Zhu Bao was stunned when he heard Zhu Hongyi say this, and asked, "Dad, what are you afraid of King Qin?" Isn't there a prince? ”

Zhu Hongyi looked at the second son in front of him, Zhu Bao is tall and big, but his political consciousness is completely incomparable with his brother Zhao Hu. Zhao Hu is not far from the crown prince Zhu Hai after marrying Zhu Luo, but the second child is not like this at all, and completely falls to Zhu Hai.

Zhu Hongyi looked at his second son and said, "You count on the crown prince, what if the prince can't ascend the throne?" ”

This sentence is beyond Zhu Bao's comprehension, "What? Can't get on top? Dad, is His Majesty the Emperor ready to abolish the crown prince? ”

"No, I said what if? Our whole family is tied to the crown prince, what if the prince can't take the throne? ”

Only then did Zhu Bao know that his father was making a big fuss, so he relieved himself and said in a low voice: "Dad, you are worried too much, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is benevolent, I know what you are worried about!" It's just unclear and mysterious. But Dad, you think so, if you don't show your attitude, will the prince think that our family is stepping on two boats? ”

Seeing that his son was still reasonable, Zhu Hongyi scolded: "You know a fart, if you don't get involved, with the credit of your father and me, you will also be a hereditary prince in the future, but you are now trapped, if it is not the crown prince, our family will immediately come to disaster!" ”

Zhu Bao saw that his father was so timid and afraid, and knew that his father was now old and worried too much. But I don't think so, in the history of more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, are there still fewer deposed princes? What's more, Zhu Bao doesn't want to just be a rich man and live a mediocre life, now is a troubled time, he also imagines those famous generals in history, and he is a wolf!

Zhu Hongyi saw Zhu Bao's indifferent look and knew that he didn't listen to his words, and was just about to persuade his son, but how did he know that Zhu Bao gave up his hand and said: "Dad, my son is going to go on a night patrol, I'll go back first!" ”

Zhu Hongyi looked at Zhu Bao who returned to the cabin and sighed, there was really no way.

Zhu Hongyi stood at the bow of the boat and blew the sea breeze, and had no choice but to return to Zhu Hongsan's side on duty.

Zhu Hongsan was reading a book in the cabin, and when he looked up and saw Zhu Hongyi coming back, he asked, "Big brother, have you gone to find the second child?" ”

Zhu Hongyi knew that he also had Zhu Hongsan's Jinyi Wei secret agent by his side, and he didn't want to hide anything from Zhu Hongsan, so he heard Zhu Hongsan ask the truth and said, "Your Majesty, I went to see Zhu Bao just now!" ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled, "Hehe, it seems that your second child didn't listen to you!" ”

Hearing Zhu Hongsan say this, Zhu Hongyi nodded helplessly.

"Big brother, you have been fighting with me for half your life, as long as I live for one day, I will ensure that everything is safe in your family, as for what happens after death! Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, what do you want to do so much after closing your eyes? ”

Zhu Hongyi listened to Zhu Hongsan's words lightly, but he could think so openly, but he couldn't say these words to Zhu Hongsan, so he only nodded and agreed with what Zhu Hongsan said.

Although Zhu Hongsan explained Zhu Hongyi, he was not very comfortable in his heart. At the beginning, Zhu Jiang proposed to go out with him, but he thought that Zhu Jiang wanted to go out to see the world, and he didn't think about anything else. But in the afternoon, Tong Yangjia took action to clean up Zhu Jiang, so that Zhu Hongsan suddenly reacted, Zhu Jiang and himself came out not to see the world at all, but to prepare to gain military qualifications, which means that the second Zhu Jiang also thought about his position.

Zhu Hongsan has now affirmed that this is what Ma Ruyan meant, and she wants her son to also participate in the succession. But Zhu Hongsan didn't know if this was Ma Ruyan's temporary intention or Ma Jiyuan's meaning.

Zhu Hongsan thought of that Taoist gentleman Ma Jiyuan, in the past, the boss of the Ma family could always appear to maintain Taoism, and it has always been Ma Jiyuan's life creed to establish a successor. But now it's different from before, in recent years, Ma Jiyuan has been suppressed enough by his younger brother Ma Mingyuan, the four major strategists have all entered the cabinet except for him, only he is still working as a magistrate in Nanyang, this time Zhu Hong's third order Ma Jiyuan to serve as the governor of Zhili can be regarded as a kind of compensation for him.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and couldn't understand what Ma Jiyuan thought, so he decided to ask him when he went to Zhoushan, thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan didn't want to think about it, and slept under Cao Fang's service.

The mouth of the Pearl River is 3,000 miles away from the Zhoushan Islands in Zhejiang, and it only takes 10 days for merchant ships to come and go, but the large fleet of the Guangdong Navy has to take into account the speed of all the ships in the fleet, and Zhang Quan estimates that it will take half a month at the earliest. There are also a large number of supply ships in the fleet, a quarter of which will be handed over to Qian Yong's first division in Chaozhou Mansion, so it is expected to take 20 days to reach Zhoushan, and there will be no emergencies along the way.

Zhu Hongsan is most worried about the Zheng family forces in Fujian, Zheng Chenggong was beaten by the Manchus half a year ago, and he was huddled on dozens of small islands around Kinmen, and if there was no external help, he could only hold out for a year and a half. This is also the case in history, Zheng Chenggong really had no way to retreat in the end, so he led the fleet to occupy Penghu and defeated the Dutch to occupy Taiwan.

