Now, Zhu Shichang is not only the more anxious. For these traitors of Jiannu, the aggressive behavior of the Ming Jinyiwei's assassination was outside, and the increasingly intense suppression of Huang Taiji.

So, these traitors who serve Jiannu can no longer have the heart to do their best for the so-called Qing Dynasty. In order not to be easily killed by their masters as spies, they can only be more humble than before and have no opinion. They only look forward to the people of the banner, and only seek to find a chance to survive by selling their personal dignity at a low price.

Moreover, Huang Taiji's high-pressure policy did not curb the yearning for the Ming Dynasty of these traitors and lackeys. They began to look for contact information with the Jinyiwei more actively. Even Zhu Shichang, who was very active in eradicating the Jinyiwei's eyeliner in Shengjing City, began to deliberately let go of some suspicious people in hopes of leaving a good impression on these Jinyiwei.

In this way, Huang Taiji's great purge made the Qing regime, which seemed calm and quiet, become even more slim. At least it was no longer possible to reintegrate its power and fight against the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the most active traitors who wanted the Qing Dynasty to unify the world were no longer interested in the founding of the country and founding the Yuan Dynasty with Huang Taiji. The nobles of the Qing Dynasty had no intention of competing for the world. They were fishing and hunting nations and were not very interested in the farming civilization within the pass, and now the lives brought to them by Han slaves have already made them very satisfied. Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty was increasingly showing a tough attitude, without the active instigation of the traitors, these nobles of the Qing Dynasty became more and more conservative and self-confidence.

Perhaps these Manchu nobles were essentially self-confessed. Even in the original history, they later became the masters of the entire land of China, they only knew to enjoy the benefits brought by this territory and forgot their historical mission as rulers. They also used all their intelligence to maintain their privileged status, and even made strict requirements on themselves.

Of course, the supreme rulers of the Qing regime such as Huang Taiji and Dorgon still had the ambition to covet the Central Plains. Under the influence of traitors such as Fan Wencheng, and with the fact that they were originally a Jianzhou Jurchens with a certain degree of sinicization, their strategic vision was naturally longer than the conservative Qing Dynasty flag owners, Beile, and they knew that in this land, they would either become the masters of the entire land of China or could only become ruled Shunmen.

It is simply unrealistic to protect the interests of the vast and fertile land north of the Liao River. The Ming Dynasty would not allow anyone with strength or even challenge his dominance.

The highest-level rulers of the Qing Dynasty, such as Huang Taiji and Dorgon, knew this very clearly, so while they had to implement high-pressure policies, they still tried their best to maintain the apparent balance between Man and Han, and were also very distressed, hoping to break the current deadlock as soon as possible.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied that the Qing Dynasty was now difficult to form a joint force due to various internal problems, and it was difficult for the Qing Dynasty to challenge its rule outside the pass. Although there was not enough sufficient strength to eliminate the Qing Dynasty in one go.

However, for Zhu Youxiao and Da Ming, they can free up their hands to completely solve the problem of the sea. As long as there is nothing wrong in the north, Zhu Youxiao doesn't mind fighting with the Zheng Pirate Group to completely eliminate private armed forces at sea.

In fact, even though Li Mingrui went to Quanzhou and forced Zheng Zhilong to admit his wrong behavior of provoking the majesty of the court, he could not completely cure Zheng Zhilong's crime, because Zheng Zhilong refused to admit that he was instructing Zheng Zhihu to death. Zheng Zhilong was also vague about the matter of surrender, and there were signs of concentrating the Zheng family fleets everywhere. At the same time, he also purchased a large amount of grain and other strategic materials in Japan, Luzon, Jilong and other places.

Even the blind man could see that Zheng Zhilong was preparing for both hands, while accumulating strength to fight the court while accumulating strength to fight the court.

"No matter what Zheng Zhilong thinks, is he really trying to surrender to the court and secretly gathering his strength to prevent our North Sea Fleet from eating him or really wanting our North Sea Fleet to fight another battle to preserve his maritime overlord status,

I don’t have the patience to spend more time with him. Royal capital such as our Royal Industries and the Royal Weaving Bureau must open up overseas markets this year!

Otherwise, our Ming Dynasty treasury will fall into a state of deficit again, and the consequences will be unimaginable at that time!

