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In addition to the East China Sea Fleet, which is still being ordered to search for Zheng Zhilong's whereabouts, the North Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet are ready to return home.

After this war, it will mark the gathering of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, the obstacle to the development of the Ming Dynasty maritime trade, that is, the Zheng pirate group was completely disabled, and the entire coastal sea trade of the Ming Dynasty will be completely controlled by the private merchants and pirates to be controlled by the imperial court, so as to truly benefit the people's livelihood.

The sea water stained red by the fierce battle and the countless corpses and wooden blocks floating on the surface of the sea began to gradually settle by the sea, and when the sun rose the next day, it was as if history had opened the picture scroll of the heart.

Regardless of whether Zheng Zhilong was caught or not, his decades-long maritime hegemony was completely destroyed by the imperial court, but the imperial court also paid a lot of price for it.

Although the damage to the three fleets is not small, although the damage to the three steam-powered ships "Zheng He", "Yu Qian" and "Xu Da" is not serious, and at most they need to be transported back to the Daming Ship Administration Bureau for re-repair, but other warships have also been sunk a lot, especially the small warships that play a vital role, almost many of them are people and ships are crashed into the sea by enemy ships.

The North Sea Fleet lost more than 30 ships, the South China Sea Fleet lost more than 50 ships, and the East China Sea Fleet lost more than 40 ships.

But as long as it wins, for the young Ming Navy, this may just be a coming-of-age ceremony, maybe this coming-of-age ceremony is a bit costly, nearly half of the cadets trained by the Royal Military Academy and the Daming Ocean Academy have died, but I have to admit that this is a rare tempering.

At least figures like Gu San Mazi, Qin Botong, and Heiwa, who were unknown in history, began to become famous in this time and space.

The Zheng pirate group was defeated by the three fleets of the Ming court within a few days, and its main force was almost lost, which not only won a good start for the Ming navy to protect the maritime rights and interests of the Ming Dynasty, but also deterred other pirate groups.

For example, the Li Kuiqi pirate group, which was also quite powerful, maintained a neutral attitude from vacillation, and expressed to Shang Zhou Zuo, the governor of Liangguang, that he was willing to accept the reorganization of the imperial court and was willing to not have any official position, and only hoped that he would be allowed to study at the Daming Ocean Academy.

In addition, the fiasco of Zheng Zhilong's pirate group also forced early Western colonists such as Francos and Red Ghost to begin to re-examine the ancient Eastern empire of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, because of the death of Baron Turia, these Westerners already had the idea of teaching Daming a lesson, but at this moment, after seeing the strength of the Daming Navy, coupled with the huge market of hundreds of millions of people in Daming, they had to remain silent at this moment.

As the highest representative of the Dutch East India Company in the Pacific, Wilmingson even expressed his desire to visit the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao through Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian.

The red ghosts, who were already accustomed to using violence to open the doors of other countries, began to pick up the commercial methods he used to use to communicate with Da Ming, which naturally showed that they had become afraid of Da Ming's strength.

Zhu Youxiao did not rush to reply to these Western powers who began to show favor, as the king of the Celestial Empire, although he had to admit that these Western people were the biggest opponents of his Ming Dynasty and even the entire Oriental civilization system in the next few hundred years, and this opponent was not only a challenge to the Eastern civilization in terms of force, but also its ideological civilization system, according to the original historical trajectory, in the next few hundred years, the Eastern civilization will be suppressed like never before, and gradually lose its status as the world's mainstream ideological civilization.

Zhu Youxiao was only the governor of Liangguang, Shang Zhouzuo, and the governor of Fujian, Xiong Wencan, and other local governors first contacted these Westerners.

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The eradication of Zheng Zhilong's pirate group is not a commendable good news for the gentry along the coast, especially in Fujian and Zhejiang.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao's policy of opening the sea has always been resisted by these gentlemen, but now Zhu Youxiao's imperial power is very heavy, and these gentlemen dare not say more, at most there are a few radicals who say that the ancestral system, and some people say that the troubles of pirates today are caused by the scourge of Longwan switch.

Zhu Youxiao was also unceremoniously killed a few officials who were relatively jumpy on the grounds of slandering the first emperor, and strictly ordered Jinyiwei to vigorously investigate the local squire forces that were linked to the Zheng pirate group.

Moreover, taking advantage of the opportunity of mobilizing a large number of Praetorian Guards to come to the south to encircle and suppress the pirates, many local forces that had colluded with the Zheng pirates were eliminated, so that the Zheng pirates had less support and assistance on land, and these coastal gentry did not dare to collude with the Zheng pirate group.

