A war in Fujian aroused the eagerness of everyone in Nanjing.

To be honest, for Zheng Zhilong's army to be defeated by the Nanyue army, the Shilin and merchants in Nanjing and even the entire Nanzhili have no doubts. After all, the Nanyue army was the king of Qin, who had defeated the Liaodong rebels, who had always been known for their ferocity and fierceness, and successively beheaded tens of thousands of troops. Compared with Zheng Zhilong's army, it can be said that it can be done both land and sea, not similar to Zheng Zhilong, what he is best at is naval warfare, and land warfare is a little lacking. However, in their impression, since Zheng Zhilong has been able to crisscross the sea for many years, the naval division is naturally not weak, and he has strong fortifications in Xiamen and other places, with artillery and fortified cities, and no matter what, he will drag the Nanyue army for a while.

According to the plan of Lord Qian, as long as Zheng Zhilong can fight with the Nanyue army at sea and on land for half a month, they will sacrifice Donglin's traditional magic weapon and public opinion offensive. They connected themselves with the two-sided group of scholars and merchants in various parts of the Yangtze River, created public opinion, echoed the Jin merchants in the north, and wantonly attacked Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army under his command from both the government and the opposition.

In the end, the coastal defense of his three provinces was forced to become a dead letter, and everyone could still make a special maritime trade and continue the good life of a shipload of silk and a shipload of silver.

Many people have quietly written an article on Li Shouhan and Nanyuejun to criticize Li Shouhan and Nanyuejun, and asked fellow members of the society and alumni to polish each other in the same year, which is definitely a spicy article that slaps Li Shouhan in the face with a bloody stain.

However, everyone stood on the Wangfu Stone like Meng Jiangnu waiting for the news that after the bloody battle between the two armies at sea, the Nanyue Army and Zheng Zhilong's army fought like a flesh mill in Xiamen and other places. "The battle for the city kills the city." This truth, Hou Fangyu, who prides himself on being familiar with military books and knows military affairs on weekdays, proudly explained to the members of the Fushe Society, "What's more, General Zheng Zhilong has worked hard in Xiamen for many years, and has built a city defense fortification comparable to Nanjing. ”

"That's right! At that time, as soon as the words we were waiting for came out, the world was shocked! It's just the right time to tear off this person's hypocritical face! Let everyone in the world see it. This guy is ostensibly loyal and patriotic. How filthy and filthy it is! For the sake of his own selfish interests, openly attacking friendly forces, is this still the world of my Ming Dynasty?! ”

(This seems to be a bit of a blatant slap in the face, and the people of Fushe and Donglin are embarrassed to say others?) ）

Several scholars of the Restoration Society commented on each other's words in Hou Fangyu's apartment. I hope to get the good news I am looking forward to.

But. Silly wife and other wild men. Bad news is often waiting for you.

After waiting for a long time, I never saw any news from the newspaper or the officialdom in Fujian. It was as if the two sides had mobilized tens of thousands of people and nearly 1,000 ships to attack each other. It was like a naughty boy throwing grains of sand into the sea, and in a blink of an eye, it was swallowed up by the waves, and not even a splash was raised.

Finally, after entering April, news came one after another from all over Fujian and among the businesses opened by Jiangnan Group.

"Li Huayu, the eldest marshal of the Nanyue Army, personally led thousands of barbarians to rush to Gulangyu Island in the rain of artillery, breaking two forts in a row, and forcing the third fort to surrender!"

"Zheng Zhilong abandoned Xiamen and prepared to transfer to Fuzhou through Tong'an! Please gentlemen, prepare a splendid article! After Zheng Zhilong's army enters Fuzhou, he can issue a crusade against this fang! ”

Zheng Zhilong was ambushed by the Nanyue army in the beauty mountain near Tong'an County, and was captured by Wu Liuqi, a fierce general under Li Shouhan. More than 100 fathers, sons and brothers were captured! ”

Fujian Governor Zhang Kentang, political envoys, envoys and others had a feast and drink with Li Shouhan in Xiamen. During the banquet, Li proposed to use work-for-relief and other means to prepare to build roads and bridges in various coastal areas of Fujian, in order to achieve the purpose of selling fame and reputation! ”

"The Nanyue army summoned the captured Zheng family's goods to various maritime merchants for the so-called auction. The highest price wins! Guangdong maritime merchants and Fujian maritime merchants are all flocking to it. The Nanyue Army issued a clear document stating that all bidders must have a tax payment certificate of more than three years or more than 100,000 taels in the jurisdiction of the Nanyue Army before they can enter the bidding. ”

