Jeju Island, Myeongsu-dong.

The heavy snow has stopped, the clouds in the sky are no longer thick, and large marshmallow-like white clouds can be seen in the eastern sky; The rising sun seemed to be trying to pierce the clouds with its golden lightsaber, casting beams of dazzling sunlight over the white earth.

Li Guozhu's newly built three-entry mansion, with a two-story small building, in the east cross courtyard, has long been a beautiful snowy scene wrapped in silver; Ankle-deep snow was piled up in the patio, and seven or eight servants, wrapped in thick cotton robes, were looking around for shovels and brooms to clear the snow.

"Don't sweep!"

The door of the main room on the second floor opened, and a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes appeared in the cloister as an official voice with a thick Min accent sounded.

He wore a thick lake-blue satin robe inside, and he didn't know how much cotton was in it, and it was bulging; The satin robe was also gone, and a pure black mink coat was covered outside, and from the tufts of oily black hair on the neckline, it could be seen that this coat was extremely precious; The young man wore a six-in-one melon skin hat on the top, and the red coral beads on the top of the hat contrasted with the huge square sapphire on the brim, and the atmosphere of wealth and nobility arose; The most eye-catching thing is his hands that are busy tying the big belt, six or seven of the ten fingers are wearing various colored rings, especially the cat's eye ring on the index finger of the right hand is the most luxurious.

The young man looked no more than in his early twenties, and his thick lips were covered with a thin layer of fluff, which he would not have to call a beard, but rather reluctantly; The slightly collapsed nose bridge, fat ears and bright black eyes are the most admired blessings in photo books; It's just that in those black eyes, a trace of coldness will be accidentally revealed from time to time, which makes him spontaneously have an aura of not being angry and arrogant.

"It's so easy to encounter such a hearty heavy snowfall, wouldn't it be a loss to sweep it?" The young man fastened his belt, glared at the servants downstairs, and said angrily.

"Yes! Be! A man with the head of a servant in the patio hurriedly nodded in response, and then asked cautiously, "Junmen, Zhuang Zeshi has returned, come early in the morning to ask for a meeting, ...... you see?"

"Oh? When did you come back? The young man's eyes lit up and he asked repeatedly.

"Back to the military gate, their fleet arrived in the second half of the night last night," the servant bent his head and waist deeper, "because you have already slept, I dare not tell you, and I hope that the military gate will forgive me." ”

After hearing this, the young man stroked his chin and muttered, "So, the main master has returned?" ”

He was groaning deeply, the door of the next room opened, and Zheng Cai, who was on the last mission, walked out, bowed deeply to him and said, "Seventh Uncle is early, your old man got up so early?" ”

This young man is the famous Zheng Zhilong!

He is only twenty-five years old this year, but he rose rapidly after Yan Siqi's death, and in just three years, he became the leader of tens of thousands of pirates in southern Fujian and Dayuan; In the first year of Chongzhen last year, he accepted the appeasement of the imperial court, and the official worshiped the Fujian coastal defense guerrilla, and became a high-grade military attaché.

The reason why Zheng Zhilong was able to rise so quickly was due to his keen political sense and superb means of enveloping. Thinking that as soon as Yan Siqi died, he used Yan Ruxue's marriage to pull or beat to force Li Guozhu and Yang Tiansheng, who were far superior to his seniority and strength, to force away, while the rest of the old brothers were pulled into his core - Eighteen Zhi, and their strength jumped to become the first of the majors.

As soon as the Eighteen Zhifu was established, Zheng Zhilong led a group of thieves to frequently attack the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang, one to recruit the displaced people to develop the masters, and the other to attract the attention of the imperial court; I have to say that Zheng Zhilong covered it up very well, until he was successfully recruited, Liu Xiang, Li Qikui, Zhong Bin and others did not see through his true intentions, so that they were at a loss and went away.

After becoming a guerrilla in coastal defense in Fujian, Zheng Zhilong's biggest enemy became the Dutch East India Company, which was not only a rival to him in Sino-Japanese trade, but also because Liu Xiang defected to Batavia, so that the big man was in danger of being directly attacked by the Dutch.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong's political sense and ability to win people's hearts were vividly reflected in the matter of sending Zheng Cai to contact the Six Great Families - he not only keenly judged that the Six Great Families and the Fuliao Army behind them had enough strength to fight the Dutch, but also did not hesitate to put down his body and give in to his former rivals!

So when the joint letter from the six families asking for iron materials was delivered to the adults, Zheng Zhilong didn't even care about the New Year, so he rushed to Jeju Island with the iron materials, and finally arrived on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

After arriving here, Chu Fan had not come back yet, Zheng Zhilong took advantage of the past two days, accompanied by Li Guozhu and them, to visit the No. 1 base from Mingshui Cave to the Yuan Forbidden City and then to the opposite side of Chengshan Island, and even went to Jingyi County.

"Zhang Hua, you are also up?" Zheng Zhilong casually called out Zheng Cai's words, waved his hand and said, "It just so happens that Zhuang Zeshi came back last night, and you can meet him with me." ”

Zheng Cai agreed and went downstairs behind Zheng Zhilong, and after he sat down in the flower hall, Zhuang Zeshi, who was behind the task force and watched the whole battle from beginning to end, came in.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the conversation between the three of them went straight to the point.

"What? Two of the three Great Galens were captured? The Shimazu family, who has always been arrogant, is so soft? ”

Zhuang Zeshi had just finished talking about the results of the task force, and he caused Zheng Zhilong to exclaim in a low voice.

He couldn't help but be surprised, he was on the same island as the Dutch, and he really knew too well how strong the Dutch were!

Speaking of which, the Zheng family currently has tens of thousands of people, but in the face of the hundreds of Dutch troops in the Fort of Geranza, they didn't even dare to provoke - not to mention the high walls and deep ditches of Fort Geranza, just talking about the field battles, the battle-hardened sailors of the Zheng family were beaten more than once under the guns of the Dutch!

If you can't beat it on land, you can't beat it at sea!

The Dutch, not to mention the big Galen ship, is a small armed merchant ship with at least 12-pounder guns, usually more than a dozen or twenty, with the pitiful 6-pounder guns of the Zheng family's fleet, if they have not touched the other party, they are afraid that they will be blown up and sunk a lot first; In addition, the Dutchmen's boats are all soft sails, fast and agile steering, and often the Zheng family's boat is still detouring, and the other party has already run away.

Therefore, although Zheng Zhilong has repeatedly raised the reward of the Dutch, the effect is really not good - in the more than three years since Zheng Zhilong took over Yan Siqi, he has found nothing but capturing a Dutch armed merchant ship, but dozens of ships on his side have been sunk by Dutch artillery!

It was precisely because of such a painful experience that Zheng Zhilong was surprised by the results of the task force this time - how did they do it?

When Zhuang Zeshi revealed all the situations he had observed about the Fuliao Army's naval division, a trace of strangeness flashed in Zheng Zhilong's eyes.

That's naked *naked* envy and jealousy! (To be continued.) )