A piece of wood-paneled houses in Nagasaki, Kyushu, has sprung up, and here is now the port where His Majesty the Emperor signed a treaty to lease the port to the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, and the lease period cannot be changed in black and white.

Liu Ziguang has just returned from Kyoto, and his wife, children and generals have a happy gathering, his son Liu Qianqian has grown much better than before, and can call Daddy, the group of Gurkha guards have been beaten back to Tibet, it is too dangerous to take the Central Plains route, they took the same sea route from Shanghai to Tianzhu as when they came, and when they returned to Tibet, they told the elders to send a medical team to expel poison to His Majesty.

The big table is full of all kinds of fish, mustard, soy sauce, and local customs, and it is natural to eat seafood in Nagasaki, a seaport city, but the sake of the Japanese country is not enough, and I am not drunk after watching half an urn, Peng Jingwei said regretfully while munching on sashimi: "It's a pity that the dead cat didn't come." Suddenly, she thought of something again, stopped her chopsticks and asked, "Brother-in-law, I heard that the Empress of the Japanese Kingdom is a young girl, and you signed the treaty so quickly, did you use a beautiful man's trick?" ”

Peng Jingrong glanced at her sister and said, "It's not big or small." But she herself was also very interested, and couldn't help asking: "What does the empress look like, how old is the princess, do you have any ideas?" ”

Liu Ziguang smiled bitterly: "At first, they told me that the empress was seventeen years old, but in fact, she will not be seventeen until the end of next year, but she is only fifteen years old this year, and it seems that she is thirteen or fourteen years old. ”

Liu Qianqiang, who was making trouble in Zeng Cheng's arms and refused to eat obediently, suddenly stopped when he heard the word "child daughter-in-law", stared at his father with two eyes, hummed, and everyone laughed: "You understand and think about your daughter-in-law." ”

Peng Jingrong said with a straight face: "Xianggong, are you joking or are you serious?" ”

Liu Ziguang said: "Really, my son is wearing two crowns on his head, can he still be worthy of the empress, Xingzi, this little girl, I think it's okay, I'll send someone to give her father a bride price, just give some arms casually, they lack this now." ”

As he was talking, there was a whistle on the sea in the distance, Liu Ziguang's mansion was built at a high place where you could look out over the sea, and you could see the dark old paddle steamer steam ship coming from the west, and the waterline was very low, and it seemed to be full of goods.

Liu Ziguang pointed to the sea and said: "See, no, it is a military cargo ship from Tianjin, loaded with arquebuses made by the original Qing Dynasty military department, these old-fashioned things are ready to be sold to the shogun, since you want to propose marriage for your son, you will first give it to the emperor as a dowry." ”

Everyone was puzzled and said, "Didn't we help the emperor and the generals fight, why did we sell them firecrackers?" ”

Liu Ziguang smiled slightly: "The redshirts really want to help the emperor fight, and they can drive the shogunate into the sea in less than half a month, but what are we going to play after half a month?" Could it be that if you start a war with the emperor again and destroy the Wa Kingdom? That's not the result I want, I don't care about this small land of the Wa Kingdom, we only need to lease a few port garrisons, and then sell them weapons on both sides, let them fight for ten or eight years, and the fishermen will profit, do you know what price such a backward arquebus can buy? What a hundred taels of silver is wrong! The gold settlement is twenty-two cases, and the ammunition is not bargained, where do you say such a business can be found? ”

Everyone nodded, such a simple business, they naturally understood that the arquebus produced in the Qing Dynasty had long been eliminated, the product had a short range and poor reliability, and even Jing ** was not willing to use it, which was basically equivalent to scrap iron, and scrap iron could be sold for twenty taels of gold per rod, which was simply a lucrative business, but since he wanted to make money, why not directly raise troops to occupy the Wa State and slaughter the country for ten days, and grab all the gold, silver, and jade silk.

Someone really raised this stupid question, it was none other than the cunning subordinate, Temasek's military secretary Margoby, Liu Ziguang looked at this naïve black man, shook his head helplessly, and said: "Sad, you have to strengthen your studies to kill chickens and eggs, that's a hammer deal, so that they are willing to work hard and make money to buy our products is the king, although the country is a small country, there are millions of people, and our redshirts are less than 10,000 people, of course, it doesn't mean that we can't control this country, but in that case, we can't do other things?" Take a long-term view of everything. ”

Everyone was convinced, and they all raised their thumbs to praise the handsome, and only Zeng Cheng pouted with his lips in his arms, unhappy that his son was so young, he arranged a child daughter-in-law who was more than ten years older, how can he live in the future.

Although it is already midsummer in Nanjing, but the city is full of icy breath, fifteen years ago, the palace rebellion died a lot, the royal purge is especially serious, the last few remaining princes are suspected of rebellion, imprisoned, unknown tragic death, the rest of the people are also in panic.

