Zheng Zhilong?

Liu Xingzuo still had no impression of this name, but he also knew that since Zheng Zhilong came to cooperate with him, he was Liu Peng's enemy. Both sides had a basis for mutual trust in this matter, so he did not carefully investigate the details: "Thank you, General Yan and General Zheng for their strong support. I don't know what General Yan and General Zheng will do next to let me do it."

Zheng Zhilong immediately said, "Although General Liu wants to achieve great things, his strength is too weak. It is better to recruit more soldiers. As long as General Liu has tens of thousands of soldiers, where can the world go? Who dares to underestimate General Liu?"

Tens of thousands of soldiers? Liu Xingzuo was slightly surprised. He immediately told Zheng Zhilong: "Ten thousand soldiers are not a small number!"

Zheng Zhilong immediately replied to Liu Xingzuo: "I have the ambition to achieve success. I also know that tens of thousands of soldiers are not a small number, but without tens of thousands of heroic soldiers, how can I compare with Liu Peng and Haibei Town? You should know that the 200,000 lotus demons of the Wenxiang Sect were destroyed by the Haibei Army in one day under the city of Yanzhou!"

But Liu Xingzuo said disapprovingly: "That's a mob of the lotus demon. If I have two thousand elite soldiers in my hands, it will be enough to compete with Haibei Town!"

Although Liu Xingzuo's Liaodong soldiers never integrated into the group of Haibei Army, since they were in the same place as the Haibei Army, Liu Xingzuo had a relatively intuitive and profound understanding of Haibei Town. He did not think that his Liaodong soldiers would be much weaker than the Haibei Army. He even felt that he had a complete set of tactics to deal with the Haibei Army.

But all this is that Liu Xingzuo must have his own thousands of soldiers, and Zheng Zhilong is very satisfied with Liu Xingzuo's reply: "General Liu, please rest assured that as long as General Liu climbs up the high ground and raises the flag of uprising, we will fully support General Liu!"

This is the constitution decided by Yan Siqi and the great leaders.

On the surface, there is no direct conflict of interest between Yan Siqi, the maritime force, and Liu Peng. Both sides are not invading the river. Zheng Zhilong is now running between Xu Huai to dig Liu Peng's foot. It can be said that he is seeking death by himself, but this is just a superficial phenomenon. The conflict between the Haibei Army and Yan Siqi, the maritime force, is becoming more and more intense.

Although Yan Siqi is fully managing Taiwan, the lifeblood of their maritime forces is maritime trade, especially with Japan, and raw silk trade is their lifeblood. However, the current situation is that the Haibei Army is the leader in the sea, and even the raw silk from Jiangnan must be transported to Longkou and transferred to the Tsuma Zong family.

Now Yan Siqi's biggest competitor on the sea is Haibei Town. The more proud Haibei Town is, the greater the losses they suffer. Therefore, Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong knew that they had not yet established a stable foothold in Taiwan, but they decided to dig out Liu Peng's walls at all costs and cause trouble for Liu Peng as much as possible in Liu Peng's backyard.

Liu Xingzuo was the biggest beneficiary of this policy. Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong both decided to vigorously support Liu Xingzuo, allowing him to restrain Liu Peng in the Xuhuai area, so that Liu Peng could not even leave the hands to deal with Yan Siqi.

After several words, Liu Xingzuo also confirmed that Zheng Zhilong, the ocean merchant, was indeed transporting a large amount of resources to support himself. He said happily: "General Zheng, since you regard me as a friend, I will give you some golden words!"

Zheng Zhilong immediately asked, "I don't know what kind of good words General Liu has."

Liu Xingzuo replied: "On the ground in Shandong, some enemies in Haibei Town, and someone happened to contact me recently. General Zheng can meet you!"

But when Liu Xingzuo said that he had lowered his voice, Zheng Zhilong understood keenly: "Jiannu?"

Liu Xingzuo just replied: "It's Liu Xiaomo's mortal enemy!"

Zheng Zhilong immediately laughed: "No matter who it is, as long as it is Liu Xiaomo's mortal enemy, it doesn't matter if you meet him!"

Liu Peng has no idea about all this happening in the Xuhuai area. Although the Xuhuai area is also one of the key points of Xiao Ye and the detective system, this Yellow River flood has almost stopped the intelligence agencies of the Haibei Army in the Xuhuai area. Intelligence personnel must first ensure that their homes are not washed away by the flood before they can continue to consider the issue of transmitting intelligence to Longkou.

In fact, the Haiyou Association was still excited that Liu Xingzuo finally surrendered to Haibei Town. Shortly after Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xingzuo contacted Liu Xingzuo, Liu Xingzuo sent a letter of help to Liu Peng in his personal name.

In this letter, he expressed great respect to Liu Peng and regarded himself as his subordinates. In addition, he also mentioned the aftermath of the Yellow River breach, hoping that Liu Peng could support 3,000 stones of grain to the Xuhuai area.

Liu Peng did not expect Zheng Zhilong to emerge at this time. After receiving the letter, he said to Zhong Yuzheng: "It's okay to give him three thousand stones of food, but you can't give him all at once now. First, increase 800 stones from the canal to rescue Xu Huai's hungry people, and then see how Liu Xingzuo performed!"

