The New Year is approaching, Zhu Cijiong has been in a very good mood recently, this year can be said to be the happiest year he has ever lived, Liaodong has been recovered, Western studies have also begun to be promoted, steam-powered trains have been successfully developed, and the battleship factory has been almost built, and it will be put into production after the year.......

In short, after five years of hard work, Daming has gradually risen to the occasion, and his mood is naturally too good.

Unexpectedly, this is not over yet, seeing that the New Year is coming, Luo Siwei and Shi Weila have sent him good news that the army of the Mysore Kingdom has been defeated by them, and Karnatak has been defeated!

Karnataka is defeated, which means that there is no need to worry about the problem of iron ore, and Zhu Cijiong's mood is naturally better. However, happy and sad, two days before the Chinese New Year, Luo Siwei sent him a very bad news, the third prince of the Mughal Empire, Aurangzeb, came to attack the city of Mysore, although his first attack was broken, but he is not a willing to suffer, he has gone back to gather a large army, Karnatak is likely to be unable to hold it!

Seeing that the iron ore in his hand was about to fly away again, Zhu Cijiong instantly felt that the whole person was not good, but fortunately, the day before the Chinese New Year, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, with his whole family, brought him a letter of help written by Shi Weila dictated by Luo Siwei and a deposit of 150,000 taels of gold from Kong Dede, which made his mood cloudy and sunny in an instant.

Schwila actually begged him to send troops to support, this can be had, although his warship has not yet been built, and he does not have the ability to go overseas to colonize alone, but if the allies invite, he can still consider it, and it is quite good to be able to take the allies' free ride to adapt to the colonial environment in advance.

As for Kong Dede's deposit of 150,000 taels of gold, he bought flintlock pistols and artillery from him, these nouveau riche are really stupid and have a lot of money, and when they see the advanced weapons made by the Ming Dynasty, they are like an otaku who has been single for twenty or thirty years and sees a beautiful woman, salivating, no matter how expensive the price is.

The reason why Kong Dede made a deposit first was that he was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire would not do it for him immediately, and if it dragged on for a few months, he would probably be doomed. In fact, his worry is completely unnecessary, Liaodong has been closed by heavy snow in the past few months, so all the guns produced by Wang Gong's factory are stored in the warehouse, and it may not be enough to arm 100,000 people, just 10,000 flintlock pistols and 100 518 howitzers, Zhu Cijiong doesn't need to ask, there are absolutely them.

Of course, this looks like the New Year is coming, although the soldiers are sticking to their posts and not going home, but Zhu Cijiong still won't send them out in a hurry, the Chinese people pay attention to the fifteenth day of the first month, unless they are forced to do nothing, otherwise the New Year is definitely to let people live, and the New Year will not be lived, then it will be a little frustrating. Besides, going overseas is not a trip that you can just go, there are many things to prepare, and, most importantly, you have to have a boat, the sea is not land, and you can't walk through it with a pair of feet.

Zhu Cijiong doesn't have any ships now, but Zheng Chenggong's cheap father Zheng Zhilong has it, and he happens to come to the capital, it stands to reason that the vassal king is strictly forbidden to enter Beijing without the emperor's summons, but Zheng Zhilong's family is special, Zhu Cijiong robbed other people's sons, so he naturally wanted to compensate for it, and specially allowed Zheng Zhilong to come to the capital to see Zheng Chenggong once a year.

This time, Zheng Zhilong's delivery of letters and gold was actually only incidental, and he mainly brought his family to see Zheng Chenggong, so the next day, Zhu Cijiong simply summoned Zheng Zhilong's family into the palace to accompany him and the Qin family to spend a lively New Year, and by the way, discuss the formation of a navy and send troops to support Schwila.

Now the palace can be lively, it can be said that the entire Forbidden City has not been so lively for more than a hundred years, because since the Ming Xianzong Hongzhi Emperor, the orthodoxy of the Ming royal family seems to have suffered a curse, and the people are so thin that the emperor is almost unable to find anyone to be, so he can only end up with his brother and brother, and even find his nephew and heir.

