In Beijing, a distinguished guest came to Zheng Zhilong Mansion, Tong'an Hou, but Feng Quan, the Grand Secretary of Zhonghe Palace.

Speaking of Lord Feng Quan, he was a strange man. He passed the Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli. He was only 19 years old that year, and he was really proud of his youth. Not only was he knowledgeable, he looked like water, with red lips and white teeth, like a virgin, not to mention how handsome he was. After he passed the Jinshi, Feng Quan went to the Hanlin Academy for review. Later, because his father Feng Shengming was impeached and dismissed as the governor of Henan and returned to his hometown with his father.

In the fourth year of Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian of the dynasty went to Zhuozhou to incense. Feng Quan knelt beside the road and cried about his father's impeachment and lost his official position by the Donglin Party. After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian was furious and presided over justice for the Feng family and ordered Feng Quan to still be appointed as the original official. From then on, Feng Quan was grateful to Wei Zhongxian. When the Donglin Party and the eunuch party were at the most intense struggle, he worked for Wei Zhongxian. In just one year, he was promoted to the auxiliary minister of the court, and was appointed as the Minister of Rites and the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion. He became a popular figure in the eunuch party, and later became the president of the "Three Dynasties".

After Emperor Tianqi passed away, Wei Zhongxian lost his backer. Emperor Chongzhen, who ascended the throne, appointed the list of eunuchs. Feng Quan was ranked second in charge until the Ming Dynasty fell. He was not appointed by the Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Shunzhi, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon, summoned Feng Quan to the court with a letter, and gave him court clothes, robes, saddles, horses, and silver coins. He ordered Feng Quan to still use the Ming Dynasty official title to assist in the management of the internal affairs.

Feng Quan was resigned as a Pacific Protection rank in the 13th year of Shunzhi. However, last year, Emperor Shunzhi and Prince Yue Le and Prince Jian Jidu fought for the establishment of a cabinet. After the success of this year, Feng Quan was recalled by Shunzhi to be the Grand Secretary of the Zhonghe Palace with his original title. However, even though Feng Quan is now a Grand Secretary, his reputation is inaudible in the officialdom of Beijing. This infamous reputation is not the matter of Grand Secretary Feng as an eunuch party, nor is he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. If you really need to calculate it carefully, which Han official in the capital is clean and who was not surrendered to the Ming Dynasty? The reason why Grand Secretary Feng is not ashamed of being a robber and raped by the chicken back then.

The style of men was very good in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, but the style of other departments was fine, but the style of the Hanlin Academy was the most important. Because these Hanlin officials were all idle officials and were idle on weekdays, either visiting prostitutes or prostitutes. Eight out of ten were all good people. Feng Quan was handsome, and in addition to being less than 20 years old when he was admitted to the Hanlin Academy, he was in a low position and had a young position, so he naturally became the target of the old perverts in the Hanlin Academy.

At first, although Feng Quan's Hanlin colleagues teased him, they only teased him. No one really dared to ride on him. Poor, Feng Quan's life was really hard, but he was a Mongol, who was extremely sturdy and didn't look like a scholar at all. However, he was the disciple of Ye Xianggao, the chief assistant of the dynasty, and he was the position of "Zuo Yude" to be responsible for the prince's study. However, at that time, Tianqi had just ascended the throne and was young and had no prince to be educated by Teacher Zuo, so he was idle and stared at Feng Quan. One day, maybe he was hungry and thirsty, but he couldn't stand it. Miao Changqi took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the house and actually raped Feng Quan in broad daylight!

If you are raped by Miao Changqi alone, then forget it. After all, no one knows this. You know, I know God. As long as you don’t leak it, Feng Quan can always save his face. But this Miao Changqi is really not a thing. After finishing the matter, he left amid Feng Quan’s crying. Not long after, more than a dozen people from the Hanlin Academy rushed over. Seeing so many colleagues coming over, Feng Quan naively thought that his colleagues would vent their anger for him. However, after these colleagues entered the house, they looked around Feng Quan with his bare butt for a while, and then closed the door again. With Feng Quan’s begging, he was raped again!

