On the sixth day of the fifth month, Li Zhi searched the city in Dinghai City for five days, dug three feet into the ground, and finally counted all the property of the Zheng family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The property was searched, and Li Zhi was about to kill someone. Li Zhi asked Zheng Zhilong to be escorted to the north gate of Dinghai City at noon, and he wanted to be beheaded in public.

After Li Zhi captured Dinghai City on the first day of May, the news of the Zheng family's end spread wildly in Fujian. Especially after the rout of Dinghai City was dismissed by Li Zhi after he unloaded his weapons and armor, the news spread rapidly with the dismissed Zheng family's private soldiers. Fujian's bureaucrats and generals, Wu Fu, were all greatly surprised.

Zheng Zhilong has been operating in Fujian for more than ten years and is almost the uncrowned king of Fujian. Which of Fujian's major military and political affairs is not decided by Zheng Zhilong? The food and salaries of the soldiers in the Fujian Guard Battalion were all allocated and transferred by Zheng Zhilong. Even Wu Zhiping, the governor of Fujian, has to look at Zheng Zhilong's face to do things.

Zheng Zhilong's threat to Li Zhi to rob Li Zhi's overseas property was known to many officials in Fujian. Zheng Zhilong prides himself as the overlord of the sea, and since he threatens Li Zhi in public in the court, he naturally will not hide it.

What everyone didn't expect was that Zheng Zhilong, who was dominating the southeast, went out this time, but he bumped into Li Zhi's iron plate. This Jin Guogong is really terrifying, he can defeat 50,000 Qing army iron cavalry on land, and he can defeat Zheng Zhilong at sea.

Li Zhi is a murderer. Zheng Zhilong robbed Li Zhi, if he could bite it, he would naturally make a lot of money. If you can't bite it, it is expected that you will be slashed by Li Zhi.

Zheng Zhilong had a lot of interests with the figures in the Fujian officialdom, and many bureaucrats who were good friends with Zheng Zhilong rushed to Dinghai City to send the Fujian general army for the last time.

On the execution ground of the North City Gate on the sixth day of the fifth month, there was a crowd of people, crowded with scholars and martial artists who came to see Zheng Zhilong.

Li Zhi sat at the top of the execution ground, wondering if Zheng Zhilong had deceived himself and hid the silver.

The cellar Li Zhi mentioned by Zheng Zhilong has been found, and 6.2 million taels of silver have been moved out of it. The silver is all stamped Japanese dingyin, and it is in good condition. Although the Zheng family made their fortune by plundering, after becoming the largest pirate, they also vigorously developed maritime trade, and most of the silver earned was earned from Oriental trade.

Not only that, Li Zhi also found 180,000 stone of grain in the granary in the city, and also found 2,500 quintals of Zhangzhou white raw silk in the Zheng family's warehouse, which was probably going to be sold to the East and the South Seas.

The silver, raw silk, and grain of the cellar were worth seven million taels of silver, which was a great fortune.

In recent years, inflation in the Ming Dynasty has caused prices to rise, and the profits of maritime trade have been declining. The Zheng family ran dozens of ships for sea trade, and the annual profit was about more than one million taels of silver. There were about 100 sea vessels in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and each ship gave Zheng Zhilong 2,000 taels of silver to buy road money, about 200,000 taels a year. Coupled with Beigang's income, Zheng Zhilong can earn about two million taels a year.

But Zheng Chenggong's expenses were also huge, he had to raise 50,000 private soldiers and pirates, maintain hundreds of warships, and send money to the civil officials of the imperial court, and he couldn't save too much money.

Moreover, Zheng Zhilong was afraid that Li Zhi would kill his children, and he didn't dare to hide his belongings. Li Zhi calculated and calculated, and felt that Zheng Zhilong did not lie to himself.

Speaking of which, Zheng Zhilong has 50,000 private soldiers dominating the southeast sea, but he only has a property of 7 million taels, no wonder he covets Li Zhi's Hsinchu.

Li Zhi was pondering there, but suddenly saw a civil official in a red official robe come out of the crowd and walk towards him with ten civil officials.

"Wu Zhiping, the governor of Fujian, has seen the Duke of Jinguo!"