Li Shouhan ordered someone to bring Shi Daxuan's father and son, with Zheng Zhilong's handwritten letter, to Nanao Island to recruit Shi Lang. Shi Lang, who was trapped here, saw that his father and younger brother were here, and there was a letter from the commander, and the governor could not do anything, but cried a lot and led the army to Xiamen to surrender. Li Shouhan personally went to the lower echelons to correspond, untied him, comforted him warmly, and allowed him to still lead the first army of the naval division, and all the system treatment, salary, ships and artillery were the same as those of the naval division of the Nanyue Army. ”

"Zheng's captured soldiers and sailors were all sent to Hong Kong Island, Cam Ranh Wan in the south of the country, Ha Tinh, Hue and other places for intensive training, and prepared to be supplemented into the various units of the Southern Guangdong Army."

"The Nanyue Army auctioned the Zheng family's assets and goods and obtained nearly 20 million silver dollars. After the merchants everywhere pay the tax, they can make more than half of the profits by selling them to the people who are taking them out and coming from all over the world! ”

Everything else is easy to say, when I saw this news, the entire Jiangnan merchant group went crazy!

"Li Shouhan is a red guy! You don't even tell me about making a lot of money like this! Those teas, if I go to the auction, I can sell them to the shopkeeper of Wang Da in Shanxi, and I can get at least more than seventy percent of the dividends! Even if you pay taxes, it's worth it! ”

A big tea merchant with a Jiangxi accent pounded his chest and lamented that he had lost such a good opportunity to make a fortune, ignoring the hostile gazes of the people around him.

The deacon of the trade guild coughed, which was a wake-up call, and then continued to read the news from Fujian.

Li Shouhan ordered that all the funds should be used for Fujian's roads, bridges, relief for disaster victims, the opening of schools, and food for immigrants, except for the 4 million yuan proposed to be returned to Zheng Zhilong. He said that the money and grain of Fujian should be used for the elders of Fujian. ”

"Wait!" Hearing the same news, Lord Qian Qianyi felt as if he had been struck by thunder. He almost thought he had misheard. How to take one-fifth of the money from the auction of the Zheng family's assets and return it to Zheng Zhilong? He asked himself, if he had such an opportunity, whether it was the raiding of a minister's house or the seizure of something on the expedition, where would he leave a single star for others?

And this Uncle Ning Yuan, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd? Actually after raiding someone else's house. Also returned part of it to Zheng Zhilong, who was already a prisoner? What does he want to do? If you sell your reputation, the cost will be too big! That's a full 4 million yuan of silver dollars with a fineness of more than 90% and 7 percent! It is in Nanjing, which has always been called the gold cave, and you can also be a rich man!

"This Uncle Ning Yuan, what is he going to do? Do you buy bones? Zheng Zhilong is not a maxima! How can you spend so much money? With a strong vinegar smell, Qian Qianyi and Qian Dacai snorted from their nostrils. From the tone of his voice, he couldn't hear the admiration and affection that jumped on the page when he exchanged letters with Zheng Sen.

"Sir, it's not just that." The housekeeper of the Qian Mansion had a face full of doubts and puzzlement. Continue to tell Qian Qianyi about the news he has gotten.

At the banquet, Zheng Zhilong was quite impressed by the martial arts of the Nanyue Army, especially the courage of a pair of children of Li. Li ordered Li Huayu and Li Huamei to make amends with Zheng Zhilong in court, claiming that they were all for state affairs. There is no grudge between your two families in private. In the future, the affairs of the Nanyue Army and the coastal defense yamen of these three provinces will have to ask Brother Zheng to work harder. ”

"What?!" Qian Qianyi was so shocked that he almost bit off his tongue! He never expected it. The two sides who fought so fiercely were able to shake hands at the banquet, and Li Shouhan openly wanted to invite Zheng Zhilong to join the Nanyue Army Naval Division? Participate in the management of coastal defense matters in the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and southern Zhili?

But. What surprised him even more quickly came out of the mouth of his confidant butler.

