As a member of the Zheng Group, Zheng Cai is aware of the strength of the Zheng family's navy.

There are more than 50,000 sailors and more than 3,000 large and small ships!

There is no rival to dominate the southeast coast.

It basically monopolized the trade channels with Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries, and made a profit of tens of millions of taels every year, which can be described as a rich country.

There are people, ships, money, guns and cannons, the Zheng Group is so powerful, Zheng Cai is extremely proud and proud, and he once had the arrogance of everything in the sky.

But the Zheng family navy will never be Xu Jiazhuang's opponent!

Once the two sides fight, the Zheng family's navy will definitely be defeated, and there is no possibility of victory!

The reason is very simple.

More than money, Xujiazhuang's money is more, ten times that of Zheng's group.

Compared with people, the people of Xujiazhuang are stronger and more organized, and they can easily pull out an army of 100,000 people, and their combat effectiveness is even more terrifying.

Compared with ships, Xujiazhuang is temporarily at a disadvantage in this regard, in the port of Harbor City, there are not many ships in Xujiazhuang, only one hundred and ten fishing boats, and there is not a single warship in sight.

But in terms of weapons, the kind of fast guns and fast guns equipped by the Xu family army not only have an extremely fast rate of fire, but also have a huge power.

It is unlikely to pose a major threat to Harbour City.

And if it angers Xujiazhuang, causing Xujiazhuang to increase investment in naval construction, and then relying on Xujiazhuang's advantages of more people, more money and high construction efficiency, a powerful fleet can be built within two or three years, and then the Zheng family navy and the Zheng group will be completely finished.

"If the Zheng family's fleet comes to attack Harbour City, it will only kill itself, and this matter must be stopped!"

Zheng Cai said anxiously.

It's just that......

His current status is nothing more than a prisoner of war who has lost his personal freedom, so how can he interject and speak, and what qualifications does he have to stop this?

But he still said to Supervisor Cai: "I have a letter of wishes, hoping that Xu Jiazhuang will send someone to Quanzhou as soon as possible to dissuade the Zheng family fleet from sending troops and eliminate this war!" ”

At this moment, Zheng Caizhen didn't have the idea of thinking about himself, he knew that the end of the ransom was to go to Shandong to mine for a lifetime, but he would rather do so, and he didn't want the Zheng Group to have a bad relationship with Xujiazhuang, and finally ended with the Zheng Group being wiped out.

"Hmm~"

Zheng Cai's attitude made Director Cai nod and said, "Since you have this thought, Xu Jiazhuang will give you a chance, come here, I'll take you to meet someone." ”

"Yes!"

Zheng Cai nodded, followed behind Director Cai, walked out of the prisoner of war camp, got on an electric tricycle, and the pioneer car went to the harbor city - the maximum endurance of this electric three-wheeled vehicle is 150 kilometers (according to the load, the actual run is 80~120 looks), the current number of Xujiazhuang is 1500 vehicles, only a few high-level Xujiazhuang and some important departments are eligible to get one, so it has become a status symbol, everyone is eager to get one, if some units do not have an electric three-wheeler, If you speak three points weaker, and you can't raise your head outside, the employees of the unit will feel that there is no future, so people's hearts will fluctuate.

As a captive, Zheng Cai was lucky to get a chance to ride an electric three-wheeler, although it was a little shaky, but it was much stronger than riding a horse and a boat, the noise was small, and the speed could be driven to fifty or sixty yards.

After getting out of the car and stepping on the solid ground, Zheng Cai still had a feeling of unfinished.

"Fast, it's too fast, those roads that extend in all directions are even more powerful weapons for marching, and it's no problem to gather 100,000 troops in three days."

Zheng Cai secretly said in his heart, and he saw the military value of electric three-wheeled + road.

Then, he followed Steward Cai into a solemn building, and walked a lot of distances in it, and then entered a secret office.

