Zheng Sen said: "I am the Zheng family, the eldest son of my father, I don't think about the Zheng family, who thinks about it, this is the place where I was born and raised." ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded: "With your words, I am at ease for my father, and I will send you to Nanjing Guozijian to study, and I don't have to worry about it." But you don't have to worry about Treasure Island. ”

Zheng Zhilong stretched out his hand, motioned for Zheng Sen to sit down, beckoned the maid to serve tea, drove people out, and said, "I will talk to my son, and no one should disturb me." ”

The door of the study was closed, and Zheng Zhilong said: "The so-called Treasure Island, the Francois have been looking for a hundred years and have not found it, and the red hair has not been found. But Treasure Island does exist, and the Father knows where. ”

"Father knows?" This is something that Zheng Sen doesn't know.

Zheng Zhilong said: "The so-called Treasure Island, it should be the Tokugawa shogun's heavenly domain, Sado Island, there are several gold mountains on it, and it is very productive, just north of the island of Japan, my father has never been there, but I also know the approximate location." ”

Zheng Sen nodded: "In this way, the child doesn't need to worry." ”

Treasure Island is the heavenly domain of the Tokugawa shogunate, so the Dutch dare not act rashly, and Zheng Sen naturally does not need to worry about the Dutch getting Treasure Island.

"Although you have done something lacking in this trip to Dongzhen, at your age, you are already very good. Your fourth uncle also keeps praising you, but you have less contact with the old man in the water master, and he is not very satisfied. Zheng Zhilong said.

Zheng Sen said: "The child deliberately did not associate with them. ”

"Oh, why is that?" Zheng Zhilong was puzzled.

Zheng Sen immediately said: "My father is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he will be able to live a long life, and his father will be in one day, and the Zheng family will be his father's, and those people will be driven by his father." When the father entrusts the Zheng family to the child, those people will be old and unusable, so what is the use of the child associating with them now? On the contrary, there is a suspicion of cursing his father not to live long.

The child felt that these people had long since lost the determination to follow their father, but Shi Lang and other young generations were full of vigor and were similar in age to the child, and the child was easy to use. ”

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he laughed, in the past, he felt that his son had learned the Four Books and Five Classics and was pedantic, but now it seems that this filial piety is really gratifying.

"What you said is that when you take over, you should use your own team to be the people left to you by your father, but they will rely on seniority to restrain you." Zheng Zhilong nodded, and said: "This time you go to the Guozijian, it is better to choose some from the children of everyone as a companion, and you are familiar with it, and it will be cheaper for you to use it in the future."

Then Shi Lang is good, how about being your chief of guard, I will discuss with your fourth uncle, this time you go north to Nanjing, and he will send you by boat, how about it? ”

"Regarding going north, the child was about to discuss with his father, and the child had a plan, but he did not dare to disobey his father's wishes." Zheng Sen has lost the posture of doing things against Zheng Zhilong on weekdays, and this time his posture is very low.

The more this is the case, the more Zheng Zhilong is willing to listen to him, Zheng Zhilong said: "You are not a child anymore, you have your own ideas, as long as you are not wrong, how can you not allow it as a father?" ”

"Shi Lang is good, and the child also wants him to be by his side, and when he arrives in the country, he will also learn some things by the way, so that he can be reused in the future. It's just that the child doesn't want to be his own boat and go north. Zheng Sen said.

"And you want to go by land?" Zheng Zhilong asked, and Zheng Sen shook his head.

Zheng Zhilong's eyes widened: "You won't hide from your father and contact that Li Zhaoji of the Oriental Trading Company, by the way, that Chen Huaiyu is in Anping, and his ship is the ship of the Oriental Trading Company." ”

"No, that Li Zhaoji, who looks at the wolf and has wolf ambitions, dares to go to Nagasaki to trade and fight for the interests of my Zheng family, and the child doesn't want to associate with him." Zheng Sen immediately said, he was afraid that Zheng Zhilong would continue to speculate, and said: "The child wants to take the ship of Fries to Nanjing. ”

"Red-haired ship, why?" Zheng Zhilong was puzzled.

"Father, this time I went to Dongchu, and the last time I went to Guangzhou, the child came into contact with foreign ships, and I felt that the foreign ships were really strong and sharp, and they were not matched by my ships. In the past, children always felt that although foreign ships were good, they were also built by foreigners, and foreigners used them, and we couldn't build them or use them.

But isn't Li Zhaoji also a Ming person, his subordinates Liu Mingde and his ilk are even more unpopular maritime merchants, compared with our Zheng family, it is simply a drop in the middle, but Li Zhaoji built a foreign ship and used a foreign ship.

What he Li Zhaoji did, our Zheng family must be able to do it. Therefore, the child wants to take the opportunity to inspect the foreign ship in depth, know himself and the enemy, and win all battles. Zheng Sen said earnestly and seriously.

Zheng Zhilong shook his head slightly: "Da Mu, you have a special identity, this time in Dongzhen, you have repeatedly humiliated the red hair, if they have bad intentions and hurt you, how can you explain to your mother for your father?" ”

"Father, will our Zheng family be like this forever? Why did we divide the trade of Nagasaki to the red hairs, why did Luzon let the ghosts occupy it and let them slaughter our compatriots, why did Greater Luzon occupy so much land.

As long as we have our own fleet of foreign ships, these can belong to our Zheng family. Speaking of excitement, Zheng Sen stood up directly and said impassionedly.

"Father, over the years, your official position has been promoted from the Five Tigers guerrilla to the admiral of a province, but how much has our Zheng family's industry expanded, the gentry in Jiangnan are guarding against you entering Jiangnan, and the gentry in Liangguang are not allowed to intervene in the Pearl River estuary.

