Daming, Nanjing.

This Tianzi residence on the bank of the Yangtze River is full of joy. Since the accession to the throne of the wise and martial Emperor Hongxing, the bad luck of the Ming Dynasty seems to have come to an end.

From the accession of Emperor Hongxing in January to the present, for most of the year, the Ming Dynasty has been full of happy events!

First of all, of course, the wind and rain are smooth, and the Quartet is safe. At least on the territory of the eight provinces directly under the imperial court, Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian, no major disasters have been reported in the past six months. Seeing that the autumn harvest is imminent, it seems that there will be a long-lost harvest year.

And in the past half a year, there has not been much chaos on the territory of the eight southeastern provinces - of course there are small chaos, there are at least 100 million people on the territory of the eight provinces, most of them are still poor, at least half of the people are often hungry, and many of them die of cold and starvation (the food supply in the southeast is generally not abundant, but it can barely cope, and it cannot be distributed fairly, so there are many people who are hungry and cold), how can there be no small chaos?

Small-scale civil uprisings can be said to occur every month, especially after Zhu Cihong issued an edict to abolish slavery, slave rebellions in various places were extremely frequent.

What the? It's all abolished, why do you have to change?

In fact, the slave rebellions that frequently occurred in the southeast this year were not for freedom, but for food!

For example, the group of slaves in Zheng Zhilong's family will not make trouble - they all eat fragrant, drink spicy, and have money to take, so they are a ghost? Even if Zhu Cihong issued an edict to abolish slavery, his family's slaves are still the same, what should they do.

However, due to various reasons, many scholars in the southeast have fallen into the middle of the road, lost their privileges and industries, and also affected the slaves, and some of the broken scholars still want to scrape oil and water from the slaves, which makes the conflict intensify.

And Zhu Cihong simply issued an edict to abolish slavery because of the frequent slave changes in various places. As a result, the division of property between the slave and the master's family (slavery does not mean no property) and the question of the source of livelihood of the slave after he was freed led to more radical changes......

However, these slave mutinies were not a problem at all for Emperor Hongxing, who had a strong ability to suppress them, and they basically swirled up and disappeared, and they couldn't become any climate, but they arrested a lot of mutinants, threw them to Zheng Zhilong, and sent them to develop Taiwan.

The second happy news is that good news came from Yunnan and Guangxi provinces - with the efforts of Daniel Zhang and Qiu Lei, Sha Dingzhou's little strength could not help beating at all, and he soon abandoned Kunming and ran back to Mengzi. Although the chaos in Yunnan is not over (perhaps it is even more chaotic), the palace of the king of Yunnan (Zhu Cizhao was renamed the king of Yunnan after entering Kunming) and the yamen of the governor of Yunnan have taken root. In the future, Yunnan will be the palace, the public mansion, the governor's yamen and a bunch of toast tossed together.

On the Guangxi side, Jin Shenghuan led his troops to settle in strongly - Jin Shenghuan worshiped the general soldiers of Guangxi, and was not the vassal lord of Guangxi. However, Zhu Cihong authorized him to work with the Guangxi Governor Yamen to rectify Guangxi's guards and tusi, and also allowed Jin Shenghuan to occupy Guangxi's official fields as military fields for maintaining the expenses of the headquarters.

The reason why he was allowed to do this in Guangxi was, of course, to reorganize Guangxi's military strength so as to deter Annan...... Otherwise, with the current military strength of Guangxi, not to mention Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan, even Lord Mo, who retreated to Gaoping to survive, would not be able to clean it up!

Now Zheng Sen is preparing for a trip to Annam, Champong, and Shui Chenla. Of course, the Zheng family will send warships to go with him, but they can't expect a few warships to scare people.

The third happy event is that Emperor Hongxing added another princess...... It's all a girl! But it doesn't matter, Emperor Hongxing is still young, and he has a chance to have a son!

And the fourth happy event is that the "old girl" Princess Kunxing married Zheng Jiangong, the uncle of Xiamen - Xiamen Island belongs to Quanzhou Mansion, after Zhu Cihong gave Zheng Jiangong a marriage, Zheng Zhilong took out Xiamen Island and asked Zhu Cihong to divide it to his second son Zheng Jiangong.

Of course, Zhu Cihong readily agreed, but he would not let Zheng Ergongzi return to Xiamen to farm...... Because the navy in the center of the Ming Dynasty is to be built by him!

