Zhang Qiang landed in Taizhou County on a fast small dhow, and then returned to Linhai County, the capital of Taizhou, under the escort of Chen Hanhui, the capital of Taizhou County.

Wei Wuji set out from Jinhua Mansion with 3,000 musketeers, 2,000 soldiers, and 2,000 militiamen to Wenzhou Mansion in Xiamen, where he joined the fleet of sea vessels sent by Zhang Chong, and with the assistance of Xuanyuan Longfei, boarded the ship and went to sea, where he joined the reorganized First Division of the Jinhua Volunteer Army led by Zhang Ying on the sea.

The two convoys will sweep over the waters of Quanzhou Prefecture and appear on the waters of Xiamen, attacking Zheng Cai's ships who have fled back with their wounds.

At the same time, they landed in Xiamen and occupied Xiamen Island.

He will be fully responsible for annihilating Zheng Cai and the pirates near Xiamen Island, and even landing on Kinmen Island, taking full control of the sea there, eliminating the hostile pirate forces in the Fujian sea, and strangling those maritime merchants.

This is Zhang Qiang's trust in him, and he is fully responsible for maritime affairs.

And Zhou Congee is still in charge of the affairs of Taizhou Mansion, and those pirates who were sent out by Zheng Cai to serve as bait and those maritime merchant families, clans, and fishermen who are pirates will be the targets of his cleanup.

Zhang Qiang returned to Linhai County, Taizhou Mansion City because, Zheng Chenggong's envoys arrived, he had to receive them, Zheng Cai perished, Zheng Chenggong had one less opponent, Zhang Qiang and Zheng Cai's friction, Zheng Chenggong didn't know, but he was still in Japan at that time, integrating his father's forces, and later turned to Taiwan, and finally returned to his fundamental place, Nanao Island, and listened carefully to his subordinates reported the matter of the Jinhua Righteous Army and Zheng Cai, and he had an idea.

Integrating his father's commercial power, he had a financial foundation, and with the allegiance of the forces on the island of Taiwan, he basically gained a firm foothold, although the Dutch on the island of Taiwan had the greatest power, and the Dutch also regarded themselves as the masters of the treasure island and were hostile to them, but the Dutch still did not make up their minds to completely expel them.

After all, the treasure island is too big, and there are too few Dutch.

Of course, the Zheng family sent someone to see him, that is, Zheng Sen, who is still very hard, Zheng Chenggong, after breaking with his father Zheng Zhilong, he did not immediately go to Longwu, until Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Cai took refuge in Longwu, he realized that he realized that he was aware of it, he wanted to open a gap, with the help of Emperor Longwu's breeze, to obtain more abundant capital than Zheng Hongkui, he is now trapped in Nanao Island, and he also has a little power in Kinmen, and is worried about regaining his father's previous strength.

Zheng Chenggong's strength at this time was not high, but more than a hundred ships and a dozen warships.

Zheng Zhilong surrendered and persuaded him many times, but he did not surrender and did not want to be a lackey for the Manchus.

But Zheng Zhilong is the founder of the Zheng family's Haikou Business Group after all, he is so untrustworthy and does not follow his Lao Tzu, those brothers who have been born and died with him Lao Tzu and have received Zheng Zhilong's favor will not follow him.

Even if many people don't want to surrender to the Qing army, it doesn't mean that they want to surrender Zheng Chenggong, Eighteen Zhi is to put it bluntly, it is the integration of the eighteen pirates, Zheng Zhilong did not completely suppress those people, and had to act as an alliance leader, pinching these unruly pirates into a loose whole, without Zheng Zhilong's ambition and strategy, the fledgling Zheng Chenggong could not fully convince the public, and could only integrate those subordinates who were not very loyal to his father, but still had some loyal subordinates.

Since Zheng Chenggong worshipped Qian Qianyi as his teacher and became a scholar of Nanjing Guozijian, he has broken away from the Zheng family's Haikou forces and is incompatible with others.

So now is also the most difficult period for Zheng Chenggong.

Compared with the Ming Army Sailor in Zhang Qiang's hands and the pirate sailor of Zheng's Haikou, it is simply the gap between a child and a big man, no longer on a level, even if Zheng Chenggong is so weak, he can easily defeat them, although he defeated Zheng Cai's pirate forces, but it is only to make Zhang Qiang's sea forces rank at the bottom, and they have not yet fully formed their combat effectiveness, so Zhang Qiang values Zheng Chenggong very much this time.

In less than half an hour, Zhu Dayou brought Zheng Chenggong's envoy.

Zhang Qiang stood up and walked to the door to take a look, "Why are you so familiar?" ”

"Xiaguan Zheng Sen pays a visit to the Governor." As soon as the young man came up, he knelt down in front of Zhang Qiang.

"Zheng Sen?" Isn't this Zheng Chenggong himself?

Zhang Qiang was taken aback.

In history, Zheng Chenggong is much more respected than his son Zheng Zhilong, his Laozi is for his own selfish interests, swaying with the wind, for the overall situation, he is a sabotage promoter and a betrayer.

And Zheng Chenggong no matter what the starting point is, at least the result of what he did was to ensure that the Han people of the Southern Ming Dynasty were in the perspective of the Han people, and then saw that the Ming Dynasty was hopeless, so he turned to Treasure Island to find a place to settle down for himself, and his helpless self-preservation move made the treasure island of later generations nominally belong to the Han Chinese.

If it weren't for the capricious Shi Lang's betrayal, his treasure island would not have been captured by the Qing soldiers in the end.

Longwu once gave him the surname "Zhu", and later generations called him the national surname Ye, and the Yongli court named him the king of Yanping, the king of the county, maybe he still has such and such shortcomings, but he can be regarded as loyal to this country.

