~Date: ~October 23rd~

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Fujian, Quanzhou Prefecture

Quanzhou is the prefecture. Quanzhou Prefecture governs seven counties: Jinjiang, Nan'an, Tong'an, Hui'an, Anxi, Yongchun and Dehua. The prefecture is located in Jinjiang County. The biggest potential enemy of the Senate is that Nan'an, the hometown of Zheng Zhilong, who is like a thorn in his throat, is located in the northwest of Jinjiang County.

Since Zheng Zhilong was recruited and became a guerrilla general, and returned home in glory with glory, the Zheng family has become the richest man in Quanzhou.

The Zheng family bought a large amount of land in Nan'an and planted various export cash crops, and they were also a landlord in addition to the wheat. The Zheng family members in Nan'an naturally became prosperous and built magnificent mansions.

However, Zheng Zhilong was not satisfied with the geographical location of Nan'an. As a hero, he valued a good port more. Therefore, he chose to build a city in Anping Town, Jinjiang as his main stronghold.

Anping Town belongs to Quanzhou Prefecture. Its location is not in Quanzhou Bay flowing into Jinjiang, but is facing Weitou Bay that exposes Kinmen Island. It was called Wanhai in ancient times, but was renamed "Anhai" in the Song Dynasty, and also renamed "Anping" in the Ming Dynasty. It is not enough to have the word "An" alone, so the word "ping" was added, probably because this place is often harassed by pirates.

In the 37th year of Jiajing, the place was attacked by Japanese pirates and suffered a lot. The city wall was built since then. The plunder of Japanese pirates was so long that it was eighty years ago, but the place is still scared of talking about it.

When Zheng Zhilong was not recruited, he continued to attack Yuegang, a traditional foreign trade port in Fujian, completely destroying Yuegang's foreign trade, thus realizing the attempt of transferring the foreign trade port to Anping and Zhongzuo under his control.

He chose Anping as his base for careful consideration. Anping Town and Xiamen Island (Zhongzuosuo) under his control, the large and small Kinmen Island, formed a tightly controlled Weitou Bay. If the enemy wants to attack here, they have to take great risks.

Zheng Zhilong overhauled Anping's city wall and almost rebuilt a new city. Anping became a military stronghold and trade base for Zheng Zhilong to defend himself. Japan, and Taiwan's trade ships entered and exited here. The Dutch called these merchant ships "Anhai ships".

In addition to building the city walls and dredging the docks, his own enjoyment was not lost. Starting from the spring of the third year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong built his own mansion on a large scale in Anping, which took three years and two months to surrender.

According to the "Jiaqing Chidian Township Chronicle", Zheng Mansion is located north of Anping Bridge, and arrives from Xidao to Xigang in the west. It reaches Xilantou in the north and Anping Bridge in the south, leading to Wugang Port, covering an area of ​​138 acres. The main structure is a 5-bedroom and thirteen hectares. Three-way gate, Shuanghuo Lane and Five-entrance courtyard, wing halls, pavilions and pavilions opposite each other, and the rings are arranged as barriers. There is "Dunren Pavilion" in the east, "Taiyun Tower" in the west, the front hall is "Catholic Hall" and the central hall is "Xiao Si Hall", with a large scale. Behind the large house is "Zhiyuan Garden". The surrounding walls are protected by hills and valleys, pavilions, temples, ponds, small bridges, winding paths, beautiful trees, and strange flowers and plants.

At this moment, this luxurious mansion is still under intense construction. Zheng Zhilong and his family are temporarily living in a smaller mansion in Anping Town.

Zheng Zhilong was in his own house at this time. Although the Senate was obsessed with this person, few people noticed that Zheng Zhilong was not very old: he was born in 1604, and in 1631 he was only twenty-eight years old. After Siqi's death, he accepted Yan's old subordinates. He was only twenty-one years old at that time. If he was placed in the old time and space, he would be a genuine "young talent" and "the top ten outstanding young people".

In 1631, Zheng Zhilong had already destroyed most of his rivals: including Li Kuiqi, who had once almost forced him into a desperate situation. He completely controlled his trade with Japan and forced his former employer, the coachman of the Dutch, to trade according to his conditions. At this time, he had a huge fleet that was terrifyingly powerful in the Chinese Sea and monopolized trade with Japan and Taiwan: the words "a day to make a fortune" and "a rich man who can compete with a country" are not exaggerated. The authentic Ming Dynasty was "high, rich and handsome". Zheng Zhilong was also a handsome man with beautiful eyes.

He scooped a document in his hand.

The document was brought by a Zheng family merchant ship that returned from Taiwan a few days ago (the person who wrote a letter was Zheng Zhilong's agent in Taiwan: Guo Huaiyi.

Guo Huaiyi's identity is the leader of Han immigrants in Tainan. On the surface, he is just the village chief of the local immigrant village, the village chief of the local immigrant village. In the meantime, Guo Huaiyi was once a subordinate of Zheng Zhilong, and he was a leisure chess game he left in Tainan.

