Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 495 East India Company

Zheng Zhilong shook his head and sighed: "You think it's so easy, we don't have dozens of people or hundreds of people, we have tens of thousands of brothers, do you think everyone is willing to leave their homes and careers and go to Malaca with us? It's so big How can I not seek the opinions of my brothers?"

Zheng Zhibao nodded silently upon hearing this.

Everyone heard the conversation between the two Zheng Zhilong brothers. All the brothers present here are old brothers who have followed Zheng Zhilong for many years, and they all know Zheng Zhilong's character very well.Zheng Zhilong is cruel and ruthless in dealing with people, and he is by no means as open and aboveboard as he said.

Especially at this time, how could Zheng Zhilong let his capable generals leave?The fool also knows that those who stay will definitely surrender to the court, how can Zheng Zhilong leave trouble for himself?So if they don't go with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong will never let them go.

Wanting to understand this point, everyone looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

Immediately Shi Daxuan got up and said: "Brother, the brothers are able to survive today thanks to the help of the elder brother. Now that the elder brother is being excluded by the court, how can the brothers abandon the elder brother? No matter what the elder brother wants us to do, the brothers will do it!"

"Brother Shi said that we are the only ones to follow." Everyone said in unison.

Zheng Zhilong patted the table: "Okay! Sure enough, he is Zheng's good brother! With all the brothers helping each other, why worry about things not going to happen?"

Shi Daxuan hurriedly said: "It's not too late, brothers, go back and make preparations, and when the preparations are complete, they will capture Malaga."

Zheng Zhilong nodded: "Go back and tell your brothers that if you are willing to follow me to Malaca, Zheng will never treat them badly."

Shi Daxuan cupped his fists: "Brothers will take care of it."

After finishing speaking, he waved to everyone, and everyone got up and left their seats.

At this moment, a soldier hurried over from outside the door: "I am reporting to Admiral, brothers have captured a ship at sea, it is Li Guozhu's ship, on board..."

"It's his grandma's, these gangsters, all of them will be cut down!" Zheng Zhibao said angrily.

The soldier smiled wryly and said, "Fifth Master, brothers originally wanted to end those guys, but the people on board said that they were ordered to deliver a letter to the Admiral, and there was also the second housekeeper from the Admiral's mansion on board." Zheng Cai."

"Send a shitty letter, what else do we have to talk about with Li Guozhu. And that Zheng Cai, who hangs out with Li Guozhu's people, is not a fucking thing, so pull him out and chop him up." Zheng Zhibao said.

Zheng Zhilong glared at Zheng Zhibao: "I know how to kill all day long! Kill! Can you think about it more? You think Zheng Cai is tired of work and came to us with Li Guozhu's people?"

"Then how did they get together?" Zheng Zhibao asked.

"Nonsense, didn't you hear that they were here to deliver a letter?" Zheng Zhilong scolded.

After finishing speaking, Zheng Zhilong waved to the soldiers: "Bring them in."

The soldier took the order, and after a while, he brought two people in, one of whom was Zheng Cai, the steward of the Zheng residence.

Seeing Zheng Cai being tied up, Zheng Zhilong frowned, and the soldiers hurriedly untied Zheng Cai.

After untying, Zheng Cai hurriedly greeted Zheng Zhilong: "Zheng Cai has seen the master."

Zheng Zhilong waved his hand: "Why did you come here on the same boat as them?"

With a wry smile, Zheng Cai took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Zheng Zhilong, "My lord, it was arranged by the government. Liu Erleng asked the Eldest Prince to write you a letter, and Sun Chuanting himself wrote a letter to you, so I wrote it to you." We arranged to send you a letter together."

Zheng Zhilong was taken aback: "Liu Erlen asked Fu Song to write me a letter? Then Sun Chuanting wrote me a letter himself? What the hell are they doing?"

"The little one doesn't know! The little one only knows that Liu Erleng wrote a letter to the eldest son a few days ago. After the eldest son read the letter, he wrote a letter to the master, and then asked the younger one to deliver it to you." Zheng Cai hurriedly road.

Zheng Zhilong nodded, opened the letter and read it slowly.

"Brother, what did Fu Song say in the letter?" Zheng Zhibao said.

Zheng Zhilong handed the letter to Zheng Zhibao casually: "You can see for yourself."

Zheng Zhibao took it and glanced at it briefly, and couldn't help but wonder: "Huh? Everything is safe at home? This is Fu Song's letter to his elder brother to report his safety. What the hell is that guy Liu Erlian doing?"

Zheng Zhilong shook his head, and ordered his soldiers to untie the other person, but that person was well-behaved, and after untying, he took out the letter and handed it to Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong took it and opened it. After looking at it for a while, his expression suddenly became solemn.

Seeing this, Zheng Zhibao asked urgently: "What's wrong? What did you say in the letter?"

"Sun Chuanting said that the Dutch wanted to unite with the court to destroy us, but Sun Chuanting refused." Zheng Zhilong said.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this: "What? The red-haired ghost wanted to unite with the imperial court, but Sun Chuanting rejected it? Is he talking nonsense?"

Zheng Zhilong shook his head: "What Sun Chuanting said should be true. He said in his letter that in fact, Li Jing had expected that the Dutch would take the opportunity to deal with us, and he had already ordered Sun Meng, Sun Chuanting and others not to join forces with the Dutch."

