Although Dongfan Island is far away from the Ming Dynasty and entrenched by the Dutch, the imperial court has a patrol department in the Penghu Islands, and troops are stationed in Penghu every spring and autumn. According to legal theory, Dongfan Island also belongs to the territory of the Ming Dynasty. It's just that Dongfan Island is barren, and there is no unified country on the island, and the imperial court looks down on this place.

But now it's different, the Zhoushan Qi State Mansion brazenly sent troops to capture Dongfan, expelled the Dutch, and set up prefectures and counties to immigrate from Shandong, such a big thing must have been publicized by everyone, I don't know how the imperial court reacted when it learned about it?

The first to know about this must be the Zheng family in Fujian on the other side of the strait, and now the Zheng family is very powerful in Fujian, and the local government has long been bought by them. The sudden rise of Zhoushan's power, and the capture of Dongfan and the defeat of the Dutch, this is something that even the Zheng family cannot do, and it will definitely arouse the vigilance of the Zheng family, and it is unknown how they will move.

Then there is the imperial court, Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and now he should be during the period of filial piety for his father, but he brazenly sent troops to fight Dongfan Island, and his strength has increased to such a situation, which will definitely arouse the vigilance of the imperial court. Will the imperial court be tempted by Dongfan Island? Bringing Dongfan Island into the hands of the imperial court? Will the power of Qi Guogong be allowed to grow overseas and even open a county to open a prefecture?

How to deal with the relationship with the imperial court, these made Chen Yue very worried.

However, there is one point, if the imperial court wants to take away the territory he has worked so hard to build directly, it will not be tolerated in any way. But let him turn against the court, Chen Yue couldn't do it if he asked himself, so how to tell the court made him feel very embarrassed.

After all, Dongfan is an overseas island, and if you want to continue to grow and develop, you can't do without the support of the mainland, so you can't have a stalemate with the imperial court at all, as for Shan Minglei said that he is the king, Chen Yue didn't consider it. Wouldn't it make the world laugh at the fact that he occupied a small island and set himself up as king!

After careful consideration, Chen Yue personally wrote a note, covering up the beginning and end of the attack on the Dutch to occupy Dongfan Island. The motive for attacking the Dutch was, of course, due to the dissatisfaction of the Dutch with the seizure of the Ming maritime merchants and the enslavement and relocation of the Ming people to Dongfan Island.

In order not to arouse the vigilance of the imperial court and Chongzhen, as much as possible to cover up the strength of the Dutch and Zhoushan itself, the Dutch were described as pirates with only more than 1,000 soldiers and no more than 10 ships, and the huge ships, dozens of cannons on each ship, the sharp muskets of the Dutch and their powerful combat power, etc., are not to mention.

The thirteen Western-style Galen ships of the Zhoushan Army, which were incomparably strong, were naturally not mentioned, and the 8,000 troops were said to be Chen Yue's 3,000 personal guards plus some fishermen recruited from Zhoushan.

The specific battle is a general introduction, in short, Chen Yue's soldiers, after more than ten days of difficult sea march, and the Dutch fought hard, the Dutch were intimidated by the invincible prestige of the Duke of Qi and the strength of the Ming army, so Yang Fan left, and the east returned to the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

As for Dongfan Island, it is described as a barren place, full of miasma and not suitable for habitation at all, the island is full of cannibals, of course, there are some poor Ming fishermen who have crossed the sea to open up wasteland on Dongfan Island, and the number is only a few thousand.

At the end of the song, Chen Yue said that in order to prevent the Dutch red-haired ghost from coming back and reoccupy Dongfan to endanger the Ming coast, he stationed some troops in Dayuan, and asked the imperial court if there were officials to bring Dongfan Island under the rule of Daming?

In the recital, Chen Yue focused on describing the difficulty of the huge sea passage, the poor conditions of Dongfan Island, and the ferocity of the aboriginal cannibal tribes, in order to dispel the idea of the imperial court getting involved in Dongfan Island.

