Zheng Zhilong was very satisfied with this imperial edict. He didn't care how much money the court gave. He only cared about power. With power, he could expand his territory with legal and legitimate reasons. Zheng Zhilong's strength was already strong enough, but his territory was not much. He thought that the Liu family had the same strength, but their territory had already controlled the entire Shandong and extended to Jianghuai and Jiangnan. Maybe the entire Jiangnan would be occupied by him. Zheng Zhilong was very jealous.

However, at this time, the Zheng family also changed a little. This is because as the Liu family's market rose, the young and strong people's opinions received support from most people. These people are rebellious and ruthless people who are good at licking blood from the knife.

There is a saying that wealth and honor are in danger. They are now trying to seek more wealth. Even if they work hard for the court, the official positions they have obtained are limited, but if they follow Liu Bu to conquer the world, it will be different.

Only those who founded the country could easily become nobles. At this point, even if they work hard for the court, they are just Qiu Ba and cannot make it.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong had a very strong control over the power of the Zheng family and had reached the point of being the only one to say. However, in this matter, it was a bit difficult for him to overwhelm the voices of these young sects. Everyone wrote blood letters and asked the Zheng family to raise an army and fight against TND. Instead of enduring the temper of these dog officials in such a cowardly manner, it would be better to rise up and do a big fight.

These pirates have been successfully washed away. These upper-level people can change their official positions and can do a good job, but these middle- and lower-level officers are not as happy as before. After all, they used to be pirates, and they rob them if they want to, and do whatever they want to do.

Now they can't do this. After all, they are already soldiers of the coastal defense battalion. If they do it, their faces will be bad. Zheng Zhilong cut off dozens of his brothers' heads, which is because these people ruined his reputation.

The Zheng Group is very rich, but it is also a pyramid-shaped structure, with wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few people.

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

Because they were pirates, the Fujian bureaucratic system did not agree with them very much, and they regarded them as aliens, and even kept talking behind their backs and called them pirates. Except for the powerful and powerful people in the upper class, it is impossible for the lower class to act recklessly and dominate with this outfit.

So now they saw the Liu family successfully revived and achieved such good results. They were jealous of it and were very excited about it. They wanted to follow the Liu family to raise an army and pursue wealth and glory.

At the same time, Liu Bu's famous "The Edict of the Anti-Zhu Ming" was also spread to Fujian and to many people. The saying that the kings and princes are not originally a seed, and men should be self-reliant, which touched the hearts of many people. These people are rebellious and arrogant people, and they are used to life with their heads on their belts. As a human being, they have to pursue fame and fortune.

This formed the Zheng family. The upper class had the upper class's ideas, while the lower class had the lower class's ideas, which were very opposed to each other, especially the lower class's officers secretly formed a secret association, and wrote a letter to Zheng Zhilong publicly and asked him to send troops. This was also an attitude, which made Zheng Zhilong very hated.

At this point, the two brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhifeng sat down and thought, and they felt that there was a dead end in front of them, but it could be broken. They decided to send a special envoy to the capital and communicate with the emperor, which directly explained this situation. If the emperor and the court were willing to not pursue the matter, they would rise up and send troops in anger to protect their Ming Dynasty. If the emperor refused to guarantee this matter, they could only sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight and wait and see what happened.

You can tell me, the two brothers are really able to tell the people who can do it. The strategy they have set here and the envoys will go to the capital to lobby. They decided to expose the matter.

In the final analysis, Zheng Zhilong is not optimistic about the Liu family. Even if the Liu family has a good reputation, they are unwilling to eat behind the Liu family, so they inevitably go against each other.

As for the relationship between the Liu family and their relatives, there is only a relationship of interests between the family and the family, but no relationship of relatives.

But at this time, even more shocking news came, that is, the Liu family army launched a large-scale move, quickly moved south, easily captured Zhenjiang, and surrounded Nanjing.

To put it bluntly, once the Liu family army takes over Nanjing, it can control the entire Jiangnan and become a force comparable to the Ming Dynasty.

This news shocked the Zheng family just like the shock to the court.