It is said that Zheng Zhilong was grateful for Bumin at that time. Lian Lian said. The general of the defeated army is not brave, and Zheng Mou understands the uncle's intentions. Helpless. The ability is too poor to take on this heavy responsibility. ”

At that time, after Zheng Zhilong said these words, not only did he look at the proud Ning Yuanbo with his own eyes, but his younger brother Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, clan brother Zheng Zhiguan and others, including the eldest son Zheng Sen, all stared at Li Shouhan with their eyes. I hope to find out from the subtle changes in the muscles on his face, to see if he really wants to recruit or if he is just making a false impression of magnanimity in front of his subordinates before the banquet.

After being defeated on the battlefield, this kind of thing was not uncommon in all Chinese dynasties, and it continued to fight during the Republic of China during the Republic of China. An opponent who is full of corpses and flesh and blood on the battlefield may not be able to drink and talk in one place in a few days. The most interesting is the Sichuan army, the troops are fighting outside the city, but their respective commanders are drinking flowers and playing mahjong together in the city. And their respective aunts and wives are moving around more frequently, which can be regarded as a spectacle during the Republic of China.

If Li Shouhan really has the heart to recruit the Zheng family, he will definitely not say it only once, he will also ask Zheng Zhilong for the post again, at this time, everyone has face, and Zheng Zhilong can get off the donkey, and praise the uncle for his kindness a few times.

This kind of thinking is not only among the generals of the Zheng family, but also Shi Lang, who has just surrendered on the orders of his father, who was appointed by Shouhan as a sailor sentinel, and is about to go to Cam Ranh Bay to command a fifth-class ship, he also looked at Shouhan's face, if Shouhan officially contained the Zheng family, then the color of the rebel on his body would be virtually eliminated in the waves of the sea, and the handsome people were all thrown into the Li family, not to mention that I was a child!

However, Li Shouhan, who is accustomed to surprises, did not follow the familiar script, but glanced at Li Peilin, who was talking happily with Zhang Kentang and other Fujian officials.

Although this group of Fujian officials did not take the opportunity to help the victims to make a big profit, they lost the harvest of the east. At the time of the auction of the Zheng family's goods seized by the Shouhan organization, the businesses related to them were bought and sold and attached to the names of Longshengxing and other merchants.

Zhang Kentang, who obtained hundreds of thousands of silver dollars overnight, learned that the person who was drinking at the same table in front of him was Xiao He of the Nanyue Army, and Li Peilin, who was in charge of tens of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, he had to take a good look at this future practical secretary, and the two of them talked and laughed at first sight.

"Lord Zheng," Li Peilin put down the wine glass in his hand, tidied up his clothes, got up and left his seat and came to Zheng Zhilong.

Both sides are familiar people, and there is no need to be polite. At that moment, Zheng Zhilong hurriedly got up and returned the salute. tried to understand Li Shouhan's intentions from Li Peilin, the powerful No. 2 person in the Southern Guangdong Army, in addition to having no military power.

"My lord has long heard that the son of Ling is handsome, young and old, and intends to marry Lord Zheng to be Qin and Jin. Today, the official was also very happy to see Ling Gongzi. If the lord's mansion does not give up, all my brothers and sisters respect me as an elder, so I will be embarrassed, and how about being an iceman with Governor Zhang for Ling Gongzi and my second lady? The woman's matchmaker is the official, the man's matchmaker! ”

"The man's matchmaker is the lower official!" With such a good thing of smooth water, how could Zhang Kentang fall to be able to form this incense karma on the Li family and the Zheng family?

This is clearly to marry me! This is even better than trying to recruit the Zheng family! The two families became in-laws. Who else will be our opponent at sea after this? Some of the Zheng family's eyes began to glow eagerly.

Zheng Zhibao gently kicked Zheng Zhilong with the tip of his boot under the table. Motioned for him to hurry up and agree.

"This, too! Then, the official will climb high! ”

Zheng Zhilong pretended to groan for a while, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of his son Fusong's face full of reluctance. But for the sake of the whole family, he had to grieve his son.

Zheng Zhibao's careful thinking about his nephew is relatively accurate. He and the eldest lady of the Li family had a lot of unpleasant things since they first met. Afterwards. Li Huamei beat Zheng Sen at sea again, and the wolf was unbearable, he was afraid that the second lady would be the same as the eldest lady. Then there is no good life for Zheng Sen!

"As Fusong's uncle, my nephew's marriage is naturally duty-bound, and the matchmaker's matter will be entrusted to the two adults, as for Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Najib, inviting dates, welcoming and other things, it will all fall on the next body!" Zheng Zhibao stretched out his hand and took care of the various links and chores that the husband's family should be responsible for in the entire wedding process.

