Spring returns to the earth, and the river thaws. (Fengwu Literature Network)

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhou Huchen sat under Zhu Youxiang, with a smile on his face.

The princess is the princess of the whole Ming Dynasty, and it doesn't belong to you!

Zhou Huchen wanted to take the princess Zhu Shuhuan to Guangzhou, but this was not possible, and the emperor decisively refused. Although the princess entered the door of the Zhou family, she belongs to the royal family, and she also belongs to the country, not to the individual, that is, in the future, the princess will enter the imperial mausoleum, how can Zhou Huchen take it away?

Brother-in-law, even if the princess leaves Kyoto, she must obtain the permission of her father and the emperor, and she must also obtain the consent of the Zongren Mansion, how can you think about it? The crown prince Zhu Lianbi on the side spoke, and he kept blinking his eyes.

How could Zhou Huchen give up, he continued to laugh with him: Then I will take Zhentian away, how will Her Royal Highness the princess live? This is not a short distance, it takes more than half a year to go back and forth, who can stand it?

Then let Zhentian continue to stay in Jingshi, what if a child runs such a long way on the waterway, what if something goes wrong? Let's stay! Zhu Youxiang likes his grandson, but this grandson likes it even more, and he naturally doesn't want Zhou Huchen to take Zhou Zhentian away.

It is the age of accepting things, how can Shaking Heaven not follow me? Where can I find such a good teacher?

You're here to teach? Zhu Youxiang was a little dizzy.

Just because you are also a teacher, Zhu Youxiang doesn't approve of it, it can't be said that Zhou Huchen is incapable, Zhou Huchen is absolutely invincible in the world, whoever has to destroy whom, everyone has to admit this. Of course, Zhou Huchen is also literate, but educating children still requires famous Confucianism, and Zhu Youxiang is definitely not optimistic about Zhou Huchen.

I don't want those old masters to teach me to shake the sky, I'm afraid they will teach me stupidity!

All right! Your own son, who will teach you to decide, and I can't help it? However, you can't take the princess, I can't explain it to the Zongren Mansion! Zhu Youxiang disagreed, I can't control you to educate your son, but I can manage the princess.

Zhou Huchen bowed: Your Majesty, the ministers of the Zongren Mansion will solve it, thank you for your understanding of Weichen!

Am I okay with that?

Zhu Youxiang admired Zhou Huchen too much. This kid's ability to borrow a donkey from the slope is too strong!

That Weichen retired, Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body!

Zhou Huchen doesn't care, who let you find excuses casually, what about the emperor? The same was settled, and as soon as the voice fell, Zhou Huchen turned around and left.

Zhu Lianbi sighed, the emperor looked helpless, this son-in-law is not easy to manage!

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In March, it is still in the old house.

Grabbing the hand of the small town sky, Zhou Huchen and his son knelt in front of the old lady. He endured his grief. This is destined to be a long parting. Because Zhou Huchen wants to open up a new world. I'm afraid I won't have time to come back for a few years, I'm afraid this time I'm ......

Trouble again and again, protection again and again, the warm embrace of my grandmother when I was a child. Holding his hand and walking all over the streets and alleys of Jingshi... This scene reappeared in front of Zhou Huchen's eyes, his grandmother was old, but she was going to leave with her only great-grandson.

Shake the sky and kowtow to your great-grandmother to say goodbye......

Slowly kowtowing, Zhou Huchen turned around.

Big brother, come back soon......

On Tuesday, the tiger stepped forward to persuade him, but found that the tears of the big brother, who had always been shaped like steel, were falling silently......

Zhou Huchen entered the palace, and as a concubine, he wanted to say goodbye to the queen mother and the queen.

Before the noon gate. The crown prince and a group of courtiers waited, and they waited for Zhou Huchen's resignation.

There are only three people in the main hall, Zhu Youxiang, Zhou Huchen, and the great eunuch Lu Jiude. Emperor Hongguang sat quietly on the big dragon chair, and Zhou Huchen respectfully knelt on the deserted Jinluan Hall and kowtowed again and again.

