Chapter 43: His Royal Highness

"Minister Zheng Zhilong knocks on Your Majesty!"

A sturdy black man knelt down in front of Yang Feng and said loudly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This is Zheng Zhilong.

He arrived on the tenth day after Liu Kongzhao and others arrived, in addition to the 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division and nearly 100 warships of various sizes, there were at least 80,000 Tan people who came from the edict, and there were also countless dilapidated sea ships driven by these Tan people, which covered the sea near Lao Longtou like a floating garbage, together with those warships brought by Liu Kongzhao who had not yet left, the scene looked quite spectacular, like a sea city.

"Is this your son?"

Yang Feng looked at a young man in front of him and said.

"Back to the saint, it's the dog!"

Zheng Zhilong said.

"Zheng Sen, the supervisor of Nanjing Guozi, knocks to see Your Majesty."

It's not Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Chenggong bowed.

"Get up, alas, I don't know how my son is now, I think they will not be spared in the hands of that rebellion, Zheng Zhilong, how about giving me this son of yours as a son?"

Yang Feng said.

"Ahem, minister, thank you for your grace."

Zheng Zhilong was choked for a moment before saying.

"Zheng Sen, are you willing!"

Yang Feng said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Zheng Sen and his father secretly exchanged glances, and then lay there and said excitedly.

"Then call Father!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

"The son knocks to see his father!"

Zheng Sen said in a trembling voice.

"Spread the decree, give Zheng Zhi Longjue Nan Anbo, take Zheng Sen, the son of Nan Anbo, as my righteous son, give the surname Zhu, give the name success, and serve around!"

Yang Feng said.

"Thank you, Lord Ron!"

Zheng Zhilong said in a trance.

This is indeed a bit too sudden, even if he is used to experiencing the wind and waves at sea, he will inevitably be a little dizzy in his head, he received Yang Feng's holy decree, he knew that the emperor was going to reuse himself, but he didn't expect it to be reused to such an extent, and even his own son was accepted as a righteous son. You must know that this is the emperor's righteous son, although it is impossible to be included in Zongzheng, but that grace is also unprecedented, which is equivalent to directly announcing to the world that his Zheng family is the emperor's most important. And leaving his son with him, although he also has the intention of being a hostage, he is also clearly telling him that not only him, but also the wealth of the second generation of the Zheng family, and even the third generation of the Zheng family, is guaranteed.

Not to mention that there is also an earl.

What does this emperor want to do?

He was at a loss.

"Nan Amber, I heard that you have a lot of business with the Wa Kingdom and the Nanyang States?"

Yang Feng said.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister does have some business dealings with them."

Zheng Zhilong said cautiously.

There is no need to hide this kind of thing, he is the number one maritime merchant in the Ming Dynasty, uh, it can also be said to be a pirate, which is known to everyone in the Ming court.

"Very well, I'm in business with you!"

Yang Feng said.

"Do you think this is worth it?"

He threw a small plastic-framed mirror from a small commodity market to Zheng Zhilong and said.

"Valueless!"

The latter gasped and said.

"Have you ever seen this thing?"

Yang Feng said.

"Back to my father, this thing can be made by the people of Taixi, and the merchants of the Hongmao Country have brought it for sale, and the price is amazingly high, such a small piece is tens of thousands of gold, and there is only a smaller piece than this in the son's house, but it is far less clear than this, the two can be said to be worlds apart, this thing is valued by the sons and daughters, and 10,000 taels of silver is the lowest price."

Zheng Chenggong said.

As soon as Yang Feng stretched out his hand, Wang Chengen hurriedly took a small wooden box filled with the same mirror, and then sent it to Zheng Zhilong.

The latter's hands trembling as he held the small box.

"Sell these, four or six points, I six you four, I will not send someone to supervise, but you don't let me down, in addition, you are not allowed to sell in the country, you are only responsible for selling abroad, and there is another point, you want to find a way to go to the country to exchange all the silver for me to exchange for copper coins, the more you exchange, the better."

Yang Feng said.

"Your Honor."

Zheng Zhilong said hurriedly.

"Also, your family is familiar with Taiwan, right?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes!"

Zheng Zhilong said.

"Very good, here is a map of Taiwan, there is sulfur in this place, you arrange people to mine, these mines are still four or six points, I am six and you are four, you don't need you to fight the war here, you just go back and do these things."

Yang Feng took out a hand-drawn map of Taiwan and pointed to a point at the northern end and said.

"Father, at this time, Taiwan has been stolen by the red-haired people."

Zheng Chenggong said.

"Then take it back, just bring back the soldiers and horses you brought, if it is not enough, you are not allowed to transfer troops from other places, pass the decree, use the military affairs of the southeast coast of the governor of Nan Amber, control the naval divisions of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, give Shang Fang the sword, and specialize in recovering Taiwan."

Yang Feng said.

