I'm a pirate at the end of Ming Dynasty

In Taohuawu, Chen Yuanyuan was dressing up in the mirror.

Zheng Zhipeng was lighting a cigar and smoking on the bed.

This kind of real pursuit should be very difficult for everyone, but I didn't expect that it would be so easy for me. After all, I have both fame and bad reputation, and I spent a lot of money. In the end, I copied two poems by Nalan Xingde. , in one operation, he was as fierce as a tiger and he immediately captured the person.

As a newlywed, Zheng Zhipeng stayed at Chen Yuanyuan's place for three or four days. He also paid for the purchase of Taohuawu and hired an engineering team to renovate the place and make it his own. The other hospital did not bother Chen Yuanyuan to move to Hangzhou.

He was a little reluctant to marry Chen Yuanyuan home. On the contrary, it would be good to just let him live in Suzhou. Anyway, he would definitely run to Suzhou from time to time in the future. It would be better to have a home here and feel comfortable having a woman at home.

As for what Chen Yuanyuan was thinking, to be honest, he really didn't care.

No matter how beautiful a goddess is, once she gets it, her charm value will immediately drop a lot. In fact, that's just the way it is.

Zheng Zhipeng has not really been obsessed with Wenrouxiang these days. He has been thinking about Cao Huachun's message. Not to mention, it really made him think of something.

At this time, Huang Taiji was attacking Jinzhou City. There is no doubt that his proposal to second the Dengzhou Navy would be regarded as crazy. Unless the war in Liaodong stopped, how could the war in Liaodong be stopped?

Cao Huachun's intention, and perhaps Chongzhen's intention, was to make a deal with the Zheng family to connect the two battlefields in the northeast and southeast. If the Zheng family helped the court to defeat the Manchus, then the court would help the Zheng family to defeat the Netherlands.

Of course, it is impossible to actually say this, it can only rely on tacit understanding.

If the Zheng family's combat power is really thrown to Liaodong, I'm afraid it won't be enough for Huang Taiji to fill his teeth. However, the Zheng family's shipping capabilities are far beyond that of the Dengzhou Navy. The most important thing is that the Zheng family's financial resources It is far from comparable to Chongzhen.

Why is it so difficult to build a large city?To put it bluntly, there is a lack of money.In fact, the matter in Liaodong has never been a military issue. Even if the Liaodong Army cannot win against Huang Taiji under normal circumstances, it will have no problem at all. Almost all problems in Liaodong are economic issues. The Liaodong Army owes more than Four months.

In fact, it's not much money, only about three million taels of silver. If Sun Chengzong suddenly has an extra 2000 to 1000 million taels of silver in his hand, he might be able to counterattack Huang Taiji within three to five years. And with [-] million taels of silver, let's put it aside. In the hands of the Zheng family, which had defeated the Netherlands in history, it was only a year's protection fee income, not counting their own trade and business income.

Of course, how this works specifically will not be that simple, but generally speaking, one is rich and powerless, and the other is powerful and moneyless. If we consider it purely from a business perspective, does this provide a basis for cooperation?

But Zheng Zhipeng couldn't come up with more details for the time being. Firstly, Li Gang hadn't come yet and he didn't understand the actual situation in Liaodong and Dengzhou. Secondly, it was because the Portuguese had already arrived.

The Dengzhou Navy thing is too far away, or at least a bit dreamy. It is more practical to deal with the Portuguese right now.

He directly invited people to Taohuawu, where Chen Yuanyuan cooked several Suzhou specialties and poured a pot of finely brewed peach blossom wine. Zheng Zhipeng chatted and laughed with the three representatives, while Yang Xu and Zheng Chenggong kept company. Because he came here on the pretext of traveling to Suzhou, he really acted like a family banquet, eating and drinking, and no one took the initiative to talk about business, they were all trying to be patient.

Who said that Europeans talk business in a straightforward manner without twists and turns?

But even if he didn't mention anything, Zheng Zhipeng gradually became more confident, because this time Portugal's standards were still very high. Among the three envoys, there was a governor, a fleet commander, and the red one whom he had trusted last time. Mao is the captain of a main battleship. This lineup itself actually represents Portugal's sincerity to a certain extent. What they are doing now is just the bargaining on this matter.

Seeing that Zheng Chenggong had just eaten a piece of dumplings and was about to pick it up, Zheng Zhipeng slapped his hand with a chopstick rudely: "Aren't you afraid that it will knock your teeth out? Just eat less of such sweet things. Just eat some." …”

Zheng Zhipeng looked confused. It seemed that there was no Suzhou dish on the table that was not sweet. In desperation, Zheng Zhipeng had no choice but to put a few large pieces of squirrel mandarin fish into Zheng Chenggong's small bowl. "Eat fish to nourish your brain." ".

At this moment, Chen Yuanyuan brought another large plate of spareribs to the table. It was red and red. She couldn't help but feel a toothache and asked, "Is this Wuxi spareribs?"

"Yes."

"One pound of meat and four taels of sugar?"

"Yes, Fourth Master, would you like to try it?"

Zheng Zhipeng could only smile bitterly, picked a small piece and put it in his mouth to eat, and then said with a forced smile: "It's really delicious."

I am a Chongqing native in my previous life, and I am really not used to your Suzhou cuisine!Why don't you just invent a dish of shredded rock sugar or honey stewed sugar cane?Why are Suzhou and Hangzhou so close to each other, but their tastes are so different?

On the contrary, the three Portuguese people were quite happy to eat. At this time, European sugar seemed to be a noble food. The more high-end the food, the more sugar was put into it. Seeing this, Zheng Zhipeng could only sigh helplessly in his heart and treat it as... Let’s entertain international friends.

"You guys, the scenery in Suzhou is similar to Hangzhou but not similar. It's not easy for the three of you to come here. What do you want to see? How about I arrange a trip for you after dinner? My wife is a native of Suzhou. Suzhou is quite familiar."

The governor smiled and said: "I heard that Suzhou has the best silk in the world. Can you please take us to see the best silk in the world?"

"Looking at silk? This is easy to do. I happen to have some personal relations with Eunuch Yang from the Weaving Bureau. If silk is a good thing, no one in the world can compare with the Weaving Bureau. Even our Long Live Lord The dragon robe he wears is made of the silk produced there."

"Okay, it's settled, Fourth Master invites us to see the silk."

"it is good."

Then Zheng Zhipeng pulled Yang Xu again: "Come with us later, Eunuch Yang has a big business to introduce to you."

"I?"

"Yes, the snuff business is provided to the palace. Let me remind you, as long as you don't lose money, you can make less money. If you can do business through the 24 yamen in the palace, there will be many opportunities to make a fortune in the future. I will give you the first one. Make a good impression.”

Yang Xu nodded excitedly and said: "Don't worry, Fourth Master, I definitely have this sense. Fourth Master, you are so busy and you still want to help me with business. I really..."

"Okay, let's stop thanking each other."

After saying that, Zheng Zhipeng seemed to have thought of something, and smiled and said to the three Portuguese people: "Are you interested in Songjiang's printed cotton?"