Zheng Chenggong and Wang Yan have a good personal relationship, but with the passage of time and the conflict of interests, the two gradually came to the opposite side.

Wang Yan still admires Zheng Chenggong very much, but the Guangdong maritime merchants and Huguang gentry behind him have robbed the Zheng family of their jobs to a large extent, and Wang Yan cannot suppress the Guangdong maritime merchants and give up any benefits to the Zheng family, so Wang Yan and Zheng Chenggong cannot come together.

In the past, there was a bigger thing of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and the two sides could still form an alliance and become partners, but when the threat of the Qing Dynasty was lifted, the conflict of interests between the two sides would come out.

It may be human nature to share hardships and hardships, but not prosperity and prosperity.

Originally, there was only one overlord in the East China Sea and the South Seas, that is, the Zheng family in Fujian, but because Zheng Zhilong took the wrong path, the Zheng family's strength was greatly damaged, and Wang Yan and Guangdong maritime merchants took advantage of the situation to carve up the Zheng family's interests in the South Seas.

The market is so big, the trade in Nanyang was done by the merchants of Guangdong, and the income of the Zheng family in Fujian was naturally too much worse than the control of Fujian and Guangdong in the era of Zheng Zhilong, which caused a contradiction.

At this age, the Zheng family spent a lot of effort to occupy Luzon, which was targeted by the Guangdong maritime merchants, and the Guangdong maritime merchants were dissatisfied with this, so they lobbied the Chu faction officials and suggested that the imperial court should take Luzon and set up a governor directly under the jurisdiction, which became the flashpoint of the conflict.

In addition, in addition, Wang Yan wanted to cut the feudal domain and bring the Zheng family's sailors back to the central government, and how could the Zheng family, as a maritime trade interest group that started as pirates and was also a businessman and a thief, give up the sailors, it was the family business accumulated by the Zheng family for two generations.

People's desires are gradually expanding, as a force, he also has his characteristics, it must be exaggerated, especially for groups with commercial interests, the desire to expand is even more obvious, the Zheng family's trade wants to be bigger, Zheng Chenggong wants to go further, wants to enter the central government, and controls the power, then he can't nest in Fujian.

Wang Yan occupies the position of the central government, so naturally he will not come down by himself, the Chu Party still has a group of bigwigs in line, Zheng Chenggong wants to go further, so he can only support Tang Wang and bring down the Chu faction.

Not to mention that Wang Yan prevented him from becoming king, because of the conflict of interests and his political ambitions, the Zheng family would also choose to side with the Tang king, in order to replace the Wang family and become one of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty.

This time, Zheng Chenggong led 30,000 sailors from Xiamen to help King Tang seize power, but he didn't expect that things were doomed to fail from the beginning.

The news at sea was cut off, and when Zheng Chenggong arrived in Chongming, he learned that the world had changed greatly in the days when he was adrift at sea.

The Tang king was placed under house arrest by the imperial court, Jin Shenghuan killed himself, and he was condemned as a rebellion, and the Lu king's side was also completely defeated.

In Wang Yan's position, it is natural to determine Zheng Chenggong's rebellion, but Zheng Chenggong can also say that Wang Yan is a traitor, Emperor Gaozong was going to pass the throne to the Tang King, and it was Wang Yan who made a little emperor out, and he helped the Tang King seize the throne, which was justified and loyal.

If the coup was successful, he would naturally be a loyal minister who cleared the traitors and restored the imperial family, but now that it has failed, then Wang Yan said that he was a rebellion, which was a rebellion.

At this time, he not only got the news of the failure of the coup, but also knew that 60,000 horses from Liangguang had driven into his old nest, Fujian.

Continuing to enter the Yangtze River, it is impossible for him to threaten Nanjing, move to Wang Yan, rescue the Tang King, and now return to Fujian, I am afraid that he can only cut off Jinxia, he is already in a dilemma.

Just when Zheng Chenggong arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River, King Lu sent someone to contact him, and on the other hand, he abandoned Zhenjiang and prepared to lead the fleet eastward.

This sudden change made Wang Yan passive, and the East China Sea Master may be able to block King Lu, but he can't stop King Lu and Zheng Chenggong.

If these two sailors were allowed to converge, the coastline of the Ming Dynasty would have no peace.

Wang Yan originally wanted to seize King Lu first, and then force Zheng Chenggong to give up his military power and take up his post in Nanjing, forcing him to give up his control of the Zheng family's naval army, but now that King Lu has not caught it, the situation will change again.

