Gaoqi camp, the banner is full of people.

People exchanged heads and ears, and someone said: "The king of Yanping is coming!" I don't know what to do with Chen Peng's matter. ”

Someone said, "I hope that our military exploits can make him a lighter sentence and avoid the sins of his family." ”

After all, Chen Peng was their original benefactor, and although he rebelled, the soldiers couldn't bear to see his family wiped out by the Nine Clans.

A huge fleet of ships surrounded a huge ship as tall as a castle tower, and in a short time, the giant ship approached the Takasaki pier.

A shout came from the front: "The king of Yanping County has arrived!" ”

The planks were lowered on the ship, and the flag-bearers in front walked off the ship with the red Daming flag and the Zheng Zi flag, and a group of sword-bearers and pikemen in black armor walked out of the back; Then there were the black and white musketeers with Tessie flintlock muskets on their shoulders and wearing the armor of the Ming army; Behind them, there are soldiers in heavy armor and armed with long knives for chopping horses.

Zheng Chenggong, who was wearing the county king's silk robe and the county king's black gauze winged crown, walked into the camp with the support of his soldiers and officials.

Wang Xinyu secretly observed Zheng Chenggong, and saw that the king of Yanping County was more than five feet tall, with fair skin, beautiful hair, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looked very heroic.

Zheng Chenggong walked into the big tent of the Chinese army, and someone had already taken Chen Peng, who was tied up with five flowers.

"Chen Peng, do you know what the crime of defecting to the enemy and treason should be?" Zheng Chenggong glared at Chen Peng and asked sharply.

Chen Peng lowered his head and didn't dare to look up at Zheng Chenggong: "The sin will know that when ten thousand arrows pierce the heart, the nine clans will be destroyed." ”

"I hope the prince will forgive Lord Chen! Lord Chen was also deceived by Shi Lang's dog thief! Chen Python was the first to kneel down and intercede for Chen Peng.

The generals in the big tent knelt on the ground and pleaded for their former benefactor.

Zheng Chenggong said: "Everyone get up!" The king of this county forgave the sin general Chen Peng today! Except for the culprit Chen Peng, whose sentence was changed to beheading, his wife and brothers are not guilty! The subordinate generals, regardless of whether they were disobedient or not, will be forgiven and pardoned! ”

"Thank you for your forgiveness!" Chen Peng kowtowed repeatedly.

Zheng Chenggong lightly stroked his long hair and nodded slightly: "Take it down!" ”

"Whoa!" The soldiers escorted Chen Peng away.

After Chen Peng was pushed out of the place and beheaded, the soldiers brought the head back.

Zheng Chenggong ordered: "Reading that Chen Peng's department has made great contributions, you can turn the merits into crimes, and now Chen Peng has been subdued and buried with the specifications of the garrison!" ”

"Whoa!" The pro-soldiers retreated.

Disposed of Chen Peng, Zheng Chenggong asked Lin Ji, who joined the army next to him, to read out the battle report: "In this battle, more than 800 enemy ships were sunk and captured, more than 30,000 enemies were killed, and more than 10,000 enemies were captured, including more than 1,200 true Tartars. Killed the enemy's white flag vanguard leader Fucha clan Tong Ji, the escort commander Domu Xing'a, and the yellow flag cavalry commander Jueluo...... Captured the commander of the enemy's escort army, Lu Hara, the general of our army, Min'an Hou Zhou Rui, was killed, and Chen Peng, the garrison of the right tiger guard town, rebelled and was beheaded. ”

After Lin Ji finished reading, Zheng Chenggong began to reward: "The chief Chen Python has merit and is promoted to the guerrilla of Right Tiger Guard Town!" Two thousand taels of silver! ”

"Thank you, Lord Yanping!" Chen Python hurriedly bowed and thanked him.

Next, Zheng Chenggong asked again: "Where is Wang Yu?" ”

"Humble duty!" Wang Xinyu stood up.

Zheng Chenggong looked at Wang Xinyu with a smile, twisted his hair, nodded and said: "Put the chief Wang Yu, who is in a desperate situation, personally kill the enemy general Lu Muhe, and behead one of the white flag guards, and his subordinate soldiers cut off one of the white flag guards, and then shelled the enemy ship, killing more than 1,000 enemies." There are also flowering cannonballs, chain bullets, new gunpowder and other naval weapons made by Wang Yu, which doubled the combat power of our army and broke the tartar. In view of Wang Yu's great contributions, he was promoted to the guerrilla of the second town of the water division! In addition, this king set up a special firearms bureau, and Wang Yu concurrently served as the captain of the firearms bureau, commanding the firearms bureau, under the jurisdiction of the artillery factory, iron factory and gunpowder factory! ”

"Thank you, Lord Yanping!" Wang Yu hurriedly bowed and thanked him.

