Chapter 643

Zheng Zhilong is very satisfied with this imperial edict. He doesn't care how much money the imperial court gives. He only cares about power. With power, he can expand his territory in a legitimate name. Zheng Zhilong's strength is strong enough, but there are not many sites. He thinks the Liu family has the same strength, but their territory has controlled the whole of Shandong and extended to Jianghuai If the south of the Yangtze River extends, maybe the whole south of the Yangtze River will be occupied by him. Zheng Zhilong is jealous.

But at this time, some changes have taken place in the Zheng family. This is that with the rise of the Liu family's market, the opinions of the young people have won the support of most people. These people are rebellious and cruel people who are good at licking blood.

There is a saying called seeking wealth in danger. Now they just want to seek more wealth. Even if they work hard for the imperial court, their official positions are limited, but it will be different if they follow Liu Bu to fight the world.

The generals of all dynasties, only those who founded the country, can easily become aristocrats. At this point, they work for the imperial court. They are just a Qiu Ba and can't get ahead.

At first, Zheng Zhilong had a very strong control over the influence of his Zheng family, and he had reached the point of saying nothing about it. However, it was a little difficult for him to overwhelm the voices of these young people. Everyone wrote blood letters one after another and asked the Zheng family to take up the army. Instead of TND counting, it would be better to take the lead than endure the temper of these dog officials, Let's have a big fight.

These pirates have been washed white successfully. These people at the top can change their official positions and get along quite well. However, these middle and lower level officers are not as happy as before. After all, they used to be pirates. Grab and do whatever they want.

Now they can't do this. After all, they are already officers and soldiers of the coastal defense camp. If they do it again, they will look ugly. Zheng Zhilong has cut off the heads of dozens of brothers, which is because these people have ruined his reputation.

Zheng group is very rich, but it is also a pyramid structure. Wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few people.

The life of the upper class is extravagant and extravagant. Their life is quite good and they enjoy all their glory and wealth. The lower class people are no different from ordinary people, and even worse than ordinary officers and soldiers.

Because they were born as pirates, they were not recognized by Fujian's bureaucratic system. They all regarded them as aliens, and even called them pirates behind their backs. In addition to those dignitaries at the upper level, it was impossible for those at the lower level to act recklessly and bully with this skin.

So now they see the successful launching of the Liu family and have made such good achievements. They are jealous and excited about it. They want to follow the Liu family and pursue prosperity.

At the same time, Liu Bu's famous "crusade against Zhu Mingxi" also spread to Fujian and many people's hands. The sentence that kings and princes have no seed and men should be self-improvement has touched the hearts of many people. They are rebellious and arrogant. They are used to the life of pinning their heads on their trousers and belts. They have to pursue fame and wealth as a man.

This formed the internal of the Zheng family. The upper level had the idea of the upper level, while the lower level had the idea of the lower level. They were very opposed to each other, especially the lower level officers, secretly formed associations, publicly wrote to Zheng Zhilong and asked him to send troops. This was also an attitude that Zheng Zhilong hated very much.

At this stage, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhifeng sat down and thought that they felt that there was a dead end in front of them, but it could also be broken. They decided to send a special envoy to the capital to get in touch with the emperor, which directly explained the situation. If the emperor and the court were willing not to investigate the matter, they would rise up and send troops angrily to protect them from the Ming Dynasty, If the emperor refused to guarantee this, they could only sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight and watch it change.

Don't mention it. The two brothers are really people who can say and do it. According to the strategy set here, they sent envoys to the capital to lobby. They decided to poke it out.

In the final analysis, Zheng Zhilong is not optimistic about the Liu family. Even if the Liu family has a good momentum, they are not willing to eat behind the Liu family's ass, so they inevitably go to opposition.

As for the relationship between the Liu family and their relatives, between families, there is only the relationship of interests, not relatives.

But at this time, there was even more amazing news, that is, Liu Jiajun went out on a large scale, quickly went south, easily captured Zhenjiang and surrounded Nanjing.

To put it bluntly, once Liu Jiajun takes Nanjing, he can control the whole Jiangnan and become a force comparable to Daming.

The news shocked the Zheng family as much as the imperial court.