Now that the pirates are eliminated, it is natural to open the sea, which means that from now on, more than half of the profits brought by the maritime trade will flow from the coastal bureaucrats and gentry landlords to the imperial court, especially the royal capital.

The bureaucrats and gentry along the coast were naturally unwilling, but they were also helpless, they thought that Zheng Zhilong's pirate group would be able to make the imperial court suffer a little, and then let the civil official group they relied on take the opportunity to attack it in a group to force His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao to abandon the policy of opening the sea.

But what they didn't expect was that the imperial court would actually win a big victory, and now it has reached the point where it has to open the sea.

Zhu Youxiao also knew that once he opened the sea, he would touch the interests of vested interest groups in many places, and these scholars and doctors who had risen by studying and doing business were unwilling to take away their back gardens by opening up the sea trade in a big way.

Now that the Rakshasa Kingdom in the north is approaching step by step, and the Jiannu forces are rising again, Zhu Youxiao is not good enough to directly use the imperial power to open the sea in an all-round way to avoid causing major turmoil.

However, he had clearly instructed that in order to stabilize the coastal situation, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and Shang Zhouzuo, the governor of Liangjiang, were specially ordered to carry out a partial opening of the sea, that is, the imperial court would manage the maritime trade, and the local people would be allowed to conduct maritime trade under the control of the imperial court.

Due to the barren land and proximity to the sea, Fujian and Guangdong have a strong commercial culture, which is also acceptable to the opening of the sea, and is also in line with the interests of most of the local low-level people, so there is no need to worry about too much resistance.

Xiong Wencan is a native of Luding County, Sichuan, and Shang Zhouzuo is also a native of Shaoxing, both of whom belong to traditional gentry families, so they are not involved in the profit struggle of maritime trade, so Zhu Youxiao's instructions can also be strictly implemented.

However, the coastal gentry, who had been trying to occupy the interests of the sea and were not willing to give up easily, expressed their indignation to the imperial court and Zhu Youxiao in another way!

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Because Shang Zhouzuo, the governor of Liangguang, had already set up the Municipal Shipping Promotion Division earlier, and successfully opened up the situation in the Pearl River Delta with Guangzhou, Xin'an, and Macao as important places, and gradually formed a thriving image, and even Shang Zhouzuo also got the title of prince and young master and the reward of one percent of the tax paid by the Guangzhou government for a year.

Therefore, for Xiong Wencan, who has a persistent pursuit of utilitarianism, seeing that the two Guang people are making a lot of money for the imperial court and collecting a lot of silver, he also has to be anxious, thinking about doing business as soon as possible in Quanzhou and Xiamen.

For this reason, Xiong Wencan did not wait for the people of the Royal Weaving Bureau and the Royal Industrial Company to take the initiative to come to Fujian to contact, he first sent his cronies to Nanjing to find Mao Yisheng of the Royal Weaving Bureau, and also contacted Gong Yonggu of the Royal Industrial Company, in addition, he also contacted dozens of more famous tea merchants and silk merchants in Fujian and Zhejiang, in order to start Fujian's maritime trade as soon as possible.

Xiong Wencan did not wait for the imperial court to allocate money, so he first borrowed money from the Fujian branch of the Royal Bank, built the Fujian City Shipping Division, and organized migrant workers to renovate the ports in Xiamen and Quanzhou, and also built a dock and trained sailors and professional maritime trade personnel.

Xiong Wencan also showed great enthusiasm for the initiative of the red ghost to come to contact, unlike Shang Zhouzuo, the governor of Liangguang, who had no good impression of the West because he was often harassed by the West in the Liangguang area, Xiong Wencan did not have a strong sense of hatred for these West fans.

These red ghosts are the god of wealth to him, so as soon as Xiong Wencan came into contact with these red ghosts, he immediately reached an agreement with them, that is, how he, the governor of Fujian, would encourage them to come here to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

This day is the day when Fujian opens the sea and the market, so it is natural to celebrate

Xiong Wencan, as the governor of Fujian, naturally wanted to attend such an occasion, and he also went to the countryside to follow the customs today, personally went to the Mazu Temple that the Hokkien people believed in to pay respects, and even had fun with the people, personally stepped down from the sedan chair, talked with some local coastal vendors, and asked them about their lives and opinions on the opening of the sea.

Although half of the reason why Xiong Wencan, as an old bureaucrat who has been in the officialdom for decades, did this to show the brocade guards who were secretly observing, and through these brocade guards, it was passed on to the ears of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao, but his ability to take action also shows that he is a little capable, at least he listens to Zhu Youxiao's words.