The whole South Seas, is it? Zhu Youxiang still didn't hold back. How could he not know Zhou Huchen's series of actions.

Nanyang is our maritime gateway, there is the Mo family in the north, and I will deserve it in the south!

Zhu Youxiang gently closed his eyes: On the day of peace on the sea, remember to come back!

The minister knows, Your Majesty cherishes it!

got up, Zhou Huchen left without looking back.

The intricacies of the South Seas... It's good to be a king of Nanyang in the future... Just to deter those Fanyi......

Zhou Huchen left, and Zhu Youxiang muttered. Lu Jiude continued to bow down, he didn't dare to move, this was equivalent to giving Zhou Huchen a chance to be crowned king, as a royal servant, he had no right to speak.

Not seeing Xiao Zhentian made Zhu Youxiang very uncomfortable, and he felt like crying. He knew that the princess Zhu Shuhuan had already taken the child far away from Beijing, and Zhu Youxiang was still considerate of Zhou Huchen, where was he willing to break up this family, just open one eye and close one eye. As for the Zongren Mansion, go to Zhou Huchen to ask for someone yourself, it's your ability to come out, or what's the matter with me, the emperor?

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Tianjin was a busy scene, when the fleet with the flag of Zhou Huchen appeared out of the sea, Liu Zhuzi, the chief military officer stationed in Tianjin, was the first to run over.

After a short stay, in the warm spring breeze, Zhou Huchen was about to set off again. When Zhou Huchen transferred to the giant gunboat that had been prepared at the dock and slowly left the field of vision, he wanted to send Zhou Huchen and his party to the sea, but Liu Zhuzi, who was stopped, howled and cried. He knew that he was no longer the commander of the great handsome, the invincible commander who led them to gallop the world was gone, and the chances of him coming back were probably few and far between.

The giant boat broke the waves.

The sea, this is what my father called the sea.

Zhou Zhentian's long-awaited sea, this sea is endless, the sea and the sky are the same color, and it is so pleasing to the eye against the backdrop of seabirds flying in the sky.

Mother, this is what my father said about the sea, the sea that belongs to me, it is so beautiful, does it really belong to me?

The sea was windy, her daughter was placed in the cabin, and Zhu Shuhuan, who was pulled out by her son to watch the sea view together, was stunned by the vastness and beauty of the sea.

Of course it belongs to you, and your father says that it belongs to you, and if anyone opposes your father, how can you give up? Your Majesty's grandfather and uncle are afraid that they will not take a break!

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Zhoushan, the huge fleet finally waited for the person they were waiting for.

Weng Zhiqi, Jian Chen, Yu Dahu, Gao Qiang, Zhou Qian, Wu Yunguan, Xue Yue, Meng Yun, Zhou Zirui, Wang Yunshan, Li Jun, Shi Poshan, Chen Xing and his son, plus Chen Ziye, Jiang Zhiyan, Lu Jing, Liu Wei and countless other soldiers and elites of the workshop silently watched the giant boat start to dock...... Ma Hui appeared with two beautiful girls......

Come on! Let's go on a journey across the world! The vastness belongs to us!

On May 15 of the eighth year of Hongguang, with the cooperation of Zheng Sen, the general of Jinghai in Fujian, and taking advantage of the high tide, Zhou Huchen, the governor of the Ming Navy, led his troops to land in Taiwan at Luermen. In just two hours, the two red-haired fortresses in Chichi, Taiwan, were captured, and then the city of Taiwan was shelled on 17 May.

The walls of the entire city of Taiwan were blown down after an hour, and Zhou Huchen took Taiwan lightly.

June 26. Under the guidance of several Ming maritime merchants, a large fleet appeared in Luzon......

