After the New Year, all the institutions of Daming began to operate, and the first shot of anti-corruption was fired.

More than 20 officials in the southern region were dismissed, more than 30 officials were beheaded and their homes were confiscated, and more than 50 profiteers were confiscated on charges of collusion between officials and businessmen.

These officials were all retained before, and Zhu Youzhen didn't move them at first, but just took the officials of the Beijing Division first, hoping that they could all be reined in.

But they have long been greedy, and they don't pay attention to the laws of the court at all.

Thinking that the emperor is far away, no one will be able to move them, after all, they all have huge interest groups behind them, and they are too widely implicated, and they will cause turmoil after they are defeated.

However, Zhu Youzhen's decision was something they could resist, and under the joint action of the East Factory and the West Factory, they were all corrected in a very short period of time with the momentum of a thunderbolt.

Although some people wanted to resist, they were immediately killed by Cao Zhengchun and Yuhuatian as soon as they began to prepare, and the entire family was uprooted.

Zhu Youzhen's trick is very good, not only defeated many profiteers and corrupt officials, but also made the treasury earn nearly 10 million taels of silver, and at the same time greatly deterred those who wanted to risk their lives.

The crimes of these corrupt officials and profiteers were soon announced to the world by the newly established Daming Daily, and the businessmen and ordinary people who were framed and oppressed by them were all happy.

The grain from the south was also transported to the north by naval warships, which temporarily solved the problem of eating for the people in the north.

From the Yellow Sea to the East China Sea and then to the Bohai Sea, the naval warships transported food all the way, while practicing queues and artillery firing training, neither of which was delayed.

The special combat team of the Dragon Banner Army has also entered the southwest jungle, and they are divided into multiple teams to carry out jungle survival operations.

This will not only temper their will, but also allow them to endure a more difficult combat environment, and will not let their combat effectiveness be affected by the environment in the slightest.

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry also took up rifled guns to practice shooting, and now that the era of cold weapons is about to be eliminated, they must learn to shoot on horseback.

Daming is now strong and strong, the cavalry is almost one person and three horses, Daming is not lacking war horses at all, of course, those excellent war horses are obtained from Mengyuan and Dongqing.

Monan has been fully recovered, but their task is still arduous, there are still alien races to conquer in Mobei, and further north they have to face the impact of Cossack cavalry.

Zhu Youzhen will not give aliens the opportunity to invade the border again, nor will he let the shame of future generations appear, and even the opportunity to sprout will not be left to those aliens with wolf ambitions.

Qianlong's mouth is like a bitter cold place with chicken ribs, and he would rather be idle there forever, Zhu Youzhen will not allow foreign races to set foot in, and he will not be fragrant for future generations to graze and travel?

Vladivostok, Sakhalin, Lake Baikal, Far Eastern Siberia, they have always belonged to our Chinese territory, and not an inch is superfluous.

Macau

At the end of the 15th century, Portugal was the most powerful country in Europe at that time, and its navigation and shipbuilding technology were also the most developed.

As a result, Portugal became the first country in Europe to find new routes to organize colonial aggression.

After a lot of hard work, a new route from Europe to the East was finally found.

The Portuguese fleet first came to the Ming Dynasty and anchored at the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangdong in 1514, when the Ming Dynasty imposed a ban on the sea and refused to enter into a trade with Portugal.

In 1517, another Portuguese fleet came and occupied Tuen Mun Island, an island at the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangzhou.

Tuen Mun Island is the center of the Pearl River estuary, and its geographical location is so important that it is the only way for Guangdong to connect with the South Seas.

The Portuguese built permanent military fortifications on the island, and smuggled and trafficked smuggling, smuggling, robbing caravans, robbing women, and selling slaves along the coast of Guangdong.

They also extorted money from ships entering and leaving the Pearl River estuary.

In 1521, Emperor Zhu Houxuan of the Ming Dynasty issued a decree ordering Wang Hong, the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Sea Road, to completely drive the Portuguese out of the territorial waters of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Portugal was the hegemon of the sea, and the Portuguese artillery had a long range, not only but also very accurate, which was not at all beyond the reach of the Korean artillery.

Each Portuguese soldier was armed with a musket, which had a range of 100 meters and was extremely lethal. The Portuguese ships were made of double planks and were very strong, and each ship was armed with thirty guns.

In the face of the powerful Portuguese naval fleet, Wang Feng invited skilled craftsmen from the people to imitate the Portuguese artillery, and the firepower was very fierce.

But compared to the original goods in Portugal, after all, it is still inferior.

The first naval battle of Tuen Mun Island broke out, and the difference in strength between the two sides was huge, and the Ming Dynasty could not defeat the enemy. The First Battle of Tuen Mun Island ended in the defeat of the Chinese Navy.

In the face of a strong enemy, it was not possible to fight hard, so Wang Feng immediately changed his strategy, tightly sealed the coast and held his position, and waited for the enemy to attack with a static brake.

The Portuguese bullied the Chinese artillery to not have enough range, so they challenged in areas outside the range of the Chinese artillery.

The Chinese defenders held their positions, and Wang Hong ordered them to hold out, and at the same time quietly trained a force that was good at diving.

One day

Two more Portuguese warships came to challenge, and the diving unit attacked and scuttled the two warships, and then all the men and ships survived.

Among the captured Portuguese soldiers, there was a voluntary surrender named Pantin, and Wang Feng modified the Ming artillery according to Pantin's suggestion.

The range and hit rate of the Ming artillery have been greatly improved, and several large-scale attacks launched by the Portuguese have been repelled by the Ming army's coastal defense artillery, and the two sides have entered a stalemate stage.

After some hard thinking and meditation, Wang Hong finally came up with a good idea.

After a month of preparation, on the night of September, taking advantage of the southerly wind, more than 100 small boats carrying fire starters were released to carry out a fire attack and defeat the Portuguese.

The remnants of the three Portuguese ships fled from Chinese waters overnight, and Wang Feng took the opportunity to command the Ming army to recover Tuen Mun Island and destroy the military base built by the Portuguese on the island.

The Portuguese were not reconciled, and in 1553 they made another comeback, and a Portuguese fleet came to the coast of Guangdong.

At that time, the Guangdong government officials had long recognized the true face of the Portuguese and took strict precautions against them.

The reason for agreeing to the landing of the Portuguese in Macao.

First, it was because Wang Bai, the deputy envoy of Guangdong Haidao at that time, was concentrating on encircling and suppressing the Japanese and was unwilling to cause extraneous branches.

The second is the situation that the Ming Dynasty government at that time faced at the same time with Mongolia in the north and the Japanese in the south.

Some ministers suggested that it would be better to open up part of the sea ban in order to divide and disintegrate the Portuguese and at the same time increase fiscal revenue.

The imperial court accepted the minister's suggestion to allow the Portuguese the right to land and reside temporarily in Macau.

After the Portuguese arrived in Macao, they paid commercial taxes and rents to the Ming government to obtain the right to do business in Macao.

(As we all know, they forced the exile regime to cede Macau, and during this period, the Portuguese had a very high status in Macau, and they were completely like their masters, causing strong popular revolt, and repeatedly assassinating the governor of Macau without success.) ）

Seeing the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, they began to eyed Zhuhai again, but before they could do anything, the Ming Dynasty's holy decree came, and the Portuguese were allowed to leave Macao within five days.