A small riverside town, Dongliu County has been very lively recently.

First of all, it was recovered by the officers and soldiers in a daze, and then suddenly thousands of officers and soldiers entered the city, and then the rain stopped and left at dawn, to the surprise of the people, these officers and soldiers actually changed their urine sex in the past, even if they stayed at home, they were polite, and asked them whose soldiers some said that Nanjing, and some said that the king was in the body, and what surprised them the most was that there was a big official in the city, and as for how big they said it was bigger than the prime minister.

Did the Ming Dynasty have a prime minister?

Of course not.

But the news that there was a big official in the city soon spread all over the city, and many people even deliberately went to the yamen to probe their brains to see what the big official looked like.

The senior official didn't see it, but he saw a few officers and soldiers nailing horseshoes at the yamen, so he went over curiously to inquire: "A few military masters inquired about something, I heard that there is a senior official from the capital in this yamen, but is it true?" ”

Chang Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead, handed the hammer in his hand to the guard next to him, and looked at the fellow with a frown: "Ask what you are doing here, why haven't I heard of any big officials."

"Hey, what those officers and soldiers said yesterday is not a lie to us?"

"Hey, if you are a soldier, you can believe it" Chang Yu snorted: "The big officials in the capital have to endure hardships and come here to fight, if you have to say that there are big officials, then it's me" Everyone thought about it, so they scolded those who were soldiers who could really pull it, and couldn't help laughing at him: "You little baby, you are not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue, by the way, the one who brought the troops to fight here should be a big general, who is it?" ”

"Li Yan, have you ever heard of General Li?" Everyone shook their heads, Chang Yu pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice: The frog at the bottom of the well.

When he was idle, Li Muxian rushed from a distance, and there was a brocade guard with a dusty face behind him, Chang Yu knew that something was wrong and turned around and entered the yamen, and then the brocade guard whispered in his ear: Zheng Chenggong has arrived in the capital.

This is another move made by Chang Yu in advance.

Although he was coaxed later, Zheng Chenggong was only a student of Nanjing University at this time (Nanjing Guozijian went to school), but his father Zheng Zhilong held the most powerful navy of the Ming Dynasty in Fujian.

How tough?

Those who know a little about the Zheng family know his family history, and when he was a pirate, he would be like the current American aircraft carrier fleet, running around, and whoever disobeyed would clean up.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch army stationed in Taiwan fought with Zheng Zhilong and was beaten by him, and Zheng Zhilong, who had taken refuge in the imperial court in the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), had a famous naval battle of Kinmen with the fleet of the Dutch East India Company. So far, Zheng Zhilong's trade has a wide range of trade in the East and South Seas: Da Ni, Huni, Champong, Luzon, Yonggang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, Malacca, Cambodia, Siam, it is estimated that the military strength includes Han Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Austronesians, African blacks and other races up to 200,000 people, with a fleet of more than 3,000 large and small boats, becoming a great power in the maritime world of East China and South China.

Chang Yu, who traveled from later generations, paid attention to naval development and international trade, so he had to win over Zheng Zhilong to cooperate with him.

Some people will say that the Ming Dynasty forbade you to trade wool.

The sea ban in the Ming Dynasty was good, but it was fundamentally different from the sea ban in the Qing Dynasty, but it was not a good thing.

The Ming Dynasty imposed a sea ban mainly to prevent the outflow of pirates and gold and silver, not to prohibit international trade. The Ming Dynasty's maritime ban prohibited private trade with each other as a way to promote official-led tributary trade. This tributary trade was particularly evident in Zheng He's voyages to the West, where the state made huge profits through this monopoly trade. However, this monopoly that violated the laws of the market was soon destroyed by private smuggling, resulting in the intensification of smuggling and smuggling, and the tributary trade system of the Ming Dynasty existed in name only. Finally, during the Longqing period, the Ming Dynasty had to switch trade and open the Moon Port, allowing the common people to trade in the East and West.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban was not rigid, and exchanges with the West were still maintained, especially the Ming Dynasty's non-rejection of Western science and technology and advanced culture. After the switch of Longqing, the Ming Dynasty has reconnected with the world. The Ming Dynasty not only earned a large amount of silver through the sea ban, but also used the imported Western advanced technology and science and culture to achieve military innovation and a new understanding of the world, and the coastal defense was also greatly consolidated, and it had the upper hand in the confrontation with the Portuguese, British, Dutch and other Western colonizers.

