Fujian, Quanzhou is the government. Quanzhou Prefecture governs seven counties of Jinjiang, Nan'an, Tong'an, Hui'an, Anxi, Yongchun and Dehua, and the government is located in Jinjiang County. The Senate's biggest potential enemy, Zheng Zhilong's hometown of Nan'an, is in the northwest of Jinjiang County.

Since Zheng Zhilong was appeased, became a guerrilla general, and returned with magnificent clothes, the Zheng family has become the richest man in Quanzhou.

The Zheng family bought a large amount of land in Nan'an, planted various export cash crops, and was a big landlord in addition to the maritime merchants. The Zheng family in Nan'an also naturally developed and built a magnificent mansion.

However, Zheng Zhilong was not satisfied with Nan'an's geographical location - as a maritime tyrant, he valued a good haode port more. Therefore, he chose to build a walled city in Anping Town, Jinjiang, as his main stronghold.

Anping Town belongs to Quanzhou Prefecture, and its location is not in Quanzhou Bay, where the Jinjiang River flows, but in Weitou Bay, which faces Lù out of Kinmen Island. In ancient times, it was called Wanhai, and it was renamed "Anhai" in the Song Dynasty, and it was renamed "Anping" in the Ming Dynasty. The word "an" alone was not enough, and the word "ping" was added, probably because the place was often harassed by pirates.

In the 37th year of Jiajing, it was attacked by the Japanese and suffered deeply, and the city wall was built from then on. The looting of the Japanese was so far-reaching that it was 80 years ago, but the place is still a place of change.

When Zheng Zhilong was not recruited, he constantly attacked the traditional foreign trade port of Yuegang in Fujian, completely destroying the foreign trade of Yuegang, thus realizing the attempt to transfer the foreign trade port to Anping and Zhongzuo under his control.

His choice of Anping as his base was deliberate. The town of Anping, together with Xiamen Island (Zhongzuo) and Kinmen Island under his control, constitute a tightly controlled Weitou Bay. If the enemy wants to attack here, he will have to take great risks.

Zheng Zhilong overhauled the walls of Anping and almost rebuilt a new city. Anping became Zheng Zhilong's military stronghold and maritime trade base for his own troops. Ships trading with Japan and Taiwan come in and out of the area. The Dutch called these merchant ships "Anhai ships".

In addition to building the city wall and dredging the dock, his own enjoyment has not been left behind. Since the spring of the third year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong has built his mansion on a large scale in Anping. It took 3 years and 2 months for this luxurious mansion to complete.

According to the "Jiaqing Chidian Native Chronicles": Zheng Mansion is located north of Anping Bridge, west from Xidai to Xigang. It reaches Xitou in the north, Anping Qiaotou in the south, and directly connects to the five ports, covering an area of 138 acres. The main structure is a mountain type with five bays and thirteen frames. Three-way gate, double fire lane, five courtyards. On both sides, the wings, pavilions, pavilions and pavilions are opposite each other, and the ring is listed as a barrier. There is "Dunren Pavilion" in the east, there is "Taiyun Building" in the west, the front hall is "Catholic Hall", and the middle hall is "Xiaosi Hall", and the scale is magnificent. Behind the big house there is a "Zhiyuan Garden". Zhou is protected by the wall, and the hills, pavilions, fine houses, ponds, small bridges, winding paths, beautiful trees, and exotic flowers and plants are sparse.

At this moment, this luxurious mansion is still under construction, and Zheng Zhilong and his family are temporarily living in a smaller mansion in Anping Town.

Zheng Zhilong was in his own internal signing room at this time. Although the senate was obsessed with this man, few people noticed that Zheng Zhilong was not very old: he was born in 1604, and he was only twenty-eight years old in 1631. After Yan Siqi's death, he took over Yan's old department. He was only twenty-one years old. If it is placed in the old time and space, it is an authentic "young talent", "ten outstanding young people" and so on.

In 1631, Zheng Zhilong had eliminated most of his maritime opponents, including Li Kuiqi, who had nearly cornered him at one point. Completely controlled trade with Japan, forcing the former employers, the Dutch, the sea coachmen, to trade on his terms. At this time, he was sitting on a huge fleet that shook the China Sea, monopolizing trade with Japan and Taiwan: "It is no exaggeration to put the words "Japan into gold" and "rich and rival the country" on him. The authentic Ming is "rich and handsome". - Zheng Zhilong is still a beautiful man with beautiful eyebrows.

He had a piece of paper in his hand.

The paperwork was brought by a Zheng family merchant ship that had returned from Taiwan a few days earlier. The person who wrote the letter was Zheng Zhilong's agent in Taiwan: Guo Huaiyi.

Guo Huaiyi's identity was the leader of the Han Chinese immigrants in Tainan. On the surface, he is just the head of the local migrant village, the village of oil trucks. In fact, Guo Huaiyi used to be Zheng Zhilong's subordinate, and he stayed in Tainan as an idle move.

Zheng Zhilong's career has a lot to do with inheriting Yan Siqi's legacy. And Taiwan's shili is also one of the legacies left by Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi was the lord of the sea in the Sino-Japanese sea at that time, engaged in trade and sea plunder. At that time, there were ten main leaders under his command, including Yang Tiansheng, Zhang Hong, Lin Fu, Lin Yi, Li Junchen, Chen Xinji, and Zheng Zhilong.

