Daming Military Empire

Chapter 339 Restarting Pirates
Zhu Cijiong was so angry that he was half dead after a big fight in Shenglong City, but he also learned a lot of experience and lessons. Now his strategy for Nanyang has completely changed, and he no longer blindly acts recklessly. There is a price to be paid, Annan alone can disable a first-class legion, this price is too high.

Like the Ruan family in Guangnan, he didn't choose to send troops directly to fight, but let Li Shenzong surrender first. If he failed to surrender, he was ready to try all methods such as coercion and temptation. Fist greeting is indeed a bit too silly.

For the Netherlands, he plans to use insidious tricks again, re-enable pirates, destroy their trade routes, make them unable to make money first, and then slowly deal with them.

However, Zheng Zhilong had to implement all of this, it was impossible for him to go into battle in person, after waiting for this guy for many days, this guy finally ran over, Zhu Cijiong immediately recruited him to the temporary study room for secret discussions.

After paying respects to the princes and ministers, Zhu Cijiong asked seriously: "Do you still remember how you were a pirate?"

Zheng Zhilong was taken aback when he heard the words, pirates, so far away, to be honest, he almost forgot that he was once a pirate, but the emperor seemed a little unhappy, so he had to carefully reply: "This, I still remember A little bit."

Zhu Cijiong was not happy, he said bitterly: "This time the Dutch have caused me to lose [-] elites, and the entire Tianxiong army has been maimed, this revenge must be avenged."

Zheng Zhilong quickly echoed: "Yes, go to the Dutch for revenge."

But Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said: "There is an anti-Habsburg alliance behind the Dutch. I can't explain it to them for the time being. Only you are here. You can resume the pirate business and teach the Dutch a lesson."

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he made a mistake and fell to the ground. He has not been a pirate for many years. Where did he organize so many people to deal with the Dutch!
He thought for a while, and tentatively said: "Your Majesty, do you want Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming to pretend to be pirates?"

Zhu Cijiong rolled his eyes and reminded: "Do you still have to pretend? Don't Shi Daxuan still have [-] to [-] pirates under his command?"

Shi Daxuan has been rehabilitated now, okay? They are doing business between Dongfan and Dongying. Of course, Zheng Zhilong did not dare to refute the emperor. He just said in a difficult way: "Your Majesty, Shi Daxuan may not have enough people under his command."

Zhu Cijiong said angrily: "If you don't have enough, recruit them. It's not easy to recruit regular troops, isn't it difficult to recruit pirates? They are everywhere in the southeast sea area. Anyway, he has people from all kinds of countries under his command. Let them call friends. Weapons and warships can start with the Navy Reserve Corps, and they will develop if they rob the Netherlands a few times."

The emperor has already talked about this point, so Zheng Zhilong naturally didn't dare to twitch, he thought for a while, and suggested: "Your Majesty, why don't the First Army of the Expeditionary Army and the Second Army of the Expeditionary Army go to Ceylon and Goa?" Let’s build a secret port nearby. The Dutch business is now mainly in Donghu, Persia and the Mughal Empire, and there will be no good place to hide there for a while.”

This guy is really professional enough, and he thought about how to hide before he got there. Of course, Zhu Cijiong couldn't catch up with Zheng Zhilong when playing pirates. He nodded and said: "You can figure it out, as long as it can make the Dutchman unable to do business. "

Zheng Zhilong started his career as a pirate, so he is very proficient in the "business" of pirates. Soon he thought of another "business", and he said a little fascinated: "Your Majesty, it seems that there are quite a lot of British merchant ships. Don’t rob them together?”

The UK is now in the same group as the Netherlands, so of course we can't let it go, Zhu Ci said fiercely: "Jie, of course, it's best that they can't do business."

Speaking of this business, Zheng Zhilong asked for instructions: "What should we do with the stolen goods? Should we resell them to Portugal or Spain, or sell them ourselves?"

Zhu Cijiong thought about it, and analyzed: "There are a lot of people with mixed mouths. If you sell it to Portugal and Spain, it might reveal your secrets. Let's modify it and sell it at Daming Royal Xinglong Company."

Speaking of this revelation, Zheng Zhilong seemed to have thought of another good idea, he said with a sinister smile: "Your Majesty, if Zhihu and the others seize the Dutch merchant ship, let's call a thief first and let them touch it completely." No brains."

What I said, others are not confused, but Zhu Cijiong is confused first, he asked: "Oh, how do you say it?"

Zheng Zhilong explained like a treasure: "It is to stop their merchant ships, find an excuse to search them, and then give them some dirt, slandering them for raising pirates and plundering, so that they will become suspicious and suspicious of each other, and never think that the pirates are ours. "

Zhu Cijiong was a little skeptical and said, "Is this also possible?"

Zheng Zhilong patted his chest and assured: "Your Majesty, don't worry, what they have done is very clear to the humble ministers, maybe they don't need to be planted, and they can find the stolen goods directly. These people feed pirates and plunder merchant ships. Is there still less!"

Zhu Cijiong really didn't know the twists and turns here, and he didn't bother to think so much, so he decided directly: "You might as well be the governor of Nanyang first. The division and the South China Sea Fleet are under your jurisdiction for the time being, and you can just give orders if you want to do anything, and there is no need to ask me for instructions."

Zheng Zhilong thought for a while, and the last problem was money. However, it was a bit difficult to talk about the stolen goods with the emperor, but the people under him also wanted to make money. Who would want to go for nothing? In the end he still encouraged Gathering up the courage, he asked hesitantly, "Your Majesty, what about this profit?"

Zhu Cijiong asked inexplicably: "Profit? What profit?"

Zheng Zhilong explained with a little embarrassment: "It is how to divide the money after the stolen items are sold."

This Zhu Cijiong has no experience, so he directly asked: "Then how did you calculate before?"

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong got excited again, and he said in a familiar way: "There are two algorithms for this. If you get the goods, you will pay, then the buyer will pay half of the cost price. If you pay after the sale, then It will be divided in half according to the selling price."

The difference is huge. The former is for the buyer to bear the risk. After all, the stolen items may not be sold. The latter is for the pirates to bear the losses. It could be the pirate's own.

Naturally, there is no such thing as Daming Royal Xinglong Company being unsold, so Zhu Cijiong said decisively: "Then follow the former method, and pay the money when you get the goods, so that you can get back the money quickly, and I can earn more!"

In this way, it was considered that the negotiation was complete. Zheng Zhilong received Zhu Cijiong's imperial edict, ran to the Xingcheng Port Base, and asked Zheng Zhihu to build him a Nanyang Governor's Mansion, and then began to call the old department to prepare for business.

Neither the Dutch nor the British knew that a super-terrible pirate leader had already targeted them. They might not be able to do business in Southeast Asia, or even in the entire Far East!
(End of this chapter)