During the dinner in the evening, the news that Zhu Ping'an was going to set up a family affair for Zhang Dingbian and Sun Youniang spread throughout the courtyard, and Sun Youniang was even more shy, and she didn't even dare to show her face, so she hid back in her boudoir, leaving Mu Yuling or Xing Yuan, even if Zhu Ping'an arranged for Zhu Chengyou to invite, she was embarrassed to come to the meal anyway.

There is no way, Mrs. Zhang is still in Jinan Mansion now, and now there is only Zhu Ping'an's family in Dengzhou, so Zhu Ping'an simply left Hong Fatzi, who has been busy in Penglai, and asked him to invite his wife and young son into the mansion, and left Yin Shigang as a companion, which is enough for a large table of people.

In the past few years, Zhu Ping'an has fought in the north and south, but the days at home are numbered, and he is also guilty in the face of his two wives, looking at his own pair of children, Zhu Ping'an's heart is even more apologetic. Although the eldest son is young, since last year, Zhu Ping'an has instructed Shen Ke to start to lead him to boil his body, and by this time next year, Zhu Ping'an also plans to send him to the children's class of the martial arts hall and start practicing civil and martial arts since he was a child.

Of course, Zhu Chengyou's arrival in the lecture hall must be in a secret state, except for the several responsible people in the lecture hall, and the accompanying teenager specially prepared by Zhu Ping'an for the eldest son, the rest of the people do not know.

Since the Spring Festival this year, Zhu Ping'an has sent these teenagers into the mansion and let Zhu Chengyou get along with them, these teenagers are all Zhu Ping'an's painstaking findings, and in a few years, they will also become Zhu Chengyou's most basic team. Therefore, these people were also carefully selected by Zhu Ping'an from hundreds of people.

Zhou Chang, who has been following Zhu Ping'an, is one, and the others are from various state capitals in the Ming Dynasty, namely Xia Wanchun, Chen Tingjing, Li Guangdi and others, among which the oldest Xia Wanchun is even more talented and has become the leader of these people.

At today's family banquet evening, Zhu Ping'an planned to let these teenagers participate together, but Xia Wanchun insisted on refusing. When he said that "etiquette and law should not be abandoned", when he said this, although Chen Tingjing, Li Guangdi and others were full of joy and wanted to feast, they could only echo it. Looking at the expressions of those teenagers, Zhu Ping'an's heart was extremely happy.

This also shows that there are many talents in Jiangwutang over the years. Now Xiao Yuanteng, Zhang Jizu, Wu Ziniu and others have become rising stars in the army and the DPRK situation, Zhou Chang, Xia Wanchun, Chen Tingjing, Li Guangdi and others will also soon emerge, and the martial arts hall not only cultivates military talents, but also Zhang Tao, Sun Heding and others have spared no effort to teach, and there are many civil and military all-rounders who have accepted the new trend of thought.

But soon, Zhu Ping'an felt the sharp gaze of his wife Mu Yuling, and in the month he came back from Guanwai, he kept his family at home every day. But in fact, every day, Zhu Ping'an's official affairs to be decided will be sent here from Jinan Mansion in a steady stream. Militarily, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Tinglin, and Yan Yingyuan can all be in charge of themselves, not to mention that they are all equipped with complete staff officers. In daily political affairs, Zhao Guangluan and Zhang Huangyan of Jinan can handle them properly, but for example, some things about Fujian and Nanzhili that affect the general trend of the world need Zhu Ping'an to decide. So in the past month, Zhu Ping'an has been very busy. There are very few opportunities to have dinner with the family like today.

Zhu Ping'an threw an apologetic smile at his wife, but in the blink of an eye. But it was thrown out of the clouds again. Just greeted everyone with a glass of wine, but he asked Yin Shigang beside him directly, "Has the letter to Zheng Cai been delivered?" How did he react? ”

Yin Shigang's face suddenly became extremely embarrassed, even the Yin Lady Cao who was busy in the mansion today was a little unnatural, Zhu Ping'an was stunned for a moment, and then he found the murderous gaze projected by Mu Yuling on the side and Xing Yuan's somewhat resentful expression.

Zhu Ping'an could only laugh dryly. Pick up the chopsticks, "Eat, eat, if there is anything, let's talk about it after eating!" ”

But Yin Shigang raised his chopsticks to pick up the dishes, and whispered in a voice that could only be heard by two people: "Your Highness, don't worry." His subordinates have already sent a letter to tell Shi Lang that Zheng Cai must not believe it all, and he must always remember that he is surnamed Zheng! ”

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During the Jiajing period, in order to deal with the invasion and harassment of the Japanese invaders, five coastal guards were set up in Fujian, as well as 12 guards of thousands of households, among which the Zhongzuo guard was located in Xiamen, and the Gaopu guard was next to it. These two places, together with the Thousand Households Guard House at the mouth of the Kowloon River, are the foundation and last nest of the Gaopu Zheng family.

In that year, after Zheng Zhilong sent his younger brother to invade Xiamen and killed Zheng Cai's brothers Zheng Lian and Shi Daxuan, he wanted to take this opportunity to control the lifeblood of the Gaopu Zheng clan and then annex the trade route between the Gaopu Zheng clan and Japan. However, the Gao Pu Zheng clan has been operating in these places for many years, and in his eagerness, Zheng Zhilong has encountered many obstacles, and the people sent out cannot gain a foothold in these places at all. Therefore, until now, Xiamen, Kinmen, Gaopu, and Jiulongjiangkou Guards are still in the hands of Gaopu Zheng, that is, Zheng Cai.