Chang Yu is a careerist, and his territory is obviously not only the existing land of the Ming Dynasty, so he must take the line of the Zheng family, so when he first ascended the throne a few months ago, he secretly mobilized the people of Dongchang and Jinyiwei to take his brother Fang Ba to Fujian by water to contact the Zheng family.

Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the imperial court through Xiong Wencan in September of the first year of Chongzhen, granted coastal defense guerrillas, and appointed the Five Tiger guerrilla generals to sit in the Fujian Sea, protect the coastline of the Ming Dynasty, and fight against pirates and the Dutch, it can be said that the entire southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty is under his protection, equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the Ming Navy, the director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, no one dares to provoke him, and even has to look at his face, not to mention the current stormy court.

Zheng Zhilong has now been promoted to the chief military officer, and built a big mansion in his hometown of Anhai Town, Jinjiang, Quanzhou, to live and work in peace and contentment (Yongli was set on fire by Zheng Chenggong in the ninth year of Yongli) As for his son Zheng Chenggong, he is only a twenty-year-old hairy boy, and he only got a relationship to Nanjing Guozijian to go to university a few years ago, and then he didn't go to school because of the thieves' crusade and Baiwang's Northern Expedition, but he didn't expect to be found by someone.

At that time, Chang Yu's reputation was not very big, and he hadn't even heard of his legend and fame here, but when a group of Jinyi Wei and people from Dongchang came to the door to send a message to the supervisor of the Daming East Detective Factory, Zheng Zhilong, who had always been arrogant and above, was surprised and complacent.

Chang Yu sent people to do three things, the first was to make friends, the second was to help Zheng Chenggong transfer from Nanda to Peking University, and the third was to ask Zheng Zhilong to help him buy sweet potatoes and potatoes on a large scale and send a boat to Gyeonggi by water.

The third and most important thing is that it is related to the livelihood of the people in Gyeonggi, the locust plague, the great drought has caused no harvest in Hebei, Henan and some parts of Shandong, and the people have no food and are starving everywhere.

Potatoes and potatoes are easy to grow, easy to live, drought-resistant, and have large yields, which are simply the saviors of disaster years.

Chang Yu assured Zheng Zhilong that all expenses would be settled immediately in the capital, and he would guarantee his identity and reputation as the governor of Dongchang.

Zheng Zhilong agreed without a trace of hesitation, although he didn't know or even heard of the name of this eunuch, but he saw the sincerity and sincerity of this eunuch, he also needed to make this kind of friend, who has the greatest power in the Ming Dynasty, of course, is the emperor, since Dongchang, its successive governors have been almost the same as the emperor.

So Zheng Zhilong was busy dealing with Chang Yu's request, and at the same time sent someone to the north to inquire about this eunuch, and the news that came a month later shocked him, good guy, what a genius, at a young age, he was able to turn the tide and sweep the thieves and Tartars in Gyeonggi, which is as awesome as he is at sea!

This person must be paid, so Zheng Zhilong let go of his hand to advance funds for Chang Yu to buy sweet potatoes, potatoes, and grain, and sent more than 100 ships one after another, and sent the navy to protect along the way, and his son Zheng Chenggong personally led a team into Beijing.

Chang Yu was busy fighting in the south and north during this time, and he almost forgot about this stubble, and at this time, he was stunned when Jinyiwei sent the news, and shouted again and again, good, good.

"What kind of potatoes and sweet potatoes are the overseers talking about, are they delicious, and they are really amazingly prolific?" Li Muxian was very curious.

As soon as he said this, Chang Yu came to the spirit: "It's so delicious, the potatoes can be eaten boiled, steamed and eaten, and you can also make mashed potatoes, French fries, potato chips, hot and sour shredded potatoes, oops, I haven't eaten sour and hot shredded potatoes for a long time, and the roasted sweet potato, steamed sweet potato, sweet potato porridge, ......" Saying that, Chang Yu's halazi flowed down, and the funny thing was that Li Muxian had obviously never seen it, but when he heard the little eunuch say this, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva: "After the war, let's go back to Beijing quickly, and the poor road will also taste how delicious it is!" ”

Chang Yu was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly: "When you return to Beijing is not what the governor says, it depends on Zuo Liangyu."

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