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The matter was similar to what Lu Daqi estimated, if someone really wanted to secretly kill Zhu Youlang, Lu Daqi's guards caught the assassin who assassinated Zhu Youlang several times. Although these assassins committed suicide after being caught, this kind of thing can be clearly thought out with an ass* eye, and it must be sent by the Jinyi guards in the city.

Lu Daqi thought to himself that this is not a way, there are those who have been thieves for a thousand days and those who have been thieves for a thousand days, and there are only more than 200 guards in their own guards, and it is inevitable that they will be a little negligent after a long time. Lu Daqi thought about it and called Jinyi Wei Qianhu and Dongchang Fantou in Kunming City, these two guys are the head snakes of Kunming, and the assassins in the first few times must have been sent by them.

Kunming's Jinyi Wei Qianhu is called Zhao Bingjun, a native of Guangdong, and the nephew of Zhao Mengguan, the Fusi of Jinyi Weinan Town. The big head of the East Factory is called Qi Santai, and he was sent by Li Chengen from Nanjing.

Lu Daqi is the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, in charge of the military and political power of the two provinces, and the factory guards are all under the management of the governor's yamen on the surface, so the governor has an order, and these two people have to come.

The two factory guards are both military positions, and they are under the jurisdiction of the governor in a serious manner, so these two people came into the house and knelt down on one knee to ask for peace.

Lu Daqi has always hated this kind of factory guards, so he naturally didn't have a good face for them, nodded his head and ordered the two to stand up, and there was no one in the seat.

Zhao Bingjun saw that the governor didn't want to see him, so he had no choice but to ask first: "Dare to ask what happened to Lord Zhengtai summoning us?" ”

"Do you know that King Gui now lives in the Wuhua Mountain Palace?" Although Lu Daqi is stupid and loyal, he is not stupid, he knows that he and King Gui can say anything, but in front of this group of factory guards, he must not call Zhu Youlang His Majesty, these factory guards are the eyes and ears of the emperor, and it is not good for him if it reaches the ears of the emperor.

Zhao Bingjun and Qi Santai heard Lu Daqi ask, and hurriedly said, "The subordinates know!" "Isn't this nonsense, can Zhu Youlang not know about such a big thing as being arrested as a factory guard?

Lu Daqi nodded and continued: "Okay, you know, although King Gui has abdicated, he is still the King Gui personally appointed by Emperor Hongguang back then, if there is any problem with his safety, do you have to pay joint and several responsibility?" ”

Lu Daqi, as an old fritter in the officialdom, naturally knows how to speak, and this remark goes to the death hole of the factory guard. Although Zhu Youlang and Zhu Hongsan do not deal with each other, it is very likely that you Jinyiwei and Dongchang have the emperor's secret order to kill Zhu Youlang, but don't forget that Zhu Youlang is now the King of Gui. King Gui, the prince, was the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, the only one recognized by Zhu Hongsan, and the Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty. As the domestic slave of the royal family, if something goes wrong with your master, can you escape?

Lu Daqi's words really went to the hearts of Zhao Qi and the others, and they really didn't have the emperor's clear will for them to kill Zhu Youlang as long as they caught him. It's just that when Zhu Hongsan left Guizhou that year, he gave an order to Yungui's Jinyi Guard, the first half said that as long as Zhu Youlang was caught, he must be severely punished, but the second half said that Zhu Youlang was my relative and should be taken care of. This kind of inconsistent and ambiguous order is the most headache, you can say that the emperor wants to kill Zhu Youlang, and it is okay to say that the emperor wants to protect Zhu Youlang in his old feelings. Therefore, Zhao Bingjun knew that after Zhu Youlang arrived in Kunming, he sent people to assassinate him, so that even if he understood the wrong order, he could push the blame to outsiders.

So today, Zhao Bingjun and Qi Santai heard Lu Daqi say this, and their hearts moved, right! The emperor did not say what to do, now Zhu Youlang is the king of Gui, if the prince has a problem in his own land, they must be unlucky.

Zhao Bingjun hurriedly bowed down and said: "Please rest assured, my subordinates know the seriousness of the matter, and they will definitely send a brocade guard to protect His Royal Highness King Gui!" Qi Santai was not stupid, and he hurriedly promised to send people to protect Zhu Youlang on the side.

Playing tricks, these two people are Lu Daqi's opponents, and Lu Daqi saw that his goal was achieved, and waved his hand to let the two out.

Out of the governor's yamen, Zhao Bingjun asked Qi Santai in a low voice: "Brother Qi, what do you say we should do?" ”

The factory guard was originally at odds, Qi Santai heard Zhao Bingjun ask this and said with a smile: "We can't control the affairs of your Jinyiwei in the East Factory, my brother has left!" ”

Zhao Bingjun looked at Qi Santai who was leaving, and scolded in his heart: You eunuchs, what's the good of clinging to those dead eunuchs? But I guess you don't dare to send a killer anymore, I think you should also write a letter to your uncle and see what to do next!

In this way, Lu Daqi used a small strategy to protect Zhu Youlang's safety, and Zhu Youlang lived in Kunming Palace with peace of mind, waiting for Beijing's arrangements for him.

General Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed after reading the report, and now he is using troops in the northwest, northeast, Fujian, and southwest. The southwest Yunnan-Guizhou side used the least troops, but it did spend the most money, because the Yunnan-Guizhou road was difficult to travel, and the local people were very poor, and all supplies had to be transported from Guangdong and Huguang. Of course, economic reasons are not the main reason, and Zhu Youlang's orthodox identity is the reason that gives Zhu Hongsan the most headache.

