Soon after Zhu Cihong summoned Wen An, he received urgent information from the Military Intelligence Department of the Inner Factory.

This information was sent from Shandong, and it belonged to the most urgent category.

Zhu Cihong didn't dare to delay, and immediately set off to see.

The content of the intelligence is about the recent movements of the rebels under Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing. To Zhu Cihong's surprise, the rebels did not continue north, but pounced on Dengzhou.

Dengzhou is located on the Jiaodong Peninsula and has countless good ports.

Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's purpose of killing Dengzhou has been clearly revealed, that is, to escape through the floating sea.

Zhu Cihong immediately ordered someone to transcribe this information in the Tang newspaper of the Ministry of War, sent someone to send it to Shandong urgently, and ordered the Shence army and Huang Degong's army to go to Dengzhou immediately, and be sure to intercept and kill the Erliu rebels before they fled in the sea.

What made Zhu Cihong feel a little relieved was that the report stated that Yuan Weitai, the prefect of Dengzhou, had reacted immediately and organized people to burn down the fishing boats of the Dengzhou generation. Without these fishing boats, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo could only look at the ocean and sigh, waiting to be surrounded by Huang Degong's troops and Shence Army.

It stands to reason that Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's subordinates are all rabble, and their combat effectiveness is very limited. Even if they surrendered to the Manchus, they would not add much to their strength, but Zhu Cihong could not allow Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing to open this bad head.

How is it not a happy thing to be betrayed by a general. However, Seon lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing. The rebellion of Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing gave the Shence Army a chance to fight.

At present, the main force of the Eight Banners of the Shence Army is still a little difficult, but in the battle with Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's subordinates, Zhu Cihong thinks that he will even have a slight upper hand.

What's more, with Huang Degong's troops cooperating with the attack, Zhu Cihong believes that this encirclement and suppression must be foolproof.

However, this incident also reminded Zhu Cihong that he must have a sailor of his own.

Since Zhu Cihong decided to push the front to Shandong instead of retreating to Jianghuai, there is no need to build a Yangtze River Naval Division, but to take a long-term view. Dengzhou has a natural harbor and a water city, and it is very suitable to rebuild the sailor here.

Starting from Dengzhou, the sailors could radiate to a large area of Tianjin and even Liaodong, which was of great significance to the strategic containment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Nowadays, Longjiang Shipyard has gradually entered a better situation, and the shipbuilding speed is getting faster and faster.

Zhu Cihong estimated that if he did his best to build a sea ship, he would be able to make up a sea ship to form a sailor in three months at most.

Of course, the quickest way is to go to Fujian and Guangdong to buy it.

The shipbuilding industry there is very mature, and both Guangzhou and Fu ships can be bought. The only problem is that the price is expensive, and if those profiteers know that it is purchased by the imperial court, they will inevitably be slaughtered.

Besides, buying from elsewhere is not a long-term solution.

Zhu Cihong's soul comes from later generations, and he understands the truth that only by mastering core competitiveness can he survive.

It is extremely sad for a court not to have its own shipbuilding skills.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong decided to build all the sea ships by Longjiang Shipyard, and the big deal was to wait for an extra month or two. He can afford to wait.

During this time, Zhu Cihong was very concerned about the prices in Nanjing, and not long ago, the imperial court punished profiteers and achieved good results in suppressing grain prices. However, food prices have risen again these days, although they are within a reasonable range, they still make Zhu Cihong a little worried.

If the problem in Huguang is not solved, the grain price in Nanzhili will not really come down.

And as long as Zuo Liangyu does not die for a day, Huguang's problem will always hang there......

It's a dead knot.

Sending assassins to assassinate is too risky, and if it doesn't succeed, it will completely force Zuo Liangyu to rebel.

Zhu Cihong has already secretly laid out in Huguang, attracting Jin Shenghuan, Ma Jinzhong and other generals, there is no need to take risks at this juncture.

He only hopes that God will accept Zuo Liangyu earlier, and if you calculate carefully, this guy's yang life is almost over, right?

Zhu Cihong's worries are not only these.

Recently, the king of the Ichiying domain, who had taken refuge in Nanzhili, seemed to have discussed it, and asked to be sent to the domain.

These requests sound reasonable at first glance. After all, the original domains of these feudal kings have been conquered, and now they are considered homeless. According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, an adult vassal king could not stay near Gyeonggi for a long time, and had to go to other places to become a vassal domain.

But the ancestral system is really pitiful sometimes.

Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that his descendants would suffer, so he set a very high price when formulating the treatment enjoyed by the vassal king. Later, Zhu Dijing was difficult to cut the domain, and the military power of the vassal king was greatly reduced, but the financial power was not cut much.

The vassal kings all had farmland, which was tax-free and had enough to produce for the royal government.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the vassal kings could not do business, the actual situation was that the vassal kings found an agent to stand on the platform, relying on the background of the royal palace to make the business bigger, or even monopolized.

In this case, the blood of the domain was basically sucked dry by the feudal king.

What's even more terrifying is that not only the princes and county kings, but also all levels of the clan can receive the New Year.

According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the eldest son of the prince is the son of the prince and the hereditary prince; The rest of the prince's sons were demoted to the rank of county king.

The eldest son of the county king is the hereditary king of the county, and the rest of the sons are demoted to the first rank and the general of the town.

The generals of Zhenguo were each demoted to one rank and were named auxiliary generals.

The auxiliary generals were demoted to one rank and were named the generals of the Fengguo.

The generals of Fengguo were demoted to the first rank of lieutenant of Fengzhenguo.

The lieutenants of Zhenguo were each demoted to one rank and were given the rank of lieutenants of the auxiliary country.

The lieutenants of the auxiliary state were each demoted to the rank of lieutenant of the Fengguo.

Since the lieutenant of Fengguo, he has no longer surrendered, and his children and grandchildren have been lieutenants of Fengguo for generations.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of clans was too large, and the financial burden of the imperial court and local governments increased and they were unable to provide relief to the victims, which was also a reason for the repeated rebellions.

This problem is the most difficult to solve.

Zhu Cihong can't kill all these vassal kings who are raised as pigs, right?

Although he really wanted to......

Therefore, he could only choose to delay, and did not allow the vassal king to become a vassal on the grounds of wartime subordination. The large amount of money saved can be used to build a water division, isn't it worth more than repairing the palace for the vassal king?

Of course, this is only a stopgap measure, and a solution will eventually be found.

Zhu Cihong had a preliminary idea, that is, through overseas expansion, the vassal king would be sealed overseas.

America, Australia, Southeast Asia, anywhere.

As long as they don't suck blood in the Ming Dynasty, it will not burden the finances of the Ming court, nor will they accumulate social contradictions in disguise.

However, the premise of this is that Zhu Cihong has completely recovered China.

At least for now, it will take some time to achieve this.

In feudal society, it is understandable that the royal family enjoys privileges. But the problem is that rights and obligations are equal, and the Ming clan only enjoys power, but does not assume obligations.

What Zhu Cihong wanted to do was to make the power and obligations of the vassal king as equal as possible.

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