Gaoxu had to forcefully reverse his concept: In this era, the Hui and Hui sects were actually more powerful and prosperous than Western European religions.

Zhu Gaoxu put the affairs far away in Nanyang for the time being and continued to look through the recent memorials. He dug out Xia Yuanji's memorials.

Xia Yuanji, Minister of Revenue, submitted a memorial on the content of the salt quotation. Xia Yuanji suggested that the reward of salt quotation should be stopped to the vassal kings and nobles, and emphasized that it could not be given to the merchant Shen family.

Xiabutang used a lot of space to explain the shortcomings.

However, the royal family sent salt to the vassal kings, royal relatives and nobles, which disrupted the rules and caused huge losses to the court.

Zhu Gaoxu felt that Xia Yuanji’s statement was very reasonable, but these disadvantages were not created by Zhu Gaoxu, and they had already existed. Moreover, they were quite complicated. This is an important means for the royal family to balance the powerful and powerful. Once cancelled, it may intensify the conflict!

Xia Yuanji may have thought that last year Zhu Gaoxu captured the Dai King, weakened the military power of the kings, and led a large army to expedition to shock the north... So can we start to take back the interests of the court?

Zhu Gaoxu felt that Xiabutang did a good job in the Ministry of Revenue, but he could not consider the overall interests. Of course, Xiabutang might just make an argument and did not force it to be implemented immediately.

But what is mentioned in the memorial is about giving salt to merchant Shen Jiayan?

Zhu Gaoxu looked through the government records a long time ago, and then he found out that a few months ago he had issued an order to ask Yousi to arrange for the enthronement of Chen Xu's daughter Chen Baoyan as "Princess Zhuang".

The eunuchs in the Silijian added salt invoices to the betrothal gifts, perhaps because Chen Xu was a merchant; the salt in the Ming Dynasty was monopolized, and as long as there was salt invoice, it would be huge profits, so all merchants wanted to get involved in the salt trade.

After understanding the process in the middle, Zhu Gaoxu immediately guessed that it was mostly done by Wang Gui, and somehow passed the approval of the cabinet and the Dianbao Department. Because Wang Gui had contact with the Shen family, it was mostly due to the favor Chen Xu entrusted to him.

Because Zhu Gaoxu did not directly manage the government for a long time before, so some things were not decided by him.

Zhu Gaoxu also remembered the Luo family. The eunuch Cao Fu once asked Luo about Huang Yan's whereabouts... Is this to please Huang Yan's enemies? Wang Gui and others have signs of wanting to form an alliance with Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong!

Zhu Gaoxu was immediately unhappy. He picked up the red pen and wrote on Xia Yuanji's memorial: In the Shen family's betrothal gift, salt yin was changed to other property.

After he wrote it, he threw the memorial on the table with a "snake" and said to Hou Xian: "Look at my approval and tell the people from the Silijian."

Hou Xian carefully picked up the memorial and kept nodding, "I obey the order, I obey the order!" He glanced at the memorial, his face turned pale, and he quietly wiped his forehead with his sleeve.

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "Huang Yan, the eunuch who escaped from the Zhao Palace, is indeed with the Tatars. I can ask the Three Laws to issue a huge difference, and there must be the Tatars who seek profit and arrest Huang Yan."

Hou Xian knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "When Huang Yan was involved in the rebellion case of the Royal Palace, the life and death of this thief depends entirely on the emperor's will. After the emperor ascended the throne, he still trusted and used slaves and servants. The great kindness was like a reborn parent, and the slaves and others were heartbroken, and he could not repay the emperor's kindness in case! I would never dare to have personal gain, and I swear to be loyal to the emperor in this life!"

Zhu Gaoxu calmed down and said, "I believe that you can understand the importance of it. Get up."

"Thank you for your kindness," Hou Xian said.

Zhu Gaoxu breathed a sigh of relief and said kindly: "Hundreds of sea ships have been built before. The construction of ships is expensive and the training is expensive. The matter of going to sea must not be abandoned halfway. However, I will change some strategies, and from then on, I will definitely choose a truly loyal eunuch as an envoy to continue this matter."

Hou Xian said: "The emperor is wise!"
Chapter completed!