Zheng Zhilong frowned and said to Zheng Cai: "You are responsible for these things, you are responsible for the line, you say, what should I do?" ”

"It's best to talk to Cao Ying." Zheng Cai said: "Now Cao Ying has an advantage in Jiangnan, and if you want to do business, you can't help but contact Cao Ying. ”

Zheng Sen frowned, wanting to say something, but was pulled by Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Hongkui said: "What will we do with the war between Cao Ying?" ”

"War is war, business is business." Zheng Cai said: "The war is to deal with the imperial court, but business is the foundation of our Zheng family, although the ship to Nanyang has not come back this year, but because of the war in the south of the Yangtze River, this batch of profits has at least doubled, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is not a small amount." ”

"I'm not opposed to doing business with Cao Ying." Zheng Hongkui said: "It's just that the eldest brother and Cao Ying are just talking about business? ”

"Hahaha." Zheng Zhilong naturally knew what Zheng Hongkui meant, what he meant was whether Zheng Zhilong would switch to Cao Ying. said: "Naturally, it's just business. ”

Zheng Zhilong was telling the truth, at least for now, Zheng Zhilong did not listen to the intention of surrendering Cao Ying.

"So my brother is relieved." Zheng Hongkui said.

After Zheng Zhilong settled, Zheng Cai came forward to negotiate with Cao Ying. As for where to talk and what to talk about, there is still some nonsense, and this matter cannot be fast.

After Zheng Hongkui took Zheng Sen out, Zheng Sen was a little breathless and said, "Fourth uncle, what did you just pull me for?" ”

"Fumatsu, what did you want to say at the time?" Zheng Hongkui asked.

Zheng Sen said: "Naturally, I dissuaded my father from doing such an unfaithful and unrighteous act. ”

"Hahaha." Zheng Hongkui laughed, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Zheng Sen was like himself at the beginning, he said: "How is the uncle disloyal and unjust? ”

"As a human being, I secretly communicate with thieves without authorization." Zheng Sen said: "Isn't this it? ”

Zheng Hongkui said: "How many generals in the world have no private contact with thieves, since Li Chengliang in Liaodong raised thieves, officials and thieves have been inseparable. ”

At the beginning, Zheng Hongkui, under the guidance of Liu Zhenfei, wanted to be a loyal minister and good general of the Ming Dynasty. But after coming out, I knew that no one in the world did not communicate with thieves, think about it, Zhang Xianzhong bought Xue Guoguan for the sake of Zhao'an, Xue Guoguan at that time was a member of the Ming cabinet, and it can be said that he was the top person in the Ming system. It can almost be compared to one of the nine elders now, he has private transactions with Zhang Xianzhong, which shows that the connections between officials and thieves are extensive.

Zheng Hongkui told Zheng Sen about these things.

Zheng Sen was taken aback when he heard it, but he still said stiffly: "Even so, my father shouldn't have a secret relationship with Cao Ying. ”

Before, Zheng Zhilong wanted Zheng Sen to study and make progress, and take the entrance examination. If it weren't for the chaos in the world that it couldn't be maintained, Zheng Sen's life trajectory, for example, he was admitted to the Jinshi several times, and finally got the middle school and became a member of the scholar. Let Nan'an Zheng also transform from a military general to a scholarly family.

So Zheng Sen has not been exposed to these dark side things, and he is still a hot-blooded young man.

Just like Zheng Hongkui at the beginning, it's just that Zheng Hongkui has served in the south and north of the world for several years, and after seeing the reality of this world, he has already moved the bottom line back a lot, in Zheng Hongkui's opinion, as long as Zheng Zhilong does not openly surrender to thieves, he doesn't care.

It is not the Zheng family who has business dealings with thieves and Dongyu, everyone is just half a catty.

Zheng Hongkui listened to Zheng Sen's words and said, "Fusong, do you think the imperial court values the loyalty of the Zheng family or the strength of the Zheng family?" ”

"This -----" Zheng Sen didn't know what to say for a while?

Zheng Hongkui patted Zheng Sen on the shoulder and said, "Or, my Zheng family doesn't have this strength, what will the imperial court do to us?" And how did the strength of our Zheng family come about, you are the eldest son of the eldest brother, the future head of the Zheng family, you need to think about these things. ”

Zheng Sen was a little depressed for a while.

