Daming Yinghua

"Miss Zheng, if it wasn't for seeing you send these novelties, even if you were Yan Siqi's number one confidante, Yu would not let you on the warship. The old rules of many generations, woman You can't go to the city wall in land battles, and you can't go to the boat gang in sea battles."

In Xiamen Port, on the old lock ship slowly heading east, Yu Zigao, the general soldier of Fujian, with a pair of flat feet like goose palms, walked on the deck that had been warmed and dried by the sun, with his eyes slanted. , teasing Zheng Haizhu beside him.

Behind them were Xu Xinsu, Zheng Shoukuan, and Zheng Zhilong who had just rushed to Xiamen with a thousand porcelain mines the day before yesterday after receiving Zheng Haizhu's order.

Xu Xinsu had already greeted a few of them in advance, and after Yu Zigao was the general, he was calling the wind and rain in the southern Fujian waters, so he would inevitably be arrogant and rough, even if it was so, Zheng Zhilong still couldn't hear Yu Zongbing's words of belittling women.

"Sir, my elder sister has been on a warship long ago, and fought against the Frankies. We won happily."

Yu Zigao turned to glance at Zheng Zhilong.

Yu Zigao found it interesting.

This young man who Xu Xinsu called "Yiguan" was obviously a younger generation in the Fujian Maritime Group. It is said that even if he followed Yan Siqi, he was often thought of by Li Dan, but now he is a woman. The younger brother.

However, Yu Zigao, who is a military general, can see the heroic spirit in his body and the sharpness in his eyes. When he met Zheng Zhilong this time, he liked his calf-like appearance with blood on his head and horns, and he didn't care about his appearance. Bravely contradicting him, he laughed and said, "Look, I can't write two Zheng characters in one stroke. This rebuttal is faster than Frankie on Lao Tzu's boat can fire. Miss Zheng, the official is really not your brother. ?”

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips: "I killed a Spaniard at sea together, and I'm closer than my brother, not to mention helping me manage money."

But Yu Zigao, who owns Xu Xinsu, has formed a solid cooperative relationship with Li Dan of Japan. The Dutch stepped in to eat the meat in Yu Zigao's bowl, and it is very likely that he robbed Yu Zigao of his smuggled goods along the coast of Fujian. , and customers in Japan.

Yu Zigao, who had both military strength and smuggling in Fujian, saw the Dutch bribe the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty for mutual trading when he was young, and heard Shen Yourong talk about the Dutch staying in Penghu and harassing and looting Chinese ships everywhere. Now listening to Zheng Haizhu embellishing the story of the Dutch coveting Beigang, Taiwan, I don't think the little woman Xu Xinsu attracted is alarmist.

The key is to guide these proud men who do have strength and IQ, not just talk about it, but let their warships fire at the invaders in time.

Zheng Haizhu didn't continue joking and talking nonsense, but leaned over the side of the boat to see the draft of the old lock boat when it was bumping in the big waves.

Shen Yourong's two feats were not as famous in later generations as Qi Jiguang's fight against the Japanese and Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, but in Zhangquan and Xiajin areas in this world, they are known to almost all women and children.

Fortunately, this worry was dispelled by Xu Xinsu the next day.

Just as she predicted, Yu Zigao himself has a hostile attitude towards the Dutch, far more hostile than Yan Siqi who has just settled in Taiwan.

Shen Yourong can be regarded as a national defense general of the generation of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, so as Yu Dayou's son, Yu Zigao should respectfully call him Duke Shen.

Zheng Haizhu looked at the various warships of the Daming Navy that crowded the harbor, and said to Yu Zigao: "Master, have the Xun soldiers from Penghu Island come back?"

Yu Zigao heard Zheng Haizhu talk about the key points of the warship, and at the same time he gave the woman a high look, he also came to discuss the warship.

Yu Zigao squinted his eyes and asked, "Didn't you say that Yan Siqi hasn't fought against the Dutch before? Have you seen them fighting at sea?"

"Oh? The girl has such good eyesight?"

Yu Zigao was not worried about Wang Junmen's support for fighting the Dutch.

"Miss Zheng, the foreign monkey's words are quite good. Our lucky boat has a big box in the bilge, and it's majestic, but it sails slowly. The cannon is at the bow, and the firepower on both sides is poor. I once met The small boats that directly jumped to help the Japanese pirates, our Fuchuan just hit and sank. The foreign ships encountered today are generally covered with guns, and they can’t be beaten like they were when they were fighting Japanese pirates. Especially Hongmaofan, In recent years, they have become more capable, and they are no longer in the embarrassment that Mr. Shen Yourong used to deal with them."

The current governor of Fujian, Wang Shichang, is a Kodao spokesman and has always been very harsh on foreign barbarians. Whenever he hears that Yu Zongbing is driving a boat to suppress bandits at sea again (actually, most of them are selling goods), he is happy I have to give credit to the Fujian Navy.

Zheng Haizhu understood Yu Zigao's fundamental interests in the business chain, so he said bluntly that the Dutch were also foreign predators to Yan Siqi who also did not need a middleman.

