Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 411 Poaching the Corner of the Zheng Family

Zheng Zhilong and Yan's have a daughter who is also of marriageable age.

When it comes to this Yan family, there is something to talk about. He is the daughter of Yan Siqi, the founder of Taiwan. He was the pirate king at that time. He once planned an uprising in Japan. After the failure, he took Zheng Zhilong and the others to Taiwan. Later, Zheng Zhilong married his daughter, inherited the alliance, and finally re-established the Shibazhi Sea Alliance headed by him.

When Guo Jinzhong said that Zheng's daughter was admitted to the palace, these two candidates were basically selected.

One was born of the Tagawa family in Japan. She became a Catholic since she was a child, and has been living in the Catholic Jesuit Society of Macau since then. Even her name is Pascal. She should be a completely Westernized woman.

The other was born to the daughter of the pirate king Yan Siqi. Her uncle Yan Keying was also an important leader of Zheng Zhilong's official party. He owned a fleet and was equivalent to Zheng's partner.

If he hadn't been too young when his father died, Zheng Yiguan wouldn't have been the leader of the alliance.

The Yan family still has a lot of influence in Taiwan and the official party.

This time Zheng Zhilong entered the court, and Yan Keying entered the court with him. He was still the general who commanded the 8000 people, and he had the rank of deputy commander conferred by the court.

Although Zhu Yihai felt that political marriage was a bit bad, but after careful study, he felt that if he still wanted to appease Zheng Shi right now, then marriage seemed to be a good choice.

And Yan Keying's status made him feel that it would be a good choice to choose the Yan family, but on second thought, Bussigat's Jesuit connections were not bad either.

After much deliberation, it seems that Zheng Zhilong's two daughters are good.

In the end, Zhu Yihai couldn't help but sigh, he didn't expect him to be a dignified and holy son, but now he has to rely on nepotism to stabilize his power.

However, this is the most time-saving, labor-saving and effective method.

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Zhenjiang.

Zheng's fleet berthed at Zhenjiang Port.

On a Dutch three-masted double-decker Galen battleship, it was Zheng Ziqi.

Ping Guogong, Dongge Dashi, Shaobao and Prince Taibao, walking in the Prime Minister's Office, and Zheng Zhilong, the governor of the imperial camp, stood on the deck, looking at the deserted pier, and seemed a little silent.

The ship under his feet is not a traditional Chinese ship, but a Western Galen warship, also known as a sailing warship.

Zheng Zhilong has defeated dozens of this kind of sailing warship over the years, but he still admires this kind of warship in his heart, especially when compared with Chinese ships in the open sea.

For example, the Anping ship under his feet is divided into upper and lower layers of turrets, densely covered with 36 artillery pieces, which can only be regarded as average firepower in the European navy.

It has three masts, a length of 56 meters, a width of 340 meters, a draft of [-] meters, a capacity of [-] sailors, and a displacement of [-] tons.

On the whole, this ship is actually only a mid-to-lower warship in the Dutch Navy.

But in the South China Sea, its firepower and protection are still high-level warships. At least the Zheng's Navy, which dominates the East Asian waters, is hard to find a direct match for warships.

He just managed to get one of such a boat.

I thought that at the Zhenjiang Wharf, I would be able to greatly increase my prestige in front of the court officials and people who greeted me.

But who knew that the scene was so deserted.

Zhenjiang was very indifferent to his arrival. Earlier, the navy sent a guerrilla with three boats to greet him, and then led them to this military port. It was not the big port of Zhenjiang, but another small port.

"Don't you know that we are anchored here, and the imperial court welcomes us at Dagang?"

Zheng Zhilong looked at the not-so-small naval fleet behind him, and then at the military port, especially those coastal defense forts, even the floating city with water villages, and some naval warships not far upstream and downstream.

I got something in my heart.

Yan Keying came forward, "Brother?"

"Don't worry, let the brothers sail and anchor, let's rest for a while." Zheng Zhilong pondered.

This time traveling thousands of miles north, the Zheng family not only brought [-] soldiers and horses, but also a lot of gunpowder and a lot of money and food, not to mention the power of the Zheng family in Fujian, the court should not have such an attitude.

No matter what, it should be greeted by crowds of people with loud gongs and drums and red flags waving, at least it must be greeted by a cabinet scholar.

But now it is so deserted, the situation is not quite right.

"Brother, why don't I go ashore first to find out?"

Several officers were also dissatisfied, "Are we still putting on a hot face and a cold ass?"

"Stop being presumptuous!" Zheng Zhilong yelled, "This is not Fujian, everyone should pay attention to what they say in the future, don't just open your mouth."

"Brother is so easy to talk, why should we be wronged, the Qing court promised to be the king and governor of the three provinces before, we rejected the Qing court, went north like this, but ended up treating us like this, why?"

"Bastard, get out." Zheng Zhilong shouted that subordinate back, and frowned.

"Keying, you go ashore first, and take my post to Zhenjiang to pay a visit to the officials and generals in the city to see the situation."

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It was half a day after Zheng's fleet arrived in Hong Kong before some officials came over.

But he was just a Yuanwailang from the Ministry of War, and he came here to temporarily station the Zheng family's troops.

It was not until the next day that another official came, this time it was an official from the household department who brought some grain and grass to Zheng Jun.

