Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 236 Xiong Wencan’s promotion

In Sun Yuanhua's mind, the emperor is omniscient and omnipotent. Since he has reminded him of what he should remind, and the emperor has also said that arrangements have been made, he naturally will not say anything else and says: " Your Majesty is wise, but I am talking too much!"

Zhu Tianqi then picked up the letter from Mashakallu that Sun Yuanhua had brought to him. Mashakallu was very good at getting close to him. He used Sun Yuanhua's status as a church member and kept mentioning "Lord" in the letter. "Talk about something, as if you are saying, "Sun Yuanhua, for the sake of the Lord, you have to help!"

Zhu Tianqi smiled, put the letter aside, and then said to Sun Yuanhua: "It seems that the Franji people haven't figured out the situation yet. This Mashakaru was probably forced by the Franji people. If he comes to you to ask for details, you don’t have to rush to reply to him. After the New Year, someone from the court will go and talk to him!"

"I got it!" Sun Yuanhua nodded in salute, and then he left.

As the New Year approaches, all affairs in the DPRK and China are beginning to be finalized. In a few days, it will be New Year's Eve, and the annual holiday will soon begin.

After Zheng Zhilong was named Dongfan Bo, Zhu Tianqi did not let him leave the capital and return to Quanzhou. Instead, he asked him to stay in the capital for the New Year. At the same time, he also asked him to bring his family to the capital. This was natural for Zheng Zhilong. It was such a great favor that he immediately sent someone to pick up his wife and children.

Then, Zhu Tianqi specially summoned Zheng Zhilong's family. In fact, he mainly wanted to meet Zheng Chenggong. Although Zheng Chenggong's great achievements have now been preempted by Zheng Zhilong, Zhu Tianqi still believed that great men are not afraid of not having the opportunity to make contributions. Zheng Chenggong grew up. The queen must also be a pillar of the imperial court.

Today Zheng Chenggong is only eight years old, and will be nine after this year. He has not yet changed his name to "Zheng Chenggong", and the name "Chenggong" was also given by the later Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian, who also gave Zheng Chenggong his national surname. Zhu", so strictly speaking, Zheng Chenggong after the name change should be called "Zhu Chenggong".

At this time, Zheng Chenggong was still called Zheng Sen. Zhu Tianqi planned to do the job of giving him a name and surname, so when he met with Zheng Zhilong's family, Zhu Tianqi showed his favor to Zheng Zhilong and said to Zheng Zhilong on the spot: "This is The prince has an extraordinary appearance and will become a great person in the future, so why not just stay with me and accompany the prince to study!"

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he was very happy. He immediately knelt down and kowtowed to thank him, and asked Zheng Sen to kowtow to thank him. "I would like to thank Your Majesty for your kindness. Being able to be the prince's companion is truly a blessing that this son has cultivated for three lifetimes!"

Zhu Tianqi smiled and nodded, stepped forward, touched Zheng Sen's head, and said: "Since you want to stay with the prince, I will make an exception and give you a name. You can Your surname is 'Zhu', which is the same as the royal family. Now it happens that your father has just successfully recovered Dongfan Island for the Ming Dynasty, so I will give you a new name, call it 'Success', which can be regarded as a good idea for your future. Best wishes!"

Hearing this, little Zheng Sen was not sure whether he was excited or not. Anyway, his father Zheng Zhilong was extremely excited. He stretched out his hand and pulled little Zheng Sen's clothes and urged: "Fusong, why don't you kneel down and thank me? You know how big this is." Is it an honor?"

Although little Zheng Sen was young, he had learned about etiquette since he was a child. He immediately knelt down and kowtowed with great respect, and said in a clear accent: "Zhu Chenggong kowtows to express his gratitude to the emperor. He thanks the emperor for giving him his name. Success is a great honor." !"

Zhu Tianqi was even more satisfied with Zheng Sen's performance. He laughed loudly and personally pulled him up from the ground: "Okay, get up quickly. With your intelligence and energy, you will become a great talent in the future!"

Zheng Zhilong's eyes were a little wet. He looked at Zhu Tianqi and was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

Zhu Tianqi stopped talking nonsense to them, and then raised his hand to signal Zheng Zhilong and his wife to get up, and then said: "Okay, I still have a lot of things to do, so I can't chat with you more today. Now, after two days of the Zhengdan Festival, we two, the monarch and the minister, let's have a good drink and chat!"

