Zhao Peng nodded: "Damu, continue bombarding. Anyway, I have something to do with the silver. I will naturally compensate you the Zheng family. By the way, there is another thing. Making gunpowder requires sulfur and nitrate. Your Zheng family can also buy it from overseas? Also, casting cannons requires a lot of copper, and you can also buy it from Japan, right? I can produce this silver. The field cannons in land battles are better than iron, and the copper extension is much stronger than iron. The copper cannon is not easy to explode. Although copper is heavier than iron, the barrel wall of the copper cannon can be made thinner, so the weight of the copper cannon is much lighter than the iron cannon."

Zheng Sen said: "Brother Zhongyong needs to buy gunpowder and copper. I should help you with all my strength. There is a lot of copper in Japan, but the copper coins are of poor quality. Therefore, the Japanese buy a large amount of copper coins from our Ming Dynasty and sell it to me. As for buying sulfur and copper from the Japanese, the Japanese don't need silver, they only need copper coins, ironware, tea, raw silk and ceramics. The Japanese have a lot of silver and copper. Just stone and silver mines are all over the place, and the silver produced in a year is more than all the silver in our Ming Dynasty."

Zhao Peng laughed: "Damu, in fact, except for the Ming Dynasty, I, the Ming Dynasty, there are silver in the world. There are gold and silver in the New World. The Franchise sailboat came to the Ming Dynasty from the New World. They transported ships of gold and silver, loaded with ceramics and silk back to Thailand. After transporting them back to Thailand, they can get a large amount of gold and silver. The profits of sea trade are so high that it is incredible. But why did the Ming Dynasty put the mountains of gold and silver without taking them, but instead wanted to ban the sea?"

Zheng Sen replied: "The sea ban is to deal with Japanese pirates. The Ming officials have sea bans, but merchants and gentry don't care about these and still make huge profits from the sea trade."

"The sea ban was abandoned because of the choke. The prince has ascended the throne as emperor. I can discuss with the new emperor to develop the Ming sea trade, so that everyone can get a piece of the sea trade. Damu, you don't have to worry about stealing your Zheng family's business. The sea trade is a big cake, and even your Zheng family can't finish it. It's better for everyone to share it together, and everyone will make a profit. Of course, Your Majesty will treat your Zheng family with special preferences." Zhao Peng said with a smile.

"What are the preferential treatments?" Zheng Sen's eyes lit up, and a longing light appeared in his eyes.

Zhao Peng smiled confidently: "Of course there are many benefits. First of all, your Zheng family can obtain Jingdezhen official kiln porcelain and the best silk. I can also convince Your Majesty to issue a robbery license to the Zheng family! Let the Zheng family be legally pirates! In addition, if the shipbuilding of the Ming Dynasty Royal Family is definitely better than that of the individual, and can build a large sailing ship of the Thais or even a battleship! If the Zheng family cooperates with the royal family, they can obtain the title of royal merchants, and they can naturally purchase the giant ships built by the royal family at a discount."

Zheng Sen asked incrediblely: "But it takes a lot of money to build the giant ship of Taixi. Can Your Majesty agree? There are too many places in the Ming Dynasty that need to use money, I'm afraid Your Majesty will not."

Zhao Peng said confidently: "Damu doesn't have to worry. If you have equal rebellion, Damu can join me in the palace. Let's meet Your Majesty. As long as Damu lets Your Majesty know the huge profits of the sea trade, Your Majesty will definitely agree! Let's swear by the high-high!"

"Okay!" Zheng Sen happily stretched out his hand and sweared to Zhao Peng.

While talking, the Zheng family fleet continued to launch violent shellings on Gao Jinku camp. I don’t know how many shells were fired. Almost all the naval guns were so hot that they were scary. The sailors were busy holding buckets to cool the cannons.

"It's almost done, I'll take the infantry to attack now!" Zhao Peng said.

