Lord of Ming Dynasty

Why not take Treasure Island now?

Because it is really unwise to turn against Zheng Chenggong now.

With Zheng Zhilong's foundation, contacts and influence in the southeast coast, and Zheng Chenggong's ability and ambition, the southeast coast can be stabilized and developed, laying a solid foundation for Ming to counterattack the Qing army. The Qing army, which has turned the entire north and most of the south into its own solid rear territory, can receive continuous reinforcements and supplies.

Daming is really too big, occupying a corner, and the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty who are constantly fighting among themselves cannot fight against the continuous stream of Qing army green camps and Han army flags when they lack clothing, food, and soldiers cannot be recruited.

Yes, the current battle between Ming Dynasty and the Qing army is mainly manifested in their battles with their original army and people. No matter in terms of influence or strength, they cannot compare with the Qing army that has already occupied more than half of the country.

Zhang Qiang, who was hiding behind Nanming, did not think that he could replicate the heroic deeds of the Qing army, who was able to shake millions of troops with only [-] to [-] elites.

He had to ask Nanming to block Daqing for him and attract Daqing's attention. After all, he is still a small lord now and has not received widespread support from the system.

Thinking about it this way, it is very important to occupy the strategic location of Chixian City.

No matter how much he pays, Zhang Qiang will occupy this strategic location.

Because of this, Zhang Qiang paid special attention to this place. He asked Tang Dianfeng to lead the army, and took Xuanyuan Longfei, Xiao Fei, and Zhao Siyang to help Zheng Jun attack Zelanzha City, while he took Chael and stayed in Chixian City to clean up here.

Liu Guoxuan and Zheng Tai left Yu Xing, a young general, to help him deal with Zheng Jun's affairs. Their army was divided into two, and a part of Zheng Tai led the army towards Keelung Port and other places, sweeping up the aborigines and the Yan family there. Liu Guoxuan led the army accompanied by Tang Dianfeng to attack Zeelandia City.

At this moment, the Zheng army in Zeelandia City launched several attacks, but they were undoubtedly defeated by the overwhelming artillery fire and volleys of guns from the Dutch.

Seventy-eight thousand people were killed and injured, and there was no progress for more than two days, which was still the state when Zhang Qiang left.

They broke through the moat and the two parapets of the enemy, but if they went one step further, they would have to pay more losses. The enemy's walls were too tall and strong, and the artillery fire was too brutal.

Liu Guoxuan left, Zheng Tai left, but Zheng Chenggong came.

"Your Excellency," Zheng Chenggong cupped his hands as he entered, "I will see you, Your Excellency."

"Hehe, Mr. Zheng, I can't stand you like this. How can you say that you are also the king of the county, and you are much more noble than me as a courtier. Come and sit," Zhang Qiang said that Zheng Chenggong is more noble than him, but a little He didn't even stand up to greet Zheng Chenggong.

Now he is strong, attacking the hard Chixian city, with less than 700 casualties of regular troops, 3 casualties of artillery captured soldiers, captured Zheng Chenggong and the others for two months, lost tens of thousands of troops, and used [-] people to besiege the city , harassing all night, and several times of attacks, the city was not taken down, such a brilliant and dazzling result.

Even if he was a little more proud, with Zheng Chenggong's self-cultivation and ambition, he couldn't have any thoughts about Zhang Qiang.

The two chattered and chatted for a long time, but they still haven't gotten into the topic. Orientals talk in such a civilized way, and they go around and back and forth, but they just don't get into the topic for a long time.

It would be great if the Japanese in later generations could wear C in such a detour, the Japanese would probably die of a headache.

Finally, Zheng Chenggong became impatient. He picked up his teacup and took a sip of tea, "Governor, I promised you verbally that you could garrison the castle of the Dutch. We are all one family, so there is nothing wrong with it. , I want my people to do it?"

Zhang Qiang was very surprised by Zheng Chenggong's quick thinking. This guy is trying to deny it in disguise. You have set up a government, and my soldiers are protecting the place. You want to co-author security guards who don't want money. I have no right to speak here. You can drive me away at any time. The Chinese are bad at this point. They have no spirit of contract. If you speak well, you will give your own interests, and you will have the right to trade if you speak well.

However, Zhang Qiang will not be too demanding, and said with a smile: "Well, take a step back, I want Chixian City, as for Zeelandia City, do as you said? Within thirty miles of Chixian City, it belongs to me. Your people are not allowed to enter the territory without a notification, and the two of us set up a liaison place with each other just like two countries, and send people to the place to discuss our own affairs."