Zheng Zhilong's success has a lot to do with inheriting Yan Siqi's legacy. Taiwan's power is also one of the legacy left by Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi was the sea lord who was circulating in China and Japan at that time, engaged in trade and plunder. At that time, he had ten main leaders, including Yang Tiansheng, Zhang Hong, Lin Fu, Lin Yi, Li Junchen, Chen Zhongji and Zheng Zhilong.

Like many famous sea owners at that time, Yan Siqi used Japan as his main base. As the authoritarian authority of the shogunate continued to increase, Yan Siqi planned ahead and considered establishing his own base outside Japan.

There are many options for establishing bases on islands along the coast of China, but the remaining power of the Ming Dynasty still existed, and its military power did not decline to the point where it was vulnerable later. Islands on coastal areas such as Fujian and Zhejiang could not be grasped - Shuangyu is the lesson of the past. Even Penghu. The Dutch built a base several times and were expelled by the Ming army several times, so they could only choose Heng's isolated island - "a place where the transformation is beyond", Taiwan came into their sight.

In 1624, Yan Siqi led his subordinates and immigrants to Beigang, established camps in the local area, and recruited Zhangzhou and Quanzhou immigrants from the mainland to open up and reclaim them here. In September of the following year, Yan Siqi was said to have died of a cold while hunting in Zhuluo Mountain.

Yan Siqi's sudden death was quite suspicious, but no matter what, Zheng Zhilong, who was only 21 years old, inherited Yan Siqi's position as leader and obtained most of Yan Siqi's inheritance.

After Zheng Zhilong inherited Yan Siqi's chief position, he did not put a lot of effort into Taiwan's expansion and cultivation. The Dutch's power in Taiwan expanded very quickly, and the Spaniards also made a fuss: in 1626, the Spanish built the city of San Salvador near Keelung. Two years later, Spain built the city of San Domingo in the current Tamsui. Zheng Zhilong was in constant war with major joint forces and was unwilling to

Yiduo wades into the muddy waters and once decided to give up his immigration base in Taiwan and withdraw back to Fujian. Later, he gave up this idea and continued to operate Taiwan. In 1628, southern Fujian suffered a severe drought and was very hungry. Zheng Zhilong, with the support of Xiong Wencan, recruited tens of thousands of disaster victims in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places. "People give three taels of silver and three give one cow" and transported it to Beigang by sea to reclaim land and settle down. It greatly expanded the number and power of Fujian immigrants in Taiwan.

However, from the beginning to the end, Zheng Zhilong never sent armed forces to Taiwan, nor did he clearly declare his ownership of Taiwan. He only supported the leaders of Taiwan and Fujian immigrants to remotely control the local immigrant villages through them - but he has not interfered in local affairs much over the years. The Dutch collected the poll tax from the Chinese, and he did not interfere.

Through the local reclaimer, Zheng Zhilong continued to control Beigang, the earliest landing and development area for mainland immigrants. Guo Huaiyi, who was in the Dutch-ruled area, wrote to him almost every month to report the local situation. As a local Chinese leader, Guo Huaiyi had to rely on him for many of the local administrative affairs, so Zheng Zhilong knew almost everything about the Dutch's local actions and trade conditions.

The Dutch secretly colluded with Liu Xiang, and he had already mastered the information he provided for his support, but now, he still cannot make up for his determination to turn against the Dutch.

The Dutch are both the rats, and they are both half-hearted towards Liu Xiang, and they will never really work hard - their only goal is to be good at both sides and maintain the checks and balances on the sea. If they turn against each other immediately, they will only force the Dutch to stand openly on their opposite side.

Although Zheng Zhilong was not afraid of the strength of the Dutch - he taught the Dutch a few years ago - he was not a person who enjoyed war after all: he was first and foremost a businessman. If the Dutch really stood opposite him and tried his best to support Liu Xiang on the ship and cannon, it would cause him great trouble.

Guo Huaiyi's letter mentioned that it was not the Dutch: his report was about the Australians.

The letter mentioned that he learned from the Dutch and local natives that last month, on the third day of September, the Australian fleet suddenly arrived at the Dog Harbor and then landed in the Dog Harbor. He transported a large number of people and supplies to the shore and had already built forts and hamlets in the local area. It seemed that there was an attempt to reclaim locally.

Zheng Zhilong is not unfamiliar with Australians or thieves. A few years ago, he knew that Australian goods and Australians - Li Siya had reported them to him and presented several rare "Australian goods". Although they were quite mysterious, there were many strange things - such as the huge iron ship.

However, it is the opposite of the Senate: The Senate regards him as a major concern, but Zheng Zhilong does not take them seriously: Australians are entrenched in Linggao - the Guangdong Ocean is not his sphere of influence, and he has no intention of extending his hand there for a few years. He has been busy dealing with various opponents who compete with him on the sea. The Australians in a corner of the vast, east and west sides do not threaten him, and even a thorn on Zhu Cai's back.

It was only last year that the Australians defeated the army of Guangdong Province and then entered the mouth of the Pearl River to defeat the official army and rushed to the city of Guangzhou before retreating. This made Zheng Zhilong really pay attention to them for the first time. At least, the other party was a team that was not inferior to him in terms of strength and will. He began to focus part of his attention on this group of Henglai Guests who claimed to be descendants of the Song Dynasty. (To be continued., (shuhaige.) vote for recommendation, monthly votes,,.

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