In Zhoushan, Gan Hui, Yu Xin and Wan Li fled here from Taiwan in early May. After they left, Zheng Xi surrendered to Zheng Jing and was moved to Xiamen to live.

Although Gan Hui and others wanted to escape alone, there were still many followers. The headquarters had a total of twenty ships and more than 500 soldiers and generals, all of whom were confidants of Gan Hui and others. They were loyal to the Lord or were afraid of being implicated. The defeat in Nanjing caused the power of these three people to be greatly reduced, otherwise there might be more people who escaped with them. In addition to these Yanping vassal soldiers, there were more than 10,000 Guangdong fishermen, all under Zhou Yu. They were rescued by Gan Hui to Taiwan first. When Gan Hui fled, most of them voluntarily went out to sea again and followed Gan Hui to Zhoushan.

The Zheng army had only five hundred direct troops, and only more than a thousand family members were included. Zhang Huangyan was quite at ease. The number of people was not too large, and it was not too big for Zhoushan to take them in. Zheng Jing would probably sell Zhoushan for a long time and would not pursue him relentlessly. Zhang Huangyan must return the people. After all, both sides are still allies fighting side by side against the Qing Dynasty. If Gan Hui and his friends brought hundreds of ships, two or three thousand elite soldiers, Zheng Jing might be worried about leaving behind the troubles and insisted that Zhoushan fulfill his obligations to the alliance and hand over the rebellion to Jinxia.

After learning that Zheng Chenggong died, Zhang Huangyan was very sad. In Deng Ming's previous life, Zhang Huangyan lost his fighting spirit and disbanded the army, and decided to die for his country. However, although Zhang Huangyan is sad now, he is not desperate. Not only did he not disband the army, he actively planned how to bear the burden of Zheng Chenggong before.

Zheng Chenggong's main function during his lifetime was to restrain the heavy troops deployed by the Qing court in Guangdong and Fujian. Now that Jin and Xiamen are still in the hands of the Ming army, Zheng Jing still stationed tens of thousands of troops and nearly a thousand warships in both places. Zhang Huangyan felt that the heavy troops of the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong, Geng and Shang, could not advance eastward or move northward, and Zhang Huangyan felt that this strategic burden was not necessary to take over himself for the time being.

When he was secretly relieved, Zhang Huangyan thought of Zheng Chenggong's second role, which was to control the maritime trade and find military sources for the Ming army. At the beginning of this month, the Japanese who temporarily lived in Zhoushan looked for various excuses to return to China, which was undoubtedly an unknown sign; and the Dutch, who were originally polite to seek cooperation, set sail and left Hong Kong one after another. Of course, they dare not say it explicitly, but the Dutch believed that after Zheng Chenggong's death, the Batavian parliament would most likely change East Asia's policies again and tend to go to war with the Ming army again. They guessed it well. In Deng Ming's previous life, after learning about the latest progress, Batavia decided to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty, refused to pay the Strait to pass tax to the Ming army, and used force to defend the right to navigation, and compete for the right to trade with Japan. As Jin and Xiamen changed hands, the Ming army did lose control of the Strait, and Taiwan's income relied on settlement income.

Although Zhang Huangyan smelled the scent of danger, the danger had not immediately become a reality. Moreover, the situation in the southeast made Zhang Huangyan particularly worried, so he did not have time to carefully consider the issue of sea trade. Zhang Huangyan's attention to controlling routes and carrying out trade is far less important than Zheng Chenggong and Deng Ming. In Zhang Huangyan's view, trade is just a backup fundraising method that he had to do after losing his land base - for example, porcelain. If Jiangxi Jingdezhen cannot be controlled by the Ming army, Zhang Huangyan will feel that he will not sleep soundly.

Although Deng Ming led the Sichuan Army to Jiangnan several times, the Qing court officials in the southeast felt that it was not easy for Deng Ming to come. Just by looking at the map, you can tell how far Sichuan is. There are young generals like Zhou Peigong growing up. Although everyone knows that Zhou Peigong must have to protect himself when facing Deng Ming, Deng Ming cannot be jealous of such a arch enemy. Maybe next time he will be ambushed by Zhou Peigong. Zheng Chenggong is still the one who has a strong deterrent power to the southeastern provinces. Now that the Prince of Yanping has passed away, Zhang Huangyan feels that he must shoulder the task of shocking the Qing army in Jiangnan.