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while, then shook his head, "My lord, I can let your caravans and merchant ships sail freely in the sea under my control without collecting any taxes and providing protection. I can also give you 100 million taels of silver, 300 million taels of silver, my lord." Two kinds of goods, but I have to take back Chixian City and Zeelandia City, I drove away the Dutch and Portuguese, and I can’t let others get involved in Treasure Island, it’s difficult for me and my men to explain.”

"10 warships from the Dutch, 30 warships from the Portuguese, 30 pirate fishing boats, warships, and merchant ships I captured, 300 taels of silver, and in Zhejiang, I will prepare 9 million taels for you. You can pick it up at any time, raw silk, tea leaves, Qingtian jade badges, one hundred matchlock guns, fifty two-pounder guns, twenty three-pounder guns, ten six-pounder guns, five nine-pounder guns, three twelve-pounder guns The gate, the condition is that Chixian City belongs to me, and I have the right to develop freely within [-] miles. Your people are not allowed to go beyond. The sea is controlled by my navy within [-] nautical miles from the front of Chixian City to the coast of Fujian. The fleet passing through must be communicated and reported..."

Zhang Qiang gave his own conditions. He had already given up the city of Zeelandia, but in exchange for various materials and silver. Because Zheng Chenggong secretly changed the concept, he first wanted Zhang Qiang to withdraw from Treasure Island with the conditions of money and materials. Then, in the name of the righteous court, you want to make him back down. After all, it is unreasonable for you to occupy a piece of land on the territory of a county king.

Chapter 2: Zheng Chenggong's Bottom Line

Negotiations with Zheng Chenggong entered a seesaw state. 【No pop-up window.】

Zheng Chenggong is like a small businessman, he must compare pennies and pennies. Although the two sides did not enter the rhythm of turning their faces, the soldiers and horses of both sides retreated a certain distance to build fortifications. Some ships, like the Huaxia Turtle Navy in the South China Sea in later generations, collided with small naval ships led by Zhang Ying and abused each other after all.

What about being as close as brothers?

Did you agree that we are all Daming people?

The folks in the village agreed, everyone bow their heads but don't see them up?

But the strange thing is that Feng Xin's troops and Gan Hui's troops in Zeelandia City are still cooperating with the army led by Tang Dianfeng to besiege Zeelandia City. The Dutch have not benefited at all, and they still endure Zheng Jun's casualties every day The siege of the army is still enduring the approaching captive soldiers of the Jinhua Rebel Army and the trench-digging troops of the militia troops sent by the Zheng Army.

Whenever a horizontal trench was dug and a fortress built, the cannons would go in and bombard the city of Zeelandia continuously.

The city of Zeelandia is twice as big as the city of Chixian, with a circumference of five miles. Although there are only three layers of city walls, and the second layer of city walls is not built on buildings, the second layer of city walls is a real city wall, that is to say, Compared with Chixian City, the artillery of the Jinhua Rebel Army bombarded the enemy's city wall one more time.

There are also a lot of gunfire, and here are some moved from the warehouse to replace the [-]-pound and [-]-pound bow and stern carron guns on the fleet. It belonged to Qu S, so it caused some damage to the militiamen and prisoners of the Jinhua Rebel Army who dug trenches.

But after all, the distance was long, and the casualties were still not large. Moreover, Tang Dianfeng, the leader of the Jinhua Rebel Army, made adjustments to this.

The mounds in front of the trenches should be higher, and the cannons should be scattered. When bombarding, find the enemy's city wall with cannons. After a while of bombardment, the enemy's cannons will be destroyed. Fighting cannons, others do not have the confidence of the Jinhua Rebels. , The speed of building cannons with iron molds is much faster. At worst, just pull a few doors over to fill them up.

Because the negotiation was not going well, Zheng Chenggong wanted to go back on his word, because in the eyes of Zheng Chenggong's generals, it was too easy for the Jinhua Rebel Army to fight the Dutch. Simple, they thought that the Jinhua Rebel Army should not be given so many benefits, and Zheng Junwang's territory It will affect the prestige of Zheng Junwang, and many generals who are loyal to Zheng Chenggong are not happy.

And Zhang Qiang is not just negotiating with Zheng Chenggong at this time, he is also paying attention to the development of the situation on the mainland. The army led by Wei Wuji finally defeated the Qing army and regained Shaoxing Mansion. Take over Shaoxing Mansion and restore people's livelihood there.

Wei Wuji had no choice but to stay, and sent Yang Yangyang to lead an army to follow King Lu's men to Hangzhou Mansion to continue fighting with the Qing army, while the men led by Du Ge accepted Ningbo Mansion and asked officials from Gu Yuesheng, the prefect of Taizhou Mansion, to take over the government. regime there.

