Zheng Lian restored his original appearance, and Huang San also ordered someone to change him into a clean prison uniform, which was the style of later labor prisoners and was easy to identify.

"Zheng Lian, you colluded with Xiyi in a vain attempt to lead foreign enemies to conspire to attack our Da Ming Army, what crime do you think you should be guilty of?" Wang Yue looked at Zheng Liandao, who was kneeling on the ground.

"Capital crime, capital crime, please be merciful, please be merciful, merciful!"

Zheng Lian kowtowed again and again, and his career in the black coal kiln for more than a month wore out Zheng Lian's sharpness, and he was no longer proud of his toes in Hirado.

Wang Yue asked, "Do you want to go back?" Go back to Quanzhou. ”

"Back, back?" Zheng Lian couldn't believe his ears, with his grievances with Wang Yue, it was originally inevitable.

"Why don't you want to go back?" Wang Yueyi frowned.

"I want to, if I want to go back, please give me a way out." Zheng Lian kowtowed.

Wang Yue said: "Yes, go back to Quanzhou, you go and give Zheng Zhilong a little word, and ask him to bring Zheng Sen to Taipei to see me for seven days." If you miss this time, you do so at your own risk. ”

He still hopes that Zheng Zhilong can consciously surrender to sincerity, if the Tiance army goes to Quanzhou, it will be another war involving most of Fujian such as Quanzhou, Xiamen, and Zhangzhou.

Judging from the historical performance, Zheng Zhilong is a soft bone, and it is very likely that he will take the initiative to surrender.

Zheng Zhilong has the usefulness of Zheng Zhilong, the Zheng family is the largest maritime group in the Ming Dynasty, which is rare under the policy of closing the country to the Ming Dynasty. There are many borderless lands overseas, which need to be filled by the Ming population, and the global maritime trade also needs more Chinese people to participate, Wang Yue feels that the Zheng family should play a role in these aspects.

"If you don't care about adults, you must bring the small ones." was able to return to Fujian alive, Zheng Lian's bones were lighter, and the dark life in the mine was really worse than death.

Taiwan's coal mines belong to tunnel-type operations, the conditions are very simple, and the equipment is only simple equipment such as pumps, which is inferior to the black coal kilns of later generations, and its hardships can be imagined.

Wang Yue looked at Zheng Lian and said: "This official has already spared you twice, if you go against this official next time and get arrested, you won't have such good luck, you know?" ”

Zheng Liancheng said fearfully: "The tolerance of the adults is remembered by the small ones." ”

Wang Yue nodded and said, "Go ahead." ”

Strictly speaking, Zheng Lian is not classified as a traitor, and people in this era do not have much concept of a country and a nation. Zheng Zhilong also had Japanese mercenaries and black guards under him, and Zheng Zhilong also worked for the Dutch, which is difficult to define anyway. Zheng Lian's actions are also to act according to orders, each is his master, Zheng Zhilong does not have a phone call, and Wang Yue also lacks a messenger, so he is it.

Zheng Lian was sent through the Taiwan Strait by a naval ship, leaving him a hundred taels of silver for the journey, and then he left.

Since the defeat to the Tiance Navy in the Taiwan Strait, Zheng Zhilong's maritime power has been greatly damaged, and in order to restore its strength, the Zheng family opened two additional shipyards in Xiamen to build new warships. In order to avoid another collision with the Tiance Army and Navy, the Zheng family's maritime activities were greatly reduced.

In the battle of the Taiwan Strait, Zheng Zhilong was deeply impressed by the firepower of the Tiance Army. In order to resist the possible invasion of the Tiance army, Zheng Zhilong still invested a lot of money in the construction of land defense facilities when the Zheng family's sea income shrank.

Zheng Zhilong was aware of the disparity in strength between himself and the Tiance army, so on the one hand, he tried to find foreign aid and collect European-style ship artillery, and on the other hand, he also tried his best to strengthen the defense around Jinjiang, Anping and Xiamen.

He sent people to buy more than a dozen of the largest and heaviest Hongyi cannons from Guangdong, and built fortifications to strengthen the defenses of Kinmen Island and Anping.

In addition, an iron chain wooden platoon was also set up at the entrance of Anping Port in Jinjiang to prevent the ships of the Tiance Army from breaking in. In addition to recruiting Lu Yong in Fujian, blacks and Japanese who were familiar with the use of firearms were also recruited in Macao and other places, and a large number of arquebuses were purchased.

Anping, Xiamen, Kinmen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places have been building fortifications for more than a year.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong was in Xiamen, Xiamen Island was the main foreign trade port of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong attacked Yuegang many times, burned the blocks, and took away ships, the purpose was to force the maritime merchants to transfer trade to Xiamen. Although the island is not very large, it is blessed by the prosperity of foreign trade and commerce. The economy is quite prosperous, so Xiamen is prosperous because of the Zheng family.

Zheng Zhilong has two core bases, one is Jinjiang Anping, and the other is Xiamen.

Jinjiang Anping belongs to Quanzhou Prefecture, and its location is not in Quanzhou Bay, where the Jinjiang River flows, but facing Weitou Bay, which exposes Kinmen Island.

Zheng Zhilong overhauled the walls of Anping and almost rebuilt a new city. Anping became Zheng Zhilong's military base and trading base for his own troops, and ships from Japan and Taiwan traded through here. The Dutch called these merchant ships "Anhai ships".

His choice of Anping as his base was deliberate. The town of Anping, together with Xiamen Island (Zhongzuo) and Kinmen Island under his control, constitute a tightly controlled Weitou Bay. If the enemy wants to attack here, he will have to take great risks.

The Zhongzuo Institute, also known as Xiamen City, was originally an acropolis to guard against Japanese invaders, and after being occupied by Zheng Zhilong, it became another important military town of the Zheng family on land.

The location of the city on the left was later Xiamen University. Leaning on the five old peaks and facing the sea, it is an ideal configuration of the typical north mountain and south water from the perspective of feng shui. The shape of the five mountains of the five old peaks is just like a Taishi chair, which is very in line with the meaning of "adding officials to the knight", so it is entrenched in Xiamen Island. Zheng Zhilong unceremoniously used Suocheng as his army station.

The lobby of the former Qianhu Office in the center of the city is now Zheng Zhilong's meeting hall. Zheng Lian came back and brought Wang Yue's message, which made Zheng Zhilong suspicious.

"Then Wang Sihua only said let me see him, and didn't say anything else?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

Zheng Lian said: "Big brother, he only said this, not anything else. ”

Zheng Lian, who can see the light of day again, where does he dare to ask Wang Yue in detail.

Zheng Zhibao on the side said: "Big brother, you can't go to Taipei, if you go, you will definitely have no return." ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded silently, Wang Yue didn't say what to do with him, just asked him to take his eldest son Zheng Sen to Taipei to meet him, to be honest, he really didn't have the courage to go. Although the Zheng clan lost a game, it has not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

The fourth Zheng Zhifeng (Zheng Hongkui) said: "The Tiance army has now taken Manila and Batavia, and the Spaniards and the Dutch are not its opponents. ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "Order the brothers to strengthen their vigilance to prevent the Tiance Army from raiding. Hmph, this is not Manila and Batavia, let alone Liaodong. ”

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