After this incident, Feng Quan's nature changed drastically. He hated the people of the Donglin Party to the core. Later, he found an opportunity to complain to Wei Zhongxian. After being reused by Nine Thousand Years, Feng Quan severely dealt with the Hanlin colleagues who bullied him. However, no matter how cruel he was, the fact that Mr. Feng was raped by a group of men could not be changed. Therefore, over the years, officials always laughed at Feng Quan when they talked about Feng Quan.

Zheng Zhilong knew that Grand Secretary Feng was "scandal" back then, but he did not dare to show any ridicule. On the contrary, he had to be careful and respectful, for fear of being a little neglected to Grand Secretary Feng. The second son Zheng Du was with him and was extremely careful on his face, but he couldn't help but think of the humiliation history of Feng's early years.

Feng Quan came to Tong'an Hou Mansion not on his whim. He wanted to see how the leader of Zheng, who was in Pingyang, was doing now, but came with the will. There was another person who came with him, but Shi Lang, who defected from the Zheng family.

Shi Lang and Zheng Chenggong had a grudge against his father and brother, so they hated Zheng Chenggong to the core. They thought that they would be valued after they were able to fight in the Qing Dynasty and would be able to avenge their own revenge in the future. However, the Qing court did not value him. First, they gave him the position of deputy general Tong'an, and then they simply transferred him to Beijing to arrange a free job. Shi Lang was in great poverty, and lived a very poor life. He had to rely on his wife as a female tailor to supplement the family's expenses, otherwise the family would not even have food. Yesterday Shangguan suddenly informed Shi Lang that he would go to Tong'an Hou Mansion with the Grand Secretary Feng Quan today. Shi Lang was excited and thought that the court was preparing to use his naval commander to suppress Zheng Chenggong, but he did not want to come to Tong'an Hou Mansion. However, the purpose of Feng Xueshi's visit to Tong'an Hou Mansion was to surrender Zheng Chenggong.

Shi Lang felt very uncomfortable and felt that since the emperor wanted to surrender Zheng Chenggong, why did he let Feng Quan come to Tong'an Hou Mansion with Feng Quan? Because it was not good, and with the great revenge between the Zheng family and himself, Shi Lang's face did not show any smiles since he entered the mansion, and he always had a tense face. The eyes of Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Du were also fierce. The Zheng father and son knew why Shi Lang looked at him and his son, and Feng Quan also knew, so the three of them pretended not to see him.

After saying a lot of polite and nonsense, Feng Quan finally explained his purpose. He said: "The emperor said that as long as your Damu is willing to submit to the court, the emperor will not care about everything in the past. If Damu comes, the emperor will also be granted the title of king. He will return to Fujian to raise soldiers. At that time, Tong'an Hou can also return to Fujian to enjoy the joy of family."

"ah?!"

Zheng Du and Shi Lang shouted at the same time, the former was surprised and the latter was stunned.

Zheng Du was very suspicious. The Qing court had never talked to his elder brother before, but he was only willing to give a title to Duke Haicheng and raise soldiers for another mansion. However, his elder brother was the Prince of Yanping in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the price offered by the Qing court was a bit shabby, and he would not agree if he had not agreed to it. Why did Shunzhi suddenly get out of his mind and open the price so much that he not only had to be the king but also raise soldiers for a province. This is really incredible.

Shi Lang was shocked, but if Zheng Chenggong accepted the conditions of the Qing court, wouldn’t he be unable to avenge his revenge for the rest of his life? How could he, a person who was unpopular and not valued, seek a vassal king to avenge him!

Feng Quan offered a bid code and was very satisfied with the reaction of Zheng Du and Shi Lang. When he heard this price code in front of the emperor, he was really shocked.

"The emperor treats Damu and treats your Zheng family, it is not sincere. Tong'an Hou, your Zheng family cannot be confused anymore this time." Feng Quan said meaningfully.

