On the Yuan Festival, there are no fireworks, no lanterns on the long street.

There is only the light of the spark, multiplying the desolation.

The salty and wet sea breeze blows the long hair, even if he has been breathing for eight years, Zhu Qizhen still feels a little uncomfortable.

Stand on the front steps of the temple and look down at the eyes.

It's been eight years.

It has been eight years since Taiwan escaped from Fujian, and Taiwan, which was once so barren that it was desperate, has reorganized all the people and natives who had migrated from the interior after eight years of governance, and then defeated and co-opted the pirates, and now it is now an independent kingdom.

There are sparks in the darkness in front of him, and the city of some size is his royal capital.

Kaohsiung.

Why is it called Kaohsiung, Zhu Qizhen doesn't know.

I only know that Fan Biao and Xie Wan led the army here, and the local natives call this place Kaohsiung.

It's a good name.

And the location is good.

After eight years of hard work, Kaohsiung now has a population of about 100,000, plus the cities and towns that are dotted around the country that are beginning to take shape, and the population of the whole Taiwan under the rule of Zhu Qizhen has reached nearly 200,000.

Basically, it's the entire population of Taiwan.

Zhu Qizhen's power to rule this independent kingdom came from the Huilong camp created by Xie Wan and Fan Biao.

There are not many troops.

But there are no less.

More than 30,000!

When Jianwen Yu Zhu Zunxi rebelled in Fujian, he followed the Zhendongwei Wan'an Thousand Households that had risen, and Fan Biao had been commanding Gongwei by Xie Wan and Zhu Qizhen's side, and after the defeat, the remnants of 500 soldiers followed him to the sea.

These 500 people are the main force of the Huilong camp.

In the past eight years, 500 people have been in continuous battles, or injured or sick, and only more than 300 people remain, all of whom are generals of the Huilong camp.

Even after the change of the civil fort, the combat power of the Great Ming soldiers still stands proudly on the top of the universe.

Five hundred people, just in Taiwan, where pirates and pirates are rampant, and their forces are intertwined, even in the months when they first arrived in Taiwan and were not familiar with the place, Fan Biao and his brothers have never been intimidated.

If you don't accept it, you do it!

Fight and fight, fight until the pirates are terrified, and fight until the pirates surrender!

This is gradually the current scale.

But with a population of 200,000, it is difficult to raise an army of 30,000.

But Zhu Qizhen did it!

In fact, there is no secret, it is just to loot more pirates and pirates, and the pirates and pirates who are entrenched in Penghu and Taiwan are sent back and forth by Zhu Qizhen to clear them.

Every time, it's a full load.

And every time it is cleared, it will not completely destroy those pirates.

In a word: money, not heads.

Chicken streams.

Otherwise, exterminating the pirates would be tantamount to killing chickens and eggs.

Zhu Qizhen is not so stupid.

The pirates and pirates also figured out the intentions of this mysterious force, but when they returned to the dragon camp to clear it, the pirates and pirates did not run away, and if they won the battle, they would fight, and if they could not win, they would give the money with both hands.

Some pirates even placed their family rolls in Kaohsiung, and they robbed around at sea, occasionally returning to Kaohsiung for a vacation.

Zhu Qizhen's forces turned a blind eye to this.

As long as you give money, everything is negotiable.

Even...... Huilongying also pretended to be a pirate and went to fish for extra money many times - Zhu Qizhen found that he was lawless in Taiwan, and the Guangdong and Fujian capitals didn't care!

Thanks to Daming Overseas for its contraction strategy.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the dark sea area, so deep, and on the opposite side of the dark sea area, it was Da Ming, so far away.

It's a place he'd never dreamed of going back to.

Of course he wanted to go back.

In Taiwan, a place where birds don't, it has been in business for eight years, and the population is only about 200,000, and the population comes from three main directions: migration from the mainland, local natives, and pirate settlements.

Although the population and troops are not much, the money is really much!

Zhu Qizhen never dreamed that being a pirate would make so much money, and the money would come quickly.

In just eight years, Zhu Qizhen has accumulated a wealth of nearly 50 million taels!

How did the money come from?

Very simple.

The first method is to loot pirates.

Every time a pirate is looted, it can be as little as tens of thousands of taels or as much as tens of thousands of taels, and the pirates in Taiwan, Penghu and their surroundings are dozens of places that are looted once a year, which is millions of taels!

The second way is to be a pirate.

The Huilong camp disguised itself as a pirate and robbed the overseas smuggling fleet in the surrounding waters, not killing people, but only robbing the goods and gold and silver when returning, which was a lot of wealth.

And also to detain important people, let them notify the family forces to ransom people.

If those strong men of overseas smuggling break their wrists and don't give money?

OK.

Directly hand over the people and evidence to the real pirates in Fujian and Guangdong, and they can afford the crime of overseas smuggling?

Even if some of the scholars in those forces have strong enough energy in the government to smooth out this matter, if the Guangdong Metropolitan Division and the Fujian Metropolitan Division dare to open the net, they will have to bear the corresponding risks.

Relying on relationships alone is not useful, and it is necessary to exchange benefits or give money.

What's more, after being held by the local capital, it will also be opened by the lion, and the money spent is more than the ransom, not to mention, it is not safe.

It's better to pay the ransom, pay the money with one hand and lead the person with the other, and then don't know each other in person.

So this method has been tried and tested again and again.

The largest harvest was the robbery of the cargo of five treasure ships and various gold, silver, pearls, and agate, worth millions of taels, and the ransom of the seizing personnel also reached one million taels.

The one-time income reached two million taels!

The force behind the overseas smuggling caravan is Zhu Qiongjing, the Tang King of Nanyang.

Tang King Zhu Qiongjing is rich.

But Zhu Qiongwei is also afraid that his overseas smuggling will be discovered by Zhu Qiyu - Zhu Qiyu and his father and son are already poor and crazy, if they know that he, the king of Tang, is so profitable in overseas smuggling, if he is not squeezed dry, even if the father and son are merciful.

Zhu Qiyu is benevolent.

But Zhu Qiongjing has taught Zhu Jianji's ability to scavenge money in Jingtai for ten years, how dare he take this risk.

So happily pay the money and receive people.

Zhu Qizhen looked at Kaohsiung at night and the sea in the darkness in the distance, and his heart suddenly rose with pride.

He had a bold idea!

There are people under the rule, not many, about 200,000.

There are not many soldiers in Kaohsiung under his command, about 30,000 people.

There is money in the purse, a lot!

But how should the money be spent?

Zhu Jianji had already personally conquered Mobei last year and fought a beautiful battle.

Zhu Qizhen knew the news, but it was not clear how he fought it.

He was not convinced.

even said to Xie Wan and Fan Biao that this is not how powerful Zhu Jianji's little bastard is, but it is really that Wara Ziye was divided after his death first, and his power declined, so he would be established by Zhu Jianji in a battle.

Xie Wan and Fan Biao didn't squeak at that time.

They understand.

His Majesty Baozong is trying to save face, after all, Baozong admitted Zhu Jianjiqiang, and he admitted the stupidity of his own civil fort.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know what Xie Wan and Fan Biao were thinking.

He's a little restless right now.

It's been eight years.

He was forty years old, and he was already in full bloom.

There can be several forty years old in life.

If you don't want to kill back to Gyeonggi, if you are a few years older, you really won't have a chance.