Zheng Chenggong's Australia needs people, food, weapons, and warships.

Zhang Qiang knows, this demand is really not very difficult for the Huaxia Kingdom, and there are benefits, it seems that Zheng Chenggong has been completely convinced, facing the Huaxia Kingdom, no longer thinking about making trouble, Zheng Chenggong is not a person with perseverance, he is the successor of an island family, and also a founder, pirates, always thinking about speculation, so he has cooperated with Zhang Qiang a few times, and turned his face with Zhang Qiang several times.

This time he couldn't turn his face, he was driven thousands of miles away by Zhang Qiang, and it took half a year to go back and forth according to the current slowest speed, and the fastest one was two months, so he could only maintain a good relationship with Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Kingdom.

Because Zheng Chenggong's vision is still good, at least broader than the vision of those officials in the previous Ming Dynasty, and broader than the vision of those current officials in the Qing Dynasty.

Chinese have always been staring at their own one-third of an acre of land because of geographical factors, historical factors, and Confucian factors, never looking outside, and they are more arrogant, arrogant, conceited, and Lao Tzu's idea of being the first in the world, making it impossible for them to communicate with the outside world on an equal footing.

It wasn't until I was woken up several times in later generations that I felt my ignorance and lack of vision, and I studied hard and tried my best to surpass, but I only thought about making money when I went crooked, so I fell behind again.

Zheng Chenggong's proposal is very demanding for their development, and it can also bring benefits to the Huaxia Kingdom, there are only benefits to the Huaxia Kingdom, there is no harm in doing so, of course they have to cooperate.

"How much food do you need?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Zheng Keshuang said: "We need at least five million tons of grain, the last million tons of grain can make the previous population eat for at least two years, but within two years, with the continuous expansion of the territory, it may not be enough to eat, and this time we are ready to buy a large number of ships, in addition to warships, we also need more transport ships, you know that we can only make some small boats of about 100 tons, or the construction period is relatively long, if it is a big ship, there is no technology, and it can't wait, so we still need a lot of transportation ships."

The Daifuku ship, which can run twice a year, the Hirobune, which can run three times a year, and the 1,000-ton warship that can run a little more than three times a year, or an 800-ton battleship, can run a little more than three times if the speed is a little faster, and if the wind is smooth, you may be able to run until the next year and then return from here for a fourth time. The speed of the 600-ton ship is a little faster, and it can basically run four times a year. ”

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, in this way, they will be able to get the support of the Huaxia Army in time, at least in terms of material support, they have to buy all the tonnage ships of the Huaxia Army.

That's a lot of money.

Zhang Qiang asked people to call Zhou Congee, Zhou Congee led the cabinet departments to negotiate with Zheng Keshuang and them last time, so Zhang Qiang needed Zhou Congee and them to continue to negotiate with Zheng Keshuang, but this time he was in China, so he also accompanied them to negotiate, and at the same time called Wei Wuji and Ruan Jin, the director of the water division.

Zhang Ying has retired, so the director of the water division can only let Ruan in to take the position.

On the sea, on the rivers and running in hot and humid places all year round, as a sailor commander, Zhang Ying's body is less than seventy years old and can no longer do anything, his sons are civil officials in coastal Taizhou and other places, and his grandchildren have also served as military generals or civil officials in Jiangxi and other places, he is an official who has always done good deeds.

There are not many civil officials and military generals like him who can start and finish well in the original Lu Jianguo era.

Zhou Congee, Gao Shi of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Wei Wuji of the Ministry of National Defense, Jin Qi of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Ruan Jin, Director of the Water Division, and others came to the Huagai Palace, and Zhang Qiang negotiated in the palace in the capital of Jinling.

Zheng Keshuang personally participated in the negotiations, Yu Xing, Gan Hui, and these two Zheng Chenggong generals participated.

