The banquet dispersed, and the king of Yanping himself departed, surrounded by his retinue.

Subsequently, someone invited Wang Xinyu and asked him to go to Zheng Chenggong's ship to talk at night.

Zheng Chenggong wanted to hear what else this person had to say. Originally, King Yanping had wanted to meet this strange man for a long time, but he never had time, and today happened to be an opportunity.

Wang Xinyu followed the soldier and walked towards Zheng Chenggong's ship.

Zheng Chenggong's giant ship rested quietly on the pier, and the lights on the ship were brilliant, looking like a palace floating on the sea.

Wang Xinyu looked at this giant ship, if such a ship was brought to his previous life, it would not be too big, it would be about 600 tons of displacement, and the length would be about 50 meters. But in this day and age, it's a giant of the sea! It was a combination of East and West, equipped with stiff sails and a pointed bottom, but with the wide cannon deck and rounded stern of the Galen.

"Please come aboard, Lord Wang!" The soldier made a gesture of please.

Wang Xinyu followed his soldiers to the big ship, and under the leadership of his soldiers, he walked to the door of Zheng Chenggong's cabin at the stern.

"It's here, the prince is inside!" Pro-soldier road.

"Thank you little brother for leading the way!" Wang Xinyu took out some broken silver and rewarded it to his soldiers.

The pro-soldier hugged his fists: "Lord Wang, please come in!" The prince is waiting for you inside. ”

Wang Xinyu walked into Zheng Chenggong's cabin and saw Zheng Chenggong sitting at the table, holding a copy of Zheng Ruozeng's "Preparing for the Sea" and reading it.

"My subordinates knock on the prince of Yanping!" Wang Xinyu stepped forward and saluted.

Zheng Chenggong put down the book and pointed to the chair next to him: "Prince Wang, sit down!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

After Wang Xinyu sat down, Zheng Chenggong asked, "Wang Gongzi, the Tartars have suffered heavy losses in this battle, what measures do you think they will take against us next?" ”

Wang Xinyu arched his hand and said: "Back to the prince, my subordinates think that in order to deal with us, the Tartars will take the next step to ban the sea!" ”

Zheng Chenggong said with a smile: "They have already adopted a sea ban, five years ago, this king defeated them once, and they ordered that the sails should not enter the sea!" But it doesn't matter to the king! The Tartars engage in his sea ban, and the king makes money by doing sea trade, and the sea ban of the Tartars can only make them lose the profits brought by sea trade. ”

Wang Xinyu said: "Lord Wang, they failed miserably this time, and it is estimated that they will take more severe measures to ban the sea!" Not only are not sails allowed to enter the sea, but fishermen will be forbidden to fish on the seashore, and even the seaside situation will be moved dozens of miles inward, which will be used to cut off the people from selling us grain, and also cut off the merchants from selling us porcelain and silk, so that the goods we sell to the Taixi people will be cut off! ”

"What a vicious plan!" Zheng Chenggong stood up angrily, "The Tartars want to cut off our supply and cut off our food!" They want to trap us! ”

Wang Xinyu clenched his fists and said: "Lord Wang, once the sea ban is imposed on the Tartars, we will only be able to feed so many soldiers with only the two islands of Jinxia and Xiamen. We must capture Dongfan Island as soon as possible! Dongfan Island was much larger than Jinxia Island, and the land was fertile enough to feed thousands of troops! ”

Zheng Chenggong smiled: "The hero sees the same thing!" This king also has this meaning, and he has long wanted to take back Dongfan Island from the Dutch! Dongfan Island was originally the first fertile soil developed by the Brotherhood Alliance, and after the death of the cute lord Yan Siqi, the king's father became the lord of the moe and continued to develop this island. Who knew that the red-haired ghost came to occupy Dongfan Island, and his father was deceived by the Tartars, did not listen to dissuasion, and insisted on surrendering, which caused Dongfan Island to completely fall into the hands of the red-haired ghost! ”

"Lord Wang, the red-haired ghost ship has a lot of cannons, and the fortress is strong, if our army attacks hard, it will suffer heavy losses."

"Then Wang Gongzi, tell me, do you have any good way to take down the red-haired ghost?"

