"I'm finally a warlord!"

Yang Chao didn't expect that he would eventually come to this point.

But what better option could it be said to be forced here step by step.

And it has to be a warlord, nothing else is good.

To be a loyal and brave general, you can't change the strength of the Qing army, and to be a civil servant who is determined to innovate, but you won't get anyone's support, then you can only be an arbitrary warlord in order to promote your own innovation.

"Expand the army to 300,000 in one year! Within one year, let Nanzhili's finance and tax reach 10 million taels! ”

Although he had not yet taken the power into his hands, Yang Chao immediately put forward two governance goals and began to prepare for the reform.

After Zheng Hongkui got Yang Chao's promise, he did not immediately go south, but ran around the city of Nanjing.

He needs to get the support of a group of scholars here in Nanjing, led by Wang Duo and Qian Qianyi, and there are still a group of scholars in Nanjing who have not left, and these people are all famous and appealing old scribes.

For example, Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is the leader of Donglin, and Xia Yunyi, who is the secretary of the Ministry of War, is the leader of the Restoration Society.

Soon he was supported by Qian Qianyi, who had been watching from the sidelines, fearing that Yang Chao would launch a large army to fight for power.

Now that the Zheng family has obtained Yang Chao's support, Qian Qianyi has no need to wait and see, for Qian Qianyi, Zheng's stealing of power is more comfortable for him than Yang Chao's stealing of power, at least Zheng has been stammering Qian Qianyi, Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Sen has long worshipped Qian Qianyi as a teacher.

So after finding that there was no threat from Yang Chao, Qian Qianyi happily agreed to Zheng's south, what Zheng promised him was the position of a cabinet assistant, ups and downs for decades, from the apocalypse to the mourning king, after four dynasties, Qian Qianyi entered the cabinet again, he couldn't help but be relieved, and the ups and downs of life were really exciting.

Qian Qianyi is such a person. Every move is not on behalf of them personally, but on behalf of an interest group.

As Qian Qianyi turned to support the Mourning King of Mourning, the literati of Donglin in the world began to flatter the Mourning King.

It's just that Xia Yunyi was a little hesitant, not only did he not make preparations to go south. The only move was to resign, since he couldn't be the emperor's courtier, and he didn't want to be a minion of an authoritarian general, Xia Yunyi resigned and went home, pinning his heart on the countryside. Don't ask about the world.

Zheng Hongkui took Yang Chao's promise and a congratulatory watch from a group of ministers, and then rushed to Fujian non-stop.

The details of the agreement he made with Yang Chao had already sent someone back to Fujian.

Although the Zheng family paid a great price, Zheng Zhilong still felt that his younger brother had made a great contribution.

Needless to say, three million taels of silver, it was not a matter for the Zheng family at all.

As for Nan Zhili, they were handed over to Yang Chao, although it was a pity, but the Zheng family weighed it, and with their strength, they couldn't compete with Yang Chao. Anyway, Nan Zhili is almost all under Yang Chao's troops, and it is unrealistic for the Zheng clan to control here.

Counting it, the Zheng family didn't pay anything, and it was just a promise from Yang Chao in vain.

And let Yang Chao stand up to it in Nanzhili, the Zheng family can be more at ease to coerce the princes of the Son of Heaven, otherwise they will have to face the threat of the Qing army, if you want to fight a naval battle, no one in the Zheng family is afraid, the Portuguese can defeat the Indian and Arab coalition forces with 19 warships 2,000 warships, but the Dutch have hundreds of more powerful warships. The Zheng clan can also be defeated by himself, and the Zheng clan's power at sea is national.

But the giants of the sea are dwarfs on land, their brave sailors. There is no discipline at all, and when there is no way to retreat at sea, it is really desperate, but on land, the slightest difficulty in the battle will be crushed.

So simply give up the land to Yang Chao. The Zheng family specializes in the sea, and Yang Chao's heart is not too dark, at least he left Guangdong, Guangxi and Zhejiang for the Zheng family, Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces combined, enough for the Zheng family's strength to expand tenfold.

Because of the occupation of Guangdong and Zhejiang, it means that Zheng will no longer be controlled by others in the future, the source of sea trade they are equal to firmly in their hands, the silk of Hangzhou in Zhejiang is not lost to Suzhou at all, Guangdong is also a silk production area, although the quality is slightly poor, but it is still possible to sell to the Dutch.

In this way, the Zheng family could supply Japan with Hangzhou silk and Guangdong silk to the Dutch, and from then on, they really entered the sea and lost their bonds.

Jiangnan Yang Chao's attitude soon infected others, Ding Kuichu, the governor of Liangguang, and Zhang Bingwen, the governor of Zhejiang, led the officials of Liangguang and Zhejiang to support them, and even He Tengjiao, who was only left in the south of Huguang (later Hunan), also recognized the mourning king on behalf of the civil officials of Huguang, so after Zheng Hongkui returned to Fujian, the Zheng family immediately began to mourn the enthronement ceremony of Zhu Cihuan, the king of Ling.

Yang Chao was very cooperative and sent people to watch the ceremony.

After the enthronement ceremony, Zhu Cihuan ascended the throne, the year name Longwu, and the next year will be the first year of Longwu.

Then there was the great feudal hero, Qian Qianyi entered the cabinet as he wished, but at this time he found that the cabinet of Emperor Longwu seemed to be too big, and more than 20 famous scribes were found from all over the country.

