Syllable!

A hard slap was slapped on Zheng Hongkui's face, and in the blink of an eye, five fingerprints bulged out on his bearded face.

"Bastard bastard! Who made you go your own way? Now that you have poked such a big basket, are you going to block it or am I going to block it? ”

"Big brother! Don't you see, the surname Xiong is violent, and he has raided fifty big ships in the city, more than half of which are ours, if we don't do this, we will lose all our profits for several years! ”

Zheng Zhilong was angry with his fourth brother, he obviously confessed to Zheng Hongkui before sneaking into Hangzhou, if he had to give up the goods of Zhejiang City, and not to have a direct conflict with Nanzhili, in the previous series of open and secret battles, he had already felt that this horse thief from the north was not as simple as he imagined before. Moreover, the secret agents in Nanjing have already sent back the news, and the cadres sent before have been wiped out, and this matter has been spread as a rumor in the streets and alleys of Nanjing, and now the officialdom is very unfavorable to him Zheng someone, so for the sake of the long run, it is really not appropriate to turn the other face with Nanjing.

In fact, in Zheng Zhilong's heart, the idea of cooperating with Nanjing has already arisen. Now that the north-south communication has been cut off, and the imperial court has lost absolute control over the south of the Yangtze River, it is time to take the opportunity to seize the benefits and spread its own power widely in order to maximize the influence of the Zheng family on the southeast coast. Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, now the Zheng family's strength in Fujian is not enough to achieve absolute superiority, and the Zheng family's traditional sphere of influence is still above the sea, as long as the surnamed Li does not come to challenge his bottom line, the big deal will be a share of him, from now on the well water does not interfere with the river water is better?

However, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, just when Zheng Zhilong was about to put this idea into practice, Zheng Hongkui brought back an absolutely hot potato, that is, Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry. Zheng Zhilong never expected that his fourth brother's courage had reached such an extent that he dared to openly attack the official ships of the imperial court and hijack important ministers.

"You bastard! My Zheng family is going to be killed by you! Zheng Zhilong scolded again, and then his voice suddenly lowered again, "Even if you do it, don't bring Xiong someone back to Anping?" Can't you just throw him into the sea on the way to feed the fish? ”

Zheng Hongkui was obedient this time, and he no longer distinguished, but replied honestly: "This, isn't this not afraid to make decisions without permission, after all, he is a Shangshu in Nanjing, not a cat or a dog, it is better to ask the eldest brother!" ”

It would be better if he didn't say that, Zheng Zhilong was even more furious after hearing this, and slapped him again, but he didn't expect Zheng Hongkui to react very quickly, subconsciously tilted his head, and his arm was bye, and he was suddenly flashed fiercely. Teng's Zheng Zhilong grinned.

"Until now, there is still a face to say that you don't dare to make decisions without permission, you have to know this, why did you kidnap the surname Xiong first?"

"Isn't this a sudden, the opportunity is fleeting, if you don't do it immediately, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will be gone!" Zheng Hongkui saw that the eldest brother did not express his position, thinking that he had approved his excuse, so he boldly said: "There is still a harvest in that attack, it is reported that Li Xin's henchman surnamed Lu A lieutenant general was killed by us and fell into the water and died. Our Zheng family and that guy will have a battle sooner or later, and now we have cut off his arm before the war, which is really ......"

Zheng Zhilong glared at him fiercely, and Zheng Hongkui immediately shrank his neck in fright like seeing an eagle's chicken, and swallowed the words back into his stomach. But this time, Zheng Zhilong didn't get angry, but sighed lightly: "Since the matter has come to this, there is no point in holding you accountable. Xiong Mingyu must not die, but he must not let anyone know the secret of his whereabouts! How many of the people who came back with you knew Xiong Mingyu's true identity? ”

Hearing Zheng Zhilong ask, Zheng Hongkui couldn't help but tremble again, "All, all, almost all know!" ”

This answer made Zheng Zhilong immediately dispel the idea of extinguishing his mouth, there were too many people, and he couldn't kill them at all. Even if they were forcibly killed, they would only provoke the anger of the public.

"Tell them that their mouths are all in order, but if anyone leaks the news, they will immediately correct the Fa on the spot!"

In the end, Zheng Zhilong's eyes revealed a hint of ruthlessness, which made Zheng Hongkui shudder. To be honest, every time Zheng Hongkui faced his eldest brother, he never felt the warmth between brothers, and what made him sit on pins and needles has always been a kind of pressure and power from empowerment.

"Yes, yes, brother wrote it down!"

After explaining the bottom line of how to deal with Xiong Mingyu, Zheng Zhilong picked up the official document on the table, and couldn't help but applaud after only turning a few pages, and then threw the official document in his hand at Zheng Hongkui.

"Look at it, Zheng Cai killed thousands of thieves and captured thousands. What a tiger dog father! ”

Zheng Hongkui is used to being scolded by this eldest brother, and he has not felt embarrassed at all, although he denied the credit of his trip to Hangzhou to the eldest brother, but after all, it is his son who is praised, in the final analysis, he is still more beautiful than frustrated and dissatisfied.

