PS: I drove hundreds of miles from my mother-in-law's house, and the highway was blocked.

However, with the current Dutch on Dayuan Island with less than 1,200 remnants of defeated soldiers, a few broken ships, and dozens of cannons of various calibers, these measures were far from enough to defend Zheng Zhilong's troops in front of the crowd and the sea of fire.

Putmans commanded his troops to recruit the people to build more than three zhang of fortresses and fortifications in places such as Relanza Castle and Yikun Body, which were built with glutinous rice, syrup, oyster shell ash, and triple earth, and at the same time further strengthened the fortifications of Chiji Castle. In addition, the preparations for war in these three places were strengthened, and official documents were issued requiring castles and forts in various places to strengthen reconnaissance and armament, and the Chinese were not allowed to sell grain and purchase local products in the cities of Pumin and Geranza, and all Chinese leaders and gentry were placed under house arrest in the city of Geranza to avoid collaborating with the enemy. All the rice that has not been harvested in the fields will be burned, and "if anyone dares to resist, they will be killed on the spot!" ”

"Hundreds of our fellow villagers in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou have been killed by the Dutch in their own fields in order to protect the harvest in their fields!"

"Wait!" Zheng Zhilong waved his hand to stop Zheng Yun's report, "How do you know this news?" Can we still have a connection to the island now? ”

Zheng Yun gave him an affirmative answer.

"But it can only be traffic news, it is unlikely that the brigade will go immediately, and our ships will not be able to enter those ports. The Dutch artillery fire blocked several port lanes, and our men were very careful in entering and leaving. ”

Zheng Zhilong paced excitedly in the flower hall, such a military situation came too timely for him.

"And. According to our men from the Dutch governor's palace, Putsmann had been worried that his troops would be insufficient, and he was going to send someone to Batavia to call for help. In addition, in order to make up for the lack of firearms, he planned to send a ship to the Hao River to buy the Portuguese artillery muskets and gunpowder. ”

"If the Portuguese don't sell it, or if they plan to collect money, the Dutch plan to take Macau under the guise of buying guns and gunpowder."

"Haha!"

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but laugh wildly. The wild laughter made Zheng Yun and Tian Chuan a little confused. Tagawa even worried about Zheng Zhilong with frightened eyes.

"Zheng Yun, madam, do you know what kind of banner the Portuguese in Macau are playing now?"

"Isn't it the flag of the Kingdom of Portugal?"

"That's natural, though. This Portuguese is now a puppet of Li Shouhan in Nanzhong. If only the Dutch had gone to fight Macau. Can Li Shouhan's guy swallow this breath? I'm afraid that the Dutchman's musket has not yet been lit, and the cannon in Nanzhong over there has gone off! ”

"Husband, you mean. That General Li in Nanzhong will also fight a big man? ”

Although Tian Chuan said this with low eyebrows, it exploded in Zheng Zhilong's ears like a spring thunder.

"Big brother, the Dutch in Batavia have sent this year's protection money, 120,000 gold coins."

Zheng Zhibao walked in excitedly from outside.

The arrival of these 120,000 gold coins made Zheng Zhilong undecided.

What exactly should be done to the Dutch? To fight or not to beat the big guys?

Fighting, you can get a stable rear base, settle the reclamation people, harvest grain, and set up a trading station in Dayuan. If he doesn't fight, he can collect an annual offering of 120,000 gold coins from the Dutch, which is enough for him to buy food and various firearms and weapons in Nanzhong.

But how can the Dutch swallow this bad breath?

"Zhibao, what do you say about the Dutch?"

"Brother, if you want me to say, the Dutch are a group of white-eyed wolves who don't remember to eat, you hold a knife in your hand, he will obediently hand over the protection money, and if you are not careful, he will bite you!" Knowing about the matter, Zheng Zhibao was also angry.

"But at the moment, we are not able to do it, Shangfeng wants us to go to southern Gan to suppress the bandits, to deal with those thieves, there will not be too many troops left in Fujian, at most we are optimistic about the family, if we want to recover the territory of the Dayuan, or teach the Dutch a lesson, it is impossible."

