Recently, Zhoushan Island has become crowded. Next to the dock that Zhang Huangyan tried his best to expand, there are shacks built by the people everywhere. Around the shacks, there are some warehouses. Although these warehouses are simple, the goods stored in them are not cheap. Most of them are local products such as porcelain purchased by the Ming army in Liangjiang, as well as expensive silk and silver.

Many people living near the port have just been brought to Zhoushan from the coastal areas of Zhejiang. A large number of people on the coast cannot escape the fate of leaving their hometowns no matter what. They must obey the Qing army's ban on sea orders and move to the inland. These people have no acquaintances, no land or ships in the mainland. When they heard that the Ming army could have food, many people willingly embarked on the road to leaving their hometowns. To the people, they had no idea how far Sichuan was.

In addition to the people, there were also some foreign merchants. After the Qing Dynasty began to ban the sea, the goods that could be obtained in Macau dropped sharply. Although the Macau Portuguese authorities still expressed their support for the Qing court, they also accused the merchants of going to Southeast China to look for business opportunities as personal. Several British people came with the Portuguese merchants. As soon as they saw Zhang Huangyan, they congratulated the Ming Dynasty Minister of War for the victory of the Ming Yanping County Prince in Taiwan.

Now the relationship between Britain and the Netherlands is not good, but is in a fierce competition. Britain has also established its own East India Company to compete with the Netherlands East India Company. Moreover, these British merchants have just received news that the Ming Dynasty's power had invaded Myanmar region, and Siam seemed to be inclined toward the Ming army, and Vietnam maintained an ambiguous neutral attitude. Until now, it seems that the Ming army is still the dominant side of the Indochina region (Indochina Peninsula). No matter what the outcome of the Ming and Qing wars in the future, the British were determined to seize the opportunity to do business with the Ming army. If it were not for the Qing Dynasty's ban on sea, the British merchants in Macau would not have made such a decision, but the goods obtained by Macau could not even satisfy the Portuguese merchants, so the British merchants could not see what benefits could they have to curry favor with the Qing court.

It was also from these British people that Zhang Huangyan learned that Zheng Chenggong had just completed the great cause of expelling the Dutch in Taiwan. The British arrived in Zhoushan first than the envoy of the Prince of Yanping. In order to win the trust of the Ming army and attack their competitors, the British also told Zhang Huangyan that the Spaniards were turning bad about the Ming army. When they learned that the Ming army was attacking Taiwan, the Spaniards in Manila began to be nervous, worried that the Ming army would further march into the Philippines.

The congratulations and intelligence sent by the British had no military value to the Ming army, but they did win them the favor of Zhang Huangyan. Zhang Huangyan sent people to lead these merchants to visit various warehouses in Zhoushan to purchase the goods they needed.

This time, the Ming army brought back more than 200,000 male and approximately a large number of strong women from the coastal areas. The elderly and children came to Zhoushan with these young and strong people. Zhang Huangyan, Ren Tang and Zhou Kaihuang discussed several times, and they all believed that the Ming army would eventually get more than 500,000 young and strong men and women, as well as more than 200,000 young and young. Even before the people were all there, such a large number of people stuck the Ming army's mobility again. Now the Sichuan Army and Zhejiang Army have basically withdrawn from the mainland, just like after the Battle of Chongqing, because the ships did not meet the needs of any means, the Ming army that lost its mobility was nailed to Zhoushan, and several other strongholds such as Chongming were unable to move.

"After all the population is transferred to Chongming, if Beijing does not send a large group of captive troops to reinforce Liangjiang, we will load the old and young ships, allowing the army to protect the young and young men and women, walking back upstream..." Ren Tang said his thoughts to Zhang Huangyan: "We will advance together by water and land, and we will be able to return to Sichuan in about eight months, at least we will also reach the territory of Kuidong Army, Hubei."

"The ships are used to transport the people. How do you plan to raise food and fodder?" Zhang Huangyan asked.

"We have already talked with the Zongli Yamen of the Suppression of Deng. We paid the money to buy food in advance and store it for the army, so that there would be no robbery of the local area; this time we sold a large number of ships to the Zongli Yamen of the Suppression of Deng? It can also be used to help transport the people and grain..."

While he was talking, a guard reported that a group of foreigners had landed in for a visit. These people were all Japanese, and the leader looked like they were Chinese.

Compared with the British and Portuguese, Zhang Huangyan undoubtedly had a better impression of the Japanese, because Japan has always been Zheng Chenggong's business partner, and Zhang Huangyan also had an old friend who was specifically responsible for diplomatic work with Japan. After the Chinese led by the Chinese entered the Shangshu Yamen in Zhoushan, Zhang Huangyan was surprised to find that it was his old friend whom he had been thinking about day and night, Zhu Zhiyu (Zhu Shunshui) who went to Japan for help.

"Brother Cangshui, I have been missing for many years. I didn't expect Zhoushan to have such aura. It's amazing." After Zhu Zhiyu landed, he found that Zhoushan was not as bad as he remembered, but was full of vitality. The sails outside the port could not see at all, and there were endless crowds of people on the pier.

