In the court, Zhu Houzhao no longer paid any attention to the White Lotus Society. In Zhu Houzhao's eyes, the White Lotus Society was nothing to worry about.
As for those officials who were related to the White Lotus Society, they were naturally interrogated by the Ministry of Justice. Zhu Houzhao did not have the time to personally question them.
The emperor was busy every day and could not do everything himself. If the emperor had to do everything himself, he would not be able to finish it even if he died of exhaustion.
Now that these officials had been transferred from the East Chamber to the Ministry of Justice, it was already the greatest mercy to them. After all, when the Ministry of Justice decided a case, it would leave behind youths under the age of sixteen. This was also Zhu Houzhao's last mercy to them.
The case of the White Lotus Society was finally over. The White Lotus Society was purged from top to bottom. Nine of the main leaders of the White Lotus Society were executed, and three of the ordinary members who joined the White Lotus Society were executed.
In the Emperor's rage, the number of people implicated in the White Lotus Society case reached 180,000. All 180,000 people were killed, and none survived.
This case is big, the killing is heavy, can be called the Ming Dynasty's most.
The case of the White Lotus Society involved many prestigious families and officials of the imperial court.
Even if they were rich and powerful, they would still die if the White Lotus Society was involved!
This massacre had caused the aristocratic families to tremble in fear.
This slaughter had killed almost all of the corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty.
This massacre had made those easily bewitched commoners of Great Ming recognize the viciousness of the White Lotus Society. Perhaps they didn't know what the White Lotus Society did, but the commoners of Great Ming knew that once they joined the White Lotus Society, they would implicate three tribes and would not be forgiven!
In order to avoid being killed, he had to stay away from the White Lotus Society!
When the emperor was angry, millions of people would die!
Who dared to disobey the emperor's edict?
……
Dragon Guarding Mountain Villa.
The four secret agents under God Marquis Ironguts and Zhu Bu also returned from the desert.
This time, the Ming Empire used troops against the Tartars. Zhu Bujue's subordinates went deep into the desert and massacred the Tartar royal family. They killed all the leaders and families of the Tartar grassland tribes.
Genghis Khan's royal bloodline had been slaughtered by them, and they had brought back as many as nine hundred heads.
The owners of each head were once heroes of the grasslands.
But now, they were the spoils of war for the imperial secret agents.
The four subordinates of Iron-guts Deity Marquis dreamed of entering the Forbidden City and seeing the Ming Emperor they admired, the man with the greatest power in the world.
The Ming Empire was able to successfully wipe out the Tartars because of the great contribution of the secret agents. If it wasn't for them killing the leaders of the grassland tribes one by one, the soldiers of the Ministry of War wouldn't have been able to so easily annex the entire grassland and increase the territory of the Ming Empire by a thousand miles.
A thousand miles in depth was a very vast territory.
Riding a horse into the grassland, traveling a thousand miles from north to south, east to west, and dividing the territory!
This was called a thousand li in depth. The Ming Empire's strategic depth had increased by a thousand li.
……
The capital, which had been under martial law for fifteen days, was finally lifted. The Jinyiwei at the city gate allowed the people to enter and leave the capital again.
However, compared to before the rebellion of the White Lotus Society, there were many times more guards in the capital. The disguised foreigners of the West Chamber were also mixed in the crowd…
Although the White Lotus Society case was cruel, it was already in the past.
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In the court, Zhu Houzhao looked at all the officials.
"Dear ministers, in this world, who is my capable minister? Who can be my Ming Dynasty Navy Governor…"
After Zhu Houzhao's words, Liu Jian stepped forward and said,""Your Majesty, I recommend Wang Hong, the judge of Guangdong Province, to be the naval governor! Wang Hong was good at military strategy and knew how to build. He commanded the navy all year round and patrolled the coast. He could take on a great responsibility!”
As soon as Liu Jian finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao immediately thought of Wang Hong.
Wang Hong attached great importance to the construction of the Great Ming Navy. It could be said that it was because of Wang Hong's construction of the Great Ming Navy that the Great Ming Navy had never lost.
Even in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Empire was already extremely weak, but the Ming Navy was still known as the strongest navy!
Even in the last years of Chongzhen, when the Ming Empire was about to collapse, the Ming Navy still defeated the invincible Dutch fleet.
The Ming Navy had never claimed to be invincible, nor had they claimed to be number one, but they had defeated the so-called invincible fleet one after another.
In Zheng He's era, the Ming Navy was never the best in the world. This was because in Zheng He's era, the other maritime powers were still looking down on the ocean and didn't even have a single ship that could go out to sea.
