Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

But Zheng Hongkui is different.

Although Zheng Hongkui was able to gain a firm foothold in the court, it was inseparable from Zheng Zhilong's power.

However, Zheng Hongkui's own ability is also one of the factors that make him successful.

Which of the five Zheng brothers does not have an official title?

However, Zheng Hongkui is the best.

It is precisely because of this that Zheng Hongkui became a nail in the Zheng family's back in Jiangnan.

Became a unique figure.

"I'm afraid my father doesn't know that the fourth father (Zheng Hongkui, the fourth, Zheng Zhilong, the eldest) has not only become the general soldier of the Hongguang Court!

He even had close contacts with Emperor Chongzhen!

Even my cousin Zhaoji became the Yulin Wei Erlang beside Emperor Chongzhen. "

"Oh?"

Zheng Zhilong's face was full of surprise: "The fourth child is doing so well?"

"It's nothing!"

Zheng Sen smiled and said:

"Emperor Chongzhen is short of food. The fourth father shipped the food from Jiangnan and sent it to Xiangyang. Your Majesty paid according to the pound!"

Zheng Zhilong laughed.

How much money can you make by selling grain?

However, being able to establish this relationship, the fourth child did really well.

"In this case, I will send a letter to your fourth father and send some more of our boats!"

Zheng Zhilong is a hero, so he naturally knows how to strike while the iron is hot.

Zheng Zhilong casually took out the seal of troop deployment from his arms and threw it to Zheng Sen.

Without blinking, he spoke boldly:

"Select a hundred of the better sand ships and send them to Zhenjiang!"

"Also, tell the fourth child, our Zheng family, if we don't take action, forget it. If we do, we have to be generous, and we have to hit the other party in one fell swoop to convince him!

This is both a way to give gifts and a way to get promoted! "

Giving away 10 taels of silver in ten installments is not as shocking as giving 10 taels of silver at once.

After talking about this matter, Zheng Zhilong asked:

"My son, your letter said that you want to form a fleet and bring our soldiers with you. Why is this?"

"If you want to sell something, as long as you hang our flag on the bow of the ship, no one will dare to mess with you.

Bringing more soldiers is a big expense, but it's useless! "

Zheng Sen raised his head, looked at his father and said seriously:

"Dad, I received news that the Liaodong Tatars came out in large numbers to compete with Li Zi.

I think this is an opportunity for men to make a difference! "

"puff!"

Zheng Zhilong was drinking tea when he suddenly paused and spit out a mouthful of tea:

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"What did you say?"

Zheng Zhilong's eyes widened and he looked at his son in front of him in disbelief:

"What do you say?"

Zheng Sen waved his fist vigorously and showed great pride:

"Dad, I thought the Tatars from the East were coming out in force.

The news I got is that everyone from Donglu to 80 years old to eight years old, as long as they can handle a knife, was brought to Shanhaiguan by Dorgon to compete with Li Zicheng! "

“At this time, the Tatar lair is empty.

Dad, this is a God-given opportunity!

As long as the child brings hundreds of ships and more than ten thousand soldiers, he can sweep away the Tatars! "

"Recreate the story of Emperor Xianzong plowing the courtyard and sweeping caves!"

Zheng Sen stood up and faced Zheng Zhilong, a powerful tycoon who was famous all over the world.

"Dad, this is a God-given opportunity for my Zheng family to leave a name in our history!"

"Bullshit!"

Zheng Zhilong was furious.

He raised his palm and was about to slap it on the table.

Then clean up his son!

Suddenly I saw that my son had grown a short beard.

He thought of his grandson Zheng Jing, who had just learned to walk.

My son is already married and starting a business!

If it had been in the past, with Zheng Zhilong's fiery temper, he would have taken action long ago.

However, when he thought that his son was doing this for the Zheng family, his heart softened.

"Damu, you have just come back, you should go see Jinjin (Zheng Jing's nickname) first!

Also, Mrs. Dong (Zheng Chenggong’s wife) is also very concerned about you for more than a year. "

Zheng Zhilong suppressed the anger in his heart and used his wife and children to persuade his son to give up the idea of ​​leading the team to go to sea.

"father!"

Zheng Sen fell to his knees with a pop:

"Dad, have you ever heard that for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the ancestral country, your Majesty directly entrusted the princes and concubines to Eunuch Cao of Tianjin to fight alone, and this is how the Chu Province is now stable.

Daddy was so deeply favored by the king that he was appointed as the uncrowned king of the Ming Dynasty along the coast. How profound the king’s favor was!

The father carries heavy burdens on his shoulders, but the child dare not ask his father to plow the family into exile.

All I ask is that my father will give the child some troops and horses, so that the child can be loyal to His Majesty on behalf of his father!

Dad, our Zheng family owes its present status to His Majesty’s grace.

Dad must not sit back and watch, lest he be laughed at by the world! "

At the end of his speech, Zheng Sen had tears in his eyes and almost knelt down to plead.

However, Zheng Sen's words made Zheng Zhilong's expression change drastically.

"Shuzi! Shuzi!"

Zheng Zhilong was furious:

"You are such a muddy fool, do you know that our Zheng family is at a critical moment of life and death?"

To be fair, from Zheng Zhilong's point of view, although the Zheng family seems to be a giant at this time, it is actually walking on thin ice.

The foundation of the Zheng family's existence is the pirates Zheng Zhilong has in his hands!

To put it crudely, soldiers and warships are the foundation of the Zheng family's prosperity.

If you study carefully, you will find that the root of the Zheng family's prosperity is sea trade.

In the Rim of China, the Zheng family is ostensibly irreplaceable.

However, there is a saying - if you stand on the wind, even a pig can take off!

Zheng Zhilong truly became the overlord of the China Sea thanks to the imperial court's policies.

Zheng Zhilong, who was known as the "Coastal Defense Guerrilla" and "Five Tiger Guerrilla General" in the imperial court, became the biggest helper to his rise.

In the light, Zheng Zhilong is the military attache of the imperial court, but in the dark, Zheng Zhilong is the largest pirate leader.

Over the years, Zheng Zhilong relied on these two skins to develop the Zheng family into a giant.

The Zheng family is even expected to become a first-class family!

but……

Ever since Zheng Zhilong received the imperial order and lived in Fujian for a long time, the red-haired foreigners on Ryukyu (Taiwan) Island began to engage in petty theft and small tricks.

Zheng Zhilong had immigrated hundreds of thousands to Taiwan earlier, and developed Ryukyu, the third largest island in China, very maturely.

(The second largest is Ezo, which is later known as Hokkaido. In the Ming Dynasty, Ezo was one of the annexes of the Ming Dynasty Nuergandusi. Japan did not occupy it until the [-]th century. Everyone knows the largest island!)

There will always be people in later generations who are uneducated and have no skills, saying that China has never developed.

In fact, since the third generation, the way China has expanded its territory has been to establish feudal states.

That is feudalism.

In the period before the Warring States Period of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the feudal states were dominated by the Jisizhou nature.

In the Warring States Period, the objects of enfeoffment changed from the princes of the princes to the generals within the kingdom. The generals conquered the land, and the dynasty established counties to govern them. When mature, they were divided into counties.