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But as His Majesty the Emperor, Zhu Youxiao knows that even the royalists are roughly divided into two kinds of people, one is an idealist who really wants to follow him to do a career, and the other is a realist who loves power and position, does not care about political opinions, and is only willing to follow the tune sung by the emperor.

But in this way, there will naturally be a struggle, a mountain.

Zhu Youxiao knows that this is inevitable and reasonable. On the contrary, these civil officials are all in agreement, and if they don't fight, it is a bad thing for themselves, the emperor.

Because in this case, these civil officials will unite against themselves.

But it can't be too much, causing a dispute between the party and the government, so that it will affect the major policies of the imperial court and the operation of the entire Ming Dynasty, and even lead to the corruption of the officials.

"Go and take a closer look at this Zuodu Imperial Shi Cao Sicheng, you Dongchang can't always keep your eyes on the officials outside, do you know what it means to be dark under the lights, the inside of the capital, especially these six departments and nine secretaries, you also have to keep an eye on it, this Cao Sicheng seems to want to go further and check that he has been close to those people recently, especially Li Mingrui."

Zhu Youxiao gave a few instructions to Liu Ruoyu.

As the emperor, he is not worried about Li Mingrui and Qian Qianyidou, but he is worried that Li Mingrui will therefore unite with Cao Sicheng, the imperial history of the left capital, if this is the case, then he will have to change the cabinet deputy assistant or a left capital imperial history.

How Dongchang secretly adjusted the officialdom, I don't want to go into details, just say that after Zhu Youxiao's feast, he came to Queen Zhang Yan.

Queen Zhang Yan is already pregnant with Liujia, and now she has a slightly convex belly, but it looks a little more maternal beauty than usual, Zhu Youxiao was never married in his previous life, frankly speaking, Queen Zhang Yan was the first woman in his two lives.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's feelings for Zhang Yan are different from others, and he naturally has a feeling of being a real relative.

"Be careful, don't get up".

Unlike Xu Fo's pregnancy, Zhu Youxiao did not go out on patrol at this time, because he had been staying in the capital, so Zhu Youxiao often took a look at Zhang Yan, and sometimes went to bed with Zhang Yan.

As soon as the feast ended, the winter sun sprinkled into the Forbidden City, and when Zhu Youxiao came to Kunning Palace, he saw Zhang Yan, who was already lying in the courtyard outside the hall basking in the sun, to get up and salute, so he ordered such a sentence.

Zhu Youxiao helped Zhang Yan sit down, and saw that Zhang Yan's forehead was slightly sweaty, so he wiped it for her, but when he just withdrew his hand, he saw Hai Lanzhu standing at the door of the palace, standing with his hands down, but he had already changed into Han clothes, his slender waist was full and he could hold it, and the peach peak was full and wanted to come out, which made him even more delicate.

Looking at this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but think of the two crazy things with this Hai Lanzhu, although he had already obtained this Hai Lanzhu's body, but during the time, the wind and moon were not happy, Hai Lanzhu did not have to be as active as Xu Fo and Zhang Yan, so that Zhu Youxiao had a sense of semi-obsessiveness both times.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't bear to approach this Hailanzhu at this moment, but thinking that he came to see his queen Zhang Yan today, not to Xuanyin in the daytime, it would be too ridiculous, so he suppressed the evil thoughts in his heart, gently put his hand on the lower abdomen of the queen Zhang Yan and touched it for a while, and said with a smile: "He seems to be moving." ”

When Queen Zhang Yan saw Zhu Youxiao like a child, she couldn't help but smile, and gently snuggled her head next to Zhu Youxiao's shoulder: "Your Majesty, I heard that you let Sister Hui Concubine go to Guanwai?" ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Yes, she is different from you, you are good at classifying cases, you can help me do some pen and ink things in the palace, and she is a person who can communicate ninth-rated, I also let her train in the Royal Military Academy for some time, and now let her go to the customs to do one thing is also prepared before, and she can't do it without her." ”

"However, Jiong'er has just been weaned", as soon as Queen Zhang Yan said, Zhu Youxiao directly interrupted her and said: "There is a guest mother with it, if it is not in the way, there is no need to mention this matter." ”

Zhang Yan had no choice but to stop talking about it, and the two chatted for a while, before Zhu Youxiao left Kunning Palace, and deliberately walked to Hai Lanzhu and paused slightly, but Hai Lanzhu did not show anything unusual on her face except for bowing with the other palace maids.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile, didn't say anything, and said, "Drive the Xinuan Pavilion." ”

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On the vast blue sea, 50 warships of the First Fleet in the North Sea and 10 cargo ships of the Royal Weaving Bureau carrying tens of thousands of silks, thousands of glass and silver mirrors, and tens of thousands of different styles of porcelain were heading in the direction of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu Kingdom is located between present-day Taiwan and Kyushu, Japan, and has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty since the Hongwu period, and the surname of the Ryukyu Kingdom is also given by the Ming Dynasty.

