The situation in Fujian surprised many people, and the Zheng family, who originally thought it would be a thorn, was extremely honest, so honest that Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised.

Zheng Zhilong, who was just 20 years old this year, did not hesitate or be dissatisfied at all, and handed over the Zheng family's base on the coast of Fujian to the imperial court.

In the past, Fujian's implementation of the new salt law is a foregone conclusion.

The rest of the coastal areas, the heroes, salt merchants, and officials, even if they were reluctant, had to obey the new salt law and watch the imperial court snatch such a piece of fat from their mouths.

From February to April of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, after nearly two months of turmoil, Zhu Youxiao finally stumbled and took the first step to rectify the salt industry.

After recovering all the salt farms in the country, the next thing the Salt Inspection Division had to do was to check the number of acres of salt fields and how much salt had been stored over the years.

For Zhu Youxiao, there is also an unexpected joy this time, that is, the income from the raids in various places.

The local tyrants, as well as the shocking collusion between officials and businessmen in the Denglai area of Shandong, were basically bulldozed in one fell swoop this time, and Zhu Youxiao's pockets bulged again.

Surely the silver will be used on the edge of the sword.

Checking the number of acres of salt fields in the country and the salt goods accumulated over the years is a big job, and it will take at least a month to complete, and Zhu Youxiao has nothing to rush.

At present, there is another thing in Shandong, that is, Wang Weijian was implicated in the Denglai Salt Act.

Wang Weijian is a pivotal role in both the Shilin and the current imperial court, and at first Tang Wanfeng pulled him into the water to take the opportunity to protect himself.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the face of this feudal official at all, and directly sent troops to suppress the local civil unrest, and directly copied the Tang family when he got the evidence.

At this moment, Wang Weijian was in an extremely embarrassing situation.

On the one hand, he said that he received the paintings of the Tang family.

On the other hand, the failure to report and turn a blind eye to this matter is also largely due to the fact that his meeting with Tang Wanfeng caused local officials to misunderstand.

The new salt law is currently focused on implementation, and the turmoil of arresting people in Dongchang has become smaller and smaller, presumably Wei Zhongxian also saw that the salt law was implemented smoothly and did not want to cause trouble again.

But for Wang Weijian, this is always like a sharp sword hanging over his head, and he may fall suddenly at any time.

Li Yangzheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was born with his Donglin colleagues, and he had the best opportunity to say a word for him in the court.

But Li Yangzheng's attitude towards this matter was very vague, he closed the door first, but he did not refuse directly, and then suddenly changed his attitude at the court meeting the next day, proposing to kill the nine clans of Haoqiang involved.

Li Yangzheng's attitude towards the officials involved in the new salt law was suddenly so tough, which made Wang Weijian even more uneasy.

It must be something that happened in Beijing that made Li Yangzheng seem to be a different person.

Everyone knows that once Wang Weijian's matter is handled, a large number of people will definitely be implicated.

Although the implementation of the new salt law is a big rumor, it is limited to Denglai Qingsanfu, and there is basically no chaos in Fujian.

The realm of the six provinces in Shandong is not a small place, and they are all old fritters who have been local officials for many years.

Zhu Youxiao knew in his heart that if he really wanted to clean it up, he had to figure it out slowly, these local officials had always been in the same spirit, and it might be even more difficult than the last imperial examination case.

This kind of thing can't just rely on Wei Zhongxian, but also needs to have its own spokesperson to do it, so Zhu Youxiao called the current cabinet chief assistant - Wei Guangwei.

Wei Guangwei performed very well in the last temptation, and his attitude towards Liao affairs was much clearer than that of his predecessor Han Yi.

This time he was called, Zhu Youxiao mainly for one thing.

Since the first year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao has been secretly cultivating a force that can replace Donglin, and now that Donglin is in decline, this force should raise its head and replace the Donglin Party to compete with the Wei Party.

The cabinet signing room is also in the Forbidden City, very close to the Xinuan Pavilion where Zhu Youxiao often stays, and it will be there in less than a stick of incense.

"Minister Wei Guangwei, I have seen Your Majesty."

Zhu Youxiao was reading a note sent by Fu Yuwei's Zai Sai, and after hearing this, he only nodded slightly, and motioned to the little eunuch on the side to bring a chair.

After Wei Guangwei sat down, he said slowly:

"This morning, there was news from outside the Saiwai, Taining, Duoyan, and Fuyu Sanwei that the men and horses of the three guards fought successively, and the Dulong monks couldn't resist it, so they led the Tumut tribe to move north."

"The hundreds of miles of land in Guihua City and Chi'er Mountain now belong to the Ming Dynasty, and now what they want to ask is whether the previous promise of the imperial court has been counted."

"What about the elder pavilion?"

When Wei Guangwei heard this, he pondered in his heart.

Dulong Seng Ge led the territory of the Murt Department to enter Kou Datong with Lin Dan Khan, and was defeated by Zhang Wanbang in the area of Zhencheng, with heavy losses, and now it is natural that he can't resist the surprise attack of Sanwei.

Two months ago, Zhu Youxiao issued an edict to call Sanwei to attack Tumut, and sent troops last month, and the news of victory came back in the middle of this month.

This also shows that although the three guards are subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, they have their own thoughts.

Among them, Zaisai and Houjin and Chahar are all mortal enemies, and they are the most loyal to Daming, because he has no second way to go.

Yong Xie Bu of Duoyan, I heard that he was a big boss, and it was because he coveted the large amount of silver given by Zhu Xieyuan that he decided to get on this thief ship.

didn't think about it, getting on the boat was equivalent to breaking with Houjin, Duoyan was sandwiched between Chahar and Houjin, and the north was still Daming's extremely loyal dog-legged Zaisai.

In addition to continuing to follow Da Ming, Yong Xie Bu had no other choice.

As for Taining's Erdeng, he is actually the most treacherous one.

This product not only coveted the large bounty given by Zhu Xieyuan at that time to stabilize the three guards in Saibei, but also did not want to completely break with Jianzhou.

It even said that Zhu Youxiao's capital prison office had already found some rumors.

Now that the old slave outside the Guanwai is seriously ill, Huang Taiji almost defeated Amin and Daishan in the open and secret struggle for the Khan throne, and Yi'er Deng seems to be secretly in contact with Huang Taiji.

Of course, this is just rumors, whether it has been done or not, or whether it is someone else's provocation, these have not yet been confirmed.

But even so, it is enough to make Zhu Youxiao wary of this Yier Deng, if Yier Deng really plans to take refuge in Houjin, whether he has a truth or not, he will kill him first.

Zhu Youxiao was still thinking about the next step outside the customs and in China, but he heard Wei Guangwei say:

"Back to Your Majesty, if the Ming Dynasty wants to recover the Mongolian tribes, it can't just rely on killing, it should focus on appeasement, supplemented by conquest."

Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up and motioned for him to continue.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court can send a message to the Mongolian tribes to invite the religious lords of the Yellow Sect to the Naturalization City, and make the Naturalization City the center of the Yellow Sect's mission."

"The three guards of Fuyu, Taining, and Duoyan, who have contributed the most this time, can be stationed in the city first, and the rest of the departments that return to the imperial court can send special personnel to serve as missionary ministers and settle in the naturalization city."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said with a smile:

"Restrain the ministries with the law of religion and make them for my use, and when I arrive in the Naturalization City, I am the missionary minister of the Ming Dynasty, and I am no longer just the lord of the ministries, and this suggestion is good."

"Who is the religious lord of the Yellow Sect now, and where can I get it?"