There are so many Hongyi people who have been captured, but there is no big reward, and after checking that it is correct, Zhu Youzhen only rewarded a sword, and another 10,000 taels as a reward.

After Zhao Yan and Chen Zhongsheng discussed, they took the opportunity to open the Shandong sea ban, but it was still rejected, and the opening of the sea ban involved too many interests.

Zhao Yan's attempt to open the Shandong Sea Ban was once again stifled, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

At the beginning of March, the team that went to the Liaodong Peninsula to explore the terrain returned one after another, bringing back the topographic maps of Liaodong and Zhenjiang, Zhao Yan was overjoyed, rewarded each soldier of the team with 200 taels of silver, and established the 'Liaodong Special Combat Brigade', and promoted the squad leader Cheng Jin to the captain.

"The main task of the Liaodong Special Exhibition Brigade is to reconnoiter information in the enemy territory, attack Jiannu, sabotage production, etc., and the members need to be well-versed in the environment of Liaodong." Zhao Yan said to Cheng Jin: "After you go back, select three hundred Han people from Liaodong and form a special operations team as soon as possible." Your main task is to investigate the information on the mobilization of Jiannu's soldiers and horses, and to instigate the escape of the Han people in Liaodong to disrupt the production of Jiannu. ”

"Xia Guan understands." Cheng Jin responded excitedly.

"Go to the Ministry of Military Affairs and report!" Zhao Yan handed over the letter of appointment to Cheng Jin.

"Yes."

After Cheng Jin reported to the Ministry of Military Affairs, he then began to select people among the Han people who escaped from Liaodong, and most of the young people who escaped from Liaodong entered the army, with no less than 1,000 people, and the manpower was very sufficient.

After selecting the 300 people with the highest loyalty, Cheng Jin's special operations brigade was immediately taken to the intelligence department for in-depth training.

They need to be proficient in assassination, robbery, poisoning, arson, rumor-mongering, instigation, and other means of destruction, and at the same time, they must know how to disguise themselves in order to blend in behind enemy lines.

At the same time, they also need to be proficient in a series of skills such as survival in the wild.

Their most important task was to sabotage the production of the Manchus and to instigate the flight of the Han Chinese.

When Mao Wenlong was in the Dongjiang River, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was repeatedly defeated and the effect of containment was not achieved, Mao Wenlong's existence made the Han people in Liaodong see hope, and there were more than 200,000 Han people who fled to Phi Island, and the production of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed to a certain extent.

To Cheng Jin's surprise, they actually got 50,000 taels of activity funds, which shows how much Zhao Yan attaches importance to them, and he said to the members of the special combat team: "My lord has spent a lot of effort to recover Liaodong and rescue his comrades in Liaodong. ”

Everyone promised.

…… Fujian Shijing, inside the Zheng family's mansion. Zheng Zhilong is discussing with his generals.

Since last year, Zheng Zhilong has received a very bad news that the general army of Denglai has actually intervened in the trade, which makes Zheng Zhilong very angry.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong had 100,000 sailors, both white and black, and thousands of warships, as if he was already a hegemon on the southeast coast.

It is said that this is Zheng Zhilong's forbidden belly, except for the Dutch, who can touch it, and anyone else who touches this book is robbing his silver.

Even the merchant ships of the Dutch were often intercepted by him.

Since last year, Zheng Zhilong's merchant ships have seen a lot of profits from the trade in Yuben, first of all, porcelain is not easy to sell in Yuben, not only the porcelain shipped from Denglai, but also the Imari of Yuben has also begun to produce porcelain.

In addition, the prices of tea and cotton cloth have also begun to dive, but the prices of cane sugar and honey have not fluctuated much, and the ironware bought from Foshan has also not been sold in Yueben.

What made Zheng Zhilong even more annoyed was that Zhao Yan, the commander of Denglai, exported more goods to Yuben than his, according to Nagasaki's eyeliner report, almost every day there was a very fast merchant ship from Denglai to Yuben, after unloading, immediately loaded with silver and brass, if there was no storm at sea, it would return directly.

At the same time there was a large fleet of Dutch merchant ships.

This made Zheng Zhilong very puzzled, but two days ago, the news that Zhao Yan had sunk eight warships of the Hongyi people had been circulated all over the world through the Di Bao, and Zheng Zhilong and he finally knew the reason.

This news surprised the Zheng Group, the Dutch can be said to be their old rival, but they have always been in a state of helplessness.

The Dutch ships are strong and sharp, and Zheng Zhilong's ships are small and have few guns, but there are many people and many ships, and each has its own advantages.

Once encountered, it was usually the Zheng group that grabbed the Dutch warship with a hook anchor, and then swarmed up and burned the Dutch warship with the mother ship.

The Dutch were usually frightened and fled, or they did not dare to approach when they saw hundreds of ships.

In terms of losses, the losses of the Zheng group were far greater than those of the Dutch, but the distance between the southeast coast and the land of the Ming Dynasty was close at hand, and Zheng Zhilong could replenish ships and personnel at any time, but the Dutch could not replenish ships and personnel.

Everyone's faces were a little heavy, and the atmosphere was depressing for a while, Zheng Cai suddenly sneered and said: "The warships of the Hongyi people must be known to everyone about their power, back then, they blocked the Brotherhood Alliance to fight everywhere, and even we couldn't sink their eight warships in one go, how could the general soldier of Denglai sink eight ships?" The cowhide is blowing through the sky. ”

"Huh!"

