Now, Zheng Zhilong finally can't hold on, with the failure of the land military, the Zheng family has no capital to continue to fight with the Dazhong Army on land, and Zheng Zhilong also saw that the recent development of the Dazhong Army has far exceeded his previous expectations, and the Dazhong Dynasty has made the strength of the Dazhong Army's naval division grow by leaps and bounds through a year's recruitment and rebellion, the formation of sailors, the collection of ships, and the vigorous construction of new warships. It has developed to the point that nearly 200 warships of all kinds can be assembled at sea in the near future to have a head-to-head confrontation with the Zheng family's sailors, and Zheng Zhilong can also see that the new emperor of the Great Middle Dynasty is determined to vigorously develop the naval forces of the Great Middle Dynasty.

And the Great China and North Korea now control almost half of China, once the concentration of financial, material, and human resources to do one thing, then this power will be extremely terrifying, and although his Zheng family claims to be rich and rival the country, but after all, the resources in his hands are only in Fujian, and now with the confrontation with the Great China and North Korea, their Zheng family's reserves are being continuously depleted, coupled with the recent red-haired people have invariably adopted a hostile attitude towards his Zheng family, cutting off the supply of weapons to the Zheng family, made the Zheng family already fall into a situation where they could not make ends meet.

Under the elimination of one another, the Dazhong army will become stronger and stronger, not only the power on land, but also the power at sea, it is estimated that it will not take a year or two to greatly surpass his Zheng family's sailors, and if this continues, sooner or later, his Zheng family will be completely wiped out of this world by the Dazhong Dynasty.

The entire Zheng family realized at this time that it had reached the moment of their life and death, and if they didn't surrender now, then I am afraid they would not even have a chance to surrender in the future.

So in October, with the defeat of both sides on land and at sea, Zheng Zhilong convened his cronies for the last time to discuss what to do next.

For him, the leader of the pirate group, what loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, can not be talked about at all, he is more concerned with the family and personal interests, after discussion, most of his subordinates admit that it is no longer the best policy to continue to confront the Great Middle Korea, and now their strength can still be sold at a better price in the Great Middle Kingdom, they decided to give up the idea of continuing to be the enemy of the Great Middle Korea, and officially surrender to the Great Middle Korea.

Of course, there are a small number of people who do not want to surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty, but these people have been unable to influence Zheng Zhilong's decision, Zheng Zhilong finally on October 20, seeing that the Dazhong Army is about to march to Quanzhou Mansion under the circumstances, personally found the Dazhong Dynasty envoys Zhang Tiancheng and Qian Qianyi who lived in Quanzhou, announced that the Zheng family was willing to accept the conditions of the Dazhong Dynasty, officially surrendered to the Dazhong Dynasty, and became the Shunmin of the Dazhong Dynasty, and Zheng Zhilong personally wrote to the Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian, claiming to be guilty, saying that the Zheng family would only continue to be a maritime merchant from now on. Never try to be the enemy of Dazhong Dynasty again, I hope that Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian can be tolerant of their Zheng family and not blame the past.

Zhang Tiancheng soon sent a messenger to bring the news of the Zheng family's surrender back to the city of Nanjing, and at the same time, Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben also suspended their attacks on Quanzhou Mansion.

On the evening of 22 October, Xiao Tianjian learned of Zheng Zhilong's surrender through the carrier pigeon of the Special Intelligence Department of the Ministry of War, so he summoned the cabinet ministers to the palace overnight for discussion.

Xiao Tianjian's mood was very excited and happy, the affairs of the Zheng family, for more than a year, has always been his heart disease, what he is most worried about is that Zheng Zhilong will not surrender to his Dazhong Dynasty, even after the defeat on land, continue to rely on their strong sea power, and confront the Dazhong Dynasty at sea, from the original history, he knows very well that once things develop to such a point, if he wants to completely wipe out the Zheng family group, it will take at least ten or even twenty years to wipe out the Zheng family's maritime power.

In that case, he would have to continue to control maritime trade and enforce a sea ban to prevent the Zheng family from obtaining land resources, which would have a great negative impact on his future maritime policy, and would also affect his future strategy on land and sea.

But today he can finally put his mind at ease, Zheng Zhilong finally did not resist the pressure of his Dazhong Army by land and sea, and decided to give up continuing to resist and accept the reorganization of Dazhong and Korea.

And at this time, he didn't have to worry that Zheng Chenggong would pull out a group of Zheng Jun and continue to be the enemy of Dazhong and North Korea, through the news fed back by Qian Qianyi, Zheng Sen (Zheng Chenggong's original name), Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, after being sent to his door by Zheng Zhilong, under the teaching of Qian Qianyi, quickly accepted Qian Qianyi's idea of persuading him, and did not have the idea of continuing to be the enemy of Dazhong and North Korea, on the contrary, he recently went to his father Zheng Zhilong many times according to Qian Qianyi's instructions and persuaded him to accept the conditions of Dazhong Dynasty and surrender to Dazhong Dynasty.

Therefore, after the news of Zheng Zhilong's surrender came back, Xiao Tianjian completely put down a big stone in his heart, as long as the Zheng family surrendered, then there was no need to worry about the remaining Yongli, a small court in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

At this time in history, with the extermination of Zhang Xianzhong's clique by him, the control of Sichuan by him, and the recent demise of Li Zicheng's puppet Shun clique, it is impossible for the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Yongli to unite with Li Dingguo and Li Guo, a famous general like Li Guo, to resist the Qing army, and confront the Great China and North Korea.

