Guo Zhiyuan is naturally happy to make a fortune in a muffled voice, and he has been very low-key over the years, and every year he should pay a lot of taxes and silver to the imperial court on time, and he will let the intelligence station set up in the capital give rich gifts to the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee in the capital during the New Year's holidays.

Of course, there are still a lot of twists and turns to impeach Guo Zhiyuan for plotting against him, but the Wanli Emperor, who has reached the terminal stage of lazy cancer, has been a little numb, Guo Zhiyuan has been very honest all these years, and dedicates hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the tight treasury every year, as long as Guo Zhiyuan rebels unknowingly, even if the desert island of Dongfan is given to Guo Zhiyuan, it seems that it is nothing, so the Wanli Emperor also turned a blind eye and left all the twists and turns of impeaching Guo Zhiyuan for plotting misdeeds, and he didn't even bother to look at it.

In addition to the triennial township examination and the meeting examination, Dongfan Academy once again shocked the whole country, once again dominated the list, more than 50 Dongfan scholars entered the palace test, this time the cabinet bosses who presided over the palace test were too lazy to alarm the Wanli Emperor, and directly sent these Dongfan scholars to remote provinces to be officials, in their opinion, Dongfan Academy is also free to send talents to the imperial court, leaving Dongfan, Guo Zhiyuan's influence on these Dongfan scholars is weak.

The only thing that doesn't seem to change is Guo Zhiyuan's official position, even Hong Chengchou has become the prefect, Guo Zhiyuan is still standing still on the official hat of the prefect of Dongfan, this is also the only way for Emperor Wanli to suppress Guo Zhiyuan, as long as Guo Zhiyuan is not promoted, let Guo Zhiyuan guard the one acre and three points of land in Dongfan, no matter how much development is limited, it will not pose a threat to the imperial court.

He didn't know that Guo Zhiyuan wanted to be like this, even if the court wanted to promote Guo Zhiyuan, Guo Zhiyuan would find an excuse to refuse, how could the peaches he had grown so hard be picked by others, he didn't want to tear his face with the court, but he would never let others get involved in Dongfan, if the court wanted to come hard, he was not afraid!

Guo Zhiyuan does have such confidence now, now the military strength of Dongfan is not what it used to be, since the new army has expanded to 50,000 people, the Dongfan Navy has also been basically formed, the thousand stone class giant ships have reached 20, plus the rest of the new warships, the Dongfan Navy already has 100 warships, Guo Zhiyuan is confident that even if the Spaniards send a fleet to the door again to threaten, the Dongfan Navy will dare to fight a tough battle with it at sea, not to mention the increasingly corrupt imperial court sailors!

Now Dongfan is full of talents, under the influence of Guo Zhiyuan's new thoughts, most of these people have no concept of loyalty to the monarch, and even radicals instigate Guo Zhiyuan to simply establish himself as the king, there is no need to pay tribute to the court every year, but Guo Zhiyuan of course will not be so short-sighted, he will not tear his face with the court until he is forced to do so, his original intention is not to be the emperor, but to change the fate of the nation, not to let the nation be humiliated by foreign enemies, as the so-called prosperity of the people, the death of the people, war is always a double-edged sword, only the common people will suffer, Even a war that claims to be righteous will also cause the lives of the people to be miserable, and the corpses and bones are everywhere, so he will never start a war lightly to break through the bottom line of the imperial court!

At this stage, Guo Zhiyuan will only take the development of Dongfan's own strength as the goal, which is why he chose Dongfan as his base, Dongfan is located overseas, in addition to the demand for mineral resources in the inland, basically can be self-sufficient, so that the friction between Dongfan and the imperial court can be minimized, try not to stimulate the imperial court, and let the situation evolve into a war against each other!

Therefore, when Guo Zhiyuan communicated with the backbone of his team, he has been instilling in them the development concept of "building high walls, accumulating grain, building more ships, and slowly becoming kings", and formulated a development plan for Dongfan.

Like Xu Guangqi, the backbone who is deeply influenced by traditional Confucianism, although they are familiar with Guo Zhiyuan's side, and the concept of loyalty to the monarch has been much weaker, they still don't want Guo Zhiyuan and the court to tear their faces, and they naturally support Guo Zhiyuan's policy of "building high walls, accumulating grain, building more ships, and slowing down the king", which also makes Guo Zhiyuan's development policy resolutely implemented!

Under such a development policy, the tentacles of Dongfan on the sea are also extending farther and farther, not only in the southeast coast, but also in the entire southern sea area of the pirate forces have been basically swept away by the Dongfan Navy, and the Dongfan Navy will also regularly send fleets to patrol the ocean, on the one hand, it can play a role in training troops, enhance the combat strength of the newly formed Dongfan Navy, and on the other hand, it can also protect inland merchant ships from pirate robbery, so as to establish the prestige of the Dongfan Navy in the coastal field!

Now Dongfan can be said to be a well-deserved maritime hegemon, not to mention those remnants of the pirate forces at sea to see the warships of the Dongfan Navy from afar and flee, even the Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese and other armed groups of Western maritime powers are also deeply afraid of the powerful strength of the Dongfan Navy, and several times almost broke out military conflicts. However, because Guo Zhiyuan has monopolized the maritime trade business in the southern seas, those inland maritime merchants only look forward to Guo Zhiyuan's ship, if there is a war with the Dongfan Navy, Guo Zhiyuan will definitely cut off their trade contacts, so that they have some taboos, plus they are not united with each other, worried that a war with the Dongfan Navy will benefit other Western maritime powers, so in the end they did not really fight!

The only thing that worries the backbone of Guo Zhiyuan's team is that Guo Zhiyuan and Chu Wan'er have been married for many years, but they have never given birth to an heir.

Chu Wan'er and Guo Zhiyuan are also very troubled by this, people in this era still attach great importance to the concept of heirs, especially Chu Wan'er, who often complains to herself, hating her belly for not being angry, and not being able to pass on Guo Zhiyuan's ancestry. As a modern person, Guo Zhiyuan is more open-minded and knows that Chu Wan'er can't be blamed for this, but in addition to comforting Chu Wan'er, he inevitably muttered a little in his heart, should it be because he is wearing. Yue, in order to eliminate the bug of his own time and space, God has deprived himself of his fertility!

On this day, Guo Zhiyuan was trying to end his official duties earlier and go back to accompany Chu Wan'er, he didn't want Chu Wan'er to worry about the problem of the heir, so he naturally had to speed up the frequency of "creating people", otherwise the problem of the heir would not be solved, and there would be problems within Dongfan, at this time, Zhang Cheng suddenly hurriedly walked in, and reported with a complicated expression: "My lord, there is a secret report from Fuzhou, something is wrong!" ……”