However, what is unexpected is that after Xiong Wencan worshiped the Mazu Temple, he had close discussions with the squires and wealthy merchants in Fujian and Zhejiang, as well as representatives of the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau.

Suddenly, Xiong Wencan fell to the ground, and a blood hole suddenly appeared in his chest, and blood gushed out.

The Governor's guards immediately rushed over, but they did not find any suspicious people except for a puff of black smoke that suddenly disappeared into the doorway.

The secret whistle of the Jinyi Guard, who had been secretly observing, was also surprised by this, and couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice to the other Jinyi Guard: "Someone actually assassinated Xiong Zhongcheng, immediately Pegasus informed Your Majesty!" ”

Xiong Wencan looked at the ceiling with empty eyes at this time, his hand covered his chest that was still bleeding and he didn't know what to say, but he was also extremely remorseful in his heart, how could he be shot suddenly in a good manner.

The other squires and wealthy merchants present also stood up in shock, but they were all panicked and at a loss.

The dignified governor of a province was assassinated, and the entire city of Fuzhou was naturally under martial law, and these merchants from Fujian and Zhejiang and representatives of the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau could only stay here and could not leave at will.

Zhu Youxiao also quickly learned the news of the assassination of Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian.

Bang!

The broken vase is enough to express the anger in Zhu Youxiao's heart at this time, although it was Xiong Wencan who assassinated him, but this was obviously a slap in the face of the emperor.

Because the main messenger and advocate behind all this in Fujian is himself, His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

But now, someone blatantly assassinated Governor Xiong Wencan in public, which made Zhu Youxiao angry.

"It's really unreasonable, we must strictly investigate, strictly investigate to the end!"

Zhu Youxiao roared angrily, at this time he had a feeling that his dignity was trampled on, he couldn't believe that he had defeated the strongest opponent, and there were still people singing against him at this time.

Li Mingrui saw Zhu Youxiao's red eyes, so he had to stand up and say: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger, these people dare to kill Xiong Wencan, their intention is obviously not Xiong Wencan, this is like the death of Zhang Jing during the Jiajing period, these all show how powerful those who oppose the imperial court behind the scenes, even a good official like Xiong Wencan will be like this, not to mention other people, so Your Majesty, we must not take it lightly, Weichen implores to strengthen the protection of important ministers of the imperial court, and orders Dongchang to severely crack down on these reactionary forces, It is no longer possible for the Donglin Party and the Restoration Society to emerge again after being beaten. ”

"What Aiqing said is very true", Zhu Youxiao nodded and immediately ordered Dongchang to solve the assassination of Xiong Wencan within one month, and at the same time ordered Dongchang to strengthen the protection of important bureaucrats in various provinces, such as Lu Xiangsheng, Yuan Keli, Ma Shiying, Sun Chengzong, Shang Zhouzuo, etc.

Xiong Wencan was lucky not to die immediately because of a shot, but fortunately, now Daming has begun to popularize public hospitals in all parts of the province, and public hospitals have also been set up in Fujian, and surgical talents have also begun to be available.

As soon as Xiong Wencan was assassinated, he was immediately sent to a local public hospital in Fujian, and after a simple treatment, he received Zhu Youxiao's special approval to let Xiong Wencan take the royal boat and take the green channel to the capital to rush to the capital for treatment in the Daming Royal Hospital.

For Xiong Wencan's life, Zhu Youxiao must be protected, not because Xiong Wencan is an official, but because he can't let the reactionary forces achieve their goal, that is, they think that assassinating a few governors can deter the entire Ming officialdom, forcing many ministers who do practical things to no longer dare to do practical things for the imperial court.

Although Xiong Wencan was assassinated, Zhu Youxiao had no intention of stopping Fujian's sea-opening business, but he could not find a suitable candidate for governor for a while.

Not even a few civil officials mentioned this matter for a while, and it was clear that no one wanted to do it, because everyone knew that once he sat in this position, he would be conspiracy to take away the wealth of many people.

But in the end, there was still a household head named Bi Ziyan, Mao Sui, who recommended himself.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be overjoyed, you must know that in this case, there are still people who dare to go to the troubled waters of the governor of Fujian, which is enough to make people admire.

So, Zhu Youxiao immediately summoned this official named Bi Ziyan on the platform, and instructed many things, and immediately promoted this Bi Ziyan Four Grades to the right rank of imperial history to govern Fujian.