After cleaning up Qingliu, Zhu Houxin was in a good mood. He went to the imperial kitchen to have dinner.
When he returned to Yangxin Palace Hall, the memorial arrived before Tan Lun.
Zhu Houjin flipped through a few pages. He thought it was just a speech of thanks to the Emperor, but the content piqued his interest.
After reading it, Zhu Houxin thought,"
"Tan Lun is indeed a strategic commander!”
Zhu Houjin picked up the memorial and walked around the hall, thinking about the contents of the memorial. After pondering for a while, he sighed,
"I didn't expect to meet such a talent. I'm really lucky.”
In the memorial, Tan Lun explained the current situation in Japan and the defenses along the coast.
He also proposed to build an invincible fleet to go on an expedition to the sea. He also suggested building many free ports along the coast to carry out maritime trade with the countries of the world.
Earning barbarian silver to enrich the Ming national treasury.
At the same time, this allowed the merchant ships to go out to sea to do business, allowing the sea trade to flourish, and also allowing the merchants of Great Ming to go out and become rich!
Tan Lun's suggestions coincided with Zhu Houzhen's idea!
In the end, Tan Lun's thoughts were basically the same as his!
However, what Zhu Houjian did not agree with was that instead of strengthening the coastal defense, it was better to send troops to attack all the countries on the sea that dared to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty.
He wanted to conquer the largest territory for the Great Ming Empire and spread the influence of the Great Ming Empire to the entire world!
For example, the Japanese pirates had been causing trouble since the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming army drove the Japanese pirates away. After the imperial court withdrew their troops, the Japanese pirates came back. They still robbed as if they had entered an uninhabited land!
What was the point of attacking the Japanese pirates year after year?
They didn't know that the best defense was offense!
At this moment, Eunuch Huang Jin bowed and said,"
"Your Majesty, I've already gone to the Ministry of Works 'Armament Bureau to take a look at the new flintlock. The power of this flintlock is much better than before. It can be used in cold weather. This lowly one admires you so much!"
After listening to Huang Jin's words, Zhu Houjin smiled. This gun was a flintlock gun, which he had spent 10,000 system points to exchange for from the system store.
Because he had thwarted the various factions 'attempts at the imperial examination and punished Qingliu, Zhu Houjin's system points had suddenly increased by 10,000 points, which was just enough to exchange for flintlock guns.
Once the three most elite battalions of the empire were equipped, the fighting strength of the Ming Empire's army would be raised by a huge level!
With this flintlock gun, no matter if they were to conquer the sea in the south or the grasslands in the north, the Ming Empire's army would be invincible!
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In the capital, the Minister of Justice, Mao Jinyu, had led his men to raid all the brothels, and more than two hundred officials below the fifth rank had been caught red-handed.
These people weren't high enough to go to court, so they sneaked out of the yamen to fool around.
Mao Jinyu directly punished these officials according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and dozens of them had their waists broken…
Before they were caught, these people were still in the brothel, fiercely pointing out the country and criticizing the various reforms of the imperial court.
In the next moment, these Qingliu Sect members were beaten by Mao Jinyu until they found their teeth all over the ground. Even the brothel girls looked down on them.
These officials were removed from office on the spot. They would never be able to be officials for the rest of their lives and would never be hired!
Kill the chicken to warn the monkeys!
However, this time, not only were the chickens killed to warn the monkeys, but many monkeys were also killed.
He would beat both tigers and flies!
The entire officialdom was shaken!
They gradually understood that the Emperor did not like these boastful and sour scholars.
The reform of the empire did not need these people to point fingers.
The Emperor issued an edict!
From now on, any officials who appeared in brothels or attacked the current affairs of the imperial court in brothels would be punished with sixty strokes of the cane. If they were lucky enough to survive, they would be castrated!
This imperial edict could be said to be extremely harsh!
The officialdom had already completely understood that the current emperor would not be biased. No matter who it was, he would treat everyone equally!
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Late at night.
Zhu Houzhen finally finished reading all the memorials and stretched his back.
Then he ordered the palace maid,"Go prepare hot water for me to bathe."”
"Yes, Your Majesty." The palace maid quickly went to make the arrangements.
Soon, Zhu Houjin arrived at the bathing pool. Because it was the royal family, there was naturally a luxurious bathing pool with an extremely large water storage area.
The skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Works could connect the hot and cold water from the outside to the bath. They could switch between the hot and cold water freely, which was quite convenient.
The Ministry of Rites even named this bath "Dragon Pool".
After taking a comfortable hot bath, he changed into clean clothes under the service of the palace maids.
"Your Majesty." Cao Zhengchun bowed.
"Eunuch Cao, are you on night duty today?" Zhu Houjin asked.
Ever since the last assassination attempt, the inner palace was even more heavily guarded.
Huang Jin, Cao Zhengchun, and Qian Ning took turns to guard the Emperor day and night. They didn't dare to slack off!
"Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
"What is it? Speak!" Zhu Houyan wondered if Cao Zhengchun was also going to the brothel.
That was impossible, right?
"I sent a woman to serve His Majesty tonight…"
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