In mid-March, Fujian coast.

Zheng Sen stood on the forecastle and looked at the surrounding environment excitedly in the sea breeze. His ship was a huge blessed ship, and his sailing was very smooth. His eyes looked at the sea were full of excitement, and he kept asking a generous general beside him.

The general was Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Sen's uncle. Zheng Hongkui answered Zheng Sen's questions all the way, and said with emotion: "It's the seeds of our old Zheng family. No matter how many of those big headscarves are taught, they can't erase the sharpness on their bodies. Asen, your father is wasting his efforts."

Zheng Sen naturally knew what his uncle was saying. After he returned from Japan when he was young, his father Zheng Zhilong had been serious about cultivating him. Zheng Zhilong was born into a pirate and knew the political environment of the Ming Dynasty, the tradition of civil and noble martial arts was lowly. Although he was obsessed and baptized to whitewash the pirates, the Zheng family wanted to continue to maintain the status of the King of Min Hai, so Zheng Sen learned Confucianism since he was a child and passed the entrance examination for the literati, which was considered to be a circle of scholars and officials. At the beginning of the year, he married the niece of the Minister of Rites of Fujian Province, and got closer to Zheng Zhilong's goal.

However, Zheng Sen did not like to study. He was young and active and prefer to practice martial arts, but he had to succumb to his father's will. For ten years, he had been studying in Anping. This time, Zheng Hongkui traveled north and south of the Yangtze River, and he ran out in the name of traveling in the south of the Yangtze River and discussing articles. Fortunately, he had already started a family and started a career, so his father was not able to strictly control it.

"Uncle, two years ago, on this Meizhou Island, my Ming Dynasty King Army defeated the Red-haired Yi." Zheng Sen pointed to a small island in the distance and asked excitedly.

Zheng Hongkui smiled and said, "That's natural. I and your father were entrusted to become generals of the Ming Dynasty. I defeated Hongmao Yi three times and protected the southeast coast of his Zhu family, which led to the current situation of our Zheng family. Although your father is just a general, he is a real Minhai King. The ships traveling to and from the Minhai, which is not buying the Xingshui Banner from the Zheng family..."

While boasting, Zheng Sen's eyes suddenly stared at a sail shadow that appeared in the distance. Seeing the sharp bow of the ship slashing waves in the sea, the sails on the two masts swelled, and they actually passed by the last ship of their own fleet and came to him. The sailors on the ship also shouted: "What a fast ship, what a fast ship."

A Japanese man whispered: "Mr. Zheng, the ship does not have our water flag flying!"

Zheng Hongkui looked at him and it turned out to be so. Seeing Zheng Sen’s smile, his old face turned red and immediately ordered: “Fire the cannon, let the ship stop and undergo inspection!”

"Don't worry, Asen is that no one dares to resist the inspection of our Zheng family in this area of ​​Minhai..." Zheng Hongkui seemed to be looking for some face, gritted his teeth and directed the gunner to open fire.

The bow of this ship had two thousand-jin Folang machines and several small cannons. After receiving the order from Zheng Hongkui, the thousand-jin Folang machines fired, and two pounding sounds, and the shells exploded around the fast ship.

The Clippers' degree dropped significantly, and the direction deviated. They took the initiative to lean towards the Zheng family's fleet. Zheng Hongkui laughed: "I'm a wise man, ready to board the ship for inspection!"

However, the clutch suddenly hit the horizontal line, aiming at the bow of Zheng Hongkui's ship on the side, directly occupying the T-shaped horizontal head. A row of cannons stretched out from the low side of the ship, with six guns, and then there were thunder-like cannons. The two ships were less than three hundred meters apart. The shells hit the channel in front of the Fu Ship, and the water columns aroused overwhelmed Zheng Hongkui's body. However, the clutch was so angry that the cross sail and the sequel sail turned and left, more than three times faster than the Fu Ship.

"It's outrageous!" Zheng Hongkui felt humiliation immediately and punched the boat on the side of the boat, shouting and scolding.

Zheng Sen looked at it with a cold expression. He knew that his uncle was not a coward, and he was so angry because he had no choice but to deal with the other party. The speed of this Clipper was too fast and had already come out of everyone's imagination. As long as it was not stupid, there was no way to deal with any tactics and strategies. Moreover, the firepower of the Clipper was extremely powerful. With the speed and the eighteen-pound cannon, he could swim around and destroy the lucky ships in the fleet one by one, just like a wild wolf attacking a herd of cattle, coming up to bite two from time to time.

"What kind of ship is this? Why is it so fast? It seems to be flying on the sea. The Red-Farey's ship is not so fast." Zheng Sen said from the side, hoping to use his advice to eliminate the anger in Zheng Hongkui's heart.

Zheng Hongkui snorted heavily: "Asen doesn't need to be like this. Your uncle is now a third-rank military officer in the court. Naturally, he will not do anything randomly. But if I see this ship again, I will definitely have to rectify it so that he knows whose territory this sea is."

Zheng Sen smiled and did not answer again. Instead, the captain next to him said, "When you say the eldest son, the villain has been in Malacca for a while. This ship seems to be similar to the Arab spinning boats, but it is also different. This fast ship has two masts, the main sail is a sail, which is too slender and really doesn't know it."

"Don't look at how long you stayed in Southeast Asia, but you don't know the ship of Taixi." Zheng Hongkui glanced at the captain and saw that Zheng Sen was still asking for advice. He said, "I have seen such a ship in the photo album of the Red-haired Yi people. They are called briggish schooners, and they are slender and fast. Although the speedboat was a little different just now, it will not be bad."

"Dutch?" Zheng Sen became serious.

Zheng Hongkui said: "But we can't say that after the war on Meizhou Island, the elder brother and the Dutch agreed that they would not go to Da6 to purchase goods again, and the Dutch's ships would not come down along the coast. Moreover, if the Dutch were not clear, they would not not indicate their identity. Those red-haired and arrogant people were very arrogant."

"Whose person belongs to that?" Zheng Sen lowered his head and thought.

Zheng Hongkui said: "No matter who it is, this voyage is mostly from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. We just need to inquire when we arrive at the destination."

"Then we will not just go to Hangzhou?" Zheng Sen said with a little excitement.

Although he came out this time under the name of traveling to Jiangnan, his father wanted him to learn and deal with the family's business early. It would be fine in Fujian. The Zheng family set up five mountain merchants in Hangzhou, namely the five large groups of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and Zhixin. With Hangzhou as the center, he purchased raw silk, porcelain, and tea from Jiangnan in batches to Japan, and the officials and Manila made huge profits. This is one of the main sources of profits of the Zheng family. This time, Zheng Hongkui led the golden fleet of the five major fleets of gold, wood, water, fire and earth to Zhejiang, and was going to take charge of it when the spring silk was listed.
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