After deciding on the basic plan, Zheng Zhilong began to mobilize the power in his hands. He summoned several of his main subordinates www.biquge.info claimed that because of Liu Xiang's repeated harassment of the locality, he had recently gone to the vicinity of Dayuan and robbed the ship flying the Zheng family's flag. In the long run, I am afraid that the Zheng family's banner will not be sold for a price. Therefore, in order to maintain the market price of the Zheng family's banner and crack down on the lawbreakers who disrupt the market order, he planned to take the fleet to Guangdong, find an opportunity to teach Liu Xiang a lesson, and let him know why the flowers are so red.

"I plan to gather 200 of our warships by the middle of next month to train with Liu Xiang. Naturally, I'm leading the team, so let's see what else you have to arrange? Zheng Zhilong asked.

"Big brother, you went, but who left behind to come to see the house?" Zheng Zhifeng asked.

"Which of you would like to stay and watch the house?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

"Big brother, don't look at me, it's boring to watch the house, I won't do it!" Zheng Zhihu saw Zheng Zhilong's eyes glancing at him, and immediately shouted quite cooperatively.

"If you want to stay, I won't agree." Zheng Zhilong scolded with a smile, "If you don't go, which one will take the lead in jumping the gang?" Well, if you don't ask for the fourth, you brought this matter up, how about I send you to guard Beigang? It's just that I don't have many ships left for you, so you can honestly guard the harbor. ”

Beigang is an important stronghold of the Zheng family in Taiwan. When Zheng Zhifeng heard this, he bowed down and took the arrow. Zheng Zhilong also ordered Zheng Zhibao to stay in Hai'an, and Zheng Zhiguan to guard Penghu, and then said: "There is also Xiamen, which is also quite important, although the imperial court also has a few ships over there, but everyone knows what is going on with the imperial court's boats." There needs to be guarded too. Don't know who wants to go? ”

At this time, one of the people stood up and clasped his hands into fists and replied: "If the eldest brother can trust the younger brother, the younger brother is willing to defend Xiamen." ”

Zheng Zhilong saw it and said with great joy: "With Daxuan in Xiamen, Xiamen is worry-free." ”

The Shi Daxuan who answered this question was the father of General Shi Lang, who became a traitor. At the beginning, he was also one of the "Eighteen Zhi" who worshipped Zheng Zhilong. Later, the "Eighteen Zhi" infighting split, Shi Daxuan, Yang Tiansheng, and Chen Xinji joined Zheng Zhilong's team. In the battle with Li Kuiqi, Yang Tiansheng and Chen Xinji unfortunately received a box lunch, and now in the sea power of the Zheng family, only the Shi family is left.

Seeing that Yang Tiansheng and Chen Xinji both received a boxed lunch, Shi Daxuan naturally couldn't help but feel a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and was very suspicious that the reason why they received a boxed lunch was because Zheng Zhilong borrowed Li Kuiqi's knife to eliminate dissidents. Later, when Shi Daxuan went to the battlefield, he was always a little forward-looking and backward, not brave enough. It's just that Zheng Zhilong is too strong now, and they have killed a lot of Liu Xiang and formed a deep enmity, so Shi Daxuan can only continue to follow Zheng Zhilong.

Now Zheng Zhilong is leading the team to fight Liu Xiang, and Shi Daxuan heard it and started playing a small drum in his heart. I wanted to go, but I was worried that Zheng Zhilong would be unhappy, and I wanted to go, but I was worried that I would end up like Yang Tiansheng and Chen Xinji. Now when he heard Zheng Zhilong say that he wanted to guard Xiamen alone, he stood up and said that he was willing to go. In Shi Daxuan's view, Liu Xiang is now robbing merchant ships at sea, occasionally going to the coast to attack the villages along the coast or something, attacking Xiamen, Liu Xiang does not have such strength, so it is actually a fairly safe thing to defend Xiamen, and besides, in addition to Xiamen, there are also some ships of the original authentic Ming Fujian sailors. Supposedly, there is nothing wrong with it.

"Daxuan, Xiamen has an important status, close to Beigang, Penghu, and Quanzhou, you and Shi Fu have also gone to sea not long ago, and the boats you bring have to rest, so they will all be arranged in Xiamen. Also, I bought some cannons and carrier pigeons from the Spaniards and gave you some too. What do you think? Zheng Zhilong asked with a smile.

"Thank you, eldest brother, the younger brother will definitely guard this Xiamen like an iron bucket." Shi Daxuan hurriedly bowed down and said, then took the arrow from Zheng Zhilong's hand, and took the headquarters to guard Xiamen.

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"Big brother, why do you want to give him a cannon?" When everyone dispersed, Zheng Zhihu hurriedly asked with wide eyes.

"I don't want Shi Daxuan to die in Xiamen yet, after all, they are all brothers." Zheng Zhilong sighed and said, "Second brother, the cannons I gave him are all heavy artillery, and they can't fit our ship, so they can only be set up on the island." With a few cannons, the Dutch and Liu Xiang could not take Xiamen Island, at most they could only destroy those ships. Actually, I'm also doing it for his good. If he always has a team of his own men in his hands, it is inevitable that they will be suspicious of each other. I turned against Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang back then, and it wasn't all because everyone had their own group of people, and they all had their own little abacus. In fact, we don't want to be angry. Second child, have you heard such a sentence: 'I'd rather have three alliances in Taoyuan than a furnace of incense in Wagang'. But when those people in Wagang had just formed a rebellion, did they all think about internal strife? It's not like they all have their own people from the beginning. It was the same with our eighteen-year-old Juyi. Now, Lao Shi is the only brother with the surname left, and I know that because he still has his own ship, he still has some thoughts. We are big brothers, but we can't watch our brothers make mistakes. Well, second brother, do you know the story of Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan? ”

"I don't know, what Zheng Boke and what Duan Yuyan, is it the same as Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?" Zheng Zhihu shook his head and replied.

