After Guo Zhengyu's posthumous treatment is determined, it is time to decide the candidate to go to Dongfan to replace Guo Zhiyuan, after Qin Shou died in Dongfan, no one wants to go to Dongfan to be an official again, but this time the situation is different, Guo Zhiyuan wants to leave Dongfan and resign and return to his hometown to guard the system, and it is not so dangerous to go to Dongfan again.

As for whether Guo Zhiyuan will refuse to resign and return to his hometown to guard the system, no one doubts that if he does not abide by filial piety in this era, he will be spurned by all the people, and Guo Zhiyuan will rebel early, why wait until now? Especially this time, Guo Zhiyuan took the New Army to make a detour to North Korea to copy the back road of the Houjin Army, which shows that although Guo Zhiyuan is bold and reckless, he still has a bottom line.

The various factions in the court broke their heads in order to fight for the candidate to replace Guo Zhiyuan in Dongfan, resulting in this candidate not being decided, which gave Guo Zhiyuan more time to maneuver, Guo Zhiyuan has actually been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for Emperor Wanli to have to issue an order to "win love" and let him stay in office!

Xu Xinsu and Li Jin (after the three Sun brothers betrayed and were killed, Guo Zhiyuan handed over the trade routes with the Spaniards to Li Jin, and let Xu Xinsu be in charge of the trade routes with the Dutch and the Portuguese) After learning that Guo Zhiyuan had returned to Dongfan, they hurried back to meet him and reported to him that during the period when he left Dongfan, the Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese were all a little impatient, secretly bypassing their inland maritime trade with the Ming Dynasty, and lowering the price of goods, resulting in a significant reduction in the trade volume of several maritime trade routes in Dongfan in the past few months!

In fact, Westerners have always been very dissatisfied with Guo Zhiyuan's monopoly of the maritime trade business in the entire southern seas, but with the growing strength of the Dongfan Navy, they have no foundation in China's coastal waters, so they can only swallow their anger and watch Guo Zhiyuan take the biggest piece of "cake" away!

This time, in order to copy the back road of the Houjin Army, Guo Zhiyuan took away more than half of the Qianshi-class warships of the Dongfan Navy, and it was more than half a year since he went, and the Westerners naturally began to make small moves. Although Xu Xinsu and Li Jin were in a hurry, Guo Zhiyuan was not there, and they had no confidence to speak, so as soon as they heard that Guo Zhiyuan was back, they hurried to report.

After listening to the reports of the two, Guo Zhiyuan just waved his hand lazily and said: "They like to make small moves, let them do a good job, during this time, our maritime trade business will stop for a while, and I am ready to transfer the Dongfan Navy that went out to carry out escort missions back to rest, you have been running around at sea all these years and have worked hard, just take a break......

Xu Xinsu and Li Jin were stunned when they heard this, they thought that Guo Zhiyuan would definitely be furious when they heard the news, but they didn't expect that Guo Zhiyuan not only did not get angry, but wanted to stop the sea trade business, and also transfer the escorting Dongfan Navy back to rest, so wouldn't it completely cut off the monopoly position that Dongfan had so hard to obtain? Mr. Guo, this is the one you sing? You must know that Dongfan's rapid development depends on monopolizing the maritime trade business, and now the maritime trade business has been stopped, isn't it equivalent to cutting off the financial route?

Xu Xinsu was quite calm, and he was silent thoughtfully, but Li Jin couldn't hold his breath and hurriedly said, "My lord, why is this?" If the sea trade business is stopped, our losses will be great! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan just smiled and said nothing, waved his hand and said: "You just do it according to my arrangement, I have a reason......

Xu Xinsu and Li Jin had to get up to say goodbye, and were just about to turn around and leave, when Guo Zhiyuan stopped them again and said: "By the way, you can help me release a message, just say that I led the Zixin army to Liaodong to fight against Houjin this time, and my vitality was greatly damaged......

Li Jin was stunned when he heard this, he had been running outside with the sea trade fleet, so he didn't know much about Guo Zhiyuan's trip to Liaodong to copy the Houjin Houlu this time, but he did hear that only half of the new army that followed Guo Zhiyuan to Liaodong this time came back, and the warships were also reduced by one-third, is what Guo Zhiyuan said true? But even if it's true, you can't say it outside, if you let those maritime merchants who have a grudge against Guo Zhiyuan know that the vitality of the New Army has been greatly damaged, won't they have crooked thoughts again?

Xu Xinsu was enlightened, hugged his fist to Guo Zhiyuan and said: "My lord, I know what to do, I will release the news as soon as possible, especially to let Westerners know......" After speaking, he pulled Li Jin, who was still confused, and left.

As soon as he went out, Li Jin couldn't help but complain: "Brother Xinsu, why are you pulling me away in such a hurry?" Do you think Lord Guo is too sad and confused because of the death of old Lord Guo? How can the sea trade business be stopped? We have to persuade it! ……”

Xu Xinsu smiled mysteriously and said, "When have you ever seen an adult confused?" As long as we do what the adults tell us to do, you can't guess what the adults think, and it's best not to guess! ......" said and walked away with a smile.

Li Jin scratched his head, still puzzled, but Xu Xinsu was indeed right, since he followed Guo Zhiyuan, he had never seen Guo Zhiyuan make a wrong decision, and he could always create miracles, in short, it was right to follow him, so he simply stopped thinking about it, and hurriedly spread the news according to Guo Zhiyuan's instructions.

Soon the Westerners and those maritime merchants along the coast all knew that Guo Zhiyuan took the Zixin Army to Liaodong to copy the news that the Jin Army's rear road was greatly damaged, and this news was quickly confirmed by the internal line of all parties infiltrating Dongfan, Guo Zhiyuan took 20,000 Zixin Army to Liaodong, but only 10,000 people came back, and there were fewer ships with him, and more importantly, the Dongfan Navy Patrol Fleet, which could often be seen in the coastal waters before, is now not even a shadow, and even the Zixin Army that Guo Zhiyuan was stationed in Penghu Water Village before has also withdrawn!

So everyone felt that the opportunity had come, such a big piece of cake in Haimao, because of Guo Zhiyuan's strong monopoly before, could only be divided under the rules formulated by Guo Zhiyuan, and the largest piece of cake was naturally earned by Guo Zhiyuan, can they not be blushing? Now that Guo Zhiyuan's vitality has been greatly injured, they naturally have to seize the opportunity to grab the "cake"!

Therefore, China's coastal waters suddenly became lively, and the merchant ships came and went all of a sudden, which was unprecedentedly prosperous, and the maritime merchants were spreading the word about who made a trip to the sea trade and how much money they earned, which also attracted more and more people to join the ranks of competing for the "cake"! Even the maritime businessmen who had subscribed to Guo Zhiyuan's shares in East China India Maritime Trade Company were tempted, and they proposed to withdraw their shares one after another, preparing to run their own orders, but Guo Zhiyuan did not keep them and returned all the shares to them.