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Section 3 Signals (Part 2)

Deng Ming briefly introduced Zhang Huangyan’s strategy of occupying and dealing with him: “Originally, we would not care about the life and death of the Southeast Governor, but since they compromised with us, they gradually found that they could not ignore their requests.”

Jiang Guozhu firmly opposed the war in Jiangnan, but if the Qing court changed his face and wanted to kill him, Jiang Guozhu would need the protection of the Ming army. Deng Ming assured him that the Ming army would try his best to avoid fighting on his territory, and would also provide help when Jiang Guozhu was desperate, at least allow him to take refuge in Sichuan as a reward for his subscriber for the national debt of the Ming Dynasty War.

"So your statement is to not cut off the canal transportation?" Zhang Huangyan already fully understood what Deng Ming was going to do.

"It is precisely because you are afraid of weapons. Only when the weapons are still intact can others be taboo." This time, Deng Mingzhi's weapon was the canal transportation. In the past, Deng Ming used similar methods to force Qing court officials to pay for city expenses. He was already extremely skilled in operating such things: "Jie Shu dare not say that young people are ignorant, but Ebilong and Li Guoying will definitely be able to detect my kindness."

"Good intention..." Zhang Huangyan glared at Deng Ming: "It seems that King Jieshu of Tartar is not a few years younger than Admiral Deng, right? It is obvious that young is not a reason to be ignorant." In addition, Zhang Huangyan also felt that Deng Ming's words were too literary. Isn't it just a meat ticket? Of course, he had to provide delicious food and drink first. Wouldn't he get the ransom if he tore the ticket? Zhang Huangyan suddenly thought that the kidnappers were always very trustworthy. He glanced at the young man in front of him who was known for his trustworthiness and trustworthiness, and the word "empire" he liked to verbally. Zhang Huangyan, who had some understanding, had a thought in his mind: "It seems that Mr. Shunshui is also futile."

After listening to Deng Ming's narration of his strategy, Zhang Huangyan talked about the incident of a large number of Fujian soldiers fleeing to Zhoushan, which made Deng Ming shook his head repeatedly.

"A real man is bound to be unvirtuous and his son is not virtuous." Deng Ming was in a good mood, but was conquered by the news brought by Zhang Huangyan. According to Zhang Huangyan, Zheng Xi and others estimated that the defection of the Fujian army might continue. Zheng Jing started to clean up because of guilt, but as a result, everyone was in danger and fled in large areas. This may lead to Zheng Jing being even more guilty, so that everyone looks like a traitor. Deng Ming felt that this possibility was very high. Jin and Xiamen had more than 100,000 military and civilians, some of whom might escape to Zhejiang by boat, but a large number of them could not escape from Fujian because of lack of transportation. Then they would inevitably surrender to the Qing Dynasty: "How does Zhang Shangshu plan to explain this to Zheng Jing?"

"Of course I'm trying to persuade him to calm down," Zhang Huangyan even wanted to suggest that Zheng Jing exile his suspicious subordinates in Zhoushan. Zheng Jing, the soldiers who had gathered from all over the world, didn't want Zhang Huangyan, but he thought about it and knew that Zheng Jing could not agree to this condition. Even if he killed everyone, he would never get a good deal. " "These people who have fled to Zhoushan are certainly under the protection of our official, and they will definitely not return them to him."

"What if Zheng Jing sent troops to attack?" Deng Ming asked back.

"He wouldn't be unwise, right?" Zhang Huangyan felt that as a large number of Fujian troops poured into Zhoushan, Zheng Jing no longer had the strength to cross the sea to attack Zhoushan, and Zhang Huangyan was also an ally of Zheng Jing's father for many years. At the beginning, because of the issue of supporting King Lu, Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong had a very tense relationship, but even though both sides accused each other, Zheng Jiansheng did not try to solve Zhang Juren, who was much weaker than him. On the contrary, while Zheng Jiansheng scolded Zhang Juren for not knowing the general situation, he also gave him material help and military coordination.

"He can even make the nobles of Guo so angry that they forced the army that the nobles of Guo so hard to rebel. What else can't be done? The little prince of the Zheng family is still young and not very sensible." Deng Ming felt that Zheng Jing might be in a panic now. He looked at the people around him and felt like a thief. He felt that everyone wanted to be unfavorable to him. At this time, people were the easiest to do things that were not calm: "The little prince of the Zheng family must calm down and give him time to learn from his mistakes."

Although I felt a little distressed, Deng Ming still made a decision: "The Academy will grant me full military and diplomatic power. Well, Shangshu Zhang might as well write a letter to Xiamen, and I will pay the money for these defected ships, and the defected officers and soldiers I rented or borrowed from Prince Zheng."

Zhang Huangyan stared at Deng Ming for a while: "Does Admiral Deng know how much money will be spent?"

"I just sold some bonds, and I took some money to pay it back at the same time. After a few round trips, Prince Zheng's fire disappeared. I found some old ships and broken sails. I think I could save a lot of money." Deng Ming did it as soon as he said, and asked someone to get a piece of letter paper, picked up a pen and wrote to Zheng Jing: "I remember Prince Zheng's family asked to inherit the surname of the country, the throne of the county prince, and the rank of the general, right?"

