Zheng Cong sits in his office at the top of Anping Castle, which is located on the top floor of the castle, spacious and bright, transparent on all sides, with a large red carpet on the floor, exquisite Western-style furniture, a copper-covered desk, soft leather chairs, a long sofa, and a long dining table in the middle. It was originally the office of the Dutchman, and later became the office of Zheng Chenggong. After Zheng Chenggong's Northern Expedition, it became Zheng Xi's office. Now it has fallen into the hands of Zheng Cong again.

"It was really nice to stay here!" Zheng Cong stood behind the windowsill, overlooking the sea and let out a heartfelt sigh.

Originally, Zheng Cong, who was the weakest in the Zheng family's army, although he had Zheng Chenggong's will, he served as the prince and took over the title of the king of Yanping County. But no matter Zheng Jing or Zheng Xi, anyone can crush Zheng Cong to pieces! Now with the support of Wang Xinyu, he finally succeeded in becoming the king of Yanping.

Although Zheng Jing on Xiamen Island did not admit his younger brother Zheng Cong, thinking that he was the real King of Yanping, Zheng Jing was still struggling at this time and could be wiped out by Zheng Zheng at any time. As for Zheng Zheng, his old nest has been wiped out, even if he defeats Zheng Jing, what can he do? In the end, it is not to become the meat on Wang Xinyu's chopping board!

"It's so beautiful to be from a high altitude and have a bird's-eye view of the sea!" Wang Xinyu stood on the windowsill and sighed.

"Brother-in-law!" Zheng Cong turned his head, "My eldest brother and uncle killed each other, and the losses were all my Zheng family's people!" Although you helped me become the real king of Yanping, but thinking of the soldiers who died in battle, Xiao Wang made me feel uneasy. Now that the Tartars are not peaceful, our Ming army is killing each other, isn't this cheaper Tartars? ”

"yes!" Wang Xinyu nodded, "If it weren't for the infighting of our Ming Dynasty again and again, how could the Tartars occupy the south?" When the Tartars entered the customs, Shi Kefa borrowed the capture to destroy the Kou was a short-sighted move, although he was martyred in the end, but this person's vision was really too poor. Later, the ginger inlay in Shanxi was anyway. dragged the elite of the Tartars in the north, Jin Shengheng and Li Chengdong in the south were anyway, and Chen Youlong was also anyway, and the anti-Qing situation was very good, but unfortunately because of the infighting between He Tengjiao and Chen Youlong, they were broken by the Tartars. Now the situation has finally turned around slightly, but Zheng Jiajun is infighting, and his brother-in-law is also heartbroken! ”

Zheng Cong looked at Wang Xinyu and said, "Brother-in-law, as long as we join forces, we will definitely be able to solve the internal strife and pacify the south." In the end, the Northern Expedition to the Beijing Division drove the Tartars out! ”

"The strength of the two of us is not enough!" Wang Xinyu shook his head and said, "We still have to join forces with Zhang Shangshu, and we also have to unite with the King of Jin, unite with the Kuidong Righteous Army, and unite all the forces that can cooperate in order to defeat the Tartars!" ”

"Brother-in-law, we have recaptured Dongfan and have an arsenal. We are already overwhelmed by the Tartars in weapons! As long as we develop with peace of mind, accumulate strength, and patiently use a few years to develop, then our Northern Expedition will definitely succeed! Zheng Cong confidently pointed to the sea road in the northwest direction.

"Weapons are very important. But it's only one factor. If we want to win the final victory, we still need people. If you don't agree internally, how can you defeat your opponents? War needs the support of people and resources, and what we lack now is population. To get more population. It is necessary to expand the territory. But if we expand our territory, it will cause the other factions to be dissatisfied, thinking that we are going to annex them. If you can unite the King of Jin and the Kuidong Righteous Army. Are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat the Tartars? But now there's a serious problem, they don't want us to annex them. If we ask them to cooperate, they will also worry about us, fearing that we are too much stronger than them and will eat them. And the Kuidong Righteous Army is even more worried that our court will settle accounts after the autumn, and after driving out the Tartars, it will be the day to break with them and start a war. Wang Xinyu said worriedly.

At that time, there were many factions in Nanming, and there was constant infighting, not to mention, at present, the Kuidong Righteous Army became independent from Nanming and formed its own faction. Wang Xinyu sent the Western Expeditionary Army into Sichuan, but could the Kuidong Righteous Army cooperate with him? This is still an unknown.

"Brother-in-law, if we are much stronger than them, do we need to worry that they won't listen to us?" Zheng Cong said disapprerovingly.

Wang Xinyu shook his head and said, "Wrong! If we were so much stronger than them, they might even be able to do it behind our backs when we were fighting the Tartars head-on! Because they don't trust us, and fear that we will defeat the Tartars and turn back against them! Only by finding a way to gain their trust can we let go of our hands against the Tartars! In fact, even if Mr. Zhang, who cooperates with us, is still dissatisfied with us in his heart! If we are strong to a certain extent, the contradiction between us and Master Zhang will be prominent again, and at that time, we and the Zhejiang army will inevitably be separated from Germany. ”

"Don't they know that the Tartars are too strong now that we can't fight among ourselves?" Zheng Cong asked angrily.

