Chapter 183: Going to Beijing to listen to the seal
Just after Zhang Tiancheng's messenger arrived in Beijing, he handed over the list of Zheng Zhilong's subordinate letters to the Dazhong Dynasty and the list of generals in the hands of Xiao Tianjian, and after Xiao Tianjian summoned the ministers to agree on the division of the seal again, he immediately sent envoys to Fujian with his holy decree to proclaim the decree and take over Quanzhou Mansion, Tingzhou Mansion, Zhangzhou Mansion and other places from the Zheng family.
At the same time, in accordance with the original conditions of peace between China and Korea, all Zheng troops accepted the reorganization of the Dazhong Army on the spot, including the Zheng family's naval army, merchant fleet, and sailors, and were also stationed in coastal ports in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, waiting to accept the reorganization of the Great China and Korea.
And Zheng Zhilong was very satisfied with the result of receiving Xiao Tianjian's holy decree when he learned that he was named Marquis of Jinghai, and he also inquired about the knighthood of the Dazhong Dynasty in advance, thinking that even if Xiao Tianjian knighted him according to the original agreement, at most it would be good to be able to give him a title such as a viscount and baron, but he didn't expect Xiao Tianjian to be so generous, and he was named a marquis at once, and kept his title not lower than that of the Yongli Dynasty to divide his title, which made him very satisfied and felt very face-saving.
Including his younger brothers and relatives, they also had their own rewards, which reassured the leaders of the Zheng family, at least in this regard, the emperor of the Dazhong Dynasty was a man of his word, and he was not too mean to them.
As for Zheng Jun's acceptance of the reorganization, they have nothing to say, and the Lu Division will definitely be taken over by the Dazhong Army, and it is likely to be dismissed on the spot, which is nothing to worry about.
But for the reorganization of the Zheng family's sailors, the Zheng family has a little idea, after all, there is no obvious boundary between military ships and civilian ships in this era, including Western sailing ships, which can also be used to transport goods and conduct naval battles, and the Zheng family has more than 2,000 ships of all kinds, including more than 400 Dafu ships and No. 2 Fu ships, as well as five or six hundred Haicang ships, white ships, black ships, Guangzhou ships, and fast ships, and the rest of the smaller small sea ships with less than 400 materials.
There are also nearly 20,000 sailors among the sailors, these people can operate boats and merchants in peacetime, and they are sailors at any time in wartime, how to divide these ships and sailors, and how many ships and sailors to leave them for the Zheng family to continue to trade in the future, has become a key issue.
In this matter, in fact, the two sides have also discussed before, the Great Middle Dynasty proposed to leave more than 200 400 sea ships for the Zheng family for their future business purposes, and the rest of the ships will be handed over to the Great Middle Korean officials for disposal, and those Zheng family sailors decided to stay according to their wishes, those who are willing to stay under the Zheng family to continue to do things can stay, and those who are willing to join the Great Middle Korean Navy can accept the reorganization.
But now the Zheng family is a little late, as a punishment, the original conditions put forward by the Dazhong Dynasty can not continue to be implemented, according to Xiao Tianjian's instructions, in the original quota of the big knife cut in half, the original 200 boats, now only the Zheng family is allowed to keep 100, and the personnel are only allowed to keep 3,000 people, the rest of all handed over to the Dazhong Dynasty to be selected and resettled.
The Zheng family was quite dissatisfied with the new plan proposed by the Great Middle Dynasty, but now they had no room for continued resistance, so they could only obey the arrangements of the Great Middle Dynasty.
In addition, Xiao Tianjian recruited Zheng Zhilong and the people who were enshrined by the Zheng family to go to Nanjing to face the saint, saying that he would personally canonize Zheng Zhilong and the people who were enshrined by the Zheng family to show his grace.
The Zheng family was quite worried about this and wanted not to go, but at this time, the Zheng army was distracted, and after the imperial edict was issued, Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben each led 10,000 elite soldiers to enter Quanzhou Mansion and Zhangzhou Mansion separately, and took over Tingzhou Mansion with a part of their troops.
Under the front of the Great Chinese Army, Zheng Zhilong wanted not to go to Nanjing, but at this time, he couldn't find a suitable reason to refuse, otherwise it would be clear that he would be disrespectful, so what would happen next, the Zheng family could not predict.
So in desperation, Zheng Zhilong had to thank him for the decree and said that he would go to Nanjing as soon as possible to listen to the seal, but after discussing within their family, Zheng Zhilong still let Zheng Zhibao stay in Quanzhou on the grounds of illness, in case the Zheng family went to Nanjing once something happened, they finally left a backhand.
When Zheng Zhilong was ordered to go to Nanjing, the takeover of the Zheng army by all parties was also launched, and batches of Zheng troops were ordered to lay down their weapons, and were temporarily encircled by the Dazhong Army, and then disbanded in batches.
For the Zheng family's naval division, the Dazhong army adopted the method of separating people and ships, temporarily ordered all the soldiers of the Zheng family naval division to go ashore, leave their ships, and the navy of the Great and Chinese Dynasty sent people to take over the original various warships of the Zheng family, in addition to allowing the Zheng family to choose and leave a hundred ships by themselves, the rest of the ships were selected, leaving a part of the strong ships, which were used as warships to supplement the navy, as for the remaining ships that could not be used as warships, some of them were directly dismantled, and the rest of the available ships were allowed to Zhejiang, Fujian, The coastal merchants of Nanzhili were redeemed and bought for the purpose of future sea merchants.
