Chen Kai left the Tiger Festival Hall, but the discussion between Zheng Chenggong and the two generals did not end there. It can even be said that they were originally discussing military affairs here, but it was Chen Kai's appearance that interrupted them for the time being.

"Listening to the accent, it does look like a person from the Northland, but it's a pity that I haven't had any dealings with those old Xi'er at the beginning, but I don't dare to be sure for a while. However, Shanxi is thousands of miles away and is already the northern border province of Huangming. Just such a person, in the midst of chaos and chaos, all the way south, even if there is a canal, it takes great courage, ability and luck. ”

"If you can't, just kill it. If it is a small work, it will be a big thing. ”

Zheng Chenggong's two generals were in his early forties, of medium stature, with a loyal face, and the other was obviously a few years older, short and fat, with a very large waistline, and a fierce face, looking like pirates far more than warlords.

These two people, the medium-sized one sitting on the right hand is called Hong Xu, Jue Zhong Zhenbo, among the subordinates who went south to South Australia with Zheng Chenggong last year, they were the leaders of this person, and they were Zheng Chenggong's confidants. Sitting on the left hand side is the original deputy general soldier of South Australia, Chen Bao, who was just promoted to the general soldier of South Australia by Zheng Chenggong not long ago, is nicknamed three feet six in the army, but I don't know whether to talk about his height or his waist circumference.

The previous deputy commander of South Australia was not an outsider, it was Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong, and Chen Bao was able to take over this position later, which shows that he was also Zheng Zhilong's confidant. This person was given the title of Marquis of Loyalty and Courage in the Longwu Dynasty, and his status was different. It is precisely because he is Zheng Zhilong's confidant that when Zheng Chenggong brought more than 90 subordinates here last year, Chen Bao did not hesitate to give up his military power, and now he is also Zheng Chenggong's confidant.

Out of the basic principle of separating and planning for the main coach, Hong Xu was a little skeptical of Chen Kai's statement, and Chen Bao directly proposed to get rid of it to avoid future troubles.

At this moment, the decision is naturally in the hands of Zheng Chenggong, but Zheng Chenggong has already made up his mind, and he will not be easily shaken: "This is the first person to defect to me in the past six months, even if he has no fame, at least he is literate in reading, not to mention that this person can quote scriptures and classics, and he should not be vulgar." Even if he is incompetent, giving preferential treatment to others can attract more scholars to join him. Taking 10,000 steps back, it is really a meticulous work, and if I treat each other with sincerity on the island, I can also let it be used by me; Even if he can't, can he escape as a scholar? ”

"What if he's not a scholar at all?"

"Didn't he say he was famous?"

Due to the problem of literacy, Chen Kai has a natural advantage, coupled with his ability to speak well, and he has also quoted scriptures, which confirms the young man's enlightened statement. At this moment, Zheng Chenggong's tone was full of confidence, Hong Xu and Chen Bao glanced at each other, and immediately agreed with Zheng Chenggong's opinion. As for what subordinates should do, they also have to do it, whether it is prevention or something else.

In fact, there is no way to do it. Zheng Zhilong betrayed Emperor Longwu to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but Zheng Chenggong raised troops against the Qing Dynasty in a remote place in South Australia, although he inherited some of Zheng Zhilong's strength from Chen Bao, and he was an earl, but his identity determined that the scholars who were optimistic about the Manchu Qing were unwilling to serve such a "ignorant of the times" anti-Qing generation, and those who were willing to serve the Ming court may not be able to look down on such a traitor's son.

To put it plainly, the current Zheng Chenggong is the most embarrassing time, in the eyes of the world, Zhu Bajie looks in the mirror - he is not a person inside and out. It is a great joy to have a scholar here to vote, how can you still have the heart to pick and choose. Of course, even if he wants to pick and choose, he must have the ability to go to Shanxi, thousands of miles away, to investigate.

This matter was decided for the time being, and the topic in the lobby returned to before Chen Kai arrived. Last year, Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty and was taken away by Prince Duanzhong Boluo, but Zheng Chenggong took refuge in Zheng Hongkui and got rid of Zheng Zhilong's control. In the following months, Zheng Chenggong had been training troops on Nanao Island, and by yesterday, it was probably the Qing court that had received tangible news, so it sent someone here to send a letter to persuade him to surrender.

Although Zheng Zhilong had already expressed his attitude when Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, when the Qing court really acted like this, he would inevitably have to make a new round of choices in this pain.

This is the most important thing for Zheng Chenggong's department in recent times, they discussed it for a long time last night, but in the end they couldn't come up with a plan that best of both worlds. This time in the Tiger Festival Hall, they were originally discussing this matter, but they were interrupted by Chen Kai's arrival, perhaps for them, it was also a process of slowing down and reorganizing their thinking.

At this moment, Chen Kai has left here, and the new problem has a preliminary response, Zheng Chenggong soon discovered that the old problem that still made him scratch his head seems to have really been solved.

After talking about Chen Kai's placement, Zheng Chenggong sent someone to summon the envoy from the Fujian Governor's Yamen. In front of the messenger, he wrote a reply on the case. It's just that this is not the normal mode of replying, but Zheng Chenggong immediately made a poem to explain his mind.

