Chapter 182 Not for the emperor, but for the common people and myself
At dusk, Zheng Yi stood on the deck of the lucky boat, drinking and staring at the cabin.
Liu Xiang was busy around him, going over to chat with him from time to time with an attentive look on his face.
From the outside, it seems that Yan Siqi ordered Liu Xiang to serve General Yu's subordinates well and not to be stingy when dividing the spoils of war.
In fact, in the conversation between the two at this moment, Liu Xiang's boss and Zheng Yi worked for the same person overseas named Zhu.
"Old Zheng, your niece who has not yet met me is very clever. She was obviously suspicious, but she did not continue to ask through me, an outsider. Instead, when it was time to rest, she took Yan Siqi with her and said
She was trying to get close to the monks from the Tokugawa family temple, but in fact, she trusted her old friend to be the interpreter. Sure enough, I heard the girl ask the monk again, when he went to Java, and what were the characteristics of the piano he played."
Zheng Yi squinted his eyes, looking away from the sailors who were busy stacking goods in the bottom cabin, and looked at the sunset that was about to set in the west, and said slowly: "In total, the princess has been secretly watching Zheng Yatou for more than three years, and she is very familiar with her skills.
It is a compliment, but I still dare not draw any early conclusions about her character. After all, I am not as reassured as Miss Wang from the Fang family. It is too early to tell her everything and work together to achieve a great cause."
Liu Xiang said clearly: "Ningde's concerns are serious. After all, everyone else, including General Xiao Ma, has a grudge against the one on the dragon throne."
I couldn't help but complain in my heart about the young master who inherited the blood of the Zhu family. He was really a troublemaker and was showing off his harp in front of the Japanese monks.
Liu Xiangdi cooed for a moment and asked: "Since Zheng Haizhu can't be suspicious of Wang Yatou, how about you think of a way to kill the monk when he arrives in Fujian?"
Zheng Yi said without comment: "I will discuss this matter with Ning De and then make a decision."
The next day, Zheng Yi's two lucky ships loaded with loot left Baisha Island in Penghu and returned to Kinmen and Xiamen.
After the goods and silver coins ashore on the Dutch warship were distributed by the Ming army, Yan Siqi ordered people to return hard bread, dried cod, cheese and other food to the prisoners, and even allowed them to send cooks to borrow the Ming army's clay pots to cook beans and cereals
Soup.
Captain Putmans, who survived the Penghu offensive and defensive battle, almost burst into flames in his eyes yesterday when he saw Zheng Haizhu following the Ming navy commander to the island with a calm expression.
But this foreign warrior with a background of pirates couldn't help but feel a little convinced by Yan Siqi, a Ming general who attacked bravely during the war and didn't treat the prisoners harshly after the war. Today he stopped yelling at the Ming people for being cunning and started gobbling them up.
Eat the food.
In Yan Siqi's tent, Zheng Haizhu was eating dried sweet potatoes, which have become popular in Fujian in recent years, for lunch. Looking at the imprisoned Dutch on the beach, he said to Yan Siqi: "You have more than a hundred red-haired people surviving here. Yu Zi
There are at least three hundred people on Kinmen Island over there, including several captains. Batavia will definitely send people to negotiate soon. I told Mr. Yu that the place for negotiation will be in Kinmen.
You can transport the prisoners on Baisha Island back to Tainan for custody. When the Dutch sign the surrender document and the agreement between the two countries, you will release them."
While wiping his Muramasa sword, Yan Siqi curled his lips and said with a smile: "Okay, I will take these red hairs and go around Beigang and Chicken Coop (modern-day Keelung) to let the Spaniards in Chicken Coop take a look.
, look back and be honest. Although those Spanish maritime merchants did not have a good deal with the Governor of Luzon, and they had never harmed the Han people in Luzon before. But they still need to be beaten. Do not bully the aborigines in the mountains of Taipei and the Han people who work in the fields.
, otherwise I will fuck them harder than red hair."
Zheng Haizhu smiled in approval.
She never had any affection for Yan Siqi.
To be precise, in the past few years, she had never had the feeling that the world of love was connected to the few ancient men she could see.
However, this did not affect her admiration for them at all.
They are insightful and more bloody. Regardless of whether they are civil or military, what they hide in their hearts is not the emperor whose thunder, rain and dew are all his kindness, but the people and the land that nurtures them.
The curtains of the tent were rolled up high, and busy sergeants from the Yan family army kept passing by in a hurry.
The brothers are no longer curious about the female boss from mainland China whom their eldest brother mentioned, and are accustomed to the two of them eating and chatting together.
Zheng Haizhu looked at the scene in front of him and sighed softly: "After all, the inland still has strict ethics. The negotiation table with Hongmao is presided over by the governor of Fujian, an old-fashioned man with a background as a censor. I, a womanly woman, cannot sit on it.
.However, Mr. Yu is a sensible person, so let me work with you to figure out what you want."
With a sound of "Cang Rang", Yan Siqi sheathed his sword.
"What do you want? Money and peace."
"Brother, I think so too. But these two things are actually the same, that is, sea power. With sea power, there will be money and peace. So..."
Zheng Haizhu stood up and walked to the sea chart that Yan Siqi brought for battle.
She pointed at Taiwan and continued: "Let me tell you my thoughts first. This time I am teaching the Dutch a lesson, not to close the country, but to seize sea power as we said when we visited the island last time. I am going to talk to Mr. Yu
Said, we want three benefits and two responsibilities."
Yan Siqi listened attentively.
