Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen had a certain tone, and the other officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion naturally didn't want to say anything, and just like that, Zheng Zhilong and Gu San Mazi were both made earls.

Every time there are frequent wars, it is the time when the title is prolific, and now Zhu Youzhen has thrown out several counts, fortunately, Zhu Youzhen killed a lot of relatives in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen and the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, and now adding a few counts and marquis does not increase the burden of the court much.

Zheng Zhilong was officially named Yunyang Bo, which was indeed a thing that made him quite happy for Zheng Zhilong, which also made him more and more enthusiastic about expanding the territory in the future.

However, what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that Gu San Mazi could actually get an earl because of a pirate.

And it was with the help of his Zheng family, especially his Zheng family's eldest son Zheng Chenggong, that he leveled the pirates, although his son also got an additional official as the governor of the city, but Zheng Zhilong was still a little dissatisfied with Gu San Mazi, although he didn't dare to say that this was deliberately done by the imperial court, but he also began to regard Gu San Mazi as his enemy in his heart.

Zheng Zhilong naturally knew that this was Emperor Chongzhen, and Zhu Youzhen wanted to support Gu San Mazi to balance him, after all, it was easier for a person like Gu San Mazi to be loyal to the imperial court if he had no foundation.

And once the imperial court supports Gu San Mazi, that is, when the Ming Navy can already suppress or even crush its own Zheng Group, it will be when all the privileges of the Zheng Group disappear.

And now that Zheng Zhilong has tasted the preferential treatment of the imperial court in taxes and politics as the strongest navy of the Ming Dynasty, he naturally does not want to see Gu San Mazi rise.

Even if the Ming Navy was about to rise, he hoped that his cronies would control the Ming Navy, so he began to secretly instigate the two brothers and his own son who held important positions in the Ming Navy to take the opportunity to win over the naval officers and cultivate his Zheng family forces within the Ming Navy.

And Liu Kongzhao also secretly instructed Gu San Mazi to cultivate his own power in the military camp to counter the Zheng group.

But Zheng Chenggong, the son of Zheng Zhilong, is not such an obedient child.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong in the original history was not a person who obeyed his father's orders, and now in this era, after receiving various educations, plus staying in the Guards for more than a year, he has a kind of loyalty to Zhu Youzhen that is different from his father.

Therefore, after receiving the entrustment conveyed by his father, he decisively chose to meet Zhu Youzhen and informed Zhu Youzhen of Zheng Zhilong's interference in the Ming Navy.

When Zhu Youzhen learned about it, he immediately sent someone to reprimand Zheng Zhilong, and told Zheng Zhilong not to secretly cultivate his own forces, otherwise all the Zheng family would be eliminated from the Ming Navy.

Now Zheng Zhilong really doesn't want his family to leave the Ming Navy, so he can only accept Zhu Youzhen's reprimand, and dare not blatantly ask his brother and son to cultivate power in the Ming Navy.

Zheng Zhilong himself was really angry, he never thought that his own son would put himself along, which made the entire court more vigilant against the Zheng family.

"Great loyalty is in the front, filial piety is in the back, you have done a good job, not only to protect the Ming Dynasty, but also to protect your father's life, so it is his blessing to have a son like you."

Zhu Youzhen praised Zheng Chenggong with great satisfaction, and Zheng Chenggong's mixed heart was also a lot firmer at this time: "I respectfully follow Your Majesty's holy teachings, Weichen is first the minister of the Ming Dynasty, the son of heaven of the Guards, and then the son of Zheng!" ”

At present, the relationship between Zhu Youzhen and the Zheng family is very delicate and complicated, and the concrete embodiment of this subtle complexity is reflected in Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong has both loyalty to the court and filial piety to the Zheng family, before the conflict between the court and the Zheng group intensifies, Zheng Chenggong can still be in a good position between the two, playing a perfect person who is both loyal and filial.

This is the case of the Cheng Group.

Since the Dutch colonists and other prisoners of war were escorted to Nanjing, they have been escorted to the criminal department to await the verdict.

In the past, prisoners of war were bound to be executed outright, and the young could be castrated and turned into eunuchs.

However, Zhu Youzhen did not intend to deal with them in this way, and he told the Criminal Department to interrogate these prisoners of war separately to find out whether they had oppressed the Han people on Dongfan Island, and if so, they would ask them about their severity, and if not, they would only be sentenced to 20 years in prison, and they would be convicted of being guilty of following the enemy.

If there is a serious case, it shall be sentenced to 100 years' imprisonment, and if it is not serious, it shall be sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment.

Zhu Youzhen naturally did not want to lenient them, but to squeeze out their labor force, and ordered them to serve in shipyards and ordnance institutes, and those who had skills continued to manufacture all kinds of machinery for the Ming Dynasty, while those who did not have skills were to be served as hard labor, and those who could make meritorious contributions could have their sentences reduced or their salaries increased.

Naturally, such a Dutch midshipman would be sentenced to 100 years in prison.

The equipment of the Dutch colonists in Taiwan has also been reused in a large number of ordnance institutes and Zhijiang shipyards, and even mirror-making equipment, filling the gap in the mirror-making industry of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, what is an industrial country, Zhu Youzhen does not have a clear concept, in his opinion, perhaps when the main national economy of the Ming Dynasty is dominated by industry, the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as an industrial country in the real sense.

In the current Ming Dynasty, agriculture still occupies a dominant position, so it is not an industrialized country.

However, the industry of the Ming Dynasty has indeed begun to make significant development, the system of the Ming Ordnance Institute is becoming more and more perfect, from artillery to muskets to unconventional weapons and basic heavy industry have established a special research and development and production department, and in the theoretical construction there are also the Ming Academy of Engineering and the Ming Academy of Sciences.

In terms of light industry, since the advent of Han's spinning machine, the spinning machine has been continuously improved, and the development of the spinning industry has been enhanced by using the hydraulic drive method.

Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, had begun to formally establish a workshop for the production of glass, while Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyi Wei Dynasty, and Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Horse Commander, also began the development of civilian industrial products and the theoretical research of natural sciences in Yangqingke.

But many of these were prompted by Zhu Youzhen, and the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty had not yet entered an active evolutionary process, and people had not yet generally realized that industry could earn more profits and wealth.

Zhu Youzhen felt that after 20 years of Chongzhen, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to further enter industrialization, it was necessary for the Ming Dynasty to have a complete industrial chain and ecosystem from natural science theory research to application development and product production.

But now Zhu Youzhen did not have the energy to think of how to speed up the emergence of this phenomenon, because he still had to pay attention to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's southward and southwestern border affairs at any time.

On the day of June 5, Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, hurriedly ran over:

"Your Majesty, I have just received news from Sichuan that Zhang Xianzhong has launched a southern offensive in the second half of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, and has now captured Jiadingfu County and Qijiang in Chongqing; In addition, Zeng Ying, the chief officer of eastern Sichuan, was killed in battle, and Yang Zhan, the general soldier of southern Sichuan, retreated to Zunyi, and in March of this year, Zunyi was also lost, and Dongchuan and Wumeng also fell one after another, and the thief soldiers pointed directly to Qujing, Yunnan! ”

(End of chapter)