Daming Yinghua

At dusk, Zheng Yi stood on the deck of the blessing boat, drinking and staring at the cabin.

Liu Xiang was busy around him, and from time to time went over to chat with him with a courteous look.

From the perspective of outsiders, Yan Siqi told Liu Xiang to take good care of Yu Zongbing's subordinates and not to be stingy when sharing the spoils.

But in fact, at this moment, in the conversation between the two, Liu Xiang's master and Zheng Yi are serving for the same person surnamed Zhu overseas.

"Old Zheng, your niece who hasn't met you is very smart. She was obviously suspicious, but she didn't ask me through an outsider. Instead, when it was time to rest, she pulled Yan Siqi together again and said It was because she was close to the monks in the Dechuan family temple, but in fact, she believed that her old friend was good at interpreting. Sure enough, I heard the girl ask the monk again, when did she go to Java, and what is the characteristic of the piano she played. "

Zheng Yi narrowed his eyes, turned his eyes away from the sailors who were busy stacking goods in the bilge, and cast them towards the setting sun that was about to sink to the west, and said slowly: "According to the calculation, the princess has been secretly watching Zheng girl for more than three years. It is commendable, but I still dare not draw conclusions about her character, after all, she is not as relieved as the Fang family's Wang girl, and it is too early to tell her everything and start a great cause together with her."

Liu Xiang said clearly: "Ningde has serious concerns. After all, other people, including General Xiao Ma, have enmity with the one on the dragon chair."

I couldn't help complaining that the son who inherited the Zhu family's blood was really a troublemaker, and he was showing off the piano in front of the Japanese monks.

Liu Xiang muttered for a moment, then asked: "Since Zheng Haizhu can't be suspicious of Miss Wang, why don't you think of a way to end him when the monk arrives in Fujian?"

Zheng Yi said noncommittally: "I will discuss this matter with Ning De before making a decision."

The next day, Zheng Yi's two lucky boats loaded with trophies left Baisha Island in Penghu and returned to Xiamen, Jinmen.

After the goods and silver coins on the shore of the Dutch army were distributed by the Ming army, Yan Siqi ordered people to return hard bread, dried cod, cheese and other food to the captives, and even allowed them to send cooks to cook beans and oatmeal in clay pots from the Ming army. Soup.

Captain Putmans, who survived the offensive and defensive battle of Penghu, saw Zheng Haizhu calmly following the Ming army commander to the island yesterday, his eyes almost burst into flames.

But this foreign warrior who was born as a pirate couldn't help feeling a little convinced by Yan Siqi, a Ming general who attacked bravely during the war and didn't treat the prisoners harshly after the war. Get up the food.

In Yan Siqi's tent, Zheng Haizhu gnawed on the dried sweet potatoes popular in Fujian for lunch, looked at the Dutch people imprisoned on the beach, and said to Yan Siqi: "There are more than 100 red hairs alive here, Yu Zigao There are at least [-] people on Kinmen Island over there, including several captains. Batavia will definitely send people to negotiate soon. I told Mr. Yu, and the place to talk is in Kinmen, Baisha The prisoners on the island will be sent back to Tainan for custody. When the Dutch will sign the instrument of surrender and the agreement between the two countries, you will release them.”

Yan Siqi wiped his village chief's knife, and said with a grin, "Okay, I'll pack these red hairs and go around Beigang and the chicken coop (that is, the modern Keelung), so that the Spaniards in the chicken coop can also see it." Come back and be honest. Although those Spanish maritime merchants are not very good with the governor of Luzon, and they have never harmed the Han people in Luzon before. But they still need to be beaten. Don’t bully the aborigines in the mountains of Taipei and the Han people who work in the fields. , otherwise I would fuck them harder than I would fuck a red hair."

Zheng Haizhu smiled approvingly.

She has never had any affection for Yan Siqi.

To be precise, in the past few years, she has never had the feeling that the world of love can communicate with the few ancient men she can see.

However, this did not affect her admiration for them in the slightest.

They are insightful and more bloody.Regardless of civil or military, what they hide in their hearts is not the emperor whose thunder, rain and dew are all benevolent to the king, but the people and the land that nurtures the people.

The curtains of the tent were drawn up high, and the busy Yan Family Army sergeants kept rushing past.

The brothers are no longer curious about the landlady that the eldest brother said, and they are used to the two of them eating and chatting together.

Zheng Haizhu looked at the scene in front of him, sighed softly and said: "After all, the inland area still has strict etiquette. The negotiating table with the red hair is presided over by the governor of Fujian, an old-fashioned censor. I am a woman, and I can't sit on it." However, Zongbing Yu is a sensible person, let me and you figure out what you want."

With a sound of "cang clang", Yan Siqi put his saber into its sheath.

"What do you want? Money and peace."

"Brother, I think so too. But these two things are actually the same, that is, sea power. With sea power, there is money and peace. So..."

Zheng Haizhu stood up and walked to the sea chart Yan Siqi brought to fight.

Pointing to Taiwan, she continued: "Let me talk about my thoughts first. This time I teach the Dutch not to close the country, but to seize the sea power as we said when we visited the island last time. I am going to fight with Mr. Yu Say, we want three benefits and two responsibilities.”

Yan Siqi listened intently.

