After Zheng Zhilong defected to the Manchu Dynasty, his pirate group was disbanded, and because Zheng Zhilong did not designate a successor, the originally huge Zheng pirate group split into three gangs. Zheng Chenggong, who was supported by his uncle Zheng Hongkui and gained a foothold in Anping, and Zheng Zhibao, who was entrenched in the outer islands of Zhejiang, and the last group was Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai, who occupied Kinmen and Xiamen.

So Zheng Chenggong did not take over his father's family business, but really started from scratch. After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong broke with his father and fled back to his hometown in Anping with more than 50 people, defecting to his uncle Zheng Hongkui.

After Zheng Chenggong returned to Anping, he strengthened the accumulation of his own strength and recruited a wide range of civil and military talents. Under his inspiration, the former governor of Zhejiang, Lu Ruoteng, Jinshi Ye Yiyun, and Chen Ding, a juren, came one after another. Zheng Chenggong treated them with great respect, treated them like guests, and solicited their opinions on every major matter, and gradually formed a civilian staff group that participated in decision-making politically, liaisoned with local anti-Qing forces, and governed local areas. At the same time, relying on his position in the Longwu court and Zheng Zhilong's old relationship, he recruited soldiers and generals to continuously expand his military strength.

Zheng Chenggong's generals mainly came from four aspects: first, a small number of generals who followed him, such as Hong Xu and others; the second is the people with lofty ideals recruited from the coastal areas of Fujian, such as Gan Hui from Haicheng and Lan Deng from Zhangpu; the third is the generals who are unwilling to follow Zheng Zhilong to the Qing Dynasty, such as Shi Lang, Hong Xishan, Huang Ting, etc.; Fourth, a small number of generals sent by the Qing Dynasty to the southeast coast who still cherished the thoughts of their homeland returned to the country.

Zheng Chenggong can generally treat these generals from different backgrounds equally, but only the one who acts. In particular, meticulous reorganization has been made in the military organization, thus preventing a situation in which generals support their own troops and are arrogant and domineering. This is a resolute measure taken by him to sum up the lessons of the imperial court in appeasing adultery since Hongguang and Longwu. It is precisely because of the establishment of extremely strict military organization and discipline that Zheng Chenggong has become a real commander, not a rich second generation in name.

At this time, although Zheng Chenggong eliminated his uncle Zheng Zhibao and took back most of the forces that originally belonged to Zheng Zhilong, there were still some elite soldiers in the hands of his brothers Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai (some historical materials say that Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai are Zheng Chenggong's uncle, but this relationship has little to do with this book, so this book will not delve into it). At the same time, Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai are not Zheng Zhibao, these two are very jealous of Zheng Chenggong, no matter how Zheng Chenggong summons them, they will not go to Taiwan to meet.

A few years ago, Zheng Chenggong captured Taiwan's Chichicheng City, Zheng Lian also cut off Zheng Chenggong's grain route, Zheng Chenggong had no choice but to fight with the Dutch while farming in Taiwan, and it took a total of ten months to capture Chichicheng, so Zheng Chenggong hated Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai to death in his heart. In history, Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai did not end well.

After Zheng Chenggong gained a firm foothold in Taiwan, in terms of military strength, he had already made a name for himself in the Zheng Group, and Zheng Chenggong was secretly determined to first become the recognized overlord of the Zheng Group like his father Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Chenggong took Shi Lang's suggestion, and in the name of being close to his relatives, he first sent Zheng Lian 1,000 stone of rice and asked Zheng Lian to let his army land. Zheng Lianzheng was worried about the lack of food, and thought that Zheng Chenggong was his own family after all, so he readily agreed. When all Zheng Chenggong's troops arrived in Xiamen, they suddenly disarmed Zheng Lian's soldiers, and then captured and killed Zheng Lian. Zheng Lian's subordinates Chen Feng, Lan Yan, Wu Hao and others were all recruited. Zheng Cai's subordinate generals Yang Chaodong, Wang Sheng, Yang Quan, Cai Xin and others also surrendered one after another under the invitation of Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Cai lost his military power, and had no choice but to go back to his hometown in Anping to retire.

However, in this time and space, because there is a more powerful Shenwu regime on the mainland than the Manchu Qing, the Zheng group still retains the superficial unity under the common pressure.

After Yang Chao returned home, he prepared the ship and went to Xiamen first. The Zheng family sailor is in charge of the sea off Quanzhou, and he can't go out to sea if he doesn't go to Xiamen to get the road.

Yang Chao is the old man of the Zheng family, and he has also smuggled grain for Zheng Lian in recent years, so most of the soldiers under Zheng Lian know Yang Chao.

As soon as Yang Chao's ship docked at the Xiamen wharf, the guards at the wharf always saw Yang Chao get off the boat, stepped forward and said, "Isn't this Boss Yang?" Why are you here in person today? ”

Yang Chao said impatiently: "Lao Tzu has something to do today, take me to see Uncle Dingyuan!" ”

The general saw that Yang Chao was anxious, didn't dare to laugh, and led Yang Chao into Xiamen City.

Xiamen City is built in 20 years of Hongwu, the circumference of the city is 429 zhang, there are four city gates in the southeast, northwest and southeast. Xiamen City is not big, originally there were only more than 2,000 fishermen living here, but with the fierce war on the mainland, many coastal fishermen fled to Xiamen to escape the war, so now there are people inside and outside the city of Xiamen, there are tens of thousands of people.

Yang Chao came to the Admiral's Yamen in the city, and followed the soldiers who reported the incident to meet Zheng Lian. Zheng Lian is in his thirties, looks like a tank, his face is full of rust, and he looks like a person who begs for a living at sea all year round.