Wang Xinyu replied: "Lord Wang, my subordinates have an idea, that is, to form a small-scale special operations force, each soldier is a carefully selected excellent soldier, everyone is familiar with water, good at camouflage and concealment, good at hand-to-hand combat, sneak attack, and also know how to drive a big ship in Xiyi." We can find out the situation in the port of the red-haired ghost in advance, and wait until night, when the red-haired ghost falls asleep, we use the special operations force formed by our subordinates to touch the port, quietly climb onto the enemy ship, kill the red-haired ghost on the ship, and drive the boat out. If you can't drive away, you will blow it up. In this way, the red-haired ghost can lose all the warships in one night, and we can still get the Xiyi giant ship without much effort! ”

Zheng Chenggong frowned and said in embarrassment: "But the Xiyi soft sailing ship has a complicated technology for maneuvering soft sails, and no one in our army will use it!" If it weren't for this, the king's ship would also want to use soft sails, and the king would like to build a batch of more soft sail giants. ”

"Lord Wang, the artillery factory to be built by our army is also about to be completed, and my subordinates just want to go to Macao to find the Franc machine man to buy the lathe used to make the cannon. In this way, the subordinates also took a look in Macao to see if they could recruit a group of Xiyi sailors. As long as we recruit a group of Xiyi sailors, we will be able to master the soft-sail giant. Wang Yu replied.

Zheng Chenggong nodded: "Yes, get the lathe, we can make cannons in large quantities, and also sell some cannons to Zhang Shangshu (Zhang Huangyan)." I just don't know if the lathe makes a cannon so fast as Wang Gongzi said? Also, does Wang Gongzi know how to speak the Franc machine? ”

Wang Xinyu replied: "Back to the prince, it is needless to say that the lathe makes the cannon, and the cast cannon is polished with a boring machine to polish the inner wall, which is fast and neat." As for the Franco's language, the subordinates really don't. ”

"No, it's okay, this king has a Franco machine here, I can send one to you. It's just that the sailors of the soft sailing ship of Xiyi, I'm afraid it's not easy to recruit. Zheng Chenggong said.

"If Macau can't recruit them, my subordinates are willing to go to Manila. The Taixi people there and the Franc Man in Macau were originally a family, and they didn't like red-haired ghosts either. The subordinates heard that there were many Tessians, Franc people, and even red-haired ghost crews who were fired by the shipowner, and they were recruited in Manila and others. There are also some Xiyi pirates in Manila, and as long as we give money, we can recruit them. In addition, the price of buying a lathe in Manila will also be much cheaper than buying it in Macau. ”

Zheng Chenggong said with a smile: "The king of Nanyang also knows a little bit about it, the Taixi people and the Francophone people seem to be at odds with the red-haired people. This king also heard from the Francophone that there is also a country in the West, which seems to be called Britain, and it is also inconsistent with the red-haired people. I didn't expect Wang Gongzi to know so much at such a young age! This king's father fought and cooperated with the red-haired people back then, so that the red-haired people allowed us to go to the South Seas to sell our goods. Now we don't have a good relationship with the red-haired people, and our goods are all transferred from the Macau Francophone people, and the Taixi people have also come to help us transfer the goods. It's just that if Wang Gongzi wants to bring silver goods to Manila, it may be very unsafe, and if he meets a red-haired man on the way, I am afraid that he will be robbed by them. ”

"Back to the prince, my subordinates thought, when I arrived in Macau, I would rent a ship from the Francophone to Manila. When I got there, I saw if I could buy a boat and come back. As long as we hang the flag of the Franco-Robot or the Tessie, the red-haired people will not have the audacity to rob us. ”

Zheng Chenggong hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed: "In this case, then the king will allow you, this king will bring you a batch of goods, you go to Macau first, rent a ship from the Francophone or the Taixi people to Manila, sell the goods, and then buy a machine tool back." If you can recruit Xiyi sailors, you can recruit them, and if you can't recruit them, you don't have to force them. If you can buy back the Xiyi Giant Ship, you can also buy one back by the way. The boat you bought back will be returned to your second town of sailors! ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Wang Xinyu hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Sit down! We're not done yet, let's move on! Zheng Chenggong smiled and beckoned Wang Xinyu to sit down.

Seeing Wang Yu sitting down, Zheng Chenggong asked again: "Just now, Wang Gongzi only said that we can recruit Xiyi sailors to facilitate our capture of the ships of the red-haired people." So there is another question just now: Didn't Wang Gongzi say that the stronghold of the red-haired people is strong, how can we capture it? ”

"My subordinates are thinking, get some particularly powerful gunpowder, which is a hundred times more powerful than our current gunpowder! The subordinates believed that the gunpowder could blow up the castle of the red-haired man. ”

"Particularly powerful gunpowder? 100 times more powerful? Zheng Chenggong was stunned when he heard this.