"Since the Emperor still has important military and state matters to deal with, I dare not disturb you. I will come back to thank you for your kindness when the official meeting is held on the first day of the New Year!" Zheng Zhilong stood up, gave a respectful salute, and left with his wife Tian Chuansong and Zheng Chenggong. Got off.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong couldn't stand it anymore in the hall. For him, happiness came too suddenly. He was so happy that he felt overly excited, and his brain began to go blank.

After walking out of the main hall for a long time, Zheng Zhilong leaned against the wall and took a deep breath for a long time. His extremely excited mood slowly calmed down. This frightened Tagawa Song beside him and worried that Zheng Zhilong was suddenly unwell. It’s over!
Zheng Chenggong, on the other hand, stood aside and looked at Zheng Zhilong with his big eyes very calmly. He didn't know if he could understand everything or if he was timid and didn't dare to ask.

Nowadays, Zheng Zhilong is soaring to the top, and he has been favored rarely since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. As Zheng Zhilong's immediate boss, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, who has the merit of recruiting Zheng Zhilong to serve the country, is naturally indispensable. Follow the promotion.

Although Zhu Tianqi did not summon Xiong Wencan to the capital and give him a large reward, he did issue a decree to promote him to be the governor of Fuguang. Xiong Wencan suddenly became the top leader of Fuguang and Fuguang provinces. It was considered a prosperous official career and a large number of recruits. The envy of colleagues.

When Xiong Wencan was promoted, he also received a new errand assigned to him by the court - to take back Hao Jing Ao.

Although Haojingao was nominally rented to the Franji people, it was originally half-rented and half-occupied by the Franji people by bribing local officials. In addition, the court had not paid much attention to this small place, so It's always been a mess.

Although the Nafangji people paid a symbolic rent of 500 taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty every year, they actually regarded Haojing'ao as their own territory. Not only did they build forts and station troops in Haojing'ao, they also stationed troops there. A governor was stationed, and Franji-style rule was implemented, and it was no longer subject to the control of the Ming Dynasty.

This is intolerable to Zhu Tianqi. Now, under his painstaking efforts, Ming Dynasty has become very powerful. How can it still be occupied by Franji?
What's more, now that even Dongfan Island has been recovered, Hao Jing'ao can no longer be occupied by the Franji people. They should get out!

Zhu Tianqi made it clear in his order to Xiong Wencan, asking Xiong Wencan to inform Mashajia Road that Ming Dynasty would take back Haojing Ao and no longer rent it to the Franji people. The Franji people must do so within one month. After the one-month period of moving out of Haojingao is up, when the Ming Dynasty comes to take back Haojingao, the Franji people who are still stranded in Haojingao will be recognized as intruders and will be arrested and punished by the Ming government. judgment.Zhu Tianqi's attitude was very tough, which made Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fuguang, who was always known for his "smoothness", scratch his head. The joy of promotion also dissipated a lot. He did not expect that he would take over the post of governor of Guangdong. While making Si a big taxpayer, he also took the "trouble" of Hao Jing'ao into his own hands.

Xiong Wencan felt very worried. He did not want to start a war with the Franji people, because once the war started, risks would come. War is difficult to talk about. It would be good if we won, but if something goes wrong, If you make a mistake, you will be easily implicated and convicted, and it is not surprising that you may even lose your head.

Xiong Wencan is not a military attache. He does not mean to get promoted by fighting to get rich. He still advocates the concept of "harmony makes money". It would be best if the problem can be solved through negotiation, but now the court wants to drive away the Franji people directly. It was obvious that there was nothing to talk about, war was definitely inevitable.

However, Xiong Wencan's worries suddenly disappeared after the Zhengdan Festival, because the imperial court suddenly sent him a "savior". Li Banghua, the Governor of Coastal Defense, led the Ming Dynasty's navy to the South China Sea. In name, he came to the South China Sea for patrol training, but Xiong Wencan knew that this was sent by the emperor to support him.

Xiong Wencan suddenly felt that "the rain has passed, the wind has stopped, and I am suddenly okay again", so he immediately took people to Haojing'ao.

People are not allowed to come in and out of Haojing'ao at will on weekdays, but Xiong Wencan is not an ordinary person after all, so the Franji people still dare not stop him. After receiving the news, Ma Shijialu also came to greet him in person.

When Mashajial Road heard that Xiong Wencan, a "big official from the frontier", was visiting, he was naturally refreshed. From now on, Haojing'ao would be under Xiong Wencan's jurisdiction, and he would pay land rent to the Ming Dynasty. Including things like the Franji people doing business in the Fuguang area in the future, they will inevitably have to deal with Xiong Wencan. Those who are under Xiong Wencan's care will naturally have to establish a good relationship.

