The middle of the Tianqi Dynasty was a peaceful and warm spring for the people of the Ming Dynasty, but for the officials and honorary relatives, it was another severe winter after the Chenghua Jiajing of Hongwu, Yongle and Chengli.

It’s not that Zhu Youxiao wants to be dissatisfied with these bureaucrats. After all, everyone belongs to the ruling class and all evil vested interests. But what he wants is the long-term legalization of rule. These greedy and selfish guys not only corrupt their image of legal rule of the people but also hinder themselves from making money overseas.

Zhu Youxiao would never agree to this. If you want to make money, you can make money together, but if you just want to make money by yourself and not let the emperor make money, then your emperor can only forcefully deprive you of the right to make money by legally.

Li Yongqing, the uncle of Yongning, could not resist the interrogation, and soon confessed to the honorary relatives of several dukes, marquis and counts, and pulled out the radish and brought out the mud. He also implicated several cabinet ministers and ministers in the court.

Zhu Youxiao then realized that many civil and military officials in the court were still in the dark. Fortunately, his power is at its peak now, and these people are still using extraordinary means to officials who listen to them. They have not yet dared to make trouble for themselves as the emperor a few years ago.

But no one was sure that as the situation developed, would there be really a bold official who would make a fuss about him? Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel panic. In a trance, there was no one worthy of his trust in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Even if Li Mingrui was not, Xu Jie was very obedient before Jiajing's death, and was even less obedient than Yan Song's words.

But once Jiajing died, didn’t he play Jiajing?

"In addition to Li Jiantai, the six ministers and nine ministers of the six ministries and the cabinet masters who have no close ties are suppressed for the time being, but they will send each of these confessions and materials to each of them and ask them to write their own defense lyrics. If they are still in love with power, they will honestly cooperate with me to set an example. If they don't want to spit out what they eat, they will continue to investigate!"

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that so many officials would be involved, but he did not want to completely collapse his entire bureaucratic system, especially the administrative yamen such as the Six Ministry and the Cabinet. Many old foxes in it loved and hated him, but he and even the people of the entire Ming Dynasty could not live without them. Without these hypocritical officials to support the operation of this empire, the connection between the top and bottom of the Ming Dynasty would be completely interrupted.

Therefore, we must turn a blind eye and change our strategy.

But what should be shocked should be shocked. If a clear stream official like Li Jiantai has no practical value, he will naturally be regarded as a chicken that kills the chicken to warn the monkey and swears. Yong'an Bo was also killed on the gallows as a representative of shocking the queen.

The death of these people did make the entire Ming bureaucrats frightened for a while. The cabinet and the important officials of the six ministries involved had to honestly write self-defense lyrics. In fact, it was just a review to give the boss, the emperor, Zhu Youxiao a review of how he was behind in his ideological awareness, so he deviated from the emperor's instructions and teachings. I am sorry to the king and the people.

Now the Imperial Guard has pacified Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, causing the Guanning Army, which is too big to lose, to decline, and completely destroy the Korqin tribe and the Khalkha tribe, and now even destroy the Zheng pirate group. It can be said that in the current Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Guards controlled by Zhu Youxiao have become the most powerful deterrent force of the Ming Empire. It is precisely for this that Zhu Youxiao to unscrupulously launch a severe attack on all officials.

But Zhu Youxiao deeply understood that his imperial power, which was at its peak, was based on his current control of most of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and no longer controlled most of the social wealth by the literati class. Therefore, the military power of the entire empire was controlled by himself rather than by the civil servant group.

Now that I do this, I want to occupy most of the wealth control power of the Ming Dynasty for a long time. It can be foreseeable that in the future, most of the Ming Dynasty's treasury income will come from maritime trade. In fact, the current maritime trade has created many families that are rich and can compete with the country. What Zhu Youxiao has to do is to make this maritime trade not just create a few families that are rich and can make the country rich and let these social wealth further promote the development of productivity, and then bring the entire Ming Dynasty into a virtuous cycle of development model.

Instead, it made the Ming Dynasty a situation where the rich became richer and the poor became poorer, which made social conflicts sharp, the court was exhausted from maintaining stability and consumed a lot of wealth and eventually went bankrupt and was replaced by another regime.