"Meritorious...... You are now a concubine, and according to the rules of this dynasty, a concubine cannot be too far away from Beijing, so you should not go back to Fujian. ”

In the Xuanhu Palace, today is the Emperor Chongzhen who came forward to give a banquet and invited the two couples Zheng Jiangong and Princess Kunxing to dinner. Emperor Hongxing also came to eat eggs together...... Xuanhu Gong's boiled eggs are delicious, they are all "golden eggs", they are white and tender when they are peeled, and they are not poisoned at a glance.

While eating eggs, Zhu Cihong was talking to Zheng Jiangong, who had turned a lot whiter.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at his son-in-law and was also happy, this is a good son-in-law! As soon as it was shot, it was 300,000 taels of silver bills from the Maritime Bank...... It seems that Zheng Zhilong is very good at teaching his son, much better than Wu Xiang's bad old man!

Listening to Zhu Cihong's words, Chongzhen interjected with a smile: "Don't go back to Fujian, just stay in Nanjing for a long time!" ”

"Father," Zhu Cihong smiled, "I can't live in Nanjing for a long time, because my sons have important responsibilities entrusted to Master Ma." ”

"Heavy duty? How much does it weigh? Chongzhen asked.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "Father, didn't you just say it last time?" Erchen wanted the horse to preside over the Shanghai Sailor School...... Now that the hall of the Sailor School has been built, the master can go and take office. ”

Zheng Jiangong's cheeks turned red again, he lowered his head, and said in an inaudible voice: "Minister, the minister is shallow in learning, and he doesn't know anything about naval warfare, so he can't be the director of the Sailor Academy." ”

In fact, Zheng Jiangong is not completely ignorant, he is a half-ass, he understands a little, but he is not proficient (Japan is locked in the country, and he can't go to sea). But this half-hanger, Zhu Cihong's core group can be regarded as a "genius", and no one else is even half-hanging!

Emperor Hongxing's Beifu group is a feudal samurai group, and the core is a group of armed landlords, who will understand navigation and naval warfare?

Even Zheng Sen doesn't understand it...... Zhu Cihong originally thought he was very powerful, but after a period of contact, he found out that he was basically a scholar!

After Zheng Zhilong brought him back from Japan, he was cultivated as a Confucian student. In contrast, Nanazaemon Tagawa, who remained in Japan, was trained as a maritime merchant and samurai, although he did not go to sea much. However, I still have a very good understanding of Chinese and Western ship types and boat performance.

In addition, Zheng Jiangong must know who knows how to do it...... This is important!

It's not like just looking for a yellow hairer who is a naval talent these days, if the person in charge of running the navy is a mallet, then the tuition fee will be over.

And Emperor Zhu can't pack this matter to the Portuguese, the Portuguese will also kill people.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said to Zheng Jiangong: "Donkey, the Water Master Academy is now a blank piece of paper, and there is no one else except you...... I only believe in you, let it go! ”

In fact, Zhu Cihong is not available to anyone else! And he also knew that Zheng Jiangong was more serious and responsible, and he would not be greedy for those three melons and two dates. The red envelope he presented to Emperor Chongzhen today has 300,000 taels of silver tickets inside! That's how much the Naval Academy will cost for a few years...... He wants to be greedy for these little money, and he really wants to lose his father's face.

However, Zheng Jiangong didn't know what Emperor Zhu thought, he thought that Zhu Cihong trusted him so much!

Zheng Jiangong was moved in his heart! He can be regarded as having met the master, and he is the earl of Feng (100,000 stones in Xiamen), and he is married to a sister (he is considered a public), and he is so trusting!

Thinking of this, he hurriedly got up and walked to Zhu Cihong's side, bowed his head and bowed: "Your Majesty's kindness is unforgettable, the minister is unforgettable, he should be loyal for seven lives, and he will repay him for his death!" ”

Zhu Cihong got up with a smile, helped Zheng Jiangong up with his own hands, and just wanted to say a few words of encouragement, Huang Xiaobao, the master of ceremonies, trotted in all the way from outside, and then picked up his feet, leaned into Zhu Cihong's ear, and whispered: "Emperor, Zhu Weishuai of Jinyi Wei asked to see him, saying that he had a great happy event to report...... It has something to do with Wu Sangui! ”

Something to do with Wu Sangui? Zhu Cihong's face suddenly showed an expression of surprise - good news one after another! It's good that the Lord is in the court!