What is the picture of Jiangnan in the twilight of spring?

As a traverser, Zheng Zhilong's mind naturally thought of the ancient town of Jiangnan in later generations, Bai Juyi's "Remembering Jiangnan", and the fireworks in March described in the book.

In Zheng Zhilong's heart, the Jiangnan at this time is a feast of beautiful and red warblers and swallows, beautiful under the smoke and rain, like an unfolding Miaoman painting!

The silk rain as thin as a mist lingers in people's hearts!

Hazy, simple, gentle, picturesque, reflected in your eyes!

This is the Jiangnan at the end of March in his heart, in short: beauty.

Taking a boat from the mouth of the Yangtze River, Zheng Zhilong looked at the beautiful scenery on both sides of the river, looked at the Wupeng boat on the river, and the white-walled Wuwa of the village on the shore, and was very satisfied with the fact that he was "sure enough".

Coupled with the silky mist drizzle, the scenery on the mighty river is really not comparable to the ancient towns or dense modern buildings of later generations.

With the deepening of the fleet, the prosperous waterway of the Yangtze River is gradually unfolding in front of his eyes.

Baoshan, Wusong, and Liuhebao, three guards near the Yangtze River, appeared in Zheng Zhilong's sight in turn.

It was not beyond his expectations, it was obviously only a city of thousands of households, but the city gate was crowded with traffic, and it was crowded, but it was much more lively than the county seat in Denglai. Not to mention the rows of dwellings outside the city walls.

Just looking at the appearance of these three military cities of thousands of households, the prosperity of Jiangnan can be seen.

And in the same way, looking at the three thousand cities in front of you, which were originally meant to be places of military affairs, have become what they are now, and the martial affairs in the land south of the Yangtze River will not be asked.

Zheng Zhilong thought about the gentry and officials in the land of Qilu because of the rumors of the Qing army's entry into the fortress, and then looked at the current 'stability and peace' of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and could only sigh in his heart.

The Ming Dynasty's control over the Jiangnan region is really ...... It's unbearable.

The flotilla did not stop, and went straight to the west.

Zheng Zhilong is going to Chongming to visit the Shen family.

Because the draft of the big bird boat is deeper, it cannot cross the waterway on the north bank of the river with many shallows and dark sand, but sails straight along the waterway on the south bank of the river, passing through Nansha and Changsha successively, and then arrives at Chongmingsha.

Today's Chongming is very different from the Chongming of later generations, the Chongming Island of later generations is the Qianlong period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Changsha and the surrounding Nansha, Pingyang sand merged into a sandbar after the island, the basic outline of Chongming Island was formed at that time.

The current Chongming Sand is only a section of the western part of Chongming Island in later generations.

The pier is draped in red and hung with colors, and the gongs and drums are noisy. The Shen family attaches great importance to Zheng Zhilong's visit, just as Zheng Zhilong regards the Chongming Shen family as a very important political ally, and the Shen family values Zheng Zhilong even more.

Because, Zheng Zhilong's potential strength is much stronger than the Shen family's led Sand Boat Gang, and the power of the Min Sea King is enough to easily subvert the southeast coast. Not to mention that the current Zheng Army's army has also shown incomparably strong combat power.

In the past, the Zheng family, who was lame on one leg, could easily turn the south into a pot of porridge, let alone the Zheng group with two legs now.

And what about the Shen family?

The strength of them and the entire Sand Boat Gang is mainly embodied in the 'world' under the Zhu Ming order.

With Shen Tingyang's ability, as well as the strength of the Shen family and their influence in Jiangnan, as long as Emperor Chongzhen goes south, he will definitely be an important force in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

After all, the defense of Jianghuai is inseparable from the naval army, and the surface force is the specialty of the Sand Boat Gang.

Zheng Zhilong will not get involved with the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and will only establish himself as a foreign prince who listens to the tune and does not listen to the announcement, but he must have a few strong allies in the Southern Ming Dynasty, right? Jiang Dejing doesn't count.

So, he came this time to deepen his connection with the Shen family.

Not only will they continue to hire ships from the Sand Boat Gang to deliver all kinds of materials to Zhifu Island and Juehua Island, but they will also talk to the Shen family about the arms trade.