The soldiers and generals around cheered in unison, congratulating Wang Xinyu and Chen Python on their promotion, especially Wang Xinyu, who was promoted to the third-rank guerrilla and won the rank of third-rank lieutenant. The position of the guerrilla general in front is a real position, but the lieutenant of the light car in the back is a medal, which represents a kind of honor, although it is not as good as the title of prince and marquis, but it is also a great honor.

The current rewards and officials are all the final say of the king of Yanping, and the emperor of Yongli is nominally played, but that is just a formality, unless it is a feudal prince and a marquis to use Yongli, and it is impossible for the king of Yanping to send a messenger to Burma in general.

After the reward, Zheng Chenggong began to dispose of the captured Qing army.

For those green battalion soldiers who surrendered, some of them were incorporated into the Ming army and used as auxiliaries; The other part was sent to build a wharf, and the sailor Dazhai served as a coolie.

Some of the captured Eight Banners soldiers were forced to surrender, and all of them were tied up and tied to stones and sunk into the sea; There are also some of them who automatically put down their arms and surrendered after the Ming army shouted, those people Zheng Chenggong promised not to kill them, and he didn't worry about using them, but Zheng Chenggong refused to let the tiger return to the mountain, let them go back and pick up their weapons again to fight the Ming army, so he ordered all the hands to be cut off and sent back.

Hearing that the Eight Banners prisoners were going to be disposed of, Wang Xinyu stepped forward and said, "Lord Wang, my subordinates have a request, I don't know if Lord Wang will allow it?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!" Zheng Chenggong said.

Wang Xinyu arched his hand and said: "Lord Wang, those real Tartars, except for a few Tartar chiefs, can the rest be handed over to his subordinates?" Handled by subordinates? ”

Zheng Chenggong asked: "I don't know what the prince is going to do with those real tartars?" ”

"The subordinates thought, those real Tartars owe a lot of blood debts, and the prince cut off their hands and let them go back for a promise not to kill, so that the Tartar court will still make them eat and drink well for a lifetime, wouldn't that be cheaper for them?"

"Makes sense! Wang Gongzi continued! Zheng Chenggong nodded.

"Back to the prince, since his subordinates are also in charge of the iron factory of the gun, they will inevitably need a large amount of iron ore. These real Tartars, if their subordinates want to pull them to dig iron ore, as long as they are given a bite to eat and do not let them starve to death, they can be allowed to work until they are finally exhausted to death, which can be regarded as revenge for the people of the Ming Dynasty, and this can also be regarded as waste utilization. ”

"That's a great plan, but where is the iron ore to be mined?"

"Back to the prince, there are many people now, and it is not convenient for subordinates to say."

Zheng Chenggong shouted the order and asked the people around him to retreat first. After everyone retreated, Zheng Chenggong said to Wang Xinyu: "Wang Gongzi can say it now, right?" ”

"Lord Wang, there is a large amount of iron ore in Qiongzhou Mansion, where the population is sparse and the Tartar army is weak, we can send people there to dig iron ore." Wang Xinyu replied.

"Qiongzhou Mansion? It is now the territory of the Tartars. If we send people, the Guangdong thieves are still happy and will definitely send troops to suppress them, and how can we dig iron ore? If we leave the sailors behind and disperse our forces, how can we resist the Tartar attack? Zheng Chenggong shook his head and asked.

Wang Xinyu replied: "Back to the prince, his subordinates can lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to attack Qiongzhou." After taking Qiongzhou, he used the local Li people to form an army. The terrain of Qiongzhou is complex, and forts can be built to defend against the Tartars. And Qiongzhou is the territory of the Li people, and it is better for the Tartars to guard against them than against our Han people, as long as the Li people defeat them many times, they will have to give up the territory occupied by the Li Tusi. ”

Zheng Chenggong said: "Xiamen Kinmen is too small, and we can't deploy heavy troops in Qiongzhou Mansion, and the transportation of ore is far away, so I'm afraid it will be very unfavorable to us." ”

Wang Xinyu arched his hand and said: "Back to the prince, the two islands of Jinxia are indeed too small to raise millions of soldiers. After we capture Dongfan Island, we can send troops to take Luzon and develop on the island that hangs in the middle of the sea, so that we can avoid the interference of the Tartars. When we grow and develop, we will be able to go out on the Northern Expedition, drive away the Tartars, and rejuvenate my Ming! ”

"This matter still needs to be discussed in the long run, and this king also heard Fufu (Chen Jinnanzi) say, saying that Wang Gongzi has a far-sighted vision and has the talent of Zhongxing Daming! In this way, this king wants to feast all the heroes, the hour is coming, and after the banquet, Wang Gongzi, you will go on the boat with this king, and you and I will discuss slowly! Stand down! Zheng Chenggong said.

