In order to welcome this fleet returning from overseas, several cabinet elders discussed with the emperor in the imperial study for most of the day, and finally made a decision to send Wang Yangming.

If Yang Yiqing's attention has shifted from the army to the court, then the number one boss in the military is almost Wang Yangming.

As the commander of the three armies who went on several expeditions to pacify the rebellion of King Ning and the rebellion outside the Guan, Wang Yangming's military exploits are all real, and no one can say anything when they mention Wang Yangming's military exploits.

The first person in the military to talk about it was Wang Yangming.

And Zhu Houzhao discussed with the cabinet and sent Wang Yangming to Tianjin Port to welcome the returning fleet, which shows the importance that the imperial court attaches to the fleet.

In the port, Wang Yangming was dressed in regular clothes, although it was only a regular clothes, but the momentum cultivated by being in a high position for a long time on his body could not be concealed.

As the first person in the Ming Dynasty and the military, Wang Yangming is definitely the representative of both civil and military affairs, and beside him, several civil ministers and generals are looking at the sea with an expectant face.

The military generals who came with Wang Yangming this time knew that they came to welcome the fleet returning from overseas, as for why even a bigwig of Wang Yangming's level went out in person, there were only three or two people present.

Although it is said that in a small area, Yu Dayou and others have destroyed the country in the West and looted hundreds of millions of wealth, but this news has only circulated in a small area, and if the identity is not enough, it is impossible to hear about it at all.

Time passed little by little, and after standing in the harbor for almost half an hour, some officials were already a little impatient.

But Wang Yangming was standing there, his expression unchanged, but whenever he saw Wang Yangming, no matter how impatient he was, he had to suppress the impatience in his heart.

I can't stand it anymore, can I still be as noble as Wang Yangming? As a cabinet boss, Wang Yangming is not impatient, if they dare to make any impatient moves, what kind of impression will they leave on Wang Yangming.

If this had been done at another time, without the presence of a bigwig like Wang Yangming, I am afraid that some officials would have been impatient.

Suddenly, I heard a military general say excitedly: "Here, everyone, look, there are so many boats!" ”

With this exclamation, the eyes of the officials who had been in a low spirits lit up one by one, and they raised their heads to look at the sea in the distance.

Faintly, you can see black dots emerging on the surface of the sea, and with the naked eye, you can really only see some black spots.

But at this time, Wang Yangming and several officials could clearly see the approaching ship with the help of clairvoyant mirrors.

According to the information received in advance, the fleet that returned from overseas this time included more than 400 ships.

Originally, it was 500 big ships, but it was just that when I returned all the way, it was naturally impossible to be calm by sea.

With the escort of the Ming fleet, no pirates or the like on this road dare not approach at all, but natural disasters and man-made disasters are gone, and natural disasters are difficult for manpower to resist.

When a storm comes down, if it is not handled properly, the entire fleet may be destroyed. Fortunately, the luck of the fleet is not bad, and with so many skilled crews, they know the situation at sea very well, and even if there is a storm, they can avoid it in advance, and even so, there are no less than a dozen ships that have sunk on the reef alone along the way.

Fortunately, there are a large number of ships in the fleet, and even if a ship sinks, it can transfer personnel and materials to other ships in time.

Therefore, when the original fleet of almost 500 ships entered the sea off Tianjin Port, there were still more than 400 ships left.

The black pressed patch, at a glance, all of them are gradually getting bigger black spots.

It was Lin Pingzhi who led a fleet to escort the transport fleet back this time, and Yu Dayou was inseparable from the fleet, and Qi Jingtong was just leading the fleet to converge, so he was naturally unwilling to come back early, so the task of escorting the fleet was naturally handed over to Lin Pingzhi.

Lin Pingzhi led dozens of warships to escort the entire fleet along the way, and when he saw the familiar and unfamiliar Tianjin Port through the clairvoyant mirror at this moment, Lin Pingzhi couldn't help but have blurred eyes and tears in his eyes.

It's been almost three or four years, and when he chose to lead the fleet out of Daming, he never dreamed that this trip would be several years long.

