"Tian Chuan has seen His Royal Highness King Qi!"

Because he has lived in the Wa Kingdom since he was a child, Tian Chuan's demeanor has been completely Japanese, and if he can't speak fluent Chinese, it is difficult for people to imagine that he is the son of Zheng Zhilong, a giant on the sea of the Ming Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Old decay Zhu Zhiyu meets His Royal Highness King Qi!"

"Hurry up, two of you!"

Zhou Shixiang hurriedly stopped Tian Chuan and Zhu Zhiyu, who wanted to salute, especially the latter, who was not only nearly sixty years old, but also a legendary figure, how could Zhou Shixiang dare to accept him.

Zhu Zhiyu was born as a tribute, but he never served as an official in the Ming Dynasty. When Chongzhen was eleven years old, he was recommended to the Ministry of Rites by the local government as "the first all-round talent in civil and military affairs", but Zhu Zhiyu saw that the world was getting worse, the country was not the same, the officials were getting money, the government was bribed, and the displaced people were everywhere, and he was unwilling to go out, and only focused on learning in his hometown.

In the year of Jiashen, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was from the coal mountain, and Zhu Zhiyu was forty-five years old. Soon, the Fu King Zhu Yousong was located in Nanjing, changed to Yuan Hongguang. At that time, Fang Guoan, the general soldier of Jiangnan, recommended Zhu Zhiyu and recruited him on the emperor's edict, but Zhu Zhiyu still refused to take office. In the first month of the first year of Hongguang, the imperial court ordered Zhu Zhiyu to be recruited, but he still did not take office. After the death of Emperor Hongguang and Emperor Longwu, Zhu Zhiyu saw that the country was in danger, so he went to Japan to raise salaries, wanting to use Japanese reinforcements to fund Wang Xu, the defender of Zhoushan and the left servant of the military department, in order to restore the Central Plains.

Due to Japan's imposed a sea ban and did not allow outsiders to stay, Zhu Zhiyu returned in vain. In the fourth year of Yongli, Zhu Zhiyu once again floated in the East China Sea to Japan, but was unexpectedly discovered by the Qing soldiers. The Qing soldiers were moved by his righteous martyrs and secretly sent him back to Zhoushan.

The following year, Zhu Zhiyu went to Japan again, and then from Japan to Annan. When he was about to set off for Zhoushan, both Zhoushan and Siming Cottage were captured by Qing soldiers. King Lu fled to Xiamen, and in the eighth year of Yongli, he sent an edict to recruit the fifty-five-year-old Zhu Zhiyu. However, because Zhu Zhiyu was wandering and his residence was uncertain, the seal book only came to him after two years. Zhu Zhiyu received the edict and wanted to immediately transfer to Siming to return to Zhoushan, but he had no means of transportation and was trapped in Annan. I had to reply to King Lu in a letter first, stating his painstaking efforts to operate overseas and raise funds for wages over the years.

Zhu Zhiyu, who was anxious to return to China as soon as possible to serve his loyalty, finally waited for the Japanese ship in the eleventh year of Yongli and prepared to return to China by boat. Unexpectedly, in February, he was forced into service by Annan and was detained for more than 50 days.

Zheng Zheng, the minister of Annan, knew that Zhu Zhiyu was a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty, so he kept him, worshiped him as an official, and forced him to kneel as a courtier, but Zhu Zhiyu stood upright and refused to kneel. The official raised a stick to draw the word "worship" on the sand, and Zhu Zhiyu borrowed his stick to add the word "no" on the word "worship". Zheng Zheng was furious, and in front of Zhu Zhiyu, he killed many people to intimidate him, but Zhu Zhiyu never gave in, and truly achieved the power and inbentness.

Seeing this, Zheng Zheng had to let Zhu Zhiyu go. Not long after, Annam was attacked by the expeditionary force of the Taiping army, and the Annam army was repeatedly defeated, and finally signed the "Haiyang Treaty" with the Taiping army.

The treaty stipulated that Annan must release the imprisoned Ming officials and people, and Zhao Ziqiang, the governor of the expeditionary force at that time, only wanted to rescue the princess and his party, and did not know that Zhu Zhiyu was in Annan. Annan thought that the Ming army wanted them to release all the imprisoned Ming gentry, so Zhu Zhiyu was also released.