Nacai means that the man's family invites the matchmaker to go to the woman's house to propose, and after the woman's family agrees to propose marriage, the man's family prepares six ceremonies before the marriage proposal. Asking for a name, that is, the man's family asks the matchmaker to ask the woman's name and date of birth. Najib, that is, after the man retrieves the woman's name and eight characters, he performs divination in the ancestral temple. Na Zheng, also known as Na Yuan, that is, the man's family gives the woman's family a dowry gift. The invitation date, the man's family chooses the marriage date, prepares the gift and informs the woman's family, and asks for her consent. Welcome, that is, the groom goes to the woman's house to marry.

This time, knocking on the nail and turning his feet, Zheng Sen's face became more bitter than a bitter melon, "I don't know what kind of dominatrix it is!" ”

"Brother Feihuang, please move your body. A certain family has something to give, and Wanwang smiles! ”

After talking about the marriage of his children, Shouhan took advantage of the wine and took Zheng Zhilong's wrist and walked to the outside of the General Soldier's Mansion in a hurry.

Everyone was a little puzzled, but seeing that Shouhan was so interested, it was not a big deal to think about it, so they walked in a hurry.

"Brother Feihuang! Today, you and I have become a family, and a certain family has nothing to celebrate, so how about giving this thing away? ”

In front of the Xiamen wharf, Shouhan pointed to the most majestic ship moored on the water near the south bank of the Kowloon River in the distance, "My father-in-law, this is a certain ship, although it is simpler, but it is faster and has more artillery. In the future, as the governor of the three provinces of the Ming Dynasty, how can you not have a decent flagship? Don't be disgusted! ”

Looking at the huge ship moored on the sea, with sailors on the deck from time to time cleaning and wiping the deck with clean water, maintaining the guns, and arranging the sails, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but secretly drool.

In any case, he is also a commander who lives on the sea, understands the sea, and loves the sea. The man who is making a living at sea has an almost pathological hobby of good ship guns, just like the man on the steppe likes horses.

Looking carefully at the huge ship painted with the word "Chang Sheng" on the side of the ship, dozens of gun windows were densely packed on the three-layer gun deck, and the experienced Zheng Zhihu immediately distinguished the caliber of the cannon from the muzzles of the guns that were poking out of the gun windows and being wiped and maintained by the gunners.

"Damn! The lower gun deck was a long-barreled thirty-two-pounder, the middle gun deck was a long-barreled twenty-four-pounder, the upper gun deck was a long-barreled twelve-pounder, the top stern was a short-barreled twelve-pounder, and the top bow had two twelve-pounder guns and two sixty-eight-pounder mortars, not counting the twelve-pounder guns temporarily listed on the top deck! ”

In several battles at sea, the Zheng family hated Li Huamei's Aomei, Zhang Xiaohu's three-headed tiger, and many gunboats of the Nanyue army. It is only possible to form a formation of many ships at sea and give full play to the firepower of the ship's various gun positions as much as possible.

Unexpectedly, today Li Shouhan actually wants to give away this Changsheng number, which can be regarded as the leader among the naval divisions of the Nanyue Army and concentrates the essence of many technologies such as shipbuilding industry and artillery manufacturing in Nanzhong.

The group boarded the Changsheng in a small boat and approached the boat to observe, which made the Zheng Zhilong brothers more and more unbearable to leave. The long and wide hull, the extremely deep draft, and the hundreds of sturdy and huge sails all attracted Zheng Zhilong's attention.

"Brother Feihuang, how is this ship?" Shouhan was a little proud, although he had already expressed his intention to give this flagship to Zheng Zhilong, but if he could hear some compliments from the mouth of this jade dragon, it would also be a very enjoyable thing.

"A ship is a good ship, and a cannon is a good cannon. It's a pity that the sailors are not bright. If I had my niece's Aomei that day, I'm afraid that this ship would be sent to the Crystal Palace by me! ”

Zheng Zhilong didn't know that his words caused the surrounding sailor generals to look at him angrily.

"Good! You can say that again! ”

Shouhan applauded and laughed.

"Big brother, big handsome! Can you make me the captain of this boat? Zheng Zhihu was also happy to see the hunt, and looked at Zheng Zhilong and Li Shouhan eagerly. (To be continued......)