After all, our Zheng family is a pirate Zhao'an, those gentry never put us in their eyes, you have worked hard for more than ten years, what have you gotten, the Zheng family is still the Zheng family more than ten years ago. I don't want to wait for me to take over the Zheng family, I can only be a person who keeps the job.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangxi did not let us intervene, so we simply looked overseas and competed with the foreigners. Zheng Sen said.

Zheng Zhilong's face was solemn, but he was secretly happy in his heart, although his official position has been improved over the years, but he has achieved nothing in terms of actual interests, as his son Zheng Sen said, no matter how high his official position is, in the eyes of the gentry, he is just a coward who has been appeased.

Zheng Zhilong knew that his son had ambitions, but these ambitions were all for the sake of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and that gesture seemed to fill in the Zheng family, and he did not hesitate to do so, but the ambition he showed today was completely for the future and fate of the Zheng family, how could he not be happy?

"Okay, don't say it, Damu, for my father knows your ambitions, if I were twenty years younger, I would definitely be like you, vowing to exterminate the red hair and sweep the seven seas. I am old for my father, but I can't stop being ambitious for my father, so I will hold you hostage. Zheng Zhilong was finally persuaded by Zheng Sen.

Zheng Sen said excitedly: "Father has promised the child. ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "My father can't let you be in danger, so make a decision, if you are willing, it will be fine, if you are unwilling, there is no need to discuss this matter anymore." ”

"Father, please." Zheng Sen rarely saw his father give in, and immediately said.

Zheng Zhilong thought for a while and said: "The Fries' fleet is indeed strange, and there was another incident of foreign ships exploring the channel of Zhangzhou Bay in front of me, and we really can't let it come and go freely." In this way, arrange two triangular clippers for my father, and you will sail north, and the Friesian fleet will be merged into your fleet in my Daming waters under your command, and it can be regarded as my Zheng family's sailor escorting his red-haired fleet.

Since he said that he would go to Nagasaki, when you arrive at the mouth of the Yangtze River, you should separate and go to Nagasaki on your own. ”

"What if Fries is not under the command of the child?" Zheng Sen asked.

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "He doesn't dare, Hongmao will not offend our Zheng family because of this little thing." ”

Zheng Sen nodded, although he didn't board the ship directly, he could be regarded as controlling the fleet.

Zheng Sen left Zheng Zhilong's study satisfied, and Zheng Zhilong immediately called his most trusted fourth brother and told Zheng Hongkui everything that had just happened.

"Do you think that Oki asked to go with the Red-haired Fleet just because he wanted to learn about foreign ships?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

Zheng Hongkui said with a smile: "It's a reasonable reason, but if you want to understand foreign ships, it doesn't seem to be so complicated." I don't think this kid is going to let go of the Friesian fleet, a fleet that represents the red hairs and wants to communicate with the Manchus.

Hongmao, the biggest enemy of our Zheng family, the Manchu Qing, the biggest enemy of our Ming Dynasty. The collusion between the two is an enemy that he Zheng Damu cannot tolerate. ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded slightly: "I think so too, but I don't know how he cleaned up that fleet, an armed merchant ship, a sloop, and both have good firepower." ”

Zheng Hongkui said: "There are pirates in Zhoushan, but Damu is not familiar with those people. The only one who has the ability to be familiar with Damu is Li Zhaoji. ”

"Therefore, he is still disconnected from the Oriental Trading Company." Zheng Zhilong was quite helpless.

"The eldest brother also promised him, do you have other plans?" Zheng Hongkui asked.

Zheng Zhilong said: "There is nothing that cannot be promised, although this child has told me countless lies today, but when he tells about his ambition, in his eyes, I see the ambition burning like fire.

An ambitious young man, and with the backing of the Zheng family, it would not be shocking what he could achieve in the future. He is loyal to Daming, which is very good, even if he is not capable, with this loyalty, he can keep the family business I left him in the future.

He has expectations for the Zheng family, and he knows very well that everything he wants in the future must be based on the Zheng family, so he has the ability to lead the family to take off.

So, nurture him, convince him, I won't lose. ”

Zheng Hongkui nodded: "You are right, I have always believed that Damu is the best one among the younger generation, and there is no one." It's just that I've seen Li Zhaoji, although he doesn't have the backing of the Zheng family, but you know, in the recklessness, there are also dragons and snakes, and I think he will be Damu's opponent. ”

Zheng Zhilong thought for a while and said, "Yes, that's a dangerous person, but now Damu likes to work with him. Luckily, I've laid a net in Nagasaki and waited for him to get in, and I'll arrange for Shi Lang to find a way to gather evidence of his Li Zhaoji's ambush of the Fries' fleet.

The Dutch would not accept Lee Siu Kee destroying their fleet, which meant that Lee Siu Kee would become the common enemy of the Dutch and our Zheng family at the same time, and no one would survive in such a situation. ”

"Yes, his fate is already sealed, I hope Damu will wake up soon."

Zheng Zhilong said: "I hope that my son can submit that Li Zhaoji, with the help of such a person, his dream may really become a reality." ”

Zheng Sen left the Zheng family, came to the inn where Guo Xu lived, and said directly to him: "I have already controlled the Fries' fleet, and I will set off in seven days, heading north along the southeast coastline, I mentioned two locations and two times in the letter, if your family's big treasurer is willing to help, ask him to set up an ambush there, I will bring the Fries's fleet there for him to destroy."

If he doesn't, all I can say is that the two of us can't stop it. ”

Guo Xu already knew that Li Zhaoji's help in destroying the Friesian fleet was fake, and it was true that he took the opportunity to capture Zheng Sen as a hostage and ensure the safety of the trip to Nagasaki, so he immediately agreed.