Zheng Cai's words suddenly woke up these people who were thoughtful, with their background, even if the world was in turmoil, at most they would just obey orders and be the commander of the navy.

Pirates like them were not only despised by the officials and gentry on land, but also hated by the common people along the coast.

Even under the constraints of Zheng Zhilong, the Eighteen Zhi pirates and even the support of the people of Fujian, but the scope of this Fujian only includes Zheng Zhilong's hometown of Quanzhou and Nan'an. The people of Zhangzhou next door hated them to the core, and followed Xu Xinsu and other maritime leaders to actively demand the suppression of bandits.

This is because although Shibazhi has established a base in Taiwan, most of the materials and population need to be supplied from the mainland, except for grain and timber.

After Xu Xinsu took refuge in the Fujian government and banned the transportation of materials to Taiwan through the power of the government, Shibazhi, who could not buy supplies, naturally had to go ashore and rob it himself.

His hometown was unwilling to rob, and the gentry of Fujian did not dare to rob, so the remaining people along the coast of Fujian naturally became the target of Eighteen Zhi.

Because of this, Da Ming Qi is innumerable, and it really has nothing to do with them pirates.

On the contrary, if the big tomorrow is really chaotic, the raw silk market they talked about at the meeting before will also fail because of the turmoil.

A turbulent Ming Dynasty would not be able to suppress those Jiangnan gentry from handing over the control of the local Sannong in their hands, let alone letting a group of pirates and merchants like them control the pricing power of raw silk.

After seeing that his subordinates were dispelled by Zheng Cai's delusions, Zheng Zhilong spoke: "Actually, you don't have to be so earnest, we only want two things, the first is to restore the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty; The second is to go ashore and get dressed and return to the hometown.

As for who sits in this Ming Dynasty, what does it have to do with you? As long as we can master the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty, we can't put a mountain of gold and silver at home?

As long as the imperial court can let us go ashore, with this mountain of gold and silver, can't I be a rich man in my hometown? Fujian and eastern Guangdong are beautiful, and that place is not better than the cold place in the capital? ”

Zheng Zhilong's words finally resonated with most of the delegates in Beijing, and most of them had similar ideas to Zheng Zhilong. If you can really make a fortune from the sea trade, the next thing is to go back to your hometown to buy land and build a big mansion, accumulate beautiful women and servants, and live a happy life as a rich man.

Regarding Zheng Zhilong's words, except for those leaders who echoed one after another, Li Kuiqi's expression was quite disapproving, Zheng Zhihu shook his head slightly, and Zheng Cai and Zhong Bin were expressionless.

After looking at the thoughts of the pirate representatives, Zheng Zhilong continued to speak: "Of course, the Holy Lord is not bad to us today, and he also has a lot of laws in his actions, and this maritime association he established for us and other maritime merchants to mediate disputes between maritime merchants has also reduced a lot of trouble for us.

In terms of reasoning, we should all support Your Majesty, but after all, we are people at sea, and we are not familiar with the affairs of the capital after all, and it is difficult to interfere. I think that the people of this capital have encountered a rebellion, and there must be losses, and we can't do other things, and we can't do them.

However, this disaster relief can be done a little bit of care, and the leaders might as well repay each one of a sum of money for disaster relief, which can be regarded as making a name for the establishment of the Maritime Association.

Besides, I see that we have been out long enough, and the rules of maritime trade have been almost formulated, and we are just in time to resign to Your Majesty and return to our hometown for a good year. ”

Zheng Zhilong thought very clearly, no matter what he thought, he could only plan and implement it if he returned to the sea in the southeast. In this northern capital, they are just a school of fish that have come ashore, and they can't afford to make any trouble.

When Zheng Zhilong mentioned going home, as soon as he became a pirate leader, he immediately felt homesick, and he became active about disaster relief.

Although these pirates did not carry much cash with them, after they arrived in Beijing, thinking that they might have to bribe officials to prevent the imperial court from transferring them ashore to be used as ordinary soldiers, they brought some valuables such as red gold, tortoiseshell, coral, and ambergris.

However, since entering Beijing, the imperial court has not cared about these pirate leaders who accept Zhao'an, but Emperor Chongzhen directly gathered them together and held a meeting of maritime trade merchants.

Therefore, most of the property in everyone's hands was not spent, except for some eunuchs and brocade guard officials in the palace.

After Zheng Zhilong proposed, after everyone summed up, they decided to pick out a few corals and some hawksbill turtles, and then put together the ambergris in everyone's hands and present them to Chongzhen, and then donated 15,000 silver taels for disaster relief.

Zhu Youzhen, who couldn't open his eyes and felt that he was falling endlessly in a void, suddenly woke up from his dream.

Hearing the strange noise in the inner room, Wu Fangyuan and Wusheng, who were on night duty outside, immediately rushed into the inner room.

"Is Your Majesty all right?" Wu Fangyuan rushed into the inner room, only to find that it was dark inside, and when he was about to go back to fetch the candle, Wuming had already come in with the candle in one hand.