Even with the same Han regime, Zheng Chenggong's people and the officials of the Huaxia Kingdom were also at war of words, uncompromising, and quarreled on the Huagai Hall for a little benefit, while Zhang Qiang watched from the sidelines, while flipping through the intelligence summary of the Ministry of Military Intelligence given to him by Jin Qi.

Since Prime Minister Yan took refuge in Feng Quan of Xinlu Mansion, he was appointed by Zhang Qiang as the prefect of Siguo Island, and he was equipped with Zhao Hui, the commander of the naval division stationed abroad, that is, the son of Zhao Siyang, the director of artillery.

At present, the battle on Shikoku Island is not over, Kagawa Prefecture has been captured by the combined forces of the three princes and Kong Youse, there are 300,000 Kagawa prefectures or Kochi prefectures, and the Japanese people in Ehime Prefecture have fled to Denios Island or the Japanese shortcut area on the other side because of the large-scale capture of them by the Shinru army and the Ryukyu Kingdom army of the third prince.

About 800,000 Japanese people gathered in the county town of Denios Island, where the second prince was located, 150,000 Han Chinese fled to the county, and 4 million Shikoku citizens fled to the short-distance area of the Japanese island, and 2.7 million Japanese people fell into the hands of the Xinlu army and the Ryukyu Kingdom army.

After the battle to capture the prefecture of Kagawa, the third prince left behind 30,000 militia servants, 10,000 militiamen, and 5,000 Ryukyu Kingdom troops to maintain law and order in part of Kagawa Prefecture, to help the Shinro army defend, and at the same time to defend the protrusion in the corner of Kochi Prefecture where they landed to guard the prisoners of the Shikoku militia captured by them, as well as the captured civilians, the other 110,000 troops withdrew.

10,000 troops returned to Amami Island to strengthen their defenses, 10,000 militiamen were also stationed on Amami Island, and the rest were stationed separately on their newly captured islands.

There were more than a dozen newly conquered islands along Amami Island to the original main island of Lu Province, three of which were larger islands with a radius of 100 li, and seven or eight were small islands with a radius of only 3 or 4 li, and each island was garrisoned with at least 1,000 troops, 10,000 troops on the large island, 30,000 troops on the forward island, 50,000 troops on the frontier island of the enemy who were ready to attack, and 30,000 militia servants brought back from Shikoku Island.

There are also newly trained and conscripted sailor recruits, Zhang Qiang mobilized three 600-ton warships from the First Fleet and handed them over to the third prince, six 300-ton warships, fifteen 180-ton warships, and 36 90-ton warships, in order to reward him for helping the Xinlu army attack Shikoku Island and compensate for the loss of his troops, the third prince accepted it very happily, he knew that he did not have the ability to bargain with the Huaxia army, if he said that he asked to divide a part of the territory of Shikoku Island, Maybe the officers and men of the Huaxia Army Naval Division stationed on Amami Island and a dozen other small islands will trouble him.

For such acquaintances, Zhang Qiang never hesitates to reward.

After going back, the third prince rested for a week, and then continued to lead the sailors to fight with the eldest prince, and he must make the eldest prince a king on an isolated island, and wanted to defeat the last three remaining big islands of Lu State, and then land on the main island of Lu State, recover the main island of Lu State, and become the real king of Lu State.

Maybe the defeat of the eldest prince is inevitable on their side, the success of the third prince is only a matter of time, Zhang Qiang will not pay attention, the third prince is obedient, he is unwilling to move him anymore, and the rest is the scourge of the second prince, helping the Japanese to fight the Han, Zhang Qiang will definitely not spare him.

Although the third prince's army was withdrawn, only some troops were left to maintain law and order, and Feng Quan only had about 300,000 troops, but his strength was much better than the second prince's 150,000 remnants.

Maybe victory is just a matter of time.

The next battle to win the Shikoku Island War was to continue the battle against Japan's Honshu Island.

The negotiations continued, but Zhang Qiang's mind didn't know where to go.

(End of chapter)