Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 363 Zhu Youxiao Is Impatient

Now, Zhu Shichang is not the only one who is more worried. For these traitors who built slaves, it is the aggressive assassination of Daming Jinyiwei on the outside, and Huang Taiji's increasingly intense suppression on the inside.

As a result, these traitors and lackeys who serve the establishment of slaves can no longer have the heart to do their best for this so-called Qing Dynasty. In order not to be easily killed by their masters as spies, they can only bow their knees more than before and become They don't have the slightest idea, and they only look forward to it, only seeking 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 of these traitors and lackeys for their homeland, Ming Dynasty. They began to actively search for contact information with Jinyiwei. He intentionally let go of some suspicious-looking people, hoping to leave a good impression on these guards.

In this way, the great purge of Huang Taiji made the seemingly peaceful Manchu regime even more insignificant, at least it was no longer possible to reintegrate its forces and fight against Ming Dynasty again.

After all, these traitors and lackeys who are most active in wanting the Qing Dynasty to unify the world are no longer in the mood to start the country with Huang Taiji, and the nobles of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have no intention of competing in the world. They are originally a fishing and hunting nation. They are not very interested in the farming civilization in the pass, and the life brought to them by the Han slaves has already satisfied them, so in Ming Dynasty, they are showing more and more tough postures. The Manchu nobles tended to be more and more conservative and self-styled.

Perhaps these Manchu nobles were essentially self-proclaimed. 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 history as rulers. mission, and used all his ingenuity on how to maintain his privileged position, even at the expense of strict requirements on himself.

Of course, the highest rulers of the Manchu 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 they belonged to the Jianzhou Jurchen with a certain degree of Sinicization, they Naturally, their strategic vision is longer than the conservative Baylors of the Manchu and Qing Banners. They know that in this land, they must either become the masters of the entire land of China, or they can only become obedient citizens under the rule.

And it is simply unrealistic to want to preserve the interests of owning the vast and fertile land north of the Liaohe River. Daming will not allow anyone who is powerful or even challenge his dominance.

The highest rulers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as Huang Taiji and Dorgon, knew this very well, so while they had to carry out high-pressure policies, they still tried their best to maintain the balance between Manchu and Han on the surface. To break the current impasse as soon as possible.

Zhu Youxiao is very satisfied that the Manchus are now unable to form a joint force to challenge their Ming rule outside the customs due to various internal problems, although there is not enough strength to eliminate the Manchus directly in one go.

However, as far as Zhu Youxiao and Daming are concerned, they can free up their hands to completely solve the sea affairs. As long as there is nothing wrong in the north, Zhu Youxiao doesn't mind fighting with Zheng's pirate group to completely eliminate private armed forces at sea.

In fact, even if Li Mingrui went to Quanzhou and forced Zheng Zhilong to admit his wrong behavior of provoking the majesty of the court, there was no way to completely punish Zheng Zhilong's crime, because Zheng Zhilong refused to admit that he ordered Zheng Zhihu to do it. Regarding the matter, Zheng Zhilong was also ambiguous, and secretly showed signs of concentrating Zheng's fleets from various places. At the same time, he also purchased a large amount of grain and other strategic materials in Japan, Luzon, and Jilong.

Even a blind person can see that this Zheng Zhilong is also preparing with both hands, while making false promises to the court, and at the same time accumulating strength to prepare for the final decisive battle with the court.

"No matter what Zheng Zhilong thinks, does he really want to join the imperial court and gather forces secretly to prevent my North Sea Fleet from eating him, or does he really want my North Sea Fleet to fight another battle to keep his dominance at sea,

I don't even have the patience to waste time with him anymore. The royal capitals like Royal Industry Company and Royal Weaving Bureau must open up overseas markets this year!

Otherwise, our Daming treasury will fall into a deficit again, and the consequences will be disastrous!
Immediately imitate the Taoist order, call Li Mingrui back to me, and let Xiong Wencan spend time with this Zheng Zhilong first, so there is no need to let a dignified cabinet scholar accompany him to drink tea with Zheng Zhilong in Quanzhou!