Zhu Zhiyu, who was released, did not pay attention to him because he had no official status and the Taiping army did not know about his existence. Zhu Zhiyu also didn't know the details of the Taiping Army, and only wanted to go to Jinxia to help King Lu, so he didn't choose to go to Guangdong, but took a merchant ship to Jinxia.

After Zhu Zhiyu returned to Siming, when Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan met in the Northern Expedition, he happily joined the army. The Northern Expeditionary Army recovered Guazhou, conquered Zhenjiang and other battles, and Zhu Zhiyu personally experienced the battle. The Northern Expeditionary Army once marched smoothly, recovering 24 counties in four prefectures and two prefectures, and reached the outskirts of Nanjing, and the military might shook the southeast.

However, due to Zheng Chenggong's short-sightedness, he blindly stationed troops under the fortified city of Nanjing, delayed the fighters, and the discipline was not strict. As a result, the Northern Expeditionary Army was defeated outside Nanjing, and Zheng Chenggong retreated to the coast of Fujian, and then marched to the sea. Zhang Huangyan's Zhejiang army also collapsed under the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, and was later rescued by the Taiping army who arrived from Jiangxi.

When the Zheng army withdrew, Zhu Zhiyu and Zheng Chenggong lost contact, and after hiding in the south of the Yangtze River for a few days, they heard the news that the Northern Expeditionary Army was annihilated by the Qing army, and even rumored that Zhang Huangyan also called the Qing army to capture it. Zhu Zhiyu was desperate, thinking that there was no hope of regaining his sight, but he swore to die and refused to shave his hair, so with the help of his friends, he spent the day in misery and vowed never to return to his homeland.

After Zhu Zhiyu crossed to Japan, due to Japan's implementation of the policy of locking off the country, he did not leave a single Tang man for thirty or forty years, and was not allowed to land and was trapped in the boat. When the Japanese scholar Anton Shouyu heard of Zhu Zhiyu's arrival, he asked Zhu Zhiyu in handwriting and performed the disciple salute. After Zheng Zhilong's second son Tagawa learned about this, he helped Zhu Zhiyu lobby the Japanese shogunate, and finally made the shogunate break the national ban for more than 40 years and was able to settle in a rented house in Nagasaki, resulting in a sea drift life for more than ten years.

Although he settled in Japan and no longer drifted at sea, Zhu Zhiyu has always been unable to let go of his homeland, but when he thinks that his homeland is now in the hands of full of tart, he is inexplicably sad and indignant.

I originally wanted to live in a foreign country forever and hide my thoughts about my homeland forever, but I never thought that my homeland had undergone earth-shaking changes at this time.

When he heard the news, Zhu Zhiyu came to Changqi Sea excitedly, kowtowed to the other side of the sea, and at the same time was eager to return to his homeland. For this reason, Zhu Zhiyu expelled Manchuria, and persuaded Tian Chuan to return to China with him on the grounds of rescuing his father.

Tian Chuan has always been very worried about his father Zheng Zhilong being imprisoned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he has repeatedly helped his eldest brother Zheng Sen to crusade against the Qing army, but he has repeatedly failed. Now that the eldest brother has died of illness in the army, the Zheng family's foundation has been completely absorbed by the imperial army, and he has lost the meaning of benefiting the family if he stays in Japan any longer. The only way to do this is to save your father, if you want to save your father, you must use the army of the Ming court, otherwise, it will be difficult.

In the end, Tian Chuan accepted Zhu Zhiyu's persuasion and wrote a letter to his younger brother Zheng Xi, who had been named the Prince of Min by the Ming court, asking him to convey his desire to return to China to serve His Royal Highness King Qi, a powerful minister of the Ming State. Soon, there was a reply from the other side of the sea, and his younger brother Zheng Xi told his second half-brother that His Royal Highness the King of Daming Qi welcomed him to return to China to serve.

Tagawa immediately took the Zheng clan in Japan and the more than 1,000 ronin samurai recruited to embark on the road back to China with Zhu Zhiyu. After drifting at sea for half a month, he finally arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Before going ashore, Zhu Zhiyu deliberately put on the clothes of his homeland that he had not worn for many years, and he was very embarrassed after seeing the young and heroic His Royal Highness the King of Qi in front of him. Once upon a time, the surname of the country was also so heroic and stood in front of the world, but it is a pity that the hero has passed away.

Zhou Shixiang personally came forward to meet Tian Chuan and Zhu Zhiyu, not only to affirm their return from overseas, but also to understand the situation in Japan through them and prepare for the future conquest of the Japanese.

