On the first day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting.

The envoys of the four countries, who had arrived from Shanghai, were outside the Fengtian Palace, and His Majesty Dan looked curiously at the surrounding palace complexes.

After nearly two years of repair and whitewashing, the Forbidden City of Nanjing finally glows again with the glory of the past, the whole Forbidden City is full of palaces, the pavilions are forested, the carved beams and paintings are brilliant, the momentum is magnificent.

Even the floor tiles on the ground are rebuilt, and the process of the Forbidden City in Beijing is the same, the floor tiles are fired and transported from the Suzhou Imperial Kiln, which has gone through more than 20 processes, and is made by bonding with tens of thousands of catties of glutinous rice flour and egg white, which can be used for hundreds of years.

In the Forbidden City in later generations, a floor tile with a large sole was worth 500,000 yuan, and driving a car to have fun on it was not only as simple as showing off your wealth, but an offense to cultural nakedness!

Looking at the magnificent Fengtian Hall in front of him, Weddell flashed his gray-blue eyes and exclaimed, "Oh my God, this place is magnificent! ”

The square outside the Fengtian Hall was full of officials from Nanzhili, and when they saw this foreigner shouting, they all glared angrily.

The new Nanjing Honglu Temple Secretary stepped forward quickly and reminded: "Mr. Weddell, please pay attention to the occasion and don't speak!" ”

Honglu Temple is in charge of the court, feast, sacrificial praise of the ceremonial institutions, is the four products of the yamen, the following master of ceremonies to set up and play, the guest of honor to sign the minority and foreign tributary envoys.

Ming Yongle eighteenth year (1420) set the capital of Beijing, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the official subordinates of Honglu Temple to Beijing, the official subordinates of Honglu Temple in Nanjing still exist, add the word "Nanjing", called Nanjing Honglu Temple, and the rank and rank are the same as Beijing Honglu Temple.

Originally, there was nothing to do in Nanjing Honglu Temple for 200 years, and it was a clean yamen that could not be cleaner anymore, but since Zhu Cihong supervised the country in Nanjing, all this kind of idle yamen have been activated, and the officials have basically been replaced by scholars who have passed the examination of the six arts of the gentleman.

Mao Xiang sent an envoy to the Zheng family in Fujian, although he was beaten, but fortunately some of the integrity was not ashamed, he learned a lot of things, and was familiar with the situation of the Taixi countries, Zhu Cihong transferred him from the Ministry of Rites to Nanjing Honglu Temple, and was appointed as the secretary of the Honglu Temple of the Fourth Grade, specifically responsible for diplomatic affairs.

Weddell saw the Han generals wearing gold armor on both sides of the royal road, and saw the angry eyes of the surrounding ministers, he remembered the etiquette explained by the Ming officials at that time, and he knew that he was out of shape, so he didn't dare to make a mistake here, and apologized again and again.

At this time, outside the Fengtian Temple, a high-pitched voice announcing the roll call sounded:

"Announce the presence of Sabignano, the governor of the Spanish Empire in Luzon!"

"The representative of the East India Company of the Kingdom of England is here!"

"Anthony, Governor of the East India Company of the Republic of the United Republic of the United Province of Xuannedland, meet you!"

"Xuan Portugal and Macao Governor Shi Luo Bao Audience!"

Hearing the call, Nanjing Honglu Temple Qing Mao Xiang hurriedly guided the four people into the Fengtian Temple.

In the Fengtian Palace, it looks magnificent under the illumination of the lights, and the vigorous Zhu Cihong is sitting on the upper throne.

Anthony and the others were very surprised, the crown prince in front of him was too young, his face was full of calmness, not at all like what he should have at this age, and he was not even curious about his coquettish hairstyle at all.

Anthony's hair was the flax color of egg yolk, and he had been curled with a hot iron rod, and he felt that his new look was very tasteful, and everyone he had seen it praised him for being handsome, and there was no reason why the ruler of the Ming Dynasty was not curious.

The Dutch people have darker skin, with a little vermilion, and are called Hongyi people by the Ming Dynasty, and they are also called red ghosts in private, but those hard-working Nieland people are pale-skinned, like white radish, but they basically have no chance to meet the official big men of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cihong is really surprised by this, although he has never been to the Netherlands, but he has also seen a lot of Dutchmen in the World Cup, compared to the Dutch in later generations, the tall and rough-looking Anthony made him very disappointed.

Anthony, who blows the wind on the sea all year round, has messy lines on his face, fleshy bumps all over his face, and his cheekbones and gum bones are very protruding, which is stronger than natural comics.

However, the various parts of this kind of cartoon seem to be hastily molded or piled up randomly, bulky and graceless, and do not achieve the elegant and delicate beauty of sculpture.

In one way, it is: ugly!

One of the criteria for selecting officials in the past was to look at the face, and the officials present, all of them had good looks and facial features, and their faces were dignified, far more handsome than Anthony, a narcissistic ugly man.

"Kneel!"

Anthony and the others did not bow three times and bow nine times, but bowed according to the Western one-knee kneeling and kissing hand salute, of course, Zhu Cihong was far away from him, and would not kiss their stinky hands at all.

Through the window of Macao, the Ming Dynasty communicated with the West quite closely, and they knew each other and understood some etiquette, and there was no minister who jumped out and shouted: In the end, it is a barbarian state, and he does not understand the etiquette of China! One vigorously asks people to kneel and worship.

After saluting, Anthony looked at the Ming ministers around him, and suddenly saw an old acquaintance, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh my God, isn't this Mr. Nikolai Yiguan?" ”

He was referring to Zheng Zhilong, who was not far away, and when he was 17 years old, due to the family's difficult livelihood, he and his brother went to Xiangshan Macao (Macau) to follow his uncle Huang Cheng, went to Manila, and learned Lusita and Portuguese.

In his dealings with the Portuguese, he was baptized by Catholicism by foreigners, and was given the Christian name Jasper, another name Nikolai, and foreigners called him Nikolai Yiguan.

Zheng Zhilong became famous in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay in Chongzhen's six-year year, so that all foreign devils in the southeast sea knew him, and his original opponent was Anthony, the governor of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia.

Zheng Zhilong stood in the shift of the fourth rank official like frost hitting an eggplant, but raised his eyelids lightly, and didn't look at him, as if to say that Lao Tzu was in a bad mood.

Barely picked up a life, from the super first-grade Dongfan Uncle was transferred to the fourth-grade official responsible for teaching and educating people, Zheng Zhilong's heart is very different, and he feels more and more helpless about the difficult life, and no one wants to pay attention to it.

Zhu Chenggong, who was standing guard in the Fengtian Hall not far away, blinked, and was in a very good mood.

After being beaten for eating barbecue last time, Zhu Cihong thought about it for a long time, and suddenly showed kindness and pardoned Zhu Chenggong's mother and wife, but Zheng Zhilong's brothers and nephews were killed by nearly half of them, and the other half were sent to Yunnan and Guizhou to engage in construction.

The biggest profit of maritime trade comes from the collection of taxes on import and export trade, and if Zhu Cihong wants to increase the tariff quota, he can only crack down on smuggling syndicates first.

The Zheng family is the leader of the smuggling trade, and in a way, the Zheng group is actually a warlord who monopolizes the maritime economy at sea.

Now that the Zheng family has been cleaned up, in order to prevent changes, Zhu Cihong has to deal with the Zheng family carefully, and at the same time use the Zheng family to crack down on smuggling at sea.

Half of the proceeds from the fines from the seizure of smuggling ships will go to the city shipping department, and half will go to the fleet to build the navy.