In addition, Yang Sichang and Xu Guangqi, the left servants of the Ministry of War, personally went to Jinmen to inspect the Beihai Fleet and the Daming Ship Administration Bureau, and asked them what else they needed, especially in terms of combat readiness resources and technological improvement. "

Zhu Youxiao gave orders decisively to the supervisors and cabinet members who were on duty in Xinuange, his tone seemed a little anxious and annoyed.

There's no other way, Zhu Youxiao really doesn't want to waste time with Zheng Zhilong anymore.

Although the Royal Industries Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau have made a lot of money for Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao also ransacked many people's homes, and made a lot of money by relying on the Royal Bank. A lot of money was collected from the implementation of commercial tax reform in the region, but Zhu Youxiao spent even more!

The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Daming Shipping Bureau, the Royal Military Academy, the Daming Naval Academy, the Ordnance Department and other institutions need Zhu Youxiao to spend countless money almost every month. Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also asked the Ministry of Industry to do a lot Large water conservancy and transportation projects, these huge projects that require a lot of manpower, require a lot of financial resources.

Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also directly exempted corvee, and even reduced and exempted taxes again and again, and then drove a large number of scholars and literati to the west to engage in education and development. After losing the Horqin and Khalkha tribes, they no longer came back directly like Ming Chengzu Zhu Di did. Instead, they insisted on turning Monan Mongolia into a minister of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, infrastructure construction and The establishment of the administrative system has cost a lot of money.

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

As long as there is even a slight imbalance in the chain of financial revenue and expenditure, the social order of the entire Ming Dynasty will collapse in an instant, and social conflicts will suddenly return to the intensified state of the Seventh Year of the Apocalypse, even more serious than the Seventh Year of the Apocalypse!

Perhaps in this way, Zhu Youxiao will really become a king of subjugation, and even like Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, he originally wanted to change the rigid and lifeless social structure, but he was notorious for his success.

In order to avoid such a situation, Zhu Youxiao had to rush to break the current deadlock.

Sometimes Zhu Youxiao feels aggrieved when he thinks about it. From the seventh year of the apocalypse to the present, he has not lived a solid life for a day. He has made a lot of money and spent a lot of money. Letting Huang Taiji honestly lick his wounds outside the pass also completely erased the sense of existence of Guan Ningjun, but now he has to deal with Zheng Zhilong, a great pirate.

For this reason, in terms of army expansion and strengthening, Zhu Youxiao has also focused on the navy, so that the Imperial Guard Army has not been expanded on a large scale in the ninth and tenth years of the apocalypse, and has even been streamlined and eliminated. Many guard soldiers who existed in name only had their registration changed from military status to civilian status by the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of War.

The Imperial Guard Navy, which is now the North Sea Fleet, doubled in size within half a year. The outstanding performance of the steam engine ship Zheng He in naval battles made the entire Ming military circle excited because of this magical iron-clad ship. When the political situation began to continue to expand the production scale, it stepped up the construction of a second steam-powered warship.

However, Zhu Youxiao gave the Daming Ship Administration an indicator that four steam-powered warships must be built before the Spring Festival in the 11th year of the Apocalypse. With the added and completed ones, Daming must have six steam-powered warships in the 11th year of the Apocalypse.

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

Anyway, Zhu Youxiao decided to have a complete showdown with Zheng Zhilong at the end of Tianqi 11 at the latest, and he will use force to expand his financial resources. ,

For Zhu Youxiao's decision, people from the Imperial Guard System and Royal Capital absolutely support it. They are already the vested interests of the trust capital, and expansion is their instinctive interest demand, so for Zheng Zhilong, they are eager to fight immediately. That's good.

Li Mingrui's sudden departure from Quanzhou also aroused Zheng Zhilong's vigilance. He also realized that the court seemed to not want to play with him anymore, but Zheng Zhilong did not show the slightest worry about it.

