Capital, imperial palace.

Several days have passed since the Dragon Boat Festival, and the palace has been strikingly speaking about the Prince of Anguo that day.

However, in order to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival that day, Zhu Cixuan held a willow shooting competition in the open space outside the Ganqing Palace. The willow shooting competition is an ancient entertainment method, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period.

The entertainment method is extremely simple. If you put a willow branch on the field and shoot it, you can get a reward if you hit it.

Those who participated in the entertainment were all in-house ministers, just to make the Emperor smile. However, Zhu Cilang seemed to be quite concerned. Not only did he arrange it himself, but he even changed into a strong outfit on the same day.

At first, several eunuchs pulled their bows and arrows and none of them shot. Zhu Cilang couldn't help but get up and went there in person. Pang Dahai, the Sili Supervisor, didn't know what method he used, but Zhu Cilang waited for the shooting art and shot all two arrows.

Zhu Cilang was happy, so he instigated Liu Hongjian, the prince of Anguo, to show his skills, but Lao Liu did not know this thing, so he naturally refused humbly.

However, the ponytail of the pony sea was not right, and the good speech that added fuel to the fire made Liu Hongjian do whatever he wanted if he didn't show his skills.

In the end, Liu Hongjian really didn't want to hear the birdless guy making noise, so he took out a knives, and the fire was smoky from the field. A shuttle of bullets not only killed the willow branches, but also led the Hu Ben Army outside.

Pang Dahai was frightened directly. Liu Hongjian was so mean. A bullet flew over to his scalp, lifting Pang Dahai's hat away.

He doesn't want to show off, but his strength does not allow it. If he really uses arrow feathers to shoot, he will not even think about shooting it if he loses the arrow feathers.

After the game of shooting the Willows was over, Zhu Cixuan temporarily added a target shooting competition. This guy started practicing shooting skills half a month ago, but he was eventually defeated by Liu Hongjian, who had made great achievements in his faith.

Then Liu Hongjian became a topic of conversation in the palace. People in the palace all rumored that the prince of Anguo would make tricks. Of course, there were rumors that Liu Hongjian would not live long. After all, those who dared to make the emperor lose face in person were impatient to live.

Liu Hongjian laughed at this. As a later generation of steel and titanium alloy straight man, the four words "flattering" did not appear in Liu Hongjian's dictionary at all.

Fortunately, Zhu Cilang didn't take it seriously. After all, he knew in his heart that Brother Liu was indeed better than him, otherwise he would not have been able to help his father to quell so many rebellions.

As soon as the Dragon Boat Festival ended, Zhu Cixuan, who was full of energy, made a final liquidation of officials who opposed the imperial examination reform.

The Grand Secretary of Jianji Palace and the Minister of Revenue Ni Yuanlu retired.

Meng Zhaoxiang, the Grand Secretary of Zhongji Palace and Minister of Justice, retired.

Fan Jingwen, Minister of Works, Wu Ganlai, Right Minister of Revenue, the Censor of the Inspectorate, Shi Bangzhao, and Meng Zhen, Retired.

This is just a change in the cabinet and the six important yamen officials. Zhu Cilang did not punish him if he was still stubborn and surrendered to his official position.

In Liu Hongjian's words, Xiao Zhu is the chairman of the company in Daming, and he is CEO.

A good company is not short of employees. You can just fire if you don’t obey. There are thousands of talents in the Ming Dynasty, but there are only one large state-owned companies. Are you still afraid that no one will join?

The seats in the cabinet are one carrot and one pit. If someone wants to enter, then someone will naturally have to leave. For example, Comrade Shi Kefa, who was the left deputy censor of the Inspectorate, finally made up for the lack of the cabinet.

On the second day after Ni Yuanlu, Fang Yuegong, Meng Zhaoxiang and several other old ministers came out of Dongchang Prison, Zhu Cixuan issued a decree on the appointment of important officials such as the Cabinet, the Six Ministry.

Shi Kefa got his wish and was promoted to the Minister of Justice as the left deputy chief censor of the Inspectorate, and replaced Meng Zhaoxiang as the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Hall.

Cheng Zhi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, was promoted to the Minister of Rites, and replaced Ni Yuanlu into the cabinet as the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall.

Wang Jiayan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, replaced Fan Jingwen and was promoted to the Minister of Works.

The new team was unintentionally a victory for the old ministers of the Eastern Palace. Most of the old teams left by Emperor Chongzhen were forced to leave, and only Li Banghua was left in the cabinet.