"Duke Baoguo has entered Jiangnan." Zhang Huangyan's face was full of excitement when he told Gan Hui about the information he had just obtained.

Zhoushan's strength is obviously not comparable to Zheng Chenggong. From the end of March and early April, the attitude of the Qing army's government in the southeast became worse and worse, and the smuggling ships in Zhoushan and Chongming became more and more frequent and unscrupulous. Zhang Huangyan, who was alone and unable to whirlwind, had no ability to retaliate at all, and could only passively raise his vigilance and notify Chongming's Ma Fengzhi to be more careful when martial law was carried out in Zhoushan.

After seeing Zhoushan unable to counterattack, the Southeast government became even more arrogant. Whether it was Jiang Guozhu or Lin Qilong, their opponents Deng Ming and Zheng Chenggong, who had tens of thousands of elite soldiers and more than 100,000 troops, were afraid of it. However, when facing Zhoushan and Chongming, their faces of bullying the weak and fearing the strong were exposed. After repeatedly ruthlessly and unreasonably tearing up the treaty and searching the cargo ships that seized Zhoushan, Zhang Huangyan also sent a letter to Zhou Peigong, reminding Zhou Peigong to be too bully.

However, Zhou Peigong also had an ambiguous attitude towards Zhoushan. Later, a messenger from Lin Qilong came to Huai'an and brought a message from the Governor of the Canal Transportation, saying that he could maintain the right of passage of the river that Deng Ming had won for Chongming before leaving. However, Zhoushan must increase taxes and fees, and many goods cannot be smuggled and must be sold to the Canal Transportation Office, because Lin Qilong planned to monopolize. In the future, more lists of monopoly goods will be released on the river, and Zhoushan must strictly abide by it, otherwise Lin Qilong will not

It can ensure the safety of Chongming smuggling ships entering the canal. Although Jiang Guozhu has not made a clear request, he will probably extort Chongming like Lin Qilong. If Zhang Huangyan did not agree to their conditions, the shipping trade entrusted to him by Deng Ming would immediately have big problems; and if he agreed, he was worried that the Qing government in the southeast would be more and more likely to return the Ming army to Chongming. Neither Jiang Guozhu nor Lin Qilong were gentlemen who kept their promises.

At the end of April, after the news of Deng Ming's eastern expedition to Huguang spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River, Lin Qilong and Jiang Guozhu did not make any new requests; in early May, Chongming first sent a report, and Ma Fengzhi said that the river officers and soldiers and soldiers from the Liangjiang River had stopped searching for smuggling ships, and returned the ships and personnel that had been stolen earlier. Then Zhang Huangyan heard that Deng Ming left Wuchang on the Saturday last month and had already arrived in Jiujiang at the end of last month.

Just a few days ago, Lin Qilong sent a few heads, one of which belonged to the envoy of the Governor's Office who came to Zhoushan last time. The river officers and soldiers who came to deliver the letter this time bowed to Zhang Huangyan, saying that the guy who was killed was not Governor Lin's confidant at all. The last time he came to Zhoushan was a messenger who pretended to be Lin Qilong, intending to alienate the traditional friendship between Zhoushan and Huaian - the Governor of Caoyun, who had a sharp eye, had found out that this guy was actually a detailed work of the Qing court. After killing him, he specially sent his head to Zhoushan to dispel Zhang Huangyan's doubts that he would never modify any of the agreements reached with Deng Ming and Zhang Huangyan without authorization. When he saw the head, Zhang Huangyan suspected that Deng Ming was closer to Nanjing, and he received new news about the Sichuan Army today.

"Duke Baoguo has already arrived at Taiping Prefecture, and he will be able to enter the city of Nanjing again soon. Whether to occupy Yangzhou and cut off the canal transportation is only within the thought of Duke Baoguo Baoguo." Zhang Huangyan said to Gan Hui and others again.

