"Miss Zheng, if I hadn't seen you bring these novelties, even if you were Yan Siqi's number one confidante, Yu wouldn't have let you board the warship. It's an old rule for generations, woman.
, You can’t go to the city walls for land battles, and you can’t go to the boat gangs for naval battles.”
In Xiamen Port, on the old lock ship moving slowly eastward, Fujian Commander-in-Chief Yu Zigao walked on the deck that had been warmed and dried by the sun with his bare feet like goose paws, squinting his eyes.
, teasing Zheng Haizhu beside him.
Behind them were Xu Xinsu and Zheng Shoukuan, as well as Zheng Zhilong, who had just arrived in Xiamen the day before yesterday with a thousand porcelain thunders after receiving orders from Zheng Haizhu.
Xu Xinsu had already greeted several of them in advance. After Yu Zigao became his disciple, he was making waves in the waters of southern Fujian. He was inevitably arrogant and rough-spoken. Even so, Zheng Zhilong still couldn't hear General Yu's words about looking down on women.
"Master, my sister has been on a warship a long time ago, and she also fought against the Frankies, and we won happily."
Yu Zigao turned his head and glanced at Zheng Zhilong.
Yu Zigao found it interesting.
This young man, whom Xu Xinsu called "Yiguan", was obviously a junior member of the Fujian Maritime Group. It is said that even though he followed Yan Siqi, he was still often thought of by Li Dan, but now he became the son of a woman.
My little brother.
However, as a military general, Yu Zigao looked at people with a sense of heroism and sharpness in his eyes. When he met Zheng Zhilong this time, he liked his appearance of a calf with blood on his head and didn't care about him.
Yong boldly contradicted him, but he laughed and said: "Look, I can't write two characters of Zheng in one stroke. This time, my words of protection are faster than Frankie on my boat. Miss Zheng, Yiguan is really not your biological brother."
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Zheng Haizhu pursed his lips: "We killed Spanish people at sea together, we are closer than our own brothers, not to mention helping me manage my money."
Zheng Haizhu's expression remained as usual.
She has long been accustomed to the discrimination and dwarfing of women in this era, which is not much different from the discrimination and dwarfing of women in later generations.
If you have to criticize every greasy joke with a straight face, there will be no time to make money, help people and fight the Tatars.
The key is to guide these proud men, who indeed have strength and intelligence, not to just talk, but also to have their warships fire cannons at the invaders in a timely manner.
Zheng Haizhu did not continue to joke and talk nonsense, but leaned over the side of the ship to see the draft of the old lock ship when it was bumping in the big waves.
"Mr. Yu, is this boat bought from Guangdong, a second-hand Frankie boat, called a duck boat?"
"Oh? The girl has such good eyesight?"
Zheng Haizhu showed no shame and said sincerely: "I didn't understand at all. I went to Beigang in Taiwan in the twelfth lunar month and saw it in the hands of the Dutch. They said that they were the French people who attacked Macau when their ship sank.
We robbed this kind of Frankie ship. The foreigners called our Ming Dynasty sailing ships Junk ships, which is the pronunciation of junk in Chinese. Both the Frankies and the Dutch looked down on Junk ships and thought our ships were
Naval warfare is not possible, the gun positions are too high and the waves are too slow."
Yu Zigao heard Zheng Haizhu talk about the key points of the warship. While he looked at the woman highly, he also came to discuss his interest in the warship.
"Miss Zheng, what the foreign monkey said is quite right. Our lucky boat has a big box in the bottom. It is majestic, but it sails slowly. As for the cannon, it is on the bow, and the firepower on both sides is inferior. We encountered it before
As for the Japanese pirates' small boats that directly jump into the fight, our lucky ship can be directly rammed and sunk. The foreign ships we encounter now are like hedgehogs with cannons all over their bodies, so we can't fight them like we did when fighting Japanese pirates. Especially the red-haired ships,
In recent years, I have become more capable, and I am no longer in the same mess as when Mr. Shen Yourong dealt with them."
Shen Yourong can be regarded as the national defense general of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou's generation. Therefore, as Yu Dayou's son, Yu Zigao should respectfully call him Duke Shen.
More than ten years ago, Shen Yourong was a powerful defender of the China Sea in front of everyone. In the 30th year of Wanli, Shen Yourong led his troops to annihilate the Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi army that invaded the indigenous people of Taiwan Island. In two years, Shen Yourong
Later, they used envoy negotiations to expel the Dutch who attempted to occupy Penghu.
These two feats of Shen Yourong were not as famous in later generations as Qi Jiguang's fight against the Japanese and Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan. In this world, in Zhangquan, Xiamen and Jin areas, they are almost known to all women and children.
At this moment, Zheng Haizhu carefully pondered Yu Zigao's words and once again confirmed Yu Zigao's position.
She waited at Xu Xinsu's house for a few days before Xu Xinsu came back and took her to the General Military Yamen to see Yu Zigao.
As she predicted, Yu Zigao himself was far more hostile to the Dutch than Yan Siqi, who had just settled in Taiwan.
Because the Dutch invaded the waters of southern Fujian because the East India Company wanted to do entrepot trade between China, Japan, India, and the Nanyang Islands, that is, it was a second-tier dealer in the Asia-Pacific sea.
