"Report to the Grand Governor! Yesterday, another 1,200 people came to Yuegang to join our Nanming Navy!"

In Fujian, Yuegang, the newly built Grand Governor's mansion, a young general with dark skin was straight and a strong hint of joy flashed in his serious expression. He reported to Zheng Zhilong, who was sitting on the exquisite Grand Master's chair.

"good!"

Zheng Zhilong's face is now full of redness, and he is very happy in his heart!

He had no choice but to be unsatisfied.

Since he made up his mind to surrender to the Southern Ming court half a year ago, the rewards he received far exceeded his imagination.

Originally, he was a pirate leader who had made a living with Yan Siqi, and he only had about a hundred ships of all sizes and sizes under his command. He was not bad at all.

At least it is difficult for Yan Siqi to grow and grow when he is alive, and he has been living a lukewarm life.

After learning that there had been a huge change in the north of the Ming Empire, Zheng Zhilong, who was nimble and ambitious, made a bold gambling and took his hundreds of ships of all sizes to the Southern Ming court.

When he was gambled to join the powerful people in Nanjing, the Southern Ming Dynasty was preparing for construction and had not yet been established.

However, something he could not imagine happened: the Southern Ming Dynasty court, established on March 3, did not know what medicine was wrong, but he trusted himself without reservation and appointed himself as the governor of Nanzhen, one of the four towns in Jiangnan!

This is more than just a few!

With a temptation of his own, he had to vigorously form a powerful navy to compete with Beiming, a huge surprise came again.

The powerful men of the Southern Ming court, without saying a word, added the title of Grand Commander of the Southern Ming Navy to themselves, responsible for forming and commanding all the naval armies of the Southern Ming Empire!

Not only that, even his younger brother Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao..., all the 18 Zhi brothers are either deputy generals or generals...

Even his son was so cute that he had the title of Jinyiwei Baihu at a young age!

Throughout history, I have never seen such a person who has been promoted and made a fortune.

This is the supreme glory of the Zheng family, and it can be said to be unprecedented.

Zheng Zhilong believed that it was not because the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the aristocratic family were forced too quickly by the emperor of the Northern Ming Dynasty, and would never have made such an outrageous decision.

The court only requires one, money, food, soldiers and armor, and you will not be less than Zheng Zhilong, but you must train a real elite soldier for the Southern Ming court within three months.

Whether it is the Navy or the Army, you, Zheng Zhilong, must meet the standards, otherwise, you will wait for the future to settle the score!

Although Zheng Zhilong is under pressure now, don’t forget who he is.

He is a big pirate himself!

There are not many people who are more ruthless and more good at making money than pirates.

In this era, I guess there is no better plan or money than my son Zheng Zhilong in addition to the mysterious emperor of Beiming.

Two months ago, after he completed the initial armed training of the 300,000 new army soldiers sent by the Southern Ming court, Zheng Zhilong began a series of big moves.

He immediately reported to the Southern Ming court, asking him to start a large-scale attack on and recruit various pirate organizations along the coast to share the worries and sorrows of the Southern Ming Empire.

After receiving the imperial edict from the court, Zheng Zhilong immediately asked his subordinate Shibazhi to lead an army of 10,000 to attack the coastal areas, and issued an ultimatum to all the pirates on the coast of Fujian. If they do not surrender, they will be killed without mercy!

Zheng Zhilong and his Shibazhi brothers were originally senior pirates, and they were mostly clear about the hiding place of those pirates, so they naturally had a correct chance of each one.

Facts have proved that no pirate group could withstand the crushing of the 300,000 regular troops under Zheng Zhilong, and he surrendered them one after another.

There are not just a few pirate groups that resist to the end, but very few.

Most of the pirate groups that refused to surrender were naturally killed by Zheng Zhilong.

When he was born a pirate, he certainly would not show mercy to these stubborn guys.

What's more, his biggest purpose was to destroy all the pirates on the coast, and he kept making money and make a lot of money!

It is a maritime businessman who knows how rich the profits of maritime trade are.

If you only rely on the little money from the court, how could you afford to support a army of hundreds of thousands? Look at it?

Even if he could afford it, he would be able to gain his life by those great figures from the Southern Ming court and would freely turn himself and the Zheng family army into a flat and rounded round.

That situation is definitely not what Zheng Zhilong, an ambitious pirate, wanted.

As long as my Zheng family army fully controls the trade around the coast, how much money do you want?

There is no need to do it? In the future, we will look at the faces of those big figures in the Southern Ming court?

