Today's Dengzhou is becoming more and more lively, Zhu Ping'an looked at the two bottles of sake brought back by Cao Wuxian, and this idea suddenly came to his mind.

On the white sake bottle, there is still the mark of Kitamatsunura-gun, Hizen Province, Hizen Province, Himachi Province of Wakoku Province, and the white-clothed young man, also known as Jinguan, uses the surname "Tian" again, as well as his subordinates who clearly bear the imprint of life at sea, then this person's identity is about to be revealed.

"Where are these people?" Zhu Ping'an asked.

Yin Shigang replied: "It's an inn in Beiguanfang City, it shouldn't be their contact point, the background of this inn is very clear, it's just an ordinary merchant." ”

"Didn't your lord guess the identity of this person?" Yin Shigang then asked.

Zhu Ping'an smiled, "This is not difficult." Brother Boji (Yin Shigangzi), let me ask you, who is the threat to the establishment of the Dengzhou Trade Zone? ”

Yin Shigang replied without thinking: "One is Liu Zeqing, and the other is Guanwai Tartar." ”

"What else?" Zhu Ping'an asked.

"And?" Yin Shigang was stabilized, pondered for a moment, and still shook his head. "The students can't think of who else can be threatened by Dengzhou?"

Zhu Ping'an stood up and paced to the hall by himself, the sunset slowly fell, looking out through the door of the main hall, the sunset like a fire hung all over the sky, and a group of birds flew through the sky in a queue.

Liu Xiaodao and others wandered the sea, and the Francois became increasingly embarrassed, and the Dutch also tried to fight with them in the early years, but suffered a big loss. And so on. It's all thanks to this family, Brother Berji, you should know who I'm referring to, right? ”

Yin Shigang was stunned for a moment, "What your lord is talking about is the Zheng family in Fujian!" ”

"That's right, it's the Zheng family. Zheng Zhilong, the head of the Zheng family, is indeed a Fujian and Guangdong hero. However, after more than ten years, it has dominated the southeast sea. Whoever passes through here must bow down to it. Now it has been named the general army of Fujian by the imperial court, and its power has continued to penetrate inland. In time, it will inevitably be a big trouble for the imperial court. ”

"What do you mean. Now that the Zheng family is thinking about Dengzhou? ”

Zhu Ping'an nodded. Zheng Jiakong zhì maritime trade. During the Apocalypse, a merchant ship collected ten taels of cashiers, which slowly increased to fifty taels and one hundred taels. But now, listen to what the merchants at sea say. I received three hundred taels. Think about it. Hundreds of merchant ships pass through this sea every month. The Zheng family can make a fortune with these alone. What's more, the industries under the name of the Zheng family are all over Fujian and Guangdong, North Korea, Japan, and Annam and other small southeastern countries. The profit is even more astronomical. It's the gold and silver that are rolling in. It supported thousands of warships and 50,000 elite soldiers of the Zheng family's naval division.

Now Dengzhou is open, the trade zone provides a place for free trade for all kinds of merchants, and the merchant ships going south along the coast are greatly reduced, and some merchants who trade with the Ming Dynasty have chosen Dengzhou as a foothold, which not only avoids the exploitation of the Zheng family, but also greatly reduces the cost of transportation. This move benefited Dengzhou and the businessmen a lot, but it touched the interests of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family came to the door, I am afraid it will be a matter of time.

But he didn't expect the Zheng family to come so quickly, and he didn't expect that the person from the Zheng family would actually be him!

"If you guess correctly, the person who came from the Zheng family this time is probably Zheng Sen, the eldest son of the Zheng family. His mother, Tagawa, was a native of the Japanese country. Zhu Ping'an pointed to the sake on the table, "This is a specialty of the Hirado Domain, Zheng Sen's name is Jinguan, and I guessed his origin based on these two points!" Also, the middle-aged man who followed Zheng Sen had met by chance without injury! ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Ping'an's expression gradually became grim, "I thought that even if the Zheng family came to the door when Dengzhou opened the port, it would have to wait until a year later." However, after the establishment of the trade zone, merchants from all walks of life came enthusiastically, which really surprised me. I'm afraid this also touched the Zheng family's business at sea, so Zheng Sen was sent to find out the truth. But at the moment when I am about to get married, I guess Zheng Sen may also use some means to test our bottom line......! ”

"I'm afraid this stop between Dengzhou and the Zheng family can't be avoided!" Yin Shigang replied with a gloomy face.

Zhu Ping'an's words were very clear and thorough. When it comes to the huge profits of maritime trade, if any one of them lets go, they will immediately fall into a situation from which they will never recover.

Although Zheng Zhilong holds the official position of the general army of Fujian, he can also be regarded as the general in charge of the imperial court. But compared with Dengzhou, Zheng Zhilong has greater autonomy. On the road, entrenched in Kinmen, Xiamen, and thousands of warships at sea can be driven, the Dutch have touched the mold, and now they have obediently cooperated with the Zheng family, although they can also send troops to help. Although the Zheng family's sailor is nominally a Fujian sailor, everyone knows that it is just the Zheng family's private soldiers. In particular, these soldiers and horses are all proud soldiers and fierce generals across the sea, and their combat power is not trivial.

If Dengzhou and the Zheng family clashed, the chances of winning were not good. Yin Shigang didn't finish his words, that's what he meant.

Zhu Ping'an also knows this. If there is a war with the Zheng family. The Zheng family will not blatantly attack, then it will appear in the name of a large number of pirates, Dengzhou Trade Zone, Weihai Weijun Port, are in the early stage of creation, and they will definitely not be able to withstand the onslaught of the Zheng family's sailors. The ships of the Denglai Navy Division are old, the personnel are extremely scarce, and they are still in the stage of rejuvenating, and at this time, it is completely unpredictable how much combat power can be exerted.