Huang Daozhou, Jiang Dejing, Su Guansheng, He Wuyu, Huang Mingjun, Chen Zizhuang, Lin Xuji, Zeng Ying, Zhu Jizuo, Fu Guan and other scholars more than 20 people, Qian Qianyi with great prestige, can only be ranked second, originally he wanted to compete for the first assistant, behind the support of the Zheng family, it should be said that he was captured, but unfortunately he led the civil and military surrender with Wang Duo outside Nanjing, at this time the braid on the head had just been cut off, there was no hair on the head, and it was taken out by the Zodiac Zhou to say something, and there was no hope immediately.

Wang Duo also went to Fujian, but he was also attacked by the Zodiac Zhou, Wang Duo's face was obviously not as thick as Qian Qianyi's, and he resigned directly.

Zhu Cihuan can invite so many scholars, it doesn't mean that he is really broad-minded, he really tries to excite, but it is just to balance the Zheng family, and it is precisely the need for so many civil servants to endorse their behavior, otherwise they are a military general, or a pirate background, to support an emperor, I am afraid not many people recognize, but there are so many great Confucians, it is different, these people's protégés and former officials are all over the world, they have entered the cabinet, and those civil officials who are local officials will support this court, Only then can the Zheng family coerce the Son of Heaven to order the world.

But some infighting is essential.

During the first court meeting of the new emperor, the Zheng family clashed with the civil official group.

Zheng Zhilong relied on his role in Zhu Cihuan's ascension to the throne, and thought that he was the first minister.

So when he was in the court, he was crowded in the first place, which made the first auxiliary minister Huang Daozhou dissatisfied, and directly reprimanded him in the court, saying that Zheng Zhilong had no courtesy, and the ancestral lord had never been at the head of the class as a precedent, Zhu Cihuan supported Huang Daozhou, and Huang Daozhou stood in the first position as he wished.

However, Zheng Zhilong was unhappy, and the emperor showed a disobedient attitude as soon as he ascended the throne, which made them a little embarrassed.

But some people were happy, on behalf of Yang Chao to come to the Huangfeng Mansion of Emperor Longwu, the new emperor, he was not only happy, but simply excited.

Huang Fengfu didn't expect that he, a little scholar from a humble background and no fame, would also be in the same class as the famous Confucian and meet the Son of Heaven together.

The appointment of the Son of Heaven made Huang Fengfu very excited, and the emperor confirmed in the court that Yang Chao was guarding Nanzhili, and one of the Nanzhili should be returned to Yang Chao for military expenses.

Nan Zhili finally arrived.

This is what really makes Huangfengfu's heart move.

Huangfengfu took Emperor Longwu's holy decree, official vouchers and other things, and after retreating from the dynasty, he rushed back to Nanjing non-stop, and the power was in his hands, and he must be sent to Yang Chao immediately.

But he didn't know that after he left, after Emperor Longwu Zhu Cihuan retreated to the inner palace, he suddenly broke out and broke an unknown number of cups.

"Rebels and thieves! Rioters and thieves! ”

He shouted and cursed.

Naturally, he scolded Yang Chao.

On that day, the emperor abandoned the city and fled, and the two brothers Zhu Cihuan and Zhu Cizhi were lonely, and Zheng Hongkui found them at this time.

Everything that happened later was so coincidental that Zhu Cihuan thought that he was really destined to return.

They fled to Fujian with Zheng Hongkui at the beginning, just to save their lives, their two brothers are different from Zhu Cihong's two brothers, their two brothers were born to Tian Guifei, Tian Guifei and Queen Zhou were opponents of Gong Dou when they were in the palace, so their two brothers have been unpleasant to Zhu Cihong since they were young, and their mother instilled in them the concept of struggle every day.

Almost since he was a child, Zhu Cihuan had the ambition to overthrow the prince and become the emperor in the future, but unfortunately, he was a son-in-law, and in the end the city of Beijing was broken by Li Zicheng's thieves, and his status as a prince was still so valuable, and he still became an emperor in Nanjing.

Although Zhu Cihong did not treat Zhu Cihuan's brothers well, and gave them a house to live in Nanjing, but he should be rich, and the third prince Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong is more than a step behind, the two brothers live in the palace, the slave is only one or twenty, and the one is only one thousand taels, eating and drinking is not worrying, but it is difficult to be rich and expensive, but it can only accept fate.

Later, it was reported that the Qing army was about to fight to the city of Nanjing, when the emperor abandoned the city and fled, the two brothers were frightened, although their lives were unsatisfactory, but they would not starve, at least not to die, but the Qing army did not know when they came, so they were very panicked.

But they are different from Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cijiong can still go to his sister Zhu Yujiao for the first time, Zhu Cihuan and the brothers have no friendship with Zhu Yuanjiao, and after trembling in the palace for a day, they met Zheng Hongkui in Fujian.

Zheng Hongkui had soldiers under him, and he was willing to escort them to Fujian, but the two brothers couldn't ask for it.

As a result, when they arrived in Fujian, they heard that the emperor was captured, and they became bargaining chips in the hands of the Zheng family, and encouraged the two brothers to come out to supervise the country and compete for power.

But the price was that the entire Nanzhili was given to Yang Chao, which made him angry and abnormal, when he became the emperor, he had to be held hostage, he hated to swallow Yang Chao alive, and the new hatred and old hatred were all thought of at once. (To be continued.) )