After Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, said the words "I am a businessman, you are a soldier", he got his wish and saw that his eldest son, King Haicheng, who was surprised, was finally dumbfounded, and nodded with great certainty, and then said:

"Exactly! I will gather the fleet at sea, build more merchant ships and escort warships, and then go to the court to approve it, and then take the old man with me, and go out for another three or five years. You will train well in this golden land, wait for your father to send you a steady stream of white flowers and silver, recruit my Zheng Tiger Ben, and build a lot of warships to cross the sea, so that you can compete with the Dutch red hair in the coming day! ”

Oh! Zheng Shisen didn't understand until this time-

Speaking of which, the cunning old guy is going to give himself a salary! First put all the ready-made sea ships and merchant ships under your own name, and then lead a group of your cronies to go to sea to make a lot of money! And he can only have an empty shelf left, the so-called Duoduo recruitment of soldiers, but it is just a "caretaker", at best, it can be regarded as "self-made", and he must continue to rely on the "continuous" military funds sent by his father, that is, "relying on his snort".

"This ...... I'm afraid it's difficult for a child to take on such a big responsibility...... "King Haicheng is 10,000 unwilling in his heart!"

"Why is Sen'er so humble? Knowing your son Mo Ruo's father, when your father was not by your side, didn't you still occupy Jinxia, recruit soldiers, and create an army of tigers? Don't be too humble! Zheng Zhilong did not let go at all, smiled and "encouraged" his son, and suddenly remembered something, and continued:

"Jin'er [Zheng Jing] is thirteen years old, and it is time to learn the true inheritance of my Zheng family as soon as possible. Let him go out with me to experience the experience! ”

Zheng Zhilong has a strong learning ability, draws inferences from one example, and uses the "proton" trick used by the Qing court on his son on his grandson as it is!

"Father......" Zheng Shisen was just about to put forward a different opinion, but Zheng Zhilong had already made a final decision, and turned to Zheng Shizhong and said:

"Shizhong, in a few days, you will return to Jingshi, and by the way, you will bring your father's Shangshu back to the court and play the Ming Sheng. Remember, don't be strong. Self-preservation! Again. In particular, it is important to remember that the Son of Heaven has many eyes and ears at his feet, and he must not have any private dealings with the sons of the other three kings in Beijing. They have their own provision for their Father! ”

"My son wrote it down!"

"Alright. It's really old to be a father. After talking about it for a short while, I became tired. Maybe it's the drink. Rest fast, too. Zheng Zhilong accepted it when he saw it, and hurriedly announced the adjournment of the meeting.

"Yes, my father will rest sooner!" Zheng Shizhong stood up and saluted.

"Big brother. Let's go, go to your house, and I'll ask for advice on the art of naval warfare!" ”

"Uh...... This ......" Zheng Shisen seems to have a thousand words.

"Ah...... Well...... "Zheng Zhilong was already yawning!

"Father goes to bed early, son retires!" Let's go, the future is long! Zheng Shisen had no choice but to get up with his second brother and say goodbye.

"Well, I'm really tired, Sen'er walks slowly...... Ah...... "Lao Tzu and King An continued to yawn, stretched their waists, and politely sent their son King Haicheng!"

At this time, if the son acquiesces to his method of "father, business, and son soldier", the rest of the matter is to take care of those old subordinates back then, so as to separate the camp of you and me, and then "make good use"!

Watching the two sons say goodbye one after the other, Zheng Zhilong took out a small paper roll from the secret box on the table, hastily unfolded it and looked at it twice, then lightly lit the lamp, and waited carefully for it to almost burn his fingers, before he raised it lightly, and continued to watch it completely turn into ashes in the air......

Hehe, the Han King of the opposite sex in the south, you think that the mechanism is exhausted, but you think that I Zheng Zhilong is too simplistic! Open sea trade, Fujian and Guangdong merchants? The idea is good, but it's a pity that I have already prepared a good show for you here - the Qing Dynasty is overjoyed with King An, and I thought to myself.

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Sunshine Rock on Xiamen Island [1], outside the garrison of Zheng Jun's right tiger guard with the conscription camp, the deputy soldier town [deputy leader] military household residence.

It is said to be a "house", but it is actually a small fisherman's courtyard. As the deputy leader of the Right Tiger Guard's conscription battalion, Liu Guoxuan was also one of the middle and senior officers of the Zheng Army at this time, so he could naturally enjoy the privilege of leaving the camp and returning home to rest on weekdays and nights. Because Xiamen Island is not big, and the house is close to the military camp with the conscription, it is very convenient to return to the camp once there is something to do in a moment.

"Huang Gui, you kid is ...... Just know that the mouth is full of feces! Today...... The town...... This town has not poured you down, tomorrow is set...... I won't spare you! ”

Liu Guoxuan, the deputy soldier, leaned against the door and shouted at the few figures who had just left the courtyard gate. With each shout, his body swayed once, and he almost fell several times!