"Hey! The King of Jin was defeated from Guangdong that year, and the Tartars already had an absolute advantage, but at this time there was still civil strife, so Sun Kewang was expected to surrender to the enemy! Looks like we're going to have to figure out a way to get people to work together. Wang Xinyu said. In fact, even if his brother-in-law Zheng Cong, when he has considerable strength, it is unknown whether he can cooperate with him, if the Qiongzhou army and the Zheng family army are infighting, it will be a great disaster!

"Brother-in-law, what do you say you can do?"

"I thought of a solution: we could adopt a parliamentary approach, where everyone would be elected, and a common prime minister would be elected, and everybody would be at the prime minister's beheels. Originally, the Son of Heaven was supposed to be the core, but now the Son of Heaven Nan Hunt refuses to come back, so the Prime Minister will temporarily carry out the mission of commanding the world. ”

"Brother-in-law, what is the Prime Minister? Is it the original prime minister? ”

"It's almost the same as the prime minister, but the prime minister's power is much greater than that of the prime minister, and he almost represents the Son of Heaven." Wang Xinyu replied. In all the constitutional monarchies of later generations, the power of the prime minister is quite large, even more than that of the president of a republic!

Zheng Congming came over, so he proposed: "Brother-in-law, now we are cooperating with Lord Zhang, and this matter must first be agreed by Lord Zhang!" Lord Zhang has always supported King Lu, and on this point, we have different opinions with Lord Zhang. If he is willing to agree to the election of the prime minister, it will be easy to do. ”

Wang Xinyu thought for a moment and came up with a solution: "To do this, we still need to convince them one by one." However, I am afraid that these people have their own opinions, and it is not so easy to convince, and the best way is to give them certain benefits and pull them to our side. For example, we can give them a stake in Nanyang, and they can get dividends on the money we earn, so that they don't want our Nanyang company to go out of business. ”

By selling the shares of Nanyang, the people of other factions will see that it is profitable, so that they will protect the interests of Nanyang. And Nanyang Company is Wang Xinyu's company, if Nanming collapses, Nanyang Company will lose the meaning of existence, so everyone will try their best to maintain Nanming's regime. And through the link of Nanyang Company, it is possible to establish a council.

"That's a brilliant plan!" Zheng Cong smiled heartily and said, "By the way, brother-in-law, how much money can your Nanyang company make in a year?" Can I also take a stake in your Nanyang company? ”

"Of course you can! You are my brother-in-law, you come to take shares, I will give you a discount! Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

Thousands of miles away on Qiongzhou Island, the fierce battle in Haikou City is still going on.

The Qing army had been storming for seven days and seven nights, and had not gained anything except leaving corpses everywhere outside the city.

More and more Qing troops came from the Leizhou Peninsula on the opposite side, and Hong Chengchou, who was in command of the Leizhou Peninsula, left only a small number of personal guards by his side, and the rest of the Qing army all overwhelmed Qiongzhou Island. At this time, the number of Qing troops who had already set foot on Qiongzhou Island had increased dramatically to 110,000 troops.

In the past few days, the Qing army carried artillery to the island again. The last time Zheng Yun blasted underground, the method of blowing up the artillery positions of the Qing army was no longer usable, so the Qiongzhou army had to use artillery to bombard the Qing army.

The Qing army also adopted the method of digging trenches and filling in the soil to build improvised batteries, which weakened the power of the Ming army's artillery. In desperation, the Qiongzhou army could only use extremely expensive flowering shells to deal with the Qing army.

The explosion rate of the flowering shells fired by the Qiongzhou military mortar cannon is the highest, basically eight or nine out of ten shells can explode after landing, but the mortar cannon has a short range and the accuracy is too poor; The flowering cannonballs with wooden butts fired by the Hongyi cannon, although the accuracy is high and the range is long, but the explosion rate of the flowering cannonballs fired by the Hongyi cannon is too low, ten shells are fired, and it is very good to have two or three successful explosions, and the other cannonballs are no different from ordinary solid shells.

Fortunately, the Ming army was condescending, and the artillery position was fixed, which took the lead in preemptive strike, and the Ming army could preemptively open artillery bombardment when the Qing army set up artillery.

The solid cannonballs fired by the Qing army hit the fortress located outside the city wall one after another, but the cement and stone fort was extremely strong, and it was shelled, and the shells could only leave a light white mark on the outer wall, and because of the angle of the fort, the shells hit by the Qing army were easy to bounce off and could not exert the maximum power.

"The Tartars are coming up again!" Someone shouted.

Xia Yunshan lit the fire rope like a male soldier, hung the fire rope on the hook, picked up the bird gun that had been loaded with gunpowder and projectiles, stretched out the barrel from the shooting hole, and aimed it at the Qing army outside the city. On her bird gun, there are three "positive" characters and one horizontal and one vertical, which means that she has killed seventeen Qing soldiers.

Later, the defenders of Haikou got the news that Hong Chengchou did not go to the island, which made Xia Yunshan a little disappointed, and wanted to avenge her father with her own hands, and her desire to kill her father's enemy Hong Chengchou was shattered. Since this is the case, Xia Yunshan threw herself into the battle with the idea of killing a few more Qing soldiers, which was also to avenge her father. Although she is a woman, her marksmanship is very accurate, and she can kill a Qing soldier with an average of two to three bullets.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Qing army slowly advanced towards Haikou City with a shield cart. (To be continued.) )

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