These years of being the queen mother!

Hmm, maybe two more washboards would be even better!

——This was Zhu Cilin's first reaction when he saw the two sisters who came to the Palace of Compassionate Peace.

Zhu Cilin, who has already begun to imagine the scene where the two princesses hold the whips and make the two sons-in-law kneel on the washboard, chuckled, looking at the thoughtful eyes of the second sister Zhu Shuxi, "You are sick" and the third sister Zhu Shuyu, He took a seat beside Empress Dowager Yang.

"Mother, how is your lunch break today, but there is still some discomfort."

"If you really have any discomfort, it's just sleeping too much and being afraid that you won't be able to sleep well at night." Empress Dowager Yang knew that Zhu Cilin was here to accompany her for dinner, so she stopped talking and just chatted for a few words. Let Gong'e put the dinner on the table.

Empress Dowager Yang's meals were always simple and delicate, the four masters ate together, and the number of dishes for dinner was no more than one table, and most of them were nourishing and health-preserving soups.

After dinner, Zhu Cilin and the three accompanied Empress Dowager Yang to talk for a while, and when the moon rose and the frost fell, Zhu Cilin and the three left the Compassion Palace.The two sisters returned to Yikun Palace, and Zhu Cilin returned to Qianqing Palace to rest.

There was no dream all night, and when it dawned, it was time to go to court again.

As usual, Empress Dowager Yang arrived first, followed by Zhu Cilin.After the empress dowager, who was listening to the government behind the curtain, and the emperor, who had not yet been in charge, had arrived, the civil and military officials began to speak freely.The officials of the Ministry of Rites reported in detail the process of receiving the Dutch envoy yesterday, and finally said.

"The Dutch envoy said that he has already contacted the British side, and it may take a few days to get the answer from the British side. Your Majesty, in my opinion, always pays attention to the rules. I am a big Ming state. Is it a little bit to ask for war reparations? ..."

"What's the matter? Talking about peace without paying a price, are you ashamed to ask me for peace?" Zhu Cilin snorted coldly. "Don't let them know how powerful I am. Next time they will come to test me and test Da Ming's bottom line. Don't these western barbarians put money first? I just want them to know that if you mess with me and Daming, I will let them Bankruptcy!"

Zhu Cilin didn't think that he was asking too much for high war indemnity. The Empress Dowager Yang taught him since childhood that there is nothing wrong with loving money, but you have to be careful about it. It's absolutely impossible.Zhu Cixiu didn't want to be like the Han Lingdi in history, who caused continuous civil strife because of his love for money, so his "greedy eyes longing for money" have always been aimed at any foreign people except the people of Ming Dynasty.

Taking back Haojingao and lending it to the French at a high price of 8000 million silver a year is the first step in his acquisition of foreign wealth. The second step is that Qi Sichang and Xu Ye are ordered to wage war Windfall, and the third step is to demand high war reparations.

As far as Daming's spies know, the amount of gold and silver that the British East India Company has continuously shipped back to the Netherlands over the years is not as large as the Dutch, but it can still be calculated in tons.Zhu Cilin believed that the war indemnity of only [-] million taels of silver could still be obtained by gritting his teeth, so Zhu Cilin thought that the war indemnity he proposed was still very reasonable, and Nima thought that people with such a high price must be blind.

Zhu Ciling believes that sticking to one's own opinion and not being influenced by external forces is a very good virtue, and it is worth keeping. Therefore, facing the astonished expression of "Your Majesty, how did you become like this" by the Minister of Rites, Zhu Cilin secretly frustrates his teeth and throws out the curse words? After swallowing it back into his stomach, Zhu Cilin smiled like a spring blossom.

"Aiqing, the compensation of [-] million taels of silver is really reasonable. After thinking about it, I still regret that the asking price is too low. If I knew it earlier, I should have asked for more, that's okay..." Zhu Cilin shook her head regretfully, and continued. . "Let's discuss this matter after the Dutch envoy brings back the reply from the British envoy. I guess there will be some trouble."

Zhu Cilin didn't have the heart to continue the discussion with the courtiers who had a different brain circuit, so he glanced at Queen Mother Yang, and after confirming that Queen Mother Yang had no objection, he lazily left a sentence of 'retreat', and left first.The courtiers left by him looked at each other, and then at the same time they looked at Queen Mother Yang who was sitting on the right side of the dragon chair and drinking tea calmly.

The hall was very quiet, Empress Dowager Yang sipped tea slowly, and after drinking a cup of tea, she spoke slowly. "Your Majesty said to withdraw from the court, so let's withdraw from the court. It is the same if there are important matters to be written and submitted in papers. The Ai family, the Queen Mother who listens to the government behind the curtain, will definitely supervise the emperor to review the papers."

Empress Dowager Yang has said so, so naturally there is no need for the court meeting to continue.Empress Dowager Yang sat on Feng Lu, and when Feng Lu was lifted up by the eunuchs, Empress Dowager Yang half-closed her eyes and said. "Go to Qianqing Palace."

So Feng Huan was carried to Qianqing Palace.

So within expectations and beyond expectations, Empress Dowager Yang saw Zhu Cilin who was staring at the memorial with her face in her hands in a daze in Qianqing Palace.

"Are you concentrating, or are you in a daze?" Queen Mother Yang said with a smile. "Look at you, when will you change your lazy personality!"

"I will get tired of reading and reviewing the papers repeatedly every day, so the empress mother is not in a daze, but is adjusting her mood by herself!"