How did the Zheng family's strength come about? How could Zheng Sen not know, and the imperial court took a fancy to the strength of the Zheng family, and to maintain this strength, he had to do something secretly. These are inconsistent with the sage books that Zheng Sen has been reading.

For a while, Zheng Sen felt extremely confused. Heaven and earth seemed to unfold again before his eyes in a different way.

Although it was only for a while, Zheng Sen felt that he had suddenly matured a lot.

Zheng Sen's mental activity is just a small episode.

The first temptation between Zhang Xuan and Zheng was only a correspondence, and it was not between Zhang Xuan and Zheng Zhilong, but between Zhang Su and Zheng Cai.

Nguyen Jin is also a capable person. Within ten days, he piloted seven warships and fought a battle near Xiangshan with the sailors of the official army, won a great victory, and captured one warship. The narrow waterways around Xiangshan fell under the control of Nguyen Jin.

The first victory in the water battle, although it was an insignificant victory, was only a confrontation of more than a dozen ships, but it represented the first step of Cao Ying's maritime forces, although after that, Zheng's sailors came in a big way, forcing Ruan Jin into the port, if it wasn't for Zhang Xuan mobilizing a lot of artillery, the port where Ruan Jin was located was also heavily guarded. Ruan Jin, who won the first battle, is about to overturn.

After Luo Yulong received Zhang Xuan's letter, he also made some moves.

Suzhou, Hangzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang, among the most prosperous prefectures and counties of these people, all large

Hudu has been greeted and cannot trade with the Zheng family.

Naturally, some people think that they can do it without realizing it. After all, Cao Ying's strength in Jiangnan was obtained by suppressing it with soldiers, and it did not penetrate into the corners of the people, so it was naturally not impossible to hide from Luo Yulong.

But there is no impermeable wall in the world, naturally some of them leaked out of the horse's feet, and Luo Yulong caught his sore feet, Luo Yulong naturally showed no mercy, and threw all the whole family to the entrance of the vegetable market, and it was indispensable to eat a knife.

Such a cruel method made the Jiangnan gentry cold, and they deeply realized that their Ming Dynasty was gone.

Under Luo Yulong's powerful means, there are naturally fewer people who dare to trade with the Zheng family in private. And the Zheng family seems to be in order to fight back, and the harassment of various places has been strengthened, and even the Zheng family and Shen Tingyang joined forces to conquer the Songhu Institute and the Baoshan Institute.

Under the storm, the two sides seem to be fighting more and more fiercely.

But in private, Zhang Su and Zheng Cai exchanged letters and exchanged words, and finally determined the place of negotiation. On Jiaomen Mountain.

Jiaomen Mountain is in the east of Dinghai City, out of Jiaomen Mountain, is the sea, the distance between this place and Ningbo is not far, and the distance from Zhoushan is not far, which is convenient for news transmission, but there can not be too many people in ambush in the mountain.

Jiaomen Mountain is another famous place in the local area, and there are many buildings on it, which is also good for housing negotiators from both sides.

This place, both sides are very satisfied, even if the two sides turn their faces and the envoys of both sides want to leave, it is impossible to stay.

The person negotiating on Zhang Xuan's side is none other than Zhang Su.

To negotiate this person, you must get Zhang Xuan's absolute trust, after all, for the sake of safety, Zhang Xuan can't go. Once the entrustment is not human, it will delay Luo Rucai's great cause. Count and count, only Zhang Su is suitable.

And Zheng has always been in charge of foreign affairs Zheng Cai, and this time is of course no exception.

Just on the coastline of thousands of miles, everywhere beacon fire, the two sides seem to be in a hurry to get on fire, in Jiaomen Mountain, a quiet temple, the monks inside are all managed, although there is no morning bell and dusk drum, the sound of monks doing morning classes, but in the early spring of the mountain, when all things germinate, there is a Zen in itself. People can't help but calm down, as if they have forgotten the beacon smoke of thousands of miles outside the mountain, as long as the quiet color in the mountain.

Each side brought 100 people, spread throughout the temple, and they were almost evenly matched. And Zhang Su sat opposite Zheng Cai.

In such an environment, the two sides sat opposite each other in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, before the Buddha, and the first contact between Cao Ying and the Zheng family began here.

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