Zheng Zhilong, who took over the general soldier's robe and gauze hat, behaved very calmly, and there was no joy and disdain on his face, it seemed that for him, the title of Governor Tongzhi of the General Military Department of the Fujian Navy Division of the Ming Dynasty was a dispensable gadget, not worth mentioning.

After the reward, it stands to reason that a banquet will be held, in order to catch the wind for the Inspector, in order to celebrate the recruitment of the Zheng family, but Zheng Zhilong excused himself, saying that he was ill and would not attend the banquet.

Watching Zheng Zhilong's men and horses go away, a smile appeared on Xiong Wencan's face, he thought that Zheng Zhilong's refusal to participate in the banquet was a sign of weakness, this new Inspector could actually make Zheng Zhilong, who was full of guts, so jealous, it seems that the imperial court is really a party this time.

Xiong Wencan and Zheng Zhilong have been dealing with each other for more than a year or two, and it is not the first time that Zheng Zhilong has been recruited by the imperial court, a few years ago, the imperial court promised the great pirate Zheng Zhilong the official title of guerrilla general, expecting him to cut off the Yikou and suppress the thieves, but Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates have accumulated habits and are difficult to change, and they do not listen to the orders of the officials, so Xiong Wencan's plot to capture the two sides failed, and a fierce battle between the two sides has since planted the seeds of mutual distrust.

Zheng Zhilong was reluctant to participate in the banquet, which did not ruin the mood of the generals of the Southern Expedition Fleet in the slightest, because they were very excited by the down-to-earth feeling of stepping on the 6 places again, and they were very happy to change glasses with their Fujian colleagues at the banquet.

All this is just the appearance, but in fact, the atmosphere in Quanzhou City is very tense, the officers and soldiers and the Zheng army are quite vigilant, for fear that the other party will eat themselves, it is the newcomer to the Southern Expeditionary Army, and Wen Getao led a water ghost force to guard near the fleet anchorage, for fear of any sudden situation, the 6th Army of the Red Shirt Regiment that landed on the shore was also very vigilant, and the muskets were all loaded with live ammunition.

After the banquet, Liu Ziguang, who was not drunk, returned to the house arranged by Xiong Wencan, lit a candle, took out Zheng Zhilong's dossier, and looked at it, there are not too many words about the Zheng family in the Dongchang archives, and the inconsistencies are unknown, and now in Liu Ziguang's hands is the dossier provided by the Fujian official, Xiong Wencan is a capable person, and he has worked the research of his old opponent Zheng Zhilong, and he is meticulous to the extreme.

Liu Ziguang picked up a Chinese brand cigarette and lit it with the flame of a candle, immersed himself in the legendary story of a hero in troubled times...... In the thirty-second year of Wanli, Zheng Zhilong was born in a small official family in Shijing, Nan'an, whose original name was Yiguan, and changed to Zhilong after Feihuang.

Later, he also had a native name called Hirado Old Ichikan, and a Dutch name called Nicolas-Ichikan (ninetbsp; Shijing is Zheng Yiguan of the fishing village in southern Fujian

"Less down" has been studying maritime affairs since childhood. Father and fellow villagers talk about him

"Temperament is free, I don't like to read, I have strength, I have a good fist", I am relaxed and indulgent, and I am gradually wandering. When Zheng Yiguan was 17 years old, due to the difficulty of his family's livelihood, he accompanied his younger brother Zhihu and Zhibao to Xiangshan Aoyi, Guangdong, where he was one of the locations of the Sino-foreign trade center at that time, and his uncle Huang Cheng.

Huang Cheng was a maritime merchant engaged in overseas trade in Macau. He left Zheng Yiguan by his side as a helper to assist in business.

Zheng Yiguan used his wisdom and talents in business competition and interest competition, learned to do business, traveled to Badawi, and learned Lusita and Portuguese.

In his dealings with the Portuguese, he was influenced by it, was baptized into Catholicism, took the Christian name Jasper, alias Nikolai, and foreigners called him Nikolai - an official.

Huang Cheng bought a business, sold a ship, and Dongyang saw that Zheng Yiguan was able to punish him, and he attached a ship of Li Dan (a native of Quanzhou), an overseas Chinese from Pingdo, and escorted a batch of sugar, Qinan, musk, deerskin and other goods from Xiangshanao to Nagasaki.

People and land are unfamiliar with the beginning

"Selling" is a business or a part-time job

"Sewing for a man to make ends meet". Later, he turned to business to sell sugar, Qi Nan, musk and other things for his uncle Huang Cheng.

After Zheng Yiguan engaged in commercial activities and foreign trade, he sent himself to Li Dan's subordinates to help Li Dan do business, and became a subordinate of Li Dan, the most powerful maritime merchant at that time

"Father's work". Li Dan has a strong capital, has a fleet specializing in overseas trade, and is the leader of the local overseas Chinese.

