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Chapter 73 Five boats sailing to the north, the return of the deceased

Zhu Youjian became more and more excited as he spoke, but his audience, Zheng Zhilong, was not interested.

In his opinion, he was already the local emperor of Fujian, and the entire Nanming had the greatest strength. If he rashly went to Nanjing, he defeated the emperor and went to Jinling, his status would definitely not be as high as it is now. By then, Zhu Youjian would definitely support his new confidant. If he could not defeat him, he would lose his troops and generals. Those who died were all soldiers of the Zheng family.

Moreover, in Zheng Zhilong's heart, the Ming and Qing dynasties were no different. Zheng Zhilong started his career in Japan and became rich with the Dutch. Such an experience was difficult to have a sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty. His years of pirate career allowed him to see the deceit in people's hearts and also led to his selfish and greedy personality.

After the emperor finished speaking, Zheng Zhilong said lightly: "If Your Majesty wants to attack Jinling, I can provide hundreds of warships to transport Your Majesty's elite troops to the shore."

The excitement on Zhu Youjian's face stopped abruptly, and he collapsed on the dragon chaise, carefully savoring Zheng Zhilong's words. However, Zheng Zhilong felt that he had given face enough, so he stood up and accused him of guilt, and walked out of the palace with his two younger brothers.

Huang Ying'er, who had been waiting in the harem, chatted with the queen absent-mindedly, but her eyes kept floating towards the palace gate.

Queen Zeng is also a well-educated and well-off assistant. Since she married Zhu Youjian, she has not given birth to a child and often feels guilty about her husband. Zhu Youjian is also a person who is not a woman, and she doesn't even have a concubine in the harem. Queen Zeng looked at Huang Ying'er and thought that she was waiting for His Majesty to come back.

The queen looked at Huang Ying'er carefully. It turned out that she was indeed a beautiful woman. Even a woman, she wanted to hold her in her arms and love her.

Since I can't give birth to a child myself, let Ying'er...

At this time, the little eunuch shouted: "Long live here."

Empress Zeng and Huang Ying'er quickly stood up and greeted her. Huang Ying'er didn't care about the etiquette in front of the king, so she made a fortune and asked, "Your Majesty, how are you discussing with the ministers?"

Zhu Youjian was angry and slapped the door frame, yelling: "Zheng Zhilong, this dog thief, bullies me too much! Unfortunately, Hou Aiqing has made such a good opportunity, but I cannot take advantage of the opportunity to regain my ancestors' foundation. Zhu Youjian is ashamed of Emperor Gaozu and his ancestors."

Huang Ying'er's face turned dark and she murmured: "Isn't that little brother Hou dangerous?"

Zhu Youjian was in the palace for a long time and didn't know much about the situation in Suzhou, but he thought that since the Qing army entered the pass, he had won many battles. Hong Chengchou, who led the army this time, was even more famous as the general in the world. Suzhou played by Hou Xuan was the first to be affected, and he was afraid that there would be more and more dangers.

Huang Ying'er walked out of the palace in dismay and returned to the princess's mansion. Gong Laosan was still standing in the distance waiting. Seeing the princess' carriage back home, he hurriedly met him and asked under the car: "Princess, what does Your Majesty say?"

Huang Ying'er picked up the curtain of the car, and the pear blossoms were raining on her cheeks, and cried: "Your Majesty is going to find Zheng Zhilong, but Zheng Zhilong refuses to send troops. Brother Xiao Hou has no reinforcements."

Gong Laosan squatted on the ground, jumped his feet and cursed, then stood up and patted his butt, and said angrily: "The lives of two thousand lonely ghosts in Jiading were given by Hou Xuan. If the imperial army does not go, we will go by ourselves. I have been running business on the sea these days, and there are quite a few ships, which is enough for us to return to Jiading."

Huang Ying'er poked her head out and asked, "Uncle Gong San, do you want to go back to Jiading?"

Gong Laosan said with a proud look on his face, "The princess doesn't know yet. Xuanyan has taken Jiading back. I decided to take Jiadingerlang from the sea to Songjiang Mansion, and then to Suzhou. Our relatives followed Lao Hou and all died and never surrendered. Now we have to follow Xiao Hou and fight with Qinggou. At worst, all of them will die and just reunite with our family."

After Gong Laosan finished speaking, he turned around and left. The curtain of the car slowly lowered, and a light appeared in Huang Ying'er's eyes. What appeared in her mind was all about Hou Xuanyan's back as she got off the ship to block the pursuers that day, and her fists clasped and looked back and smiled.

"Go to Suzhou..."

When he returned to the manor, Gong Laosan immediately exchanged his ideas for a lot of cheers. The people of Jiading calculated that they would go back and fight side by side with Hou Xuanyan.

Fan Xian grabbed Gong Laosan and whispered, and Gong Laosan said angrily: "You idiot are just not reliable in doing things. Since that's the case, why didn't you say it earlier?"

It turned out that when Fan Xian came, Hou Xuanyan told him to go find Zheng Zhilong to buy some gunpowder.

Zheng Zhilong had his own arsenal and built his own ships on the sea. It can be said that he was rich and generous.

His arsenal was hired by Dutch craftsmen, and it can be said that in this era, they were all the strongest firepower.

Gong Laosan thought that he would take people out of Fuzhou soon, and it would be useless to keep his business income here.

He turned around and returned to his study, sorted out a stick of incense behind closed doors, and finally sorted out all his industries in Fuzhou into a name. With this name, Gong Laosan went straight to Zheng Zhilong's mansion.

Zheng Zhilong brought his two younger brothers back to the mansion. The three brothers did not meet often, and just took this opportunity to hold a family dinner. The housekeeper hurried in and muttered to Zheng Zhilong for a while.

Zheng Zhilong said impatiently: "Why is it Hou Xuanyan again? Just a businessman, just drive him away."

The housekeeper said that Gong Laosan’s purpose was again, and Zheng Zhilong became interested and said, “I’ll go see him.”

The deal between Gong Laosan and Zheng Zhilong hit it off. Zheng Zhilong had his own arsenal, and shells could be produced at any time. Moreover, there was no war in Fuzhou at this time. Instead of leaving the shells in the warehouse and getting moldy, it was better to sell them to produce new ones.

Moreover, with Hou Xuanyan standing in front of him, his comfortable life would be more than a few more days.

Of course, the most important thing is that Gong Laosan has enough sincerity and does not want to take advantage of him.

Gong Laosan, who had shown a genius business mind since childhood, finally made a willing business to lose money, in return for Zheng Zhilong's three large ships and full of gunpowder.

After doing everything, Gong Laosan went to the palace and invited an imperial edict. After all, there were so many of them, and if they wanted to run away together, they needed to go through layers of investigation.

When Zhu Youjian heard this, they were about to go to fight Hou Xuanyan to the death. While their anger towards Zheng Zhilong deepened, they were moved by these righteous men who fought for the Ming Dynasty. They immediately wrote a letter in person, so that officials along the way could not be stopped.

In fact, Fuzhou is not far from Zhejiang, and entering Zhejiang is Hou Xuanyan's territory, so he is not worried about being investigated at all. Gong Laosan has this kind of personality. He either doesn't do it, and he must do it without any mistakes.

After all this preparation, the Jiading people in the manor, regardless of gender, age, and age, boarded two merchant ships.

Zheng Zhilong's work efficiency was also fast enough. Three large ships soon arrived behind them.
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