"Whistleblowing?" Malha narrowed his eyes and carefully pondered Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youzhen's question today is a bit special, and he has not been interrogated until now for his motive for plotting to assassinate Qincha.

"Malha, isn't there a reason why Bamond sold you a fire # gun?" Seeing that Malha was thinking, Zhu Youzhen immediately enlightened him, "Didn't Bamond instruct you - if you are an accomplice, the crime will be lighter, are you willing to bear all the crimes for others?" If you don't think about yourself, are you willing to let your wife and children endure the pain of being late or skinning? ”

"My lord......" Mal Hadhard suddenly shivered, and when he stabilized his figure, he felt a hint of pale green light in Zhu Youzhen's eyes, just like a hungry wolf when he first saw food, he whispered: "Bamond......"

"Malha, if you are coerced by Barmond, or if he threatens you with your family, speak out, and we will make the decision for you—the accomplice will be punished lightly, and the family will not be affected, and it will be the mastermind who we will severely punish!" From Malha's eyes, Zhu Youzhen felt that this "Li Dai Taozhuang" plan was about to succeed.

"Your Excellency......" Malha understood, it turned out that this Lord had repeatedly hinted to himself that it was Balmond who they wanted to punish severely, no matter what the reason, but this was the best time for him to get rid of his guilt, as long as he could avoid this catastrophe of destroying his family, what if he sacrificed Bamond? Now that the Portuguese army has left Malacca, Bamond no longer has the capital to bully himself, thinking of bullying, Marca is angry, just when selling muskets, it is more expensive than the price of others, and usually covets his own women, if it is not for the Ming army to drive away the Portuguese army, his own women are afraid that they will not be able to keep ......

"My lord, as long as the villain confesses truthfully, can he be forgiven by the adult?"

"That's not necessarily," Zhu Youzhen looked at Malha with his eyes, "plotting to assassinate the Ming Qincha, the crime is extremely heinous, the mastermind must be severely punished, and the accomplice can be punished lightly," Zhu Youzhen's face softened, and there was a faint smile of encouragement, "The one who can forgive you is yourself first, if you can explain the crime in detail, let us bring the mastermind to justice in time, so that we can get the forgiveness of this adult." Zhu Youzhen signaled to his own soldiers to untie Malha first.

"The villain understands, the villain understands!" Malha rubbed his sore arms and thighs, "poof", and knelt down in front of Zhu Youzhen, "My lord, the villain was confused, and he fell into the ...... of the thief" All the dirty water was sprayed at Bamond, adding oil and vinegar, making something out of nothing, pointing to the deer as a horse, nothing could be done, only unexpected, Malha went out, and even Bamond looked at his woman a few more times, and confessed on the spot.

Malha was completely like a victim, and under the coercion and temptation of Bamond, he had to ignore his conscience and do such a rebellious thing as plotting to assassinate the Great Ming Qincha.

Although Malha's confession was a little illogical, the pro-soldier in charge of recording had been properly sorted out under the instruction of Zhu Youzhen, and what Zhu Youzhen wanted was just a fact, "Malha, can you guarantee that what you say is the truth?" Will it never be retracted in the future? ”

"What the villain says is true, how dare the villain deceive the adult?" Malha smiled, "Even if Bamond is here, the villain dares to confront him." ”

"Malha can wake up and take the initiative to confess the mastermind behind the scenes, which can be regarded as saving himself," Zhu Youzhen asked Malha to sign at the end of the confession, and then put it in his sleeve, "Malha, you can't go back for the time being, when this case is completely clear, and the mastermind gets the punishment he deserves, you will be forgiven," he turned back to the soldiers behind him and said: "Take Malha down, eat and drink well, don't be lazy!" ”

"Yes, sir."

Malha kowtowed to Zhu Youzhen again to thank him, and then went out of the big tent with his own soldiers.

When Zheng Zhilong accompanied Wang Mujiu back to the barracks, Zhu Youzhen had already interrogated Bamond in the first place, and at the beginning, Bamund denied it in every possible way, but Zhu Youzhen and his own soldiers staged a delicate double reed, in order to get rid of the crime, Bamund had to point the culprit at the original Governor of Malacca, Manodi.

"Master, how's the result?"

"Zhilong, the mastermind behind the plot to assassinate Mu Jiu, it is really Ma Nuodi, it seems that Ma Nuodi is unwilling to lose the Malacca waterway, and you still regard him as a friend of the Ming Dynasty, and it is unbearable to sign a contract with him," Zhu Youzhen let Zheng Zhilong and Wang Mujiu circulate the confessions of the two, "Zhilong, immediately send additional manpower to assist Zhang Zhuo, who entered the West earlier, and quickly take down Ceylon controlled by the Portuguese as a punishment!" ”

"Master, if Manodi sends someone to ask, how should his subordinates respond? The subordinate signed a contract with Mano yet, and the ink hasn't dried yet! Zheng Zhilong smiled slightly, he knew that Zhu Youzhen was feigning anger, this was something they had agreed on a long time ago, just waiting for the Portuguese to take the bait, if the Portuguese didn't take the bait, they would even get the procedure for planting the bait.

"Zhilong don't worry, since Manodi sent assassins to Daming, is there still a sincere basis for cooperation between the two sides? There is no need to execute the contract that was originally concluded," Zhu Youzhen's face was not red and his heart was not beating, "After taking Ceylon, if the Portuguese wake up, they can re-conclude the contract," paused, and said: "The contract can be concluded, but Manoji must make more concessions, especially on the route to the West." ”

"Yes, the subordinates understand, and the subordinates will arrange manpower!" Zheng Zhilong turned around and was about to leave the account.

