"Lord Wu! When your ministry is ready, the villain will go back to Fujian with them. Please rest assured, my eldest brother will treat your people equally. Zheng Jiao said with a smile.

Then Zheng Jiao saw Wu Shigong holding the teacup with an expressionless face, and he felt slightly embarrassed, so he immediately took his leave with the shopkeeper Zheng.

In this negotiation, Zheng Jiao was able to accept only 1,000 Runing soldiers, and 300 of them would be scattered to sea ships, so there were only 700 soldiers on the island of Taiwan.

Zheng Zhilong will set aside a piece of land on the island of Taiwan for Wu Shigong, and will transport 2,000 immigrants from Fujian to help with development. Zheng Zhilong also promised that if Wu Shigong could recruit another 1,000 immigrants in Henan, he would also help transport them to the island of Taiwan free of charge.

Judging from the land carved out by Zheng Zhilong, the area is not small, and if the Runing Army has the ability, it can also extend along this land to the interior of Taiwan Island, and it should be said that there is a lot of room for expansion.

However, Wu Shigong has already learned from Zhang Rubao that the current island of Taiwan is not at all the treasure island of the motherland as later generations will know. On the island, there has been no development at all, and no water conservancy ditches have been excavated, so the flow of rivers is unpredictable, and natural disasters are frequent, resulting in a considerable amount of arable land.

In addition, the aborigines on the island of Taiwan are still in the stage of slash-and-burn farming, that is to say, they are completely savages, they often fight with each other, and they are used to going down the mountain to "hunt people's heads", therefore, it is a very dangerous thing to develop on the island of Taiwan, and it is very good to rely on these 700 Runing troops to protect the immigrants who go to exploit, and it is impossible to wage war outside, let alone expel the Dutch.

Moreover, Zheng Zhilong also restrained the Runing Army. The land assigned by Zheng Zhilong to Wu Shigong was located in the interior of Taiwan Island, and the port was all controlled by Zheng Zhilong, so he was able to choke the neck of the Runing army in terms of supply. And because there is a defense of the Runing army on the periphery of the port. also protected Zheng Zhilong's port in disguise.

And Zheng Zhilong's immigrants to the Runing Army were also Fujianese, at most plus a small number of Henan people recruited by Wu Shigong himself. But in the event of a dispute between the two sides, who will those immigrants lean towards? The result is self-evident!

And what did Zheng Zhilong give? A large piece of Taiwanese land that he doesn't look down on, at most, plus the two sea boats that he gave to Wu Shigong before.

For the rest, help the Runing Army train sailors? But the soldiers of the Runing Army also helped Zheng Zhilong's sea ships fight. Help the Runing Army build river vessels? But the Runing Army will also pay for the construction costs. It's also mutually beneficial!

Therefore, it can be said that Zheng Zhilong's condition is to take advantage of him, and Wu Shigong has to pinch his nose and sign this agreement in order to achieve the goal of interfering in the island of Taiwan. But Wu Shigong's mood is definitely not happy, and there is no need for him to hide his mood in front of people with relatively low status, such as Zheng Jiao and Zheng Shopkeeper. So I didn't even say a kind word, and sent the guests with tea.

And the solution of the issue of the island of Taiwan. The construction of the water division was immediately put on the agenda again. It is impossible for Wu Shigong to have so many financial and material resources to establish two inland river divisions on the Huai River and the Yangtze River, so he must make a trade-off.

Therefore, Wu Shigong finally discussed with the Wenwu of the Runing Army, and decided to build two naval ports near Hongze Lake and Wuchang, and through the port in Songjiang Prefecture, the two major waterways were effectively linked. And it is also able to carry out shipping with the island of Taiwan. As for the waterway from Xinyang to Hongze Lake on the Huai River, it can only be navigated by small boats.

But even so. It will also cost the Runing Army a huge amount of silver taels. And the ports of Hongze Lake and Wuchang are still on paper. Although he gritted his teeth, maybe the Runing Army could still scrape together so much silver to buy it, but the local gentry who owned the port were willing to sell it? That's still unknown. So Wu Shigong asked Tang Liu, who was familiar with the water, to put down the affairs at hand first and solve the problem of the port first.

As for the soldiers sent to Zheng Zhilong, they were drawn from the Marine Corps. But about this transfer, Deng Qifan raised a question: because many soldiers of the Marine Corps of the Navy Division were born in the boy boy battalion. There is no family drag at all, and if Zheng Zhilong is lured by heavy profits, it is likely to cause the soldiers to switch to Zheng Zhilong, and spread the advanced training methods and combat jishu of the Runing Army.

Wu Shigong has no good way to solve this. I can only ignore this problem for the time being. It is not necessary to doubt your own soldiers now, causing panic in people's hearts, but it is a self-chaos!

In August, Gao Yingxiang's troops successively conquered Fufeng, Qishan and other counties. And Hong Chengchou finally gathered more than 37,000 people from the main force of the Ming army in Shaanxi to leave Xi'an and pursue Gao Yingxiang's troops.

After that, the three giants of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong joined forces and fought with Hong Chengchou in Guanzhong. In just 20 days from late August to early September, the two sides fought fiercely for 14 battles, both sides fought in the dark, and the sun and moon were dark. Judging from the scenes of the battle, there were winners and losers and a draw.

