The alarm of the enemy attack was lifted before Chu Fan stepped out of the gate of Yingzhou, but he still hurried to the Sunrise Pier in the southeast with a large group of entourage, because Zheng Zhilong came. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's no wonder that the lookout made a false alarm, Zheng Zhilong came too loudly this time - there are more than 200 large and small ships, and whoever stands in the hot air balloon has to sound the enemy attack alarm.

Half an hour later, when Chu Fan ascended the Chengshan Fort, he was also shocked by the dense mast forest in his field of vision, which slowly undulated with the waves-although most of the Zheng family's fleet were small boats of one or two hundred materials, they couldn't hold up many boats, and the flying tiger flags that were hunting and flying were hung on the hundreds of masts of varying heights, and for a while there was a feeling of covering the sky and the sun.

What made Chu Fan's eyes shine even more was the giant ship in the lead, which was exactly the same as the big Galen captured by the Fuliao Army in terms of hull shape and sail arrangement, but the hull was a little smaller. Chu Fan knew that this was a new achievement of the Zheng family after settling in Jinjiang, Fujian Province - they continued to recruit Francophiles and Spanish shipwrights, and finally imitated the Galen boat!

Of course, the wing sail of the Fuliao Army Sailor was also unceremoniously copied by the Zheng family - this imitation Galen also had a pair of huge wings on it, Chu Fan visually measured the area of its wing sail from a distance, and it was even larger than his own, needless to say, the speed naturally increased a lot.

In the sound of conch "woo tuk", the naval divisions of the Fuliao army arrived one after another, one south and one north gathered on the two wings of the Zheng family's fleet - although Tamna and the Zheng family had already resolved their hostility, due vigilance and vigilance were essential, especially when most of the sailors had already sailed for North Korea and the other side had such a large fleet.

In a short time a small shuttle from each of the two fleets came out of the crowd and met in front of the formation; Without waiting for the little net shuttle to return to the formation, Chu Fan had already dusted off his robe and turned around and walked back-since there were negotiations, there was no need to worry about the two sides going wrong, and he had to be received.

Sure enough, except for the imitation Galen ship that lowered its half-sail and slowly sailed towards Sunrise Wharf, the other ships were all guided and accompanied by the sailor to the southwest—it was impossible for so many ships to be berthed at Sunrise Wharf, so they could only go to the harbor to the south to take shelter from the wind.

On the way to Sunrise Wharf, Chu Fan silently figured out Zheng Zhilong's intention.

It has been almost a year since Zheng Cai first came to explore the way, and during this period, Zheng Zhilong also came to attend Chu Fan's wedding in person, and the hostility has long dissipated, but the two sides have not formed any substantive cooperation.

Although the matter of cooperation has not been decided, there are still many things that the two sides have reached a tacit understanding, such as on the surface of the East China Sea, the Zhengjia Flying Tiger Banner and the Tamluo Golden Phoenix Banner not only coexist peacefully, but also can sail freely in their respective spheres of influence; Another example is that the trade between the two sides is getting smoother and smoother, and a steady stream of iron materials is transported to Tamna by the Zheng family, and then filled with cigarettes, snow candy, furniture, glass products and other specialties and returned to Fujian......

However, these are just appearances, whether it is Chu Fan or Zheng Zhilong, they are very clear that without a deep-seated consensus from top to bottom, the illusion of peace will be torn apart sooner or later in the conflict of interests!

But how easy is it to work together? Whether it is Tamna or the Zheng family, they are behemoths with many people, and whether or not to cooperate and how to cooperate is by no means something that can be decided by one or two people patting their heads. Especially at the beginning of the year, Chu Fan was also attacked by the Korean royal court, and it is still unknown whether he can survive, as shrewd as Zheng Zhilong, how can he bet rashly?

After the First World War decided to settle the hegemony of the Zheng family, the initiative of the Chu and Zheng families had changed hands - the most difficult moment had passed, of course, Chu Fan would not rush to talk about cooperation with the Zheng family, he had to take a good look at Zheng Zhilong.