Deng Ming called the other party the Prince of Yanping in the letter and recruited General Zhu (Jing), who was very polite to express the tension in the war in Zhejiang, so he hoped to lend him some warships and generals, officers and soldiers to fill in the names of Zheng Xi, Zheng Zanxu, and Gan Hui. Deng Ming still left a long blank behind so that Zhang Huangyan could continue to fill in the lives of the soldiers and generals.

"Okay." Deng Ming handed the letter to Zhang Huangyan, hoping that the other party would sign with him: "After seeing this letter, the little prince of the Zheng family has a step forward to step down. He can still rely on the compensation for money, and probably won't be angry to hit us."

"Even so, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver cannot escape. The Lion in Xiamen may even ask us for millions of taels of silver." Zhang Huangyan said, and signed his name at the end of the letter.

"Is there a more suitable deal for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of ships? I admit it even if it is million taels. Don't worry, Zhang Shangshu, no matter how much money I need, I will pay the money for Zhoushan in full." Deng Ming took the compensation package for Zheng Jing to himself, and said to Zhang Huangyan: "A person cannot be resurrected when he dies, and the country cannot be resurrected. For our own people, we must always tolerate things that are painful and the enemy is happy.

"Only those who are kind can make things small." Zhang Huangyan sighed lightly.

"Just work together." Deng Ming smiled and said, "Shangshu Zhang has been awarded too much."

"I'm not praising you," Zhang Huangyan said here, slightly stunned, and asked Deng Ming: "Do you know who said this?"

Deng Ming shook his head, and Zhang Huangyan smiled bitterly: "Asia Sheng." At the same time, another sentence appeared in his heart: "Last time, Duke Baoguo couldn't even understand "Qingzhou's business". I knew that his teachers were all ignorant people, but I didn't expect that they would reach this point. However, Duke Baoguo was generous and would have been unable to get out of Taiwan if he had been others, but he didn't care."

"Thank you for your advice." Deng Ming did not take it seriously at all. He did not think it was amazing that he had never watched "Mencius" or guessed that Zhang Huangyan was secretly ashamed of his enlightenment teacher.

After determining his strategy and attitude towards Fujian, Zhang Huangyan once again turned the topic back to the issue of canal transportation.

Now, Zhang Huangyan has given up the idea of ​​persuasion with all kinds of strange ideas about Deng Ming. When he first met Deng Ming at the city of Nanjing, he heard the other party sternly question Lang Tingzuo for "Is it worthy of the emperor and the court" and Zhang Huangyan was so shocked that he couldn't speak. Later, when Deng Ming sold the same conditions to Lang Tingzuo and Jiang Guozhu 500,000 taels of silver each, Zhang Huangyan felt that his cheeks were burning... Later, there were many, many... And now, when Deng Ming talked about threatening the grain transportation to demonstrate to the Qing court, and then expressed his kindness to the Qing court through restrained actions, Zhang Huangyan no longer felt anything.

When listening to Deng Ming's introduction of his ideas, Zhang Huangyan could accept it without any obstacles, and felt that the war should be fought like this - when he opened a duty-free zone in Chongming and sent someone to suppress Deng Zongli Yamen to check the accounts, Zhang Huangyan also accepted it all at the beginning. After a while, he suddenly woke up suddenly and asked himself: "Can the war be fought like this?" Because of this inner contradiction, Zhang Huangyan tried his best to persuade Zhu Zhiyu to go to Sichuan, and he also faintly hoped that Mr. Shunshui could bring Deng Ming to the right path - and now Zhang Huangyan might not even have such reflection.

"Let the Party... General Dang stare at the entrance of the Yangzhou Canal." After Zhang Huangyan learned about the specific candidates sent by Deng Ming to camp, he looked worried: "Can General Dang control his subordinates and not rob the canal ship?"

After asking this question, Zhang Huangyan felt a little confused again: "Before I met Admiral Deng, I was definitely worried that the Party could not cut off the grain transport and could not intercept all the Tartars' grain ships and silver ships? What am I worried about now? Are I worried that the Tartars' grain ships and silver ships would not be safe all the way, and would they be robbed?"

"No problem, this is the decision of the committee." Deng Ming replied confidently. He told Zhang Huangyan that after selling the government bonds along the way, in addition to the necessary military expenditure, Deng Ming also purchased local specialties and used the golden waterway to sell and sell them. Now he has made a lot of money. Needless to say, generals like Dang Shousu, even the auxiliary soldiers brought by the Kui Dong Army, there is no problem in dividing a new set of clothes. When they return to Sichuan, everyone will divide the wealth.

If someone violates the order of the committee, he will be fined. Everyone has agreed before Liu Tichun and Dang Shousu crossed the river. If anyone robs the canal ship, he will be fined twice, and the stolen goods will be confiscated. The committee will not take him out to make a fortune next time - a suspension of the competition.

"Use the money sold for the government bonds and then divide the profits." After hearing Deng Ming say that he was going to hand over to the imperial government, Zhang Huangyan asked casually: "How to pay the money in the future? Will the imperial government in Sichuan pay it back?"

"What's the money? Is it a silver?" Deng Ming asked back in confusion: "Shangshu Zhang plans to return the money to the governors who bought the government bonds in a year?"
Chapter completed!
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