Zhu Bao was stunned when he heard Zhu Hongyi say this and asked, "Dad, why are you afraid of the King of Qin? Isn't there a prince?"

Zhu Hongyi looked at the second son in front of him. Zhu Bao was tall and tall, but his political awareness was completely incomparable to his brother Zhao Hu. Even after Zhao Hu married Zhu Luo, he was not far away from the crown prince Zhu Hai, but the second brother was not like this, and he completely turned to Zhu Hai.

Zhu Hongyi looked at his second son and said, "You are counting on the prince, what if the prince can't take office?"

This sentence is beyond Zhu Bao's ability to understand, "What? Can't you get to power? Dad, is His Majesty the Emperor ready to depose the prince?"

"No, I said what if? Our whole family is tied to the prince. What if the prince can't take office?"

Zhu Bao then realized that his father was making a big fuss, so he felt relieved and whispered: "Dad, you are worried too much. Your Highness, the prince is kind, I know what you are worried about! Isn't it just that you are not clear, giving people a sense of mystery. But Dad, if you think so, if you don't express your attitude, will the prince think that we are on two boats?"

Seeing that his son was still full of reason, Zhu Hongyi cursed: "You know nothing. If you don't mess up, with your father's merits, you will be a hereditary prince in the future. But now you are trapped in. If it is not the prince who comes to power, our family will immediately have trouble!"

Zhu Bao saw that his father was so timid and afraid, and knew that his father was old and worried too much. But he didn't think so. In the history of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, are there few princes who were deposed? What's more, Zhu Bao didn't want to be a rich man and live a mediocre life. Now it's a chaotic world. He also imagined the famous generals in history, Fenglangjuxu!

Zhu Hongyi saw Zhu Bao's indifferent look and knew that he had not listened to his words. He was about to persuade his son, but Zhu Bao bowed and said, "Dad, my son is going to patrol the night, I'll go back first!"

Zhu Hongyi looked at Zhu Bao who was returning to the cabin and sighed, there was nothing he could do.

Zhu Hongyi stood at the bow of the boat and blew the sea breeze. There was no choice but to return to Zhu Hongsan to serve on duty.

Zhu Hongsan was reading a book in the cabin. When he looked up and saw Zhu Hongyi coming back, he asked, "Brother, are you going to find the second brother?"

Zhu Hongyi knew that he had Zhu Hongsan's secret spy on the Jinyiwei around him, and he didn't want to hide anything from Zhu Hongsan. He heard Zhu Hongsan ask the truth and said, "Your Majesty, I went to see Zhu Bao just now!"

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Hehe, it seems that your dick didn't listen to you!"

Hearing Zhu Hongsan say this, Zhu Hongyi nodded helplessly.

"Brother, you have been with me for half a lifetime. As long as I live for one day, I will ensure that everything in your family is safe. As for the funeral after death! Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Why do you think so much after closing your eyes?"

Zhu Hongyi heard Zhu Hongsan say lightly, but he could think so easily, but he couldn't say these words to Zhu Hongsan. He could only nod and agreed with Zhu Hongsan's words.

Although Zhu Hongsan enlightened Zhu Hongyi, he was not very comfortable. Zhu Jiang first proposed to go out to fight with him, but he thought that Zhu Jiang wanted to go out to see the world, but he didn't think of anything else. But in the afternoon, Tong Yangjia took action to deal with Zhu Jiang, which made Zhu Hongsan suddenly realize that Zhu Jiang and himself were not seeing the world, but were preparing to gain military merit qualifications. This means that the second son Zhu Jiang also thought about his position.

Zhu Hongsan is now sure that this is Ma Ruyan’s meaning. She wants her son to participate in the battle for the throne. But Zhu Hongsan doesn’t know whether this is Ma Ruyan’s intention to make a temporary decision or Ma Jiyuan’s meaning.

Zhu Hongsan thought of the Taoist scholar Ma Jiyuan. In the past, the boss of the Ma family could have always appeared to maintain the Taoist throne. The establishment of the legitimate and the eldest son has always been Ma Jiyuan's life creed. But now it is different from before. In recent years, Ma Jiyuan was suppressed by his younger brother Ma Mingyuan. At that time, the four major strategists, except him, entered the cabinet, and only he was a local official in Nanyang. This time, Zhu Hongsan's decision to Ma Jiyuan as the governor of Zhili was also a kind of compensation for him.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and couldn't understand what Ma Jiyuan was thinking, so he decided to ask him when he arrived in Zhoushan. When Zhu Hongsan thought of this, he stopped thinking about it and went to bed under Cao Fang's service.

The Pearl River Estuary is 3,000 miles away from the Zhoushan Islands in Zhejiang. If it is a merchant ship, it only takes ten days to travel. However, the Guangdong Navy's large fleet must take into account the speed of all ships in the fleet. Zhang Quan estimated that it would take half a month to arrive at the fastest. There were also a large number of supply ships in the fleet, and one quarter of them had to go to Chaozhou Prefecture to hand over to Qian Yong's First Division, so it was expected to take twenty days to arrive in Zhoushan, and there would be no emergencies along the way.

What Zhu Hongsan was most worried about was the Zheng family forces in Fujian. Zheng Chenggong was beaten by the Qing Dynasty half a year ago and was looking for teeth. He hurried on dozens of islands around Kinmen. If there was no external help, he could only last for a year and a half. This was the case in history. Zheng Chenggong had no way out in the end, so he led his fleet to occupy Penghu and defeated the Dutch and occupied Taiwan.