"So, Leopard, take advantage of the Dutchman's money, and for the past two days you have asked the guy who sent the money to accompany you to the Great Staff, and ask that Putmans to withdraw from our territory! Ask them to give us an explanation. ”

"That's it?!"

"Then I'll put my troops and horses in order here, and tie up the ships. Prepare for war. ”

"Brother, are we going to fight the Dutch? Fighting at sea, our brothers are not afraid of the Dutch, but if we really want to fight on Dayuan Island, our brothers have never fought siege warfare! ”

"What's more, I have to fight with those Shengfan, they take the mountains and forests as their home, I don't know when a few Shengfan with broken hair and tattoos will jump out of the forests, grasses and streams, and after cutting down a few brothers, they will disappear again with a roar." Zheng Yun is also very worried about this war.

Zheng Zhilong looked at Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Yun slyly, "Our territory is mainly in the north, it is the city of Santo Domingo of the Spaniards, the territory of the Dutch is in the south, and the city of Geranza, the city of Prominza, and the city of Chichi, are all here. This is naturally the focus of the Dutch, we don't care about it, we just fight this northern city! ”

"So, what about the Dutch in the south going north?"

"Don't worry, there are a few cities in the south, naturally someone will fight!"

The two brothers exchanged a look of "you know" with each other, and a smug smile appeared on their faces. It's just that Zheng Yun and Tian Chuan were left scratching their heads there.

The same military situation passed through the waves of the South China Sea and was sent to Shouhan, who was supervising the construction of the naval anchorage in the Qiongzhou Mansion. Shouhan looked at this information collected by the wooden tooth dog in the fastest time, and couldn't help but have an unpredictable smile on his face.

"The Dutch want to go to Macao to replenish the arms and gunpowder? That's a good thing?! It means that they have run out of gunpowder! ”

The Wooden Tooth Dog still had a disgusting look, and spoke in that voice that he couldn't tell what the accent was.

"Then, did the subordinates inform Haojiang that they were not allowed to sell weapons and gunpowder to the Dutch?"

"Huh! No need! It is very convenient for the big people to trade everywhere. And all the daimyo of Fusang, and even Zheng Zhilong in the mainland, can buy our firearms and gunpowder, and it is better for us to sell them our gunpowder than to sell it to others! ”

The wooden tooth dog is very keenly aware of the difference in the tone of the Shou Chinese, the Dutch are planning to replenish firearms and gunpowder weapons, and the Shou Han means that except for firearms, the rest can be sold!

In other words, everything from those powerful gunpowders, to desperate knives and funeral guns, can be sold to the Dutch!

"What do you mean?"

The eyes of the Wooden Tooth Dog shone like ghostly fire.

"The Dutch have knives and guns in their hands. It's good to clean up those raw ones! ”

The wooden tooth dog secretly screamed ashamed in his heart! It turned out that the lord meant to once again sacrifice the magic weapon of borrowing a knife to kill people. Let the Dutch fully play the role of pioneers, massacre and suppress a group of natives who have an instinctive sense of resistance to outsiders, and then play the role of liberators themselves.

And the gunpowder produced by the South China Army, although the wooden tooth dog is the intelligence chief. It is not in charge of military production. But. I have also heard that many people mix the gunpowder they bought back with the gunpowder they made themselves, and if they use the gunpowder of Nanzhong purely. This will cause an accident of exploding or have a serious impact on the life of the firearm.

"Lord, there is another matter, several principals in the mainland feel strange. I didn't dare to call the shots, so I sent the paperwork by clipper. ”

The contents of the letters of Ye Qi and Lin Wenbing are basically the same as those of the Han Yuan Firm's Business Information Investigation Office.

Recently, in the merchant circles of the two capitals in the north and south, there are some unrecognizable people who have come into contact with the Han Yuan firm under the guidance of Shanxi merchants, trying to buy military supplies from the Han Yuan firm.

After several years of hard work, Shanxi businessmen's keen business sense and tentacles have finally found the source of those excellent military supplies!

Shouhan had only one thought in his heart.

"There are two Kyotos in the north and south? What are they going to buy? Shouhan's voice trembled and trembled slightly, but if it wasn't for someone familiar with it, he couldn't hear it.

"It's pretty much the same."

