As the sun sets, the smoke of gunpowder begins to gradually dissipate on the sea surface under the afterglow.

In addition to the East China Sea Fleet being ordered to search for Zheng Zhilong's whereabouts, the North China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet are ready to return.

After this battle, it will mark the gathering of roars on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty. The obstacle to the Daming Sea Trade Show is that the Zheng pirate group was completely destroyed. From then on, the entire coastal sea trade will be completely controlled by private merchants and pirates to controlled by the court, which will truly benefit people's livelihood.

The sea water stained red by the fierce battle and countless corpses and wooden blocks floating on the sea surface began to gradually settle by the sea water. As the sun rose the next day, history seemed to have opened the scroll of heart.

Regardless of whether Zheng Zhilong was caught or not, his hard work in the ocean hegemony that had been hard-working for decades was completely destroyed by the court, but the court also paid a lot of money.

The three fleets were not seriously damaged. Although the three steam-powered ships, "Zheng He", "Yu Qian", and "Xu Da", were not seriously damaged and needed to be transported back to the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau for repairs at most, many of the other warships were sunk, especially the vital small warships. Almost many of them were knocked into the sea by enemy ships.

The North Sea Fleet lost more than 30 ships, the South Sea Fleet lost more than 50 ships, and the East Sea Fleet lost more than 40 ships. Compared with the number of sunk enemy ships, there is no small amount.

But as long as you win, it may be just a coming-of-age ceremony for the young Ming Navy. Perhaps this coming-of-age ceremony is a bit expensive. Nearly half of the students trained by the Royal Military Academy and the Ming Ocean Academy have sacrificed their lives, but we have to admit that this is a rare tempering.

At least, people like Gu Sanmazi, Qin Botong, and Heiwa, who were unknown in history, began to become famous in this time and space.

The Zheng family pirate group was defeated by three fleets of the Ming court within a few days, and its main force was almost completely lost. It not only won a good start for the Ming Navy to safeguard the Ming maritime rights and interests, but also shocked other pirate groups.

For example, the Li Kuiqi Pirate Group, which is also quite powerful, has remained neutral from a swaying attitude. A few days after the Zheng Group was defeated, it expressed to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Zhou Zuo that he was willing to accept the reorganization of the imperial court and was willing to refuse any official position, and only hoped to allow him to study at the Daming Ocean Academy.

In addition, the disastrous defeat of Zheng Zhilong's pirate group also forced early Western colonists such as Folangji and Hongfangui to begin to re-examine the ancient Eastern Empire of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the death of Baron Turia had already made these Western fans think of teaching the Ming Dynasty a lesson, but at this moment, after seeing the strength of the Ming Navy and the huge market of hundreds of millions of people, they had to remain silent at this moment.

As the highest representative of the Red Ghost, the Dutch East India Company in the Pacific, Wilmingson, has even expressed his idea of ​​visiting Emperor Zhu Youxiao through Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan.

The Hongfan Ghost, who was already accustomed to using violence to blast open the gates of other countries, began to pick up the commercial means he used to communicate with the Ming Dynasty, which naturally shows that they were already afraid of the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao did not rush to reply to these Western powers who began to show their favor. As the king of the Celestial Kingdom, although he had to admit that these Western powers were the biggest opponents of his Ming Dynasty and the entire Eastern civilization system in the next few hundred years, and this opponent not only formed a challenge to Eastern civilization by force, but also included its ideological and civilization system. According to the original historical trajectory, in the next few hundred years, Eastern civilization will be suppressed by it and gradually lose its status as the mainstream ideological and civilization in the world.

Zhu Youxiao was only the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Shang Zhou Zuo, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the governor of Fujian Xiong Wencan, and other local governors first contacted these Westerners.

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The eradication of Zheng Zhilong's pirate group is not a commendable good news for the gentry along the coast, especially in Fujian and Zhejiang.

In fact, Zhu Youjiao’s policy of opening up the sea has always been boycotted by these gentry. However, Zhu Youjiao is very strongly in control of the imperial power, so these gentry dare not say much. At most, there are some radicals who have the ancestral system theory. Some people say that the current pirate troubles are caused by the disaster of Longwan switch.

Zhu Youxiao was not polite to kill several officials who were more jumping on the grounds of slandering the late emperor, and also ordered the Jinyiwei to vigorously investigate the local gentry forces that had collusion with the Zheng pirate group.

