Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

"Master Dou, this batch of raw silk is a high-quality product. The price is 150 salt."

Just as the Zhoushan Squadron made upheavals in the Zhejiang Sea, the Fubo Fleet, the main maneuvering force of the Zheng Jun Navy at this stage, also turned the world upside down on the long coastal defense line from Yueqing Bay in the north to Jieshi Bay in the south. There were many casualties, but under the destruction of Zheng Jun's land troops, the sealing wall was in vain. Hundreds of people in the three provinces fled from the Qing army's control area. Rise.

"150 quotations?" Hearing this, Dou Pingkang made several strokes on the abacus. "It's not expensive to say the least, but"

Hearing that Dou Pingkang intends to bargain, the businessman here immediately begged: "Master Dou, it's not easy to go on this trip. There are more than a dozen checkpoints to be cleared along the way. Please, Master Dou, show your respect."

"Huang Chaofeng, it's true that you have worked hard along the way, and it's true that you need to take care of it." Dou Pingkang looked at the other party with a half-smile. "But now what is the price of raw silk in Fuzhou City, what is the price of salt, and how profitable it is to come and go. Don't you think we really don't know anything." The other party's face froze. Unhappy, I simply paid back the price. "130 quotes."

"This is too much killing." Huang Chaofeng's face was ashen. "According to this price, this trip is at best a breakeven."

Dou Pingkang said unmoved: "Protect your capital? Even if you preserve your capital, it's better than getting moldy in the warehouse."

"Master Dou, if you want to do business like yours, what else will you do?" Huang Chaofeng said in a slightly threatening tone. "I'm afraid that if this continues, no one will take the risk to come to this place soon."

"Huang Chaofeng's family has a great career, so it's normal to look down on such small profits. However, if the Huang family doesn't want to do it, there are naturally people who are willing to do it." Dou Pingkang doesn't like this at all. "As for the high profits and low profits, I have a water bill with a business marked with high profits. I'm afraid that Huang Chaofeng won't be able to make this money for you."

Huang Chaofeng took the water list and looked at it. Naturally, metals such as copper, iron, lead and zinc, and ore were the most expensive, followed by horses and cotton cloth. Rhubarb, raw silk, tea, porcelain and other bulk commodities for export were only ranked in the middle, and the rest were like lacquer. , tung oil, indigo, etc. also have their own exchange prices. What makes Huang Chaofeng's eyelids jump is that Ming Zheng not only uses salt, sugar, gold, and silver to exchange domestic products, but also sells Qing court goods in a limited amount to the country. Desperately needed crude sulfur.

Huang Chaofeng tucked the water slip into his sleeve: "Master Dou, one yard is worth one yard. The business in the future is the business in the future, but you have to spare me a little for today's batch of raw silk, otherwise I really won't be able to explain it when I go back."

Dou Pingkang was also afraid that he would run away from such a big supplier as the Huang family in Quanzhou, so he gave a base price after a short thought: "Forget it, the so-called first-time familiarity and second-time acquaintance, it seems that everyone is not the first transaction. , I will take another step back, so, if Huang Chaofeng thinks it is inappropriate for 130 five quotations, you can pull it back."

"The old minister knocks on the lord." The appearance of smuggling and Zheng Jun's temporary release of the waters west of Jieshi Bay also restored the communication between Hanliu and Dongning, and even Chen Shengwu, who had been behind the enemy for many years, finally had the opportunity to return. Dongning.

"Chen Qing's hair is gray." Zheng Kezang helped up Chen Shengwu who was kneeling with his own hands, and said with emotion. "You have worked hard these years." Zheng Kezang did not give Chen Shengwu a chance to be humble, and he reached out to take a medal and hung it on Chen Shengwu's chest. "Qing fights wits and bravery with the Tartars and traitors, and this Wutao Medal is well deserved."

"Minister, minister!" Chen Shengwu made a gesture of gratitude.

Zheng Kezang knew that this was just an appearance, so he changed his tone and greeted him as a relative: "Don't say anything. I have been away from home for many years and feel homesick. You should go home and have a look. In a few days, The orphan and his wife will also invite the fourth brother to have a drink together."

Naturally, Chen Shengwu couldn't be as leisurely as Zheng Kezang said, he just reunited with his family for two days, and on the third day he went to the office to report on his work.The so-called debriefing is to give a general report on the development of the Han Dynasty in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, and Hunan provinces.Of course, Hanliu is not owned by Chen Shengwu alone, and the Secretary of Staff will naturally send people to infiltrate the mainland to receive these units one by one. However, due to the strict implementation of the guide system by the Qing government, the process of receiving them will be quite long. Naturally, the cooperation of Chen Shengwu was indispensable.

In return for Chen Shengwu's handing over the Han Liu, Zheng Kezang ordered Chen Shengwu to be conferred the title of Ping Lubo and his deputy to join the military.However, Chen Shengwu's promotion to the rank further aroused Hong Lei's hidden worries, so he sued for illness in the name of chronic illness after the year. Although Zheng Kezang repeatedly rejected it, Hong Lei still automatically disappeared from the political arena of Ming Zheng. Everything is for the time being.

