Beiyang new warlord

People gain something, they always have to lose something. Mao Jue gave these pirates and water bandits absolute freedom and opportunities, and they naturally lost the legal security enjoyed by the citizens of the empire. Now Penghu is a completely lawless place. Pirates Their success depends entirely on their own record and viciousness.

Undoubtedly, Zheng Sen is the best among pirates.

Unlike other pirates who drank white wine and rice wine, Zheng Sen, who was born in an upper class, drank it very elegantly. Changbai Mountain's after-frost wine filled his glass like blood, and the bright red liquid also stained his lips. flushed.

Zheng Zhilong’s six sons, except for the youngest who was a minor who was born to a concubine, almost all of the rest got high positions in the East India Company. Even Zheng Yin, the fifth son who studied, was admitted to Juren and is now a judge of Nanyang Prefecture. Fucheng, the Zheng family seems to have broken away from the ranks of lowly pirates and has completely entered the upper class. Only Zheng Sen, who abandoned the commander of the Hangzhou Garrison Corps arranged by Zheng Zhilong for him, is a general-level officer. Joining the ranks of pirates and personally running the ship, this is puzzling and contemptuous in the entire Zheng family, to what extent is the contempt?His incompetent playboy, fourth uncle Zheng Zhibao, even looked down on him.

But thinking of his family members who were obsessed with wine and fame, Zheng Sen also showed a sneer of disdain, raised his head, and poured down the wine in the glass in one gulp.

Growing up in the Wa Kingdom, Zheng Sen was used to seeing the ferocity and viciousness of those lawless Warring States daimyos, and what made him even more intoxicated was the Warring States daimyos' ability to be their own masters and reign supreme in their territories!He could see it clearly, so what if he became the commander of the generals in Hangzhou in one step?All the officers are from the military academy of Liaodong. The food, supplies, and military merits of the troops no longer belong to the generals. Even if they have reached the highest military position in the empire, generals like Wen Meng who conquer the west are just puppets in Mao Jue's hand , Mao Jue wanted to replace Wen Meng, it was just an order.

Only he is now, even though there are only about five hundred pirates, and he still has to run around in the most ferocious ocean, but he fights the world for himself, and every drop of blood is shed for himself.

Zheng Sen is different from Wu Sangui. Although the latter is ambitious, he is still willing to be a powerful minister under Mao Jue, just like how he turned to build slaves in history. The rebellion raised the flag, but now in Calcutta, it just saw a better stage to play, and Zheng Sen is an ambitious man who only fights for himself!

In the beginning, Mao Jue recruited Zheng Zhilong, which made Zheng Sen extremely disgusted, but now, he couldn't help but develop a good impression of Mao Jue. After all, the regent was unprecedented, so he had this opportunity for him to use. unprecedented stage.

Although there is no hope for Ming Dynasty, but the world is so big, it is not in vain to live this life to establish a country overseas and seek hegemony!

Zheng Sen's subordinates were still dreaming about the spoils, but they didn't realize that they had already embarked on a road of no return.

One will be successful, let alone a king!

To say that opportunities always belong to those who have a heart!True enough, while drinking, Zheng Sen was still thinking about how to get the most profit in the battle between the two East India Companies, when the drunk man next to the stove suddenly lowered his voice and dangled the rice wine jar , showing off triumphantly in a low voice.

"Do you know? Brother, I recently discovered a way to make money! I have learned a big secret!"

"Pull it down! You are so poor that you are about to drop your pants. What secret do you have?"

The drinking partner next to him must have drunk too much, with his tongue out, he hummed disdainfully.

However, he didn't care, Zheng Sen's ears were pricked up.

To be honest, Zheng Sen has heard too much of such a "big secret" during his rest in Penghu. Drinking quietly, from the bottom of his heart, he hates this noisy environment, but Zheng Sen will still spend time in the tavern whenever he has a chance.

These humble taverns, drunk pirates, are always the best source of news!

This time, even though Zheng Sen was eavesdropping indifferently, the god of opportunity really favored him. Seeing that his companion didn't care, the red-nosed pirate from Guangdong and Guangxi yelled in unintelligible Cantonese with his tongue wide open. He said: "It's definitely a big secret! The day before yesterday, I followed our captain, Haiwangsha, to a boat with a feudal son of Daya in the west. The captain of that feudal son begged me for his life to get the news!"

"There are more than a dozen fleets of the Great Yat Kingdom in the west that are full of gold, and they are going to arrive in Luzon from the Far East!"

"The ship is full of gold they plundered from the barbarians on the other side of the sea. There are dozens of boxes, no! There are hundreds of boxes!"

The two pirates were still muttering, but Zheng Sen's heart was beating violently. Others didn't know about it. He had not told Zheng Zhilong for a few years, and he believed in the accuracy of this news too much.

Even the big event that will be famous in later generations, the Spanish treasure ship!

He once went to Manila with Zheng Zhilong to do business, and he has seen it before. Not as exaggerated as some pirates say, but the ship is indeed filled with gold, silver and other precious metals from the New World, and boxes full of Spanish gold and silver coins. In Manila, these treasure ships will Spend part of the precious metals to buy oriental silk and spices. This is also the main source of gold and silver for the ocean trade of the Ming Empire. However, Zheng Zhilong, who controlled the pirates of the Ming Dynasty in the South China Sea at that time, did not have the capital to challenge the Spaniards in Luzon, so look at Looking at these treasure ships, I can only look at the ocean and sigh.

