Chapter 3, Father

After a while, the servant came back and said, "The eldest lord invites the young master in." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zheng Sen followed the servant into the main house. However, there was no one in the lobby of the main house, and the servant led Zheng Sen through the lobby and into the ear room on the left.

"It doesn't seem to be a full soil bun flowering, and I know that I can't see my family in the lobby of the main house." Zheng Sen, who looked like a filial son, was thinking so in his heart.

When I entered the ear room, I saw that in the middle of the ear room, there were two rosewood chairs, and in the middle was a rosewood coffee table, on which there was a bronze tripod, as well as a few books, and a set of four treasures of the study. Further up is a picture of a tiger roaring. And the two big chairs were each covered with a large tiger skin, but there was no one on the chair.

"Young master, please sit down, wait a minute, the master will come out immediately." The servant said.

Zheng Sen didn't sit down on the tiger skin chairs, but just sat down on the two rows of four leopard skin chairs that were placed against the walls on both sides. The servant retreated, and Zheng Sen began to carefully examine the ear room, and at the same time kept slandering his father.

"A good house, you put a bronze tripod family in it, and put the four treasures of the study room and books to pretend to be readers, but you also hung this tiger roar picture, spread this tiger skin leopard skin or something, showing the true color of a mountain carving? It's not like a four-like thing at all. ”

Just when Zheng Sen was thinking about it, a person came out of the back room. This man wears a black sand hat, wears a scarlet robe, and has a big lion with teeth and claws painted on his chest, and has a slender body, white skin, eyebrows like a crescent moon, eyes like morning stars, and three strands of long hair fluttering on his chest.

"Father!" Zheng Sen immediately stood up, took two quick steps forward, and fell to his knees to bow to the man. The man also hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Zheng Sen's acceptance with a smile on his face and helped him up.

"Well, yes, it's grown so big." Zheng Zhilong looked at his son, who he hadn't seen for several years, his face was full of love, "Your face is not very good, I'm afraid it's seasickness." I told you to go and rest first, but I didn't want to, but I wanted to come to see my father, what are you doing? Now that I've gone home, I won't see my father one day. ”

"The child is not filial, I haven't seen my father for a few years, although I miss it day and night, but I can't remember my father's appearance very clearly." Zheng Sen lowered his head and replied, "I always want to see my father earlier." Because the effects of seasickness have not yet passed, the voice of this voice sounds a little choked.

To be honest, as a traverser, how can Zheng Sen, who has almost no impression, have such deep feelings for this father? It's just that he knows that his father still has a lot of little wives, and he has five younger brothers. Although under normal circumstances, as the eldest son of his wife, he naturally has a great advantage. And in history, Zheng Sen has indeed achieved the position of heir, and even within the family, he has a strong appeal. For example, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, Zheng Sen, or Zheng Chenggong, was able to pull a large force from the family to continue to resist the Qing. But that is the original Zheng Chenggong, as the current Zheng Sen of the traverser, although he has obvious advantages in some knowledge, such as if the original Zheng Chenggong in history is allowed to compare with him in advanced mathematics or something, he is fully confident that he will beat the authentic Zheng Chenggong, just like Zhang Yining, the Great Demon King, can easily beat the Northeast girl Ai Fukuhara; Moreover, compared with the genuine Zheng Chenggong, today's Zheng Sen also has a huge advantage, that is, he roughly knows the history of that era, and when he was in school in his previous life, he received an education in authentic dragon slaying. Compared with the education of benevolence, righteousness and morality that Zheng Chenggong received in Shui Tailiang in history, the education of the lessons of failure that he learned in history books since he was a child is much more useful for fighting for the world in troubled times. However, he still doesn't have enough self-confidence, because ability is not the same as knowledge.

Moreover, not all knowledge of the traverser can crush the natives, such as writing Bagu Wen, for example, writing poetry or something. Originally, Zheng Chenggong in history was admitted to Xiucai and entered the Guozijian, and judging from some of the poems he left, although the level is not particularly good, it is not easy to do. I believe that Zheng Chenggong has spent a lot of time and energy in this regard. However, in the opinion of Zheng Sen, who is a traverser at this time, it is really not cost-effective to spend a lot of time on writing Bagu essays and poems that are actually of little significance, and I am afraid that I will not be able to use them at all in the future. So, he didn't want to spend any time on it at all. Therefore, it is estimated that in this regard, the original Zheng Chenggong can easily beat this traverser.

