The lazy sunlight shone on the large bed carved with dragons and phoenixes, and the room was filled with a mixture of fragrance and intoxicating smell.

Pang Gang was lying on the bed on all fours, a snow-white delicate body obediently lay in his arms panting slightly, a little fragrant sweat oozed from the crystal delicate body, and a faint fragrance like a blue rushed into Pang Gang's nose from time to time. Pang Gang's big hand unconsciously stroked the back of this delicate body, and the beauty in his arms hummed softly and comfortably, like a well-behaved Persian cat.

After a long time, the delicate body in his arms asked softly: "Husband, you sent Lin Feng and Ruolan's sister-in-law eldest brother to Obaro, and if you open the door to trade with those Yiren, this news will not be hidden, so that our Qingzhou is bound to become the target of the Ming Dynasty, aren't you afraid of attracting criticism from the government and the opposition?" You must know that our current foundation is not stable enough not to be afraid of any challenge. ”

Pang Gang sighed lightly: "Manyao, it's not that I'm too risky, but time doesn't wait for me, now the development of our Qingzhou has reached a neck, if you want to continue to develop, Shandong alone is already a little small, if you want to expand your strength, you have to expand your territory, but now it is not the time to develop to Henan, Hunan or Jiangsu, and you need a lot of silver to continue to develop." You also know that our current army of more than 26,000 troops costs 6,700,000 taels of silver every year, and the sailors are even more a bottomless pit, and the scale of more than 100 warships alone is not less than one million dollars of silver invested every year, and as for the cost of training sailors, gunners, and training, it is even more in the sea. ”

Wei Manyao comfortably put her pretty face on her husband's generous chest, and her delicate nose wrinkled slightly: "Hmph, the 20,000 army you asked my father to help recruit last time has been recruited, and now there will be more silver, what do I think you should do?" ”

Pang Gang laughed, "What else can I do, cold salad." At present, our cement, refined salt, iron ore and various taxes in Qingzhou can bring us more than 6 million benefits every year, and it should be enough to raise 50,000 soldiers and horses and a water division. ”

Qianqianyu's hand unconsciously drew circles on her husband's sturdy chest, and Wei Manyao said coquettishly: "You, the imperial court has an army of millions, and the military expenditure required for a year is only three or four million silver, you see that you have only raised tens of thousands of troops, but the annual expenses are not much less than that of the imperial court, I really don't know what you think." ”

Pang Gang snorted lightly: "How can you compare those tofu soldiers of the imperial court with our Qingzhou army, our Qingzhou soldiers and horses are the same thing as the soldiers and horses of the imperial court?" The Tartars just sent tens of thousands of horses over, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the imperial court were frightened and silent, so that the Tartars hung the "free delivery" sign and swaggered hundreds of thousands of people and looted wealth to return to Liaodong, such an army is not to be! ”

Seeing that her husband was angry, Wei Manyao, who was lying in her husband's arms, stretched out her little hand and gently stroked Pang Gang's chest to show comfort, and said with a smile: "Okay, the concubine knows that her husband is the most capable, and the concubine should not question her husband's ability in this matter." ”

Pang Gang pretended to be angry and "hummed", reached out and slapped his wife's snow-white and plump double strands, making a crisp sound of "pop".

The flush that had just disappeared on Wei Manyaoqiao's face covered her face again, and she said "baby", and the business she wanted to say was also left behind. She glanced at her husband with charming eyes, gritted her silver teeth, turned her delicate body and lay on her husband's body, and whispered close to Pang Gang's ear: "Husband, people also want a son, you can't be partial." ”

Pang Gang smiled bitterly when he heard this, this kind of thing has nothing to do with eccentricity, the conscience of heaven and earth, he has always been a bowl of horizontal ends, but no matter how generous a woman is, she has a cautious side, Pang Gang is naturally not stupid enough to reason with a woman in this kind of thing.

However, at this time, Pang Gang didn't have time to distinguish, and his doppelganger had been swallowed up by a warm wetness at this time

In the southern part of Taiwan stands a majestic castle, which belongs to the western style of the coastal fortress form, and the scale is very spectacular. The houses and forts in the city are high and low, the layers are distinct, there are stairs between each floor, and the surrounding and corners of the castle are distributed with diamond-shaped and semi-circular fortresses, and the upper gun emplacements are the main offensive and defensive forces in the city.

The castle is divided into two parts: the inner city and the outer city. The inner city is square in shape and has three floors; The lowest floor is the warehouse, and the two floors above ground have the governor's office, the lookout, the church, the soldiers' barracks and other facilities, and at the top of the castle, a Dutch flag composed of red, white and blue is hung, representing the courage and blessing of loyalty.

