After five days of sailing, the fleet arrived at the sea off Kinmen, where Wang Yan stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the sparkling sea, and flocks of seagulls hovering over the sea.

Between the sea and the sky, several Ming army sentry boats and hundreds of fishing boats ride the wind and waves in the sea, and the sea breeze is light, which is refreshing and pleasant. \u000b "Guogong, that's the two islands of Jin and Xia!" Yu Fangqi, the deputy general of the naval division who accompanied Wang Yan, pointed to the east of the fleet, and introduced the two islands that are not connected to the land.

Wang Yan nodded, there are many islands off the coast of Fujian, and there are many good harbors, sailing along the coast, you will often see many islands isolated on the sea.

The fleet came all the way from Guangdong, and Wang Yan was already amazed when he saw Nanao Island and Dongmen Island, but compared with the islands along the way, the two islands of Jinxia in front of him were undoubtedly much larger, and each of them was the size of a county.

At this time, Wang Yan couldn't help but think of Taiwan on the chart, that is, Yizhou in ancient times, which seemed to be on the opposite side of Jinxia, and on the chart, it was an island larger than Qiongzhou.

If it was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Taiwan would be equivalent to a medium-sized vassal state.

Kinmen Island and Xiamen Island, like two rice balls soaked in water, look at each other across a narrow strait from Fujian, and his opposite shore is Zhangzhou, where Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia live with heavy troops.

Because there was a Ming army stationed in the west of Zhangzhou, and Zheng Chenggong of Jinxia formed a flanking trend in Zhangzhou, so in order to deal with the Ming army's flanking attack, the Qing soldiers of Zhangzhou Mansion were ready to be besieged at any time, they not only strengthened the city wall of Zhangzhou, Tuntian defended themselves, but also pulled up iron locks on the Jiulong River and Xixi to prevent the Ming warships from sailing into the hinterland of Zhangzhou.

The two islands of Jinxia are located at the mouth of the Jiulong River and Xixi, and the sediment brought by the rivers slowly accumulates to form large islands.

Their area at this time was not as large as in later generations, but the island not only had lakes, forests, arable land, and county seats, but also enough to live for tens of thousands of people.

With the occupation of Fujian by the Qing army, the various islands along the coast became the base of the anti-Qing rebel army, and the gentry and people who were unwilling to surrender fled to the island in large numbers, and Zheng Chenggong's Jinxia brought together more than 400,000 soldiers and civilians.

As far as Jinxia and Jinxia are concerned, they will definitely not be able to feed so many people, not to mention that Zheng Chenggong still has to raise the army and train to prepare for war.

From the beginning of his retreat to Jinxia, Zheng Chenggong began to carefully manage this anti-Qing base, reclaimed land, and built a huge wharf that could be used for smuggling trade.

When Wang Yan's fleet approached Xiamen, an alarm bell suddenly sounded on the island, and the brigade of Sergeant Zheng ran along the shore, waving flags at the forts built with sandbags.

"Guogong, they asked us which department we were?" Yu Fangqi put down the clairhandly mirror and turned around and said.

"Hit the flag and reply, just say that the governor is here."

Wang Yanli waved his hand at the bow of the ship, and the flag-bearer on the ship immediately responded, the Guangdong Navy Division was trained by Shi Lang, and Shi Lang was a Zheng officer, so the two armies were basically the same in many aspects.

After a while, it seemed that he saw the flag, and from Xiamen Island, two warships soon sailed out, leading the fleet into the harbor.

There is a lake on the island, the mouth of the lake is connected to the sea, when there is a storm, the sea is turbulent, but the lake is calm, it is a natural harbor, and the warships of the Zheng family gather in the lake.

The fleet sailed in, Wang Yan looked around, and saw that there were thousands of large and small boats moored in the lake, and he was extremely shocked, and this was just when he entered the lake, and he had not seen the Zheng family's big ship in the inner lake.

