On July 11, Zheng Chenggong stood on a fortune boat full of sweet potatoes and sighed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zheng Chenggong is transporting sweet potatoes for Li Zhi, the prince of Jinguo, who killed his father's enemy.

After the collapse of Zheng Zhilong's power, Zheng Chenggong changed from the "prince" of the "King of Fujian" to an unknown minor. Although Li Zhi gave Zheng Chenggong 100 taels of silver to do a small business, Zheng Chenggong has been nesting in a private house in Quanzhou, getting drunk every day, drunk and dreaming of death.

Although the eldest husband can stretch and bend, Zheng Chenggong can't adapt to the reality that his father was killed and the family was ruined in such a quick time.

Although Zheng Chenggong is a talent, it was Zheng Chenggong's teacher Qian Qianyi who communicated with the county and let Zheng Chenggong get it cheaply, and Zheng Chenggong actually didn't read the book of sages for a few years. What Zheng Chenggong desires in his bones is to gallop on the sea like Zheng Zhilong and establish a man's career.

But after the Zheng family was defeated by Li Zhi, Zheng Chenggong's dream was shattered along with the Zheng family. Since Li Zhi killed Zheng Zhilong, it is impossible for the Zheng family to make a comeback. If Zheng Chenggong becomes a pirate again, or runs away from the sea, it is estimated that he will be killed mercilessly by Li Zhi.

Zheng Chenggong is not willing to be a rotten Confucian who shakes his head, nor is he willing to be a small trader who bargains for a few pennies every day. After Zheng Zhilong's death, he has been depressed and drunk every day. Zheng Chenggong's performance disappointed his mother and younger siblings, and these relatives originally hoped that Zheng Chenggong would lift his spirits and revive the Zheng family.

Until Li Zhi's people found Zheng Chenggong and asked Zheng Chenggong to contact the ship to transport sweet potatoes for the Li family.

Sweet potatoes are low in calories and require a large amount of food to make a living by eating sweet potatoes. This time, Li Zhi wanted to transport more than 30 million stone of sweet potatoes to Shandong, which could not be done by relying on Li Zhi's 63 merchant ships and 10 ironclad ships. Relying on Li Zhi's own merchant ships, Li Zhi could only transport more than 10 million stone of grain in a year.

Relying only on steamship transportation, the people of Shandong would starve to death, and Li Zhi had to hire outside merchant ships.

Of course, Li Zhi could contact the sailors of Tianjin and Shandong, and then he could also call up hundreds of sailboats. However, Li Zhi knew that the officers and men of those sailors were in a dull mood, the ships were in tatters, the boatmen's skills were rough, and there might be something wrong when they went to the open sea.

So Li Zhi thought of Zheng Chenggong.

Although he killed Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, Li Zhi had a good impression of Zheng Chenggong, who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty and recovering Taiwan in history. Moreover, the sailors of the Zheng family are all experienced water thieves with excellent skills. If Zheng Chenggong takes the lead and mobilizes more than 100 5,000-material Daifuku ships to transport sweet potatoes for Li Zhi, it can ensure that the transportation is foolproof.

Li Zhi sent Gao Ligong to find Zheng Chenggong, who was drunk every day, and told him his thoughts. Li Zhi promised to give each of the shipwrights hired by the Zheng family two taels and five yuan of silver per month, and the leader of the boat three taels and seven yuan per month. The transportation lasted for a year, and Li Zhi also gave each ship 1,500 taels of silver for the "fare for shipping".

Zheng Chenggong, who was still called Zheng Sen at that time, threw down the wine bowl without saying a word when he heard this proposal, and agreed. After Zheng Zhilong's death, the Zheng family collapsed, and the sailors of the Zheng family were left without food and clothing. If you want to run to the sea, you have no capital, and if you want to be a pirate, you are afraid that Li Zhi will come to exterminate it. Now Li Zhi has given the sailors of the Zheng family a way to live, and Zheng Sen of course has to lead the sailors to do it.

For Zheng Sen, this is a good opportunity to revive the Zheng family. Although it is impossible for the Zheng family to dominate the sea as before, even if it is dependent on Li Zhi as a transportation brigade, it is much better than the collapse of the entire family, isn't it?

