There are still many people in the court who don't understand the decision to let go of Hong Chengchou and Lu Guo, especially the group of officials who took refuge in Nan Mingguo, they are simply aiding the Huaxia Army to let go of these remnants, and for a while, the ministers of the court and the central government disturbed one after another, and made their voices heard in their own ways, and even Zhou Congee hesitated for a long time.

But this kind of voice disappeared after the Ministry of Supervision intervened in the investigation, and the new Shangshu Du Ge of the Ministry of Supervision, yes, Du Ge, this guy who served as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Supervision and the waiter of the Ministry of Supervision, returned to the court after ending the aid to Li Dingguo's ministry, but there was no place for him to do it, although many positions were part-time, but they did a better job than him.

When Zhang Liang was still outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he could only temporarily replace the work of Shangshu of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the name of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but he had nothing to do, every day he was still the same as the person sitting in the office, holding a cup of tea, walking around, very leisurely, until one day Zhu Yujian saw him like that, he was very annoyed, and felt that he didn't do anything, so he went to Zhou Congee to sue him, Zhou Congee immediately called him and asked a deputy prime minister to sue him, even if Zhou Congee had to do something, so he was fined for half a year. He was sent to the punishment camp as the deputy director, and ran around the mines, rivers, and road construction sites every day for a year, until Zhu Yujian retired because of age and health, and he returned to the court.

After coming back, he was still placed in the Ministry of Supervision as a waiter, who was equivalent to a deputy minister and did some clerical work, but this was still very difficult for him, because the secretary of the Ministry of Supervision was Chen Hanhui, the old revolutionary, and he was an anti-Qing righteous man from 1644, the leader of the righteous army, and he was serious and responsible for the work, and after retirement, he was called back to the court and served as the secretary of the Ministry of Supervision. didn't target him much, let him be so idle, until Chen Hanhui died, he was taken to the position of Minister of Supervision by You Hai**.

When he became the Minister of Supervision, he couldn't be idle, so he was very busy, because of his relationship with Zhu Yujian, he was also not very friendly to those Nanming officials, and many corrupt Nanming officials were found out by him and thrown directly into prison, so this time when everyone was agitating about this matter, he took down several people by thunderous means, and Nanming officials shut up.

On the one hand, it also shows that in this regard, Zhang Qiang's inclusion of officials from the Southern Ming Kingdom in the court of the Huaxia Kingdom was a mistake, and it was obviously a group of people who knew about fighting all day long.

However, Zhang Qiang did not have a seizure after hearing the report of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but laughed it off.

What he cares about is leaving the window of Lu State, what benefits Huaxia Kingdom can get.

Although the process was difficult and difficult, the Kangxi Emperor who had been in charge of the government still forgave Hong Chengchou's betrayal, and also recognized Hong Chengchou's Lu State, and also signed an armistice agreement with Hong Chengchou, and let Hong Chengchou recognize that he was a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and paid tribute and money to the Qing Dynasty.

But because in fact, there were still Han officials in the court, the Qing Dynasty was deeply influenced by Confucianism, and Hong Chengchou used to be a Han minister, so he only gave some symbolically, but only one million Chinese yuan, which was not a big deal for the Lu State, which had already tasted the trade ships that had sailed with the Taixi people for several months, and obtained a lot of taxes by trading with the Huaxia army.

After that, Lu fought a naval battle with the Japanese daimyo again, and annihilated the Japanese fleet in the naval battle, so that the Japanese daimyo and Kagoshima daimyo shogun turned to contact and curry favor with Lu, thus opening up the Japanese market, and the Japanese trading fleet also came to Lu to trade.

In the next few months, the Huaxia army obtained huge trade income, many commodities were exported to Lu for transit, and Japanese gold, silver, copper and iron were obtained from Lu State, which replenished the gold and silver stocks lost in the trade with outsiders for more than ten years, and at the same time pushed Huaxia Yuan to the Qing Dynasty, Dajin, Lu State, and Taixi people, and although Huaxia did not trade with Taixi people, Huaxia Army had a good relationship with Zheng Chenggong, and could transfer from Zheng Chenggong, so they obtained a lot of Nanyang products.

However, the most important role of Lu is to contact the markets of Daqing, Daikin, Goryeo, and Japan, so that the domestic products of the Huaxia Army can be transported to the above countries nearby.

Among them, there is the Jingai-1 arquebus replaced by the Huaxia Army, and now the Huaxia Army has replaced the whole army with smoothbore flintlock guns, and a large number of Jingai-2 arquebuses in their hands have been handed over to the militia teams on the territory of small Southeast Asian countries, the garrison troops are also equipped with smoothbore flintlock muskets, and the field brigades are equipped with front-loading flintlock rifled guns and front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns.

As an improved version of the front-loading rifled flintlock pistol, it is certainly much more advanced than the front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol, but there is a problem that although it hits accurately and far, it is still inferior to the front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol in terms of speed, and sometimes it is even inferior to the Jinkai 2 arquebus, so those equipped troops are elite shooters in the army, and there are not many of them, but they can be used to deal with those damned guerrillas in a critical moment.

One shot, if there are more than a dozen people in a company, then the guerrillas are basically blinded or collapsed after a dozen people are killed, because the front-loading rifled flintlock pistol is far away, which is farther than the front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol and the rear-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol, not to mention a hundred meters, that is, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred and eighty meters, two hundred meters, good gunners, elite gunners can shoot one shot, two hundred meters away, which is very important for holding those big knives and spears, snatching the muskets and shotguns in the hands of the militia, The Jingai-1 arquebuses that were snatched further, even if there were a few elite guerrilla units of the Jingai-2 arquebuses, were in big trouble, because people could hit you, but you couldn't hit them.

This time the equipment was upgraded and replaced, those elite militia brigades directly used front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns, the militia brigades used Jingai-2 arquebuses, the ordinary militia used Jingai-1 arquebuses, and many brigade veterans used Jingai-2 arquebuses, so in terms of firepower, the guerrillas could not suppress the militia units at all.

However, despite this, the Jingai 1 arquebus and Jingai 2 arquebus in the Huaxia Army warehouse were constantly replaced, more and more, so Zhang Qiang remembered to do business with Lu Guo.

Sold them all the broadswords, spears, muskets, and shotguns that had captured them, and then sold them a lot of gold-1 arquebuses and gold-2 arquebuses.

As a result, Hong Chengchou, who knew Zhang Qiang's wishes, directly sent someone to buy the Jingai 2 arquebus of the Huaxia Army, because in the battle with the Huaxia Army, Hong Chengchou had enough of the loss of the Jingai 2 arquebus.

Zhang Qiang also twisted and directly sold him 50,000 Jingai-2 arquebuses, anyway, he had a more advanced flintlock pistol.

So Lu became the window of Huaxia to the outside world, Zhang Qiang was very proud to give Lu a name, called "Little Xiangjiang", which means that the future generations of our country just founded the Xiangjiang River.

(End of chapter)