According to Zheng Haizhu, with this cooperation with the Fujian Navy, it will not be difficult for Yan Siqi to control the entire island of Taiwan. Then, the island of Taiwan, which is already part of the Ming Dynasty, should become the easternmost part of the Maritime Silk Road.
Starting from the end of the country, a trade zone larger than Yuegang and Macau was established.
Foreigners who only appear as merchants, not as colonists, whether they are Dutch, Spanish, or Nanyang people, who come here to sell goods, pay shipping tax (i.e., import tax), and those who bring silver to buy goods, pay a slightly lower rate
Rates and taxes. This is one of the benefits that the Yan family in Taiwan wants.
Non-Ming ships sailing east of Penghu Island, even if they are not trading in Taiwan, must buy Yan Siqi's command flag. If they don't buy the command flag, Yan's navy can intercept it if it is patrolled. This is the second benefit.
This second benefit was actually what Zheng Zhilong did after he became the overlord of the southeastern waters during the Chongzhen period of the Apocalypse. It was nothing more than that the Zheng family collected protection fees for both Chinese and foreign ships, and it cost three thousand taels of silver to buy a flag.
Zheng Haizhu felt that Yan Siqi should not charge protection fees for Ming merchants transporting goods in their own waters. If foreign ships or Chinese pirate ships rob Ming merchant ships, it is another matter to enthusiastically rescue or charge for rescue.
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The third interest is to demarcate the respective boundaries of maritime trade with Japan with Yu Zigao.
It is an open secret that the border generals of the Ming Dynasty guarded the country while doing some smuggling and border trade on their own. After defeating the Dutch this time, Yan Siqi and Yu Zigao, who were also proficient in smuggling against Japan, should delineate the scope of goods.
Instead of fighting among ourselves, we should focus on squeezing away the Netherlands’ re-export trade power in Japan.
As for the two responsibilities, one is that the Yan family's army will also defend Penghu. Anyway, Yu Zigao is eager to let go of the flood army system. The other is that Taiwan must pay part of the shipping tax and salary tax to the imperial court. It can go through Fujian's account and give it to the Fujian governor and others.
Civil servants have made a profound political achievement.
As for the money collected by Ling Qi, how could the imperial court check everything in the vast sea? As a local income, Yan Siqi would allocate part of it to honor Fujian's civil and military officials. Wouldn't everyone be happy?
Yan Siqi heard that some of Zheng Haizhu's plans were to be written into the agreement between the Ming and the Netherlands, some were reported to the imperial court for approval by the governor of Fujian, and some were discussed secretly with Yu Zigao.
But the purpose is indeed to "want money and peace."
Yan Siqi then nodded and said: "That's about it first. I could be recruited by the imperial court and appointed as the governor of Taiwan, which was something I couldn't even imagine a few years ago. If I make more money in the future, I will buy more ships, cannons, and recruit people."
Be brave and guard the country's gate to the east."
After thinking about it, he added nervously: "Well, I have to ask you to buy the firearm. You are at Haoming Trading Company in Hangzhou, and I will continue to invest some money."
Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "Brother, if you say that, I won't be polite. However, I will ask you for a stall in Taiwan again. Let Shoukuan come over from Xiamen later and tell you what insurance is. Those foreign ships,
If you want to enter various ports in Taiwan, you must first buy our port comprehensive insurance, security insurance and other types of insurance."
"Okay, okay, I don't understand this. Just allow your aunt and nephew from the Zheng family to sell this or something like insurance."
Yan Siqi agreed immediately.
Ah Zhu not only worked hard this time, but also took risks. He only wanted to earn military honors for his old lady. If she didn't want anything, he would feel guilty.
At this time, Zheng Haizhu was silent for a moment, glanced outside, approached Yan Siqi, and whispered: "Brother, you just said something wrong."
"Which sentence?"
"The sentence about guarding the country for the emperor is wrong. You are guarding the country for the people of Ming Dynasty, not for the one on the dragon throne."
Yan Siqi's expression changed with trembling.
Although he had been a fugitive from the Ming Dynasty and had been in Japan for many years, and his thoughts of monarchs and ministers were not as important as those of civil servants, he still heard the implication of Zheng Haizhu's disrespect for the emperor, and was shocked.
"Azhu, if you want to behead your head, why are you talking nonsense?"
Zheng Haizhu shook his head slightly and said: "Brother, after the Song Dynasty moved south, some ministers and emperors said that this world belongs to the people of the world, not to the officials and you alone. From this, the country is also the country of the people.
, is not the national gate of his old Zhu family. What's more, now this long live master doesn't care at all whether his own country has a gate or not. Even if there is a gate, the gate will not work. We fought such a beautiful victory in Fushun, but we didn't see it.
Long live the Lord to come to court."
Yan Siqi's expression softened slightly and he muttered: "He, is he in bad health?"
"Yes," Zheng Haizhu said firmly, "he wanted to make the son of his favorite concubine the crown prince, but the ministers refused to let him, so he felt aggrieved and angry, and hunkered down in the harem all day eating opium, ruining his good life.
"
"Opium?" Yan Siqi thought for a while, and took a pipe from the armor in the corner of the tent, "Azhu, Liu Xiang went back to Java to recruit soldiers, and he also brought back a piece of tobacco called opium. He said that smoking it is particularly refreshing and relieves fatigue.
.You are talking about the same thing?"
Zheng Haizhu took out a small piece of opium paste from the dirty cloth bag hanging under the pipe.
"Brother, this is not tobacco, it is poisonous weed."
