Since he surrendered to the Qing court and was exiled and the Weng family calmly took justice, Zheng Zhilong has a deep inferiority complex and guilt for his eldest son. Especially after the father and son were both named princes by the Qing court, and their subordinates were clear about themselves that day, if they were about to leave, there was more jealousy and attention in this emotion, so since returning to Fujian, Lao Wang has always been courteous to the king.

But after hearing Zheng Shisen's "Northern Alliance" strategy, Zheng Zhilong, who had always been okay with the Japanese shogunate, suddenly became angry, so that he "returned" to the old road of splashing water and "corporal punishment" of the traditional "father as the son".

"Zheng Shisen!" Zheng Zhilong roared.

"Father, you ...... Alas! Son in! Although Zheng Zhilong, who was very depressed, said that he was burning his robe and breaking his righteousness and letting Lao Tzu do it himself, but in front of his father, he still couldn't jump up and look at each other angrily, so he could only compromise and secretly be angry.

"You're so smart! Fumatsu-kun! Zheng Zhilong's face twitched and hideous, and two Japanese sentences popped out from between his teeth.

"Father......" Zheng Shisen wanted to explain something, but Zheng Zhilong didn't give him this opportunity.

"Even if you are no longer a king, a minister, or a man, you are still your father! Wake me up! Don't forget, your name is no longer Fusong, but Zheng Sen, Zheng Shisen! You can change your name to Zhu Chenggong, and you don't object to your father, after all, this is still a Chinese surname! But if you move this idea of 'Northern Union', you must first completely deny my father! This time, you don't have to go to the Confucius Temple in Nanjing to cry and worship, just take a boat and go to the Edo shogunate to show your loyalty! ”

Zheng Zhilong was really furious. Not because his son proposed a "Northern Alliance" policy that was different from his own "southward expansion", but because he actually wanted to unite with Japan to plot against the Central Plains!

"Father, ......" Zheng Shizhong, who seemed to have nothing to do, hurriedly tried to persuade his father.

"Shut up! I'll teach my own half of my son a lesson! Zheng Zhilong did not lose his anger, but became even more annoyed.

"Father!"

Zheng Shisen, who has long been accustomed to being the king of Yanping and the king of Haicheng, is a little unable to save face, and he has become a "half son" in a daze, which is really annoying! Whose son is half of the other half? You don't look down on me, and I don't look down on you, a rebel and a thief!

"Do you still know to call me father? One bite of 'Japanese', 'Japanese'! It's just the Wa Kingdom! You, you...... How can you be worthy of your birth mother! What do you call your 'mother' Weng? She is a widow, but she has traveled thousands of miles to become her father and defect to China, for what? Isn't it because she married me, he is my Zheng Zhilong's person! Then she is from China. She can only be chaste and loyal to my China! In vain, old father, I sent you to the Guozijian in vain. What a sage book to read! If you insist on what 'Northern Alliance', but you want to be Shi Jingjiao who ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun? ”

Zheng Zhilong didn't say anything big, only mentioned the two examples of Tagawa Songzi and Shi Jingjiao, but he gave the eldest son who was quite unconvinced a slap in the face! Oh, yes. After all, I am still a Chinese. Although he is half Japanese. Pity your mother and relatives are still dead and want to be Chinese, how can she really become a sinner Shi Jingyao through the ages?

"Father, the unfilial son Zheng Shisen is wrong! Please! ”

After speaking. The repentant King Haicheng solemnly knelt down.

"Alas, you are already the prince of the Qing Dynasty, don't kneel at every turn, get up and sit down." Zheng Zhilong didn't let his irritable emotions dominate him for long, and when he saw his son admit his mistake, he seemed to have calmed down instantly, and said earnestly:

"Actually, being a father is not as knowledgeable as you reading the scriptures and discussing history, and I can't teach you any truth, but you remember, whether it's the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, at least they are all Chinese people who respect my Confucian and Confucian holy studies, and you kneel to them, not for who will be the emperor, but who can govern the world well. But the Japanese people have been watching the Celestial Empire for a long time, and their hearts are not right, and you kneel to them, even if it is excusable, you will recognize the thief as your father! ”

"Sen'er has written it down!"