Hearing this incident made the Zheng Zhilong brothers very jealous. If the Liu family controlled Jiangnan, their chances of winning would be greatly increased, and they might replace the Ming Dynasty and become a new dynasty.

In this way, their Zheng family will be classified as a remnant of the previous dynasty and will be captured into the corner of history.

In this case, the two brothers sat down and decided to join forces. Why don’t I send troops myself to control Fujian, then go south to conquer Guangdong, Guangxi, and control the territory of several provinces. I can also compare with the Liu family and become a hero in one place.

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

The court lost Jiangnan, and the market situation was indeed falling sharply. His prestige dropped sharply, and it fell to a point where many people were not optimistic about it.

In this way, they had already sent envoys to the capital to lobby, but when they saw that the wind was not right, they immediately rushed to get the envoy back.

Now that the strength of the Liu family has increased greatly, the court has declined sharply, the Zheng family has become a bargaining factor for balancing the two major forces. Since he has become the key to the two major forces, the current conditions offered by the court cannot impress them and cannot make them fight for it.

So they decided that the best way for the Zheng family was to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight or wait for the court to offer a larger price. A mere earl and marquis could not satisfy his ambitions. At least he had to be a duke or a prince, otherwise he would not be willing to send out more than 100,000 troops under his command to fight for the court.

Moreover, he, a duke, had to be not the kind of nameless one. He had to have his own territory and his own army, just like the Mu family in Yunnan, Yongzhen, and was independent, obeying the tune or not.

The Zheng brothers are also heroic talents, but they have lived too much wealth and honor, and they have already eroded their brothers' heroic ambitions, and they have lost the kind of passion that they had made to travel around the world and overcome obstacles back then. They just want to pay the least price and get the most benefits, and it is best to get it for nothing.

Moreover, in the face of the major matters that determine the life and death of the Zheng family, they seemed very cautious and very careful, because all this in front of them was obtained by them after all the hardships and difficulties. They were also very satisfied with what they had and what they had at present. They did not want to lose it, but they just wanted to get more, but they were unwilling to take risks.

This makes the two brothers' approach seem a bit ridiculous, that is, they are swaying and having both ends of the rat. Such a behavior is not something that can be done by doing big things.

If Liu Bu said that, this is to forget the righteousness when seeing profits, and cherish the body when seeing profits. So when they saw that the market in the Liu family rose, they immediately decided to wait and see what happened. Of course, they would not rely on the Liu family as their younger brother, and the Liu family as his younger brother is still the same.

Even Zheng Zhilong had another idea, that is, Zheng Zhibao and his daughter took away a large number of fleets of their Zheng family, and these fleets belonged to their entire group. Should he find an excuse to take all of these back and distribute them to everyone?

Their brothers were unsure of their minds, but they ordered their officers and soldiers and fleets far away to be transferred back to Quanzhou one after another to prepare in case of any change.

Because they understood that whether they rebelled themselves or followed the court, they were ready to fight.

The Zheng family developed from several ships back then to a powerful force that spreads across the entire Eastern world today, relying on their powerful force and their fleets.

They have lived a lot of life with peace of mind, and many people are willing to live like this for a long time, but the world is undergoing unprecedented changes. They want to gain benefits from this big change, so they are ready to mobilize their troops.

Although Wang Wensheng, the envoy of the Liu family, has been lobbying them here to let them follow the Liu family and share the world, they always felt that this was unreliable, so it would be better to follow the court. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong saw Fatty Wang's sinister and insidiousness, and knew that although this man was smiling and harmless, he was actually a very cunning person and could no longer let him contact his subordinates.

He ordered people to drive him out and asked someone to escort him out of Fujian, and never allowed him to come back.

If it weren't for the fact that this guy came from all the way to give gifts, he would have killed Fatty Wang with one blow.

If he kills people with such a knife, no one will be willing to come all the way to give gifts again. Of course, this is also related to his failure to break up with the Liu family.

If he killed the envoy sent by the Liu family father and son, it would definitely anger the Liu family father and son, but it would not help the overall situation at all, so they would drive Fatty Wang away.
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