6. Zheng Keshuang and sugar (two watches, asking for support and rewards)

/newmessage.php?tosys=1&title="Ming Zhengzhi I am Zheng Kezang

Chapter Errors/Click here to report

From the end of May to the middle of July of this year, the Taiwan Strait was filled with warships and grain ships from Chengtianfu, and it was not until the beginning of the typhoon that the entire transport fleet came to an end temporarily, and so far the Zheng army had gathered tens of thousands of troops in Jinxia and other places. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

In addition to continuously transferring soldiers and grain from Taiwan, Zhu Jin also constantly sent secret spies to connect in all directions. Because the three generations of the Zheng family have been operating in southern Fujian and northern Guangdong for many years, the influence still exists, the connections are still there, and Geng Jingzhong is perverse, so Wang Fanxi, the son of Wang Jingong, the governor of Fujian stationed in Quanzhou, Huang Fangdu, the Chenggong of Qinghai who occupies Zhangzhou, and Liu Jinzhong, the general soldier of Chaozhou, have thrown themselves into the Zheng army, which is extremely beneficial to the Ming Zheng regime for a while.

Seeing that the momentum of the Ming and Zheng sides was gradually rising, Geng Jingzhong, who was unable to repent, could no longer sit still, so he sent envoys to Zhu Jin to negotiate, hoping that the Ming and Zheng sides could return the important town of Quanzhou to himself, how could Zhu Jin agree, so Geng Jingzhong decided to recapture Quanzhou by force, and a big war was imminent

"Sister Ziling, is grandmother her old man up?"

Although the boy boy camp has been transferred to formal training, Zheng Kezang's identity is not just the general leader of this Scout who looks like a joke to outsiders, and it is impossible to soak in it all day long to mess with him, so as not to give Zhu Jin or some people who are concerned about his growth feel discouraged by playthings.

"The eldest prince, the old lady is chanting," although the female official in her twenties has a beautiful appearance, she replied with a stiff face at the moment, as the so-called upward and downward effect, the old lady Dong has always had a knot in her heart for this evil grandmother and son who was angry with her husband's life, and the female officials who were in her twenties naturally did not dare to smile at Zheng Kezang. "The filial piety of the eldest son, the slave maid will definitely tell the old lady later, so as not to delay the eldest prince to go back to study."

"Then it's going to be troublesome for Sister Ziling." Zheng Kezhang pursed his lips secretly, to be honest, coming to Beiyuan Courtyard every day in the morning and dusk is the obligation of Zheng Kezhang as the eldest grandson after Zhu Jin left Taiwan, as for whether the old lady Dong, who has always been dissatisfied with him, will appreciate it, this is not something he can control, anyway, as long as he comes, others cannot attack him for being unfilial from the aspect of etiquette. "In addition, I will ask Sister Ziling to tell my grandmother, and I will say that Qin'er will come to pay my respects again in the evening."

This is Zheng Kezang's daily itinerary now: in addition to going to Dong Guotai to set up the province in the morning and evening, he gets up early in the morning to practice martial arts, and then follows Mr. Lu to study and study all morning, and only in the afternoon is his free time - usually he will rush to the boy boy camp to train with him, and of course, he will eat with his mother Chen Zhaoniang regularly.

"Qin She?" Zheng Kezhang had just come out of the courtyard of the North Park, and at a glance he saw Zheng Keshuang coming out of the car, and the jumping child was running into the yard when he suddenly saw his six-year-old brother standing in front of him, and suddenly stopped his footsteps and crashed into Zheng Kezang's arms. "Oops, Qin She is fat again."

Zheng Kezhang hugged the child and tried his best, fortunately, although it was still a little difficult, he was finally able to lift the other party up, but Zheng Keshuang, who had his feet off the ground, suddenly cried: "Put it down, mother, mother, big brother, he bullied me." ”

Zheng Kezhang couldn't help but laugh and put down the child who kicked his feet, pinched the other party's little face with one hand, took out the oiled paper package from his arms with the other hand, peeled it off slightly and shook it at Zheng Keshuang: "Little villain, you can tell me, brother, how I bullied you." ”

"Sugar?" Zheng Keshuang's eyes lit up, and this sweet thing quickly pressed the sense of alienation between himself and Zheng Kezang, so he took the initiative to hug Zheng Kezang back. "Hello big brother, good big brother, give Qin Er some sweet candy"

The waiter from the other courtyard who came to inquire and the maid who escorted Zheng Keshuang looked at this scene dumbfounded, but the identities of these two people made them dare not say anything, so they had to sit on the side with Zheng Kezhang leading Zheng Keshuang.

