In November, the capital was covered with heavy snow and covered with silver. Zhu Cijiu walked out of the corridor between the palace, stepped on the soft snow, and walked slowly forward. Behind him was a young man in a python robe. This man was not Zheng Chenggong, but Wang Zhengnan, the new Jinyiwei Fufu Fu.

Zhu Cijiu summoned Wang Zhengnan to come over, of course, not to play snowball fights and make snowmen, but to discuss important matters with him. While thinking, he secretly paid attention to the positions of the Jinyi Guards and the eunuchs on duty everywhere. When he walked to a low voice far from all positions, he asked in a low voice: "Let's Xian, how are you screening?"

Wang Zhengnan quietly glanced around, then bowed and whispered: "Except for the 1,000 people sent out in advance, now there are more than 6,000 Jinyiwei with good skills. The rest are difficult to find. The entire Jinyiwei has been wasted in recent years, and he has hardly conducted decent exercises. Those who have some skills are all inherited from family."

Zhu Cijing shook his head and sighed, "Luo Sigong, Luo Yangxing and his son only know how to be a good teacher. Tian Ergeng is busy relying on the eunuch party. They have forgotten the responsibilities of the Jinyiwei themselves. The only thing left to the Jinyiwei who is good is the profound foundation. This time, you must raise up 10,000 people. If you are not enough, go to the various garrisons of the Jingying camp to pick them. Just as the First Corps of the Imperial Guards is also replenishing the source of troops. I would say hello to Qin Liangyu, and you will leave those who are good at it. Anyway, they will use guns and cannons in the future, so it doesn't matter if they are not good at all."

Wang Zhengnan hurriedly bowed and replied: "I will go to General Qin tomorrow and try to recruit all the people within a few days."

Zhu Cijing nodded slightly and said, "Let them practice disguise and investigation skills more, and don't worry about other things. From now on, your Jinyiwei will focus on secret investigation. There are many enemies in the Ming Dynasty. You must understand their situation one by one for me so that I can deal with them."

Wang Zhengnan immediately replied resolutely: "I understand."

Zhu Cijing nodded and encouraged, "Well, do it well, I will leave you the position of the next commander of the Jinyiwei."

When Wang Zhengnan heard this, his whole body trembled slightly and replied excitedly: "Thank you for your grace, I will definitely live up to the emperor's entrustedness."

Zhu Cijing waved his hand gently and said, "Yeah, go down."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhengnan quickly bowed and retreated respectfully.

Zhu Cijiong turned around and looked at the gray sky and murmured: "I can't wait for how many troops the Dutch have deployed in Southeast Asia."

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Java Island is located on the vast sea thousands of miles south of the Ming Dynasty. The island is densely populated with plants and trees all year round. It is rich in tropical crops such as coffee, tea, tobacco, rubber, sugarcane, coconut. In the 8th century AD, Indians who wandered across the ocean established the Madalan Dynasty on the island. After several changes of power on the island, they were finally occupied by the Dutch East India Company in the 47th year of Wanli (1619 AD).

In October of the sixth year of Chongzheng, a Ming Dynasty lucky ship slowly entered the waters of Java Island with the merchant flag. The direction of the ship should be to go to Batavia to do business.

At this time, on the Dafu ship, Xiao Jiucheng was standing on the bow, constantly looking at the ships in the distance with a telescope, and silently remembering the number in his heart. Although he looked like he was dressed in a businessman, he was actually a hundred households of the Jinyiwei, and was under the command of Wang Zhengnan, the new Jinyiwei Servant Department, and was specifically responsible for investigating the enemy situation everywhere.

This time, he came to investigate the situation of the Dutch troops on Java Island under the order of Lord Wang Zhengnan. Before he arrived at Java Island, he was shocked by the warships patrolling back and forth along the way. Isn’t the Dutch East India Company the same business? How could there be so many warships?

Just as he was concentrating on observing a super battleship in the distance, someone suddenly patted his shoulder behind him and reminded him: "Sir Xiao, stop looking, you will enter the port of Hongmao Fan soon."

He didn't need to look back and knew that the person coming was the real owner of this merchant ship, Cai Fu, the director of the Ming Atlantic Trading Company. By the way, these companies, the supervisors were really awkward to call, but there was no way. No matter how awkward he was, he had to call that. This was the name changed by the emperor himself.

The company is a bigger business, the supervisor is equivalent to the manager in the business, the manager is equivalent to the shopkeeper in the business, and the general manager is equivalent to the shopkeeper in the business. As for the boss above, it seems to be called a shareholder or a director, or something, while the real boss is called the chairman!

Xiao Jiucheng knew that the Ming Dynasty Atlantic Trading Company was not an ordinary big business, and their chairman was Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan! In fact, Zheng Zhilong was not the biggest boss, and the biggest boss was the current emperor!

Just like the Rixinglong Business, which has a close relationship with Jinyiwei, these two major companies were actually run by the emperor.

