Zheng Zhilong relied on the cover of a group of subordinates and finally escaped from the pursuit of the Far Eastern Company. But his pirates were also killed and wounded innumerable, and when he returned to Fujian, he gathered his troops one after another, only to find that more than 200 warships had been folded into this battle, and the most distressing thing for him was that the big ships had lost a lot.

The 122-mm howitzers and 85-mm anti-tank guns of the Far Eastern Company, as well as Ding Weiguo's delta-wing aircraft, are basically specialized in fighting large ships, and small boats are really impossible to row. The reason why Zheng Zhilong's Daifuku ship was not attacked was because the Far East Company didn't want to kill him, so everyone deliberately avoided the Daifuku ship with the handsome flag.

If you want to destroy him, it will definitely be an overnight thing. Another thing that made him feel sad was that the old brothers who had followed him for many years had folded a lot. Don't look at the more than 1,000 ships in Zheng Zhilong's hands, looking at the majestic, in fact, there are only more than 500 ships that are really dead set on him.

The rest were just a small group of pirates gathered around him. Now he is far from the most glorious time in history, Zhu Laocai and Liu Xiang have not been exterminated by him, and Zheng Zhilong has not really controlled the southeast coast.

Zheng Zhilong also understands it now, and he won't think about it after the southeast coast. Zheng Zhihu saw that his eldest brother's love was low, so he persuaded on the side: "Big brother, I'll go to Manila right away and explain things to them." ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded and said with a wry smile: "It's better for me to go, it will be insincere if you go again, this time I can only go and ask for the guilt in person." Their ambitions are not only for the southeast coast, or why should they fight Luzon first, and then you will see, what Frankie, Hongyi. In the big pool of the South Seas, you have to look at the eyes of the Far East. ”

Zheng Zhibao next to him hurriedly said, "Big brother, how can you go in person." Who knows what kind of heart they have, and if it's not good for you, what will we do with our brothers? ”

Since I have seen the strong ships and guns of the Far Eastern Company. Zheng Zhibao, who was originally extremely arrogant, is now about to be scared out of his mind.

Zheng Zhihu thought for a while and said, "I don't think the Far East wants to do things perfectly. If they want to destroy us, then we will not be able to come back today. ”

"Yes, or why the big ships around us were all sunk by them, but we didn't move our ship with the handsome flag. I thought about it, the Far Eastern Company did not move our brothers. I must have used me, and I went and talked to them myself to see what they wanted to do with our brother. ”

Song Tao and Zhou Cheng slashed all the way, killing those pirate ships to flee frantically, and many pirate ships couldn't escape at a glance. Simply lower the sails and surrender. If you can't fight, you can't escape, what can you do but surrender.

These surrendered pirate ships and pirates adrift and struggling on the sea were received and captured by many pirates from the first and second detachments of the Luzon guerrilla fleet, which had caught up with them.

In the last count, there were thirty or forty Zheng pirate ships captured alone, and more than 2,000 pirates were captured. As soon as Song Tao saw the end of the battle, he gave the order to retreat and led the brigade to the direction of the Tamsui River.

Song Tao returned to Shengmingo Castle and reported the situation of this naval battle to Li Ming. Li Ming laughed when he heard this: "I estimate that Zheng Zhilong will come to Manila to meet me soon." If he didn't meet us, he wouldn't even be able to sleep.

By the way, you have a good rest in Taiwan. According to He Wu's eyeliner in Java, the Dutch moved. I guess they'll come and cruise around Manila and put pressure on us. I'm ready to cut through the mess and find fault with them. You are ready, once we fight with the Netherlands, you will also take the castle of Geranza in Tainan as soon as possible.

We're going to do it before the main fleet returns. A new treaty was signed with the Netherlands. We must work with the Netherlands to determine the spheres of influence on both sides. North of Manila is our bottom line. ”

A few days later, three fortune boats sailed into Manila Bay, and Zheng Zhilong came. Received a report of pirates cruising off the coast. Li Ming personally went to the port of Manila to greet Zheng Zhilong and his party.

As soon as Zheng Zhilong got off the boat, he saw the people of the Far Eastern Company and the representatives of Chinese businessmen in Manila. They all rushed here to greet him, and he was flattered.

He was also a bachelor, he didn't dare to take it big at all, he glanced at the crowd opposite, and then walked a few steps quickly, came to Li Ming's face, and knelt down with a "poof".

Just when Zheng Zhilong was about to kowtow, Li Ming pulled him up in one fell swoop.

"I can't help it, I can't help it, what is Zheng Da in charge of this doing, come ...... I've prepared a banquet, and we'll talk while we eat. After Li Ming finished speaking, he took Zheng Zhilong's arm and walked to the jeep next to him.

Zheng Zhilong, who got into the car, suddenly had enough eyes, although he was a local tyrant who developed rapidly in just a few years, but he had seen a lot of the market since he was a child.

