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Chapter 460 Zheng Chenggong Asks for Help

Riding a horse, he walked past the General Dragon and Tiger Square built for him by Chongzhen, and returned home not far away.

The uncle who had been notified earlier brought his family and waited at the door. Except for Auntie Zhu, the other three concubines were there, and the younger sister was also waiting, but the parents were not there.

Under the eager eyes of all the family members, did Yang Chao jump off? Uncle came over to take the reins of the horse.

"Let's go, uncle, just let my soldiers tie the horses!"

As Yang Chao spoke, he dragged his uncle to leave, but his uncle asked Yang Chao to go back first, and he told the soldiers to settle down.

Yang Chao was not polite either, striding into the house, the two concubines followed obediently, and the other servants began to greet the soldiers and lead their horses home.

Yang Chao couldn't wait to see his wife, thinking that her belly should be bigger.

But at this time there was a sudden noise at the door.

I heard someone shouting 'Great Governor', but my uncle was blocking it, telling the person to come another day.

"what happened?"

Yang Chao couldn't help frowning.

I just came home, who can't wait to bother me, it can't be an old scribe who came to seek an official, Yang Chao couldn't help but feel a little annoyed at the thought of this.

"It's not that pirate from Fujian!"

Li Xiangjun pouted.

"Pirates from Fujian?"

"It's Zheng Sen."

Younger sister Yang Yue interface.

Zheng Chenggong?
Yang Chao's heart moved. Hearing the tone of the concubine and his sister, it seemed that he didn't want to see this future hero very much.

This is not surprising, although the Zheng family is as rich as an enemy country, they are still regarded as pirates in the eyes of the common people.

Zheng Chenggong was young and energetic, so he couldn't stand this. When he was studying in Fujian government school, the local gentry's children looked down on him a little. There are many local tyrants who are the children of the gentry, and they often spend a lot of money.

As a result, many gentry families were offended, and these families had great power in the officialdom. In the end, Zheng Chenggong insisted that he was not admitted to the scholar.

Although she is rich and powerful, she is despised by the eyes of the world. Even a famous prostitute like Li Xiangjun doesn't like to see such a person, and she welcomes the son of the gentry class.

"Let uncle take Zheng Sen to the flower hall, and I will see him later."

Yang Chao said to a girl next to him.

Yang Chao didn't have so many prejudices. On the contrary, he had always been very optimistic about this national hero. Zheng Chenggong came to him at this time. He was definitely not just idle. He must have a serious business, and it must be related to Fujian. It's strange that Mrs. Zheng can bear this tone.

Although he was anxious to see his wife's stomach, Yang Chao was still very honest to visit his parents first. Although he married a wife and forgot his mother, shouldn't this rule be followed? Parents are naturally happy when their son returns safely. With tears in his eyes, his father's eyes were a little red, and Yang Chao, an unconscionable thing, just dealt with it a few words, and immediately went to his wife's house.

"Let me see. How much bigger."

Curiously, she lifted off Aimee Zhu's coat, and saw that her nearly seven-month-old belly was already round, and she stuck it to the top to listen to the sound, but she couldn't tell if it was her son's heartbeat.

Suddenly felt his wife's body was hot, and he twisted consciously. When he looked up, she was already blushing. Pregnant women are extremely sensitive, and they will respond to a slight touch. Yang Chao naturally knows this, seeing his wife's situation is like this Kind of, I guess I can't bear it anymore.

Yang Chao suddenly kissed her small mouth lightly. After a long kiss, his lips were bloodshot before he let go.

But at this time, the wife's reaction was more intense, panting violently, and her eyes were blurred.

"My son-in-law, go find Xiaowan and the others, get out, I'm tired!"

At this time, Auntie Zhu urged Yang Chao to leave instead, obviously she valued the child in her belly more than her physical desire.

Yang Chao left resentfully, he didn't dare to take the risk of doing anything, the princess's body was not strong, far inferior to Dong Xiaowan and Chen Yuanyuan, and similar to Li Xiangjun, so he didn't dare to take the risk of doing bad things.

However, he didn't go to mess around with the concubine, but thought of Zheng Chenggong, and immediately went to the flower hall.

"Zheng Sen!"

Yang Chao always felt inexplicably refreshed by shouting as soon as he entered the door, being able to directly call these heroes by their names.

Zheng Chenggong couldn't sit still in the Huating. He walked back and forth, and happened to be walking back, with his back to the door, when he heard a call.

Looking back, it wasn't Yang Chao or anyone else, but he took two steps forward and suddenly fell to his knees.

"Great governor, save my 800 million people in Bamin!"

Yang Chao immediately helped Zheng Chenggong up.

I thought to myself, this kid, I don’t know who he learned from, talking about the 800 million people in Fujian, he has learned to represent the people, is there any authorization?

Fujian's population of 800 million is just an imaginary number, and no one can tell the real number.

Some people in later generations estimated the population of Ming Dynasty. Various experts have different opinions. Some say 6000 million, some say 800 million, and an intermediate figure is estimated at 2000 million. In this data, Nanzhili has the largest population among the provinces, accounting for two Thousands of 6000 million people, Zhejiang 300 two million, Yang Chao's estimate of Jiangnan's population is credible, the official record is [-] million, which is used to pay taxes, the statistical era is Zhu Yuanzhang's era, the expansion has tripled in the past [-] years Not much.

