Fujian

Fuzhou City

In the General Soldier's Mansion, the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhifeng, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Sen, as well as Shi Fu, the commander of the water division, Zheng Sen's teacher, and Qian Qianyi, the staff of the Zheng family, have gathered together.

Zheng Sen is about 20 years old, in the prime of his youth, and he is full of spirit.

"Crowned Zheng Zhilong as the governor of Fujian, gave Shang Fang the sword, and his son Zheng Sen was the general soldier of Zhejiang, and ordered the defense of Zhejiang, and admired this."

The eunuch sent by the imperial court in the capital read out the edict, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen respectfully accepted the edict, and then ordered the servant to send the eunuch Gong out of the general military palace.

Zheng Zhilong stood behind the army case, held the edict from the imperial court, looked at the people in the hall and said, "The edict of the imperial court has arrived, let's discuss it!" ”

Zheng Zhibao and Fang Yuan had a face-to-face meeting, and they were scared back to Fujian by even coaxing and deceiving, and the other party was the first to come out and say, "The court clearly wants us and Fang Yuan to lose both, and the court will reap the benefits of the fisherman." Now that we have made peace with Fang Yuan, this edict of the imperial court will be accepted in vain, and the yang will be disobeyed! ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded secretly when he heard this, watching Haiwei and Haimen Wei in World War II, the Zheng family lost in disgrace, and their land combat ability was far worse than Fang Yuan's. Now the imperial court has appointed his son Zheng Sen as the chief soldier of Zhejiang, in charge of all defense affairs in Zhejiang, that is, the Zheng family wants to lead the army north to snipe Fang Yuan's expansion of power in Nanzhili and Zhejiang. According to his original intention, the Zheng family must still focus on preserving strength.

Zheng Sen stood up and said, "Fifth Uncle is wrong, I don't agree with the peace agreement." To give the profits of silk to Fang Yuan is to raise tigers for trouble, and sooner or later he will lose himself. ”

Zheng Zhifeng stood up and agreed with Zheng Sen's statement, "Big brother, I went to the Zhoushan Islands before, and I have seen the Xuanjia Army's large-scale naval base, which is enough to accommodate thousands of warships, far better than any naval base of our army. If this naval base is completed, it will be a fatal blow to the Zheng family! It's all because Shi Lang's thief defected to the enemy, and he should be cut by a thousand knives! ”

Shi Fu is Shi Lang's uncle, and when he heard his scolding, his face was full of anger, but he didn't dare to interject.

The peace agreement was signed back by Zheng Zhibao, but now it was rejected by Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhifeng, who slapped Zheng Zhibao's old face in public, Zheng Zhibao said unhappily, "Before, our army first went to provoke Fang Yuan, which resulted in the loss of Guanhai and Haimen Erwei, which had been operating for two or three years. Now if you provoke Fang Yuan again, if you invite Fang Yuan to attack Fujian, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Zheng Sen said sharply, "Fifth Uncle, can you guarantee that if our army does not provoke Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan will not invade Fujian?" ”

The peace agreement is conditional and time-limited, how dare Zheng Zhibao make this guarantee? He said hesitantly, "This, this, at least during the peace treaty period, Fang Yuan has no excuse to tear up the peace treaty." ”

Zheng Sen sneered and said, "Fang Yuan's forces are expanding too fast in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Shaoxing Mansion has been forcibly taken over, and Ningbo Mansion also has signs of Xuanjia Army stationing. Zhejiang's Hangzhou, Huzhou, and Jiaxing governments have jointly written to the Zheng family for help. If we don't go to snipe at Fang Yuan's expansion of power in Zhejiang, sit back and watch the Zhejiang Prefectures fall into its clutches, and wait for the peace agreement to expire, it is estimated that Fang Yuan will be able to directly attack Xianxia Pass! ”

Fujian is the terrain around the mountains and the sea, Xianxia Pass is the throat of Zhejiang into Fujian, and Shanhaiguan, Jiayu Pass, Jianmen Pass, Hangu Pass and become the world's five major passes, known as the "lock key of the two Zhejiang, the throat of Fujian".

