In mid-May 1641, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Sen led the fleet to slowly and leisurely bypass Wanghaitai and approach Tashan Fort. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Hong Chengchou's army arrived here a few days ago, and then stopped here, waiting for Zheng Zhihu's fleet.

Zheng Zhihu let the fleet anchor in some bays north of Wanghai, then changed to a sand boat with Zheng Sen, and sailed towards the shore with a guard of about 200 people.

This is a cavalry of the Ming army on the shore and some carts are waiting there, and when I saw the sand boat approaching, there was a young general with the cavalry over there. Zheng Zhihu raised the binoculars and looked at it, and then said to Zheng Sen: "It's Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan, well, it's Wu Xiang's son, Zu Dashou's nephew, and he can be regarded as the queen of the gate." Among those people in Liaodong, he can be regarded as very capable of fighting. Now that he is just thirty years old, he has become a general soldier, and he can be regarded as a young hero. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Zheng Sen again and said with a smile: "But when our Ah Sen is so old, I'm afraid we should all become overseers." This person is a bit interesting, but he became famous at a young age, and he is inevitably a little arrogant. Especially when I see those scholars, I am always a little unconvinced......"

"In fact, the second uncle is only seven years older than him, and he is also a young hero." Zheng Sen said with a smile.

At this time, the bow of the sand boat was already on the beach. The sand boat is a flat-bottomed square-headed boat, the bow is on the beach, but the hull has not been grounded, so although it is not as good as the Fu boat in terms of sailing performance, but because in the Bohai generation, Zheng Zhihu does not need many ships to run the ocean, so he has prepared a lot of sand boats. Nowadays, sand boats, which can dock everywhere and have little dependence on port facilities, are particularly suitable for providing food supplies for large armies. As long as the army was still marching along the coast, find a beach at any point, and the sand boats would come in and unload the food.

Several sailors put a long gangplank between the bow of the boat and the sand, and Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Sen followed the pedal ashore together.

At this time, Wu Sangui had already dismounted, stepped forward, hugged his fist at Zheng Zhihu and said with a smile: "Zheng Zongbing! The overseer ordered the junior general to send someone to meet him, and escorted the military rations to Tashan Fort by the way. I think I haven't seen the general soldier for a while, and anyway, it's okay now, so I came by myself. ”

Zheng Zhihu also hugged his fists and smiled: "How dare you work to greet General Wu." The grain is on board, and when the boat behind it slowly comes up, it will be unloaded. ”

Wu Sangui stepped forward and walked side by side with Zheng Zhihu and said: "Zheng Zongbing, a few days ago, I bought three hundred sets of Hongyi armor from you, it is really a good product, relying on this armor, a certain family has won two more battles, I don't know if Zheng Zongbing has any new goods?" ”

"General Wu Bing, recently King Zheng and King Nguyen of the Southern Dayue Kingdom have been fighting again, and both of them are competing to buy armor from the Dutch, which has raised the price a lot. The Dutch didn't expect this to happen, and their armor also came from all over the sea, but now they are afraid that they don't have much goods in their hands, and they have a little armor left, and they are also holding it tightly, waiting for others to raise the price. Wu Zongbing wants to buy armor, but now I'm afraid it's not easy. Zheng Zhihu said with a smile.

This is the caliber that Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Sen had unified before they came. Zheng Sen knew that these guys in the Jiangmen of Liaoxi were not really unable to fight, but their interests were essentially inconsistent with the interests of the Ming court, for example, to deal with the Manchus, if they had seriously gone to fight with the Manchus, and fought with North Korea, Dongjiang, and even Lin Dan Khan on all sides, and really wiped out the wild boar skin, the direct consequence would definitely be that the Liao salary, which would be one million taels of silver every year, would be gone. Therefore, when they fought with the Later Jin Dynasty and later the Qing Dynasty, they often liked to play the trick of "Dead Dao Friends Do Not Die Poor Dao", and they didn't really contribute to fighting. In fact, they are still playing the trick of raising Kou's self-respect, but now, the Taoist friends have been played to death, and the Chongzhen Logistics that originally raised them is about to go bankrupt, and the Kou they raised has become so powerful. Strong enough to treat them as food. For example, now the ancestor of the Liaoxi Jiangmen has been surrounded by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Jinzhou. Jinzhou has been the core area of the rule of the Liaoxi Jiangmen for a long time, and a large part of the wealth accumulated over the years is stored there, so if you want to say that now, Wu Sangui and other guys from the Liaoxi Jiangmen want to buy armor or something, I am afraid that they really want to strengthen their field capabilities and keep their assets.

To be honest, Zheng Sen's hands are not really without armor, since there is a hydraulic forging press, armor like this kind of armor has actually been built very quickly, but the money of a big leech like Liaoxi Jiangmen and a big mouse is not earned in vain. So naturally, we should take this opportunity to raise the price.

"I wonder what kind of price those Dutch are offering today?" Wu Sangui asked with a frown.

Zheng Zhihu said with a smile: "Mr. Wu knows that I am a rough person, but I never care about such things. But this time I brought my eldest nephew with me. He is familiar with these things, well, this is my eldest nephew, well, Asen, come and give Mr. Wu a salute. Mr. Wu can send someone to talk to him. ”

Zheng Sen waved to Wu Sangui and said, "Nan'an Zheng Sen has seen General Wu. ”

Wu Sangui was taken aback when he heard this, and said: "I have long heard that Zheng Zongbing's eldest son is a young hero, and when I see it today, he is really talented!" ”

Wu Sangui said that he had heard of Zheng Sen's name a long time ago, but it was not a lie. Over the years, Liaoxi Jiangmen and the Zheng family have also had a lot of business. The Zheng family bought a lot of various minerals and people from the hands of the generals in Liaoxi, and also sold a lot of weapons, armor, gunpowder and even various luxury goods to them. And many of these transactions were handled by Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang. For such an important business partner, the Wu family naturally wants to understand it.

"I can't be praised by General Wu Bing, General Wu is a real hero who joins the army with a weak crown and threatens the Quartet." Zheng Sen also replied.

At this time, two more sand boats docked, and then bags of grain were brought down from the boats. Zheng Zhihu chatted with Wu Sangui while watching those people carry the grain, and after a while, the grain was loaded into the car, and someone came to report something to Zheng Zhihu. Zheng Zhihu listened, turned his head to Wu Sangui and said, "Here are 20,000 stones of grain, and 2,000 stones were drifted in the sea on the way. There are 18,000 stones. Mr. Wu can go and count them. ”

"Where is this trouble?" Wu Sangui said with a smile, "Since Zheng Zongbing has already ordered it, naturally there will be no mistake." Just drag it back. Besides, it's not good to keep the Overseer waiting there for a long time. ”

Saying that, Wu Sangui waved his hand, and immediately a personal soldier led two horses over.

"Mr. Zheng, please get on the horse." Wu Sangui said, he turned his face to Zheng Sen again, "I don't know if the young general can ride a horse?" ”

"I've learned a little bit." Zheng Sen replied, took the reins from Wu Sangui's personal soldiers, stepped on the stirrups, and turned over on the horse.