After the Southern Ming Dynasty changed its maritime trade policy, the maritime trade along the southeast coast became active, and merchant ships from various countries came and went, and even many southeast maritime merchants also joined the sequence of navigation.

The southeast coast, especially Fujian, as well as Chaoshan in Guangdong, etc., have many mountains and little land, and they cannot live by farming alone, while the people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, and their footprints have been all over the South Seas very early, and some people have even established political power in the South Seas.

Nanming's open maritime policy not only ushered in merchants from all over the world, but also merchants from Guangdong, Fujian and other places joined the voyage.

At this time, the Southern Ming regime was compressed to Guangdong, and the Great Wei Dynasty imposed a blockade on the Southern Ming Dynasty to cut off the supply of goods, which affected the maritime trade between Guangdong and Fujian, but there were still many ships passing through the sea.

On the way to withdraw his troops from Huguang, Sun Kewang plundered southern Hunan, and then sent troops into Guangdong, taking millions of people captive, and proclaimed the title of emperor in Thang Long City, and fought against Wei Ming.

If it was in the past, Zhu Cihong would have been furious, but at this time, the Ming Dynasty had no capital to be angry.

Regarding Sun Kewang's actions, Zhu Cihong did not start a war with Sun Kewang, but instead sent an envoy to recognize Sun Kewang's status, and Sun Kewang hoped that Nanming could continue to contain Gao Yihuan, so he promised to give Nanming support, and the two families continued to maintain an alliance relationship.

At present, the maritime merchants in Guangdong are short of goods, so they mainly take the route from Annan to Guangzhou to buy and sell grain from Annan.

At this time, off the coast of Guangzhou, a three-masted ship about 15 zhang long with a high stern tower was breaking the waves on the sea.

The ship was huge, the cabin was full of grain bought from the Great Zhou Kingdom, the hull was undulating in the waves, and the sailors with Miao knives or Japanese knives hung on their waists on the deck sat on the side of the ship, chatting leisurely.

Maritime trade is very dangerous, but in the past two years, Nanming has reached agreements with the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the Japanese countries, and ships in the coastal area are frequent, and no one dares to break the agreement, so the ships are still safe to navigate, and there are few hijackings.

At this time, a tanned man on the ship's floor was scanning the sea with a clairglass, "After crossing the Qiongzhou Strait, you can get to Guangzhou safely!" ”

A bookkeeper next to him said: "The owner, although this trip is safe, the profits obtained are not as good as the previous two percent!" ”

The shipowner sighed, "That can't be helped?" Now everyone can't get the goods, so they can only buy some food for the imperial court and earn hard-earned money for running errands. Fortunately, although the money is small, the road is safe, so there is no need to worry. ”

The bookkeeper also sighed, "The imperial court is now in a safe corner, if it is always at odds with the Great Wei, and there is no source of its own goods in exchange for the grain of the South Seas, the silver money will flow out, and sooner or later it will be empty." ”

The proprietor shook his head, "That's not what we're thinking about. ”

The two were talking, and the mast looked up, but suddenly there was an exclamation, "Owner, someone in the northeast is hijacking the ship!" ”

The proprietor was shocked when he heard this, this place is close to the coast, who is so bold, he hurriedly walked to the side of the ship, and sure enough, he saw two black spots, and there was a faint sound of cannons.

The owner of the ship immediately picked up the clairvoyant mirror, put it in front of his eyes to watch, frowned, and shouted urgently: "It's the gunboat of the Red Hair Yi that is robbing the merchant ships of the Four Seas!" ”

Mr. Bookkeeper was shocked, "Doesn't Hongmaoyi have an agreement with the imperial court, how dare he rob the sea ship that transports grain to the imperial court." ”

The shipowner's face was gloomy, and he said urgently: "The ship of the Hongmaoyi is fast, everyone quickly adjust the sail surface and avoid them!" ”

At this time, the man on the mast shouted again, "Host, a ship from the south is coming for us!" ”

The owner of the ship suddenly exclaimed, "Quick, turn the rudder left, go north at full speed, and go to Gaozhou Mansion!" ”

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Zhu Cihong took the initiative to withdraw from Hunan, exchanging space for time for him to regain a foothold in Guangzhou.

Now that he has retreated to Guangdong for several months, Zhu Cihong has used Su Guansheng, Chen Zilong, Ding Kuichu, Qu Shiyun, Yang Wenyue, and Guan Yinxi to reorganize the cabinet, and has set up the Guangzhou imperial court and started operating again.

The main force of the Ming army of nearly 100,000 retreated into Guangdong, and Zhu Cihong deployed heavy troops in Shaozhou Mansion on the one hand, and tried to solve financial and logistical problems on the other.

The dispute between Wei and Ming is not the dispute between Huayi, the fight against the Manchu Qing can be called for by righteousness, and people are willing to destroy their homes to relieve difficulties, but against the Great Wei, it is different, there must be enough money and food.

In order to solve the financial and food problems, Zhu Cihong turned to Sun Kewang for help on the one hand, and encouraged production on the other, and was very busy.

At this time, he had just walked into the cabinet, and Yang Wenyue also hurriedly entered the door, his steps were fast, bringing a gust of wind, and he didn't even notice Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong couldn't help frowning, and asked out loud, "Yangqing, what's the matter?" ”

Yang Wenyue was stunned for a moment, turned around and saw Zhu Cihong, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty, the minister is rude!" ”

Zhu Cihong frowned, and had a bad premonition in his heart, he saw Yang Wenyue holding a book in his hand, and pointed: "What is the emergency military situation?" Could it be that the Wei thief sent troops? ”

Yang Wenyue saw Zhu Cihong's gloomy face, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, it's not the Wei thief who sent troops!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong breathed a sigh of relief, if it wasn't a Wei thief, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Recently, Zheng Zhilong defected to Wei, and the Wei army entered Fujian, which made Zhu Cihong worried, as long as it was not the Wei army, it would not be troublesome.

At this time, he had just breathed a sigh of relief, but Yang Wenyue said: "Your Majesty, it was Hongmaoyi on the sea who attacked our grain ship. ”

Zhu Cihong was already in a hurry just to deal with the Wei State, and he didn't want to be red hairy at sea, so he actually provoked trouble again.

Zhu Cihong was instantly furious, "I have fallen to the point where cats and dogs can be bullied?" ”

Zhu Cihong had a trade agreement with the Netherlands for a long time, and now the Dutch attacked the grain ships of the Ming Dynasty government and robbed the grain of the Ming Dynasty, not only tore up the agreement, but also blatantly regarded the Ming Dynasty as nothing, and slapped Zhu Cihong in the face.

Yang Wenyue hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, although this Hongmaoyi is fast and sharp, it has no faithfulness, and it is no different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In the early years of the Battle of Penghu, the Ming Dynasty reached an agreement with them, and later in the Battle of Luowan, another agreement was reached, and when His Majesty opened the sea, the last agreement was reached. But these agreements don't last long, and as long as Hongmaoyi feels that there is an opportunity, he will tear up the agreement. They are scoundrels, and when they see the opportunity, they immediately come up and take a bite, no different from the Hulu in the north! ”

Zhu Cihong's face was gloomy, "This group of red-haired people, why did they tear up the agreement this time?" ”

Yang Wenyue said in a deep voice: "According to the minister's understanding, it seems that the high thieves have reached a new agreement with them. ”

"Shameless villain!" Zhu Cihong was instantly furious, "Okay, you Gao Yihuan, you once slandered me for colluding with the Manchus, but now he actually colluded with Hongmaoyi, it's shameless!" ”

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