King Lu and Zheng Chenggong are not willing to go to sea unless they have to, in fact, Wang Yan does not want them to go to sea, because King Lu and Zheng Chenggong's sailors occupy at least sixty percent of the water power of the Ming Dynasty, once they go to sea, in a short period of time, the court has no way to take them.

Especially the Zheng family's sailors, who used to be pirates, although Wang Yan identified Zheng Chenggong as a traitor, but he didn't want Zheng Chenggong to really be a traitor, if the Zheng family became a pirate back, plus a king of Lu, Wang Yan's overseas trade would suffer a great blow, and even the strategy of opening the sea would be affected.

Exterminating pirates is not as easy as dealing with bandits on land, not to mention that the current power of the sailors controlled by the imperial court is weaker than that of King Lu and Zheng Chenggong.

Although in the long run, the imperial navy division has the backing of a strong central government and will surpass them sooner or later, Wang Yan cannot afford to exceed the previous losses.

Seeing that King Lu was preparing to lead the water division to join Zheng Chenggong, Wang Yan was a little anxious!

As an adult who looks at interests and gains and losses, and the controller of a country, Wang Yan immediately put away his tough posture and became gentle.

People can be emotional and only do things based on likes and dislikes, but the country cannot, so it is reasonable for Wang Yan to change his face.

Although he felt extremely sorry and angry in his heart, he still had to find a way to prevent the two parties from going to sea to become thieves.

Outside Zhenjiang City, on a three-story gunboat, Wang Ji stood in front of King Lu.

Originally, the Zhejiang Navy Division did not have three-story gunboats, but Zheng Chenggong did, and the Guangdong Navy Division and the East China Sea Division also had them, and King Lu also built three.

On the deck, King Lu looked at Wang Ji who came and sneered: "Your Royal Highness the King of Chu, aren't you bent on capturing King Gu and don't agree to King Gu's conditions?" Why did His Royal Highness King Chu suddenly change his sex? ”

Wang Yan's attitude was relatively tough before, that was because there was a man who blocked King Lu from going to sea, King Lu was the turtle in the urn, Wang Yan was nine out of ten, and he was naturally very tough.

Now Man Dazhuang is sandwiched between King Lu and Zheng Chenggong, shrinking in the water village by himself, trying to intercept King Lu from going to sea, it is unlikely, so Wang Yan's attitude has changed.

Wang Ji gave a salute to King Lu, "Your Highness, today's matter is not what His Royal Highness the King of Chu wants. ”

"If he didn't want it, could it be that this was all caused by the Lone King? Wang Yan stole the rights and interests of my Zhu family, and he was wronged? King Lu squinted his eyes and said with anger.

He proposed to Wang Yan the conditions of sealing the island of Taiwan, not holding his subordinates accountable, and guaranteeing the property of Zhejiang, but Wang Yan never agreed, and negotiated terms with him on the surface, but dug up his people behind his back, and instigated the generals of the navy to betray him, which was shameless.

King Lu has already expressed despair about Wang Yan's character, since Wang Yan does not give him a way, then he can only fight Wang Yan to the end.

No matter how many people were willing to go to sea with him, as long as he went out, even if there were only a few boats, he could disturb Wang Yan's sleep.

When he fought against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was adrift on the sea, and at the worst time, there were only a thousand people around him, and now he still has more than 20,000 people, and he may not be able to create a career at sea.

Wang Ji saw that King Lu was resentful, so he didn't argue with him about it, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was negotiating, and digging the corners of the wall was a little unauthentic, but this kind of thing can't be talked about without being authentic.

"Your Highness, now that the matter has come to this, it is no longer appropriate to pursue responsibility. The Manchu Qing took advantage of our civil strife, and Dolgon had already sent troops south, and His Royal Highness the King of Chu thought that since the victory and defeat were divided, it was convenient for us to stop both, otherwise we would let the Waiyi take advantage. Wang Ji clenched his fists and said to King Lu: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu entrusted his humble duties to bring a message to His Royal Highness, hoping to have an open and honest talk with His Royal Highness and the surname Zheng Guo!" ”

Before, Wang Yan was willing to use Jiang Xiang's chess piece, and he also wanted to deal with King Lu, but now that the situation has changed, he is immediately righteous and awe-inspiring.

King Lu listened to Wang Ji's words, saw the sincerity on his face, frowned and thought for a moment, and finally he still didn't believe Wang Yan, "It's okay to talk, the lonely king has to go out of Chongming first, and he can't go ashore alone!" ”