Secondly, Ma Shijialu still had a beautiful fantasy, thinking that Sun Yuanhua would definitely help him, and Xiong Wencan might have been sent by Sun Yuanhua.

Under the guidance of Ma Shi Jia Lu, Xiong Wencan and his entourage entered the Governor's Mansion set up by Franji in Hao Jing Ao. Ma Shi Jia Lu hosted a banquet in honor of them, and also specially asked Ming Guo chefs to cook Chinese food.

Ma Shijialu also likes Chinese food very much, and he is also used to drinking Daming wine. Today he prepared a jar of Zhuangyuanhong for Xiong Wencan. After he personally poured the wine for Xiong Wencan, he picked up his own wine glass. Toast to Xiong Wencan: "Master Xiong, welcome to Haojing Ao as a guest. Let me toast you first."

However, Xiong Wencan did not pick up his wine glass, but smiled and waved his hand, saying: "You're welcome, Governor Mascaru. Let's not drink in a hurry. Let's talk about business first!"

When Ma Shijialu heard this, he had to put down his wine glass. He didn't feel unhappy that Xiong Wencan had refuted his face. After all, he didn't know who Xiong Wencan was, and for him, resolving the matter was indeed a problem. Also more important than drinking.

"Okay, Mr. Xiong, let's talk about business first. After that, let's have a good drink!"

Xiong Wencan couldn't help but smile in his heart and said to himself: "I'm afraid that after I finish talking about the matter, you won't be able to drink this drink!"

Xiong Wencan waited for Ma Shijia Road to sit down, then slowly said: "I came to Hao Jing Ao today for no other reason than to talk to you about leasing land!"

When Ma Shiqialu heard this, he rolled his eyes and immediately said: "Oh, I understand, I understand, it is a new year, and we should also pay this year's rent to your country. In fact, we have already paid the rent. I’m ready, of course, as well as a congratulatory gift for Mr. Xiong, Mr. Xiong has just been promoted, as a neighbor, how could he not express his gratitude!”

As he spoke, Mashajialu waved to his men behind him. After a while, his men came forward pushing a dining cart. There were two small wooden boxes on the dining cart, and the wooden boxes were filled with silver coins. .

Ma Shijia said and stood up: "Actually, I have wanted to pay the rent for a long time, but didn't it just happen that Mr. Xiong has just been transferred here, so we still have to wait until Mr. Xiong takes office. I can only come to visit and offer you this year’s rent and gifts, but what I didn’t expect was that you would come to visit me first, I’m really sorry!”

As he spoke, Ma Shijialu pointed to one of the wooden boxes with more silver coins, walked up to Xiong Wencan in person, and said in a low voice with a smile: "Master Xiong, this is for you, although They’re not silver ingots, but these silver coins are worth nearly a thousand taels of silver!”

Xiong Wencan didn't even glance at the two boxes of silver coins on the dining car. He smiled slightly and said, "Governor Mashakar Road, I think you have misunderstood me. I am not here to collect rent today. I am here to inform you that I, Ming Dynasty, do not intend to rent Hao Jing Ao to you Franji people anymore. In one month, I, Ming Dynasty, will be guarding Hao Jing Ao, so you must move out of here within a month!"

Ma Shiqialu was stunned when he heard this, and the smile on his face froze, but only for a moment, he grinned again, because he simply didn't believe that Daming would suddenly do such a thing. Well, the Franji people have occupied Haojingao for so many years, and the Ming court has never said anything. How could they suddenly drive them away now?

So the only explanation is that Xiong Wencan came here just to extort money. This is the favorite trick of Ming Dynasty officials. On the surface, they are scaring people in a business-like manner, but in fact, they are just to get more benefits.

But having said that, this sweetheart, Governor Xiong, really has a big appetite. The rent for the Franji people to rent Haojing Ao is only 500 taels of silver per year. He has already given him double the rent as a bribe, and he doesn't even know it yet. Sure enough, the greater the official position, the greater the appetite!

Although Ma Shijialu scolded Xiong Wencan for being greedy in his heart, he looked flattering on the surface. He leaned next to Xiong Wencan and said, "Master Xiong, what are you talking about? We Franji people have lived here for many years. We also get along very well with the people of Ming Dynasty. How could Ming Dynasty drive us away without any reason?
Furthermore, in the past few years, we have helped the Ming Dynasty a lot and done a lot of things. Ming Dynasty and Franji have become more friendly and closer day by day. I believe that the Ming Emperor should We still take into account the friendship between the two countries! "

(End of this chapter)