Like Emperor Zhengde of Ming Wuzong, the son of Xiaozong, there is no heir, Xiaozong is an heir, after Wuzong, he can only welcome Zhu Houxi, the nephew of Ming Xiaozong and the son of King Xingxian, into the heir, and is Emperor Jiajing of Ming Shizong. Ming Shizong still has a prince, that is, Emperor Longqing of Ming Muzong, but Emperor Longqing was only six years in power and suddenly died of a stroke, and the nine-year-old crown prince Zhu Yijun succeeded to the throne as Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong. Emperor Wanli can also be regarded as able to give birth, a total of eight, but three died early, the crown prince Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo is even more unlucky, in less than a month of reign, a red pill was eaten, and it hung up directly!

Next is Emperor Tianqi of Ming Xizong, that is, Zhu Cijiong's cheap father, a famous carpenter emperor in history, to his generation, only he and the emperor's fifth brother Xinwang Zhu Youzhen are left in the orthodoxy of the imperial family, and the rest of his five brothers, all died young, and none of them lived past the age of ten! He himself was even more miserable, he gave birth to three princes, and none of them lived past the age of five! In the end, the orthodoxy of the Ming royal family is only one letter king Zhu Youzhen!

Of course, our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong crossed over and changed this strange situation, so now the royal orthodoxy has doubled, and there are two people, one is the Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong of the current dynasty, and the other is the auxiliary regent Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Cijiong doubled the number of orthodox people in the royal family to only two people, which shows that the number of people is thin, and it has reached the point where the heir will be extinct at every turn, so the palace has not been lively for more than a hundred years, Zhu Cijiong's loneliness can also be imagined, and the entire palace can only talk to the three of them, mother and son, but what common language does he have with a little Zhengtai who is only ten years old on the surface and two young women at the level of the queen mother, it is nothing more than being held in his arms like a baby in his heart and taking a political class.

Fortunately, Qin Liangyu brought him a peerless fairy Qin Mingyue, and he himself recruited a heroic Zheng Chenggong as his royal brother, so the palace was not so deserted, but he was not lively enough, especially during the New Year, two or three of these kittens were simply a kind of torture for Zhu Cijiong, who was used to a lively year, in the past few years, his prestige was not enough, and he did not dare to come to Hu, this year his prestige can be said to be in full swing, so what about Hu Lai.

Therefore, he summoned Zheng Chenggong's family and Qin Liangyu's family into the palace to accompany him for the New Year, so that the Forbidden City, which had been deserted for more than a hundred years, was finally lively.

He is the emperor, and it is naturally impossible to sit at a round table with everyone and talk about homely things, so he thought of a new way to make a new cut, and set up eleven small tables in the main hall of Kunning Palace to make three large tables. He and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces gathered at one table and were at the top; Zheng Chenggong's family has four tables at one table, which is the first in the lower left; Qin Liangyu's family gathered four tables at one table, at the bottom right. Fresh fruits, exquisite pastries, delicacies from the mountains and seas, and all kinds of tribute wine are on the wheel, the theme of this day is to eat, everyone gets together to eat, play when they are full, and continue to eat after playing!

People don't dare to come up and get close to their mother and son, but their mother and son can take the initiative to go down and get close to others, at first the two families are still a little restrained, but the queen mother of the two palaces is in charge, and after setting a family matter, everyone is much hotter, after all, in this way, the three families are barely relatives!

What kind of family business is this? Of course, it is a lifelong event of our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, a fairy-like character like Qin Mingyue, whether it is appearance, figure or life experience, there is nothing to say, the queen mother of the two palaces is naturally so satisfied that she can't do it, she has long been designated as a daughter-in-law, as for age, is this a problem? Female junior, hugging gold bricks, Zhu Cijiong doesn't know how many gold bricks she has held, so let him steal the fun.

His niece was about to become the queen, and Qin Liangyu naturally raised his hands in approval; Zhu Cijiong has no opinion, he has already had a deep love for Qin Mingyue, if it weren't for the fact that this body was still a child, he would have been that one and that one a long time ago; As for Qin Mingyue, she is used to having a little emperor in her life, and if she doesn't go with him, she really doesn't know how to live this day. Therefore, this family affair has been decided in this way, and as long as Zhu Cijiong becomes an adult, he can get married, everyone is happy, and the atmosphere is hot.

