Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 284 Summoning the Zheng Family Brothers
In today's Ming Dynasty, except for a part of it that is taxed into the household department to maintain the order and security of the empire and public management, the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty has basically been divided into two chaebol groups, Royal Capital and Zheng Capital.

Zhu Youjian is the behind-the-scenes big boss of Royal Capital. The current government officials and businessmen in Daming basically have his shares, which is equivalent to the previous internal funds. Even in Daming today, there are still people who are used to dividing the central bank and the textile bureau into the emperor Zhu Youjian The dividends are called the emperor's internal money income.

And Zheng's Capital is the general leader of private capital, competing with Royal Capital in an alliance for the entire Daming and even overseas markets.

Extending to violent institutions, namely the army, Zhu Youjian’s royal capital controls the Ming’s army, while Zheng’s group controls the Ming’s navy. That is to say, the composition of the commercial economy and the military of the entire Ming Dynasty, that is, the Southern Group, complement each other. .

If Zhu Youjian's royal capital wants to unify the commercial empire of Ming Dynasty, it has to unify the entire military circle of Ming Dynasty, so that it can control not only the army but also the navy of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, at present, Zhu Youjian does not have this ability, and the Zheng Group can still exist. In addition, there is still a Manchu Qing in the north, and Zhu Youjian and the Zheng Group have not yet reached the point of conflict. Competing with each other on the economic market is still a non-war means.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest news we have learned. Zheng Zhilong announced at the General Assembly of Zheng's Firm a few days ago that in order to promote the development of Ming Dynasty's business and trade, rejuvenate Daming, and serve His Majesty's Long En, Zheng's Firm decided to resign from Chongzhen's 18th and [-]th year. Starting from the first month, the government and private merchants of the Ming Dynasty stopped collecting protection fees for overseas trade. This move caused a huge reaction in the business world.

Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Central Investigation and Statistics Bureau of Dongchang, reported the matter to Zhu Youjian at this time, but Zhu Youjian couldn't help laughing after listening: "This Zheng Zhilong is quite good at playing tricks and winning people's hearts. The agreement he reached, he actually took it out to save face, it's really good enough."

"Your Majesty, this world can only belong to you alone. His action by Zheng Zhilong is suspected of competing for people's hearts. I think that this person cannot stay for a long time," Ma Jixiang remonstrated.

"There is no need to be so nervous now. He Zheng Zhilong has no ambition to take over the world with me. Of course, there is no need for me to get into a fight with him now. This is not good for anyone. I will inevitably be punished by rich private businessmen when I collect tariffs. If there is no Zheng's group, another smuggling group will appear to fight against the court. This Zheng's group is better, at least it will not break out of war with the court, and it can also help me fight smuggling. After all, the current Zheng No one wants to see the existence of a smuggling group that does not belong to the Imperial City Shipping Department and Zheng's firm!"

Zhu Youjian then ordered: "Continue to keep an eye on the Zheng family. If he expands his business, he doesn't need to ask, or even overseas colonization. He just needs to report it to me, but if he is suspected of rebellion by training troops For example, the purchase of a large number of land warfare weapons and the training of cavalry and infantry must be reported to me immediately!"

"My minister complies with the order!" Ma Jixiang responded and retreated.

As soon as Ma Jixiang stepped back, Shi Kefa walked in: "Your Majesty, Zheng Zhilong, Chief of Fujian Army, asks to see you."

"The rich man Zheng is here, let him in," Zhu Youjian said with a smile to Chen Yuanyuan, the female officer beside him, and then got up and walked to the platform outside the hall. If he expected correctly, what Zheng Zhilong brought this time should be The backbone of his Zheng family, according to his agreement with him, these backbones will become the first batch of naval instructors in his Ming Dynasty.

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"Brother, you said that His Majesty asked us to go to Beijing to train naval combat personnel for the imperial court. Is this a good thing? Waiting for the day when the imperial court has a powerful navy, our Zheng family may not have the good life we ​​are now." Zheng Zhilong Looking at the majestic Forbidden City in front of him, Zheng Hongkui, the fourth brother, couldn't help but ask Zheng Zhilong. His current identity is the commander of the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is just a false post, and Wu Mengming, who is actually in charge of Jinyiwei, has one more title of Left Commander than him.

"What the fourth brother said is true, but even if our Zheng family dominates the sea, we still have to rely on the imperial court to live on the land of Ming Dynasty. It will be worse than it is now. Of course, it’s hard to say whether the imperial navy can beat us. After all, we will help train the imperial navy in the future. We know the bottom of the court, but the court does not know our bottom. Our Zheng family, our Zheng family will not have to turn against the imperial court for a day."

It was Zheng Zhilong's third younger brother Zheng Zhibao who was speaking. On the surface, he was only a supervisor of the Imperial College. Although his name had a sense of martial arts, his role in the Zheng family was more like a counselor.

Zheng Zhilong just sighed at this time, and went up the jade steps first: "As the third brother said, we have nothing to do with the court, and the court seems to have nothing to do with us, but I still feel that Your Majesty still has more trump cards , no matter what, it is better not to provoke His Majesty now, at least His Majesty is taking good care of our Zheng family at present, when we meet His Majesty, be careful, and pay attention to the difference between monarch and minister!"

"Don't worry, brother, this is Nanjing City and not Kinmen Island, we don't dare to mess around," Zheng Hongkui replied, and followed Zheng Zhilong up, and Zheng Zhibao also came up, and first saluted Shi Kefa: "Shi Kefa Don't come here without any harm!"

"Everyone, please come in." Shi Kefa looked cold. As a minister, he naturally had to keep a distance from Zheng Zhilong and others, but Zheng Hongkui still habitually took out a luminous pearl to send to Shi Kefa, but Zheng Zhibao pulled him back: "Shi Gong No better than others, you send this one to be careful to lose your head!"

Zheng Hongkui withdrew his hand and followed Zheng Zhilong into the Qianqing Palace.

At this time, Zhu Youjian was already standing under a complete picture of Kunyu and Wanguo in Qianqing Palace, looking up, waiting for Zheng Zhilong and others to appear.

"I have seen His Majesty!"

As soon as Zheng Zhilong and others came in, Zhu Youjian hurriedly smiled, and ran over to help Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao brothers up: "The three lovers are flat, I can be regarded as waiting for you. I hope you won’t be able to sleep, Chen Yuanyuan, cut up the iced watermelon and brought it up. The three lovers have been exhausted all the way, and the weather is so hot, I’m afraid they have suffered a lot from the heat. It’s time to eat a few A watermelon to relieve the heat."

Both Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao took a look at Zheng Zhilong, and said in their hearts, "Your Majesty doesn't seem as scary as your brother said, but he seems very kind."

(End of this chapter)