This Jinyiwei from Nanyang is just a hundred household officials, where has he seen such a battle, when the emperor and all the cabinet members are waiting for his reply with burning eyes, so that this Jinyiwei, who has seen the wind and waves of Nanyang, is also very nervous.

After this brocade guard's stammering explanation, everyone finally had a general understanding of what happened to the Nanyang Zheng family.

The cause of the incident has to start with a pirate incident, although the Zheng family lost the backer of Daming, they also lost Daming's business.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is still a hegemon in the South Seas by relying on decades of capital accumulation and sufficient reserves of warships and sailors, otherwise it would be impossible for the European powers to let the Zheng family join the array of eating Southeast Asia.

Although Zheng Zhilong set up the Zheng family in Sulu, Nanyang, at least half of its business came from Japan, and the Tokugawa family only allowed the Zheng family to do maritime trade with Japan after the lockdown decree was issued.

Even the goods of the Netherlands must pass through the hands of the Zheng family, which simply makes the Dutch country, which has dominated the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, like a fish in the throat.

Two months ago, a merchant ship of the Zheng family, laden with goods, sailed from Japan to Sulu when it was attacked by pirates while passing through the waters off the island of Okinawa.

The cruel pirates not only detained all the cargo ships and killed more than 200 sailors on eight large ships, but also hung their heads on the side of the ships for the seabirds to peck at.

Zheng Zhilong was naturally furious when he heard this, he had dominated Nanyang for more than 20 years, and he was robbed in the territory of Nanyang, even if he really encountered pirates, he had to hide far away when he saw his Zheng family's ship.

Later, it was found that the one who plundered the Zheng family's merchant ships was the fish that slipped through the net when the Ming court exterminated the pirates in the Ming Sea - Longhou San of the mixed river.

For so many years, the Zheng family has been pampered in Anping, Quanzhou, and they have long forgotten about this Hou San, who knew that they had just moved and were beaten by a minion of the year.

Zheng Zhilong was worried that if he left it alone, the prestige of the Zheng family in the Sea of Japan and the Daming Sea would be greatly damaged in the future, and even more pirates would covet the Zheng family's merchant ships in the future.

However, this decision was opposed by Zheng Hongkui, the fourth elder of the Zheng family, and Zheng Sen, who believed that with the strength of the Zheng family now, it was simply not enough to deter pirates in the Sea of Japan or even the Daming Sea.

Moreover, the rash transfer of the sailors to the Sea of Japan will lead to the emptiness of the Sulu base camp, and Zheng Sen is also worried that the surrounding strong enemies will take advantage of the weakness.

It's just that Zheng Zhilong has a very stubborn temper, but whenever he makes a decision, he can't allow others to change it, especially when it comes to the face of the Zheng family.

In addition to the support of Zheng Cai, Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming and others, only six days after the news reached the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong recruited nearly half of the Zheng family's naval forces, more than 800 large and small warships, and more than 40,000 naval division soldiers.

After investigation, there were only more than 30 pirate ships in Hou San's hands, and it was impossible for the Zheng family to mobilize the people so much, but Zheng Zhilong actually had another purpose for going, that is, to demonstrate.

Let the Sea of Japan, the Daming Sea and many forces in the South Seas see that the Zheng family is not easy to mess with, otherwise Hou San will be the end.

Zheng Zhilong has been doing this for decades, after all, it is cheaper to go out for a walk to show the Zheng family's force than to equip every Zheng family's merchant ship with a warship escort.

Zheng Zhilong's annual income of tens of millions of taels was not collected by issuing flags to merchant ships in various places.

It's just that what I never expected was that all of this was just a conspiracy against the Zheng family.

The Zheng family sailors led by Zheng Zhilong crossed the waters of Luzon, and as soon as they reached the middle waters between Luzon and the Ryukyus, they were attacked by the Dutch and the Great and Small Franc warships.

One side was scheming, and the other side was completely defenseless in this regard, and the warships of the three countries fired thousands of cannons from three directions, directly stunned Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong's main battleship, like the Ming Beiyang Naval Division, is still based on the No. 1 Fu ship, which can be equipped with a total of 50 large and small guns.

However, the Fu ship is a typical three-sail ship, with a huge size and difficulty in turning the rudder, and it has become a competent target under the attack from three sides.

The warships of the Three Kingdoms Alliance are only more than 500 together, and the main warships are less than 200, but the gap is here.

Taking Dutch warships as an example, the new Dutch warships not only had a large number of two-deck ships with 50 to 80 guns of various types, but also more advanced three-deck warships with an unprecedented 90 guns.

Moreover, the Atlantic current is far more complex than that of the South Ocean, and the sails on the warships of the Europa countries are often dozens, which ensures that the Europa warships can adapt to the navigation of various wind directions, as long as the sails are properly coordinated, even the warships against the wind can still maintain the corresponding speed.

A few years ago, the Zheng family had copied the Dutch Navy's warships off the coast of Kinmen, but coincidentally, as soon as the construction of that batch of warships was completed, they were all sunk by the Dutch in a rampage.

Since then, the Zheng family has been slumped on the road of imitating Western-style warships.