After setting up a banquet for Tian Chuan and Zhu Zhiyu to catch the wind, Zhou Shixiang did not break his promise, awarded Tian Chuan the rank of general soldier, and the department was organized into the First Marine Regiment of the East China Sea Division. Bai Zhu Zhiyu was appointed as a military counselor and was responsible for liaison with Japan and other overseas countries.

After learning that the army of King Qi would set off for the north in two days to attack Liaodong, Tian Chuan and Zhu Zhiyu were not very excited.

After the two of them retreated, Suna, the commander of the New Second Army, frowned and stepped forward and whispered: "Marshal, this Tian Chuan is Zheng Zhilong's son, and he returned to China to participate in the Northern Expedition, probably not for the sake of Daming, but to save his father." If Zheng Zhilong is rescued, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble on the Shui Shi's side. ”

"What Xin'anhou said is very true, Zheng Zhilong's generation of heroes, now the tiger has fallen in Pingyang, and he has to lie on his stomach, but if he is allowed to re-enter the sea, I am afraid that the sailor will change."

Dong Changqing, who served as the adjutant of staff of the Dadu Governor's Office, also thought of this problem, and now the naval division is divided into three divisions: the East China Sea Division, the Yangtze River Water Division, and the South China Sea Division, but in terms of strength, there is no doubt that the East China Sea Division is the strongest, and it has the most warships and generals, and the Yangtze River Water Division and the South China Sea Water Division together are less than one-third of the East China Sea Division.

In this northward operation, the East China Sea Division was the main force, and the Yangtze River Water Division was only responsible for material transportation and coordinated operations. The East China Sea Division is adapted from the original Zheng Jun Naval Division, and the commander Zheng Mingjun's uncle and nephew are Zheng Zhilong's juniors, and the Zheng clan basically accounts for eighty percent of the officers in the East China Sea Division, if Zheng Zhilong is rescued, then who does the East China Sea Division listen to, and their surname is not Zhou?

According to Zheng Zhilong's temperament, if he gets free one day, I am afraid he will not be willing to be left behind. Once the East China Sea Division changed hands, it would undoubtedly be a huge threat to the Taiping army. Although Zheng Zhilong cannot affect the overall situation with the sailor alone, it can make Zhou Shixiang's overseas strategy for the future come to naught. Without a strong navy, no matter how advanced Zhou Shixiang's consciousness and vision, no matter how resolute his perseverance and determination, he would not be able to put it into practice.

"Dashuai, Zheng Zhilong is definitely a trouble, did you send someone to kill him?" Suna's eyes are rather cold.

Dong Changqing nodded: "This matter can be handed over to the Military Intelligence Department, Ambassador Zhang has manpower in Beijing." ”

"Zheng Zhilong can't die in our hands, that will chill people's hearts. There are not many secrets in this world that will never be known. ”

Zhou Shixiang shook his head and rejected Suna and Dong Changqing's proposal, Zheng's navy was very important to him, but this did not mean that he had to deal with Zheng Zhilong himself.

"Zheng Zhilong's death at the hands of the Qing court is in our best interests." Zhou Shixiang said what he thought.

Dong Changqing disagreed: "If the Qing court wanted to kill Zheng Zhilong, it would have killed him a long time ago, and it would not have kept him until now." ”

"Yes, Dashuai, the Tartars won't kill Zheng Zhilong, so let the Military Intelligence Department do it." Suna echoed Dong Changqing's opinion that he did not think that the Qing court would kill Zheng Zhilong.

"Not necessarily." Zhou Shixiang chuckled, "Gu Yanwu has a nephew who won the title of the Qing court, and Zheng Zhilong's matter fell on him." ”

Dong Changqing was a little surprised and said: "The marshal is talking about Xu Yuanwen in Kunshan?" It is true that this person won the champion of the Qing court, but as far as his subordinates know, he is now just a minister, and he is soft-spoken, how can he decide Zheng Zhilong's life and death. ”

"Sometimes, all it takes is a casual word to decide whether a person lives or dies. This sentence does not necessarily need to be said by the big people, and the small people can also be used. ”

Zhou Shixiang smiled, Zheng Zhilong had to die, this point was not negotiable. Now it depends on whether Xu Yuanwen will think about his future and whether he will listen to his uncle Gu Yanwu.