On June 22, after a two-day break, the ordnance workshop resumed production. However, by this time, the expansion work had officially begun, and a new, larger armory workshop was about to be erected in the South Australian city.

Nan'ao Island is located at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, and is nearly 500 miles away from Xiamen Island between Zhangzhou and Quanfu in southern Fujian. This distance is only a few hours in the afterlife. At this time, it takes a lot of time to walk or ride, but if you take a boat, even if the wind is not favorable, it is only a few days.

As the expansion of the Ordnance Workshop on Nan'ao Island officially began, Zheng Chenggong's fleet slowly sailed in and anchored at Gulangyu Island on the west side of Xiamen. After one or two traffic, the soldiers of the brigade rushed out and went to the designated military camp to rest under the guidance of Zheng Cai's general stationed here.

The port was lively, and on the Sunshine Rock in the distance, Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai and Dingyuan Bo Zheng Lian were standing here. One was looking into the distance, frowning slightly, while the other was still yawning, completely looking like he was hangover and unawake.

"Brother, for the sake of that little fart kid who can't live without his mother, do you need us to come here to greet you in person?"

Zheng Cai was still tentatively attacking the capital city of Zhangzhou earlier, but suffered a small setback, and this time he heard that Zheng Chenggong had come to the appointment, so he hurried back. At this time, it is already the middle of the day, even the three poles of the sun have long passed, Zheng Lian is still like this, but Zheng Cai also knows that his younger brother is greedy for the things in the cup on weekdays, and he was still gathering on Wanshiyan last night to drink and feast, if he hadn't forced it, he would never have appeared here at this moment.

The so-called "little fart child who can't do without his mother" in Zheng Lian's mouth is not just because their brother is similar to Zheng Zhilong in age and is more than 20 years older than Zheng Chenggong. It is said that after Zheng Chenggong returned to Fujian from Japan, whenever night came, he always stood by the sea, raised his head to look at the east, and missed his mother who was far away from the sea. As a result, this has become a laughing stock about Zheng Chenggong among the uncles and brothers of the Zheng family, and only Zheng Chenggong's fourth uncle, Zheng Hongkui, values him more because of this.

"He is the thousand-mile horse of my family in Uncle Dingguo's mouth, and he has been training in that place in Nanao for half a year, and I always have to see with my own eyes how his subordinates are, so that I can deal with them in the future."

Zheng Cai, Zheng Lian brothers have a very good relationship with Zheng Hongkui, and they have written poems to each other many times over the years, and they are different from others in terms of titles. Replying to this, Zheng Caitou didn't reply, not only was he too lazy to watch Zheng Lian yawn, but Zheng Chenggong's troops marching with troops in the distance made him have to focus his attention there.

"In just half a year, the soldiers are still well trained."

"Brother, he has Chen Bao, Hong Xu, and Lin Xishan under him, so why don't you use him to train the troops personally. Those guys are all generals under the command of Taishi for many years, and they are used to using characters, if they can't even train their soldiers, then it's ridiculous. ”

Zheng Lian didn't care, but what he said was indeed the truth, but Zheng Cai was not as optimistic about this as his brother: "He has Chen Bao's group, and he robbed the sea ship of Anping's family last year, and he got about 100,000 taels of silver. But, if you look at the weapons of those soldiers, I remember that the South Australian town government doesn't have that much inventory, right? ”

How much strength Zheng Chenggong has, as soon as they learned that he was in South Australia, they had sent someone to secretly investigate. In the arsenal workshop, there are three melons and two dates, even if they have silver and can buy raw materials, they must have a skilled woman in charge of the kitchen to get the pot.

Zheng Cai was suspicious, his brain was running rapidly, recalling the information he had collected before, and calculating the possibility of causing such a situation, but he never had a clue. As far as it seems now, it is probably that Zheng Chenggong got a group of craftsmen out of nowhere in the last two months, or raided the arsenal of some unlucky guy, and it is reasonable to say that these are the two things.

"Could it be that he has been able to get some kind of officials lately?"

As soon as this idea appeared in Zheng Cai's mind, it was immediately denied by him, since the result of the last time he sent someone to invite him, Zheng Chenggong's command was at least at that time still those old people who followed him at the end of last year, and in just over a month, the rate of weapons and equipment of this army has been greatly changed, at least he has never heard of such a person in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong.

"Unless Hong Hengjiu went to Nanao Island......"

Thinking of this, Zheng Cai couldn't help but shake his head. On Zheng Lian's side, he still looked disdainful, it seemed that if it weren't for Zheng Cai still here, I was afraid that he would have gone back to make up for sleep.

"So what, Taishi went north, except for the bastards who lowered the Tartars, the family funds accumulated over the years are basically in the hands of our brothers. With that little manpower, that little fart kid can turn the sky upside down? ”

Xiamen was originally the maritime trade center operated by the Zheng Group for many years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the nest of the Zheng family. After Zheng Zhilong accepted Zhao'an, he was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of South Australia by virtue of merit to assist in the defense of the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong. The administrative office of this official post was in Xiamen, and the merchant ships from the mouth of the Jiulong River to Xiamen Island under the Ming Dynasty were also inspected by the Copper Guerrilla Department. This can be said to be Zheng Zhilong's lair, and it can also be said to be the nest of Zheng Cai's lair for many years.

The contempt for age, seniority and current strength is deep-rooted, and Zheng Chenggong led the troops in the Longwu Dynasty, and he always disagrees with Zheng Zhilong, and these generals who have grown up step by step under Zheng Zhilong are even more disdainful. This situation is not only in Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers, Zheng Chenggong took over Zheng Cai's control of the various passes leading to Jiangxi in Fujian, and Shi Fu, Shi Lang's uncle and nephew, who were subject to his control, also disobeyed, not without reason.

Zheng Lian said this with a big grin, Zheng Cai thought about it carefully, and nodded and agreed. Zheng Chenggong's weak army is one of them, and now the general trend of Fujian Province is that southern Fujian is dominated by their brothers, and northern Fujian and central Fujian are the various departments under the command of their brothers, and the local rebel army in Fujian frequently launched attacks on the areas occupied by the Qing army. In the words of Zhang Cunren, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian in the Qing court, it was "all over the sea and mountains, and there are thieves everywhere".

Not to mention their brothers' own strength, Lu Jianguo, who had been driven into the sea, was also picked up by them, and those generals under the command of Lu Jianguo, such as Pingyi Bo Zhou Hezhi, Min Anbo Zhou Rui, Danghu Bo Ruan Jin and others also expressed great goodwill to Zheng Cai's wooing.

To put it bluntly, now that the general trend is on me, there is no need to worry too much about small shrimp like Zheng Chenggong.

"There are a lot more weapons than expected, it doesn't matter, his men are all recruits who have never been in battle, even if they are trained well, it will be a little less meaningful." Speaking of this, Zheng Cai sneered even more: "This time, let him break his head in Haicheng and bleed, and let this kid know that knowing that using soldiers is not as simple as he imagined." ”

Zheng Chenggong's subordinates in the distance kept landing from the boat, and Zheng Chenggong also rushed to Sunshine Rock with a ticket general and his personal entourage. After taking a closer look for a while, seeing that Zheng Chenggong was not too far away, Zheng Cai also took Zheng Lian and others down the mountain, and deliberately quickened his pace and stepped forward to meet him.

"After a long time, the virtuous brother makes the foolish brother think so hard. This time to march into Haicheng, our brothers work together, we must give those Tartars a good look! ”