In the early morning, the sea breeze blows away the mist, and the sun shines all over the city of Xiamen.

The sound of killing in the city has been exhausted, and the people in Xiamen City have carefully walked out of their homes one by one, asking each other about the situation of last night.

At this time, in the city, a group of Zheng Jiajun wearing rattan armor were patrolling the streets. Seeing the people, they did not come forward to harass them, but still patrolled with expressionless faces.

Some elderly people noticed that the banner of "Jianguo Gong" that had been hung at the head of the city had been replaced by a banner of "Rebel General Zheng".

After experiencing the changes of many city kings, they suddenly knew that Xiamen had changed hands!

Hearing that it was Zheng Chenggong's army that occupied Xiamen, the people of Xiamen, who had been exploited by Zhengcai Zheng Lian, were immediately overjoyed.

Zheng Chenggong's reputation for benevolence, righteousness and love for the people has long spread all over the country, and the people of Xiamen believe that under his rule, they will be able to live a better life than Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian.

It's just that some people are vaguely worried, Zheng Chenggong is good to the people, but now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has occupied most of China, Zheng Chenggong has been holding high the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and fighting against the Qing army. When the Qing army came over, how long could he stay in Xiamen? If Zheng Chenggong can't resist it, I am afraid that Xiamen may repeat the tragedy of Jiading and Yangzhou at that time.

At that time, it will be the people themselves in Xiamen who will suffer.

Although these people were worried, they did not dare to speak out, for fear of getting into trouble.

After Zheng Chenggong pacified the Xiamen sailors, he hurriedly sent people to post notices around Xiamen City.

In order to dispel the worries of the people, Zheng Chenggong also asked several soldiers to shout the content of the notice.

The content is simple and easy to understand: it is to tell the people that from today onwards, Xiamen will be managed by Zheng Chenggong, and he will make the people no offense, so that the people do not have to worry and continue their daily life and work. Of course, in the future, taxes and forced labor will also be collected by him. In order to allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment, Zheng Chenggong decided to reduce the tax for three years.

Hearing that Zheng Chenggong had reduced Xiamen's taxes for three years, the people in the city immediately felt Zheng Chenggong's benevolence and love for the people, and immediately laughed. Seeing that his soldiers had not committed any offence against the people, he immediately calmed down and accepted the fact that Xiamen had changed hands.

In order to make a living, the people of Xiamen have started another day's work, and all kinds of shops on the streets have opened one after another, and everything is just like the past.

In addition to some stubbornly resisting Zheng Lian's cronies and some forcibly recruited soldiers who took advantage of the chaos to escape, Zheng Chenggong surrendered a total of 12,000 infantry, 31,000 sailors, 421 large and small ships, and 669 large and small artillery.

The vast majority of the army is a rabble, of which more than 6,000 young and strong can still enhance their combat effectiveness through training, and more than 4,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people are simply overwhelmed and can only be platooned to the left-behind division to do some miscellaneous work.

The remaining more than 1,000 soldiers are all rats who usually work as traitors and common people.

After the public trial, Zheng Chenggong ordered some of the most heinous crimes to be beheaded for public display, and the others were taken to work as coolies, mining and logging.

The onlookers saw that those who usually did a lot of evil had been severely punished, and their good impression of Zheng Chenggong suddenly rose.

After taking Xiamen, what satisfied Zheng Chenggong the most was that he could accept the Xiamen sailors relatively completely.

After annexing the Xiamen Naval Division, the strength of his own Naval Division exploded.

Before, there were not enough ships, only more than a hundred large and small ships. There are few ships, and there are few sailors, only more than 5,000 in two towns, and their power is far greater than that of Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian.

Now there are more than 400 large and small ships and more than 30,000 sailors, and Zheng Chenggong has immediately become the overlord of the East China Sea.

It's just that there are so many soldiers and horses at once, and these soldiers and horses are not recruited by themselves, and the integration between new and old soldiers is a big problem.

The number of soldiers and horses of Zheng Chenggong's naval division is too small compared to Zheng Lian, which creates a situation where the cadres are weak and the branches are strong, which is not only not conducive to Zheng Chenggong's control, but also makes some of Zheng Lian's old generals look down on Zheng Chenggong and refuse to listen to his orders.

With this in mind early on, Zheng Chenggong killed most of Zheng Lian's senior generals at the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner.

