Longqing had already made up his mind, approved Zhang Fan's excerpt, and allowed the warships to go to sea, mainly to escort the merchant ships returning to the sea.

Since the emperor has spoken, this matter has become more than half, and those imperial historians still want to protest, to the effect that the Ming Dynasty has not sent warships to sea several times since the founding of the country, and this time it is to protect the merchants' ships and the like, but whether it is following Gao Gong, or looking at Zhang Juzheng, the imperial historians found that this time the cabinet was surprisingly united, and no one came out to speak against it, even Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, two obviously wrong people, did not argue anything, and unanimously agreed with Longqing's resolution.

In this way, they won't say more, after all, what kind of ancestral system, it's okay to insist on it, but the most important thing is to follow the emperor, otherwise it will anger Shengyan, lose the black yarn, and everything will be empty.

In any case, this edict was sent smoothly, although it was not an urgent war, and there was no eight-hundred-mile rush printed on it, but the speed was not slow at all, but no matter how fast it was, it still depended on people riding horses to send it in this era.

Zhang Fan waited until the time of the Longqing Holy Decree and it had been several days since he went to the fold, and he did not write about the robbery of the ship's owner in the fold, and he was also worried that the people in the court would speculate wildly, in case the imperial court did something about this matter, alarming the people behind the scenes, things would not be easy to do, in the past few days, there were three more Japanese raids on merchant ships, fortunately, Zhang Fan used a little of his power to order He Kuan to send warships to sea without waiting for the edict, Except for the first time, which was not rescued due to the rush of time, the last two attacks were repelled by the imperial warships, and several of the Japanese ships were blown to pieces by the guns on the ships, and the Japanese on them were also killed in the sea.

He Kuan sent a warship before the arrival of the holy decree, although Zhang Fan told him that if something happened to him, He Kuan was still a little worried, and what he was most afraid of was that Longqing or the imperial court did not agree to do so, and now that the holy decree was in hand, He Kuan was finally relieved.

With the escort of the imperial warships, the situation of the merchant ships suddenly improved a lot, the number of warships in Fujian Province is limited, it is impossible to sail with each team of merchant ships returning to the sea, Zhang Fan also deliberately thought of a way for this, he imitated the rescue methods of later generations, each merchant ship will let them bring some fireworks or something when docking at Jicoo Harbor, once the merchant ship encounters the Japanese at sea and there is no imperial warship nearby, the people on the merchant ship will light fireworks, after the fireworks bloom in the air, they can be seen more than 100 miles away, At that time, the warships patrolling the sea would rush to the rescue.

When Zhang Fan first said this method, everyone else looked at him with an unbelievable eye, as if he had done something shocking, which made Zhang Fan very embarrassed, but after that, everyone was a large list of praises poured out, all of which were placed on Zhang Fan's head, which suddenly made Zhang Fan a little confused, but it was not easy to say that this was his own method of plagiarizing future generations, so the sentence that was originally a praise was particularly harsh in Zhang Fan's ears, but over time, Zhang Fan, who had heard too many of these words, was a little fluttering again, and even almost thought that this was the method he had come up with.

This is just a small episode, but the time from the use of this method, the safety of the merchant ships at sea is greatly increased, from the chicken coop to Quanzhou is not far away, once there is a place that the warship can not take care of, the fireworks on the ship are released, the warship can also rush over immediately, although there are a lot of Japanese robbers here, but most of them are scattered, and when the merchant ships are plundered, there are only a few small boats, often there is an accident in one place, and it is enough for a warship to go to relieve the siege, plus, the Ming monarchs on the warship have been ordered, Let them decide for themselves whether to attack the Japanese invaders, which makes these soldiers who used to just train and fire their cannons all day long on the tone are even more happy, every time they go to rescue the merchant ships, as long as they will not endanger the ships and personnel on their side, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty are full of energy, and they fight hard, that look is more energetic than resisting the Japanese on dry land, and the Japanese seem to be frightened by the ruthlessness of the Ming army, and the Japanese action in this sea area is immediately much smaller, although it still happens from time to time, But it's much better than some time ago.

As for the sailors, they are even more energetic, and now the whereabouts of the Japanese are difficult to understand, they are also in a hurry, they used to be floating on the sea waiting for a signal, but now they are running all over the world to take the initiative to find the traces of the Japanese invaders, which is a bit ridiculous.