According to the Dutch plan, the profits from re-export trade are enough to offset the ocean freight and cost of goods. In this way, the goods shipped back to Europe will be a net profit no matter how much they are sold for.
But Yu Zigao, who owns Xu Xinsu, has formed a solid cooperative relationship with Japan's Li Dan. The Dutch stepped in and just ate the meat from Yu Zigao's bowl, which was very likely to rob Yu Zigao's smuggled goods supply along the coast of Fujian.
, as well as customers in Japan.
It was precisely because Zheng Haizhu understood Yu Zigao's fundamental interests in the business chain that he bluntly told Yan Siqi that the Dutch were also outside predators for Yan Siqi, who also did not need middlemen.
She wanted to persuade Yu Zigao to join forces with Yan Siqi to kill the Dutch's attempt to find a stronghold in the Taiwan Strait.
Historically, a few years later, the Dutch continued to invade Penghu Island, and eventually colonized Taiwan and established Hongmao City.
Yu Zigao, who was both a soldier and a smuggler in Fujian, saw with his own eyes the Dutch bribing eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty to ask for mutual trade when he was young. He also heard Shen Yourong talk about the Dutch who stayed in Penghu and harassed and plundered the Chinese sea.
Now that I heard Zheng Haizhu elaborately describe the situation of the Dutch coveting Taiwan's North Port, I don't even think that the little woman Xu Xinsu attracted is being alarmist.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The current governor of Fujian is named Wang Shichang.
The ship went to sea to suppress bandits (actually it was mostly selling goods), so I was so happy that I wanted to report my merits to the Fujian Navy.
Yu Zigao was not worried about Wang Junmen's support for fighting the Dutch.
Yu Zigao's only worry was whether Zheng Haizhu was here to set the hook for Yan Siqi. Afterwards, he asked Eunuch Liu, who they had become friends with, to go to Wansui and tell them that General Yu was provocative and frightened the merchants.
If you dare to sell goods, if Long Live gets angry, once the Fujian General Soldier is replaced, it is very likely that he will be replaced by Yan Siqi.
Fortunately, this concern was dispelled by Xu Xinsu the next day.
Xu Xinsu said that Zheng Haizhu proposed that before the Dutch were beaten away, his nephew Zheng Shoukuan was a hostage in Xiamen. In addition, since the Dutch were the old enemy of the Portuguese, Zheng Zhilong lobbied the Frankie Artillery Factory in Macau to give Yu Zigao
The Fujian Navy sent ten smoothbore cannons. If General Yu thinks it's good, he can buy firearms from the Francois through Zheng in the future at a favorable price.
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When Yu Zigao heard the second point, he felt more at ease than if he didn't take hostages.
Everyone is a businessman, and they will understand immediately when they hear it. This woman wants to be a second-hand dealer between him, Yu Zigao, and the Frankies of Macau. Since she wants to make money from his Yu family army for a long time, how can she blackmail him, Yu Zigao?
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It didn't take long for the old lock boat to sail to Liaoluo Bay near Kinmen.
Zheng Haizhu looked at the various warships of the Ming Dynasty that were crowded in the harbor and said to Yu Zigao: "Master, have the flood soldiers from Penghu Island come back?"
Yu Zigao nodded: "They have all returned to Kinmen. There is no one on Penghu Island now. Maybe, at this moment, ships of red-haired ghosts have arrived on Penghu Island. There are also Spanish ships you mentioned, and there are also ships on Manila.
past."
Zheng Haizhu said in a humble tone: "Yan Xuanfu's ship also took me around Penghu Island last year. If we want to fight a naval battle, Liaoluo Bay is more advantageous to us than Penghu Island."
Yu Zigao narrowed his eyes and asked, "Didn't you say that Yan Siqi hasn't fought against the Dutch yet? Have you ever seen them fight at sea?"
Zheng Haizhu shook his head honestly: "I haven't seen the Dutch fight in person, but I have seen their ships and heard their businessmen brag. As the president just said, their ships are full of cannons. They fight every day."
When the Langi people attacked, they fired first. If the opponent's formation was disrupted, they would no longer line up and rush into the rebels head-on. They would stare at the unsinked ship and fire while picking up the strings.
Instead of jumping into a gang first, they switch to shooting with muskets or throwing grenades. Foreigners are not good at hand-to-hand combat, and they are indeed different from the Japanese."
Yu Zigao stared at her: "So? Why does Miss Zheng think that Liaoluo Bay is more beneficial than Penghu Island?"
Zheng Haizhu said: "Because we, the Ming Navy, are better at using fire ships than they are. Considering the wind direction of Luo Bay this season, if we bring in Dutch ships, wouldn't it be wonderful to burn them?"
Yu Zigao had never fought against the navy of the Dutch East India Company, but he lowered his head and thought carefully and felt that Zheng Haizhu's words were reasonable.
"Miss Zheng, although the Dutch do need to be tidied up before they become honest. But Yan Xuan and I will work together to prepare a famous newspaper for the governor. 'The red barbarians occupied Penghu without permission, and the navy cameras were confiscated.'"
It sounds like the most suitable one. If we want to fight at Liaoluowan instead...the Dutch are also very smart. They know that Kinmen is our Ming Dynasty's defense base, not the territory guarded by flood soldiers. How can we attract them to invade?"
Zheng Haizhu said seriously: "I will lead you, but I need someone from the boss to act together."