"Okay, it's not difficult for me for you, the policy of going south can be suspended, but do you have any objections to the policy of staying behind and going east?"

"The son is up to the father!" Zheng Shisen replied firmly.

Zheng Zhilong is so beautiful in his heart, he finally seized an opportunity to suppress his son's arrogance from the perspective of nobility and righteousness, which is really wonderful and wonderful!

"In that case, you and I, father and son, will discuss and discuss specific ways to implement these two strategies." Tong'an Wang began to lead the meeting to the stage of concrete implementation.

"Yes. Shizhong is willing to obey the arrangement of his father and eldest brother! Zheng Shizhong was the first to speak.

"Father, although you are in your prime, you are hard at sea and the warship is bumpy, and I really can't bear to let my father work hard anymore. My son thinks, if you don't stay behind, I'll come east! Zheng Shisen glanced out the window seemingly unintentionally, but hurriedly said his plan.

Knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, Zheng Zhilong had long expected his son to say this, and nodded with a smile:

"Sen'er is so filial, I am really happy for my father."

"That ......"

"Still, you're in a hurry!"

"Please show my father too."

"Staying behind and moving eastward cannot be carried out at the same time. Staying behind is for self-improvement, and going east is self-preservation. If you can't stay behind, it is necessary to go east. If staying is hopeful, eastward expansion is inevitable! Zheng Zhilong shook his head and said a little pretentiously.

"Father, my son doesn't understand." Zheng Shizhong looked dazed.

"Shizhong, you still have to use your brain! Keeping you in Beijing is a great hope for your father. The first is to let you take care of your two younger brothers, and the second is to inquire about the situation at any time. But if you're so wooden, it's hard to protect yourself! Zheng Zhilong looked at his second son with great affection.

"Father, the son must live up to the trust!" Zheng Shizhong is not as scheming as his eldest brother, and he is really moved.

"Well, for the father, I'll tell you two brothers about the trade-off between staying behind and going east!" The father naturally included both sons in one sentence, and admonished together:

"I stayed because of the maritime merchants. Without maritime merchants, it would be difficult for sailors to continue. Eastward expansion is naturally a fool's dream. Didn't those Tianfang ["Tianfang" is the ancient Chinese name for Arabia) sailors often tell stories like cornucopias, Allah magic lamps, etc.? For our Zheng family, Fujian is a cornucopia of all things in a lifetime, and a magic lamp that is about to come out! Don't give up! And the three places of Xiazhangquan are the ears of the treasure pot and the handle of the magic lamp, and they must not leave their hands for a moment! ”

"Now, if Sen'er rushes eastward, there will be insufficient ships, sailors, and food in a hurry. In the past few years as my father's master in Beijing, although you have been a great maritime businessman, the imperial court still has many constraints after all, and your shipping savings may not even be able to support soldiers, right? Zheng Zhilong showed that he was old, and he had a comprehensive understanding of Zheng Chenggong's financial situation in a few months.

"Father is wise!" Zheng Shisen had to admit this reality. Nod yes.

Seven years after Shunzhi. The Zheng Maritime Group has a relatively large-scale trade volume of about 3.92 million taels to 4.56 million taels of silver per year, and the total profit from its overseas trade through the two straight-line trades of the "northern route" of Japan and the "southern route" of the South and Western Oceans, as well as the "triangular trade" between the three places. The average is between 2.34 million and 2.69 million taels of silver per year. If you count the trade with the Dutch who stole Taiwan. The average annual gross profit of maritime trade. It can reach a maximum of 3,500,000 taels of silver. This is only the gross profit and the ideal profit, and if you deduct the payment of customs duties to other countries, the "hard work, food, and silver" of sailors, and the loss of shipwrecks, the final net profit will not be so much.

At its peak, the army of the Southeast Zheng Group was about 150,000 to 180,000 people. At that time, the standard of raising soldiers was about 20 taels of silver per person per year, so that the average annual expenditure of the entire army was between 3 million and 3.6 million taels of silver. If you add the expenses of the Nanming royal family, the salaries of the generals, other gifts and rewards, etc., it is estimated that it will be at least about 4 million taels. In other words, the input of maritime trade was not enough to fully supply Zheng Shisen's military expenditure.

