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Chapter 1062 Overseas Tribute
Ningbo Prefecture, Dinghai Shipyard.

The eight large ships built in the dock have been launched and are undergoing trial voyage. They can go to sea after preparations are completed. Dozens of ships have been sent to the coastal islands with soldiers to deal with the bandits at any time.

Rather than talking about anti-piracy and Japanese pirates, it is better to say that Zhu Hao made two-handed preparations. The training on the giant ship and the island is in full swing.

However, the firecrackers used in the training are still the firecrackers equipped by the Daming Shenji Battalion.

When Zhu Hao appeared on one of the islands, the trainees had just finished training and went to the kitchen in groups for dinner.

There are 25 soldiers in one battalion, and there are a total of 5000 battalions on this island with a total of [-] people trained at the same time, and there are six similar islands.

"Master Zhu."

The person in charge of this island is Wang Zhou, the commander Lu Wan transferred from Jinghaiwei, waiting at the gate of the camp.This person has the word boat in his name, and he is very good at training sailors, but in recent years, Jinghaiwei has no ships to go to sea, and he used to do shore defense before.

"Talk inside."

Followed by Su Xigui and more than ten guards, Zhu Hao entered the temporary headquarters together.

Wang Zhou was very excited: "My lord, the firecrackers you gave are very effective. They can shoot up to a hundred paces away, they are very accurate, and they can be reloaded quickly. The brothers below feel that with this weapon, it is impossible to beat the Tartars." There is no problem, let alone a little Japanese from the coast!"

Although the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, especially the hereditary military households, were afraid of the harsh environment in the northwest, they also knew that living in the coastal area, their grandparents and grandchildren might not have any future prospects, and they only hoped to make contributions in the northwest. .

"If the navy went overseas to fight, would you dare to follow?" Zhu Hao asked.

Wang Zhou said: "Why don't you dare? Just give orders, my lord. Brothers have nothing to fear."

Zhu Hao nodded.

He doesn't have many regular troops at his disposal, and he doesn't ask for those who have fought against the Tatars like the frontier troops. It's just the guards in the coastal guards. He can transfer less than 5000 soldiers, but what he has to do now It is to conquer overseas wild lands. At critical times, the more armed personnel, the better.

But then a problem arose, he was very worried that the soldiers would mutiny, once this group of people went overseas with him, one by one clamoring to go back to Daming, Zhu Hao must have enough strength to frighten this group of people.

It is to give some weapons to the regular officers and soldiers, but they can only be given to ordinary firecrackers. On the contrary, the more advanced flintlock guns are reserved for those who are undergoing training and have weak combat effectiveness, or they are temporarily drawn out as People used by soldiers, such as artisans, farmers, and fishermen.

"Continue training tomorrow, don't rush back to land, and practice artillery firing skills later. Each large ship is equipped with sixteen artillery pieces, let the gunners practice more!"

Zhu Hao is currently waiting for Lu Bing, Guan Jing and others to return from overseas, so he can only train his subordinates well first.

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In late June, the fleet Zhu Hao sent to the New World finally returned.

24 large ships, not counting the small ones, this group of people can be said to be the elite among the elite Zhu Hao could mobilize before, and many of them were dispatched from the Bohai Guard Station. The 24 large ships brought back a lot of goods.

The Daming navy has become a colonist in a foreign country. In addition to bringing back goods, there are also overseas people, that is, Indians.

The fleet is divided into two batches, one is docked at Tianjin Port, the other is entering Ningbo Port, and the tasks of the two fleets are completely different.

The group in the north was to offer tribute to the emperor, and at the same time, the sailors and servants recruited from the guards around the Bohai Sea were sent back to their hometowns to rest. After all, they hadn't seen their wives and children for more than half a year. Zhu Hao couldn't do anything about these soldiers. To dispatch directly, he had to appease the critics of the people in the court.

The ships in the south were damaged during the voyage. After the fleet was brought back to East Asia along the northern equatorial warm current and the northeast trade wind, they went northward basically intact. The damaged ones could not sustain it, so they had to go to the nearby Ningbo port. At the same time, the sailors and soldiers of this fleet are basically officers, soldiers and civilian husbands of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian guards.

When the news of the return of Zhu Hao's sea fleet reached the capital, it caused a great shock in the court.

This is equivalent to the fact that after Zheng He's voyages to the West, the imperial court once again sent people to sea and achieved fruitful "results". There were a lot of strange overseas goods, and they were transported to the capital in horse-drawn carts. There were a total of [-] horse-drawn carts. It was only the part given to the emperor, and some of the rest were directly placed in Tianjin Shipyard.

The third day of July.

In the early morning, the continuous convoy was already carrying tributes into the city under the morning light.

When Zhu Si met the ministers in Fengtian Hall, his face was full of excitement, and he boasted to the ministers about Zhu Hao's great achievements.

"...Have you all seen it? It is always said that it is unwise for Zhu Hao to send troops to the south to destroy pirates and Japanese pirates. Now you should know his good intentions? Many overseas things are not available in Ming Dynasty. Especially when it comes to food crops, it can greatly increase Daming's food production..."

Zhu Si has been brainwashed by Zhu Hao since he was a child, and he yearns for overseas customs and customs. He was once a broad-minded boy.

However, after he became emperor, his mentality gradually became more conservative, and he often unconsciously magnified the dark side of his heart, which was also caused by his inherent inferiority complex and self-danger.

The ministers only listened to Zhu Si showing off there, and no one took his words seriously, because they didn't think that the wild land could bring back anything valuable.