"Lord Zhilong doesn't need to be in a hurry, settle the affairs of Malacca, and the lord will also leave Malacca with the fleet and go to Daguang." Zhu Youzhen was originally unsure whether to go to Burma Province by sea or land, but since he wanted to send an additional detachment of the South China Sea Fleet to support Zhang Zhuo, he decided to go west with the fleet.

"Is the Lord going to personally command the battle of Ceylon?" Zheng Zhilong knew that although Zhu Youzhen grew up in the deep palace, he was a martial emperor, and maybe after destroying the Portuguese in Ceylon by the way, he might return to Beijing.

"No, the master will land in Daguang, and the matter of the war will be handed over to Zhang Zhuo," what Zhu Youzhen wants to control is the general trend, this kind of local war, he really has no interest, and he has no time to personally command, he has left the Beijing division for a long time, he will go north through Burma, Yunnan, and Sichuan, and go straight back to the Beijing division, "Zhilong, the matter of Aceh will be handed over to you!" ”

"Don't worry, my subordinates will end the war in Aceh as soon as possible, free up manpower, and control the overall situation of Nanyang as soon as possible." Zheng Zhilong's face showed a fierce light, and Zhu Youzhen had instructed that when necessary, even the Tu clan would also take the entire Aceh.

Wang Mujiu said slowly: "Master is going to return to Beijing as soon as possible, we have been away from Beijing for several months, and the officials of the Ten Divisions of the Three Academies didn't know that we came to Nanyang, thinking that we were still in Guangdong!" ”

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Zhu Youzhen followed the detachment sent by Zheng Zhilong, passed through the Andaman Sea, he stood alone on the deck, let the sea breeze blow his hair wantonly, and the little waves on the sea surface aroused his infinite reverie.

After several years of painstaking efforts, the current Ming Dynasty has been developing in the direction of modernization, whether it is the five northern provinces where the Beijing division is located, or the five central provinces and the five southern provinces, are rapidly feathering, as long as they do not have huge internal friction, the Ming Dynasty will follow its own trajectory to achieve the pace of catching up with the West.

Jiannu, who threatened the Ming Dynasty for decades, has been wiped out in his Northern Expedition, that is, the Mongolian tribes that have plagued the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, have gradually widened the distance between them and the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides are no longer opponents at the same level, and the Mongolian cavalry that once terrified the Ming Dynasty has fallen behind in front of the flintlock pistols and artillery.

Starting from Horqin, the Mongolian tribes have developed in the direction of naturalization in the Ming Dynasty, and the Heshuot who fled to Liangzang has been completely annihilated, and the remaining Chahar Department, Tumut Department, and the Dzungar Department of Warat, etc., although they temporarily maintain relative independence, as long as he returns to Beijing, the next step is the time to use the knife against them, with the Horqin Department as a template, in the face of the huge population advantage of the Han people, these Eastern Mongols who have disturbed the world for hundreds of years are very likely to be annihilated forever in the long river of history like the Xiongnu.

The Nanyang states, later generations were the eternal pain of the Central Empire, but in the hands of Zhu Youzhen, it has become several provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the first to enter the South Seas, the Portuguese and Spanish navies, have been completely expelled from the South Seas, Zheng Zhilong's South China Sea Fleet, although temporarily maintaining a strategic balance with the Dutch, but Zhu Youzhen believes that with the current development speed of the Ming Dynasty, it must be the Ming Dynasty that will break this balance in the future, not the Netherlands.

The imperial court is accumulating, Zhu Youzhen is planning, he believes that before Britain, France and other countries enter the South Seas, the Ming Dynasty will completely control the South Seas, so that the South Seas will become the South China Sea, and become an inner lake for Ming fishermen to fish at will.

Zhu Youzhen looked ahead, the light was still far away, there was only smoke and waves on the sea, because the sunlight was blocked by the clouds, the brightness on the sea was not enough, looking at it from a distance, the front was hazy, like a mirage, but he had seen a new Ming through the heavy fog.

But Da Ming has been tied to the chariot of the times, and the road ahead is still long.

In the five provinces outside the Guanguan, except for Liaoning, which is close to Shanhaiguan, the Han people in the other four provinces do not have the advantage of numbers, and there is still a long way to go to complete naturalization. Nanyang provinces, Daming has just taken over, although Daming here makes steady profits, but it will take a long time to completely become the cooked soil of Daming.

On the far east coast of the Pacific Ocean, Westerners are setting off a new round of carving-up craze, and they will not let go of even small islands; The vast expanse of Africa not only provided the West with gold and silver, sugar cane, grasslands, and black slaves, but also served as a market for their dumping products.

All these hot spots, if there is no participation or even dominance of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a real world order, Zhu Youzhen will make Westerners realize: ignoring the Ming Dynasty, sooner or later will pay the corresponding price!

On the deck of this ship, Zhu Youzhen has peeled off the fog of history, and he has only one way forward for the rest of his life.

"Master, tomorrow at noon, the ship will be able to reach Daguang!" I don't know when, Wang Mujiu climbed over from the ramp of the ship and stood silently behind Zhu Youzhen's side.

"Hmm!" Zhu Youzhen replied softly, he no longer cared too much about Daguang, an excellent Indian Ocean port, his heart had already flown back to Beijing, no matter when, only when the core ruling area of the Han nation prospered and developed, could it have the strength to stick to the frontier and expand strategic points.

The Guangzhou boat, carrying Zhu Youzhen and countless soldiers, was smoothly sailing forward in the familiar but unfamiliar sea area.