Originally, Zhu Youxiao was extremely angry when he learned about the incident of Guangzhou being surrounded. He did not expect that these Western fans would be so bold that in order to gain control of Macau, he would challenge his Ming Dynasty's bottom line and surrounded the entire Guangzhou city and killed several civilians.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao even ordered Yang Sichang, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, to start mobilizing the imperial guards near Jingji and the newly recruited imperial guards in Sichuan, Huguang, Nanzhili and Jingji areas to gather in Guangdong and Guangxi, and ordered the Beihai Fleet and the East China Fleet to prepare for the battle in advance to deal with the situation where the Ming Dynasty not only wanted to fight against the Zheng pirates but also fought against the Folang Ji.

Zhu Youxiao did not want to make a big fight at this time. After all, the strategic resources of the entire empire were not fully prepared at this time. The expansion of the three armies of the Imperial Guards 6 naval and air (flight battalion barely considered air force) has not been completed. However, the sovereignty involving the Ming Dynasty is now under threat, so Zhu Youxiao had to be prepared to burn the boats and gather the whole country to deal with the invasion of foreign enemies.

However, as ministers, Li Mingrui, Yang Sichang and others did not think that they were so nervous because of the challenges of the Folangji people. As a Ming Dynasty person, Li Mingrui and Yang Sichang were not wary of Western styles like Folangji, and were far less important than their attention to the invasion of the Tartars in the pass. In their opinion, such incidents were not as good as the civil unrest in the past. After all, these could lead to chaos.

Looking at the Ming Dynasty and even the entire Chinese history, there was no rebellion from the foreign barbarians from the south that led to the historical events that were overturned by the entire central dynasty.

Officials such as Li Mingrui and Yang Sichang did not subjectively feel that these Western fans represent the source of advanced production development methods in the world today and had any fear of these Western fans. However, Zhu Youxiao, a descendant, knew very well what kind of existence the Folangji was at this time, and had to worry that the Ming Dynasty would have to go through an Opium War just like the late Qing Dynasty in later generations.

Although Zhu Youxiao is now enough to believe that his Ming Dynasty would not become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country like the late Qing Dynasty in later generations, when he learned that these Western fans began to siege his Guangzhou City, he had to be conditionally alert and worried that his Ming Dynasty would suffer great losses in a short period of time.

Yang Sichang was unwilling to Zhu Youxiao to deal with an overseas barbarian at the cost of mobilizing the whole country. Therefore, he had to risk touching the dragon scales in front of the mission and advised Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, these Folang Jimen are just a group of barbarians from Europa. Relying on their own ships and cannons, he thought he could traverse the entire sea and dared to provoke our Ming Dynasty. According to Weichen, he was just Yelang's arrogant, otherwise they would not be squeezed by a Zheng pirate. Therefore, Weichen believes that this time the Guangzhou city is surrounded is not as good as a big fight, and it is enough to dispatch troops from Guangdong and Guangxi."

"Maybe as you said, we don't have to do this, but what I am most worried about now is whether these Western fans have joined forces with pirates such as Zheng Zhilong, otherwise they would not dare to surround our Guangzhou City. In this way, our Ming Dynasty will face not one enemy but a group of enemies on the border!"

After Zhu Youxiao said that, Li Mingrui also stood up and said, "Your Majesty, no matter whether Zheng Zhilong is united with Folangji and other Western families, they can only surround the sea. Even if they attack one or two cities, our Ming Dynasty can cut off its supply and force it to evacuate. Moreover, in addition, as Wang Tianguan of the Jiajing Dynasty said, as long as our Ming Dynasty artifacts do not fall into its Western countries, with the advantage of geographical advantages, Western barbarians will not be able to occupy half an inch of our Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Youxiao didn't know who gave these Ming officials such great confidence. Perhaps for them, the Wang Tianguan Li was really nothing. The official Li Mingrui mentioned was Wang Yu, who served as Minister of Personnel in the Jiajing Dynasty. When he was the deputy envoy of the sea route in Guangdong, he commanded a Tuen Mun naval battle against the invasion of the Folang people and won a great victory in this battle. He also introduced the firearms of the Folang Ji into the Ming Dynasty, which made the firearms technology, which had originally begun to lag behind, narrowed the gap with the West again and laid a solid foundation for the three major battles in Wanli in the future.

