Zeng Ying's word Zhonghan, No. Eryun, a native of Xiajiang, Jiangxia. Wanli forty-four years of Jinshi. Before sitting in the position of governor of Denglai, he served as the director of the Ministry of Labor, Langzhong, the prefect of Changzhou, and the political and envoy of Fujian Province.

It was also in Fujian that he formed a relationship with Zheng Zhilong.

Sakura is relatively incorruptible, an official who doesn't make extra money for copper, and people like Hai Rui can't be found in the late Ming Dynasty. It can only be said that it is relatively honest and has a bottom line, but it is fair and tough. In the first year of Chongzhen, he moved to Fujian Province to participate in politics and patrolled Zhangnan Road. Later, Fujian Province was promoted to the inspection envoy.

Zhangzhou and Xiamen are a stone's throw away, and when Zeng Ying was in Fujian, he and Zheng Zhilong had been associated with him for many years.

The latter is not a scourge in Zeng Ying's eyes, it seems that there are soldiers and money, but the backbone of the entire Zheng group is buying land and building gardens in several state capitals along the coast of Fujian, and the extravagant atmosphere of enjoying glory and wealth is not a fraud.

This kind of person, no matter how strong his strength is, his sharpness has been worn out, and he is not a hidden danger.

— as long as the meat in his bowl is not touched.

If so, although the two are not close friends, they are more of a face-to-face relationship. But this sentiment is enough to call Zheng Sen to come to the door.

Zeng Ying looked at the name card handed over by Menzi, it was not strange. "Zheng Sen? The eldest son of the Zheng family? "A person who just got married was sent to Dengzhou by Zheng Zhilong?

Does Zheng Zhilong's business still involve the Northland? Beiyang has always been the territory of the Sand Boat Gang.

The latter is based in Songjiang Mansion, between Jinmen and Shanghai, and its momentum is far less than that of the Zheng Group, but it is not to be underestimated!

Now Shen Tingyang, the leader inside, is generous and ambitious, advocating chivalry, and has a good reputation between the government and the opposition, and has always peeked at the benefits of Cao Yun. He once went to the "Please Advocate the First Small Trial of Shipping", suggesting the restoration of the sea transportation initiated by Zhu Qing in the Yuan Dynasty, and the five volumes of the "Book of Shipping" and the "Maritime Map" were presented to Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen ordered to build a sea boat to try it. Shen Tingyang took two boats, carrying hundreds of stones, from Huai'an to the sea, and arrived in Tianjin in half a month. And if it is a tailwind, it can be shortened for another five days.

Chongzhen was overjoyed, added Shen Tingyang Hubu Langzhong, received Ning Yuan's salary, and ordered to go to Dengzhou to settle with Xu Renlong, who was the governor of Denglai at the time.

This person has only been in Denglai for three or two years, but he has already gained a firm foothold in the territory of Denglai. There are already hundreds of sand ships under his command.

Now is the Zheng family also going to get involved in the matter of Beiyang shipping?

Zeng Ying was quite puzzled.

You must know that since Korea submitted to the Manchus, the maritime trade between China and North Korea has been stopped on the surface. And Liaodong has been defeated for many years, even if it transfers money and grain, the income is not very much. In particular, the lock-up of the Wa Kingdom has made the profits of the Sand Boat Gang extremely depleted. Otherwise, Shen Tingyang would not have been so urgent about the grain transfer from the north and south of the imperial court.

As far as his current interests are concerned, does Zheng Zhilong still want to intervene? That was going to be met with a resolute counterattack from the Sandboat Gang.

Behind Shen Tingyang, there is the help of the gentry of Songjiang Mansion and even many dignitaries in Nanzhili. The Zheng family is far away from Fujian and competes with it in the north of Denglai, which is very unwise.

Zeng Yingren has already left Fujian, but many of his old friends and students are still in Fujian, so the news of Zheng Sen's marriage naturally can't be hidden from him. Even how big a battle the Zheng family had at the beginning, he had heard a lot. Because he's also a member of the Rites.

But after thinking about it, he still couldn't understand why this Zheng Sen came to him? Zheng Zhilong's most proud eldest son came forward, and the plot must be not small!