It is said that people leave their hometowns and are cheap, of course, this is a little inappropriate for Lin Pingzhi and them, after all, Lin Pingzhi has brought a bloody storm all the way to the place, and no one dares to belittle them.

But the longer he left, the deeper he missed his hometown, and Lin Pingzhi tried his best to control the tears in his eyes so that they would not roll down.

Looking at the fleet that entered the line of sight, Wang Yangming secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Others don't know, but he knows very well, if Lin Pingzhi and Yu Dayou are not bold enough to dare to bully the king, then almost all of the spoils loaded on these hundreds of ships are obtained from overseas.

Hundreds of millions of gold, silver, jade, jewelry and other property, so much wealth to be honest, even for today's Ming Dynasty, it is an amazing fortune.

Daming's tax revenue now has only reached more than 50 million taels, although this number is jumping every year, but hundreds of millions of wealth, almost equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's five or six years of taxes, so to speak, it can be seen the importance of this fleet.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Yangming turned slightly sideways and said to a general beside him: "Pass my order, block the port, and no one is allowed to enter or leave the port." ”

Soon Wang Yangming's order was conveyed, and the elite soldiers of the 5,000 Tengxiang Four Guards Battalion brought by Wang Yangming from Beijing blocked the entire port.

Fortunately, the officials had already received the news beforehand, so they were not surprised to see those soldiers blockading the port, if not, it would be strange that these officials were not in a mess.

Finally, when the first big ship docked, Wang Yangming took the lead, and a group of officials greeted him.

When Lin Ping stepped on the ground with one foot, he finally couldn't help it, tears rolled down his eyes, and the whole person fell to the ground, bowing deeply.

Many generals also prostrate on the ground like Lin Pingzhi and bowed deeply.

Wang Yangming stood aside, did not step forward to disturb Lin Pingzhi and the others, and when Lin Pingzhi and the others got up, Wang Yangming stepped forward to look at Lin Pingzhi: "General Lin, welcome you back!" ”

Seeing Wang Yangming, Lin Pingzhi is naturally no stranger, and Lin Pingzhi has admiration and awe for the existence of this person who was awarded the title of national prince with military merits.

At the beginning, Lin Pingzhi followed Chu Yi's side, but he saw with his own eyes how Wang Yangming rose all the way, whether it was civil or military, Wang Yangming, the prince of the country, was really unmatched, even if Chu Yi praised him.

"The last general, Lin Pingzhi, meet your lord!"

Holding Lin Pingzhi up, Wang Yangming smiled and said: "General Lin and others have been in the dust all the way, it is really hard, my father has arranged a place for you to stay, and you can rest for a while......"

Lin Pingzhi shook his head slightly and said, "My lord, the business is important, and when the business is done, I will not be too late to rest." ”

While speaking, Lin Pingzhi waved his hand to the pro-soldiers behind him, and saw two pro-soldiers carrying an extremely heavy box.

Everyone's eyes fell on the box, and they heard Lin Pingzhi say to Wang Yangming: "My lord, what is in this box is a roster of the loot seized overseas this time, and everything is registered and sorted together. ”

The booklet used to record things alone is enough to contain a large box, and you can imagine how much wealth Lin Pingzhi brought back from overseas this time.

Wang Yangming looked at the box, his eyes shrank, to be honest, even if he had a certain amount of psychological preparation, Wang Yangming still felt very shocked.

After all, if you just listen to the numbers, it is a bunch of cold numbers, and if you can't see the real thing, you naturally can't feel the shock.

Nodding at Lin Pingzhi, Wang Yangming said, "Since this is the case, then let's do the right thing first." ”

While speaking, Wang Yangming recovered his decisiveness, waved his hand, and suddenly saw a team of elite soldiers quickly boarding the ship, and then carrying down the boxes on the ship in an orderly manner.

The boxes that had been carried down were quickly loaded onto the wagons that had already been prepared.

Hundreds of wagons were filled in only an hour or two, but hundreds of wagons were less than a tenth of the ships unloaded.

Obviously, in response to this situation, the imperial court has been prepared for a long time, and hundreds of carriages have gone in waves.

