Fujian region, because of the geographical advantages, since ancient times is the place with the most sea outlets in China, whether it is the Southern Song Dynasty with the most brilliant maritime trade, or the Manchu Qing court that closed off the country, Fujian is an important place for sea access. It is a pity that hundreds of years ago, the Southern Song Dynasty had done a prosperous maritime trade, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was completely depressed, and in the past 100 years, there was no big ship out of the country, which had to make later generations feel infinitely regretful.

The Ming Dynasty closed the country, not allowed to go into the water absolutely, for the people of Fujian is indeed disastrous nature, you know, Fujian is originally lower and scarce, and even has seven mountains, two rivers and a field of saying, you know, in ancient times, the common people all rely on farming to support themselves, as the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft, Fujian arable land is originally scarce, which is not even allowed to go to sea to fish, which is even worse.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the court does not allow the people to go to the sea, but many poor people still secretly go to the sea, which also gives rise to another group, pirates.

Some people say that it is impossible for a country like China to produce pirates, which is an absolutely wrong understanding, you know, when Europe was carrying out great voyages, the Chinese people were not idle, since the Tang Dynasty, many people in the coastal areas around China fled to the sea for various reasons, became pirates, and even many people occupied some island countries, and became princes themselves, like the bearded man in the early Tang Dynasty, after he failed to compete with Li Shimin for the world, he took his cronies to go to sea in a boat, laid a piece of the world.

After the seventeenth century, the development of piracy in the Ming Dynasty was in full swing, and in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Hai and others gathered the Chinese people and the Japanese ronin, and had more than 100,000 soldiers. More than a thousand warships, even if the Spanish fleet that was invincible in the world at that time, passed by here and gave them gifts, and then as time passed, there were talents from all over the world. After the end of the Ming Dynasty, another legendary figure rose on the sea, and this person was Zheng Zhilong. That is, the father of the famous patriotic general Zheng Chenggong.

I have to say that Zheng Zhilong is still very powerful, if it weren't for a mistake later, which led to him falling into the trap of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I'm afraid he would be even more powerful than his son Zheng Chenggong, starting at the age of seventeen. With his two younger brothers, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao, he went to Shanao, which is now Macau, and joined his uncle, and by the time he was twenty-three years old, in just over five years, he went from having nothing to tens of thousands of soldiers. There were more than 700 warships, and they were in Fujian and Japan at the same time. Taiwan and other places had unparalleled power, and according to records, Zheng Zhilong at that time was simply the uncrowned king of Japan, and wherever he went, the Japanese daimyo was more attentive than entertaining the emperor.

Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, Quanzhou has been the most important outlet to the sea in China since ancient times. The city and shipping divisions that have been opened in the past dynasties are basically in Quanzhou, and now, the same is true here, Zheng Zhilong's 'coastal defense guerrilla yamen'. This is when Xiong Wencan, the governor of the five provinces, recruited him, he asked the court to give him the official position, the purpose was to make him loyal to the court from now on, but unfortunately, Xiong Wencan is an unlucky person, he recruited two relatively large thieves in his life, Zhang Xianzhong on the land, and Zheng Zhilong in the sea, but unfortunately, these two people are not the kind of fuel-efficient lamp, after being recruited by him, when they gathered enough strength, they pulled the flag and rebelled, so that Xiong Wencan was finally directly given by Emperor Chongzhen Clicked his head.

But unlike Zhang Xianzhong, although Zheng Zhilong rebelled against the imperial court, he was very good to the people, when he was against the imperial court, in addition to fighting with the officers and soldiers, he did not kill the people indiscriminately, and even gave help to many poor people, and it is precisely for this reason that the local people in Fujian are very fond of Zheng Zhilong, and even many people will inform them of the situation of the officers and soldiers. actually included the entire Fujian Province in his hands, not only that, but he also recruited troops on a large scale, and now in addition to the navy, there are also fifty or sixty thousand army under his command, such an energy is also very huge.

"Fusong, for the Nanjing Yongli Imperial Court, want us to send troops to help them resist the Manchus, what do you think, you have been in Jinling for a while, you should know much more about the situation in Jinling than we do." In the hall of the Haiphong guerrilla yamen, there is a group of people at this time, although this group of people look very strong, but most of them have dark skin, if you look carefully, you can see that their skin is very rough, and those who know know know that this is caused by perennial sailing on the sea.

The person who spoke was of medium stature, in the first place, and looked like a fisherman, but if you look closely, you can see that from time to time there will be a glint in his eyes that does not match his identity, this person is the overlord of the southeast coast, the head of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong.

Hearing Zheng Zhilong's question, Fu Song, that is, Zheng Chenggong, thought about it for a while, and then said slowly, "Father, to be honest, for the Yongli Imperial Court, as well as the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youxiang, the child has also seen it before, that is, a mediocre person, even if we help him repel the Manchu army this time, I am afraid that his position as emperor will be unstable sooner or later, but then again, if it is usual, we don't save it, but this time it is facing the Manchu Tartars, and the hearts of non-our race will be different, If we watch the Manchu army go south and take the land south of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that the next one will be the turn of our Zheng family, you know, although our Zheng family eats sea food, but on this land, if there is no Fujian land, I am afraid we are just a group of lonely ghosts. ”

Zheng Chenggong, who is just twenty years old this year, looks stronger than ordinary teenagers, but he is also a little short, although he is wearing a Confucian robe, but his dark skin and the pride that exudes from time to time make people can't associate him with a scholar in any way.

As soon as Zheng Chenggong's words were finished, Zheng Zhilong didn't say anything immediately, but sat there and thought for a long time, and then asked the other people in the hall, "Brothers, what do you think about this matter, whether we can help or not." ”

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