Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 271 The Emperor Wants to Talk to You

Zheng Zhilong really wanted to submit to the imperial court, it was true in history, and it is true now.

However, his purpose of submitting to the imperial court was not to find a job as an official, as Taichang Hu made up.

He is not a descendant of an official family in essence.

His father is a poor scholar, and even working as a clerk in the county government can't support his family. His family is considered a family of officials and officials!
He's a businessman at heart, a very shrewd businessman.

Businessmen are all about profit.

The reason why he wants to submit to the Ming court is to use the court's hand to clean up other pirates, dominate the entire Daming sea area and even the Nanyang sea area, and then monopolize the foreign trade of the entire Ming Dynasty and make a lot of money!
Historically, he was successful. Not only did he wipe out other pirates with the help of the Ming Dynasty, but even his old club, the Dutch, was defeated by him and the Fujian Navy.

At that time, he was the overlord of the entire Daming sea area and the Nanyang sea area. He not only monopolized the foreign trade of Daming, but also monopolized the waterways of the Daming sea area and the Nanyang sea area.

All merchant ships who want to pass through the Daming Sea and the Nanyang Sea have to spend money to buy a command flag from him and hang it on the mast. If they dare to appear in the Daming Sea and the Nanyang Sea without his command flag, it will be embarrassing , you are gone without even a man and a boat!
He has indeed made a lot of money in history. According to rumors, he can earn tens of millions of taels a year just by selling Lingqi!

How powerful he was at that time, Emperor Longwu of Nanming had to rely on him, and the Qing court had to do everything possible to recruit him.

However, right now he was suffering from a headache.

Because the emperor ordered his whole family to be arrested!

What is important these days is loyalty, filial piety and integrity, he can't leave his family behind!
And, once he left his family behind, all his plans fell apart.

His plan is to use the hand of the imperial court to clean up other pirates in the Daming sea area and dominate one side.

If the emperor finally killed his whole family to vent his anger, then he would have to tear himself apart with the court!

Once he has broken his face with the court, how can he use the hand of the court to deal with other pirates?

Therefore, he couldn't let the emperor kill his whole family, he had to rescue his parents and his younger brother.

At this time, he can't control much anymore, he can only do his best to save his family.

In fact, his hometown is in Dongfan, not far from Penghu!
However, his lair is not near the coastline, but in a big river.

At this time, the river did not have a name. In later generations, the big river here was called Beigang Creek, and Beigang is actually a homonym for Stupid Harbor.

Bengang is his hometown, and Bengang is forty or fifty miles away from the coastline.

He had received the news in advance, knowing that the imperial navy had come to Dongfan to find his lair, so he would naturally not let the imperial navy find out where his lair was.

At this moment, he didn't care about hiding anymore. After detecting the east wind blowing on the sea, he immediately led his fleet down the river and went straight to Quanzhou Mansion.

The speed of the sailing boat is actually quite fast when the wind is smooth. From Dongfan to Quanzhou, the distance is nearly [-] miles. As long as the wind direction is right, it can be reached in a day.

That night, the fleet arrived at the waters near Quanzhou Prefecture.

This is his hometown, and he is naturally familiar with the terrain here.

That night, he took tens of thousands of elite men to land on the beach closest to Nan'an at the mouth of the Jinjiang River. The next morning, he took his men and horses and went straight to Nan'an County.

He really didn't expect that this was a set specially set up for him.

Because he had already received the exact news that the Fujian navy stayed near Nan'ao Island, and the navy fleet led by the emperor also went to the Zhejiang waters. There was no imperial navy fleet in the waters near Quanzhou Prefecture.

He thought that as long as he moved quickly, nothing would happen. He didn't know that he had just led the fleet to the waters near Quanzhou Prefecture, and his heart was already exposed.

Moreover, he had just landed with his men when he was targeted by the scouts sent by Shen Yourong.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion had already rushed to Nan'an County and hid.

Therefore, when he led his troops to Nan'an County, the city walls were already covered with soldiers from the Shenji Battalion!