Moreover, while mobilizing a large number of imperial guards to the south to encircle and suppress pirates, they eliminated many local forces that colluded with the Zheng pirates, which reduced the Zheng pirates by 6 ground support and assistance, and made these coastal gentry dare not rashly join in with the Zheng pirate group.

Now that pirates are eliminated, they will naturally open the sea, which means that from then on, most of the profits brought by marine trade will be changed from being to the coastal bureaucrats and gentry landlords to the court, especially the royal capital.

The coastal bureaucrats and gentry were naturally unwilling to do so, but they were helpless. They thought that Zheng Zhilong's pirate group would make the court suffer a little, and then the civil service group they rely on would take the opportunity to attack him and force the emperor Zhu Youxiao to give up the policy of opening the sea.

But what they didn't expect was that the court could win a great victory, and now it is still at the point where it has to open the sea.

Zhu Youxiao also knew that once he opened the sea, he would touch the interests of many local vested interest groups. These literati and officials who rose up by studying and doing business were unwilling to open up maritime trade in the court and take away their back garden.

Now that the northern country of Rakshasa is pressing step by step and the Jiannu forces are on the rise again, Zhu Youxiao was not good enough to directly use the imperial power to open up the sea in an all-round way to avoid causing great turmoil.

However, he had clearly instructed to stabilize the coastal situation and specially ordered Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan and Liangjiang Governor Shang Zhouzuo to open the sea in part, that is, the court will manage maritime trade and allow local people to conduct maritime trade under the control of the court.

Because Fujian and Guangdong are barren and rely on the sea, their commercial culture is already strong, and they can accept opening the sea, which is in line with the interests of most local people. Therefore, there is no need to worry about too much resistance.

Xiong Wencan was from Luding County, Sichuan Province, and Shang and Zhou Zuo were also from Shaoxing. They both belonged to traditional gentry families, so they did not involve profit disputes in marine trade. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's instructions could be strictly implemented.

However, the coastal gentry who tried to occupy maritime interests and were unwilling to give up easily still expressed their indignation to the court and Zhu Youxiao in another way!

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Because the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Shang Zhouzuo had already established the Maritime Suzhou Division first, and successfully opened up the situation in the Pearl River Delta with three places in Guangzhou, Xin'an and Macau as important places, and gradually formed a prosperous image. As a result, Shang and Zhouzuo also received the title of Prince's Young Tutor and the reward of one percent of the annual tax of Guangzhou Prefecture.

Therefore, for Xiong Wencan, who is persistent in pursuing utilitarianism, saw that Guangdong and Guangxi were making a lot of money for the court and receiving a lot of money, he had to hurry up and think about starting a deal as soon as possible in Quanzhou and Xiamen.

For this reason, Xiong Wencan did not wait for the Royal Weaver Bureau and the Royal Industrial Company to come to Fujian to contact each other. He sent his confidants to Nanjing to find Mao Yisheng of the Royal Weaver Bureau, and also contacted Gong Yonggu of the Royal Industrial Company. In addition, he also contacted dozens of famous tea merchants and silk merchants in Fujian and Zhejiang, in order to start Fujian's maritime trade as soon as possible.

Without waiting for the court's funds to be allocated, Xiong Wencan first borrowed money from the Fujian Branch of the Royal Bank to build the Fujian Maritime Control Division, and organized migrant workers to renovate the ports in Xiamen and Quanzhou, and also built ship docks and train sailors and professional maritime trade talents.

Xiong Wencan also showed great enthusiasm for the Red Agent ghost coming to contact him. Unlike the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Shang and Zhou Zuo, who were often harassed by Western Agents in Guangdong and Guangxi, who had no good feelings for Western Agents because they were often harassed by Western Agents in Guangdong and Guangxi, Xiong Wencan did not have any strong hatred for these Western Agents.

To him, these red ghosts were the God of Wealth, so as soon as Xiong Wencan approached these red ghosts, he immediately reached an agreement with them, namely how he, the governor of Fujian, would encourage them to come here to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

This day is the day when Fujian opens the sea and trades, so we naturally want to celebrate.

As the governor of Fujian, Xiong Wencan naturally also wanted to attend such occasions. Today, he went to the local customs and followed the customs. He personally went to the Mazu Temple, which is believed in by southern Fujian, and even had fun with the people. He walked out of the sedan chair and talked with some local coastal vendors, asking about his life and opinions on opening the sea.

