As soon as Zheng Zhibao came ashore, he was stunned!

Originally, I heard that Nanzhong was rich, but I never thought it would come to such a point. A few peasants passing in front of his caravan drove the buffalo leisurely, carrying two pears in front of them, and singing a dialect tune from somewhere.

Zheng Zhibao's weather-beaten eyes immediately saw that the pears, hoes and other farm tools on the shoulders of those farmers were all made of wrought iron! Looking at such a good iron, being beaten into a farm tool so lightly, and carrying a few farmers in muslin robes, Zheng Zhibao was very unwilling!

Wait a minute! Why did the peasants wear muslin?

Hey! This is clearly a scene arranged by the Southern Chinese Army, but it is not done carefully enough, and we Lao Tzu can see it!

However, looking at the accompanying personnel of the South and Chinese Army, their faces were as usual, and they did not show off at all. From time to time, he greeted the peasants in various dialects, laughed a few words, and asked about the harvest.

With an endless stream of such things along the way, Zheng Zhibao finally had to admit that what he saw was the real scene.

In the villages and towns along the way, large and small artillery pieces are densely arranged on the city walls and walled walls, and the peasants you see are all holding iron farm tools, and many people are holding steel farm tools!

These, plus the artillery on the water, the cannon on the port battery, how much steel is there in this Nanzhong!

Zheng Zhibao put away his arrogant heart more and more, and his mind lingered with the eldest brother's explanation, "Don't underestimate the Nanzhong Army, they are much stronger than us!" ”

Now it seems that the words of the eldest brother are definitely the most reasonable!

Whether it is Zheng Zhilong, or Li Dan and Liu Xiang, the predecessors of the sea, their gang has a characteristic, that is, it is only circulation and trade, not production. On the contrary, the South China Army attaches far more importance to production than to trade.

In the midst of his thoughts, under the guidance of his entourage, Zheng Zhibao finally arrived at the palace of Hue, came to the core of the South China Army, and met its commander and leader.

The stunned Li Shouhan in front of him was so young, and he was almost as young as his eldest brother. (Pig's feet were born in the 30th year of Wanli, and Zheng Zhilong was born in the 32nd year of Wanli, and the two are of the same age.) Zheng Zhibao suddenly found that he didn't know what to call Li Shouhan!

Title of official? Some of his identities are sea merchants, and some of them are pirates. The other party is under the banner of the Ming official army, although this banner is also scorned by others.

By the name of the rivers and lakes? Isn't that looking for the other party to turn the other cheek? You can't call the other party the big boss, the big boss, or the shipowner, right?

Fortunately, his brain turned relatively fast, "In Xia Zheng Zhibao, on the orders of my brother, I have seen a handsome!" ”

Shouhan hurriedly stretched out his hand and hugged Zheng Zhibao, who was bowing down, with his hand, "Eh! Don't be so polite! ”

After consulting each other, Shouhan talked to Zheng Zhibao very affectionately: "I am two years older than Brother Ling, and I am the fifth brother of Feihuang (Zheng Zhilong's character), so I will call you a brother, how about it?" ”

"The name of the handsome, the southern part of the Megatron Sea, I am fortunate to climb high."

After some politeness, both sides got straight to the point.

"My brother's order is to come to Wenlai, and I am also grateful that although Liang Yuan is good, he is not a long-term love family. I have the heart to follow the handsome Jiwei and contribute to the Ming court. And there is also the kindness of Lord Xiong of Fujian, who intends to accept the appeasement and become a Ming sailor, and appease the sea frontier for my Ming Dynasty, and it is not in vain all the hardships of the turmoil at sea over the years. ”

Zheng Zhilong begged for a living at sea from the age of eighteen, successively maneuvered between the Portuguese, Japanese, Li Dan, Dutch and many other forces, received Catholic baptism, married a Japanese daughter-in-law (gave birth to Tagawa Fumatsu Marutaro, Chinese name is Zheng Sen!). ）。 In the midst of this complicated and chaotic world, the general sent by a Li Dan gang to the Dutch East India Company gradually became the owner of a maritime gang, and the hardships and dangers were far beyond Li Shouhan's comparison.