If this continues, the descendants of the old Zhu family will be tossed up, even if they eliminate dissidents, it is not such a game, the Donglin Party with Qian Qianyi finally can't sit still, because they keenly feel that the power has fallen into the hands of eunuchs again, so a large number of imperial historians sit around the palace gate and ask to see the emperor.

Since Liu Ziguang was expelled from the sea, Zhu Youxiao's mood has relaxed a lot, with a think tank like Huang Zongxi to help with overall planning, a loyal minister and good friend like Wei Zhongxian to help run and arrange, and a young hero like Yuan Chengzhi to help him conquer the east and the west, what is he not worried about? ”

Thanks to the emperor's trust in Wei Gonggong so much, he has no choice but to take on this heavy responsibility, aren't you imperial historians itchy, okay, our family is complete, you all take it, let Jinyiwei beat his ass hard, see that you are still blocking the palace gate.

Wei Zhongxian's hand was indeed vicious, a fat beating, killed several old imperial histories, caused an uproar in the court, just at this time, the current Fu Wang Zhu Yousong, that is, the son of the old Fu Wang who was killed by Liu Ziguang, secretly colluded with some of the children of the clan who did not want to sit still, and bought the palace guards at a high price, sneaked into the palace with knives, intending to assassinate the king, and fortunately, the Qin Mi Si caught the murderer in time, and brought out a series of clan officials, the capital fell into a bloody storm again, and basically the men surnamed Zhu were killed.

The western frontier once again fell into endless wars, Galdan's 500,000 troops swept through Gansu like a storm, and approached Shaanxi, fortunately, the Ming Dynasty was not only Liu Ziguang, a fierce general Yuan Chonghuan led Wu Sangui and Liu Zongmin, they struggled to resist, relying on advanced firearms, but they were not down, but they were only tired of defense, and there was no longer the great achievements and ambitions of Liu Ziguang to open up the territory and expand the territory for thousands of miles.

The north is also not peaceful, and the overlords of the steppe, Anda Zamu and the Great Khan of Liu Ziguang, said that they would lead 100,000 elite cavalry to sweep the Central Plains, sweep away the traitorous ministers, and restore Anda's reputation. If it weren't for the fact that Shanxi and Hebei were all garrisoned by the Red Shirt Army who had a relationship with Zamu and had to give some face, the Mongolian army was afraid that it would really be necessary to drink the Yangtze River again.

Even the imperial court garrisons in Shanxi and Hebei are extremely unstable, the will of the imperial court to appease has long passed, Feng Li Yan is the governor of Hebei, and he also serves as the commander of the Beiyang Navy Division and the squire of the military department, and gives the title of first-class earl, which is quite in place, but people do not have any intention of compromising with the court except for the two sentences of thanks.

Zhu Youxiao was not in a hurry at all, because Huang Zongxi, Master Huang said, when Yuan Chengzhi was busy with the southern Xinjiang counterinsurgency, he would raise troops to go north to solve Li Yan and Xu Zengshou, now let them make trouble, as long as they don't go south to make trouble, anyway, the time is there, there is the financial and tax support of Jiangnan, and slowly clean up this gang of rebellious ministers and thieves.

After leaving, Liu Ziguang's power still fell into the hands of the Donglin Party, which made Qian Qianyi very unhappy, and Huang Zongxi, who originally expected to be introduced to the emperor by himself, could help the Donglin Party say good things, who knew that this guy actually didn't miss the old feelings, and completely colluded with Wei Zhongxian, and became a pair of traitorous ministers who were embarrassed, and it was with these two people's slander and deception that the emperor would kill the clan indiscriminately, regardless of political affairs, and hand over the power to a eunuch.

Today, Qian Qianyi got up on the fifth watch and went to the court again, how do you know that when the sun is on the third pole, the emperor is still sick and does not go to the court, you don't need to ask Your Majesty to play in the imperial garden again, and the last time the palace gate has not passed, the ministers have palpitations, dare to be angry, dare not speak, so they have to go back to the house stupidly, Qian Qianyi walked halfway to meet a house slave came to report that Mrs. invited him to go to the cloud building.

Qian Qianyi hurriedly ordered someone to turn the sedan chair and go to Qianyun Tower, although Lord Qian was playing with his back to the mountain, but he and Liu Ruyi had a very good relationship with the sisters, if it wasn't for something wrong, Liu Ruyi would never have sent someone to find him in such a hurry, and sure enough, when he arrived outside Qianyun Tower, he saw a team of brocade guards surrounding the door, and the iron chain was rattling, which was to arrest people.

Today's Jinyiwei is no longer the Jinyiwei under the control of the Donglin Party, Qi Zhenming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, has been dismissed and investigated, and the personnel installed by the Donglin Party in Jinyiwei have also defected or been eliminated.

Qianyun Tower is another business of Lord Qian, everyone in the capital knows these brocade guards, don't you know, Qian Qianyi's heart is on fire, and he instructed the housekeeper to go over and ask what is going on, and after a while, the housekeeper came back and said with a sad face: "Master, they said that they were ordered to arrest the Qin criminal, and no one will give face." ”