Hearing such a thing, Zheng Zhilong brothers are very jealous. If the Liu family controls Jiangnan, their winning face will greatly increase and may replace Daming and become a new imperial dynasty.

In this way, if the Zheng family were attached to the imperial court, they would be listed as the remaining evil of the previous dynasty and enter the corner of history.

In this case, the two brothers sat down and added up. Why don't I send troops myself to control Fujian, control, and then go all the way south to fight Guangdong, Guangxi and control the territory of several provinces, which can also be compared with the Liu family and become a hero of one side.

After all, there is an old saying that people with ability will not work for others.

The imperial court lost Jiangnan. Indeed, the market fell greatly. His prestige fell to a point that many people were not optimistic about.

In this way, they had already sent envoys to the capital to lobby, but when they saw that the wind was wrong, they immediately chased the envoys back.

Now the strength of the Liu family has greatly increased, while that of the imperial court has declined sharply. The Zheng family has become a weight to balance the two forces. Since he has become the key to the two forces, the current conditions offered by the imperial court can not impress them and let them work hard for it.

So they decided that the best way for the Zheng family was to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight or wait for the imperial court to offer a greater price. Just a count and Marquis could not meet Zheng Zhilong's ambition. At least he had to be a duke or a princess, otherwise he would not be willing to send more than 100000 troops under him to work hard for the imperial court.

Moreover, as a national Duke, he must not be a nameless one. He must have his own territory and army. Just like the Mu family in Yunnan, Yongzhen is an independent party in Yunnan. He listens to the tune and does not listen to the propaganda.

The Zheng brothers are also heroes. However, they live too rich and noble life. They have long wasted their brother's heroic ambition. They don't have the pride of wandering around the world and cutting through thorns and thorns. They just want to pay the least price and get the most benefits. The best thing is to get something for nothing.

Moreover, in the face of the major events that determine the life and death of the Zheng family, they seem very cautious, very careful, because they have gone through all kinds of hardships and difficulties before they get it. They are very satisfied with what they have and what they get at present. They don't want to lose, they just want to get more, but they are unwilling to take risks if they want more.

This makes the way of their two brothers seem a little ridiculous, that is, wavering, head and mouse at both ends. Such a style can't be owned by doing big things.

If you use Liu Bu's words, this is forgetting righteousness at the sight of profit and cherishing the body at the sight of big profit, so when they saw the rise of the Liu family's market, they immediately decided to wait and see its change. Of course, they won't take refuge in the Liu family as their younger brother. The Liu family is almost the same as his younger brother.

Even Zheng Zhilong has an idea that Zheng Zhibao's father and daughter took away a large number of fleets of their Zheng family. These fleets belong to their whole group. Does he want to find an excuse to take them back and distribute them to everyone?

Their brothers could not make up their mind, but ordered their officers and soldiers and fleets far away to return to Quanzhou to prepare in case of change.

Because they understand that whether they rebel or follow the court, they are ready to fight.

The Zheng family developed from a few ships in those years to a powerful force in the whole oriental world today, relying on their powerful force and their fleets.

They have had a lot of happy days, and many people are willing to live like this for a long time, but the world is undergoing unprecedented changes, and they want to benefit from this change, so they are ready to mobilize their troops.

Although Wang Wensheng, the envoy of the Liu family, has been lobbying them here to follow the Liu family and share the world, they always feel that this is unreliable, and it is better to follow the imperial court. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong sees that Wang pangzi is so insidious and so insidious. He knows that although this person smiles one by one, people and animals are harmless, In fact, he is a very cunning man. He can't contact his men anymore.

He ordered people to drive him out and sent him away from Fujian. He was never allowed to come back.

If it wasn't for the sake that the goods came all the way to give gifts, he would kill fat Wang with a knife.

If he kills others with such a knife, no one will come all the way to give gifts in the future. Of course, it has something to do with his not tearing his face with the Liu family.

If he killed the emissary sent by the Liu family, it would certainly annoy the Liu family, but it would not help the overall situation, so they would drive Wang pangzi away.

Zheng Zhilong and his two brothers thought for a long time, and finally came up with a request, that is, to directly ask the court to grant him the Duke of Fujian and Yongzhen Fujian. Only then was he willing to send troops to solve problems for the court.