After the death of Li Dan and Yan Siqi, two maritime predecessors, Zheng Zhilong, as the leader of the new generation of maritime gangs, got more room to show. Yan Siqi died, Zheng Zhilong, combined with the pirate leaders, known as the Eighteen Zhi, became the most powerful military and commercial team along the coast of Fujian at that time, with tens of thousands of sailors under his command, engaged in maritime trade, oh, occasionally make a cameo appearance in the promising career of piracy, rampant in the Taiwan Strait. In the same year, another of his benefactors, Li Dan, who was running the Xiamen, Nagasaki, and Dayuan trade, died on the way back to Pinghu from Dayuan, and his property and soldiers in Dayuan were transferred to Zheng Zhilong's control, which further changed Zheng Zhilong's strength.

With the support of a large number of artillery and gunpowder purchased from Nanzhong, he annexed his old brother Xu Xinsu and others, seized the port of Xiamen, and used the then Dayuan, now called Taiwan, as a base, across the Taiwan Strait, constantly harassing and plundering the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong.

During this period, his fleet grew to the size of 700 ships, captured and killed his former brother Xu Xinsu, and defeated Yu Zhigao, the deputy general of Fujian at the time (this master is not an idle person, he is a figure on the same level as Qi Jiguang!). ）。

At such a time, the Fujian government decided to come up with another tried and tested magic weapon to deal with bandit gangs: appeasement! There is a way to be an official, kill people, set fires, and be recruited. In the eyes of Fujian officials, although Zheng Zhilong "crisscrossed the sea, intercepted merchants according to the island, but fought with the official army, the official army was defeated and not pursued, and the captured soldiers were not killed." It shows that his loyalty is still untouched, so some people came out to talk back and forth, persuading Zheng Zhilong to accept Zhao'an.

And Zheng Zhibao came this time for three purposes, one is what we said earlier, to greet the South China Army, so that this partner and neighbor will not be suspicious and unfavorable to himself. Second, it is planned to make another large-scale purchase to expand its strength.

The brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao saw very clearly that if it were not for the tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of boats in their hands, the Fujian government would not have thought of appeasing the brothers at all. What is the most reliable in troubled times? It was also said that it was the ship and the cannon in the hands of the brothers!

Zheng Zhibao is to buy all kinds of artillery, gunpowder, cannons, knives and spears, armor, cotton cloth made by the Southern Chinese Army, after seeing those excellent farm tools along the way, he also plans to purchase some steel, go back to cast guns and build ships can only be used.

Third, it is necessary to discuss with the Yugoslav and Chinese armed forces the continuation of commercial and trade cooperation between the two sides. Although the flag has changed, but the people have not changed, it should be a business or a business, otherwise, what will feed these tens of thousands of people? Feed these hundreds of boats? Relying on the military salary issued by the imperial court? Hum! Thinking about those military salaries, Zheng Zhibao couldn't help but let out a cold snort from his nostrils. For maritime trade, the Zheng brothers saw it very clearly, "Paid from the sea, there is no home without the sea!" ”

In the real history, during the heyday of Zheng Zhilong's group, his trade scope covered all parts of the East and South Seas: Da Ni, Huni, Champong, Luzon, Yonggang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, Malacca, Cambodia, Siam, it is estimated that the military strength of Han Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Austronesian, African black and other races is up to 200,000 people, with a fleet of more than 3,000 large and small ships, becoming the only power in the maritime world of East China and South China.

However, now the future king of Yanping County, his trade scope has been reduced to only the east and the north of Fujian and Guangdong. The above-mentioned places such as Nanyang and Luzon all became Li Shouhan's sphere of influence.

After reading the long gift list that Zheng Zhibao respectfully presented, Shouhan smiled, "It's all my own brother, Brother Ling is really polite." If Xian Kunzhong has anything to do with the military and civilians in Xiaxia and Nanzhong, please tell me bluntly. ”

The purpose of Zheng Zhibao's coming this time is just to keep the Han sentence!

"It's really going to be troublesome!"

A member of Zheng Zhibao's entourage sent a long list of purchases, which was densely filled with the names and quantities of various goods that Zheng Zhilong needed, and the guards glanced at it hastily, which listed 20 12-pound guns, 40 8-pound cannons, 50 big franc machines, 80 small franc machines, 1,000 barrels of gunpowder, 10,000 dyed cotton cloth, and so on.

