After Zhang Zuo left, Zhu Hao also had to pack up his mood and prepare to return to his previous state of life. Lou Suzhen saw Zhu Hao's serious face and asked, "The situation in the northwest makes Gongzi worried?" "Nope."

Zhu Hao shook his head, "The situation in the northwest is fine, but I predicted to Your Majesty before that the border army in Datong might mutiny, and now that the time is approaching, Your Majesty attaches great importance to this." In fact, I am more concerned about the southeast coastal defense, the rise of the Japanese in the past two years in a low-key manner, has formed a threat to my Ming southeast sea frontier, I have been a strong advocate of shipbuilding, now that I have a little achievement, it is time to test the strength of my Ming sailors."

Lou Suzhen bowed: "It seems that Gongzi knows the situation in the world well and knows everything first, no wonder His Majesty is very important."

Zhu Hao glanced sideways at her, "Are you bragging to me? But in the presence of His Majesty, it is okay to brag once in a while, but what I say is not all mysterious, and I am afraid that everything is going in the direction I expected."

···· ......

When Zhu Hao returned to the city, he went to see Lu Song first.

Lu Song is no longer in charge of the iron mine in Yongping Mansion recently, and is in charge of the security work of the Jingcheng Railway Station, and the matter of Lu Song serving as the Fusi Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town has not been followed up for the time being, on the one hand, Zhu Chen has not stepped down yet, and on the other hand, Zhu Si is interested in Chen Yin as the next Fusi Fusi Fufu Envoy of Beizhen.

Of course, Luo An's succession as the commander of Jinyiwei has basically been determined.

Lu Song is not in a hurry, originally he was not very high in the ranking of the Xingwang Mansion Honor and Guard Division, plus he had the experience of serving as a court servant in the Zhengde Dynasty, he was not so eager for his position to ascend, which was also related to the fact that his wife was valued by the Empress Dowager Jiang and did not want to be laughed at and said to take the lady's route.

Lu Song's mentality has always been very good.

"I want you to go to Tianjin Shipyard to equip the new ship with new guns according to the drawings I gave, and then pull the fleet to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to fight a dozen Japanese robbers and boost the morale of the coastal defense soldiers."

Zhu Hao explained his intention to Lu Song.

Lu Song was very embarrassed: "I have never led troops to the battlefield, let alone commanding a naval army······ I'm afraid I'll live up to Mr. Zhu's high hopes."

Zhu Hao said: "This is a great opportunity to make a contribution, I plan to let you bring Lu Bing with you, now there is no need for too many people to protect Sixian Ju······· You take Guan Jing with you by the way, this is a good opportunity for a military general from Xingwangfu to fight.

"We rely on the enemy to crush the generation difference of weapons, and now the Japanese are not yet in the climate, and the chance of victory is very high, even if we can't eradicate it at once, we can still attack, retreat and defend, I think you really have no reason to refuse."

Zhu Hao made a detailed battle plan for Lu Song, but Lu Song was still nervous.

Staying in the capital to mingle is the idea of most people from Xingwangfu, where the clothes and food are fine, the official duties performed are not very cumbersome, the income is high, there are all kinds of extra money to fish, and occasionally you can contact the emperor, maybe you can be promoted quickly, why go to the southeast coast to fight the Japanese invaders?

Fighting such a thing as a war is always life-threatening!

"Of course, Lu Qianhu, you don't want to go, and I don't force it, that's why I came to discuss with you in advance, instead of asking Your Majesty to go directly to the town."

Zhu Hao smiled.

Lu Song wants to pursue a stable life, how can he force it? Lu Song said: "I am willing to go, but I ······." Whatever you have any concerns, just say it."

Zhu Hao casually took out a stack of drawings and placed them on the table.

Lu Song sighed and said: "Now that various mountain forces have been formed in Jinyiwei, I am afraid that after being transferred to another place, the errand in my hand cannot be inherited by my own people, and there will be no place for him to return to Beijing in the future······

It means that the brocade guard has also begun to roll inward.

When the emperor first arrived in the capital, the Xingwangfu Yiwei Division was born in this group of people, and he was not so eager for benefits, but with the passage of time, after a few years, while the emperor gained a firm foothold, the people from Xingwangfu also divided their basic plates clearly, Lu Song was a real person, he was afraid of doing a thankless job, and even his own territory was encroached upon by others after he came back.

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Lu Qianhu relaxes, and when you return from victory,

Nanzhen Fusi will be under your control, and I will hand over the mines and railways to you. Since I believe in you, how can there be any reason to favor others in the distribution of benefits? Just go with peace of mind!"

...... Forbidden city. Zhu Hao entered the palace to face the saint.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Si prepared refreshments for Zhu Hao early, and wanted to invite Zhu Hao to dinner in the palace, so that the imperial dining room could start to prepare, but he was afraid that people would know about Zhu Hao's entry into the palace, so he only let Zhang Zuo serve beside him.

The first thing Zhu Hao did when he entered the palace was to propose to Zhu Si a plan to open up a battlefield on the southeast coast.

「······ So fast? Didn't you say that those newly built ships were difficult to get to the hall of elegance? Recently, I have also studied some naval battle charts, and said that when a big ship fights a small ship, it does not always have an advantage, and it is easy to be besieged by the enemy by fire and other means, and the flexibility is very poor······."

Zhu Si is no longer a fledgling boy, when it comes to something, even if Zhu Hao proposes it temporarily, he can tell the reason.

Zhu Hao said: "This time we swept the islands off the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and took down all the islands where the pirates and pirates were entrenched, and after the pirates and pirates were expelled from the mainland, they hid on those small islands, their ships were not only small, but also not many in number, and the size of our fleet has grown to the point of crushing the opponent, so we don't need to worry about the opponent's siege tactics."

