"Master Hou, we had a conflict with the Zheng family in Suzhou!"

Wang Zheng kept looking down at the official documents, in fact, he was not worried that something big would happen, after all, although Jiangnan was vast and prosperous, there was really no place to compete with the Shandong army, and it was only a matter of time before it was completely occupied.

Now that Jiangnan has basically been finalized, what needs to be worried is whether Li Zicheng will go north as he did in history.

Hearing this, Wang Zheng's eyes suddenly tightened, and he raised his head and asked:

"Old Fan, you sit down and say, what the hell is going on, the Salt Gang and the Zheng family have always been well water and not river water, what is the reason for this conflict?"

Although Fan Ruohai sat down to the side, he may have been concerned about Caoyun affairs, so as soon as he sat down, he immediately stood up again, and said with an anxious face:

"The person who the Hou Ye negotiated with was Zheng Hongkui, the second master of the Zheng family, but this time it was the Salt Gang and the Security Division that clashed, but it was Zheng Zhilong's descendant Eighteen Zhi!"

To say that Wang Zheng's real cronies are the first line of soldiers, Zheng Zhilong's cronies are these eighteen Zhizhi.

When he was still in Japan in his early years, Zheng Zhilong abandoned his wife in order to become brothers with Yan Siqi, the twenty-eight people, and after many years, the remaining eighteen people have become eighteen Zhi.

Zheng's eighteen zhi, but it is somewhat similar to the generals of the Shandong Army, almost all of them started from scratch, and worked hard to the point where they are today.

Zheng Zhilong led the eighteen Zhi to set up a sailor, and in two years, eliminated the Fujian and Zhejiang sailors under the command of Yu Zhihao, the commander of the Ming court, and Xu Xinsu, a comprador martial merchant "Zhangzhou Gang", and took control of Nanyang.

Until now, no matter which of the members of the Eighteen Zhi has a lot of wealth and ships under their hands, they have long been well-deserved overlords in the Jiangnan area.

Wang Zheng never thought that the biggest obstacle to his entry into Jiangnan was not the Ming court or the scholars, but the Zheng family.

Wang Zheng, the so-called "Zheng's Eighteen Zhi", had also heard about it more or less, and his face sank immediately, but he didn't say much, and quietly listened to Fan Ruohai talk about the ins and outs.

In fact, after the Shandong army entered Nanjing, there was a dispute with the Zheng family, which was a matter of time or time, but Wang Zheng didn't expect it to come so quickly, and offended one of the eighteen Zhi as soon as he came up.

For a long time, the person who presided over the transaction between the Zheng family and the Shandong army was Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Zhilong's attitude was unclear and secret, and he did not attach importance to the salt transaction, but he would not despise it.

But if it involves the interests of Eighteen Zhi and the Zheng family, it is not surprising that Zheng Zhilong will directly turn his face and deny people.

When Shandong and Jiangbei set up cards to collect Caoyun money, there would be no conflict between the Shandong army and the Zheng family, and most of the well water did not interfere with the river water.

The Zheng family will not be idle and have nothing to do on the land to find hardships, besides, the area of Shandong is mostly a poor place in the impression, and it is nothing to let it out, just turn a blind eye and forget it.

However, since the occupation of Nanjing, the Shandong army has divided the road, and now almost occupies half of the south of the Yangtze River, and reforms are being carried out everywhere.

Almost all the ships in the south of the Yangtze River had to carry the Zheng clan's order flag, and the Zheng clan gave these ship merchants the order flag, one was to show off their military force in order to collect a huge amount of money, which was also the main reason why Zheng Zhilong quickly became rich and invincible.

The second purpose of the Zheng Clan's Command Banner is to show off their strength, saying that as long as they hang their Zheng Clan's Command Flag, they can go anywhere without hindrance, so as to demonstrate their absolute force at sea.

But in the eyes of the local security department of the Shandong Army and the personnel of the Salt Gang, this order flag is nothing at all, whether you hang it or not, these people will deeply implement the order to collect centigold.

If you don't pay it, then don't think about leaving!

The one who started the conflict was called Zheng Zhifeng, who was the first of the eighteen Zhizhi and the one who ranked higher in the Zheng family, and was deeply trusted by Zheng Zhilong.

At that time, the people of the Shandong army collected Caoyun Li gold at the dock in Suzhou, and every time they went to a place, the local shippers were not very cooperative, and they often had to kill chickens and monkeys to be honest, and these tricks Salt Gang had long been skillful.