But now in this time and space, Zheng Chenggong is far from being embarrassed in history, and various big merchants in Guangdong secretly have dealings with the Zheng family for gold and silver, and they dare not transport weapons and gunpowder, and other daily necessities such as food and salt are not affected. And Zhu Hongsan has a good impression of this national hero who recovered Taiwan in history, so he also turns a blind eye to business dealings with the Zheng family.

In this way, Zheng Chenggong waited for the opportunity, and Li Chengdong of Fujian Anyway, Zheng Chenggong became the biggest beneficiary. After receiving the news that Li Chengdong was anyway, Zheng Chenggong immediately sent troops to occupy the second prefecture of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, which was close to Kinmen. At this time, Li Chengdong accepted Tong Tuchang's suggestion, led the army to play the name of Emperor Shenwu, and went north to occupy Jiangshan and Suichang counties in Zhejiang, making the appearance of going on a northern expedition.

After he occupied the second mansion of Zhangquan, he immediately listened to Chen Yonghua's suggestion and sent a letter to Zhu Hongsan, the Shenwu Emperor of Guangzhou, explaining that he occupied the second mansion of Zhangquan only to raise the army, and hoped that the Shenwu Emperor would temporarily lend the two mansions to himself in the Ming lineage, and at the same time faintly pointed out in the fold that as long as the Shenwu Emperor defeated the Yongli Emperor, he Zheng Chenggong would immediately change his flag and return to Zhu Hongsan.

Zheng Chenggong's careful thinking at both ends of the first rat can hide from Zhu Hongsan, but now Zhu Hongsan's main task is to go north to Nanjing, as long as he occupies Nanjing and worships Xiaoling in front of Yongli, his legitimacy can be guaranteed, and at that time, no matter what Zheng Chenggong thinks in his heart, the saliva of all the world's scholars can drown him.

Although Zhu Hongsan doesn't take Zheng Chenggong seriously, after all, Zheng Chenggong is a big force alongside himself in the East Asian Sea, and it is still tricky if Zheng Chenggong wants to trouble himself. Therefore, after the Chaozhou Mansion unloaded the supplies for Qian Yong, Zhu Hongsan ordered the entire fleet to enter a combat state, ready to fight the Zheng family's fleet at any time.

After Chaozhou Mansion is Zhangzhou Mansion, entering the Zheng family's sphere of influence, the Guangdong Navy is becoming more and more cautious. After passing through Zhenhaiwei, Zhu Hongsan suddenly found that several Zheng family's sea ships appeared in the distance.

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhang Quan beside him: "Zhang Quan, look at whose ship is that?" ”

Zhang Quan grinned and said: "Your Majesty, don't look at it, that is the Zheng family's fleet, if there is no Zheng family's sun and moon flag in Fujian, no sea ship can pass!" ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect the Zheng family to be so downtrodden to this extent, and asked: "Now that the Zheng family is so downtrod and so arrogant, what is it like in the Zheng Zhilong era!" ”

"Your Majesty, when Zheng Daqi is still there, the entire Daming Sea Frontier must listen to the orders of their Zheng family, no one is allowed to sail on the sea without the Zheng family's sun and moon flag, even the Spaniards and Dutch in the South Seas have to pay protection fees!"

Listening to Zhang Quan talk about the glory of the Zheng family back then, Zhu Hongsan sighed and said: "No matter how big the power is, if it is gone, it will be rootless at all!" Zhang Quan, do you think you can defeat the Zheng family with my fleet? ”

Zhang Quan's eyes lit up and said: "Your Majesty, you don't need all the warships, just give me five first-class warships and ten second-class warships, and the minister will promise to capture Kinmen and destroy the Zheng family!" ”

"Oh? Are you so confident? ”

"Your Majesty, the Zheng family's fleet is very large, several times more than ours, but their tactical thinking is still stuck in gang jumping. And I heard Lieutenant Colonel Anthony say that in their country, long ago a hundred years ago, this kind of gang-jumping warfare had already fallen behind, and hundreds of battleships of the Spanish Armada had been defeated by the new methods of British warfare. The tonnage, firepower, range, and tactics of our warships are all above the Zheng family, so if the minister can't win the battle, he really has to go home and hold the child! ”

Zhu Hongsan listened to what Zhang Quan said, and said with relief: "You guy used to say that he didn't bother to learn the enemy's tactics, why do you say that now?" ”

Zhang Quan scratched his head embarrassedly, "Your Majesty, the minister didn't look down on these defeated generals at that time, but some of their things are still worth learning from us, Your Majesty doesn't often say that "Shiyi's long skills are used to control Yi", so the minister thinks it's not a shame to learn their strengths!" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, patted Zhang Quan's shoulder and said, "Zhang Quan, I am very pleased that you say this, you will definitely grow into a famous general!" ”

Zhang Quan, who was praised by Zhu Hongsan, smirked, at this time, the Guangdong Navy fleet had come to the sea off Kinmen, and he could already vaguely see Kinmen Island. Probably the Kinmen side also saw the huge fleet here, and sent ten large ships with a total of 500 tons to follow the Guangdong Navy from afar.

Zhu Hongsan saw the Zheng family's ship ten miles away, and said to Zhang Quan: "Give them some color!" ”

Zhang Quan asked, "Your Majesty, but how many ships are going to be sunk?" But their ships are far out of our range! ”

"No, let them see our firepower!"

Zhang Quan went down to give the order, ordering all the warships to line up the battle line and all the artillery to fire three salvos.

The herald waved the flag, and all the gunboats began to enter combat mode, firing three salvos at the Zheng family's fleet. The largest of the Cantonese naval artillery was a 24-pounder gun, with a range of five miles, but there was no guarantee of accuracy at this range. However, this also frightened the Zheng family's fleet to stop far away, watching the Guangdong Navy go away, and never followed.