In February of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Shandong Navy Division and sea escort, collected Qin's order flag, passing ships and large ships charged 1,500 taels of silver, Zheng Zhilong no longer sold Zheng family order flag at sea, maritime merchants only need to buy Qin's order flag to do business, there are southern merchants do not buy Ling Qi, and in mid-February pirates, the whole ship is gone, so far Qin's order flag and the sea are unimpeded, there are northern Xiyi ships robbing merchant ships, Shandong Navy Division defeated this pirate, since then this pirate sees that there is Qin's order flag ships all around, so far, each ship into 1,005, At the age of seven million, the legend that the rich rival country has changed the characters.

At this point, Xiaochuan no longer has to worry about the problem of money and food, the continuous supply of silver is more than enough to feed the army of 70,000, if it is not really not young, he can start a new round of army expansion, the prince in the south has also begun to stretch out his claws, and many of the family elders who resist him everywhere have died of bandits or died of disease. As soon as the opposition to the collection of taxes began to wane, he stretched out his hand to Lianghuai, a place where there were still so many horses.

It is to begin to fight for the cavalry, the land of Huainan Ma Hu belongs to the prince, the horse lake of Huaibei actually belongs to Xiaochuan, the spies of Beidou appeared in the land of Lianghuai and Jinyi Weidong Factory to fight openly and secretly, began to compete for these cavalry resources, pit abduction, lure with money, not is a threat, Huaibei people are fierce, Xiaochuan is to start looting, if you don't loot after it is still cheap Li Zicheng, in addition to the sound of horses in various places, all horse households around the country are all merged into the Qingzhou Army.

The Yulin cavalry has reached the scale of 6,000 people, and they are horse households who have been raising horses since childhood, skilled in equestrian skills, practicing every day, wearing fish scale armor, plus red feathers on their heads, while the prince in the south is different, regardless of horse households ringing horses and horse thieves, they are all recruited to join the newly formed 3,000 battalions, and they hide in Nanjing to find capable nobles and merge them into their five military camps as officers.

Craftsmen from all over the country continue to send to Nanjing, for its Shenji battalion to create firearms, the number of the three battalions has exceeded 100,000, daily drills, I heard that it visited the descendants of the Qi family, found Qi Jin two sons, Qi Shan, Qi Hai for its training soldiers, looking for Guangdong good at using firearms into its Shenji battalion, Guangxi wolf soldiers have the idea of re-rising strategists to lure them to take refuge.

Many towns in Jiangbei have the intention of moving closer to it, and the power of the prince is gradually taking shape, and the methods of the Donglin Party that have been suppressed are also useless, and the towns in Jiangbei and Jiangbei, which were once its wings, have gradually fallen to the increasingly powerful prince group. Zheng Zhilong also moved closer to him, especially his son Zheng Sen and the crown prince.

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"You said you want the Dutch to sail on the East China Sea" Xiao Chuan touched the teacup in his hand and sat on the chair, looking at the sudden Robin standing in front of him strangely, Robin's face was frightened, and he seemed to be very afraid Xiao Chuan said, "Yes, as long as you don't use meteors on our merchant ships!" ”

Meteor? Everyone laughed, and Leah, who was on the side, said with a strange sapphire in her eyes: "Meteor! "Looking at Xiao Chuan, it was strange that His Majesty actually mastered the power of meteors. Xiao Chuan smiled dumbly and said, "That's a rocket!" Including the fire dragon in the back! ”

Rocket? Robin was very unfamiliar with this word and didn't understand what it was about, and said, "How can a rocket explode?" Don't lie to me, my lord, you should be an alchemist who controls powerful powers! He said1.

Xiao Chuan sighed, the other party actually imagined that he was an alchemist! This is just right, and said: "If I don't want me to practice a large-scale country-destroying spell in the Netherlands, I will obediently pay the protection fee for a year, just like Zheng Chenggong, you will give me as much as you give him!" ”

Robin felt a little pain in his heart, the Netherlands not only had to give Zheng Zhilong money in the ocean trade in the Far East, but also gave a sum of money to the Qingzhou Army in front of him, he felt a little painful, and said: "My lord, our East India Company doesn't have much money, if this is the case, we may not even have money to live."

Xiao Chuan glanced at him coldly, and the general of the forbidden army on the side said coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, do you think our Qingzhou army is afraid of you Dutch!" ”

"Yes, yes, but we in the East India Company can't afford that much money!" Robin immediately said that in the future, he would have to pay two protection fees in the Far East, and if he did this, the finances of their East India Company would be instantly constrained.

"That's so much nonsense, it's up to you to ask you to pay the money, otherwise you would have been wiped out of your company" Mi Heng on the side continued, Xiao Chuan suddenly found that letting him follow him was a correct decision, this often stupid person was very decisive at a critical time, which made Xiao Chuan a little impressed with him.

Robin's face immediately showed bitterness, his face was very ugly, but there was no way, but he had to take out this money, he understood the strength of the other party, and said, "But we really don't have any money"

"You don't have any money, but we have a lot of rockets left," Miyoko said, "I've heard that the merchant ships of the East India Company are extremely strong, and I don't know how many times they can resist them." He said

"My lord, let's give money" Robin immediately showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said, "Give, give!" No matter how much money you have, give it! He remembered the powerful rocket in his mind, and he felt a palpitation. I'm afraid no one will survive under that kind of meteor-like weapon, he said: "As long as you don't use meteors on us, adults, we will give money" He was afraid in his heart, who could survive under that fear!

Xiao Chuan smiled, now there is a relatively small amount of income in hand, if it is not for his own population is too small, with this new amount of money will definitely expand the army, but he does not have this condition at all, he can only recruit horse households everywhere or collect the displaced people from other places or a drop in the bucket, two million people, the number of young and strong is scarce, 70,000 is already the limit of the population, and it is no longer possible to recruit soldiers, otherwise it can only let women and children farm.

So you can arm this army to the teeth with a lot of money! Seventy thousand soldiers put them at their disposal the finest weapons.

Robin had no choice but to sign a contract with Xiao Chuan, in the future, they would not only give Zheng Zhilong a sum of money, but also a sum of money to Xiao Chuan, he walked out with a sad face, and Xiao Chuan laughed.

Leah covered her mouth, with disbelief, the Netherlands is the overlord of the Far East, he naturally understands how powerful the East India Company in history is, but such a company is so willing to pay the protection fee, he glanced at Xiaochuan, His Majesty, this man who used to seem very ordinary and even a little annoying, became a little mysterious. "That's the East India Company, and they're so willing to pay?"

"Of course, otherwise how could they come here to do business, not afraid of being looted by pirates?" Ogawa smiled and showed a mouthful of white teeth.