Just as Zhu Youxiao expected, Zheng Zhilong also began to make preparations for a big fight with the court. After all, it is impossible for him to give up his absolute rights in the sea. Even if he wants to, his generals will not Will not agree.

Zheng Zhilong has even begun to think of ways to detour through North Korea through the current Japan Strait, and then contact the Qing Dynasty at this time, that is, the regime of Huang Taiji.

Obviously, for his own benefit, Zheng Zhilong also began to be mentally prepared to be a traitor. Maybe he didn't think that he was being a traitor, but he just wanted to better protect his own interests from being damaged.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong also knew that he couldn't expect much support from the Jiannu outside the pass at this time. He just wanted to unite as many forces as possible to fight against the Ming court.

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That is to say, Xiong Wencan, who is not very sensitive to politics, is still working hard to negotiate with Zheng Zhilong for his dream of governor of Fujian. It is precisely because of this that the two sides still maintain superficial harmony, but they don't know that a war is about to break out.

Now Daming is short of not only warships, but also a lot of naval personnel, and these need a long time to train and excavate, so the current situation is also a relatively favorable state for Zhu Youxiao and Daming.

Therefore, in the calm before the storm, Zhu Youxiao began to deal with some unimportant but very typical things for the scholars and people at that time.

For example, Li Sutai, the son of the traitor Li Yongfang, dared to use poisoned wine to force his whole family to die in the Qing Dynasty when the city of Guangning was destroyed. This caused an uproar in the public opinion field of the entire Ming Dynasty.

As for whether Li Shutai is really loyal and worthy of admiration and I hope His Majesty will let go of such a person, or is this Li Shitai too viciously forgetting human relations and feelings because of his Confucian beliefs, forcing his mother and wife to return Some of his sons committed suicide, which has to be said to be a very ruthless and cold-blooded expression.

People have launched a big discussion on this. After all, according to the traditional Confucian theory, people like Li Sutai are worthy of respect. It is the fact that he is a traitor, and he is also a slavish person.

Li Sutai himself was very annoyed, annoyed that he didn't succeed in dying, but ended up with the regret that he killed his whole family but didn't gain any fame.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't want Li Sutai to get the fame he wished. The reason why he recalled Li Mingrui was to let Li Mingrui organize forces to publicize the evil side of Li Sutai's actions, and directly scolded him as a devoid of humanity. people.

Even, Li Mingrui held a meeting to criticize Li Sutai according to Zhu Youxiao's request. Li Mingrui personally led people to pull Li Sutai out of the imperial prison, and directly hung a sign on him: "Hypocrisy!" The villain and the traitor Li Sutai" then took Li Sutai to the Caishikou where he was executed before for a criticism meeting.

According to Zhu Youxiao's request, in order to get a good assessment in the next Beijing inspection, every official must criticize Li Soltai the most violently, and even the students and recruiters from Shuntian Prefecture must come to participate. Or you will lose your fame directly.

Under Zhu Youxiao's powerful oppression, Li Sutai began to fall into a war of words and curses from all sides, which made him extremely uncomfortable and helpless. He couldn't even scold Daming loudly in the name of loyalty, and even After seeing his sign hanging on his chest, his originally complete will has gradually become depressed.

And at this moment, an eunuch came with two brocade guards, and the two guards were carrying a stele, and the inscription also read "traitor family - Li's family" and other words, the eunuch also He read: "according to the order of the sage, Li Shuitai not only does not want to repent, but also still misses the barbarian country. Learn from Qin Hui and sit on the Xiaoling Mausoleum to reflect on his crimes!"

Li Sutai didn't expect this, and couldn't help but stare wide. Logically, he should lament that he is worthy of being a loyal minister, so why would he deliberately ruin his reputation, and even compare himself to Qin Hui.

"It's not just that, His Majesty also has a decree that the Imperial Academy and major newspapers should continue to criticize, and record it in the real record at the same time. Let future generations know its hypocrisy!"

The little eunuch left after speaking, but Li Sutai himself passed out directly.

(End of this chapter)