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Teasing is making fun, the newspapers in Lianzhou are completely different from the propaganda of the Jingshi newspapers, so this side is still in full swing to hype propaganda, and on the other side, it is extremely smearing, so it almost didn't portray Chu as a cave man on the top of the mountain. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Chengfeng doesn't care, people laugh at people's laughter, and in the end, I don't know who laughs at whom, after a few days, the regulations of the exam have come out, Liu Chengfeng revised it, and then hit back to the political axe, so that the political axe can be implemented.

At this time, the letters of state sent to various countries had also been distributed, because of the rush of time, Liu Chengfeng's enthronement ceremony was carried out a month later, so except for some of the closer vassal states that had the king leave, the rest could only let the envoys stationed in Lianzhou participate in the ceremony.

It is said that the Jingshi side has also sent the Ministry of Rites to participate, and has prepared a lot of gifts, things seem to be going well, although Liu Chengfeng is the monarch, but after all, he is not Zhu Youjiao, and he has not yet reached the point of doing it himself, so every early in the morning, Li Dongdong and several ministers of parliament go to Chongwen Hall to finalize some major matters, and then take care of them, otherwise there are so many officials, is it here to be pets?

In short, every time Zhu Yueluo joked that Liu Chengfeng was idle, Liu Chengfeng finally used this truth to say that he had a good word, in fact, his words were reasonable, there was no him in Lianzhou back then, but he set a general strategy, and the officials at the bottom handled it in an orderly manner, although there were some failures, but the impact was not great, and now Liu Chengfeng has to ask about the affairs of the country every day, how can anything go wrong?

And what Liu Chengfeng advocates the most is to perform his own duties, everyone takes care of their own affairs, and fulfills their obligations, as for the first emperor, Liu Chengfeng can't learn.

In fact, Liu Chengfeng is not simply indulging in sound, he is thinking about another thing, the imperial court ordered him to Shizhen Nanyang, in this case, he has to find something to do anyway, since it is Shizhen, Liu Chengfeng has been thinking about how to change the existing vassal system.

The tributary system of the Ming Dynasty is really a bit miserable, this system is actually a name, there is almost no constraint on the vassal state, how can it be done without constraints? Liu Chengfeng was determined to make a drastic move, but how to change, although he already had a few clues, but the details were difficult to finalize, at this time, except for teasing Liu Feng'er, most of the time was in the study.

If ordinary people think that His Royal Highness the King of Chu is reading books in the study, it is wrong, of course, Liu Chengfeng does not mind others thinking like this, if someone mentions it, Liu Chengfeng will most likely be very brazen to reply that he lives to learn from old age, and there is no end to learning.

However, Liu Chengfeng stayed in the study, but in fact, he was sitting on a chair in a daze, reading? He is really not interested, the Four Books and Five Classics are too boring, as for the various novels that are selling well now, Liu Chengfeng feels bored, after all, he has seen the world of flowers and flowers in later generations, and then it is really a very uncomfortable thing to see the unimaginative novels and stories of this era in Liu Chengfeng's opinion, although the stories and novels of this era have increased a lot, but they are mostly the stories of talented and beautiful women, nothing more than Zhang Sheng met a certain lady, and then how to do it, Liu Chengfeng can think of the next plot almost by looking at the beginning of these stories.

Liu Chengfeng was stunned for a few days, but he didn't feel tired, at this time it was May, the weather in Lianzhou was getting hotter and hotter, fortunately, the study was relatively closed, and there was a basin of ice cubes in it, and the slightest cool air came out with the ice cubes in the study, Liu Chengfeng forgot about the heat in Lianzhou.

And at this moment, there was a palace man outside who called in a low voice: "Your Highness, the Lord of the Consulate is here." ”

"Audience?" At this time, it was noon, and usually Liu Chengfeng and Li Dongdong did not meet each other at this time, after all, Li Dongdong was very busy now, even if he wanted to come and chat with Liu Chengfeng, he couldn't spare time.

Could it be that something is wrong?

Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but say, "Call in and talk." ”

There are a lot of palace maids in the palace, the emperor gave twenty eunuchs to come with Liu Chengfeng, the number is less, but Liu Chengfeng is obviously not interested in cutting the root of people's lives to serve himself, but in order to maintain the purity of the palace, so he recruited many female officials and maids, the palace people outside listened to it, and hurriedly agreed, and then heard footsteps coming, the door of the study was pushed open, and the bright sunlight outside suddenly sprinkled in, making the study suddenly bright, Liu Chengfeng's eyes were a little unbearable for a while, I couldn't help but wipe my eyes.

Li Dongdong walked in, bowed down and said, "Wechen has seen His Highness. ”

Li Dongdong now knows how to avoid suspicion, and he never forgets to be humble at any time, Liu Chengfeng has no way to treat him, people treat him like this, Liu Chengfeng naturally put away his casual surname in front of him, and as a result, the relationship between the two people is no longer the intimate subordinate and subordinate in the past, but now it is becoming more and more monarchy.

