Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen always carries his laptop with him, although there are no satellites here, and there is no automatic navigation! But this computer can measure speed and wind, which makes Zheng Zhihu envious.

"My lord, all the things in this court have already advanced to this field?" Zheng Zhihu watched Jian Xunlou fiddle with the keyboard, crackling something.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, "There will be in the future, this is a secret of the imperial court!" ”

The Yangtze River Estuary has a unique configuration. It is trumpet-shaped on the plane, with a width of 5.8 kilometers at the narrow mouth and 90 kilometers at the wide mouth. 6000~7000 years ago, the mouth of the Yangtze River was a drowning valley-shaped estuary bay, and the top of the bay was in Zhenjiang and Yangzhou. In the past 2,000 years, the beach on the south bank of the estuary has been advancing seaward at an average speed of 1 km in 40 years, and there are sand islands on the north bank that have been merged one after another, and the width of the mouth gate has been narrowed from 180 km to 90 km.

In the next four days of sea voyage, Zheng Zhihu was very delicate, did not dock, and kept traveling within a range of forty or fifty miles from the shore! He knows the whole route inside out

When Zheng Zhihu was about to arrive in Yangzhou, he found Jian Xun Lou alone, "Lord Zhen, tomorrow I will go to Hekou Bay on the outskirts of Yangzhou, and the Yangzhou battalion is stationed there, and the garrison is very strict!" We can only get you as close to the camp as possible by sending you in a small boat late at night. ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen nodded, "Okay, just do as you say, I don't need your help." Tomorrow. You let the boat send me to the west factory first. You yourself let 300 strong sailors ambush at the landing site to respond! You count the time, and after an hour, use your warships to block the river, if it is a peaceful seizure of power, it is naturally best, if there is a fight, as long as the defenders of Nanjing do not come to the rescue! You're done! ”

Zheng Zhihu nodded, and the inspection of Xunlou arranged it like this. It was exactly what he meant, he helped, but he didn't have to fight directly, it couldn't be better, "It's just, my lord, you are eighty people, can you do more than 10,000 officers and soldiers?" ”

As Zheng Zhihu spoke, he revealed the true nature of a pirate.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen smiled faintly, "They are not officers and soldiers. Don't forget, we are the officers and soldiers. If they don't obey us, they are thieves! We are the people of the emperor's side! ”

Zheng Zhihu patted his head and grinned, "Yes, yes, what the adults remind me is, look at me." Tomorrow, I'll go with the adults, right? ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, "No, you can command on the ship, and you will be improvised, if you can't beat us, you still have to take us away." ”

Zheng Zhihu nodded, and on the map of the Xunlou Tower, the place where the landing was made, the location where the river was blocked, and the possible route of reinforcements from Nanjing to Yangzhou were all marked. Although he didn't quite believe that Jian Xunlou could wipe out a big battalion with such a few people! But in the end, I admire the courage of Xun Tower!

After Zheng Zhihu left, Yang Qicong, who had not been in contact with Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, came in to ask for a meeting, and Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen probably knew what he was going to say.

As soon as Yang Qicong closed the door, he knelt down and said in sign language, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, tomorrow the emperor will be on the boat, this matter, I will take people to go, the emperor is a body of gold, and you can't take risks." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, motioned for Yang Qicong to get up, and on the map, he drew a few important targets marked by Zheng Zhihu just now, and told Yang Qicong about the plan.

"I must go, you don't need to say it, if it doesn't succeed this time, Daming basically can't be saved, and you have seen the food shortage in the capital! If you can't take Yangzhou and Nanjing, the problem of feeding millions of people will not be solved, and you will immediately build slaves, hungry, and don't you wait for death? Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen smiled and gestured to Yang Qicong what he meant. In his previous life, he reused He Fengsheng and knew sign language.

With tears in his eyes, Yang Qicong once again expressed his disagreement with the emperor's risk.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, "Don't say it, I have made up my mind, let's execute it!" ”

After Yang Qicong left, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen quietly thought about state affairs alone, the reason why he restricted the eunuchs from going out of Beijing, of course, when he went out with him, it was not counted, and the trial power of Jinyiwei was taken away, all so that the officials could regain their integrity!

In the last life, when Emperor Chongzhen was in power, there were major cases of corruption in the imperial history one after another.

The imperial historian patrolled Huai and Yang, and collected more than 100,000 taels of stolen silver confiscated in the treasury into his own pocket, and later inspected the salt affairs, and took possession of 200,000 taels of stolen silver stored in the zài treasury by his predecessor.

The officials protected each other, had a deep relationship, and bribed with "tens of thousands of gold" to get the protection of the upper officials, but they were still imprisoned and later died in prison.

Emperor Zhu Youzhen had nothing to do about corruption, and his anti-corruption entered a dead circle, dereliction of duty and corruption led to chaos in the world, and his dynastic regime finally disintegrated.

Since the system of inspecting places on behalf of the Son of Heaven had failed, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to stop trusting these officials with supervisory duties, and instead find another group of henchmen.

He chose the secret service, that is, Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

In the Ming Dynasty, this secret police organization has always been a powerful weapon for the royal family to collect all kinds of information and listen to the loyalty and due diligence of officials, but the power of the secret service organization is too great, and it has also caused the destruction of the system, giving the eunuch dictatorship the opportunity to run rampant.

For example, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, a number of people were investigated and prosecuted, such as Zhong Shizhang, the magistrate of Anxian County, Sichuan, Yang Wenming, the governor of Bazhou, Kuang Yuxiu, the Tongzhi of Nanzhili and Hezhou, the Tongzhi Lu Zhitai of Lu'an, and Li Chunhua, the magistrate of Jingshan County, Huguang.

But the bad thing is that Emperor Chongzhen can't stop the factory guards from dereliction of duty and corruption.

Wu Mengming, the leader of Jinyiwei, "slows down from harming people." and anxious to get bribes", every time he found a receipt of gifts from a state and county official, he deliberately leaked the information to both the recipients and the recipients, and then came to the door to ask for bribes.

The same is true of the East Factory, a certain county gave 24 silver to the editor Hu Shouheng, and asked him to help write the article, Hu Shouheng has not yet accepted this "Runge", and the East Factory spies have come to the door and asked him to hand over the "daughter" before he can calm down.

In Chongzhen's efforts to rectify the rule of officials and eliminate corruption, the spy organizations have profited extensively.

When officials were found to have offered or accepted bribes, they would bribe thousands of gold to Jinyiwei or Dongchang in order to avoid punishment.

Chongzhen felt that he was stuck in an unsolvable loop. (To be continued......)