There was no second place in the world, so how could he be called first?
In that era, Zheng He's fleet was the only fleet in the world that could go out to sea.
The name of Zheng He's fleet was the dream of many western explorers. Everyone had a ship's log, and this ship's log was recorded by Zheng He.
Even after 500 years, the logbook still used the regulations of Zheng He's era to record the course, speed, position, weather, tide, sea surface, and sailing route...
Zheng He's logbook was the treasure of all western countries.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming navy defeated all the barbarian fleets that dared to challenge the Ming coast!
Ever since the Ming Navy appeared in this world, it had been using cheats to crush all countries. Whether it was in terms of scale or combat power, it far surpassed the fleets of other countries in the same period.
Wang Hong was the most important person in the history of the Ming Navy. He was also the second person in the history of the Ming Navy.
Wang Hong's greatest achievement wasn't defeating the barbarian fleet. His greatest achievement was allowing the Ming Navy to succeed Zheng He and stand at the top of the world.
With Wang Hong's construction, the Ming Navy had always been the strongest navy in the world.
Zhu Houzhao had finally found a talent. He believed that if he put Wang Hong in an important position, the Ming Navy would regain its strongest combat strength in a very short time.
"Wang Hong! Wang Hong! Where is Wang Hong now?"
"Your Majesty, Wang Hong is building coastal defense in Tanggu."”
"Send an edict to summon him to the capital!"
"Yes."
Zhu Houzhao looked at the other officials and said,""Do you have any other candidates?”
As soon as Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, a group of officials stepped forward and recommended other officials. Among them, there was no lack of Commander Qi Jingtong of the Embroidered Uniform Guards, and the West Hall's Hall Master Yu Huatian…
However, no one was more suitable for the position of Navy Governor than Wang Hong!
Tanggu!
Wang Hong, who was dressed in military uniform, looked at the huge ships in the shipbuilding bureau and sighed.
The huge ship docked at Tanggu Port was Zheng He's Treasure Ship.
This Zheng He Treasure Ship was the main ship of Zheng He's fleet. It was 44 Zhang long and 18 Zhang wide.
Ming Dynasty's one zhang was 2.83 meters.
The Zheng He Treasure Ship in front of Wang Hong was 125 meters long and 50 meters wide…
Zheng He's Treasure Ship was a 16-cannon main ship. On one side of the ship were eight cannons weighing 7,000 jin. The cannons could shoot for six nautical miles.
To operate this Zheng He Treasure, 200 sailors, 80 cannoneers, and five people for each turret…
Wang Hong sighed." Sigh, I didn't expect that in just a hundred years, the Ming Empire actually doesn't have the financial resources to support this ship to go out to sea. It's really a waste of natural resources…"
……
In Nanyang, the Hong Yi Franki people were stationed on a small island outside the Ming Empire's territory. They were carefully investigating the Ming Empire's actual situation.
These Franks relied on the advantage of ships to roam the seas.
This time, the Franks were piloting their famous Franks. These ships were ten feet long and thirty feet wide. There were more than forty oars on both sides and more than thirty blunderbuss around them. When they were connected, they fired their blunderbuss and they were invincible!
These Franc ships were the most advanced ships in the world, and they were also the largest ships in their hearts.
However, in their eyes, the invincible Folang Mecha Ship was several times weaker than Zheng He's Treasure Ship!
Zheng Hebao was forty-four feet long and eighteen feet wide.
These Hong Yi people boasted of their most advanced Buddhist boats in the world. They were only small boats that were ten zhang long and thirty zhang wide.
The smallest size of Zheng He's fleet was 160 feet long and 60 feet wide…
These Hong Yi people claimed to be the most advanced ships in the world, yet they did not even have the qualifications to join Zheng He's fleet.
And Zheng He's fleet was a fleet from a hundred years ago!
……
The Flang Mecha sailors on the island were very excited. They even sang a ballad.
"Set sail in the face of gold, chasing the route of senior, to find the greatest route!”
They yearned for the sacredness of the Ming Empire…
They had grown up listening to Zheng He's sailing stories. In their hearts, the Ming Empire had always been a sacred empire because a hundred years ago, Zheng He had accomplished a feat that they had yet to accomplish!
The sea route left behind by Zheng He was known as the Great Sea Route.
The navigation techniques they were using now were all left behind by Zheng He. Whether it was the nautical compass, nautical diary, nautical map, captain system, they were all copies of Zheng He's system.
Even the flags they used were rules left behind by Zheng He's era…
From the beginning to the end, nothing had changed…
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