may have sensed the movement in Australia and something was wrong, or it may be that Ruan Tiantian's intelligence officers showed their feet and were discovered by Zheng Hongkui, so the Zheng family's contact with that Xiaozu general has been almost cut off recently.

Although there was no new progress, an investigation had already been launched into the troops who used firearms in Houjin, and Feng Zihai used the power in his hands to begin a targeted search and investigation, and finally targeted the two yellow flags in Manchuria.

The status of the two yellow flags is the most respectful, more than the head of the eight banners, and both the status and the distribution of interests are the first to get, so it is not difficult to imagine that the artillery equipment is in their hands.

According to the survey of the two yellow flags, the number of artillery pieces in their possession exceeded 50, and the number of muskets and bird guns also exceeded nearly 500, which was the highest among other flags.

Generally speaking, the two yellow flags as the Great Khan's pro-army are naturally not badly equipped, this time the Emperor Taiji sent Zu Kefa to purchase 26-pound artillery means that he hopes to equip an artillery team of more than 50 people again, but what makes Zu Kefa a little disappointed is that the Zheng family has a cannon but keeps it for his own use.

I don't know where this Australian Fanyi is, if it is not far away, Zu Kefa will personally sail to Australia to negotiate the matter of enough guns, although I don't know where Australia is, but he still knows about Hong Kong and Guangzhou through some merchants.

At present, the Xiangdao in Xin'an County has been occupied by the Australians, saying that it is leased for the purpose of mooring and transshipment goods, and paying 100,000 taels of silver to the imperial court every year.

This Australian suddenly appeared two years ago, although it is a cooperative relationship with the Zheng family, according to the information provided by many people, there was a big conflict between them, when the Australians just used a huge ship to suppress the entire Zheng family's fleet in the dock and became a live target.

Afterwards, the Zheng family not only continued to retaliate against the Australians, but also signed a cooperation agreement with the Australians, this extraordinary move shows that the strength of the Australians is far greater than the Zheng family, and the possibility of the Zheng family retaliating is very low. It's not even possible to deal with the Australians.

The entanglement between the Zheng family and the Australians, Zu Kefa, only understood a little bit, and only after understanding him in the depths did he know that Australia's prestige was not only so, but even in the Nanyang generation, it was also famous, and even the Hongmaoyi people, who had always been strong, did not dare to rashly become enemies with it.

If he wasn't familiar with the Australians, Zu Kefa would have gone to Guangzhou a long time ago.

Zheng Hongkui's reply to him was to wait, and on the other side, the intelligence head of the Zheng family was also discussing countermeasures with his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong.

"Big brother, for the sake of today, if we don't sell a few artillery pieces for our own use, General Yu Zu, in my opinion, it will be fine."

Zheng Zhilong knew that if he couldn't meet Zu Kefa's conditions. Maybe this business chain will be broken, and now the northern border and the Houjin have been fighting for many years, and the arms and weapons needed are huge, and the Zheng family has supplied firearms, such as broadswords, spears, pig iron, etc., so this is not a simple artillery business.

It's just that once the artillery for their own use is sold to the ancestral family, then the Zheng family's power at sea is also reduced, and now the Australians, the Dutch, the Spaniards and even the Portuguese are equipped with 26-pound guns, and the number of equipment is not lower than that of the Zheng family at all.

In particular, the Dutch have strengthened their presence in Penghu and Dayuan Island. This is also the navigation line to Japan, it can be said that the goods imported by the Zheng family have to pass through here, once the Dutch know that the number of Zheng family's artillery has decreased, it will be difficult to clean up the starting point.

Of course, this is only hypothetical. But it is also very likely to become a reality, and the old Australian garrison in Hong Kong does not know what to do, and although they do not have many ships in their hands, they are very mobile. When sailing, it can move quickly to combat and retreat, which brings a certain degree of difficulty to the positioning of artillery.

These people were cruising around him, and they had to let Zheng Zhilong pay attention to them. Especially the Dutch and Australia, these two families have had festivals one after another, and they are not sure when they will launch revenge on the Zheng family.

"No," after hesitating for a long time, Zheng Zhilong firmly said that he could not sell his own artillery to the ancestral family, sea power is the key to the Zheng family, once the advantage is lost, the Zheng family will have nothing, so the strong existence of sea power must be guaranteed.

"But eldest brother, if you don't buy artillery, I'm afraid General Xiaozu's business won't be easy to do in the future." Zheng Hongqi naturally knew that business was related to other transactions, so he reminded him, but he also knew what the eldest brother was worried about.

"Compared with my Zheng family's maritime interests, Liaodong's business can be big or small, the fourth brother thinks so."

Although the Zheng family has been changing careers over the years, the power of the sea is still his main body after all, and it is impossible to give up and hurt the root too much, in fact, Zheng Zhilong is also to leave a way back for himself, once the form is not good for him to sail out to sea again, as long as he finds a pirate to occupy it, he can still be his own overlord of the East China Sea.

So even if Liaodong's business is quite profitable, he will not do anything to reduce his power.

"I think we can have a direct showdown with the Australians, the Australians have always put profit first, and established the country by business, maybe they will agree to continue to sell artillery to us, as for General Xiaozu, you should not refuse to entertain first, wait until we negotiate with Australia, and discuss it with us, you see how this is."

After all, Zheng Zhilong still can't let go of such big interests, so he came up with a compromise method, as long as the Australians agree that everything is actually easy to do, at least a part of the price can be increased, anyway, in the end, the Zheng family can still make money, and in the end it is the ancestral family and the Great Khan of Houjin who pays the bill is not him Zheng Zhilong.

"That's all I can do, then I'll go to appease General Xiaozu first, and then contact the Australians."

"Go, entertain General Xiaozu well, and never let him see the Australians, can you?" Zheng Zhilong solemnly confessed.

A showdown with the Australians can at least ensure that his interests at sea are not endangered, which is what Zheng Zhilong values the most, only to maintain his position at sea, regardless of whether it is above the court or the Australians, he has to give himself a little thin face.

After all, strength determines everything, who will remember who you are without strength, don't look at the Zheng family is now an agent of the Australians, once the Zheng family shows weakness, others will definitely take it from the heart, and it will be too late to regret it at that time.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong knows that he must ensure his existing strength, which is where he can stand on an equal line with the Australians, otherwise not to mention the small profits of Liaodong, I am afraid that the profits of the foreign trade of the entire Japanese shogunate will be lost. (To be continued......)