"Your Majesty can rest assured, the minister dares to guarantee that the benefits will be more generous than before."

reached a final agreement with Emperor Chongzhen, and Zheng Zhilong's heart was full of joy. Emperor Chongzhen moved south, but left all the important ministers and relatives of the Manchu Dynasty in Jinmen (taking away a few people), so wouldn't they have to let Zheng Zhilong slaughter them?

Look at who dares not to pay the money and keep dragging it in Jinmen without moving?

I'm not afraid that the positions in the Nanming Dynasty will be preempted by others.

Then Jinling itself has a set of administrative teams. There are so many pits for one turnip, and if they are all occupied first, they themselves will be miserable.

Emperor Chongzhen's face was also full of joy! It is a great joy to be able to slaughter the moths of those countries again.

Although this time the two sides are divided into fifty and fifty, and because the dominant power is in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, Emperor Chongzhen has already thought that his actual benefits will be far less than the benefits he deserves, but as long as he can slaughter the noble ministers of the Manchu Dynasty fiercely, there is a hysterical pleasure in his heart.

Wang Chengen, who was standing next to him, lowered his head, and his face was full of complicated expressions.

Long live me, alas, if you had been so shameless, the Ming Dynasty would have stopped there.

In Wang Chengen's eyes, Emperor Chongzhen was hardworking, thrifty, and worried about the country, so naturally there was nothing wrong with it. The ones who are wrong are the ministers at the bottom who just eat and don't do their jobs.

Just like what is written in Guizhuang's "Eternal Sorrow", I hate and hate, hate and hate only these left-class officials, who receive the emperor's favor on weekdays, stained with green hair, black yarn cover head, and gold belt across the waist. Today, one by one, the chief thieves are still carrying a few persuasion tables. There are even those who are called literate literati, and they also draft a few sentences of edicts. Those stupid princes who don't care about things, like sheep and pigs, are mostly bet on Dongcheng Ao. Chasing Jinbao. The delicate and delicate female is addicted to beauty during the day. The handsome gentleman is more involved in making offerings to Longyang. It is even more hateful that the surname of Jiuqu is sad and ownerless, and the three halls and thousands of officials celebrate the early dynasty, and it is difficult to escape the catastrophe.

Therefore, he will not persuade a word, and there is only the same happiness in his heart.

In this way, the matter is settled. The news soon spread that three days later, on an auspicious day, the emperor was about to sail south.

And because of the tension of the ship, the entourage is limited, except for the royal team, the rest is a few cronies and important ministers, if the Ning family is also included in the imperial family.

"So fast? Zheng Zhilong only returned to Jinmen yesterday? Yuan Yuzong exclaimed.

The person opposite him was none other than Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department who was as sick as Wei Zaode, because Li Zicheng felt that there was no need to continue to hide it at this time, so he secretly communicated to both of them, and the two of them understood that they still had their comrades-in-arms in the Ming court.

"Zheng Zhilong arrived at Jinmen at about noon yesterday, first met with Jiang Dejing for a while, and then met the emperor in person, and met again this morning.

Yuan Yuzong couldn't believe it. What a big deal this move to the south is, this is the biggest bargaining capital between Zheng Zhilong and Emperor Chongzhen. It's just a matter of just a few words?

"Could it be that this King of Minhai is really a loyal minister?" Yuan Yuzong's face was full of self-deprecation.

Zhang Jinyan was silent, he was the secretary of the Ministry of War, different from Yuan Yuzong, this time the emperor went south, he must have accompanied him. In this way, when will he be able to return to Beijing openly?

The longer this time drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be to him. After dragging on for a long time, not only his own merits are light, but the position in the court of the capital is also occupied, what can he do?

Zhang Jinyan was full of sorrow at this moment.