The Ishii Zheng clan and the Gaopu Zheng clan are intertwined, and the interests are even more closely entangled, and the two have developed to the current scale, although the Ishii Zheng clan is more powerful than the Gaopu Zheng clan I don't know how many times, but the Ishii Zheng clan wants to annex the Gaopu Zheng clan is absolutely impossible.

A day earlier, Shi Lang's envoy had come to Gaopu and asked to see Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai. In fact, there is no need to meet, Zheng Cai also knows what the intention of Shi Lang's envoy is.

When Zhu Yujian ascended the throne, the first person to put this idea into practice was actually the Zheng Cai brothers, but Zheng Zhilong took the lead. Zheng Zhilong also discovered the ambition of Zheng Cai's brothers, and struck first, killing Zheng Lian in one fell swoop, so that Zheng Cai lost his most powerful left and right hand. The Gaopu Zheng clan had to temporarily rest and hibernat. With the rise of Zheng Zhilong's father and son, the Ishii Zheng family became more and more rich and noble. But Zheng Cai only got the title of Earl of Yongsheng, and he got nothing else, even if Zhu Yujian, who had already ascended to the throne of the emperor, once wanted to give Zheng Cai, the leader, a little reward, but he was still blocked back by Zheng Zhilong with a word.

Today's world belongs to the Ming or Qing Dynasty, and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others have long become yesterday's yellow flowers. For this point, Zheng Cai saw it very clearly, Zheng Sen rescued Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu, from Zheng Zhilong, and is currently hiding in Putian with a group of henchmen. This news made Zheng Cai inexplicably excited. Zheng Zhilong's father and son are fighting against each other, isn't it a great opportunity for the Zheng family of Gaopu?

Regarding Zheng Zhilong's contact with the Qing army to surrender and surrender, Zheng Cai was extremely disdainful. Nan'anhou, who holds the military and political power of the Ming Dynasty, is so disdainful, in the end, this Zheng Zhilong is still just a maritime businessman's pattern, and he doesn't want to think about it, even if he becomes the vassal king of the Qing Dynasty, he will not have to carry the reputation of a traitor in the future, and become the finger of thousands of people.

Zheng Cai didn't care whether Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing army or not, but he expected that Zheng Zhilong's move would inevitably cause civil strife in the Ishii Zheng family. Zheng Cai knew that many generals in the Zheng army, including Zheng Sen, were resolutely anti-Qing, and Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty would inevitably touch the bottom line of these people, so the split of the Zheng army was inevitable.

How can I seize the opportunity and let Zheng Jun's elite be used by me, this is what Zheng Cai is most concerned about at present. Not to mention anything else, just talking about the main elite of the navy in Shi Fu's hands made Zheng Cai's eyes red. Zheng Cai, the envoy of Shi Lang came to Xiamen, knew very well, and Zhu Ping'an also wanted to take this opportunity to take Fujian and the Zheng family in one fell swoop to eliminate his worries. But this Zheng Jun's soldiers and horses, Zheng Cai intends to be firmly in his own hands.

Shi Lang sent his brother Shi Xian and his general Liu Guoxuan to Xiamen to meet Zheng Cai, after all, the two of them were the old people of the Zheng family, and the relationship with Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers was also very close.

On the one hand, he personally feasted the two of them and talked about wine, and on the other hand, he secretly notified the generals Zheng Sheng and Jiang Meiao to gather soldiers and horses, and prepared to sneak into Zhangzhou behind Shi Xian and Liu Guoxuan, and take advantage of the chaos to pocket the soldiers and horses under Shi Fu. After all, Zheng Cai's prestige within Zheng Jun is extremely high, and he was second only to Zheng Zhilong's brothers at the beginning. Perhaps, even if Shi Fu has no way out, he will have to take refuge in Gaopu Zheng.

Zheng Cai also made another preparation, and collected Zheng Zhilong's soldiers and horses without authorization, and he will inevitably face Zhu Ping'an's questioning in the future. Therefore, Zheng Sen and others in Putian must not let go, and killing Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhilong's other sons is tantamount to uprooting the Ishii Zheng family. You can also take advantage of the situation to take the Longwu Emperor Zhu Yujian to Xiamen and hand it over to Shi Lang or personally send it to Zhu Ping'an's hands, and Zhu Ping'an has nothing to say about the changes in Fujian.

Therefore, Zheng Cai contacted Liang Li, Huang Ting, Xiao Gongchen, Huang Zhao and others who withdrew their troops to the front line of Yongqing and Yongtai in Fuzhou Prefecture, these people are Zheng Zhilong's henchmen, but they have one characteristic, that is, the heir of the Zheng family in their hearts is not Zheng Sen, but his younger brother Zheng Xi. In other words, they did not recognize Zheng Sen's position as the son. Especially Xiao Gongchen and Huang Zhao, these two are especially Zheng Xi's best friends.

Zheng Cai can confirm that after Zheng Zhilong surrenders to the Qing Dynasty, he will definitely follow the Qing army north, and the Zheng army in Fujian will also be divided into several parts.

Therefore, after sending Jiang Meiao and Zheng Sheng to Zhangzhou, Zheng Cai led all the elite soldiers of the Gaopu Zheng clan to quietly march towards Putian. (To be continued......)