Zheng Lian saw Yang Chao come in and smiled: "Uncle Yang, why did you come here in person today?" ”

The Yang Dynasty didn't want to tell the truth to Zheng Lian, because the Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai brothers did not support the Yongli Emperor, but the Longwu Emperor of the year.

After the death of Emperor Longwu that year, Zheng Zhilong's forces were divided, Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai continued to support Emperor Longwu, and after the death of Emperor Longwu, he supported Emperor Shaowu. And Zheng Chenggong is much more realistic, immediately after the death of Emperor Longwu, he changed his court and voted for Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, and after Zhu Yihai was killed by Zhu Hongsan, he directly voted for Zhu Youlang, the emperor of Yongli. It is precisely because of the different belonging of the two gangs that Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai look down on Zheng Chenggong.

Yang Chao knew about the dirty things within the Zheng Group, so it was impossible to tell the truth to Zheng Lian today, and according to Zheng Lian's hot temper, he knew that he was entrusted by Zhu Hongsan to persuade him to surrender, and he would definitely throw himself into the sea and feed the shark.

Yang Chao rolled his eyes and said: "General Zheng, it's like this, the old man is old and misses his old brothers, and he wants to go to Taiwan to see He Tingbin and Yang Ying, and ask General Zheng to send a road note!" ”

Zheng Lian heard Yang Chao say this, hehe smiled: "Boss Yang, they are all local foxes, what are you doing to talk about fasting?" Missing your brother? Lao Tzu remembers that you and Yang Ying didn't have a good relationship back then! ”

Yang Chao didn't believe it when he heard Zheng Lian, so he couldn't help but laugh dryly: "Isn't this old!" ”

"Fart, Boss Yang, if you don't tell the truth, don't go to sea today! Come on, send Boss Yang back to Quanzhou! ”

When a soldier came in outside the door, he wanted to ask Yang Chao to go out, and Yang Chao hurriedly said, "General Zheng, let's tell you the truth!" The old man went to Taiwan this time because he was entrusted by Mrs. Huang, who was old and wanted to go to Taiwan to see her son. ”

Mrs. Huang is Zheng Zhilong's concubine and the mother-in-law of Zheng Chenggong's half-brothers Zheng En and Zheng Yin. Of course, she is also the godmother of Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai, who has been pension in Anping's old house for the past few years. (The same is true in history, not only Zheng Zhilong's little wives, but also Zheng Hongkui returned to Anping to retire when he was old.) I really doubt that according to the urine nature of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I can let Zheng Chenggong's family go! ）

Zheng Lian only believed most of it when he heard Yang Chao say this, and Zheng Lian scolded: "Why don't you tell the truth if your godmother wants to see my brother?" Lao Tzu and Da Mu don't deal with each other, but they can be filial to their godmother! ”

Yang Chao hurriedly nodded and said: "The main reason is that the old man spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and the old man doesn't know that the general is so magnanimous, it's all the old man's fault!" ”

Zheng Lian looked at Yang Chao and said to the bookstore next to him: "Okay, give him the way!" ”

The road is a small flag, with a Zheng character written on it, which was also invented by Zheng Zhilong back then, and this road strip was charged thousands of taels of silver, with which you can keep your ship unimpeded and helpless on the southeast coast.

However, it was Zheng Zhilong's most glorious time, and now it is not easy to use this road out of the sea off Quanzhou, let alone the South China Sea where Zhu Hong's three fleets are entrenched.

Yang Chao walked out of the Admiral's Yamen, and scolded in his heart as he walked: Zheng Lian, what are you, you were just a dog under Zheng Yiguan back then, and now there are five people and six people with some soldiers and horses, I'm phew!

Yang Chao is an old brother who started with Zheng Zhilong back then, but time has passed, your Yang Dynasty is just a rich man now, but Zheng Lian is a warlord entrenched in Xiamen, how can this be compared?

When Yang Chao came out, he handed the small flag to the sailors on the ship, then hung it on the mast, and then sailed out to sea.

When passing through Kinmen, a Zhengjiahai ship approached, saw the small flag on the mast and sailed away. Although the scenery of the Zheng family is no longer there, and there is no Zhengjia flag on the sea surface of Southeast Asia, it is still effective in the sea off Quanzhou.

Yang Dynasty's ship left the sea off Quanzhou and entered the Taiwan Strait.

The Taiwan Strait is about 800 miles long, and it sails for two to three days at the speed of a sailing ship in the Ming Dynasty. However, a supply point has already been prepared in the middle, which is Penghu, a hundred miles away from Tainan.

Penghu was a beautiful place in later generations, and there is a song "Grandma's Penghu Bay" to explain the beautiful scenery of Penghu, but Penghu was not a good place in the Ming Dynasty.

Penghu has been discovered in the Han Dynasty, when it was just a place for some fishermen to rest. Later, with the development of navigation technology, the Penghu Islands gradually became a springboard for cross-strait transportation. It has a good harbor and is a meeting point for the activities of various ships in the Taiwan Strait. Penghu was officially included in the Chinese territory during the Song Dynasty, when people from Quanzhou, Fujian Province had already moved to Penghu.

Now Penghu has become Zheng Chenggong's outpost, and Zheng Chenggong has set up an inspection department here in Penghu to inspect ships coming and going.

When he arrived at his own land, Yang Chao changed the cowardice in front of Zheng Lian, pulled a soldier on the dock and said: "Quick, quickly supply me with fresh water, I will go to Chengtianfu immediately!" ”

Chengtianfu is the Chichicheng occupied by Zheng Chenggong, and it is also the Tainan of later generations. After Zheng Chenggong occupied the red embedded city, he changed it to Chengtianfu, which consisted of two counties of Tianxing and Wannian, and added three divisions of Penghu, South Road and North Road.

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