Zheng Zhibao retorted and said, "If you provoke Fang Yuan, it won't take a year or two, within a month or two, Fang Yuan will come to attack Xianxia Pass!" ”

The Zheng family's main battle faction and the main peace faction were in a lot of trouble, Zheng Zhilong looked at Qian Qianyi, who had been smiling on the side, and humbly asked for advice. "Qian Lao knows the situation of the imperial court very well, and he hopes to give advice."

Qian Qianyi twisted his beard and said with a smile, "Zheng Zongbing first replied to the old man, what is Zheng Zongbing's ambition in this troubled world?" Defend Fujian, or aspire to the world? ”

Zheng Zhilong sighed slightly and said, "Although there are great plans, we must also do what we can." ”

Qian Qianyi shook his head and sighed and said, "General Zheng has 200,000 armor, thousands of warships, and the sword of Shang Fang, which can be used for special expeditions. With such a rich family background, if Fang Yuan's boiled frog in warm water is gone, Qian Mou will also feel sorry for Zheng Zongbing! ”

Zheng Zhilong was mercilessly ridiculed by him and coughed in embarrassment.

Zheng Zhibao said, "Qian Lao's words are wrong, even if he wants to expand abroad, I think that instead of going north to provoke Fang Yuan, it is better to go south to occupy Guangdong and open up all the treaty ports for maritime trade, which is more beneficial to the Zheng family." ”

Qian Qianyi shook his head and said with a smile, "Nanzhili, the place where the soldiers must fight, get it, advance, can become the Taizu hegemony, retreat, and use the Zheng family's water division to block the Yangtze River and rule the river with the northern regime." Dare to ask Zheng Zongbing, looking at the annals of history, who can be good alone according to Fujian and Guangdong? ”

With Zheng Zhilong's thoughts, he is already satisfied to be a local overlord in Fujian, but he can't do it, he can be knighted by the imperial court and become a high-ranking official, and he will have nothing else to ask for in his rich life. The so-called struggle for hegemony in the world is unattainable. In his opinion, Qian Qianyi's words are rotten words. But Qian Qianyi is a famous man in the southeast, and Zheng Zhilong, who has always been a vassal and elegant, is inconvenient to scold at will, so he can only laugh dryly.

"Good! The teacher's words are very close to my heart! ”

The person who applauded was Zheng Sen, and his ambition was far from being comparable to Zheng Zhilong, "Father, the imperial court granted the Zheng family the right to expropriate, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand its power in the north. ”

Zheng Zhilong saw that he was young and didn't know how thick the sky was, so he said angrily, "Sen'er, the Xuanjia Army's combat power is so strong, how should the Zheng family deal with it when they go north to compete for power?" ”

Zheng Sen said loudly, "The combat power of the Xuanjia Army is indeed strong, but if it is attacked by the north and the south, the four-pronged approach will also take care of one and lose the other. ”

Zheng Zhilong sneered and said, "What kind of north-south attack, four-pronged attack?" Sen'er won't still be counting on Ma Shiying and Shi Kefa's gang! ”

Zheng Sen said in a deep voice, "Father, the child is willing to lead 100,000 troops to the north to accept the surrender of the five provinces in northern Zhejiang, all the way; The fourth uncle led 300 ships of the Zheng family sailors to the north to attack the Zhoushan Islands, and this second road was also; According to the news ahead, Shi Lang's newlywed wife was detained, and she must be dissatisfied, and asked Shi Fu to send a letter to Shi Lang to persuade him to surrender. ”

"The child would like to go to the Wa Kingdom once and borrow troops from the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, to defeat Fangyuan. If the Wa State sent troops to the south of Zhili, landed in Songjiang Mansion, and directly took Songjiang Mansion and Suzhou Mansion, these four roads are also. With a four-pronged approach, Fang Yuan will inevitably lose sight of one and the other, and will be exhausted. ”