Kinmen and Taiwan opposite Fujian are Zheng Chenggong's territory, and the Zheng family now has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, thousands of large and small ships, and Zheng Chenggong is from afar to serve Zhu Youlang as the emperor. Now that Zhu Youlang is resolved, Zheng Chenggong's secession party will no longer have legitimacy, and he can take action to clean up the Zheng family's forces.

There is another big advantage to solving Zhu Youlang, that is, Zhu Hongsan can finally calm down and carry out the Indian strategy. Constrained by the domestic war, Wang Jinbao in Luzon had only one division of troops and a few warships, and this kind of strength was more than enough to deal with the Dutch in Batavia. But if you don't defeat the Dutch, you can't enter the Indian Ocean, and you can only watch the British turn India into a jewel in the crown of the British crown.

But now that Zhu Youlang has settled the problem, Zhou Yu's 80,000 men can go to the Bay of Bengal, which is less than 500 miles away from the Ganges Delta, the richest river delta in India, and can also copy the back road of the Dutch. As long as Batavia is taken, the entire Indian Ocean will be the inner lake of the Ming Dynasty, and the Indian subcontinent will become the granary of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty can replace Britain as the empire on which the sun never sets.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the military newspaper and was overjoyed, if it weren't for the clan's fellow roommates, Zhu Hongsan would have been ready to go to Taimiao to announce his ancestors.

"Okay, Chen Aiqing, you work hard, go out and inform all the cabinet ministers and the military aircraft of the Military Aircraft Department to have a meeting here in the Qianqing Palace!" Zhu Hongsan was a little carried away when he was happy, and wanted to bring everyone to be happy.

Now it is sunset, and it is already dark early in winter, and by the time everyone arrives, it is already dark, and the Qianqing Palace has already turned on the lights. Zhu Hongsan came from later generations, and the most unbearable thing was the dim light at night, so he did not save money at all in the lighting, and dozens of butter wax were lit on the left and right sides of the Qianqing Palace, and the entire hall was brightly lit.

The seven elders of the cabinet and the five military planes of the military aircraft department have arrived, Zhu Hongsan said excitedly: "Just now there was good news from the southwest, Gui Shun Zhu Youlang was finally captured, I am happy to come to you today, and second, everyone is discussing how to reward meritorious soldiers!" ”

The war in the southwest dragged on for four years, and at the beginning of the loss of troops and generals, not to mention, a county king Li Chengdong was also arrested. Now Zhu Hongsan occupies the whole country, and the annual tax reaches 30 million silver dollars, although it is not as good as the 160 million yuan at the peak of the Northern Song Dynasty, but it is much stronger than the more than 3 million taels in the Ming Dynasty. However, the country now has money, but it uses troops everywhere, the northwest uses 3 million silver dollars a year, and the northeast also needs 2 million silver dollars, Fujian only needs a little more than 1 million a year because it is only in the stage of holding Zheng Chenggong, and the most expensive is the southwest, which costs 5 million silver dollars a year, you must know that Zhou Yu's entire army is only 80,000 people, and half of these soldiers are logistics supply troops, and the real combat troops are only a little more than 40,000.

The country's annual financial income is 30 million silver dollars, and one-third of it will be spent on the war, Ma Mingyuan, as the big housekeeper, has long told Zhu Hongsan about the difficult financial situation, and now when he hears that the war in the southwest is over, the biggest sum of money does not need to be spent, Ma Mingyuan is really happy from the bottom of his heart.

Ma Mingyuan stood up and said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, the war in the southwest has been unresolved for a long time, and the country's finances are stretched, and now it is finally better, and Chen Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance can also sleep well!" ”

Tong Yangjia was in charge of the military, and it was very rare that he did not oppose Ma Mingyuan at this time, but stood up and echoed and said: "What Shoufu said is very right, this is really a great joy!" Your Majesty, the minister thinks that meritorious soldiers should be greatly rewarded! ”

Several other cabinet elders didn't want to anger the emperor at this head, so they stood up and praised their stinky feet, and only one person was very dissatisfied in their hearts, and this person was the new cabinet elder Qu Shiyun.

After Jiang Yueguang and the Guangdong Party reached an agreement, he didn't use Ma Mingyuan to impeach himself and went home to retire, after all, Jiang Yueguang was seventy years old, and his energy and physical strength really couldn't keep up. Emperor Zhu Hongsan originally wanted to replace Jiang Yueguang with Qu Shiyun, so he postponed it three times and agreed to Jiang Yueguang's Zhishi, so the new governor of Liangjiang, Qu Shiyun, did not go to Liangjiang for a day and was directly promoted to the cabinet elder, taking over Jiang Yueguang's position, responsible for the Ministry of Rites, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Imperial History of Kedao.

Today, Qu Shiyun got the holy decree to enter the palace, and originally thought that something big had happened to the country, but he didn't expect that the war in the southwest had a result, and his old master Zhu Youlang was caught.

Although Qu Shiyun is a student of Qian Qianyi, unlike the teacher, Qian Qianyi has probably been persecuted a lot in his life, so he has a calm temperament, and if he doesn't say it well, he is a little cowardly. But Qu Shiyun is different, Qu Shiyun was a terrible teacher when he was young, and he was admitted to the Jinshi early, so he developed a very arrogant temperament, and even a little stubborn. It can be seen from Qu Shiyun's experience when he was young that Qian Qianyi was persecuted by Zhou Yanru and lost his official position, and when he was still a Qu Shiyun who was in the matter, he dared to write a book and scolded Zhou Yanru, causing Qu Shiyun and his teacher to lose their official position and go home to retire together.