There are people in the world. Although the Donglin Party has fallen, those who are still in the capital and who are still working as senior civil servants have joined the Royalist Party.

But as His Majesty the Emperor, Zhu Youxiao knew that even the royalists were generally divided into two types: one was an idealist who really wanted to do something with him, and the other was a realist who was in a position of power, did not care about political opinions, and was only willing to follow the tunes of the emperor.

But in this way, there will naturally be struggles and mountains.

Zhu Youxiao knew that this was inevitable and reasonable. On the contrary, these civil servants agreed and did not fight or fight, which was a bad thing for themselves, as the emperor.

Because in this case, these civil servants will join forces to deal with themselves.

But it cannot be too much, which will lead to a dispute between the party and the bribery, which will affect the major policies and guidelines of the court and the operation of the entire Ming Dynasty, and even lead to the corruption of the administration.

"Go and check the left censor Cao Sicheng. You Dongchang can't always keep your eyes on the officials outside. Do you know what darkness is under the light? Inside the capital, especially the six ministries and nine ministers, you have to keep a close eye on it. Cao Sicheng seems to want to go further and check that he has been getting closer to those people recently, especially Li Mingrui."

Zhu Youxiao gave a few instructions to Liu Ruoyu.

As the emperor, he was not worried that Li Mingrui and Qian Qianyi would fight, but he was worried that Li Mingrui would join forces with the Zuodu Censor Cao Sicheng. If so, he would have to change to a cabinet secondary assistant or a Zuodu Censor.

How the Dongchang secretly transferred all kinds of officialdom in the officialdom was not discussed in detail. He just talked about how Zhu Youxiao's lecture ended and came to Queen Zhang Yan.

Queen Zhang Yan is already pregnant with Liujia, and now she has a slightly bulging belly, but she looks a little bit more maternal than usual. Zhu Youxiao was never married in his previous life. To be honest, Queen Zhang Yan was the first woman in his two lives.

Therefore, Zhu You proofreads that Zhang Yan’s feelings are different from others, and naturally there is a feeling of being a real relative.

"Be careful, don't get up."

Unlike Xu Fo's pregnancy, Zhu Youxiao did not go on a tour at this time. Because he had been staying in the capital, Zhu Youxiao often looked at Zhang Yan, and sometimes he would sleep with Zhang Yan, learning to learn from ordinary couples who could cut the candle in the west window together, but talk about the night rain in Bashan.

As soon as the ceremony ended, the winter sun shone into the Forbidden City. After Zhu Youxiao arrived at Kunning Palace, he saw Zhang Yan, who had already been lying in the courtyard outside the hall, was about to get up and salute, so he gave this order.

Zhu Youxiao helped Zhang Yan sit down. Seeing Zhang Yan's forehead sweat slightly, he wiped her for a while. But when he just took back his hand, he saw Hai Lanzhu standing at the gate of the hall, standing with her hands hanging down, but he had already changed into a Chinese suit, with a slender waist that was so slim that she could hold, and her peach peak was full and was even more charming.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but think of the two crazy things with Hai Lanzhu. Although he had already obtained Hai Lanzhu's body, he had not had enough of his affairs. Hai Lanzhu didn't have to be as proactive as Xu Fo and Zhang Yan, so that Zhu Youxiao felt a bit forced to do both times.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't bear to approach Hai Lanzhu at this moment, but thinking that he was here to see his queen Zhang Yan today, not from Xuan Yin in the daytime. That would be too ridiculous. So he suppressed the evil thoughts in his heart, gently put his hand on the queen Zhang Yan's lower abdomen and touched it for a while, and smiled, "He seems to be moving."

When Queen Zhang Yan saw Zhu Youxiao like a child, she couldn't help but smile and snuggled her head gently beside Zhu Youxiao's shoulder: "Your Majesty, I heard that you asked Concubine Hui to go outside the pass?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Yes, she is different from you. You are good at classifying documents and helping me do some writing and ink in the palace. She is a person who can communicate with all kinds of people. I also asked her to train in the Royal Military Academy for some time. Now I have asked her to do something outside the pass and I have prepared before, so I cannot do it."

"But Jiong'er has just been weaned," said the queen Zhang Yan, and Zhu Youxiao directly interrupted her and said, "It's okay if you have a guest's mother with you, so there is no need to mention this matter."

Zhang Yan had to stop talking about this. The two chatted for a while. Zhu Youxiao left Kunning Palace and walked to Hai Lanzhu and stopped for a moment. Apart from the other palace maids, Hai Lanzhu showed no stranger on her face.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile, and said without saying anything, "Set up the West Warehouse Pavilion."

...

