Li Guozhu held the medicine bowl and said with a pious face: "Father, if you are ready, this time the doctor said that if you can drink it, your condition will improve." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Dan smiled bitterly when he heard this, and raised his hand.

The two handsome-looking teenagers immediately came over, helped Li Dan, who was sleeping on the ground, up, tucked a small chair behind him, and put a soft cushion on it.

It's a standard Japanese-style Japanese-style room, beautiful to look at, it's clean, it's clean, it's all in order, but it's all too cold and hard for a dying old man.

Li Dan reluctantly swallowed the medicine, and the two waiters hurriedly helped him to sleep.

"It's so unpleasant." Li Dan looked at Li Guozhu and said, "Don't drink this medicine." ”

"Father," Li Guozhu said hurriedly, "How can you get better if you don't drink medicine?" ”

"I know my illness very well." Li Dan smiled bitterly and said, "It's just a hard time, and it's almost time." ”

"Father's ......"

Li Guozhu mourned and cried bitterly on the ground.

"Why?" Li Dan was relieved in his heart, but he said: "There are no immortal people in the world, Rao is an emperor and general, and there will be a day when he will die." In my life, I was young and poor, and I grew up at sea, experienced storms and treacherous worlds, and finally became a big man after middle age, and now whether it is the Japanese shogunate or the Ming court, there is no way to take me. The governor of the Ming Dynasty even asked me to mediate the war with the red hair, but the shogunate relied on me to maintain order at sea and at the ports, and not to cause trouble to their major policy of locking the country. My family has millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of people have begged for food under my hands, and I have not treated any of them badly, and people still respect me, no matter what, my life is worth it. ”

Li Dan said slowly, and his face gradually shone brightly.

It seems that at this moment, the sea-roaming merchant and pirate leader has returned, and this body is no longer a dying shell, but a majestic sea tycoon.

Li Dan looked at Li Guozhu and said in a cold voice: "After I leave, how are you, have you thought about it?" ”

"My father's plans are generally the same, and there won't be much change here in Hirado. There are two headaches for his son, one is that Liu Xiang in Guangdong is gradually becoming more difficult to control, and his son thinks that instead of arguing, it is better to demarcate the territory and let some benefits be given to him. In this way, to maintain the incense situation, Liu Xiang is not too much. Moreover, he mainly focuses on the interests of the sea in Guangdong, and the conflict with us is not big in the first place. ”

"Yes." Li Dan boasted: "You think very well at this level, let's talk about it more." ”

"The second place is Taiwan." Li Guozhu was encouraged, and his thinking became clearer and clearer: "Yan Siqi never dared to change anything when his father was there, that is, once his father was gone, this person was a hero's nature, and the old kindness could not restrain him. But if it is to deal with him, it is not an easy thing, I am very worried that it will become a stalemate, when the time comes, we will be divided internally, each other will be divided, the Japanese, the Dutch, Liu Xiang, the Ming court, all forces will take the opportunity to seek benefits, the situation that my father has worked hard to create, I am afraid that it will fall apart, and at that time the son will die and there is no way to atone for his sins. ”

"Have you ever thought about working with Yan Siqi?" Li Dan asked rhetorically: "This person is indeed a hero, good at winning people's hearts, and has a very good set of control, in this case, it is better to be brothers, and it is not good to cooperate with each other?" Can't you let go of the Li family's eldest son? ”

"Of course not." Li Guozhu smiled bitterly: "In the past two years, I have felt more and more that my ability is just a middle-aged person, and it is absolutely impossible to do it like my father in this troubled world. ”

"Why is that?"

"My father said he was a hero." Li Guozhu said: "The hero can only be on top, and everything is decided according to his own heart, how can he have patience and perseverance to cooperate with others on an equal footing for a long time." If the son is willing to be his subordinate, it is not much of a problem, but no matter how incompetent the son is, he is not willing to submit to him. ”

"That's right." Li Dan said indifferently: "If my son belongs to my former subordinates, I will also be displeased, you are right about this." ”

Li Guozhu said dejectedly: "I think about it, but my son has no choice, it's still in vain." ”

"It's good to know who your opponent is, how strong or weak you are, to know what you think. Many people in this world are confused, and they don't even have the ability to figure things out. Thinking about things first, and then thinking about how things should be done, that's another way. ”

"Father, please."

"Things are divided into several parts, first determine if you have to get rid of Yan Siqi?"

Li Guozhu thought for a while and said categorically: "If you want to get rid of this person, if you don't get rid of this person, my Li family will not only lose its assets in Taiwan, including floating wealth, sailors, fleets, ports, and even the foundation of Hirado may not be able to be saved." ”

"Okay, make a determination first, and then analyze the pros and cons. You are right about the strength, you alone do not have the ability to call on too many people to deal with him, your own people will only freeze, and after a long time, you are still not necessarily his opponent. If I want to get rid of him now, I can't do it, he definitely won't come, I can't go, and my brother will wait for me to decide what to do after I die, and if I want to gather people to go to the hard fight, this is also impossible. If your strength is insufficient, then you have to think about whether you can find other help. ”

"Father is talking about He Yusheng?"