Each wave had thousands of Tengxiang four guards, Jinyi Guard, Dongchang personnel escorted to the Beijing Division, wave after wave, full ten waves of convoys, and thousands of carriages alone were used.

By the time the last box was unloaded from the ship, it was already dark, but the harbor was brightly lit.

Wang Yangming, who had been standing there and looking at the boxes registered, was relieved.

Although some officials wanted to ask Wang Yangming to rest first and hand it over to them, Wang Yangming stayed here step by step.

No one knows the value of every box here better than him, and since the Son of Heaven and the cabinet have sent him to deal with this matter, then he must ensure that this wealth will not cause any trouble when he handles it.

You must know that once someone wants to do something, a few boxes will be worth tens of thousands.

Not only Wang Yangming breathed a sigh of relief, but Lin Pingzhi, who had been standing here with Wang Yangming, also let go of his heart.

Yu Dayou and Qi Jingtong discussed it, and as a result, he escorted the fleet back, to be honest, Lin Pingzhi has always been worried about this way.

Lin Pingzhi is really afraid, you must know that he has to lead his men and horses to take care of the entire fleet, because he doesn't know if the news that the fleet carries a huge amount of wealth has spread.

With dozens of warships in hand, Lin Pingzhi is not afraid that he will encounter any pirates along the way, but Lin Pingzhi is afraid that there will be greed in his hearts among his subordinates.

The external enemy is not terrible, but the terrible thing is that one's own people are ghosts.

As the so-called wealth touches people's hearts, even if someone is born out of greed and does something crazy, it is not unusual.

For a few months, Lin Pingzhi even turned one eye open and one eye closed when he slept, for fear that something would go wrong.

Now that he has finally returned to Daming and transferred this wealth to the imperial court, Lin Pingzhi only felt that the heavy burden on his body disappeared all of a sudden, the whole person's spirit was relaxed, the breath on his body trembled slightly, and the internal breath flow in his body suddenly accelerated a little, and Lin Pingzhi's face couldn't help but show a little joy.

"Huh!"

Wang Yangming felt the change in the aura on Lin Pingzhi's body and couldn't help but look at Lin Ping in surprise, the corners of his mouth showed a little smile, and he looked towards Lin Pingzhi with a little appreciation: "Congratulations to General Lin for cultivating greatly." ”

It turned out that Lin Pingzhi's cultivation had crossed the first-class level at the previous moment and reached the pinnacle realm, and he was a congenital powerhouse in the upward direction, that is to say, except for a few congenitals, Lin Pingzhi can now be regarded as a strong person under the congenital.

Lin Pingzhi smiled at Wang Yangming with a little joy: "Pingzhi's little cultivation, how can he compare to the grandmaster of the Anguo Gong generation." ”

Capital

Hundreds of carriages slowly entered the camp of the Tengxiang Fourth Guard Battalion.

Yes, these carriages running from Tianjin Port passed for most of the day, but they entered the camp of Tengxiang Siwei Battalion.

In the camp of the Tengxiang Four Guards Battalion, Han Kun, who has been in charge of the Tengxiang Four Guards Battalion, was dressed in military uniform, and he was extremely respectful to accompany Zhu Houzhao and Yang Yiqing.

Han Kun is in charge of the Tengxiang Fourth Guard Battalion, loyal, if Wang Yangming is the first person in the military, then Han Kun can also be called one of the giants in the military.

The most important thing is the team of the Tengxiang Four Guards Battalion, even if the Ministry of War wants to be deployed, it must first consult the Son of Heaven, Han Kun can be said to be able to spare the Ministry of War, and the five armies are directly responsible to the Son of Heaven.

With the Son of Heaven several times of grace and power, Tengxiang Siwei Battalion is absolutely loyal to the Son of Heaven from top to bottom, as long as the Son of Heaven says a word, he will definitely not hesitate to fight.

With such a large amount of wealth, Zhu Houzhao was not very at ease anywhere, but Zhu Houzhao put it in the camp of the Tengxiang Siwei Battalion.

