Text Volume 1 Dismal Business_Chapter 22 Pirates and Western Monks
On the second day of the ninth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen sat in the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace as usual, listening to Wang Tiqian reciting to him, while Wei Zhongxian stood on the side, waiting for Zhu Youzhen's consultation at any time.
These ceremonial supervisors have all drawn up ways to deal with them, and Zhu Youzhen has never rejected the opinions drawn up by the celebrants since he ascended the throne. Zhu Youzhen's actions slowly calmed down the hearts of the celebrants, and even Wei Zhongxian didn't have the panic and anxiety he had when Tianqi died.
"What do you mean by repeating the recital you just now?" Zhu Youzhen made Wang Tiqian stop for the first time.
Wang Tiqian was a little surprised, but he still read it again. This memo was sent by Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, and it was about "using razor to control thieves". According to the classification of the celebrant and the celebrant, this is just an insignificant piece of music that can be brushed aside.
Fujian Governor Zhu Yifeng Shangjuan said that there was a huge thief named Zheng Zhilong in the Fujian Sea, who plundered the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, which was a disaster for the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Xinsu, a merchant from Zhangzhou, volunteered to contact the Dutch in Taiwan and attack this gang of thieves with the Daming sailors, so as to remove this great trouble for the coastal people of the Ming Dynasty.
This time, Wang Tiqian read very slowly, for fear that Zhu Youzhen would not hear clearly, and Wei Zhongxian also pricked up his ears to hear the preferences of the new emperor.
Zhu Youzhen unconsciously raised his right hand and began to stroke his chin. "Zheng Zhilong, isn't this Zheng Chenggong's father. This man is notoriously talented but not ambitious, but this is a historical rumor after all, and it can't be taken seriously. It is not so much that Zheng Zhilong has no ambitions, but that he completely sees that the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into China is already the trend of the times. And lost the production base of the mainland, he, the king of the sea at the end of the Ming Dynasty, is a source of water and a tree without roots. Replaced by the Ming Dynasty, which completely lost control of the grassroots, didn't this king of the sea still not dump the government? Zheng Zhilong has collected taxes at sea for more than ten years, and he has never even given Chongzhen a hair. ”
Zhu Youzhen touched his smooth chin, and only after a long time did he speak: "Regarding this Zheng Zhilong, hasn't the celebrant received a report about him before?" ”
Wang Tiqian racked his brains and thought, and then said uncertainly: "It seems that there was a copy at the beginning of the year, why don't you let the minister check the archived old documents?" ”
"Well, there you go. The next time the concert on coastal defense should be placed alongside the twist and turn of Liaodong. Zhu Youzhen gave an additional instruction.
Wang Tiqian agreed and withdrew, and Zhu Youzhen suddenly said to Wei Zhongxian: "Father-in-law Wei, don't you Dongchang and Jinyiwei have any information about Fujian?" ”
Wei Zhongxian opened his mouth, and finally knelt down and pleaded guiltily and said: "The old minister is incompetent, Dongchang and Jinyiwei have always only focused on Jiubian, North and South Zhili and other places, but there are no manpower arranged in the rest of the places. ”
"It's really eventful, there are Houjin in the north, there are peasant uprisings in Shaanxi, there are extravagant rebellions in Guizhou and Sichuan, and there are disasters in Fujian and Guangdong. There is no place for peace in Nima. Zhu Youzhen complained secretly.
Despite this, Zhu Youzhen still didn't think about letting Wei Zhongxian get involved in the command of Jinyiwei again. Zhu Youzhen knew that now the whole palace was watching how he dealt with Wei Zhongxian, if he told Wei Zhongxian to do something, even if it was a small matter, the direction of the wind in the palace would change. It's easy to hunt a tiger, but it's hard to catch a tiger.
Wei Zhongxian is now like a tiger tied by a rope, although he still has the power of the celebrant eunuch and the eunuch to supervise the Dongchang, but as long as Zhu Youzhen does not tell him to do things for a day, the people below will know that the power of Gonggong Wei is still given by His Majesty the Apocalypse, not the current Emperor Chongzhen.
A lieutenant who was not recognized by the new emperor was just an ornament, and even Wei Zhongxian himself did not dare to use these powers openly, like a thief who had stolen treasures.
Seeing that Zhu Youzhen just asked, he stopped talking. Wei Zhongxian's heart was a little excited, and he fell silent again.
When waiting for Wang Tiqian to come back, Zhu Youzhen was extremely bored, and began to look through the books piled up on the table. These books were all read by Tianqi before his death, and Zhu Youzhen ordered people not to clean up this room, so that the layout here is the same as when Tianqi was alive.
Flipping through these books, Zhu Youzhen seemed to see a young man reading here, and he couldn't help but feel a little sentimental in his heart.
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