In the small courtyard of an inn in Dengzhou City, eight big men with Yanling knives were vigilant in all directions. They were divided into two teams, one for goalkeeping and one for mobile patrol.

This small courtyard was leased by Zheng Sen.

Shi Lang, as his deputy, followed Zheng Sen to Qilu this time, as long as things are done, Zheng Sen will stay in Dengzhou for a few days, and he will immediately go to Zhifu Island (Yantai) with men and ships.

"The eldest prince ......" Zhang Leshu strode in outside the door. This person is one of the disciples around Zheng Zhilong, who was born in Xiucai and has no talent in military intelligence, but he is very effective in handling things. To be precise, it will come and make the superior feel comfortable.

"Zeng Zongxian sent a reply." But tomorrow afternoon, there will be time.

Today, Zheng Sen sent a message of worship to the governor's yamen, but he didn't expect to have a reply so soon. I was overjoyed at the moment, and I took the reply if I was a baby. He didn't expect his father's name to be so useful.

Zeng Ying is the governor of Denglai, and he has reached the peak of local power in the Ming Dynasty, and he actually gave Zheng Zhilong face like this.

Although Zheng Sen has understood what his father's hundreds of thousands of people ship means these days, he still feels that he has broken his cognition.

The next day, Zheng Sen came to visit. Zeng Ying met the virtuous nephew in the small flower hall.

After the polite words, Zeng Ying asked directly: "Zheng's business has never had anything to do with Qilu, I don't know what happened to the virtuous nephew this time?" ”

Zeng Ying called Zheng Senxian's nephew, and the latter would naturally climb up the pole, bow down, and reply: "Uncle Rongyu." "I'll tell you the purpose of this trip one by one.

The confusion in Zeng Ying's heart slowly disappeared, and her vigilance was also relaxed. It turned out that Zheng Zhilong just wanted to get some displaced people from Qilu and transport them to Dayuan to open up wasteland and farm. "It's easy to say."

There is nothing else in Denglai, but there are many refugees.

The Central Plains in Chongzhen eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen years all have locust drought, "cannibalism, grass and trees, and bandits"! The dead abandon the child, and the river is blocked. Qilu can't do well, dozens of states and counties are in drought, and locusts are flying like clouds.

Why has Li Zicheng been able to mix in the past two years? If it weren't because Li Yanhong led the army to serve him, how many people were there in the couple? It is because the vast Central Plains is full of hungry people and starving all over the wilderness.

Li Ziyuan's reputation is not weak, and with the help of Li Yanhong, a well-known local snake in the Central Plains, he only needs to raise his arms and shout, and most of them are accompanied by people. Strength is restored in the blink of an eye!

On the contrary, this year, if we don't talk about other places, we just talk about Qilu land, whether it is time to run or what, and the drought has been greatly alleviated this year.

The land of Denglai is close to the sea, the tide rises and falls, and there is always something to eat on the coast. I don't know how many refugees have poured in over the past few years. Although many have returned to their hometowns, tens of thousands of refugees remain here.

If the Zheng family wants to move refugees and displaced people to the south to develop Dayuan, it will also solve a major problem in the Denglai government.

It was much better than he had imagined.

The land of Denglai is close to the Bohai Sea, and it is the gateway to the sea of Beijing, Zheng Zhilong is very good at the water division, Zeng Ying is really worried that the latter has fallen in love with the land of Denglai and wants to settle here, once there is a change, it will be a huge threat to Jinjing.

As the governor of Denglai in the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Ying was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and never thought of jumping off ship halfway. But in the matter of moving displaced refugees to the south, he cooperated with a hundred people. This is a good thing for Denglai and Daming.

Three days later, in Penglai Pavilion, Zeng Ying privately invited the prefects of Denglai and Denglai, the chief soldiers of Denglai and other cadres. Zheng Sen appeared in Penglai Pavilion as a junior in the entourage. But how could the Denglai prefect and the general soldiers, including Shen Tingyang, really regard Zheng Sen as a child?

Don't look at Zeng Ying's face, but also look at the face of the generous gift that has already been sent to their house, right?

