Zheng Haizhu came to Taiwan this time, and also brought his nephew Zheng Shoukuan and Gu Shouqian, Han Ximeng and his wife, as well as two guys from Zhenjiang Shipping Insurance Company, and weavers and embroiderers of the Han family in Songjiang.

Han Ximeng gave birth to a son Gu Zuoyou at the beginning of this year.

When the doll was full moon, it coincided with Zheng Haizhu's return to Songjiang to transport artillery.

Zheng Haizhu squeezed out two or three hours to get together and talk to Han Ximeng, who brought him through the first good fate in his life.

She was keenly aware at that time that Miss Han, who was quickly upgraded to a mother after marriage, although she was considerate by her husband Gu Shouqian and was well taken care of by her subordinates, a little bit of loss still loomed between her eyebrows.

are all women of the right age, and their family background is far better than Zheng Haizhu, seeing that her former employees are thriving everywhere, even to the extent of helping military merits and being rewarded by the imperial court, Miss Han has some subtle emotions in her heart, which is also normal.

When Zheng Haizhu said goodbye, he did not have the superiority of the grassroots counterattack and successfully crushing the real daughter.

Han Ximeng is a woman who wants to have good character and ability, and she should not be confined to the back house because of marriage and childbirth.

As the same sex who cherishes each other, they should understand each other's melancholy, and do their best to create opportunities for each other to break out of the cocoon.

So, in the early autumn, he returned to Songjiang again, Zheng Haizhu lived back to the Gu Mansion in Mingzhe Garden to observe for a while, and after making sure that the Gu couple were very affectionate and the little Gu baby was also in good health, he proposed to invite them to visit Yan Siqi in Taiwan, bring Songjiang's weaving and embroidery skills, talk about business, and spend the New Year in Taiwan by the way.

Of course, she also invited Xi Meng's mother-in-law Lu, and Miao Atai, who is originally from Fujian, and also painted a picture of Taiwan Island is still warm as spring in the middle of winter, and going to Taiwan for the New Year is much more comfortable than spending the New Year in the cold and damp Songjiang.

Mrs. Miao said that she was getting older and was afraid of the boat and car, but Lu refused because he was a small foot.

But these two elders, one enlightened and the other easy-going, did not feel displeased with Zheng Haizhu's Zhang Luo.

The group then set off smoothly, from the inland waterway through Jiangxi to Fujian, to Yuegang, and then to the sea boat to Taiwan, the wind and dust experienced along the way, did not affect the joy of the fresh Gu couple.

is even more happy that Yan Siqi and the female chief of Siraya, Wen Akun, have also given birth to a daughter.

When the Gu couple saw this young mother, holding a baby in their arms, they checked the affairs of the village everywhere, and when they wanted to teach the tribal boy archery, they put the child in the basket without affecting the power of the bow.

This kind of women's ecology, which is very different from the young grandmother in Jiangnan who was forced to shut up and cultivate women's virtues, opened the eyes of the Gu couple.

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After handing over the Gu couple and the weaving workers to Wen Akun, Zheng Haizhu took his nephew Zheng Shoukuan, led by Yan Siqi, to appreciate the changes in Tainan this year.

Yan Siqi is a subordinate led by Li Dan, the first generation of Chinese businessmen, and he is very disciplined in opening up new worlds.

The aborigines of Baodao from Siraya and other tribes, the mainland immigrants recruited from Zhangquan in Fujian, and the maritime brothers who left Japan and took ships to join Yan Siqi, these three groups of people were arranged very well by Yan Siqi.

The aborigines are good at fishing and hunting, taking into account a small amount of cultivation, and the mountains, forests and lakes on the island, as well as the harbor where the wind and waves are calm and the boats are safely moored, are reserved for them. Yan Siqi was very generous, and also took the initiative to visit several tribes adjacent to Siraya, presented bird guns to the chiefs, and also brought them excellent grain seeds.

The mainland immigrants were good at farming, responsible for producing cash crops such as grain and tea, and Yan Siqi distributed them to the plain areas with good irrigation and fertile soil, where rice was grown, and tea plantations were opened up at a slightly higher level.

The agricultural civilization is more in tune with the traditional Confucian ideological system, so the descendants of Nanxi Zhu Xi invited by Zheng Haizhu to Ma Xianglin more than a year ago were also arranged in the academy in a large village as the first batch of masters in Tainan.

The old brothers and old subordinates from Hirado, Japan, each brought their own sailors and ships, and some of the guns and small cannons on the ships had just been exchanged for the Portuguese or the Dutch in Japan, and the value of force should not be underestimated.

Yan Siqi divided the nearly 1,000 people into 10 villages and arranged them at the traffic points on all sides, so that they could exercise their defensive duties when they were on the island and make it convenient for them to come and go when they went out of the island to sell goods.

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After Zheng Haizhu saw Yan Siqi's dedication to the construction of Tainan, he proposed to take a boat around the island with his nephew Shoukuan and go to the north and east to have a look.

From Tainan to Taitung, the straight-line distance on the island is about three or four hundred miles, but the central part of Taiwan Island in this world is still a large area of primeval forest, and it is far more difficult and time-consuming to cross by land than by sea.

Yan Siqi then chose a medium-lucky ship, hoisted the "Yan" flag of Taiwan's Xuanfu envoy, and went to sea from the mosquito port in the west, first south and then north, passing through Kaohsiung, Hengchun and other places in later generations, and came to Taitung.

During the four-to-five-day voyage, Zheng Haizhu and Yan Siqi gave a detailed account of the new situation on the mainland.

"Brother Yan, this time in Liaodong, I urged Uncle Mao, don't delay doing business in the war, and take advantage of the military merits and the blue eyes of the general soldiers, in the name of blocking Nurhachi's backyard, to occupy the Phi Island on the North Korean side. In the area of Phi Island, go to Dongying, go to Denglai, go to Songjiang, which is about to be switched, the waterways are easy for sea boats to walk, and if the weather is suitable, it will be as short as two or three days, at most five or six days, and it will arrive. ”

Yan Siqi nodded.

He was Mao Wenlong, who was rescued near Shenmi Island, so he was naturally no stranger to the situation of Phi Island.

He listened to Zheng Haizhu's meaning, and the headquarters of the Haoming Trading Company in Hangzhou served as a Chinese military account for dispatching goods and transportation routes and collecting money, connecting inland and maritime transportation, and monopolizing the sea merchants from Liaodong to Fujian and Taiwan through the four ports of Phidao, Songjiang, Daishan, and Taiwan, which currently had control.

At the same time, Yan Siqi was also instilled with a fresh theory of shipping insurance by Zheng Shoukuan at a young age.

Zheng Haizhu added: "Brother Yan, you are now a dignified and upright Taiwanese Xuanfu envoy with the title of imperial court, if you are like Dengzhou Patrol Sea Road or Li Dan, ask the ships to collect protection fees, no one will dare not pay." However, this kind of practice is like bandits, and it is too much to put on the table, so it is better to let the sea ships entering the port pay the taxes and insurance premiums, make the underworld into a white way, and launder the dirty money into clean money. ”

After thinking about it carefully, Yan Siqi said: "Ah Zhu, with the land, how to get money to raise people and land, I won't underestimate the method you said, let's try it first." But to tell you the truth, since the imperial court recognized my Yan's entry into Taiwan, I have become more and more worried day by day. ”

"What are you worried about?" Zheng Haizhu asked.

"I'm worried that I'll become the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and third."

Zheng Haizhu smiled.

"Brother Yan, you're right to be worried, but it's not right either."