"In addition, my brother means that although he will be a Ming officer in the future, he still has to do business with the Nanzhong Army. Everyone's previous contract is still valid. Everyone continues to work together. ”

There was a verbal agreement between the two parties before, although it was not written in pen, but it was also implemented very resolutely. That is, the Zheng family did not interfere in the trade between Li Shouhan's Nanzhong Army and the Wa State. Moreover, it can solicit business for the South China Army, and once a business comes to the door, the Zheng family can also get a lot of money (intermediary fee?). ）。 The Zheng family's trade with the Japanese state, the Nanzhong army did not interfere, on the contrary, if there was a commodity that the Nanzhong army needed, it would buy it at a very attractive price.

"After we are appeased, the defense area should still be in the area of Fujian's hometown, brother's meaning, see if the master can give the monopoly of the various productions of the Nanzhong Army, Fujian, Gannan, Huguang, and Nanzhili to be handled by the subordinates. It is also good to find the capital to support their families for the soldiers of the contempt. ”

It turned out that it was going to have the agency right in East China for the Nanzhong product!

Shouhan was also very happy, and directly ordered someone to take the map, and began to divide the scope of Zheng Zhilong Group's agent of various commodities in Nanzhong on the list of Huangming Quanyu.

In addition to the area along the river, the entire East China region is basically Zheng Zhilong's region!

He was very grateful to the marshal for selling rice at a low price in the land of Sangzi in Fujian, and specially ordered the younger brother to bring 150,000 taels of silver to buy rice. It is used to transport it back to its hometown for relief to the victims. ”

Big joke! It was actually a pirate gang that was encircled and suppressed by the government and went ashore to rescue the disaster? Shouhan was speechless when he heard this, but thinking about it, if it was an official disaster relief, I am afraid that if the money and food for the disaster relief were lost and floated away, it would be less!

"Xian Kunzhong intends to benefit Sangzi, and the military and civilians in Xia and Nanzhong all admire it, so I will use the rice price we wholesale to sell to Xian Kunzhong, how about 500,000 stones? In addition, in the future, the sale of rice, salt, vegetable oil and other materials in Fujian will be handed over to Xiankunzhong. What do you think? ”

"In addition, there are many ships in your army, and I have a lot of Japanese people trading here, and the volume of goods is also very large. It's a pity that the Japanese ships are small and can't carry too many things. If there are surplus ships and rich sailors, please send them to Nanzhong and ask them to transport the goods to the ground in Kyushu on their behalf, and I will let those daimyo pay for the water. ”

What is Zheng Zhilong Group? Ships and sailors! What's more, the line of Fuso is even more familiar to the sailors, and it is almost no different from their own home. (Well, it seems that many people have settled in Japan!) In this way, their big ships, which could not be used as warships, had a place to go, and they could transport them back and forth between Nanchu and Kyushu and Honshu, or they could simply purchase goods in Nanchu and go to Fuso Mishima to sell their goods, which was also a good thing!

"Also, Brother Wenxian, the silver taels you brought this time, I will say hello to the shopkeepers of the Han Yuan firm, which can be regarded as the deposit between your family and the Han Yuan firm, and the settlement will be made when the goods are marketed in the future."

As soon as Shouhan's words came out, Zheng Zhibao was overjoyed, he originally planned to trade in cash, but now he can buy on credit first, and then settle it in a unified manner, so that the pressure on the position of the eldest brother is invisibly a lot smaller, damn the Fujian government, since it wants to recruit our brother, why is it asking for bribes?

"My brother is ashamed of this! The many good intentions of the handsome, Zhibao must truthfully convey them to his brother. As long as the commander has orders, my brother will definitely go in the water and in the fire! ”

"The matter of the ship freight that the marshal said was originally within my share, this is the marshal rewarding the bitter haha with a bowl of full food, there is nothing else to say, if this matter is not done well, you just send someone to the big ear scraper to smoke me Zheng Zhibao! In the next time the rice was transported, at least fifty large ships were arranged to go to Nanzhong to wait for dispatch! ”

The long talk between Shouhan and Zheng Zhibao redistributed the interests of the two armed groups that were now outside the normal system, divided the sphere of influence and the content of cooperation, and brought the cooperation between the two sides to a new height, starting a honeymoon period between the South China Army and the Zheng Maritime Group.