But as the war progressed, the Ming army continued to have reinforcements to join, and their grain and grass were also guaranteed by the major cities controlled by the Ming army, so the more they fought, the stronger they became. The peasant army, on the other hand, did not have any additions and gradually fell to the disadvantage.

For this reason, the peasant army began to avoid the war and find another way out. And Hong Chengchou's troops also gave up the pursuit because of the exhaustion of the long battle, and disengaged from the peasant army.

In this battle, it was Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Shaanxi, who dragged the Ming army back. According to the edict of the Ming court, Shaanxi has also carried out a limited tuntian system. In the recital submitted to the imperial court, 24,000 troops and more than 20,000 hectares of fields should be accumulated around Xi'an. But later, these fields belonged to the wealthy families headed by the King of Qin, and the soldiers were only on the roster.

Therefore, in this battle, Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Shaanxi, did not make any great efforts at all, which led to Xi'an being besieged twice by Gao Yingxiang's troops. As a result, those wealthy families who suffered heavy losses quit, and they impeached Gan Xuekuo one after another, and asked Sun Chuanting to supervise Qin.

But for Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Shaanxi, he really wants to scold his mother. It is those wealthy families who encroach on the land, and it is also those wealthy families who impeach themselves, isn't Gan Xuekuo just to not offend the wealthy families, so he will acquiesce to them encroaching on the land? knew that sooner or later he would lose his official position, it was better to resist the encroachment of the wealthy with an iron fist.

Don't mention Gan Xuekuo, who wants to buy regret medicine, take a look at the long-awaited Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting is a native of Shanxi Dai County, Wanli forty-seven years of Jinshi, successively served as Yongcheng Zhi County, Shangqiu Zhi County, the director of the Ministry of Seal Inspection, Ji Xun Shilang Middle Position, Wei Zhongxian was in power, Sun Chuanting resigned and went home, until Chongzhen eight years before he came back, as the Ministry of Officials Feng Langzhong, Shuntian Mansion Cheng.

After his comeback, Sun Chuanting was very concerned about the current situation of suppressing bandits, often pointing out the country, inspiring words, and quite having the ambition to clarify the world, and was regarded by the courtiers as a rare "side talent".

But Emperor Chongzhen was not busy changing generals, on the one hand, he also gave Gan Xuekuo a chance; On the other hand, he was busy with a happy and thorny business. That is Yu Zilian, the governor of Ruzhou, and his Ruzhou army.

As soon as the battle report of the Ruzhou army was submitted to the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers were so unbelievable that they could not distinguish the authenticity from the false, and immediately issued a reward.

But with Yu Zilian's victories again and again, the imperial court finally believed in such a strong army. What's especially wonderful is that this strong army didn't spend a penny of military salaries from the imperial court, which is simply a representative of the "old scalper"!

But now the problem arises again. For Yu Zilian, it must be of great use, and his Ruzhou army will also be included in the ranks of the Ming army and turned into a soldier. But what position should Yu Zilian be given?

However, those old oilmen who have been immersed in officialdom for many years have come up with a way, they first gave Yu Zilian the position of imperial envoy to the right of the capital, improved his rank, and included him in the ranks of Beijing officials, and then let him lead the Ruzhou army and join the ranks of bandits. Of course, Yan Jingyan Tongzhi, who was recommended by Yu Zilian, also took over as the governor of Ruzhou as he wished.

But also out of the selfishness of Shoufu Wen Tiren, the imperial court did not include Yu Zilian under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, but let Yu Zilian lead the army alone and play freely. However, Wen Tiren did not expect that this move would also provide the Donglin Party in the lower field with an ammunition to shake its position as the first and second.

During the period of Wen Tiren's auxiliary government, he was blindly obsessed with excluding dissidents and attacking political opponents, but the target of his attack was mainly aimed at the Donglin Party, so he was also connived at by Emperor Chongzhen.

Because compared with Wen Tiren, the threat of the Donglin Party is too great, they not only manipulate the public opinion of the world, but also manipulate the selection of officials through the ministry. Even after the establishment of the Restoration Society, they were able to manipulate the imperial court to take scholars, and then go on like this. The imperial power is really going to be gone, and the emperor will become an ornament.

Of course, Wen Tiren's behavior has also received a great backlash, and there are countless people who have impeached him. However, because Wen Tiren's personal morality is quite outstanding, and his party-forming behavior is also quite hidden, these people not only did not bring down Wen Tiren, but set themselves on fire. Some were dismissed, some were exiled, and some were even killed by a cane on the spot.

And even the stricken Donglin Party could only temporarily stop fighting. But they are not willing to live in the countryside for a long time, just waiting for the opportunity to fight back.

That's when they saw an opportunity. Because in the chaos of the world, the status of the civil and military generals with heavy troops is getting higher and higher. Look at the people of the Ming Dynasty who have heavy troops.

Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng sympathized with the Donglin Party, and the rest of the military attachés were grass on the wall, leaning over there, and there were no henchmen of Wen Tiren at all.

And what about the Donglin Party? Because of Hou Sui's relationship, Wu Shigong and Zuo Liangyu were assigned to the side of the Donglin Party. And now there is one more Yu Zilian. You must know that officials from Su Xichang were born members of the Donglin Party.

But the most inexplicable thing is Wu Shigong, he doesn't know that in the eyes of those literati, he has jumped from the eunuch party to the Donglin party. (To be continued......)