And Yongli, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, because of the small court of Shaowu, was not able to quickly integrate the old Ming forces of the southern provinces against the Great Middle Dynasty, although Emperor Shaowu has now been abolished, but the Zheng family has surrendered, Guangdong has been occupied by the Great Chinese Army, and the small court of Yongli is only left with a part of the territory of Guangxi and Yunnan, and it is impossible to toss out any more moths.

Therefore, with the surrender of the Zheng Group, the entire southern settlement is already a sure thing, and it has completely solved Xiao Tianjian's major heart disease.

So after summoning the cabinet ministers, Xiao Tianjian informed these cabinet ministers of the good news he had just learned.

The ministers also breathed a long sigh of relief when they heard this, and congratulated Xiao Tianjian again and again.

Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and said, "Tongxi!" Presumably, Zheng Zhilong's surrender, all of you Aiqing must be as happy as me, which is undoubtedly a great news for us! With Zheng Zhilong's surrender, the entire territory of Fujian has basically been recovered by our dynasty, and the disaster of the sword handle of the Fujian people has also been exempted! Zheng Zhilong did this, which can be regarded as a contribution to the society! Next, only the small court of Yongli remains!

It's just that Zheng Zhilong has now announced his surrender to our court, so what official position do you think it is appropriate for me to confer on him? In addition, there are some relatives and subordinates of his Zheng family, all of whom must be properly settled, otherwise these people have lived at sea for a long time, and once they cannot be appeased well, they will definitely cause them to make trouble, so although it is so late tonight, I will also recruit you Aiqing to the palace, just to discuss this matter! ”

Regarding the resettlement of Zheng Zhilong, it was already said during the negotiations that Xiao Tianjian had promised Zheng Zhilong that as long as he was willing to lead the Zheng army to surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty, he could receive the title.

Moreover, there are five kinds of titles for the prince and uncle, each of which is divided into three classes, which is generally not easily awarded, and the titles granted by the Dazhong Dynasty are not easily hereditary, even if they are hereditary titles, they are decreasing from generation to generation, and after three generations at most, the titles will be cancelled to prevent the appearance of similar to the previous dynasties, and there are too many people with titles in the future, which affects the normal order of society.

But Xiao Tianjian is very strict about the matter of knighthood, under normal circumstances, not to mention the king, even the third-class title of the marquis is very few, so far, the Dazhong Dynasty has not been crowned a duke, only Yan Chongxi was named the second-class Pingxi Marquis because of the pacification of Li Zicheng pseudo-Shun group, Luo Rucai, the original deputy marshal of the Xingtian Army, after the founding of the country, was only named the second-class Dingnan Bo, and the rest of the veterans like Luo Li, Li Xuanzhu, Shi Ran, and Liu Bao were only named third-class earls.

Therefore, for Zheng Zhilong's knighthood, the opinion of the ministers is that it is okay to give him a first- or second-class baron at most, if it is too high, I am afraid that other generals will not be satisfied, and this time Zheng Zhilong's surrender is also a decision made out of desperation, if he is willing to surrender earlier, he can still negotiate to give him a higher knighthood.

After Xiao Tianjian thought about it for a while, he recalled that Zheng Zhilong was named a marquis by the Longwu Dynasty in history, and now it is said that the Yongli Dynasty also named Zheng Zhilong as the Marquis of Nan'an, so he shook his head and said: "Although Zheng Zhilong has been fighting against our dynasty for so long, this person can still recognize the general situation at a critical time, and he has saved a large number of Fujian people from the scourge of swordsmen, which is also a great achievement.

It is precisely because the matter of knighthood in this dynasty is strict, if I am more lenient to Zheng Zhilong, I can show my sincerity, so since even the small court of Yongli can give him a marquis, then it is difficult for me to be reluctant to give up the title of this marquis?

In my opinion, Zheng Zhilong can be given the title of Marquis, and for his younger brothers and clansmen, he may as well give the title of Baron, so as to show the importance that our court attaches to him! ”

The knighthood of the Dazhong Dynasty has no real power, it is just an honorary title, and every year the imperial court will give the people who have the title an additional amount of money as a reward for them, so Xiao Tianjian is not too stingy about Zheng Zhilong's knighthood this time, the big deal is to spend a few more money every year, and Zheng Zhilong's surrender this time, not to mention anything else, just the more than 1,000 warships of all kinds to be handed over, as well as tens of thousands of sailors who are good at navigation, are enough to offset the expenses of the Dazhong Dynasty.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's opinion, the ministers also nodded and agreed, after all, the matter of this title is a virtual thing, give a little higher, with the current system of the Dazhong Dynasty, it will be exempted in three generations, and the court is a big deal that it will cost a little more money, so Xiao Tianjian said this, it is not interesting for them to oppose it, as for whether the other generals will be unhappy, the key to this matter is to see how Xiao Tianjian settles it in the future, so after discussion, Xiao Tianjian decided to seal Zheng Zhilong as the first-class Jinghai Marquis of the Dazhong Dynasty, And several of his younger brothers Zheng Zhibiao, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Cai and others were also named barons of the first to third rank by the Dazhong Dynasty, among which Zheng Hongkui, who was captured some time ago, was also pardoned and released by Xiao Tianjian, and sent someone to temporarily place him in Nanjing City.