Li Dan felt that he was capable and reliable

"Fu Wei Yizi" handed over a part of the assets and ships, so that he could go to Vietnam to do business and make a lot of profits. Within a few years, Zheng Yiguan became a giant, often traveling back and forth to China, and said that overseas Chinese living in Japan were highly respected.

Zheng Yiguan is also enthusiastic about learning swordsmanship

"Forging swords for the lord of the city" started

"Quanzhou smelter surnamed Weng." Zheng Yiguan was promoted to the rank of leader of overseas Chinese, and said that Tokugawa Ieyasu, the shogun, offered medicine in Junfu, and Ieyasu personally asked for a great deal of joy in Chinese affairs, and was entertained at the Nagasaki Hotel.

Zheng Yiguan was summoned by the shogunate and said that he regarded himself as a glorious and prominent figure, and he was a local nobleman, often called from his friends

"Old Official". Hirado Island was the center of foreign trade at the time, and merchant ships from all over the world gathered. Because Zheng Yiguan is familiar with overseas affairs and is good at diplomacy, he is valued by this ZF after the initial call

"Visiting the Domain's House Repeatedly". Later, Hizen Kunihirado was favored by the Marquis of Matsuura, who built a new residence on the land of Kawachiura Chirihama in Kawachiura, near Nagasaki, and introduced Tagawa Matsu, the daughter of Emperor Tagawa, a minister of the Hirado Marquis, to marry.

Emperor Tagawa Yu, that is, Emperor Weng Yu, is an expatriate who moved to Hirado in China, and is originally known as the Tagawa clan. Tian Chuan Song said that he was the adopted daughter of Emperor Weng Yu, so he was also known as Weng's.

Tagawa is seventeen years old. On the 14th day of the seventh month of the ancient calendar of Jiazi in the following year of marriage, the Tagawa clan traveled to Qianlihama to pick up Wen Bei O, who gave birth and did not return home in time, but was born to the eldest son Zheng Sen.

Zheng Yiguan did not watch his wife and children live a peaceful life in Yueben, he was assigned by his father-in-law Li Dan to do a general work for the Spaniards, mainly responsible for contacting the pirates of the Ming Kingdom, and jointly dealing with the imperial court sailors and plundering merchant ships.

Zheng Yiguan was not accustomed to working under the arrogant Spanish aristocracy, and finally one day he began his first anti-water operation, took seven or eight brothers to make a big deal, betrayed the Spaniards' flight schedule to Spain's sworn enemies, the Dutch, and since then sided with the Dutch, a rookie of the sea.

Zheng Yiguan formed a loose alliance with the Dutch and the English, and jointly fought against the Spaniards, and by the way, he also served as a maritime merchant and pirate, monopolizing the trade between Fujian and Guangdong in the direction of the Song Dynasty and the Japanese Kingdom, and for a time the wealth was abundant.

Two months later, Li Dan, who was a Japanese leader in Nagasaki and Hirado, died in Hirado. After Li Dan's death, his industry and career were owned by Zheng Yiguan, who suddenly got a lot of wealth and helpers, Zheng Yiguan's self-confidence was bursting, and he actually contacted a group of heroes with the intention of overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate!

This group of Hokkien people who were engaged in overseas adventures were sued before they could officially take action, and Zheng Yiguan led the crowd to flee in thirteen ships in a panic.

The tail of the outer island of Zhouzai, which sailed to the west coast of Jiuzhou, belonged to Chen Xinji, who advised: "I heard that Taiwan is a desert island on the sea, and the southeast is fertile and can be dominant. Zheng Yiguan thought so, and led the team to Taiwan to cut down wood and build a squatter village.

At the same time, he sent people to lead a fleet to Zhang, Quan's hometown to recruit immigrants, counting more than 3,000 people before and after. The reclamation people were divided into ten villages, and they were given silver taels and cultivated cattle and farm tools, which began the earliest large-scale reclamation activities in Taiwan.

At the same time, it organizes sea fishing and island hunting, and exhibits the mountain and sea economy to solve the material needs of the migrants' production and life.

After Zheng Yiguan set up his own portal, he recruited Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Cai and other generals from Fujian.

Under the staff, the chief army, the superintendent of the army, the superintendent and the left and right strategists, etc., the unified village was established and the local ruling power of the Zheng family began to take shape.

He divided his subordinates into eighteen vanguards

"Eighteen Zhi" and has since changed its name

"Zhilong" is no longer called

"One official". Zheng Zhilong continued to expand the great cause and grew his power to become the largest armed group on the sea at that time.

