"This matter needs to be decided by the church after deliberation." Li Hailong's words really moved Urbang VIII, and if he could impress His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he could indeed achieve twice the result with half the effort. It's just that Zhu Youxiao came from a later generation and has experienced decades of atheist education, and it is almost impossible to convince him.

Li Hailong's reason was so tempting that it easily convinced the entire church leadership. Galileo was specially recruited to Rome to teach face-to-face, and then Urbang VIII prepared to send a missionary team of fifty men to accompany Galileo to the Ming Dynasty.

For this request, Li Hailong must not be able to refuse, and the two parties agreed to meet in Lisbon, and then follow Daming's ship to Daming together.

After convincing Galileo and Kepler, Sun Yuanhua began to prepare the first ships to return to the Ming Dynasty. Although Sun Yuanhua established friendly relations with all European countries, even Charles I of England was on the line, and Charles I was also considering establishing diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty.

However, in consideration of piracy and other problems, Sun Yuanhua still purchased five first-class warships and five merchant ships from Europe, and converted one of the merchant ships into a luxury steamship to carry scientists poached from Europe.

……

With the strong economic power and national influence of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao's plan in Europe was carried out extremely smoothly. The work carried out in the Ming Dynasty itself is somewhat unsatisfactory.

Yang Lian arrived in Shandong in June with the working group of the Inspectorate, but the progress in July has not been too smooth, and a few small fish and shrimp have been caught, but there is still a long way to go to solve the problem in Shandong to meet Zhu Youxiao's requirements. Dare to instigate the homeless people to smash and rob the Imperial Bank, it is impossible for ordinary small fish and shrimp to have this courage.

And now the entire Shandong officialdom seems to be monolithic in this matter, although Yuan Keli supports Yang Lian's work, but the cancellation of fire consumption damages the interests of the entire officialdom, and even Yuan Keli's cronies are not so active in this matter.

"Yuan Futai, it's already the end of July, and if the Imperial Bank case can't be resolved by the end of August, I'm afraid there will be big trouble at that time." Yang Lian said frankly.

"But Your Majesty wants to inquire into this matter himself?" Yuan Keli asked.

"Your Majesty has been dormant for more than three years, and since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, he has worked hard, even at the expense of gambling on the national fortunes of the empire, just for the sake of Zhongxing Daming. Now His Majesty wants to implement the new policy, but he didn't expect to encounter such a big resistance as soon as he left Beijing. For the Shandong Imperial Bank case, His Majesty is already furious, if the case cannot be solved for a long time, His Majesty will definitely take the first knife in Shandong, and then there will be a river of blood. Yang Lian said.

"Yang Xianzheng, can Your Majesty set a time to solve the case?" Yuan Keli asked.

"No, but according to His Majesty's character, he can't drag it out indefinitely." Yang Lian replied.

"I thought it was very likely that this matter would involve the vassal king of Shandong." Yuan Keli said softly.

"There are three princes in Shandong, King Lu, King De, and King Heng, I don't know which one is related to? Please also ask Yuan Futai to make it clear. Yang Lian immediately asked.

"I've only heard about it, but I don't have hard evidence." Yuan Keli said.

Yuan Keli has been in Shandong for several years, and many things can't be hidden from his eyes, but this time the vassal king intervened, and he was really a little worried that the final situation would not be easy to clean up. Zhu Youxiao is going to cut the domain, this is a thing that is known to the world, and it has also been included in the new policy, Yuan Keli is now worried that Zhu Youxiao will take the opportunity to cut the domain.

The vassal king of the Ming Dynasty is now in a very delicate state, as if it is like a bowstring that has been broken to the extreme, as long as Zhu Youxiao oppresses a little more, it is very likely that there will be a rebellion of the vassal king. Dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, not to mention people, although these feudal kings are raised as pigs by the royal family, but after all, they are all people with ideas, if they really don't even give food, there will definitely be one or two feudal kings who will jump out.

Yuan Keli hoped from the bottom of his heart that Zhu Youxiao would not cut the feudal domain for the time being, after all, the empire was now worried about internal and external troubles, and if the internal chaos broke out first, the enemy would definitely have an opportunity to take advantage of it at that time. All this made him not pay much attention to this matter when his people were negative about it.

"Yuan Futai is worried that His Majesty will take the opportunity to cut the domain?" Yang Lian asked softly.

"I thought this was not the time to cut the feudal domain, although the royal family and clan had caused a huge burden to the empire, but the feudal kings everywhere were extremely influential in the local area." Yuan Keli's words were only half said, but the meaning was very clear.

"I think that His Majesty's policy of settling the outside world must first settle the interior is not completely unreasonable, now the treasury is empty, a large part of the country's taxes are given to these vassal kings, and still owe the vassal kings everywhere, and there are corrupt officials and corrupt officials everywhere, and even the army has no fighting spirit, these have shaken the foundation of the empire, if it continues like this, the country will not be a country." Yang Lian said.

"The blood relationship between King Lu, King De, and King Heng and His Majesty has been estranged, if any of them are really related to the Imperial Bank case, I am afraid that Your Majesty will be heavy-handed, and you can also feel what the status of the vassal kings in the empire is now?" Yuan Keli said.

Zhu Yihai, King of Lu, Zhu Youshu, King of De, and Zhu Chang, King of Heng? There have been many generations of separation from Zhu Youxiao, as the saying goes: one generation of two representatives, these are several generations, and Zhu Youxiao can no longer talk about any feelings.

"Yuan Futai, haven't you understood it yet? We have room to act in this matter, we can control the development of the situation, if Your Majesty comes to Shandong, then there is really no room for anything, Your Majesty's trip to Shanxi You have also seen it. Yang Lian persuaded him.

Yuan Keli hesitated for a moment and said, "Yang Xianchen, you apply to Your Majesty for another two months, and I will do my best to assist you in solving this case within two months, okay?" ”

"Yes, I promise that this matter will not involve the three vassal kings, but we must dig out all the moths in Shandong, this is my duty." Yang Lian nodded and said.

……

The Shandong Imperial Bank case did involve the local vassal kings, and all three vassal kings were involved. In the whole thing, King Lu in particular also played a very important role. The damage of the new policy to the vassal kings is the greatest, and if the new policy is really implemented, the good life of these vassal kings will really come to an end.

No matter which vassal king didn't want this to happen, boycotting the Imperial Bank was the first step that the vassal kings thought of, after all, no one wanted to take such a step as a last resort. If the first article of Zhu Youxiao's new policy cannot be implemented, or even achieve good results, then the implementation of the next nine new policies will be even more impossible.

(End of chapter)