At the end of the song, Chen Yuete asked Chongzhen for his guilt, saying that he should have been honest and filial piety to his father, but because he couldn't listen to the people of the Ming Dynasty being bullied by the Dutch red-haired ghosts, he sent troops, which was really unfilial.

Of course, along with the song, there is also a private letter to Princess Kunxing, which tells her how much he misses, to be honest, after leaving Nanjing for more than half a year, Chen Yue misses the little princess very much.

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Just when Chen Yue was thinking about how to deal with the imperial court, Quanzhou, Fujian, which is separated from Dongfan Island by a strait, has an Anping town on the seaside of Nan'an County, Quanzhou, which is the nest of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian.

Another pirate then became the general soldier of a province in the Ming Dynasty, and was knighted Nan Amber. His son Zheng Sen served as the prefect of Xiangyang, and his younger brother Zheng Hongkui served as the chief soldier of Jiujiang, and the Zheng family had two counts and a prefect, which was already the first-class family in Fujian!

After Zheng Zhilong went ashore as an official, he built a mansion in his hometown Anping, covering an area of thousands of acres and the wall is more than three zhang high, which is Anping Town, which is no different from a city.

Decades of accumulation of wealth in maritime business are piled up in Anping Town, high-rise buildings, splendid, the Zheng family's luxury in Fujian and even the entire Ming Dynasty is second to none, relying on the sea trade annual income of millions of taels of silver, the Zheng family is the real rich rival country!

However, wealth has also eroded people's fighting spirit, and now Zheng Zhilong only wants to keep the status and wealth of the Zheng family, and he no longer has the enterprising spirit he used to be a pirate.

So when Zheng Cai came back from the Wa Kingdom and said that Zhoushan's strength had suddenly risen, Zheng Zhilong frowned, but he couldn't make up his mind whether to eliminate Zhoushan's forces.

After all, Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi in Zhoushan, was in a high position in the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Sen, the son of Zheng Zhilong, also served under Chen Yue and admired Chen Yue.

Acting against the Zhoushan forces, Zheng Zhilong had to consider the consequences.

Just when Zheng Zhilong couldn't make up his mind, the shocking news came again that Chen Yue had really defeated the Dutch and completely occupied Dongfan Island.

The strength of the Dutch, Zheng Zhilong knows better than anyone knows, because he himself has worked as a translator for the Dutch. It was precisely because he knew the strength of the Dutch that after winning the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, Zheng Zhilong would compromise with the Dutch, tacitly acquiesce in their occupation of the majority and give up the foundation in Beigang, and then provide the Dutch with a certain amount of raw silk and other goods every year.

"It's ferocious! It is worthy of defeating the Duke of Qi who is full of Tartars! Zheng Zhilong admired in his heart. At this time, he had already dispelled his mind of eliminating the Zhoushan forces.

Just kidding, Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, can defeat the fierce Dutch, and of course there is no problem in dealing with himself, although he has more than 100,000 troops under his command, Zheng Zhilong does not think that he will be the opponent of the invincible Chen Yue.

However, the interests at sea are too great, and they are related to the lifeline of the Zheng family, and Zheng Zhilong cannot tolerate his position being replaced by Zhoushan Mountain, and the necessary means must be taken.

Zheng Zhilong can do a lot of things, such as strictly prohibiting Fujian ships from going to sea to Dayuan, Fujian is the closest to Dayuan, if there is no support from Fujian, the development of Dayuan will not be carried out smoothly.

For example, Chen Yue was impeached at the court level, and Chen Yue was impeached for supporting the army and respecting himself, and he had the intention of separating himself from overseas and becoming the king. The Zheng family has been in business for more than 20 years, and both the local and court have their own forces, and if they are completely active, it is not too difficult to set off a crusade against Chen Yue.

However, before we do it, we still have to negotiate first, and if we can negotiate a solution, there is no need to fight. After more than 20 years as an official ashore, Zheng Zhilong has acted very steadily, and his gains and losses are very clear.