The current king of the Ryukyus is the king of Shangfeng, but strictly speaking, he is not the king of the Ryukyus, as long as Cheng Yuqing, a pedestrian who came to the Ryukyu Kingdom with the First Fleet of the North Sea, handed over the credentials of Zhu Youxiao canonizing Shangfeng as the king of the Ryukyus to Shangfeng.

Although the Ryukyu Kingdom is a small land, it is not a barren land, because its geographical location is between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese Kou, and it is close to the Nanyang countries, so it is a trade hub place, known as the Jinliang of all countries.

Therefore, the Ryukyu Kingdom was already very wealthy, so there was no need to worry about the tens of thousands of silk and other commodities of the Royal Weaving Bureau could not be sold in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and even in the Longwan period, the special department was after Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou and other Jingping Haijiang rebellions, and the silk trade between the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty was often hundreds of thousands, or even more.

Of course, this is not to say that everyone in the Ryukyu Kingdom wears silk, in most cases, the Ryukyu Kingdom is just a transit point, and the merchants of the Ryukyu Kingdom can still make countless fortunes by reselling the goods of the Ming Dynasty to other places.

The Royal Weaving Bureau's purpose this time, which was far less than one-tenth of the trade goods in the Longwan years, was not to take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money, but to take the opportunity of the Ryukyu King Shangfeng's accession to the throne to bring goods to the Ryukyu Kingdom to test the reaction of Zheng Zhilong and other pirates.

According to Zhu Youxiao's idea, if Zheng Zhilong really intended to belong to the imperial court, he should allow the imperial court to interfere in maritime trade, instead of relying on his Zheng Zhilong's pirates to indirectly control the maritime frontier.

Fortunately, the road to Ryukyu Country was also calm, at least so far there has been no abnormality.

The chief officer of the North Sea Fleet and Gu Sanmazi, who also held the post of commander of the North Sea Fleet, as well as Cheng Yuqing, the pedestrian director, and Wei Ming, the chief helmsman of the Jiangnan Branch of the Royal Weaving Bureau, were standing on the Daming steam-powered ship "Zheng He" at this time.

Although Qin Botong is an officer who graduated from the Royal Military Academy in the early stage, he also made up for a year of theoretical knowledge of naval warfare, but in the end he lacks actual combat experience, so this time the escort mission of the Royal Weaving Bureau, Qin Botong gave full authority to Gu San Mazi to command, and he, the chief military officer, surrendered his identity to learn from the side.

Gu San Mazi is also not polite, he has been a pirate in the Hangzhou Bay area for several years, and he has not been annexed by a sea overlord like Zheng Zhilong, which proves that he is quite level for naval warfare, and now after grinding his temperament in the Royal Military Academy for a year, not only has he become more down-to-earth and steady, but he has also loaded a lot of ink, and his theoretical knowledge has also improved a lot.

"I said Gu San Mazi, you should rest, you have nothing to look at with a telescope, this is about to arrive in the Ryukyu Kingdom, it is estimated that the people of the Zheng family will not come, if they come, they will come early."

Qin Botong is easy-going, although he is a general of the Praetorian Guard who is deeply trusted by Zhu Youxiao, and at the same time has the background of Wei Guogong, but he does not despise the pirate-born Gu San Mazi, on the contrary, not only let him take full responsibility for the escort mission, but also became friends with Gu San Mazi, not only Gu San Mazi, but also the pedestrian Cheng Yuqing and Wei Ming, the chief helmsman of the Jiangnan Branch of the Royal Weaving Bureau and the rank of the same governor, get along well.

Seeing Qin Botong say this, Cheng Yuqing, a pedestrian in the pedestrian department, couldn't help but smile and said: "Yes, Brother Gu, you just come over and rest, this breeze is blowing, the wind is calm, it is when you eat something, drink some wine, sing tunes, and recuperate, why waste your energy, how dare the people of the Zheng family really have so much courage to directly oppose the imperial court, Friend Wei, you are right." ”

Wei Ming just smiled, he was also going to sea for the first time, and he didn't know much about these things, but he was born cautious, so he didn't say much.