Zhu Ping'an and Yin Shigang both noticed these problems, but the threat of the Zheng family was imminent, and how to pass this level was indeed a difficult problem.

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Ping'an broke the silence, and the first task assigned to Yin Shigang was to send spies to Fujian to pay close attention to the Zheng family's every move. Another point is to send people to contact Lopez and Liu Xiaodao, the Denglai sailors alone will never be able to resist the Zheng family's fleet, and if necessary, they will need to assist from the side.

"Also, the Military Intelligence Department and the Supervision Office sent personnel to guard confidential places such as He Changshui and Sun Heding's research institute test site thoroughly, so as not to be discovered by outsiders."

"Students, let's do it!"

Haven't turned around yet. Zhu Ping'an added, "In addition to keeping an eye on the Zheng family, send someone to send a letter to Lopez and others, and use troops to stop home early, so that they can also be careful." Also, tell me that I have hidden the ten newly refitted ships for me, and before I fight with the Zheng family, I must not be seen by outsiders! ”

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Although he had only been in Dengzhou for a day, Tian Jinguan felt all kinds of fresh things rushing to his face. For a while, I felt overwhelmed. But the evaluation of Zhu Ping'an's feelings. But it dropped a lot unconsciously.

The streets are clean and tidy, and from time to time the so-called "chengguan" who wear gray clothes patrol the streets, and they are comprehensive and manage everything, from the shortcomings of parents and the sanitation of streets and alleys to the improvement of public security and the evacuation of traffic. These chengguan members seem to be everywhere. Each street has a latrine for everyone to use. This made Tian Jinguan very curious.

There is a latrine. The streets of the city are much better hygienic. Although Tian Jinguan didn't care about this. I have to admit that this makes many foreign businessmen have a very good first impression of Dengzhou. Tian Jinguan once followed his father to Beijing, and there was a saying in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty that "there is no toilet in Beijing". The people defecated at will, and even the people in the Shilin and some officials of low rank did not care about decency, so they could only find a place to solve the emergency situation anywhere. The talented Wang Siren once wrote in the article "Literary Rice Sketches": "I am worried about the streets and alleys of the Beijing Mansion, and I am happy and clothed. It is not difficult to feast anywhere, and there is nowhere to live for suffering. "This point is not as good as the land of Jiangnan and Fujian and Guangdong.

Every day, there are fixed porters in the chengguan team to sweep the manure, pull the manure to the manure tank outside the city, and add fallen leaves, mule and horse manure, and cover it with a thin layer. After a few days, a farmer transports it away again and irrigates it into the field to use as fertilizer, so that the crops are growing more happily.

In the severe drought in Shandong, the prefect Yamen sent people, and the Dusi Yamen paid for the deep wells to irrigate farmland in various parts of Dengzhou, which was the only thing that made Tian Jinguan a little scoffed. A lot of money was spent on these grass people, and it was better to use the harbor and buy grain from the southeast in large quantities. This Zhu Ping'an's means of doing business are still a little worse!

And then there's his new insurance company. I heard that it was opened two months ago, but now it is still a crowd and there are few applicants. Tian Jinguan looked at the deserted gate of the insurance store and couldn't help but shake his head frequently.

This Zhu Ping'an is not crazy. Now the northern part of the Ming Dynasty is under heavy pressure from foreign enemies, and the Central Plains, Shanxi, Henan and Hebei have fallen into civil unrest, and the sea frontier is also not peaceful. Large and small pirates filled the sea, and the Francophiles, Dutch, Japanese and Koreans each dominated one side. Of course, the behemoth of the Zheng family is indispensable. Maritime trade is no better than land, on the one hand, pirates and various forces raid, on the other hand, the vagaries of wind and waves. There are many people who have been robbed and robbed, or who have been buried in the belly of a fish in the face of wind and waves, Zhu Ping'an runs this insurance company, doesn't he think he has too much silver?

And the most important point. Dengzhou Port was established less than half a year, but now it is booming, merchants from all walks of life gather here, and the daily circulation of silver alone can reach hundreds of thousands of taels. Such a piece of fat is now being revealed.

Seeing the Denglai sailors guarding Dengzhou and Penglai, Tian Jinguan almost couldn't straighten his waist with a smile. Such a ship also dares to call itself a sailor. The guns on the ship were dilapidated, showing rust, and ammunition and other items were randomly piled up in Class A. The soldiers were listless and had fishing nets hanging on their masts, and the soldiers were fishing and drinking, and there was still a little bit of a sailor. With this kind of combat power, Tian Jinguan can guarantee that his own sailors don't even need hand-to-hand combat, and they can directly use ships to directly sink these ornaments.

The rumors I heard in the past said how brave Zhu Ping'an was, under the giant deer city, he beheaded several generals of the Tartars, including the younger brother of the slave chief Taiji, Abatai. It seems that the rumors are false, even if this Zhu Ping'an did kill the Tartars, then this person is just a martial artist, and he is definitely not his opponent. Looking at these tricks and tricks he used in Dengzhou, the young man's heart is undoubtedly revealed, such a person is not worthy of being his opponent at all.

Tian Jinguan suddenly felt that his father and fourth uncle were right. When I first came to Dengzhou, I did think it was fresh and interesting, but when I thought about it carefully, Zhu Ping'an's actions were just some tricks. Could it be that I really misjudged him? (To be continued......) R1292