Section 60 The Warring States Period in Zhangzhou Bay
Jinjiang County School is very quiet on weekdays. Now it has hosted hundreds of people from the Zheng family, and it has become noisy. The sound of adults speaking and children crying and hilariously. From time to time, blue smoke from life and cooking appears in the hall.
Fortunately, the Zheng family members and shopkeepers of the Zheng group who escaped with Zheng Zhiguan, and the families of the generals have been living here since they fled to Jinjiang County. The Zheng group has a great influence in Jinjiang and Nan'an counties, and many people have industries. Therefore, the wealthy people quickly joined their relatives and friends or lived in their own villages. The people in the county school gradually dispersed. However, the people from the distant outer branches who escaped from Anping City, the families of middle and lower-level personnel, the separated servants, the friends and personal soldiers, and had nowhere to go. They were waiting here to return to Anping.
Just as we entered the hall behind the county school, there were hundreds of people in the hall, wing rooms and yards, many of them were dark-skinned black soldiers, and many were Japanese warriors with sarcasm.
After Tontaro and his men escaped from Kinmen Island with Zheng Sen, they did not dare to stay on the shore for a long time. Tontaro was a foreigner after all and was not very familiar with the geography of the coast, so they took Zheng Sen to the Jinjiang County where he had been to many times and had the most familiar path.
Along the way, Tontaro hosted many scattered soldiers and fled to Jinjiang. Many Zheng family members who escaped from Jinxia and Anping were gathered in Jinjiang County.
However, Zheng Zhiguan, the highest-ranking city, seemed to have no interest in the Zheng family's heirs, and did not even have a formal visit. He just sent the servants to send some money and rice clothes, and there was no news again.
Except for Zheng Zhiguan, the Zheng group seemed to have forgotten them, and no one came to ask about Tongtaro and his group. Such indifference surprised Tongtaro: the master in the family was dead, and the young master left behind was the heir of course. Why didn't anyone support him? He initially thought that it was the other people who didn't know that Zheng Sen had taken out the tiger's mouth. So he sent people to search for the escaped members of the Eighteen Zhi, especially the "one clan" of the Zheng family, but so far, no one has come.
The scattered soldiers gathered in the county school all regarded the young master as a life-saving straw - they were all lower classes and had little savings. Once the Zheng family was finished, they became unemployed people. Of course, they all hoped that the young master could inherit the position of the head of the family, and at least they had a relationship of "sharing hardships".
Although Totaro didn't know much about the power struggle within the Zheng group, he also knew that it would be very difficult to gather the members of the Zheng family together after the commander Zheng Zhilong was gone.
Zheng Zhilong's eldest son Zheng Sen inherited his father's throne, which is fine in form. However, Zheng Sen is only seven years old this year, and anyone with discerning eyes knows that he cannot be able to rule the Zheng family through the crisis.
When Zheng Sen ascended the throne, he would have to have strong assistants to control the situation.
Logically speaking, this is a good opportunity to help the princes with the emperor to help the powerful ministers of the young master usurp power and act majestic. There are many examples in China and Japan. Zheng Sen should be a popular celebrity, but he did not expect that no one would care about it.
Even Zheng Zhilong's brothers did not express their intention to assist him as his nephew. Only Zheng Zhifeng sent someone to send Qian Mi, saying that Anping, Kinmen and Xiamen had become rubble and could not be settled for a while. They could only complain that they would continue to live in the county school. Then they had no choice but to leave. After all, Totaro was a foreigner and could not do anything about it.
These days, only Matos, who survived death, came here with dozens of people from the remnants of the Black Guard, but this non-Portuguese mixed-race boy could not come up with any advice.
Now the only person Totaro can discuss is Money.
Qian Taichong was originally an ordinary case master under Zheng Zhipeng. It is said that he was from Guangdong and was recommended to make a living. Now that the master has died in battle, he has become an unemployed vagrant.
Tontaro thinks Qian Taichong is a very mysterious person. Although he is a scholar, he has dark skin and strong figure. His hands and feet are covered with calluses, and he looks like a hard-working person. Once, Tontaro saw him taking a bath with water and found that he still had many scars on his body, as if he had been on the battlefield.
But Qian Taichong almost never talked about his past events, and often sat alone in a daze. Until a few days ago, Tongtaro wanted to invite an envoy to Zheng Zhifeng as a lobbyist to have sex with Qian Taichong.
Tontaro believed that Zheng Zhifeng was Zheng Sen's uncle and one of the powerful factions of the Zheng family, so it was most appropriate for him to come forward to assist the young master. Therefore, he always wanted to convince him. But after all, he was a Japanese warrior, and it was difficult to be a lobbyist, so he fell in love with this taciturn scholar.
Qian Taichong took the money without saying a word, and he came back a few days later - he still got nothing except bringing hundreds of taels of silver.
