The Northern Navy returned to the base in Dianbai County one after another, and according to the previous practice, it should have continued to set off to find fat sheep after replenishing materials in the base.

What to do with the fat sheep, of course, it is to invite guests to dinner, but the price of eating is a little high, and you need a merchant ship full of goods for a few days to pay for dinner. Of course, the price of the meal is so good, the volunteers will stay with the guests for a while, as for how long, it depends on the situation.

Chow Tai Fook, the helmsman of a certain ship, was captured by the Volunteers.

There are more than 500 people detained in Dianbai County, and they are detained together to help with things.

What Chow Tai Fook used to do, no one cares here, and is currently cleaning up the sea fish under the supervision of the volunteers.

The fish pile smelled of fish, but he could only resign himself to his fate.

There is no way, those who want to live can only be obedient, otherwise they will be whipped by the people who supervise at any time. If you feel that this is humiliation, you can't endure such a hard life.

Things are easy to do, everyone cleans up the sea fish, there is a small knife at hand, the knife can be used to clean up the sea fish, it is difficult to resist if you want to, if you can't bear the oppression, the captives can completely stab themselves in the neck, and they don't have to suffer after committing suicide, for the prisoners who commit suicide, the volunteers will never stop.

In a word, if you want to die, you can die, and if you die, you can ask the volunteers to be imprisoned, and the consequence is that you will be buried in a mass grave.

In fact, the captives who work here rarely commit suicide, and as for resisting, they are even less courageous. Before being captured, almost everyone had seen the baptism of fire in the navy, and they were already scared of courage.

In addition, it is not hopeless to do things here, as long as you work hard for a month, you can be free, and then you can come and go freely.

Of course, it doesn't matter where you go, don't count on the goods that fall into the pockets of the volunteers, and you want to get back the goods seized by the volunteers, hehe! Dream on!

If the goods are returned, then what does the Navy drink Northwest Wind.

Many of the prisoners who oversaw the captives were freed and then recruited by the Volunteers.

Supervise the captives with captives, no problem!

Chow Tai Fook was called to a room and saw three stern-faced volunteers, sitting straight, three people with knife-like eyes, looking at Chow Tai Fook's legs were weak, and his legs knelt down unnaturally.

"My lord, do you have any instructions for the little one?"

After speaking, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at a few people.

Although kneeling was abolished in Zhangjiacheng, outsiders did not know about it, Chow Tai Fook worked in Dianbai County, and knew a lot about many things in Zhangjiacheng.

In the captive area, no one told them too much about Zhangjiacheng, and when they saw the three volunteers with knives in their eyes, they knelt down.

Kneeling in Daming is not a humiliating action, it is normal to see a person with a higher status than yourself.

"Chow Tai Fook, get up, we don't eat this set, I came to you to ask you something, I inquired about some situations before, it's best to answer honestly, otherwise you know what will happen."

Zhou Taifu knelt on the ground and said, "My lord, please speak, the little one dares to say half a big word, the sky thunders, and the eighteen layers of hell go down." "I can't wait to take my heart out and swear.

One nodded, "Get up, we're not used to asking questions like this." Just ask you any questions and answer them honestly. ”

Chow Tai Fook barely sat on the chair, just sitting next to half of his buttocks, his face was more uncomfortable than crying.

This is the first time I have encountered such treatment.

The so-called who brings what soldiers, Chen Zijian has no shelf in front of his subordinates, even if he sees him as a leader, it is a matter of salute.

Naturally, the people below are not so arrogant, and they have to kneel for themselves. If such a thing is known to the chief, isn't it too bad to think about the chief!

What is a political mistake, this is what the chief does not want to see, and the subordinates have to do it, aren't they asking for trouble!

"Chow Tai Fook, I heard that you have been going back and forth to Nanyang for a while."

Chow Tai Fook nodded again and again, "The small family is not good, I worked as a Gu Gong in the Li family very early, and I have been running boats for a long time." ”

Tanned-skinned, Chow Tai Fook looks to be in his thirties, but he is actually in his early twenties.

"Okay, then let's talk about Zheng Zhilong in Fuzhou, come and go so many times, don't tell me that you don't know about the Zheng family in Fuzhou!"

Chow Tai Fook did not hesitate and told him what he knew about the Zheng family, of course, he didn't know much, and most of them were told by others.

As an ordinary boatman, even if he encounters the Zheng family's pirate ship, it has nothing to do with him, and it is not his turn to get through the relationship.

Zheng Zhilong, as the largest pirate leader on the coast, his strength is not enough to dominate the sea, and his reputation is outstanding, Zheng Zhilong's pirate gang does not need to go up to rob in person, but instead collect tolls.

In the past, as long as the merchant ships were given fees and purchase vouchers, they could not be robbed, of course, in Zheng Zhilong's territory.

The merchant ships that can go to sea to trade are related to the interests of the civil officials of the imperial court, Zheng Zhilong really dares to rob all the merchant ships, and he really thinks that the imperial court has no way to do it?