Zheng Cai defeated the thieves from Jiangxi Lake with 3,000 fine armor, which was really a victory of winning more with less and greatly increasing morale. Before Zheng's victory, the Fujian soldiers were defeated in successive battles, and almost the entire western Fujian fell into the hands of thieves.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong had already seen through Nanjing's plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. These southbound tigers are indeed not easy to match, not to mention their fierce combat effectiveness, they have repeatedly defeated the Fujian official army and wantonly seized food, which made Zheng Zhilong, as the chief soldier, very embarrassed. If these thieves are not dealt with as soon as possible, the Zheng family's reputation will be irreparably damaged, and those who oppose the Zheng family may take this opportunity to burst out.

At this moment, the cooperation between the two sides is a win-win solution, who let Zheng Hongkui make a fool and push the Zheng family to the opposite side of Nanjing, so now they can only run to the back, let alone a second way.

Since we have decided to be the enemy to the end, we must no longer be afraid of it, and we must first take it by surprise and shoot people and horses.

Zheng Zhilong knows that on land, he may not be the opponent of Li Xin, who was born as a horse thief, but if he is at sea, the Zheng family and Li Xin are like a strong man playing with a baby, isn't it just a matter of rubbing the round and flattening as he wants?

After not knowing how many thoughts turned in his heart, Zheng Zhilong finally made up his mind.

"Success or failure is once again ......"

Zheng Hongkui approached his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong according to the gesture, and nodded in agreement as Zheng Zhilong's mouth opened and closed, and his eyes once again exuded excitement and excitement......

The decision of Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenqing, was very simple, and the matter should be handed over to Chen Wenzhi and Zhu Yuncai to make a joint decision, while he himself went to Hangzhou with the fleet to find out the facts of the case and uphold the law of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this upbringing of the law of the country is for outsiders, in fact, all the generals of the Three Guards present here are like mirrors, and the Marquis of Zhenyu has already planned to go south to fight and remove a major obstacle to the Three Guards Army in the south of the Yangtze River. Among the generals, Mi Yan was the most fiercely opposed, and he believed that Li Xin should not leave Nanjing easily, otherwise if the situation got out of control, the Three Guards Army would be extremely passive.

However, Li Xin announced the second decision with a smile, Mi Yan, who was the supervisor of the Pingbo fleet, did not go south with the army this time, but stayed in the barracks to control and transfer the new army of Sanwei to be responsible for the security of several prefectures in Nanzhili.

After this order was issued, Mi Yan knew that the decision of the Marquis of Zhenyu could not be changed, so he had to bow to the leader. At the same time, he also felt the weight of the responsibility on his shoulders. Chen Wenzhi and Zhu Yuncai complement each other, which also makes him feel a little at ease, only the bigwigs in the city are a headache for him when he thinks about it.

Not to mention Wei Guogong who was under house arrest, there is also Zhang Fangyan, the governor of Zhejiang, who lives in the temporary governor's yamen in Nanjing, although he does not ask about political affairs, but it is difficult to do anything under the deterrence of the marquis of Zhenlu, who knows whether they will be ready to move after the marquis of Zhenlu leaves, in addition, there is also Sun Ji, the governor of Nanzhili, it is obvious that the marquis of Zhenlu did not classify it as a group of people who can be trusted by the officials who stayed behind.

Of course, this may just be a delusional speculation in Mi Yan's heart, because he soon heard Li Xin's next explanation.

"Sun Butang is dying, you can deal with unnecessary things by yourself, if you are still in good spirits, you can ask for a decision on major matters!"

This sentence is very subtle, and if it is placed in different people, there will be different interpretations, for example, Zhu Yuncai only thinks that this is a high-sounding sentence, as long as Sun Butang's condition has been sluggish and his spirit has been bad, he naturally does not need to make decisions on major matters. However, this new celebrity, whose status has risen rapidly in the Three Guards, still has some regrets, that is, matters big and small must be decided together with Chen Wenshan's soft bun.

And the Marquis of Zheng even made a clear definition of the terms of reference of the two of them, although the two of them were not big or small, but the decision in everything was based on Chen Wenshan's opinion, and when it was implemented, Zhu Yuncai's opinion was the main one. This is clearly a disguised means of restriction, but after all, he is still happy in his heart, and he always has to do something earth-shattering, so that the Marquis of Zhenyu can see that he is not an extreme and narrow-minded person who is embarrassed to take on a big task.

Three days later, the flag was unfurled at the wharf outside Shangyuan Gate, and the swearing-in meeting was surging, and the audience was not only the middle and senior generals and colonels of the Three Guards, but also the civil and military officials in Nanjing. The New Army of the Three Guards, with neat uniforms, lined up in an unusually neat column and boarded the big ship. The marching band was in a sonorous rhythm, and the war drums rumbled in the distance.

With the three-masted battleship firing 10,000 guns, the shock of the scene pushed the pledge meeting to the climax. The Chinese warriors in the city who watched the ceremony couldn't help but look sideways, and few of these people had never seen such a mighty master in their lives.

In the past, I only heard from various rumors and writings that the Three Guards were mighty and majestic, and many people disdained this, believing that at least fifty percent of them were boasting. Now it seems that the previous rumors are not untrue......

"Anchor!"

The flagship's hoarse voice roared, causing the flag to flutter and change, and hundreds of large ships slowly moved around.