However, just when Zhang Jinyan was full of sorrow, the cabinet scholar Wei Zaode's house, the household department scholar and Wenyuan Pavilion scholar, the governor Caoyun, Tuntian, and the military training department Yue Gong's house, the ministry secretary Li Yuzhi's house, the Ministry of Works' secretary Chen Biqian's house, the Chinese military governor's office Zuodu Governor Tian Hongyu's house, the country's abbot Jiading Marquis Zhou Kui's house, Chengguo's Zhu Chunchen's house, Dingguo's Duke Xu Yunzhen's house, etc., in Jinmen City, one by one, in the cramped living room of the emperor's relatives, princes and nobles, ministers of the court, But they were all surprised to find that they had not received the emperor's will to move south with him.

One by one, the noble servants of the high-ranking families rushed out to inquire about the news, and it turned out that Xun Qizhong moved south with the British Duke Zhang Shize, Xinle Hou Liu Wenbing, Gong Yonggu, the Commander of the Horses, and the quasi-emperor Qi Hanlin and Ning Xun. Even the family of Guozhang Zhou Kui stayed in Jinmen. Among the ministers, Jiang Dejing is one, Li Mingrui is one, and there are also Li Banghua, Wang Jiayan, Ni Yuanlu, Fan Jingwen, Shi Bangyao and a few others. The first assistant Zhou Yanru was sick and difficult to get up, and the emperor issued a decree that after he recovered from his illness, the clipper ship would send Jinling immediately.

And if you look closely, you will find that the relatives are all loyal to the emperor, and although the ministers of the court are all the emperor's confidants, or those who strongly recommended the move to the south, they are mostly people from the south of the Yangtze River.

The list selected by Emperor Chongzhen was not set lightly.

The news spread super quickly in Abacus City, after all, did Zheng Zhilong deliberately make people reveal it. That Jiadingbo, Zhou Kui, and Taikangbo, Zhang Guoji, immediately ran to see their daughters.

Shen Tingyang didn't know what kind of reply those two would get, he was now drinking with Zheng Zhilong on the east tower of Abacus City.

There were no outsiders around, and Shen Tingyang spoke very boldly, "Uncle has already offended many people in the capital earlier, and now he is going to come again, won't he be full of enemies in the future?" "And he offended so many dignitaries, Zheng Zhilong still wants to blend in, don't you want to be a ghost?

"I don't go to Jinling, those people hate and hate, what can I do?" Zheng Zhilong's face was light. This is an income in units of 'one million taels', and a sum of money is enough for him to raise an army for a few years.

In the future, even Emperor Chongzhen doesn't want to be a bird, slaughtering these fat sheep, he has no pressure in his heart.

Shen Tingyang's mouth opened wide, just like Jiang Dejing yesterday, he was surprised to hear Zheng Zhilong's straightforward thoughts for the first time.

"But in the future, on top of this court, I will have to rely on Brother Ji Ming (Shen Tingyang) to take care of one or two."

Shen Tingyang shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Although I am quite favored by His Majesty, after all, I am not from a serious background, and I am currently in a lowly position, even if I have no qualifications to stand in the court, there is such a qualification." ”

"Brother Ji Ming said he was laughing, didn't he? This imperial court went south, and the most important thing in the future was the Jianghuai River defense, and it was the time to rely on the sand boat gang. Isn't it easy for your brother to be promoted? Even if there are excuses, isn't it a rescue? ”

This time to send Emperor Chongzhen and others south, although the Zheng family's sailors will divide some of them to accompany them, the main force is the Shen family's sand boat.

Because he was concerned about the safety of the sea, he had to sail as far as possible to the shore, so he could only use the Shen family's flat sand boat, not the Zheng family's sea boat.

"This is the credit of understanding, the emperor just sent you straight to the clouds, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty can't say a word. What's more, the sincerity of leading Jiang Cao is not a stubborn person, compared to these days, the Shen family has already fought with it. When the time comes, won't you be a deputy minister? ”

The two sat on the tower of the city gate for less than an hour, and a large number of dignitaries and dignitaries gathered under the city gate, and in Shen Tingyang's opinion, each of them could not be easily offended.

But Zheng Zhilong didn't care at all.

How could Shen Tingyang not know that Zheng Zhilong came to protect himself by looking for him, "Thank you so much for saving me." Otherwise, I can't afford to offend such a noble person! ”

"Brother Ji Ming is sitting here, watch me send them away!"

