Zhu Houzhao approved the resolution submitted by the cabinet on cracking down on smuggling, and was recommended by the Legislative Affairs Department, and finally appointed Admiral Zhu to supervise the military affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang, inspect the coastal areas, and crack down on smuggling.

The Ming Dynasty has a very wide maritime territory and many coastal clans, so even if Xia Yan has cracked down on smuggling once before, with the intensification of collusion between officials and businessmen, as well as the instinct of human beings to evade taxes and avoid taxes, smuggling is now more rampant.

Of course, it is also related to the external environment, and the "trade restrictions" started by Japan and other countries and the war in Japan have led to a large number of ronins starting to engage in smuggling trade.

And coincidentally, with the opening of the sea for many years in the Ming Dynasty, the number of wealthy families along the coast has increased, and these rich gentry have also cooperated with these ronins, gradually making smuggling rampant again.

Zhu Houzhao can guess that Zhu Houzhao will definitely encounter great resistance in cracking down on smuggling, after all, there are many official families between the government and the opposition who profit from smuggling.

However, the emperor of the empire and the other big families of the participating countries controlled the government, and they did not want the wealth to flow into the Ming Dynasty to be taken away by the southern scholars through smuggling.

The Emperor and other large families, in alliance with the workers and peasants, formed the Zhongjun Society, which firmly controlled the power of the empire, so the imperial court still made the decision to crack down on smuggling anyway.

And Zhu Kun must also complete this task for the imperial court.

Whether it is the attack on Xia Yan or how dissatisfied with the current politics, many civil officials representing the merchant class can still only beat their chests and have nothing to do.

Zhu Houzhao also continued to be the emperor of this powerful empire, and watched his empire advance further and further on the road of industrialization.

The engineers of the Daming Academy of Sciences successfully used the electromagnetic induction phenomenon to create a generator, and when the steam locomotive began to shuttle between the major cities in the north and south of the Ming Empire, and the people were amazed, many people would not have thought that the Ming Dynasty was about to usher in his electrical age.

However, at this time, the generator could not provide enough current to be able to be used, and it had to be improved.

However, Zhu Houzhao is still very concerned about the application process of the generator, after all, once the generator is applied, it means that Daming can realize electric energy lighting and electric energy drive in the future.

With the popularization of natural science, there are many people who pay attention to the progress of electricity research, and it has even become a hot topic of discussion among the people.

In addition to the research progress of electricity, another topic of heated discussion among the people is that the expeditionary force led by Yu Dayou may have established a country overseas, otherwise it would not have been possible for so long without receiving good news.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know when the news about Yu Dayou's founding of the country overseas came about, although it was groundless, but it was also spread clearly.

With the development of global trade, the people of the Ming Empire also had a global vision.

The establishment of a country overseas is not a new thing, but basically it was established by the emperor Zhu Houzhao, and it was established by the nobles of the clan, and the generals led their own troops to establish a country overseas was naturally regarded as treason.

Zhu Houzhao naturally didn't believe it at first, and he also knew that Yu Dayou, as a loyal and famous general in history, should not have the ambition to become the emperor on his own.

But as time passed, Zhu Houzhao gradually felt that something was wrong after he didn't hear the news about the expeditionary force.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't really doubt that Yu Dayou had the ambition to establish himself as an emperor overseas, although with the current strength of the Ming army, there is no problem at all for any general to pull a team to build a strong country overseas, but the wealth and strong centripetal force of the Ming Dynasty do not mean that whoever wants to stand on their own feet can stand on their own.

Zhu Houzhao felt that what was wrong was that this rumor became hotter and hotter the longer Yu Dayou went on an expedition to the West, and even some officials had begun to ask the imperial court to send more Jinyi guards to find out the truth and find out whether Yu Dayou had established a country overseas, after all, Daming was currently using a lot of funds to provide logistics support for Yu Dayou.

"The gale started at the end of Qingping, and suddenly there were such rumors, there must be someone behind this who was trying to make trouble."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but say something to himself, and immediately continued to pay attention to the electrical research of the Academy of Sciences, he believed that the snake would eventually come out of its hole by itself.

As he expected, not long after, Yushi Ruan Gui made a mistake, and it turned out to be the impeachment of Gao Zhong and Yu Dayou for plotting a rebellion, and this Ruan Gui also detailed the rebellion plan of Gao Zhong and Yu Dayou.

First of all, Yu Dayou will first use the opportunity of the expedition to Spain to establish a country overseas, and then Gao Zhong will find out the news for him in the court, and after Gao Zhong conspired to kill the emperor, Yu Dayou led his troops back to the Ming Dynasty, and Gao Zhong should cooperate with the outside world to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this Ruan Gui is not talking nonsense that Gao Zhong, the commander of Xichang, and Yu Dayou colluded together, but there is empirical evidence, which is that Gao Zhong and Yu Dayou both studied at the Daming Army Command College, and they were once classmates, and there are even poems and songs, and even some letters and correspondence between Gao Zhong and Yu Dayou and the rebellion, as well as the confession evidence of the messengers.

