Seeing that Shikoku Island was about to be recovered, the enemy was like a building about to collapse, and he almost pushed it lightly at the end, Feng Quan was very happy, and the third prince was also very happy, and the two of them sent a congratulatory letter to Zhang Qiang at the same time.

At this time, Zhang Qiang is no longer in Kagoshima County, as the king of the Huaxia Kingdom, he can't stay outside often, he must sit in Jingshi, the feudal dynasty is like this, if you can't stay in Jingshi, then the world will be in chaos, people's hearts are unstable, it has been three months since he came out, Zhang Qiang can't ignore the Huaxia Dynasty that he founded wholeheartedly, so he has returned to Jingshi Jinling Mansion under the escort of the fleet.

Back in Beijing, a large number of official documents that needed to be dealt with, directly let Zhang Qiang spend his head in the pile of documents every day, and finally spent almost a week to deal with these documents, relieved himself and took his three wives to the suburbs for a day, and the next day he received a request from Zheng Keshuang to visit again.

Zhang Qiang thought about it, it's only been less than four months, has this guy already sent those people and ships to Australia?

No matter what Zhang Qiang thought, Zheng Keshuang came, so he met Zheng Keshuang who went and returned in the Huagai Palace.

"See Your Majesty, hooray, hooray, hooray." Zheng Keshuang still used some rules of the Ming Dynasty to face Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang didn't think so, waved his hand, invited him to sit down, and asked: "Lord Zheng, have you already returned to Australia?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I have returned to Australia, those ships and slaves are still on the way back to Australia, I am going back to Australia this time to complete the transaction with Your Majesty with gold, silver and jewelry, although our Zheng family is not as strong as you, but we understand that the integrity of our Han people is the most important, so I rushed back to Australia first, got the gold and silver we promised, and rushed back to deliver it first."

Zheng Keshuang said.

"Very good, I like to do business with people like you," Zhang Qiang was also very happy, that businessman doesn't like to do business with honest people?

Previously, he gave Zheng Keshuang 8 million Huaxia Yuan on credit to pay for the weapons and ammunition they purchased last time, as well as some old ships, small ships, and more than a dozen large warships eliminated by the Huaxia Army, a total of 2 million Huaxia Yuan, and 6 million Huaxia Yuan is the annual fund that can be used in the future, which is still stored in the grain store of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Huaxia Army.

This year's quota of two million Huaxia yuan has been used up, and if it is used again, it will have to be next year, but no matter how it is said, it is Huaxia Jun's own money, not Zheng Chenggong's money, so there is always a little worry that Zheng Chenggong will repay the debt, and now it is only four months, Zheng Keshuang has already paid off the debt with the money he promised to pay, so it is the best.

Although the two sides said that when they negotiated, they said that they would use Australian iron ore and guano to repay the debt, but the other party had not yet transported the iron ore and guano to it, but only transported back the things and people given by the Huaxia Army first, and only gave a part of the gold and silver and Huaxia Yuan before, and did not give all of them.

It's not much, at most it's the money that the Huaxia military spent on the military expenses of the punishment camp for three months, but it's always unhappy to be taken advantage of, so the officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Zhang Qiang's wife Gao, always nagged in Zhang Qiang's ear, and Zhang Qiang didn't want to listen to the nagging, so he hid in Kagoshima County to deal with the battle somewhere.

Zheng Keshuang hurriedly laughed, "Yes, yes, Your Majesty, we are very honest, we didn't bring all the money of eight million Chinese dollars, my father said that where they need a lot of warships and warships to maintain the safety of the coast, and at the same time to deal with the British, the British somehow followed our fleet to find the Australian coast, and a hundred people landed on the other side of the coast."

Our warships can't beat the British warships, so we need a lot of warships and artillery of the Huaxia Army, so we rushed to me, we need more warships and artillery. ”

Zhang Qiang was shocked in his heart, and secretly scolded, this Westerner is really despicable, shameless, stealing, plotting, cutting off the beard, counting the Han people are gentle and civilized people, no wonder the dynasties of the past dynasties have no good impression of Westerners, call them barbarians, they are really barbaric, and they secretly followed Zheng Chenggong's fleet and found the Australian coast.

"How many warships do they have?" Zhang Qiang hurriedly asked.

Zheng Keshuang said: "I heard my father say that there are about five 300-ton warships, although their warships are smaller than ours, but the artillery is sharp, and the tactics are advanced, we can't defeat them with the existing warships, so far, we can only suppress them with numerical superiority, but can't eliminate them." ”

Zhang Qiang knew that during the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty used nearly a thousand warships to force the Portuguese and the Dutch several warships in the coastal waters, at that time, they were only 180 tons of armed merchant ships, and they still belonged to the kind of bulky Clark ships, just like this, the losses were heavy casualties, and finally forced people to retreat, and they burned their two ships with arson, seriously injured one, and the others retreated, and there was no way for the Portuguese who only had a small land in the trench gate, and the Portuguese had nearly a thousand troops in the trench gate, and more than a dozen armed merchant ships, There were nearly dozens of other merchant ships, and there was no way for the Ming Dynasty to drive them out to sea.

In the history of his later generations, Zheng Chenggong spent more than ten years, many times with more than 1,000 warships to fight the Portuguese, Dutch, and Spaniards, and it took great effort to subdue them, but their losses were also very large, and the losses of the people were very small, which is equivalent to saying that it took more than ten years to beat them with arson boats and desperate dead and wounded, so that they could do business obediently and pay the toll for the passage of the sea area.

Zheng Chenggong, who was now greatly damaged by Zhang Qiang's strength, went to sea with a fleet of only 200 ships, and finally settled in Australia and occupied that place for Huaxia, but most of their ships were still the same kind of ships as before, although some ships were sold to them by the Huaxia Army, they were not very powerful, most of them were Dafu ships, and the warships improved by Daguang Ship were not very powerful.

The speed is not good, the volume is huge, the ability to resist the wind and waves at sea is not as good as the Dutch, the British ships, coastal operations may have a military advantage, the far sea is not good, now with the Chinese army to play the tactics of distant artillery bombardment, these Taixi people have long learned, and carried forward, with advanced tactics, they fight Zheng Chenggong is even more invincible.

Compared to these Tessis, the Han people were less able to accept new things, and were slower. It is estimated that Zheng Chenggong and they are now in the period of half-jump gang combat and half-sea artillery bombardment, how can they be more powerful than the Taixi people?

For the improvement of ideology and quality, Zhang Qiang can't help Zheng Chenggong them, after all, it's far away, and now the traffic has to go to Australia two or three thousand nautical miles away, which is the nearest one, if you go to Australia farther away from the coast, it is ten thousand miles away, and there are seven or eight thousand nautical miles away if it is less than ten thousand miles, and the Chinese army is beyond the reach of the whip.

So how much can he help, Zhang Qiang is trying to help them as much as possible, and at the same time, Zhang Qiang feels that the sea soft power of the Taixi people is still very powerful, after all, they are more experienced than the Huaxia Kingdom in sea operations.

Compared with a continental-nature kingdom like Huaxia, these families are all maritime powers on the mixed sea, and there is a gap between the Huaxia army and their sailors, Zhang Qiang does not think that the Huaxia army and sailors can defeat others wherever they go.

(End of chapter)