After all, Emperor Yang still failed to realize the ideal of taking Dong Xiaowan into Hougong. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because......

She was martyred!

When the Jin Yiwei who raided the house arrived at Mao's house, Dong Xiaowan had already committed suicide by hanging herself, which shows that she is indeed true love for Mao Bijiang.

"This is really a strange era when women are more fierce than officials!"

Emperor Yang said with emotion.

The new version of the Battle of Heyin completely solved his resistance to a series of reforms in Jiangnan, the dead corpses of five thousand green worms, shocked all the officials and gentry in Jiangnan, looking at the endless corpse mountain and sea of blood on the bank of the Yangtze River, there will be no more officials and gentry who dare to play a conspiracy, in front of the emperor who flipped the table without saying a word, any careful thinking of them can only be self-inflicted. Although this also made a large number of officials, including He Tengjiao and Qu Shiyun, who insisted on the Ming Dynasty to the end, choose to resign in anger, but it did make Yang Feng's decrees smoothly implemented, in the final analysis, any reform without bloodshed is definitely not possible, and the bloody butcher knife is often the most effective means of reform.

Of course, this also confirms his image as a baojun.

And it's not an ordinary Bao Jun, the word Jun of Ji Zhi can't satisfy the hatred of those scholars for him, and only Qin Shi Huang can compare with it.

Bao Jun is Bao Jun!

The emperor actually doesn't care much about fame.

Besides, this is nothing more than a matter of public opinion, while those scholars are chanting poems and cursing the dark ages, the latest Yingtian newspaper is vigorously advocating the emperor's virtue and politics, this is only once every five days, in fact, it is a newspaper opened by Jinyiwei, and it is delivered by the post station system, which is much bigger than the mouth of those gentry. In addition, novels, commentaries, and even operas that describe the emperor's southern expedition and northern war, such as the Dangkou Zhi, the Sacred Driving Sweeping the North, and the Ming Dynasty's Heroic Genealogy, have also begun to increase the content of Qian rebelling against the Yu Party to bewitch the scholars and conspire to kill the king, which are more easily recognized by the people than poetry and songs. No matter how many poems those scholars wrote to commemorate Mao Bijiang, they were not as enthusiastic as the actors who played the emperor on the open-air stage on Yingtian Street and cut down Mao Bijiang with Cao Cao's face painted on the ground with a knife in his hand.

As for them also write......

Who dares to act?

Which troupe dares to perform, directly invite Jinyiwei to drink tea.

Today's Jinyiwei, but there is a special propaganda department in charge of these things.

Especially on the issue of slandering the emperor's image, this is not tolerated for sloppiness, and today's Jinyiwei can be said to be beyond its heyday, and tens of thousands of spies in the Department of Internal Affairs are scattered among the people, and even have begun to recruit female spies. These people monitored every city and village in the Ming Dynasty, together with those who went deep into the grassroots Huangzhuang to compile a strict spy network, all the information that the people were unfavorable to the imperial court was quickly transmitted to the captains in various places, and then summarized and screened and reported to the commander of the department and finally sent to the commander, and then the great eunuch Wang Chengen finally screened and reported to the emperor. It can be said that at this time, Jinyiwei has integrated all the functions of the original Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and the era of Ti Riding out is like a cloud, shrouded in the sky above Daming, and even Daming can no longer accommodate it and begins to spread outside Daming, such as those merchant ships of Nanyang Company that are gradually sailing, many of them are carrying the secret agents of the Jinyi Wei Intelligence Division.

And just when the Japanese army set off, and at the same time, a large number of green worms who were captured and strong were trembling under the bayonets of the Ming army, enduring fear, and collecting the bodies of their comrades-in-arms, the emperor also boarded a ship and left Nanjing and went south to Fuzhou.

"Your Majesty, this is the first batch of new warships we have built."

At the foot of a mountain on the north bank of the Min River, Zheng Zhilong pointed ahead and said excitedly.

This is the horsetail of Fuzhou.

At this time, in the original historical location of the Mawei Shipyard, five large docks 20 zhang long were lined up, which Zheng Zhilong spent two years building for Yang Feng, and countless shipbuilders were busy in these five docks, based on five 15 zhang long keels, constantly overlapping pieces of timber that had been prepared long ago. In the future, they will form the first real naval fleet of the Ming Dynasty together with the other five battleships that were built at the same time in Dagukou, and then, just like Zheng He's fleet back then, sail to the South Seas with the majesty of the Ming Emperor, to raise the emperor's prestige in the four seas and preach to all countries.

