When Firot heard that the Emperor was going to make him make an agreement, he blinked his turquoise eyes, and there was a hint of hesitation in his pupils, but when he thought that if he signed this agreement, he would be able to ascend to the nobility, and his hesitation quickly disappeared.

Then Firot wrote two agreements in two languages, this agreement ostensibly added Firot to the Chinese nobility, but in fact, this agreement also meant that Firot became a courtier of the Chinese emperor, and he must not betray, otherwise he will be punished with a thousand knives.

The seeds of corn are too little, which requires time to cultivate and promote, so as to slowly cover all corners of the land of China, in order to make corn get faster promotion.

Lewen ordered Firot to lead a dozen of his sailors, plus a group of 300 brocade guards and 500 sailors on six galleons, plus 300 musketeers from the Shenji Battalion to follow Firot to Mexico and Peru in Latin America again, not only to bring back more corn seeds, but also to bring back the seeds of sweet potatoes, peanuts, peppers and other crops on the American continent.

Receiving orders, Philot set out with the men assigned to him by Levin, and the voyage also brought with him a large number of foreign trade goods, silk, porcelain, textiles, etc.

The purpose of this voyage is obvious, that is, to open up the sea route to Europe, Zheng He has only been to the Western Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and Southeast Asia.

This time, the Daming fleet sent by Lewen is going to Europe and the American continent, which will be a new journey.

Originally, Lewen wanted to personally lead the fleet to the Americas with Ferrot to establish a base, but now the court is not very stable, and he can't get out, so he can only let Philo lead the Ming fleet to the European continent to sell the goods he brought, and then bring back the required crops, seeds and other goods.

Nowadays, the main ministers of the imperial court include Fang Xianfu, a scholar of the Cabinet University, Zhai Luan, a scholar of the Huagai Palace, and Gu Dingchen, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials.

Why did Lewen promote these three people, because these three people were depressed during the Zhengde period, but they were all famous first auxiliary ministers during the Jiajing period.

First of all, Gu Dingchen, who was appointed by Le Wen as the secretary of the ministry, has the word Jiuhe, the number is not fasting, and he is a native of Kunshan, Suzhou Prefecture. Hongzhi eighteenth year champion and first, can be said to be full of poetry and books, full of talent, but in the Zhengde years has not been reused, Lewen knew his talent and promoted him to the Ministry of Shangshu, in charge of the appointment and dismissal of civil officials, examinations, promotion, transfer, awards and other affairs.

Then he was appointed by Le Wen as a scholar of Huagaidian University, Zhai Luan, whose ancestral home was Zhucheng in Qingzhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong), was promoted to Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi and changed to Jishi.

But from the early years of Zhengde to now, it is just a Hanlin editor, and he has not been promoted for more than ten years, which can be described as depressed, but fortunately he met Lewen, and Lewen recommended him to be a scholar of Huagai Palace, and he is naturally the first to look forward to Lewen.

Then it was Fang Xianfu, who was promoted by Le Wen as a cabinet university scholar, Fang Xianfu was originally from Putian County (now Putian City, Fujian), was a Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, and was once the magistrate of a small county in Guangxi.

As a prophet, Lewen naturally promoted these three talented people but were not reused, which also made these three people his henchmen, replacing those who were disobedient, and greatly strengthening his control over the imperial court.

Now the Ming court is full of Lewen's people inside and out, even if Lewen's disguise is exposed at the moment, it is not a big deal, even if there are people who want to oppose him, they can't make any big waves.

When Lewen strangled Zhu Chenhao on trumped-up charges, Yang Tinghe was opposed, but he didn't know why His Majesty the Emperor did this, and since Lewen became the emperor, the power was firmly in his hands, and he didn't have anything to do when he spoke, even if Lewen wanted to replace Yang Tinghe, it was not a difficult matter.

There is also the Ning King Zhu Chenhao, who has always wanted to rebel, before he launched an operation, he was arrested and hanged by Lewen, and some vassal kings in the south saw the situation, and everyone was in danger, Lewen was afraid that these vassal kings would make some trouble, so he sent Zheng Liangcai to lead 100,000 cavalry and garrison them in Yingtian to prevent the kings from ****.

Zheng Liangcai is stationed in Yingtian, so it is equal

The departure of Lewen sent Firot to Europe and the United States, the starting point is Jinling, before the departure of Firot, the Taishi Cui Zhi led the troops to personally greet and see off.

When Cui Zhi left the dock with the six sailing fleets led by Firot, Cui Zhi was dressed in the python robe given by the emperor, looked at the remnant sun reflected in the light blue water and the six Ming galleons that were gradually moving away, and said to himself: "I hope everything will go well on this voyage!" ”

Standing beside Cui Zhi, Zheng Liangcai, who was also looking at the light blue ocean, dressed in silver helmets and gold armor, and looked like a general, heard Cui Zhi seem to be muttering something in a low voice, so he asked casually: "Second brother, what are you muttering?" ”

"Nothing...... It's just that I don't know why the eldest brother wants to use this red-haired foreigner so much. Cui Zhi gently brushed off a grain of dust from the python robe and sighed softly, how did he know Le Wen's good intentions.

“…… Let's go, second brother, don't think about it so much, we haven't seen each other for a long time, we must not get drunk today, haha. ”

Zheng Liangcai's current wife lives in Yingtianding Nanhou Mansion, and Shangguan Xue had already given birth to a beautiful daughter for him three years ago.

Dingnan Hou Mansion

When Zheng Liangcai was stationed in Yingtian, he suppressed some southern rebellions, and the emperor personally funded and sent people to build an extremely gorgeous mansion in recognition of his merits.

However, Zheng Liangcai disagreed, he felt that the emperor had rewarded him too little, but he didn't know that the current emperor was Lewen.

In the main hall of Dingnan Mansion, a banquet was set up, and Cui Zhi and Zheng Liangcai talked about some things that had happened inside and outside the court in the past six months while drinking.

"Second brother, did you say that the eldest brother was really sent by the emperor to do some secret mission? Why do I always feel like something is wrong? ”

Zheng Liangcai had asked Cui Zhi about this in the past, and he always felt that Cui Zhi had something to hide from him, but he couldn't tell where he was hiding it.

(To be continued.) )