"Hehe, haha~!"

As soon as Zheng Cai spoke, there was a burst of laughter, the corners of everyone's mouths showed a smile, and the depressing atmosphere was suddenly swept away, Zheng Zhilong also laughed, nodded and said: "My officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have always liked to boast about their great military exploits, and it is indeed unbelievable to sink eight Hongyi warships. ”

"But don't believe it, it's estimated that six hundred Hongyi people were captured alive, and the warships of the Hongyi people are generally between two hundred and three hundred people per ship, and there should not be eight warships that they sank the Hongyi people, but three or four may have." Zheng Zhilong went on to say that Zheng Zhilong was once sent by Li Dan to serve as a general in the Dutch fleet, and had a period of cooperation with the Dutch, and he also knew the situation of the Dutch fleet very well.

Everyone's faces suddenly became solemn again, even three or four Dutch warships, and they could not easily sink them.

"What are the Hongyi people going to Qingdao to do in Laizhou?" Zheng Zhibao asked in confusion.

"We received news before that the general army of Denglai was using the merchant ships of the Hongyi people to trade in Yueben, and they may have robbed the ships of the Hongyi people, so they annoyed the Hongyi people, so the Hongyi people went to Qingdao to retaliate, but obviously they did not eat good fruits." At this time, Li Guo boosted the test.

"Huh! Probably! Zheng Cai responded with a smile on his face.

Li Guozhu is the son of Li Dan, before the rise of the Brotherhood League and Eighteen Zhi, the overlord of the previous generation was Li Dan of Yishang and Yidao, with 500 merchant ships and dozens of armed merchant ships.

After Li Dan's death, Zheng Zhilong embezzled Li Dan's industry in Taiwan, which caused Li Guozhu's resentment, and then broke away from Zheng Zhilong's power with Liu Xiang and ran to stand on his own.

After Liu Xiang became a Dutch comprador, he was supported by the Dutch, but he was soon targeted by Zheng Zhilong and discharged the warship to suppress him.

Therefore, Li Guozhu is not very popular in the Zheng Group. But he is Li Dan's son and Zheng Zhilong's brother-in-law, but he also has a certain status in this group.

"This time I gathered everyone to discuss how to deal with it." Zheng Zhilong said, "If this continues, we will lose the profit of the capital." ”

"If there is anything to discuss, whoever disagrees will beat his mother." Gan Hui said coldly, since Zheng Zhilong took over, this group has acted like this.

Zheng Cai smiled bitterly and said: "This Zhao Yan is different from Haikou, he is an official soldier, and his official position is higher than that of his eldest brother. And this Zhao Yan is not simple, his soldiers are strong and strong, presumably everyone also knows that in the seven-year battle of Fengyang and the eight-year battle of Luohe, the number of thieves who were beheaded was as high as tens of thousands. ”

"After all, we are begging for food at sea, and fighting on land is our weakness, but the foundation is on land. The strength of the land battle of the Denglai army is probably not something we can resist, and it is very tricky. Zheng Cai continued.

"Hmph, we are also officers and soldiers, does he dare to move us on land?" Gan Hui snorted coldly and said with extreme contempt: "On the sea, we are the overlords. ”

"The eldest brother and he are both the chief soldiers of the imperial court, even if it is at sea, we are not very easy to do." Zheng Cai shook his head and said.

"Just destroy it, what can he do with us? Does he dare to send troops to Ishii? I'm afraid that I will be stopped by the imperial court on the road. Gan Hui speculated: "Even if he is involved in maritime trade, his strength is definitely not strong, and it will be easy for us to destroy him, but it is extremely difficult for them to destroy us from land." ”

"This ......" Zheng Cai couldn't help but groan, "what if...... What if he really waved his troops south despite the obstacles? ”

"Fujian is mountainous, so you can keep it from danger." Gan Hui said loudly. Zheng Zhilong also nodded lightly at this time, Gan Hui suddenly came to his senses, and continued: "If Zhao Yan is an acquaintance and pays us taxes every year, it is okay for him to trade in this book!" If he doesn't know each other, he will rob him once he goes, and the Hongyi people's boat can rob too little, and the brothers have not opened it for a long time. ”

"Yes! The brothers under his command have not opened for a long time, and they are all complaining about the lack of oil and water. ”

"Big brother, let's take that Zhao Yan knife! That's a fat sheep! Don't slaughter nothing, don't slaughter. ”

"Big brother, if we don't do it, can't we give him Zhao Yan's trade?"

Zheng Zhilong's subordinates suddenly became eager to make a noise, robbing merchant ships is definitely the way for them to make a fortune, they can take a cut of the robbing merchant ships, and even hack some of them.

Unfortunately, since some of the merchant ships of the Dutch were robbed, they immediately reduced the number of solo operations and switched to escorting them with warships, which led to a sharp decrease in oil and water. Those merchant ships escorted by warships, to move is simply to find death.

"Okay." Zheng Zhilong suddenly made up his mind, "Then rob his mother, Zheng Zhibao." ”

"Yes." Zheng Zhibao hurriedly came out.

"Take two gunboats and immediately go north to reconnoiter the Denglai trade route." Zheng Zhilong ordered.

"Yes."

(To be continued)