"Report to the Grand Governor! Yesterday, another 1,200 people came to Yuegang to join our Nanming Water Division! ”

Fujian, Yuegang, the newly built Dadu Governor's Mansion, a young general with a dark complexion, his waist straight, a serious expression, flashed a strong joy, and reported to Zheng Zhilongyu, who was sitting on the exquisite Taishi chair.

"Good!"

Zheng Zhilong is now full of red light, the spring breeze is proud, and his heart is very cool, and he is very happy!

There was no way he could not be upset.

Since half a year ago, after he made up his mind to join the Southern Ming Dynasty, the rewards he received were far beyond his imagination.

Originally, he was still a pirate leader who followed Yan Siqi to eat, and he only had about a hundred large and small ships under his command, and it was not bad to mix.

At least when Yan Siqi was alive, it was difficult to develop and grow, and he had been living a tepid life.

After learning that great changes had taken place in the north of the Ming Empire, Zheng Zhilong, who was flexible and ambitious, made a bold gamble and took more than 100 large and small ships under his command to take refuge in the Southern Ming court.

At that time, when he gambled to seek refuge in the Nanjing magnates, the Southern Ming Dynasty was under construction and had not yet been established.

It's just that something unexpected happened to him: the Nanming Imperial Court, which was established on March 3, didn't know what medicine it had taken wrongly, so it trusted itself unreservedly and named himself the Metropolitan Governor of Nanzhen, one of the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River!

And that's not all!

Under the temptation that he had to vigorously form a strong sailor to be able to compete with Beiming, the big surprise came again.

The magnates of the Southern Ming Dynasty, without saying a word, added to themselves the title of the Governor of the Southern Ming Naval Army, responsible for organizing and commanding all the naval armies of the Southern Ming Empire!

Not only that, but even his younger brothers Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao ......, all the eighteen Zhi brothers are either deputy generals or generals......

Even his son, at a young age, was given the title of a hundred households in brocade clothes!

Throughout the ages, I have never seen such a person who was promoted to become rich.

This is the supreme glory of the Zheng family, and it can really be said that it is unprecedented.

Zheng Zhilong believes that if it weren't for the fact that those ministers and families of the Southern Ming Dynasty were forced too anxious by the emperor of the Northern Ming Dynasty, they would never have made such an outrageous decision.

The imperial court has only one request, money, food, and armor, and you will not be missing Zheng Zhilong, but you must train a real elite soldier for the Southern Ming Imperial Court within three months.

Whether it is the Navy Division or the Army, you Zheng Zhilong must meet the standard, otherwise, just wait for the Autumn Queen to settle the account!

Although Zheng Zhilong is also under pressure now, don't forget who he is.

He's a big pirate himself!

There are not too many people who can be more ruthless and more able to make money than pirates.

In this era, it is estimated that except for the mysterious emperor of the Northern Ming Dynasty, there is no one who can plan more and make money than Lao Tzu Zheng Zhilong.

Two months ago, he sent 300,000 army recruits from the Southern Ming Dynasty, and after the initial armed training was completed, Zheng Zhilong began a series of big moves.

He immediately reported to the Southern Ming Imperial Court, requesting that he begin a large-scale crusade against and surrender various pirate organizations along the coast, so as to relieve the worries of the Southern Ming Empire.

After getting the edict from the imperial court, Zheng Zhilong immediately asked his eighteen Zhi, each of whom led 10,000 troops, to attack the coastal areas everywhere, and issued an ultimatum to all the pirates along the coast of Fujian, not to surrender, and to kill all of them!

Zheng Zhilong and his Eighteen Zhi brothers were originally senior pirates, and most of them knew very well where those pirates were hiding, so they were naturally accurate by a dozen.

Facts have proved that no pirate group can withstand the crushing of the 300,000 regular troops under Zheng Zhilong, and they have been surrendered by him one after another.

There are not no pirate groups that resist to the end, but very few.

Most of those pirate groups that refused to surrender were naturally wiped out by Zheng Zhilong.

Born as a pirate, of course, he will not show mercy to these stubborn guys.

What's more, his biggest purpose in exterminating all the coastal pirates who were surrendered was to make money, keep making money, and make a lot of money!

Every maritime merchant knows how lucrative trade at sea is.

If you just rely on the little money from the imperial court, where can you afford to raise hundreds of thousands of troops? Nine-zero look

Even if he can afford it, he will be taken by those big figures in the Southern Ming Dynasty to his own life, and he will wantonly rub himself and Zheng Jiajun into a circle.

That kind of situation is definitely not what Zheng Zhilong, an ambitious pirate, wants.