However, the Ming Atlantic Trading Company has been ‘reorganized’. I heard that because Zheng Zhilong handed over his navy, the emperor rewarded him with an additional 10% of his shares and merged all his subordinates who had done business on the sea to join the Ming Atlantic Trading Company. Now, only the King of Zhennan and the Emperor know how big the Ming Atlantic Trading Company is. Anyway, it is so big that it is scary.

Because the background of the Ming Atlantic Trading Company was so scary, Xiao Jiucheng was very polite to Cai Fu. He heard this and quickly handed the telescope to his subordinates next to him and put it away, then turned around and smiled: "Supervisor Cai, I promised to call me Manager Xiao after going to sea. Are you afraid that I would climb onto your head and be a manager?"

Although Cai Fu knew that this man was a Jinyiwei Baihu, the Ming Dynasty Atlantic Trading Company was not an ordinary small business. He was not afraid of joking with people. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "Then please ask Manager Xiao to go back to the ship warehouse to rest. When the place is small, come to you again."

Xiao Jiucheng nodded and said loudly: "Everyone hurry up and go and carry the goods up."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the boat warehouse.

The straight Jinyiwei who was standing on the deck immediately changed his serious expression when he heard this and became busy like a hawker.

The Dutch were quite kind to the merchants. After the big ship docked, they just sent a small team of people to the ship to check it out to see if there were weapons of mass destruction. As for muskets, crossbows, swords, etc., they pretended that they hadn't seen it. Who wouldn't bring any self-defense things to run at sea?

After the inspection, no large number of gunpowder weapons and artillery were found. The leader found Xiao Jiucheng and rubbed his fingers with a smile, which meant paying taxes.

Xiao Jiucheng was not vague and offered a small box of silver directly. He didn't know how much tax it was here. Anyway, a box of five hundred taels should be a lot.

Sure enough, the Dutchman who led the team checked the silver, gave him a thumbs up, and then left with a smile. This means that we are done, you can do whatever you want!

Xiao Jiucheng nodded and bowed, sending the Red-haired Japanese off the ship, and then began to prepare for business.

I am not familiar with the place, how to do business? During the training of the Jinyiwei Spy, there is a detailed introduction to how to go to another place to do a fake business. First, find out if there are any restaurants and inns run by Han people in the local area. If there is no, go to Han people’s shops, and if there is no, go to...

Xiao Jiucheng was lucky, and he really asked him to find a restaurant run by a Han Chinese. He didn't say anything, and went in and had a big meal and had a big meal. He first got to know the boss.

The boss was extremely enthusiastic. At this time, there were not many opportunities to meet the Ming Dynasty when wandering outside. Since he met him, he naturally felt very friendly. After a few glasses of wine, Xiao Jiucheng got some basic information he wanted. As for the specific information of the Dutch, he did not ask the boss.

All he wanted to investigate was military intelligence. Ninety percent of the boss didn't know. Even if he knew something, he wouldn't ask. If he came over and asked them directly, he would definitely be suspicious, and it would be inconvenient for him to act in the future.

He just thought he was a real businessman. He didn't ask a question about irrelevant topics, but asked about the sales channels of various goods, as if he really wanted to do business here.

In fact, he didn't bring much goods, and they were all expensive silk, porcelain and tea, so the sales in this place were naturally not very good.

What should I do if the sales are not good? Of course, I quickly ask the boss to handle some things, find someone to help, and go to the Dutch master to sell it!

He is like a newcomer who is developing the market. The kickbacks he gives is amazing. After selling the things for him, he directly gives half of the kickbacks!

Although this will not lead to a loss, the profit will not be much, which means that it is all given to the middleman. He is suffering a loss. The middleman is cheap. After the boss' introduction, more and more people are selling him. After a while, he becomes familiar with the compradors and agents under the Dutch.

So he became a famous Kaizi in Batavia City. He was stupid and had a lot of money. He gave amazing kickbacks, but he also invited people to eat and drink all day long. Any locals who could have some contact with the Dutch would come to him for free whenever they had the chance, but he really came like a fool! In order to establish relationships with others, he also asked the restaurant owner to find a few local Chinese people to be translators for him, chat and spank with others, and have a lot of fun.

If you talk too much with people, you will naturally be able to talk to the Dutch. Before you know it, he slowly figured out the situation of the Dutch troops near Java Island.

It's really scary! The Netherlands East India Company alone has 40 battleships, more than 10,000 naval forces, 150 armed merchant ships, and more than 50,000 sailors and more than 50,000 part-time pirates! In recent years, the Dutch Navy has also stationed a fleet here, including 50 super battleships, more than 100 other small battleships, and more than 20,000 naval forces!

The locals also saw another Dutch Navy fleet, which was similar in size to the fleet stationed here. They have been to Java Island many times, but that fleet seemed to be specially designed to protect cargo ships carrying valuable materials. They usually took some things here and left. Someone secretly went to inquire, and the whole box of gold and silver was transported!

After almost the situation was understood, Xiao Jiuzheng couldn't sit still. He had to rush back to the capital to report such important information to Lord Wang Zhengnan. So he sold the remaining goods half and half to a cheap one to deal with them to several familiar local comprador merchants, and made an appointment to come to do business frequently in the future to see old friends.

Then, he took a group of subordinates to set sail and return to the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!