By the candlelight, the two realized that it was Chongzhen who had knocked over the kettle on the bedside table.

Seeing the two of them come in, Zhu Youzhen said with some embarrassment: "I feel dry when I get up, I want to get a cup of tea to drink, but I didn't expect to be knocked over by me." ”

Wu Fangyuan breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Please wait, Your Majesty, and wait for the minister to get a pot of hot tea." ”

Zhu Youzhen called out to him and asked, "Don't worry, what time is it now?" ”

"It's almost time, Your Majesty. It was almost dawn, but fortunately there was no incident all night. Wu Fangyuan said.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the two of them, and said, "It turns out that neither of you has slept, apart from the two of you, is there anyone else outside?" ”

"Deputy General Zhu An and commander Cao Dengji are leading people to wait in the outer hall." Wu Fangyuan replied immediately.

"You go and get ready, and when I get up and change my clothes, I'll get together." Zhu Youzhen commanded.

Wu Fangyuan glanced at the lifeless beside him with some hesitation, he didn't trust this guard who was born in the border army and suddenly appeared.

"Go and prepare, Guard Wu will be here to stay." Zhu Youzhen said blindly to Wu Fangyuan's hesitation.

Seeing Chongzhen so resolute, Wu Fangyuan had to be ordered to go out. Zhu Youzhen gestured to Wuming to hand him his coat, and said, "You better change your name, what is the name of Wuming?" ”

Wuming handed over his clothes, and did not answer Chongzhen's question, but looked at him left and right and said: "Why does Your Majesty trust Xiaomin so much, Xiaomin is just an outlaw in the army." ”

Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and tied the straps on his clothes, and said casually: "I don't trust you, I trust the Ming soldiers who defend Liaodong." If a country cannot even be trusted to defend its own soldiers, then the country is not far from extinction. ”

Chongzhen's words suddenly made many of the responses that Wu Ming had conceived come to naught, and he was speechless for a while.

Before the Liaodong Incident, he also went to school. He originally thought that Chongzhen treated himself so well, nothing more than wanting to entrap Mangui Dashuai, and wanted to use this to exert grace to Dashuai.

Wuming didn't want to be a tool and was forced to stay in the capital, even if Chongzhen forgot about his offense today, as long as he remembered this incident in the future, his useless tool should be liquidated.

I would rather die on the battlefield of Liaodong against Jiannu than be slaughtered by these nobles in the way of pigs and dogs, and lose my life.

Chongzhen's answer made it impossible for him to continue the response he had envisioned, but he finally stubbornly said, "Your Majesty, the villain has something to ask for. The villain has a rough personality and does not know how to communicate, so he will inevitably be rampant in the capital. If Your Majesty can not remember the past, when today's matter is over, please let the villain return to the army and protect Liaodong for the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Youzhen finally got dressed, which was the regular clothes that Wang Chengen hurriedly took for him from the palace yesterday to replace the inconvenient crown clothes.

He straightened his clothes, and found that he lacked the help of the little eunuch, and the clothes were wrinkled in some places, and he frowned and finally ignored them.

Zhu Youzhen turned around and walked to the half-kneeling Wusheng, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "I actually have no intention of keeping you in Beijing, but now let you go back to the army, first, to harm General Mangui; Second, I'm afraid that some people around me who like to be smart will have to ask you for their crimes. I kept you by my side just to make it less troublesome. It can be as short as half a year, as long as a year, and when things calm down, I will let you go back to the army again. ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he walked out of the inner room. After a while, Wusheng followed. When he was about to leave the courtyard, he suddenly whispered: "Since Your Majesty thinks that the name of the minister is not good, it is better to give the minister a name." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked back at him, looked at an old locust tree in the yard, and said casually: "Then it's called Wu Huai, Koutian Wu, nostalgic Huai." ”

Yesterday, Zhu Youzhen inspected the camp in the northern suburbs from west to east, and finally seeing that it was getting late, Zhu Youzhen ignored the opposition of Wu Fangyuan and several generals and rested in Cao Dengji's camp.

On this night, Cao Dengji not only gave up his command and envoy office, but also guarded the night in fear, lest something happen to him.

Seeing Chongzhen emerge from his back office unharmed, Cao Dengji, whose eyes were bloodshot, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Under the escort of him and Zhu An, Chongzhen and his party headed towards the Shuai Si Yamen in the middle of the camp in the northern suburbs.

This yamen, which is guarded in the center by the battalions, is exactly where the commander of the Beijing camp raises his tent and listens to the political and military affairs.

In the past, it was the governor of the Rong government, Jingying Rongzheng or the assistant Jingying Rongzheng, who went out to patrol the northern suburbs of the camp and opened the government. As for Emperor Daming personally going to the northern suburbs of Daying to raise the tent, Emperor Wuzong has not appeared since then.

When Zhu Youzhen sat in the main hall and waited, he did not know how many officers could be present today.