"Fourth Brother." Zheng Kezang kept his word, and after Chen Shengwu was canonized, he invited him to a banquet in Anping City. up. "The fourth brother is inland. Apart from the Hanliu Office, has he had contact with the rest of the anti-Qing forces?"

"The minister and his subordinates have had many contacts with the Bagua Sect, the remaining tribes of Wu Sangui, the remnants of the Thirteen Clans in Eastern Sichuan, and the remnants of Emperor Yongli. The Lord Zhu Da, the king of Yiyang who sent someone to contact him last time, is also among them." Chen Shengwu Of course he knew Zheng Kezang's intentions, so he answered in detail. "These people are united in anti-Qing, but there are many fights between each other for old grudges or for who is Zhengshuo. It can be said that it is a mess and it is difficult to get together."

Zheng Kezang was obviously a little disappointed: "Then there is no possibility of using it at all?"

"That's not true." Chen Shengwu thought for a while and replied cautiously. "If the clan raises troops in the southeast, these people may be able to respond inland and involve part of the Qing army's strength, but if they are allowed to grow stronger, I am afraid it will be the situation in Nanming again."

"This is also a necessary price." This is the question of who will be the fisherman, but now that the Qing government's rule in the mainland is becoming more and more stable, so Ming Zheng has to be the early bird if he wants to shake this situation. "As long as they can contain part of the Qing army, as long as they can make the Qing court financially distressed, it will be beneficial to the clan to help them succeed."

"My lord understands what the lord wants. After returning to Guangli, I will immediately make arrangements."

"There is one more thing that must be done now." Zheng Kezang whispered a few words in Chen Shengwu's ear, and Chen Shengwu's eyes froze, and then he looked at Zheng Kezang with an incredulous expression, but Zheng Kezang But just raised the glass. "Whether this chess piece is going to be used soon or not, it's not too late."

Chen Shengwu understood the key points, and immediately made a firm promise: "I understand, I must make proper arrangements."

"That's very good." Zheng Kezang nodded in satisfaction, his eyes fell on the face of the young woman beside him, and he suddenly smiled. "I'm so lonely and confused. This is a family banquet. Why are you talking so much about business? Come on, fourth brother, and drink up this cup first, so I won't go home without getting drunk today."

Facing the blockade of Zheng Jun's navy, Governor Shi Lin of Zhejiang Province, Governor of Zhejiang Province, Shi Lin, Governor of Fujian Province, Governor of Fujian Province, Wu Xingzuo, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the newly appointed General Yabu jointly proposed to the Qing court to rebuild the navy of the three provinces to deal with the aggressive Zheng Jun. oppression.However, after the memorials of the three border ministers were handed over to Beijing, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, but dissatisfaction with the fruitless negotiations between Yabu and the Netherlands came from the palace. It was decided to abandon Taiwan and protect the sea.

It is easy to abandon Taiwan, but to keep the southeast coast still requires the power of the navy. On September 27, 24th year of Kangxi, the Qing government issued an imperial edict to set up a shipyard affiliated to Qiying in Tianjin, employing Portuguese from Macau and some missionaries in Beijing as Technician, manufactures soft-sail plywood boats that can restrain Dongning gunboats.

In order to open this flag camp shipyard, the Qing court successively allocated nearly 50 taels of start-up silver, and at the same time summoned nearly a thousand boatmen and shipwrights from five coastal provinces such as Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Sulu, as well as handymen to serve it. , Lifu 500 people, the scale is unprecedented.In order to protect the shipyard, in addition to the troops of the Tianjin Township of the Lu Division, Kangxi also dispatched thousands of soldiers from the Xiaoqi Battalion (vest) and the Infantry Battalion (battle armor) from the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade to garrison.

However, it will take time for craftsmen from all over the world to go north, and the launch of soft-sail plywood ships is still far away, but the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong have been unable to persist in the face of Zheng Jun's navy raids. Fortresses were built in important coastal cities such as Wenzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, etc. that could go up the river, and heavy cannons were set up for guarding the mouth. possible invasion.

However, whether it is building forts, deploying cannons or producing inland watercraft, it requires a lot of expenses. Guangdong has a sum of money from the sale of Qiongzhou's "public land" to support it, but Fujian and Zhejiang provinces with financial difficulties can only rely on the Qing court. The allocation of funds from the household department can be used to guarantee the needs of the Northern Expedition first. The household clearing department can't wait for one penny to be converted into two pennies. How can they agree to satisfy the gluttonous mouths of the two provinces?The ball was kicked back to the place by Mingzhu and Suo'etu and other central bosses after a while of the Hubu and Bingbu.

The self-supporting vassals of the two provinces were worried about this, but the people in the two provinces who were already suffering from the closure of the border and the sea could not easily make more harsh donations. For this reason, Zhejiang launched the "Flower Donation". This kind of tax collected from prostitutes naturally aroused unanimous opposition from the moralists, and the lawsuit went all the way to Beijing. However, although Tang Zongyao, the governor of Zhejiang Province, was dismissed and investigated, the "flower donation" was not canceled in the end. Since then, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces also followed suit. The "flower donation" that was eaten from the blood and tears of prostitutes eventually spread throughout the country and became a new "economic growth point" for the Qing court.