"What the hell are you trying to say?" Zheng Zhilong narrowed his eyes and asked in a deep voice.

"Back to my father." After Zheng Sen saluted again, he raised his chin slightly, gritted his teeth, and showed a determined look in his eyes, "The child wants to go north to find out the news in detail!" ”

"Huh?!" This time, not only Zheng Zhilong, but everyone in the entire room was surprised, and all eyes containing various meanings were focused on Zheng Sen!

As Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, he is also the most promising son. Zheng Sen has already been appointed as the heir of the Zheng family group early! At this moment, he wanted to go north to find out the news, in case something happened on the road, it would be really bad.

"Father." Zheng Sen's face was calm, and he said in a flat voice: "When my father was seventeen years old, he and several uncles went overseas to work. One knife and one shot hit everything in the Zheng family today. The child is now twenty-two, but he still reads those things in the prison all day long. With such a child, how can he take over the Zheng family's fleet in the future? How can you convince a weak scholar who can only recite poetry to be the leader of everyone. ”

"Hiss~~~" Everyone in the room gasped, and most of them had expressions of disbelief!

They really didn't expect that the young Zheng Sen would have such a vision and boldness! Where is this coming out of the words of a person in his early twenties? This insight alone is far beyond ordinary people! Zheng Zhilong has a good son.

Zheng Zhilong's originally squinted eyes suddenly bloomed with a gleam, his hands clenched into fists, staring at his son deadly. Zheng Sen, who straightened his body, did not change his face, and looked at Zheng Zhilong with a calm expression, his face full of a determined expression.

"Hahaha~~~" Just when everyone was worried about whether there would be any contradiction between the father and son, Zheng Zhilong suddenly laughed heroically. The laughter was filled with uncontrollable pride. "It is worthy of being my son Zheng Yiguan! Good! I'll let you go for this cowardice of yours! ”

"Thank you, father." Zheng Sen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Bow down.

"Beizhili is different from ours. Our Zheng family has no way to go in Beizhili. After arriving in the north, you must listen to your second uncle, he has been operating there for so long, so he naturally knows everything. You must not make a mistake recklessly. Do you understand? After all, he is the son he admires the most. The necessary advice to let him out this time is absolutely indispensable.

"The child must be the second uncle in everything, and he will never risk his life." Even when you're young and vigorous. The precocious Zheng Sen knew his identity very well at this moment. If something really happened to the north, it would be no less than a huge disaster for the entire Zheng family!

"It's finally time to get out of the warm nest. North, north! Walking out the door, the young Zheng Sen raised his head to look at the clear blue sky and closed his eyes gently.

Although Zheng Sen is young, he is mature and steady. After learning that a new army had emerged in the north that was so strong that it could destroy 100,000 Jianyu in a single battle. The heart of the eagle that was suppressed in the depths of his heart by the burden of the Zheng family's family business was ignited! It is impossible for a truly ambitious, ambitious and ideal hero to be trapped in an eagle's nest. Their future is above the Nine Heavens!

Look at the history of Zheng Sen's strong opposition to Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Manchus. He quietly escaped from Zheng Zhilong's men. With a wave of arms, all the forces of the Zheng family were gathered under his command. After Zheng Zhilong went north alone, Zheng Sen personally set fire to his extremely luxurious mansion and restored his sight! From all this, you can see Zheng Sen's character, no matter how difficult it is to do what he wants to do, he will do his best to do it!

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The Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei near Qingdao were both built to defend against the invasion of the Japanese invaders. In order to resist the Japanese invaders, there was also a naval division stationed in Jiaozhou Bay, with dozens of warships.

It's just that in the two large-scale combat operations to rescue North Korea during the Wanli period. Most of the sailors in the northern region of the Ming Empire were buried in the battle with the naval forces under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. By the time of the Chongzhen period, there were almost no decent naval warships in the entire northern seas. Fortunately, at that time, the main enemy, Manmeng, did not have such a thing as a sailor, and there was no such thing as a naval division on the sea.

And the warships owned by those sailors in Jiaozhou Bay are nothing more than some tattered fishing boats. Not to mention controlling the sea. Even going out to sea to fish is extremely dangerous. Once you encounter a bigger storm, you may not be able to come back.

There are thousands of regular soldiers registered in the two guard departments of Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei. The surrounding fields belonging to the military households of the guard station are as many as tens of thousands of acres. In theory, that's pretty good. It's just the same as all the Ming armies of this period. The guards here are also all kinds of shortcomings, and the drawbacks are extremely serious.