"The big man is located a hundred miles southeast of Penghu, and Fang Yuan is like Denglai. It is two days and nights away from Zhang, Quanzhi, and the land is wide and thick. This is especially true along the western coast. In the east, there are high mountains and dense forests, and there are many infested with life. In his early years, my father had migrated tens of thousands of refugees from Fujian to the island, and there were more than ten towns and cities. ”

Zheng Sen's face turned a little red when he spoke.

The group of people present also smiled slightly, is it normal for the son to hide from the father.

In the sixth to seventh year of the Apocalypse (1626~1627), there was a severe drought in southern Fujian, and the fields were covered with terracotta, and even the bark of grass roots and trees was eaten up in many places.

Zheng Zhilong took advantage of this opportunity to lead a fleet to attack Zhangpu in Fujian, plundering Kinmen, Zhongzuosuo (Xiamen) and Jinghai and Jiazi in eastern Guangdong. During the attack, Zheng Zhilong and others also appeased tens of thousands of hungry people in Quanzhou to go to Taiwan to reclaim land, and the people gave three taels of silver, and three people gave one cow, and the hungry people and the unemployed along the coast competed for refuge. Until now, these people are also paying taxes for the Zheng family every year.

And it's still going on. Even though the Zheng Group's emphasis on the big staff is no longer what it used to be, there are still many immigrants who are sent to the big staff every year.

"There are as many as one million fields in the paste, and there is not one in ten in the number of fields that have been cultivated today. And the red hair in the south of the island, with ill intentions, is a good breed of people, and there are many provocations in the past, and sometimes there is the idea of going north. ”

"The two-day sea route between Dayuan and Fujian is also the sea barrier of our southern country. How can they fall into the hands of the red-haired Xiyi? ”

Zheng Sen, who has Japanese blood in his body, is not reluctant to call Japan by the Japanese people, and the Tokugawa shogunate has prevented his mother and younger brother from going abroad several times, which has planted a needle in Zheng Sen's heart. When he thinks of his mother, it hurts like a heartache.

In addition, in this era, many Japanese people ran to the Daikan, because the Daikan had wild deer, and the deerskin trade was a good trade, and it was the main export material of the Daikan to Japan at that time, and at the peak, the Dutch only exported 150,000 deer skins from the Daikan to Japan. Because the samurai of the little devil liked to make "Jinhaoori" out of deerskin the most.

"Although the red hair came from afar, its strength should not be underestimated. In the battle of Luowan that day, my father had already exhausted everything, and he only burned five plywood giant ships and captured one plywood giant ship. As far as the students know, in the country of red hair, there are tens of thousands of large and small merchant ships, but there are no less than 1,000 ships that can travel thousands of miles to the ocean, and all of them are giant ships with more than 2,000 materials. There are more than 100 full-time warships......"

The counting of ships in the Central Plains refers to the load, and two thousand materials is two thousand stones. If it is converted into a metric ton for later generations, it is less than 130 tons. According to the estimation of the deadweight to displacement ratio of 1:3, the displacement of 2,000 materials is between 350 tons and 400 tons.

Such a large ship is already the largest sea ship that China can build today. And after the Wuqiao Rebellion, Denglai is afraid that there are not many such big ships in its water city.

Not to mention that other people's plywood warships can be equipped with dozens of guns, and the Chinese sea ships have enough tonnage, and the guns are only a quarter or less of the opponent's.

That's far from being in combat.

Zheng Sen's exaggeration of the strength of the Dutch also indirectly reassured the Ming Court that Zheng Zhilong was pinned down by such a powerful Xiyi, and the two sides competed for power in the land of Dayuan, which was a foreign country, and it would inevitably be very peaceful.

As for the land of the big man, hearing what Zheng Sen said about the million fertile fields, everyone here was heartbeating. Then as soon as the cool breeze from the sea blew, they all woke up one by one, and the big men were far away in the southeast and overseas, how could they reach out?

It must be Zheng Zhilong's forbidden belly, and it is precisely because of this great interest that Zheng Zhilong has a dirty relationship with the Dutch Xiyi......

Zheng Senke brought a lot of gold and silver, after all, this is the strongest talent of the Zheng Group. Gold and silver treasures, coral treasures are given away, and the civil and military officials present can only echo and fully cooperate.

As Zeng Ying thought, this matter is a good thing for the Denglai government!