Volume 13 Chapter 18 Restart the Pirates
Zhu Cijiong was half angry after planting a big heel fight in Thang Long City, but he also learned a lot of lessons, and now his strategy for Nanyang has been completely changed, no longer blindly brutal, whoever is disobedient will do it, there is a price to pay, just one Annan will cripple a first-class army, and the price is inevitably too great.
Like Quang Nam Ruan's family, he didn't choose to send troops directly to fight, but first let Li Shenzong surrender, if the surrender failed, he was also ready to try all the means of coercion and temptation, in short, if the text didn't work, he would come to the martial arts again, and it was indeed a bit too stupid to greet him with his fists as soon as he went up.
As for the Dutch, he is also going to use the insidious tactics to reactivate the pirates, destroy their trade routes, first make them unable to make money, and then slowly clean them up.
However, all this has to be implemented by Zheng Zhilong, it is impossible for him to go into battle in person, waiting for this goods for many days, this goods finally came over, Zhu Cijiong immediately summoned him to the temporary study to discuss secretly.
After the monarch and the ministers saluted, Zhu Cijiong asked solemnly: "Do you remember how to be a pirate?" “
Zheng Zhilong was stunned when he heard this, pirates, what a distant thing, to be honest, he almost forgot that he was once a pirate, but seeing that the emperor seemed to be a little unhappy, he had to reply carefully: "This, Weichen still remembers a little bit." “
Zhu Cijiong was unhappy, he said hatefully: "This time the Dutch let me lose 30,000 elites, and the entire Tianxiong army was disabled, and this revenge cannot be avenged." “
Zheng Zhilong hurriedly echoed: "Yes, go to the Dutch for revenge." “
Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said: "There is an anti-Habsburg alliance behind the Dutch, I can't come to them for the time being, only you are on it, you can re-operate the pirate business, and teach the Dutch a good lesson." “
When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he fell to the ground by mistake, he has not been a pirate for many years, where can he organize so many people to clean up the Dutch!
He thought for a while and said tentatively: "Your Majesty, do you want Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming to pretend to be pirates?" “
Zhu Cijiong rolled his eyes and reminded, "Do you still need to pretend?" Isn't there still twenty or thirty thousand pirates under Shi Daxuan's hands? “
Shi Daxuan is now well-treated, they are doing business between Dongfan and Dongying, of course, Zheng Zhilong didn't dare to refute the emperor, he just said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the few people under Shi Daxuan's hands are not enough." “
Zhu Cijiong said angrily: "If it's not enough, recruit it, the regular army is not easy to recruit, and the pirates are not easy to recruit?" The southeast sea is everywhere, anyway, there is a mess under his hands, there are all kinds of countries, let them call friends, weapons and warships can be developed from the fulcrum of the reserve corps of the naval division, and the Netherlands will be developed a few more times. “
The emperor has said this, Zheng Zhilong naturally didn't dare to twist and pinch anymore, he thought about it and proposed: "Your Majesty, why don't you let the First Army of the Expeditionary Force and the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force build a secret port near Ceylon and Goa, the Dutch are now mainly doing business in Donghu, Persia and the Mughal Empire, and they can't find a good place to hide for a while." “
This product is really professional enough, and before he passed, he thought of the problem of how to hide, and the pirate Zhu Cijiong naturally couldn't catch up with Zheng Zhilong, he nodded and said: "You can do this, as long as you can make the Dutch unable to do business." “
Zheng Zhilong started as a pirate, and he was naturally very proficient in the "business" of pirates, and soon he thought of a "business", and he said with a little intoxication: "Your Majesty, it seems that there are quite a lot of merchant ships of the British, do you want to rob them together?" “
Britain and the Netherlands are now in the same group, of course they can't let it go, Zhu Cijiong said fiercely: "Robbery, of course, robbery, it's best to make them unable to do business." “
Speaking of this business, Zheng Zhilong asked again: "What to do with the looted things, should we sell them to Portugal or Spain, or will we sell them ourselves?" “
Zhu Cijiong thought for a while and analyzed: "There are many people, and if you sell it to Portugal and Spain, it will be exposed, so it is better to modify it and sell it in the Ming Royal Xinglong Firm." “
Speaking of this stuffing, Zheng Zhilong seemed to have thought of another good idea, and he smiled gloomily: "Your Majesty, if you don't let Zhihu and them detain the Dutch merchant ships, let's have a thief to catch the thief first, so that they are completely confused." “
When he said this, others were not confused, but Zhu Cijiong was at a loss first, and he asked, "Oh, how do you say it?" “
Zheng Zhilong explained like a treasure: "It is to stop their merchant ships, find an excuse to go up and search, and then carry them some dirt, and slander them for raising pirates to plunder, so that they will be suspicious and suspicious of each other, and they will not think that pirates are our people." “
Zhu Cijiong was a little skeptical and said, "This can also work?" “
Zheng Zhilong patted his chest and promised: "Your Majesty, don't worry, what they have done is very clear, maybe they don't need to plant stolen goods, they can find stolen goods directly, these people have done less to raise pirates and rob merchant ships!" “
Zhu Cijiong really didn't know about the bends and bends in this, and he didn't bother to think about it so much, so he directly clapped his head and said: "Why don't you be the governor of Nanyang first, the First Army of the Expeditionary Force, the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force, the Nanyang Naval Division and the South China Sea Fleet are all under your jurisdiction for the time being, you can just give orders directly if you want to do it, and you don't need to ask me again." “
Zheng Zhilong thought about it, and the most important problem is the problem of money, but it is a little difficult to talk about thieves and stolen goods with the emperor, but the people under him also want to make money, who wants to go for nothing, in the end, he still mustered up the courage and asked hesitantly: "Your Majesty, what about this, how to calculate this profit?" “
Zhu Cijiong asked inexplicably: "Profit? What profit? “
Zheng Zhilong explained a little embarrassed: "It's just how to divide the money after the things you grabbed are sold." “
This Zhu Cijiong also had no experience, so he asked directly: "So how did you calculate it before?" “
Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong is energetic again, he said like a few treasures: "This is divided into two algorithms, if you get the goods, you will give money, then the buyer will pay half of the cost price, and if you will give money after selling, then you will have to divide half according to the selling price." “
The difference is big, the former is that the buyer bears the risk, after all, the looted things are likely to not be sold, and the latter is that the pirate bears the loss, and only gives money when he sells it, and the rotten hand can only be regarded as the pirate's own.
Naturally, there is no situation where the Ming Royal Xinglong Firm cannot be sold, so Zhu Cijiong said decisively: "Then let's follow the former one, and give the money when you get the goods, so that you can get back the money quickly, and I can make more money!" “
In this way, even if the discussion was settled, Zheng Zhilong received Zhu Cijiong's holy decree, ran to the Xingcheng Port base, and asked Zheng Zhihu to build him a Nanyang Governor's Mansion, and then began to gather the old ministry and prepare to do business.
Unbeknownst to the Dutch and the British, a super-terrible pirate leader had his eye on them, and their business in the South Seas, or even in the entire Far East, would not be able to do so!