No one dared to object to the court's opening of the sea anymore, nor did he dare to make small moves in secret. Some large coastal merchants had to accept the reform of the court according to the arrangements of the court, and paid the import and export tax to the court in a regular manner.

Their backers dare not speak for them anymore. In order to make money, they can only follow the rules of association honestly.

The coastline of the Ming Dynasty is very long, and there are many ports that can be opened in the future. However, it is not the real ocean era and overseas markets have not been fully opened. Basically, the biggest demand for Ming Dynasty goods is still in the Mediterranean and Western Europe, and the most offshore are North Korea and Japan.

Therefore, it is not realistic to open up directly now, but it is necessary to open military ports in some important places.

Although the external military pressure of the Ming Dynasty still mainly comes from the north, in the long run, if the Ming Dynasty wants to expand its own interests, the main competition will be this vast ocean. Although there are already many Han people in the South China Sea, it has not truly demonstrated the control and military deterrence of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there are several restless overseas countries such as Japan and Java, as well as Myanmar.

In addition, the Western powers that have begun to appear frequently in the Eastern Hemisphere have begun to gradually erode the entire world. If the Ming Dynasty does not hold on to it, it is estimated that in a few years, the entire world will completely become the sphere of influence of the West, such as the Americas and Australia, which have not yet been fully opened.

Therefore, according to Zhu Youxiao's plan, the Navy's military expenditures will continue to increase, and the scale of the entire Navy will continue to increase. The Daming Ocean Academy will continue to expand its school scale and meet the talent needs of all maritime undertakings in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Most of the officers and soldiers at all levels of the Ming Navy who participated in the extermination of the Zheng Pirate Group, especially those who had participated in actual combat and had experienced many times, were transferred back to the Ming Ocean Academy for rebuilding. At the same time, many new students were recruited, and many recruiting points were set up along the coast to recruit naval combat personnel.

The maritime trade in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong and Guangxi has also begun to enter the national control stage. Unknown counties such as Xin'an and Shanghai have begun to rise, and more and more Chinese and foreign merchant ships are gathering in this area. Western and Kunlun slaves sold by Western and Western spouses have begun to appear frequently in coastal ports.

Royal Industrial's glass, silver mirrors, aluminum products, soaps, soaps, etc. have become best-selling overseas products, and the order has been ranked three years later. The Ordnance One-style flintlock rifle that the Ordnance Corporation originally planned to eliminate was also sold out in large quantities, especially second-rate countries such as Ryukyu, North Korea, and Japan. In addition, some pirates will also buy Ordnance Corporation's weapons.

Zhu Youxiao was not opposed to selling some of the backward generations of weapons to neighboring countries and even their future enemies of the Ming Dynasty. After all, doing so not only makes money but also firmly controls the country's weapon renewal in his own hands.

The silk and garments of various styles of the Royal Weaving Bureau have also begun to be exported in large quantities. Not only these royal capitals, but also various local products from Ming Dynasty such as Jingdezhen porcelain and Songjiang cotton cloth, Jinhua ham and Shanxi vinegar, and other local products from Ming Dynasty have also begun to be sold well.

Zhu Youxiao even encouraged these local officials to develop more local specialties and encouraged these merchants to turn these local specialties with good reputation into internationally renowned commodities.

To this end, Zhu Youxiao also specially ordered the Ministry of Revenue to set up a special agency to protect these specialties and also gave certain preferential treatment in tariffs.

Of course, it is not only exported, but also a large number of Western goods have also entered the Ming Dynasty on a larger scale than before. Not only Western bells and oil paintings that shocked the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also a large number of avant-garde academic works.

Zhu Youxiao did not explicitly prohibit Western missionaries from preaching in the Ming Dynasty. As long as these missionaries have no political purpose, do not interfere with the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, do not discriminate against other religions, do not engage in religious struggles, and do not force the people to join the church, he can allow these missionaries to engage in the Ming Dynasty and allow them to raise funds to build churches by themselves.