"Eat slowly." Looking at Zheng Keshuang who was licking the sugar chips, Zheng Kezang's eyes narrowed slightly, as an online writer who made full use of Du Niang in later generations, Zheng Kezhang naturally knew that the coup d'Γ©tat six or seven years later was not the original intention of this gluttonous dessert kid at the moment.

"It's also a poor person who is being used by careerists." Zheng Kezhang sighed secretly, this may be the reason why the other party finally agreed to surrender to the Manchus, the same was held hostage, the same house arrest, at least going to Beijing still seems to be able to get rid of the grasp of the ministers, but it is a pity to get out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den, as soon as he thought of this, Zheng Kezang felt more pity in his heart, so he raised his voice and said with a pun. "Don't worry, there is a big brother here, no one can blame you"

After separating from the reluctant Zheng Keshuang, when returning to the courtyard where he lived, Zheng Kezang, who was riding on a horse, involuntarily fell into contemplation. The cause of the contemplation can also be said to be a flash of inspiration, and the content of the contemplation is the candy he gave Zheng Keshuang to eat just now. Sugar was not a new thing in Taiwan, and sugar cane and sugar were an extremely important source of income for the Dutch East India Company back in the days when the Dutch were in power. However, in the hands of Zhu Jin, in order to provide enough grain for the army, Chen Yonghua changed a large area of sugare forests into farmland, which made up for the shortage of military rations for the Zheng army, but also caused the Ming and Zheng sides to lack an export product in foreign trade that could be exchanged for a large amount of income.

"Relish Taiwan's sugar, a little blood and tears" -- even during the Japanese occupation, the sugar industry was an important source of profit for Taiwan. However, it is obviously impossible to persuade Chen Yonghua to change his course now, especially now that the army is marching west and is in urgent need of food. Therefore, the only thing Zheng Kezhang can do at present is to improve the output and quality of cane sugar under the existing sugarcane planting area.

"Jin Nineteen," Zheng Kezhang returned to his study and called the attendant who served him before Master Lu arrived. "Go find a few sugar squeezers, and when the class is over, you bring them to see Yu."

"What? The eldest prince wants a candy house? "Listening to Zheng Kezang's request, Chen Yonghua was suddenly a little displeased, in his opinion, the other party seemed to be a little crazy, put a good self-cultivation Qi family to govern the country and the world of the sage book does not read, one will engage in a children's camp, and one will use the sugar house to test the new style of sugar extraction, it is really a bit of putting the cart before the horse." The eldest prince still has to mention this matter, otherwise the minister will not be able to explain it to the king. ”

"Mr. Chen's thoughts, Yu can also guess a few points, nothing more than that Yu's move is unseemly, but the old gentleman doesn't know that Yu has recently occasionally read Xu Wendinggong's "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", which is very beneficial." Zheng Kezhang gave up going to the boy camp to get close to the future descendants to grind his teeth with Chen Yonghua, he definitely wanted to achieve what he wanted in one go. "If you don't know the crops, you don't know the people's livelihood, and you don't know how the people's livelihood is the government, and the rest can be regarded as the unity of knowledge and action."

"Mr. Xuanhu? Mr. Yang Ming? Chen Yonghua raised the corners of his eyebrows, these two people are amazing, they are both a generation of grandmasters, and it looks so funny and unbelievable from the mouth of Zheng Kezang, a twelve-year-old boy, so Chen Yonghua's attitude is extremely resolute. The eldest prince, the minister has already said that this matter will never work, and the eldest prince still dispelled this idea. ”

"Old stubborn, but also Taiwan Zhuge Liang, I think it will be a Jiang Wei if he dies."

Zheng Kezang, who was driven out by Chen Yonghua, was quite indignant, but no matter how he said it, he couldn't save Chen Yonghua's decision, without Chen Yonghua's support, the twelve-year-old Zheng Kezhang seemed a little helpless, what should I do? Do you want to give up? Time is running out, and he doesn't have much time to wait for Chen Yonghua to change his mind, so he can only use a workaround.

"Let's go, go to the Marquis of Funing (note: I didn't know which book to read before, I glanced at it and said that Zheng Chenggong's sons were the title of Earl Marquis, so I checked the information for a whole day and still didn't find it, if there are book friends who know, please don't hesitate to teach) house."

