Shortly after Zhu Cihong summoned Wen'an, he received urgent information from the Military Intelligence Department of the inner factory.
This information was sent from Shandong and was of the most urgent type.
Zhu Cixiang didn't dare to delay and immediately opened it to take a look.
The intelligence content is about the recent movements of the rebels led by Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing.
What surprised Zhu Cixiang was that the rebels did not continue to move north, but pounced on Dengzhou.
Dengzhou is located on the Jiaodong Peninsula and has numerous good ports.
The purpose of Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's killing of Xiang Dengzhou was already obvious, which was to escape through the floating sea.
Zhu Cixiang immediately ordered people to write this information in the Ministry of War newspaper, and sent people to Shandong as a rush.
He ordered the Shence Army and Huang Degong's troops to go to Dengzhou immediately to intercept the Erliu rebels before they fled across the sea.
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To Zhu Cixiang's relief, the report stated that Yuan Weitai, the prefect of Dengzhou, had responded immediately and organized people to burn the fishing boats of the Dengzhou generation.
Without these fishing boats, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo could only look at the ocean and sigh, waiting to be surrounded by Huang Degong's Ministry and Shence Army.
It stands to reason that Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's troops are all rabble, and their combat effectiveness is very limited.
Even if they surrendered to the Manchus, it would not add much to their strength, but Zhu Cixiang could not allow Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing to make this bad start.
Being betrayed by a general is not a happy thing.
But a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.
The rebellion of Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing gave the Shence Army an opportunity for actual combat.
At present, it is still difficult for the Shence Army to attack the main force of the Eight Banners, but in the battle with Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's troops, Zhu Cixiang believes that he will even gain a slight upper hand.
What's more, Huang Degong's troops are cooperating in the pincer attack.
Zhu Cixiang believes that this encirclement and suppression is sure to be foolproof.
However, this incident also reminded Zhu Cixiang that he must have a water master of his own.
Since Zhu Cihong decided to push the front to Shandong instead of retreating to Jianghuai, there is no need to build the Yangtze River Navy, but he can take a longer-term view.
Dengzhou has a natural harbor and a water city, so it is perfect to rebuild the navy here.
Starting from Dengzhou, the navy could radiate to a large area of Tianjin and even Liaodong, which was of great significance to the Manchu and Qing Dynasties' strategic containment.
Nowadays, Longjiang Shipyard is getting better and better, and the shipbuilding speed is getting faster and faster.
Zhu Cixiang estimated that if he devoted all his efforts to building sea-going ships, it would take at most three months to assemble the sea-going ships for the navy.
Of course, the fastest way is to go to Fujian and Guangdong to buy them.
The shipbuilding industry there is very mature, and both Guangzhou Shipyard and Fuzhou Shipyard can be purchased.
The only problem is that the price is high.
If those profiteers know that it is purchased by the imperial court, they will definitely get a lot of money.
Besides, buying from elsewhere isn’t a long-term solution.
Zhu Cixiang's soul comes from later generations, and he understands that only by mastering core competitiveness can he survive.
It would be extremely sad for a court without its own shipbuilding technology.
Therefore, Zhu Cixi decided to have Longjiang Shipyard build all the sea-going ships.
The worst he could do was to wait an extra month or two.
He could still afford to wait at this time.
During this period, Zhu Cihong was very concerned about the price of goods in Nanjing.
Not long ago, the imperial court achieved good results in punishing profiteers and stabilizing food prices.
However, food prices have increased these days.
Although they are within a reasonable range, they still make Zhu Cixi a little worried.
As long as the problem in Huguang is not solved, the price of food in South Zhili will not really come down.
And as long as Zuo Liangyu doesn't die, the problem in Huguang will always hang there.
This is a dead end.
It is too risky to send an assassin to assassinate him.
If he fails, he will completely force Zuo Liangyu to rebel.
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Zhu Cixiang has already secretly made plans in Huguang to win over generals such as Jin Shenghuan and Ma Jinzhong.
There is absolutely no need to take risks at this juncture.
He only hoped that God would accept Zuo Liangyu earlier.
After careful calculation, his life span was almost over.
Zhu Cixiang's worries are not limited to these.
All the vassal kings who had recently taken refuge in southern Zhili, as if they had already discussed it, went to the throne one after another and requested to leave the vassal.
These requests sound reasonable at first.
After all, the original vassal lands of these vassal kings have been captured, and now they are homeless.
According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, adult vassal kings cannot stay near the capital for a long time and must go to other places to join the vassal.
But sometimes this ancestral thing is really tricky.
Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that his descendants would suffer, so he set a high level of treatment for the vassal kings.
Later, Zhu Dijing was unable to reduce the vassal state.
The military power of the vassal king was greatly reduced, but the financial power was not reduced much.
The feudal kings all had farmlands, which were tax-free and produced enough for the royal palace.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the vassal kings could not do business, the actual situation was that the vassal kings found an agent to stand up and relied on the royal family background to expand their business, or even monopolize it.
In this case, the blood of the feudal land was basically sucked dry by the feudal king.
What's even more frightening is that not only princes and princes, but also clans at all levels can receive annual salary.
According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the eldest son of the prince is granted the title of prince and is hereditary prince; the remaining sons of the prince are demoted to the next level and are granted the title of county prince.
The eldest son of the county king is hereditary king of the county, and the other sons are demoted to the rank of general of the country.
Each son of the Zhenguo general was demoted to the rank of auxiliary general.
Each son of the general of the auxiliary state was demoted to the first level and granted the title of general of the state of Fengguo.
Each son of General Fengguo was demoted to the rank of Lieutenant of Zhenguo.
Each son of the Zhenguo lieutenant was demoted to the first rank and granted the title of Fuxing lieutenant.
Each son of Lieutenant of Fuguo was demoted to the rank of Lieutenant of Fengguo.
Since the time of Fengguo Lieutenant, there has been no descending, and his descendants have been Fengguo Lieutenant for generations.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of clans was too large, and the financial burden on the court and local governments increased and they were unable to provide relief to the victims.
This was also a reason for the frequent occurrence of rebellions.
This problem is the most difficult to solve.
Zhu Cixi couldn't kill all these vassal kings who were raised like pigs, right?
Although he really wanted to do it Therefore, he could only choose to delay and not allow the vassal king to take over the vassal on the grounds of wartime power.
The large amount of money saved can be used to build a navy, which is no more valuable than building a palace for the feudal prince.
Of course, this is just a stop-gap measure, and a solution will eventually be found.
Zhu Cixiang had a preliminary idea, which was to seal the vassal king overseas through overseas expansion.
America, Australia, Southeast Asia, anywhere.
As long as they do not suck blood in the Ming Dynasty, they will not burden the Ming Dynasty's finances, nor will they accumulate social conflicts in disguise.
However, the prerequisite for this is that Zhu Cixiang has completely recovered China.
At least for now, it will take a lot of time to achieve this.
In feudal society, it is understandable that the royal family enjoys privileges.
But the problem is that rights and obligations are equal, and the clan of the Ming Dynasty only enjoyed the power but did not assume the obligations.
What Zhu Cixiang wanted to do was to make the rights and obligations of the vassal king as equal as possible
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