Chapter 218: Zheng Chenggong's Bottom Line
Negotiations with Zheng Chenggong entered a state of see-saw. [No pop-ups. 】
Zheng Chenggong is like a small businessman, although the two sides did not enter the rhythm of turning faces, but the soldiers and horses on both sides retreated a certain distance, building fortifications, the naval warships of both sides continued to patrol the sea on their side, and some ships were like the Chinese turtle navy in the South China Sea in later generations, and the small ships of the sailors led by Zhang Ying collided, and they abused each other after all.
What about being as close as a brother?
Okay, are we all Ming people?
Said good folks, everyone looks down and doesn't look up?
But the strange thing is that Feng Xin's troops and Gan Hui's troops in Gelansha City are still cooperating with the army led by Tang Dianfeng to besiege Gelanza City, and the Dutch have not benefited at all, they still endure the siege of Zheng Jun every day regardless of casualties, and they are still enduring the captive soldiers of the Jinhua Righteous Army and the militia troops sent by the Zheng Army to dig trenches.
Whenever a horizontal trench was dug and a fortress was built, the artillery went in, and then the city of Geranza was bombarded incessantly.
The city of Gelanza is twice as large as the red city, with a circumference of five miles, although there are only three layers of walls, and the second layer of the city wall is not built on buildings, but the second layer of the city wall is a real city wall, that is, compared to the red city, the artillery of the Jinhua rebels bombarded the enemy's city wall more than once.
There is also a lot of artillery fire, and there are also some Kalong guns that have been moved out of the warehouse to replace the 24-pounder and 32-pounder bow and stern of the fleet, and the ballistics of these Kalong cannons are also the same as those of the Jinhua Rebels outside, and the trajectory is curved, so they cause some damage to the militia and prisoners of the Jinhua Rebels digging trenches.
But after all, the distance is long, the casualties are still not large, and in response to this, Tang Dianfeng, the chief general of the Jinhua Righteous Army, has made adjustments.
The mound of soil in front of the trench is higher, the cannon is arranged to be scattered, and when the artillery is bombarded, find the enemy's city wall with cannons, and bombard it for a while, the enemy's cannon will be lost, fight the cannon, others do not have the confidence of the Jinhua Righteous Army, the iron mold cannon, the speed is much faster, and it is a big deal to pull a few doors to fill it.
Because the negotiations did not go well, Zheng Chenggong wanted to repent, because in the eyes of Zheng Chenggong's generals, it was too simple for the Jinhua Righteous Army to fight the Dutch, and they thought that they should not give so many benefits to the Jinhua Righteous Army, and Zheng Junwang's territory allowed outsiders to kick C, which had an impact on the prestige of Zheng Junwang, and many generals loyal to Zheng Chenggong were not happy.
And Zhang Qiang was not just negotiating with Zheng Chenggong at this time, he was also concerned about the development of the situation on the mainland, the army led by Wei Wuji finally defeated the Qing army and recovered Shaoxing Mansion.
Wei Wuji had to stay and send Yang Yangyang to lead a large army to follow King Lu's men to Hangzhou Mansion and continue the battle against the Qing army, while Du Ge's men accepted Ningbo Mansion and asked Gu Yuesheng, the governor of Taizhou Prefecture, to take over power there.
Zhou Congee was in charge of the overall situation, sent officials to various places, and sent some secretaries of Zhang Qiang's former chamberlain to Shaoxing Mansion, Ningbo Mansion, and Wenzhou Mansion to support Wei Wuji, Du Ge, and Chen Hanhui.
Wenzhou Mansion has always been directly managed by Xuanyuan Longfei, a stunned young man, and the military and political governments are grasped, not that Zhang Qiang does not want to change officials, but that he does not change much, it is because Wenzhou Mansion is close to Xinghua Mansion in Fujian, which is the territory of Emperor Longwu, Zhang Qiang does not want to touch the nerves of Emperor Longwu, although the two of them have an agreement, they can never blatantly tell those Nanming officials that this is Zhang Qiang's territory, why do you want to betray Daming?
Now everyone still thinks of themselves as Ming people, and some old masters can't lose their previous loyal and patriotic thoughts, and their heads are not bright, and they are not good for Zhang Qiang and Longwu.
Long Wu accepted the unpleasant lesson with Zheng Zhilong, knowing that although Zhang Qiang was not as strong as Zheng Zhilong, Zhang Qiang was a de facto powerful faction, and he wanted to use Zhang Qiang's force to maintain his royal rule.
He understands that he needs to rely on these warlords and powerful factions now, and he can even accept those remnants of Dashun, so can he accept a Zhang Qiang who doesn't seem to be against him on the surface, but has the same as Cao C?
Reckoning accounts is a matter for the future, but if you don't get the fruit and settle the accounts, you will be ashamed of Zhu Yujian, the head of the descendants of the Zhu family, who has spent twenty-four years in prison and disasters since he was born.
Zhou Congee was born to be a good hand at governance, and when Zhang Qiang was not there, he handled the affairs in the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army in an orderly manner, which ensured the logistics support of the army of four people who went out to fight, and also made Zhang Qiang's policy in the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army smoothly promoted.
Therefore, Zhang Qiang was very satisfied after knowing it, and he was relieved to grind with Zheng Chenggong.
"King of Yanping, we have been grinding for several days, I think there should be an end today," Zhang Qiang drank the tea with boiled water, sometimes he couldn't adapt to the climate of Baodao, and he had run three times in the thatched house, so he also lost his patience, although he was grinding, for a castle, for a territory, but the grinding people were also grinding, just hurting each other.
"Hehe, Lord Governor, you and I are both people who are obsessed with the land, we are all the same people, don't worry, let's continue to talk, inch by inch of land." Zheng Chenggong learned Confucianism, Confucianism in China for a thousand years, can grind a warlike nation into a bloodless and fierce nation in later generations, it can be seen that Confucianism is quite powerful, as a student of Confucianism master Qian Qianyi, this person's kung fu is really not a little high.
Zhang Qiang is a working boy, people in later generations like money, everything can be solved with money, nothing can be solved without money, so what he wants is to solve things as soon as possible, the previous grinding thought was just thinking about helping him fight, and he invited him, he should have a little face and give himself some, but I didn't expect Zheng Chenggong to be so shameless now.
"Okay, what do you say?" Zhang Qiang took retreat as advance, and now it seems that Zheng Chenggong also wants to reach an agreement as soon as possible, after all, all strategies are strategies, and the purpose of his family is to achieve the goal, and everyone knows that it is impossible to grind forever.
"I want those cannons under your command, if you can give me ten 48-pounder guns, twenty 36-pounder guns, fifty 32-pounder guns, seventy 24-pounder guns, one hundred 18-pounder guns, one hundred and twenty 12-pounder guns, and two hundred 9-pounder guns, then I'll give you the Red Nest City, how about it?"
Zheng Chenggong drank tea and looked at him with a smile.
"Nai's thing, your bottoms are finally leaking out, how good am I for you? I see. Zhang Qiang sneered in his heart.
(End of chapter)