Eyes away from Zhifu Island, as a trace of strength of the Zheng Group, in this current situation, in the eyes of the country's top figures, there is really no such elite soldier, no person like Zheng Sen.

They just want to watch, and they are also looking at Zheng Zhilong, and they are also looking at the invincible Zheng Group at sea.

Let Zheng Zhilong lead the fleet of Fujian to the north, which is a helpless move by the capital. The Zheng Zhilong Group's strong private armed nature cannot be ignored by anyone.

But for the sake of the war, it is really necessary to mobilize Zheng Zhilong's water division. even said that if you want to solve the siege of Songjin, you must rely on Zheng Zhilong. No matter what Zheng Zhilong planned in his heart.

There are even some ministers who still have a 'conscience' who are worried about whether other ministers can go north smoothly.

Although China's north-south shipping had matured as early as the Mengyuan period, Kublai Khan moved his capital to Yanjing and named it Dadu. In a short period of time, the population of Dadu has skyrocketed from more than 100,000 to 800,000, and filling the stomach has become the most urgent and difficult problem for Mengyuan to solve. Because the annual grain income at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty was 123 million stones, 10 million stones came from Jiangnan.

How to transport a huge amount of grain to Beijing safely and quickly? This once became the focus of whether Meng Yuan could truly rule the Central Plains.

Mengyuan's shipping has become a task that must be completed under such a huge and urgent need. The huge pressure generated a huge momentum, and in a short period of time, Meng Yuan used one ship after another and one life to make a route.

From Wusong Liujiagang into the sea, through Haimen Huanglian Shatou, arrived at Xihaizhou, Lijiaozhou, more than a month later to reach the mountain (now Qilu Rongcheng), the water journey totaled 13,000 miles. Then, it will go west along the inland sea from Chengshantou, and finally berth at Haijin Town.

This road is now the route of the Sand Boat Gang to transport grain.

The route follows the coastline completely, so there are more shoals, and it is dangerous to sail, and in the process of moving the ship carrying grain, it is not only against the wind but also against the current, and the speed is slow.

This is still because Shen Tingyang's subordinates are all flat-bottomed sand boats, and with the fleet that Zheng Zhilong is leading now, the situation will only get worse.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong went north this time, and after the fleet arrived in Zhoushan, it would change direction and go straight into the ocean to find the Kuroshio, which was the Japanese warm current in later generations.

Although the latter main stream will drift to the east side of the Japanese archipelago, there are two other branches, one into the Bohai Strait and the other to the west side of Japan.

Although Zheng Zhilong's past trading did not involve Beiyang, it does not mean that he does not know anything about Beiyang.

The team followed the Kuroshio and arrived at Zhifu Island in mid-February. But Jinmen is still frozen, and Liaohai is even more icy and snowy. If Zheng Zhilong's army wants to march into Songshan, it will have to wait for at least another month!

"Father!" Zheng Sen held the medicine bowl and looked at Zheng Zhilong worriedly.

No one expected that Zheng Zhilong, who was going north, had just disembarked on Zhifu Island and fell ill that night. But fortunately, it was not a high fever, but an occasional chill and a runny nose.

But even so, Zheng Zhilong's illness also made the gentry of Denglai a big joke. Besides, there are not one or two people in the entire Zheng army who are frozen. Because before at sea, the climate was not as cold as it is now.

The Kuroshio Current, far from the coastline, is far from the coastline, and the sea is deep, so the heat storage is naturally large, and the temperature is naturally higher than that on the shore.

From high temperature to low temperature, Zheng Zhilong did not let his subordinates pretend, this is the most real reaction.

If so, it has become an unshakable fact that the southerners are intolerant of the cold of the north.

Yanjing City, inside the Ming Imperial Palace.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the performance sent urgently by Zeng Ying, the governor of Denglai, and smiled silently. "I've always heard that the southerners are not tolerant of the cold in the north, but I don't want this Zheng Zhilong's team to be so unbearable."

With a smile in his heart, he directly forgot about the three thousand Zhejiang soldiers that Qi Jiguang brought to Jizhen back then.

"Chen Qing is too worried."

Chen Xinjia was secretly annoyed in his heart, but he also had to say flattering words to Emperor Chongzhen. There is still a long time, he is in the center, a confidant of the emperor's close ministers, and there is still time to plan slowly.

Emperor Chongzhen was in a good mood, and he also had a big pimple in his heart, Chen Xinjia repeatedly attacked Jiang Dejing, Hong Chengchou and Zheng Zhilong to form a township party, faintly saying that Zheng Zhilong raised troops to the north, and he had to be vigilant, but it was not useless.