Liu Chengfeng had no choice but to put on the majesty of a king and said, "If something happens, you will come to see you in person." ”

Li Dongdong's face was a little sad, and said: "Your Highness, something is indeed wrong, the news just came, the fleet of Wynn Comptoir went wrong, encountered pirates in the waters of Luzon, several ships full of goods were all looted by pirates, pirates killed more than 300 people, only the steward of the merchant house escaped by luck, this is the sixth incident of pirates looting merchant ships this year, the matter has spread, and now the maritime merchants are panicked......

"Is there such a thing?" Liu Chengfeng's brows furrowed, in fact, now the pirates are becoming more and more rampant Liu Chengfeng has heard of it a little, the road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high, when the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, although there were some pirates here in the South Seas, but after all, it was not a climate, but gradually because there were more and more merchant ships coming and going, and they were getting bigger and bigger, if they could rob a shipload of goods, the profits could be imagined.

There has never been a shortage of desperate people in this world, and these people gradually gathered together to become a pirate group, there are indeed a few pirates in Nanyang now, but there are not many of them, several cargo ships were plundered together, and there are more than 300 people on board, which means that these pirates are only afraid of more people.

Liu Chengfeng's face is very ugly, pirate raids are inevitable, but once they are rampant, won't they smash Liu Chengfeng's job.

Liu Chengfeng's eyes narrowed, he had just arrived here, so he didn't know anything about pirates, so his eyes fell on Li Dongdong and asked, "Is there any clue?" ”

Li Dongdong said with a straight face: "Weichen went to inquire first, one of them: most of those pirates in the South Seas are petty fights, there are not many people, and the weapons are mainly knives and guns, so they can't plunder big ships." If they encounter a big ship, they will run away in the wilderness, and they will dare to come forward and disturb them. Moreover: Wynn Firm is one of the few big firms in Lianzhou, they are traveling together in a fleet, there are a total of four lucky ships, the guys on board are all strong men, and the ships also have firearms to deal with pirates, if you want to plunder this fleet, if you can't gather five or six hundred people, supplemented by firearms, artillery is afraid that it will be difficult to succeed. However, Wechen inquired with the official in charge of shipping that there were no pirates of this scale on the surface of the South Seas, so Wechen felt that this might not be the work of pirates. ”

"It's not a pirate...... "Liu Chengfeng's eyes narrowed.

Li Dongdong continued: "And this time, the four ships of goods transported by the Wynn Firm are all weapons such as firearms and ammunition, which were transported to Luzon by a weapons workshop in the Chu State. ”

Liu Chengfeng's eyebrows locked deeper: "Since it is a firearm, why not strictly protect it?" ”

Li Dongdong said ashamedly: "In addition to the Jubao Firm, which Merchant House would specially hire a ship of guards to accompany him for protection?" Although the scale of Wynn Commercial Bank is not small, it does not have such a surplus of wealth. From Weichen's point of view, this matter is only trivial, a group of gangsters hijacked nearly 2,000 guns and a warehouse full of gunpowder and two cannons, and even four lucky ships were intercepted, Weichen was worried that there would be chaos. ”

Liu Chengfeng said with a straight face: "You just said that these are not ordinary pirates, but do you have any eyebrows?" ”

Li Dongdong was silent for a moment, and then said: "Jinyiwei's side, it seems that a little clue has been found, and they have reminded us before, saying that there are still a few ports in Lianzhou, and it is said that there are many people from Mingjiao who are active. ”

Liu Chengfeng's face was solemn, playing with the paperweight in front of the bookcase, Mingjiao moved to Lianzhou, Liu Chengfeng absolutely believed, after all, under the repeated suppression, Mingjiao has a tendency to slump, plus King Ning has fallen, they no longer have the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos, and Lianzhou is a mixture of dragons and snakes, and it is the only outlet to the sea, they are determined to operate here, naturally it is not a problem.

But if this incident of intercepting the ship is related to Mingjiao, Liu Chengfeng has to be more cautious, for these rebellious professional households, they can never be just a small fight, let alone just greedy for money and simple looting, some of them are related to Mingjiao, then Liu Chengfeng can almost conclude that this batch of cargo ships looted this time must be a deliberate arrangement of Mingjiao, and they plundered this ship of firearms, nothing more than to do something more earth-shattering.

Maybe it's today, maybe it's tomorrow, or maybe it's a month from now, maybe these chaotic parties will make a big move with these firearms.

A month later...... Liu Chengfeng suddenly thought of something, a month later will be his enthronement hall, when not only the envoys of various countries and even the king will come in person, but also the imperial court will also arrive, if something happens at this juncture.

(To be continued)