If you want to say that the protagonist of this New Year's is not Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, nor is it the little fairy Qin Mingyue, they are just an episode, the real protagonist is Zheng Chenggong's own brother, the long one is called a cute, it's just loved, flowers bloom, but this name, a little bit of that, because his name is Tagawa Nanazaemon!

Zheng Chenggong's surname is Zheng, why is his brother's surname Tian Chuan? It seems that Zheng Zhilong doesn't have a Japanese name!

In fact, this Tian Chuan is Zheng Chenggong's mother's surname, to be precise, his grandfather's surname, as for why his surname is Tian Chuan, this is actually a rather helpless thing. Because when Zheng Zhilong returned to the Ming Dynasty, the Tagawa clan was blocked by the Tokugawa shogunate from staying in Dongying on the grounds that "Japanese women do not enter the Central Plains", and the Tagawa clan could only stay in Dongying with a stomach to give birth to a child, and after giving birth to Zheng Chenggong's younger brother, the Tokugawa shogunate had the intention of taking him hostage, no way, this son is estimated to never return to the Ming Dynasty, and the Tagawa clan finally had to show Zheng Zhilong, and succeeded him to the Tagawa clan, and gave him a Japanese name called Tagawa Nanazaemon.

Of course, that is all the affairs of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and there are too many human tragedies in the Chongzhen Dynasty, including Zheng Chenggong's mother Tian Chuan ......, forget it, the heart is sad, not to mention the affairs of the Chongzhen Dynasty. In short, now it is the Chongzheng Dynasty, and after Zheng Zhilong became the king of Zhennan, the Tokugawa shogunate naturally did not dare to stop it anymore, and their mother and son were able to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Chenggong is already a cute little fresh meat Xiao Zhengtai, his younger brother is cuter than him, and when almost most of the people present are women, Tagawa Nanazaemon naturally became the focus of everyone.

Zhu Cijiong was not jealous, but he was a little worried about this name, and in the end, he thought about it, and simply, when the time comes, he will support him to form a Tagawa shogunate and unify Dongying, which seems to be quite good.

Of course, this is a matter for the future, not what he has to do today, his main thing today is to discuss with Zheng Zhilong the formation of a navy and sending troops overseas, taking advantage of the motherhood of a group of people, surrounding Zheng Chenggong's brothers to have fun, Zhu Cijiong summoned Zheng Zhilong to his side, and asked solemnly: "Feihuang, what is your strength at sea now?" ”

Zheng Zhilong may have drunk a little too much, and immediately said proudly when he heard this: "Your Majesty, Weichen now has more than 1,000 large and small ships, 120,000 seamen, and the Dutch on the southeast coast are afraid of Weichen for three points!" ”

Zhu Cijiong was not annoyed when he heard this, but continued to ask: "Then what weapons do you have, it is impossible to carry a sword to fight at sea, right?" ”

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, his old face immediately turned red with shame, and he said hesitantly: "Uh, this, this, Weichen uses some bird guns and earth cannons, compared with the muskets and artillery of the Praetorian Guard, it is far worse." ”

Zhu Cijiong didn't bother to go around in circles with him, and said directly: "I want to form a navy, the battleship factory has been almost built, and it can be put into production after the year, and it can produce fifty sail warships equipped with more than 100 new guns a year, and there will be no shortage of battleships at that time, but I am short of seamen, and it is useless for your seamen to hold some backward weapons, so it is better to be all included in my navy, and the navy will be handed over to the successful commander in the future, and you can send a few cronies to assist him first." ”

Zheng Zhilong was stunned when he heard this, this is to let him hand over the military power, but he has already prepared for this, exchanging the military power for a real power prince, this is a tacit understanding that has already been reached between him and the emperor, and the emperor also said that it was handed over to his son Zheng Chenggong, anyway, the relationship between his son and the emperor is so good, he is not afraid of suffering, so he simply said neatly: "Everything but the emperor is in charge, after Weichen goes back, let all the naval generals come to the capital to assist in success." ”