Although Zhu Hongsan used his power to suppress public opinion, the follow-up impact of Zhu Youlang's death was far more than that.

Zheng Chenggong, who was far away in Taiwan, received the news that Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang had been captured by Zhu Hongsan in January.

Zheng Chenggong in this era is far weaker than Zheng Chenggong in history, because the Zheng family's ocean-going trade was robbed by Zhu Hongsan, and the Zheng family's largest trade object was only Japan except for some smuggling. However, with the success of Zhu Hongsan's expedition to Japan, the frightened Tokugawa shogunate also stopped trading with Zheng Chenggong, and the Zheng family fell into internal and external troubles.

But the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and then the Dutch, who were far away in Batavia, extended an olive branch.

The Dutch and Zheng Chenggong should be mortal enemies, just a few years ago Zheng Chenggong just led people to drive the Dutch out of Taiwan* and recover the Red Embedded City occupied by the Dutch. Although the Dutch hated Zheng Chenggong to death, in order to deal with the more powerful enemy Zhu Hongsan, the Dutch began to contact Zheng Chenggong.

At first, Zheng Chenggong did not take the Dutch seriously at all, but with the recovery of Beijing by Zhu Hongsan on the mainland and the Yongli Emperor being sent to Yunnan, Zheng Chenggong began to seriously consider the Dutch's proposal. In the end, the Dutch used 300 muskets, 50 cannons, 100 barrels of gunpowder, plus countless silver and spices, in exchange for Zheng Chenggong's guarantee, and at the right time Zheng Chenggong sent troops to attack Luzon, Zhu Hongsan's lair in Nanyang.

Although the alliance was reached, Zheng Chenggong was not a fool, he knew that his strength was completely unequal to that of Zhu Hongsan on the mainland, and he still guarded Kinmen and Xiamen, and it was the right way to smuggle people from the mainland to Taiwan to open up wasteland and farm.

Therefore, in the past few years, Zheng Chenggong has not used troops against the mainland at all, but has only maintained a close relationship with Fujian, but secretly accelerated the progress of developing Taiwan.

Zheng Chenggong's calculation was very good, but he didn't expect that Zhu Youlang, the Yongli Emperor who was far away in Yunnan, couldn't hold on. In the eleventh year of Shenwu, the news of Zhu Youlang's surrender reached Taiwan, and Zheng Chenggong was really a little panicked.

In the past, the prerequisite for him to develop with peace of mind was that the mainland would not attack him, because the reason was very simple, what is your identity Zhu Hongsan? My Zheng Chenggong's backstage is the Ming Orthodox Yongli Emperor, plus Zhu Hongsan has to deal with the war in the southwest, there are no soldiers left here in Fujian at all, but the green battalion soldiers left by the original Manchu surrender were sent to Yuan Pengnian, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to guard against Zheng Chenggong on the other side.

Now Zhu Youlang surrendered to Zhu Hongsan, which can put Zheng Chenggong in a dilemma. I am unwilling to surrender with Zhu Youlang, after all, Zheng Chenggong still has more than 300,000 people, tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and hundreds of warships of all kinds, all of which are given to that gangster Zhu Hongsan, and I really can't let go of it in my heart.

But what about not surrendering and resisting to the end? The emperor has surrendered, Zheng Chenggong's previous orthodox talisman is gone, and at the same time, Zhu Hongsan will definitely transfer the elite soldiers to the Fujian front after the end of the southwest war, and it is not certain whether Zheng Chenggong can resist the attack on the other side at that time.

Just when Zheng Chenggong hesitated, Yuan Pengnian, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who was far away in Fuzhou, sent a lobbyist.

Taiwan's Zheng Chenggong did not dare to act rashly, and Yuan Pengnian of the mainland also did not dare to act rashly. As the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Yuan Pengnian looked at his high position and was in charge of the military and political power of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. However, Yuan Pengnian himself knew that there were only more than 20,000 available soldiers in the entire Zhejiang and Fujian, most of which were Manchu green battalion soldiers, and some guards of the former Ming Dynasty were mixed in, so the combat effectiveness of such an army can be imagined.