Although Xiong Wencan, as an old bureaucrat who has been in the officialdom for decades, did half of these reasons for the Jinyiwei who was secretly observing, and passed them to the ears of the Emperor Zhu Youxiao through these Jinyiwei, his ability to take action also shows that he has some ability, at least he listened to Zhu Youxiao's words.

However, it is unexpected that just when Xiong Wencan finished worshiping the Mazu Temple and had close negotiations with a wealthy gentry and businessmen in Fujian and Zhejiang, as well as representatives from the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau.

Suddenly, Xiong Wencan fell to the ground, and a blood hole suddenly appeared in his chest, and blood flowed out.

The governor's model guard rushed over immediately, but no suspicious person was found except for a gust of black smoke suddenly disappeared at the door.

The secret whistle of the Jinyiwei who had been observing secretly was also surprised by this, and couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice to the other Jinyiwei: "Someone actually assassinated Xiong Zhongcheng, and immediately inform Your Majesty!"

Xiong Wencan looked at the ceiling with empty eyes, covering his bloody chest with his hands, he didn't know what to say, but he felt extremely regretful in his heart. Why was he suddenly shot by someone?

The other gentry and wealthy businessmen present also stood up in horror, but they were all panicked and at a loss.

The dignified governor of a province was assassinated, and the entire Fuzhou city naturally had to be martial law. These Fujian and Zhejiang merchants from afar, representatives of the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau could only stay here and could not leave at will.

Zhu Youxiao also soon learned about the stabbing of Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan.

Bang!

The broken vase is enough to express the anger in Zhu Youxiao, who is the 195th Lord, at this time. Although Xiong Wencan was assassinating, it was obviously slapping him, the emperor.

Because the envoy and advocate behind all the opening of the sea in Fujian are His Majesty, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

But now, some people are blatantly assassinating the governor Xiong Wencan in public, which makes Zhu Youxiao furious.

"It's really outrageous. We must investigate it strictly and investigate it to the end!"

Zhu Youxiao roared. At this time, he felt that his dignity was being trampled on. He couldn't believe that he had defeated the strongest opponents, and there were people who sang against him at this time.

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao was red-eyed, Li Mingrui had to stand up and report, "Your Majesty, please calm down. These people dare to kill Xiong Wencan. The intention was obviously not to Xiong Wencan. This was like the death of Zhang Jing during the Jiajing period. These all show how powerful the people who opposed the court were. Even good people in the officialdom like Xiong Wencan would do this, let alone others. Therefore, Your Majesty, we must not take it lightly. The empress urged to strengthen the protection of important officials of the court and ordered the Dongchang to crack down on these reactionary forces. We cannot emerge after the Donglin Party and Fushe were beaten."

"What I said is very true," Zhu Youxiao nodded and immediately instructed the East Factory to solve the assassination case of Xiong Wencan within one month. At the same time, he ordered the East Factory to strengthen the protection of important bureaucrats in various provinces, such as Lu Xiangsheng, Yuan Keli, Ma Shiying, Sun Chengzong, Shang and Zhou Zuo.

However, Xiong Wencan was lucky enough not to die immediately because of a shot. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has begun to popularize public hospitals throughout the province, and public hospitals have been set up in Fujian, and surgical talents have also begun to appear.

As soon as Xiong Wencan was assassinated, he was immediately sent to a local public hospital in Fujian. After a simple treatment, he received a special order from Zhu Youjiao, asking Xiong Wencan to take the imperial boat to the capital to go to the Royal Hospital of the Ming Dynasty for treatment.

Zhu Youxiao must protect Xiong Wencan's fate. It is not that Xiong Wencan is so important, but that the reactionary forces cannot achieve their goal, that is, that is, that is, they think that assassinating a few governors can shock the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom, forcing many ministers who do practical things to do not dare to do practical things for the court again.

Although Xiong Wencan was assassinated, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to stop the start of the marine business in Fujian, but he could not find a suitable governor.

Not many civil servants even mentioned this matter for a while. It can be seen that no one is willing to do this because everyone knows that once they sit in this position, they will be subject to conspiracy because they take away the wealth of many people.

But in the end, there was a minister in charge of the Ministry of Revenue named Bi Ziyan who recommended himself.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be overjoyed. It is enough to be admired that under such circumstances, there are still people who dare to go to the turbulent waters of the Fujian Governor.
Chapter completed!