He immediately drafted an order and recalled Li Mingrui to me, so he asked Xiong Wencan to waste time with Zheng Zhilong first. There was no need to let a grand cabinet minister accompany him to Zheng Zhilong for tea in Quanzhou!

In addition, Yang Sichang and Xu Guangqi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, went to Tianjin to inspect the Beihai Fleet and the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau, and asked them what they still need, especially in terms of combat readiness resources and technological improvements."

Zhu Youxiao decisively ordered several officials and people from the cabinet who were on duty in the West Warehouse Pavilion, and his tone seemed a little anxious and angry.

There is nothing I can do about this. Zhu Youxiao really doesn't want to spend more time with Zheng Zhilong like this.

Although the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau made a lot of money for Zhu Youjia, and Zhu Youjia also confiscated many people's homes and relied on the Royal Bank to get a lot of money. He even collected a lot of money by implementing commercial tax reform in Fengyang area, Zhu Youjiao went out more!

The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau, the Royal Military Academy, the Ming Naval Academy, the Ordnance Department and other institutions require Zhu Youxiao to spend countless money in almost every month. Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also asked the Ministry of Works to do a lot of major water conservancy and transportation projects. These huge projects that require a lot of manpower to participate in require a lot of financial resources.

Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also directly exempted corvee labor, and even repeatedly reduced taxes and exempted taxes. Then he drove a large number of scholars and literati to the west to carry out education and started a lot of money in the early stage. At the same time, he destroyed the Korqin tribe and the Khalkha tribe, but no longer came back directly like Zhu Di, the Ming Chengzu of Zhu Di, but he insisted on turning Mongolia in the south of the desert into a political and envoy of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, the infrastructure construction and administrative system were built and the establishment of the administrative system were spent a lot of money.

Zhu Youxiao is now like Emperor Yang of Sui, doing projects and construction everywhere, and at the same time he is desperately expanding the army and popularizing the education level of the lower-level people.

As long as the chain of fiscal revenue and expenditure is slightly imbalanced, the entire Ming Dynasty's social order will collapse in an instant, and social conflicts will suddenly return to the intensification state of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, even more serious than the seventh year of the Apocalypse!

Perhaps in this way, Zhu Youxiao would really become a king of a country that was destroyed, and even like Emperor Yang of Sui. He originally wanted to change the rigid and lifeless social pattern but ended up being accused of being very fond of merit.

In order to avoid this situation, Zhu Youxiao had to hurry to break the current deadlock.

Sometimes Zhu Youxiao thought about it and felt quite frustrated. From the seventh year of the Apocalypse to the present, he had not lived a day of solid life. He made a lot of money and spent a lot of money. He finally suppressed the civil service group and made Huang Taiji lick the wounds outside the pass, completely erasing the presence of Guan Ning Army. Now he has to deal with Zheng Zhilong, the big pirate.

To this end, in terms of military expansion and strengthening, Zhu Youxiao has also focused on the navy, so that the 6th Army of the Imperial Guard did not expand on a large scale in the ninth year of the Apocalypse and the tenth year of the Apocalypse. He even streamlined and eliminated many of the originally name-named guard soldiers, and asked the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War to change them from military to civilian.

The Imperial Guard Navy, the current North Sea Fleet, directly doubled in half a year. The outstanding performance of the Zheng He steam engine in naval battles made the entire Ming army excited by this magical iron armored ship. Therefore, the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau began to continue to expand its production scale and stepped up the construction of a second steam-powered warship.

However, Zhu Youxiao gave the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau the indicator that it was necessary to build four steam-powered warships before the Spring Festival of the 11th of Apocalypse. In addition, the Ming Dynasty must have six steam-powered warships in the 11th of Apocalypse.

At the same time, the Ministry of War also ordered other docks to step up the construction of other traditional warships in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's instructions to enrich the strength of the navy.

Anyway, Zhu Youxiao decided to show off with Zheng Zhilong at the latest at the end of the 11th year of the Apocalypse, and he would use force to broaden his financial path.

For Zhu Youxiao's decision, the Imperial Guard system and the people of Royal Capital are absolutely supported. They are already vested interests of Trustee Capital, and expansion is their instinctive interest demand, so for Zheng Zhilong, they are eager to fight immediately.

