Great Ming National Teacher

For the Ming Empire with a population of more than 2 million, the central army is only [-], which is too little, but there is no way, Li Yunya can only support so many troops at this time.

Zhu Youjian sighed and said: "It would be great if I could get another million taels of silver, at least I can send it to Hong Chengchou so that he can recruit more soldiers and horses to solve his urgent needs. If the high-ranking bandits lead an army to attack, Shanxi may not be able to hold on."

"Although the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp cannot be mobilized, we can give them some ordnance. Last month, the weapons were upgraded and replaced, and more than 1000 flintlock guns were replaced. They can be sent to Hong Chengchou to form a musket team. I am making the arsenal special production A batch of custom-packed gunpowder, um, give him another twenty mortars, and send ten instructors to help him train." Li Yunya thought for a while, "I will give him another 10 taels of silver, at least to last until In the next year, if we really can’t hold on, we can only transfer Ma Xijin, a member of the Beijing camp, to put down the rebellion.”

Zhu Youjian thought of money, and pinned his hopes on the Ministry of Public Security: "When will the commercial tax be officially started?"

"It's definitely not possible nationwide, but it should be possible only in Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan. But it will have to wait until next year, and we still need to do some preparatory work."

Zhu Youjian had no choice but to give up. He suddenly felt that he was so useless. When he was a child, his father was not favored by the emperor. As the emperor's grandson, he was loved by no one. was delayed.

The difference from Zhu Youxiao is that he knows how to work hard. When he was in the palace, he studied the Four Books and Five Classics, Zizhi Tongjian and other classics. The emperor, to be a generation of Mingjun, but now he finds more and more that the things he learned in books are useless in reality. It turned out that it was better when facing the officials of the six ministries. I can't keep up with Li Yunya's footsteps, and I just understate what's going on with Li Yunya, as if everything is under control and can be solved without any effort, even if I really rack my brains, I can't figure it out.

This man is truly a gift from God!If it weren't for him, I'm afraid I would even hang myself now.

Zhu Youjian stared at Li Yunya with sparkling eyes, a little lost in thought, and when he realized it, he was a little embarrassed and coughed twice: "In addition to Shanxi, Sichuan should also be careful. If Sichuan is occupied by intruders, they can attack and retreat." Ke Shou, we will be in trouble, I plan to send troops from the southeast to Sichuan."

"Southeast... By the way, my visit this time is related to Southeast. Has the emperor heard of Zheng Zhilong?"

"Zheng Zhilong." Zhu Youjian has an excellent memory, "In July of the previous year, Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan once reported that he recruited a sea giant named Zheng Zhilong. In the generation of Taiwan and Luzon, he even fought the Dutch. After surrendering, he was appointed as a maritime guerrilla general."

"It's him. I have the intention to form a navy in the next few years. I have to recruit him. Next year, I will build a dock in Tianjin and start building large ships. At that time, I can threaten Houjin, North Korea, and Japan in the north, and I can do it in the south." Crack down on piracy, restart shipping, and money and food from Jiangnan can directly reach Tianjin."

It's just a surrendered pirate. Since Yunya wants him, then he should be transferred here. Zhu Youjian quickly ordered Zheng Zhilong to bring his son Zheng Chenggong to Beijing to face the saint.

Zheng Zhilong was dumbfounded after receiving the imperial decree. His first reaction was to think that the emperor wanted to punish him. Like Wang Zhi, the captain of the Wufeng ship, he first surrendered and then killed him. Especially when the emperor knew that he had a son named Zheng Chenggong?He has a son, who is only seven years old this year, but he is not called Chenggong, but Zheng Sen, and he has a Japanese son who is even younger.

Zheng Zhilong has been making waves overseas these years, and he has great influence in Japan. In the first year of Chongzhen, during the severe drought in Fujian, he moved tens of thousands of victims from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou to Taiwan Island to settle. A wily fellow.

He hurriedly recruited all his subordinates to serve as an adviser, and the result of the discussion was that the emperor would not kill him, because there was no need to let him go to Beijing to deal with him. He had settled down in Quanzhou over the years and became the richest man in the area. Fortunately, at this time, it is far inferior to Jiangnan in Ming Dynasty. The climate is better, the housing is better, and the food is better. Zheng Zhilong is no longer willing to go into exile overseas and live the life of a pirate.

After discussing for a long time, they finally came to the conclusion that the emperor did not intend to kill him, otherwise, there would be no need to bother with these things, and the local government, such as Xiong Wencan, who recruited him back then, would do it. It is not difficult to do it by surprise, And now that the Dutch East India Company is teaming up with other pirates, the Fuzhou Fleet of the Ming Dynasty has no way to resist it. It has to defend the sea for him by itself, most likely to send his son there as a hostage.

There are two paths before Zheng Zhilong, one is to enter Beijing according to the order and leave his son as a hostage in Beijing, the other is to abandon the Wanguan family fortune in Quanzhou and return to the sea, this big pirate only thought for half a minute A decision has been made, go to Beijing!