The Dutch colonized Bo Ni, now known as the Dutch East Indies, also known as the Spice Islands, is a generic name for the islands in Southeast Asia that were rich in spices by European countries around the 15th century. Europeans' thirst for oriental spices was one of the reasons for the Age of Discovery.

The current Dutch East India Company succeeded in driving the Portuguese out of the region and becoming the de facto overlord.

The purpose of the Dutch occupation of Taiwan was to serve as a pivot to the Ming Dynasty, Japan, Goryeo and Southeast Asian strongholds, and to monopolize trade between Manila (a Spanish colony) and the Ming Dynasty. The main export trade included sugar, deerskin, venison, antlers, rattan, and rice, and the transshipment trade included metals and medicinal materials from the Netherlands, spices, pepper, amber, linen, cotton, tin, and lead from Batavia, and silk fabrics, pottery, and gold from China.

The Dutch East Indies were a huge economic entity. It is the first to be able to organize mercenaries and issue currency. It is also the first company limited by shares. It was also approved by the Dutch government to enter into formal treaties with other countries and to colonize and dominate the occupied territories.

It is almost the richest private company in the world today, with more than 150 large merchant ships, 40 warships, 50,000 employees, and 10,000 mercenary troops.

But for Zhou Huchen, the Dutch East Indies had one of the biggest flaws in his eyes.

The Dutch East Indies are vast and sparsely populated. Extremely backward, its development is inseparable from people, and these most important people are precisely Ming people.

In the eyes of Western colonizers, the Ming people were known for their diligence, peace-lovingness, and cowardice by nature, and were a hundred times stronger than those lazy and stupid natives. Therefore, for the purpose of construction and development, the Dutch governor began to attract the Ming people of Banten with high salaries, and imposed light taxes on the Ming merchants who emigrated to Batavia, and rewarded the Ming people for attracting their fellow villagers to Batavia. Of course, at the same time as development. The Dutch also resorted to some unseemly methods, such as the kidnapping of migrants in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. This policy was extremely successful, and the galleons from the Ming Dynasty brought in a large number of Ming immigrants, and the industrious Ming people settled in Bacheng once they obtained assets that allowed them to stand on their own. and intermarried with Balinese women who were sent here as slaves. The Ming population continues to grow, and most of the Ming people in Ba Cheng are engaged in commercial activities, from itinerant hawkers to permanent vendors, to retailers and wholesalers, forming a complete commercial network.

The Dutch Governor initiated the practice of delegating all retail commerce, including coastal trade, to the Ming man Kapitan (chief). He tried to adopt a Meiji-Ming policy, and by appointing the Meijin Kapitan, he exercised control and indirect rule over the Ming society. Following the appointment of his close friend Su Minggang as Kapitan by the Dutch Governor of Cohen, Kapitan was thereafter elected and appointed by the Ming elders in a fairly democratic manner.

Kapitan was considered to be the defender of the interests of the Ming in the Dutch Governor's Palace, as well as an intermediary in official affairs. Each Ming person is required to pay the poll tax at the Kapitan Province on a monthly basis and report at least once a year. Beginning in the early years of Chongzhen, the Ming paid more than half of the poll tax collected by the Dutch East India Company in the city. By the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, among the 21 taxes levied by the Bacheng authorities on gambling, retail, import and export of goods, puppet shows, etc., Ming merchants contracted 17 of them.

The Ming diaspora was extremely important to the Dutch East Indies, and even more important to Zhou Huchen, a wealth and group that had established a strong ruling power, and Zhou Huchen needed it too much.

On August 20, the eighth year of Hongguang, the southern waters of the South China Sea of Daming were covered with dark clouds.

Flying the flag, hundreds of warships of the Ming Dynasty appeared in this sea area. Preparations were made, and more than 100 large armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company were dispatched, followed by 30 huge warships......

The sound of artillery first sounded on the battleship of the Ming army, and Zhou Huchen's ears were instantly deaf due to the sudden sound of cannons.

Grandma's Zhou Qian, don't remind me!

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It's done! Say a word; I love you!

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