As the representative of the Zheng family based in Tamna, Zheng Cai has tested Chu Fan's attitude towards the cooperation between the two families on many occasions more than once, but Chu Fan has passed perfunctory without humming - Zheng Zhilong does not show up, where is it so easy to relax?

Chu Fan was so anxious that Chen Shangren and Song Xiance were the ones below. In their opinion, the Zheng family is already powerful and wealthy, and now that they have been appeased by the imperial court, it is even more icing on the cake and cooking oil on fire.

If you cooperate with the Zheng family, not only will the financial resources of the south roll in, but also avoid the worry of a fire in the backyard - at least you don't have to separate the precious warships to cruise the southern waters of Tamluo, this kind of good thing that kills two birds with one stone can't understand why Chu Fan doesn't care!

They don't understand, but Chu Fan is a human being in two lives, and he is like a mirror in his heart: the Zheng family looks glamorous on the surface, but in fact, it may be a lot of suffering-Liu Xiang, a big scourge, is still busy colluding with the Dutch in Nanyang to avenge his pirate brothers who died unexpectedly; The governor of Batavia was also sharpening his sword, thinking day and night how to monopolize Dayuan Island and completely monopolize the trade route between Quanzhou and Manila; Under the confluence of the two forces, the Zheng family is always facing the monstrous catastrophe of defeat and annihilation, can you not be afraid?

In the original time and space, the Zheng family did not establish the hegemony of the East China Sea until after the Battle of Liuluo Bay.

The Battle of Liuluo Bay was the last time in the history of the Chinese to defeat the Western colonizers on the sea, and for hundreds of years, China's vast coastline was almost undefended, allowing the gunboats of the Western colonists to flaunt their might and run rampant; At the end of the Qing Dynasty, taking advantage of the wind of the foreign affairs movement, although the seemingly powerful Beiyang Fleet was pieced together, the first battle after the formation of the army was the battle of destruction - the suicidal impact of the Zhiyuan ship outside the mouth of the Great Eastern Goukou, and the martyrdom of Ding Ruchang on Liugong Island, although full of sorrow and heroism, but also became an eternal pain in the hearts of all Chinese!

Now that Chu Fan is here, coming to the last glorious moment of this Chinese on the sea, how can he not participate in it? How can we allow events to unfold and allow China's maritime borders to repeat the mistakes that we can't look back on? How could it be possible to give up the heaven-sent opportunity to settle the South Seas in World War I?

And to achieve this wish, it is necessary to get Zheng Zhilong! Completely transform this King of the East China Sea into the King of the South Seas!

But it's too difficult!

In the original time and space, this king of the East China Sea was really not a person with great ambitions - after the victory in the Battle of Liuluo Bay, he neither took advantage of the victory to pursue Batavia, nor did he unite with the Western Tooth people in Manila to gradually encroach on the territory of the Dutch in the South Seas, but chose to compromise with the Dutch and give up the hard-working Dayuan Island, only satisfied with buying the road money in a good way!

Speaking of the roots, Zheng Zhilong is just a pirate, a pirate who is a little rich and safe, a pirate who gives milk is a mother, and a pirate who has no strategic vision at all!

From this point of view, he sent his son, the national hero Zheng Chenggong, too far away, so that in the near future, he sold himself to the Tartars and became a big traitor who was spurned by everyone, and he was also a big traitor who was beheaded all over the house!

But today's Zheng Zhilong is still in the stage of being young and ambitious, Chu Fan believes that Zheng Zhilong, who is under heavy pressure, is still surging with the passion of hard work in his heart, and this passion is the basis for Chu Fan to change him and change history!

Staring at the imitation Galen ship that had carefully docked, a smile appeared imperceptibly on the corner of Chu Fan's mouth.

Come on Zheng Zhilong! Let's change history together!