After Nanjing's supervision, Zhu Cihong has been working hard, basically doing all the major things himself, after explaining the selection criteria for naval soldiers, he began to establish the Ming Royal Naval Academy to train naval officers.

On the second day, Zhu Cihong convened a military meeting and decided that the Military Aircraft Department would recruit the first batch of naval officers of the Royal Naval Academy of Daming from various armies.

According to the will, from August 1, the Royal Naval Academy of Daming will accept the registration of soldiers from various systems of Daming, and then the selection and assessment will be carried out in a unified manner.

Considering that there may still be unused talents among the people, Zhu Cihong added another article that accepts non-governmental candidates, as long as they meet the standards in terms of culture, water experience and physical fitness, they will all be absorbed.

Although the content of the assessment is simple, it is not difficult, and I am afraid that a single culture will be able to brush down many people at that time.

Although the Royal Navy admitted only 500 cadets in the first phase, many of them learned that they would be awarded official posts after graduation, and tens of thousands of people came from all provinces to apply.

The most important thing in Daming is talent, 500 out of tens of thousands of people, it can be said that it is one in a hundred, and those who can stay are naturally the best, and the officers and students with the most potential to train into excellent naval officers.

As for the instructors of the Naval Academy, Zhu Cihong found some generals who were good at naval warfare in the Ming Naval Division, and sent people to spend money from Guangzhou, Macao, and other places to hire some Westerners with rich experience in naval warfare.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty had a common relationship with several sea power countries, Sun Yuanhua hired 27 Portuguese as instructors to train the Ming firearms unit, and Zheng Zhilong also hired some Japanese and Portuguese, and even black guards from Africa.

These foreigners, as long as they give money, they can do anything, kowtow to their father, don't they come to Asia to make money and make gold?

By the way, Zhu Cihong asked people to buy some blueprints of the third and fourth class sail battleships from Daming's good friend, Mr. Weddell, to promote communication.

In order to prevent the foreign devils from preaching and brainwashing the officers and students at the Royal Naval Academy of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong secretly sent some brocade guards to mix in the academy's officers and students, and placed some orphans with good qualifications, these orphans were secretly trained by Wu Zhong, and many of them were already seventeen or eighteen years old.

The development of the navy has been put on the agenda, and Zhu Cihong is most worried about the Zheng family now, thinking about giving them some benefits and letting them give up control of the southeast seas.

In the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, a core court meeting was being held.

Cheng Guoxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation, took an account book in his hand and reported: "At the beginning of this year, as soon as the commercial tax was levied, it can be seen that the people of Jiangnan in my Ming Dynasty are still very rich, although agriculture is the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, but commerce is also irrepressible, on the contrary, it should be vigorously promoted." ”

Zhang Guowei, the head of the household department, nodded again and again in support.

Li Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Education, said: "Cheng Daren's heart is concerned about the imperial court, and he wants to fill the treasury to build the Ming Dynasty, and he admires it in his later years, but the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are peaceful and prosperous, but the war in the north is raging again, and a large number of people in the north cross the river and move to the south of the Yangtze River, and the temperature is decreasing year by year, and the agricultural output is not as good as before, I think the imperial court should still continue to develop agriculture." ”

Since the grain requisition incident, in the past six months, the people in Henan have been boiling with resentment.

Li Zicheng adopted the strategy of "less punishment and killing, relief of the hungry, and winning the hearts of the people" proposed by the strategist Niu Jinxing, walked out of Shangluo Mountain at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan, and let out an angry roar on the land of Henan.

Li Zicheng took advantage of the situation to sweep through western Henan, and captured Lushi, Shaanzhou, Lingbao, Mianchi, Xin'an and other places.

In the past few months, hungry people from near and far have come and gone, and those who respond to it are like flowing water, day and night, calling for millions, and its momentum is unstoppable, and Li Zicheng's army has grown to more than 100,000 people.

Li Zicheng was not satisfied, and under the advice of Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and Gu Junen, he put forward the slogan of "Juntian is exempt from endowment", and ordered people to publicize and sing the folk song of "Welcoming the King, Not Paying Food" everywhere he went, and the whole territory of Henan was in an emergency for a while.