Therefore, Zheng Sen summoned 146 Dafu ships of 5,000 materials with ambivalent feelings, and summoned 25 shipwrights for each ship - Li Zhi did not allow the Zheng family's fleet to be armed again, so in addition to the absence of cannons, gunners, and sailors on board, twenty-five shipwrights were enough to operate the ship.

In fact, most of the ships run with the wind downwind, and they rarely go to sea when the wind direction is unstable, and they cannot run the sea non-stop for 365 days like a steamer. Because when the wind direction is chaotic, it is easy for the fortune ship to be blown away by the turbulent wind outside the channel, and then it will be troublesome to get lost or hit the reef.

Li Zhi's solution was to use the 73 ships as tugboats for later generations, and each ship used cables to tow two Fu boats forward. The cable pulled out of the steamer was tied to the main mast of a fortune ship, and then to the main mast of a fortune ship behind.

With a ship towed in front, the fortune ship can move steadily on the channel like a ship, and the speed can be increased considerably.

Li Zhi, the Duke of Jinguo, proposed that Zheng Sen change his name to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Sen agreed. He understood that this was what Li Zhi meant for him to forget the past and start anew.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong still hates Li Zhi in his heart: Li Zhi defeated the Zheng family and let him fall from the high clouds into the dirt. But at this time, it was necessary to rely on Li Zhi's snort to give the Zheng family food, and Zheng Chenggong had to abandon this hatred. Zheng Chenggong remembered his mother's words: "Everyone has their own position, so what's the point of hatred? ”

In fact, a few days after joining Li Zhi's fleet, Zheng Chenggong learned about Li Zhi's methods of doing things, and even admired Li Zhi, the Duke of Jinguo.

Zheng Chenggong knew that Li Zhi's disaster relief in Shandong was all carried out with private funds. The people of Shandong will eat all the free food provided by Li Zhi, the prince of Jinguo, in the coming year. Li Zhi saved more than 10 million people with the power of one person, how much ability is this? If there is no Li Zhi, what kind of hell will Shandong become?

Before the departure, Zheng Chenggong stayed in Hsinchu for a few days and learned a lot about the local situation. Zheng Chenggong knew that Li Zhi asked all the Hsinchu farmers to plant sweet potatoes this time, and he would also use private funds to buy sweet potatoes from Hsinchu farmers. Excluding 60 percent of the land rent, 40 percent of the output of the farmers in Hsinchu belongs to the farmers themselves, and Li Zhi bought the red potatoes with the farmers at a price of three dollars and one stone.

In this way, a farmer who grows 20 acres of sweet potatoes for a year will also get the same income as rice planting 50 taels. Although Li Zhi controls Hsinchu, he loves the people like a son and will never let his people suffer.

Zheng Chenggong has also eaten sweet potatoes and knows that more than 10 million people in Shandong have to eat at least 30 million stone sweet potatoes a year to avoid starving to death. At the price of three coins and one stone, Li Zhi's disaster relief will also cost nearly 10 million taels of silver. This money was all paid by Li Zhi himself.

Li Zhi is not only good at using new crops to do things that others can't do, but also is so generous to the people, which makes Zheng Chenggong very surprised.

To say that Li Zhi is a heroic hero is not enough to describe the greatness of this disaster relief.

Zheng Chenggong is also a man of mercy, he thinks that Li Zhi can even be regarded as a hero, a hero who saves the country and the people.

Compared with a hero like Li Zhi, his father Zheng Zhilong's background and actions are very dirty. Zheng Chenggong sat on the board of the boat in the tail building, and seemed to have forgotten his hatred for Jin Guogong in a trance, but admired Li Zhi a little.

The steamer in front let out a long whistle and slowly sailed out of Hsinchu Port, dragging two fortune ships towards Shandong. Zheng Chenggong's Fu ship raised its hard sails, and with the ship cleaving the waves, it opened a new course.

Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Zheng Du's eyes moistened, grabbed Zheng Chenggong's sleeve and said, "Big brother! Our Zheng family is alive again! ”

With a sigh, Zheng Chenggong looked at the Zheng family's flag flying high above the fortune boat.

Although he was aggrieved, although he was just a transport team running for transportation, he let the Zheng family survive again anyway.