South Seas, Kalimantan.

Zhu Qiongying sat in the palace of the Tuwang of Brunei and was stunned, just a year ago, she could only wander around in Nanyang with the troupe, sleeping in the open air, and being bullied.

Life is hard, but the class owner is a good person, and her sisters take care of her. It's just that there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.

During the stage performance, a sister was molested by a drunk, and the class owner drove the drunk away for her. This was a common thing, and no one took it seriously at first.

But I didn't want that drunk man to have a big background, and he was actually the house slave of Lord Lanfang. The class owner and the sisters packed their things overnight and prepared to escape, but they were still one step too slow and were stopped by someone as soon as they went out to sea.

It was the drunk man of the day who was the leader, and the head of the squad stepped forward to negotiate and was directly killed by him and thrown into the sea.

"Acquaintances go back with me, and let you go when my brothers and I are angry. Otherwise, this is the end! The drunk laughed wildly, his name is Gu Peng, he is one of the two generals of the Gu family's eagle dog, and he will be retribution.

Gu Peng's words are naturally false, but he can succeed every time, because people who come to Nanyang to beg for a living often have no way out. At this time, falling into a desperate situation again often leads to a person's inner collapse and choosing to go against the grain.

And what Gu Peng said is not all lies, this is the territory of Lanfang Company, kill a few foreigners with his identity, and then no one will be held accountable for any crime, and because he is the right-hand man of Gu Shishan, the eldest young master of the Gu family, no one dares to investigate what he did.

However, the troupe is a person who sells art to make a living, they have seen too much right and wrong and unpredictable, and no one believes the words of the water bandits.

The world is difficult, and it takes courage to survive, and these delicate women just have it.

"Uncle, what do you think of me?" A woman with a good face said with a smile that she was the "eldest sister" in the troupe, although she usually bullied others, but at this time she stood up.

Gu Peng immediately swallowed when he saw the woman.

"Yes, yes, it's quite watery, it's kind of interesting. Ha ha! ”

The thugs around him also laughed.

"Then come here, I'll serve you well, how about you let our sisters live?" The woman continued.

Gu Peng laughed wantonly, and suddenly a gunshot rang out, and a blood flower burst out on the woman's chest, slowly blooming on the white shirt, and the hairpin in her hand also fell off.

Without waiting for the drunken man's command, the other thugs jumped on the boat one after another to grab money and people, and the other women on the boat did not have time to grieve or think about it, so they immediately jumped into the water in different directions and escaped.

Of course, there are only a very few people who can escape the clutches, and only Zhu Qiongying swims to the shore alive.

Zhu Qiongying breathed a sigh of relief, and from that day on, she decided to take revenge.

But it is not easy for a helpless woman to take revenge, she can only wait for the opportunity. When Zhu Qiongying heard that Nan Mingqiu's rescuers finally came, she knew what she should do.

Although Zhu Qiongying has not studied in a private school, she has learned a lot of knowledge and truth by singing every day.

Then came the extremely awkward meeting, when she saw Franz and Friedrich, she was a little dazed, thinking to herself, "Why are the chiefs children".

Later, when Franz communicated with Zhu Qiongying in Chinese and took out a box of jade seals, she finally couldn't stand it and fainted.

When Zhu Qiongying woke up, she found that the other party had made a whole set of plans, plus her own understanding of Nanyang, and made some corrections to the plan.

After a long night of talking, Franz left some money and weapons. She then boarded a pig-selling galleon, killed two traffickers, and after making an impassioned statement, the men bowed to her like crazy.

In Natuna Island, he subdued Zhao Tianyuan and Heshun Company, and then defeated several earth kings on Kalimantan Island one after another. At this moment, Zhu Qiongying was in the palace of the most powerful indigenous king on Kalimantan Island, and she was still holding the jade seal that Franz gave her, and everything was like a world away.

To be honest, Zhu Qiongying doesn't know what the emperor should look like, but she learns what she looks like in the drama and asks for herself. At this time, most of the Nanming courtiers had never seen what the nobles looked like, but almost no one had not seen the drama.

Zhu Qiongying's appearance just conformed to their imagination of nobles, so there was the orthodoxy of Nanming.

The Southern Ming Empire seems to have been established in this way, and not long ago the Dagang Company of Pontianak also sent an envoy to express its willingness to submit, and only the Lanfang Company took advantage of the power of the Dutch to resist stubbornly.

Recently, however, the attitude of the Dutch towards the Southern Ming Empire has suddenly changed dramatically, from hostility to cooperation.

At this moment a white man with a hooked nose was standing at the foot of her royal staircase, an emissary of the East India Company.

"Your Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness the Queen of the Southern Ming Empire, I am the emissary of the British East India Company, and my name is William Hawke. First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your occupation of Brunei, and it took you only one year to become the leader of the largest Chinese power in Nanyang. ”

William Hawke was a China expert, but he had little respect for the ancient country of the East, especially after the war, and he became more certain of its savage and frail nature.

But the woman in front of her is an exception, or the British have more or less awe of the combination of pirates and queens.

But more importantly, her army, despite its poor equipment, was fanatical and disciplined.

This is undoubtedly an army of terror.

Zhu Qiongying most often plays Wusheng and Xiaosheng on the stage, so she often has a heroic spirit. She didn't like the British, but she knew that Britain was the most powerful maritime country in the world at this time.

"Mr. Emissary, you have come more than just congratulate me."

William Hawke smiled and immediately pulled out a scroll.

"Your Royal Highness, we are willing to acknowledge you and your Nanming, but you must also guarantee the interests of the United Kingdom in Brunei and accept the treaty signed by the King of Brunei."

Zhu Qiongying raised her eyebrows slightly, she knew that there was nothing good about the British. The king of Brunei had sent people to harass Nanming's territory several times before, but she only dared to retaliate after the British warships left the port.

It's just that I didn't expect the Tuwang of Brunei to be so indifferent, and after just a few battles between the two sides, those natives cut down their Tuwang and surrendered.

At this time, although the overall situation had been decided, Zhu Qiongying was still unwilling to tear her face with the British, so she looked at the treaty.

In fact, the British did not have many interests in Brunei, and the treaties were nothing more than agreements for free trade and port lease.

It's just that there are terms that she can't agree to.

"This opium," Zhu Qiongying muttered.

William Hawke secretly scolded, "Damn the big smoker, make me have a false alarm." ”

"Rest assured, Her Royal Highness. We will not interrupt the supply of opium to Kalimantan, and I promise that you will be supplied with the best class of public land. ”

(Pangong Tu, or opium produced in Bengal, is considered the finest addiction.) ）

Zhu Qiongying shook her head.

"What, do you like Jinhuatu? The taste is really heavy." William Hawke smiled lewdly.

(Golden flower soil is the opium produced in the Ottoman Empire, which is said to have an aphrodisiac effect.) ）

"No, I'm going to end the opium trade. That's the bottom line."

(End of chapter)