It was late autumn when Zheng Zhilong entered Beijing. He directly drove a fleet over to Tianjin. He landed in Tianjin Wei and came to Beijing. Many manor villas, in the past two years, the rich people in the capital have been pursuing to build high-rise buildings. Coupled with glazed tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, it is majestic and beautiful. Li Yunya has formed fifty engineering teams. Except for the fact that construction cannot be done in winter, they work almost all year round. Among Li Yunya's income, the construction item is The most profitable ones cost more than 1 taels of silver to build an ordinary two-story building, 16 taels for a three-story building, 3000 taels for a four-story building, [-] taels for a five-story building, [-] taels for a six-story building, and so on. The water tower is an add-on, and each floor adds [-] taels of silver. In less than three years, tens of millions of taels of silver have been scooped up. Otherwise, Li Yunya would have gone bankrupt if he only relied on the ones he got from the eunuchs.

In addition to private buildings, there are also large factories. In addition to the thermal power plant in the south of the city, Li Yunya has also built a hydroelectric power plant in the east of the city. Each power plant is surrounded by an industrial park. The east of the city is mainly used for livelihood industries. , weaving, oil extraction, milling, crushing, etc., of course, are still under construction, and none of them are actually put into production.

High-rise buildings have sprung up one after another, and although winter is about to begin, there are still people coming and going, bustling with activity, some working, some delivering water, some dispatching, and some workers setting up stalls around here to do business.

Zheng Zhilong also saw many workers leveling the land and paving strips of rocks at equal intervals, which looked like they were building roads. After questioning, he learned that it was the National Teacher who was laying the "iron ghost".

What the hell is an "iron ghost"?Zheng Zhilong couldn't figure it out. Although he was in the south of the Yangtze River, he could often hear the name of this national teacher. Not only was he a good soldier in training and fighting, but he beat away Hou Jin Jiannu, who was invincible on land at the end of last year. There are a lot of strange things, such as exquisite porcelain, glazed lamps, and various furniture produced by Feng Yuan. Although they are expensive, they are really good things, and it is not an exaggeration to treat them as family heirlooms.

After staying in the inn for several days, Zheng Zhilong found out that it was only ordinary military officials receiving him, and he didn't see Jin Yiwei or soldiers appearing.

After receiving the imperial decree, Zheng Zhilong took his son into the palace to face the saint. After entering, he saw a handsome young man sitting behind the table in the room. The people from the Ministry of Rites had told him what the emperor's clothes looked like yesterday. It was the emperor's usual casual clothes, and he hurriedly pulled his son to kneel down. After getting permission, Xie En got up, and saw a young man sitting beside the emperor, with sharp eyebrows and sharp eyes, looking at the two of them. Two pieces of short clothes, very short hair, no crown, this time I went to Beijing, I saw many young people dressed like this, but the only one who can sit here is the legendary protector of the country.

Just when he was hesitating whether to talk to the national teacher, Li Yunya said first: "This is your son, right?" He is not very old now, only 27 years old, only a few years older than Li Yunya, he is considered a young man, but Li Yunya is well maintained, and Zheng Zhilong has been exposed to the salty wind and sun at sea all year round, making him look older.

"Yes, my son Zheng Sen, I've seen the Master of the National Teacher soon."

Zheng Sen was about to kowtow again, but was stopped by Li Yunya, who waved his hand and called the child to him. Zheng Sen was a bit young and mature, although he had just turned six years old, but he stood there like a little adult, and he was well raised, in vain clean.The teachers he taught in Quanzhou often spoke bad things about Li Yunya, calling him a traitor and a monster. The world is full of wars and the people are in dire straits. It is all caused by this monster. Not only his teacher, but also the literati in the entire Jiangnan area said so.

In Zheng Sen's impression, this monster was transformed from a big green snake spirit, very ferocious and terrifying, with fangs in its mouth and sharp nails, it only eats children's hearts and livers.

So when Li Yunya called him over, he was terrified, his face was pale, his body was shaking, he looked like he was about to cry, and he dared not go over.

Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate leader, and he was very upset to see his son so unpromising. He pushed with his hand, and his hand became stronger. I couldn't help crying.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't hold back his face anymore, he grabbed his son and was about to beat him, but Li Yunya quickly stopped him: "It's okay, it's okay, children are afraid of life." He took Zheng Sen over, turned his wrist, and there was a big white rabbit toffee in his palm. Opened it and put it into Zheng Sen's mouth, "Don't cry, I'll give you candy..."

Before he finished speaking, Zheng Sen turned his head and spat out the candy, which stuck to Li Yunya's sleeve.

Zheng Zhilong was furious. He grabbed the candy and stuffed it back into his son's mouth. He slapped the child twice, making the child stagger: "How dare you spit out what the teacher gave you? You eat it for me! Don't cry!"

Zheng Sen pursed his mouth, held sugar in his mouth, and didn't dare to cry, but the tears couldn't be stopped. He thought silently: It's over, the monster national teacher gave me poison. My husband said that the more beautiful things are, the more poisonous they are. Big, like crane crest red, peacock gall, are all highly poisonous poisons that seal their throats when they see blood. Similarly, the sweeter things are, the more poisonous they are. The monster national teacher wants to poison me to death and then eat my heart and liver so that he can increase his morality... woo Oh, I can never see my mother again...