Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 232 Zheng Sen's Condition, Can You Fish?

In mid-October, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province.

At the beginning of October, Emperor Luanjia had already left Yuyao, Zhejiang. After Li Cunming had a hasty meeting with Yao Qisheng in Fuzhou, he continued southward and came to Dehua County.

At the same time, Huang De led the navy to set off from Zhoushan Islands and stationed in Haitan Island.

For Zheng Cai, the situation in Fujian became more and more tense, and he suddenly felt the pressure suddenly increased and felt restless.

On the other hand, Li Cunming traveled leisurely all the way, as if he was not here to fight, but to visit the mountains and rivers while inspecting the local situation.

Two days ago, Emperor Luanjia deliberately took a long detour. Accompanied by Chen Yuanyuan and Hei Mudan, Li Cunming went to Taihu Mountain to enjoy the scenery and recite poems.

In fact, it's not that Li Cunming is arrogant and underestimates the enemy, he has his own plans.Firstly, the Zheng Group is just pirates after all, no matter how strong it is, can it surpass the Dashun and Daxi armies?

Secondly, taking advantage of this opportunity of the Southern Expedition, he wants to travel more places to understand the people's conditions.

The southern provinces were the economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty. If Li Cunming wanted to drive out the Tartars and strive for hegemony, he had to manage the south well, and the south included not only the Jiangnan area, but also vast areas such as Fujian and Guangdong.

Visited Taihu Mountain and stayed in Dehua County.Dehua County is located in the central part of Fujian Province and is a famous producing area of ​​my country's porcelain. It is also known as China's "Three Porcelain Capitals" together with Jingdezhen in Jiangxi and Liling in Hunan.

Li Cunming was playing with a white porcelain plate, and said with a smile: "What a delicate plate! Chen Yuanyuan, you follow the arty of the scholar-bureaucrats, so you should understand Dehua's porcelain, right?"

Chen Yuanyuan said: "The porcelain plate in your Majesty's hand belongs to Jianbai porcelain. It is exquisitely made and elegant in style, representing the highest technical achievement of porcelain in Dehua."

Li Cunming lifted the porcelain plate, and the sunlight shone on it. It was delicate and clean white, with pearl-like flashes. This is the unique "glutinous rice body" of Jianbai porcelain, which makes a crisp ding-dong sound when struck. Metal sound.

The touch is also good, as fat as jade, giving people a gentle aesthetic enjoyment.

Li Cunming laughed admiringly, "How much does such a delicate porcelain cost?"

"Talking about money is vulgar!" Chen Yuanyuan rolled her eyes.

"You know what!" Li Cunming said, "Without money, how do the common people live, how do the soldiers fight, and how do I display my ambitions. Talking about money is not vulgar. Vulgarity is clearly inseparable from money, and you have to pretend to be noble." Appearance. I hate pedantic scholars the most. Not only do I want to talk about money, but I also want to make a lot of money and lead the people to get rich!"

Chen Yuanyuan shrugged, with another expression like you are the emperor and everything you say is right.

Li Cunming didn't like her arrogant attitude very much, and was about to reason with her, but Gong Yonggu said outside the study: "I want to report to Your Majesty, Qu Shixu, please see me."

"Ah, Qu Shisi is here? Please come in!" Li Cunming said.

After a while, Qu Shixu bent down and walked into the study room with his head down, knelt down and said, "Kowtow to Your Majesty, Qu Shixu, the person who has committed crimes, has come to return to his life."

Last year, scholars set off a wave of protests in Nanjing, and Qu Shixu participated in it.After the defeat, Li Cunming asked him to take the blame and make meritorious service, and went to Zheng's house to persuade Zheng Sen to surrender.

Not seeing each other for a year, Qu Shixu experienced the baptism of wind, frost and waves, his skin became dark and rough, and he became much thinner, but his body looked much stronger.

"It's been more than a year, you have worked hard. Get up and answer, tell me what news you have brought to me."