"No!" Wang Xinyu withdrew from the Chinese army camp.

Zheng Jing walked out from behind, Zheng Chenggong saw his son and asked him to sit down.

"Father!" Zheng Jing hugged his fists and said, "There is something wrong with the son, this prince is just a nameless junior, why is his father so important?" Even Erchen's teacher, Mr. Fufu, mentioned this person many times. ”

Zheng Chenggong asked rhetorically: "Flowering shells, new gunpowder, are they our army's weapons of naval warfare?" ”

"Father, although this is true, but those things are originally the things of the craftsman, and the father only needs to give him enough silver, and there is no need to give him a title."

Zheng Chenggong said: "Jing'er, you are too short-sighted! Since the Zheng family started from his father, he has relied on more ships and cannons than others to defeat other maritime merchants and have today's family business. But the Tessians refused to sell us the finest firearms, and we have such talents, so why don't we reuse them? What's even more rare is that Wang Gongzi is not only good at Xiyi firearms, but also has the same long-term vision as his father, Jing'er, he is as young as you, and he will be able to assist our Zheng family to complete the great cause of Zhongxing Daming in the future. ”

Zheng Jing couldn't refute his father for a while, but changed the topic again: "Those real Tartars, we should cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and we can't leave future troubles." ”

"I am the dignified king of Yanping County, how can I go back on my word? Since they have been recruited in the name of not killing and surrendering, they should not go back on their word, otherwise they will be despised by the people of the world. And what Wang Gongzi said is also very reasonable, this is waste utilization! We have kept our promises and punished them again. ”

It was already dark, the camp of the Ming army in Gaoqi was decorated with lights, and the soldiers of the Ming army were busy up and down, and Zhang Luo celebrated the banquet.

When arranging the seats, Zheng Jing saw that his father arranged Wang Xinyu at the main table with his father, and he was immediately displeased, but he was afraid of his father's majesty, and he didn't dare to say anything.

At the main table, Zheng Chenggong sat in the first place, on both sides were Lin Ji, who joined the army, and Chen Bao, the Marquis of Zhongyong, and then the veteran Hong Xuan and Zheng Chenggong's cousin Zheng Tai, and then Zheng Chenggong's cousin Zheng Xingying, another veteran, Huang Ting, sat opposite Zheng Chenggong and sat down opposite Wang Xinyu. Although it is only the lowest seat, it is the main table after all, which is already a great honor. Even the prince Zheng Jing and the military advisor Chen Yonghua were arranged to go to other tables to greet heroes at all levels.

Zheng Chenggong rewarded the three armies and let everyone let go of their stomachs and eat. After that, at the wine table, he asked long and short questions, asking Wang Xinyu's family situation and the like.

Zheng Chenggong looked at Wang Xinyu, the more he looked at it, the happier he became, he had heard Chen Yonghua say before that this person was so talented, and he made flowering shells and new gunpowder for himself, and this naval battle was won so smoothly. In addition to the flowering bullet, the chain bomb is also very important, you must know that in this naval battle, the Tartar was smooth sailing at the beginning, if it were not for the power of the chain bomb, I am afraid that my own losses would not be small. Thinking of this, Zheng Chenggong thought to himself that Wang Gongzi was such a young and handsome man, and he had the talent to establish the country in Anbang, so he must be able to better contribute to the Zheng family.

"Prince Wang, some time ago, this king heard Fufu say that you are not married, I don't know if you have a marriage contract now?" Zheng Chenggong asked.

"Back to the prince, his subordinates have been poor since they were children, and they have not yet been married." Wang Xinyu replied with a fist.

"Hahaha!" Everyone else at the table laughed.

Zheng Chenggong said: "This is just right, this king is in charge and will give you a kiss." Saying that, Zheng Chenggong turned his head to his cousin Zheng Xingying and said, "Mingzhi, your little girl is not married yet, can you marry the young hero opposite?" ”

Zheng Xingying hurriedly said: "Since it is the prince who wants to be the master and promise to marry, his subordinates naturally agree!" ”

Originally, the Zheng family was born as pirates, and they were not too particular about the right family, and they married their daughter to a newcomer from a humble background, Zheng Xingying didn't think there was anything, not to mention that his brother had spoken. Although his eldest son-in-law is the son of the King of Jin, Li Dingguo, the King of Jin, is not a commoner.

Zheng Chenggong thought that his cousin Zheng Xingying happened to have a fourteen-year-old daughter who was not yet married and could marry Wang Xinyu.