Although the Nanjing court knew that sooner or later it would have to part ways with Gao Yihuan, in the clear decree, the Nanjing court did not mention Gao Yihuan's ambition and arrogance, but instead rewarded Gao Yihuan and used a lot of praise, as if Gao Yihuan was deeply respected by the emperor.

Nanjing's move made Gao Yihuan a little impressed, but he didn't expect the emperor to not only swallow a breath, but also praise him.

This proves that the little emperor has gradually matured and knows how to play politics.

This may also be Gao Yihuan's action this time, which woke up the Nanjing Imperial Court and made the Nanjing Imperial Court know its own fragility, so it wants to try its best to maintain stability and gain time to become strong.

The dignified Ming court was actually threatened by a warlord, and there was nothing to do about it, which was a huge blow to the Nanjing government and the opposition, like a resounding slap in the face.

In fact, when the little emperor Zhu Cihong got the result of the negotiation, he heard that Gao Yihuan was licking his face and wanted to take his sister, so he was immediately furious and smashed the things in the imperial study.

The little emperor swore in his heart that he would definitely clean up Gao Jingzhong in the future, but at this time, he held back his anger and humiliated agreed to Gao Yihuan's request, but Gao Jingzhong wanted to marry Kunxing, but the toad wanted to eat swan meat, and he didn't even think about it, the little emperor couldn't afford to lose this person.

Originally, Zhu Cihong was going to marry Kun Xingxu to Wang Yan, and the princess was brought to Nanjing by Wang Yan, and the two also had feelings for each other, but now they were made by Gao Jingzhong, a-stirring stick, so they could only temporarily dispel a thought, after all, if they didn't give Gao Jingzhong a marriage, it would not be good to stimulate Gao Jingzhong.

After agreeing to Gao Jingzhong's agreement, Zhu Cihong was deeply humiliated, and there was no emperor in the Ming Dynasty who was as disgraceful as him.

Although the four towns in Jiangbei, as well as Zuo Town, and Gao Jingzhong's situation, are actually similar, they are all taxes levied by the army on their own territory, and there is no tax to send to Nanjing, and they also reach out to Nanjing to ask for money, but this is only an unspoken rule after all, but Gao Yihuan put the unspoken rules on the surface, and turned the unspoken rules into rules recognized by Nanjing, which is a slap in the face.

The unspoken rule is that the court can pretend not to see it, and now it is directly forcing the court to admit it, which is equivalent to paying compensation for land cession.

After Zhu Cihong agreed to the agreement, he locked himself in the imperial study for a whole day, and when he came out the next day, he immediately issued an order to clean up the taxes in Jiangnan, check the family wealth of the guilty officials of the dynasty, and ordered the household department to raise 500,000 silver, and Wang Yan, the head of the military department, went to western Zhejiang to recruit troops, and transferred Chen Zilong to go with the supervising army to train a new army for the imperial court.

In the name of preparing for war and resisting captivity, Zhu Cihong cleaned up the taxes, but the money and grain obtained were not prepared for the Northern Expedition, and the four towns in Jiangbei only got a small part of the money and grain, and most of the new taxes were picked up by the emperor to train the new army, called the Northern Expedition, which was actually to increase the strength of the central government.

It's just that in this way, the contradiction between Ma Ruan and the imperial party came, and the imperial court shouted about the Northern Expedition and offended the Manchu Qing, but did not add money and food to the four towns, so that they could prepare for war, in case the Qing army was unhappy to fight, what should I do?

For a while, the warlords in Jiangbei began to be dissatisfied, the imperial court was cool, the Qing army came, and the gentlemen resisted? Don't do it! Don't do it!

The Ming Dynasty accumulated disadvantages for a long time, and various problems were entangled like a mess.

Zhu Cihong crossed a hurdle and encountered a ditch, still struggling.

