The bitter Shi Zhixian ate a quarter of an hour of fresh millet, and was foaming at the mouth.

At this moment, Shi Zhixian can't wait to eat Xiang, not this kind of thing, at least Xiang is still soft, better than this stiff grain......

The onlookers were all shocked, the emperor's punishment was a bit ruthless!

In the end, Zhu Cihong was kind and spared the county, after all, he was a local parent official, and he still had to save some face.

Shi Taigui was immediately grateful to Dade and sang a few words of praise to Zhu Cihong with a solid cultural foundation.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Yamen of Ji County posted a notice overnight, and Shi Zhixian personally wrote a manuscript to apologize to the people of the county.

Of course, this is the last notice he posted for the official, and after he apologized, he packed up and got out, and he was dismissed and never hired.

Since then, the story of "Tianwu feeding food to cure corruption" has been widely spread in Ji County, and it has been talked about by people, and Zhu Cihong's reputation among the people has risen again.

After dealing with this matter, Zhu Cihong ordered the matter to be reported to the palace and notified to the whole country, so as to knock officials in various places.

He once again strictly forbade officials to disturb the people, forbade officials to levy all kinds of taxes without permission, and repeatedly admonished the magistrates: "You can't do anything that burdens the people!" ”

At the same time, Zhu Cihong deeply reflected on the tax policy and thought about how to reform the tax system to avoid the people being exploited.

"Xu Sheng, send someone back to Beijing and let the cabinet and the Ministry of Finance come up with a plan!"

The imperial court is not Zhu Cihong's court alone, this kind of major matter related to the national economy and people's livelihood naturally has to be done by cabinet officials, otherwise what use do you want them to do?

Zhu Cihong also wanted to test the attitude of court officials, whether personal interests are important or the interests of the people are important? In the hearts of these officials, how much weight does the people have?

In mid-March, Zhu Cihong entered the territory of Luoyang Prefecture and inspected the people's livelihood county by county, especially the construction of official roads and schools.

During this period, he met many people carrying grain and rice beans on their backs, and strangely, Zhu Cihong asked his entourage to inquire.

After inquiry, it was learned that the villagers all said that this was to prepare for the arrival of the emperor.

It turned out that after the news of Zhu Cihong's punishment of the magistrate in Jixian County came out, the officials of Luoyang Mansion predicted that the royal driving would pass through Luoyang, so they prepared in advance.

Zhu Cihong was a little unconvinced, worried that the magistrate would take the opportunity to loot the small people, so he sent Jinyi guards to investigate.

Fortunately, the officials of Luoyang Mansion were very honest and did not do such a headless thing, they were worried that the royal driver would not have enough to eat, so they bought some grain beans from the common people, and they did not send them to the common people.

Thirty miles away from Luoyang City, the Luoyang prefect came with a large group of officials to greet him.

Zhu Cihong frowned, and he went out on patrol in his own small clothes, but he didn't expect that the noses of these officials were smarter than dogs, and they actually found them.

Zhu Cihong summoned the prefect and said: "All the royal trips are solved by the inner court, and in the future, the magistrates should not interfere in these matters, let alone let the people prepare anything to do such things that disturb the people!" ”

The prefect of Luoyang was criticized in a cold sweat, nodded again and again, patted his chest and promised that such things would never happen again in the future!

Zhu Cihong set an example, every time he went out on a tour, he tried to avoid disturbing the people, and every time Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River in history, he worked the people and lost money, spent a lot of money, and corruption became commonplace.

When the officials praised the new Tianwu policy, Zhu Cihong said: "I don't have any novel tricks to govern the country, but I put the interests of the country and the people's livelihood first, and really care about the interests of the people. ”

His words aroused the praise of all the officials, and they all expressed their attitudes on the spot that they would abide by the holy will.

Zhu Cihong was speechless, this kind of touted officialdom style is not lacking in any era, and it cannot be eradicated.

But as long as they can do practical things, they can praise it, and the words of the officials are quite good.

......

On April 9, the tenth year of Tianwu, the Daming ocean-going fleet entered the vicinity of the Strait of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean.

On the vast sea, the Ming fleet is like a giant dragon, driving mightily.

Wu Zhong stood on the flagship deck, looking at the huge fleet behind him and the vast sea in front of him, his heart was full of excitement.

After ten months of sailing, the fleet is finally in Europa!

He knew that at this moment, he had created a great journey, which could be compared to the great achievements of the Three Treasure Eunuchs!

Wu Zhong felt and said, "Thank you to Emperor Tianwu for giving our family the opportunity to be famous through the ages!" ”

In the past ten months, Wu Zhong's fleet has followed Zheng He's route and visited the ancient countries that had been reached by the Ming fleet.

It's just that after more than 200 years, things have long been different, and most of the overseas countries that were originally good friends with the Ming Dynasty have become colonies of Europa countries!

The only constant is that there are no fewer pirates at sea along the way.

Most of the pirates still knew it in their hearts, and they saw that the ships of the Ming fleet were strong and sharp, and hundreds of them came with hula, and they saluted and gave way one by one.

No matter how fierce the pirate is, no matter how big the usual business is, in the face of the mighty Ming fleet, he must weigh his own catties.

This principle has long been kept in mind by many shrewd robbers in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

But in this world, there is never a shortage of mentally handicapped and hot-headed people, and with a few broken ships, they think that they have mastered the aircraft carrier formation and can sweep the sea!

When the Ming fleet passed through the Indian Ocean, a group of pirates wanted to attack the fleet without knowing whether they had drunk fake wine or what was going on.

As a result, as soon as they approached the Daming fleet in the dark, they were bombarded into slag by the vigilant fleet, and they didn't even have a chance to float in the sea.

Of course, the Daming fleet didn't please any good, these pirates didn't even have a treasure map or anything, the whole group was poor, no wonder they didn't want to take risks and rob the heavily armed Daming fleet.

Thinking of this, Wu Zhong smiled easily, it's good to have guns and cannons, it's very cool!

Suddenly, a clipper ship came to sail, and the general of the Ming army on it shouted: "Your Excellency, the outpost ship has found a fleet in front of it, and it is attacking us!" ”

Wu Zhong was surprised: "Oh? Fleet? Could it be that there are pirates who don't have long eyes? ”

He didn't dare to be careless, and ordered: "Prepare for battle to meet the enemy!" ”

"Prepare for war!"

In the face of the sudden situation, the fleet's early warning sounded, all kinds of gongs and drums sounded rapidly, more than a dozen escort warships urgently lined up to meet the battle, and several clippers shuttled by virtue of maneuver and speed to report on the enemy's situation.

"Attention! Forward target, battleship! Three! Distance, five miles! ”

"Three more battleships found, five!"

What is certain is that the opposite side is really a real fleet, or a large warship with a large displacement, at least a fourth-class style battleship.