Section 176 The Great Enemy Zheng Zhilong
Those who came to the dock to pick up people were not only Wei Yuan, who belonged to the army, but also Du Dewei, deputy commander of the Marine Corps.
Du Dewei, a remnant of the South American guerrillas, crossed over relatively late, so he didn't know Chen Huoding. But it doesn't matter, Du Dewei, who already has a lot in his heart, just shook hands with Chen Erye with a smile at the moment, and just introduced two sentences.
Chen Erye was confused about the division of arms within the army. Fortunately, before setting off from Hangzhou, he was hinted and mentioned by Lu Cheng, so he now probably knows that Du Dewei is the leader of the elite who is in charge of "exploring horses and not collecting at night", and he is the leader of the pro-army.
The helpless Second Master Chen can only take one step at a time now. It was not his wish to be forced to participate in these internal factional struggles before he could become a big soldier. Next, naturally no one can escape the recruit training: the second master who is picky and inching is quickly assigned to the newly built barracks on Dayuan Island, silently cleaning up the bed, and beside him is the recruit instructor who reads out the regulations loudly - the old man of the screen village, the second master's current boss.
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Those who went to Dayuan Wharf to pick up the ship that day also included two navy personnel. Of course, so many soldiers came to the dock, naturally it would not be because of Chen Huoding, a new recruit...... The second master is just a pistachio that everyone saw and laughed at by the way. The real intention of these people to come to the dock was to meet Wang Xiaohui: three days ago, when he was still floating on the sea, he had already been appointed as the naval representative of the "Battlefront" plan.
Therefore, today's occasion is a little depressing, in fact, the atmosphere on Dayuan Island has been quite tense recently. Of course, an outsider like Chen Erye, who came to the university for the first time, can't feel it.
It's May of 1628. The most important external work of the crossing forces this year: the elimination of Zheng Zhilong's bandits, is already in the official implementation stage.
Since Xiong Wencan entered Fujian, he has been paying close attention to the situation in Fujian, and has held two enlarged meetings and one special meeting according to the information sent back by the expatriates. This number is unique in the short history of the traversal forces.
The current situation is that the representative of Dayuan Island, who was stationed in Fuzhou, has successfully met with Xiong Wencan many times. In addition to sending a large number of treasures, the representative also expressed the eagerness of the outsiders to serve the country loyally.
The above actions, coupled with the "staff planning" of a popular praise painting "out of public intentions" by a certain popular governor of the Yamen, have successfully made Xiong Wencan make a strategic judgment: give priority to meeting with the leader of the gang: Cao Chuan. If everything goes well after this, Xiong Wencan plans to formally appease the forces of the great officials, and give support to the Cao Chuan government to suppress the big and small pirates, including Zheng Zhilong.
Although Lao Xiong is still in a wait-and-see state at present, and has not completely fallen to the side of the big guys, this achievement is enough to make the big office princes excited - this is normal, the old bear has no choice in history, and now there is an extra big man to help, and the old bear will naturally wait for the price to sell.
You must know that Xiong Wencan in history went out of Beijing with the acquiescence of the court to appease Zheng Zhilong. Soon after Lao Xiong arrived in Fujian, he set out to appease Zheng Zhilong, and the process was very smooth, and there were no necessary items for the government of previous dynasties to appease bandits: repeated comings and goings, bargaining, ambushes and booby-traps - here you can get a glimpse of Lao Xiong's sincerity, as well as the weakness of the Ming Empire's powerful exterior.
The fact that the traversing forces can now achieve such a priority in the card position is the result of foresight + long-term layout, which is not easy.
Xiong Wencan's news was sent from the radio station of the Fuzhou intelligence station three days before Chen Huoding arrived at the port headquarters.
After getting the news, Xia Xianze immediately convened an emergency meeting.
The first thing that was decided at the meeting was the formal establishment of a "scramble" plan implementation group aimed at eliminating Zheng Zhilong. The head of the group was Dai Yun, director of the Intelligence Bureau, and people from the Navy, Army, and Marine Corps were involved.
The second thing decided at the meeting was to quickly respond to Lao Xiong's proposal: send "President Cao" to Fuzhou to meet with Lao Xiong in the near future, and strive to get a formal appeasement as soon as possible.
At the end of the meeting, the big office instructed the newly released "scramble" team to come up with a specific plan to eliminate Zheng Zhilong as soon as possible according to the previous plan and the latest information.
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As early as the moment when Xiong Wencan stopped in Hangzhou and Xiong Dao came to the door to surrender, the big man had an deduction for today's situation.
The best result expected by the crossing forces is that Xiong Wencan will appease a "fierce general" grandly launched by the crossing forces, grant this person the official position of guerrilla general, and then the coalition forces of the two sides will conquer the east and west under the command of the fierce general's brother to quell the pirate forces from all walks of life.
This model is conducive to throwing off the pot after a certain force wins the world in the future: it is XX who is appeased, not Cao Chuan...... Although this is a cover-up and stealing the bell, it can also be slightly smeared on the history books.
Everyone also had a plan for the result of the second gear: Lao Xiong ignored the proposal of the so-called fierce general, but went straight to the point, to appease Cao Chuan, the leader of the bandits.
Now what is facing the public is the result of this next gear.
Xibei goods are easy to find, after all, Xiong Wencan doesn't know what Cao Chuan looks like.
As for Cao Chuan himself, it would be funny to go to Fuzhou. As the most core competitiveness of the crossing forces, the source of all strength, let alone appease, even if one day the crossing forces have defeated a certain coastal city, without the escort of the large fleet, it is impossible for Mr. Cao to move from the big man - this Nima is too important to move lightly!
