Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

"Treasurer, it's not good." Inside the counter of the Fushun Bailian in Naha, a boy sent by Huang Xufu to keep an eye on the Dongning Merchant Fleet reported profusely. "The ships that you keep letting me keep an eye on have just set sail, and I went to the pier to inquire about them. The people at the berthing place heard from the master there that the route is clear and we can go back to Taiwan."

"The air route is clear?" Huang Xufu's face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help muttering again. "The route is cleared!" He was a little confused about the situation. Could it be that Dongning surrendered?But how could the little guy have accurate information, so he made a decision. "You prepare some gifts, and follow me to visit Boss Ying of the Taiwan Strait Chamber of Commerce."

"Brother Huang, Cao Cao is here. Someone just passed the airway with the people below, so someone must come here after smelling it." Ying Tanong led Huang Xufu to the living room and sat down. When the tea came, he asked slightly ironically. road. "I didn't expect that the boat was just sent out this morning, and my brother came to the door before noon. The speed is really fast."

"Brother Ying is complaining that he has ignored you these days as a brother?" Although Huang Xufu was embarrassed, he was still able to bend and stretch, so he responded with a shy face. "Speaking of it, it's true. We are in business and pay attention to not going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. It has nothing to do with going in and out. Brother, I'm too embarrassed to come to the house as a guest."

"Then Brother Huang came prepared this time." Ying Tanong smiled. "Okay then, I'll be all ears."

Huang Xufu also tore off the camouflage, and asked directly: "What does it mean that the air route is open? Didn't the imperial court send a large army to attack Taiwan? Could it be that the lord of your vassal has surrendered to Wang Hua and cut his hair and entered the throne?"

"Brother Huang's words are so unreasonable." There was a hint of sarcasm hanging from the corner of Ying Tanong's mouth. "Why didn't your army conquer Taiwan be wiped out? This is biased."

"The entire army that conquered Taiwan was wiped out? Brother Ying is really good at joking. Who doesn't know that you just suffered a big defeat in Penghu in the past two months. At that time, Shi Junmen only brought 3 people, but now it is a full [-] troops! " Huang Xufu was about to shake his head, but suddenly seeing the expression on Ying Tanong's face, he was taken aback for a moment, and then confirmed it inconceivably. "Could it be that brother Ying didn't lie, that the imperial army was really defeated?" Ying Tainong nodded, Huang Xufu almost knocked over the teacup in front of him, muttering in his mouth. "How is this possible, how is this possible, [-] troops, [-] troops." Muttering a few words, Huang Xufu stared firmly into Ying Tanong's eyes. "Brother Ying, Master Ying, this is a big matter, you can't just talk about it."

For Mr. Huang's gaffe, Ying Tanong expressed some understanding, but understanding was understanding, and a sneer was unavoidable: "Is there anything impossible? The battle is dangerous, you lose first and then you win, and you win first and then you lose." It's normal, why should you only win and not lose, which saint's reasoning is this?"

Ying Tainong was talking, when Huang Xufu suddenly grabbed his hand: "Where is Admiral Shi Junmen now?"

Faced with the other party's eagerness, Ying Tanong took the time to compare with his hands: "This news is worth a hundred dans of raw silk."

"My God, it's this time, and you're still thinking about money." Huang Xufu was about to jump, but Ying Tanong acted like he didn't want to listen, and Huang Xufu had no choice but to respond. "Up to you, up to you."

"That's right. The rules were set with Mr. Qiu at the beginning. It's not good to break them casually. Come here, bring a pen and paper, and ask shopkeeper Huang to make up the IOU." Looking at Ying Tainong with a smirk on his face, Gritting his teeth, Huang Xufu had no choice but to pick up a pen and hurriedly wrote a document, and after seeing the document clearly and putting it away, Ying Tainong gave an answer. "Shi Lang killed himself, and his two sons, Shi Shixiang and Shi Shiji, surrendered to the clan with his corpse."

Huang Xufu took a deep breath, calmed down, and continued to ask: "Then how many generals are still alive?"

"That's too much to explain. In this way, there is a bottom line here that can be handed over to Brother Huang, but?"

"But what, isn't it just silk and silk?" Huang Xufu said eagerly. "Tell me a number, and I'll write it to you!"

"Fresh!" Ying Tainong complimented duplicity, and reported a number. "Fifteen hundred dans of raw silk."

Huang Xufu took a deep breath. This is just knowing the list of surviving generals. With this number, if you want to exchange these generals, wouldn’t it be impossible to have one million and 80 taels?

But as he said, this matter is very important, so he hesitated for a moment, and he wrote an IOU himself, so Ying Tanong handed over a thick list to him, and said at the same time : "This is the screening list sent from Taiwan with the ship yesterday. The latest one will have to wait for the next ship, and I will have someone send it directly to your company."

Huang Xufu flipped through a few casually, starting from the first few chief soldiers, all the way to the capital and garrison at the end, hundreds of names and their official vacancies were densely written in dozens of volumes, which still didn't make it clear that Chief Qian , List the general manager and the foreign committee, otherwise I am afraid that it will be impossible to write ten times more.

After a rough look, Huang Xufu asked: "Except for those who were not screened out, those who are not on the list are all martyrs."

