At dusk, Zheng Yi stood on the deck of the Fu ship, drinking and staring at the cabin.

Liu Xiang was busy around him, and from time to time he went over to talk with a look of courtesy.

From an outsider's point of view, it was Yan Siqi who instructed Liu Xiang to serve the subordinates of General Yu and not be stingy when distributing the spoils.

In fact, at this moment, in the conversation between the two, Liu Xiang's main family and Zheng Yi are working for the same person surnamed Zhu overseas.

"Lao Zheng, your niece who hasn't known each other yet, is very fine. She was clearly suspicious, but she didn't continue to ask through me, an outsider. But when it was time to rest, she pulled Yan Siqi with her, saying that she was close to the monks of the Tokugawa family temple, but in fact, she believed that her old man was good at interpreting. Sure enough, I heard the girl ask the monk again about when he went to Java and what were the characteristics of the piano he played. ”

Zheng Yi squinted, his gaze was withdrawn from the sailors who were busy stacking goods in the bilge, and he threw himself at the sunset that was about to sink in the west, and said slowly: "Count, the county lord has been secretly staring at Zheng Yatou for more than three years, and he is very appreciative of his wrist, but he still doesn't dare to draw conclusions about his temperament, after all, he is not as relieved as the Wang girl of the Fang family, and it is too early to talk to her and share the great cause now." ”

Liu Xiang said clearly: "Ningde is very worried. After all, everyone else, including General Pony, has a grudge against the one on the dragon chair. ”

I can't help but complain in my heart that the son who inherited the bloodline of the Zhu family is really a lot of trouble, and he shows off the piano in front of the monks of the Japanese Kingdom.

Liu Xiang muttered for a moment and asked, "Since you can't let Zheng Haizhu be suspicious of Wang Yatou, why don't you wait for the monk to arrive in Fujian, and you can find a way to end him?" ”

Zheng Yi said noncommittally: "I will discuss this matter with Ningde and then make a decision." ”

The next day, Zheng Yi's two fortune ships loaded with booty sailed away from Baisha Island in Penghu and headed for Kinmen and Xiamen.

After the goods and silver coins on the Dutch ships were distributed by the Ming army, Yan Siqi ordered people to return hard bread, dried cod, cheese and other food to the captives, and even allowed them to send men to borrow the Ming army's clay pot to cook bean cereal soup.

Captain Putmans, who survived the Penghu offensive and defensive battle, almost burst into fire in his eyes when he saw Zheng Haizhu landing on the island with the commander of the Ming Army's naval division with a calm face yesterday.

But this pirate-born foreign warrior couldn't help but be a little convinced by Yan Siqi, a general of the Ming Kingdom who bravely attacked during the war and did not treat prisoners harshly after the war, and today he stopped scolding the Ming people for being cunning, and began to devour food.

In Yan Siqi's tent, Zheng Haizhu nibbled on the dried sweet potatoes that have been popular in Fujian in recent years for lunch, looked at the Dutch who were imprisoned on the beach, and said to Yan Siqi: "There are more than 100 of the red hairs you have survived here, and there are at least 300 on Kinmen Island over there by Yu Zhigao, and there are also several captains in it, Batavia will definitely send people to negotiate soon." I told Mr. Yu that the place to talk would be in Kinmen, and the prisoners on Baisha Island would be taken back to Tainan for custody. When will the Dutch sign the instrument of surrender and the agreement between the two countries, and when will you release them. ”

Yan Siqi wiped his Muramasa long knife, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll take these red hairs and go around Beigang and the chicken coop (that is, modern Keelung), so that the Spaniards in the chicken coop can also take a look, and look back and be honest." Although those Spanish maritime merchants did not deal with the governor of Luzon very well, they had never harmed the Han Chinese in Luzon before. But you still need to beat, don't bully the aborigines in the mountains of Taipei and the Han people who work in the fields, otherwise I will them, which is more ruthless than dry red hair. ”

Zheng Haizhu smiled approvingly.

She has never been restrictive to Yan Siqi.

To be precise, in the past few years, she has never had a feeling that the world of love can communicate with several ancient men who can be seen.

However, this did not affect her admiration for them in the slightest.

They are perceptive and more bloody. There is no martial arts, what they hide in their hearts is not the emperor who is the thunder, rain and dew, but the people and the land that feeds the people.

The curtain of the tent was raised high, and the busy Yan family army sergeants hurried by.

The brothers no longer have a sense of curiosity about the eldest brother's mouth, the female head of the land, and they are accustomed to the two of them eating and chatting together.

Zheng Haizhu looked at the scene in front of him and sighed lightly: "After all, the inland is still very strict in etiquette. The negotiation table with the red hair was presided over by the old man from the imperial history of the governor of Fujian, and I couldn't sit on it as a woman. However, Mr. Yu is an understanding person, let me sum up with you, what do you want. ”

With a "cang" sound, Yan Siqi put his long knife into the sheath.

"What do you want? Ask for money and peace. ”

"Big brother, I think so too. But these two things are actually the same, that is, sea power. With sea power, there is money and peace. So ......"

Zheng Haizhu stood up and walked to the chart that Yan Siqi brought to fight.

Pointing to Taiwan, she continued: "I'll start by saying what I think. This lesson to the Dutch was not to close off the country, but to seize sea power, as we said last time when we visited the island. I am going to say to Mr. Yu that we want three interests and two responsibilities. ”

Yan Siqi listened intently.