On the vast sea, fifty warships of the First Fleet of the North Sea and tens of cargo ships carrying tens of thousands of silk, thousands of glass and silver mirrors and tens of thousands of porcelains of various types were heading towards the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu Kingdom is located between the present Taiwan and the Kyushu of Japan. It has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty since the Hongwu period. The surname Shang of the Ryukyu Kingdom was also given by the Ming Dynasty.

The current King of Ryukyu is King Shangfeng, but strictly speaking, it is not the King of Ryukyu. As long as Cheng Yuqing, a pedestrian from the Ryukyu Kingdom, came to the First Fleet of the Beihai, handed over the letter of Zhu Youxiao to be the King of Ryukyu, he was considered to be the real King of Ryukyu after he handed over the letter of Zhu Youxiao's title of Shangfeng to Shangfeng.

Although the Ryukyu Kingdom was a small place, it was not a barren land. Because its geographical location was between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese pirates, and it was close to the countries of the South China Sea, it was a trade hub and was known as the bridge of all countries.

Therefore, the Ryukyu Kingdom was very rich, so there was no need to worry that the tens of thousands of silk and other goods from the Royal Weaving Bureau could not be sold in the Ryukyu Kingdom. Even during the Longwan period, the special troops were in the case of the Japanese riots in Jingping Sea Frontiers, including Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou. The silk transactions between the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty were often hundreds of thousands, or even more.

Of course, this does not mean that everyone in Ryukyu is wearing silk. In most cases, Ryukyu is just a transit station. The merchants in Ryukyu resell the Ming Dynasty goods to other places and can still make countless wealth.

The Royal Weaving Bureau brought this time the amount of goods that are far less than one-tenth of the traded goods during the Longwan period was not to take this opportunity to make a fortune, but to take advantage of the opportunity of King Shang Feng of Ryukyu to carry goods to Ryukyu Kingdom to test the reactions of pirates such as Zheng Zhilong.

According to Zhu Youxiao's idea, if Zheng Zhilong really intends to submit to the court, he should allow the court to interfere in the maritime trade, rather than relying on his pirates to indirectly control the maritime border.

Fortunately, the road to Ryukyu Kingdom was calm, and at least there was no abnormality so far.

The general officer of the Beihai Fleet, Gu Sanmazi, who also served as the commander of the Beihai Fleet, Cheng Yuqing, the pedestrian officer of the Pedestrian Bureau, and Wei Ming, the head of the Jiangnan Branch of the Royal Weaving Bureau, were standing on the Ming Dynasty steam power ship "Zheng He".

Although Qin Botong was an officer who graduated from the Royal Military Academy in advance and had made up for a year of naval combat theoretical knowledge, he did not have enough practical experience. Therefore, this time, Qin Botong gave full authority to Gu Sanmazi to command the escort mission of the Royal Weaving Bureau, and he, as the general, was demoted to learn from the side.

Gu Sanmazi is not polite. He has been a pirate in the Hangzhou Bay area for several years and has not been annexed by a maritime overlord like Zheng Zhilong, which proves that he is quite skilled in maritime combat. Now, after a year of hard work in the Royal Military Academy, not only has he become more down-to-earth and steady, but also has a lot of ink and his theoretical knowledge has also improved a lot.

"I said Gu Sanmazi, you should take a break. Holding a telescope and looking at something. You're about to arrive at Ryukyu Kingdom. I guess the people from the Zheng family won't come anymore. If they came, they would have come early."

Qin Botong is easy-going. Although he is a direct general of the Imperial Guard who is trusted by Zhu Youxiao and has the background of Duke of Wei, he does not despise Gu Sanmazi, who is a pirate. On the contrary, he not only lets him be fully responsible for the escort mission, but also becomes friends with Gu Sanmazi. Not only is Gu Sanmazi, but also the pedestrian officer Cheng Yuqing, who is the head of the Jiangnan Branch of the Royal Weaving Bureau and Wei Ming, who is in charge of the title of Tongzhi, gets along well.

Seeing Qin Botong say this, the pedestrian, Cheng Yuqing, couldn't help but smile and said, "Yes, Brother Gu, come and take a break. The breeze blows on your face and the wind is calm. It's just when you eat something, drink some wine, sing tunes, and accumulate energy. Why waste your energy? The people of the Zheng family dared to have such a courage to go directly against the court. Friend Wei, are you right?"

Wei Ming just smiled. It was his first time going to sea and he didn't understand these things very well, but he was born cautious, so he didn't say much.