So Yuan Pengnian and Zheng Chenggong are afraid of beating wolves, Zheng Chenggong is afraid that Yuan Pengnian will fight, Yuan Pengnian is afraid that Zheng Chenggong will counterattack the mainland, so both sides have maintained a fragile peace in recent years, and both sides have also given a name for this peace, and the Chinese do not fight the Chinese.

However, the peace was broken with the surrender of Zhu Youlang, and in January of the 11th year of Shenwu, Yuan Pengnian, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, received a letter from the Military Aircraft Department, ordering him to contact Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan and negotiate peace with Zheng Chenggong.

Yuan Pengnian was overjoyed when he saw that he didn't have to fight, and immediately brought in the governor of Fujian, Tong Dafang, that is, Tong Tuchangshou's godson, and discussed with him in detail what to do.

Tong Dafang used Li Chengdong to oppose the Qing Dynasty in the second year of Shenwu, and worshiped Tong Tuchang as his godfather, which can be regarded as finding the right organization, and there is no competent candidate in the hands of Tong's uncle and nephew, so as Tong Dafang, who was attached to himself in the early days, was naturally vigorously promoted.

Back then, Tong Dafang was just a seven-pin county magistrate, and it was only less than ten years, and he was directly promoted to be the governor of Fujian, which was really in the limelight for a while!

Tong Dafang received a notice from the Governor at the Governor's Yamen, and hurriedly brought gifts to the Governor's Yamen to meet him.

After seeing the governor Yuan Peng, Tong bowed generously and said: "Lord of Taiwan, I don't know what happened to the officials?" ”

Yuan Pengnian was very helpful when he saw Tong Dafang's respectful appearance, what happened to you being Tong Tuchang's godson? It's not that I see the old man being respectful!

"Defei, you should know the news! Now that Gui Shun and Zhu Youlang have been captured, the next step is to deal with Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan. His Majesty's will came from the DPRK-China Military Aircraft Department, and ordered the official to send people to contact Zheng Chenggong, and it is best to solve it peacefully, if it really can't be done, resort to force! ”

Although Tong Dafang is shameless, he has been an official in Fujian for a long time, and he has a detailed understanding of the Zheng family's forces that have been entrenched in Fujian for more than 20 years. Now that Zheng Chenggong has hundreds of thousands of people and tens of thousands of elite soldiers, it is really impossible for him to unconditionally put down his weapons and surrender.

"Lord Taiwan, then Zheng Chenggong has a heavy army, it is really difficult to let him surrender, I don't know what conditions are listed by the Military Aircraft Department?"

Yuan Pengnian picked up the official document from the table and handed it to Tong Dafang, Tong Dafang took a closer look at the results, it turned out that the above was very simple, just let Fujian contact first, explore the bottom of Zheng Chenggong, and talk about what to do next.

Tong nodded generously, respectfully returned the official document from the Military Aircraft Department to Yuan Pengnian, and then said: "My lord, if it's just to get to the bottom of the matter, the Zheng family is from Nan'an, just let the local officials find someone who is familiar with the Zheng family!" ”

"Well, Master Tong has been in Fujian for a long time, what good candidates do you have?"

Tong Dafang went from the county magistrate of Minxian County to the Tongzhi and prefect of Fuzhou, and then promoted to the post of Fujian Xuezheng, according to the inspection envoy, and political envoy, and succeeded Yuan Pengnian last year as the governor, the feudal official of Fujian Province. Tong Dafang has been in politics in Fujian for 15 or 6 years, and he knows the situation in Fujian very well.

Tong Dafang heard Yuan Pengnian's question and hurriedly replied: "Lord Taiwan, the Zheng family started in Nan'an, Quanzhou, why don't you go to the prefect of Quanzhou, let him search in detail locally, and he will definitely be able to find someone who communicates with the Zheng family!" "Tong Dafang is different from Yuan Pengnian, Yuan Pengnian was a subordinate cadre, went directly to Fujian to become a student and politician, and then relied on Tong Yangjia's big tree to become the governor, so Yuan Pengnian may have more experience in officialdom, but his understanding of Fujian is really not as good as Tong Dafang.

