Zheng Zhilong regretted bringing his two younger brothers to see His Majesty at this time, but now he could only watch his two younger brothers being fooled by His Majesty's passionate words, and he completely forgot that he was just a vulgar person from a pirate.

But Zheng Zhilong also had to admit that what His Majesty Zhu Youzhen said was very right, the current Western Fan did have a growing threat to the Ming Dynasty, and the Eastern Fan had been dominated by the Red Fan Ghost, if his Zheng Group did not have the support of the imperial court, it would be difficult to confront these Western Fan after his year.

Of course, this is also the reason why Zheng Zhilong chose to belong to Daming.

Zheng Hongkui is the youngest, now he is only thirty-two years old, two years younger than Zhu Youzhen, although he is already in the prime of life, he is still a little bloody.

Now that he heard Zhu Youzhen say this, he also began to pay attention to this Western fan, and couldn't help but take the initiative to talk about his experience in fighting with Xiyi, and also admitted that Xiyi would indeed be a non-negligible opponent of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Zheng Zhibao is now excited by the feat of going to the West, although Zheng He's influence in this era is not as respected by later generations, but it can be regarded as a glorious feat that can be admired, leading all countries to the dynasty and promoting the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, which is the greatest pursuit of Zheng Zhibao, a literati who is eager to make contributions.

"Western artillery and warships are above us, but fortunately, there is not much difference between them, in time, my Ming will be able to surpass Xiyi, and I am ready to order people to step up the development of new warships and naval artillery, but now we still need a large number of naval warfare talents, so I will summon you and others into the palace", said, Zhu Youzhen asked Shi Kefa to proclaim: give Zheng Zhibao the birth of Jinshi, confer the title of doctor, and serve as the staff of the Ministry of War, Wailang and the secretary of the Ming Ship Administration; Zheng Hongkui was promoted to the general of Zhenguo and served as the director of the student training department of the Daming Ship Administration; Even Zheng Zhilong was also awarded the post of the right attendant of the Ministry of War and the vice minister of the Navy Department of the Generalissimo's Office, which showed that Zhu Youzhen attached great importance to maritime affairs.

Zheng Zhibao is very happy, as a prisoner who has participated in the imperial examination several times and only won the township examination, but now he can also be given the Jinshi background, which undoubtedly makes him have a strong sense of honor, and he suddenly has a sense of knowing Zhu Youzhen.

Moreover, he also understood that His Majesty let himself be the secretary, which is equivalent to becoming the ruler of the Ming Ship Administration, just like the official positions of the Guozi Priest Wine and the Guozi Supervisor Division, although the power is not great, but it is better to cultivate his own power, after all, the talents here will become his own students.

Moreover, the key is that the sacrificial wine of the Daming Ship Administration Bureau is concurrently served by His Majesty himself, which means that in the Daming Ship Administration, he Zheng Zhibao is under one person and above ten thousand people.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Weichen will definitely be able to handle the Ming Ship Administration for Your Majesty and cultivate the best naval combat talents!" Zheng Zhibao prostrate on the ground and respectfully saluted Zhu Youzhen.

Zheng Hongkui now just wants to go to sea as soon as possible to fight with the Xiyi people, and as for the official position, he is not as interested as Zheng Zhibao.

Zheng Zhilong was in a much better mood at this time, and he was awarded the post of the right attendant of the Ministry of War, which made him more or less overjoyed, the civil official position has always been more noble than the military attache official position in this era, and the official position of the military department attendant was something he had never thought of before, although it was just a temporary post, but it also made Zheng Zhilong have to feel that His Majesty is indeed not thin on the Zheng family today.

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"Now that you and my brother have a court position, and even this song has been appointed as a Ming teaching official position with different teaching professors, it can be seen that Your Majesty still attaches great importance to our Zheng family, and we will talk about it later, now since Your Majesty wants us to deal with Xiyi, then we will deal with this Xiyi for Your Majesty, after all, this is also our common enemy."

Zheng Zhilong instructed Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Hongkui to return to Fujian after a few words, while Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Hongkui and the fifty members of the Zheng family stayed in the capital.

A month later, Zhu Youzhen summoned Navy Minister Liu Kongzhao, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Hongkui, and others to the Longjiang Pass near the Longjiang Shipyard, that is, the area of Xiaguan.

Today's Daming Ship Administration Bureau has been completed for half a month, Zhu Youzhen walked in and saw that the entire courtyard had been planted with arbor bonsai, the classrooms under the eaves of the corridor were also complete with tables and chairs, the blackboard was bright and bright, and the block-shaped coarse chalk mixed with lime and water was also placed in the wooden box on the three-foot podium.

Zhu Youzhen somewhat regretted that since he moved south from Chongzhen in the seventeenth year, he paid too much attention to military affairs, so that now there is no more advanced chalk in the Ming Dynasty, although this small invention is inconspicuous, but it plays a very important role in the improvement of the entire national education.

"I haven't been to the Daming Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Sciences for some time, and I don't know what the idlers I am doing now," Zhu Youzhen muttered to himself and walked to the backyard of the Daming Ship Administration.

The polo field and Keju field, sword and gun training ground, and running ground attached to the Daming Ship Administration Bureau here, as well as wooden stakes for boxing practice, warship models and naval battle sand tables, etc., occupy a very wide area.

Polo is a very popular competitive sport in the Tang Dynasty, Keju is a popular competitive sport in the Song Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen intends to let the Ming Dynasty also carry forward the competitive sports, but not let the entire Ming society has been full of weak atmosphere, especially in the Jiangnan region today, it is necessary to have some competitive sports to stimulate the blood of the southerners.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen let the army and schools widely promote these two competitive sports, so that not only the physique of the Ming people but also the riding skills of the Ming Dynasty, why not.

The center of a hall is dug into a large pond, the pond imitates the model of the Ming Dynasty Haijiang shown in the Kunyu Wanguo map, and the insertion and overlapping soil represent the Ming Dynasty, Fujian, Zhejiang, Denglai, Liangguang and other regions.

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui were both shocked by such facilities, and they were reluctant to move their feet for a while, and even Gu Sanmazi, who was on the side, couldn't help but ask in a low voice to Liu Kongzhao, the sincerity uncle: "Lord Liu, this is my Daming Haijiang?" ”

Liu Kongzhao saw that His Majesty Zhu Youzhen didn't pay attention to this, so he pulled Gu San Mazi: "Didn't I ask you to invite a gentleman to read and write, at this time, I asked this kind of question only asked by a three-year-old child in front of the palace, be careful to make Your Majesty laugh." ”

"Xia Guan just wants to confirm", Gu San Mazi is now the chief military officer of Daming Coastal Defense, and he is at the same level as Zheng Zhilong in the position of military attaché, but in essence, he is still a pirate with little knowledge, and even Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Hongkui, who are also thieves and businessmen, are not as good as a pure thief, so Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Hongkui can't look down on Gu San Mazi who is following Liu Kongzhao, not to mention that Gu San Mazi is also an old opponent of the Zheng Group.

Now seeing Gu Sanmazi asking like this, although Zhu Youzhen didn't hear it, Zheng Hongkui heard it really well, and couldn't help but sneer: "Third brother, I also understand, why did the imperial court let us train naval warfare talents, it seems that the imperial court really has no talents, even a cat and a dog can be the chief military officer of the coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty, if I am someone, I will be ashamed to death if I am given such an official position by His Majesty!" ”

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