But in addition to the accident that day, Zheng Zhifeng sat on a large Cangshan Railway, accompanied by more than a dozen small and medium-sized Shake boats, came out to ask, and heard that someone dared to collect the gold of the ship with the Zheng family's flag, and immediately became angry.

It's good that the people of the Zheng fleet are not here, Zheng Zhifeng himself is in Suzhou, this kind of thing happened with his eyelids low, and the shippers of all sizes are looking at him, if he doesn't care about it, how will he gain a foothold in Jiangnan in the future.

The Zheng family's fleet is only more than two dozen ships, and there is only one Cangshan Tie who can barely be regarded as a large ship, but it still has that temper, and it doesn't care what your identity is, and he won't give an inch.

The people of the Salt Gang saw that it was the Zheng family who came out, although they were also pondering in their hearts, but if they wanted to talk about concessions, it was simply impossible, the two parties were just screwed up, and no one was willing to take a step back, full of gunpowder.

Those shippers basically watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal, and constantly fanned the flames, Zheng Zhifeng was a temper tantrum, and ordered to disconnect the ship's board and fire a cannon at the shore.

The people of the local salt gang and the security department didn't expect the Zheng family to be so shameless, because most of them were holding waist knives, and they couldn't touch the Zheng fleet on the river at all, and they suffered heavy casualties for a while.

This incident alarmed the Shandong Army's foreign soldiers and horses stationed in Suzhou, and when he heard that someone dared to make trouble under his nose, he immediately decided to make a move that was even more shameless than the Zheng family.

This tone must be returned, firstly, it is related to the decision of Nanjing's future promotion, and it is not impossible to be promoted to a higher level, and secondly, it is also related to his own face.

In the places that the Shandong army has already occupied, no one has ever been able to run back unharmed, and this chief general will naturally not be soft for the sake of his prestige and face in the army, and directly dispatched the local garrison.

In the city of Suzhou, the troops and horses of the Shandong army began to move, and even the firearms battalion defending the city was transferred, and on the water city, the two sides began a not very fierce artillery battle.

Zheng's small fleet did not carry any heavy weapons, that is, the Cangshan Iron that Zheng Zhifeng was staying on had a few Francos and copper and iron cannons, and most of the other ships even only carried firearms.

Compared with the Suzhou City Fire Weapon Battalion, this firepower is nothing at all, in fact, the firearms of Shuicheng are enough, but this master is going to learn from the Zheng family and play a little shameless.

In the city fire prevention battalion of the Shandong Army in Suzhou, Shenwei alone transferred three guns, and some large Franc machines even had eight guns standing on the water city, and countless small boats surrounded it, directly giving Zheng's small fleet a bloody blow.

And the Shandong army saw that the Zheng fleet was weak, of course, it was to take advantage of your illness to kill you, and they even dispatched some small chain boats, carrying soldiers from the Shandong army, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to capture the Cangshan iron and sand ke.

This is not the first time Zheng Zhifeng in Suzhou has come, in his impression, the water city of the Ming Court is basically a decoration, and the artillery and water battalion soldiers on it do not dare to argue with the Zheng fleet at all, so today will be so light on the enemy.

Unexpectedly, the firepower of a fire-fighting gas battalion in a foreign city in the Shandong Military Region was so fierce, and I don't know if it was luck or strength factors, and a cannon directly hit the mast of Cangshan Tie, Zheng Zhifeng was immediately shocked, and cursed that this is really not a face, and immediately ordered to leave.

Although Cangshan Tie is not very wide, but it can barely squeeze into the ranks of large warships, it is not easy to turn his head in this canal that is not deep or shallow, and before he can turn around, he sees the sluice gate of Shuicheng open, and countless small chain boats rush out.

Zheng Zhifeng's face turned dark, what is this playing, and he doesn't let himself go?

The soldiers of the Shandong army boarded the Cangshan Iron and those sand boats in batches, and once they fell to such a time, the soldiers of the Zheng clan were no opponents at all, and they did not even have the strength to parry.

Even if these foreign soldiers and horses are not very elite, Zheng's sailors can't win at all in the face-to-face.

The conflict between the Shandong army and the Zheng clan could be big or small, but in the end, it turned out to be the Shandong army, which had an imperfect naval division, and won.

The chief general of Suzhou accidentally made a great achievement, and he didn't expect that he directly captured the more famous Zheng Zhifeng in the Eighteen Zhi alive, and captured his ship Cangshan Tie, as well as eight relatively well-preserved medium-sized sand boats.

At present, Zheng Zhifeng and more than 30 Zheng sailors who were captured alive are on their way to Nanjing.