When Gao Yong and Cui Yong were discussing the anti-water matter, Tao Degui was talking to Zheng and Hongbao.

Just now their deliberations dispersed, Gao Yong and Cui Yong left first, Tao Degui walked slowly, and looked back at Zheng He as he walked.

Zheng He immediately called Hong Bao, and when Gao Yong and Cui Yong went away, you went and called Tao Degui back.

Zheng He asked Tao Degui, when we went to Java, did you say we should go to the old port?

Tao Degui's face remained unchanged, and he said slowly: "Fifty thousand taels of gold is a big deal, you should go to Majapahit first, and then look back at the situation." ”

Meaning, you don't have to go to the Old Port.

Zheng He nodded: "After you go back, you will order the sergeants to prepare more food and fresh water, spend some silver, use our goods, and exchange more food and other food with the locals." ”

Tao Degui nodded in agreement.

Zheng He also instructed that when we depart from Temasek tomorrow, the formation of the fleet will change.

Zheng He and Hong Bao walked in front, Tao Degui walked in the middle, then Cui Yong followed him, and finally Gao Yong.

Cui Yong's sailors had only more than 2,000 sailors, and the ships were the fewest of them.

Tao Degui's face changed slightly when he heard it, and he obviously felt Zheng He's intentions.

But Zheng He only said so much, and he didn't make it clear, after all, Gao Yong and Cui Yong's attitude was not obvious.

At this time, his henchman deputy Hong Bao finally spoke.

"Why don't you call Gao Yong and Cui Yong to our ship early tomorrow morning?" Hong Bao said in a deep voice.

Tao Degui's face changed slightly, he saw that Zheng He was hesitating, and immediately said: "Only calling two people, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, and it is easy to cause an incident (mutiny)."

Because now the news of the rebellion of the Han King must have spread in the army, and Ling detained Gao Yong and Cui Yong alone, their henchmen, and they may make trouble.

And the attitude of the two today is unclear, and it is a question of whether they will come tomorrow or not.

Zheng He thought for a while: "I'll talk about it tomorrow, I think the two generals are my good sons." ”

He still has hope for Gao Yong and Cui Yong in his heart, and they didn't say anything, so it doesn't make sense for you to suddenly arrest them.

Hong Bao didn't say anything more, just sighed secretly, feeling that Zheng He was not decisive enough.

Tao Degui didn't say much, said a few more words to the two, and left with his fists hugged.

Hong Bao waited for him to leave, and immediately said, "Is Tao Degui reliable?" ”

Zheng He was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head: "I don't know, but his family is in Suzhou." ”

Hong Bao was noncommittal, thinking to himself, Gao Yong's family is also in Zhejiang.

Before the fleet left port the next day, Gao Yong and Cui Yong both received orders to change the order of the fleet, and second, to supply food and fresh water.

When the two heard that a large amount of food and fresh water was to be replenished, they knew that Zheng He might want to make a long detour back to Zhu Di's territory.

At noon that day, the fleet set sail again, and the mighty fleet came in the direction of the old port.

Although they did not plan to land in the Old Port, they still had to go to Java.

The two of them were silent and followed for the time being.

When approaching the direction of the old port, from the back of the fleet, a small boat quickly broke away from the fleet and went to the direction of the old port, Gao Yong will inform Zhu Gaoxu of Zheng He's fleet route, and ask the king of Han to send a ship to intercept it.

On the treasure ship.

Zheng He was standing at the bow of the ship, when they had just crossed the old port, and along the way, they could see merchant ships from the north heading towards the old port and passing through their fleet.

At this time, they happened to take the route from west to east, and the ships from the direction of Daming and Champa came from north to south.

The two sides form a cross and will intersect with each other.

However, it is not easy to encounter the staggered ships in the vast sea, and Zheng He's fleet can meet them, which shows that the old port is now very prosperous, and there are more ships coming and going.

"Lord Zheng Envoy, it seems to be the ship of the Ming merchants." There was a little eunuch on the side with sharp eyes, and the boat that had just intersected with them seemed to be a Ming man.

Zheng He's face also showed a look of emotion, after he went to the West this time, his horizons were broadened a lot, he saw the customs and ports of various countries, and he also felt that the maritime trade was hugely profitable.

Even he felt that the imperial court should not ban the sea, but unfortunately he didn't count it, and he didn't dare to raise objections.

Now that he saw that Youming Shang had come so far to do business, he was still happy for these people.

"Boat, there's a ship ahead." At that moment, there was another scream on the side, for there were ships of a thousand materials, which were coming from east to west.

Zheng He's face changed slightly, and when the other party's ship approached, he found that the flag of the Ming army was erected on it, like a Ming official army sailor.

But he must know in his heart that this must be the sailor of the King of Han.

Han wants to intercept me?

But only one, it doesn't seem like it?

After a while, the other party waved a flag to get on their boat, and then began to slow down and make a U-turn, as if trying to move in the same direction as them.

It was troublesome and slow to turn around at sea, and when the other party turned around, Zheng He's boat had already swept behind the other party.

At this time, Zheng He saw from a distance that there was a person above who was waving frantically.

He stared and looked at it, but he couldn't see who it was.

The little eunuch beside him shouted: "It's Chen Xi." ”

Zheng He hurriedly ordered to slow down and wait.

So about half an hour, Chen Xi got on Zheng He's ship.

Chen Xi cried with joy when he saw Zheng He, kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly.

Zheng He was also very excited, have you returned to Beijing, has Your Majesty received any holy words?

