Regarding Zheng Zhilong's final solution, the newly released Cao Guerrilla put forward two strategies: "going up and in the middle".

The best policy is very simple, only five words "follow Wang Zhi's story".

Who is Wang Zhi?

Wang Zhi, a native of Huizhou in Nanzhili, was the owner of the Wufeng ship, and the most famous pirate and merchant during the Jiajing period.

The famous "Tanegashima Iron Cannon" was taught to Tanegashima Daimyo by the Portuguese on the ship when Wang Nao passed by Tanegashima. Of course, the daimyo was not a white school, and he sent his daughter to sleep with him at that time.

After the middle of Jiajing, the Ming government began to implement the policy of banning the sea. Hu Zongxian, who was the governor of Zhejiang at the time, advocated recruiting peace from Wang Zhi, and the two sides negotiated happily at first. However, when Wang Zhi relaxed his vigilance and played in the West Lake, he was captured by Wang Bengu, who was then the Zhejiang Patrol Envoy, and was subsequently executed.

With Wang Zhi's execution as a symbol, the event entered the famous "Jiajing Rebellion" period in history.

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Cao's guerrilla now also means this: using appeasement and negotiation as bait to trick Lao Zheng to Fuzhou City, and then finish the matter with a single click.

This method can be said to be fast and saving, environmentally friendly and pollution-free, who knows who uses it.

As for whether Lao Zheng is coming or not? That's undoubted, just look at Cao Guerrilla himself.

Unless Lao Zheng wants to float on the sea as a guerrilla captain for the rest of his life. As long as he still wants to recruit security, wants to do regular business, and wants to get a work permit issued by the government, he must pass this hurdle.

Lao Zheng is not afraid to take this risk: Zheng is a merchant at heart, and his way of thinking is not the same as that of a pure pirate.

In history, Lao Zheng has gone to the hostile camp to negotiate many times, including the Dutch who have trade disputes, including Cai Shanji, the prefect of Quanzhou, including Xiong Wencan himself, Lao Zheng only brought a small number of people to negotiate.

Of course, the large army can't be brought. The so-called "XX personally led thousands of people to surrender", in fact, it is the same as signing a contract on TV in later generations, the big guy pretended to sign a few contracts in front of the flash - the real negotiation process has long been over, this is a ceremony.

If the two sides have not yet reached an agreement, and the Zheng clan takes the so-called large army to suppress outside the port of Quanzhou or Fuzhou, it is called rebellion, not negotiation.

Therefore, the plan proposed by Cao Guerrilla is the safest plan: Lao Xiong only needs to show goodwill, and then meet Zheng Zhilong, and wait for this fang to enter Fuzhou City......

However, Lao Xiong rejected this strategy.

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Keywords: bad reputation.

slashed Lao Zheng with one knife, and it was cool to cross the crowd, but the black cauldron made Lao Xiong carry it again.

Although the official government of all dynasties and dynasties had no discipline, and the booby trapping and killing of bandits was endless, Xiong Wencan obviously did not belong to the kind of officialdom stunned: Wang Zhi was beheaded back then, and it was also done by Wang Bengu, who was stunned, and it had nothing to do with Hu Zongxian, who was bent on appeasement.

Lao Xiong has deeper concerns.

It was a pleasure to slash Zheng Zhilong with a knife, but what if the pirates then elected a leader?

If the traversal crowd is not as powerful as they say and can't wipe out the new pirate gang, then the old bear will be completely finished - no one will talk to the old bear anymore, because he booby-trapped the former leader Zheng Zhilong, and his reputation will be negative.

Although Cao Guerrilla repeatedly vouched for his head, as long as Zheng Zhilong led the bento with his front feet, the surface brothers of the rabble would turn their faces and cut each other as soon as possible, and then the officials and soldiers only needed to clean up one by one afterwards...... However, the old bear did not believe it.

Lao Xiong is not a traverser, he doesn't know that in history, Zheng Zhilong stroked his front foot, and the brothers on the back foot turned his face and drove him and several of his own families back to Fuzhou, and Lao Xiong would not know how to send the surface brothers to the west one by one in the years to come.

From Xiong Wencan's point of view, the government came forward to directly cut Zheng Zhilong, which is the next policy. He must leave a way back for himself and the government, this is a choice that a normal person in a position will definitely make, there is nothing wrong with it.

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Well, since the upper policy has no play, Cao Guerrilla took out the middle strategy here.

The first half of the middle strategy is the same as the upper strategy, and Lao Xiong must cooperate with Zheng Zhilong in the early stage. After the meeting was completed, Lao Xiong could even personally send Zheng Zhilong back to the nest in full view of everyone...... After that, there was nothing to do with Lao Xiong, and the follow-up work was solved by the new monk Zongsha under Cao Guji.

After Xiong Wencan heard this strategy, as expected, he quickly agreed: this kind of thing that does not ruin his reputation and can influence the source, the boss is still willing to try. As for Zheng Zhilong, he couldn't find it when he went to sea afterwards...... The sea is windy and the waves are urgent, what does it matter to his old man's birds?

Two days later, Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan took the initiative to summon Zheng Zhilong's mouthpiece in Fuzhou for the first time: Fuzhou Futong Zhi Lin Shudi.

After Lin Shudi came out of the governor's yamen that day, he was overjoyed and hurried to the "Hengguangkang" silk shop.

And Zheng Sancai, a relative of the Zhilong clan who sits in Hengguangkang, did not dare to slack off at all after getting the news, and sent two messengers by land and water to Xiamen to inform Lao Zheng to come to Fuzhou to talk with Xiong Wencan.

