The treasure island cannot be recovered for the time being, this year has to be passed, and the New Year is about to begin, under the strong nagging of the queen mother of the two palaces, Zhu Cijiong had to issue an edict for Zheng Zhilong's family to come to the capital a few days in advance, so that his baby son could accompany the queen mother of the two palaces to play.

Maybe this year's results are not as good as last year's, Zhu Cijiong always feels a little excited, in fact, except for the big victory without any shots, Chongzheng's six years of Ming progress in other aspects is still quite big.

First of all, the officialdom was rectified through the Jingcha plan, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty had a sense of urgency, and they no longer had to be a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day, so that the direct result was that the entire Ming Dynasty was in a vigorous development and was thriving.

Then, Sun Chengzong took Jianzhou again, although Huang Taiji led people to run, but that place could not run away, the Ming Dynasty territory extended to the northeast for thousands of miles, and the territory of the heyday was getting closer and closer.

In the end, fifty super battleships were completed and launched, although the Ming Dynasty does not yet have the strength to dominate the sea, but it is already a force to be reckoned with at sea, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty has stepped into the ranks of the great powers, but at the beginning it has to face the current maritime hegemon Netherlands, which is a little powerless.

Zhu Cijiong couldn't get excited in his eyes, but Zheng Zhilong was happy in his heart, and he couldn't seem too excited on the surface, don't look at his son who was teasing him, but he didn't dare to lean over, and he didn't even dare to glance over there. Those women, except for his wife Tagawa, everyone else really has to be careful when they look at it, one is the Queen Mother of the East Palace, the other is the Queen Mother of the West Palace, and the other is the future queen, and the worst one is also a female prince, and her status is not lower than him at all!

He sometimes envies Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming's pair of brothers, who are not a few years younger than him, but they are juniors, licking their faces and standing in the middle of the pile of women, not only will they not be rude, but they will also look well-behaved and obedient!

Zheng Zhilong felt that it was not a way to stand aside stupidly, so he simply mustered up the courage to chat with the emperor, anyway, if he chatted with the emperor, the emperor ignored you at most, if he dared to chat with the emperor's mother or future wife, a bad emperor would cut you!

Zheng Zhilong approached the emperor and took a look, oops, it's broken, the emperor seems to be a little unhappy! But everyone else came, and it was not easy to turn around and leave, so he had to ask cautiously: "Why is the emperor troubled, I don't know if Weichen has the honor to share the emperor's worries?" ”

Zhu Cijiong glanced at him and said lightly: "I want to recover Dongfan, what can you do to prevent the Dutch from making trouble?" ”

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he chuckled in his heart, the Dutch are so easy to provoke, if he wants to provoke him, he would have already occupied Dongfan as the emperor of the soil, he thought about it for a long time, there was really no good way, so he had to say a way that was not a way: "This, this, now the sea can fight with the Dutch is only a Franco, if they can fight, maybe the Ming Dynasty can still make a profit." ”

Zhu Cijiong knew that the Franc machine mentioned by this thing was referring to Spain, but now that this Franc machine has sunset, self-protection is about to become a problem, how can he fight with the Netherlands. He could only sigh helplessly: "This time is different from the past, the Franc machine is almost dead, and they will not take the initiative to provoke the Netherlands." ”

Zheng Zhilong can't be as unpredictable as Zhu Cijiong, of course he doesn't know that Spain is about to fall, but the emperor has said so, how dare he refute it, so he has to say stupidly: "It's just to let them entangle the Dutch, and not let them fight with the Dutch, it shouldn't be difficult, right?" ”

Spain can barely entangle the Netherlands now, but people don't eat too much, so why provoke the Netherlands. Zhu Cijiong asked angrily: "They are not stupid, now it would be good if the Dutch didn't clean them up, will they provoke the Dutch?" ”

Zhu Cijiong is very right about this, now is the time for the reversal of power, Spain is declining, Britain has not yet risen, the Dutch is the hegemon of the sea today, in a few years the Netherlands will begin to sweep away Spain, Portugal and British power in the South Seas, but now the Thirty Years' War in Europe is in full swing, the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire are gaining the upper hand, and the Protestant alliance supported by the Netherlands is at a disadvantage, and the Netherlands does not want to provoke Spain for the time being.

Zheng Zhilong didn't know any of this, but he had an idea to make the Netherlands and Spain fight, this idea, a bit cheap, he smiled cheaply: "Don't the Dutch like to play pirates, we can also cultivate pirates, rob all the Dutch merchant ships, put all the goods in Manila to sell, rob the Spanish merchant ships, and put all the goods in Dongfan to sell, it's strange if they don't fight!" ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he looked at Zheng Zhilong in a daze, this product really deserves to be a pirate, and such a poisonous method can be thought of, but it seems that this product has been good for a long time, so go there to find a pirate? He took a breath and asked fearfully, "You don't want my Great Master to pretend to be a pirate, do you?" People are not stupid, if they find out, won't they ask for trouble! ”