Occupy the vacancy, don't talk about drinking the blood of soldiers or something, this is a commonplace thing. Qingdao is close to the sea, and although the fields allocated to the health center are large, most of them are saline-alkali land that is difficult to cultivate.

It is impossible for crops grown on such land to support so many people. Moreover, to add insult to injury, most of the fields in the guard station have been divided up by those generals. As for the sergeants under their command, who had been military households for generations, they were all reduced to tenants of these generals who had become landlords. In the case of lack of food, it became inevitable that the soldiers of the original garrison country would flee in large numbers. Most of the sergeants who ran away in order to survive were not beggars. It's just that the grass is a coward. Otherwise, it is to sell illicit salt. The army, which is the patron saint of the country, is so miserable, it would be strange if the Ming Dynasty did not perish.

A few months ago. When the cyborg soldiers arrived with a new army escorting a large amount of supplies. The remaining military households of the two guards are less than 1,000. All of them live hard by boiling illicit salt by the sea. The illicit salt trafficking business, which the imperial court vigorously cracked down, was carried out by these officials and soldiers. It's a great irony.

After arresting all the generals who were full of fat brains and red faces in the guard and sent them back to Beijing. A large-scale port construction began.

From Jiaozhou and Pingdu Prefecture, a large number of people were hired for silver, and various port facilities were built along the location of the later Qingdao Port, dredging the seabed silt, and building a wall to enclose the port, etc.

Gao Yang also came here once and put down a large amount of materials and equipment. After a few months of construction, it is now beginning to take shape. At the very least, the huge fleet coming from Tianjin Wei could have a place to dock.

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Zheng Sen, who came here as a study tour, met Zheng Hongkui in a teahouse outside Qingdao Port. The commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was born as a martial artist, specially asked for leave and followed the huge fleet all the way to Qingdao Port.

"Second uncle." Zheng Sen walked forward quickly and saluted. This is a real relative of his, and has always been extremely supportive of him. is also an important member that Zheng Sen has been trying his best to woo.

"Hmm." Zheng Hongkui, who was frowning, just said after a simple greeting, and then hurriedly said, "No one is allowed to enter the military port now, and I can't show the identity of Jinyiwei." Now only the mast can be seen through the wall. However, when the fleet entered the harbor before, I saw it all on the mountain, and I asked the painter to draw all the boats. Zheng Hongkui turned his head and motioned to the entourage on the side, and handed a thick stack of drawing paper to Zheng Sen.

"This?!" Looking at the huge battleship on the drawing paper, Zheng Sen's eyes suddenly widened, and his face was full of disbelief! He had no idea that there would be such a mighty warship in this world!

"There are twelve big ships like this in all. I've never seen a ship this big! When the sails were opened, it was as if the whole sky was obscured! Even the Spanish ships in Luzon were nothing in front of them! At least none of the ships I've ever seen are their match. Zheng Hongkui's tone was filled with deep despair. This is completely a crushing strength!

The Zheng family's fleet, not to mention large Western sailing ships, was powerless even to face the most ordinary medium-sized twin-masted double-decked warships of the Dutch on the island of Taiwan. You can only rely on the tactics of ants swallowing elephants, and use small boats, boats, and arson boats driven by the dead soldiers to fight with your life. However, the fleet in the port of Qingdao could not be used at all with the tactics of the past.

Even if we don't talk about how many ships can successfully get up under the dense muzzle bombardment on both sides of this kind of giant warship on the sea. The number of smaller ships in this fleet alone is quite dozen! How could such a fleet be something that the Zheng family's fleet could compete with?

"Didn't the second uncle receive news in the Jinyi Guard? There can't be so many ships out of thin air, right? Where was it built? Why hasn't there been any news before? After the shock, Zheng Sen quickly calmed down. Lowered his eyelids slightly, lowered his head and asked for some important information.

"Your second uncle, I am just a name in Jinyiwei. Even if they know something, they can't tell me! Zheng Hongkui, who was in a state of confusion, didn't notice Zheng Sen's somewhat strange performance, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "There is no news at all." I sent men to search all the places in the north where ships could be built, and there was no news. It's as if it really fell from the sky! ”

"Didn't the second uncle get in touch with those officers and soldiers?" Zheng Sen asked suspiciously.

Zheng Hongkui's face was grim, and a strange expression appeared on his face. It seems to be incomprehensible, it seems to be disdainful, it seems to be admired. After half a ring, he sighed lightly, and said complicatedly, "They are different from other officers and soldiers. They are all members of the New Army! Usually it doesn't come out. Even if someone comes out, let alone go to make friends, people won't care about you at all! (To be continued)