Otherwise, Yang Lan, who is the imperial history of the left capital, would not have carefully presented such a seemingly nonexistent matter to Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was both surprised and funny when he saw this letter, and was surprised that Gao Zhong and Yu Dayou still had contact, and the funny thing was that if Gao Zhong really wanted to kill himself and go overseas to help Yu Dayou as emperor, at best, he would be a court emperor like now.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao didn't know what Gao Zhong's motive would be if he really wanted to kill him.

Although Zhu Houzhao began to be a little cautious emotionally, intellectually, he did not do anything, and still let Gao Zhong take charge of the West Factory.

However, Gao Zhong himself was quite frightened.

Gao Zhong knows the truth that a king is like a tiger, and he also knows that emperors are suspicious, and he has also heard and seen the fate of previous generations of great eunuchs because of rebellion, so now he is really afraid that His Majesty the Emperor will doubt himself because of this matter.

Of course, Gao Zhong is not stupid, knowing that this is a secret plot by some civil officials who want to threaten him, trying to frame himself.

Therefore, Gao Zhong still came to Zhu Houzhao in a hurry, knelt directly in front of Zhu Houzhao, and said directly with a handful of snot and tears: "Your Majesty Mingjian!" The old slave entered the palace since he was a child, grew up with the grace of His Majesty, and later went to the Ming Army Command Academy after studying in the inner study hall, but in order to protect His Majesty! How dare you have the slightest disobedience! Whining! The old slave doesn't know which civil officials who hate the old slave are framing the old slave behind their backs, and the old slave is difficult to distinguish and complain about! The old slave didn't know how to prove his innocence, and today he only kowtowed to death in front of His Majesty's eyes to prove his loyalty, and hoped that His Majesty would know that his ministers were loyal. ”

Knock knock!

Knock knock!

Knock knock!

……

As Gao Zhong spoke, he slammed the gold brick up, knocking blood everywhere on his forehead.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao hurriedly helped Gao Zhong up: "Get up!" I don't know your loyalty, you are Gao Feng's godson, and you inherit Gao Feng's property, and I forgive you for not having that guts! ”

Zhu Houzhao said and persuaded a few more words, and this Gao Zhong turned to thank Zhu Houzhao.

However, Gao Zhong's words also reminded Zhu Houzhao and made Zhu Houzhao realize that this sudden rumor may really be the work of some civil officials with ulterior motives, and the purpose may be Xichang, but Zhu Houzhao really didn't know what the purpose of these people was playing like this for a while.

But what Zhu Houzhao can be sure of is that he can't ban the West Factory no matter what, absolutely not!

……

Gao Zhong knew that with such a performance, His Majesty would not doubt himself, and a stone in his heart also fell to the ground.

Moreover, Gao Zhong couldn't help but say to his most trusted Qingke and at the same time his former mentor Wan Quan:

"These vicious literati doctors are not chewing maggots behind their backs! Just because our family and Yu Dayou used to be classmates, these people actually made up that our family colluded with Yu Dayou to rebel, you say, these people even made this up, fortunately Your Majesty is wise, so they will not be deceived by these people! ”

"Although Your Majesty is wise, but your father-in-law still has to pay attention to it in the future, now that Your Majesty is getting older and older, you can't keep your wealth and wealth for a lifetime, and these civil officials will not be able to keep the merits of the dragon in the future, so, judging from the later life, they don't want to frame you, but to remind you not to do too much because you are the commander of the West Factory!"

When Wan Quan said this, Gao Zhong couldn't help frowning, and only sighed after a long time: "You're right!" ”

……

Zhu Houzhao naturally thought that even the eunuchs would have the motive to protect themselves, but in fact, he has never put the hope of manipulating the imperial court only on the eunuchs, Zhu Houzhao believes that some civil officials he has cultivated to represent the interests of the common people and the country will not sit idly by and watch some people with ulterior motives spread rumors like this.

Even if he doesn't think so, in Zhu Houzhao's opinion, since Yu Dayou can be rumored to be interested in building a country overseas, then someone will definitely help Yu Dayou.

In any case, as the emperor, what Zhu Houzhao has to do is wait and see what happens.

……

On this day, Xia Yan couldn't help mentioning this to Yan Song, and said: "The rumors about Yu Dayou's overseas founding can be stirred up, and it can be seen that Xu Jin and these people are still unwilling, but I don't know what they are planning this time." ”

Xia Yan is naturally not a stupid person, he knows that he is suggesting that His Majesty the Emperor set up a council office, and even cooperated with the emperor to support Wu Chen to become the minister of parliament, enter the decision-making level of the empire, and repeatedly thwart the conspiracy of Xu Jin and other Qingliu civil officials, he must have been regarded as enemies by these people.

This is evident from the impeachment of Han Yiyou and other officials who have made fierce statements against themselves.

