Wandering the Heavens

"We understand that you're lonely, so we made something to keep you company."

Yu Xian was still showing off when two guards, sweating profusely, came in carrying an iron tablet exactly the same as the one he had slammed into the floor. On it were the seven words "Undefeated Naughty Boy Gu Santong".

"We won't disturb you from reminiscing about the past!" Yu Xian said, and then he led a group of people to leave this special cell.

"Cao Zhengchun, if you have the guts, kill me. Don't use such despicable means to humiliate me. I treat you as my opponent, but you don't even give me dignity!"

"We don't have such an opponent. It's cheap."

Everyone lowered their heads and tried their best to control their movements. Ever since Eunuch Cao came back from the number one manor in the world that day, he has become more interesting. Although he is cruel and ruthless, he is also quite humorous.

Zhu Wusi became lonely in this way. He could not get what he wanted. He lived in pain in a place unknown to the world, waiting for the day of his death, and no one would know about it.

Where there are brothers in need, there are also brothers in need. Wan Sanqian is not having a good time either. At the moment, he is hiding in a cave like a stray dog, running for his life in the clothes he had hooked up with Shangguan Haitang. He has the treasure box on his back and has never put it down, but he can't summon anyone to help him.

As a businessman, he had thought about the idea that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. He had thought of everything, but he had never thought that he would be labeled a traitor by the court. He had made friends with all kinds of evildoers with money, built the world's number one village to win people's hearts, and even had a relationship with the emperor's uncle, but this could not change the reality of his downfall.

All his properties were seized by the government, all the officials funded by him were imprisoned, and the Wan family members were also taken advantage of by their former opponents. How prosperous they were in the past is how miserable they are now.

I don't know if wealth can reach the gods, but it is absolutely impossible to bring him any hope at this time.

It’s all that damn eunuch’s fault!

Yu Xian paid more attention to Wan Sanqian than Zhu Wusi, because if Zhu Wusi lost his martial arts, he would be like a phoenix losing its feathers, a tiger going down the mountain, or a stranded water dragon.

But Wan Sanqian is different, he is disgusting!

In reality, there is such a person who forced the once high-ranking bank to sit down and talk properly, but he developed ambitions that he shouldn't have, and his true colors were revealed in a complacent speech.

He set a lot of bad precedents, squeezing everyone's living space and plundering everyone's future.

There is no such thing as pleading for the people. It is just a necessary means for him to make a profit.

Yu Xian couldn't do anything to that man in real life, but it was not impossible for him to kill Wan Sanqian here to vent his anger.

Now Wan Sanqian is fleeing for his life. The dead eunuch has given a death order that they will not give up until they catch the person. They must find him alive or dead.

This persistence made Zhengde feel a lot of sympathy, but it was just sympathy. When his own private money increased a lot, the sympathy disappeared again.

Zhengde stared at the room full of money, his eyes were not shining with gold, but fire. That was not money, but soldiers holding firearms, and artillerymen who could shoot wherever they pointed. When the war came, he would lead the Shenji Camp out, and he would be invincible, and the Ming Dynasty would be safe!

Before, that dead eunuch said he had no money, but now I want to build a one million Shenji Camp!

Or, why not let the dead eunuch go to sea and let him train his troops in peace?

The dead eunuch told him a piece of news that made him despair. The current Ming Dynasty could not afford to support a million-man Shenji Battalion. This was not a matter of money. According to calculations, apart from the military pay, the steel production, grain production, and the quality of the soldiers were all off the table. It was impossible to expect to raise firearms and artillery that could be operated by farmers of the right age from the fields.

To put it bluntly, as an agricultural country, the Ming Dynasty wanted to support a million-man army with hot weapons, but it would never have dreamed of doing so even if it had a pillow three feet high when sleeping.

After hearing this explanation, Zhengde wanted to kill the eunuch. You are trying to tease me by using something I can't afford. Who can stand this?

If we take a step back, one hundred thousand should be fine!

The dead eunuch continued to dream.

Finally, Zhengde gritted his teeth and accepted a plan to build a Shenji Camp with a size of 100,000 people, including 30,000 artillery troops, and use ten years to train them, since he was young anyway.

I just want to travel around the world, what the hell are you doing? As long as you don't go near the water, you're guaranteed to survive. Why do you have to mess with the Shenji Camp?

You’re the boss, so get to work!

The first thing was to build a school in Tianjin to train professional officers, and then build an industrial city nearby. Tianjin Port became a completely military-controlled port.

Many ministers submitted impeachment memorials again, but Zhengde endured it all for the sake of his 100,000-man Shenjiying.

In fact, the changes in Tianjin Port made the ministers extremely uneasy. The new things produced there would pose a huge threat to what they believed in. But now it was tightly protected by the Shenjiying and Dongchang, and they had no way of finding out what was going on inside. They only knew that the things produced there were changing the living habits of the people on this land bit by bit, including the ministers who had opinions about it.

When ten ocean-going ships sailed out of the Longjiang Shipyard, entered the sea from the Yangtze River estuary and headed north to dock at Tianjin Port, the first officer training class of Tianjin Military Academy officially completed.

Zhengde looked at the officers standing in front of him, looking at him with great awe. He felt the blood in his veins boiling and did not feel offended at all.

Because of etiquette requirements, these officers are not allowed to look at their own appearance, but at this moment, Zhengde actually feels that if they lower their heads and look at the ground like everyone else, it will disgrace their current status.

The entire ceremony went smoothly. The only one who had a hard time was Zhengde, as he had to bestow swords on 300 officers.

This was necessary to win the support of the people, and he was happy to do this job. The only pity was that he did not bring a historian with him this time, so the whole process could only be recorded by the clerks in the school.

"Eunuch Cao, you are already over seventy, so don't go out to sea anymore!"

After personally giving swords to all the graduating officers, Zhengde found the dead eunuch before returning to Beijing and politely asked him to stay. Don't get me wrong, he thought that the dead eunuch was over 70 years old and might die on the way to sea, so it would be better for him to stay in Tianjin and continue to train officers for him.

When alive, he is a member of the Zhu family; when dead, he is a dead member of the Zhu family. The surplus value must be squeezed out of him no matter what. As an outstanding descendant of the Zhu family, Zhengde must not lose this fine style.

"Your Majesty, if I don't go out and take a look, I will never see the outside world again."

"Okay, there is still one 13,000 on the run! When you go, remember to come back and continue catching people!" Zhengde was helpless with this damn eunuch.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, while I am at sea, remember not to go south and remember not to get close to the water!" It was rare for Yu Xian to meet such a generous boss.

"I've got that." Zhengde took a deep look at the dead eunuch, then turned around and got on the specially made carriage.

"Farewell, Your Majesty!"

"I am not stupid. How could I not be able to tell whether you are the real Cao Zhengchun or not? But we are all smart people. Perhaps this is why I will obey your orders."

In the carriage, Zhengde stroked the pistol given to him by the dead eunuch with some sadness.

On the seventh day of April, the south wind started to blow, and the ocean-going fleet officially set sail from Tianjin Port and headed for the vast ocean. The fleet consisted of 3,000 people, a flagship, five gunboats, three supply ships and a medical ship.

When passing through Japan, the dead eunuch made a decision that surprised everyone. He bombarded all the major ports in Japan into ruins, causing countless casualties among the people in these places. However, the dead eunuch ignored the envoys sent by the daimyo to negotiate and sailed directly north.