"Mother."

Zheng Jing stepped forward and gently supported his mother. Now, his mother is his greatest support.

Dong Xian signaled his son to sit down, then sighed softly, and said to his son: "When I got married with your father, I was only eighteen years old, and he was only sixteen. That day, I took a very big lamp with a lot of oil in it. He told me that as long as the lamp is on, we will always be together. Your father also said that he will always be my backer, which is God's arrangement."

Zheng Jing was confused when his mother suddenly talked about the past.

Dong Xian did not explain to her son, but said to herself: "From the day she married your father, I knew that my future would be very bumpy, because I married a man with a strong man. Your father is a man from a country. He vowed to promote the Daming Dao, and as his wife, I have no way out. So when I see your father coming back from the war, I am very happy. I am very afraid that the next time I see him is a cold body, Jing'er, do you understand?"

"Mother," Zheng Jing's nose felt a little sore, and he whispered, but he didn't know what to say.

"Every time your father comes back, I will light up the lights in the house. I am afraid that time will pass too quickly. I want to watch the wicks burn little by little, so I will know that time is still long. Jing'er, look, the wicks of these two lights are still beneficial, so they burned a little." Dong Xian suddenly stood up, and a lamp near front suddenly turned off, and the light in the house suddenly became dark.

"Mother?"

Zheng Jing was shocked and puzzled, not knowing why his mother wanted to extinguish the wick.

"The wick is still a long time, but your father will never be with me anymore. He wants me to die, he wants my mother and son to die, and he wants my grandson to die!" Dong Xian's breathing became heavy, as if a rage that rose from the bottom of her heart was suppressed in her body. Over the years, she could bear anything, but she could not bear that her son and grandson would be killed by her husband, and she could not bear that her husband would also have to kill herself!

With a "bang", the extinguished oil lamp was knocked over to the ground by Dong Xian. The oil of the lamp flowed all over the ground.

Zheng Jing was very scared. He had never seen his mother lose her composure like today.

"Jing'er, don't be afraid. With your mother here, no one can hurt you, nor can I hurt my grandson!" Dong Xian gritted her teeth, "Even your father can't do it!"

"Mother!"

Zheng Jing knelt on the ground. From childhood to adulthood, he rarely saw his father. Most of the time, his mother took him to wait for news about his father uneasy every day. He had a deep relationship with his mother. At the first time of Zhaoniang's incident, he thought of his mother. It was his mother's support for him that allowed him to suppress Jinxia's officials and those officials who obeyed his father's orders.

"At up, you are now the master of Jinxia. You can't kneel down to anyone easily. Although your father doesn't want us anymore, what is flowing in your body is his blood, the blood of the Zheng family. You have to look like a man in the Zheng family."

Dong Xian pulled up his son and looked at him like Zheng Jing when he was a child.

"Mother, Mr. Chen has written a letter." Zheng Jing spread out the letter from Chen Yonghua, who had been squashed into a ball, and handed it to his mother.

"Chen Yonghua is your teacher after all. In this world, teachers always look to his students." Dong Xian did not read the letter, but asked his son: "Have you made up your mind now?"

"Son," Zheng Jing hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly: "Son has decided what to do."

"Since you decide how to do it, don't look back and forth, just be confident and bold." Dong Xian looked at her son with encouraging eyes.

"My son is just worried, if he gets off the job, he will not be able to do so." Zheng Jing expressed his biggest worry.

Dong Xian shook her head: "If that's the case, you won't blame you." After a pause, she suddenly said: "Your Uncle Tai and I have a plan. If things don't work, let's go to the East Fan. I heard that there are not many Dutch people there. Before your father decided to fight Fuzhou, he had planned to go to the East Fan. He Bin had a very detailed terrain and hydrological map of the East Fan. You will find someone tomorrow and ask if it really doesn't work, my mother and son will go to the East Fan."

On the Fortress of Gerancha, the Dutch State Governor Koi and Captain Bedel, Captain Bedel, sent by the Netherlands to Taiwan, led soldiers to salute in line. Amid the loud military horn, a Dutch flag slowly rose, and a cannon was heading up to face the sea.

After the salute, Kuiyi walked to a heavy cannon, and he stroked the cannon body of the cannon in a restless manner. Suddenly, Kuiyi found that the white gloves were stained with oil. He shouted angrily: "Captain! Come here for me!"

Bedel ran over quickly. Kui was so angry that he jumped like thunder. He took off his white gloves and threw them on Bedel, shouting loudly: "How did you maintain these cannons?"

When Bedel saw the oil on the Gate of the Governor, he felt a stern, but said in his mouth: "Your Excellency, don't worry, you really fight, I promise that these cannons are fine."

"Is that true?"

Kuiichi glared at Captain Bedel and wanted to have an attack, but his subordinates came to report that Lieutenant Colonel Rut from Beijing had returned. Kuiichi was very happy and hurriedly ordered people to take Rut to the Governor's Office.