The outer city is connected to the northwest corner of the inner city, and was originally built to strengthen the defense of the inner city and prevent the enemy from driving directly into the political center. It is rectangular in shape, slightly lower than the inner city, and contains public buildings such as dormitories for governors and dependents, conference halls, offices, hospitals, warehouses, etc.

At this moment, in a spacious office, the Dutch Governor in Taiwan, Puttersmann, sat on a silver-white chair, holding a cup of coffee in his left hand and a small spoon in his right hand, stirring constantly, and a rich aroma permeating the conference hall.

In front of Puttesman sat a young man dressed in a plain robe, a pair of thin-soled fast shoes, and a square scarf, dressed as a standard Ming Dynasty scholar. The young man had a handsome face and a calm expression, and was drinking a cup of black tea unhurriedly.

If Pang Gang was here, he would definitely recognize it, this is Zheng Sen, the son of Zheng Zhibao, a Fujian guerrilla general who came to attack Qingzhou with a fleet last time.

After taking a sip of coffee, Putsman put the coffee on the table in front of him and said in Chinese with a strange accent: "Zheng Gongzi, I don't know what good news you have brought me this time?" ”

Zheng Sen still had a breezy expression, his expression was not arrogant or impatient, and his hand holding the teacup was still very steady, but the words that came out of his mouth revealed his unhappy mood: "Your Excellency Puttersman, we have an old saying in the Ming Dynasty, called pretending to be confused, this is what you are talking about, you don't know the purpose of my visit this time, why bother asking many times?" ”

Putsmann's face flashed with embarrassment, of course he understood the purpose of the son of the most famous pirate leader in the South Seas in front of him, but for some purpose he had to pretend to be confused, and now Putsman could only answer the other party's question with silence.

Zheng Sen saw Puttersman who pretended to bow his head and drink coffee, and he had to make his words clear: "Mr. Putsman, I remember that last time we agreed to provide information and funds, you sent warships to intercept passing ships in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places to cut off their trade routes, but you don't seem to have fulfilled your promise!" ”

"I think I can explain that to you." Putsman put down his coffee and shrugged his shoulders, "Okay, Zheng Gongzi, I admit that we didn't fulfill what we promised before, but there is a reason for this, the news you gave us earlier was wrong, the sailors of Qingzhou are not like you said that there are only the kind of huge three-masted warships and ten Daifuku and more than thirty cruise speedboats, and the strength they show is several times that of what you said, it is several times, do you understand!" ”

Speaking of this, Putsmann's heart was full of joy, the guilt that was left in his heart had long been thrown out of the clouds, and his voice began to get louder.

"According to the information we have obtained, the Qingzhou Navy Division has at least six large three-masted warships, the Daifuku ship has more than twenty, and as for the cruise fast ships, there are no less than a hundred, do you understand? It's more than a hundred! ”

Speaking of this, Putsman couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself that he didn't make a rash move, otherwise he and the Qingzhou side would not be tight, if the Qingzhou general was completely annoyed, his fleet would have to endure the endless retaliation of the other party.

Zheng Sen couldn't help but be speechless for a while, but he still argued: "Even so, the sailors on the other side are just a group of rookies who have just been transferred from land to the ship, with your three warships of more than 900 tons and more than 20 cruisers, you should be able to easily defeat them, what do you have to worry about?" ”

"Hehe" Puttersmann sneered, "Zheng Gongzi, the lives of our Dutch soldiers are precious, I didn't bring them to the far east to send them to death, let alone let them make senseless sacrifices, this matter was the first thing you provided false news, fortunately we found out in time, otherwise we will ask you for losses if we cause huge losses." ”

"You" Zheng Sen's face flashed with a blue color, these Dutch devils are so shameless, they still want to ask for losses if they don't do their work, you guys who are beautiful, one day I will definitely lead the army to drive these red-haired devils out of Taiwan.

Zheng Sen forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said Sen Ran: "So, Governor Puttersman is planning to break his word?" You know, we paid a deposit of 100,000 taels of silver in advance! ”

"I'm sorry, it was you who concealed the other party's information first, please forgive me for not being able to do anything, of course, we will refund you half of the deposit of 100,000 taels of silver for you to achieve your reservation, and we will leave the other half as a fine for providing you with inaccurate information."

This group of damned Dutch robbers, Zheng Sen wanted to pull out the long sword at his waist and stab this greedy robber to death, but when the corner of his eyes swept to the row of Dutch soldiers with muskets standing at the door, the anger in his heart slowly lowered.

"In that case, I don't think we have anything to talk about, so I'll take my leave."

After speaking, Zheng Sen stood up and strode out angrily.

(To be continued)