He took out his binoculars and scanned it, and was immediately dumbfounded.

Where did these officers and soldiers come from?

He is well equipped, not only with long spears, sword shields, but also muskets, and there are many more muskets than him!
In this case, what can he do?
There is nothing he can do!
Because they are the defenders of the city, and their weapons are more sophisticated than theirs, and they don't have more than ten times as many troops, how can it be possible to take down Nan'an County!

How is this good?

He was leading his men and horses in a daze outside Tong'an County, when Zheng Zhihu's cronies rushed over from the east to tell him more unfortunate news.

The imperial navy has blocked the harbor at the mouth of the Jinjiang River, and their fleet is blocked and unable to get out!
When Zheng Zhilong heard the news, his scalp almost exploded in fright.

If the court navy launches a surprise attack, all the warships under his command will be wiped out!
If there is no battleship, let alone saving his family, he will not be able to escape by himself!

He could only take his men and horses and ran back to Jinjiang Estuary from outside Nan'an County.

Although the landing site he chose was only eighty or ninety miles away from Nan'an County, which was closer than Shihu Water Village, it was still more than 160 miles away every time!
This round of running back and forth was a toss for his subordinates. Many people's legs twitched from running, and they lay on the ground unable to get up.

Fortunately, he has practiced before, and Jiajia can be regarded as a master. After running for more than 100 miles, although he was exhausted, panting and sweating, he was still able to walk.

He climbed onto the handsome boat and took out his binoculars to look in the direction of the mouth of the sea, and he took a deep breath.

Although the distance was far, he could vaguely see a huge building gunboat.

This is the elite navy led by the emperor himself!

What should I do now, what are you doing directly with the emperor?

To be honest, he really didn't want to.

Moreover, he couldn't fight with the emperor right now, because most of his men and horses were exhausted and were lying on the ground sobbing.

Let alone fighting, these subordinates struggled to get on the ship, and the sailors left on the ship were basically sailors who had no combat effectiveness at all!
Could it be that he is going to be planted here today?
To be honest, if Taichang wanted to deal with him, he would probably end up here today.

Because Taichang can completely sink all his ships while he leads his elites to Tong'an!

Without the boat, he would definitely not be able to escape. Under the double attack of the Shenji Battalion soldiers and the navy officers and soldiers, the more than ten thousand elite men under him were not enough to watch.

Fortunately, Taichang didn't really want to deal with him.

Therefore, even if he knew that he led his elite men to Nan'an County, Taichang did not order a surprise attack on his warships, even if he knew that his elite men were dying, Taichang did not order the naval fleet to suppress Go up, catch them and blast them.

Taichang spent all his time blocking the entrance of the bay until he received a report from the land scouts that Zheng Zhilong had come back with his men, so he ordered his men to drive a Spike warship to come over and signaled for negotiations.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong naturally wouldn't order someone to shoot and sink the Spike warship, that would be purely courting death!

After thinking for a while, he still ordered his men to raise the semaphore to let the Spike ship approach the flagship.

Soon, a Wu eunuch climbed up the rope ladder they put down, cupped his hands and said to him: "General Zheng, the emperor wants to talk to you, or should you go with our boat now?"

This!
Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but look at the elite men lying on the ground on the shore.

What can he do now?

If the emperor rushed over at this time, they would have no power to fight back!

He thought for a while, then nodded helplessly and said, "Okay, I'll go with you."

Hearing this, Zheng Zhihu couldn't help pulling his arm and eagerly said: "Brother, you can't go, why don't I go?"

Zheng Zhilong patted him on the shoulder and smiled slightly: "Zhihu, don't worry, if the emperor really wanted to clean up, we would have rushed over with his army, you stay here, take care of these little bastards, don't dare to let them sail over to offend the emperor .”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and went down the hanging ladder with the eunuch who delivered the decree, boarded the Spike warship, and went straight to the huge building gunboat.

(End of this chapter)