In order to implement the domestic demand for the development of the East, Kuiyi sought cooperation with the Qing government, the enemy of the Zheng family, after failed negotiations with the Zheng family. He believed that the enemy of the enemy was a friend, and the existence of the Zheng family was an enemy to the Netherlands and the Qing government, so the Dutch and the Qing government had a basis for cooperation. In order to sign a treaty with the Qing government as soon as possible, Kuiyi specially sent Rut to Beijing, and Rutt went there for more than a year. In fact, long before Kuiyi, the Dutch had contacted the Qing army in Fujian, hoping to cooperate with each other to eliminate the Zheng family, but because the Qing government did not attach importance to Taiwan and was unfamiliar with the Netherlands, and he had no navy strength at all, there was no follow-up.

Kuiichi didn't know whether Rutt brought the good news he expected, so he felt a little uneasy while waiting. However, it was obvious that God favored Kuiichi.

Before Rutt came in, his slightly excited voice came into Kuiyi's ears: "Governor General, good news, the Qing government agreed to sign a friendly treaty with us and give us Taiwan!"

"Is it true?!"

The news brought by Rutt made Kiichi stand up excitedly, for fear that he would hear it wrong.

"It's true. They not only promised to give us Taiwan, but also were willing to open the trading port to us! And we only needed to give them twenty armored ships and help them rescue the army in Fujian!" Rutbi Kuiyi was also excited because he did this with his own hands.

Rutt handed the official document in his hand to Kuiyi: "This is the official letter from Sony, the Prime Minister of the Qing government of Beijing.

Rutt didn't know that Sony was actually not the prime minister of the Qing government, but was just one of the ministers of the Interior. However, the other party's identity as the envoy of the emperor and his strength towards other officials showed in the negotiations made Rutt firmly believe that the other party was the prime minister of the Qing government and the first person to handle government affairs for the emperor.

After taking the official document from Rutt's hand, Kuiyi took a quick breath and read it. This official letter was written in three types of words, one was a Chinese character commonly used by the Chinese, and the other was a strange character that Kuiyi had never seen before, which looked like a tadpole, and the other was naturally a Dutch word.

Rutt told Kuiyi that the priests in Beijing made great efforts in this negotiation. If it weren't for their translator, he wouldn't even say a word to the Qing officials.

The official letter of the Prime Minister of the Qing government, as Rutte said, was not only willing to sign a friendly treaty with the Netherlands, but also to the Netherlands. In addition, it could open two ports for the Netherlands to trade. These only require the Netherlands to give the Qing government some warships and help them evacuate the Qing army in Fujian. Of course, the official letter implicitly stated that if the Netherlands could effectively help the Qing army in Fujian fight back the rebels, then Jinxia could be regarded as the Qing government's friendly statement to the Netherlands, and the Netherlands would be allowed to live and do business in Jinxia.

"It seems that the Ming Dynasty's rebels caused great trouble to the Qing government, otherwise they would not have changed their standards."

Kuiyi was not very clear about the war in China's inland China. He lacked information on this aspect, but from this official letter, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty rebels who were driven to southern China by the Qing army must have suffered a major blow to the Qing government. Kuiyi believed that the warships were definitely very happy in the country. As long as the interests were sufficient, it might not be impossible. It was just the benefits given by the Qing government, Kuiyi believed that the country would definitely agree. And this was facilitated by him, Kuiyi, and he was very excited and proud.

"If we can reach an agreement with the Qing government, I, Kuiyi, will be the pioneer of the East and the first pioneer in the Western world to obtain the land of the East through a peace treaty!" Kuiyi's voice was very loud, and he deliberately let everyone outside hear it.

Rutt quickly complimented: "The achievements of the Governor will definitely be written in the epic of the Kingdom of Dutch!"

Kuiyi waved his hand: "No, my Kuiyi's name will be recorded in the history of world civilization, because this is unprecedented and an unprecedented achievement of the West in the East!"

"Yes, Governor, you should be proud of it!"

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, the formal negotiations on the treaty must be started immediately. You have to go to Beijing again. You must prepare this historic negotiation. Oh, by the way, for such a big thing, you should find a common issue, and the negotiation language must not be wrong. I heard that the Orientals are very good at word games, so we can't let them deceive them."

Rutt laughed: "Governor General, the Qing Dynasty was a Tatar in the north, not a Chinese."

"They are Chinese now, lieutenant colonel, don't forget that these Tatars have occupied China." Kuiichi corrected Rutt's mistake seriously

Author's note: The Qing Dynasty and the Netherlands cooperated to attack the Zheng army from historical facts, but the timeline in this book was slightly deviated. At that time, the condition for the Qing Dynasty was to permanently give up Taiwan.
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