But it was the first time he had seen the car he was sitting in, and although the decoration was not luxurious, he sneaked down to the side and found that the body of the car was wrapped in iron sheets.

What puzzled him the most was that this iron car must be very heavy, but why didn't he see the horses dragging it, and he didn't see anyone around pushing it, so how could this car move forward.

Suddenly, there was a sound, and the car body trembled. He turned his head and saw a larger iron cart roaring past his eyes.

Immediately after that, the car he was sitting in also slowly roared forward, Zheng Zhilong looked at the scenery on both sides of the car window speeding by, he turned his head and glanced at Zheng Zhihu beside him, both of them were shocked in their hearts.

This Far Eastern company is too evil, this iron car does not need to be pushed by horse-drawn people, and it can still run like a fly. They all remembered in their hearts that the huge iron ship, also sailless and without pulp, still moved freely on the sea, so fast that even the clippers they sent out could not catch up.

And the powerful artillery, which could accurately hit their ship from miles away, the earth-shattering roar, and the scene of his ships shattering in an instant, still made their hearts tremble when they thought about it.

The convoy made its way to the city hall in Intraura, formerly the Spanish governor's palace.

Li Ming let the two Zheng Zhilong brothers to the restaurant, and as soon as everyone sat down in the guest and host positions, Zheng Zhilong bowed his hand to Li Ming and said respectfully: "This time Zheng came to ask the general for the guilt, originally our brothers planned to take the fleet to help the Far East Company to strengthen its prestige, and I never thought about ramming the fleet of the Far East, I am afraid that it will cause a misunderstanding of the Far East generals......

Without waiting for Zheng Zhilong to finish speaking, Li Ming smiled and said, "Look...... You see...... I'll just say that Zheng Da has no malice, everyone is a compatriot whose blood is thicker than water, how can they help the Franky people. I have strictly ordered them not to attack the Zheng family's ships again, and severely reprimanded the generals who led the team, how can they fight their own people.

Although the people who helped the Frankians defend the city were Zheng Da's subordinates, I believe that Zheng Da's subordinates absolutely did not know about this matter. These soldiers of our Far East Company are all very domineering outside, and I can't control them. Don't worry, this time I will definitely give Zheng Da an explanation, and when they come back, I will reprimand them fiercely. ”

Zheng Zhilong and the brothers raised a middle finger in their hearts at the same time, paralyzing, beating us so badly, and finally reprimanded us fiercely, we have more than 200 ships, including dozens of Dafu ships, your fluttering words are over.

But they didn't dare to show a trace of dissatisfaction, they understood the strength of the Far East Company, and if they wanted to make a fortune in Nanyang in the future, they had to look at the eyes of others.

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "The general's words are serious, this matter is really not to blame the generals of the Far East, it is our brothers who are reckless." ”

Li Ming laughed and said, "Okay...... If you can think so, then that's it. We don't know each other, we will be friends in the future, and the affairs of your Zheng family are the affairs of our Far East. ”

Listening to Li Ming's words, the Zheng brothers suddenly burst into tears, and there was a burst of sadness in their hearts, your sister doesn't know each other, and she is about to fucking cripple us.

Next, everyone pushed the cup and changed the glass, and drank very happily. Li Ming saluted the Zheng brothers, and then said with a smile: "The Ming Dynasty is rich in products, and silk and porcelain are sold all over the world, but the silver of the Ming and Chinese merchants has been earned by the Frankie and Hongyi people from the west. ”

The Zheng brothers slandered in their hearts, what kind of truth could it be, there are many cannons on other people's ships.

Li Ming stood up and reached out to lift the curtain on the wall next to him, revealing a huge map. The Zheng Zhilong brothers stared at the map of China from modern society on the wall, their eyes straightened. The map of this era, to put it bluntly, is based on feeling, and there is no accuracy at all.

But the map in front of them was so good, they knew that this map was absolutely priceless.

Li Ming pointed to the map and said solemnly: "The Hongyi East India Company first drove out the Portuguese in the Maluku Islands by force, and then drove out the British in Banda Island, and controlled the spice islands and the spice trade in the South Seas.

The Spaniards occupied Manila in Luzon, and every year they brought away a large amount of silk and porcelain from there, which they shipped to the Western countries to earn a lot of wealth.

The Portuguese occupied Macao, and as far as we know, the Portuguese could get more than 2 million taels of silver every year by selling silk from China to Japan, which became their capital to buy Chinese goods back to Europe.

For this is our silver, and why should they earn it, because their ships are strong. I don't think that's necessarily the case, the goods they bought at a low price in the hands of the Ming Chinese merchants, shipped to the Western countries, and then changed hands to ten times or even dozens of times the profits, why can't we Chinese businessmen unite together, control the source and price of goods, cut the flesh of those Franky, Hongyi and the Portuguese, and drink their blood. (To be continued)

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