"Liu Bingzhen, the last general...... Served! Bright...... Tomorrow...... Come and beg for wine and food again! Return...... Let's go back! The one who was called Huang Gui was also mixed with garlic on the soles of his feet, shaking three times in one step, but he was still trying to tilt his head and shout vaguely at the officials behind him.

"Let's go back to Bingzhen...... Let's go back......" The rest of the people also followed politely, supporting each other and stumbling towards the barracks not far away.

Zeng Chun, Zheng Xiangeng...... Yan Qian, Meng Qiao, alas...... Alas! A few of you cowards, isn't the country surnamed ...... tonight Family banquet in Zhangzhou? How to come back, don't come back and get drunk! Liu Guoxuan was drunk like mud, but he didn't give up, and intermittently shouted the names of the other four, which seemed to be unfinished. Although Zheng Jun was included in the Han Army of the Qing Dynasty, in private, the soldiers and generals were still accustomed to calling Zheng Shisen, the king of Haicheng, "the surname of the country".

"Lord Bingzhen, the generals don't dare to drink anymore...... Again...... Besides, the prince's military discipline ...... The military discipline is strict, if it weren't for your treat tonight, we would be ...... They dare not leave the camp! ”

The one who walked in front of Zuihou was named Meng Qiao, who was a guerrilla general of the Right Tiger Guard's battalion, with the lowest position and seemed to drink the most, but he still staggered back, raised his right fist softly, and hit his left chest lightly, which was regarded as a military salute, but he almost knocked himself crooked with one punch, and finally stood firm, so he continued to shout:

"You...... Go back and ...... tomorrow Drink again! Subordinate sue ...... Farewell! ”

"You ...... You're so damn...... You ......" Liu Guoxuan was also drunk, watching the junior military academies under his command slowly disappear into the night. He didn't mean to turn around, so he scolded and turned back to hold on to the door frame, staggered into the door, and without turning back, he kicked the door with his heel.

Until this time, Liu Guoxuan leaned on the door, but he no longer had the slightest intention of being drunk, but listened carefully with his ears pricked up for a while, and after confirming that the courtyard was quiet inside and outside, he lightly inserted the door bolt little by little. Then. He blew out the only headlight in the room. In the moonlight, he walked around the messy living room and went into his own bedroom, and lightly lit a small oil lamp. He also snored faintly on his own. There seems to be nothing, intermittently. A pair of eyes radiated an alert light......

After a long time, the alert Liu Guoxuan took out a short blade from his boot and gently placed it on the top of the bookcase, next to the sea bowl full of wine. Then. He bent down and fumbled under the desk for a long time, and finally carefully took out a bag and held it on the desk with the same gentle hands. After placing it at a stop, Liu Guoxuan got up and left his seat, knelt on the ground quietly, and said something in his mouth:

"Minister, Liu Guoxuan, welcome Yizhi!"

After the simple etiquette of "one kneel and three kowtows", Liu Guoxuan knelt and unfolded his bag, opened a small roll of ordinary rice paper, only to find that there were only four Chinese characters on it: "How is Bingwei"!

It turned out that since Liu Guoxuan received the secret decree of the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai last year, designed to dedicate Zhangzhou City to Zheng Sen and won his complete trust, every once in a while, there will be a secret decree in the palace, and every time it is concise and ordinary.

No longer hesitating, Liu Guoxuan found a piece of thin silk and wrote it in a neat fly-headed small letter:

"The ministers worship and respect: the military power here is flourishing, and there are ten views. First, take the offensive ...... in a defensive state"

Nearly half an hour later, the dense "sparse play" written on the silk cloth was finally completed, and this process was always accompanied by Liu Guoxuan's intermittent and deliberate snoring. Fortunately, Liu Bingzhen has a solid foundation in Chinese and literature, if he writes it as Hongyi, he can't write it with a piece of silk!

By the time I put pen to paper, it was already the third watch. Liu Guoxuan calmly took out a set of shrouds, and carefully sewed the dried silk cloth into the cuffs. Then he took out three more letters from the secret box under the table, and without looking at them, he handed them one by one to the dim wick of the oil lamp, together with the piece of paper with only four words written on it, and said softly in a voice that only he could hear:

"Don't blame the Queen Mother, the minister is really helpless, and he can only ...... even if he loses his traces"

Finally burned the first letter, Liu Guoxuan was a little melancholy, and said slowly:

"Lord Shi Lang, you appreciated and promoted me back then, and now you have the intention of recruiting and promoting, how can your subordinates not know? However, now I can only bypass you and serve the court directly......"

