It was Shi Lang who came to meet Yongshengbo Zheng Cai this time.

Shi Lang is a native of Yakou, Longhu Town, Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and his ancestral home is Fangji Town, Gushi County, Henan Province. In his early years, he was a general of Zheng Zhilong, the general of the Ming Dynasty, and had to surrender to the Qing Dynasty with Zheng Zhilong in 1646.

Due to Zheng Chenggong's recruitment, he entered the sea to join Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing team, and became the youngest of Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, knowing the soldiers, and being good at fighting...... At this time, he was appointed as the left vanguard.

Zheng Chenggong had to discuss with Shi Lang about a confidential matter in the army, and Shi Lang also served Zheng Chenggong wholeheartedly. In Zheng Chenggong's army, most of the corresponding methods such as a qiēlou ship, flag, and array came from Shi Lang's hands.

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai knows this person well.

It is rumored that when this person was about to be born, Mrs. Mu had a dream of divine treasure light at night, and she felt different and gave birth...... When this person was a teenager, he failed to learn books and abandoned to learn swords. From his division, he learned the skills of stabbing in the battle array, and he was both proficient in the art of war, so he became a thousand enemies with wisdom and bravery.

This person is now Zheng Chenggong's right-hand man, and if Zheng Chenggong sends him, it must be extremely important. Yongshengbo Zheng Cai naturally didn't want to treat him slowly, so he met him in person, and the two began a secret conversation.

Shi Lang's eyebrows were clear, he sat dangerously, and told the things in eastern Guangdong one by one with righteousness.

It all started in September 1647.

After the defeat of the Battle of Quanzhou, which was shoulder-to-shoulder with his fourth uncle Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Chenggong strengthened the accumulation of his own strength and began to recruit a wide range of civil and military talents.

Under the slogan of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty," a large number of patriotic intellectuals came one after another.

At first, Zheng Chenggong was very respectful to them, and would ask for their opinions whenever there was a serious incident, so that a civilian staff team that was good at governing government gradually formed.

At the same time, he also relied on his position in the Longwu court and Zheng Zhilong's old network to recruit generals and will form a military team to enhance his military strength.

Zheng Chenggong wants to be hard with both hands.

In his propaganda offensive full of positive energy, there were anti-Qing generals one after another, or generals in Fujian who followed Zheng Zhilong and regretted after the Qing Dynasty, as well as those "Qingming generals" who deeply thought of their homeland. The influence of the Zheng family's fame is still huge......

As the ranks grew, the issue of munitions soon surfaced.

Since Zheng's military control area was limited to coastal islands and small coastal lands, it was impossible to maintain the daily life of a huge fleet of boat divisions, marine troops, and their many family members by relying on local material and financial resources.

So how did the young Zheng Chenggong solve the logistical problem?

After consulting with his civil and military teams, Zheng Chenggong took two measures:

First of all, he inherited the maritime trade business pioneered by Zheng Zhilong, made full use of his advantages as a sailor, found some merchant agents, and transported the materials produced in the mainland to overseas through some secret channels, such as Siam and other places, from which he could earn high profits, and the cost of buying some military supplies came from this, as for the source and organization of the goods, it is more complicated and cannot be explained one by one.

In fact, after the Hantang Group occupied Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong's agents naturally came to trade with the Hantang Group, and the Hantang Group still basically grasped some of Zheng Chenggong's activities...... Fortunately, there is no difference with the general trend of history.

And the man surnamed Guo, who is in his twenties, of course doesn't know that there is a group of "uncles" who are in the place where he belongs and secretly watch his back fighting...... Boy, you have to fight hard......

Secondly, he relied on the collection of food and wages in the captured areas, and of course, many of these had to rely on robbery.

There are many historical materials that can prove that Zheng Chenggong's apportionment of the land and the expropriated labor were extremely harsh, although this move solved the urgent need of Zheng Jun, but it directly led the people of the place to turn their backs: many people would rather be obedient people of the Qing Dynasty than "righteous people" under Zheng Jun's jurisdiction.