I saw a person sitting behind a desk, wearing a gray tunic and a pair of black-framed myopic glasses, looking in his thirties, with a gloomy face and not smiling, exuding an atmosphere that makes people feel pressure, and the psychological quality of ordinary people, just being in the same room with him, I couldn't help but shed a cold sweat, if I was stared at by his cold and poisonous snake gaze again, the weak psychological defense line would collapse on the spot.

After sending the people, Steward Cai exited the office, closed the door and left.

Zheng Cai had to stand aside for half an hour, waiting for the mysterious big man behind the desk to finish reading the text materials in his hand.

"Find yourself a chair and sit down."

He finally spoke: "Zheng Cai, the word Yugong, a native of Nan'an, Fujian, father Zheng An, mother Li, followed Zheng Zhilong to the sea to do business in the fifth year ......of the Apocalypse."

This man put the material aside, spoke fluently, and said a lot of information related to himself, with very few omissions, all corresponding to the real situation, and even told several anecdotes about his childhood experience clearly, and recited them fluently.

Cold sweat.

Rao is Zheng Cai's psychological quality is excellent, and he couldn't help a cold sweat, so he had to stand up, his face was full of vigilance, and the depths of his eyes were jealousy and fear.

Dismount.

He understood that this person was giving himself a dismount, wanting to make himself afraid and afraid, but his goal was successfully achieved, and now Zheng Cai only felt that he had become a transparent person without secrets in front of this mysterious big man.

After talking about Zheng Cai's family background, personal experience, and personality traits, the mysterious big man introduced himself: "My surname is Zhang, my name is Zhang Guoyan, as for what I do, you should have guessed that the purpose of my people calling you over is not to urge the ransom of 10,000 taels, but the owner of the village told me that the value you can bring to Xujiazhuang may be more than 10,000 taels of gold, I don't know what you think?" ”

Hear this.

How could Zheng Cai not hear the extraneous voice, solicitation, Xu Jiazhuang seemed to have the intention of recruiting him, which made him three points happy and seven points resistant, and he was glad that he could be valued by such a powerful force as Xu Jiazhuang, which was undoubtedly a happy thing, and resistance was that it was impossible for him to betray the Zheng Group.

He arched his hand and said: "Thank you for your fancies, but your parents, wives, friends, and clansmen are all in Fujian, and it is impossible to take refuge in Xujiazhuang, make enemies of the Zheng family, and trap your parents and relatives in a dangerous situation. He was indignant and expressed his position.

"Hahaha!"

Zhang Guoyan laughed and said: "I like a backbone like you, if you are a greedy and capricious villain, I have no interest in soliciting, you have passed the first level." ”

"My lord, I said I wouldn't betray the Zheng family."

Zheng Cai frowned and said, couldn't this Master Zhang understand his words.

"I didn't let you betray the Zheng family, but I hope that there will be a smart and knowledgeable person who knows the general trend to bring the Zheng family's navy to a correct direction of development, stop killing yourself and make Xujiazhuang the enemy, on the contrary, we must establish solid cooperation, jointly develop the interests of the sea, and bring more wealth and resources to both sides, instead of internal friction with each other, and lose the sailors and ships that have been trained with great difficulty in vain."

Zhang Guoyan said his true purpose, and it was also the purpose of Xu Yuan, the owner behind it.

Fujian Zheng's Group is actually not a concern at all!

As long as Xujiazhuang invests more resources at sea, at most three or four years, the Zheng Group can be completely reduced to history.

But this is unwise and does more harm than good.

Because the Navy is not as long as the Army, the training cycle is significantly longer.

A large ship takes at least a year to build.

A qualified and excellent sailor should be trained for at least three to five years, and it is not just a matter of pulling a group of people from land onto board.

In the past two years, the biggest achievement of Xujiazhuang's maritime strategy has been less than 100 fishing boats, and there are only more than 2,000 qualified sailors.