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The meeting ended.

Zhu Si summoned six ministers, elders, and academic scholars alone in Qianqing Palace. It was not enough to brag in front of civil and military officials before, and he had to endorse Zhu Hao again in front of these top civil servants.

Liu Chun asked for an order: "Your Majesty, since the defense of the southeast coast is basically stable now, why don't you recall Bachelor Zhu to the capital earlier and stay in the Imperial Academy for use?"

It was Liu Chun who most hoped for Zhu Hao's return, or in other words, the person who cared most about Zhu Hao's official career.

Unfortunately, his words did not get much approval.

More people wanted Zhu Hao to stay cool. If Zhu Hao came back, the court's power structure would definitely be broken.

Zhu Sidao: "Jingdao is staying in the south and is going to go to sea again. I have agreed to let him go, you don't need to persuade him. As for the follow-up, when he returns from the sea, I will send him back to Beijing in a hurry. As for when the time comes The Hanlin Academy should still be in charge of the Six Departments, or it can be assigned to the Northwest... let's talk about it."

The emperor meant that not only did he have plans to transfer Zhu Hao back, but he even had a lot of preparations.

Among them, the only one that is probably transferred to the Northwest for appointment is that the ministers are more willing to accept.

But it's better to stay in the South.

Yang Yiqing came out and asked: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask, where did the tributes come from? Ryukyu? Or the Japanese country? Or Nanyang?"

Zhu Si smiled and said, "Are these places the only places overseas? Have you never heard of Penglai Fairyland?"

This kind of rhetoric made the ministers present feel like hitting people.

How about Penglai Fairyland, wouldn't it be better to just say being a fairy?

What about daydreaming?

"My dear family, I want you to know that Jing Dao has the ability to help the country, so don't have any prejudice against him. As for when to transfer him back, I will consider it at my own discretion. Please don't have any thoughts of fighting with him, he This person regards fame and wealth as dung, and only thinks about maintaining the eternal existence of the Ming Dynasty, and he is really an example of a minister."

Zhu Si probably understood that Zhu Hao's return would make the courtiers feel nervous, thinking that powerful officials like Qian Ning and Jiang Bin would make a comeback, so he desperately vaccinated these people.

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The inner court meeting went on for a long time, but apart from talking about Zhu Hao's exploits at sea this time, nothing nutritious was said.

Coming out of Qianqing Palace, when several ministers walked towards the gate of the palace, they got together in twos and threes, whispering to each other.

Zhang Zuo came out to see him off for a while, and asked others to do it for him, and then he went back to report to Zhu Si.

"Your Majesty... the list of tributes has been sent over."

Zhang Zuo smiled and presented the brochure to Zhu Si.

Zhu Si took it over and looked at it, and said happily: "It's so beautiful, but what are the details?"

"The slave does not know."

Zhang Zuo smiled and pointed to the one on the list, "It is mentioned here that some barbarians were brought by the fleet, but they were sent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for the reclamation of coastal wasteland, but 60 people were sent to the capital. .”

"People from abroad? Monkeys?"

Zhu Si asked with wide eyes.

Zhang Zuo said with a smile: "Huang Jin just went to see it, and said that there are some women in strange clothes, with yellow skin and black hair, not much different from the people of Ming Dynasty, but they don't understand my Ming language, do you want to send it to Your Majesty... ?”

Zhu Si suddenly became interested and asked, "Is this...wouldn't it be unsafe? What if they..."

Zhang Zuo looked embarrassed.

He said he was going to send you a woman, but it’s fine if you see one or two of them to see the exotic style, but according to what you mean, you’re going to send a group of them all at once?If you have to face it alone, the danger is quite high.

"Your Majesty, why don't you let Huang Jinxuan come over and have a look at it for you?" Zhang Zuo asked.

"Ah."

Zhu Si smiled, "But logically speaking, it should be similar to Tartar women, right? Maybe you haven't even seen it, how can you compare with my Daming beauties?"

He said so on the lips, but he was very curious in his heart. Now he didn't care what valuable goods the tributes were sent, as if only this kind of thing could make him interested.

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Cabinet value.

When several cabinet ministers came back, Jia Yong seemed to lose his temper and said: "Zhu Jingdao is going to Jinghai in name, but he sent people to go to Nanyang.

In recent decades, the Ming Dynasty has made it clear that it no longer has plans to go to sea.

It is said that the charts of Zheng He's voyages to the West were burned by the courtiers. As for whether Liu Daxia did it, no one knows.

The civil servants' attitudes were surprisingly consistent, don't do things that waste the people and waste money, and don't provoke people from overseas countries, it's better to govern Daming well with peace of mind, anything that goes against this purpose is unacceptable.

Several people looked at him.

Fei Hong frowned and asked, "You want to impeach Zhu Jingdao?"

Jia Yong pouted his neck and said: "Your Majesty did not punish and stop, but praised him greatly, and let Zhu Jingdao continue to go to sea. Such a bad precedent, how can there be no reason not to participate in the impeachment?"

Liu Chun said with a smile: "Your Majesty didn't say it all. My Daming Fleet sailed overseas, traveled all over the world, and brought back so many tributes. I really shouldn't be too demanding."

Jia Yong sized Liu Chun up and said, "It's understandable for you to speak for him, but I can't! I'll go to the Imperial Academy and Sixth Division, and find someone to jointly impeach Zhu Jingdao, that bully!"

(End of this chapter)