Eight hundred stones of grain are just a drop in the ocean for millions of hungry people in the Xuhuai area, but Zhong Yuzheng knew that this was a gesture and it was the best excuse for Haibei Town to intervene in the Xuhuai area: "We cannot pin all our hopes on Liu Xingzuo alone!"

Liu Peng nodded: "Yes, Liu Xingzuo is not our own person after all. Although he started to move closer to us after arriving in Xuzhou, he is always an outsider, not our own person, and he has to send his own person to Xuzhou Town!"

Qi Shijiao added next to him: "This time the incident in the East Three Mansions is a lesson for the past. We must try our best to avoid being confused when encountering major events among our own people!"

In fact, the reason why Liu Peng and Zhong Yuzheng ignored this big event that happened in Xuzhou was that there was a much more important thing to deal with, and this big event was the personnel issue of the East Three Prefectures.

The Three East Prefectures can be said to be the basic territory of Haibei Town. Even though the control over Qingzhou Prefecture is relatively limited, although the local officials of Qingzhou Prefecture respect Liu Peng more than the imperial court, they would not even have to go to Lai Prefectures. Therefore, in a sense, the local officials of each prefecture in the Three East Prefectures are almost all "pro-Liu faction". The difference is only the degree of closeness to Haibei Town.

However, the current court has won a great victory. Not only did the eunuch party chase the Donglin Party all the way, but it was preparing to use all the methods used by the Donglin Party on Donglin and kill all the Donglin. On the other hand, it also aimed the butcher knife at Haibei Town, a former partner.

This time, the imperial court suddenly started a round of official transfers in the three eastern prefectures. It can even be said that local officials were almost empty. Local officials such as prefects, prefects, and county magistrates have changed as many as 17 people. There are countless county magistrates and county magistrates under the prefects. Now the preliminary statistics sent to Liu Peng are that nearly 100 officials have suddenly dropped from the court.

Although there was a rule in the past that "one exam every three years and the six years are completed", and the personnel appointment power of local officials lies more or less in the Ministry of Personnel, on local personnel issues, the Shandong Governor and the inspector had to submit a request to the Ministry of Personnel through their anger, and the Ministry of Personnel also had to give Liu Peng some face. This is not like now, he didn't even say hello, and almost all the officials of the three East Prefectures were replaced.

Of course, on the surface, this is just a completely normal personnel transfer. All personnel appointments and removals only come from the Ministry of Personnel. Wei Zhongxian also personally sent someone to send a message to Liu Peng, saying that this is just a beautiful misunderstanding.

But even a three-year-old child knew that the current Ministry of Personnel was Wei Zhongxian's puppet. Wei Zhongxian launched this suddenly to prepare to completely undermine the local foundation of Haibei Town. Chen Bin couldn't help but complain: "Yes, we were determined to serve the court and how to help the court recover the lost land in southern Liaoning. As a result, the court first copied our retreat and dug our walls."

However, Liu Peng said humbly: "Uncle Chen, the court is the court, and Wei Yan is Wei Yan. These two cannot be generalized."

However, Liu Peng quickly expressed his true thoughts: "It's just that since Wei Yi wants to declare war on our Haibei Town, then our Haibei Town cannot sit still and wait for death. Let the eunuch party abuse Haiyou, and must launch a counterattack!"

Since the East Three Prefectures are the core territory of the Haibei Army, Haibei Town has always regarded the East Three Prefectures as a forbidden body. It can even be said that it has become an independent kingdom that cannot be inserted into. It is the most basic core interest of Haibei Town and cannot be intervened by outsiders at all.

No matter what this time gave the eunuch party enough courage to make them have such a sudden attack, all the people in Haibei Town thought that this was a direct declaration of war on Haibei Town.

Since it is a direct declaration of war on Haibei Town, it is impolite to come but not to go against it. Haibei Town must also launch a full-scale counterattack. Then Qi Shijiao has already said first: "Mr. Liu, I think that since the eunuch party does not give us face, then we don't have to give eunuch party any face. Anyone who comes from the eunuch party will kill what should be killed, and those who should be broken will be broken. Our Shandong bright world cannot tolerate eunuch party!"

However, Liu Peng did not agree that the attack was too big: "There is no fish when the water is clear, and it is the right thing to do with light and dust. Besides, this time, the Ministry of Personnel sent a hundred people to one breath. It is hard for us to judge who is the eunuch party and who is not the eunuch party!"

Almost one hundred officials who had formally had a stake in this airborne were parachuted, and each official often represented an interest group. It was not a legitimate reason to solve them all, but made countless enemies. Zhong Yuzheng said over there: "It's better to let them all come to Jinzhou first, and after seeing Mr. Liu, he took Mr. Liu's letter and then took office slowly..."

As Zhong Yu said this, everyone had already understood it. Chen Bin immediately replied: "Why would you let them take a trip to Fuzhou?"

Liu Peng shook his head and said, "A trip to Jinzhou is enough!"

Although these officials who were airborne may be members of the eunuch party, or they may not be members of the eunuch party just being affected, now in the situation of a comprehensive conflict between Haibei Town and the eunuch party, they must clearly express their political attitude.
Chapter completed!