As long as his Zheng family army has fully controlled the trade near this coast, how much silver do you want?

Where is the need to see the faces of those big men in the Southern Ming Dynasty in the future?

When the time comes, there will be plenty of money and food, and with hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in hand, no one can move if they want to.

At that time, he was able to get rid of the control of those insatiable people, and with the foundation of a real life, he would no longer be afraid of any wind and waves, and he would develop and grow steadily.

At the end of April, Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao both announced that they accepted the appeasement, which was considered to be destroyed by Zheng Zhilong, and Yan Siqi was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to serve as a general, and returned to serve under Zheng Zhihu.

And Chu Cailao because of his relatively old identity, and he took the initiative to stop doing this business, and his subordinates were incorporated by Zheng Zhilong, and he was allowed to return to his hometown to retire and return to his hometown in Fujian to become a rich man.

After exterminating or co-opting most of the pirates along the coast of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong, whose strength had skyrocketed again, extended his black hand to the sea area of Liangguang.

The pirates of the Southern Ming Dynasty realized that this time Zheng Zhilong wanted to play really, and he had to rob them of all their territory and force them to death.

Zheng Zhilong has dominated all the sea areas along the coast of Fujian, and now he has actually extended his hand to Liangguang?

So these people are gone, they have been active in the Liangguang area for so long, and they have already regarded this side of the sea as their own backyard, how can they allow Zheng Zhilong, an outsider, to drive them all away?

In early May of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, Liu Xiang, Qiu Ming and other large groups of pirates met at the mouth of the Pearl River and agreed to unite to deal with Zheng Zhilong's attack on them.

Each of these people has at least thousands of men and horses on hand, and the few have dozens of boats, and the big ones have hundreds of boats, and when they are combined, they are really not an ordinary force.

In a short period of time, we gathered more than 30,000 pirates and assembled more than 700 warships.

Of course, their warships have to be put in quotation marks, because their warships are incomparable with Zheng Zhilong's sailor warships.

On the surface, the number of their warships is definitely quite large, but in fact, among the more than 700 warships, only more than 200 are considered large ships.

Their armament is also uneven, only a small number of ships are equipped with relatively good Western-style cannons, and the rest of the ships are mostly equipped with some earthen cannons.

These people finally elected the strongest Liu Xiang as their alliance leader, and they made a bloody alliance to fight with Zheng Zhilong, either Zheng Zhilong perished and was driven back to the Japanese to drink milk, or they broke their halberds and sank into the sand.

It was now the end of early May, and during this period, the two sides spent a lot of time confronting each other and testing each other.

Because Zheng Zhilong's eighteen Zhi were pressed too tightly, a war broke out at this time, and the time was too tight.

If the enemy is not defeated, there is no sufficient harbor for warships, and it is likely to be caught in a tropical storm brought by the southerly winds in the middle of summer, which is needless to say.

A little time has passed, Zheng Zhilong has built a huge shipyard and a super city based on Yuegang, and truly used the area of Yuegang as a nest, spending a lot of manpower and material resources to build his own nest with heart.

He began to give orders and build warships on a large scale.

Large warships may not be in time, but small fireships are easy.

In his new shipyard, there were several hundred craftsmen, and the number of apprentices had reached about 1,500.

For this shipyard, the ocean fireship capable of carrying 20 people can build two in a day.

Zheng Zhilong also issued a reward order in Fujian, killing a pirate, and exchanging his head for ten taels of silver!

It must be known that at this time, the reward order issued by the Southern Ming Dynasty court, the head of the widow, one is only five taels of silver! The head of an ordinary traitor is only three taels of silver!

Zheng Zhilong also said that he would provide a fireship at a low price, as long as he burned a pirate's warship, depending on the size of the ship, he could get at least a hundred taels of silver!

There are many other rewards, if you kill or capture Liu Xiang, Qiu Ming and other bandit leaders alive, you will get a reward of at least 5,000 taels of silver, plus a hundred official titles!

If you hit a bandit leader hard, you will be given silver according to the situation, but at least 1,000 taels, plus a small flag official rank!

To be famous and profitable, all of a sudden, a large number of pirates gathered in the area of Kinmen and Yuegang to follow Zheng Zhilong's orders.

In order to prevent them from harassing the people, Zheng Zhilong specially divided an area for them to station, and recruited more than 500 pirates from it.

Nearly half of these large and small pirates who were called in were scattered pirates from Liangguang, which was tantamount to icing on the cake for Zheng Zhilong.

At the very least, he already knows what to expect from Liu Xiang, Qiu Ming and other Guangdong bandits in terms of intelligence.