Gan Hui and others applauded. They came to Zhoushan for more than a month and witnessed the changes in the arrogance of the Qing army in the Southeast as a roller coaster. Now the three of them only regretted that they had too few soldiers and horses in their hands, so they could not help Zhang Huangyan at all.

Just as several people were excited, a messenger suddenly rushed over and reported that a huge fleet was found on the sea. The fleet was coming from the southwest, and it was probably the Zheng family's navy. This news made Zhang Huangyan and others froze on their faces. A moment later, Zhang Huangyan, Gan Hui and others rushed to the shore to look, and they saw dense sails driving towards Zhoushan.

"It looks like there are more than one hundred warships, and there are probably four or five hundred small boats." Zhang Huangyan knew that such a huge sea fleet could only belong to the Zheng family, so he couldn't help but worry.

"One person does things and one person does it." Gan Hui didn't expect that Zheng Jing would really make a big move, threatening his allies for the sake of a few fugitives - writing letters to ask for people is one thing, and sending troops to ask for things is another. But at this point, he didn't want the Ming army to fight: "Shangshu Zhang handed over the last general, as long as he could keep my subordinates safe."

After saying that, Gan Hui was about to draw his sword and commit suicide, but was hurriedly hugged by Zhang Huangyan's guards. At this time, the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty was already ugly. After Gan Hui fled, he immediately sent an envoy to Jin and Xia, hoping that Zheng Jing would be lenient and not pursue the crime of rebellion of these people: there were not many people anyway, and they did not pose a threat to Zheng Jing, and they had no intention of fighting against Zheng Jing.

"I've come only 10,000 or 20,000 people, do you want me to hand over the hand?" Zhang Huangyan said coldly. He estimated that Zheng's army had more than 30,000 people. Since the other party came to raise an army to question, the many small boats and cargo ships they accompanied would definitely not be family members and cargo, but soldiers with armored armor. However, Zhang Huangyan deliberately said less to prevent the Zhoushan garrison from panic. Even half of the people were above Zhoushan's strength: "What right does the prince have to let me hand over the hand? He has not yet inherited the general and the throne with the court."

Zhang Huangyan ignored the request of Gan Hui and others and ordered the entire Zhoushan army to prepare for war. Zhoushan would not take the initiative to provoke the battle, but if the Fujian army wanted to steal people, the Zhoushan army would not stand idly by.

Including the fleeing Guangdong Zhou Yu and others, they all nervously picked up their weapons and stared at the Yanping Fleet near Zhoushan with all their concentration.

Soon, a warship left the column and rushed towards Shenjiamen Port at full speed. Shenjiamen Port is a shelter like Xiamen Port that allows large ships to dock directly, and Zhang Huangyan's command center is also located here.

Seeing that there was only one warship approaching, the Zhoushan army bent their bows and arrows looked at each other, not knowing what the other party was selling in their gourds. However, Zhang Huangyan knew in his heart that it was probably the other party's negotiator who came. The so-called courtesy first and then the army. If the terms were not agreed, then the only way to fight was to meet. Zhang Huangyan ordered his subordinates to put down their weapons first, and he led a few guards to face the shore, and Gan Hui and the other three followed Zhang Huangyan.

However, the one who jumped off the boat was not the imaginary messenger, but all the Zheng family members, and they were not covered with all their bodies like Zhang Huangyan. The first person who jumped off the boat shouted at Gan Hui and the others: "Admiral Gan, General Yu, General Wan, you are indeed here, and I am here to find you too!"

The person who shouted was Zheng Zanxu. Seeing this, Gan Hui hurriedly went forward and greeted him, "Shaohou Lord."

Zheng Zanxu was the son of Zheng Tai. His father Zheng Tai was Zheng Chenggong's cousin. He served as a household official of the Fujian Army for a long time. He not only had the ability to manage trade, but also had a good military strategy. During the last Xiamen War, Zheng Chenggong handed over one-third of the fleet to Commander Zheng Tai, and cut off the Qing army's retreat at a critical moment. In the past, Zheng Chenggong personally took charge of Xiamen, so he asked Zheng Tai to set up the camp in Kinmen. When he was expeditioning to Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong was left behind by Zheng Chenggong to assist Zheng Jing to defend the Qing army. It was actually the Jin and Xiamen Commander.

When Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Jing and his son had a conflict, Jin and Xiamen's morale were fluctuating. Zheng Jing begged his uncle Zheng Tai to help him. Finally, Zheng Tai stepped forward to stabilize Jin and Xiamen's morale, and wrote a letter to Zheng Chenggong in the name of his cousin, asking him to forgive Zheng Jing once. For the Zheng family, Zheng Tai was not only a respected official, but also Zheng Jing's benefactor. When Zheng Jing sent troops to attack Zheng Zhi in Taiwan, Zheng Tai still stayed in Kinmen to ensure that this base area where Zheng Chenggong worked hard for more than ten years would not be attacked by the Qing army.

After Zheng Xi surrendered, Zheng Jing first sent Zheng Xi back to Kinmen and handed it to Zheng Tai for custody, and then rushed back to Xiamen in person, announcing that he would hand over Jin and Xia all his power to Zheng Tai. When Zheng Tai was ordered to go to Xiamen to handle the handover, Zheng Jing suddenly attacked and arrested Zheng Tai. The charge of Zheng Tai was detained was to support Zheng Xi to betray him. That night, Zheng Jing announced that he committed suicide fearing the crime. Taking advantage of Zheng Tai's subordinates being in chaos, Zheng Jing began to search for a large number of conspirators who participated in the rebellion.

Because Zheng Jing claimed that he had returned to Xiamen to handle the handover, he did not lead too many troops. Zheng Zanxu refused to wait for death, so he fled with the Kinmen garrison. While Zheng Jing was suppressing in Xiamen, Zheng Zanxu loaded more than 10,000 garrisons in Kinmen and their families on a ship. In Deng Ming's previous life, Zheng Zanxu went to surrender to Li Rutai and Shi Lang of the Qing court in Fujian. This time, because Zhoushan was still in the hands of the Ming army, they fled to Zhang Huangyan's place.

The one who followed Zheng Zanxu was Zheng Xi. After seeing Gan Hui and others, Zheng Xi was also very scared.

"Zheng Jing harmed Jianping Hou (Zheng Tai), and the excuse was that Jianping Hou wanted to support me to cause trouble..." Zheng Tai has always been Zheng Jing's strong backing. Zheng Xi himself was sent to Kinmen and handed over to Zheng Tai, but it did not prevent Zheng Jing from using this as the charge of killing Zheng Tai: "When Xiamen hunting and killing Jianping Hou's subordinates, the charge of executing them was conspiring to cause trouble with me. If I were caught again, how could I survive?"

After hearing Zheng Zanxu and Zheng Xi explain the causes and consequences, Zhang Huangyan hurriedly took them to the camp to rest, and at the same time led the escaped Kinmen Ming army to land. More than 10,000 officers and soldiers and tens of thousands of military families were frightened birds. After escaping from Kinmen, he rushed towards Zhoushan. Only then did he feel a little shocked.

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That night, another fleet in Xiamen flew away from Xiamen Port like an arrow. The fire in Xiamen Port behind it soared into the sky. Zheng Jing's subordinates who occupied the port saw that the "enemy" had already fled to the sea, immediately set fire to destroy most of the warships that had not had time to drive away, and pointed at the fleet in the night and cursed.

"General Chen, where are we going?"

Escape to the sea, on the fleet's flagship, a gray-faced face gasped heavily and asked his commander.

The general asked was Zheng Chenggong's Right Tiger Guard Chen Mang.

During the Xiamen Sea victory, Chen Mang refused to obey Chen Peng's surrender order and personally led more than 100 people to charge against Shi Lang, who led 20,000 people to land, and drove Shi Lang out of the sea. After the victory, Zheng Chenggong promoted Chen Mang to the admiral of the Right Tiger Guard. When Zheng Chenggong went to war, the left and right Tiger Guard was the personal bodyguard of the vassal lord. The status was similar to Deng Ming's three walls and rangers, but the organization was larger. Zheng Chenggong took the Left Tiger Guard away when he attacked Taiwan, and Chen Mang was ordered to lead the Right Tiger Guard to guard Xiamen, equivalent to the commander of Xiamen garrison.

