Speaking of which, it was precisely because the Spaniards continued to march into the northern part of Dongfan Island that Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to leave a way back for himself, so he accepted the surrender of Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and Cai Shanji, the prefect of Quanzhou and the governor of Zhangquan.

Now it has been more than two years since it was attached to the imperial court, and in the past two years, with the influx of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places into Dongfan Island, Zheng Zhilong's strength has expanded rapidly.

When Emperor Chongzhen accepted Zheng Zhilong's attachment, the worries of some courtiers in the court have now become a reality one by one.

Zheng Zhilong not only has the ability to recruit people to build cities in various parts of Dongfan, but also recruits people to reclaim more than 100,000 hectares of farmland on Dongfan Island, which also brings him enough food and soldiers.

At the same time, the development of Dongfan Island also made Zheng Zhilong pay more attention to this piece of land and his own control of the territory of Dongfanwei.

Because of this, Zheng Zhilong, whose strength has expanded, and his brothers have long been dissatisfied with the Spaniards, who have been expanding aggressively.

If it weren't for the fact that Dongfanwei had set up a Tamsui Thousand Households in the southern area of the Tamsui River and sent men and horses to garrison it, then the southern plain of Tamsui would now be under the rule of the Spaniards.

By the third year of Chongzhen's reign, the area under the jurisdiction of Zheng's Dongfanwei Tamsui Senhu had been connected with the area of Spanish activity in Santo Domingo.

Some Fujian and Zhejiang immigrants who crossed the border to reclaim the wilderness and hunt were also arrested and killed by the Spaniards in the city of Santo Domingo and the native soldiers of Luzon with them.

All this made Zheng Zhilong both worried and angry.

Therefore, when the Dutch East India Company's envoy to the Governor's Palace in Batavia, with the will of the imperial court and the documents of the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang, came to Zheng Zhilong to negotiate armistice and trade matters, and then jointly expel the Spaniards, Zheng Zhilong did not hesitate for long before agreeing.

At the beginning of July, according to the agreement made at the beginning of the year, Bidno returned to the city of Rebarsha with five ships of the Dutch East India Company and 1,200 red-haired mercenaries.

Immediately after that, the two sides reached another agreement around the expulsion of the Spaniards:

After the Spaniards were driven out, the two Spanish strongholds on the island of San Diego and Santo Domingo were occupied by Zheng Zhilong's Dongfanwei;

The cities of San Salvador and San Lorenzo and their ports were at the disposal of the Dutch East India Company, which leased them to the Eastern Guard Command Department at the expense of the Portuguese in accordance with the Portuguese lease of Ho Kyong O.

At the end of July, Zheng Zhilong sent someone to inform the governor's palace of Fujian and Zhejiang about his agreement with the Dutch, and Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, quickly agreed.

Since Wen Tiren arrived at the Governor's Mansion of Fujian and Zhejiang, although he has stayed away from the Jingshi court, and he has not grasped the various movements in the Jingshi court in a timely manner, he still figured out the secret intention of Emperor Chongzhen to restrain and bind the Zheng family:

That is, on the one hand, it is necessary to use Zheng Zhilong's sea power to prevent the invasion of the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang by the Taixiyi and other pirates, and on the other hand, it is necessary not to let Zheng Zhilong become too strong to threaten the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.

This degree is not too easy to grasp, but as of now, Emperor Chongzhen is still quite satisfied with Wen Tiren's performance.

In the first year of Chongzhen, when Wen Tiren and Xiong Wencan had just appeased Zheng Zhilong, they wrote to the imperial court in a letter to the imperial court, suggesting that the position promoted by the Bosi of Yuegang City, Fujian Province be awarded to the Zheng family to show the court's sincerity.

Later, the imperial court decreed, in addition to appointing Zheng Zhilong as a general of coastal defense, Zheng Zhilong himself was also promoted by the Yuegang City Bo Division.

This was also an important factor for Zheng Zhilong to return to the imperial court at that time.

At the beginning of the second year of Chongzhen, after Emperor Chongzhen decreed the opening of sea trade, under the rule of the governor of Fujian, in addition to the Moon Port, the port of Quanzhou was allowed to be reopened to allow Chinese and foreign maritime merchants to trade.

At this time, Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, took the initiative to solicit Zheng Zhilong's opinion and asked Zheng Zhilong to recommend the candidate for the promotion of Quanzhou City's Bo Division, and on the other hand, he secretly asked Lu Yuying, the chief soldier of Fujian Zhengpai, to stand up against the Zheng family's appointment as Quanzhou City's Bo Si.

In the end, Wen Tiren asked Xiong Wencan to publicly propose two candidates, one is Zheng Zhilong's father Zheng Shibiao, and the other is Zheng Zhilong's uncle Huang Cheng, who is doing business in Haojing Ao.