Zheng Zhilong was born in Haikou, and although he has made meritorious achievements in recent years and his performance is very tame, he must not be guarded against. At this point, just look at Emperor Chongzhen's making Cao Bianjiao the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, instead of going outside the gate, you can know a thing or two.

However, no matter how happy it is, it is only short-lived, Songshan and Jinzhou outside the gate are still besieged, Li Zicheng in the Central Plains has a large peasant army, and there is also that Zhang Xianzhong. The situation of internal and external difficulties, and the heavy government affairs, made Emperor Chongzhen breathless.

His biggest hope now is to untie the siege of Songjin, to maintain the best defense line in Jinning, and to rescue Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, or rescue Hong Chengchou. This Zheng family sailor, who is far away in Denglai, is his only hope.

After Wu Sangui, Ma Ke, Bai Guangen and other generals fled into Ningyuan, they were soon divided into two, and Wu Sangui, Li Fuming, and Tang Tongjun remained in Ningyuan. Ma Ke and Bai Guangen led the army to retreat into Shanhaiguan.

Emperor Chongzhen did not give up the idea of rescuing Songjin, and had long ordered them to reorganize their soldiers and horses, and Chen Xinjia even proposed: Please behead Wang Pu, order Ma Ke and others to be issued a military order, and then lose the opportunity to be beheaded immediately.

First, with Shuntian Governor Yang Shenwu, Governor of Liaodong and Ningyuan, the troops went out to save Songjin. However, in March, Yang Shenwu died with a whimper.

The first assistant Zhou Yanru strongly recommended his student, Fan Zhiwan, who was then the right attendant of the military department, to supervise the military affairs of Jizhou, Yongping, Shanhai, Tongzhou, and Tianjin towns. Emperor Chongzhen Xu Zhi, plus Fan Zhi finished the right to the imperial history.

Not long after Emperor Chongzhen received the Denglai recital, an urgent letter also arrived in the hands of Fan Zhiwan in Shanhaiguan.

The latter looked at Fu Yi and smiled, and transferred the Zheng family's sailors to the north, which did not have a big effect in Fan Zhiwan's eyes. Hong Chengchou was defeated at Songshan, and the possibility of breaking the siege of Jinzhou was lost.

Now it is the best to keep Ning Yuanfang.

If he is in charge, he will build a few small cities outside Ningyuan City now, and then raise a naval army to build Juehua Island, with the momentum of the city.

There is no hope for Jinzhou City, rescue Hong Chengchou of Songshan, and then withdraw the food and salary of soldiers and horses in Xingshan, so that it is already superior.

He was the governor of Zhulu and the soldiers, but it was Emperor Chongzhen who was really in charge.

"Kill, kill—"

A seaside open space on the inner side of Zhifu Island became a school ground for Zheng Jun's drills in the following time.

Whether it is Zheng Jun, who went north with the ship, or Zhifu Island Yiyong, who has changed his military uniform and armor, the morale is extremely high at this moment.

Because Zheng Zhilong had already preached that this time he fought with the Tartars, and the reward was worthless.

One Jianyu head fifty taels, one Mongolian Tartar head forty taels, one two Tatar head thirty taels, one coated head twenty taels.

With such a high reward, even those veterans of the Zheng Army could not ignore it.

For this reason, Zheng Zhilong also made provisions for naval warships, shotgunners, gunners, etc., do you share the cake, can't all the benefits be cheaper than the landed soldiers? When calculating military merits, it is not all about first-level meritorious service.

Zheng Zhilong, who is ready to make a career, simply chooses the routine of having a brave man under the heavy reward. What he has in his hand is silver, and in the current situation, compared with ideological preaching and encouragement, it is still a tangible benefit that can move people's hearts.

He is different from the Ming court, Emperor Chongzhen's treasury is empty and can run horses, but Zheng Zhilong is a well-known rich man and a rich man, and he has endless silver in his hands. Naturally, these words won the trust of the whole army.

Zheng Jun, whose eyes were red inspired by the silver of white flowers, now wants to cut off the head of the Tartar in his dreams.

But the ice floes in the North Ocean made the fleet honestly stop at Denglai for a month before setting sail again. During this month, Emperor Chongzhen issued three holy decrees to Zheng Zhilong.

However, I didn't give one or two of the money, I didn't give a grain of grain, and the good words on the three holy decrees were one after another, and the great truths were piled up and piled up, but all the nonsense was false.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was exhausted, could only use this little bit of work to motivate Zheng Jun, anyway, it didn't cost money to say good things.

"......" Although Zheng Zhilong understood Emperor Chongzhen's shamelessness in his heart, he was really speechless.