Muskets, artillery, swords, guns, and armor, with the Zheng family's current arms production, can completely divide a part of it to the Shen family.

And with this thing as the foundation, the alliance between Shen and Zheng is settled.

At the same time, he is also leaving enough time for Zheng Hongkui to come forward and have a good talk with the Dutch, so that the negotiation effect will not be good, and the two families will not tear their faces immediately, right?

Zheng Hongkui is not Zheng Zhilong, not the leading brother of the Zheng Group. There is still "room" for relaxation between each other!

The Dutch will certainly feel a great threat when they receive the news, and the Dutch, who still have time to 'détente' the relationship between the two families, will definitely send clippers to try to inform Batavia in the shortest possible time, and the latter will certainly send a fleet to reinforce their Formosa as soon as they receive the news.

That's what Zheng Zhilong was happy to see.

Although this may seem to make the 'possible' war more difficult, if the war between the two does break out, it will also give Zheng a chance to deal with the threat of the Dutch in the shortest possible time.

After receiving Zheng Hongkui's signal, the Dutch authorities asked He Bin to arrive in Anping by boat in advance to make an advance contact with the Zheng family.

Before the two officially start negotiations, let's get in touch and understand each other's intentions.

He Bin was the old man in the eighteenth Zhili back then, although he parted ways with Zheng Zhilong, but in the end, unlike Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi, Zhong Bin, Yang Liu, Yang Qi, and other people who stood on the opposite side of Zheng Zhilong, he and Guo Huaiyi have always maintained a good relationship with the Zheng family.

On the day Zheng Zhilong crossed, it was the day Zheng Sen got married, and he and Guo Huaiyi also sent their cronies to drink a glass of wedding wine on their behalf.

"This is Anping Port?"

Standing on the bow of the ship, He Bin looked at the Anping Port that was getting closer and closer, and his mouth grew.

Is this still the Anping Port he knows?

The peace he had sent to the nephew of the Zheng family was completely different from what he saw now.

The first time he looked at it, he thought he was in the wrong place.

Not to mention the turrets that look like stones, what are the things that look like booms on the pier trestle? There are also tracks on the pier.

He could see the tracks with horse-drawn carriages, drawn by two horses dragging obviously elongated flatbed carts, and the goods piled up on them were more than he could have imagined.

There are only two horses pulling the cart, pulling such heavy goods, why can they still run so fast? And the track seemed to be like a rut, so that the carriage could only follow it.

At the end of the carriage was a row of tall barns in the docks, which were obviously warehouses.

He Bin was looking at the flat dock again, and the latter divided several colors.

First the traders and sailors dressed in different clothes, then the laborers in uniform in blue uniforms, the dock officials in black uniforms, and the military guards in red uniforms, the entire dock was in order, revealing something that the Zheng group lacked most in the past - order.

If it weren't for others watching, He Bin would have rubbed his eyes with his hands in a gaffe.

Is this really Zheng's Anping Port?

Is the Zheng family I knew in the past all fake Zheng?

In fact, this is also He Bin was 'blinded' by his own memories of the past, and the old memories were too profound, thus ignoring the recent changes in the Zheng Group.

Otherwise, with his identity, he can completely detect the difference between the Zheng family and the past.

To say that Xiamen and Anping are still too far away, what about Dayuan Island?

In these days, in the territory controlled by the Zheng family, the establishment of villages, towns and cities, and the fresh release of batches of recruits, the most indispensable thing is the word 'order'.

And when He Bin set foot in Anping Port, he faced even more shock.

Public toilets, garbage cans, carriage lanes, sidewalks, left and right branches, drive on the right, there are special traffic police at intersections, and patrols with knives on the streets. There are also chengguan who specialize in staring at people.

Shi Daxuan, who came to greet him, told him all the rules, and those who had no weapons and only short sticks were called chengguan.

Throwing garbage anywhere, dumping garbage anywhere, defecating anywhere, are all under the control of urban management.

He Bin no longer felt that the Zheng Group lacked 'order', but felt that there were too many people here who were restricted.