What's more, Zheng Sen feels that there is still a little problem with her background, that is, her mother does not have a very good background. His mother is just the orphan daughter of a feudal warrior in Japan, and compared with the status of Zheng Zhilong's second-rank general soldier today, the disparity is actually very large. Although the ancients had the saying that "poor and lowly friends should not be forgotten, and bad wives should not go to court", but in fact, "expensive and easy to make rich and easy to wife" abound. Fortunately, those scholars and doctors in this era generally looked down on military attachés, and pirate-born military attachés like Zheng Zhilong were not really looked down upon, so Zheng Zhilong's ladies and Zheng Sen's concubines generally did not have a good background, and for the time being, it seemed that there was no threat to his mother's status. But since ancient times, mothers have been more expensive than sons, and sons are more expensive than mothers, in case any younger brother is particularly favored, maybe it will really affect Zheng Sen's status.

In the original history, although Zheng Zhilong has always been despised by civil officials, he is still very keen on making his son a scholar. Zheng Chenggong has always been able to have a stable position, which is inseparable from the fact that he has achieved fame and has a world-famous teacher. Now that Zheng Sen doesn't plan to invest too much strength in this aspect, there must be something else that can impress Zheng Zhilong.

According to the history he knows, Zheng Sen feels that Zheng Zhilong is a very capable but insightful character. He is a bit like Wang Xifeng in Dream of Red Mansions in many ways, his skills and skills are first-class, but he is uneducated, he can't see the big situation clearly, he has problems grasping the overall situation, and he is prone to make wrong strategic decisions.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong is somewhat aware of his shortcomings in this regard, such as arranging Zheng Chenggong Baishui to be too cool as a teacher, so he may not have such considerations. Therefore, Zheng Sen felt that showing his foresight on big things might be the way to impress Zheng Zhilong. It's just that this method also has a side effect, that is, this method will make people look terrible. Because strategic decisions require very rational and cold analysis, and in many cases even need to make decisions that allow others to sacrifice for the ultimate goal. If you want to impress Zheng Zhilong, you must show him the process of making such a decision, and let him understand it. And once that happens, the person looks gloomy and scary. Once a person seems terrible, it is easy to be emotionally alienated. Therefore, Zheng Sen must first strengthen the relationship between him and Zheng Zhilong, so that Zheng Zhilong thinks that he is a dutiful person, so as to reduce the harm of these side effects as much as possible.

Even in history, there are still such role models, the most typical being Cao Cao's son Cao Pi. Every time Cao Cao went out to fight, Cao Zhi would write a beautiful article to praise his father's wisdom and martial arts, but in fact, Cao Pi, who was not bad at the literary level, did the opposite, not writing those things at all, but showing extra reluctance; When Cao Cao returned from victory, Cao Zhi naturally wrote another article to praise his father's wisdom and martial arts, but Cao Pi was only overjoyed as usual. As a result, Cao Cao felt that compared with Cao Zhi, Cao Pi was more benevolent and friendly. In contrast, Cao Zhi, who is in the limelight, is too ambitious and unfriendly, and if he succeeds to the throne in the future, I am afraid that his brothers will have a hard time. So, Cao Pi successfully became the prince of Wei, and eventually became the emperor, of course, after becoming the emperor, it is really hard to say whether he loves his younger brother or not.

I can't help but say that Zheng Sen's effect is quite good, because at this time, he is only a seven-year-old child, and this seven-year-old is actually still a virtual age, in the eyes of most people, such a big child should not tell lies and deceive people. Besides, who would use the worst malice to speculate on their seven-year-old son? So Zheng Zhilong was naturally very moved. As for why his son has almost never seen him, but he has so much affection for him, in Zheng Zhilong's opinion, this is also a good answer, first of all, this is the nature of father and son, and they are connected by blood; Secondly, this shows that the child's mother is very virtuous, usually teaches the child well, and is indeed a person who can be a wife. In a sense, Zheng Sen's move can be regarded as helping his mother stabilize her position in the family.

"You have to be filial, and your father knows it." Zheng Zhilong touched Zheng Sen's head lovingly, and said with emotion, "My father has been running around outside all these years, and I rarely have time to see you two mothers and sons. Well, the last time I saw you, you were that tall. How are your mother and your brother now? ”

"My mother is still in good health, and she misses her father very much. It's just that the younger brother is still young now, and he has to inherit the family name of the Tagawa family, so he can't go against the shogunate's decree to come to China, and his mother is not worried about his younger brother, so he has to stay in Japan. Zheng Sen paused, raised his head and glanced at Zheng Zhilong, seemingly a little hesitant.

"What else? Just say it. Zheng Zhilong half-squatted down and said to Zheng Sen.

"If my father has free time, it's best to visit them often." Zheng Sen said.