For Zheng Zhilong, Wen Tiren's plan to kill two birds with one stone is not an indiscernible conspiracy, but an upright conspiracy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

What Yang Mou means is that even if you know it's a pit, you have to jump in with your eyes open.

As far as the public is concerned, Zheng Zhilong has already belonged to the imperial court, and although he is still in a state of listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement, for a figure like them who was born as a maritime merchant and pirate, Xinyi is sometimes really important, at least on the surface.

Zheng Zhilong followed Li Dan in Japan at first, was appreciated by Li Dan, and became Li Dan's righteous son.

After Li Dan died, he basically inherited Li Dan's career, although he was very young, he was able to make most people abandon Li Dan's own son and follow him, relying on the word Xinyi.

After Li Dan's death, Zheng Zhilong led the team to Yan Siqi, who went to Dongfan Bengang to create a foundation, and basically respected Yan Siqi and won Yan Siqi's trust.

So after Yan Siqi's death, he inherited Yan Siqi's foundation as he wished.

In this way, from Zheng Zhilong ran away from home with his younger brother Zheng Zhihu and went to Hao Jingao to join his uncle as an apprentice to run the sea trade, in just six or seven years, he became the most powerful pirate force on the East Asian sea.

Until the first year of Chongzhen's annexation to the imperial court, Zheng Zhilong was only twenty-four years old.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong had already changed from a pirate to a Jinxia coastal defense general stationed in the most prosperous place of maritime trade on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong, formerly known as Zheng Yiguan, was born in a family of government officials in Nan'an County, Quanzhou, and his father Zheng Shaozu and several generations were officials in Nan'an County.

Although he became a pirate leader by chance, he actually had a deep-rooted idea in his heart, that is, to return to the shore and become an official of the imperial court in a down-to-earth manner.

Therefore, after becoming the biggest pirate leader along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, Zheng Zhilong never refused to ruin his reputation, especially in the coastal areas of Fujian, although he also went ashore to rob and rob maritime merchants, and fought fiercely with the sailors who came to encircle and suppress the government many times, killing and wounding countless officers and soldiers, but he rarely slaughtered innocent people along the coast.

In the sixth and seventh years of the Apocalypse, Fujian continued to suffer from a severe drought, and the famine in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou was serious, and the people were struggling to make a living.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong is still quite prestigious among the people in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other coastal areas of southern Fujian.

And the reason why he did this, in the final analysis, was just to leave a way back for himself and his brothers, so that one day he could recruit An ashore, be an official in peace, and enjoy wealth.

And today's imperial court is not thin on him.

From a pirate leader entrenched in Penghu Kinmen to a coastal defense general guarding the coast of southern Fujian, this change from a thief to an official is not only a change in his identity that can honor his ancestors, but most importantly, he can justifiably collect taxes from ships coming and going.

Of course, although Zheng Zhilong is very skillful, his knowledge is still not broad enough compared with the previous pirates Li Dan and Yan Siqi.

He grew up in a big family in Tong'an, Fujian, and although he relied on the sea to eat the sea at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and began his adventurous career as a maritime merchant and pirate, his understanding of the sea was not much different from that of many people in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty at that time.

That is to say, once he can return to the shore to enjoy life in the open, then he does not want to run around at sea for a day and adventure.

Therefore, when the imperial court named him a coastal defense general, and set up his station in his hometown Tong'an County, he set up his coastal defense general in Tong'an, and his 30,000 or 40,000 former pirate troops were placed in the five thousand households of Dongfanwei, and half were placed on the large and small islands from Tong'an to Nanao, such as Penghu, Kinmen, Xiamen and other places, and some land divisions also followed him ashore, as a battalion and Fujian coastal guard, stationed on the coastal land from Tong'an to Nanao.

Since Zhao'an came ashore, the twenty-four-five-year-old Zheng Zhilong immediately became the emperor of the southern Fujian coast, Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and Cai Shanji, the prefect of Quanzhou and the patrol of Quanzhou.

Except for Zheng Zhilong, who had to hand over 30% of the tax silver collected from the maritime merchants who went to sea, not only did the other tax silver be kept for his own use, but all the affairs in the South China Sea of Fujian were entrusted to him, the Jinxia Coastal Defense Counselor, to deal with them in the future.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's life after going ashore is called a comfortable life, except for the thirty percent of the tax silver received every three months, the government does not care about him at all, and he can use the banner of the imperial court to crusade against other unsatisfied pirates, and he can also use the banner of the imperial court to collect taxes from passing ships to and from Fujian and other places, and his life is unprecedentedly comfortable.

As the old saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

No matter what kind of hero he is, once he is used to living a comfortable and enjoyable life, people's minds will also change.

Zheng Zhilong and his brothers, as well as many backbones of the previous Eighteen Zhi, are like this, now they all have official hats on their heads, they still have subordinates in their hands, and they can sit on the ground to collect cashiers, this is less than a year, and many people are tired of the sea life that once licked blood from the knife edge.

Even Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao, who had opposed Zhao'an ashore before, changed their minds.

Quanzhou Nan'an Zheng is a big family, Zheng Zhilong has many brothers, there are four brothers of one mother alone, in addition to him, there are Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhibiao.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong was less than twenty-five years old, Zheng Zhihu was just twenty-three years old, Zheng Zhibao had just turned twenty years old, and his youngest brother Zheng Zhibiao was only sixteen years old, but now they all have official bodies given by the imperial court.

The Zheng family, who was born as a Nan'an official, became a real wealthy family in Nan'an, Quanzhou because of Zheng Zhilong's leadership.

On this point, Zheng Zhilong's brothers and Zheng Zhilong's Nan'an Zheng clan are still very satisfied.

Because of this, in the face of the dispatch of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion brought by Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong did not dare to disobey, even if he knew that there must be other plans of Wen Tiren, he had to accept this order.

For him, whether it is a conspiracy or a conspiracy, his subordinates are as many as thirty or forty thousand, and for his foundation after all, it is on the sea, and transferring out five thousand land divisions will not change the overall situation, and at the same time, he can also prove his strength to the imperial court and demonstrate his existence.

On the other hand, Wen Tiren killed two birds with one stone, Zheng Zhilong and his staff Chen Hui, He Bin and others are not fools, and naturally have their own plans.

Most of the family members have migrated to Dongfanwei, and the leaders are all their own relatives or cronies, so it is impossible for them to betray themselves.

Now the imperial court has transferred these people to Zhejiang, if they have made meritorious contributions, the imperial court will naturally want them to increase their official ranks, and they will also follow the rising tide, if the war in Zhejiang drags on, these people can still gain a foothold in Zhejiang, and their territory will also expand.

Wen Tiren has his own killing two birds with one stone, and Zheng Zhilong naturally has his own two birds with one stone.

In this way, at the end of December, Zheng Zhilong's second brother, the twenty-three-year-old Zheng Zhihu, assisted by Zheng Xing and Chen Hui, led the Zheng family's sailor fleet, followed Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to the north along the coast, came to Hangzhou Bay, and then sailed into the Qiantang River with the Zhejiang sailor fleet led by Weng Zhiqi, the garrison of Zhoushan.

In the end, under the greeting of Fan Jingwen, the governor of Zhejiang, Cai Maode, the new procurator, and Zhang Cunren, the new chief military officer of the town guard, Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, led 6,000 troops from Fujian into the city of Hangzhou.