According to this data estimate, the population of Fujian is 1000 to 1000 million, while Guangdong, the most populous province in later generations, has only 300 million at this time, Guangxi has less than 100 million, and Yunnan has [-] million.

In a mountainous area like Fujian with eight mountains, one water and one field, 1000 to [-] million people are indeed too dense. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, Fujian was a province with a large outflow of population. Countless people went to Nanyang to make a living, and even more pirates That's why there is the soil for the survival of sea heroes from Li Dan to Zheng Zhilong.

"Uncle Zhongxiao, tell me why you came to see me?"

After asking Zheng Chenggong to sit down, Yang Chao asked slowly.

Zheng Chenggong couldn't sit still, and simply said the situation aside.

It turns out that at this time the entire province of Fujian was occupied by Jin Shenghuan, the green army of the Qing army, but the strength of the Zheng Group is still there, but it is in the hands of Zheng Cai, Zheng Lian and others, occupying coastal islands such as Xiamen, but these people do not submit to Zheng Chenggong In the past, they only listened to Zheng Zhilong, but everyone had their own people in their hands, but these people only listened to them. Zheng's group is actually a maritime business group composed of small hills (you can also say that the pirate group is fine. Respect is deceitful and written as maritime merchants).

However, there are also some forces that support Zheng Chenggong, such as Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Hongkui, who supports Zheng Chenggong and has been lobbying others to listen to Zheng Chenggong's orders, unite with Zheng Chenggong, and reunite Zheng's forces.

But the effect was not good. Zheng Chenggong's team and Zheng Hongkui's power only accounted for one-third. Most people in the Zheng Group were more willing to do their own thing. Without Zheng Zhilong, the Zheng Family lost its backbone.

Therefore, after Zheng Chenggong failed to unite the Zheng family's forces, he listened to his uncle Zheng Hongkui's suggestion and asked him to come to Yang Chao for help and asked Zheng Chenggong to bring a letter. Zheng Hongkui thought he had some face in front of Yang Chao and hoped to impress him. Yang Chao.

"What? Isn't this nonsense!"

After reading the letter, Yang Chao couldn't help being surprised, and slapped the letter on the table.

Zheng Hongkui wants to send a niece to Yang Chao as a concubine, hoping that Yang Chao can send troops to help them drive away Jin Shenghuan, and at the same time unite the Zheng family.

"Uncle, is this unwilling to help?"

Zheng Chenggong's expression slowly turned cold.

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing, this is indeed a hero, he can't bear the slightest grievance, it's easier to get things done if he has a thick face, but he is a hero.

But Zheng Chenggong obviously misunderstood Yang Chao. Yang Chao didn't mean that he refused to help, but that it was absurd for Zheng Hongkui to send a niece.

And Zheng Chenggong came here to ask for help. With his proud personality, this is already the limit. Being rejected by Yang Chao and not turning his face on the spot is already swallowing his anger. It is probably because Yang Chao has a long-standing reputation. If it were another person, he would have dumped him long ago. The sleeves are gone.

"It's not that he refuses to help! It's just that the governor can't divide the troops for the time being. You know that the elite of the governor are all in Shandong now."

Zheng Chenggong snorted.

"In that case, I will take my leave."

"Wait a minute!"

Yang Chao immediately called him to stop, this guy was so arrogant, he thought Yang Chao was just perfunctory him.

"Uncle Zhongxiao, why don't you just wait at Yang's house for a while. I will write a few letters to Mr. Zheng and take them back, so that others can see that I support you."

"This!"

Zheng Chenggong couldn't help being overjoyed. It seemed that Yang Chao really wanted to help him. In Yang Chao's name, if he could write a few letters, the Zheng Cai brothers would probably buy it. If he didn't buy it, he had to weigh Yang Chao's military might .

Zheng Chenggong has no plans to subdue the Zheng Cai brothers at this time. He just hopes that as in the past, everyone will unite together and reproduce the glory of Zheng Zhilong. The Dutch, even the pirates in Guangdong and the Beibu Gulf began not to buy into the Zheng family's account.

Gathering strength together, Zheng Chenggong can reasonably ask the Dutch for money in the next step, and subdue a lot of pirates, which is another force not to be underestimated.

"I dare not disobey!"

Zheng Chenggong lived in Yang's house with peace of mind, and sent someone to send back Yang Chao's letter, the content of which Zheng Chenggong also secretly read.

Yang Chao reviewed the friendship between Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui brothers and Zheng Cai and others in his heart, expressed his concern for Zheng's current situation, analyzed them, and praised Zheng Chenggong. With the demeanor of his father, I hope Zheng Cai and others can support Zheng Chenggong in reorganizing Zheng's power.

The content of the letter made Zheng Chenggong extremely satisfied, An Anxin waited at Yang's house, waiting for Yang Chao to regroup and help him regain lost ground.

In fact, compared to Zheng’s need for Yang Chao, Yang Chao also needs Zheng’s. Once Zheng’s huge maritime group disintegrates, the situation in the entire Eastern Ocean will immediately get out of control. If it is out of control, the connection between Jiangnan and the colonies in the Mekong Delta will be severed, so Yang Chao needs the Zheng family to remain a powerful maritime force, and it is not very important whether this force is in Zheng Chenggong's force or not.

But Yang Chao was more optimistic about Zheng Chenggong, so he chose to support him, that's all.

(End of this chapter)