At this moment, he has recruited troops on Nanao Island, restored the Zheng clan situation that was divided after Zheng Zhilong left, and swore to defeat the Qing Dynasty, if it weren't for Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army, he would still be fighting against the Qing soldiers at this moment.

"Uncle Zhongxiao, please hurry up, the governor can't stand it, you are a loyal and filial uncle," Zhang Qiang hurriedly helped him up.

"Tea,"

After a greeting between the two sides, Zhang Qiang asked: "I don't know if Uncle Zhong Xiaobo is here at this moment, what do you think?" ”

Zheng Chenggong heard this, "Your Excellency the Governor, the lower officials came this time to ask the Governor to be fulfilled, so that the lower officials can serve the court again, the Governor knows, because of my father, the emperor is very jealous of my Zheng family, maybe Uncle Zheng can return to the court, and Brother Zheng Cai can return to the court, but the emperor still seems to be reluctant to understand me, I hope that the Governor can intercede with the emperor, so that Zheng Sen can serve the court, Zheng Sen's loyalty is not the slightest distraction." ”

"This," Zhang Qiang knew that he had said this matter, even if Emperor Longwu was unwilling, he had to give a few faces, but Zhang Qiang was not willing to do such a thing for a person who had little to do with him.

Zheng Chenggong got up and came to Zhang Qiang, and knelt on the ground, "Lord Governor, please fulfill Zheng Sen's pure heart, for the foundation of the imperial court, Zheng Sen is willing to go to the soup and fight the fire." ”

After saying that, he kowtowed to Zhang Qiang, although Zhang Qiang did not dislike the ancients kowtowing like other traversers, but he understood better than those traversers that if you want to integrate into a world, you must abide by the rules of this world.

Therefore, in addition to letting his loyal subordinates and the army under his direct command carry out some of the etiquettes he was accustomed to in later generations, such as bowing, saluting, and shaking hands, he has no requirements for others, and he is still very relaxed, but a historical figure like a famous national surname Ye kowtows like himself, and he still feels a little uncomfortable and awkward.

"Uncle Zhongxiao, please get up quickly, isn't this a joke for others to see? It is not good for your reputation to spread it, although I am the governor, but I do not have a title, it stands to reason that I should bow to you, but you salute me instead, this is not in accordance with the rules, come, get up quickly. Zhang Qiang looked sincerely frightened and went to help Zheng Chenggong.

Nowadays, the prestige of his Jinhua Righteous Army has spread to the entire south, and even the north is also very famous, not everyone can win many battles, in less than a year's effort, annihilated 200,000 Qing troops, even if most of these Qing soldiers are actually the original Ming soldiers, but there are also many from the north of the desperate, and strong combat effectiveness of the semi-Tartars, Han army flag, but also more than 10,000 real Tartars were annihilated by Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebels.

This is a remarkable achievement in this era.

But this can't be the reason why Zhang Qiangyi Ling Ran accepted a famous historical figure with a knighthood and showed a strong performance behind him kowtowed and saluted.

But Zheng Chenggong didn't get up, and continued: "Lord Governor, Sen asks for your help, so that Sen can reorganize my father's original foundation, and in the future, Sen will only look forward to the Lord's horse. ”

Zhang Qiang sat back in his place, picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, thought about it, and asked leisurely: "You are here to ask for help, but how can I help you?" If you plead with the emperor as mentioned above, this can still help a little, and the others ask for money, my territory is not enough to spend, and they want soldiers, they are all landlubbers on land, and they must not be able to be sailors on your ship, so you tell me, can I help you with that? ”

Zheng Chenggong knelt there, raised his head, and met Zhang Qiang's gaze and said: "I heard that the adults have completely annihilated Zheng Cai's sea forces, and Sen asked the adults to hand over the rest of Zheng Cai's troops to Sen to appease, and Sen must be grateful to the adults." ”

Zhang Qiang looked at Zheng Chenggong's eyes, and after a while, he suddenly smiled, "Okay, Zheng Cai's Xiamen and Kinmen can be handed over to you to deal with, but what can I get?" ”

Zheng Chenggong clenched his fists, "Your Excellency Governor, I don't want any of Zheng Cai's goods, I will send some capable people to help the adults train sailors, build ships, and hoist the adult's flag in the camp, and serve the lord as the lord." ”

Zhang Qiang put down the teacup, "I won't have anything to do with you, since you think so, then I will agree, take my warrant, go to Fuzhou to find Lord Wei, and ask him to cooperate with you to take Xiamen and Kinmen, and from now on it will be your sphere of influence." ”

Zheng Chenggong kowtowed again, "Lord Xie, Zheng Sen must be loyal to your lord wholeheartedly." ”

Zhang Qiang smiled: "Get up, I hope what you said is true." ”

Zheng Chenggong raised his hand, "Zheng Sen swears to the sky, if he violates it, let Zheng Sen pierce his heart with ten thousand arrows, and he will not die well." ”

Zhang Qiang exchanged a few more words with him and sent him away.

At present, Zhang Qiang's elite army is stationed at some strategic points, and can become the main force to support and decide the outcome of the war between the two sides at any time.

The Qing soldiers were powerless, and they did not dare to attack the court of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Longwu, and Zhang Qiang didn't want to take too big a step, he needed to digest the territory he had obtained and be a Ming lord.

Since we want to develop the people's livelihood and consolidate the territory, we can't develop to the north, so we have to go south, to the seaside, do business with other Southern Ming forces, and increase the financial revenue in our territory.

Now the people's livelihood in the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army has been slightly stabilized, the population is growing, and various problems have emerged.

Lack of money where to come?