The next day, Zhu Youxiao communicated with the cabinet about the city and the dispatch of personnel to the Netherlands.

"I decided to set up a city shipping bureau in the imperial court to be responsible for the management of the city shipping bureau, and set up a city shipping department in Shanghai, Xin'an, and Yuegang to manage trade from overseas, and an anti-smuggling office under the city shipping department to be responsible for investigating smuggling." Zhu Youxiao said.

"How is the anti-smuggling station configured?" Han Yi asked. The anti-smuggling station is a new concept, and no one present understands it.

"The anti-smuggling office is equivalent to a 100-household office, and as for the personnel, we will not arrange it for the time being, but set up such an organization first, and then formally establish the anti-smuggling office after the coastal pirates are cleared up in the future." Zhu Youxiao said. Now the pirate forces around Daming are not weaker than the sailors of Daming, and now the establishment of the anti-smuggling office is just to deliver food.

"The Municipal Shipping Division is directly managed by the Municipal Shipping Bureau, is the local government no longer managed?" Han Yi asked.

"Yes, the tax collected by the customs is directly handed over to the household department, and the local government will no longer withhold it." Zhu Youxiao learned some experience from later generations and simply let the Municipal Bureau implement vertical management and no longer let the local government interfere.

"The minister thought that the city port department could be directly handed over to the household department for management, and there was no need to re-establish the city port bureau." Wang Shaohui suggested.

"I have thought so before, but I don't think it will work, the City Shipping Division will not only be responsible for managing the trade at sea, but also must be responsible for anti-smuggling, and I plan to hand over all foreign trade to the City Shipping Division in the future, not only at sea but also on land, will be handed over to the City Shipping Division to manage, and it is even possible to set up a City Shipping Division on all borders." Zhu Youxiao explained.

"Do you have any questions about the city?" Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zhu Youxiao asked.

"There is no doubt about the ministers for the time being."

"Then let's talk about sending an envoy to the Netherlands, this mission is different, the time of the mission is about five years, one year to go, one year to come, three years in the Netherlands." Zhu Youxiao couldn't determine how long the voyage would take for the time being, so he could only roughly estimate the time.

"Your Majesty, the Netherlands is a barbarian land, a small country and a widow, why do you need to stay in the Netherlands for three years?" Li Zongyan asked.

"Is Holland a land of barbarians? You don't know the Westerners too well, the territory of the Westerners has spread all over the world, the eunuch of the Three Treasures once said, 'Once the king of another country captures the South Seas, China is in danger', and now the Westerners have won the South Seas, the Westerners have appeared around the empire, eyeing the empire, the Westerners are strong and strong, and they are the biggest enemies of the empire in the future. Zhu Youxiao explained.

"Closing the country and rejecting the enemy from the country is the best choice." Han Yi suggested.

"Is it useful to close off the country? If you look at Jianyu, you will know that the entire Liaodong people are not living well, and the Westerners will become the second Jianyu or Wakou, and what I want to do is not to reject the enemy from the country, but to resist the enemy outside the country, and burn the war to other countries. Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, who are you going to send to the Netherlands?" Zhu Youxiao's words, Han Yi did not agree very much, but he was not ready to fight on this issue. Although he feels that the current emperor is ambitious and hardworking, he is a little greedy for merit, and once he decides, it is difficult for outsiders to change it, and he has to endure hardships to know that it is powerful.

In the struggle between imperial power and relative power, Zhu Youxiao has compromised, and he has now delegated many civil affairs, even the decision-making power on the appointment of officials, to the cabinet, and as long as the cabinet's vote does not conflict with Zhu Youxiao's decision-making, it will be passed by the celebrant and supervisor. But once Zhu Youxiao decides something, the cabinet has no right to interfere, and Xiangquan must also make a compromise at this time.

When Han Yi weighed the conflict between imperial power and relative power, he was also trying his best to grasp the balance, and he vaguely felt that the dialogue between Zhu Youxiao and Ye Xianggao at that time was very likely to be realized.

"Ministers, who do you think should be headed by this mission to the Netherlands?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"This mission to the Netherlands is a long way, and the people chosen must be cautious, and Your Majesty has a suitable candidate in mind?" Han Yi knew that Zhu Youxiao was the person who knew the West best, and since this matter was raised by Zhu Youxiao, there should already be a suitable candidate in his heart.

"I have a suitable candidate in my heart, what do you think of Sun Yuanhua, the head of the Ministry of War?" Zhu Youxiao asked. Sun Yuanhua is a Christian, studied under Xu Guangqi, and does not discriminate against Westerners.

"There is no objection to the minister." Han Yi replied.

"The ministers have no objections." The rest replied. At this time, in the hearts of the Chinese people, foreign countries are barbarian lands, and it is not a beautiful difference in the hearts of the Chinese people to send foreign envoys, and there are absolutely only a handful of people who are willing to do so.

"Since you all have no objections, then it has been decided, the envoy to the Netherlands represents my Ming Empire, and the status cannot be too low, Sun Yuanhua is the ambassador, and this ambassador is set in the third grade." Zhu Youxiao said.

Everyone has no opinion on this proposal, in everyone's hearts, this is for Sun Yuanhua to suffer, and Sun Yuanhua has to be given a little sweetness.

As for Sun Yuanhua's entourage, Zhu Youxiao decided that Sun Yuanhua would determine it himself.

……

The personnel of the envoy were confirmed, but at this time there was another problem, Sun Yuanhua was building a platform in Liaodong at this time to make artillery, and he would definitely not be able to arrive within three days. Zhu Youxiao had to send someone to inform the Netherlands that it would take a month for the Ming envoy to leave. For this little fork, the Netherlands does not mind, the Netherlands attaches more importance to the establishment of long-term and stable diplomatic and trade relations between the Ming Dynasty.

It was the eunuch in the palace who was sent to deliver the letter to the Dutch, and he also had a task to bring Zheng Zhilong to the palace to meet Zhu Youxiao.

"Zheng Tongshi, there is an old man who wants to see you and wants to invite you to go with the miscellaneous family." The eunuch said politely.

"Father-in-law, I don't know which old man wants to see me?" Zheng Zhilong asked, Zheng Zhilong didn't have any friends in Beijing, and he really couldn't remember who wanted to see him.

"You have seen this person, you will naturally know when you get to the place, you can rest assured, the miscellaneous family will never harm you." The eunuch swore an oath.

Zheng Zhilong thought about it and decided to take a look, although he had no friends in Jingshi, he also had no enemies, and he also felt that this eunuch seemed to have any malicious intentions, "I'll go with you." ”

"Please Zheng Tongshi get into the sedan chair." The eunuch said with a smile.

……

Although Zheng Zhilong felt that this eunuch would not harm him, he still maintained a high degree of vigilance, and soon he found that the direction they were traveling was actually the direction of the palace.