At this point, the Ming people on the Ming continent obviously did not go through systematic brainwashing activities, and they were also realistic and rational -- of course, in this time and space, people in all regions of the world only rely on geographical or religious relations to maintain, and there will be no concept of state, and patriotic behavior is often a by-product of self-activity, which is summarized by later generations.

"The people's hearts are lost", this is also the fundamental reason why Zheng Jun often cannot gain a foothold after conquering many coastal lands, not to mention, sometimes it is not a simple tax issue, but also the frequent occurrence of "naked plundering of people's property".

The people along the coast regarded Zheng Jun as a pirate and avoided it. Naturally, it will be difficult for Zheng Chenggong to make great progress in the military.

Due to the mountainous areas of Fujian, there is a shortage of grain in peacetime, and it is necessary to resell grain from Chaozhou and Huizhou in Guangdong to make up for the predicament in Fujian. Therefore, even if Zheng Chenggong collected all the grain in Fujian, it would be difficult to feed his huge army. After planning for a long time, he decided to take Chaozhou, the "great granary of southern Guangdong," to the west to permanently solve the problem of military food supply.

But the young man had to face the fact that Chaozhou in 1649 was still in the hands of the Ming army. Zheng Chenggong's attempt to seize Chaozhou was an "unjust" move to provoke infighting in the Ming army. Zheng Chenggong is unknown, and he can't help but have scruples.

He thought about it and thought that for the long-term interests of the Zheng Group, even if he would bear the notoriety from now on, he would not hesitate to do so. Like Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai, all his interests are based on the family first, of course, this is the basic moral level of the entire time and space.

A few days later, he sent a letter to Hao Shangjiu, the commander-in-chief of Chaozhou, asking to be stationed in Chaozhou on the grounds of "joint forces".

This is to make it clear that he will eat him, and Hao Shangjiu, the chief soldier of Chaozhou, categorically refuses. After Zheng Chenggong heard the news, he finally ripped off the moral veil of warmth and affection, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Chaozhou area.

Compared with Zheng Chenggong, this Chaozhou general soldier Hao Shangjiu is at the level of an uncle, and he is forty-four years old this year. He has always followed Li Chengdong, and after following Li Chengdong into the Qing Dynasty, he guarded Chaozhou from the beginning.

In 1649, with Li Chengdong against the Qing Dynasty, Nanming awarded him the new Taihou, and still guarded Chaozhou.

Let's put it this way, this is an uncle who has been quietly handing over imperial grain to Nanming in Chaozhou.

On December 17 of this year, Zheng Chenggong sent troops to attack Chaozhou on the grounds that the position of Hao Shangjiu, the chief soldier of Chaozhou, was "unclear".

During the war, the bad behavior of the small units of the Zheng Army in "collecting food and salaries among the people" never stopped. Due to the overwhelming dispatch and strong troops, Zheng's army successively occupied the prefectures and counties under the Chaozhou Prefecture.

However, when the soldiers besieged the capital city of Chaozhou, he lacked siege tools, and the first attack failed, and Hao Shangjiu, the chief soldier of Chaozhou, temporarily held the city of Chaozhou.

At that time, the Southern Ming court was extremely dissatisfied with Zheng Chenggong's move to provoke a civil war, but unfortunately the center was weak and unable to control the warlords from all walks of life, so it had to send Lu Yangbo, a scholar from the Zhongshushe, to mediate and persuade the two sides to cease fighting.

Zheng Chenggong saw that this grain base was about to arrive, and Zheng's Group could ensure "no worries about food and clothing" from now on, so he was willing to stop there.

In the face of this unruly warlord, Lu Yangbo, a literati, was of course helpless and had to return abruptly.

By 1650, he was ready for a second attack...... At this time, he heard the news of the uncle of the Xiamen clan, and they actually defeated Quanzhou, which he had not defeated with Zheng Kuihong, the Duke of Dingguo!

