Zeng Ying's courtesy name was Zhonghan and his nickname was Eryun. She was from Xiajiang, western Ganxi. She was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli. Before taking the position of governor of Lai, she served as the head of the Ministry of Works, the doctor, the prefect of Changzhou, the political participation of Fujian Province, and the Censor.

He also worked in Fujian and had a connection with Zheng Zhilong.

Ying was relatively honest, and an official who never made any money from the copper coins was not found in the late Ming Dynasty. She could only be said to be relatively honest, had a bottom line, and was fair in government and tough in the first year of Chongzhen. She was moved to the right-sponsor of Fujian Province and was divided into Zhangnan Road. Later, she was promoted to the Censor of Fujian Province.

Zhangzhou and Xiamen were close to each other. When Zeng Ying was in Fujian, she dated Zheng Zhilong for many years.

The latter was not a disaster in Zeng Ying's eyes. She seemed to have soldiers and money. However, the backbone of the entire Zheng Group bought land and built gardens in several prefectures along the coast of Fujian. The extravagant atmosphere of enjoying wealth and prosperity is not a false act.

No matter how strong such a person is, his strength has been eliminated and he will not be a hidden danger.

——As long as you don’t touch the meat in his bowl.

In this case, although the two are not friends, they are more of a relationship on the face. However, even this relationship on the face is enough to make Zheng Sen come to visit.

Zeng Ying looked at the famous post handed over by the door, and it was not surprising. "Zheng Sen? The eldest son of the Zheng family?" The man who had just got married was sent to Dengzhou by Zheng Zhilong?

Does Zheng Zhilong's business involve Beidi? Beiyang has always been the territory of the Shachuan Gang.

The latter uses Songjiang Prefecture as its base and travels between Tianjin and Shanghai, and its popularity is far less than that between the Zheng Group Gaolong, but it should not be underestimated!

Today, Shen Tingyang, the leader inside, is generous and ambitious, advocates chivalrousness, and has a good reputation among the government and the country, and has always been peeking at the benefits of canal transportation. He once wrote the "Please Advocate the Small Trial of Sea Transportation" and suggested restoring the sea transport created by Zhu Qing in the Yuan Dynasty, and presenting the five volumes of "Sea Transport Book" and "Sea Transportation Map" to Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen ordered a sea boat to be built to test it. Shen Tingyang took two boats, carried hundreds of stones of rice, went to sea from Huaian, and arrived in Tianjin in half a month. If it was a good wind, it would be a shorter than five days.

Chongzhen was so happy that he joined Shen Tingyang's doctor of the Ministry of Revenue and took Ningyuan's salary and ordered him to go to Dengzhou to plan with Xu Renlong, who was then the governor of Denglai.

This man has only been in three or two years since he arrived in Denglai, but he has already gained a foothold in the territory of Denglai. There are already hundreds of sea sand ships under his command.

Is the Zheng family also going to get involved in the Beiyang shipping matter?

Zeng Ying was quite puzzled.

You should know that since Korea surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the maritime trade between China and North Korea has been stopped on the surface. Liaodong has been defeated for years, and even if it transfers money and grain, the profits are not much. Especially the country's locked country, which is called the Shachuan Gang, which is extremely costly. Otherwise, Shen Tingyang would not be so urgent about the transfer of grain from the north and south of the imperial court.

As for his current interests, does Zheng Zhilong still have to get in? That will be resolutely counterattacked by the Shachuan Gang.

Behind Shen Tingyang is the gentry of Songjiang Prefecture, and even many people in Nanzhili are helping him. The Zheng family is far away from Fujian and is very unwise to compete with him in the northern part of Denglai.

Zeng Yingren has left Fujian, but many of his old friends, students, etc. still have many of them in Fujian, so naturally the news of Zheng Sen's marriage cannot be hidden from him. Even the Zheng family had a lot of news, he had heard of it because he was also one of the members of the gifts.

But after thinking about it, he still couldn't figure out why Zheng Sen came to him? Zheng Zhilong's most proud eldest son must have made a lot of plans!

In a small courtyard in an inn in Dengzhou City, eight big men carrying goose feather swords were alert to the four directions. They sent two teams, one guarding the gate and one mobile patrol.