But Gu Sanmazi changed his past smiley appearance and even lost his previous stubbornness. Instead, he put down his monocular telescope seriously: "What do you know? The more calm the more you look, the more you should be careful. Generally speaking, experienced old pirates will not be able to sleep in this situation, because the enemy attacks will often be born in this time. Instead, there is no need to worry about this place when there are strong winds and waves, because in that case, it is inconvenient for you to set up a formation, and the enemy itself is not convenient."

Gu Sanmazi said and walked over, stepped on the guardrail with leather boots wrapped in iron, then took a bottle of Ming version of beer from Qin Botong, and drank it down and said, "The people in the Zheng family are very brave, wait and see, I think of the past..."

This Ming version of beer is also one of the products of the Royal Industrial Company that has become popular recently, and is especially popular among the officers of the Imperial Guards for no reason. When alcoholism is prohibited, this unique wine made of malt craft has become the only drink they can satisfy their cravings. However, this thing is not cheap. Fortunately, the Imperial Guards have their own dividends in Royal Capital, so they can also enjoy this high-standard wine.

...

While Gu Sanmazi was blowing the Ming version of beer while blowing the sea breeze and telling Qin Botong and others the story of fighting wits and courage with pirates such as the Zheng family, not far from the First Fleet of the North Sea was a large number of ships that almost covered the entire sea area, including large warships with three or four-story forts.

Among them is the middle-aged man in a blue robe standing on the largest tiger-headed boat, which is Zheng Zhihu.

Zheng Zhihu is one of Zheng Zhilong's most trusted brothers, and is also a capable general in his Zheng pirate group, and he is a powerful general who charges.

"Second Master, will it be bad for us to do this? After all, they are from the court. If we ask them all to feed the fish, if the court blames us, what should we do?"

Zheng Zhilong's deputy Zhang Liang asked Zheng Zhihu with some concern.

Zheng Zhihu was as famous as his name. He was a little burly, but he was really arrogant. He snorted disdainfully: "What are you afraid of? What are the people from the court? This is my territory of my grandfather. Do he think he can come if he wants to come? Don't think that our Zheng family is really afraid of his Zhu family. After all, on the 6th, it is their Zhu family who has the final say, but on this sea, it is the world of my Zheng family. If you want to make money on the territory of my Zheng family, you have to ask me if the Zheng family agrees!"

As he said that, Zheng Zhihu said again: "This matter was also ordered by the old man. Although we are going to become people in the court now, we still need to teach a lesson. In short, we will pass the orders to all brothers. This time, the action must be kept strictly confidential and cannot affect the negotiations of the old man and the court. Then, the matter will be framed to the Satsuma vassal."

After hearing what Zheng Zhihu said, Zhang Liang couldn't help but say, "But Second Master, can you believe Zhu Youxiao? Although the Satsuma vassal forced the King of Ryukyu to recognize them, the Satsuma vassal did not have the courage to go against the Ming Dynasty."

"Hmph, whether he is Zhu Youxiao's letter or not, he will come to the sea to attack our Zheng family!"

After Zheng Zhihu said this, he ordered Zhang Liang: "Stop talking, let's continue and move forward!"

The hard sails of the Zheng Pirate Group were fully opened. Under the control of its skilled Zheng sailors, they quickly glided towards the North Sea Fleet on the sea like a sharp arrow.

On the Beihai First Fleet, Gu Sanmazi did not take it lightly because of the calm hydrological environment, and sent countless eagle boats to row several miles away to guard.

Just as the sun was hanging on the southeast side, the water mist gradually dissipated due to the rise in temperature and the entire field of vision became clearer, several white lights rushed straight into the blue sky.

This is a signal from the Eagle Ship!

Qin Botong also ran out of the cabin, and pedestrians Cheng Yuqing and Wei Ming from the Royal Weaving Bureau also followed, looking at Gu Sanmazi who was already on the deck: "What's going on?"

"The Zheng family members are still here, so I said I can't take it lightly. Well, since I'm here, let him never come back!"

As Gu Sanmazi said, he turned to Qin Botong and said, "General, we don't know how many ships the Zheng family has left and how many artillery doors there, but we have to be prepared now, seize the upper hand immediately, and immediately gather the cargo ship and keep the warship outside!"

Qin Botong pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Just as you said, Master Wei, let all the ships of your Royal Weaving Bureau gather together. At the same time, order the ships of the First Fleet to immediately change the formation and prepare for the battle!"

After Qin Botong gave the order, he said again: "Gu Sanmazi, you are more familiar with the naval battle than me, so the Zheng He will be left to you to command the command. I will go to the Ningbo to command the escort of the cargo ship. Remember Your Majesty's instructions, I would rather be wiped out than escape in the face of the battle!"
Chapter completed!