Wang Xinyu nodded: "My subordinates are sure that they can make it, but the number is very small." When the time comes, we'll dig a tunnel under the Red-Haired Man and blow up the castle with that gunpowder. ”

What Wang Xinyu wants to make is Dana explosives, but there is no way to produce sulfuric acid industrially, so he can only make a small amount of it by laboratory methods, so the amount of explosives is very small, and every pound of explosives is very valuable.

"What does it take to make that gunpowder?" Zheng Chenggong asked in surprise.

"That needs to go to Macau and buy glassware from the Francophone to make it, but it can only be made in small quantities, and it can't be produced in large quantities at all."

Zheng Chenggong nodded suspiciously, and then asked, "After we recapture Dongfan Island, what will happen next?" ”

Wang Yu replied: "Next, we will send troops to the south to occupy a territory in the north of Luzon. Luzon is bigger than Dongfan, and as long as we can gain a foothold on Luzon, we will continue to grow food, produce weapons, and feed a large number of people. ”

"Luzon? It's occupied by the Tessians now, right? Zheng Chenggong frowned.

Wang Xinyu asked, "Does the prince have pen and paper?" ”

"Wang Gongzi wants to draw a sea chart, right?" Zheng Chenggong said with a smile.

"Exactly, it's inconvenient to say that." Wang Xinyu smiled awkwardly.

Zheng Chenggong opened the bookcase and took out a chart from it: "This is Wang Gongzi, you drew it, right?" ”

Wang Xinyu took it and saw that it was the chart he had drawn for Chen Jinnan before, so he hurriedly said, "It was drawn by his subordinates." ”

"Well drawn! I can't imagine that Wang Gongzi can draw such a picture! Zheng Chenggong said with a smile. He thought to himself: It seems that it is right to let his younger brother marry his daughter to Wang Gongzi. But now Wang Gongzi will definitely not think that he and the prince of Jin will soon become brothers-in-law!

Wang Xinyu didn't know at all that what he was going to marry was the sister of Li Dingguo's daughter-in-law and the sister-in-law of the prince of Jin.

"Lord Wang, this picture is too sloppy, it's really shameful, I can't imagine that the prince is still accepting the clumsy work of his subordinates." Wang Xinyu's face turned red.

Zheng Chenggong smiled heartily: "It's already very good!" This picture is no worse than that drawn by the Xiyi people! ”

Wang Xinyu continued the topic he had just had, pointed to Luzon Island on the map and said: "Lord Wang, please look here, this Luzon Island is nearly a thousand miles away, and the Taixi people occupy a Manila city within a radius of dozens of miles. The surrounding area is a dense primeval forest, which is inhabited by cannibals. Even if we Daming people went to Nanyang, most of them were near Manila, and we didn't dare to go too far around. My subordinates plan to land in the north of Luzon Island, defeat the cannibals there, and carve out a territory. ”

There were still some things that Wang Xinyu didn't say, his eyes had long been fixed on the later Subic Bay, which was not far from Manila. It's just that for some reason, the Spaniards didn't even notice it. When the time comes, what will be the name of Subic Bay? Is it called Dingguo Bay, or is it called Chenggong Bay? I'll talk about it later.

Zheng Chenggong asked: "What if the Francophiles find out that we are trying to occupy the whole of Manila, and they send troops to attack us?" If the Franc Machine and the Red-Haired Man join forces, how will we deal with it? ”

"Back to the prince! They found out we were early! By the time they find out, we'll have enough strength to deal with them and join forces! Wang Xinyu said loudly. But in fact, there was still a sentence in his heart that he hadn't said: Didn't you just say, Lord Wang, that there is still a Britain? By that time, Britain would probably be beating the Netherlands. As for Spain, with enough strength and heads-up, Wang Xinyu is confident enough to form a strong army that is not afraid of Spain.

Zheng Chenggong is a maritime hero with a strong desire for the sea, and Wang Xinyu has crossed over from more than 300 years later, and he is really sad that China has been surrounded by island chains in his previous life and has not really become a maritime power. When you come to this world, since you are in the Zheng family's army, you have to find a way to enter the ocean!

The two hit it off and talked for a long time, Zheng Chenggong had a feeling of hating Wang Xinyu when they saw each other.

The night was dark, Wang Xinyu was about to leave, Zheng Chenggong said with a smile: "Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!" Not bad! Not bad indeed! In this way, tomorrow Wang Gongzi, you will go to the palace of Yanping County with this king, and also go to your future father-in-law's house to visit by the way, and settle the family affairs as soon as possible, so that you can rest assured that you will open up the territory for me to expand the territory! ”

In fact, Zheng Chenggong is still selfish, he has his own plans.