Today's Ming Dynasty, except for a part of the household in the form of taxes to maintain the order and security of the empire and public management, the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty has been basically divided into two chaebol groups, royal capital and Zheng capital.

Zhu Youzhen is the big boss behind the royal capital, and the current officials and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty basically have his shares, which is equivalent to the previous internal money, and even in today's Daming, some people are still accustomed to the central bank and the weaving bureau to the emperor Zhu Youzhen's dividends are called the emperor's internal income.

Zheng's Capital is the general leader of private capital, competing with Royal Capital for the entire Ming Dynasty and even overseas markets in an alliance way.

Extending to the violent institutions, that is, the army, Zhu Youzhen's royal capital controlled the army of the Ming Dynasty, while the Zheng group controlled the navy of the Ming Dynasty, which means that the commercial and economic composition and the military composition of the entire Ming Dynasty, that is, the southern group, were complementary to each other.

If Zhu Youzhen's royal capital wants to unify the commercial empire of the Ming Dynasty, it must then dominate the entire military circle of the Ming Dynasty, so that he can control not only the army but also the navy of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, at present, Zhu Youzhen does not have this ability, and the Zheng group can still exist, plus there is still a Manchu Qing Dynasty pressing in the north, and Zhu Youzhen and the Zheng group have not yet reached the point when the contradiction is sharp, and the competition for the economic market between them is still a non-war means.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest news we have learned, Zheng Zhilong announced in a speech at the Zheng General Association a few days ago that in order to promote the development of commerce and trade in the Ming Dynasty, Zhongxing Daming, and serve His Majesty's Longen, Zheng Zhilong decided to stop collecting protection fees from Ming officials and private merchants to go to sea trade from October 1, 18th year of Chongzhen, which caused a huge repercussion in the business community, and the people's praise for Zheng Zhilong was very high, and even many scholars took him as an example and wrote poems to praise him."

Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Central Investigation and Statistics Bureau of Dongchang, reported the matter to Zhu Youzhen at this time, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but laugh after hearing it: "This Zheng Zhilong is quite good at superficial work and will win people's hearts, this is obviously an agreement I reached with him, and he actually took it out to make face, which is really enough." ”

"Your Majesty, you can only belong to this world alone, and his Zheng Zhilong's move is inevitably suspected of competing for people's hearts, and Weichen thinks that this person can't stay for a long time", Ma Jixiang admonished.

"There's no need to be so nervous now, he Zheng Zhilong doesn't have the ambition to win the world with me now, of course, I don't need to have a saber rattling with him now, this is not good for anyone, I will inevitably be boycotted by the rich businessmen and tycoons of the people, if there is no Zheng group, there will be another smuggling group to fight against the imperial court, this Zheng group is better, at least there will be no war conflict with the imperial court, and it can also help me fight smuggling, After all, the current Zheng family does not want to see the existence of a smuggling group that is not a smuggling group of the Imperial Court City and the Zheng family's firm! ”

Zhu Youzhen said and then ordered: "Continue to keep an eye on the Zheng family, if he expands business, he can not ask, even overseas colonization, he can not ask, just give it to me, but if he is suspected of training troops and plotting against him, such as buying a large number of land weapons and training cavalry and infantry, etc., he must report to me immediately!" ”

"Wechen obeys!" Ma Jixiang answered and retreated.

As soon as Ma Jixiang retreated, Shi Kefa walked in: "Your Majesty, Zheng Zhilong, the chief military officer of Fujian, asks to see you." ”

"The rich man Zheng is here, let him in", Zhu Youzhen said with a smile to the female officer Chen Yuanyuan on the side, then got up and walked to the outer hall platform, if he expected it was right, this time Zheng Zhilong should bring the backbone of his Zheng family, according to his own agreement with him, these backbones will become the first batch of naval instructors of his Ming Dynasty.

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"Big brother, you said that Your Majesty let us go to Beijing to train naval combat talents for the imperial court, is this a good thing, waiting for the day when the imperial court has a powerful navy, our Zheng family is afraid that there will be no better days now", Zheng Zhilong's fourth brother Zheng Hongkui looked at the majestic Forbidden City in front of him at this time and couldn't help but ask Zheng Zhilong, his current identity is the commander of the Ming Jinyi Guard.

Of course, this is just a fictitious position, and Wu Mengming, who is really in charge of Jinyiwei, has one more title of Zuo Du Governor than him.

"What the fourth brother said is good, but even if our Zheng family is the king and hegemon at sea, but on this Ming land, we still have to rely on the snort of the imperial court to live, if we don't obey Your Majesty's will to train a strong navy for the imperial court, we are only afraid that it will be worse than now, of course, it is difficult to say whether the imperial court's navy can beat us, after all, the imperial court's navy will be trained by us in the future, we know the bottom of the imperial court, the imperial court does not know our bottom, as long as Your Majesty does not want to get rid of our Zheng family one day, our Zheng family will not have to turn against the imperial court for one day."

The one who spoke was Zheng Zhilong's third brother Zheng Zhibao, whose identity on the surface was only a prisoner of the country, although the name was quite a martial artist, but the role in the Zheng family was more like a strategist, although he was not smiling, he was also insightful about the world.

Zheng Zhilong just sighed at this time, and took the first step up the jade steps: "As the third brother said, we can't take the imperial court, and the imperial court seems to have no way to take us, but I still always feel that Your Majesty has more hole cards, no matter what, it's better not to provoke Your Majesty now, at least for now, Your Majesty is quite taken care of our Zheng family, and you will pay attention to your Majesty when you see you, and pay attention to the difference between monarchs and ministers!" ”

"Don't worry, big brother, this is Nanjing City and not Kinmen Island, we don't dare to come nonsense", Zheng Hongkui replied, and followed Zheng Zhilong to come up, and Zheng Zhibao also walked over, and first saluted Shi Kefa: "Shi Gong is fine!" ”

"Everyone, please come in", Shi Kefa's face was cold, as a minister, he naturally had to keep a distance from Zheng Zhilong and others, but Zheng Hongkui still habitually took out a night pearl to send to Shi Kefa, but was pulled back by Zheng Zhibao: "Shi Gong is no better than others, you send this and be careful to lose your head!" ”

Zheng Hongkui withdrew his hand and followed Zheng Zhilong into the Qianqing Palace.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen was already standing under a complete map of Kunyu Wanguo in the Qianqing Palace, looking up, waiting for Zheng Zhilong and others to appear.

"The ministers have seen Your Majesty!"

As soon as Zheng Zhilong and the others came in, Zhu Youzhen was busy smiling, and personally ran over to help Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao brothers up: "The three Aiqing are flat, I can be regarded as waiting for you, I can't sleep these days, Chen Yuanyuan, cut the chilled watermelon and bring it up, the three Aiqing are tired of driving all the way, plus the hot weather, I'm afraid that I will suffer a lot from the summer heat, just eat a few watermelons to relieve the heat." ”

Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao both glanced at Zheng Zhilong, and said in their hearts: "Your Majesty doesn't seem to be as terrible as my brother said, it seems to be very kind." ”

(End of chapter)