"Let's talk about Datong first."

"Cloth, medicine, gauze, cotton, and alcohol. In addition, armor, knives and guns, and wrought iron are all popular goods. A pair of nine-turn steel armor can be sold for one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and there is still room for growth. Someone named a sword made of iron and steel, and the price is as follows. ”

"Well, let's talk about Xiaoyi!"

"Nanjing's main thing is to buy these finished products, wrought iron and the like are less, and Beijing's is different, almost everything, from wrought iron to gunpowder, from armor to canned food, almost all our commodities are wiped out. He also asked the shopkeeper Lin if he could sell grain, salt, and vegetable oil to them. ”

"And not to mention the large amount, it is often thousands of armor and swords, tens of thousands of stones of rice, and the price is basically not returned. Neither of them can be sure, so I am writing to ask you to decide. ”

"Write to Ye Qi and Lin Wenbing, telling him that at present, for this group of Shanxi businessmen, they want to deal with the snake in vain, in addition to confirming that they were purchased by the official army, for the requirements of Shanxi businessmen, all of them are thanked, and they really can't thank them, so they sell them some armor knives and guns based on nine turns of steel, and ask for ten pieces to one, every three months. If there are more, thank you for not being sensitive! ”

Shouhan had already vaguely guessed in his heart who the trade object that appeared in the north and south of the two capitals was! Ye Qi and Lin Wenbing don't know, he is very clear as a traverser! The peasant army of Shaanxi who appeared in Nanjing was sure to be the Shaanxi peasant army that crisscrossed the area of Nanzhili and passed through the prefecture, they had just learned the power of the weapons made in Nanzhong in the battle of Tongguan, and in the land adjacent to Nanjing, they learned that they could buy a qiē military supply they needed with gold and silver in Nanjing, which was close at hand, and it was no wonder that such a good thing could be missed! The peasant army may lack strategic vision, but it is clear what weapons are useful!

The customers who appear in Beijing are more strategic.

Not only do they have to buy a product from Nanzhong, but they also have to buy raw materials such as wrought iron to make them themselves! In this way, they could make everything they needed: iron armor, swords, cotton armor, and even firecrackers and cannons. Shouhan did not dare to imagine what kind of situation and shape it would be like once his agricultural products and primary industrial products were acquired by those generous customers who passed through the trade routes of Shanxi merchants.

That's right. Those customers in Beijing are the Jiannu of Liaodong!

Liaodong Jiannu, whose stomach was filled with rice and vegetable oil and refined salted salt cooked with Nanzhong, was dressed in cotton armor made of cloth produced in Nanzhong, and iron armor or chain mail made of wrought iron produced in Nanzhong was covered on the outside, and brandished a desperate knife and a funeral gun in his hand, rushing to the inland cities along the gap opened by the traitors with gunpowder in Nanzhong, carrying out slaughter and plunder again and again, and then using these blood-stained property to continue to buy weapons and gunpowder from himself.

This is what Shouhan doesn't want to see at the moment!

He can't bear the reputation of this traitor and an enemy, such a reputation is too heavy for him.

At least. Not right now!

I have to admire the ability and patience of Shanxi businessmen. Shouhan sighed in his heart, he thought that what he was doing was more secretive, whether it was his cooperation with Li Fengjie, or Lin Wenbing's sending weapons and armor and first aid kits to Hong Chengchou. It's all extremely secretive. The confidentiality work can be regarded as having been jointly inspected by the Commercial Intelligence Office, the Investigation Office, and the General Inspection Administration. In this way, he was still defeated in front of this group of old Xi'er!

The perseverance and patience of this group of masters, and the ability to inductively analyze and organize business intelligence in detail. All are admirable.

In the absence of railways and highways, they were able to rely on camel teams to do business in Moscow, which is now extremely far away, and the perseverance and hard-working spirit of Shanxi businessmen are admirable.

It's a pity that if the ability is not used in the right way, the greater the ability, the greater the danger it brings!

