"Miss Zheng, if it weren't for the fact that you sent these novelties, even if you were Yan Siqi's number one confidante, Yu would not let you get on the warship. How many generations of old rules, women, land battles can't go up the city walls, naval battles can't go to the boat gang. ”

In Xiamen Port, on the old lock ship slowly moving eastward, Yu Zhigao, the chief soldier of Fujian, walked on the deck that had been warmed and dried by the sun with a pair of flat feet like goose paws, while squinting at Zheng Haizhu beside him.

Behind the two were Xu Xinsu and Zheng Shoukuan, as well as Zheng Zhilong, who had just arrived in Xiamen with a thousand porcelain mines the day before yesterday after receiving Zheng Haizhu's orders.

Xu Xinsu had already greeted a few people in advance, and after Yu Zhigao was the gate, he was calling for wind and rain in the southern Fujian sea, inevitably with a big frame and rough speech, Rao is so, Zheng Zhilong still can't listen to Yu Zongbing's words of contempt for women.

"Master, my sister has already been on a warship and fought with the Francis, and we have won a good time."

Yu Zhigao turned his head and glanced at Zheng Zhilong.

Yu Zhigao found it interesting.

This young man who was called "an official" by Xu Xinsu was obviously a descendant of the Fujian Maritime Group, and it is said that even if he followed Yan Siqi, he was often remembered by Li Dan, but now he has become a woman's younger brother.

However, as a military general, Yu Zhigao, looking at people with a heroic spirit on his body and sharp energy in his eyes, saw Zheng Zhilong this time, and liked his appearance as a bloody calf with blood on his head, and did not care about his courage and recklessness, but laughed and said: "Look, you can't write two Zheng characters in one stroke, and this time the words of protection are faster than Frankie on Lao Tzu's boat." Miss Zheng, is Yiguan really your own brother? ”

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips: "I killed the Spaniards at sea together, and I was closer than my brother, not to mention helping me manage the money." ”

Zheng Haizhu's face was as usual.

She has long been accustomed to the discrimination and dwarfing of women in this era, which is not much different from the hundreds of years in later generations.

If you have to criticize every greasy ridicule with a straight face, how can you have time to earn money, help people and fight Tartar devils.

The key is to guide these proud, but indeed powerful and intelligent men, not to only pay attention to the mouth cannons, but also let the warships under their command fire the invaders in time.

Zheng Haizhu did not continue to joke and talk nonsense, but leaned out of the side of the boat to see the draft of the old lock boat when it was jolting in the big waves.

"Mr. Yu, is this boat bought from Guangdong, a second-hand ship of the Franky people, called a duck boat?"

"Oh? The girl has such good eyesight? ”

Zheng Haizhu was colorless, and said sincerely: "I didn't understand, I went to Beigang in Taiwan in Layueli and saw it in the hands of the Dutch. It is said that when they attacked the Franky people in Macau, their own ship sank, so they robbed the Franky people of this kind of boat. Foreigners call our Ming sailboat Junk boat, which is the pronunciation of Junk. Both the Frankians and the Dutch looked down on the Junk, thinking that our ships were not good at naval warfare, that the gun positions were too high, and that the waves were too slow. ”

Yu Zhigao heard Zheng Haizhu talk about the key to the warship, and while looking at this woman, he also came to discuss the interest of the warship.

"Miss Zheng, the words of the foreign monkey are not bad. Our lucky ship, the bilge is a big box, majestic is majestic, but it sails slowly, and the cannons are in the bow, and the firepower on both sides is poor. In the past, when we encountered a small boat like the Japanese who jumped directly to help the gang, our lucky boat just sank it. The foreign ships encountered today are generally covered with cannons all over their bodies, and they can't fight like they did when they fought the Japanese invaders. Especially the red-haired fan, who has grown up in recent years, is no longer embarrassed when he cleaned them up. ”

Shen Yourong can be regarded as a national defense general of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou's generation, so as Yu Dayou's son, Yu Zhigao wants to be honored as Shen Gong.

More than ten years ago, Shen Yourong was a powerful defender of the China Sea in front of everyone. In the thirtieth year of Wanli, Shen Yourong led his troops to completely annihilate the Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi army that invaded the indigenous islands of Taiwan, and two years later, he expelled the Dutch who tried to occupy Penghu by means of envoy negotiations.

Shen Yourong's two feats, in later generations, are not as famous as Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese and Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, but in this world, almost all women and children know about Zhangquan and Xiajin.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu carefully pondered Yu Zhigao's words and once again determined Yu Zhigao's position.

She waited in Xu Xinsu's house for a few days, and Xu Xinsu came back and took her to the Yamen of the General Army to see Yu Zhigao.

As she predicted, Yu Zhigao himself has a hostile attitude towards the Dutch far better than Yan Siqi, who has just settled in Taiwan.

Because, the Dutch invaded the waters of southern Fujian because the East India Company wanted to do entrepot trade between China, Japan, India, and the Nanyang Islands, that is, the second-tier dealers in the Asia-Pacific seas.