After Zheng Jing searched and killed Zheng Tai's subordinates, he began to further clean up. The old ministers of the Zheng family who did not stand on his side unconditionally in the previous father-son dispute suffered one after another. Zheng Jing first sent troops to monitor Chen Mang's army, and then ordered Chen Mang to pay homage to him. But Chen Mang already knew what Zheng Tai's subordinates had happened and refused to wait for death. He actually resisted the order and led the Right Tiger Guard to publicly rebel.

Chen Mang raided and occupied the port of Xiamen. Many Ming generals led their troops to meet with Chen Mang and fought against Zheng Jing's army side by side. Soon, the rebels exceeded 20,000. Seeing that the rebels were in great power, Zheng Jing did not immediately launch a suppression, but sent people to persuade them to surrender.

While bargaining with Zheng Jing, Chen Mang and others secretly prepared food and grass and Danshui, and escaped from Xiamen tonight while they were in the dark. Before leaving, they ignited all the facilities in the port.

"Go to Zhoushan." Before escaping, Chen Mang had already discussed with other defectors and completed the assembly outside the Kinmen Sea, and then raised his sails and headed towards Zhoushan.

In Deng Ming's previous life, Chen Mang, who was desperate in the Fujian Sea for several days, surrendered to the defeated general Shi Lang who had been beaten to flee by him. At this point, Zheng Chenggong's ten-year reunion, most of the heroes and heroes summoned from the four provinces surrendered to the Qing court with ships and family, allowing the Qing army in Fujian to obtain a navy that was evenly matched with Zheng Jing without any effort. Li Rutai and Shi Lang, who were originally empty-handed because of Huang Wu's ban on sea order, easily captured the impoverished Kinmen in the Zheng Chenggong era with the tens of thousands of troops. However, Li Rutai and Shi Lang still dared not attack lightly for the base camp of Xiamen, which Zheng Chenggong had been operating for nearly 20 years.

Zheng Jing also scattered Xiamen at this time. The Ming army flew to the Qing army every day and night. Seeing that Zheng Jing lost the fighting spirit of resistance, he ordered the entire army to give up Xiamen and flee Taiwan. Zheng Jing returned to Xiamen from Taiwan to Xiamen to murder Zheng Tai was to unify the power of affairs and establish his supreme authority. He did achieve this goal, and the price was to hand over all the elite soldiers and generals left by his father, hundreds of warships and the gold that he had worked hard to run to the Qing court, and he lost the absolute control of the Taiwan Strait. Zheng Tai, the general manager of the Zheng family's sea trade, and most of the partners in mainland China, Japan, and Luzon under Zheng Tai.

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At this time, in Luzhou Prefecture, Deng Ming also accepted private greetings from officials from all over the south of the Yangtze River and blessings from these Qing officials to the Ming army's martial arts.

While entertaining these officials, Deng Ming wrote a handwritten letter to Jiang Guozhu and Lin Qilong. The contents of the two letters were exactly the same: "The general of Han brought seven hundred warships and ninety thousand troops to the south of the Yangtze River, including 40,000 armor."

"Just that?" Ren Tang asked in surprise. When he saw Deng Ming writing a letter, he came over happily to take advantage of his literary advantages. The Ming army had learned that the Southeast government's attitude towards the Zhoushan Army had changed a lot recently. Ren Tang planned to denounce Jiang Guozhu and others in the letter that they had ulterior motives and betrayal. In writing manifestos, Ren Tang was confident that he could be much better than Deng Ming.

"Yes, just one sentence. Well, there are not many words, this is already too many." Deng Ming put two letters, or two notes, and threw them aside, spread the paper again, and picked up the pen and wrote: "Forty thousand armors were worn."

"Okay." Deng Ming signed his name at the end of both letters, and pressed his seal heavily, ordering the two letters to be sent to Nanjing and Huaian immediately.

Deng Ming explained to Ren Tang: "Governor Jiang and Governor Lin are two illiterate ones. They don't know the other words, so they know the two words "Pieya". Last time I signed an agreement with them, and the words were written too many words, which exceeded their literacy and understanding ability, so I don't blame them. This time my letter is simple and clear, and they will definitely understand them."
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