However, in this time and space, Zheng Chenggong is far from being as embarrassed as in history. Major merchants in Guangdong secretly had contacts with the Zheng family for gold and silver, and they dared not transport weapons, gunpowder, etc., and other daily necessities were not affected. Zhu Hongsan had a good impression of this national hero who regained Taiwan in history, so he also turned a blind eye to the business dealings with the Zheng family.

In this way, Zheng Chenggong waited for the opportunity. Anyway, Zheng Chenggong became the biggest beneficiary. After receiving the news that Li Chengdong had been correct, Zheng Chenggong immediately sent troops to occupy the two prefectures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou near Kinmen. At this time, Li Chengdong accepted Tong Tuchang's suggestion and led the army to take over the title of Emperor Shenwu, went north to occupy the countryside of Zhejiang, and the two counties of Suichang, and acted as if he wanted to fight the northern expedition.

Zheng Chenggong also had a few capable people under him. After he occupied the two palaces of Zhang and Quan, he immediately listened to Chen Yonghua's suggestion and sent a memorial to Guangzhou's Emperor Shenwu Zhu Hongsan, indicating that he occupied the two palaces only to support the army. He hoped that Emperor Shenwu had temporarily borrowed two palaces from the Ming Dynasty to him. At the same time, he pointed out in the memorial that as long as Emperor Shenwu defeated Emperor Yongli, Zheng Chenggong immediately changed his flag and changed his flag and surrendered to Zhu Hongsan.

Zheng Chenggong's little thoughts on both ends of the head and rat can be hidden from Zhu Hongsan. However, Zhu Hongsan's main task now is to go north to Nanjing. As long as he occupyes Nanjing and worships Xiaoling in front of Yongli, his legality will be guaranteed. At that time, no matter what Zheng Chenggong thinks, the saliva of scholars in the world can drown him.

Although Zhu Hongsan didn't take Zheng Chenggong seriously, Zheng Chenggong was a big force on the East Asian sea, and it would be difficult to find trouble for him. So after Chaozhou Prefecture unloaded the supplies for Qian Yong, Zhu Hongsan ordered all the fleet to enter a combat state and be ready to fight the Zheng family fleet at any time.

After passing Chaozhou Prefecture, it was Zhangzhou Prefecture. Entering the Zheng family's sphere of influence, the Guangdong Navy became more and more cautious. After passing Zhenhaiwei, Zhu Hongsan suddenly found several Zheng family ships in the distance.

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhang Quan beside him: "Zhang Quan, look at whose boat it is?"

Zhang Quan grinned and said, "Your Majesty, don't look at it. That's the Zheng family's fleet. In Fujian, no sea boat would be able to pass without the Zheng family's sun and moon flag!"

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect that the Zheng family would still have such awesome spirit to this level, and asked: "The Zheng family is so down and so arrogant now. What is it like in the Zheng Zhilong era!"

"Your Majesty, when Zheng Daguan was still alive, the entire Ming Dynasty sea border would have to obey the orders of their Zheng family. No one could travel on the sea without the Zheng family's Sun and Moon Banners. Even the Spaniards and Dutch people in South China have to pay protection fees!"

After hearing Zhang Quan tell the glory of the Zheng family back then, Zhu Hongsan sighed: "No matter how big the power is, if it is gone, it will be a rootless Ping! Zhang Quan, do you think your fleet can defeat the Zheng family?"

Zhang Quan's eyes lit up and said, "Your Majesty, don't need all warships. Just give me five first-class warships and ten second-class warships. I promise to capture Kinmen and destroy the Zheng family!"

"Oh? Are you so confident?"

"Your Majesty, the Zheng family's fleet is a large number, several times more than us, but their tactical thinking is still on the battle of the Jump Gang. And I heard from Lieutenant Colonel Anthony that in their country, this kind of Jump Gang was already behind a hundred years ago, and hundreds of battleships in the Spanish Invincible Fleet were defeated by the British new tactics. Our warship tonnage, firepower, range, and tactics are above the Zheng family. If you can't win, you can't go home and hold your children!"

Zhu Hongsan heard Zhang Quan say with great sarcasm and said with relief: "You guy used to say he didn't want to learn the enemy's tactics, but why do you say that now?"

Zhang Quan scratched his head embarrassedly, "Your Majesty, I looked down on these defeated generals at that time, but some of their things are still worth learning from. Your Majesty often says, "Learn from the strengths of the barbarians to control the barbarians", so I think it is not embarrassing to learn from their strengths!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded, patted Zhang Quan on the shoulder and said, "Zhang Quan, I am very pleased that you said that. You will definitely grow into a famous general!"

Zhang Quan, who received the praise from Zhu Hongsan, giggled. At this time, the Guangdong Navy fleet had already arrived at the sea outside Kinmen, and could vaguely see Kinmen Island. Perhaps the huge fleet here also saw the Kinmen side, sending ten large ships worth 500 tons to follow the Guangdong Navy from afar.

Zhu Hongsan saw the Zheng family boat ten miles away and said to Zhang Quan: "Give them some colors!"

Zhang Quan asked, "Your Majesty, how many ships are going to sink? But their ships are far beyond our range!"

"No, let them see our firepower!"

Zhang Quan went down to pass the order, ordering all warships to line up the battle lines and fired all artillery three times.

The messenger fired the flag words, and all the gunships began to enter a state of combat, and fired three times at the Zheng family fleet. The largest artillery of Guangdong Navy was the twenty-four-pound artillery, with a range of five miles, but there was no guarantee of accuracy in this range. However, even this scared the Zheng family fleet to stop from afar, and watched the Guangdong Navy go away and never follow.
Chapter completed!