Zhu Chenggong has ten sons, of which except for the eldest son Zhu Jin, who inherited the official title of the general of the Ming Dynasty and the king of Yanping County, the rest are all marquis, of which the Marquis of Funing is the title of the second Zheng Cong. However, although Zheng Cong's name is "Cong", he is extremely greedy, and he can't see where there is wisdom and wisdom, Zhu Jin suppressed him when he was in Taiwan, and when Zhu Jin went on an expedition, Zheng Cong was a little ready to move, which happened to be used by Zheng Kezang.

"It's really Qinshe, it's rare." Sure enough, when he heard that Zheng Kezhang came to visit him, Zheng Cong was a little surprised, and he was busy welcoming this Yuanzi in. "Sit down, sit down, your second uncle is just that, it's not good to eat well, so there are only some snacks and fruits to entertain you, don't think your uncle is unreasonable."

"Where, the second uncle is polite." As soon as they met, they heard Zheng Cong complain that he was short of money, which made Zheng Kezhang feel that his plan had a good chance of success, so he further ignited the fire. "The second uncle is a dignified marquis, if he wants to say that he can be fed and clothed just now, so that outsiders can hear it, wouldn't he blame his father for mistreating his compatriots."

Zheng Cong has always had great awe of Zhu Jin, the majestic eldest brother, so when he heard Zheng Kezhang say this, he couldn't help but look stunned, and then laughed: "Qin She said that it was funny, which is an outsider between you and my uncle and nephew, besides, the army is marching westward, and the use is tight, and the second uncle is indeed not rich in money, so it is not true to complain." ”

"Hehe," Zheng Kezhang chuckled, and then sat up straight like a little adult. "Second uncle, don't worry, Yu won't sue my father." Zheng Cong breathed a sigh of relief, but then he heard Zheng Kezhang say lightly. "Is there a sugar liao under the second uncle's name? Which one is for the nephew to play with. ”

"Qinshe, don't be kidding." Zheng Cong almost bounced out of his seat. "Sugar Liao is a monopoly of the Ministry of Industry, how can the second uncle have it." However, Zheng Kezhang didn't listen to his explanation, a pair of big eyes just stared at him, Zheng Cong was horrified by Zheng Kezang, and coughed. "Qin She, the second uncle really doesn't have a sugar liao in his hands."

"Then forget it," Zheng Kezhang stood up from his chair and turned to leave, sighing in a casual tone. "I originally planned to send a windfall to the second uncle, but unfortunately, forget it, forget it, find the third uncle to ask."

"Slow, slow," Zheng Cong jumped up and grabbed Zheng Kezang. "Qinshe, what a windfall, make it clear before leaving."

"It's nothing, Yu has nothing to do and flipped through a few agricultural books, and suddenly turned to an article about sugar making, which includes the methods of making rock sugar and snow sugar, I originally planned to use the second uncle's sugar liao to demonstrate it to see if the secret method mentioned in the book is true, but unfortunately the second uncle's house does not have a sugar liao, so"

Although the south of the Ming Dynasty has begun to produce white sugar one after another, but on the one hand, the quality is not good and needs to be improved, on the other hand, the so-called rock sugar is unheard of.

For this reason, Zheng Cong hurriedly changed his words: "There is a sugar house, of course there is a sugar house, Qinshe, don't worry, the second uncle will find a way to buy one immediately." ”

"Buy now?" Zheng Kezhang looked at Zheng Cong with a smile. "Second Uncle isn't afraid that Yu's secret method is fake?"

"Fake?" Zheng Cong was dumbfounded, yes, what if it's fake.

"Actually, it doesn't get in the way," Zheng Kezang said quietly. "Sugar extraction itself is a small and profitable business."

"Yes, yes." Zheng Cong woke up like a dream. "If we can't make high-quality snow sugar, can't we make ordinary snow sugar?"

"The franchise of the Ministry of Engineering?"

"Second uncle has his own way!"

"Well, before the sugar period, I have to see the sugar liao and the manpower"

Zheng Kezang, who was sent away, Zheng Cong of Mei Zizi thought about it for a long time, and suddenly came to his senses: "This little evil seed, how can he be like a little adult, he is only twelve years old this year, it's amazing, it's amazing, hey, our Zheng family has another talent." ”

Zheng Conghou walked back and forth in the hall a few times in fear, but soon he shook his head again: "It doesn't matter who he will be the lord of Taiwan, as long as he has money in his hand, it is not a big deal to invest in the Manchu Qing Dynasty."

Aishang Novel Network would like to thank all book friends for their support biquge.info