But this is not the point, the point is that the warships of the Three Kingdoms not only have more artillery, but also have a long range, and the artillery of the same specification is at least a few feet farther than the attack distance of the Zheng family's artillery.

It was destined to be an unfair war, and the three Europa countries, which had experienced thirty years of war, united to launch an artillery bombardment of Zheng Zhilong's fleet.

Zheng Zhilong didn't care about the front and the back, and the left and the right, and finally had to order all the soldiers of the Navy Division to break through to the south at all costs.

But the move of the Three Kingdoms is to annihilate the main force of the Zheng family's naval division in one fell swoop, where is it willing to let Zheng Zhilong go, as long as the Zheng family's naval division is full of strength to rush in one direction, the three kingdom warships will deploy more warships to beat the Zheng family back.

Relying on the advantages of flexible rudder rotation and long artillery attack distance, the navies of the three countries firmly surrounded Zheng Zhilong in the waters of Dongning Island.

The bombardment lasted for two days and nights, and for two days and nights, all the other ships of the Zheng family sailors were sunk except for more than a dozen wave-opening bird boats that escaped from the encirclement by virtue of their night and flexible size.

Zheng Zhilong's flagship Anqing was hit by the Dutch Navy on the first night, and Zheng Zhilong himself was directly pierced by the shell and died on the spot!

After Zheng Zhilong died in battle, Zheng Cai, Zheng Ming, and Zheng Xing successively took over the command of the water division, and in the two days and nights of slaughter, Zheng Jiashui Division, whether Zheng Zhilong, or later Zheng Cai, Zheng Xing, and Zheng Ming, all refused the surrender of the Dutch several times, and all died on Dongning Island.

Including Liu Hongji, after listening to the Jinyiwei's explanation, they all fell into silence.

"The ambition of the Dutch is not only for the Zheng family, but also for the South Seas, a shipping channel flowing with gold and silver.

Does the emperor know what to rely on to maintain relations between countries? Liu Hong gradually sighed and asked rhetorically.

"I think, it should be friendship, as long as I establish trade with the Ming Dynasty, other countries will receive profits, and I will be grateful to the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Cihong thought for a moment and said casually.

He had just tasted the sweetness of maritime trade, and in his concept, since those foreign vassals wanted to do business, the Ming also needed trade to levy tariffs, which was simply a double win, and he couldn't understand why he wanted to make a big move.

"Hehe, Daming is indeed a country that pays attention to etiquette." Liu Hong chuckled gradually, but there was a trace of unprovoked contempt between his words.

If every country came according to the prescribed rules, of course, there would not be any war in this world, but even if we look at the future generations, when will this world be peaceful?

Where can you earn more by paying tariffs, and where can you directly grab profits when doing business, and then look at the foreign countries that have done business with the Chinese people since the Two Song Dynasty to the present, which is not a trade deficit?

How can these countries, whose naval strength is much stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty, and who have begun to make an overturn to imperialism, tolerate a loss-making transaction?

"But the emperor needs to remember that our gift will not work in the ocean, nor will it work in the Dutch, nor will it work in Europa, friendship is not a fart between countries, and there are only two words that can give the Ming the greatest protection and long-term stability, fist!"

Liu Hong gradually clenched his fists and threw himself on the ground, including Zhu Cihong, and all the members of the cabinet gradually paid attention to Liu Hong.

Zhu Cihong nodded heavily, although the elders of the newly formed cabinet had different opinions in their hearts, they all consciously chose to reserve their opinions.

The cabinet has gradually been excluded from decision-making by the two, and has become an observer, executor, or staff member of the Ming ruling center.

"What do you think Aiqing should do about this?" Zhu Cihong asked with a solemn face.

The first assistant Li Banghua looked at Liu Hongjian and then at the second assistant Han Yu, but he didn't say anything, but the new head of the household department, Zhang Tianlu, got up and bent down to Zhu Cihong and saluted.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although the Zheng family sailor has suffered heavy losses, it still has a lot of warships and soldiers in Sulu, and my Daming sailor only needs to garrison the southeast coast and wait and see what happens.

The Zheng family has always been a big trouble for my Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong died in battle, and the remnants of the Zheng army on the Sulu side naturally refused to give up, and then my Ming sailor only needs to sit and collect the profits......"

Zhang Tianlu cocked two handfuls of beard and talked to Zhu Cihong about his 'unique' opinions, in his opinion, the Zheng family is really hateful, and they make tens of millions of taels of profits every year, but they don't all fall into their pockets.

Not only Zhang Tianlu, but most of the officials in the DPRK and China did not have the slightest affection for the Zheng family, and at first they did not believe that the Zheng family could earn so much silver from the sea in a year.

Until Liu Hong gradually set up the Ming Customs, the four customs points earned 8 million taels in four months only for import and export duties, and the civil and military officials almost gritted their teeth when they heard this.

It's just that Zhang Tianlu didn't finish his words before he was interrupted by Liu Hong.

Bang - Liu Honggradually slapped the arm of the chair.

If it weren't for the embarrassment, he really wanted to point to this surnamed Zhang,, you are a sand sculpture, right?

"Does Lord Zhang mean that the emperor should watch the Han people of Sulu being slaughtered by the Europas?"