Yan Siqi, like many famous sea lords at the time, used Japan as his main base. As the authority of the shogunate continued to increase. The chief, Yan Siqi, took precautions and considered establishing his own base outside of Japan.

There are many places to choose from to establish a base on the islands off the coast of China, but the remnants of the Ming Dynasty still exist, and the military Liliang has not declined to the point of being as vulnerable as it was later, and the islands along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang cannot be touched -- Shuangyu is a lesson from the past. Even Penghu. The Dutch built fortifications several times, but were expelled by the Ming army several times, so they could only choose an isolated island overseas -- Taiwan, the "land of the outside world", thus came into their sight.

In 1624, Yan Siqi led his subordinates and immigrants to Beigang, established a camp in the local area, and recruited Zhangquan immigrants from the mainland to pioneer and cultivate here. In September of the following year, Yan Siqi was said to have died of a cold while hunting in Zhuluo Mountain.

Yan Siqi's sudden death is quite suspicious, but no matter what, Zheng Zhilong, who was only twenty-one years old, inherited Yan Siqi's position as the leader and got most of Yan Siqi's inheritance.

After Zheng Zhilong inherited Yan Siqi's position as the leader, he did not make great efforts to expand and cultivate in Taiwan. The Dutch expanded quickly in Taiwan, and the Spaniards also intervened: in 1626 the Spaniards built a saint near Keelung? City of Salvador. Two years later, Spain built a holy shrine in what is now Tamsui again. Domingo City. At that time, Zheng Zhilong was in constant war with Shili on the seas and competing for maritime supremacy, and he was unwilling to muddy the waters, so he once decided to give up his immigration base in Taiwan and withdraw to Fujian. Later, he gave up this idea and continued to run Taiwan, but in 1628 southern Fujian was hit by a severe drought and many people were starving. Zheng Zhilong, with the support of Xiong Wencan, recruited tens of thousands of people from Zhang, Quan, and other places, "people gave three taels of silver, and three people gave one cow", and transported them to Beigang by sea ship to settle down. greatly expanded the number of Fujian immigrants in Taiwan and shili, however, from the beginning to the end, Zheng Zhilong never sent armed liliang to Taiwan, nor did he clearly declare his ownership of Taiwan. He only supported the leaders of the Taiwanese immigrants in Fujian, and through them he came to control the local migrant villages without pop-ups or advertisements - but he did not interfere much in local affairs over the years. The Dutch collected a poll tax from the Chinese, and he did not interfere.

Through the local settlers, Zheng Zhilong continued to control Beigang, the area where mainland immigrants first landed and developed. Guo Huaiyi, who was in the Dutch-ruled area, wrote to him almost every month to report on the local situation. Guo Huaiyi, as the leader of the local Chinese, had to rely on him for many administrative affairs in the local area, so Zheng Zhilong knew almost everything about the Dutch in the local area and the trade situation.

The Dutch secretly colluded with Liu Xiang, and he had already grasped the information to support him, but now, he couldn't make up his mind to turn his face with the Dutch.

The Dutch are the first two ends of the rat, and they are also half-hearted towards Liu Xiang, and they will never really be able to do it - their only goal is to keep the balance on the sea. If you turn the other cheek at once, you will only force the Dutch to openly stand against themselves.

Although he was not afraid of the strength of the Dutch, whom he had taught a lesson a few years earlier, he was not a man who took pleasure in war: he was first and foremost a merchant. If the Dutch really stood on his side and tried their best to support Liu Xiang on the ships and guns, it would cause him great trouble.

Guo Huaiyi's letter does not refer to the Dutch: his report is about Australians.

The letter mentions that he learned from the Dutch and the local natives that last month, on the third day of September, the Australian fleet suddenly arrived at the port of Dagou and immediately landed at the port of Dagou. Large numbers of people and supplies have been brought ashore, and forts and forts have been erected in the area. There appears to be an attempt to colonize the area.

Zheng Zhilong is no stranger to Australians or thieves. A few years ago, he knew about Australian goods and Australians - Li Siya had reported their affairs to him, and also presented a few rare "Australian goods". Despite its mysterious origins, there are a number of strange things - such as the huge iron ship.

However, contrary to the Senate: the Senate regarded him as a great danger, but Zheng Zhilong did not take them to heart: the Australians were entrenched in Lingao, and the Cantonese Ocean was not within his Shili range, and he had no intention of reaching there. In the past few years, he has been busy dealing with various opponents competing with him on the sea, and the Australians in the western corner of Guangdong are no threat to him, and they are even more thorns on the back of Zhu Cailao.

It was only last year that the Australians defeated the advance of the whole army of Guangdong, and then entered the Pearl River Estuary to defeat the official army, and only retreated under the city of Guangzhou, which made Zheng Zhilong really pay attention to them for the first time. At the very least, the other party is a team that is not inferior to him in strength and will. He began to focus some of his attention on this group of overseas visitors who claimed to be descendants of the Great Song Dynasty.