However, Zhu Youxiao was very stingy and did not advocate or encourage the central court and local governments to invest in building churches for these missionaries. These missionaries had to use the money they earned to purchase land in the Ming Dynasty and build a series of relatively unique churches. For a time, Gothic buildings sprung up everywhere in the Ming Dynasty like mushrooms after a rain.

This also caused changes in the construction industry in the Ming Dynasty, and some people began to try to interpret art by combining Chinese and Western styles.

It was not just art, but also the exchanges between medicine and other natural sciences became closer than before. Zhu Youxiao even tempted Italian businessman Mont Jersey to bring Galileo, who was over 60 years old to the Ming Dynasty with the benefit of reducing the tariffs of three millimeters.

The Italian merchant Montjsey didn't know why this distant Eastern Empire emperor was interested in an old man in his country who was not liked by the church and had a very heretical mind.

But for the tariff concessions that could save a lot of costs, he still sent Galileo to the Ming Dynasty. As for what methods he used, Zhu Youxiao did not ask. Whether he was tied up or invited, as long as this scientific master who was recorded in the history of science and promoted the milestone development of the entire human race set foot on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to let go.

Galileo, who had moved to Florence and was originally the chief philosopher and scientist of the Great Duke of Toscon, also yearned for the ancient Eastern empire recorded in Marco Polo's works, just like other Europas. So when he received the invitation from the businessman Montjsey, his friend of the Great Duke of Toscon, he became interested, and after receiving a paper on wave-particle duality of light, he became more determined to go to that distant Eastern country.

Although he was curious whether the Ming Empire was really as rich and equal as the Europa legend, he never thought of traveling across the ocean to an untouched country in his sixties. After all, not everyone was willing to stay away from his hometown.

It is precisely this paper on the wave-particle duality of light that aroused his great interest. As a scientific master who combines the titles of "one of the founders of modern experimental science, the father of modern mechanics, and the father of modern science", he is also very interested in this new view on optics.

When Italian merchant Montjsey told him that the article was a journal of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Empire, he couldn't wait to set foot on the legendary sacred land as soon as possible to find the man who could make such a novel view.

Galileo, who had been wandering at the sea for several months, used this period of time and with the help of Montjersey, to learn to recognize Chinese characters and master the Ming Fengyang Mandarin.

Since he is a genius scientist, even though he is over 60 years old, Galileo's intelligence is still different from that of ordinary people. In just a few months, he can easily recognize Chinese characters and read articles with simple meanings. However, if it is an article like "Afang Gong Fu", it is still a bit difficult.

But after understanding Chinese characters, he still became very interested in the Eastern civilization of the Ming Empire. He never thought that this world could communicate through this language and words.

Galileo was very excited. He felt that he had not come for this trip in vain, especially when he saw the gates and bracket buildings of the entire Guangzhou Prefecture City, he was even more surprised that there were such exquisite wooden palaces in this world.

But what he didn't expect was that just when he was excitedly listening to Montjersey telling him about the customs and taboos of the Ming Empire, especially the Lingnan area, suddenly a team of Jinyiwei in flying fish suits and embroidered spring swords appeared at the city gate. The leader was still a Jinyiwei Qianhu. The Jinyiwei Qianhu walked directly to Montjersey: "You are Montjersey, Italian, you have replied to the Taiwanese businessman that you have invited the person you want to the Ming Dynasty. Where is this person now!"

Galileo could guess at this time that these people were probably knights of this empire. They looked really different in their clothes, but they were indeed gorgeous, and their majesty seemed to be more serious than the priests around the pope.

Galileo had always been extremely disgusted with such people who were in power, so he didn't say anything. He looked at this strange world calmly, and his clothes seemed to be more conservative than Italian, but they were indeed richer than Italian, especially these buildings and those who seemed to have status. The roads were indeed much cleaner.

Montjersey stayed in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, but knowing the power of these Jinyiwei, he hurriedly replied in a bad Ming Dynasty official language: "Several messengers, this one is Galileo."

Seeing that the Jinyiwei Qianhu saw him pointing to a man with a white beard and slightly flat face next to him, he waved his hand and said, "Take it!"

So, two Jinyiwei guards directly grabbed Galileo's shoulders and pulled him directly into Guangzhou.
Chapter completed!