Xia Nan looked at the masts and sails in the harbor and secretly frightened. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

I have long heard that Zheng Zhilong had more than 100,000 troops and more than 1,000 warships in his heyday, and hundreds of thousands of ships sounded like a number, but when he actually saw it, he was shocked. There are hundreds of ships in this port alone, large and small, the so-called "punching the old master to death", if these ships swarm up, with William's five Wu Yi class, they can't resist it with full firepower, and the number is so large that it can completely suppress the quality.

Xia Nan asked Murong Longcheng: "Are these Zheng Zhilong's warships?" ”

"Except for a small number of merchant ships from all over the world, most of them are. However, these are not all pure warships, they can do business and run the sea, and they can also kill people and oversell goods. ”

That's armed merchant ships. In the summer, Nan carefully looked at it, and most of these ships only had a displacement of two or three hundred tons, a single ship was not to be feared, but it was terrifying if it was supplemented by thousands of fire attack ships, and it was not difficult to understand why the Dutch, who had more advanced gunboats, lost to Zheng Zhilong.

He said to Lin Weiye: "It seems that it is not the right time to directly fight Zheng Zhilong, I can understand why the Dutch lost." ”

Lin Weiye nodded: "If there are too many ants, they can bite the elephant to death, not to mention that Zheng Zhilong has a favorable location and fights at the door of his home, and most of the battlefields are offshore, and the Dutch are just a few gunboats from afar, how can they do it." If we are not fully sure, we must not act rashly. ”

When passing through these dense warships, many sailors looked at these strange-looking ships with great interest, and Xia Nan was watched by hundreds of ships, quite a feeling of entering the opponent's camp through the sword and gun array in a costume drama.

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Under the guidance of Zheng Zhiguan, the fleet successfully docked, and Xia Nan boarded the dock of the Zhongzuo Institute. Unlike the concrete-built port of Bosuke, this is a typical medieval wharf: wooden trestles are piled with unloaded goods, coolies are shuttling back and forth, littered with discarded debris and garbage, and some corners smell of urine from time to time.

Sima De complained in a low voice: "It's too messy here, how can Bo Fu be clean and tidy." ”

Bofu Port is all cement pouring, the trestle is a concrete structure, the wharf ground is flat, and a special public toilet has been built, which is naturally much cleaner. He lived in Nanjing for a long time, and after being demoted, he has been nesting in the mountains and forests of Qiongzhou, rarely seeing a serious harbor, and thinking that the docks in the world are the same as Bofu.

Xia Nan said with a smile: "Mr. Sima, don't use Bofu Port as a standard, otherwise you won't be able to stand it at any pier." After all, he has more than hundreds of years of knowledge in the other party, no matter how powerful the other party is, he is just a sea lord entrenched in the place, and his means and knowledge cannot jump out of the limitations of the times.

It is precisely because of this limitation that although Zheng Zhilong is far more far-sighted than ordinary sea lords, and can consciously choose to be appeased and engage in maritime trade as a legal identity of the imperial court, what he is committed to pursuing is the monopoly of trade with Japan: in another time and space, after defeating Liu Xiang and the Dutch, he monopolized the right of passage at sea by selling the order flag, and the price of two thousand taels of silver for a flag actually excluded the merchants with poor financial resources from the circle of maritime trade. As a result, merchants who came to trade with Japan chose more lucrative luxury goods and Japanese necessities, and the trade in the rest of the goods was shrinking. This deformed trade method is not good for the common people, nor is it good for the budding capitalism of the Ming Dynasty, and in the words of the old time and space, it is backward and hinders the development of productive forces.

In the government office of the city of the center left, Xia Nan met this legendary figure. is completely different from the imaginary image of a strong man with a full face and beard, Zheng Zhilong is taller than ordinary people, and his eyebrows are clear, and he is a standard beautiful man.

Although I don't know his exact age, he looks like he is about thirty at most, not much older than himself. Young and handsome, successful in his career, rich and rich, these labels are all gathered on one person, and it can't help but be enviable. Xia Nan inexplicably had a trace of jealousy, there was Murong Longcheng in front of him, and Zheng Zhilong in the back, how could all the people who were maritime merchants in these years be handsome and able to eat with their faces.

Thinking about some marginal things in his heart, he was not idle in his mouth, and he hugged his fists and said: "I have long admired the name of General Feihong, I am fortunate to see it today, and it is indeed a dragon and phoenix among people!" ”

Zheng Zhilong also smiled all over his face, stepped down from the chair, and returned the salute: "General Xia is also young and promising, and he has laid a great situation in Guangdong, and he admires it tightly!" ”

The guest and host sat down, and after a polite exchange, they began to think about how to get to the point.

Zheng Zhilong had already eliminated most of his maritime opponents in the four years of Chongzhen, including Li Kuiqi, who had once cornered him, and had a huge fleet of ships and controlled trade with Japan. As for Xia Nan in Guangdong, he has heard of it, but it is all tossing on land, there is no big action on the sea, and Guangdong is not his traditional sphere of influence, so he doesn't pay much attention to it.

It was not until Xia Nan repelled the army advancing in Guangdong, and then brazenly attacked Guangzhou, and defeated the counterattack of the official army outside the city and at Baietan, that he began to pay attention to this suddenly rising force. Murong Longcheng's impressive record of one enemy and five enemies made him see the potential of his sea - in time, this was a force that could threaten his supremacy at sea. The reason why Xiong Wencan contacted the other party and asked for that kind of light short cannon was to strengthen his own strength, and secondly, to take precautions, to avoid a big gap with the other party in terms of weapons and equipment, and to maintain an advantageous position with the number of ships.

As for whether the other party is willing to sell artillery, Zheng Zhilong is not worried, if he can sell artillery quickly, naturally hello, hello, hello, everyone, if he refuses, he will have a reason to contain the other party at sea -- with such sophisticated warships and artillery, he will definitely have to meddle in the trade with Japan and get a piece of the pie, and he will not hide in Qiongzhou Island to play at home, but to carry out trade with Japan, the Fujian area itself has the final say, and then he will not even think about the passage of a ship, if he takes into account the identity of the officials and soldiers of both sides, seize the ship and destroy the mouth, and directly push it on the head of the pirates. Even if Xiong Wencan, as the governor of Liangguang, has to ask, he has a reason to deal with it, who let you offend me first.

In this way, I don't suffer a loss, and if I buy artillery, I will be like a tiger with wings, and if I can't buy artillery, there is a reason to strangle the naval strength of the Qiongzhou battalion in the cradle and contain a potential opponent. (To be continued.) )