Gu San Mazi changed the appearance of the hippie smiling face in the past, and even lost the stubbornness of the previous half, but put down the monocular very seriously: "What do you know, the more this kind of situation seems to be more calm, the more careful you have to be, in this case, the experienced old pirate will not be able to sleep, because enemy attacks often occur at this time, but you don't have to worry about it here when the wind and waves are strong, because in that case, it is inconvenient for you to set up a formation, and it is inconvenient for the enemy army itself." ”

Gu San Mazi walked over as he spoke, stepped on the iron-clad guardrail with leather boots, took a bottle of Daming version of beer from Qin Botong's hand, poured it down and said: "The Zheng family's people are not small, wait and see, think about the original ......." ”

This Daming version of beer is also one of the products of the Royal Industries Company that has become popular recently, and is especially liked by the Janissary officers, for no other reason, in the case of the prohibition of alcoholism, this peculiar liquor made with malt essence has become the only drink they can satisfy their cravings, but this thing is not cheap, fortunately, the Praetorian Guard officers have their own dividends in the royal capital, so they can also afford to enjoy this high-standard liquor.

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While Gu San Mazi was blowing the Ming version of beer while blowing the sea breeze and telling Qin Botong and others the story of being a pirate and fighting wits and courage with the Zheng family and other pirates, not far from the First Fleet of the North Sea was a large number of ships that almost covered the entire sea area, including many large warships with three or four layers of batteries.

And the leader of them is a middle-aged man in a blue robe standing on the largest tiger-headed boat, this person is Zheng Zhihu.

Zheng Zhihu is one of Zheng Zhilong's most trusted siblings, and he is also a member of his Zheng Pirate Group.

"Second master, wouldn't it be bad for us to do this, after all, this is the people of the court, if we let them all go to feed the fish, if the court blames us, how can we be good?"

Zheng Zhilong's deputy, Zhang Liangchao, asked Zheng Zhihu with some concern.

Zheng Zhihu is also a person as his name, born a little burly, but he is also really arrogant, and snorted very disdainfully: "What are you afraid of, what people from the court, this is grandpa my territory, does he think he can come if he wants to, don't think that the people of our Zheng family are really afraid of the people of his Zhu family, in the final analysis, on land, it is their Zhu family who has the final say, but on this sea, it is the world of my Zheng family, if you want to make a fortune on the territory of my Zheng family, you have to ask me if the Zheng family agrees!" ”

Saying that, Zheng Zhihu said again: "This matter is also ordered by the uncle, although we are now going to become a member of the imperial court, but what should be taught is still a lesson, in short, the order is passed to all the brothers, this time the action must be kept strictly confidential, and it must not affect the negotiations of the imperial court on the uncle's side, and when the time comes, it will be enough to frame the matter to the Satsuma Domain." ”

Hearing Zheng Zhihu say this, Zhang Liangchao couldn't help but say again: "But second master, can you believe Zhu Youxiao, although the Satsuma Domain forced the King of the Ryukyus to recognize them as the master, but the Satsuma Domain didn't have the courage to go against the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Hmph, whether he believes it or not, he has the ability to come to the sea to crusade against our Zheng family!"

After Zheng Zhihu said this, he instructed Zhang Liangchao: "Don't gossip anymore, tell me to go down and speed up!" ”

The hard sails of the Zheng pirate group were fully opened, and under the control of their skilled Zheng sailors, they glided swiftly towards the North Sea Fleet like a sharp arrow.

On the side of the First Fleet in the North Sea, Gu San Mazi did not take it lightly because of the calm hydrological environment, and kept sending countless eagle boats to row out several miles away to guard.

Just as the sun was hanging on the southeast edge, the mist gradually dissipated due to the increase in temperature, and the whole vision became clearer, several white rays of light rushed straight into the blue sky.

This is the signal from the Eagle Boat!

Qin Botong also ran out of the cabin, and Cheng Yuqing, a pedestrian from the pedestrian department, and Wei Ming from the Royal Weaving Bureau also followed, looking at Gu San Mazi, who was already on the deck: "What's the matter?" ”

"The people of the Zheng family are still here, and Lao Tzu said that he can't take it lightly, and since he is here, let him have no return!"

Gu San Mazi turned to Qin Botong as he spoke: "Chief Officer, now we don't know how many ships and artillery there are from this Zheng family, but we have to be ready now, immediately seize the upper hand, and immediately retract the cargo ship, and protect the warship outside!" ”

Qin Botong pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Just do as you say, Lord Wei, let all the ships of your Royal Weaving Bureau gather, and at the same time order, the ships of the First Fleet immediately change their formation and prepare for battle!" ”

After Qin Botong gave the order, he said again: "Gu San Mazi, you are more familiar with naval battles than me, Zheng He will be under your command, I will go to Ningbo to command the escort of the cargo ship, remember Your Majesty's instructions, I would rather be wiped out than escape!" ”