"Mother. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Zheng Jing stepped forward and gently supported his mother, and now, his mother is his biggest support.

Dong Xian motioned for her son to sit down, then sighed softly, and said to her son: "When I married your father, I was only eighteen years old, and he was only sixteen years old. That day, I took a big lamp with a lot of oil in it, and he told me that as long as this lamp is always on, we will always be together, and your father also said that he will always be my supporter, which is God's arrangement. ”

Mother suddenly talked about the past, which made Zheng Jing a little dazed.

Dong Xian didn't explain to her son, but said to herself: "Since the day I married your father, I knew that my future would definitely be bumpy, because I married a husband who stood up to the sky.... Your father is a national grandfather, and he vowed to restore the Great Tomorrow Dao, and as his wife, I have no way out. So I usually feel happy when I see your father coming back from a campaign, but I'm afraid that the next time I see him will be a cold corpse.... I'm scared, I'm afraid, Jing'er, do you understand? ”

"Mother," Zheng Jing's nose was a little sour, and he whispered, but he didn't know what to say.

"Every time your father comes back, I turn on all the lights in the house, and I'm afraid that time will pass too quickly, and I want to watch the wick burn little by little, so that I will know how long time is left. Jing'er, you see, the wicks of these two lamps are still good, so they burned a little. Dong Xian got up suddenly, and a lamp in front of her suddenly went out, and the light in the room suddenly dimmed.

"Mother?"

Zheng Jing was stunned, and he didn't know why his mother wanted to extinguish the wick.

"The wick is still a long time, and the time is also very long, but your father will never be with me again, he wants me to die, he wants my mother and son to die, he wants my grandson to die!" Dong Xian's breathing became heavy, as if a wave of anger rising from the bottom of her heart was suppressed in her body. For so many years, she could bear anything, but she couldn't bear that her son and grandson would be killed by her husband, let alone that her husband would kill herself!

With a sound of "horn", the extinguished oil lamp was knocked to the ground by Dong Xian. The lamp oil flowed all over the ground.

Zheng Jing was scared, he had never seen his mother lose her temper like today.

"Jing'er, you don't have to be afraid, with your mother, no one can hurt you, nor can you hurt my grandson!" Dong Xian gritted her teeth, "Even your father can't do it!" ”

"Mother!"

Zheng Jing knelt on the ground, since he was a child, he rarely saw his father, more often, it was his mother who took him every day anxiously waiting for news from his father. He has a deep affection for his mother, and at the first time of the Zhaoniang incident, he also thought of his mother, and it was his mother's support for him that allowed him to suppress the officials of Jinxia and those officials who obeyed his father's orders.

"You get up, you are now the master of Jinxia, you can't easily kneel to anyone, although your father doesn't want us anymore, but what flows in your body is his blood after all, it is the blood of the Zheng family, you have to look like a man of the Zheng family."

Dong Xian pulled her son up and looked at him like Zheng Jing did when he was a child.

"Mother, Mr. Chen has sent a letter." Zheng Jing spread out the crumpled letter from Chen Yonghua and handed it to his mother.

"Chen Yonghua is your teacher after all, and in this world, teachers are always oriented towards their students." Dong Xian didn't read the letter, but asked her son: "Have you made up your mind now?" ”

"Son," Zheng Jing hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly: "Son has decided how to do it." ”

"Once you have decided how to do it, don't look ahead and backward, and do it boldly." Dong Xian looked at her son with encouraging eyes.

"My son is just worried, in case it is not good to be a teacher..."Zheng Jing said the biggest worry in his heart.

Dong Xian shook her head: "If that's the case, it's no wonder you." After a pause, he suddenly said: "Your Uncle Tai and I have a plan, if it doesn't work out, let's go to Dongfan." I heard that there are not many Dutch people there, your father was ready to wave the Dongfan army before deciding to fight Fuzhou, He Bin has a very detailed topographic and hydrological map of the Dongfan, you will find someone tomorrow to ask about it... If it really doesn't work, my mother and son will go to Dongfan. ”

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On the fort of the city of Geranza, Taiwan, the Dutch Governor of Taiwan, Kui Yi, and Captain Beder led the soldiers in a procession to salute. In the sound of the loud military trumpet, a Dutch flag was slowly raised, and a cannon raised its head to face the sea.

After saluting, he walked up to a heavy cannon, and he stroked the barrel of the cannon uncertainly. Suddenly, he noticed that his white gloves were stained with oil, and he shouted angrily, "Captain! Come over to me! ”

Beder hurried in. Angry and thunderous, he took off his white gloves and threw them on Beder, shouting, "How do you maintain these cannons? ”

Seeing the oil stain on the Governor's gloves, Beder felt a pang in his heart, but said in his mouth: "Your Excellency, don't worry, if you really fight, I guarantee that these cannons are fine." ”

"Really?"