"Haha, Brother Shunshui has been awarded." Zhang Huangyan laughed loudly. Seeing the weather in Zhoushan today, he felt quite proud. Unfortunately, most of the people here stayed temporarily and finally had to follow the Sichuan army to return to the upper reaches. However, there is no way. Zhang Huangyan could not support so many people with Zhoushan.

Zhu Zhiyu introduced several Japanese people who came with him to Zhang Huangyan, all of whom were from the Tokugawa Shogunate or the vassals of the shogunate. Speaking of the trip to Japan for so many years, Zhu Zhiyu also sighed: "I have been away for ten years and have not been able to ask for a soldier to fight with the Manchus, and I have not been able to share the worries of Yanping and Brother Cangshui. I am really ashamed."

During the Ming and Qing War, although Vietnam provided supplies and allowed the Ming army to recruit Vietnamese soldiers, it had never formally sent troops to assist the war, let alone Myanmar, and North Korea even provided musketeers to the Qing court. Siam and Japan had formal resolutions to directly send troops to assist the Ming army in the war. In Deng Ming's previous life, Siam had just made a plan to send troops, and Yongli was given to Wu Sangui by the Burmese people. Later, Li Dingguo died, and Siam's plan was abandoned. Japan had earlier decided to send troops to assist the war due to Zhu Zhiyu's running and Zheng Chenggong's connections.

Speaking of Japan's failed military dispatch, Zhu Zhiyu was still very regretful at this time. He shouted loudly in Japan, saying that the Qing Dynasty's entry into the pass was another Mongolian attack. Many Japanese vassal lords and important officials accepted this view, believing that if the Ming Dynasty was not supported, the Qing Dynasty might try to invade Japan like Mongolia. The last Mongolian invasion led to the fall of the Kamakura Shogunate, and the Tokugawa Shogunate had no intention of repeating the same mistake.

The last time Zheng Chenggong sent troops, the Tokugawa shogunate planned to assist, but the Japanese army encountered a typhoon after going to sea, which was blown away and was said to have drowned many people. After Zheng Chenggong withdrew, Japan reassessed the Ming and Qing wars, believing that the Southern Ming Dynasty had already suffered a situation of defeat after the internal strife of the three kings. Even if Japan sent troops, it would not be possible to help Zheng Chenggong turn the situation around, so it refused Zhu Zhiyu's continued request for help.

When the result of the Battle of Gaoyou Lake reached Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate felt that the war seemed to have a turnaround. This time, he sent an envoy to Zhoushan with Zhu Zhiyu, intending to re-evaluate whether the Nanming is worthy of support. Supporting the Nanming will inevitably anger the Qing court. If the Nanming had no hope, the Tokugawa Shogunate would certainly not bet on Japan's security.

After hearing that these Japanese were representing the Tokugawa shogunate to contact the Ming army, Zhang Huangyan also bowed to them politely: "Your country, Takayoshi, I am very grateful."

The Ming Dynasty scholars generally had a good impression of the Tokugawa Shogunate. When Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded North Korea, China spent a huge amount of money to fight the Toyotomi army, and a large number of soldiers died in foreign lands. After hearing that the Toyotomi regime was eliminated by the Tokugawa Shogunate, many Chinese scholars felt that they had a vent, which was also a retribution for the clown. Moreover, the Tokugawa Shogunate promoted culture and education, and purchased Confucian classics from China to educate Japanese citizens, which also gave the Chinese scholars a good impression, thinking that this was another regime that admired Chinese culture and advocated Sinology.

"We don't need the shogunate to send troops." After a while, several Japanese envoys said, Nin Tang understood that the Tokugawa shogunate was very worried about the prospects of the Ming and Qing war. Japan had only had some peace days, fearing that it would entangle itself in a terrible total war: "As long as the Tokugawa shogunate allows our merchant ships to go for transactions."

So far, the trade between the Ming army and Japan has been monopolized by the Zheng family. Zhoushan now feels a bit inconvenient, and I also hope to open a route for trade with Japan and transport mainland goods to Japan for a large amount of silver.

Zhang Huangyan knew that Ren Tang was saying this for him, so he hesitated for a moment and did not object.

This request was agreed by the Tokugawa shogunate envoy: "My country's national policy is to prevent pirates. Since trade can help China obtain military expenditure, the general will be very happy to be able to help China a little bit."

The Japanese envoy said that it would not be a big problem to obtain a license to enter a Japanese port in Zhoushan. They could basically agree to the matter for General Tokugawa.

After several Japanese left, Zhu Zhiyu praised Ren Tang in front of Zhang Huangyan and said, "General Ren is young and promising. I have heard that you and General Li have defeated the Manchus in Hangzhou."

"It's all soldiers who use their lives." Ren Tang quickly said modestly.

Zhou Kaihuang, who also participated in the war, was ignored intentionally or unintentionally. Zhu Zhiyu continued: "I don't plan to go back to Japan. I plan to go to Chengdu to help protect the Duke of the State. I wonder what Brother Cangshui thinks?"

"That's great!" Zhang Huangyan was stunned at first, and then said happily: "Brother Shunshui should go quickly. You don't know what the Duke Baoguo has made in Chengdu."
Chapter completed!