Seeing that the boxes were carried down, Han Kun, as one of the most trusted generals of the Son of Heaven, naturally knew what was in these boxes.

Along with the box came a booklet that recorded what was inside the box.

Wang Zheng presented a booklet to Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao glanced at it, and couldn't help but breathe a little fast, this booklet is a general ledger, which records as much as 280,000,000 taels of silver, 8,000,000,000 taels of gold, and 123 boxes of precious stones......

Each box is marked with a numerical number, corresponding to the contents of the box as recorded in the booklet.

Casually, Zhu Houzhao pointed to a box, the number on the box was No. 98, which corresponded to the contents of box No. 98 recorded in a booklet.

When I found a record of the contents of box No. 98 in a booklet, I saw that it clearly stated that box No. 98 was five thousand taels of gold.

Raising his eyebrows, Zhu Houzhao nodded at Wang Zheng, Wang Zheng waved his hand, and suddenly saw two attendants step forward, remove the seal, and then slowly open the box, and suddenly a touch of golden light flashed, and he saw that the gold ingots were neatly placed in the box.

Each gold ingot is one hundred taels, and in this box is fifty gold ingots, which is exactly five thousand taels of gold, which is exactly the same as what is recorded in the booklet.

Looking at the box, and then at the pile of boxes that were like a hill, Zhu Houzhao stared, slowly turned to Han Kun and said, "Han Kun, can I trust you?" ”

With a pop, I saw Han Kun kneeling in front of Zhu Houzhao without hesitation and said: "The minister is willing to go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire for His Majesty, and His Majesty gives an order, even if he wants the minister to die, the minister will not frown." ”

Stretching out his hand to help Han Kun up, Zhu Houzhao said with a solemn expression: "The Qing family should know how big the temptation of these gold and silver belongings is, the reason why I put these belongings in the military camp is to trust the Tengxiang Siwei Camp and General Han, I hope that you can lead your subordinates to complete the inspection of these boxes, and then check them, and finally send them to the treasury and the royal treasury respectively." ”

Han Kun said neatly: "Your Majesty asks Your Majesty to dispatch Gonggong Cao of the East Factory, the commander of Jinyi Wei Qian Ning, and the Gonggong of Yuhuatian of the West Factory to conduct the inspection together. ”

It is not unreasonable for Han Kun to be able to steadily take charge of the Tengxiang Fourth Guard Battalion for so many years, as a smart person, Han Kun knows very well what he can do and what he can't do, although the Son of Heaven trusts him, but he knows very well that this matter is too big, once something happens, even he can't bear it.

So Han Kun simply pulled in the major institutions of Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory, and when the time came, under the control of several parties, no one would want to do anything that should not be done.

Hearing Han Kun's words, Zhu Houzhao nodded after a little deep groaning and said, "I will send someone to invite Qian Ning and Cao Shaoqin." ”

While speaking, a bright prisoner cart came over under the escort of a team of soldiers, and a general stepped forward and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, King Charles I of Xiyi is here." ”

As soon as his eyes lit up, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look at the prisoner car in the distance, the prisoner car was still more than ten zhang away from where he was, and Zhu Houzhao could only see a figure hanging his head and being locked in the prisoner car.

"Bring people!"

Soon Charles I was brought to Zhu Houzhao, a few months of turbulence, the blow of the country's ruin, Charles I's whole person looked very sluggish, if it wasn't for Lin Pingzhi specially sent a doctor to watch Charles I, I can't be sure that Charles I would have died on the way back.

Condescendingly, looking at Charles I, Zhu Houzhao's thoughts were a little erratic, and he muttered: Big companion, do you see it? You once said that one day, you may have forgotten the capture of Spain, the Netherlands, and the empire on which the sun never sets, but I have never forgotten. I will capture them one by one and help you fulfill this wish.

Charles I, who had been in a daze, didn't know if he heard Zhu Houzhao's murmuring, or if it was the intuition of the king, he felt Zhu Houzhao's breath, slowly raised his head, opened his cloudy eyes, and looked towards Zhu Houzhao.

[2-in-1 chapter. 】