Zheng Zhibao said disdainfully: "Damn it, it's said that Li Jingxiong's talent is rough, but I don't think so!
Just relying on the broken ships of the imperial court, if you don't unite with the red-haired ghosts, you will never want to defeat us in this life.In my opinion, Li Jing and his gang are a bunch of fucking idiots. "

Zheng Zhilong sighed and said, "Li Jing is amazing! Guess what he said?"

Without waiting for everyone to answer, Zheng Zhilong said: "Li Jing said that Zheng Zhilong's rebellion is our Daming's family affair. It is like discord between brothers. Quarrels and fights are inevitable, but outsiders are never allowed to intervene. If outsiders intervene, then We brothers will fight together."

"Did Li Jing say that?" Everyone asked in surprise.

Zheng Zhilong nodded: "Even if Sun Chuanting had the guts to fabricate Li Jing's words, I think these words must have been said by Li Jing."

"No, Sun Chuanting should tell the red-haired ghost these words? Why did he tell the elder brother?" Zheng Zhibao wondered.

Zheng Zhilong smiled: "Sun Chuanting said in the letter that once the Dutch start war against us, they will start fighting against the Dutch. He told us that this is to remind us not to be confused when we start a war with the Dutch."

"Bah! They are the enemy, there is no me!" Zheng Zhibao said angrily.

Zheng Zhilong shook his head: "With your heart, you definitely can't understand Li Jing's thoughts. Fortunately, you are not in my position, otherwise, the brothers would be killed by you.

Who do you think Li Jing is?He is the chief assistant of Ming Dynasty, not the general who leads the troops to fight in front. His considerations are different from those of the generals below. He did this to take into account Daming's face, and secondly, to give me a chance to surrender to the court. "

"Don't you just miss our ship?" Zheng Zhibao said disdainfully.

Zheng Zhilong smiled: "That's not wrong, Li Jing is really thinking about our ship, because the court's navy has no ships, if we can get our ship, the court doesn't know how much the cost of shipbuilding will be saved, such a How can Li Jing be counted?

It was precisely because of Li Jing's calculation that he did not allow the people below to join forces with the Dutch to deal with us. He did not want our ships to suffer too much loss. "

Everyone nodded after hearing what was said.

"Then what should we do now?" Zheng Zhibao asked.

Zheng Zhilong shook his head, and said to the messenger: "Go back and tell Mr. Sun that Mr. Zheng will never do things that make loved ones hurt and enemies happy. Please rest assured, Mr. Sun."

After speaking, he turned his head and said to Zheng Cai: "You go back with them, and tell Fu Song when you go back. Let him go his own way, don't worry about me."

Zheng Cai nodded, saluted Zheng Zhilong together with the messenger, turned and left.

After Zheng Cai and the messenger left, Zheng Zhilong looked at Zheng Zhibao and said, "Confused! Can you ask these words in front of them? Are you afraid that the officers and soldiers will not know our movements?"

"I didn't intend to let them go back alive." Zheng Zhibao said.

Zheng Zhilong sighed: "What do you mean by a messenger? You are not afraid of losing your identity."

Waving his hand, Zheng Zhilong continued: "Do as I told you just now, and let the brothers prepare to capture Malaga."

"Yes!" the crowd responded.

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Governor's Mansion in Zeelandia City, Taiwan.

After listening to the messenger's report, De Bauer couldn't help frowning.

After a long time, De Bauer looked at the fleet commander and said, "General Chandler, what do you think about those officials in Ming Dynasty? Not only did they refuse to join forces with us, but they threatened that if we intervened to attack Zheng Zhilong, they would come to deal with it." us."

Chandler smiled bitterly and said, "I don't understand the thoughts of these Easterners. These people don't care about the consequences at all. It's obviously something that benefits both parties, but they just don't want to do it. It's really hard to understand."

"Don't think about it if you don't understand it. Since Da Ming doesn't want to cooperate with us, then we can figure it out ourselves." De Bourr laughed.

"Is Your Excellency Governor going to go to war with Zheng Zhilong?" Chandler asked.

De Bauer nodded lightly: "We must solve the problem of Zheng Zhilong as soon as possible. If Zheng Zhilong is not resolved, our trade at sea will not be safe. And we can't delay it for too long. If it is too long, it will damage the company's shareholders. benefit."

"But our fleet alone cannot defeat Zheng Zhilong. If we want to completely eliminate Zheng Zhilong, we must call in Batavia's fleet," Chandler said.

(Note: The company here refers to the East India Company. From the end of the [-]th century to the beginning of the [-]th century, the Netherlands successively established [-] companies focusing on East India trade. Later, in order to avoid competition with each other, the [-] companies The two companies merged to form a combined company, the Dutch East India Company.

The headquarters of the Dutch East India Company is in Batavia, Java, which is now Jakarta, Indonesia. In addition, it has branches in the East Indies and the Spice Islands.

The Dutch East India Company was the first company that could form its own mercenaries, issue currency, and was also the first limited company.And the company has the right to sign formal treaties with other countries, and has the power to colonize and rule some areas.

Although the governors of the Netherlands stationed abroad were appointed by the state, the candidates were recommended by the East India Company. In fact, the governors of all parts of Southeast Asia were members of the East India Company. )
De Bauer nodded: "I think the headquarters will agree with our suggestion. You should immediately send someone to Batavia and tell the people in the headquarters about the situation here. Don't act rashly until there is no reply from the headquarters. Just send a ship to monitor the situation. Just follow Zheng Zhilong's movements."

(End of this chapter)