Shouhan has always been suspicious that the Shanxi merchant group at the end of the Ming Dynasty bet on both sides. On the one hand, they reported to the peasant army mainly from their fellow villagers in Shaanxi in the interior, providing overt and covert support, and on the other hand, they supported the Jiannu in eastern Liaodong with materials and intelligence. Moreover, when the peasant army in the pass was on the verge of annihilation, as a bridge and channel, he led Huangtai Ji and Dolgon to lead the Eight Banners into the pass, on the one hand, taking advantage of the empty opportunity of the Ming army in the pass to plunder the wealth and population, and on the other hand, saving the de facto allied peasant army from danger. Let them continue to flow around the Jianghuai River and Han, consuming and attracting the financial, material, manpower, and military resources of the Ming Dynasty.

And Li Zicheng and others also reciprocated the peach, and everywhere they went, they announced that they would buy and sell publicly, and that the trade would be fair, so as not to offend these wealthy and powerful fellow villagers. Only during the Battle of Kaifeng, because they were worried that Li Zicheng would take revenge after entering the city, Shanxi businessmen and Kaifeng soldiers and civilians held the city together, so that our King Li Chuang did not capture Kaifeng three times, and finally even if he entered the city, he only got a blistered city, wealth, children, and food, all of which were gone.

"Now the time is not enough, and I don't have the ability to have a showdown with this group of old Xi'er!" Shouhan pinched the two secret reports from Nanjing and Beijing, and muttered to himself.

"Lord, lord?!" The Wooden Tooth Dog used his characteristic low and suppressed call to pull Shouhan back from his thoughts.

"Oh?! What's the matter? ”

Shouhan couldn't even remember what the spy leader in front of him was doing when he came to him.

"Then that's how Nanjing and Beijing dealt with it?" The wooden tooth dog is good at distinguishing appearances and colors, and he found that the Shouhan today is a little unguarded, so he knocked on the corner of the nail to confirm it, lest he misunderstand the meaning of the lord and pass on the wrong order, which will bring a catastrophe to himself.

"First, if the Dutch go to Entrenchment to buy weapons, inform the Portuguese there that they can buy as many knives and guns as they want, but if they buy gunpowder," the corner of Shouhan's mouth twitched, "I can only sell them gunpowder that we have made especially for them!" Those who violate the order will bear the consequences! ”

Fang Cai Shouhan had already thought that he planned to produce some specially formulated gunpowder for these special customers, and on the basis of the current one, add more copper oxide to make the gunpowder more powerful. However, this gunpowder also has some not-so-good side effects on firearms, the most obvious being that it shortens the service life of firearms! It is easy to cause an explosion accident!

"Second, inform Ye Qi and Lin Wenbing that if these Shanxi merchants buy weapons, they will delay time on the grounds that the distance is long and it is not easy to make them. If you ask for ten, you will give them one! Moreover, they can only be provided with armor and weapons made of nine-turn steel. In addition, a small amount of swords made of iron and steel can be supplied according to the number! ”

The Wooden Tooth Dog left happily with a new type of gunpowder export formula written by Shouhan himself and instructions on the arms purchase trade. Shouhan stood on the top of the fort in Yulin Harbor and faced the humid sea breeze blowing from the South China Sea, looking at the betel nut trees that were either as straight as masts or the swaying coconut trees in the mountains and plains to the north, and couldn't help but be full of pride.

"Daddy, why are you so happy?"

Li Huamei, who was sweating on the boat, didn't know when she came to Shouhan's side, and behind her, Shi Daxuan's son Shi Lang stood there a little timidly.

"Daddy, this is a friend I met on Nanao Island, and he came to us with the intention of applying for the Sailor Academy. But Uncle Zhang scared him and said that you have to agree to this matter! ”

"Really? I'll have to ask him about it! You take this friend of yours to rest first, and at dinner, I will talk to your Uncle Zhang about this. ”

Li Huamei thought for a while, and finally mustered up her courage.

"Then, Daddy, you will also talk to the uncle of the Sailor Academy when you go back, and I also ask to apply for the Sailor Academy!"

After saying this, he pulled Shi Langfei and fled from the fort.

This time it was Li Shouhan's turn to be surprised.

At dinner, Shouhan really called Zhang Xiaohu to eat together in front of him. However, what he said has nothing to do with the two children's entrance examination to the Water Master Academy. (To be continued......)