Li Mingrui's sudden departure from Quanzhou also aroused Zheng Zhilong's alertness. He also realized that the court seemed to not want to continue playing with him anymore, but Zheng Zhilong did not show any concerns.

As Zhu Youxiao expected, Zheng Zhilong also began to prepare for a fight with the court. After all, he would not be able to make him give up his absolute rights at sea. Even if he wanted to, his generals would not agree.

Zheng Zhilong even began to find ways to detour North Korea through the current Japanese Strait, and then contact the Qing Dynasty, that is, Huang Taiji's regime.

It is obvious that for his own interests, Zheng Zhilong also began to be mentally prepared to be a traitor. Perhaps he did not think that he was a traitor, but just to better protect his own interests from being damaged.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong also knew that he could not expect the Jiannu outside the pass to give him much support. He just wanted to unite as much as possible to fight against the Ming court.

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In other words, Xiong Wencan, who is not very sensitive in his political sense, still insists on negotiating with Zheng Zhilong for his dream of being a Fujian governor. The bilateral side still maintains superficial harmony, but does not know that the war will be at once.

Now the Ming Dynasty is not only the warships but also many naval talents, and these require a long time to train and excavate, so the current situation is also a relatively favorable state for Zhu Youxiao and the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao began to deal with things that were not so important but were extremely typical for the scholars and citizens at that time in the calm before the storm.

For example, Li Lutai, the son of the traitor Li Yongfang, dared to use poisonous wine to force his whole family to die for the Qing Dynasty when Guangning City was broken, which caused an uproar in the entire Ming Dynasty's public opinion field.

Whether Li Lutai is really loyal and kind is worthy of admiration and hopes that His Majesty will let go of such a person, or whether Li Lutai is too much of his Confucian belief and cruelly forgets human relationships, forcing his mother, wife and son to commit suicide, this has to be said to be a very ruthless and cold-blooded manifestation.

People had a big discussion on this. After all, according to the traditional Confucian theory, people like Li Lutai are worthy of respect. But now, under the intentional guidance of Zhu Youxiao, Li Lutai cannot cover up the fact that he is a traitor, and he is also a slave person.

Li Lutai himself was very upset, annoyed that he had not successfully died, but ended up with the regret of killing the whole family but not gaining any reputation.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't want Li Lutai to get the reputation as he wished. The reason why he recalled Li Mingrui was to ask Li Mingrui to organize forces to start hype the evil side of Li Lutai's behavior and directly scold him as an inhumane person.

In fact, Li Mingrui even held a meeting of criticism and controversy against Li Lutai in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's requirements. Li Mingrui himself took someone to pull Li Lutai out of the imperial prison and directly hung a sign on him: "The hypocritical villain, the big traitor, Li Lutai", and then brought Li Lutai to Caishikou where the previous execution was executed for a meeting of criticism and controversy.

According to Zhu Youxiao's requirements, in order to get a good assessment in the next Beijing inspection, every official must make the most fierce criticism of Li Lutai, and even the students and juren of Shuntian Prefecture must come to participate, or directly eliminate fame and fortune.

Under Zhu Youxiao's powerful oppression, Li Lutai began to fall into a verbal war from all sides, which made him extremely uncomfortable and helpless. He could not even loudly scold the Ming Dynasty for winning loyalty and righteousness. Even after seeing his sign hanging on his chest, his original complete will began to gradually become depressed.

At this moment, an eunuch came with two Jinyiwei, and the two Jinyiwei were carrying a quick monument, and the inscription also read "Tracist family - Li family" and other words. The eunuch also recited: "According to the will of the emperor, Li Luotai, this person, not only does not want to repent, but also still thinks about the barbarian country. It is really abominable. You should erect the monument to remember his sins forever to warn future generations. At the same time, you should let Li Luotai learn from Qin Hui to kneel down in Xiaoling Mausoleum to reflect on his sins!"

Li Lutai didn't expect this and couldn't help but widen his eyes. It is not because he should have lamented that he is a loyal minister, why did he deliberately ruin his reputation and even compare himself to Qin Hui.

"It's not just that. Your Majesty has the will. The Hanlin Academy and major newspapers and magazines should continue to criticize and record it in the actual record at the same time so that future generations can know their hypocritical side!"

The little eunuch left after saying that, but Li Lutai himself fainted.
Chapter completed!