Therefore, Xia Yan has been vigilant about whether these Qingliu civil officials will persecute him, even if the rumors of Yu Dayou's overseas founding will make him think about this.

Yan Song couldn't help but comfort Xia Yan: "Yuanfu and rest assured, the following officials see that the person who spread this rumor behind this is really not aimed at you, but directly at the emperor, otherwise he would not have poured dirty water on the father-in-law of the West Factory." ”

Listening to Yan Song's analysis, Xia Yan also felt that there was some truth, so he laughed: "Could it be that these people still want to bring down Gao Zhong and let His Majesty ban the West Factory?" ”

"They naturally know that this is impossible, but they do this, at least so that Gao Gonggong will inevitably have to consider their feelings in the future, these officials who want to reduce taxes for businessmen originally wanted to use this court push to achieve complete control of the court power, as a result, because of the West Factory, so that His Majesty could have the opportunity to be exposed through the "Huang Ming Pao", which caused the dissatisfaction of the officials and scholars from the common people, so that Yuanfu proposed to set up a council office to change the court push system, and many of their comrades were not only executed and deposed, There hasn't even been a chance to get back on top. ”

"It can be seen that this Xu Cifu also knows that the root of their defeat this time is in the West Factory, and there are still some pedantic nerd officials, such as that Hai Rui, so they naturally have to deal with the West Factory first, but I am afraid that in the future, that Hai Rui, as well as that Yang Jisheng, will be hit by them!"

Yan Song analyzed.

Xia Yan nodded, he found that although Yan Song was a little cowardly, he was indeed very insightful, and he understood the analysis of the current situation very clearly, and he was more convinced that he was correct in recommending Yan Song into the cabinet for a while.

……

It is now the day of Jingcha, and Wen Yuan has just been promoted to the secretary of the ministry, and he happens to be just and rigorous, so he personally reviewed the assessment results of a group of Beijing officials who need to be assessed.

Wen Yuan happened to turn to Hai Rui, the director of "Huangming Bao", at this time, and saw that Hai Rui's assessment result was "dismissal", so he asked Lang Zhong Aili of the Wenxuan Division: "What is the reason for this Hai Rui's dismissal?" ”

"Back to Otsuka's words, this Hai Rui is arrogant and impetuous, extremely rebellious, and has a very bad reputation in the eyes of his superiors.

Wen Yuan nodded, and recorded it himself, after all, Hai Rui is the director of "Huangming Bao", and he also knows that the recent revelation of fraud in the court is exposed by the "Huangming Bao" in charge of Hai Rui, thinking that this Hai Rui may be impetuous, but he is also a cadre, so he corrected it: "Read it upright, and change the teachings of Nanping County." ”

Seeing that Wen Yuan didn't choose to dismiss Hai Rui, Ai Li couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

On this day, it happened to be the position of the left waiter of the Ministry of Parliament, although Wen Yuan was not the Minister of Parliament, but because he was the secretary of the Ministry of Ministers, he also attended the presiding over the court push.

However, after the end of the court push, Xu Jin shouted to Wen Yuan: "Wen Gong stays, I don't know if Wen Gong knows Hai Rui, the director of "Huangming Bao"?" ”

"Naturally, if Elder Xu Ge has any advice, please make it clear", Wen Yuan replied.

"Xu didn't dare to make a mistake, but this Hai Rui, please Wen Gong must dismiss him, this person is quite colluded with the West Factory", Xu Jin said.

Wen Yuan nodded and didn't say anything more.

It didn't take long for Zhu Houzhao to receive a batch of Jingcha lists from Wen Yuan, but he saw that Hai Rui was among the dismissed posts, and couldn't help but ask Wen Yuan: "Why was Hai Rui dismissed." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Ai Liyan Hai Rui is impetuous and wild, and his senior news secretary Wailang Chen Dian has also repeatedly said that Hai Rui is disrespectful, and the preliminary trial is dismissed, and the minister considers his upright temperament so he is demoted to Nanping County Teaching, and Xu Ge said that Hai Rui is in collusion with the West Factory, so the minister thought twice and changed it back to dismissal."

Wen Yuan replied truthfully.

Gao Zhong on the side couldn't help but be frightened into a cold sweat after hearing this, thinking that this Xu Ge is so ruthless, saying that Hai Rui has collusion with his West Factory, doesn't this mean that Hai Rui befriended the ministers, this is Ling Chi's crime, Wen Gong is kind-hearted, in order to protect Hai Rui from being harmed by the villain, he had to dismiss him, but I didn't expect His Majesty to notice Hai Rui such a small official.

Zhu Houzhao smiled after hearing this, he could understand the bends in this, and directly ordered: "Redraft, Hai Rui has been promoted to the director of the news department and is also in charge of the "Huangming Daily", and he is also in charge of the supervision of the imperial history!" The one named Chen Dian has a small amount of gas and is dismissed! And that Alley, all dismissed! Impeachment of Ni Song, the superintendent of the imperial history, Yang Jisheng, was promoted to the rank of Wenxuan Shilangzhong. ”

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