He also actively organized the locals to join the siege of the castle and paid the soldiers. In fact, he is simply draining the elite power of the Portuguese through their hands! When Liu Ju left, the expeditionary fleet's siege of the castle had not yet ended, but everything was going according to plan.

This time he came back to take the second fleet. When the second fleet arrives, it will be time to officially break through the Portuguese castle! At that time, Liu Guangting will invite the local leadership to participate in the expulsion ceremony of the Portuguese, and when the ceremony is over, it will be time for him to eliminate their leadership, and then it will be time to clean up the whole island, and it is expected that the war will last for ten or twenty years! But Liu Haojia can afford to wait for this time!

As for those Westerners, the white people are here for profit, as long as they can buy enough goods, plus they can't send enough troops remotely, they will honestly accept Liu Haojia's arrangement!

After listening to Liu Ju's report, Liu Haojia felt that the plan was going smoothly. He immediately issued a warrant, ordering the second fleet, more than eighty ships to set sail again, and the rest can only depend on the will of heaven!

After that, Liu Haojia returned to Beijing as quickly as possible. The first thing to do when entering Beijing was naturally to meet Emperor Wanli. And Emperor Wanli, as usual, met him as soon as possible.

After Liu Haojia entered the imperial study, he still paid homage. And according to the usual situation, Emperor Wanli should have let him get up immediately, but this time there was no movement!

Liu Haojia knelt there, although he had doubts in his heart, but his body was motionless. I didn't even look at my face! His temperament has calmed down a lot over the years, if it was in the first few years, I was afraid that he would have to roll his eyelids to see what Emperor Wanli looked like, and now he will definitely not do this kind of thing!

And if he peeked at Emperor Wanli, maybe the eyes of the two would collide together! Because Emperor Wanli was sitting behind the table and looking at him carefully!

Emperor Wanli looked up and down, and found that Liu Haojia was still in a correct posture and respectful attitude, so he said slowly, "Get up!"

After Liu Haojia got up, Emperor Wanli put down the book in his hand and said, "It's hard to go to Shandong this time! How's the saltworks there?"

Liu Haojia bowed down and said, "Long live the Lord, the Shandong Salt Farm is running very well! This time, thanks to the salt works in Shandong, the supply of salt to the whole country has been guaranteed."

It turned out that during this time, the nobles had been busy renovating the salt works in Jiangnan, which led to a sudden decrease in salt production! If Liu Haojia hadn't sold all the inventory of the salt factory a while ago, the people would have more salt in their hands, and they would have to vacate the market for a few months! In that case, there is a high chance that something will happen to the people!

There are more good salt stocks in Shandong, and when they are about to empty their stocks, the salt farms in Jiangnan finally began to produce salt one after another, which alleviated the dilemma of salt shortage!

After listening to Liu Haojia's report, Emperor Wanli said with satisfaction: "That's good! I just lowered the price of salt for the people, but I don't want it to go up again!

Although Liu Haojia scoffed at Emperor Wanli's behavior of taking credit, he still bowed down and said: "Long live Lord is considerate of the people, it is the blessing of the people!"

Then Emperor Wanli said, "Since the salt works have almost been delivered, why don't you take over the military power from all over the country?"

Emperor Wanli's face was very serious when he said this, and it could be seen that he was very concerned about this matter! Now he doesn't really understand the phrase "power comes out of the barrel of a gun", but he really sees very clearly that the army in his opponent can guarantee his own safety!

Liu Haojia said, "Long live the lord, the minister came back this time to arrange this matter! Because a large-scale change in military power will inevitably trigger a backlash from civilian officials, it is necessary to use another matter to distract their attention!"

Emperor Wanli's face became even more gloomy when he heard this! He said indignantly, "The whole world is mine, and it is too much for me to want to control the military power and be controlled by others! But what are you going to do to cover it up?"

Liu Haojia smiled and said, "Arrest someone!"

Then Liu Haojia told his plan again. I heard it for thousands of miles, and I gritted my teeth and hated it, and I applauded it again! Even Zhang Jia nodded and felt that this idea was foolproof!

At this time, the Ming Dynasty excepted

The Yellow River project is still in the final stage, and most of the other projects are already in the acceptance stage. Many places have already been inspected, and the horse has entered Beijing quickly! So now the great tomorrow is in a state of indulgence and joy!

Now all the officials are looking forward to the reward of the imperial court. After all, the silver in their pockets is already full, and if they can be promoted to an official again, it will be even more joyful! If the original wife dies again, it will be three joys!

As everyone expected, Emperor Wanli solemnly said to Zhang Juzheng at a great court meeting: "The officials who have performed well this time will be rewarded heavily!" Those who perform well, even if their literary names are not so good, must be promoted!"

His request was naturally agreed to by Zhang Juzheng. At the same time, when he turned back, he had already assigned the officials to seize the time to evaluate the personnel of various places, draw up lists and rewards. Now that the list of the first batch has come out, it is not surprising that they are officials in the Huanghuai area!

Because their Huanghuai has been a place of frequent floods in the past dynasties, this time the imperial court invested a huge amount of money, which is to be determined to have no floods within a hundred years! In other words, as long as the embankment is accepted, the least number of officials involved can be promoted! It is not impossible for officials who have made a big contribution to be two or three levels!

And Daming's officialdom has always been a sieve, and there is no idea of secrecy. Therefore, as soon as the list of the first batch of rewards of the Ministry of Officials was drawn up, it had already been rumored that all the Manjing divisions were there! By the time they finished planning the examiners and were ready to leave, the news had probably reached them personally!

The person who is sure that he is on the list is naturally celebrated! The people around them naturally seized the time to tie the knot, but fortunately, they left some friendship before they were officially promoted. The rest of the people who were concerned also wrote to congratulate them. More people are just envious and jealous, just hoping that they are also on the next batch of lists! And with a large number of assessment personnel leaving Beijing, the atmosphere in the officialdom is even more enthusiastic!

These officials who went out to investigate naturally also knew the truth of the sedan chair people carrying people, and naturally they would not blindly drill the tip of the horns and stubbornly buckle the problems below. And the people below are naturally reciprocating, they should eat and eat, they should go to the Qinglou to go to the Qinglou, and they should give silver to silver! So soon after they returned to Beijing, they sent out their will to give a reward! Seeing that a large number of officials are about to be promoted! Even those who don't have a chance to be promoted are evaluated as "excellent"!

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