This small courtyard was rented by Zheng Sen.

As his deputy, Shi Lang followed Zheng Sen to Qilu this time. As long as the matter was done, Zheng Sen would stay in Dengzhou for a few days, and he would immediately take his men and ships to Zhifu Island (Yantai).

"The eldest son..." Zhang Leshu walked in outside the door with big strides. This man was one of Zheng Zhilong's disciples. He was a scholar and had no talent in military intelligence, but he was very capable of dealing with others. To be precise, he could do things and made the superior feel comfortable.

"Zeng Zongxian sent someone to send a reply." But there will be time tomorrow afternoon.

Today, Zheng Sen sent someone to hand over a reply to the governor's office, but he didn't expect that there would be a reply so soon. He was very happy and took the reply to the post if he was a baby. He didn't expect that his father's name was so useful.

Zeng Ying is the governor of Denglai. She has reached the peak of local power in the Ming Dynasty. She actually gives Zheng Zhilong the face like this.

Although Zheng Sen understood what the ship of his father's tens of thousands of people meant these days, he still felt that he had broken his cognition.

The next day, Zheng Sen visited. Zeng Ying met this nephew in the small flower hall.

After the polite words, Zeng Ying asked directly: "The Zheng family's management has never been related to Qilu. I wonder why the nephew came here this time?"

Zeng Ying called Zheng Sen's nephew, so the latter would naturally climb up the pole, bow and replied, "Uncle Rong," and said, "I'm going to know."

Zeng Ying's confusion gradually disappeared, and her vigilance was relieved. It turned out that Zheng Zhilong just wanted to get some refugees from Qilu and transport the seniors to open up land and farm. "This is easy to say."

There are no other things in Denlei, but there are more refugees.

In the eighth, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen years, there were locust droughts in the Central Plains. "People eat each other, plants and trees are gone, and the earth is invaded together." The dead and abandoned children, and the rivers are blocked. Qilu cannot get well, and dozens of prefectures and counties have severe droughts, and locusts are flying like clouds.

Li Zicheng has been very successful in the past two years? It is not because Li Yanhong's wife led his army to serve him, how many people did the couple have? But because the huge Central Plains are hungry and hungry.

Li Zixuan is not weak in his reputation, and he has the help of Li Yanhong, a local snake who is well-known in the Central Plains. He only needs to raise his arms and shout, and most of them are followed. His strength will be restored in the blink of an eye!

On the contrary, this year, I will not talk about other places, but only talk about Qi and Lu. Is it time to operate or something? The drought situation has greatly alleviated this year.

The land of Denglai is near the sea, with tides rising and falling, and you can always pick up some food on the coast. In the past few years, I don’t know how many refugees have flocked to it. Although many have returned home, there are still tens of thousands of refugees stranded here.

If the Zheng family wants to transport refugees and refugees to travel south to develop senior officials, it will also solve a major problem in the Denglai government.

This is much better than he had imagined earlier.

The land of Denglai is close to the Bohai Sea and is the gateway to the capital. Zheng Zhilong is very naval. Zeng Ying is really worried that the latter will take a fancy to the land of Denglai and will settle here. Once there is a change, it will be a huge threat to Tianjin and Beijing.

As the governor of Denglai of the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Ying was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and never thought of jumping off the ship halfway. However, he cooperated with one hundred people in the matter of transporting refugees and refugees to the south. This was a good thing for Denglai to the Ming Dynasty.

Three days later, in Penglai Pavilion, Zeng Ying privately invited a banquet for the prefects of Denglai and General Denglai, including General Denglai and others. Zheng Sen appeared in Penglai Pavilion as a junior. But how could the prefects of Denglai, including Chen Tingyang, really regard Zheng Sen as a child?

It’s not because of Zeng Ying’s face, but also because of the generous gifts that have been given to their mansion?

"The senior official is located a hundred miles southeast of Penghu, and the radius is like Denglai. It is only two days away from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. It is wide and fertile. The western coast is particularly strong. The eastern part is high and dense forests, with many births appearing. My father moved tens of thousands of refugees from Fujian in his early years and established more than ten towns of all sizes. It has been more than ten years since then. It has been very safe."