"He is unwilling to send someone to welcome the young master?" Tontaro was extremely disappointed.
"I just say that there are ruins on Kinmen Island at present, and there are many bodies that have not been cleaned up and buried. The young master moved there and there are many inconveniences in daily life. I would like to ask the young master to rest in Jinjiang for a while."
"Bastard!" Tontaro cursed, "The master's body is not cold, they have already treated the young master like this!"
It makes sense that Tontaro is so angry, because yesterday he sent an envoy to Zheng Zhiguan and asked him to clean up a farm in Jinjiang County and let Zheng Sen and his group move in - hundreds of people living in the county school are inconvenient.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhiguan, who had accepted all Zheng's farms in Jinjiang County, refused on the name of "the thieves and bandits are not safe to live outside the city."
"It seems that the only way to find the Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai brothers..." Tontaro was at a loss.
"Aren't you trying to find them to be a slut with the tiger?" Qian Taichong said.
Tontaro was stunned. The scholar had not expressed any specific opinions so far. Now that he was willing to express his own opinions, he couldn't help but feel refreshed and quickly said, "Where is the best view of Mr.?"
"I don't think so, but even my uncle and nephew are unwilling to stand out, let alone outsiders." Qian Taichong said a little lonely, "The two brothers of the Zheng family were originally independent forces. Later, they defected to the general's command, and they borrowed the general's power. Now that the general is dead, they occupy Xiamen Island again. Maybe they plan to do their own business, and what else do they have to support the young master?"
Totaro was deeply disappointed.
"Xiamen Island has become the world of Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai brothers, right?!"
"There are now seven heroes of the Warring States Period in Zhangzhou Bay." Qian Taichong said disdainfully, "Everyone is trying to figure out their own plans, but they have nothing to do with the young master."
Just as Zheng Sen and others were learning to sit down in Jinjiang County, the captured members of the Shibazhi were fighting fiercely on the bodies of the Zheng group.
Zheng Zhifeng, the strongest, seized Kinmen Island, Zheng Zhibao occupied Xiao Jinmen Island, Zheng Lian and Zheng Cai brothers occupied Xiamen Island. Although Zheng Zhiguan was quick to escape from Anping, he heard that the thieves had withdrawn from Anping and immediately armed the farmers in his farm, and his own soldiers and servants "recovered" Anping with great fanfare.
The other Zheng family generals either surrendered to a certain force or occupied a small island in Zhangzhou Bay. Some of them were weak and could not see the wind direction, so they leaned on the shore or entered Jiulong River and Shijing River, and watched the changes. The huge Zheng group seemed to be falling apart.
Although the Zheng Group has been established in Zheng Zhilong's hands, its internal cohesion is still very weak, and it is mainly maintained by Zheng Zhilong's personal prestige. At present, the Zheng Group has suffered an unprecedented heavy blow, and the leader and a large number of backbones have died in battle. The shortcomings of weak cohesion are immediately exposed.
On this sea where there are ships and people are Caotou King, the name of Zheng Zhilong's legitimate son is useless. He has no direct strength under his name. Once Zheng Zhilong died, the remaining army, the ships and property were quickly divided by the survivors in the top management of the group. No one took him seriously except Zheng Zhilong's Black Guards and Japanese Guards.
As for the generals and shopkeepers, they are weak and can only rely on one side. It is even more impossible to place their future on a seven-year-old child.
"It's a pity that I have no soldiers." Although Totaro had only experienced one tail in the chaotic times of the Warring States Period, he knew the importance of force. However, this time the black guard and the Japanese guard suffered heavy losses. Those who died, captured, and separated were almost completely lost.
"The people who gather here now are probably willing to follow the young master." Qian Taichong said suddenly.
"How many people can there be," said Tontaro, "I have more than two hundred people under my command and Matos." Tontaro suddenly understood what Qian Taichong meant and asked:
"You mean..."
"It doesn't matter if there are few people. As long as you dare to fight, you will be stronger than the rabble." A glimmer of spirit flashed in Qian Taichong's eyes, "Besides, we may not necessarily need to fight."
Although the Zheng family group has become divided, they are still in the same clan and tribe. At present, there will be no situation of fighting between the same clan, but various forms of struggle around leadership will be inevitable. At such a moment, the number of personal soldiers is indeed a key issue, but it is by no means the main issue.
Tontaro realized that the scholar had a clear plan and was a "staffman". He was missing someone who could come up with ideas now, so he quickly said, "Please teach me Mr. Qian!"
Qian Taichong smiled, "General, you are from Japan, why should you keep the young master ascend the throne? What does the survival of the Zheng family have to do with you?"
"This is the entrusted entrusted by the general on his deathbed." Tombaro said loudly, "We were forced to leave Japan. We have been serving under the general's command for many years, and have a good life. Shouldn't we be grateful?"
"Haha, that's right!" Qian Taichong nodded, "Then I'll help you."
Chapter completed!