Located north of Dahao Commercial Port and stuck between Lianjiang and Rongjiang, Chaoyang County is now the headquarters of the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty!

The terrain of this county town is similar to Jieyang in the north, and a canal connecting the two rivers flows through the west of the county town, forming a natural moat. However, Jieyang County is surrounded by plains, while Chaoyang County is surrounded by hills, making the terrain even more dangerous.

Chaoyang County was originally an important frontier for the Qing army in the coastal areas of Chaozhou, which was equivalent to a sharp knife hanging on the head of Dahao Island. Qiu Hui had long wanted to kill Chaoyang and pulled the knife. However, because the combat effectiveness of the Land Division in his hand was reduced, he tried several times but failed.

However, after the end of the Jieyang Battle in October last year, the Qing army that was defending Chaoyang County could no longer hold back. They tied up the magistrate sent by the Qing court and Kaicheng surrendered to the Qiu family army.

Now the boss Hui was proud and immediately put his Governor's Office into the original Chaoyang County Office, and became addicted to being a magistrate of the border.

On the first day of the March 26th year of the Yongli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Office in Chaoyang County was even more decorated with lights and the main gate was opened. The Ming Dynasty's Central Secretariat Order, Jinyi's personal army commander, PhD in the Palace of Heavenly Kings, former Grand Secretary of the Religion, and Zhu Hetong, the prince of the regent of the State Council.

This time, Zhu Heying came to Chaoyang in a large bird boat from Jieyang County in the name of accompanying his wife Qiu Shuzhen back to his parents' home. He also came with military advisor Zhuge Sanhe, factory eunuch Pang, minister of the Ministry of Revenue Li Laocai, etc., as well as Su Zhanshan, Zhao Hongkui and Yu's newly adopted son Yu Xiaoqian, and Lin Ahu's son Lin Tianbo and other 240 young Jinyiwei led by four people.

A large group of people got off the boat at Rongjiang Wharf north of Chaoyang County, and then they were greeted by Qiu Hui and Qiu Rong and his son who were personally invited to the Governor's Office to the third hall.

The weather in Guangdong at the end of February was already very hot. The big boss Hui and Scar Rong, who were wearing newly made python robes and black hats, returned to the Governor's Office, were already very hot. They quickly changed into loose and cool "Confucius suits", shaking the big palm fan, and sat leisurely on the Grand Master's chair.

Scarrong accompanied Zhu Hezhi, Zhuge Sanhe, Eunuch Pang, Master Guo and Li Laocai and others to chat.

The boss Hui pulled his daughter Qiu Shuzhen back to her parents' home and asked her about her long and short questions, and asked her around the bush whether her daughter had been wronged and bullied by Zhu Heying, and asked if Zhu Heying had ever been drunk?

When he heard that Daboling was bullied in the Zhu family, and Zhu and the monk were very restrained in drinking and had never been drunk, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, he was still a little suspicious: "How did Daboling be bullied? Isn't that kind of bullying? And the cannon Zhu is famous for his greed, why don't he get drunk now? Can you drink less after changing your name?"

Just as the boss Hui was thinking about it, the greeting scene between Zhu Heying and Qiu Rong had already finished, and finally began to talk about the serious matter. He saw Zhu Heying smiling all over his face and bowing to his father-in-law Qiu Hui: "Father-in-law, this time the son-in-law took advantage of the opportunity to accompany Shuzhen to his parents' home and wanted to talk to you about a good deal. If this deal is done, we will send it!"

Buy and sell?

Qiu Hui was stunned and thought to himself: "You have opened the imperial court, so what else can I buy ** this one better?"

Scar Rong, who was standing beside him, asked with a smile: "Brother-in-law, is the business you mentioned that fragrant wine? It smells fragrant and drinks spicy, and has a very strong stamina? This is a good wine!"

Fragrant wine?

Zhu Heying was stunned when he heard this and thought to himself: "The Chaozhou rum is not high, at least it is not spicy for the alcoholic Scar Rong, etc. He wouldn't have given me the bottle of Dongchangxiang to Shuzhen? This perfume is made of the original Chaozhou rum, which is so exciting!"

"It's just so fragrant!" Qiu Hui also said, "Son-in-law, what did you add to it? Why is it so fragrant? It's covered with the fragrance of wine!"

OK, together with the boss Hui, Mr. Scar Rong, have fun with perfume! Fortunately, there are no toxic and harmful synthetic flavors these days. They are all pure natural plant essential oils. It’s not a big problem to eat, but it’s not good to eat too much!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heying smiled and said, "What my father-in-law said is right. My son-in-law has indeed added more spices. This time, the son-in-law brought you and Brother Qiu. He didn't add much spices to the Daming Royal Wine that my son-in-law brought to you and Brother Qiu. The taste is very good."

