The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 257 The Concubine Is Pregnant
Compared with the Dutch, Zhang Yan and other ministers undoubtedly have a better sense of the Spaniards.

Because the Dutch are actually occupying Dongfan Island now, and they have disturbed the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian before. This is absolutely intolerable to the current Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Ma Shiying and other civil servants strongly agreed with Zheng Sen's strategy of first wooing Spain, then attacking the Netherlands, and then wooing the Netherlands to fight Spain.

Because this will not only minimize losses, but also minimize the impact on maritime trade.

Only Zuo Liangyu looked envious and jealous. He really wanted to object, because according to Zheng Sen's strategy, the entire sea war in the future basically had nothing to do with Zuo Liangyu. The preparatory work will also be done in vain, how can he be willing to do this?
But he didn't dare to object to Zheng Sen's strategy unreasonably. After all, it was impossible to keep His Majesty from the things in the Nanjing court, so he had to be anxious.

Sure enough, even though Zhang Yan knew nothing about military affairs, she knew that division and disintegration were the best option, so she agreed to Zheng Sen's strategy without hesitation, and gave him full responsibility for the negotiations with the Spaniards.

However, it was limited to recovering Dongfan Island and reaching an equal trade with the Spaniards. As for later wooing the Dutch, attacking Luzon Island, and even attacking the entire Nanyang, Zhang Yan was not very active.

Firstly, he was influenced by traditional thinking, and felt that Zheng Sen was a little too ambitious. Second, His Majesty would have to worry about the matter of expanding the territory in the future, and she must not do it for him.

Although the queen mother was somewhat conservative, Zheng Sen was still very excited, and hurried back to Fujian again the next day.

Zhang Yan also asked the household department to allocate 500 silver directly, and removed more than 100 low-level officers from the Imperial Forest Army in Nanjing, and removed more than [-] martial arts students from the field army, and went with Zheng Sen Fujian.

With more than 600 people, the Fujian Navy will basically be firmly in the hands of the court in the future, and Zheng Sen not only has no resistance to this, but is more at ease and at ease, not to mention that he took the initiative to play.

As for those old pirates in the Fujian Navy who were not enterprising and dreamed of life and death, they were all transferred to Nanjing for the elderly and joined the huge team of contractors.

As for leaving the list, Zhang Yan let Zheng Sen take full responsibility, and did not send officials to intervene.

For this set of tactics to control the army, even if Zhu Cihong didn't teach it this time, Zhang Yan is very handy, and everyone knows it well.

Obviously the ancients were not stupid. Even a woman like Zhang Yan could understand Zhu Cihong's way of controlling the army. She knew what to do without even asking about it.

The reason why Zhang Yan allocated 300 million taels of silver at one time was not that Zhang Yan was so generous that he didn't take the money seriously, but that the Zheng family owned many shipyards and workshops for making firearms. The imperial court asked the imperial court to send someone to take over, but Zhang Yan didn't want the imperial court to bear the reputation of extortion, so she compensated the Zheng family with 100 million taels of silver.

The remaining 200 million taels are military expenses.

And for Zheng Sen's peace of mind, the Criminal Ministry's case of Zheng Zhihu's murder of an official was also settled. In the end, Zheng Zhihu was only sentenced to be a model, beheaded for public display, but his family was not implicated.

Zheng Zhibao took a post in the Nanjing Navy, which can be regarded as a mediocre tune, and Zheng Zhilong was completely dismissed from office, and there was another rich man in Nanjing city who was sitting on the mountain.

After staying for half a month, the Portuguese envoy had no choice but to return. Rhodes also felt that the court of Ming Dynasty was not as easy to fool as before. No matter how much money was sprinkled, no minister was willing to help write a letter to the queen mother. , giving preferential treatment to Portugal in trade.

In fact, it's not that civil servants in Ming Dynasty don't love money anymore, but that everyone understands that the queen mother is easy to fool, but your majesty is not easy to fool. If they really dare to abolish the government for the sake of money and suddenly have a queen mother, I'm afraid they won't be dismissed from office and ransacked their homes and imprisoned. Far.

If it is said that His Majesty is really acting as the shopkeeper and completely leaving the military and political affairs of the south to the Queen Mother, I am afraid that ghosts will not believe it.

The facts are indeed as guessed by the civil and military officials in the south. Although Zhu Cihong is in Beijing, he has been paying close attention to every move in the south, especially after a series of incidents since the beginning of this year.

The reason why I didn't come to Nanjing in person was because I wanted to expose all the problems thoroughly. After all, many problems would be hidden when the emperor came.

Secondly, many problems in the north have also reached a critical period, such as the Tumed tribe on the grassland, the relocation work in the northwest, and the infrastructure construction in the Central Plains. They are also inseparable from him as the emperor.

The third time is that Hong Niangzi finally became pregnant at the beginning of the year. At this time, even if Zhu Cihong wanted to go south again, he couldn't get away and go to Nanjing.

After all, after the red lady is pregnant, she has to rest assured to raise her baby, and more than half of Daming's field army is concentrated in the north. For the stability of the empire, Zhu Cihong will definitely not leave Beijing.

After Zheng Sen returned to Fuzhou, he no longer had any worries. While starting a drastic reorganization of the Third Fleet, he sent people to Manila in Luzon to negotiate with the Spaniards.

After decades of management by the Spaniards, except for some primitive jungles, most of Luzon Island has been controlled by Spain.

Except for some tribes hiding in the primitive jungle, most of the indigenous people on the island have been completely tamed by the Spaniards and live in the coastal plain.

Most of the Han people live near Manila, and the total number of Han people on the island is only [-] to [-]. Among them, the landlords who actually run farms and orchards account for only a very small part. Most of them live in Manila, and they are all from the Jiangnan area of ​​​​Guangdong and Fujian. Sent by the sea merchants.

Therefore, the whole city of Manila is very lively. There are Han people, Xiyi people, and aborigines. The buildings in the city also combine Chinese and Western characteristics. Sea ships entering and leaving the port are also quite frequent. Chinese and Western style sailboats are clear at a glance.Its prosperity is not inferior to any port along the coast of Daming.

After all, the Ming Dynasty used to implement a policy of banning the sea, which led to the fact that there was no decent port along the coast. Although the maritime merchants in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian have always been engaged in sea trade, they are at most rampant when the authority of the imperial court declines. Be strict when you are strict.

But no matter how rampant it was, it would not dare to say that dozens or hundreds of ships were moored at the port together to load and unload cargo, and most of them chose to go to sea at night.

Although it has been two or three years since Zhu Cilang opened the sea ban, after all, the time is too short, and in order to better manage and collect taxes, a total of seven ports have been opened, two in Guangdong, one in Fujian, two in Jiangnan, and two in the north. I am afraid that now including Macau, there are only eight treaty ports.

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