At the end of June, Chen Mang led more than 20,000 Fujian soldiers to Zhoushan. History is really helpless. Both Zheng Zanxu and Chen Mang were heroes in Zheng Chenggong's victory in Xiamen. Zheng Zanxu followed his father Zheng Tai to intercept Dasu, who was trying to retreat at sea, and Chen Mang even defeated ten, making the northern line safe. But in Deng Ming's previous life, all of these people defected to the Qing court, becoming the sea barrier of the Qing army, breaking the Zheng family's control over the Taiwan Strait. Chen Mang even followed Shi Lang as the general of the navy after the Three Feudal Rebellion, becoming the last Han resistance force on Taiwan.

Tens of thousands of Fujian soldiers recalled the thrilling past two months, full of hatred for their former bosses. After a little calming down, the Ming army who had arrived in Zhoushan also cursed with Zheng Xi, Zheng Zanxu and others. Now perhaps Jin and Xia regard them as traitors, but these people were also filled with the anger of being betrayed. However, because Gan Hui and others were present, all the guilt was naturally pushed to Zheng Jing's confidant, and they became traditional anti-traitors and not against the tyrants. The Fujian soldiers who arrived in Zhoushan were panic and had extremely chaotic thinking. There were Gan Hui and others who were determined to fight with Zheng Jing, and there were Zheng Zanxu who was gritting their teeth with hatred. Most of them had no idea. Whatever the generals in their loyalty chain would do what they would do.

For the commanders of the tens of thousands of Fujian troops, they also urgently need a new source of loyalty chains so that they can rely on them. Gan Hui, Yu Xin, and Wan Li don’t have many troops, just rely directly on Zhang Huangyan, but now there are as many as 40,000 Fujian troops who fled, and more than 800 ships of all sizes, which are stronger than the troops of Zhang Huangyan and Ma Fengzhi, and their factions are very complicated. Fortunately, no one of them is trying to launch another war of unity, or the idea is not yet mature, so they can only argue in chaos and wait for Zhang Huangyan to come back.

At this time in Xiamen, the 21-year-old Prince of Yanping and the acting general Zheng Jing were standing in the palace of his father in Xiamen. The letter of mourning had been sent to Myanmar. As long as the court replied, Zheng Jing would officially inherit his father's title and official position. Deng Ming from Sichuan was jealously young, but he only received the title of Duke when he was twenty-three years old. Now the title of Ming Dynasty has been depreciated very well, but the name of the prince is still valuable. For example, the prince of Shu King Liu Zhen has not been approved by the court for permission to inherit the title. Until now, he is still in the name of the prince of Shu. It seems that the court will forget about this matter if it drags on it.

But the court would almost impossible for the court to reject Zheng Jing's request, so Zheng Jing would definitely ascend the throne when he was younger than Duke Bao. After all, he already had a large area of ​​territory and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. If two months later, the prince of Yanping would have stronger troops, and at that time he inherited all his father's army almost intact.

The guards stood at the door from afar, and no one looked inward. For the whole morning, the prince of Yanping did not come out, nor even sat down to work, but often got up and walked around the table, and sighed from time to time. Today, the prince of Yanping did not summon any confidants or subordinates to discuss matters, and the next major plan was nothing to change. The army and officials of Xiamen Island who obeyed the prince of Yanping were busy preparing for evacuation.

With Zheng Jing's current identity and the right to decide on everything big and small, he could take big steps and step on the floor to shock his subordinates. But Zheng Jing did not do so. He walked gently to the gate of the royal palace, stood among the guards on both sides, and silently looked at the blue sky and white clouds above Xiamen.

After more than ten years of operation by Zheng Chenggong, there are not only many warehouses, a solid defense system composed of fortresses, outposts and fences, but also properly maintained ports and roads that are constantly repaired. There is also the largest shipyard in East Asia. The good wood purchased by Zheng Chenggong from Nanyang will be quickly processed into warships or merchant ships here.

The entire Xiamen island is also protected by many maritime outposts. Even on the mainland coast controlled by the Qing army, the Ming army also arranged hidden secret posts, and many detailed works of the Ming army are hidden in the yamen in the coastal areas - all of which are the confidence of the Ming army to dare to station in places so close to the mainland.

But now all this must be given up. Zheng Jing's eyes returned from the sky and looked down at his toes: Two years ago, the nineteen-year-old Zheng Jing was entrusted by his father for the first time to take charge of more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Jinxia, ​​taking care of the mountains of gold, silver, grain, gunpowder and other materials stored in the warehouse, protecting important factories and surrounding port outposts. In order to complete this work, Zheng Jing needed to read dozens of information sent back from the mainland every day. Many of them would conflict with each other, and some might even be the enemy's doubt array in the old place. It needs to be carefully analyzed to eliminate the false and retain the truth, so as to infer the intention of Huang Wu and Shi Lang to attack Jinxia - if there is any.