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and enabled Fu Zonglong, who had made great achievements in guarding Sichuan, and crowned Fu Zonglong as the secretary of the military department and supervised Henan.

Henan has been plagued by disasters again and again, and has been looted by the rogues, where is there still food, Fu Zonglong handed over the chapter to ask for military rations, but the military department could not fully supply him, so Fu Zonglong impeached Yang Sichang and Chen Xinjia.

Yang Sichang was furious and also wrote to impeach Fu Zonglong, saying that he wasted the country's financial resources in vain, could not serve the country, and bullied the courtiers.

Chongzhen was immediately annoyed when he saw that the two sides were fighting at this moment, and saw that Fu Zonglong was not effective in suppressing Kou in Henan, so he criticized Fu Zonglong for treating the suppression of Kou as child's play, dismissed him and threw him into prison, appointed Yang Sichang as the supervisor, went to the Central Plains to fight the United Front to suppress Kou, and fought a decisive battle against Li Zicheng.

Zhu Cihong didn't pay any attention to the farce that happened in the north during his southern tour, there were so many ministers in the imperial court, so many armies on the nine sides, and even Li Zicheng, who had just been beaten, couldn't solve it, eating?

Regarding Chongzhen's lack of money and food, Zhu Cihong did not have the idea of sending money and food to the north, even if Emperor Laozi went in his own way, he would not be mixed up like this.

If Chongzhen is reluctant to behead corrupt officials, kill gentry and steal their homes, then he will do it, anyway, he is now engaged in development, and he has no time to pay attention to them.

Zhu Cihong, who was sitting at the top, did not speak, but quietly listened to the discussion of several important ministers below.

He knows very well that Cheng Guoxiang is a native of Huizhou Mansion, faintly representing Huizhou businessmen, Zhang Guowei is a native of Zhejiang, and the two old guys were born in a prosperous place of commerce, and they have been affected by the environment and hope to vigorously develop commerce.

As long as they don't do party fighting and can do something practical for the people, Zhu Cihong lets them quarrel, so it's okay, at least don't worry about vigorously developing business in the future, the two old guys are opposed because of conservatism.

Cheng Guoxiang continued to look at Zhu Cihong and said: "Your Highness, the minister thinks that vigorously developing commerce can not only increase taxes next year, but also absorb more landless people to work, which can be regarded as the method of work for relief proposed by His Highness." ”

Li Yan continued: "The minister thinks that His Royal Highness has developed a port and developed maritime trade, and has focused on the development of commerce in the coastal provinces, and there is no need to let other provinces develop commerce, after all, natural disasters are still there, and the number of victims crossing the river to the south is increasing day by day, and the food demand in the provinces south of the Yangtze River is still very large. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, looked at Cheng Guoxiang, and said: "Although the grain harvest in Jiangnan provinces this year has some achievements, we can't be proud, in the next few years, we still have to focus on agricultural development, and we can't let the people who fled to Jiangnan go hungry and can't live and make trouble." ”

Zhu Cihong continued: "In the name of the Ministry of Households, a notice was issued in various provinces, abolishing the road guidance system, establishing farmers' markets and commercial markets in various urban centers, and successively opening up some industries to allow private operations, such as some mining and some manufacturing industries, and giving certain political preferential treatment to large taxpayers. ”

The road guide is actually the proof of leaving the hometown, and now the Ming Dynasty stipulates that all personnel who are far away from the place of residence are required to be issued by the local yamen to a kind of official document such as a letter of introduction and a pass, which is the road guide, if there is no road guide, it is necessary to punish the crime according to the law.

Zhu Cihong felt that this thing seriously restricted the flow of population and economic development, and with the increasing number of people fleeing from the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River, it would even cause contradictions and turmoil, and it must be abolished.

Cheng Guoxiang said: "Your Royal Highness is worthy of being the dragon among people, and everything you are worried about is shocking to the world, and the ministers admire it!" ”

Zhu Cihong rolled his eyes and said: "You are a university scholar from Jinshi, what kind of broken words do you use, do everything in one place, okay, let's talk about the city and customs tariffs." ”