And Tong Dafang has worked in Fujian for more than ten years, and knows that the Zheng family's power is deep-rooted, that is, now the imperial court has a strict order not to trade with the Zheng family, but isn't the Zheng family also alive and well? Tong Dafang doesn't believe that the two isolated islands of Kinmen and Xiamen can support Zheng Chenggong's hundreds of thousands of people? Therefore, as the magistrate of Quanzhou, he must know that someone can contact Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan.

Yuan Pengnian nodded when he heard Tong Dafang say this: "Okay, the prefect of Quanzhou is the person you should be in charge of, so use your governor yamen to give him the next article, don't say it too carefully, just let him find someone to go to Taiwan and ask Zheng Chenggong what conditions are!" ”

Tong Dafang got Yuan Pengnian's permission to return to Yamen and practice literature to Xin Zi, the prefect of Quanzhou, in the name of the governor, asking him to visit people who had something to do with the Zheng family in Nan'an, and to send a letter to Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan, asking Zheng Chenggong if he wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Xin Zixiu, the prefect of Quanzhou, was the prefect of Quanzhou during the Hongguang period of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and when the Manchus occupied Fujian, Xin Zixiu did not dare to commit suicide, so he surrendered to the Manchus. When Li Chengdong was anyway, Fujian returned to Shenwu Emperor Zhu Hongsan, and Xin Zixiu still served as the prefect of Quanzhou, which was more than ten years.

Xin Zixiu understands very well that although he was born as a Jinshi, there is no one in the court, and there is still the stain of surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he will be appointed as the prefect in this life. Because of this, Xin Zixiu wanted to get some money to plan for the future.

Quanzhou here from the Song Dynasty is a treaty port, the natural business atmosphere is very strong, coupled with the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty Quanzhou Nan'an and a sea merchant Zheng Zhilong, Quanzhou here has become a gathering place for maritime merchants.

Now, although the imperial court has strictly forbidden to do business with the Zheng family, but the merchants are all profit-seeking, and the Zheng family took out three times the price to buy materials, and the merchants of Quanzhou naturally flocked to it.

As the magistrate of Quanzhou, Xin Zixiu also turned a blind eye to this kind of thing, not that he didn't want to care, but that the emperor acquiesced in the smuggling of Quanzhou merchants in order to make Zheng Chenggong have the strength to resist the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Later, Zhu Youlang and Zhu Hongsan fell out, and at this time Zhu Hongsan was thinking that it was impossible to impose an embargo on the Zheng family, and a large number of vested interest groups had been formed here in Quanzhou, which could not be managed by the emperor with a paper order.

Xin Zixiu sighed when he received the text from the governor Yamen, he knew that the Yongli Emperor had been arrested, and the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty had also failed. Although Xin Zixiu is an official of Zhu Hongsan, Xin Zixiu is a Jinshi in the Chongzhen period, so he still has some feelings for the Yan Wang lineage.

Xin Zixiu saw that the governor Tong asked him to find someone to contact Zheng Chenggong, Xin Zixiu understood that the emperor was going to recruit An, and at the same time it also indicated that the smuggling here in Quanzhou would not last long, and Zheng Chenggong would surrender and smuggle it to?

Xin Zixiu took the letter and thought about it for a while, and decided to find Yang Daguan in Quanzhou City, Yang Chao.

Yang Chao was the first batch of people to follow Zheng Zhilong to open Taiwan, and he was very familiar with some old people in the Zheng family than He Tingbin, Yang Tiansheng, Chen Xinji, and Yang Ying. It was only after Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty that Yang Chao felt bored with Zheng Zhilong, so he returned home to care for the elderly. But it was precisely because of this that the Yang Dynasty also saved the Yang Dynasty, because the Yang Dynasty did not surrender to the Manchu Dynasty, so Zhu Hongsan did not liquidate the pirate leader, and the Yang Dynasty's family property was retained.