Li Zhi sat on the chair and looked at the Fujian governor, and hummed in return.

Wu Zhiping arched his hand and said: "The Duke of Jin Guo is above, although Zheng Zhilong has offended the Duke of Jin, he deserves death." But my Fujian officials are willing to raise money and buy the life of Zheng Zhilong, the chief soldier of Fujian! I also wish that the Duke of Jinguo will raise his noble hand. ”

Li Zhi smiled when he heard this.

These civil officials have always received a lot of benefits from Zheng Zhilong, this Wu Zhiping has good personal virtues, and he is willing to rescue the Zheng family at this time. Li Zhi glanced at Wu Zhiping and asked, "How much silver are you willing to pay for Zheng Zhilong's life?" ”

"I'm willing to give 20,000 taels of silver!"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "It's too little, if you give two million taels, I will release Zheng Zhilong." ”

The governor of Fujian blushed when he heard this, knowing that Li Zhi was playing with himself, and said: "Grandpa Guo's subordinates are merciful, and they are also accumulating yin virtue." ”

Li Zhi waved his hand, and several guards walked up and drove these civil officials away. Wu Zhiping and more than a dozen other civil officials originally came with hope, but they were driven away by the guards at this time, and they all felt that they were swept away, and their eyes were filled with resentment when they looked at Li Zhi.

Li Zhi ignored these boring civil officials, and didn't bother to look at them.

It was almost noon, and Li Zhi was about to let the soldiers be executed, but he saw a tall scholar holding a pot of wine, pushing away the crowd and walking to the front of the execution platform. He didn't care about Li Zhi's soldiers, and rushed to the execution platform with a wine jug, and was immediately stopped by the angry soldiers with rifles.

Seeing this scholar, several Zheng Zhilong's children on the side of the execution ground cried. One of Zheng Zhilong's daughters went up to grab the scholar and shouted: "Big brother, father is leaving, don't be crazy, the family will depend on you in the future!" ”

The scholar looked at Zheng Zhilong in the execution ground and was silent.

Seeing this scene, Li Zhi was a little curious, and walked up and asked, "Scholar! What's your name? ”

The scholar glared at Li Zhi and replied loudly, "Li Zhi! I am Zheng Sen, the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, Li Zhi, won't you kill me? ”

Li Zhi was stunned, and secretly said that this Zheng Sen is Zheng Chenggong who recovered Taiwan in history. At this time, Zheng Sen has not changed his name, and the world does not know that he will be a hero who resists the Qing Dynasty in the future. In the original history, Zheng Chenggong once led his troops to Nanjing and supported Nanming for several years with his family.

Compared with Zheng Zhilong, who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this Zheng Chenggong is much more upright.

Li Zhi smiled and said, "I won't kill you, what are you doing with the wine jug?" ”

Zheng Sen saw that Li Zhi did not kill himself, and he also smiled and talked to himself, as if he was insulted. He said loudly: "Of course I brought wine to see my father off!" Li Zhi, I am a showman, and my teacher is Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party that you hate the most. Won't you kill me? ”

Li Zhi laughed and said, "You Zheng Sen is good, you are a bold person. Not only will I not kill you, but I will also give you a hundred taels of silver to do a small business. If someone bullies you in the future, I, Li Zhi, will be the first to come out and help you out! ”

Zheng Sen looked at Li Zhi with anger, his face flushed with blood. He pointed at Li Zhi with the wine jug, gritted his teeth and said, "You... You..."

He couldn't say a word, and finally got angry, threw the flask to the ground, and brushed his sleeves away.

Li Zhi looked at the young man who was walking away and shook his head.

With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi said lightly: "The time has come!" ”

Zheng Zhilong, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly moved a few steps forward and shouted loudly: "Jin Guogong, if you don't kill me, I will be driven by you all my life to open up Nanyang trade for you!" ”

Li Zhi smiled and did not speak.

A soldier stepped up to the torture table and pressed the trigger on Zheng Zhilong's head. only heard a clear snap, and a blood mist came out of the back of Zheng Zhilong's head. Zheng Zhilong, who was once invincible, fell on the torture table without saying a word, and died completely.