According to what Zheng Haizhu said, with this cooperation with the Fujian Navy, it will not be difficult for Yan Siqi to control the entire island of Taiwan in the future.Then, Taiwan Island, which already belonged to the territory of Ming Dynasty, should become the easternmost starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and establish a trade zone larger than Yuegang and Macau.

Foreigners who only appear as merchants, not as colonists, whether they are Dutch, Spaniards, or Nanyang people, who sell goods, pay the ship tax (that is, import tax), and those who bring silver to buy goods pay a slightly lower proportion rates and taxes.This is one of the benefits that the Yan family in Taiwan wants.

Non-Ming ships traveling to the east of Penghu Island must buy Yan Siqi's command flag even if they are not trading in Taiwan.This is benefit two.

The second benefit is actually what Zheng Zhilong did after he became the overlord of the southeast waters during the Chongzhen reign of the apocalypse later in history.It is nothing more than that the Zheng family collects protection fees regardless of Chinese and foreign ships, and it costs 3000 taels of silver to buy a command flag.

Zheng Haizhu felt that Yan Siqi should not collect protection fees when the Ming merchants transported goods in the waters of their own land. If a foreign ship or Huayang pirate ship robbed a Daming merchant ship, it is another matter to enthusiastically rescue or charge for rescue. .

The third interest is to delineate the respective borders of maritime trade with Japan with Yu Zigao.

It is an open secret that the border ministers and military generals of the Ming Dynasty guarded the country's gates and engaged in smuggling and border trade at the same time.After beating the Dutch this time, Yan Siqi and Yu Zigao, who are also proficient in smuggling to Japan, should delineate the scope of the goods. Instead of fighting each other, they should focus on squeezing out the Dutch's entrepot trade power in Japan.

As for the two responsibilities, one is that the Yan family army guarded Penghu. Anyway, Yu Zigao is eager to let go of the Xunbing system.The second is that Taiwan has to pay a part of the ship tax and payment tax to the imperial court, which can be taken from Fujian and add a lot of political achievements to civil officials such as the governor of Fujian.

As for the money collected by Lingqi, how can the imperial court check the matters in the vast sea, as a local income generation, and Yan Siqi will share a part of it to honor the civil and military officials in Fujian. Wouldn't everyone be happy.

Yan Siqi heard that some of Zheng Haizhu's proposals were to be written in the agreement between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, some were approved by the governor of Fujian, and some were discussed in private with Yu Zigao.

But the purpose is indeed "to ask for money, to ask for peace."

Yan Siqi then nodded and said: "That's about it. I can be recruited by the imperial court and appointed as the procurator of Taiwan. It's something I didn't even dare to think about a few years ago. If I earn more money later, I will buy more ships, guns, and recruits. Bingyong, guard the eastern gate of the country for Long Live."

After thinking about it, he added embarrassingly: "Well, I must ask you to buy the firearm. I will continue to invest some money in your Haoming Commercial Company in Hangzhou."

Zheng Haizhu smiled and said: "Brother said so, then I will not be polite. However, I will ask you again to ask for a stall in Taiwan. Later, let Shoukuan come from Xiamen and tell you what insurance is. Those foreign ships, To enter various ports in Taiwan, you must first buy our comprehensive port insurance, public security insurance and other types of insurance.”

"Okay, okay, I don't understand this. Just let your aunt and nephew of the Zheng family come to sell this, some kind of insurance, and that's it."

Yan Siqi responded immediately.

This time, Ah Zhu not only worked hard, but also took risks. She was devoted to earning military merits for his old face. If she didn't try anything, she would feel guilty instead.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu was silent for a moment, looked outside, approached Yan Siqi, and said in a low voice: "Brother, you just said something wrong."

"Which one?"

"The sentence about guarding the gate for the emperor. Wrong, you are guarding the gate for the people of Ming Dynasty, not for the one on the dragon chair."

Yan Siqi's complexion changed.

Although he was a fugitive from the Ming Dynasty and had been in Japan for many years, the thoughts of monarchs and ministers in his mind were not as important as those of civil servants, but he could still hear Zheng Haizhu's disrespect to the emperor, and he was shocked.

"Azhu, if you want to kill your head, why are you talking nonsense?"

Zheng Haizhu shook his head slightly and said: "Brother, after the Song family went south, some ministers and the emperor said that this world belongs to the people of the world, not the officials and you alone. From this reason, the gate of the country is also the gate of the common people. , not the gate of his old Zhu’s family. What’s more, this Long Live Lord doesn’t care about his country at all, whether he has a gate or not, even if he has a gate, the gate doesn’t matter. We won such a beautiful victory in Fushun, and we didn’t see Long live the king."

Yan Siqi's expression softened slightly, and he said in a whisper: "He, is he not in good health?"

"Yes," Zheng Haizhu said affirmatively, "He wants to make the son of his favorite concubine the crown prince, but the ministers refused to let him, so he felt aggrieved and ate opium in the harem all day long, ruining his life. "

"Opium?" Yan Siqi thought for a while, and took a bong from the armor at the corner of the tent, "Azhu, Liu Xiang went to Java to recruit soldiers, and brought back a tobacco called opium, which was said to be particularly refreshing for smoking. .You are talking about the same thing?"

Zheng Haizhu took out a small piece of opium paste from the dirty cloth bag hanging under the bong.

"Brother, this thing is not tobacco, but poisonous weed."