He can't help it now, there are not many sulfur mines in the country, and now they are basically in the area controlled by Li Zicheng, he can't make gunpowder in large quantities without sulfur, right? The sulfur mine in Datunshan, Taiwan, must be mined, who will not hand over this kind of thing to Zheng Zhilong? There are Dutch people to drive away, anyway, it's just a little colonizer, at this time the Netherlands is not really in full swing, in fact, their war with Spain has not yet ended, strictly speaking, there is no Dutch at this time, it is just a group of Spanish king's rebellious ministers and thieves.

"Your Honor!"

Zheng Zhilong took a deep breath and said.

He knew that there must be something to do if so many favors fell down at once, but he still made a lot of money, and there was no shortage of official wealth, and although he had to fight to drive away the Dutch in Taiwan, it was indeed worth fighting. Now firearms have become the mainstream of war, and the chaos of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have no suspense, gunpowder is undoubtedly the most important, and gunpowder without sulfur is not good, as long as there is such a sulfur mine, it can be said that it is guarding a gold mountain. And under the banner of running the emperor's errand, Shang Fang's sword is in his hand, and he has his own son accompanying the holy driver, whether it is the Jiangnan wealthy clan or those local officials, they are not able to snatch it, and even they can be said to have walked sideways in Fujian and Taiwan.

"The change in Beijing has made me understand a lot of things, I was indeed wrong before, I mistakenly took some wolf-hearted things as henchmen, but I treated the people who shed blood for me as grass mustard, you can rest assured, there will be no such thing in the future. As long as you are loyal to me, when the time is ripe, I will follow the example of the red-haired man and set up an East India Company of our Ming Dynasty, so that you can reproduce the grand occasion of our Ming Dynasty's westward march like Zheng He back then! ”

Yang Feng said lightly.

"The ministers should be smeared for Your Majesty!"

Zheng Zhilong said tremblingly.

That's his dream.

"Your Majesty, you're all set!"

At this moment, Vice General Chen walked in and saluted and said.

"Well, success, will you ride a horse?"

Yang Feng asked him about his godson.

"Back to my father, my sons and daughters will know it since childhood!"

Zheng Chenggong said.

"Wang Chengen, give him a set of armor and find a war horse, go out hunting with me, Nan Anbo, you go to the dock immediately, and settle those Tan people for me, Juehua Island and the area around Zhongyou are reserved for them, Li Yutian, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, is in Ningyuan, you take these Tan people to him, he will be responsible for arranging for them to build houses and live on land with you, there is also a port and wharf, and next time, buy a batch of cloth from Jiangnan for me, what do these people look like when they are dressed in tatters!"

Yang Feng then said.

Many of those Tan people were actually half-coaxed and half-captured, Zheng Zhilong's fleet was more responsible for escorting them, and the gentry in Fujian were eager to drive them away, and the gentry in Jiangnan were also willing to let these untouchables go north to follow the emperor to contain Li Zicheng, so they were very enthusiastic about this matter, and it was said that some would go north later. But they all speak Hokkien dialect, and here are almost two countries, the first thing is to let them live first, and then adapt to the environment here, they are all fishermen, this Liaodong Bay is a top fishing ground, there is no problem with the livelihood of these Tan people, but at least let them spend a winter here, the language environment is adapted, otherwise just a cold in Liaodong can kill them.

This matter is handed over to Zheng Zhilong, he is gone and his son is responsible, don't think that Emperor Yang will admit this godson as pure bad taste.

Immediately afterwards, he walked out with Vice General Chen.

At this time, on the street in front of this official yamen, a heavily armed cavalry was already waiting for him, including Liang Cheng and those brocade guards also waited with his two war horses, the red and black horses were the same as before, one with his double Lao, and the other with his giant bow and arrow. As for his scrap steel battle axe, he can't take it, not to mention fighting on horseback, even if he puts it on horseback, it can crush a top war horse to death, it is estimated that there is no horse except for the elephant horse that can carry the fully armed Emperor His Majesty, but if you charge on the horse, I am afraid that the elephant horse will also be wasted. Therefore, the problem of the emperor's mount has seriously restricted his combat effectiveness, and this problem cannot be solved, and his weight reaches half a ton when he is fully armed, which is beyond the scope of the animal that can understand the horse.

"Your Majesty, are you wearing armor?"

Liang Cheng asked.

"No need, just half armor, this war horse probably won't be able to hold up my full armor."

Yang Feng said.

He told the truth, the weight of his full armor is more than 200 catties, plus the pair of more than 100 catties of iron, it is okay to change British pure blood, how can the little Kazakh horse still run?

The brocade guard immediately stepped forward and put on his homemade stainless steel cuirass, as well as his helmet and knee pads and elbow pads, and although he did not wear cotton armor or chain mail, the latter was still pressed down when he stepped on the black horse, and the latter snorted heavily.

"What a crap!"

Emperor Yang took off a handful of iron shirts speechlessly, and his godson next to him hurriedly reached out to catch it.

Then Zheng Chenggong hung on the ground, and a general next to him who was also ready to accompany him hurriedly stretched out his hand to help.

"General Zhang, you are also with you!"

Zheng Chenggong said with a smile to the old man who had been entangled in his love and hate in history while carrying Tie Lao to a spare horse with him.