After more than an hour of fierce shelling, a large hole in the camp of Gao Jinku had been blown open. Almost all the tents in the camp were lit. The hay in the stable was burning. The frightened herd of horses escaped from the stable, ran around in the camp, knocked over the camp, and ran around dragging the fired tent, causing a bigger fire.

Zhao Peng got off the ship and immediately organized the Nanjing New Army infantry to launch an attack on the already riddled Gao Jinku tent.

The four Spanish quadrons of thousands of people slowly moved towards the gap in the Tucheng City that was bombed open. The six thousand firearm soldiers following behind followed closely behind the quadrons and slowly advanced.

Gao Jinku's five thousand infantrymen had lost one-third of the Zheng family's shelling just now, and the rest were also bombarded with terrible consequences, and basically could not form a formation to effectively resist.

The Spanish phalanx poured in from the gap, and the firearms climbed up from both sides of the gap, held the wings of the Spanish phalanx, and fired guns into the camp at a high place, providing firepower to cover the hand-to-hand infantry.

On one side was the Nanjing New Army with high morale, and on the other side were the rebels who were beaten to pieces by naval cannons. The battle was without any suspense. The rebels who tried to rush up to stop the Nanjing New Army hit the spear formation and were suddenly overturned. The back was about to collapse and fled in all directions, and the rebel formation collapsed.

"Go away!" The chaotic rebels shouted, turned around and ran away.

"Win the escapee without authorization!" Gao Jinku took his servants and cut over more than a dozen defeated soldiers, but he still could not stop the defeated soldiers from retreating. After a while, Gao Jinku and his servants were also surrounded by the defeated soldiers and joined the defeated ranks and fled towards Yangzhou City.

Zhao Peng would not let the rebels escape easily. He personally led 200 cavalry to intercept the rebels.

The cavalry of the Jinyiwei caught up with the defeated rebels and stopped when they were more than ten steps away. They shot arrows from a distance with their bows and arrows, constantly shooting the rebels. Once they found that a rebels emerged from the crowd, they immediately stepped forward, waved the embroidered sword to drive away the rebel soldiers, and drove them into the crowd.

Two hundred Jinyiwei cavalry drove out more than two thousand rebels, driving them away like sheep. Once someone emerged from the crowd, they were driven back. Zhao Peng did not cut off the defeated soldiers who ran out, but drove them back, drove them back to their formation, and let them trample on each other.

The rebels were crowded with people, and their formation was squeezed and deformed. The people were crowded and driven into the river involuntarily.

The rebels near the river in front discovered the intention of the Jinyiwei, and immediately stopped, trying to squeeze back, trying to squeeze the people behind. However, the Jinyiwei cavalry drove the rebels behind and asked them to squeeze forward. The rebels and people squeezed into a group and trampled on each other. At this time, someone fell down and fell a large area. The people who fell to the ground were stepped on by thousands of feet, trampled to death, and even trampled into meat paste. The rebels who were squeezed to the river in front could no longer support them, and countless people were squeezed into the canal.

The people in front fell into the river. The river water was not deep, but the people who were squeezed down the river from behind were hit by them, causing the people who fell into the water to stand steadily, and people were crowded together. Once they fell, they were stepped into the water by their feet and could not get up at all. As a result, countless people were drowned in the river water that was only three to four feet deep.

Gao Jinku and several servants who knew how to water jumped into the river, swam desperately, and escaped from the crowd squeezed into a crowd, and swam to the other side with anger.

Just as Gao Jinku was about to swim to the shallow shore on the other side and was about to climb ashore, a small boat emerged from somewhere. The fishing net on the boat was scattered into the river, covering Gao Jinku and his servants firmly. The Jinyiwei on the fishing boat pulled the fishing net and dragged Gao Jinku and three servants who fell into the net to the shore.

"I thought some valuable big fish were occupied on the Internet. It turned out to be four ugly fishmen!" Zhao Peng laughed.

The Jinyiwei dragged Gao Jinku and his servants out of the fishing net, tied them up and took them to the Central Army camp.
Chapter completed!