Qu Shishu stood up and said: "Since we came to Jinjiang, Fujian Province last year, we have encountered many setbacks. I believe the Hui merchants and Xichang staff have already reported it to the Holy Spirit, so I won't go into details."

"Later, Zheng Zhilong went north to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and the Zheng family split. Zheng Sen destroyed his family to relieve the difficulties, vowed not to share the death with the Manchu Tartars, and led the fleet to Jilongyu in the north of Dongfan Island. I know that I have not yet completed your majesty The task assigned, Wuyan returned to Nanjing City, and followed Zheng Sen to the sea."

"After arriving at Jilongyu, Zheng Sen was in a very difficult situation. He had several frictions and conflicts with the Dutch. I took the opportunity to persuade him to surrender many times, and Zheng Sen showed signs of being moved. This time I came to face Sheng, and Zheng Sen asked me to bring After setting a few conditions, he said that as long as His Majesty agrees, he will immediately surrender to the Ming Dynasty."

Li Cunming asked: "What are the conditions?"

"Please take a look, Your Majesty!" Qu Shixu took out a document from his sleeve and held it in his hand.

Xia Wanchun took the document and handed it to Li Cunming respectfully.

Li Cunming took a rough look and said with a sneer: "Other conditions are fine, but he, Zheng Sen, wants to maintain the independent armed forces of the Zheng family's fleet after surrendering. The court is not allowed to interfere in the internal affairs of the Zheng family. The selection of generals is also up to Zheng Sen." Forget it, it's too much!"

Xia Wanchun took the documents to read, shook his head and said, "Hey, it's another Sun Kewang, who is full of ambitions, and his desires are hard to fill! Moreover, the Zheng family is fundamentally different from the Great Western Army. The Zheng family has always been a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. Official, Zheng Sen proposed such a condition, which is even more unreasonable than Sun Kewang!"

"This is also in my expectation, otherwise why would I have to drive south? Zheng Sen probably didn't know that my Ming Dynasty has its own navy. It's not what it used to be. My Ming Dynasty can show its power at sea!"

Li Cunming paced back and forth, thought for a while and said, "Qu Shisi, have you ever seen Liu Rushi?"

Qu Shixuan replied: "When I left Jilongyu, Mrs. Liu just arrived. I had a brief conversation with her, and I heard from her that she also came to persuade Zheng Sen to surrender under His Majesty's order. Both Zheng Sen and I are Qian Shangshu... ... Qian Qianyi's disciple, the teacher's wife has stepped in, maybe it will be more effective than me."

"I hope so!" Li Cunming said.

Xia Wanchun asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do next?"

Li Cunming looked at the map and said: "We should implement two strategies together. One is to continue to persuade to surrender, and the other is to continue to exert pressure. When it is time to fight, we will never show mercy. Well, let's start with Zheng Cai."

"Zheng Cai is entrenched on Jinmen Island, should he order Lord Yasukuni to lead the navy to attack Jinmen Island?" Xia Wanchun asked.

"No, Zheng Cai's strength is much stronger than Zheng Zhibao's. Huang Degong's navy may not be fully sure of winning." Li Cunming stared at the map, turned his eyes to Xiamen, and suddenly had an idea.

He turned around and said with a smile: "Xia Wanchun, have you ever caught fish?"

"No, fishing is a waste of time." Shaking his head, Xia Wanchun said in a daze, "Your Majesty, why did you mention fishing?"

"When fishing, bait is the most important thing. After you have a good bait, you have to be willing to throw a lot of it into the water. This is called a nest. If you lure the fish in the water to the nest, you will not worry about getting nothing. I want to treat Xiamen as a nest and cast enough bait in Xiamen!"

Xia Wanchun suddenly realized: "Your Majesty, are you going to lure Zheng Cai to Xiamen?"

Li Cunming smiled without saying a word, walked to the door of the study, and ordered: "Gong Yonggu, haven't you been clamoring to lead troops to kill the enemy? I'll give you a chance!"

(End of this chapter)