But Zhou Porridge was in charge of the overall situation, sending officials to various places, and some secretaries from Zhang Qiang's previous attendant's office to Shaoxing, Ningbo, and Wenzhou to support Wei Wuji, Du Ge, and Chen Hanhui.

Wenzhou Mansion has always been directly managed by Xuanyuan Longfei. I don't want to touch Emperor Longwu's nerves. Although the two have an agreement, they can't blatantly tell those Nanming officials that this is Zhang Qiang's territory. Why do you want to betray Daming?

Now everyone still regards themselves as Ming people, some old masters can't get rid of the previous thoughts of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, their heads are not bright, and they make trouble, which is not good for Zhang Qiang and Long Wu.

Long Wu had learned the lesson of having an unpleasant fight with Zheng Zhilong, and knew that although Zhang Qiang was not as strong as Zheng Zhilong, Zhang Qiang was actually a powerful faction. He wanted to use Zhang Qiang's force to maintain his royal rule. He knew that there would be no Jinhua Rebels without Zhang Qiang , Relying on those subordinates who only wanted to be officials and wanted to show their talents, the old officials of the Ming Dynasty could not win the aggressive, and they were about to become the active Qing Dynasty Tartars in the world.

He understands that now he needs to rely on these warlords, powerful factions, he can even accept the remnants of Dashun, so how can he not accept a Zhang Qiang who seems to be rebellious on the surface, but is like Cao C?

Settling accounts is a matter for the future, but if you don’t get results, you will be ashamed of Zhu Yujian, who has been in prison and disaster for 24 years since Longwu was born, and the brains of the Zhu family’s descendants.

Zhou Porridge was born to be a good hand in politics. When Zhang Qiang was away, he handled the affairs of the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army in an orderly manner. Zhang Qiang's policy was promoted smoothly. Compared with the half-heartedness of You Haibo and Jin Sheng at the beginning, in the camp of the Jinhua Rebel Army, but thinking about the Longwu court, or the power of the King of Lu, and doubting the distant Yongli regime, they just put the things in them This kind of talent is only displayed once or twice in the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army.

Therefore, Zhang Qiang was very satisfied after knowing it, and he was at ease with Zheng Chenggong.

"Yanping County King, we have been grinding for several days, I think we should have a conclusion today," Zhang Qiang drank tea that was boiled water, and sometimes he couldn't adapt to the climate of Baodao, so he ran to the hut three times So he also lost his patience, although he was grinding, for a castle, for a territory, but the grinder was also being grinded at the same time, it was just a matter of hurting each other.

"Hehe, Governor, you and I are both obsessed with the land. We are all the same people. Don't worry, let's continue to talk about each inch of land." Zheng Chenggong learned Confucianism, and Confucianism has been in China for thousands of years. Grinding a warlike nation into a bloodless nation that can only be fierce at home, it can be seen that Confucianism is quite powerful. As a student of Confucianism master Qian Qianyi, this person's kung fu is really not a little high.

Zhang Qiang is a wage earner. People in later generations like money, and everything can be solved with money. Without money, nothing can be solved. Therefore, what he thinks about is to solve things as soon as possible. The previous thought of grinding was just thinking about fighting for him by himself. , He invited him again, he should have some face and give it to himself, I didn't expect Zheng Chenggong to be so shameless now.

"Okay, what do you think?" Zhang Qiang is advancing by retreating. Now it seems that Zheng Chenggong also wants to reach an agreement as soon as possible. After all, all strategies are strategies, and his family's goal is to achieve the goal. Everyone knows that it is impossible to grind forever .

"I want the guns you have, if you can give me ten 120-pounders, twenty [-]-pounders, fifty [-]-pounders, seventy [-]-pounders, a hundred [-]-pounders, [-] [-]-pounder guns, two hundred nine-pounder guns, then I will hand over Chixian City to you, how about it?"

Zheng Chenggong drank tea and looked at him with a smile.

"Nanai's, your underpants finally leaked out, how promising do I think you are? That's how it is." Zhang Qiang sneered in his heart.

Chapter 2: The Aftermath of Chixian City

One doesn't care, the other is scheming around, one of the two is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, and the deal between the two parties is quickly concluded. 【No pop-up window.】

All the large-caliber cannons that Zhang Qiang brought this time, weighing more than [-] pounds, were all handed over to Zheng Chenggong for the attack on Chixian City and Zeelandia City. This is half, and Zhang Qiang removed the remaining half from his naval fleet Hand it over to Zheng Chenggong. Of course, it is impossible to have large-caliber cannons such as [-]-pound Carron guns on board a five- or six-hundred-ton warship equivalent to a Dutch fifth-tier or fourth-tier warship. It can only be shipped later.