"There are also a few defectors, which are naturally not listed." Ying Tanong responded. "Of course, Brother Huang wants to know what it is, just pay for it. Anyway, since they have surrendered, they are prepared to implicate their family members."

"It's really sad!" Hearing what Ying Tanong said, Huang Xufu suddenly said this sentence, and he didn't know whether he meant that Ying Tanong got into the eyes of money, which was sad, or that those who surrendered to Zheng Jun were betrayed by Zheng Jun and felt pitiful. Of course, it is certainly not to say that the fact that the Han people fight each other in the same room seems sad.

"No way, who asked you to destroy Taiwan." Ying Tainong responded confidently. "It's more than 2 strong, and the money for pensions alone will flow into the Milky Way. I have to ask you to help a few."

"That's good, I'll pay another five hundred tans of raw silk." Huang Xufu quoted the price, and bit him to death. "If you think it's too low, there's no need to say it anymore. Anyway, in a few months, we will also know the exact news from Fujian."

"Not necessarily." Ying Tanong said this meaningfully, and then he smiled. "Five hundred dan is [-] dan, more or less it is a subsidy." After that, he took out a thinner booklet, and waited for the shopkeeper Huang to finish writing the IOU, and the two paid the money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other. "Since the money and goods have been settled, Brother Huang, if you have any questions, feel free to ask."

"I can't ask, the tens of thousands of taels will be gone. If you ask again, the Fushun joint account will be exhausted." Huang Xufu put the two booklets next to him, stood up and cupped his hands. "Farewell!"

"No!" Ying Tainong said hypocritically. "In the future, I hope to have the opportunity to continue to exchange information with Huang Zhanggui"

Speaking of which, apart from those expatriates who were most worried about Dongning being occupied by the Qing army, it was the wealthy Japanese business group that had lent money to Dongning to buy supplies.After the Penghu naval battle, the news of Dongning's defeat came, and the whole country of Japan was in an uproar.Thinking that the investment of hundreds of thousands may be in vain in an instant, these wealthy merchants have fixed their eyes on Mingzheng's trading house in Nagasaki and Tagawa's family, just because Dongning's goods in Japan are not enough to make up for them. The loss and the distribution ratio have not been clarified within the debit side, so it has not been started for a long time.Even so, the Tianchuan family and the Mingzheng merchants were still monitored and besieged, and they were greatly frightened.As for Zheng Kuan, Zheng Zhi, Zheng Rou, Zheng Yu, who were later sent to Japan by Zheng Kezang for refuge, they were also targeted by ronin hired by wealthy merchants as soon as they came to Nagasaki.

"I thought I was out of the tiger's mouth, but I didn't expect to enter the wolf's den again. That bastard kid probably planned it in advance."

"I knew that it would be better to stay in Dongning. Even if I finally surrendered to the Qing captives, the situation may not be worse than the current situation."

"Then why don't you stay in Dongning like the second and third brothers?" Zheng Zhi held a glass of sake and looked at Zheng Rou and Zheng Yu coldly. "I have nothing to do with the sixth and eighth sons. They treat us as thorns in the flesh and must be sent away. You can stay in Taiwan to live and die together. Don't you think it's too late to say this now?"

"It's not too late, Lao Qi and Lao Jiu, you can also go to the mainland from Nagasaki Fuhai to join the Qing court, just like Fifth Uncle did back then." Zheng Kuan also said slightly mockingly. "Thinking about it, that kid will be very happy to see you surrender to the Qing captives."

"Will the Japanese let us leave?" Not to mention, Zheng Rou had really moved the idea of ​​Jiang Qing, but she was declared bankrupt due to Japan's strict monitoring before it was implemented. "If this battle, the kid can win, I will go back to Dongning no matter what I say, so as not to be angry with the little devil again!"

"Save me, even if we win, that kid doesn't want us to go back," Zheng Yu was sober at this moment. "Besides, if we really win the battle, our situation will be different, so there's no need to go back and be insulted by that kid."

"Uncle, Uncle, it's not good." Several people were taunting each other boringly, when a son of Zheng Wen's family suddenly stumbled in. "Japanese, a lot of Japanese have gone outside the mansion. The interpreter said that Nagasaki ordered to go to the mansion to meet uncles."

Could it be that the deadline really came, and several people looked ashen, but they didn't meet each other, but the Japanese didn't leave. After holding on for a long time, several people finally let each other into the room, but they heard an unbelievable sentence: " My lords, I would like to express my apology on behalf of the shogunate for the evil deeds of those thugs. Please rest assured, my lords, there will never be any villains to harass your house in the future. Please live in Japan with peace of mind."

"This is?" Looking at the compensation offered by Japan, several people looked at each other in blank dismay. "Did I hear you right? When did Nagasaki Fengxing become so easy to talk? Could it be?"

Zheng Wen completed Zheng Zhi's words: "Could it be that Dongning really won the battle?"

While they were guessing, someone reported that Tagawa Jiro Zaemon was coming. The arrival of this grandfather-grandfather confirmed their doubts. They had won. The Dongning ship that entered the port brought the latest battle report.

The mystery was solved, but the problem was not resolved: "I'm afraid Dongning won't be able to go back, and we can't just sit and eat, so we can just use the money to form a fleet. Thinking about it, that kid won't get in the way."