Speaking of this pirate Zheng Zhilong, he came to the spirit, and he said proudly: "How dare you bother the brothers of the emperor and the Daming Water Master, Weichen still has a few brothers who are doing this for a living, just let them go." ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he couldn't help but say angrily: "Okay, I have made you the king of Zhennan, and you are still raising pirates!" ”

Zheng Zhilong immediately reacted, he was pretending to be too forced and leaked the stuffing, he was scared and broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, it's not like this, Weichen didn't raise pirates, but at the beginning, Weichen's subordinates not only had Han people, but also Dongying people, Koreans, Luzon people, and even Kunlun slaves, these people Weichen naturally didn't dare to bring them to Daming, so they could only let a few brothers take them to live in the Semarang area." ”

Zhu Cijiong didn't expect this to happen, he was wrong to blame him, these people really can't be brought to Daming, it's just that people are mixed up and mixed up, why did Zheng Zhilong let them provoke the Dutch and Spaniards, if they are not careful, they will be wiped out, Zheng Zhilong is not so poisonous to his brothers, right? He asked curiously: "This kind of thing is very risky, aren't you afraid that your brothers will be wiped out?" ”

Zheng Zhilong sighed a little helplessly: "Alas, they are also very unsatisfactory now, the merchant ships of those red-haired devils are all armed merchant ships, and the firepower is fiercer than theirs, they can only do small business, by the way, they just plunder the local natives, Weichen wants to buy them some Franco cannons or Dutch cannons, and then drive the big ships to the East Daying to renovate, and then give them all the bird guns and earth cannons that have been eliminated, so that they can do some big business." The so-called wealth and danger are sought, it is impossible to do this business without danger, they are all veterans, and the total annihilation of the army should not be, and some damage cannot be avoided. ”

After doing it for a long time, this cargo turned out to be the idea of hitting the Dongdaying Shipyard and the batch of waste weapons, giving them weapons and helping them transform the lucky ship is not a problem, the main problem is that raising pirates is really a bit too lacking in morality, and in the future, the Ming Dynasty will really dominate the sea, and these pirates will be a bit redundant, how to deal with it? Kill them all!

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but be a little worried: "Weapons and ship transformation are not a problem, but what will be done in the future?" If the whole Nanyang is the world of the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't they seem redundant? ”

Zheng Zhilong had already had a countermeasure for this, and he immediately replied when he heard this: "This emperor doesn't need to worry, there are so many islands in the South Seas, when the Ming Dynasty doesn't need them, you can let them occupy a few islands, build a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and just retire with peace of mind, after all, being a pirate is not a lifelong livelihood, they should also look forward to the day when they wash their hands in the golden basin." ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he nodded slightly and said, "It's good to deal with it like this, but if they don't wash their hands obediently, wouldn't it be a big trouble?" ”

Zheng Zhilong patted his chest and promised: "Your Majesty, rest assured, these brothers are absolutely obedient." ”

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but be suspicious: "You are so sure, what if they are disobedient?" ”

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he said with a little sadness but a little pride: "The emperor can rest assured, the disobedient Weichen are almost wiped out, like Li Kuiqi, Zhong Bin, Yang Liu, Yang Qi, who were also my eighteen Zhi's brothers, they didn't listen to my Zheng family's orders, and insisted on going against the Ming Dynasty, and they were all destroyed by Weichen himself." ”

Zhu Cijiong didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to be so ruthless that he even killed his sworn brother, he couldn't help but sigh: "Kill them all? ”

Zheng Zhilong thought that Zhu Cijiong knew something, and hurriedly explained: "There is also a Liu Xiang, but he and Weichen have not been on the same path from the beginning, and he is not Weichen's subordinate, and Weichen can't control him, so he ......." ”

What kind of storm can a Liu Xiang set off, since the disobedient ones have been almost killed by him, then there should be no problem with the remaining ones, speaking of this eighteen zhi, Zhu Cijiong thought of the two people, and he said lightly: "Well, I still have to think about this problem, let's talk about it after the year." I heard that there are two people who seem to be quite familiar with you, He Bin and Guo Huaiyi, do you know each other? ”

Zheng Zhilong was stunned when he heard this, and said a little embarrassed: "This, this, these two people are also the brothers of Eighteen Zhi, of course Weichen knows, but they have already washed their hands." ”

Zhu Cijiong asked again: "Then do you know what they are doing now?" ”

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he couldn't help sighing: "Weichen heard that they are working under the Dutch, and this can't be blamed on them, there are so many people under them, how can they live if they don't find something to do." ”

Zhu Cijiong didn't want to blame them, but after listening to the report of the Jinyi Wei secret agent, he felt that these two people should be able to develop into internal responses, but he didn't know how these two people were, so he continued to ask: "Are these two people reliable?" Will they still listen to you? ”

Zheng Zhilong said a little smugly: "These two people are still quite obedient, as long as Weichen writes a letter to the past, they will definitely cooperate obediently." ”

Writing a letter can make people die? How do you feel that this is so unreliable, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but wonder: "It's unlikely, people won't imitate your handwriting, how can they be sure that you wrote it?" ”