Zheng Sen's face turned a little red when he spoke.

The group of people here also smiled slightly. Is it normal for the son to hide for his father?

In the sixth to seventh year of the Tianqi revelation (1626-1627), severe drought occurred in southern Fujian, with terracotta all over the fields, and even grassroots and barks were eaten up in many places.

Zheng Zhilong took advantage of this opportunity to lead a fleet to attack Zhangpu, plunder Kinmen, Zhongzuosuo (Xiamen), Jinghai, Jiazi and other places in eastern Guangdong. Soon after, he returned to Bamin, attacked Quanzhou and Xiamen again, attacked Tongshan, and captured the old town, defeated the Kinmen guerrilla Lu Yuying, and the general of the Fujian army Yu Zigao, who was invincible across the southeast sea, and the momentum was invincible. The officers and soldiers were exhausted and could not do anything. During the raid, Zheng Zhilong and others also recruited tens of thousands of hungry people in Quanzhou to Taiwan to expand their cultivation. People gave silver and three taels of cows, and hungry people along the coast and unemployed people competed to surrender. Until now, these people are also paying money, grain and taxes for the Zheng family every year.

Moreover, this move continues. Even though the Zheng Group's attention to senior officials is no longer the same as before, many immigrants are sent to senior officials every year.

"There are as many as one million fertile fields, and today's cultivation is not one out of ten. Moreover, the red hair in the south of the island has ulterior motives, and the Japanese have many provocations in the past and sometimes have the idea of ​​going north."

"The two-day sea road between the senior officials and the Eight Minjian is the sea barrier in our southern country at that time. How can we fall into the hands of the Red-haired and Western Barbarians?"

Zheng Sen, who had Japanese blood on his body, was not reluctant to call Japan by Japanese people. The Tokugawa Shogunate obstructed his mother and brother from going abroad several times, which had already laid a needle in Zheng Sen's heart. When he thought of his mother, it would hurt his heart.

Moreover, in this era, many Japanese people really came to the seniors. Because the seniors had wild deer, the deer skin trade was a good deal, and it was the main export of supplies to Japan by the seniors. At the peak, the Netherlands had 150,000 deer skins from the seniors to Japan alone. Because the Japanese warriors liked to make "Manghari" with deer skins the most.

"Although the Red Hair came from afar, its strength must not be underestimated. On the day of the battle of Luowan, my father had already sacrificed all his strength, and only burned five giant plywood ships and seized one giant plywood ship. As far as students know, in the country of Red Hair, there were tens of thousands of merchant ships of all sizes, but no less than a thousand people from thousands of miles away, all of which were more than two thousand giant ships. There were more than a hundred full-time warships..."

The count of ships in the Central Plains refers to the load capacity, two thousand materials are 2,000 stones. If converted into metric tons in later generations, it is less than 130 tons. Calculated based on the estimation of the load capacity to discharge ratio of 1:3, the displacement of two thousand materials is between 350 tons and 400 tons.

Such a large ship is already the largest sea ship that China can build today. After experiencing the Wuqiao chaos, there are probably not many such large ships in the water city.

Let’s not talk about the fact that other people’s plywood warships can be equipped with dozens of cannons. Even if the Chinese sea ship has enough tonnage, the cannons are only one-quarter or even less than those of the opponent.

That combat power is far inferior.

Zheng Sen's exaggeration of the Dutch's strength was also indirectly reassuring the Ming court. Zheng Zhilong was restrained by such a powerful Western barbarian, and the two sides would be competing for power in this outward land of the senior officials, so they would inevitably be very peaceful.

As for the land of the officials, when they heard the millions of fertile land mentioned by Zheng Sen, everyone here was beating. Then when the cool breeze brought from the sea blew, they all woke up. How could they reach the officials far away from the southeast and overseas?

It must be Zheng Zhilong's forbidden body. It is precisely because of this huge benefit that Zheng Zhilong had just become dirty with the Dutch Western barbarians...

Zheng Senke brought a lot of gold and silver, after all, this is the strongest talent of the Zheng Group. With the gift of gold and silver treasures and coral treasures, the civil and military officials present could only agree and cooperate with them.
Chapter completed!