Zhang Mingzhen had long known about the situation of Huang Binqing's army. He asked Han Kuo's 4,000 water soldiers to hide in the merchant ship, pretending to be merchants heading to Fujian, and heading to the Zhoushan Sea in batches. Then he chose a night with the most rapid waves, and after gathering, he secretly landed on Zhoushan Island where Huang Binqing's main force was.

Huang Binqing, who had been used to being a sea overlord for a long time, was not at all prepared. When his soldiers reported to him, he thought he was a pirate who was not eyebrow. He only asked his generals to lead his troops to resist, but he continued to sleep and did not even inform more people of the situation. When the soldiers reported again, he realized the seriousness of the situation, but the official army had blocked the camp gate directly. The inside and outside were cut off, Huang Binqing could not go out, and the soldiers outside could not go in.

Zhang Mingzhen stepped forward with the Jinyiwei waist card, intercepted the island soldiers who came to reinforce, loudly declared his ten major crimes and stated that this was Huang Binqing's crime alone and had nothing to do with others. Han Kuo sent people to attack urgently, and finally found Huang Binqing and killed him in front of the formation. For a moment, the troops were solemn and put down their weapons one after another.

At dawn, Han Kuo ordered people to take Huang Binqing's head to surrender to the surrounding islands. Except for some of Huang Binqing's confidants who fled on a boat, most soldiers and generals sent people to Zhoushan Island to express their surrender.

Han Kuo and Zhang Mingzhen have different opinions on how to deal with the surrendered generals. In the army that landed on the island, Han Kuo had a clear advantage. But in terms of the clear situation of Huang Binqing's soldiers, Zhang Mingzhen knew more. Han Kuo meant to escort all the generals under Huang Binqing back to Nanjing and reappoint new generals to control them. But Zhang Mingzhen wanted to use Huang Binqing's generals to gain more power.

Zhang Mingzhen took advantage of the people on the island to take advantage of his identity as the Jinyiwei to recruit most of the island's generals. Han Kuo relied on his powerful troops to annex many soldiers on the island. Although there was no direct conflict between the two, the mutual dissatisfaction was already on the surface.

In the end, Chen Zilong was in the middle to mediate. Zhang Mingzhen could take away all the soldiers and generals who were willing to follow him on the island, but Zhoushan Island was handed over to Han Kuo. Daishan Island, Shengsi Island and other islands in the north of the island were also under Han Kuo's control, while Taohua Island and Zhujiajian Island in the south of the island were left for Zhang Mingzhen to station troops.

The captured baggage on the island was divided into two ships and evenly distributed to the two armies. However, the money and grain were used in a concentrated manner to migrate the people from Jiangbei to the island for farming.

In fact, the conflict between the two did not last long. Yangzhou was defeated and the officials in Nanjing were extremely frightened. After hearing that Zhoushan was recovered, they ordered Han Kuo, Zhang Mingzhen and others to lead their troops to the Zhenjiang front line. Han Kuo received Zhou Xian's order and shied it out for various reasons. Zhang Mingzhen was ambitious and believed that this was his chance to soar to the sky and responded positively.

The final result was that Han Kuo handed over most of the soldiers originally belonged to Huang Binqing to Zhang Mingzhen, and provided him with some food and supplies, allowing him to go to Zhenjiang. Zhang Mingzhen handed over all the islands he distributed to him to Han Kuo. This was a win-win situation for both sides.

In fact, not long after, Shi Kefa wrote a letter to Zhang Mingzhen as deputy general. Chen Zilong was promoted to commander-in-chief for his merits and stationed in Dinghai, Zhoushan. Although it was not a complete military position, it basically took over Huang Binqing's original power. Han Kuo, who had the greatest contribution, did not have any rewards, but instead asked him to return to Chongming immediately and restrain Liu Wenxiu indirectly.

Zhou Xian thought about it and wrote a letter to Han Kuo, making him ignore it. Zhoushan is vast and together with the several islands around it, it is even larger than the one in the capital. The most important thing is that the surrounding fishery resources are rich and it is a natural marine granary. He should concentrate on doing two things. One migrants into the island to solve the problems of some victims in northern Jiangsu and Shandong, and use Zhoushan fishing grounds to feed Shandong. The other is to completely pacify the surrounding pirates, and use the Zhoushan Islands as a transit to vigorously expand the sea caravans and earn money.

At the end of the letter, Zhou Xian also mentioned that the Dutch people only built two cities in the central part of Taiwan. There was no strong force at the north and south ends of Taiwan, so he asked him to send people to contact the Han people who had been moved to Taiwan by Zheng Zhilong and the local tribes who were dissatisfied with the Dutch, and secretly accumulated strength.

After Zhou Xian finished writing the letter, he closed his hands and breathed a sigh of relief, preparing to send someone to someone tomorrow. Then he blew out the candles and walked out of the tent. He looked up at the sky, the bright moon was hanging high and the cold stars were dotted. With the area of ​​Zhoushan, it should be no problem to move 100,000 people, he thought so.

"Supervisor!" A soft shout came from behind.

Zhou Xian turned his head and then smiled and said, "It's Baishi! Didn't I let you go down and rest a long time ago?"

Chen Mingxia smiled and said, "The common people are impatient and have not finished some words today, so they have been waiting for the commander-in-chief." Chen Mingxia is from Liyang, Jiangsu Province. She is from a wealthy family. She studied in Shandong and Hebei very early and has a certain reputation. He went to the capital this time to take the imperial examination, but because of the war in the north, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to cancel the imperial examination.

In the original time and space, he was originally in high school, and then went through the three dynasties of Chongzhen, Dashun, and Qing Dynasty. During the Dorgon era, he angered the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty and was involved in the power struggle of the Qing nobles. At that time, he wanted the Qing Dynasty to completely integrate into China, which was undoubtedly the most beneficial to the Qing Dynasty's rule. However, the Qing Dynasty's stubborn and stupid killing also harmed himself, and ushered in decades of uprisings across the country.

Seeing the chaos in the capital, Chen Mingxia was reluctant to stay for too long, so she took her servants to the south. She was robbed many times along the way, but when she arrived in Shandong, she was penniless. He went to visit his old acquaintance. After talking, he suddenly became interested in the situation in Shandong. After begging for some gold and silver from his friends, he traveled around, and finally met Zhou Xian through some relationships.

After Zhou Xian talked with Chen Mingxia, he found that he was quite talented, not only with character, but also different from other Confucian scholars who were talking about it, he was hunting around and had a lot of talent for practical work.

At that time, Zhou Xian was about to form his own staff, including Han Chang, Xiao Leng, and Yu Wen, who had just returned from Liaodong. However, they each had their own strengths, but they were not all-round talents, and Chen Mingxia was obviously stronger than them overall. Zhou Xian had already gathered hundreds of archers and went to the mountains to hunt, so he took him and Xia Wanchun who had been pestering him.
Chapter completed!