419. Colonize the World [1/2]
Liu Xiang was knocked down, and the pirates were immediately left without a leader. Following Zheng Zhihu onto the enemy ship, the soldiers rushed to the bow of the ship and released Zheng Zhihu from the iron-lined fishing net. This poor young man was plotted against and was hostage. Now he was full of anger and had no place to come out. As soon as he jumped out of the fishing net, he immediately waved his axe and cut several enemies into two halves. After that, he still stepped on Liu Xiang's body.
Just now, the short peace brought by Liu Xiang's hostage was immediately broken, and a new round of fierce fighting began on the sea, but Zheng Zhilong's overwhelming advantage made Liu Xiang's subordinates surrender and commit suicide.
Zheng Zhilong had time to look up at the battle situation on Yi Yun's side. He saw that the remaining five Dutch sailboats were already covered with King Jiashan's subordinates. Needless to say, there was a great victory on that side.
"Ha, I won!" Zheng Zhilong couldn't help laughing happily: "This time, our army finally won a great victory."
The setting sun is like blood!
Zheng Zhilong and Yi Yun's fleet sailed to the side of Wang'an Island together and temporarily stationed on this lonely island. After a day of cleaning the battlefield and cleaning up the mess, the surrendered Dutch soldiers are now tied into rice dumplings and thrown in the bottom cabin, intending to take them back to be used as coolies. As for Liu Xiang and his group who surrendered, Zheng Zhilong did not hold past grudges and generously took them into his army. After all, they were all old brothers of Fengyun Shibazhi, and he didn't plan to care too much.
The two of them took some time and sat down on the beach by the sea of Wang'an Island.
"Prince, all the worlds are in peace!" Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "The Netherlands is thousands of miles away from us. This time Putmans was killed by us, and the Dutch fleet stationed in Victoria Harbor should have been completely destroyed. For a long time, they should have no strength to send troops to us."
Yi Yun nodded. He had no idea where the Victorians were. He had never even heard of it. Since Zheng Zhilong said that all the troops there were destroyed, it should have been destroyed. In fact, he could roughly know some historical progress. After all, this world has many similarities with his own world. Although the Dutch looks powerful now, the real powerful one should be the British. Soon the British will defeat the Dutch and become the real empire of the sun never set. The threat from the Dutch. Just this time, there should be no more in the future.
The next trouble was the British. Yi Yun didn't want the British to come to him one day. He frowned and said seriously: "Governor Zheng, what do you think of Westerners?"
Zheng Zhilong hmmed and said, "Western people are very advanced in technology and very motivated. They actually came to our country on a sea boat, traveling thousands of miles to buy some goods. This shows that they are a group of adventurous and enterprising people. And what's interesting is that most of these Westerners who come to the East have authorization letters from kings or emperors. It can be seen that the emperors of their country also support such behavior. It seems that the whole country in the West has a long-term vision."
"Well, that's right!" Yi Yun nodded: "Western people have been studying astronomy, geography and other things. They have already gained a considerable understanding of the earth. In our big country, we still look at the land under our feet. From this point of view, our vision is indeed much behind. One looks at the problem from a development perspective, and the other looks at the problem from a conservative perspective. Even if the conservative side is stronger now, the strength will be rewritten in time."
"What does the prince mean?" Zheng Zhilong said strangely.
"I mean, we must also have a developmental vision and enterprising spirit!" Yi Yun waved and pointed to the West: "Are you interested in seeing what the West looks like?"
"Of course I'm interested!" Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "My previous goal was to take down Dayuan Island. Now Dayuan Island has been taken down by my son. I have no idea what I want to do for the time being. I can go to the West. However... I am afraid that my strength alone is not enough. If the prince can go together, then let's set off immediately."
"I can't go." Yi Yun had no choice but to spread his hands: "The Great Meng Kingdom is in chaos, the rebels in the southwest are in chaos, the Qing cavalry in the northeast are rampant, and the Japanese pirates have been put down, but the root of the Japanese pirates is still in Fusang. The emperor needs help now... I can't leave at this time!"
"What the prince meant was to ask me to go alone?" Zheng Zhilong wiped his sweat and said, "I... I'm afraid I'm not able to catch my strength."
"Although you go alone, you are not fighting alone." Yi Yun spread his hands and said, "You are not a pirate now. You are the governor of Penghu, the Great Mansion, and you are also the governor of the Grand Secretary. When you are in trouble, you are already qualified to apply for assistance from the court. And I don't plan to let you go directly to the West..."
