Zheng Chenggong is still relatively hesitant, he still has business dealings with the Portuguese.

After he annexed Zheng Cai's power, his strength grew by leaps and bounds, and the Portuguese also saw the crisis.

While the Portuguese sent people with gifts to visit Zheng Chenggong, they also sent people to pay tribute to the Longwu court and pray for reconciliation.

And the biggest speaker in this aspect in the Longwu court, Zheng Hongkui doesn't want to see Zheng Chenggong grow, Zheng Hongkui is on Zheng Zhilong's side, as Zheng Zhilong's old brother, he is quite entangled in his heart, while thinking about his own hegemony, on the other hand, he is afraid that Zheng Chenggong will reproduce the glory of his Lao Tzu, and at the same time, he is not as popular as he originally thought in the Longwu court.

Zheng Hongkui also wanted to rely on the Portuguese to develop and grow, mainly because he fell in love with the Karak warships in the hands of the Portuguese, as well as the artillery, and the trade income that the Portuguese could bring to them, so he and Zheng Chenggong wanted to go together.

Because of the thoughts of the two people, Zhang Qiang's question became a little difficult.

"Lord Doge, the Portuguese don't want to make enemies with us, they just want to trade with us, and they can't do anything to them, although they take advantage of the weakness of the imperial court and occupy several of our county towns, just let them withdraw, and they don't need to be killed, after all, they can bring us a lot of silver income."

Zheng Chenggong was embarrassed and said.

"Snap" Zhang Qiang slapped the table, "Seizing the land of other countries, this is no longer a simple trade act, this is an invasion of the sovereignty of other countries, the Manchus invaded the Ming Dynasty, and even if the Ming Dynasty is as weak as it is now, it cannot easily bow to these invaders."

They must be allowed to withdraw from the territory of the Ming Dynasty, their merchants do not have the right to have an army on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, they do not have the right to build military facilities such as castles, their merchants can only trade in the land of the Ming Dynasty as merchants under the condition of abiding by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, this is definitely not something to talk about, either go to war or withdraw from the territory of the Ming Dynasty, this is my attitude. ”

Zheng Chenggong looked at Zhang Qiang stunned for a long time, he didn't know why Zhang Qiang reacted so strongly, he felt that it was normal for the Portuguese to have weapons and armies, warships, and then trade with them, whoever went to other people's territory without warships and troops was eaten by others in vain.

"My lord, think about it, after all, we have to trade with them, we can't offend them, we can't push them to the side of the Qing army," Zheng Chenggong said euphemistically.

"Wouldn't they lean against the Qing army if you didn't move them?"

"They joined the Qing army several times, supported the Qing army's artillery and muskets, and even sent people to attack us, isn't this a hostile act?"

Zheng Chenggong also knows these things, but he still feels that for the time being, it is better not to conflict with the Portuguese or the Dutch on land, of course, in the face of the Qing army's dominance on the mainland, he feels unsafe, he wants to compete with the Dutch for the treasure island, he will not compromise on this matter, but the Portuguese on the mainland are a middleman he chooses, he doesn't want to offend them excessively, but he can't stop Zhang Qiang from using force against the Portuguese.

Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army was a strong backer of the Longwu Imperial Court, and he still understood that the Qing Dynasty had been defeated repeatedly in front of Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army and suffered heavy losses, and no one dared to say that he could confront Zhang Qiang, so in addition to indicating that he would not participate in Zhang Qiang's struggle with the Portuguese, he also stated that he would support Zhang Qiang in other aspects.

For example, in the trade between the two sides, Zheng Chenggong promised to trade with the territory controlled by Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army, tea, raw silk, Qingtian jade, carved seals, pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other products, Zheng Chenggong also promised Zhang Qiang to import rice and other grains from Vietnam and sell them to the Jinhua Righteous Army to make up for the food gap of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

There is very little cultivated land on the territory occupied by the Jinhua Righteous Army, and it is mountainous, watery, there is not much arable land, many people live by fishing, so the grain production is limited, coupled with the continuous war, the population has decreased sharply, and the flight continues, although for more than a year, as the Jinhua Righteous Army occupies more and more time, the place begins to resume operation, the farmers begin to farm, the fishermen fish, the merchants also pass, and the returning population is more and more, but the limited arable land, so that the grain production can not keep up with the growth of the population, As a result, a lot of food needs to be captured by the enemy or imported.

After the talks with Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Qiang sent Zheng Chenggong and his party away.

As for the Portuguese, Zhang Qiang just instilled some national concepts, territorial concepts, and sovereignty concepts to Zheng Chenggong, and wanted to clean up the Portuguese on land and do things minute by minute, but it was still unrealistic to completely drive the Portuguese out, and the Longwu court of the Southern Ming Dynasty now needed to rely on sea trade blood transfusion, and the Portuguese turned their faces to war, and they had to catch up with the Dutch, so it was possible to make the territory occupied by the Longwu court and the Jinhua righteous army become an isolated island, and they could not get the slightest outside materials, which was not conducive to the great cause of fighting the Qing army for a long time.

Before his own navy was formed, Zhang Qiang didn't want to touch them for the time being.

It was just a matter of instilling this idea in the hearts of every ally, so that the Portuguese would not be complacent.

"My lord, the Dutch have sent emissaries, and they want to negotiate with us about the Dutch who were captured earlier." When Zhu Dayou was resting, Zhu Dayou came to Zhang Qiang and said.

"No, when those people are drained of their use value by me, goodbye to them, you can send them away." Zhang Qiang waved at Zhu Dayou.

"This?" Zhu Dayou seems to have something to say.

"What else to say." Zhang Qiang asked.

Zhu Dayou hurriedly said: "My lord, there are also the Portuguese, they also want to redeem their soldiers." ”

"It's not so cheap, they didn't fight me, the people they sent to the Qing army dare to help the Qing army fight, then we regard them as spies, or the Qing army, the Qing army and spies have only one end, that is, they are hanged, you tell them, you want people, you have come to the wrong place, go to the Qing army Tartars, I have no obligation to help them, I caught the spies and the Qing army, not the Portuguese and the Dutch."

Zhang Qiang said very unhappily.

Zhu Da had no choice but to go down and reply.

Mi Chun walked in, "My lord, when will we distribute this seizure?" ”

"Isn't it divided?" Zhang Qiang replied.

Mi Chun said: "My lord, the prisoners and those ships have been divided into wood, but the gold, silver and grain have not been divided." ”

Zhang Qiang patted his head, "Yes." Blame me for being busy. ”

"Let You Haibo and Zhou Congee come together, and let's discuss how to use this wealth." Zhang Qiang said to Mi Chun.

"Wait, let He Jin, the governor of the state government, Hu Kui, the chief soldier of the state government, Tang Dianfeng, the commander of Jianning Mansion, Lin Chengcheng, the deputy chief soldier of Jianning Mansion, Liu Liangzuo, the governor of Quzhou Mansion, Zhou Cong, the governor and prefect of Taizhou Mansion, Du Ge, the commander of the army, Zhang Ying, the commander of the navy, Wei Wuji, the commander of Jinhua Mansion, and Mi Lin, the chief soldier of Jinhua Mansion, come to the governor's mansion, and we will have a meeting."