Chapter 35 Running away
Since Zheng Yiguan returned from Japan this time, the relationship between him and Yan Siqi has gradually become tense, and considering the safety problem, he took the initiative to move out of Dazhai and move to a village closer to the shore.
As Yan Siqi continued to immigrate from the land to farm, the area of land reclamation became larger and larger, and the original village could no longer meet their needs, so Yan Siqi divided the immigrants into many small villages to meet the needs of the immigrants, and at the same time let each small village have a certain ability to protect themselves, and sent some subordinates to manage them, and was also responsible for protecting their safety.
Therefore, Zheng Yiguan proposed to move to Xiaozhai, and Yan Siqi did not object, which can also reduce the conflict between Zheng Yiguan and his subordinates.
Therefore, Zheng Yiguan's current village is a relatively independent village, mainly living in some of his subordinates, as well as some immigrants here.
Moreover, Zheng Yiguan's stockade was relatively close to the sea, so he did not need to enter and leave Bengang, and he himself built a temporary wharf and trestle bridge on the seaside during this time for his ships to berth and replenish.
In short, Zheng Yiguan is now in Bengang, which is a relatively independent state, basically not under the dispatch of Yan Siqi, and Yan Siqi did not interfere too much with Zheng Yiguan in order to avoid a head-on conflict with Zheng Yiguan, and let him control his subordinates by himself.
This has made many people very dissatisfied, but Yan Siqi knows that although it is not a way to go on like this, he can only do this, if it goes on for so long, it is a matter of time before his subordinates fall apart.
Although Zheng Yiguan is relatively independent, he has always paid more attention to Yan Siqi's movements, and bought off a group of Yan Siqi's subordinates to help him keep an eye on Yan Siqi's activities.
It was also through these bought subordinates that he found out about Yan Siqi's purchase of the cannon from Yu Xiaotian, and inquired about the time when Yan Siqi delivered the silver to the sea wolf on Nanri Island, but he was still negligent, that is, he did not thoroughly inquire about all the details, so that he did not know in advance that Yan Siqi had already guarded against him, and when he sent someone to transport the silver, he had notified Yu Xiaotian in advance and asked Yu Xiaotian to send someone to pick up the silver ship he sent.
Originally, after Zheng Yiguan sent Zheng Python to follow the silver ship that ambushed Chen Xinji, he thought that his arrangement was seamless, and then he only waited to harvest the tens of thousands of taels of silver, and then watched Yan Siqi turn against him in anger.
But when he was secretly complacent, he unexpectedly received a news that made him feel like five thunders, that is, Zheng Python was defeated, not only did he not be able to take Yan Siqi's silver ship, but he revealed his identity and met a fleet that appeared inexplicably, which disturbed their good deeds.
Zheng Python had already realized that their deeds had been revealed, and he was afraid that the next thing would be out of control, so he sent a boat to rush back to Bengang first, reported the news to Zheng Yiguan, and asked Zheng Yiguan to leave here quickly, in case Chen Xinji came back to report the news after he got out of trouble, causing Yan Siqi to suddenly attack Zheng Yiguan.
Zheng Yiguan, who was originally full of joy and waiting to pick peaches, was blindsided when he heard it, and hurriedly asked the person who reported the news what the identity of the fleet that suddenly appeared was, but because the ship left a little earlier, he couldn't see the flag of the coming fleet clearly, so he couldn't tell what the identity of the coming ship was, but it was just that the fleet came suddenly, and it was more likely that the person who came was not good, and it was more likely that it was an enemy or a friend.
And on the way back first, the people on their ship faintly heard the rumbling of cannons from behind, and the sound of cannons continued for a long time, and then they didn't know what happened later.
After Zheng Yiguan heard this, his heart suddenly sank, and he got up and walked back and forth in the room, his mind was racing sharply, analyzing the possible consequences of this matter.
He couldn't guess what the origin of this sudden appearance of the fleet was, but from the fragmentary news brought back by the messenger, he felt very bad and very uneasy, from these scattered information, he could basically determine that Zheng Python must have messed things up this time.
This fleet that suddenly appeared messed up his good deeds, and it is likely to have a fierce conflict with Zheng Python, so what kind of fleet is this fleet? After thinking about it for a while, he felt a chill in his heart, because in the coastal areas of Fujian, including the Taiwan Strait, the strongest pirates now are only sea wolves, and there are several other relatively large pirate groups, only him, Yan Siqi and Chu Cai are old.
It is impossible for Chu Cailao's fleet to be active in this area at this time, and most of Yan Siqi's subordinates during this period have been withdrawn to this area, but there is no news that a large number of ships under Yan Siqi have gone to sea.
Then the only remaining possibility is the sea wolf! At this time, only the fleet of the sea wolf may appear in this area, and Yan Siqi and the sea wolf are secretly trading this time, so it is likely to ......