What Zheng Sancai didn't know was that all his activities, including the boats on which the two groups of messengers were traveling, and the routes in and out, had been exposed and recorded at this moment.

As a result, without the knowledge of the general public, this important change that occurred in Fuzhou City, which can affect history, was quietly completed.

At the same time, a dark web has also opened, with a thick murderous intent, hidden behind the fog; Just wait for Zheng Zhilong, the outstanding 17th-century merchant/pirate/diplomat to fall into the net, he will launch a killing move to make him doom!

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The story in the city of Fuzhou has temporarily entered the intermission stage.

Let's rewind the clock to the end of May, the day after the Ryan's mission to Fuzhou.

The sand ship "Yuandou" is one of the first Chinese-style ships to buy after crossing the crowd to Daming.

The 700-material Yuandou has served the public to this day, and has undergone two major changes.

The first time was when I was in Tangzhuang, when I crossed the crowd to raid Dayuan Island, and installed various electronic instruments and outboards on the Yuandou.

The second time was the most recent one. The Yuandou, which was assigned to the exploration team, was once again refitted.

This refit was for an expedition, so the Yuandou deliberately reinforced the bilge, adjusted the cabin space, and equipped the deck with improvised booms and dinghies, and finally a wood gas power system.

The renovated Yuandou is now parked on the Dayuan Wharf with a new look, ready to set off for Taipei in search of sulfur, iron ore and gold.

And Pan Mingzhong and Lei Jian, the two captains and deputy captains, were directing the sailors to make final preparations at the bow of the ship.

Unlike Pan Mingzhong, a fellow traveler, Lei Jian is a serious student of the School of Geology. It's a pity that it is not used to learn: before the Thunder Sword crossed, it was driven by someone in Africa. To be exact, to be a driver for the film crews that went to the reserve to photograph lions.

After the crossing, he had nothing to do at first, and it wasn't until the exploration team was formed that Lei Jian could be regarded as having survived.

After packing up the rope, the Yuandou set off quietly, and there was no warm farewell scene - some time ago, considering that the number of ships coming to the department was increasing day by day, and it was too delayed to usher in the delivery every day, Lao Xia had already issued an order: In the future, people who are not from this department will not be allowed to welcome and send ships.

There are now only 2 people in the lone exploration team, and this will all be on the ship, so it is impossible for someone from this department to see them off......

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After the Yuandou sailed out of the Dayuan channel crossing, it was unusual, and did not go north directly, but went out and turned left, and began to drive south along the coastline of Taiwan, heading straight for Kenting Point, the southernmost point of Taiwan.

Pan Mingzhong and Lei Jian planned it like this: Dayuan was very close to Kenting, the southernmost section of Taiwan, and it was less than a day's sea journey. Therefore, on this voyage, the Yuandou should bypass Cape Kenting and go north from the coast off the island of Taiwan instead.

Such a sailing route allows the Yuandou to explore the two regions of Taitung and Hualien along the way.

The coast of Taitung, located on the east coast of Taiwan, is the focus of this exploration.

Xiuguluan Xikou, at the junction of Taitung and Hualien, was a coastal mining area rich in magnetite sand in later generations. Including the iron sand mine on the Taipei coast, the combined annual output of the two mines is about 10,000 tons.

This production is the same in front of future generations of rabbits - in 2017, rabbits imported 1.1 billion tons of iron ore......

However, it is now the 17th century, and the poor kiln base has just recently estimated the iron ore smelting capacity in the second half of the year to 500 tons...... This is already very good, thanks to some iron ships from Fuzhou.

Therefore, the enrichment in the coastal estuary and the mining of easy iron placer ore is a strategic resource that needs to collect information at the first time after the crossing forces gradually stretch out their fists to the outside world.

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In addition, Hualien is also very rich in mineral resources, not only a variety of serpentine, rose stone, marble, Taiwan jade resources, but also a small amount of metal ores.

The most important of these is serpentine.

Serpentine contains a lot of magnesium and can be used to make a variety of refractory materials.

In addition, serpentine is calcined together with struvite to make calcium, magnesium and phosphorus fertilizer. This fertilizer works well on corn, potatoes, legumes, as well as root and tuber crops.

The main crops that the agricultural company is currently planting in a large area in the Tainan area are precisely these varieties...... So, serpentine is also very important.

Time quickly passed in the discussion between Pan Mingzhong and Lei Jian. The Yuandou set off early in the morning, rode the north wind all the way to the south, and in the evening, it saw the Kenting coastline with bright green color and the only tropical climate in Taiwan.

When the scorching sun sank into the sea, the Yuandou turned on its radar and sonar in the starry sky that gradually brightened, and went all the way around the clear and transparent coral sea area off the coast of Kenting, and continued to sail south without stopping.

At 10 o'clock that night, the Yuandou bypassed Kenting and began to move north along the coast of the outer islands of Taiwan against the wind.

That's when the speed goes down. Pan Mingzhong, who was in charge of the night shift, had to stay in the stern compartment all night, using a walkie-talkie and a loudspeaker hung on the mast to communicate with the first mate who commanded the crew to turn the sails, and at the same time to report the sea conditions ahead in a timely manner so as not to run aground.

Sailing against the wind is tough. After the night passed, the Yuandou actually only ran a 30-kilometer straight line, and from a distance, the people on board saw a landmark on the east coast of Kenting: Nose Reef.

Fortunately, God also seemed to think that it was too lonely to sail like this, so at 10 o'clock in the morning, there was an extra small dot on the radar screen of the Yuandou that sailed from north to south.