Gao Yihuan stayed in Yuezhou for a few days, and after reaching a preliminary agreement with Zhou Yuyang of the shipbuilding workshop, Chen Mingxia discussed the specific details with him, and finally signed a contract to entrust Zhou Yuyang to build a warship.

Although the warship was built, it was still a shadowless thing, but Gao Yihuan still signed the contract and issued a notice at the same time to recruit sailors.

In this recruitment, Gao Yihuan gave very generous conditions, and it was almost the treatment of a battalion, with each soldier being paid two taels of silver per month and ten acres of land, which made many Wei Wujun generals have some opinions. However, Gao Yihuan still insisted, he knew that the water army would be able to make him a lot of money in the future. Stimulated by favorable conditions, thousands of applicants were recruited in just a few days. Of course, the salary is high, and the requirements for selecting soldiers are also strict, and thousands of people are recruited, but only a few hundred people are selected in the end.

Gao Yihuan immediately appointed Ma Weixing to temporarily lead the water division, and asked his confidant Gao Chengxun to be his deputy to form the Dongting water division.

Ma Weixing turned out to be a Jingzhou guard, and after he was captured, he was handed over to Bai Wenxuan by Gao Yihuan, and it didn't take long for him to surrender to Gao Yihuan under Bai Wenxuan's appearance.

He has been active in the south for a long time, and Gao Yihuan is the tallest of the shorter, so that he can temporarily lead the sailor, but he and Gao Chengxun are actually not naval generals, but Gao Yihuan's expedient measures.

Gao Yihuan had already instructed Gao Yicheng to go to the Ming Dynasty to dig people and recruit talents for him who could train sailors.

After dealing with these matters, the exact news of Nanjing came, and it was agreed that the two prefectures of Changde and Yuezhou, as well as the four counties southwest of Wuchang, would be allocated to Gao Yihuan, and it was also agreed to use Huguang's taxes to support Wei Wujun.

Wei Wujun's military funds were raised by Gao Yihuan himself, and the imperial court no longer allocated money and grain.

In addition, Gao Yihuan's requests for the passage of the Yangtze River, the opening of a money bank, and the request to do business in Jiangnan were also agreed.

In fact, the benefits that these points can bring to Gao Yihuan are not less than the taxes in central and southern Hunan at all, but in the Nanjing court, there are not many people who can understand these articles, and they are mainly Donglin Party members, but unfortunately Donglin has just suffered a major blow, he is too busy to take care of himself, and he is not able to participate in the negotiations between Nanjing and Gao Yihuan, so the Nanjing court did not pay attention to it, so he directly agreed.

Nanjing agreed to all the conditions proposed in the negotiation, but Gao Yihuan's immature little suggestion was politely rejected by the emperor on the grounds that Princess Kunxing was still young.

This made Gao Dashuai annoyed for a while, feeling that the little emperor Zhu Cihong looked down on him and didn't give him face, Gao Yihuan threw Zhu Cihong's holy decree on the table, and said a little unhappily: "Where is it small, isn't it good for Ben Shuai to look at this." ”

Gao Yihuan had a beautiful figure in his mind, an actress who played Kunxing in the later "Imperial Flower", and he couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

Chen Mingxia and the others didn't say anything, they all understood that Zhu Cihong didn't give face to the tall and handsome man, and found a reason to shirk it.

Seeing that no one spoke, Gao Yihuan couldn't help asking, "How old is Princess Kunxing this year?" ”

Chen Mingxia thought for a while before replying, "It should be almost sixteen!" ”

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, sixteen is no longer small, and it is completely possible to marry, but by the standard of tall and handsome, it is indeed smaller.

Although it is indeed not big, Zhu Cihong's attitude made Gao Dashuai a little dissatisfied, hurt his self-esteem, and made him feel that he had lost face.

In front of everyone, Gao Yihuan was not easy to attack, and smashed his mouth half-loudly, "It's really small, then Ben Shuai will wait for another two years." ”

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