Now Li Mingrui used Wang Yu's words to persuade Zhu Youxiao to tell Zhu Youxiao that the current Ming Dynasty is no less than the size of the artillery and hull, so there is no need to worry that the combination of Folang and Zheng Zhilong will pose a great threat to the Ming Dynasty. At least its impact can only be limited to the coastal area, and it will not cause turmoil in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao also understood what he meant, but he still asked Yang Sichang to continue to make a plan to mobilize troops and ordered Li Mingrui to be on standby at the Xihunting Pavilion at any time, at least not immediately issued the order to wait for the latest news submitted by Shang and Zhou Zuo in the south.

At this moment, an emergency sound of horse hooves suddenly came from outside, and he heard his voice shouting: "Great victory! Our South China Sea Fleet defeated Zheng Zhibao's fleet in Dongsha and sunk forty-three enemy ships!"

Although Gu Sanmazi lured Zheng Zhibao's fleet to Dongsha to defeat his troops, Zheng Zhilong and other pirate forces did not promptly learn that the South China Sea Fleet had taken the initiative to attack the Zheng pirates, and because Zheng Zhibao's escape in a panic, Zheng Zhibao did not obtain any evidence of the South China Sea Fleet fighting with him, Gu Sanmazi, as an imperial official, took the initiative to order people to pass the news to the Jinyiwei stationed in the fleet when he left Dongsha.

However, when the Jinyiwei defeated the victory of Gu Sanmazi in advance, in an urgent manner, not through the Jinyiwei North Town Fushi and the Sili Supervisor, but went directly to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao was not happy at all after hearing this. He couldn't help but be furious and directly slapped the pen in his hand on the desk:

"What is this Gu Sanmazi doing? Didn't I repeatedly remind him that I could not start a war with Zheng without permission unless I had to! Now he dares to go against my will, which is really arrogant!"

Zhu Youxiao said angrily and sat back. He had to admit that Gu Sanmazi was a very good naval general, but now he began to doubt whether Gu Sanmazi was a little happy with me and dared to ignore his instructions and start the battle rashly.

"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, you will not accept the orders of the outside king. Perhaps the matter is not what we imagined. Even if Gu Sanmazi has the courage to disobey Your Majesty's will, and you have given him the right to act cheaply. It is reasonable to say that, why not ask in detail what the specific reason is and then make a decision again."

Li Mingrui's advice was very pertinent, and Zhu Youxiao was not the one who couldn't listen. Although Li Mingrui and Yang Sichang seemed to be deliberately fighting against him today, Zhu Youxiao still showed his mind as an emperor, without showing anger. He also nodded and said, "You are right, let the Jinyiwei Xinshu kneeling outside come in, I want to ask him carefully."

It is not as difficult as the mainland, and it is difficult to build fixed post stations and postmen, so only the Jinyiwei serves as the role of information transmission. They often pretend to be fishermen, or lurk among various pirate forces, and even have their own Jinyiwei contact points in some important coastal strongholds, and there are Jinyiwei offices with the same sign as the Military Law Office in each army.

Therefore, after Gu Sanmazi defeated Zheng Zhibao, the news was passed on to the Jinyiwei's own messenger.

The Jinyiwei Xinmao was brought in by Wang Chengen, and knelt in front of Zhu Youxiao and handed over a secret memorial box written by Gu Sanmazi himself.

Zhu Youxiao did not immediately ask the Jinyiwei Xinmao, but first unbuttoned Gu Sanmazi's secret box with the key and started to look at it.

In order to monitor all officials, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to rely solely on the Dongchang, which is now responsible for the internal stability of the Ming Dynasty. He gave officials of the second rank and above the Ming Dynasty a secret report, which could be regarded as aggravating the internal strife between the officials and preventing them from condensing into a rope to fight against his king.

Gu Sanmazi is now a general officer and is considered a second-rank senior, so he also has the privilege of secretly reporting.

But what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that Gu Sanmazi's handwriting was so bad! Zhu Youxiao, who was so bad that he was a little unhappy with Gu Sanmazi's rash behavior, couldn't help laughing when he saw this word, but in the end he still held back and couldn't help but read it: "Your Majesty, I, Gu Sanmazi, know that you said you wouldn't let me beat Zheng Zhibao because you didn't want the court to completely break up with Zheng now, but that was called Zheng Zhibao staring at us all the way, and kept showing how stupid he was. I really couldn't stand it, so I had to teach him a lesson;

However, your Majesty, I, Gu Sanmazi, knew the right measure and did not dare to delay His Majesty's wishful thinking. So I deliberately lured Zheng Zhibao to Luzon. If Zheng Zhibao was smarter and knew that I had set a trap for him, I would not deal with him before he could walk away early, but he came to the door himself. When chasing me, he kept chasing me, and didn't know how to set up a formation and observe the nearby sea terrain. In this way, I really couldn't stand it and could only eat him. This was like a girl who was like a flower and a jade-like girl took off all in front of you. It would be a big loss if you didn't do it. However, I did violate Your Majesty's will. If Your Majesty wanted to give Zheng Zhilong an explanation, I could suffer."