He paused and said, "You know, the Westerners came to Dameng Kingdom thousands of miles away from each other, did not come directly at once. They defeated many small countries along the way, established ports and strongholds in these countries, and then rely on these strongholds to extend their strength step by step, and came to our Dameng Kingdom. I think what you are doing is like the Westerners, sailing west along the coastline south of Dameng Kingdom, occupying ports, building bases along the way, and moving their strength step by step to the West, and finally spreading the whole world."
Zheng Zhilong: “…”
"It sounds difficult, but it is not difficult!" Yi Yun laughed: "There are many small countries along the way that are easy to bully, such as that, Vietnam..."
"Vietnam? I haven't heard of it..." Zheng Zhilong said strangely.
"Oh, by the way, it should be called Annan!" Yi Yun smiled and said, "For a country like this, you can go to a dozen ships and bombard the coastal cities, and then you can threaten the other party's king and sign a lease agreement to let the other party rent a port for you. This is a very simple thing. Westerners have long proved it with actions. This is very effective."
"It seems inappropriate to do this. Annan is a country that is not conquered by our Emperor Taizu!" Zheng Zhilong pretended to be serious and said: "I am no longer a pirate, but an official of the court. I should abide by the rules of the court."
"Haha, you're not here. If you want to listen to Taizu's last words, I won't be friends with you. You are not such an honest person." Yi Yun laughed out loud.
"Okay, I'm not an honest person." Zheng Zhilong spread his hands and said, "But the matter of my conquering Southeast Asian countries is contrary to Taizu's legacy. Once the high officials of the court know that they will keep dragging me behind. If I am still a pirate, of course I am not afraid of them and patting them and leaving. But it's different now. I have a family, a stronghold, and an official position. If the court drags me back, rubs my official position, and captures my family, then..."
Yi Yun knew what he meant, and he wanted to help him block it. However, Yi Yun also knew that he should help him block it. After all, the person who led him to do this was himself. If he asked someone to do things, he had to help others with his affairs. This is the man's responsibility. He nodded and said, "You don't have to worry about the matter in the court. The emperor's cousin helped me, and I'm not afraid of those officials."
"Of course I know that the emperor is the one who is helping the prince!" Zheng Zhilong laughed: "I will know the agreement you gave me the emperor's seal last time. But... Prince, I have something I must remind you... What the emperor said is not as useful as you think."
"Huh?" Yi Yundaqi: "What the emperor said is useless, who said is useful?"
"Donglin Party!" Zheng Zhilong pointed to the direction of the imperial capital with his hand: "The emperor of our Dameng Kingdom is famous and does nothing. I don't need to say more about what the style of this emperor Zhu Qingqing Qingqing is. The previous emperor was named Zhu Youxiao. He only did carpenter work all day long and never did serious business. In the past, there was an emperor named Zhu Zhanji who loved to play crickets and did not do serious business. Going forward, there were people who liked piano, flags, calligraphy and painting, birds, insects, and fish, and those who liked to dress themselves up as generals to fight... In short, the emperor did not care about affairs, and all government affairs fell on the head of the civil servant group. In other words, for hundreds of years, the Dameng Kingdom has always controlled the government affairs of the civil servant group headed by the Donglin Party. Although the emperor was nominally the emperor, in fact, if the people of the Donglin Party do not cooperate, they can do nothing."
After saying so much, he was a little dry and stopped and said, "Prince, although you have the support of the emperor, if the civil servant group drags you down together, there will be a lot of trouble."
"Is that true?" Yi Yun frowned. In fact, he also knew some simple historical knowledge. In another world, the Ming Dynasty was in the hands of civil servants. The last emperor, Emperor Chongzhen, sighed: "Civil officials misled me!" Unexpectedly, in this world, the civil servant group also had a very huge strength.
"I have a eunuch party in my hand!" Yi Yun couldn't help but say, "By using the eunuch party, you can oppose the Donglin party."
"All the power of the eunuch party comes from the emperor." Zheng Zhilong said seriously: "If the emperor is not useful, the eunuch party will not be useful."
"So that's it!" Yi Yun took it seriously now, not afraid of a god-like opponent, but a pig-like teammate. If he was working hard and making progress, the Donglin Party was dragging him back, it would be really a troublesome thing.
Yi Yun has played games like dota and lol before. When he meets a teammate like a pig, he can't get a splash for a while and then block the matter after spraying. But in real life, this is not possible. Teammates don't die if they spray, and they will continue to fight you.
Chapter completed!