One hundred and ninety Zheng (shang)

The night before could only be regarded as a preview, and the unveiling ceremony the next day was the big day when the "Crystal Palace" officially debuted. Julie had been waiting for this day for a long time. She had already prepared a grand and gorgeous unveiling ceremony.

This was used to announce that Qionghai Trading Company had officially entered the business world of the Ming Dynasty.

For the ambition and ability of this female shopkeeper, the local merchants can only admire her. However, when they were invited to come and saw Julie happily cutting the red ribbon on the stage, announcing the official opening of Qionghai Trading Company

, the expressions on each face are still very exciting...

——All the businesses on the island have been "joined up" by this company, and several batches of money have been collected. Has the joint venture just opened its doors now?

But no matter what they thought, the unveiling ceremony was indeed a great success. All the invited guests were very considerate - local gentry and celebrities, as long as they received the invitation, all of them attended. There were even many who did not receive the invitation.

Everyone who saw the post came uninvited. I asked friends at the scene to ask me to help them walk into this magical glass house to have a look.

As a result, in the end, the number of guests far exceeded expectations, and even the large exhibition hall could not accommodate them. Julie had to change her plan temporarily and arranged the company's opening ceremony to be held in an outdoor open-air square. There were also a sea of ​​people in the surrounding squares, and there were so many people in the square.

We had already seen the lively people last night, but now we walked several miles just to see what the Crystal Palace looked like during the day?

They were not disappointed. At night, the brilliant lights in the glass hall were clearly visible; during the day, they reflected the surrounding skylight and cloud shadows. The glass material used in the exhibition hall was not completely transparent, but dark blue.

The main building is surrounded by a large area of ​​water, which forms a secondary reflection of the glass light. The architect fully considered the light and shadow effect after completion during the design. No matter day or night, this exhibition hall can be called a huge thing.

of artwork.

Fortunately, although there are many people, the order is very orderly. The local people regard this place as a palace built by Shorthair for themselves. They are satisfied to watch the fresh and lively things from a distance, and they don't dare to get close. So although this place is

There was no high wall between the palace and the surrounding environment, just a few narrow green belts, but the people stood outside the circle conscientiously, and there was no noise or other phenomena.

Among all the guests who came to congratulate me, two people were particularly eye-catching because they were not locals of Hainan Island, but had just landed from Baisha Pier this morning, which happened to be the occasion.

At that time, the management staff at the pier asked the two people for their first and last names and their purpose of visit as usual. The other party reported his home address very bluntly and also sent a name card, which almost scared the people on the pier to the ground.

One of these two people claimed to be named Zheng Zhihu, the other was named Zheng Cai, and the name cards they handed over were even more famous--Greetings, Zheng Zhilong of Nan'an!

——The Fujian Zheng Family, the most powerful maritime group in the future in the late Ming Dynasty, finally officially sent someone to deal with it.

As Zheng Zhilong, he should not have casual contact with the "short-haired bandits" - he had already accepted the Ming Dynasty's recruitment and was named the "Five Tiger Guerrilla General". Soldiers liaising with bandits, this is

Big taboo.

However, as a powerful local faction, Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates were not actually very afraid of the impeachment of officials from the DPRK and the Central Government, and the Zheng family in Fujian was not very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, so they still sent envoys. It was just slightly concealed in form -

——Zheng Zhilong’s greeting card and his two envoys acted completely as maritime merchants in their words and deeds.

After landing, I heard that an opening ceremony was being held here. The two people immediately came to congratulate politely on behalf of the Zheng Group, which surprised Julie. She didn't know how to receive it for a while. Fortunately, Professor Li Mingyuan and Pang

Yu and others immediately took over and took over the matter.

"I'm sorry. I'm an uninvited guest. I didn't prepare any gifts in a hurry. I hope you gentlemen don't take it too seriously."

The two envoys should obviously be headed by Zheng Zhihu - he is the second-largest figure in the Zheng Group and the most trusted eldest brother of Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong sent him here obviously to show that he attaches great importance to this negotiation. But until now

So far, the person who started the business was the young man named Zheng Cai. He was dressed in Tsing Yi and a square scarf, dressed as a scholar, and in the winter, he held a folding fan in his hand and shook it.

I know he is a dog-headed strategist type of character - he is very similar to Pang Yu.

Therefore, Pang Yu also pays special attention to him. The name Zheng Cai is also quite famous in history. He once controlled the Kinmen and Xiamen areas, and was canonized as Jianguo Gong by the Nanming regime. His power was once second only to Zheng Zhilong. However, he was later seized by Zheng Chenggong.

Without the territory and tribesmen, it is said that the evening scene was very desolate.

But Zheng Cai was still very young at this time, looking to be in his early twenties - the Zheng family was not very old at this time. Pang Yu remembered that Zheng Zhilong seemed to be born in the 32nd year of Wanli, which was AD 16

It was 2004, so I am only twenty-seven years old this year, so young and promising!