As soon as Zheng Zhilong heard that he was going to go to the Japanese country to borrow troops, which was a great crime of betraying the country, he was shocked that his face changed greatly, and he shook his hand again and again and said, "Sen'er, you are going to make your father a sinner for the ages, and ten thousand people will scold him!" ”

Zheng Sen was displeased and said, "Why does my father say that the Wa Kingdom is a flood beast? Isn't my mother also a widow? I'm also half Japanese! We are borrowing troops from the generals behind the scenes of the Ming Dynasty to eliminate the rebels of the Ming Dynasty, not to provoke the Japanese to rob the Ming Dynasty, but to be the heroes of the Ming Dynasty, not sinners! ”

Although the army of the Japanese Kingdom is three inches tall and short, all the firearms are purchased from the West, and the equipment rate is quite high, and most of the swords are from the ancestors, which is extremely sophisticated. If the Wa State was willing to borrow 30,000 or 50,000 troops, it would indeed be able to deal a heavy blow to Fang Yuan.

Zheng Zhilong's heart fluctuated a little, but he still hesitated a little, "Sen'er, I heard that the shogun also implemented a sea ban like the Ming Dynasty a few years ago, how do you say that the Japanese state borrowed troops?" ”

Zheng Sen said loudly, "Father, thirty years ago, the Toyotomi regime of the Wa Kingdom collapsed, and the Wa Kingdom had just ended the Warring States period. However, due to hundreds of years of wars and annexations, there are a large number of samurai ronin who have lost their arable land and are unable to make a living, and it is said that there are as many as 300,000 to 400,000. The fact that these samurai ronins remained in the Wa Kingdom was also a problem for the Tokugawa shogun, and he was eager to throw these samurai ronins overseas to fight. ”

"We promised General Tokugawa that after borrowing troops to capture Nanzhili, we would give a large amount of remuneration, for General Tokugawa, it was really a deal that killed two birds with one stone, how could he not be tempted?"

Zheng Zhilong still looked forward and asked, "If the court knows about it and blames it by the decree, then it will be okay?" ”

Qian Qianyi smiled and said, "Zheng Zongbing is worried, I just came back from the capital, and I got a message from Hong Chengchou, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, that Empress Zhou and the crown prince acquiesced to the Zheng family borrowing troops from the Wa State, as long as Fang Yuan can be destroyed, the imperial court will never condemn the crime." ”

Since the imperial court turned a blind eye, Zheng Zhilong had no excuse to shirk, and seeing that Shi Fu, the commander of the water division, did not speak for a long time, he hurriedly asked, "Commander Shi, what do you say?!" ”

Shi Fu in Guanhaiwei and Haimenwei has learned the land combat power of the Xuanjia Army, and the soldiers of the Zheng family dare to go north to Zhejiang by land, which is to send a delicious dish to the Xuanjia Army.

But his nephew Shi Lang surrendered to Fang Yuan and became the commander of the Xuanjia Army's sailors, although Shi Fu was the idea of seeking peace, he didn't dare to say it, if he was deducted a hat for fornicating with Shi Lang, he couldn't eat and walk around.

Shi Fu could only choose to stand on the side of the main battle faction, lowered his gaze and said, "My subordinates think that Fang Yuan cannot be allowed to sit big in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and that he should follow the edict of the imperial court and borrow troops to attack Fang Yuan." ”

Zheng Zhilong sighed deeply, most of the generals of the Zheng family were the main battle faction, if they shirked it again, they would be angry, and they reluctantly began to assign tasks, "Sen'er, you go to contact the Tokugawa general of the Japanese Kingdom, as long as you are willing to borrow 50,000 soldiers, as long as you are willing to borrow 50,000 soldiers, you should pay for the salary, grain and grass, and the transportation of soldiers will be provided by the Zheng family, and you will be rewarded after the matter is completed." ”

"Commander Shi, you wrote a letter to Shi Lang, if you want to return to the Zheng family, I will not blame the past, and I will marry the little girl to him as compensation."

"Fourth brother, you gather 300 warships again, and when the Japanese agree to borrow troops, you will go north and capture the Zhoushan Islands."