Zheng Zhilong's chest was full of suffocation, and after seeing the two little green-robed officials, he simply said that he couldn't get out of illness.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong didn't dare to mess around, even if he stayed on the Anping flagship and pretended to be sick, he didn't forget to order the officers to control the soldiers and forbid them to leave the port, let alone mess around.

The situation was unknown, so he didn't dare to move, so he had to wait for Yan Keying's return.

But it is said that Yan Keying went ashore and entered Zhenjiang City, and after sending Zheng Zhilong's name sticker, the person who met him was Yan Yingyuan, a sub-inspector who was always in the town of patrolling Ning and was also equipped with military equipment. Zhu Yihai used it again and again, and later developed local regiments in Changzhou, harassed the Tartars in the south of the Yangtze River, and raised food and salaries for the court. Was awarded by the emperor to patrol the road.

After some changes in the official system, today's sub-inspectors are known as small governors, but they are much higher in rank and power than the previous Taoists.

This Yan Fenxun met Yan Keying, but he didn't pay much attention to Zheng Zhilong's famous post.

After some conversation, he directly told Zheng Zhilong that the imperial court was responsible for the arrangements after Zheng Zhilong entered the court, but the imperial court had already made arrangements for the [-] troops brought by the Zheng family.

Except for Zheng Zhilong who left a team of 50 personal soldiers, the rest of the soldiers and horses will be temporarily taken over by his branch patrol.

"Specifically?" Yan Keying's face was not very good-looking, he did not expect such a result, although he also thought about it when he came here, maybe these soldiers and horses will be incorporated by the court just like the navy led by Zheng Sen and Zheng Cai before. But they also felt that the imperial court should give Zheng Zhilong some face.

I didn't expect it to be so straightforward.

"Zhenjiang is an important military town. There used to be a lot of troops stationed here, but now it is still a hub of industrial, commercial and trade transportation. There is no way to station so many soldiers and horses. Therefore, we must first disperse the water and land battalions and transfer them to other places to station and eat. The next step is to wait for the imperial court’s plan to continue.”

Although Yan Yingyuan didn't finish speaking, Yan Keying could tell that the follow-up would be reorganization into the imperial camp.

In Zhenjiang, he had a simple meal with two dishes and one soup full of thoughts, which made Yan Keying suspect that the imperial court did not take Fujian Zheng family seriously.

Just as he was angry and wanted to go back to the pier to report, Yan Yingyuan brought a person in.

"This is Qianniuwei's instructor, and also the guard with the sword in front of the imperial court, Fu Shanfu's guard."

Fu Qingzhu was dressed in the military uniform of the imperial guards, and he carried a thousand-ox sword on his waist, but he also carried a big sword on his back.

"According to His Majesty's order, I have come here to deliver the order to Vice General Yan, please accept the order."

Yan Keying was a little dazed, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, and was urged to kneel down to accept the order.

According to the emperor's decree, Yan Keying was named the general officer of Shenwu Town.

"The commander-in-chief of Shenwu Town?"

Fu Qingzhu told Yan Keying that the emperor had just made a decree that the [-] land and water soldiers from Fujian were bestowed with the title of Shenwu Town on the Imperial Battalion, and he was the new commander-in-chief.

When Yan Keying was still a little dazed for a while, Fu Qingzhu asked him to follow him to Beijing to thank him.

"I'll go back to the pier first to meet Ping Guogong."

"Your Majesty is still waiting to see Zongbing Yan, let's go." Fu Qingzhu dragged Yan Keying out of the city to Nanjing without saying a word.

Riding all the way to Nanjing, he was sent to the palace and handed over to the servants. An eunuch took him to bathe and change clothes first, and then led him to the Hall of Martial Arts.

Yan Keying was a little confused along the way.

After the eunuch called the name outside the door, a voice came from the hall.

"Enter!"

The voice is calm and youthful.

Yan Keying followed the eunuch into the palace, he looked secretly, but happened to see a smiling face.

"General Yan is much taller and mightier than I thought."

"Come here, give me a seat."

It was only at this time that Yan Keying realized that this was the Son of Heaven, so he quickly knelt down and bowed down.

"Exemption."

"I have heard before that the official party is invincible in the southeast sea. It has won countless victories. All kinds of red-haired fans are defeated. I also heard that General Yan is also a strong man in the southeast. He has taken the lead countless times, jumped ship and rushed to kill. It’s amazing, seeing you today, it’s really mighty!”

Yan Keying felt a little embarrassed when he was praised. Although these people who were born pirates would usually say that princes and generals are kind, and they don't pay attention to the emperor's old son, but when they really stood in the palace of the imperial city, When looking at the emperor in dragon robe, he still couldn't help but feel intimidated.

"I'm just a vulgar person who only knows how to fight and kill. I have no culture. How dare a humble name stain the ears of a saint."

"Hahaha, what you say is very cultured, I like it, come here, and draw up an order, I want to make a good general of Yan."

"The decree is to bestow the title of Yan Keying, the chief officer of Shenwu Town, as the Earl of Fuqing, a set of imperial armor, and a python robe!"

Yan Keying was completely stunned. Is this the world's best pie?

He just entered the court and did nothing. Is this conferring the title of Commander-in-Chief or the Earl of Fuqing?

What do you mean?

He is Monk Zhang Er, completely confused!
(End of this chapter)