According to Zheng Haizhu, with this cooperation with Fujian sailors, it will not be difficult for Yan Siqi to control the entire island of Taiwan next. Then, the island of Taiwan, which already belongs to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, should become the easternmost starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and establish a trade area larger than Yuegang and Macao.

Westerners, whether Dutch, Spanish, or Nanyang, who appeared only as merchants and not as colonists, paid the ship tax (i.e., import tax) if they sold their goods, and paid a slightly lower rate of taxes for those who brought silver to buy goods. This is one of the interests of Taiwan's Gan family.

Non-Ming ships that go east of Penghu Island, even if they do not trade in Taiwan, must buy Yan Siqi's order flag, and if they do not buy the order flag, if Yan's sailors inspect it, they can intercept it. This is benefit two.

This interest 2 is actually the practice of Zheng Zhilong after he became the hegemon of the Southeast China Sea during the later period of Tianqi Chongzhen in history. It's nothing more than that the Zheng family collects protection fees for both Chinese and foreign ships, and it costs 3,000 taels of silver to buy a flag.

Zheng Haizhu felt that Yan Siqi should not charge protection money for the Ming maritime merchants transporting goods in the waters of their own land, and if a foreign ship or a Huayang pirate ship looted a Ming merchant ship, it was another matter to be enthusiastic about rescuing or charging for rescue.

The third interest is to demarcate the respective borders of maritime trade with Japan with Yu Zhigao.

It is an open secret that the border ministers and generals of the Ming Dynasty are guarding the country while doing some smuggling and border trade. After the Dutch were defeated this time, Yan Siqi and Yu Zhigao, who were also proficient in smuggling with Japan, should demarcate the scope of goods, and their own people should not fight in the nest for the first time, but focus on squeezing out the Dutch's entrepot trade power in Japan.

As for the two responsibilities, one is that Yan Jiajun will also guard Penghu, anyway, Yu Zhigao can't wait to shake off the flood soldier system. Second, Taiwan has to pay a part of the ship tax and levy to the imperial court, and it can go through Fujian's accounts, thus adding a lot of great political achievements to the Fujian governor and other civil officials.

As for the silver collected by Lingqi, the affairs on the vast sea, where can the imperial court check it with a pen, as a local income, Yan Siqi will divide a part of it, and honor the civil and military officials in Fujian, wouldn't everyone be happy.

Yan Siqi listened to it, some of Zheng Haizhu's plans were to be written in the agreement between the Ming and Netherlands, some were approved by the Fujian governor Shangjuan's imperial court, and some were secretly discussed with Yu Zhigao.

But the purpose is indeed "to ask for money, to be peaceful".

Yan Siqi then nodded and said: "That's almost the first thing, I can be recruited by the imperial court and named Taiwan Xuanfu, which was unimaginable a few years ago." After earning more money, he will buy more ships and guns, recruit soldiers, and guard the eastern country for Banzai. ”

After thinking about it, he added: "Well, I must ask you to buy the firearm." I will continue to invest some money in your Haoming trading company in Hangzhou. ”

Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "Big brother said so, then I'm not welcome." However, I will ask you for a Taiwanese stall again. Turn around and let Shoukuan come over from Xiamen, and tell you what insurance is. Those foreign ships, if they want to enter various ports in Taiwan, must first buy our port comprehensive insurance, public security insurance and other types of insurance. ”

"Okay, okay, I don't understand this. You are only allowed to sell this and what insurance your aunt and nephew of the Zheng family are. ”

Yan Siqi responded.

Ah Zhu this time, not only hard, but also risky, dedicated to his old face can earn military merits, if she doesn't want anything, she feels sorry.

At this time, Zheng Haizhu was silent for a moment, glanced outside, approached Yan Siqi's side, and said in a low voice: "Big brother, you just said something wrong. ”

"Which one?"

"Guarding the country for the Son of Heaven. Wrong, you are guarding the country for the people of the Ming Dynasty, not for the one on the dragon chair. ”

Yan Siqi's face trembled.

Although he was a fugitive from the Ming Dynasty and had been in Japan for many years, the thoughts of monarchs and ministers in his mind were not as important as those civil officials, but he still heard Zheng Haizhu's disrespectful words to the Son of Heaven, and was shocked.

"Azhu, if you want to kill your head, how can you talk nonsense?"

Zheng Haizhu shook his head slightly and said: "Big brother, after the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, some ministers and emperors said that this world is the world of the people of the world, not the world of the official family. From this, the country is also the country of the people, not the country of his old Zhu family. What's more, now this long-lived lord doesn't care about his own country at all, whether there is a door or not, even if there is a door, the door still doesn't work. We fought such a beautiful victory in Fushun, and we didn't see Long Live Lord in court. ”

Yan Siqi's face softened slightly, and he snorted: "He, is he not in good health?" ”

"Yes," Zheng Haizhu said in an affirmative tone, "He wants to make the son of his favorite concubine the crown prince, and the ministers won't let him, so he will be aggrieved and angry in his heart, and he will eat opium in the harem all day long, and he will eat his life to the death." ”

"Opium?" Yan Siqi thought for a while, and took a cigarette gun from the armor in the corner of the tent, "Ah Zhu, Liu Xiang went to Java to recruit troops this time, and also brought back a tobacco called opium, saying that it was smoking a special refreshment to relieve fatigue. You're talking about the same thing? ”

Zheng Haizhu took out a small piece of opium paste from the dirty cloth bag hanging under the smoking gun.

"Big brother, this thing is not tobacco, it's a poisonous weed."