"This story was told to me by Assen when I was studying in Kaosen." Zheng Zhilong said.

Zheng Zhihu nodded, and said in his heart: "What is the test for Assen?" Asen's book, that's the big brother, you passed the exam. Isn't it just Asen telling you about the ancients? But he said, "Big brother, tell me about it, you know, I like to hear people talk about the ancients." ”

"You have to like to hear it, and when Asen comes back in the future, when it's okay, I'll ask him to tell you. Well, also, you are not too young, you should find a daughter-in-law to have a baby, and then let him study, and tell you about the ancient in the future. Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.

"Big brother, in the future, let's talk about it later, you tell me about that thing first?" Zheng Zhihu said.

"This Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan, he is like this......" Zheng Zhilong triumphantly began to show off his knowledge in front of his younger brother.

After a while, Zheng Zhilong finished telling the story, and then asked Zheng Zhihu: "Second brother, do you think this Uncle Zheng is a good big brother?" ”

"Big brother, this kid is too yin, it's really not a thing. His younger brother is not a good thing, but many things are taught badly by this bastard named Zheng Bo. If you want me to say, if he really wanted to be good to his brother, he should have called that a long time ago? ”

"Uncle Duan." Zheng Zhilong added.

"Yes, it was his younger brother and uncle Duan who called over and scolded him bitterly, and even whipped him with a leather whip. I can't say that Uncle Duan died of rebellion, but he can be preserved, but you see him, and he continues to give that Uncle Duan a territory, isn't that intentionally luring his younger brother to rebel? Well...... Big brother, I see what you mean. If we want to keep the affection with the Shi Daxuan brothers, we can't let him have too many ideas, or let him have too many ideas, we can't let him have his own fleet. ”

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A month later, nothing happened, and two months later, Zheng Zhilong took the fleet to go around the vicinity of Guangdong, and did not meet Liu Xiang's ship. After another two months, there was still nothing, so everyone should do what they should do. It's just that Shi Daxuan is still guarding Xiamen, just like Zheng Zhifeng is still guarding Beigang.

Shi Daxuan is actually quite satisfied with the current days, because Xiamen is really a good place, and merchant ships from the south to the north will inevitably pass near it. Today's Shi Daxuan actually doesn't have too many big ambitions, and watching his pockets bulge day by day has become his biggest hobby.

Such leisurely days pass very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a year has passed. Nothing happened during this period, except for the occasional Dutch plywood ship that came to the vicinity of Xiamen, but they only came to take shelter from the storm.

In a blink of an eye, it was June of the sixth year of Chongzhen, and on this day, Zheng Zhilong was reading Zheng Sen's reply to him in the study, when suddenly Zheng Zhibao rushed in from outside.

"Big brother, the Dutch have done it!" Zheng Zhibao shouted.

"Where, how?" Zheng Zhilong immediately put down the letter in his hand and asked.

"In Xiamen, the Dutch and Liu Xiang joined forces and attacked Xiamen." Zheng Zhibao replied loudly. Zheng Sen's judgment that the Dutch might collude with Liu Xiang to attack Xiamen Zheng Zhibao did not know, and Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu's calculations on how to preserve brotherhood did not know, so it was inevitable that he was a little anxious.

"Don't panic, Ah Leopard, the more important the matter, the more you must be able to calm down." Zheng Zhilong said, "Isn't it the Dutch and Liu Xiang? It's not like we haven't fought with them. Well, it was Shi Daxuan who sent the letter with a carrier pigeon, right? What does that say? ”

"Big brother, Shi Daxuan was not well prepared, and was blocked in the port by the Dutch, and then Liu Xiang released dozens of fireboats, and the more than 20 boats in his hand, and the dozen or so boats of the original Fujian Navy Division were all set on fire. Liu Xiang and the Dutch also went to the island, but they didn't know that the eldest brother had put several more cannons on the island, but they were bombarded by the cannons, killing dozens of people, and they all retreated. Zheng Zhibao replied.

"Then it's not a big deal." Zheng Zhilong said, "Xiamen's savings are enough for them to hold out for more than half a year, the Dutch are few, it is okay to fight at sea, and they come ashore to attack the city, and their few people are not enough to die." As for Liu Xiang, if he is willing to kill a lot of people in order to attack Xiamen, then it is really a good thing for us. Xiamen can't lose it. sent a letter to Shi Daxuan with a carrier pigeon, saying that the ship could be rebuilt if it burned out, and it didn't matter. Hold Xiamen well, at most in a month or two, Lao Tzu will be able to rescue him, as long as he keeps it, even if he is innocent and meritorious! Oh yes, Arsen is going to be 10 years old, right? ”

"Big brother, if you don't say it, I really think Ah Sen has grown up, it's only 10 years old. Well, 10 years old is a big day, and you can't be too casual. It's a pity that there is going to be a war soon, or we will bring Arsen back to have a good birthday for him. To be honest, I haven't seen this kid for a long time, and I don't know if he's grown taller, so it's a little weird to miss him. ”