The generals in Zheng's Haikou group have always fallen with the wind, betting on several sides, and the Longwu Imperial Court just casually agreed, in fact, everyone knows that they are unreliable.

After Zhang Qiang revealed Zheng Cai's matter to the Longwu court, Longwu only reprimanded, with the help of Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Cai had nothing to do, and the powerful people of the army in the troubled times were never afraid of the paper tiger-like court.

Zheng Cai sent people to the Longwu court to express his loyalty, while continuing to tightly control every move of the Lu Jianguo court, when he knew that Zhang Qiang reported to the court, Zheng Cai personally led people to put on makeup into the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, the territory of Taizhou Mansion.

After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing army Tartars, as the generals and heroes under Zheng Zhilong, they suddenly became scattered birds and beasts, and became a plate of scattered sand, and the pirate warlord group composed of various big and small leaders and generals under Zheng Zhilong spread all over the islands of the sea and the mainland of the Daming Sea, and the people of the Lu Jianguo court were in a state of dogs and teeth, attacking each other, and carrying out a new round of Chinese-style unification.

Zheng Chenggong, who was supposed to be the direct heir of Zheng Zhilong, should be huge, full of followers, and full of talents, but in fact, Zheng Zhilong's brothers and generals are much stronger than Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong's strength is in the middle and lower reaches of these power groups.

The most powerful one is Zheng Hongkui, followed by Zheng Tai, Huang Wu and others, then Zheng Cai, Wu Liuqi and others, and the following are Zheng Chenggong and others, and then some Zheng pirates with small bosses.

Zheng Hongkui has settled in Quanzhou Mansion, and Xiamen is controlled by Zheng Cai and Zheng Tai and others, Zheng Chenggong is in retreat to Kinmen, echoing the court of King Lu, at this time Zheng Chenggong is busy integrating the "inheritance" left by his father to attract some small boss pirates, and at the same time take over the foundation of Taiwan, dredge the trade routes of Japan, and at the same time guard against the Dutch, come to Zhang Qiang here to calm Zhang Qiang, the biggest warlord leader of the Longwu Dynasty, not to make trouble for them, so that he has time to do a series of things to do, Zheng Chenggong's vision and ambition are far more than Zheng Cai and others.

Zheng Fu is Zheng Cai's housekeeper and master, and this time he followed Zheng Cai to probe the reality of Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army, "Master, do you think the Jinhua Righteous Army will fall out with us for the sake of King Lu?" ”

Zheng Cai's eyes looked at the streets of Taizhou County that had been restored, the streets were crowded, quite prosperous, and there were officials wearing Ming Dynasty costumes patrolling with water and fire sticks on the streets, and from time to time I also saw a team of militia teams with red turbans, holding bamboo guns, hanging bamboo knives on their waists, and patrolling with rattan armor on their backs. With a wary gaze, he scanned the pedestrians on the street.

Zheng Cai listened to Zheng Fu's words, his eyes were still staring at the garrison soldiers, and he said casually: "It may not necessarily fall out, after all, he Zhang Qiang is a courtier of the Longwu Dynasty, and I am also a courtier of the Longwu Dynasty, but I am stepping on two boats, and at the same time at the King of Lu, I am holding the King of Lu hostage and want to establish my own court, and this is what Longwu, who is also a clan, will not allow, maybe Longwu will order Zhang Qiang to attack me and rescue King Lu for the sake of the face of the clan, so I have to come to investigate this time, and I should prepare early." ”

Zheng Fu looked up at the garrison soldiers on the city wall, and said: "Isn't this Jinhua Righteous Army too powerful, you see that they are only wearing cotton armor, and what they are wearing is just the old weapons and equipment captured from the previous Ming army, maybe the combat effectiveness is not so high, with the skills of our old pirates, it may not work to fight ten at a time, but it is still possible to fight five at a time." ”

Zheng Cai shook his head, "According to the detailed report, these are just some garrison soldiers, the really capable Jinhua Righteous Army soldiers are stationed in the big camps in the city and outside the city, those people soldiers wear leather armor, officers wear iron armor, and even more elite soldiers and officers wear chain armor and full-body iron armor, and all of them are veterans who have experienced at least ten battles, there are still many of them, so we can't underestimate them." ”

"Guest officer, come in and have some food, the stir-fried dishes of the small shop are famous throughout Jiangsu and Zhejiang." A guy dressed as a shopkeeper stood next to a restaurant and greeted Zheng Cai and Zheng Fu with smiling faces.

Zheng Fu waved his hand impatiently, "Go, while busy, don't disturb our master's Yaxing." ”

Zheng Cai looked up at this small shop, it seemed that the business was very good, the store was full of customers, and even a few tables and benches were set up outside the store, and he couldn't help but be envious, how much tax would this generate for the Jinhua Righteous Army.

It would be great if I could own here, Xiamen is an island in the end, and it is jointly occupied with others, even if it is Zhoushan and other places, it is also jointly owned by others, and the two courts of Longwu and King Lu have to be filial to the two courts of Longwu and King Lu when receiving taxes, although King Lu has the final say, but Zhang Huangyan and other ministers are also keeping an eye on it, and he has to give them some, so that there is not much.

Most of his income still depends on sea trade and robbery of some passing merchant ships, or the "protection money" of the merchant fleet handed over to the Zheng family, and these incomes can only be obtained by the brothers licking the blood with knives and putting their heads on the belts of their trousers, and the income is quite unstable, so he is especially envious of those who have some territory on the mainland, and they can feed their armies by sitting and collecting taxes.

In comparison, except for the threat of the Qing army, they can be said to have no big risks, and they have to fight with the sea, the sky, the Dutch, the Portuguese, and even the Japanese, the Spaniards, and the Qing army on land, which is a great risk.

Zheng Fu guessed his thoughts, "Master, Zhang Ying's navy is not a level of opponent compared to ours, let's destroy their navy, and then let them give us a "protection fee", otherwise, they will not be allowed to have a boat to go to sea, so they will have no stable business income."

If not, let's land on the coast and loot their villages and fishermen, they are so rich, let's definitely earn a lot of money once, and then wait for a while, when their villages and fishermen recover, let's go and loot them again, so that they don't have to pay us "protection money" obediently.

Even if it is given, as soon as we are not happy, we will go and loot the fishermen and villages along their coast, and even enter the inland states and counties, and loot their states and counties, they have no sailors, and they can't do anything to us? ”

Zheng Cai was very happy, nodded slightly, squinted and smiled: "This method is good, master, I also have such an idea, when I find out clearly, I will start to implement, before the implementation, let's send a letter to our Governor Zhang, telling him that if he knows each other, he will give us half of the tax, if he doesn't know each other, just wait for the coastal unrest." ”