More than ten years ago, Shen Yourong was a powerful guardian of the China Sea in front of everyone.In the 30th year of Wanli, Shen Yourong led his troops to completely annihilate the Japanese army of Toyotomi Hideyoshi who invaded the aborigines of Taiwan Island. Two years later, he sent an envoy to negotiate and expelled the Dutch who attempted to occupy Penghu.

Zheng Haizhu didn't show any emotion, and said sincerely: "I didn't understand at first. I went to Beigang, Taiwan in the twelfth lunar month. I saw it in the hands of the Dutch. It was said that they were the Frankies who attacked Macau. Steal this kind of ship from the Frankies. Foreigners call our Ming sailboats Junk boats, which is the pronunciation of junk. Frankies and Dutch people look down on Junk boats and think our boats are Naval battles are not good, the gun emplacement is too high, and the waves are too slow."

Historically, a few years later, the Dutch did continue to invade Penghu Island, and finally colonized Taiwan and established Hongmao City.

According to the plan of the Dutch, the profit from the re-export trade is enough to offset the ocean freight and the cost of goods. In this way, the goods shipped back to Europe, no matter how much they sell, are net profits.

Zheng Haizhu shook his head honestly: "I haven't seen the Dutch fight in person, but I have seen their ships and heard their businessmen bragging. As the general said just now, their ships are covered with cannons. They fought When the Langjis were in charge, they fired the cannons first, and if the opponent's formation was disrupted, they themselves would no longer line up, and charged head-on into the chaotic army, staring at the ship that had not sunk, firing while catching the strings, and when catching the strings, they would Instead of jumping to the gang first, change to a musket to shoot, or throw a grenade. Foreigners are not good at hand-to-hand combat, and they are indeed different from Japanese people."

Xu Xinsu said that Zheng Haizhu proposed that before the Dutchman was beaten away, his nephew Zheng Shoukuan was a hostage in Xiamen.In addition, since they were fighting the Dutch, the old enemy of the Portuguese, Zheng Zhilong lobbied the Frankie Artillery Factory in Macau to send ten smoothbore guns to Yu Zigao's Fujian Navy. He buys firearms from the Frankies at favorable prices.

Zheng Haizhu looked normal.

Everyone is a businessman, so it is easy to understand that this woman wants to be a second-hand businessman between him, Yu Zigao, and the Frankie of Macau.Since he wanted to make money from his Yu family army for a long time, how could he blackmail Yu Zigao.

Zheng Haizhu said in a humble tone: "Yan Xuanfu's boat also took me around Penghu Island last year. If we want to fight a naval battle, this place is Luowan, which is more beneficial to us than Penghu Island."

Yu Zigao's only concern was whether Zheng Haizhu would put the hook on Yan Siqi's behalf. Afterwards, he asked the father-in-law Liu who had a good relationship with them to come to Wansui to blow the air, saying that Yu Zongbing was arbitrarily provoking borderline quarrels and frightened the merchants. Dare to sell goods, if Long live gets angry, if the Fujian general is replaced, it is very likely that Yan Siqi will be replaced.

It didn't take long for the old lock boat to sail to Liuluo Bay near Jinmen.

She wants to persuade Yu Zigao to join forces with Yan Siqi to kill the Dutch's attempt to find a stronghold in the Taiwan Strait.

If you have to criticize every greasy ridicule with a straight face, there is no time to make money, help people, and beat the devils.

She has long been used to this era, which is not much different from the discrimination and dwarfing of women in the hundreds of years later.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu carefully pondered Yu Zigao's words, and confirmed Yu Zigao's position again.

When Yu Zigao heard the second point, he felt more at ease than those who were not hostages.

Yu Zigao nodded: "I've all returned to Jinmen, there is no one on Penghu Island now. Maybe, at this moment, the boat of the red-haired ghost has already arrived on Penghu Island, and the Spaniards you mentioned, there are also boats on the side of Manila. past."

"Mr. Yu, did you buy this boat from Guangdong? It's a second-hand Frankie boat called a duck-foot boat?"

She had been waiting in Xu Xinsu's house for a few days, and Xu Xinsu came back and took her to the Zongbing Yamen to meet Yu Zigao.

Because the Dutch broke into the southern Fujian waters because the East India Company wanted to do entrepot trade between China, Japan, India, and the Nanyang islands, that is, second-tier traffickers in the Asia-Pacific sea.

Yu Zigao stared at her: "So? Why does Ms. Zheng think that Luowan is more beneficial than Penghu Island?"

Zheng Haizhu said: "Because our Daming Navy is better than them in using fire boats. Considering the wind direction in Luowan this season, if we bring in Dutch boats, wouldn't it be wonderful to burn them?"

Yu Zigao had never fought against the navy of the Dutch East India Company, but he lowered his head and thought carefully, and felt that what Zheng Haizhu said was reasonable.

"Miss Zheng, although the Dutch really need to clean up to be honest. But Yan Xuanfu and I will do it together, and always prepare a well-known pond newspaper for the governor. 'The red barbarians take possession of Penghu, and the navy's cameras are handed over' , sounds like the most appropriate. If we want to fight in Liuluowan...the Dutch are also very smart, knowing that Jinmen is my Ming Dynasty's guard post, not the boundary guarded by Xun soldiers, how can we attract them to attack?"

Zheng Haizhu said seriously: "I'll attract, but Mr. Xu has someone here to act together."