Zheng Yiguan thought of this, and a cold sweat came out of the sweat pores, turned around and immediately shouted: "The order goes down, everyone immediately clean up, and within an hour, board the ship and leave here!" ……”
Zheng Yiguan's village was in a big mess, these Zheng Yiguan's subordinates didn't know what happened to Lu Dao, why Lu suddenly had a good time, but Zheng Yiguan seemed to be crazy, so they immediately packed up their things and evacuated here, some people wanted to ask Zheng Yiguan what happened and why he was in such a hurry.
But everyone who asked was scolded back by Zheng Yiguan, and told them to inquire less, just do what he asked, hurry up, and leave here immediately.
So these Zheng Yiguan's subordinates gathered here were like a bombed nest, scurrying around in the village, tightly packing up their various valuables and softness, and packing them to the dock for loading.
At the same time, Zheng Yiguan also ordered that all the small number of Yan Siqi's subordinates in the village be controlled, tied with ropes, and thrown in a room, and even their mouths were blocked, preventing them from making a sound, and it was impossible for them to run to Dazhai to ventilate and report the news.
Because of the suddenness of the incident, Zheng Yiguan stored a lot of valuables here, and it was too late to pack them all up for a while, and they were transported to the shore dock for loading.
So his subordinates asked Zheng Yiguan to give them some time to give them more time, and after packing up these things, they loaded them on the ship and left.
But Zheng Yiguan didn't agree at all, and ordered them to pack only the most valuable, and relatively light things on the ship, as for those stupid things, and some less valuable things, they were just thrown here, in short, within an hour, everyone must board the ship and lift anchor and leave here.
Zheng Yiguan actually didn't have a lot of people left here, except for a few hundred people who stayed in the village, the rest of the people and ships were mostly sent by him to the coastal activities around Zhangquan during this time, with his current strength here, it is definitely not as strong as Yan Siqi's strength, if Yan Siqi chooses this time and completely turns his face with him, he can only hold on here for a day or two at most, and he can't wait for his subordinates to gather here to rescue him.
So at this time, Zheng Yiguan made a decision, did not hesitate, would rather abandon some goods, than dare to delay here, after a while of chaos in the village, Zheng Yiguan took hundreds of his subordinates here to their small dock, and took six or seven boats parked here, with the goods on board, immediately Yang Fan anchored, sailed away from the shore, and left a group of confused immigrants on the shore.
It wasn't until Zheng Yiguan took someone to board the ship and leave the shore that someone reported the news to the general village, and reported that Yan Siqi learned, Yan Siqi was also very surprised after hearing it, and he didn't know what Zheng Yiguan was crazy about today, why he suddenly took all his subordinates, boarded the ship and left here, and also moved a lot of goods onto the ship, as if he was going to move.
He didn't even believe the news, and asked twice in a row to make sure that he hadn't heard it wrong, and at first he was a little secretly happy, feeling that Zheng Yiguan, the scourge, had finally left by himself, and it was better to go, and he would save himself from worrying about this in the future.
But then I thought about it, this matter is not scientific! Zheng Yiguan has no reason to leave here in a hurry at this time! Could it be that he's in trouble?
Even if he wants to leave, now there is no tearing face between Zheng Yiguan and him, even if Zheng Yiguan has something to leave here in a hurry, he can say hello to him before leaving, and he will not stop him from leaving?
Yan Siqi was puzzled, so he hurriedly beckoned some of his subordinates and rumbled towards the stockade where Zheng Yiguan was.
When he entered the village where Zheng Yiguan was, he found that it was indeed empty, and there was a large mess in the village, and many of them were still quite valuable, but they were also thrown here by Zheng Yiguan, obviously not wanted.
So Yan Siqi didn't understand it anymore, and hurriedly sent someone to search the village to see if he could find any clues.
After a long period of tossing, they found a room where more than a dozen of Yan Siqi's subordinates were imprisoned, all of whom were tied up so tightly that even their mouths were gagged.
So Yan Siqi's subordinates hurriedly released these dozen people and sent them to Yan Siqi.
Yan Siqi immediately asked them what was going on, but these people were also confused, just said that Zheng Yiguan suddenly ordered someone to control them, tied them one by one and gagged them, and then left them in a room, and then there was a commotion outside, and it didn't take long for Zheng Yiguan to run to their small dock, board the boat and leave here, what happened, they didn't know what happened.
Yan Siqi was really confused by Zheng Yiguan at this time, and vaguely felt a little uneasy, because early this morning, he sent away Chen Xinji and three boats, loaded with a full 40,000 taels of silver, and transported them to Nanri Island.
So what is the connection between the two? Thinking of this, Yan Siqi broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately ordered people to hurry to the dock, send some more ships to the sea, and search in the direction of Nanri Island to see if there was anything unusual on the sea.
So Yan Siqi's subordinates in the entire Bengang area were busy at this time, and one by one the boats soon began to pull anchors and set sail, sailed out of Bengang, and went up to the sea, and then raised the full sails and accelerated towards the area of Nanri Island in the northwest direction of Bengang......