Zhang Zuo reminded with a smile: "Your Majesty, the Southeast Navy has tens of thousands of horses, how can you be afraid of a few pirates and pirates?"

Zhu Si nodded: "As long as you are well prepared, I don't want to be said that I started a war for no reason, and the previous generations were not mainly focused on holding the land?" Even if there is a disturbance on those islands outside, it has never been cleared in the previous dynasties, and I want to defend it."

Zhu Hao was a little surprised, Zhu Si lost his enterprising spirit at a young age and was bent on seeking stability? He immediately said, "Your Majesty, these islands hold the shipping lanes leading to the Western and Eastern Oceans of the Ming Dynasty, and if they are not cleared, the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty will suffer huge losses and affect the tax revenue of the imperial court.

"In addition, this operation can also be regarded as a military training, if everything goes well, after a short rest after clearing the sea frontier, the minister is ready to send a fleet to explore overseas territories in the ocean, please forgive me."

"Hmm."

Zhu Si didn't have any idea about this, just nodded mechanically, "You can arrange it, I don't know much about this, if you can bring back some gold and silver from overseas as you said before, and make the country rich and the people strong, I will be very satisfied." But if we want to open up and defend overseas territory, I don't think it's necessary for the time being, I find it difficult to take care of the land of China, let alone other ······

"Those ministers have been making trouble for me recently, so you can help me think of some countermeasures to suppress their arrogance."

Zhu Hao became more and more surprised, why did Zhu Si become more and more conservative after he took over the power, and he didn't even have the enterprising spirit to expand the territory?

As night falls, the lights come on.

Zhu Hao had dinner with Zhu Si in the palace before leaving the palace accompanied by Zhang Zuo. Zhang Zuo was puzzled by Zhu Hao's opening up of a new battlefield on the southeast coast.

"Mr. Zhu, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the center of gravity has always been in the north, why do you keep staring at the southeast? Although the pirates and pirates over there occasionally bring some trouble to the imperial court, they will not cause substantial harm to our Ming territory, right?"

Zhang Zuo has always been more "pragmatic", but this "pragmatism" is obviously not for the benevolent style of the world, but more for the consideration of the king. The emperor needed stability in the north as a political bargaining chip, and he felt that the stability of the north was more important than anything else.

Zhu Hao explained: "In the next ten years or even decades, the southeast coastal defense will become the biggest security hazard in the Ming Dynasty, and the early rectification will avoid the occurrence of disasters to the greatest extent, and there are many benefits for the coastal people to live and work in peace and contentment······ After generations of arrangement, how bad can the scene be?"

Zhang Zuo sighed: "What does Mr. Zhu mean is that you want to fill in the gaps for the Ming Dynasty, rather than the icing on the cake?" "Well, that's probably what it means." Zhu Hao said.

Zhang Zuo didn't want to argue with Zhu Hao about anything, and said, "Mr. Zhu, His Majesty has been asking recently, can you let Mr. Tang be promoted to a high position earlier? You say that this year is the doom of his fate······ It's the end of the year

At the end, what the hell is he······ Is there something wrong or is it okay?"

"It's hard to say."

Zhu Hao shook his head, he didn't even know the bottom of his own heart. Zhang Zuo asked, "Can't you figure it out?"

Zhu Hao said: "How can the number of human lives be so easy to calculate? I want to change my life against the sky, sometimes it's too difficult, I just hope that Mr. Tang can get through it, don't think about him entering the court a year ago, he has no ambitions, and he will come forward to block it at a critical time, and it is actually good to be a leader and an introduction."

Zhang Zuo smiled and said, "Then everything is up to you." -.---

···

In the dead of night, Zhu Hao still couldn't go back to his private house to rest, so he asked Su Xigui to inform him and invite Huang Zan to the theater.

The theater is singing a night play at this time, and many ticket holders in the capital like to stay up late at night, and some powerful and wealthy people like to drag their families to watch - the family atmosphere is much stronger when watching the theater at night, and it is rare to see women during the day, but it is not uncommon to see them at night.

This also shows that the social atmosphere in the middle of the Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the point of being closed by a pool of stagnant water. Inside a private room.

After Su Xigui introduced Huang Zhan into the door, he retreated very familiarly and closed the door from the outside, so that Zhu Hao and Huang Huang could talk alone.

····· Two things, His Majesty wants to re-propose the matter of the ceremony after the New Year, and will arrange for Master Huang to enter the cabinet before the lunar month.

"Now there are rumors among the ministers that some ministers want to take advantage of the sea ban on the southeast coast to play to Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty will no longer build ships in Tianjin and other places, so as to cut off the basis for the survival of pirates and pirates······ As the secretary of the Southern Household Department, Mr. Huang asked to intervene in this matter to ensure that a stricter maritime ban will not be implemented."

Huang Zhan pondered for a moment.

He didn't like the feeling of listening to people's orders, but he knew that if he wanted to enter the cabinet, he would have to do things for the emperor.

If his opinions and propositions were no different from those of the scholars, then why did the emperor let him become a scholar of the Hanlin Dynasty, and even let him enter the cabinet? Huang Zan said, "Respectfully, can the old man ask, what is Your Majesty's opinion on the change of ministers?"

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Bachelor Huang is asking when Elder Jiang Ge and Elder Mao Ge will step down, right? It's coming, it's coming, and before the reopening ceremony after the year, these two people have to retire from the cabinet, and they are in the transitional nature of the cabinet······ As for the two of Zhenjiang and Yuyao, now His Majesty has not said that he must be recalled, if Huang enters the cabinet, he may stay in the cabinet for a longer time, but the corresponding responsibility will also be greater."