Even if we increase investment from now on and vigorously develop the marine strategy, if we want to have 3,000 large and small ships and more than 50,000 sailors, which is the same scale as the Zheng Zhilong Zheng family navy in Fujian, it will not be possible to do it in more than five years!

Even if Xu Yuan frantically helped to open the hanging, it would not work, and he would not be able to greatly shorten this cycle.

But...... If we can adopt various means and methods to control the Zheng family navy in Fujian in the hands of Xu Jiazhuang, we can swallow up this ready-made maritime power!

That was undoubtedly a shortcut, and immediately had a powerful navy, much better than developing it from scratch on its own.

It's just that the Zheng family's fleet is so strong, why is it under the control of Xu Jiazhuang?

And Zheng Zhilong's own brother Zheng Zhihu died under the fortress of No. 72 Manor and was shot in the head, such a blood feud is the reason why Zheng Zhilong is crazy and wants to take revenge, as for Zheng Cai, he is just a nephew, and if he dies, he will die, anyway, this blood revenge must be avenged, Xujiazhuang Harbor City, the Zheng family fleet will come to destroy!

Zheng Cai fell silent and fell into a state of contemplation.

He knows that with the strength of Xujiazhuang, as long as the Zheng Group establishes a cooperative relationship with it, it will definitely bring huge benefits, and the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages.

And if he can get the secret support of Xujiazhuang, as an external support, after he returns to the Zheng family's fleet, he will first collect the old department, and then win over others, and at the same time cooperate with Xujiazhuang inside and outside, over time, the position of commander of the Zheng family's fleet may be......

Thinking of this, the light in Zheng Cai's eyes was uncertain, and something called ambition was born in his heart, after all, as long as there is the possibility and opportunity to occupy a high position, who wants to be depressed and live under others for a long time?

The heart is moved.

At this moment, he was really a little moved by Zhang Guoyan's proposal, and it was like a small ignited flame, after touching the fuel of ambition, it burned out of control.

As for the ambition in his chest, it was naturally the strength of Xujiazhuang, and everything he had seen with his own eyes in Xujiazhuang, knowing that this was an invincible force.

But immediately he said with a wry smile: "Master Zhang, it's not that you don't want to cooperate, but it's impossible to do it, first, Zheng Zhihu is the brother of Zheng Zhilong's mother, the relationship between the two is very good, it is impossible not to avenge my brother, I just went back to Fujian, it would be good not to be treated for the crime of not being able to protect the lord, and it is impossible to persuade my uncle." ”

"Second, after the defeat of the last army, the Zheng family's firearms army was almost wiped out, my men were empty, there were not many old departments in Fujian, at most I controlled three or five small boats, and the Zheng family's fleet had three thousand ships, I wanted to control them all, but it was just a wild dream, and I couldn't do it no matter how Xu Jiazhuang supported me."

Zheng Cai gave two reasons to prove that even if he was willing to act as Xujiazhuang's secret chess, he would not be able to play a big role.

Because the ocean is vast, the waves are impermanent, and individuals are very powerless in the face of such an environment, if there is no large number of sailors, there are no large ships, all conspiracies and tricks will not play a role, and this is a place of competition that only talks about hard power and hardware configuration.

"Who said there was no one?"

Zhang Guoyan said: "After the Zheng family's firearms army broke up, we collected more than 1,300 prisoners, these people were not arranged in the prisoner of war camp, all of them went on fishing boats to help fish, they lived a much better life than ordinary prisoners of war, and these people are your old department, and they can be driven for you in the future." ”

"In addition, Xujiazhuang Shipyard, the first new 5,000-material steam engine cargo ship (1,000 tons), will be launched in two days, we will take you to this ship to visit one or two, and after seeing the ship, whether you are willing to cooperate with Xujiazhuang, you tell me again."

Hear that there are people, and there are boats!

Zheng Cai's eyes lit up, and he suddenly looked forward to it.