In the evening, Zhu Daolin, who had been busy all day, had dinner with his family, took a bath and changed clothes under the service of his wife and concubine, and talked to Xu Fu, who was becoming more and more mature and charming, about the music school that was about to be capped at the foot of the east mountain, and then went to the back study alone, ready to review the training plan of Shangyuan Institute.

The lights in the back study were bright, and there were faint sounds of a few slight conversations.

Zhu Daolin, who came to the small courtyard, did not rush in, but played with his dog Mulan and his six cubs for more than ten minutes, telling Mulan that he would take it out after it was weaned.

Zhu Daolin's back study does not look conspicuous on the outside, but the interior decoration and layout are unique, the main hall in the gate has been changed by Zhu Daolin into a conference room, the small study in the south has become a quiet tea room for casual chat, the large bedroom on the north side of the main hall is now a library with a three-sided bookcase, but there are only more than a thousand books on it, and a large number of industrial books and military books are still lying in the boxes in the underground secret room.

Eight mahogany pillars with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters support a huge space of 150 square meters, and near the wide windowsill is a 3-meter-long, 1.5-meter-wide rosewood desk, connected to a 1.5-meter-square rosewood table, on which is placed a huge globe brought back by Zhu Daolin from modern Hong Kong.

Under the bright candlelight, Ye Liangchen and Zhu Daolin's two outstanding disciples whispered around the exquisite globe, and when they saw Zhu Daolin coming in with a smile, the three of them immediately left the globe and saluted respectfully.

Zhu Daolin walked up to the tall and thin disciple with a scar on his forehead, and touched his head kindly: "Haoran, have you kept up with your homework?" ”

"The disciple followed, and the arithmetic test score the day before yesterday was excellent."

Zhou Haoran replied respectfully, this ten-year-old orphan who was extremely talented in martial arts was very diligent, and he still didn't know where his hometown was. I only remember that my family lived by the river, and my father who died on the way to escape was called Zhou Bencang, and the mother who left him was called Zhou Huang, and his milk name was Haozi, and the name Zhou Haoran was given for him by Zhu Daolin, who he regarded as his father.

Zhu Daolin nodded with satisfaction and turned to the other thin disciple: "Jian Xuan." You don't seem to have any flesh on your little body! Eat more and eat more meat. ”

Ye Liangchen on the side couldn't help laughing, the two children also laughed, Zhu Daolin motioned to the two disciples to be free, stepped forward to help Ye Liangchen, and went to the official room to the west of the library.

The two well-behaved disciples quickly sent two cups of hot tea, and then returned to the library and continued to discuss in a low voice around the brass globe where the Three Treasure Eunuchs had gone.

Ye Liangchen drank the fragrant tea and asked slowly, "What are your plans for the Yangzhou Wang family?" ”

"In a few days, please ask the Duke of Wei to transfer a few warships. Our Shangyuan Institute dispatched three ships, led by the instructor of the Franc machine to lead the new 200 veterans and 300 soldiers to cooperate with the operation, to crack down on all the salt smuggling ships on the line from Zhenjiang to Jiangyin, and then I will find a way to buy back a batch of refined salt from Tianshu Pavilion and sell it in large quantities at 30% of the market price, so as to disrupt the entire salt market in Jiangnan first. Zhu Daolin made no secret of it.

Ye Liangchen shook his head: "Although doing this is relieving, it can indeed hit the key point of the Wang family, I don't know if the adults have thought about it." Although the Wang family is rich and rivals the country, it is among the powerful forces in the entire southeast. If it weren't for the marriage of two generations and gradually gaining the acceptance of the powerful forces in the southeast, the Wang family, whose ancestors moved from Shanxi, would have been a wealthy salt merchant. ”

Zhu Daolin sighed: "How could I not know that the real black hand is hiding behind the Wang family? But their methods are too inferior, too vicious, and they don't give them a little color. Maybe I'll come again. ”

Ye Liangchen waved his hand: "What the Donglin Party people have done for more than ten years has clearly and unmistakably told the people of the world that they will not continue to abide by the rules of officialdom and the rules of the rivers and lakes for thousands of years, and there is only success or failure in their eyes." In their opinion, there is no distinction between fair and despicable in all means, the difference is only effective and ineffective, as long as the goal is achieved, this should be very clear to adults. ”

Zhu Daolin realized, put down the teacup and looked at Ye Liangchen intently: "Please Master Ye for advice!" ”

Ye Liangchen didn't say the plan directly, but took out a document from the drawer under the desk, put it on the table and patted it gently:

"Please tell me bluntly, at the risk of being beheaded, what is the ultimate purpose of signing this 56-paragraph agreement with the Governor of Luzon of Spain in the name of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies in Nanjing, and trying his best to obtain a freshwater port in the northwest corner of the island of Taiwan?"

Zhu Daolin smiled: "I don't believe in Master Ye's wisdom, I can't see what I, Zhu Daolin, want to do." ”

Ye Liangchen smiled slightly: "If you want to say that you can't see it at all, it's a lie, but I really don't understand it, because there are too many variables in it." ”

"Master Ye might as well tell me, what are the variables here?" Zhu Daolin asked with a smile.

Ye Liangchen still didn't understand the meaning of Zhu Daolin's school examination, and said his inference with a slight smile: "When the Lord handed over this agreement to me for review the night before yesterday, I saw the ambition and lofty vision of the Lord from it, and I vainly speculated that the Lord was going to use the plan of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, cut off the sea trade that the southeast forces had benefited from for decades, and the Zheng family, which dominated Fujian and controlled nearly half of the Ming Dynasty's sea trade, I am afraid that it was also in the calculation of the adults, otherwise the adults would not have paid so much energy and financial resources for a small port on a wild island!" ”

"In the past two days, I looked at the globe in the adult's study, and finally found the location of the freshwater port to understand, this little-known freshwater port, the strategic position is very important, with the adult's strong financial and military capabilities, as long as you occupy the freshwater port and form an alliance with the Spaniards and other Francos, maybe it will not take two years, you can completely cut off all the sea routes in the southeast."

"At that time, I am afraid that the Japanese route of the Zheng family in Fujian will also be in the hands of the adult, which means that the adult has made up his mind, not only to clean up the southeast of the country, but also to fight a life-and-death naval battle with the Zheng family in Fujian, the ultimate goal is to completely control all the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty!"

"The above is the result of my hard thinking in the past two days, if you are offended, please also ask Lord Haihan."

Zhu Daolin frowned: "Has Master Ye forgotten the north?" Don't you see my loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and support for the emperor? I donated copper, artillery and money to the emperor again and again, and spent huge energy and financial resources to rebuild the Nanjing Firearms Factory, rebuild the Jiangnan Navy Division for the Ming Dynasty, and recruit and equip tens of thousands of troops for the Nanjing Governor's Office, is it just to control the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Ye Liangchen was silent, lowered his head and looked at the teacup in front of him, his breathing was slightly short, and his face was uncertain. (To be continued......)