At that time, if you have enough money and food, and you have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in your hand, you will not be able to move just by just wanting to move.

Only then can you be able to escape from the control of those who are greedy and have the foundation to truly settle down. You will no longer be afraid of any storms and will develop steadily.

At the end of April, Yan Siqi and Chu Cai Lao both announced that they had accepted the pleading, which was considered to be destroyed by Zheng Zhilong. Yan Siqi was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to serve as the general, and was appointed under Zheng Zhihu for serving.

Because of his old identity, Mr. Chu Cai took the initiative to not do this business anymore, and his subordinates were incorporated by Zheng Zhilong. He was allowed to leave his past and return to his hometown to retire. He returned to his hometown in Fujian and became a rich man.

After destroying or incorporating most of the pirates along the coast of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong, whose strength has increased sharply, extended his hand to the seas of Guangdong and Guangxi again.

The pirates from the southern Ming Dynasty's thousands of miles of seas realized that Zheng Zhilong wanted to play this time, and he had to snatch all their territory and force them to death.

Zheng Zhilong has dominated all the sea areas along the coast of Fujian, but now he has reached out to Guangdong and Guangxi?

So these people stopped doing it. After they had been in Guangdong and Guangxi for so long, they had already regarded the sea here as their own backyard. How could they allow Zheng Zhilong, an outsider, to kill them?

During the early May of the eighth year of the Tianqi revelation, Liu Xiang, Qiu Ming and other large pirates met at the Pearl River Estuary and agreed to join forces to deal with Zheng Zhilong's attack on them.

Each of these people has at least thousands of people on hand, and the few have dozens of ships. The big ones have hundreds of ships. When they come together, they are not an ordinary force.

In a short period of time, everyone gathered more than 30,000 pirates and gathered more than 700 warships.

Of course, their warships need to be drawn in quotation marks, because their warships are incomparable to Zheng Zhilong's naval warships.

On the surface, their warships have absolutely a lot, but in fact, only more than 200 of these more than 700 warships are considered large ships.

Their weapons and equipment were also uneven. There were only a small number of ships equipped with better Western cannons, while the rest of the ships were mostly equipped with some local cannons.

These people eventually elected the strongest Liu Xiang as their leader, and wanted to fight Zheng Zhilong. Either Zheng Zhilong was destroyed or driven back to the Japanese pirates to drink milk, or they failed to sink into the sand.

It is now late in early May, and during this period, the two sides have spent a lot of time confronting each other and testing each other.

Because Zheng Zhilong's subordinate Shibazhi was too tight, a war broke out at this time, and time was too tight.

Once the enemy cannot be defeated and there are not enough warships to be parked at the port, it is likely to fall into tropical rainstorms caused by the south wind during midsummer. There is no need to say much about the dangers involved.

As time passed little by little, Zheng Zhilong had built a huge shipyard and a super city with Yuegang as his base, and truly used Yuegang's area within a radius of hundreds of miles as his nest, spending a lot of manpower and material resources to build his own nest with great care.

He began to order to build warships in large quantities.

Large warships may not be too late, but small fire ships are easy.

In his new shipyard, there were hundreds of craftsmen, and there were also craftsmen apprentices whose number had reached about 1,500.

For this shipyard, two can be built in a day for marine fireboats that can carry twenty people.

Zheng Zhilong also issued a reward order in Fujian area, killing a pirate and exchanging it with his head, and he can get ten taels of silver!

It should be noted that at this time, the Southern Ming Dynasty issued a reward order, and the heads of Japanese pirates were only five taels of silver! The heads of ordinary traitors were only three taels of silver!

Zheng Zhilong also said that he would provide a fire ship at a low price. As long as he burned a pirate warship, he could get at least 100 taels of silver rewards depending on the size of the ship!

For many other rewards, if you kill or capture Liu Xiang, Qiu Ming and other bandit leaders alive, you will get a reward of at least 5,000 taels of silver, plus a rank of a hundred households!

If a bandit leader was severely injured, he would pay the money according to the situation, but at least one thousand taels were included, plus a small flag official title!

To be famous, to be profitable, a large number of pirates gathered in Kinmen and Yuegang areas to obey Zheng Zhilong's instructions.

In order to prevent them from harassing the people, Zheng Zhilong specially divided an area to station them, and recruited more than 500 pirates from them.

Nearly half of these pirates of all sizes and big callers were scattered pirates from Guangdong and Guangxi, which was icing on the cake for Zheng Zhilong.
Chapter completed!