Zheng Zhilong heard his entourage say that everything that should have arrived had arrived, and he immediately got up and went to a teahouse under the city tower. I saw the general nobles headed by Chengguo Gong and Dingguo Gong, and many civil and military ministers, but there were no big eunuchs headed by Wang Yongzuo, Cao Huachun, and Wang Zhixin.

At this time, the most anxious should be these big eunuchs. It's just that Cao Huachun and they are very discerning, and they left again as soon as they came, and when they left, they asked someone to tell Zheng Zhilong, saying that they all understood.

Zheng Zhilong wanted to laugh when he heard it.

Cao Huachun drove with Emperor Chongzhen when he left Beijing, and then got on the thief ship and couldn't get down. Helplessly, I can only ask some nephews and relatives in the family to pack up and come to Jinmen to settle down, but it is also a shame that the Cao family itself is in Wuqing County, not far from Jinmen, not to mention, there is still an industry in Jinmen.

Cao Huachun is playing a separate family, he has five siblings, the third brother Huafu, the fourth brother Huaqin died early, Cao Huachun and the eldest brother Cao Huayu, the governor of the military capital of the same dynasty, has the closest relationship. But in June of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Cao Huayu died of illness, and his eldest brother Cao Huachun was also old, Cao Huachun couldn't get off the thief ship this time, so Cao Huachun took some of his children south to Jinling, and Cao Huachun continued to stay in Wuqing.

Emperor Chongzhen went south, and many big eunuchs either went out to supervise the army and surrendered to Li Zicheng, such as Du Zhizhi and Du Xun, or they were left by Emperor Chongzhen to guard the Forbidden City. For example, Wang Dehua.

Therefore, there are many vacant positions around Emperor Chongzhen, and it would be too bad if they were one step late and someone else took away their positions.

The eunuch has no rights, and his fate will only be worse than that of the nobles.

"Uncle, isn't 50,000 taels enough?" A young man beside Cao Huachun shouted in shock.

"Another fifty thousand taels." Cao Huachun's eyelids didn't open.

Zheng Zhilong slaughtered a knife when he was in the capital, will this second knife be lighter than the first knife now? When these many civil and military ministers come to Jinling, who will easily spare him?

As long as Zheng Zhilong is not a fool, he will understand the consequences of doing this. But he couldn't resist the temptation, and when he reached out and took the hot silver, he would just keep doing it and reaching out to get a lot of money.

"The silver is not enough, will Zheng Zhilong be satisfied? Aren't you afraid that you will eat bandao noodles on the way and end up in the belly of a fish? ”

According to Cao Huachun's understanding of Emperor Chongzhen, the interview between Emperor Chongzhen and Zheng Zhilong reached an agreement so easily, which can only be said to be that Emperor Chongzhen won all of Zheng Zhilong's conditions without refuting at all.

The reason must be the same as the fear of eating 'bandao noodles'.

This is also the person who knows the times as a junjie. People have to bow their heads under the eaves. No matter what you promise, and what you promise, it's better to go to a safe place and gain a firm foothold first.

"Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong, it's really the habits of the pirates, the habits of the pirates ......" Zhou Kui returned to his residence, and didn't say a word to his son Zhou Jian, nephews Zhou Ming, Zhou Duo, and Zhou Xuan, who were waiting for his news, and scolded Zheng Zhilong first.

"Still want money?" After Zhou Jian figured out what was going on, he was the first to scream.

The Zhou family's silver will be his, and he has already handed over 200,000 taels before, and now this damn Zheng Zhilong is asking for silver again, which is cutting his heart.

"Dad, you are the current national uncle, and the son is the current national uncle, and the prince's own uncle. Even if he doesn't give a penny, what can his surname Zheng be our Zhou family? "Zhou Jian initiated the temperament.

But Zhou Kui glanced at him coldly, and what echoed in his mind was a sentence that Zheng Zhilong said: "The sea is high and the waves are urgent, and there is no guarantee of sailing." Those who do not follow the rules will have to resign themselves to fate. ”