...... To sum up, Xibei cargo Zhang Dongdong appeared.
Zhang Dongdong, a native of Hebei, was an account manager of an advertising company before the crossing.
Zhang Dongdong is neither handsome, nor does he look very similar to Mr. Cao, nor is he wise and martial, nor can he fight naval and land warfare spy warfare, so how did he become a stand-in for Mr. Cao?
Quite simply, the method of elimination.
The first thing to rule out is heresy.
What is Heresy? Those who attacked Xia Xianze's right-leaning capitulationist line were heretics. To put it simply: the emperors.
The person who ran to accept the appeasement will not stay in the big man for a lot of time in the future. So the current leadership of the senior and all the technical personnel, including those who make steel and build ships, are also excluded.
There are not many people left, and most of the people who are unwilling to run to kneel for the Ming State officials are still to be eliminated.
In history, when Xiong Wencan appeased Zheng Zhilong, the "Five Tiger Guerrilla Generals" given not only had a very low rank in the Ming system, but even in the crossing system, it was not a good errand.
If you want the right or not, there are people behind your back to guide you in every move, and there are military professionals who fight wars or something, and from time to time you have to be sprayed by the emperors...... It's a puppet.
To tell the truth, there are not many competitors for this position, so advertising manager Zhang Dongdong successfully took office. Brother Zhang is currently in emergency training: under the name of Cao Chuan, with half-length hair and a wig bun in his pocket, he is practicing how to kneel and kowtow every day......
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After clarifying the person responsible for the appeasement and the person in charge of the plan, the group headed by Dai Yun, after a few days of discussion, quickly came up with a plan to eliminate Zheng Zhilong: an ambush.
It is impossible to face the gang head-on. Dayuan Island does not have so many ships and sailors to go to the other side of the sea to find Lao Zheng's trouble. It is unrealistic to expect Lao Zheng to suddenly become brain-dead, and the whole army will kill him, so after all, it is still necessary to give full play to the unique high-tech advantage of a certain force: ambush.
As for how to ambush and kill, in short, Zheng Zhilong must show his head. Now that the enemy is in the open and I am in the dark, Dai Yun and they have prepared a series of plans, as long as Lao Zheng still wants to appease him, they don't worry about him not taking the bait - get Lao Zheng, be lucky, eat chicken tonight.
As for the situation after Zheng Zhilong's death, on the contrary, it is the least worry-after Zheng Zhilong was placed under house arrest by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, the gang under him was instantly torn apart, and there was no one to serve the public.
During this period of time, none of the so-called sea lords, including those clan brothers and brothers under Zheng Zhilong, had the innate ability of Old Zheng He. On the surface, the brothers will fight each other as soon as they learn about Lao Zheng Qiao's braids.
If Lao Zheng is put into the glorious Three Kingdoms, then there is no doubt that Lao Zheng's command will be 90+. In his youth, Zheng Zhilong had a talent shared by all great commanders: forming a united front.
Looking at the successful people throughout the ages, like Liu Han, Li Tang, and even Zhu Baba, Taizu of the Later Dynasty, these people can always clearly distinguish between friend and foe in the complicated situation - at a certain point in time, unite the second boss to fight the boss, and then break up, turn the face, and continue to unite the third and the second...... until all opponents are dead.
Zheng Zhilong also has this ability.
Zheng Zhilong in history first united a group of well-looking pirates to plunder, using dividends as bait to fool everyone into opposing the government. However, after someone successfully accepted Zhao'an, he turned around and killed the old brothers one by one.
There is a historical fact in this that can make an extremely obvious comparison: shortly after Zheng Zhilong was first recruited, he was rebelled by his apparent brother Li Kuiqi. At that time, Li Kuiqi had already incited most of the original Zheng clan to occupy Xiamen and drive Zheng Zhilong and several of his brothers back to Fuzhou.
At this time, the Dutchman came into play.
The Dutch fleet came to Zhangzhou Bay at the invitation of Zheng Zhilong. At that time, Zheng Zhilong changed his previous attitude of ignoring the Dutch, not only organized a small amount of raw silk to be delivered to the Dutch, but also wrote a number of letters and promised: As long as you help me get Li Kuiqi, the future trade of raw silk is easy to say......
The Dutch are not stupid, and the Dutch subconsciously don't want Zheng Zhilong to gain power, so the Dutch sent ships to contact Li Kuiqi many times during the days of Zhangzhou Bay, and made a request: as long as Li Kuiqi promised to trade raw silk in the future, the Dutch would turn around and attack Zheng Zhilong.
The above two-headed behavior was blatantly done by the Dutch, and Zheng Zhilong's envoy was living on the Dutch ship at that time.
However, Ricci just didn't want to work with the Dutch......
At such a critical moment, the arrogant Li Kuiqi was unwilling to transport raw silk to the Dutch...... At that time, Li Kuiqi occupied Xiamen and had a large amount of raw silk on hand.
The days passed, until the night before Zheng Zhilong led the fleet of ships that the government had supported him to converge, the Dutch contacted Li Kuiqi for the last time...... The Dutch finally despaired, and the next day, the Dutch gunboats rushed into Li Kuiqi's fleet first, and Zheng Zhilong, with a small number of troops, had the last laugh.
The above historical facts are recorded in detail in the Dutchman's "Diary of Geranza".
Therefore, judging the situation, especially in the medieval era when information was not smooth, the ability to abandon all likes and dislikes to unite the enemy is really a trait that only a few people have.
Therefore, the only thing that can make the traversal jealous is Zheng Zhilong himself - this handsome guy who can bond his strength and fight against the traversal as long as he does not die.