July 1641

The situation in the Ming Dynasty, which entered July, was still developing towards the familiar historical process, and it had not changed much because of the arrival of the Crossing Crowd.

Compared with the natural disasters and peasant uprisings in the north, the south is still like a warm ship, and nothing major has happened calmly, even the conflict between the Australians and Zheng Zhilong's department not long ago has also turned into a joint exercise with the Australians under his deliberate concealment and cover-up.

In the courtyard of the Zheng family in Quanzhou, several family members and the main person in charge stood prominently, and a statue of Mazu was as white as jade in front of everyone.

"Family master, this is the goods provided by the Nazhuo family, what do you think?" Lao Xia, the big shopkeeper of Tonghe, introduced it to everyone with a smile on his face.

"Well, yes, yes, this thing can be called the best grade," Zheng Zhilong praised after holding the Mazu statue in his hand and looking at it a few times, and then sent him to several of his brothers to see.

"Master, if you don't look carefully at this thing, you can't see the difference between it and the regular goods exported from Australia, you see that there is a small crack on the finger of the Mazu statue, so this is a substandard product."

Zheng Zhilong listened to this introduction, took the Mazu statue in his hand and took a closer look, and sure enough, as the shopkeeper Xia said, there was indeed a small crack in the finger that was crossed, if you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't see it.

"This thing is also considered a fine product, so a small crack will be destroyed and not allowed to be sold, and it is no wonder that the owners of those kiln factories that produce it want to sell it secretly." Zheng Zhilong said with emotion.

"Hehe, what the head of the family said is that this time the Zhuo family provided us with ten boxes of various Australian goods, which were already sold in Tonghe secretly yesterday."

"That's great, but you have to make it clear when you sell it, the difference between this product and the real thing."

"Yes, yes, the small ones are clearly pointed out to the customer officer at the time of sale, and explained why they are cheap. And these buyers are not wealthy, so they are very acceptable to such a price, and it is not uncommon for those wealthy merchants to buy such goods with a little flaw. ”

"Well, Lao Xia, this thing is good." Zheng Zhilong got up and walked to Shopkeeper Xia and patted him on the shoulder, making him a little flattered.

"Big brother, let's just let the Zhao family in Guangzhou go, such a small family dares to be the enemy of my Zheng family, now that the Australian ship has left, shouldn't we clean him up." It was Zheng Zhilong's fifth brother Zheng Zhibao who spoke, and Zheng Zhibao, who had a stubble on his face, looked much rude compared to Zheng Zhilong's rather gentle appearance.

They didn't pay any attention to the Zhao family in Guangzhou, even if they were bigger than the Zhao family and wanted to do business on this sea, they didn't have to respectfully send silver taels to the Zheng family, and he dared to openly fight against the Zheng family in less than five years as soon as the Zhao family was established, which was a blatant provocation to the authority of the Zheng family.

Although the Australians defeated the Zheng family, the cadres within the Zheng family were very unconvinced, and once upon a time they were so angry at sea. The Australians can't beat it, can't the Zhao family clean it up.

"Zhibao, don't be impulsive, behind this Zhao family is Australia, if we make a move at this time, it is inevitable that the Australians will not come again, and there will be no such thing to talk about at that time." There is a lot of news coming from Nanyang, you want to hear it. ”

The Zheng family eats sea food, and the spies are naturally an important harbor city all over the coast of Southeast Asia. I also know something about the Batavia Blackwater Company.

Heishui defeated nearly 2,000 people with more than 100 people, and the news came back to Zheng Zhilong, which has gone through various processing, as for whether it is true or not, but one thing is certain, the firearms of the Australians are very powerful, and the land combat is also completely carried out by firearms.

At this time, Australia has won the victory in the southeast sea in front of it, and then the victory on the land in the South Seas, it can be said that it is the time when the invincible army is flourishing, if the Zheng family does not know how to make progress at this time, they still have to touch the eyebrows of the Zhao family, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat.

"Big brother, isn't Australia just a small victory in Nanyang, those Fanbang savages have no combat power at all, let's not be so afraid."

"Zhibao, what you said is true, the Bang Savage people don't have any combat power, but the Australian firearms are sharp for all to see, do you want my Zheng family to lose more than a dozen warships." Zheng Zhilong was already a little dissatisfied with his reckless younger brother, and his tone of voice became a lot heavier.

"Fifth uncle, what my father means is not that Australia, is that we want to avoid its edge, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, now that the Australian soldiers are thriving, if we forcibly touch it, maybe we will get into trouble if we don't touch it, if we win, our Zheng family will naturally be good, if we lose, it will have too much impact on us."

A Zhao family is actually nothing to the Zheng family, even if the Australians behind him support him, he is just a little famous, compared with those coastal gentry and maritime merchants, it is simply not a level, what the Zheng family really wants to prevent is the movement of these people, once the Zheng family loses again, it is inevitable that they will not have different intentions.

Zheng Sen also saw this because he was more supportive of his father's decision. Zheng Zhilong glanced at his son, revealing a hint of appreciation. With such wisdom and impulsiveness, he will definitely be able to take over the helm of the Zheng family in the future.

"Lao Xia, your relationship with the Nanyang Zhuo family can continue, and you can try to inquire if they have any arms for sale."

For Zheng Zhilong now, Australian firearms have left a deep impression on his mind, and he naturally hopes to obtain enough strength to arm himself.

He, Lao Zheng, is also an extremely ambitious person, if it weren't for this, he would not have accepted the surrender back then, and he quickly bleached from a pirate to a legitimate imperial court.

"The little ones must do so, and when they go back, they will contact the Zhuo family and ask if they can lose the Australian firearms," Xia Da's shopkeeper replied respectfully.

It is an honor to be able to get the appreciation of the head of the family, and I think that I will contact Miss Zhuo after I go back immediately, and inquire about Australian firearms, but I don't know if there are substandard firearms, and if there are unqualified ones, the power will also be sharply reduced.

Although Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate, he is a subordinate who has made contributions with clear rewards and punishments, and he has never been stingy at all, so everyone is willing to follow him, which is also one of the reasons why he stood out among so many pirates back then.

As the Zheng family father and son still had more confidential matters to discuss, the shopkeeper Xia also knew that it was inconvenient for him to continue to stay, so he said goodbye to Zheng Zhilong very interestingly, and prepared to go to Miss Zhuo Jia, who was pretending to be Ruan Tingting, to inquire about Australian firearms.