"All the truth and falsehood in my interior are clear in my chest. Coupled with the lure of years and money, hundreds of boats have gathered tens of thousands of disciples...... Virtuous and virtuous, robbing the rich and giving to the poor, those who come do not refuse, and those who go do not chase. "At this time, across the sea, Fujian was suffering from a severe drought and was full of terracotta, and many villages had eaten up even the roots and bark of the grass.

Zheng Zhilong took advantage of this opportunity to lead his fleet to attack various parts of Fujian and Guangdong. Crisscrossing the southeast sea, the momentum is invincible, the officers and men are exhausted, and there is nothing they can do.

During the attack, Zheng Zhilong and others also appeased tens of thousands of hungry people in Quanzhou, went to Taiwan to reclaim the coastal hungry people and the unemployed.

In this battle, Zheng Zhilong defeated the officers and soldiers, making Xiamen the territory of the Zheng clan from then on, and the power became stronger and stronger, and the officers and soldiers could not be defeated, and the Ming Dynasty officially retreated from the sea, and the maritime merchants and pirates became the rulers of the sea.

Zheng Zhilong's growing expansion and strength of maritime power caused fear in the imperial court, and he sent troops to pursue and suppress him many times, but all failed.

The imperial court was unable to exterminate Zheng Zhilong, and in order to use this maritime force to compete with Xiyi and suppress others

The "pirates" had no choice but to appease Zheng Zhilong. Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, promised Zheng Chenggong the title of Five Tiger guerrilla general, and from then on, Zheng Zhilong had a legal official status, and left Taiwan, the maritime trade base he had operated for many years, to sit in the Fujian Sea.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong had more than 30,000 people and more than 1,000 ships. At that time, southern Fujian was hit by a great drought and many people were hungry.

Zheng Zhilong once again recruited tens of thousands of victims of the Zhangzhang and Quanquan disasters

"Three people were given silver, two or three people were given a cow," and they were transported to Taiwan by sea ship to reclaim and settle down, which further increased Taiwan's strength.

Zheng Zhilong, who became the official army of the Ming Dynasty, cut off the heroes, legally controlled the trade between the East and the West, and moved a large number of people to his private territory Taiwan, which caused the governor Xiong Wencan's uneasiness, for fear that he would recruit a thief with the world in mind, so he designed to capture Zheng Zhilong, but how can such a small trick be dealt with, Zheng Zhilong, who is accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, after a bloody battle, Zheng Jun drove the imperial court forces out of the Xiamen area, and marched northward, intending to occupy the entire territory of Fujian, but the pirates left the warship, and the combat effectiveness declined, and the Fujian official army was tied.

Since then, the imperial court and the Zheng family have been locked in a tug-of-war that has lasted for several years. After the Zheng family cleared the obstacles at sea

Since then, the sea atmosphere is quite restful, and foreign merchants have used the Zheng banner to sell foreign goods, and the merchants have 20 times the profit. Zhilong is full of Haili traffic to show your fortune. He used Xiamen's navigation and business base to break the official sea ban and prosper the Haishi armed fleet, which sailed between the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan, Macao, the Japanese Kingdom, the Song Dynasty and other Southeast Asian places, making full use of his power and financial resources to expand maritime trade, and almost monopolizing China's trade with overseas countries. Those who are not allowed to order the flag of the Zheng clan cannot come and go. Each ship is 3,000 gold years into 10 million. He also had his own merchant fleet, with as many as 100 huge cargo ships loaded with silk, porcelain, ironware and other goods, and sailed to Siam, Champang, Cochin, Sriwijaya, the Philippines, Biryuba, Malacca and other countries to trade back for sumwood, pepper, ivory, rhino horn, etc. In just a few years, it became the richest trading house in Southeast Asia. Such huge profits, of course, caused the eyes of others, the original inextricable Spain, the Netherlands, England and other countries coincidentally aimed at the Zheng family, the big fists are invincible, and the four-handed heroes can't stand the wolves, under the attack of the three maritime powers, the Zheng family's army is losing and retreating, and gradually loses the control of the main island of Taiwan and Penghu, the sea advantage is broken, and the fleet has lost more than half of the loss, and now it can only go around the coast, if it is not for the proud Zheng Zhilong, he will not agree to such a harsh request of the imperial court to be a small general soldier. After reading these legendary experiences, Liu Ziguang sighed in a long way, this person's life is so exciting, it is even better than the protagonists who have traveled through history, and even Liu Ziguang is a little ashamed. I never believe that such a person would be willing to surrender to anyone, Liu Ziguang said to himself. Zheng Zhilong's family history is indeed shocking, if it weren't for the surrender of the Qing Dynasty with no vision in the end, I would have suspected that he was a traverser.