You can kill high-ranking generals, but Zheng Chenggong can't kill all the middle- and lower-level generals.

Many of these middle- and lower-level generals have been accustomed to acting as powerful before, and Zheng Lian's military discipline is not strict, and military training is not heavy, so he will inevitably be very unaccustomed and disgusted to suddenly abide by Zheng Chenggong's strict military law.

At the same time, in order to control the army and reward his subordinates, Zheng Chenggong naturally wanted to promote some generals who had been serving him before to take charge of more soldiers and horses. In this way, the rights and interests of Zheng Lian's generals were harmed.

Once Zheng Chenggong does not deal with these things, it is inevitable that these generals whose rights and interests have been damaged will not secretly unite and oppose or even fornicate with the Manchu Tartars.

When the time comes, civil strife will occur, and at least your strength will be damaged, and at worst, your own life may be endangered.

Although the team of Xiamen Sailors was founded by his father Zheng Zhilong, he did not train it himself, and the soldiers below did not have much prestige and fear of Zheng Chenggong.

In order to integrate these soldiers, Zheng Chenggong could only go out in person.

The way to govern the army lies first in military power.

To put it bluntly, this military power is the command power over the soldiers, and this command power does not mean that you can get this position, it means that you can command these people.

If the soldiers do not obey you, even if you are the emperor, they will still not obey your commands, otherwise there would not be so many rebels in history.

One source of command power for these soldiers is prestige, and the generals who rule them over a long period of time will leave an indelible mark on their hearts, making them habitually or blindly obey their orders.

Just like modern soldiers, many squad leaders who lead and train them are still their squad leaders in the hearts of these soldiers, no matter how many years they have.

When I see them again many years later, I will still have the habitual urge to shout 'squad leader'.

That's prestige!

Of course, the biggest source is the distribution of military salaries, and if you have milk, you are the mother, who distributes it, and listens to whom.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zheng Chenggong finally decided to take a few steps.

The first is to adopt the methods of its own training and personally lead the training of these integrated troops.

The national surname has set an example to complete the training project, and many soldiers are naturally not good at cutting corners, so they have to complete the task seriously.

In addition, they personally distributed military salaries and told these soldiers with practical actions that whoever gave them food, you should listen to whomever they wanted.

At the beginning, the military salary was paid by Zheng Chenggong himself, but with the increase of soldiers and horses, coupled with the fact that there are many things to deal with in government affairs, Zheng Chenggong has not personally paid the military salary for a long time.

This time, in order to integrate the army, Zheng Chenggong had to start the work of distributing military salaries again.

It's just that 50,000 or 60,000 horses are no longer as easy as the 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses in the past, and even if there were 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses before, it took several days for the distribution of food and salaries alone. Now there are four or five times more, and the energy and physical strength consumed are also doubled.

It took a week to personally distribute the salary to all the soldiers in Xiamen, and it also made them recognize the generals who would serve in the future.

After doing this, Zheng Chenggong also hosted a banquet for Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian's old soldiers.

At the banquet, after three glasses.

Zheng Chenggong described to these generals that in the future, if he follows him, there will be high-ranking officials, and the development prospects are bright.

It is not a problem to glorify the ancestors and leave a name in history.

Anyway, as long as you follow Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will definitely not treat everyone badly in the future.

When the generals who were secretly wooed by Zheng Chenggong heard it, their blood boiled, and they immediately said that they would obey the orders of the country in the future, in order to fight for a future.

Zheng Chenggong's speech, coupled with the instigation of some people, the atmosphere of the banquet was high for a while.

China's banquet culture is broad and profound, and it has to be served.

After drinking, everyone's relationship is much more harmonious, although some people are still dissatisfied with Zheng Chenggong secretly, but at least everyone is close on the surface.

As long as there is harmony on the surface, many things will be easy to do.

After all, those generals did not dare to disobey the military orders, and the soldiers below generally did not dare to disobey.

Zheng Chenggong divided the 6,000 army youths into two towns - Guo Yi's left and right pioneer towns, and one was handed over to Zheng Zhiguan, who was in charge, which was regarded as a reward. The other let Shi Lang take the lead.

As for the more than 30,000 Xiamen sailors, Zheng Chenggong broke it up with Lin Xishan's 5,000-storey boat town sailors, and reorganized two armies, one army was in charge of Lin Xishan, and the other army was managed by Huang Wu to help Zheng Chenggong manage the sailors.