"Heaven pays me with hardship, and one heart and one virtue give the same hatred. The most pitiful loyalty and filial piety are in dilemma, and every memory of the court is sobbing and flowing. ”

Writing here, the pain in my heart that I can't have both loyalty and filial piety has been clearly expressed in my pen. But Zheng Chenggong looked at it carefully, but he didn't seem to be satisfied, but he didn't rewrite it, so he simply added a footnote at the bottom of the poem: "The Taishi was tempted by the Manchu chieftain and forced to surrender." If you think about it again, there is no such thing as the perfect two. The angry child does not want to live, but there is only a bloody battle, and he can go straight to the Yellow Dragon to drink, or he can return to the end of his ears. It's not okay to bend and defile! ”

"Take this letter back, this is my answer."

The envoy said goodbye and left, and Zheng Chenggong simply expressed his mind to Chen Bao and Hong Xu. Zheng Zhilong's special identity made them have to be cautious, and now Zheng Chenggong has not changed his original intention, which is what they are willing to see. Once the tone is set, some things can be brought back to the board for discussion.

It was also due to Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, when Bolo forced Zheng Zhilong to write a letter to the generals of the Zheng group, persuading them to follow him to surrender to the Qing court. In this regard, most of the Fujian Ming troops followed their orders and changed their courts, but there were a few exceptions, such as Zheng Chenggong, such as Zheng Hongkui, and then Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers.

Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers, these two are Zheng Zhilong's nephews, Zheng Chenggong's brothers, and now entrenched in Zheng Zhilong's base camp in the left, that is, Xiamen, and the sea trade is basically controlled by it, and the army under the two brothers is no less than 40,000 people, but they are the strongest among the various departments of the Zheng Group that continue to resist the Qing Dynasty, and there is no one.

A few days ago, Zheng Cai sent someone to invite Zheng Chenggong to join forces to attack Haicheng County, which is the gateway to Xiamen, and it is normal for Zheng Cai to have a heart. For Zheng Chenggong, it means that after the capture of Haicheng, more can be divided.

Zheng Chenggong took over the troops of the South Australia Association, which was originally composed of two battalions, one in Guangdong and the other in Fujian, which coincided with the fact that it was located at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, and had the responsibility of assisting in the defense of the maritime frontiers of the two provinces. However, there were only 2,000 people in the first place, and then put aside the vulgarity of eating empty salaries, in fact, there were more than 1,000 soldiers, Rao is Zheng Chenggong recruited a large number of recruits, and its strength was only three or four thousand, not even one-tenth of Zheng Cai's, and there were only some treasury foundations of the general town government in terms of materials, which were pitiful, and Zheng Cai's proposal was also quite tempting to them.

"The surname of the country, the last general heard that Zheng Cai changed to King Lu, and he must have planned to inherit the foundation of the Taishi through the tiger skin of King Lu. This person must be guarded against. I'm afraid it's not necessarily a good thing. ”

"Jiufeng is right, that's what happened." Chen Bao raised his palms, and then said angrily: "According to the rules of the ancestors, the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the brother dies. Taishi went north, it stands to reason that the surname of the country should be the way to make a living with everyone, and it is his turn to get a nephew who has come over the spectrum? ”

Zheng Zhilong's father and son are from the Shijing Zheng family, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers are from the Gaopu Zheng family, according to the records in the "Shijing Ben Clan Genealogy", Zheng Mian, the ancestor of the Zheng family's Nan'an, once lived in the three mountains where the Zheng family lived in Gaopu Zheng's family, but that was also the matter when the Zheng family entered Fujian during the Guangqi period of Tang Dezong, or it can be regarded as "one family five hundred years ago". The so-called clan nephew is actually just a means of wooing, not really having a real blood relationship.

The Zheng group dominates the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, and now that there is no leader, the powerful factions below have their own thoughts. Hong Xu and Chen Bao's speculation is not groundless, before the Tang and Lu disputes, the Zheng family supported Tang Fan wholeheartedly, and had already offended Lu Fan miserably, and now Zheng Cai in turn changed to his master, if he said that he had no other thoughts, he was afraid that even the house squid in the Longao Sea would not believe it.

This issue had been discussed many times before the arrival of the Qing envoys, and now it was back to square one. It is nothing new for pirates to annex each other, and now Zheng Cai's strength is strong, and it is the force with the best chance to reunite the Zheng group, and Zheng Chenggong is the first heir in terms of etiquette, but Chen Bao and Hong Xu can't help but think more.

Neither of them agreed with this matter, according to their assumptions, it should be Zheng Chenggong who took them alone. This kind of thinking is not without supporters in this miniature version of the Zheng Group, and even Zheng Chenggong has not yet made up his mind, and it becomes even more clueless when Chen Kai's matter is interrupted here.

Speaking of which, there was no discussion for a long time. At this moment, the housekeeper Zheng San came back with the little guy and recounted in detail what happened when he went with Chen Kai to bid farewell to the Lin brothers.

"Did he give all twenty taels of silver to those two hunters?"

"He actually put away that broken straw sandal?"

After getting such a result, Chen Bao and Hong Xu glanced at each other, and then looked at Zheng Chenggong. At this time, a rare smile crossed the corner of Zheng Chenggong's mouth.

"Emphasis on kindness and righteousness, light on wealth, this is a wonderful person."