The Zheng family saw this opportunity, and bought back a batch of ships that originally belonged to them by paying for redemption.
However, the Dazhong Dynasty also fulfilled the conditions of the original peace negotiation, and after the Dazhong Army took over the Quanzhou Mansion and Zhangzhou Mansion, the property that originally belonged to the Zheng family was protected, and no one infringed on the property and family members of the Zheng family, which made the Zheng family somewhat relieved.
In fact, after Zheng Zhilong announced his surrender, there was actually a great debate about how to deal with Zheng Zhilong, mainly the military, and many people proposed that even if Zheng Zhilong surrendered, but this person was not credible, even if he did not kill, at least he should be placed in Nanjing City for surveillance, and once he found that the Zheng family was against him, he would be killed immediately.
However, there are also some ministers who think that the court of the Great China Dynasty should stress faith and righteousness, and cannot go too far with Zheng Zhilong, and adopt gentle means to gradually divide the Zheng family group so that it can gradually settle down in the future.
In his opinion, although the surrender of the Zheng family was largely forced, but through this period of confrontation with the Great Middle Dynasty, the Zheng family basically saw the power of the Great Middle and North Korea, and continued to be the enemy of the country, and they will have no place to stand on the mainland in the future, so there is no need at all, and there is no conspiracy to force the Zheng family to comply.
And among the original Zheng army, not everyone is a hardcore supporter of the Zheng family, between the country and the Zheng family, they can distinguish which is stronger and which is weak, most of them are coerced and persecuted, or in order to make a living, they do things in the Zheng army, and now the Zheng family is asking for surrender, the entire army will be completely dispersed, even if the Zheng family still has a group of diehards, but the number is limited, and it is no longer enough to become a big trouble for the big middle and the DPRK.
And according to the investigation of the special intelligence department of Fujian, although the Zheng family's business is very large, and the family wealth is also rich and rivaled the country, but the main foundation of the Zheng family is basically still on land in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places, and the sea is only based on Xiamen Island and Kinmen Island and Penghu, the navy of Dazhong and North Korea is now not as weak as a year or two ago, after more than a year of vigorous development, the strength of the Dazhong Navy has grown rapidly, this time the Zheng family surrendered, although the Zheng family can legally retain a hundred sea ships, However, the vast majority of the remaining Zheng family naval warships were handed over to Dazhong and North Korea to deal with, which made the strength of the Dazhong and North Korean navies increase instantly, and the Zheng family's sea power evaporated as much as seventy or eighty percent at once, even if the Zheng family wanted to be lawless at sea and control the sea trade routes, then in front of the Dazhong Navy, they would soon be able to wipe out the Zheng family.
Therefore, after this toss, the Zheng family can no longer be called the fierce rival of Dazhong and North Korea on the sea, and Xiao Tianjian has never thought of completely killing them for the Zheng family, a maritime merchant, China needs such a pioneer in maritime trade at the moment, as long as the interests of their Zheng family are guaranteed, then the Zheng family has no reason to continue to make trouble, and Xiao Tianjian does not want to be a villain to do such a disgusting thing.
At the end of November, Zheng Zhilong finally brought dozens of relatives and subordinates to Nanjing, and the group was recruited into the palace to meet with trepidation.
Xiao Tianjian finally saw this sea hero for more than ten years for the first time, and what surprised him was Zheng Zhilong's youth, this famous sea hero in Chinese history, was only in his thirties at this time, although he was not tall, but he was quite handsome.
As soon as Zheng Zhilong entered the main hall, he immediately took several younger brothers and relatives to kneel down and shout long live, and confessed to Xiao Tianjian.
After Xiao Tianjian looked at Zheng Zhilong, he laughed and said: "It's good to come, although Zheng Aiqing came a little late, it didn't make a big mistake after all, I have an appointment with you first, and I won't blame you again!" Now that you can resolutely get lost and return, it is really the luck of the people of Fujian, and the luck of my great middle and Korean dynasties! Everyone, please be free! It's always inconvenient to talk on your knees like this! Come on, give Zheng Aiqing a seat! ”
Zheng Zhilong didn't expect Xiao Tianjian, the new emperor of the Great Middle Kingdom, to be so young, even younger than him, peeking at Xiao Tianjian, between his gestures, he invisibly exuded a kind of domineering, such domineering is by no means developed overnight, from his experience in leading the troops, it is difficult for ordinary people to develop such a domineering spirit without the battle of blood and fire, listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, Zheng Zhilong's mood is a little more stable.
Although Xiao Tianjian's words slightly brought out a hint of dissatisfaction with him that he had only come to surrender now, on the whole, it could be seen that Xiao Tianjian was still relatively satisfied with the fact that he could return to Shun, and now he was even more relieved to let him sit down, which showed that Xiao Tianjian did not have too many thoughts about putting them to death, which made Zheng Zhilong feel a little more at ease.
However, it was said that it was a seat, Zheng Zhilong really didn't dare to sit, and after confessing his guilt again and again, under Xiao Tianjian's strong order, Zheng Zhilong hung a little bit on the brocade stool sent by a guard, and sat on the main hall.
(Today's special thanks to w fishing snow and cold river friends for their tips!) )