Zheng's Group's sea capacity and land connections have quietly become the sales channel of the South China Army, and have become accomplices in commodity sales activities to the mainland, mainly in Fujian and southern Jiangxi.

The general direction has been set, that is, Zheng's Maritime Group and Hanyuan Firm have conducted specific technical consultations.

"My lord, it has basically been discussed, the Zheng family wants us at least one million stone of rice every quarter, in addition to military supplies, to be sold to Fujian and other places. At least 50,000 catties of wrought iron should be wrought every month. 10,000 salt, 10,000 sugar, 100,000 dyed cloth of various colors. ”

"They will provide us with all kinds of products from Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, raw silk, tea, silk and other things, and purchase cotton and other materials for us. However, Zheng Zhibao has another request, which was just put forward. ”

Lin Huofeng, the big shopkeeper of the Han Yuan firm, methodically returned to Shouhan about the trade negotiation process with the Zheng Group, and Shouhan put down the math book that Basten had just gotten for him, and listened very carefully to what Lin Da Shopkeeper said.

"The Zheng Group has a lot of contacts in Kyushu and in the five islands, and knows about our trade with Fuso, and is also well aware of the huge profits in it, Zheng Zhibao and I recently tried to monopolize the Fuso trade in addition to the Goto family, the Zong family, and the Shimazu family."

"He's got a good plan!"

Shouhan snorted coldly.

"He knows that all kinds of goods produced in my Nanzhong can be sold in the Wa Kingdom and can make huge profits, are the people of the Wa Kingdom fools? Lao Lin, you go to sue him, the rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and the business is also done step by step, don't be greedy and chew too much! ”

After sending Lin Huofeng away, Shouhan no longer had the heart to look at the newly arrived logarithms, he wandered back and forth in the house, always feeling that Zheng Zhibao had fallen to the dust together, and suddenly asked for Japan's trade agency, which must be strange!

Zheng Zhilong, the eldest brother of Zheng Zhibao, married the adopted daughter of the Matsuura family, Tagawa, and gave birth to a very famous son! The Matsuura family is both a pirate and a famous wall grass, the monkey has been secretly communicating with them before the conquest of Kyushu, and during the Korean War, he saved Konishi Yukinaga, and two years after the end of the Korean War, he joined the Eastern Army without hesitation, and in 1603, the turtle founded the Tokugawa shogunate and immediately gave the pestle to Matsuura Townshin, and then the Matsuura party washed ashore to become the Matsuura family, and the stone height was about 63,000 stones, which is also considered a daimyo. It's much higher than the stone of the Goto family, who is also a pirate whitewasher! Their relationship in Japan can be said to be intertwined, and in addition to the Tagawa clan informing Zheng Zhilong of the huge profits of trade between Nanzhong and the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom is also going to take action within the Wa Kingdom!

If they want to grasp the movements of the Tokugawa family, it is much more convenient than that of the Nanchu Army!

On the sixth day of the eighth month, after concluding a series of trade negotiations with the South Chinese Army, Zheng Zhibao's fleet was ready to set off for Xiamen with a thick stack of contracts, loaded with rice, salt, white sugar, dyed cloth, desperate knives, armor and other things.

Li Shouhan, who was seeing him off at the pier, was full of smiles in the sound of firecrackers, and ordered someone to take a long package and hand it to Zheng Zhibao's hand to signal Zheng Zhibao's servant to open the package.

Zheng Zhibao looked at it intently, and in the package were several long knives made in the style of the Japanese knife, compared with the Japanese knife, the spine and the blade were thicker, and it seemed more and more heavy, I don't know what steel was made of, and it shone blue and faint in the sun, which was very cute.

"This is made of iron and steel produced in Nanzhong, and I heard that Brother Ling has a wife and a son in Fusang, so he asked the blacksmith to make these knives for protection."

Iron and steel!

Zheng Zhibao had also heard of the power of this steel mouth, which was said to be end-of-the-box and could be cut to the core, but he was surprised that Shouhan would give it away today.

"When I go back, I can tell Brother Ling, if there are too many victims in Fujian, you can send them to Nanzhong with the boat to reclaim them, I have a lot of wasteland here, and I can give the victims rations, cattle, and farm tools, and let them reclaim it."

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