The man sitting next to him, Zheng Zhihu, had scars and cuts all over his face. He looked very old, but since he was Zheng Zhilong’s younger brother, he must have been in his twenties. He had been silent until he suddenly pointed at Pang Yu and made a loud sound.

said:

"I know you, you were on that big iron boat that day!"

Pang Yu laughed, he had recognized the other person a long time ago - on the four lucky boats they saved that day, this burly man had been standing on the bow of the boat. He didn't even say thank you after being rescued, and stared at him rudely.

He followed them away. However, the two ships were far apart at that time, so he had to use a telescope to see his face clearly. But the other party was able to recognize him directly with only the naked eye. This abnormal vision really made Pang Yu deeply envious.

Smiling and cupping his hands, Pang Yu said:

"We have indeed met before, so we don't doubt your identity. If it were anyone else, we wouldn't dare to believe it."

"Hey, who dares to fake my eldest brother's name card? Unless he is tired of life!"

Zheng Zhihu straightened his body and a cold light flashed in his eyes. Pang Yu, who was sitting directly opposite him, immediately leaned back involuntarily and was secretly surprised - this was probably the so-called "murderous aura". I always thought it was just an exaggerated description, but I didn't expect it.

I really feel like this. I don’t know how many lives the guy opposite had killed before he could develop this kind of temperament.

Looking next to him, old Professor Li was also frowning, as if he was not feeling well. Only Ade seemed to be calm, as he had done what he did in the detention center.

"Where's your big iron ship? Why is it missing?"

Pang Yu now understood why it was Zheng Cai who answered the question just now - this Zheng Zhihu really lacked speaking skills, and everyone was not familiar with him. How could he ask questions so directly?

Before he could think of how to respond, Ade beside him smiled and said:

"Oh? That ship is being refitted."

"Modification? What else needs to be done to modify such a good big iron ship? Is it damaged?"

Zheng Zhihu was not polite at all and kept asking questions one after another, but Ade was already prepared and was waiting for him to ask:

"It's not broken, but we are installing more artillery on it. Now the business here is relatively large, there are more cargo ships coming and going, there are too many pirates here, and the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi opposite have some... misunderstandings about us.

So we need to put a few more cannons on the ship, and if anyone dares to cause trouble with us, we’ll beat his mother up!”

Zheng Zhihu was stunned, no matter how brainless he was, he could still tell that something was not right in these words. Next to him, Zheng Cai finally found an opportunity and quickly intervened to take over the topic, lest the second boss said anything unpleasant again.

"Haha, speaking of matters related to the imperial court, when we came this time, we brought a few words to Mr. Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian..."

As Zheng Zhilong, it would be impossible for this negotiation to have no official color at all. He secretly received the support of the governor of Fujian when he sent these two envoys - there was good information between Guangdong and Fujian, and Wang Zunde sent the envoys to recruit and surrender.

Of course, Xiong Wencan already knew this. He had previously fought against Guangdong and Guangxi specifically to seize the merits of An Short Hair. For this reason, he deliberately delayed and refused to accept the imperial court's decree to promote him. Now he knows where Wang Zunde is.

If he takes action, he will definitely send someone here to test it out.

However, compared to Wang Zunde, who was in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi and handled Qiongzhou affairs with confidence, Xiong Wencan reached out here a little less uprightly. Therefore, he did not dare to send any documents, but only had a few oral messages sent to him.

"What Mr. Xiong means is that there is more than one way to serve the imperial court, and Wang Zunde is not the only governor in the world. If you gentlemen are really interested in serving the imperial court, but if Guangdong and Guangxi are not accessible, you might as well try your luck in Fujian. Mr. Xiong is extremely talented.

Reasonable, I, the Zheng family, can prove this."

——As the governor of Fujian, it is inconvenient for Xiong Wencan to take the initiative to reach out to Qiongzhou. But if the short-haired bandits on Qiongzhou Island take the initiative to surrender to Fujian, then it would be justifiable for him to intervene.

Therefore, the conditions he offered were much more generous than those offered by Wang Zunde, and they basically followed the old rules of the Zheng family: as long as the shorthairs were willing to accept a Ming official position, Qiongzhou Prefecture would still be considered Ming territory. As for the specific location of this group of shorthairs on Hainan Island

He didn't care what he was doing - Qiongzhou wasn't under his control anyway.

This was exactly what the Travelers originally thought. Professor Li and others were indeed very interested, and immediately asked Zheng Cai for the specific operating details. After asking, they found out that it was Zheng Cai who was the one who brokered Zheng Zhilong's recruitment.

——He is one of the few scholars in the Zheng family. He also has a reputation as a scholar, has a flexible mind, and is best at this kind of negotiation.

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