Chen Xi cried that the slave maid did not return to Beijing and was intercepted in Zhancheng.

Then he told what had happened.

He was intercepted in the city of Zhan, and waited for two months, and Mu Sheng, the Marquis of Xiping on the other side of Jiaozhi, transferred a sailor from Guangdong, plus some of the soldiers and horses of the Han King of Jiaozhi, to form an army of more than 100 ships, (in fact, many ships are not big, most of them are Jiaozhi) and drove to Majapahit, asking for 100,000 taels of gold.

The king of the West of Majapahit was frightened, because he was at war with the king of the east, and the other party said that he would help the king beat him without giving money.

Without saying a word, the king of the west took out 100,000 taels of gold.

Unexpectedly, after the Ming army got the gold, he turned around and went to the king of the east and said, the king of the west gave us 100,000 taels of gold, let us help him beat you.

The king of the east didn't say anything, and quickly took out 100,000 taels of gold, and after the Ming army took the gold, he happily returned to occupy the city.

The East and West kings continued to fight.

Chen Xi said that the Ming army only dispatched more than 3,000 people on this trip, and many ships were empty, just to load gold.

“。。” Zheng He was dumbfounded when he heard this, we are in the Heavenly Empire, can we still operate like this?

Such a shameless thing is really only His Majesty's own son, Zhu Gaoxu, can come out.

But that's not even the most outrageous.

The Ming army who went there said that it was sent by Zhu Di, and now this matter is recorded on Zhu Di's head.

There is no way, when Zheng He came over, it was Zhu Di who was on behalf of him.

The money robbery became Zhu Di's doing.

"King Han?" Zheng He's face turned red when he heard this, didn't this make me carry the black pot? This is going to be passed back to Jingshi, can the emperor let him go?

Chen Xi finally cried: "The matter has come to this point, it is irreparable, and adults must not return to Beijing." ”

Zheng He was upset when he heard this, and immediately assessed the seriousness of this matter in his mind.

When he asked Zhu Di to fail, the King of Han sent someone to rob 200,000 taels of gold, and then planted it on Zhu Di's head.

No matter what Zheng He says, he also has the sin of being ineffective.

Now go and explain to the king of the east and the king of the west?

It doesn't seem to work, because the king of Han can't repay the gold he robbed to the king of the east and west.

At this time, this huge fleet of ships on the sea was slowly heading towards Java.

Zheng He's heart was so confused that it was difficult to take anything.

"Lord Zheng. Slave maid here, there is a handwritten letter written by the king of Han to the adult. At this moment, Chen Xi slowly took out a letter from his arms.

Zhu Gaoxu affectionately called him Brother Zheng in the letter, and said that when he was in Beiping, Brother Zheng still cared for Gao Xu, and Gao Xu also respected Brother Zheng very much.

Zhu Gaoxu said again, Brother Zheng, when you go overseas, you must have seen all kinds of overseas Western customs.

will also know that this world is huge, and we will not occupy a single occasion.

Everyone is fighting for such a little place in China, in fact, why not look overseas.

Brother Zheng is an understanding person, and he must know that some of Zhu Di's policies are not conducive to this country and the people, if we allow maritime trade, expand overseas territories, and plunder foreign countries, both the country and the people can get benefits.

Zhu Gaoxu used a lot of pen and ink to tell Zheng He about overseas interests and benefits to the country, and these words he now said to other civilian officials and military generals, they may not be convinced, and they may not be able to understand them.

But Zheng He's more than a year of experience, coupled with the fact that the King of the West was willing to give 50,000 taels of gold casually, he can quite understand what Zhu Gaoxu meant.

To put it simply, there are many opportunities to make money overseas, whether it is doing business or fighting, you can make a lot of money.

The Ming people should not fight the Ming people, they should fight outside, which is only good for the country and the people, but my father does not support it, I fully support it.

In the end, Zhu Gaoxu said, I fully support this matter, and I think that in the future, the deeds of Brother Zheng must be recorded in history and passed down through the ages.

Of course, this will be Zheng He's first trip to the West, and I don't know if he will have a second or third time in the future.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't know whether Zheng He liked it or not, and whether he was willing to go to the West.

But going down in history and passing down through the ages, these words are still quite attractive.

As a eunuch, Zheng He has no desires and no desires, and perhaps going down in history is the most exciting thing for him now.

He definitely didn't know that even if Zhu Gaoxu didn't say so, he would also go down in history in the future.

After reading the letter, Zheng He was silent for a long time, he could understand Zhu Gaoxu's letter and Zhu Gaoxu's mind, but he supported Zhu Gaoxu's statement in his heart.

However, as Zhu Di's confidant and one of the most trusted eunuchs, he still wants to remain loyal to this day.

But at this moment, boom, a cannon suddenly sounded in the distance.

He jerked his head back, and one by one, a dozen ships slowly appeared on the western horizon.

It was also during this time that Fang Yanping from the old port came out.

Knowing that Gao Yong and Cui Yong wanted to surrender, Fang Yanping was also bold and wanted to intercept Zheng He here and make a great contribution.

Fang Yanping's fleet only had a dozen ships, but as soon as their ships opened fire and appeared, Gao Yong and Cui Yong of Zheng He's rear team began to break away from their fleet.

This kind of thing of leaving the fleet without receiving an order is definitely not right without even thinking about it.

The situation on the sea suddenly became tense.

The situation is on the verge of eruption.

(End of chapter)