But now the situation is different!Mao Jue bought the East India Company, and that posture has already fully intervened in Nanyang!At this time, the massacre of Mingqiao in Manila also completely pushed himself to the opposite side of the Ming Empire. If the two sides fought dead, Zheng Sen had no doubt that Mao Jue would be the winner with the last laugh, even if he only had half of the Ming Empire in his hands.

Counting the days, it is also the day when the Spanish treasure ship arrives twice a year. Sufficient funds are essential if you want to establish a country overseas. If you can grab this batch of treasures before Mao Jue takes action, you can save at least five years of struggle !

Heartbroken, he took out a stolen Spanish silver coin from his pocket and slapped it on the table. Zheng Sen stopped drinking, turned around and left.

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Being with a capable boss has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that you can get more money and gain more, but the disadvantage is that you are tired!Every time he comes to Penghu to sell stolen goods, Zheng Sen is only allowed to stay for one night!Those who dare to be late will deduct the money, and those who dare to grin their teeth to object are even more severe. It is directly Zheng Zhilong's old method. Two holes are cut on his body and he is hung behind the boat for dragging. Subtropical sharks will let you see what is worse than death. fear!

Early in the morning, the sailors of the Zheng Sen Pirates, who were hungover and had lost their pants, returned to the half-repaired cement port despite the staggering sailors. On the second-tier battleship.

"Master, everyone is back!"

Yesterday was deeply frightened by Zheng Sen's eyes. Shi Daxuan didn't dare to have fun last night. This morning, he counted the number of people early and respectfully saluted Zheng Sen who was sitting under the main mast.

Unexpectedly, however, Zheng Sen did not set sail as usual, but tilted his head. After a while, several Zheng family soldiers came up with two boxes, and opened them in front of the sailors and pirates. The Spanish silver coins and the Dutch guilder suddenly appeared in front of people's eyes. Looking at this wealth, hundreds of pirate sailors all had bright eyes and swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva heavily.

Not disappointing their expectations, still with a face that would never smile, Zheng Sen tilted his head slightly, and ordered coldly.

"Two for one person! You can play in Penghu for three more days, but I have to do one thing for you! Spread the news secretly!"

When Shi Daxuan and the pirate who was very close to him were short of breath, Zheng Sen also lowered his voice a little bit.

"I want to let the pirates in the entire Penghu port know that another batch of Spanish barbarians' treasure ships are about to arrive in Manila, with at least two or three million taels on board!"

"Whoever grabs it will send it out!"

"Master, is this, is this true? Such a big meat ticket, why don't we just do it?"

His tongue was a little knotted with excitement, Shi Daxuan was extremely excited, and asked hastily, but Zheng Sen didn't explain at all, just looked over with a cold look, and immediately made him hold back all his words !

Shi Daxuan, the chief mate, was like this, not to mention the pirate who thanked his brain. In short, after grabbing two handfuls of silver coins, a large group of Zheng family pirates disembarked happily. Spread across Penghu.

A big wave of fat sheep is coming!

Chapter 652. The Temptation of Gold

Why run fast without long legs?

rumor!

In just a few days, the small Penghu has gone crazy. Everyone knows that a Spanish treasure ship full of treasures from the New World will enter Southeast Asia from the Strait of Malacca. The gold carried on it is enough to make people rich overnight. In the tavern, almost all the topics were about this fleet. The old pirates blushed with excitement, talking about the spit and stars splashing like seeing the golden mountains and silver seas with their own eyes.

It is not enough to just talk about fake tricks, and there is an endless stream of pirates from the Ming Dynasty who go out to sea every morning. They don’t even block the city of Zeelandia. past.

Since they are pirates, it is impossible to be honest with their hands and feet. The scourge of Japanese pirates during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty was staged again in Annan, Myanmar and other coastal countries in the Indochina Peninsula. The looting was messy, but Ming had Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, but Annan had no such characters. Annan's army was not even equipped with armor, and they were carrying swords and spears.

And a funny scene happened. After suffering heavy losses, Annan, Myanmar and other southwestern countries sent envoys to Nanjing one after another, asking Nanming, the suzerain country, to uphold justice for them.

From December to March of the second year of Kaiming, for several months, they all passed through such turmoil. At the beginning of March, the bandits of the Ming Dynasty who were crazy about gold set sail one after another, and Penghu, which was originally lively, had already It became deserted.

However, unexpectedly, the instigator of the whole incident, Zheng Sen, known as a model worker among pirates, actually calmed down and did not leave the harbor for three full months.

After calming down, Zheng Sen spent a thousand taels of silver to steal a simple fortress house from a fisherman near the main island of Penghu, and moored his boat here. In a secret room made of reinforced concrete bought from Hangzhou, several braziers were crackling and burning, and several Liberian men were hung in handcuffs and their feet were chained to the wall. His strong body was exposed without any cover, and his disheveled hair was still moaning there.

It was still a bottle of wine, and Zheng Sen was sipping it while shaking off his whip.

"Master!"

The door was pushed open with a creak, and a man who was not too tall, wearing a short jacket, and with extra muscular muscles came in. He first glanced at the unlucky Spanish ghosts hanging on the wall, and shivered violently. Only then bowed heavily.

"As you said! This morning, Yuan Dabao also took the fleet out, and at Erli Island, he also gathered some fleets from the north. They are definitely not the ships of the East India Company! Look at the situation, It should be heading south!"

While following the report, Gan Hui, the General of the Zheng Army, was still slandering in his heart. No wonder Shi Daxuan didn't come, so he wanted to send himself to report. As expected of the young master who grew up in Dongying, he has such a great interest in training men! What if He fell in love with Lao Tzu

Thinking about it, Gan Hui quickly tightened his short gown to hide his chest muscles.