Zhu Youzhen is not a pure idealist.

Strictly speaking, Zhu Youzhen is a realist at heart, and his speech and demeanor have always followed his purpose.

After all, what Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty has today is a soul from the later generations, and this soul is an ordinary person in the later generations, a person who will work hard to adapt to the real environment every day for his own survival and life.

Therefore, the current Zhu Youzhen did not come from the royal arrogance consciousness, and he did not really care about the dignity of an emperor in his heart.

Therefore, he is different from Zhu Youzhen in history, when he learned that Li Zicheng's troops were coming to Beijing, he did not have any pressure to choose to move south, and he did not have any consideration about whether the southward migration would damage the image of the emperor.

In the eyes of Zhu Youzhen now, there is only the best choice and the most important thing to do, so he can choose to go south to Jiangnan to start again without any worries, and even try his best to get rid of the people who blocked his idea.

And his cruelty and indifference, as well as his kindness and tolerance, are always changing according to his own needs and ends, and when external people and things get in the way of his ends, he will resort to the most ruthless means at all costs.

For example, during the tax reform, he directly ordered the killing of dozens of officials, he still did not hesitate, he did not care about the evaluation of him by the latecomers, as a later person, he only knew to live in the moment and do whatever it takes to achieve his own goals.

Moreover, he can give himself a reasonable explanation for his means, because he has always believed that everything he has done is right and just.

When he met Zheng Zhilong alone, in order to let Zheng Zhilong understand that he and his Ming court were not afraid of the power of his Zheng family, and in order to force Zheng Zhilong to cooperate with him, he deliberately behaved majestic and unapproachable.

But now Zhu Youzhen is asking Zheng Zhilong's family and needs Zheng Zhilong's people to help him build a strong navy, so Zhu Youzhen can show kindness again, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

This may be the ability that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen failed to learn, how to make himself more sleek and hypocritical, that is, more realistic, people will always become what they don't like, Zhu Youzhen doesn't like people with the same personality as himself, such people are always unpredictable, but Zhu Youzhen must be like this, he can get to this point by being good at disguise.

Zheng Zhilong knows better than Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao what kind of person Zhu Youzhen is like Emperor Chongzhen, so the more easy-going Zhu Youzhen is, the more respectful he is:

"Your Majesty, in accordance with your will, Wechen has brought the third brother Zheng Zhibao and the fourth brother Zheng Hongkui and fifty subordinates into the capital, including twenty of the best helmsmen, twenty of the best gunners, and ten of the best bows, all of whom have fought vicious battles with the West, Your Majesty can summon them at any time, today Wechen first brought the third brother and the fourth brother to ask Your Majesty for peace, please ask Your Majesty to command!"

Zheng Zhilong did not dare to deceive and tease Zhu Youzhen in this regard, he also knew that he could not play any tricks in front of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen, so he honestly introduced his two younger brothers to Zhu Youzhen, and seriously introduced their naval combat experience and areas of expertise.

Zhu Youzhen smiled and nodded while listening, after Zheng Zhilong finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen did not make an evaluation or affirmation, he can be easy-going, but the praise of the emperor cannot be given easily.

Zhu Youjian stood up and walked to the bottom of the map with the three brothers of the Zheng family: "Do you know this map?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen knows, this is the 30th year of Wanli Taifu Temple Shaoqing Zhenzhi Gong (Li Zhizao) according to the Western Fanzhi "Wanguo Tuzhi" painted "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", Wanli 36 years, my Ming Shenzong Emperor issued an edict to draw 12 copies of the future generations, the ministers have been to the South Seas, the East and even to the west of Manraka (Malacca), the direction and the map is basically the same."

Zheng Zhibao is still a literati in the end, and as a prisoner of the country, he still can't forget to behave in front of Zhu Youzhen at this time.

Zhu Youzhen also nodded with satisfaction: "As Aiqing said, I have this picture in the Ming Dynasty, which shows that my Ming monarchs and ministers are not people who don't listen to things outside the window, but at the moment in this big world, my Ming Dynasty territory is less, and the northern half of the country has been occupied by Jiannu, not to mention, this South China Sea, there are so many islands occupied by the Red Fan Ghost and the Foluo Machine, for example, this Dongfan (Taiwan) from the Three Kingdoms was the land of my Han people, but now it is occupied by Fanyi, Moreover, most of the tens of thousands of islands near the coast of this big country are occupied by the West, and I am also a towering big country, how can I tolerate such petty people to dominate in the South China Sea! ”

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen showed the role of an idealist, and in front of Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao, he only talked about how he wanted the Ming Dynasty to dominate the sea, how to resist the penetration of Western forces into the Eastern world, and how to one day extend the military power and commerce of the Han people to both sides of the Atlantic.

Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao are younger than Zheng Zhilong, not as sophisticated as Zheng Zhilong, especially after seeing Zhu Youzhen for the first time, they are so kind, and they habitually think that His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen is an idealist, a monarch who simply wants the Ming Dynasty to become a super empire on the sea.

Because of this, Zheng Hongkui's enthusiasm was also stimulated by Zhu Youzhen at this moment, unlike Zheng Zhilong, who had been silently thinking about what His Majesty suddenly said what he wanted to do, he was also in a hurry to show his erudition and strong knowledge, and he also released a bold statement: "Your Majesty, you don't have to grow up with the ambition of the West and destroy the prestige of my Han people, as long as there are Weichen and Weichen's brothers, the red ghost will not want to take advantage of my Daming, Dongfan Island, sooner or later, you will get it back!" ”

"Zheng Aiqing is ambitious, I am very relieved, but what I want to ask is, is the ship of the Western Fan faster than our ship, whether the cannon of the Western Fan is more powerful than our cannon, my Ming may still be able to rely on geographical advantages and numerical advantages to suppress the Western Ocean, but if a few years later, the Western Fan sends more warships to come, can we still resist, or can our Ming warships now also go to this Franco, Italy (Italy), Hibaiya (Ireland) and other places to promote the prestige of our Ming Dynasty, Re-splendor of the Yongle Dynasty? ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Zheng Hongkui was speechless for a while, as a pirate, he had never thought so far, and Zheng Zhibao on the side was a little flushed, and muttered to himself: "Reproducing the glory of Yongle and the feat of the Three Treasures Father-in-law going to the West is also a great cause in the annals of history." ”

(End of chapter)