"That's right." Li Dan nodded and said, "Of course it's He Yusheng, is it the Dutch or the imperial court?" ”

At this time, Li Dan actually had the heart to make fun of him, and Li Guozhu couldn't cry or laugh.

"He Yusheng has great ambitions at sea." Li Dan said slowly: "Look at the wood they baked, at least enough to build dozens of ships, and they are still drying wood, and they have invited instructors from various countries to come to the academy to give lectures to their people, study at sea, and study on land, they have many rules, I think it looks like they can do things." That Chang Wei is not very old, but he acts decisively and ruthlessly, and he is a character. They must compete with Yan Siqi, and for our Li family, they can maintain a cooperative relationship. Because their real enemy is not Yan Siqi, nor our Li family or Japan...... Which country do you think it is? ”

"Dutch Hongyi?"

"Not bad!" Li Dan was very pleased: "If you can think of this, there will be no problem in keeping it in the future." Regardless of who wins or loses with Yusheng and the Dutch, you have to stand firm on your feet and run Hirado well, and we will always be able to be rich for a few more generations in the future. In this way, it is not in vain that I have worked hard all my life! ”

"Will He Yusheng take the initiative to do something to Yan Siqi?"

"No, it won't." Li Dan said: "On land, he Yusheng said that he was going to fight the Spanish Hongyi, and there were already two or three thousand soldiers, and they were very strong. Yan Siqi is definitely not an opponent, but at sea, without the support of my Li family, how can he eat Yan Siqi's thirteen warships? If Chang Wei doesn't know that we will do it to Yan Siqi without authorization, you will fight with Yan Siqi's subordinates and Yusheng, just to win people's hearts, this is also a way, at least for a long time Yan Siqi's foundation on the land of Taiwan is not guaranteed, and he has to rely on you, understand? ”

Li Guozhu only realized at this time that his father's status in the rivers and lakes was not for nothing, and he nodded very convincingly, and suddenly said: "Zhang Wenlan is not stupid, Chang Wei is not stupid, I think we can already prepare to wait for He Yusheng's envoy." ”

Li Dan smiled and shook his head, this son has been extremely trusting of He Yusheng since he went to Datong, and he doesn't know if he has fallen into some evil.

He didn't have the strength to refute his son, the old man had just beaten his blood, after all, it was the most important conversation before he died, and other things such as meeting his descendants and clan's relatives, loyal subordinates, and the division of property, these things are big things in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Li Dan's heart, they are just some trivial things, fighting with people at sea all his life, and always facing life and death, these things are really just mundane things.

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"This army will personally beat the drums to help, and you will fight to kill the enemy for me!"

On Gulangyu Island, Zheng Guochang wore a round-necked red robe and a black veil on his head, standing majestically at the height of the curtain, holding two drums in his hands, and beating hard.

On the sea below, a fierce battle is raging!

Since Zheng Guochang arrived in Fujian, the war preparedness of the Fujian garrison has been intensified, because it is the instruction and support of the imperial court, all aspects of the preparation materials are sufficient, and the silver has been allocated more than 100,000 taels at once, in terms of the financial support received by the southern military town, Fujian is also regarded as an outlier in the southern provinces, mainly because the lessons left by the Japanese invaders are very profound, and the imperial court is still willing to spend some silver in coastal defense.

At the end of February, the Ming army officially issued an ultimatum to the Dutch, and this time they simply did not persuade them to camp in Dongfan, but directly refused their trade invitation, and ordered the Dutch to withdraw from Penghu immediately!

The Dutch have been in Penghu for more than half a year, building four forts and building a number of seaports, how can they retreat at once, not only did they not withdraw from Penghu, but they also kept increasing the number of warships stationed in Penghu, and in February they added five warships to arrive, together with the original warships, a total of 11 large and small warships, and the personnel stationed in Penghu together with the navy were more than 2,000 people.

That's a pretty big number, and it's a reflection of the determination of the Dutch.

Even in the later period of the Taiwan garrison, the standing force of the Dutch generally did not exceed 500 people.

By the beginning of March, the Ming army finally launched a major attack and began to purge the Dutch ships off the coast of Xiamen.

The Ming army dispatched more than 100 sailor ships, of course, most of them were small boats such as four-pulp boats and eight-pulp boats, as well as fire boats, black ships, and large ships, and the number of soldiers was about 2,000 people.

In the area of Tongshan, the sailors first beat away two Dutch warships, and today they fought with two Dutch ships in Gulangyu, and more than a dozen large ships of the Ming army did not stop firing with their front main guns, and the Dutch ships used the wind to adjust the sails to turn the hull sideways, and used the guns on the warships to return fire.