As the second letter lit up, he changed to a relaxed tone, and then muttered:

"King Tong'an, your father and son fight the law, I can only watch from the wall. However, I still have to be the personal entourage of King Haicheng, and I can't make a slight mistake, forgive me......"

In the third letter, Liu Guoxuan was obviously hesitant, thought for a moment, but finally shook his head, and still sent it to the lamp:

"King Pingnan, there are thousands of mountains and rivers between Fujian and Guangdong, and I don't know how many letters you have sent like this? I'm not the only one who has received it, right? I was originally going to present it to the Imperial Court of the Beijing Division, but I was afraid that there would be a lot of trouble, so I might as well let you go...... It's just that you can't live if you do your own evil, you can do it yourself. The lower officials are also considered to be benevolent and righteous, right? ”

As the third letter also turned to ashes, Liu Guoxuan, who had just finished a brief "remote sacrifice" ceremony, stopped speaking, raised the large wine bowl that had already fallen with paper ashes, and drank it all!

"Good wine! So drunk! What a good sleep! Call...... Whew......"

After shouting loudly, Liu Guoxuan turned around and fell on the bed, sleeping with his clothes, and he really snored in an instant. It's just that I don't know when I have grasped the sharp blade in my hand......

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Jingshi, Liulichang, Ji Kaisheng's mansion.

"Mr. Tan, this is a secret letter sent by Liang Gong just now."

Ji Kaisheng paced back and forth restlessly, in stark contrast to Tan Qian, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai and watching the secret letter unhurriedly.

Ji Kaisheng originally stayed outside the Qianqing Gate and waited, but who would have thought that he would wait until the palace was about to be locked, and he didn't see anything about himself. Fortunately, the clever Wu Liangfu sent the little eunuch out to send a message, saying that the country was getting better and better, but he didn't know when it would happen, so he asked Ji Kaisheng to leave the palace and return to the house first, and it was not too late to come back if he had a will. So, Ji Kaisheng retreated outside the noon gate to meet Zhang Suihan.

After some discussion, the two decided to go their separate ways: Ji Kaisheng went back to the house first, where there was still a "shogunate" to discuss major matters; Zhang Suihan is waiting here to see what situation is reported to Ji Kaisheng in time.

Later, as the night got deeper and deeper, Zhang Suihan called the captain of the city gate to know: after nightfall, the ministers would generally go to Xihuamen when they left the palace, and hurried over, and happened to meet Wang Sanxi, the eunuch of the East Second Institute, who came out to fight the front station. The captain of the city gate who received the money was naturally happy to be a favor, so he introduced Zhang Suihan, who also came to inquire about the news of Baylor in the palace, to Sanxi, and the two met at the beginning of the year, but they both knew each other, so they had a good discussion in the cave of the city gate, and then there was a brief secret letter sent by Liang Gong later. The content is nothing more than the general process of the meeting that Liang Gong probed, as well as his worries about Lord Belle.

Talking about Qian, he had already read the secret letter in just a few crosses, but he smiled and said nothing, looking at Ji Kaisheng "hot pot ants" and turning around. Half a ring, and then Chrysostom was opened:

"Heaven, don't be impatient!"

"How can I not be impatient ......"

Ji Kaisheng was just about to complain, but suddenly found that his lamp and shadow were beating in a trance, and when he hurriedly turned around, he found that the secret letter had been carried by the old man Tan and sent into the light.

"If Lord Belle first entered the Imperial Council, if there is a slight mistake......" Ji Kaisheng understood that the approach of talking about relocation was correct, and he no longer entangled, but went straight to the point.

"Missing? What could go wrong? Haha, according to the old man's opinion, it can only be Tengda, and it is definitely not a mistake! Tan Qian gently threw the fire ball in his hand to the ground and ignored it.

"Tengda?"

"Exactly. In the palace tomorrow, Lord Belle will bring out the words. At that point, it may be time for you and me to be very busy......"

The old man's words are half hidden and half sentences, and he looks unfathomable.

"Tomorrow? ...... today."

Ji Kaisheng really can't let go.

"Today? It's already the third watch today, and it's time to sleep. Oh, Tianzhong, you should go back and rest early! ”

Tan Qian decisively "sent off", and invited the "master" Ji Kaisheng out of his bedroom "under the fence" with a smile......

"A limerick poem. Look at the first word of each sentence》

Looking at recent history, I am disappointed

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

Outside the map, it has been sharpened

It's hard to know what you're going to do

I got up and wore Rokkazi

Point out the world's pain and joy

China's brilliant ten thousand idiots

The Wenwu Dynasty was the only Qing Dynasty

[1] Sunshine Rock, commonly known as "Rock Mountain", alias "Huang Rock", according to legend, in 1641, Zheng Chenggong came to Huang Rock, and saw that the scenery here was better than the Japanese Sunshine Mountain, so he took apart the word "Huang" and called it "Sunshine Rock". (To be continued......)