A series of actions by the Ming court in the South China Sea were undoubtedly a threat to Zheng Zhilong's survival interests on which the Zheng family depended. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As the saying goes, cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents, and what Zhu Youxiao is doing now is to cut off Zheng Zhilong's financial routes and compete for Zheng Zhilong's sphere of influence on the ocean.

This made it difficult for Zheng Zhilong to have any good feelings and expectations for the imperial court, including his generals who had already occupied enough interests in the maritime trade, and were no longer willing to let their leader Zheng Zhilong defect to the imperial court.

What they had hoped for was to nominally subordinate themselves to the imperial court, so that they could obtain a half-official position, so that their maritime interests would be more legitimized, and they could thus participate in the division of inland interests after occupying maritime interests, and become real princes.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong in history did just that, and the Ming Dynasty at that time could only accept his recruitment because it did not have its own maritime power and internal and external troubles, and could not have any other conditions.

And now Zhu Youxiao has completely suppressed the Manchu Qing forces can only be limited to the north of the Liao River to survive, not only did the peasant uprising in the Guannai not work, but the problem of displaced people has been completely solved, so the current imperial court is fully capable of freeing up its hands to bargain with Zheng Zhilong and other pirates, if you want a glamorous identity, you can exchange your own interests, the name cannot be abused, and the imperial court will not give you a noble political identity for no reason.

In this way, Xiong Wencan's appeasement work was finally declared a failure, but he did not feel the slightest frustration because of this, but couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Mixed with the desperate mediation between Zhu Youxiao and Zheng Zhilong, he was really fed up with this splint gas, and it was difficult for him to satisfy both the court and Zheng Zhilong.

Now that it is very good, Zheng Zhilong's people have completely left Fuzhou, and the imperial court has also issued an order to stop appeasing Zheng Zhilong, Xiong Wencan feels that he can also have a pot of wine among the flowers.

The imperial court did not punish Xiong Wencan for this, and even the imperial history did not impeach Xiong Wencan for dereliction of duty and ineffective work, and even made him the governor of Fujian as he wished, and ordered him to strengthen the coastal defense in case of his troubles.

Xiong Wencan was very grateful to the imperial court, not only did not demote and dismiss him because of his unsuccessful appeasement work, but promoted him to be the governor, so he did not dare to slack off after being promoted to the governor, in order to prove that he was indeed enough to be the governor of a province, he also began to immediately arrange preparations for Zheng Zhilong's pirates to raid the coast in the future.

Zheng Zhilong's side did not immediately choose to start a war with the imperial court, but the preparations for war were already continuing, he began to contact other maritime forces who had a disagreement with him before, began to purchase more artillery through various means, and he even sent eyeliners to the capital and border towns, trying to get some of the most powerful firearms in the imperial court today through the corruption of officialdom.

In addition, Zheng Zhilong is also seeking political allies, and he even sent people to find the descendants of Emperor Jianwen, although this is a bit fantastical, but according to Jinyiwei's report, it is true that many Hokkien people have suddenly appeared in several places where Emperor Jianwen has landed, and after strict interrogation, it is indeed Zheng Zhilong's person.

However, because of this, there is a person who has attracted Zhu Youxiao's attention, and this person is Zhu Youzhen!

If we talk about potential political threats, my own brother is the biggest potential threat, and it is also the best political resource for those hostile forces.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Xin can no longer let him stay in this world, even if he is His Majesty's brother, it is not only because Zheng Zhilong and other forces need most now that there is a name to confront the imperial court, if we want to further promote the new policies such as the collection of commercial taxes and the integrated payment of grain by the gentry in Jiangnan, Huguang, Henan and other places in the future, there will inevitably be more opponents, and if King Xin is here, these opponents are likely to collude with him, and another Donglin Party will appear!"

Li Mingrui saluted Zhu Youxiao, his language was very plain, but there was a murderous motive.

Zhu Youxiao didn't speak, but he also knew in his heart that what Li Mingrui said was right, since ancient times, there has been no brother Gongqian in the emperor's family, because since birth, they are destined to be inseparable from the imperial power, even in the Ming Dynasty, where the vassal king was seriously suppressed, there was still an imperial dispute.

"The matter of believing in the king, how to deal with it is more appropriate, I admit that he can't stay anymore, when he left him in the Praetorian Guard, the original intention was to let him become a pawn and then settle", Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything, but Li Mingrui already understood what he meant, and helped Zhu Youxiao continue his later words: "But what Your Majesty didn't expect was that he became one of the most warlike generals under Aobai, and now it is even more difficult to kill him rashly than at the beginning." ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and said: "Keeping him until now is also to have a situation where today's vassal kings lock the capital and make them handle all kinds of business, so as to avoid making other vassal kings more resistant to the court because of the death of King Xin, now that the matter of the vassal king has been resolved, he is indeed a big threat, but it is difficult to explain to the people of the world if he is killed directly, and it will also affect my reputation, do you have any suggestions." ”

Li Mingrui guessed that Zhu Youxiao was going to say this, so he took out a note prepared in advance from his sleeve: "Your Majesty, Weichen got a note in the cabinet today, saying that Hamiwei Turupan and intruded on my Suzhou, now we have no war with Jiannu for the time being, and there is no real war in the south, so why not revive the unfinished proposal of the Jiajing Dynasty to recover Hamiwei, and it is not necessarily really to take back Hamiwei, but just give King Xin one last chance to make meritorious contributions to the Ming Dynasty." ”

"It's okay if King Xin's army is defeated, but what if he wins?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking.

"Please rest assured that Your Majesty, the minister has his own arrangements, no matter whether King Xin wins or loses this time, he can only return the horse leather shroud", Li Mingrui smiled evilly and said, he has no hatred for Zhu Youzhen, but he now wants to ban Qian Qianyi, if there is still that matter that can make His Majesty have a headache and need to be solved urgently, only His Royal Highness King Xin, Zhu Youzhen, so Li Mingrui did not hesitate to choose to make the knife that killed Zhu Youzhen in Zhu Youxiao's hand.

"Then you will be responsible for this matter, since this is the case, let Zu Dale and other Guanning troops form the main march to the west, with Zu Dale as the general officer of the western march, King Xin and Ao Bai as the deputy commander-in-chief, and go to Tulupan next month", Zhu Youxiao said and then ordered: "Now that the strategic resources have been moved south, the military department should try to raise as much as possible about food and salary." ”

Li Mingrui took the order to go, but he couldn't help but secretly admire His Majesty today, His Majesty did not let Ao Bai and Zhu Youzhen directly lead the Praetorian Guards, but let Zu Dale's Guanning Army be the main body of the westward march, and its purpose was naturally not only to use the hands of the Guanning Army to get rid of Zhu Youzhen, who had made great contributions in the eradication of the Wu Guanning Army and already had hatred with the Guanning Army, but also to rely on the opportunity to advance westward this time, and further weaken the power of the Guanning Army that was still working for the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the Guanning army could not help but agree, because now that they have this part of the Guanning army, they can no longer compete with the Praetorian Guard, either they choose to resist the order and be completely annihilated, or they can only obey the order and march west to Turpan.