Zhang Tianlu, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge who made a generous speech at Li Banghua's mansion, chose to compromise. The Dongworkers led by Zhang Tianlu collectively stopped the battle and were like cutting off the firewood from the bottom of a pot.

Not only did Ni Yuanlu, Fang Yuegong and others become the scapegoats, but Li Banghua, who was tolerant, was tied to the pillar of shame, a despicable official who dared not give advice, was greedy for life and feared death, and was despised.

In fact, the only one who truly understands Li Banghua is Liu Hongjian, the founder of the imperial examination reform. Li Banghua, the stubborn old man, may have endured humiliation and survived because he wanted to see what direction he and Zhu Cilang could lead the Ming Dynasty.

But this is not important anymore. The engine of the giant ship of the Ming Dynasty has already begun to roar, and nothing can stop it from going forward.

The matter of the restructuring of the imperial examination was settled like this. The proportion of classics, engineering, science and military disciplines was written into the Ming Dynasty. Officials from all over the country began to supervise new county and government schools in accordance with the will of the court.

After the ups and downs of blood changes, the court finally returned to peace.

However, the calm lasted only a few days, because the news brought back by the Jinyiwei from Nanyang caused another uproar.

When the Zheng family bandit army was passing through Luzon, they were attacked by the Netherlands, Big and Little Franchis, and were defeated miserably!

The Zheng family flagship Anqing was sunk, and Zheng Zhilong himself was also hit by a shell and died on the spot!

According to the information brought by the Jinyiwei, the fleet led by Zheng Zhilong was the main force of the Zheng family, who wanted to cross Nanyang to rush to Japan to quell the rebellion. After this battle, the Zheng family navy lost more than half of it, and the Zheng family's leader could no longer challenge the Dutch warships.

Nanyang, it's unbalanced...

When the news first reached the court, it did not cause much response from all officials. After all, most officials were not very concerned about the ocean. Several officials even happily congratulated Zhu Cixuan, saying that the Zheng bandits had been destroyed and the Ming Dynasty eliminated the troubles.

Only Zhu Cilang frowned because Liu Hongjian once told him that if the Zheng family could not support it in Southeast Asia, what would be facing the Ming Dynasty would be directly invaded by all Europa countries.

This is definitely not an exaggeration. Are the Beiyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty ready to face this sudden change?

Zhu Cixuan was lazy to listen to the noise of the corrupt scholars in the court, and immediately retreated to the court and urgently summoned all members of the cabinet to discuss matters, including the Prince of Anguo and the Grand Secretary of Wuying Hall Liu Hongjian.

Liu Hongjian felt a sudden defeat in the Zheng family, especially Zheng Zhilong's death.

To be honest, although Lao Zheng is not very aware of the overall situation, he is still very good at naval battles. With the wooden ship of Lao Zheng's family, he defeated the Dutch warship, which was later known as the strongest navy in the mid-17th century, three times.

Of course, the battle in Taiwan has not yet happened at this time.

But you, Zheng, was defeated too quickly. I originally thought that Zheng Zhilong could last at least another year and a half so that the Beiyang Navy could continue to hide his strength and accumulate warships and train navy.

But as soon as the old Zheng family collapsed, the Beiyang Navy would inevitably be pushed to the forefront of the Nanyang.

Because all countries that want to covet Nanyang understand that it is not enough to defeat the Zheng family if they want to dominate Nanyang, and they must also pass the Ming court.

Currently, the Beiyang Navy is in charge of 32,000 people, of which 10,000 are new recruits who were recruited three months ago. The only ones who have real combat experience are the ten thousand people who have participated in the attack on Anqing, the old nest of the Zheng family.

This simply posed a problem for Liu Hongjian. You must know that it is not easy for the Beiyang Navy to reach the present. The navy is no better than the army. It requires more training and learning from the acquisition to the participation of the war.

This process is likely to last more than a year, and there are warships. This thing is not only expensive, but also has a long construction cycle.

Even the Dutch Navy, which claimed to be the strongest national strength and the most warships, only twelve main warships during the Taiwan Navy.

But for the Ming Dynasty, it was not that the national strength could not be consumed. The training cycle was too long. Once the Beiyang Navy lost it, it would be difficult to make up for the hole in the Nanyang in a short period of time.

It is not easy for the Ming Dynasty to reach something from nothing.

"Tell me, why did the Zheng family take the risk of the ocean-going Japan? How were they defeated by foreign countries? How many people are there in Sulu's Zheng family navy now?"

Liu Hongjian asked three questions in a row when Jinyiwei, who was standing in a corner of the hall.
Chapter completed!