Before leaving, Zheng Chenggong explained to his heirs that all this was not easy. At this age, the children of other gentry families were mostly indulging in love with eagles and lackeys. However, Zheng Jing certainly couldn't do it, because he was the prince of the Prince of Yanping. He had a very strict father who was full of hope for him, and asked him to immediately assume the responsibility for his family and country.

Zheng Jing thought that he had made a mistake that a young man could easily make, but he did not become a unfaithful man. If he had a son, Zheng Jing planned to train him as his heir, just like his father Zheng Chenggong carefully cultivated himself. However, Zheng Jing's father obviously had different views on this. Perhaps this mistake could be tolerated in other gentry families, and he could be covered and forgotten, but the Zheng family was not other gentry. The father had no intention of tolerating this mistake at all. He wanted Zheng Jing to apologize after he died.

Zheng Jing was unwilling to die. He was less than twenty years old and his first son was just born. Zheng Jing refused his father's request... Not long after, his father passed away. Someone pretended to pass on his father's will and wanted to use their father's disagreement to seize his property. So Zheng Jing rose up... The surroundings were full of crises. It seemed that many people were secretly discussing Zheng Jing's indecision and questioning the legitimacy of his inheritance rights. Therefore, Zheng Jing needed to establish his authority and eliminate those who might threaten his status and those who are not respectful to his authority. In order to maintain the unity of the Fujian army, Zheng Jing firmly believed that this was something that must be done, and he optimistically believed that this would not be difficult.

After taking action with the idea that long pain is worse than short pain, Zheng Jing discovered that his enemies were unexpectedly numerous. Zheng Zanxu, Zheng Xi, and Chen Mang were able to deceive so many people. Traitors and half-hearted people emerged in waves. Every day, people came to report and new people tried to rebel. During the most tense days, Zheng Jing couldn't sleep for a few hours at night, and kept getting up to meet the whistleblowers who came to the palace to ask for their meeting, and then sent a team of loyal troops to suppress and quell the rebellion.

But there were more and more rebellions, and the ships outside the port were decreasing every day. Even after Chen Mang and others escaped, the rebellion of the establishment disappeared, but the escape in groups of three or three did become more and more intense. The harder Zheng Jing tried to capture all the black sheep that deceived the morale of the army, the wider the distribution of these people was. Even if Zheng Jing ordered the ships to be taken care of, it was useless. Every night, Ming soldiers fled from Xiamen with wooden boards. If they had good water, they would just swim directly to Tong'an.

More than 40,000 people fled by boat, and two or 30,000 people crossed the sea to join the Qing Dynasty. Most of the island guard posts around them didn't say hello, and even the people and the boat disappeared. Now the Kinmen is empty. Even if they don't catch up with Zheng Zanxu, those Zheng Tai's old subordinates will never stay and wait for liquidation.

There are only tens of thousands of people left around Xiamen, of which only 5,000 soldiers are left. Not to mention the defense funds, Xiamen can hardly achieve this kind of force, even if it supports all the investigation, the early warning system can be almost impossible. And what to do to support the early warning system? In order to make the sent people more easily escape from Xiamen?

What is even more dangerous is the reaction of the Dutch. Originally, after Taiwan was lost, the Dutch had agreed to pay the transit taxes to Zheng Chenggong and allow Zheng Chenggong to dispose of all tax evasion ships. But two months ago, the Dutch refused to continue to implement the agreement. Last month, Zheng Jing took the initiative to back off and tried to negotiate with the Dutch to reduce the transit fee to a "more reasonable" level, but the Dutch representative's reaction was to refuse negotiations and set sail and leave Penghu.

Zheng Jing felt the atmosphere of war. If we want to alleviate the crisis in Jin and Xiamen, we must draw immigrants and troops from Taiwan. However, if the Dutch decides to start a war again, they will pose a huge threat to the already seriously weakened Zheng army, and may even cut off the traffic in the Taiwan Strait. Zheng Jing's speculation is actually similar. The Dutch left Penghu were all ecstatic. They believed that the demise of the Fujian army was approaching, and they were eager to discuss how to persuade the Batavian parliament to join the Qing court.

If Zheng Chenggong was experienced in many battles, he would have the confidence and courage to meet this challenge, just like he did in the Xiamen Sea War. Even if the Qing court gathered the whole country, Zheng Chenggong would not be afraid as long as he fought in Xiamen. However, Zheng Jing, who was just in his early twenties, did not have such courage - perhaps this was also a kind of self-knowledge. Zheng Jing had ordered the remaining population in Xiamen to Taiwan and burn warehouses, ports, shipyards, outposts, and fortresses as much as possible.
Chapter completed!