He glared at Captain Bedell and wanted to attack, but his subordinates came to report the envoy to the north. Lieutenant Colonel Rutte of Kyo has returned. Kuichi was very happy and hurriedly ordered Rutte to be brought to the Doge's Palace.

In order to fulfill the domestic demand for the development of the East, after negotiations with the Zheng family in Jinxia failed, he sought cooperation with the Qing government, the enemy of the Zheng family. He believed that the enemy of the enemy was a friend, and the existence of the Zheng family was an enemy to the Netherlands and an enemy to the Qing government, so the Dutch state and the Qing government had a basis for cooperation. In order to sign a treaty with the Qing government as soon as possible, Yu Yi specially sent Rute to the north. Jing, and Rutte has been gone for more than a year. In fact, long before the Qing Dynasty, the Dutch had been in contact with the Qing army in Fujian, hoping to cooperate with each other to eliminate the Zheng family, but because the Qing government did not attach importance to Taiwan, and was unfamiliar with the Dutch state, and they did not have the strength of the naval division at all, this matter has not been followed.

Rutte didn't know if he had brought the good news he was expecting, so he was a little uneasy while he waited. Clearly, however, God is in favor of the One.

Before Rute came in, his slightly excited voice came into the ears of Yu Yi: "Your Excellency the Governor, good news, the Qing government has agreed to sign a friendship treaty with us and sell Taiwan to us!" ”

"Is it true?!"

The news brought by Rutte made Kuichi stand up excitedly, he was afraid that he had heard it wrong.

"It's true, they not only promised to sell Taiwan to us, but they are also willing to open the treaty port to us! And we only need to sell them twenty ironclad ships, and help them rescue the army in Fujian! Rutte was more excited than Kuichi because he had done it himself.

Lu Teh handed the official document in his hand to Yu Yi: "This is Bei. An official letter from Sony, the prime minister of the Jingqing government. ”

Rutte didn't know that Sonny was actually not the prime minister of the Qing government, but only one of the ministers of the interior, but the identity of the other party's emperor's plenipotentiary envoy, as well as the strength shown to other officials in the negotiations, made Rutte firmly believe that the other party was the prime minister of the Qing government, and was the first person to handle government affairs for the emperor.

took the official document in Rute's hand and looked at it with a quick breath. This letter was written in three languages, one is a Chinese character commonly used by Chinese, and the other is a strange script that Yuyi has never seen before, much like a tadpole, and the other is naturally a Dutch script.

Rutte told Kuichi that this negotiation, North. The clergy in Beijing had done so hard that he would not have even been able to speak a word to the Qing officials without their translations.

As Rutte said, the Qing government was not only willing to sign a treaty of friendship with the Netherlands, but also sold Taiwan to the Netherlands, and in addition to this, it could also open two ports for the Netherlands to trade, and these only needed the Netherlands to sell some warships to the Qing government and help them evacuate the Qing troops in Fujian. Of course, the official letter implicitly stated that if the Dutch could effectively help the Qing army in Fujian to repel the rebels, then Jinxia could be regarded as a friendly expression of the Qing government to the Dutch state, and the Dutch would be allowed to live and do business in Jinxia at that time.

"It seems that the rebels of the Ming Dynasty have caused a lot of trouble for the Qing government, otherwise they would not have changed their attitude."

He was not very clear about the war taking place in the Chinese mainland, and he lacked information about it, but it can be seen from this official letter that the Ming resistance army that was taken by the Qing army to southern China must have dealt a major blow to the Qing government. Selling warships, Kuiyi believes that the country must be very happy, and helping the Qing army to fight the rebels, as long as the interests are sufficient, it may not be impossible. It is only the benefits given by the Qing government, and I think that the country will absolutely agree. And this is what he has made one by one, and he is very excited and proud.

"If we can reach an agreement with the Qing government, we will be the pioneers of the East, the first pioneers in the Western world to obtain the land of the East by a peace treaty!" The voice of the one was very loud, and he deliberately let everyone outside hear it.

Rutte hurriedly complimented: "Your Excellency the Governor's achievements will definitely be written in the epic of the Kingdom of the Netherlands!" ”

He waved his hand: "No, my name will be recorded in the history of world civilization, because this is unprecedented, and it is an unprecedented achievement of the West in the East!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, you should be proud of it!"

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, formal negotiations on the treaty must begin immediately, and you will have to go to the North again. Beijing, we must be ready for this historic negotiation. Oh, by the way, such a big matter, you should find a general matter, and the wording of the negotiation must not be wrong. I've heard that the Orientals are very good at word games, and we can't let them be fooled. ”

Lüte laughed: "Your Excellency the Governor, the Qing Dynasty is a Tatar from the north, not a Chinese. ”

"They are now Chinese, lieutenant colonel, and do not forget that these Tatars have already occupied China." Correcting Rutte's mistake.

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Author's note: The Qing Dynasty and the Dutch cooperated to attack the Zheng army is taken from historical facts, but the timeline in this book is slightly off. At that time, the Qing Dynasty's condition was to cede Taiwan permanently.