Wang Yan got off the boat at the wharf at the mouth of the lake, Zheng Chenggong led a team of generals to wait on the wharf, they saw Wang Yan go ashore, and immediately greeted him and said: "The lower official greets the cabinet department!" ”

After the imperial court moved to Guangzhou, in order to stabilize the anti-Qing forces in Fujian, Zheng Chenggong was given the title of Governor of Fujian Military Affairs.

"Damu, don't come to harm~"

Wang Yan held his hand, shook it tightly a few times, then glanced at the generals who greeted him, and sighed: "The soldiers are stationed here, hundreds of thousands of people are crowded on the island, not forgetting the imperial court, and insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty, it is really hard." ”

The relationship between Zheng Chenggong and Wang Yan has always been good, and Wang Wei, the general under his command, has also fought side by side with Zheng Chenggong and has a deep affection.

Since Wang Yan entered Guangdong, the two have not seen each other for nearly two years, and now Wang Yan's name is shocking to China, and he has entered the cabinet to worship the prime minister, and Zheng Chenggong has experienced many changes, and has also transformed from the original Confucian to a mature and stable general.

In fact, in some aspects, Wang Yan and Zheng Chenggong are very similar, except for the close age, that is, the two of them are actually in the Longwu Imperial Court, and they both maintain a certain degree of independence, and the army's money is basically self-raised, with a little shadow of a feudal town.

The two haven't seen each other for a long time, Zheng Chenggong listened to Wang Yan's words, and sighed in his heart, "Success and the soldiers can gain a firm foothold in Jinxia, thanks to the great battle between the cabinet and Boluo in Yanping, so that Chenggong can take the opportunity to recapture a batch of food and money from Quanzhou and Anping, otherwise more than 400,000 soldiers and civilians will not be able to live at all by relying on the land of Jinxia." ”

Fujian is originally mountainous and lacking in food, Zheng has been relying on sea trade to earn money, and then buy grain everywhere, but now there is not much food anywhere, Zheng Chenggong still has some money, but food is not easy to buy.

Wang Yan nodded, he also won the battle of Yanping at the beginning, and he also wanted to thank Zheng Chenggong for attacking Quanzhou at that time, so that Boluo finally withdrew his troops and stopped the war.

Wang Yan looked back at the dock and asked, "How many ships are there on the island at present?" There are about 1,200 "\u000b", most of them fishing and merchant ships, of which there are 100 large ships of 1,000 materials and 3 large ships of 2,000 materials. ”

"Material" can not be directly converted into the current metric ton calculation, different ship types, the size of thousands of materials is different, taking the Fu ship as an example, if it is a ship of 1,000 materials, according to the archaeological results and the data of professional papers, its light displacement is about 250 tons.

If it is a ship with 1,000 official materials, it is about 500 tons.

Wang Yan has always remembered the Dutch warship that Shi Lang told him, he came to Kinmen this time, mainly to get the drawings and craftsmen of Zheng's imitation of the Dutch ship from Zheng Chenggong's hands, and now he heard Zheng Chenggong say that there are three big ships with 2,000 materials, and immediately raised his eyebrows and said: "This official remembers the "Minhai Confession", the second record of the volume, the Xiyi boat is more than 20 zhang long, several zhang high, the plate thickness is two feet, and the tin piece is applied. There are more than 30 big guns next to the boat, and there are four or five iron bullets in the guns, weighing thirty or forty pounds. The big ship of 2,000 materials that was successfully said is this ship? ”

Zheng Chenggong was slightly stunned, nodded and said: "It is an imitation of this ship, but the size, although the hull is similar, but the ship of Xiyi, there are more than 30 cannons next to the ship, and more than 60 cannons on the whole ship, and half of its main guns are eighteen-pounder guns, and our artillery is much worse than it." ”

For artillery, Wang Yanzhi is not worried, the Song brothers have already halved the cannon casting workshop, the eighteen-pound cannon, Daming can cast it himself, but Zheng Chenggong will definitely not be able to cast the cannon when he occupies it.

"Success, this official came here this time, mainly to deal with the Dutch with you, the imperial court wants to copy the Dutch warship, you will lend the 2,000-material big ship to the official, the official will take food and artillery, and exchange it with you, what do you think of success?"

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