According to the Dutch plan, the profit from the entrepot trade was enough to offset the freight and cost of goods in the ocean, so that the goods shipped back to Europe, no matter how much they were sold, were net profits.

However, Yu Zhigao, who owns Xu Xinsu, has formed a solid cooperative relationship with Japan's Li Dan, and the Dutch inserted to eat the meat in Yu Zhigao's bowl, which is very likely to rob Yu Zhigao's smuggling sources along the coast of Fujian, as well as customers in Japan.

Zheng Haizhu understood Yu Zhigao's fundamental interests in the business chain, so he bluntly told that the Dutch are also foreign predators for Yan Siqi, who also does not need middlemen.

She wanted to persuade Yu Zhigao to join forces with Yan Siqi to stifle the Dutch's attempt to find a foothold in the Taiwan Strait.

Historically, a few years later, the Dutch did not stop invading Penghu Island, and eventually colonized Taiwan and established Hongmao City.

Yu Zhigao, who had both troops and smugglers in Fujian, had seen the Dutch bribe the Ming eunuchs to ask for a mutual market when he was young, and had heard Shen Yourong talk about the Dutch not leaving Penghu and harassing and plundering Chinese sea ships everywhere.

The current governor of Fujian, named Wang Shichang, was born as a Taoist official, and he has always been very harsh with foreign officials, but when he heard that General Yu had driven a boat to the sea to suppress bandits (in fact, most of them were selling goods), he was so happy that he wanted to repay the Fujian sailors.

Wang Junmen's support for fighting the Dutch, Yu Zhigao was not worried.

Yu Zhigao's only concern was whether Zheng Haizhu would be the one who came to put the hook for Yan Siqi, and afterwards let the father-in-law Liu, who was good friends with them, go to Banzai to blow the wind, saying that General Yu was provoking the border and scared the merchants not to sell goods.

Fortunately, this concern was dispelled by Xu Xinsu the next day.

Xu Xinsu said that Zheng Haizhu proposed that before the Dutch were defeated, his nephew Zheng Shoukuan was a hostage in Xiamen. In addition, since it was the old enemy of the Portuguese, the Dutch, Zheng Zhilong lobbied the Franky Artillery Factory in Macao to send ten smoothbore guns to Yu Zhigao's Fujian naval division.

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When Yu Zhigao heard the second point, he was more relieved than he was to be a hostage.

Everyone is a businessman, and you can understand as soon as you hear it, this woman wants to be a second-class dealer between him Yu Shigao and the Francoians of Macau. Since he wants to earn his Yu family's money for a long time, how can he hack him Yu Zhigao.

It didn't take long for the old lock boat to sail to Liaoluo Bay near Kinmen.

Zheng Haizhu looked at the various warships of the Daming Navy Division that crowded the port, and said to Yu Zhigao: "Master, are the flood soldiers over there in Penghu Island back?" ”

Yu Zhigao nodded: "It's all back to Kinmen, there is no one on Penghuyu now." Perhaps, at this moment, there are already boats of red-haired ghosts to Penghu Island, as well as the Spaniards you mentioned, and boats have also begun to pass over in Manila. ”

Zheng Haizhu said in a humble tone: "Yan Xuanfu's boat, last year also took me around Penghu Island, if you want to fight a naval battle, this place is more favorable to us than Penghu Island." ”

Yu Zhigao squinted his eyes and asked, "Didn't you say that Yan Siqi hadn't fought with the Dutch yet, hadn't you seen them fight a naval battle?" ”

Zheng Haizhu shook his head honestly: "I haven't seen the Dutch fight, but I've seen their ships and heard their merchants brag." As the chief master just said, their ship is full of cannons. When they hit the Francis, they fired first, and if the opponent's formation was disrupted, they themselves stopped lining up, but rushed into the rebels, staring at the unsunken ships, firing and catching the strings, and when they did not jump first, they switched muskets and fired, or threw grenades. Foreigners are not good at hand-to-hand combat, and they are indeed different from Dongying people. ”

Yu Zhigao stared at her: "So what? Why does Ms Cheng think that Liuluo Bay is more advantageous than Penghu Island? ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "Because we are a Ming sailor, we will use fireboats than them." The wind direction of Liuluo Bay this season, if the lotus boat is brought in, wouldn't it be very exciting? ”

Yu had never fought with the Dutch East India Company's navy, but he looked down and felt that Zheng Haizhu was right.

"Miss Zheng, although the Dutch do need to clean up before they can be honest. But when Yan Xuan and I started together, we always had to prepare a famous Tang newspaper for the governor. 'Hongyi is in charge of Penghu, and the sailor camera is confiscated', which sounds the most appropriate. If it is to be changed to play in Leuk Lo Wan...... The Dutch are also very proficient, and they know that Kinmen is the guard of our Ming Dynasty, not the territory guarded by the flood soldiers, how can they be attracted to attack? ”

Zheng Haizhu said seriously: "I'll lead it, but the master must be here to act together." ”