"Are there any technical challenges?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is no problem, in fact, the minister has also tried to build this kind of plywood ship before, and we are not worse than them in terms of technology alone, and even in some places our craftsmen are stronger than the craftsmen of the red-haired people, and now these five are just bigger. There are the patterns provided by the saints, and their ships as models, and the rest is simple, this thing is a matter of money in the final analysis, but the minister still thinks that we should use our hard sails. This soft sail of the red-haired man is not much better than our hard sail, and even our hard sail is better than soft sail offshore, and it takes longer to train sailors with soft sails, and their rigging is too complicated. ”

Zheng Zhilong said.

He is now full of enthusiasm, and his son Zheng Chenggong has just been officially named the king of Yanping County by the emperor, becoming the second living king with a different surname after Wu Sangui in the Ming Dynasty.

In order to repay the grace of the saint, the old pirate leader is like a clockwork, and he is desperately doing every job of the emperor, and the emperor also said that once this batch of warships is completed and used proficiently, a fleet will be formed to comfort Nanyang, and the position of the captain of this fleet is very likely to fall on his Zheng family, and the old pirate will have to work hard, in case it is robbed by the Shen family and Zhang Mingzhen's Zhejiang department, it will be very bad.

The latter is a holy grace.

"It's better to have a soft sail, it's better to be safe!"

Yang Feng said.

Soft sails and hard sails do have their own strengths, but the soft sails of Europeans have been tested by hundreds of years of ocean voyages, and the Chinese hard sails are an example of the Qiying, and he wants to let these warships cross the Pacific Ocean in the future, or try to play insurance.

"It's the minister's negligence!"

Zheng Zhilong said hurriedly.

"What's the reaction of the Dutch lately?"

Yang Feng then asked.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, they have to go or not, if they really dare to stay in Taiwan and not leave, the power of the ministers to gather Fujian and Guangdong sailors is enough to beat them out."

Zheng Zhilong said.

"Then I'll leave this Taiwan matter to Aiqing!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

"Besides, where did the merchant ships of the Nanyang Company go the furthest south?"

He asked.

"The farthest to the south, it will sail to Java, in fact, our trade with the South Seas is mainly Luzon, Annam, in recent years began to go west through Malacca, as far as Chennai, but to the south as far as Batavia, and rarely pass, at present the main route of the South Seas company is Chennai or Dhaka. The princes there are very fond of our goods, and we also need their horses, but the Dutch occupy Malacca, and we have to pay them extra money every time, and there is not much advantage to Batavia, where the business is controlled by the Dutch. ”

Zheng Zhilong said.

In fact, Nanyang's main business at present is to sell the luxury goods provided by Yang Feng to India, especially the mirrors that are being produced in the factories in Beijing, as well as large table clocks and other handicrafts, and then pull war horses and cotton cloth back from India, and he has shipped back nearly 1,000 horses over the years.

"Pick two good ships, choose a group of the best sailors, and give them to your brother Zheng Hongkui, let him take my charts and go all the way to the south of the South Seas, he can go as far as he can, but he must reach Jinzhou, and find a port in Jinzhou where he can move people, and if possible, leave a few people there to build camps, in short, he must explore this route to Jinzhou, and then I will colonize Jinzhou in large numbers."

Yang Feng said.

The Golden State is Australia, and the sooner you deploy to colonize there, the better.

This kind of thing is the most time-consuming, and it would take a year to send a fleet to explore the route now, and then send a colony team, and according to his estimates, it would be nice to be able to establish the first settlement in Australia within three years. And it has to be in the north of Australia, if you want to extend the colony to Melbourne, I'm afraid it would be good to be able to complete it in five years, and then look for gold mines and start panning for gold, optimistic that he will see Australian gold in seven years, 20,000 miles away, so that any of his plans will become very long.

"Your Honor."

Zheng Zhilong said hurriedly.

"In addition, the merchant ships of the Golden State Company must also go west, and Chennai is not able to do so, and must go around India and trade with the heavens and Persia, especially their horses there."

Yang Feng said.

The main task of the Ming army is to attack to the northwest, and to keep attacking, at least in his lifetime, he must fight to the Amu Darya River in Central Asia to restore the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and this war that is destined to last for a long time must rely on war horses, countless war horses, hundreds of thousands of war horses. He now has no shortage of horse farms, there is enough land in the Liaohe River in the northeast to graze horses, and there are more vast northern grasslands, so the most important thing is the horse breed, Mawari horses he already has, all in the horse farms near Beijing, and the selected Mongolian horses are crossbred, but this is far from enough, we must continue to continue to introduce a large number of good horses.

Mawari horses, Arabian horses, Persian horses, even sweaty horses, North African horses, European horses, in short, all the horses that can be bought he has to buy back.

"Your Majesty, this will require a lot of money."

Zheng Zhilong said cautiously.

"Why do you need money? Don't they like this? ”

Yang Feng took a small cloth bag from Liang Cheng's hand, then grabbed a large handful of synthetic rubies from it, and said with a smile as he sprinkled it down.

"That's just as well!"

Zheng Zhilong also laughed.