Zheng Zhilong has a lot of industries in Fuzhou, there is no way to take the Zheng family in the sea, can't he clean up the Zheng family in Fuzhou!

Of course, with the complete defeat of the imperial court by the war in the north, the influence of the civil officials of the imperial court has almost disappeared, and the civil officials without the support of the imperial court are not as important as farting.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong didn't do things absolutely, that is, just raise the cost of crossing the sea a little, which is already good. If you are not a pirate, you may behave like the Volunteers, and all the ships you encounter will be captured.

Soon Chow Tai Fook told him what he knew, and looked at the three volunteers in front of him with anxiety, for fear that they would say a word and pull him out and cut him down.

"Okay, you can go, in addition, your answer is quite honest, plus your previous performance, officially notify you, you are free, you can go wherever you want! If you don't feel good here, you can leave. ”

Chow Tai Fook thought his ear had misheard, "What? ”

"Hehe, it's stupid to be imprisoned, why are you asking so much for your freedom. You belong to the captive, there is no compensation for doing things here, and if you want to be compensated, you will die of this heart. ”

The volunteers arrested the people to Zhangjiacheng, worked for half a month or a month in the early stage, and then got freedom and a compensation, although it was not much. For people like Chow Tai Fook who were captured, there would be no compensation.

If you don't imprison them for the rest of your life, you can do things for free forever.

Chow Tai Fook didn't think about supplementing the gold, and he felt dizzy to leave so easily.

The volunteers continued to stand with more than a dozen people, confirming the news about Zheng Zhilong. The volunteers did not personally go to Fujian to find out about the Zheng family, so they could only use this method to learn as much as possible about them.

The reason for understanding the Zheng family is very simple, Chen Zijian wants to do something to the Zheng family.

At the same time, it is enough to have a volunteer army on the sea, and the Zheng family blocks the path of the volunteers, so clean them up, unless the Zheng family is willing to take the initiative to surrender and give up the forces in their hands. Chen Zijian might let them go.

Xinyi, who collected information about the Zheng family from the captives, finally appeared in front of Chen Zijian.

Chen Zijian watched with great interest, and when he heard the news of the Zheng family, it is difficult to say the accuracy, but it can be used as a reference.

It is said that the current Zheng family, in September of the first year of Chongzhen (1628), Zheng Zhilong was appeased by Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, led more than 30,000 people, more than 1,000 ships to surrender to Ming, and granted the coastal defense guerrilla, and served as the "Five Tiger Guerrilla General", stationed in Anhai. Zheng Zhilong used Anping Town as a military base and maritime trade base to support his troops and defend himself, breaking the imperial court's sea ban, prospering the sea market, and the armed fleet was clear-cut and strong, sailing between China's coastal areas, Taiwan, Macao, Japan, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian places, almost monopolizing China's trade with overseas countries.

Zheng Zhilong is definitely the overlord of the southeast coast, and not only the Spanish combined fleet is afraid of three points and gives protection money.

However, the weapons mastered by Zheng Zhilong's naval division are generally cold weapons, artillery, and weapons of the unified fire category, accounting for a very small proportion.

The reason is that Zheng Zhilong is rich and powerful, yes, limited by the manufacturing level of the times, and the weapons equipped are just like that, the Dutch, the Spaniards have powerful artillery, but the Dutch, the Spaniards are not stupid, how can they sell it to the Zheng family's artillery!

Moreover, the Dutch have irreconcilable contradictions with the Zheng family, and they will not give the Zheng family artillery.

The level of artillery manufacturing in the Ming Dynasty itself, since the first two emperors of the Ming Dynasty, artillery manufacturing not only did not develop further, but instead created defective and residual artillery, Zheng Zhilong had the ability to find artillery.

As for why the Volunteers are equipped with more than 1,000 artillery pieces here, the two cannot be compared.

The appearance of Chen Zijian is itself an open existence.

For the Zheng family, Chen Zijian's attitude was to clean up, and later Zheng Zhilong surrendered to Tatars, and then was placed under house arrest in Beiping; The Tartars used Zheng Zhilong to recruit his son Zheng Chenggong many times, and then he was imprisoned and killed.

Zheng Zhilong is a hero, even if Chen Zijian arrests him and stays in Zhangjiacheng for one more hidden crisis, of course Chen Zijian can't have a crisis by his side.

After reading the documents preliminarily, Chen Zijian had a rough idea of the Zheng family's forces, and Chen Zijian had nothing to worry about the Zheng family's forces, and the hot weapons mastered by the volunteers were not at all something that the Zheng family could contend with.

Chen Zijian thought about how to kill the "dragon" blocking the road at the first cost.

At present, the number of warships in the Northern Navy is about 80, because new ships are added to the navy every day, and Chen Zijian is not very clear about the specific number of the navy.

There will be all kinds of accidents in the navy in the sea, and there is no real-time information to communicate with each other at this time, so Chen Zi's lack of clarity about the situation of the navy is not a problem.