"That's good, that's good!" Qiu Hui laughed, "Son-in-law, what business are you going to talk to me? Tell me quickly, let's have a few drinks after you finish talking."

Zhu Hezang said: "Father-in-law, this deal is so big! The son-in-law plans to take advantage of the opportunity that Shang Kexi's army gathers in Jieyang, take the sea to fight westward, and go to Guangzhou Prefecture to do a big vote!"

"Guangzhou?" Qiu Hui was shocked to Zhu Heying's words, "Is it OK to fight Guangzhou now?"

Qiu Rong also felt that it was not reliable, "Brother-in-law, why don't we change the place and fight Dongguan, Dongguan is also a good place!"

Zhu Hezang waved his hand and said with a smile: "I don't hit Guangzhou, nor Dongguan this time I want to hit Macau!"

"What? Fighting Macau?" Qiu Hui was stunned when he heard this.

Qiu Rong looked gritting his teeth, "Brother-in-law, you don't like those people in Macau?"

Zhu Heying looked at his brother-in-law and thought to himself: "How much did you lose in Macau? Why did you hate it like this? No, Macau is not a gambling city now!"

Qiu Hui snorted: "My son-in-law doesn't know anything. Since the Qing army moved the coastal border, only Dahao and Macau were left on the coast of Guangdong, but the Portuguese in Macau colluded with the old thief Shang and robbed most of the transactions, which made me unable to drink some soup. It was really annoying!"

Oh, it turns out that it is a hatred among colleagues! Zhu Heying understood and smiled and said to Qiu Hui: "Father-in-law, why don't you lend me some troops and I will take over Macau City. From now on, Haikou, Guangdong, we have the final say in Macau's taxes in the future. How about we add five to two or one?"

Zhu Hezang said "borrowing troops" but not "joint troops". He understood the meaning very clearly, that is, the territory captured belonged to the Zhu family father and son, and neither Qiu Hui nor Zheng Jing scored points.

Of course, what Zhu Hetian really liked was not Macau's territory, but the territory and population of Xiangshan County, where Macau is located, especially the population!

Macau is now an international port! Not to mention the world's number one, it is also the number one in East Asia. Such a large port will of course gather a large number of workers. This is the population of young and middle-aged people at the bottom. It is the favorite of rebels from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad!

Zhu Hezhi’s biggest difficulty now is actually not lack of money or arms, but no one!

The small population on Jieyang Island can provide 2,500 troops, and it is difficult to grow by relying on this little person.

In other words, the terrain of Jieyang Island is very good, surrounded by water, the island has cities and plains, not only easy to defend but difficult to attack, but also can be self-sufficient to a certain extent, and you are not afraid of Shang Kexi's siege and blockade.

But it is not easy to leave Jieyang Island. How many strongholds can 2,500 people occupy?

So the laborers gathered in Xiangshan were what Zhu Hetian needed most at the moment. With them, Zhu Hetian was not "the Ming army was invincible", but went straight to "the 30,000" and "the 50,000".

If Zhu Heying could "five thousand", then the court he started would be able to change from an empty affiliation to a real center of power in the Ming Dynasty. Qiu Hui, Zheng Jing, who had only 10,000 or more people, and Chen Shangchuan, who had only 3,000 troops, would become a force that truly relies on the court.

So he decided to eat something alone!

As for the lack of troops, it is easy to deal with Jiebei! At worst, nine out of tens of thousands of people will be involved! As a person from Chaozhou, borrowing some usury to do business is nothing!

Qiu Hui and Qiu Rong looked at each other, as if they had reached some consensus. Qiu Rong frowned and said, "Brother-in-law, how many soldiers do you want to borrow? How many can you repay?"

Well, you know that your family is a warlord who is a loan shark! Zhu Heying looked at Qiu Hui again. Qiu Hui touched his bearded man and looked like a profiteer who is a loan shark. "You can lend you some soldiers, but you have to get nine out of thirteen! I will wipe it off for you. I will lend you three thousand, and I will pay me four thousand, three hundred?"

"Okay!" Zhu Hezang nodded, "But you have to lend me a few big ships!"

Qiu Hui said: "This is fine, I will be able to get 50% of the tax revenue in Macau in the future!"

"Okay!" Zhu Heying was still speechless.

Qiu Hui asked another question: "Son-in-law, tell the truth to me, do you really know how strict the defense in Macau is? If our ships want to enter the inner port of Haojiang in Macau, we have to first accept the strict investigation by the Portuguese people. It is the Portuguese's own ship and the British East India Company's ship, so that they can be exempted from inspection."

Zhu Heying thought for a while and said with a smile: "Then I will discuss with Charlie Goff of the British East India Company that he has moved to Dahao now, right?"

Qiu Hui frowned and nodded, "He moved the mall from Taiwan to Dahao, but can he promise to help us fight Macau?"
Chapter completed!