After a few successive sets, Zheng Zhilong recommended his uncle Huang Cheng, who was kind to him and was an official fan, to take up the position of Quanzhou City Bosi.

At the end of the second year of Chongzhen, the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang urged Zheng Zhilong to lead an army to fight Dongfan Island and massacre the Han and indigenous Dutch.

At this time, Wen Tiren once again proposed that Zheng Zhilong's father, Zheng Shibiao, who had been promoted to be the master of the nine products in Nan'an, Fujian, be promoted to the position of the director of Yuegang City.

Zheng Shibiao was originally a small household official in the Yali of Nan'an County, but since the first year of Chongzhen, this generation of small officials has suddenly come to work.

On the one hand, because the imperial court had relaxed the restrictions on the transfer of officials to officials, on the other hand, because the son who was expelled from the house had been running overseas for several years, and after returning, he became a coastal defense general of the Ming Dynasty.

In short, after Wen Tiren became the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he took care of him again and again.

First, he was transferred to an official, and then he was promoted to a foreign post without having to stay away from his hometown, so he became the chief secretary of the county in Nan'an County, and after a short time, he was recommended to be promoted several levels in a row and promoted as the city secretary.

If it weren't for Zheng Zhilong's misgivings and disapproval of him leaving Nan'an, then his father Zheng Shibiao would have been promoted and made a fortune the last time Wen Tiren nominated him to be the secretary of Quanzhou City.

And this time, Zheng Zhilong led the army to go on the expedition, and before leaving, Wen Tiren publicly solicited Zheng Zhilong's opinion, and once again recommended his father Zheng Shibiao to leave Nan'an to go to Yuegang to be promoted, and take over the position of the city director who was previously held by Zheng Zhilong himself.

Although it seems that the promotion of this position by the city secretary is not big, but all the brothers under Zheng Zhilong, whether they are brothers or brothers, everyone wants to take up the position.

And the reason why Zheng Zhilong was promoted to deputy chief soldier and still held the position given by the imperial court when he was appeased was because although this position did not seem big, it was a very important position for the Zheng family, and he was not at ease to hand it over to others.

This time, Wen Tiren once again publicly recommended his father Zheng Shibiao, and his father Zheng Shibiao himself was determined to win this position.

When he missed the promotion of Quanzhou City before, Zheng Shibiao was already quite dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong's elbow turning outward.

This time, Zheng Zhilong couldn't find a reason to refuse, and at this time, he had been obedient to the imperial court for a long time, and his vigilance was not so high, so he agreed after thinking about it.

In this regard, Zheng Zhilong's father Zheng Shibiao was very happy, but Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, was even happier.

For Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, even if the city shipping division of Yuegang and the city shipping division of Quanzhou are all in the hands of loyal court officials, how many merchant ships can come and go between these two ports on the Fujian Sea and how many customs duties can be collected in the final analysis, it all depends on Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates.

Whether it is Yuegang or Quanzhou Port, if the permission and related documents issued by the Municipal Shipping Department are not recognized by Zheng or any of his subordinate departments will not be recognized, they will immediately become a piece of waste paper.

But with Zheng Zhilong's uncle Huang Cheng and father Zheng Shijing coming to be promoted by these two city ships, then the permission and related documents issued by these two city ships are above the Fujian Sea, but who can not admit that they are Zheng's sailors? !

Of course, through this way, maintaining the authority of the city under the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang and encouraging maritime merchants to trade is still the secondary purpose.

Wen Tiren's main purpose is really not to increase the trade tariffs of the city, but to find a way to restrain or tie Zheng Zhilong.

For dividing, dividing or co-opting the Zheng Zhilong brothers and their subordinate generals, Wen Tiren really has no way to start.

Not to mention that those right-hand men under Zheng Zhilong's hands are all lifelong friendships with Zheng Zhilong, and you can't win them over at all, just saying that you go in person as a governor, or send someone to make friends with Zheng Zhilong's brothers, this matter itself will immediately expose your ulterior motives.

And the Zheng brothers have been most vigilant since they returned to the imperial court, which is this.

If you start here, it's the stupidest thing to do.

Wen Tiren knew this, so he didn't have any contact with other Zheng generals other than the Zheng brothers.

But if he wants to tie or restrain Zheng Zhilong, apart from his insiders and the people around him, he has no better way.

Therefore, he locked his eyes on Zheng Zhilong's father and his clan, as well as his uncle Huang Cheng, who was kind to Zheng Zhilong's brothers.

In this way, it took two or three years before and after, and Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, finally quietly weaved his uncle Huang Cheng, his father Zheng Shijing, and several brothers of Zheng Shijing himself into his hands step by step.