The most interesting thing is that those merchants who sailed to sea, they didn't have any good feelings about the imperial court sending warships to escort the ship at first, thinking that this was just a change of way for the yamen to ask them for money, but after this period of looting, coupled with the brave performance of the Ming navy, the merchants suddenly changed their views and began to support them, and even more have reached the point of singing praises and virtues. In the past, those officials who didn't secretly stuff some silver and didn't look at you are now enthusiastic, and they don't take a penny, which makes the businessmen scratch their heads, but they don't think too much, they don't collect money if they don't collect money, and there is nothing to worry about in front of them, besides, if these officials become more intense in the future, the victims are not one or two, what are they afraid of.

It's just that the businessmen also feel that they should find a way to vent the current situation, so the honor is added to the body of the imperial court, what "the Ming Dynasty is immortal", "Your Majesty Shengming is safe and healthy" and other words abound, Fujian Yamen is naturally the most praised, businessmen even spontaneously made Wanmin umbrellas and other things to send to the Yamen, and also raised a large amount of silver to donate to the Yamen, for the people's donation of silver, the court did not explicitly stipulate that it was not allowed to receive, And many officials still see it as an honor.

He Kuan, as the governor of a province, is closely related to the exclusion of warships for this matter, the merchants naturally donated the money to him, He Kuan said at the beginning that he was not willing to accept anything, and the merchants saw that he did not accept it, so they changed their words, saying that the money was for those soldiers who worked tirelessly to escort their safe return, so He Kuan had no choice but to accept it, but he was afraid that the money would cause something to happen to him, and He Kuan had no way to deal with the money, but Zhang Fan gave him an idea, He asked people to paste a large set of red paper at the entrance of the yamen, which clearly indicated that the money donated by those people, how much it was, and if there was any use in the future, it would be written clearly, and in order to avoid the shame of some businessmen who donated less, only the names were marked on it, but the number of personal donations was not written, this move made the people of Fujian Province applaud, and those who were about to see He Kuan's jokes, and even other officials who planned to participate in He Kuan's book in secret had to stare dryly.

This series of things spread to the capital, Longqing listened to it was really Longyan Dayue, thinking that he really did nothing wrong in this matter, even when he was in the last dynasty, Longqing was beautiful, he wanted to be a Mingjun, and now there is finally something that can be done, of course, he wants to brag about it, but it is inconvenient to sing praises to himself in front of the ministers, so he put all these honors under Zhang Fan's name, of course, he did not forget to let others know that Zhang Fan, a good seedling, was discovered by himself, so, Another large number of rewards entered Zhang's mansion.

Despite this, this situation finally made those officials who still disagreed with Longqing's previous decision, especially those who like to find fault, shut their mouths, but they don't know whether they are envious or jealous of Zhang Fan's thoughts, anyway, it's not a good thing, Gao Gong is too, now that things are developing in a good direction, it is impossible for him to say anything disappointing in front of Long Qing, but the hatred of Zhang Fan in his heart is a little more, and Gao Gong is also thinking about that matter, it seems that he will be in trouble as soon as possible.

On weekdays, Zhang Fan secretly ordered his subordinates to step up the investigation and punishment of corruption, on the surface, Zhang Fan is still a performance of idleness, because the weather is too hot, he is not willing to go out, he is idle at home all day, occasionally chatting with Richard and Joanna or something, but Zhang Fan's occasional remarks will always surprise the two, many seemingly ordinary vernacular seems to hide many philosophies, which makes the two of them look up to Zhang Fan at the same time, but also have a more "profound" understanding of the Ming Dynasty, The two of them felt more and more that although this huge empire has changed hands several times, it is not accidental that the bloodline can be passed down to this day.

And Joanna's good impression of Zhang Fan is also getting deeper and deeper, although Zhang Fan, the Eastern nobleman in her eyes, is similar to those nobles in the West, has a successful career, and has a lot of lovers, but Joanna doesn't hate it, especially when she knows that Zhang Fan's women live under the same roof, she also feels more and more that Zhang Fan is a man who can be entrusted for life, but she can't confess to him, after all, this is not her motherland, and there is only one heir left in her own family over there. She can't let her family cut off the incense where her ancestors paid so much, and she doesn't want to be separated from her children in the future, so Joanna only treats this as a feeling, just like the heroine of those, always surrounded by the sadness of not being able to protect her loved ones for life.

Zhu Yijun is left, during this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can be regarded as the happiest, perhaps because he finally got used to the hot weather here during this time, after all, it is hot here, but it is not as dry and hot as the capital, the air is very humid, Zhu Yijun, who is used to this kind of weather, gradually began to release his depression that had been aggrieved for ten years, and went out at dawn every day, and would never come back until dinner.

The last thing was brought up by Yingyue, and it was also what Zhang Fan cared about, that is, about Yangzhou Mansion, or about Luo Ling'er,