However, overseas trade is not the whole content of Zheng Shisen's "benefits from foreign countries", and his income from Haili also includes the collection of licence salaries[1], the collection of import duties for foreigners, and the conduct of foreign trade in China. In addition, the financial income of the Zheng Group also includes the collection of land tax, domestic trade, etc., and its income is not small. Zheng Shisen's commercial activities in recent years can be described as taking advantage of the sea, and have become an important economic pillar for him to maintain the army and the government's expenditures, although not all, but its role is still very obvious.

"Sen'er doesn't have to sit on wax. Now that my father is going south, the imperial court will not be disturbed in the matter of maritime trade in the future! Zheng Zhilong was very satisfied when he saw his son admit his judgment, and he also comforted him and praised Haikou.

"Rely on my father!" Zheng Shisen had no choice but to cling to one or two.

"Well said. Second, even if we have a complete set of troops and sufficient military resources, we will have to face a fierce rival in the Netherlands when we enter Taiwan. If you don't prepare well and start the war lightly, I am afraid that the outcome will be unpredictable. ”

"That's exactly what my father said. Ship building is the top priority. King Haicheng continued to nod.

"And that's not all. There is another key to the development of red hair, which is to 'use razing to control raze'. Before the war, the Macau side must arrange haode...... I've heard that Europa, the hometown of the Westerners, has not been peaceful in recent years...... Hehe, it's just right for me! ”

Zheng Zhilong knew that on this point, his son could not compare to his own eight-sided exquisiteness in any way. After mentioning this, Zheng Shisen really sighed that "ginger is still old and spicy".

"Three, since the imperial court has allowed us to guard Taiwan, why don't we make good use of it and let the imperial court give us a big boost? It's better than us going it alone. What's more, on the side of the Guangdong Naval Division, the chief soldier Dong Dayong still has a lot of warship soldiers. ”

"Father really has a plan!" It was Zheng Shizhong's turn to deliver auspicious words.

"Hehe, you are still young, some of you are going to grow up, after all, you are old for your father......" Zheng Zhilong said politely, but looked at his eldest son Zheng Shisen.

"My father has been galloping the sea for decades, and my sons are indeed ashamed of themselves. In that case, I wonder what my father has to teach you? "King Haicheng is in this situation, and he has to humbly ask for advice.

"Hehe, old is old, what about galloping the sea for decades? After all, you will be better than the blue. However, in the old man's opinion, it is too early to 'go east'. If you don't 'I'll be your soldiers', Sen'er, what do you think? ”

King An is no longer entangled, and he says his fundamental plan in one word!

"Father and son soldier?" Zheng Shisen blurted out and was surprised.

The young King Haicheng really didn't expect that the old guy would be willing to let himself lead the army!

"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] In the Qing Dynasty, since Zheng Zhilong "stood on the sea and had the exclusive benefits of the South China Sea", "all sea ships that are not allowed to be ordered by the Zheng family cannot come and go, and each ship receives 2,000 gold" (Lian Heng, "General History of Taiwan", vol. 25). This kind of taxation system of "2,000 gold" is a unity of the two taxes of "tax introduction" and "water salary" in the month and port. Zheng Chenggong inherited this taxation system and changed its name to "pai pay". "Salary" is divided into two kinds of size, 2100 taels of large ships, 500 taels of small boats, issued after paying the salary, the cards are changed once a year, there are cards to pass, such as no tickets or the use of expired tickets, if the flood guards are caught, the goods, the ship is not official, the ship, the helmsman to take the solution. In the Zheng Jing period, the "card ticket" was changed to "Liang Tou ticket", and the "brand salary" was changed to "Liang Tou Ticket". According to Ji Qiguang's "Review of Kangxi's 24th Year Tax Document", the collection standard of "Liangtou salary" records: "Liangtou brand silver is 1,50207 cents, and there are 210 fake Zheng Shiji boats, carrying 13,637 quintals of Liangtou, and each quintal of silver is levied for one penny and one cent." In the thirteenth year of Kangxi (1673), the three feudatories united against the Qing Dynasty, Geng Jingzhong raised troops in Fujian, and Zheng Jing took the opportunity to occupy the Zhangquan area. There is no information on when the name of "Liang Tou Salary" began. (To be continued......)