"You are always lying."

Empress Dowager Yang shook her head and laughed, she didn't bother to talk about Zhu Cilin, that brat, instead she stood by the desk and began to read the memorials piled up on it.After looking at it for a while, I found that it was all trivial matters, and as if he was relieved, he smiled and said to Zhu Cilin.

"This year is not bad. I think the common people should be able to have a prosperous new year."

"The queen mother is right, and the son thinks so too."

Zhu Cilin sat up straight and said with a smile. "The queen mother knows that spies sent news that Dorgon, the chieftain of the Qing Dynasty, finally had an empress, and it was the one who married his elder brother and remarried his younger brother, called Bumbutai, who gave birth to a son for him. "

Empress Dowager Yang smiled and waited for the next sentence, so Zhu Cilin continued: "This little Tartar is a blessed one. Before he was confinement, he was canonized as the prince by Dorgon."

"It's normal. Didn't your father plan to canonize you as the crown prince when you were six years old, but who would have thought that the emperor would suddenly go when you were not very eloquent."

"What the queen mother said is very reasonable. But I am not laughing at this, but mother, do you know what the name of the prince is, Fulin. Haha, it really has a Chinese name."

What happened to the name Fulin?

Empress Dowager Yang gave Zhu Cilin a strange look, and said that even if Zhu Cilin was her own, she often couldn't understand Zhu Cilin's thinking mode.She is wondering now, what is the joke about Dorgon naming his son Fulin, it is worth his laughing so much.

"Dorgon named his youngest son Fulin, firstly to express his admiration for Sinology, and secondly to implicitly show that he has a heart for me, Daming..."

Zhu Ciyun talked with his hands behind his back, but what he said made Empress Dowager Yang not know what to say for a while.This brat's ability to put on hats is really top-notch. In just a short while, he said the top ten reasons why the Qing Dynasty must be defeated. After the war between the two countries, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty will not be clamoring for the nameless, but for the empress. famous.

"You want to take the initiative to fight against the Tartars." Empress Dowager Yang did not use interrogative sentences, but said affirmative sentences. "The Ai family also wants to fight, but they will not send troops until the autumn harvest is over and the British war reparations are settled. If you want to fight, you can fight wholeheartedly. The Ai family doesn't want to fight, because they will be staggered by the Western Europeans who come out one after another. "

"There is also the Raksha Kingdom. According to the spies, their recent actions have been a bit big. I suspect that the Tartars have reached some kind of agreement with them secretly. Therefore, they are also hesitant to send troops to attack the Qing Tartars."

Rakshasa Russian Empire?

After hearing Zhu Cilin's words, Empress Dowager Yang narrowed her eyes suddenly, and began to recall all the historical knowledge about Russia stored in her mind, and finally recalled that in 1637 AD, Russia had just established the Romanov Dynasty, and Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov is ambitiously preparing to conquer Siberia, so as to promote the legal establishment of the serfdom system. He should not have time to help the Qing Tartars and destroy Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the issue of British war reparations has been settled, and Great Ming Britain Can send troops to conquer the Qing Tartars smoothly and without any worries.

But regarding this inference, Empress Dowager Yang did not speak to Zhu Cilin, but said with a smile: "Let's talk about it after the autumn harvest. The three armies fight, and the food and grass go first. This food and grass are indispensable."

"The queen mother is right, let's talk about it after the autumn harvest!"

After this conversation, within a few days, the Dutch envoy took the British envoy to the audience.Empress Dowager Yang did not participate in this reception, so Zhu Cilin, who has the character of Qian Chuanzi, even more unscrupulously clinging to the [-] million war indemnity. After half a month of stalemate, the war indemnity came to an end with [-] million in the end. .

After the Humen Yaniang shoe fort incident, which had a completely different ending in history, came to an end, because a piece of flesh was gouged out by the emperor Zhu Cilin, the British economy was in a downturn for a long time. Slowly back to life.On December 1637th in the tenth year of Taichang (AD [-]), Japan's "people with lofty ideals" divided by Britain and the Netherlands, instigated by the Holy See, broke out in a civil war, known as the Shimabara Rebellion in history.Most of the participants in this battle were Christians. Although it ended in failure, its failure directly contributed to the final completion of the Japanese shogunate system.

Time flies to the 11th year of Taichang.

Just after the Lantern Festival in the 11th year of Taichang, Zhu Cilin had just released the seal, and when he was about to resume the practice of the court meeting, Fu Yuanchu, from the engineering department, suddenly asked to open the Fujian sea ban, and trade and pay.In this regard, after asking Empress Dowager Yang's opinion, Zhu Cilin chose to sternly reject it, and intends to add a few more foreign trade ports on the basis of the currently opened Penglai Port in Shandong and Fuyue Port in Zhangzhou, Fujian.

Since Penglai Port in Shandong and Fuyue Port in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province were opened to the outside world, many people have benefited from the increasingly prosperous trade. Therefore, Zhu Cilin’s proposal was opposed by only a few people who thought they were clean. All agreed.As a result, one after another, the coastal ports that will also be ranked well in later generations opened up one after another.More and more European merchants chose to come to Daming with their goods. After dumping the goods, they filled them with silk and porcelain, which are special products of Ming Dynasty.Back and forth, European businessmen made money and at the same time greatly boosted the economy near the port.At least in just a few months, these open ports have been filled with high-rise buildings, and the appearance of a small fishing village with only a few thatched houses can no longer be found.

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