That's right, Zheng Zhilong has envy and jealousy of Chu Fan, the commander of the Fuliao Army who has not yet met.

To be precise, after appreciation and admiration, a feeling of envy and jealousy arose spontaneously - with Zheng Zhilong's current identity and achievements, he should not have such emotions, but he couldn't suppress it!

Although he has not seen him yet, what Zheng Zhilong has heard in Jeju Island in the past two days is Chu Fan's unbelievable but fruitful inventions; What I saw in my eyes were all kinds of products made by Niu Dao under Chu Fan's guidance; And what shocked him the most was to experience the speed of Yue Fei and the live firing of the land division of the Fuliao Army - all of which had given Zheng Zhilong a comprehensive and profound understanding of the other party.

On the afternoon of Zheng Zhilong's arrival, Li Guozhu and the others accompanied the Fujian coastal defense guerrilla to board the Yue Fei, circled around Udodo a few times, and showed him the accuracy and great power of the ballista; Zheng Zhilong was not shocked on the surface, but in fact, he set off a stormy wave in his heart - with such speed and such a sharp weapon, it is no wonder that the Fuliao Army Naval Division dared to argue with the Dutchman's Great Galen!

On the second day, the live-ammunition shooting of the land division of the Fuliao Army was specially arranged by Liu Zhongwen for Zheng Zhilong -- a shooting range composed of more than 100 scarecrows was set up at the foot of the water mountain, and the third battalion of the Fuliao Army attacked from far to near with ballistas, 6-pounder Franc machine field guns, Ushijima Type 1 firearms, and grenades.

Unlike on the Yue Fei, Zheng Zhilong was quite out of shape this time, and after watching the live ammunition shooting that lasted less than 20 minutes, he couldn't close his mouth in surprise -- the performance of the third battalion completely subverted the battle mode in his heart, and if he wanted to play like this, no matter how many people came from the other side, he would be bombarded if he couldn't even touch the edge of the land division of the Liao Army!

Zheng Zhilong even thinks that even those Dutch soldiers in Fort Geranza are probably not the opponents of the land division of the Fuliao army - the Dutch's means of attacking are too simple, except for the Fran machine gun is the firearm, how can the Fuliao army fight at such a rich level?

This made Zheng Zhilong feel very frustrated - his subordinates were powerless in front of the Dutch, which meant that they were even more weak in front of the Fuliao army!

What made Zheng Zhilong even more frustrated and frightened was that there were all kinds of signs on Jeju Island that Chu Fanqi's undisguised ambition!

The surprise attack on Jingyi County, the destruction of the Liu family, and the fierce soldiers and horses calmly dealt with the crusade of the Joseon royal court are all gone, and what shocked Zheng Zhilong the most was what the exiled officials in Jingyi County did - they were actually blatantly reorganizing a court, and the goal was to welcome back Gwanghae-jun, who had been under house arrest on Ganghwa Island, to regain his throne!

Zheng Zhilong believes that as an outsider, Chu Fan will definitely not have any good impression of the Gwanghae-jun who can't be beaten by the eight-pole, the reason why he is so keen is that he is afraid that what he wants is an excuse to interfere in the political situation in North Korea, and to set up a puppet to rule North Korea after welcoming back Gwanghae-jun!

Reign in Korea!

This is not only Zheng Zhilong, but I am afraid that it is also something that any person who grew up in the ideological atmosphere of "monarchs and ministers" like the Ming Dynasty would not even dare to think about -- no matter how small North Korea is, it is also a dignified and upright vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and its monarch has received the supreme book and the king of Beijing, how can the people of Shengdou covet it?

The way of the minister is to care about "learning literature and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family", rather than killing the emperor himself, which is simply a big rebellion!

Take Zheng Zhilong as an example, he has always been pretentious and ambitious -- in just a dozen years, he has jumped from an unknown interpreter to a guerrilla general in Fujian's coastal defense, and even the dignified Fujian governor Xiong Wencan can't help but sigh in his recital to Emperor Chongzhen after the successful appeasement, "The strange encounter of Zheng's guerrilla is rare in the world." ”

Not only that, Zheng Zhilong believes that he will be able to sit in the highest position of a military general in a few years - a military general in Fujian and Zhejiang, who else can be stronger than himself? In this era of more and more respect for strength, the chief military officer of Fujian and Zhejiang will fall steadily on his head Zheng Zhilong sooner or later!

And in this eventful autumn when the Dutch are pressing step by step, Zheng Zhilong believes that he has a lot of opportunities to be crowned marquis for merit; Once he can really get his wish, Tong'an Zheng Jiake will become an upstart who can compete with those old men in Liangjing, so far in life, what more can a husband ask for?

This is not Zheng Zhilong's own delusion and speculation, but the consensus of Fujian and even Nanjing officialdom on this newly promoted guerrilla general -- when Xiong Wencan summoned Zheng Zhilong for the first time, he repeatedly emphasized that "with the heroic strength of the public, the general army of Fujian and Zhejiang is just around the corner," "the tranquility of the Fujian Sea is all in the mind of the public," and "if the public can be more virtuous in addition to suppressing bandits, why should the imperial court be famous"......

Although the words of the governor of Fujian were flattering and exaggerated, they also made Zheng Zhilong's heart quite fluttering - he could shock the Fujian, Zhejiang and Haijiang seas before the end of the year, with more than 1,000 warships and tens of thousands of soldiers, looking at the East China Sea, who else could achieve such a great cause?

But after arriving on Jeju Island, Zheng Zhilong sadly found that his pride had been severely shattered - compared with Chu Fanna's ambition to reign in Korea, his "lofty ambition" as a supreme minister was more like a joke!

This is a qualitative difference!

Not to mention that after the king landed in Korea, Chu Fan still had to march into Liaodong and compete with the "invincible" Tartars - Zheng Zhilong could already get a glimpse of Chu Fan's ambition from the military number of the Fuliao Army alone.

"Junmen, before we came back from the Wa Kingdom, we stayed on Amakusa Island for another night," Zhuang Zeshi's account was nearing the end, "We didn't get off the boat, only the prince of Chu took the young head of the Yang family ashore, and I don't know who we were going to meet, anyway, they didn't return to the ship until the next morning." ”

The envy and jealousy in Zheng Zhilong's heart once again rushed out like the water that broke the embankment-Japan, it seems that Chu Fan didn't plan to let it go!

Japan is different from North Korea in that it is a larger, more populous, and more powerful island nation than North Korea; And most importantly, Japan also had a much higher status in the eyes of the imperial court than Korea - in the recent Korean War, the supreme in Beijing treated Toyotomi Hideyoshi almost like he was treating an enemy prime minister who could sit on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty!

North Korea - Japan - Liaodong!

If Chu Fan's plan can really be realized, what a grandiose, how spectacular, and what a dazzling achievement it will be!

It is no exaggeration to say that those legendary emperors in Chinese history, whether it is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who chased the Xiongnu in the north or Tang Taizong who opened up the Western Regions, cannot be compared with them - you must know that Korea, which was called Goryeo in ancient times, is the touchstone of many Central Plains heroes, and Tang Taizong once failed in Goryeo, and his reputation was almost ruined; And Emperor Yang of Sui, who was talented in the sky, lost the world in the end because of the three expeditions to Goryeo!

After taking a deep breath, Zheng Zhilong calmed down his turbulent heart, and silently said to himself, the higher the ambition and the farther he goes, the greater the possibility of falling, and let's see if this legendary commander can pass the Korean conquest! (To be continued.) )