After reading Gu Sanmazi's secret memorial, Zhu Youxiao still couldn't help but smile, and pointed to Gu Sanmazi's secret memorial, "Okay, Gu Sanmazi, I've convinced me. Yang Sichang, you ordered the Ministry of War Wuxuan Department to recognize Gu Sanmazi's achievements in defeating Zheng Zhibao this time, and to add one extra point to this person's future title. However, the deeds of this battle cannot be recognized. No matter who asks, no information is allowed, nor is it allowed to publicize this matter."

The reason for doing this is because Zhu Youxiao does not want to recognize the existence of this naval battle to the outside world and whether the court has participated in it. It is even necessary to take the blame on Gu Sanmazi directly. But now Zhu Youxiao has to admire Gu Sanmazi's courage and wisdom. It can be said that he is a rough and detailed commander. Although his words are frivolous and exaggerated, his meticulous thinking is revealed between the lines.

First, Gu Sanmazi has already emphasized to himself that Zheng Zhibao is too stupid and has been trapped again and again. It would be a pity if he doesn't teach a lesson. Moreover, Gu Sanmazi himself deliberately lured Zheng Zhibao to a faraway place to attack, which is considered thoroughly, and even proactively proposed that he is willing to bear the consequences, it can be seen that he is still responsible.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's attitude towards Gu Sanmazi changed from anger to love.

"I sent an order to Gu Sanmazi. I allowed him to continue to act in the South China Sea. He didn't have to worry about the pirates in Zheng. I was a great emperor of the Ming Dynasty and didn't want to make face in front of a pirate leader. I just didn't admit it! But things that violated my will cannot be easily forgotten. However, for his great victory, he was allowed to make meritorious contributions and immediately assisted the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Shang and Zhou Zuo of Shang and Guangxi to resolve the problem of Guangzhou being besieged and revoked Macau's right to live!"

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he asked the Jinyiwei Xinmao to retreat first, but not long after, another Xinmao who was expedited by eight hundred miles came the "great victory".

The three of them were stunned and couldn't help but listen to the sounds outside.

Yang Sichang's ears were still sharp, so he heard the content first, and said with a hurried smile:

"Reporting to your Majesty, it is news of the great victory in Macau!

According to Weichen, Gu Sanmazi was afraid that after defeating Zheng Zhibao again, he did not go to Guangzhou Prefecture immediately, but took another approach to attack Macau while most of the Folangji and other officials went to Guangzhou Prefecture, causing Macau to return to our Ming Dynasty! In this way, the retreat of these Folangji fleets was cut off, and the siege of Guangzhou was naturally solved!"

After hearing what Yang Sichang said, Li Mingrui couldn't help but smile and said, "Mr. Yang is amazing. He is like seeing the scene himself. I just don't know if your speculation is true?"

Zhu Youxiao was also a little excited. He had a deeper feeling about Macau as a future generation.

Although it was clear that the unequal treaty that was long-loaned by Macau was signed was in the late Qing Dynasty, he was the first place to be controlled by foreigners for hundreds of years, and it was a humiliation that Zhu Youxiao, the Ming emperor, could not tolerate.

As soon as the messenger arrived, he couldn't wait to personally grab the memorial to read it. Finally, he couldn't help but slapped the table and smiled: "As expected, Gu Sanmazi really did something. Now that the affairs of Macau and Guangzhou have been resolved, our Ming South China Sea Fleet has officially taken the first step at the Pearl River Estuary. Next, we want to set up Macau as the government, establish the Maritime Department in Macau, and start the first step of the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade. Didn't Zheng Zhilong want to control the export of our Ming Dynasty goods in Fujian and Zhejiang to earn the intermediate price difference? Now I use the Pearl River Estuary as the exit to see how he comes to stop it. If it really comes to stop it, I might as well use this as a reason to destroy him!"

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao ordered Li Mingrui to start the restoration and development of Macau as an important gateway to foreign trade. At the same time, he ordered someone to pass the imperial edict to the Royal Weaving Bureau, the Royal Industrial Company, the Ordnance Department, etc. to immediately prepare to set up an institution in Macau to prepare for exporting products here in the future. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also ordered Huangzhuang to set up an institution in Macau in order to purchase grain and other Nanyang specialty fruits, vegetables and vegetables from the Nanyang area in the future.
Chapter completed!