In fact, Zheng Chenggong also knew about some changes in Xiamen for a long time, saying that the two clan uncles were fighting with Taiwan's Hantang Group -- he didn't care about this, and he was doing business.

The source of the news is Zheng Chenggong's method...... The Zheng family's power in Fujian is too great...... It can't be described with intricacies.

But the sudden outburst of the two clan uncles made him unexpected...... This is not their original character.

Zheng Chenggong convened a meeting...... Let's take a look at the current situation.

Zheng Chenggong's fourth uncle, Dingguo Gong, Zheng Hongkui, first said happily: "Haha, this is a great thing for my Zheng family...... I was a little worried about the southbound Tartars...... So much better! ”

Shi Lang sneered, very lightly...... But Zheng Chenggong heard it very clearly, and Zheng Chenggong turned his eyes to encourage Ai Jiang, whom he admired very much, to speak.

Shi Lang nodded, indicating that he understood what Zheng Chenggong meant.

Shi Lang said loudly: "That is the Zheng family of Yongshengbo, not the Zheng family of us - today's extraordinary time, it is the time when the heroes are rising together, we have great righteousness in our hands outside, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers inside, how can we not create a foundation?" If Yongsheng Boshang can make a meritorious contribution - this land in eastern Guangdong, we will be decided! ”

Zheng Hongkui, the Duke of Dingguo, thought for a while, and said gloomily: "Then Hao Shangjiu does not enter the oil and salt, if we are entangled with this, fame and fortune, it is extremely inappropriate - besieging the city and attacking it is not my Zheng family's strength." ”

"Ah, there must be something strange about the destruction of the city in Quanzhou, I have to go to investigate in person to understand!"

Shi Lang stood proudly, bowed slightly to Zheng Chenggong, and then said: "I, Shi Lang, have gone through this experience, if I can solve this siege, the country will be surnamed Ye, and the great cause of the Zheng family can be ......."

Zheng Chenggong's face suddenly became happy, and he said: "There is Brother Lao Shi who has gone through this - there will definitely be a harvest!" ”

Shi Lang arched his hand and said: "Haha, of course, when I leave, it is not a chance to attack the city, and the surname of the country can wait for me to come back!" ”

Zheng Chenggong was pleased and said, "Brother Shi knows that some time ago, they sent me some siege objects - they have tried them in the army, and they are very useful, but the quantity is too small-"

Shi Lang nodded seriously and said: "I, Shi Lang, understand that he will always win Bo and put small profits first, and he cares about everything, and he doesn't understand the righteousness of the world - go down, you can't ask for more - this thing is very useful!" ”

In this way, Shi Lang only took a few personal soldiers to go by boat, and soon arrived at Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai's side.

Before leaving, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui personally went to the pier to see each other off.

Looking at Shi Lang's confident back, Zheng Hongkui praised: "This son is really a great talent-"

It is said that Zheng Zhilong, the father of Zheng Chenggong, decided to defect to the Qing Dynasty and was about to go to Fuzhou to meet with Bellebolo, Zheng Hongkui persuaded Zheng Zhilong to retreat to the sea, but Zheng Zhilong did not accept it.

As the fourth brother, Zheng Hongkui had to lead the army to Kinmen, and at the same time avoid Zheng Chenggong being held hostage by Zheng Zhilong, and secretly let him go.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong trusted the fourth uncle.

Zheng Chenggong said enthusiastically: "With such brothers' help, we will definitely achieve a career!" I Zheng Jiayan know that it will not rise again?! ”

Zheng Hongkui's face was full of joy, patted Zheng Chenggong's back and said: "The time, the place, the people, are all in my hands, Damu - the future of my Zheng family is all in your hands." ”

"Fourth uncle, reviving the Zheng family's majesty is just around the corner!"

In Yongshengbo Zheng Cai's study, after Shi Lang finished telling the story of eastern Guangdong in detail, his face was full of confidence......