Zheng Zhilong said with a look of dismay: "The Grand Secretary knows that I am obsessed with my slut, and he doesn't listen to me at all!"

Feng Quan smiled and said, "Then it depends on Tong'an Hou to move him with affection and reason. After all, you have the affection between father and son!"

Zheng Zhilong sighed and shook his head: "I have written several letters, but he didn't even hear back."

"This time it's different. Many people in the court heard that the emperor wanted to be the king of Damu, and they all argued against it." Speaking of this, Feng Quan looked at Shi Lang intentionally or unintentionally, "Prince An submitted a memorial and asked the emperor to activate Shi Lang to Jiangnan to practice the navy. If the navy is trained, it is unlikely that such good conditions will be possible."

Practice a navy?

Shi Lang felt a little excited, but his heart soon became cold again. He knew that the court said in front of Zheng Zhilong that Shi Lang would practice the naval master, which was mostly false, and his intention was probably just to hit the Zheng family. If he really wanted him to practice the naval master, why should he reveal it to the Zheng family? The emperor was mostly thinking of surrendering Zheng Chenggong. This time he had enough chips, and I'm afraid Zheng Chenggong would be moved.

Zheng Du's thoughts were roughly the same as Shi Lang, and he also believed that the Qing court was the one who was trying to beat him up.

"Please report to the emperor that the emperor treats my Zheng family as much as a mountain, and he never gives up on my son. This time I will convince my son to come back no matter what." Zheng Zhilong looked moved and bowed heavily to the direction of the palace.

Feng Quan smiled and reached out to help Zheng Zhilong. When the words came, he should go back to the palace to report his life. It is not his business to choose between Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Damu.

"That's my husband!"

"I'll send the Grand Secretary!"

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly took Zheng Du to send Feng Quan out of the mansion. He was talking and laughing along the way, and Shi Lang was depressed alone.

As soon as he arrived at the gate, Zheng Zhilong found that at some point, a team of Qing soldiers with spears had surrounded him and Hou Gong's Mansion. Seeing that Zheng Zhilong was about to come out, a leading officer stepped forward and shouted, "Please stay with Hou Gong's foot!"

"This" Zheng Zhilong frowned, looked at Feng Quan in confusion for unknown reasons.

Feng Quan smiled slightly and said, "The emperor is not at ease with the safety of Tong'an Hou, so he specially sent someone to protect Tong'an Hou."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Du changed their qualities at the same time. Zheng Zhilong asked Feng Quan angrily: "Master Feng, is the emperor going to put me under house arrest?"

Feng Quan laughed and said, "What are you doing with house arrest or not? Don't misunderstand Tong'anhou. The emperor is also kind-hearted, don't think too much."

"What kind of good intentions? Isn't this obvious need to put my father and son under house arrest?" Zheng Duxin said frankly and shouted indignantly.

Shi Lang raised his eyebrows, feeling a little gloating.

"I, Zheng Zhilong, are loyal to the court, but the court will not treat me as my own family!"

Zheng Zhilong was also angry. It would not be a good thing if anyone was under house arrest. Don’t say that Feng Quan just said that the court wanted to be king of his son and use a province of territory to raise soldiers for the Zheng family. Before this matter was completed, he sent troops to put him under house arrest. What does Shunzhi mean?

Feng Quan waved his hand to signal the officer to retreat aside and said to Zheng Zhilong: "Don't think about the bad things. The emperor does this for your own good. Besides, this is also a temporary solution. As long as Damu comes back, the soldier will naturally be removed. In short, don't think too much, and don't do anything to deceive the emperor. Write a letter early and send it to you early. The emperor is looking forward to good news from Damu."

Feng Quan said so, what else could Zheng Zhilong say? He forced himself to watch Feng Quan and Shi Lang leave, and then he did not say a word and returned home.

Late at night, under the oil lamp, Zheng Du made a bowl of Tieguanyin from his hometown for his father.

"Father, do you think the court is so soft this time?"

Zheng Du still wondered why Shunzhi wanted to be king of his brother and gave up land in Fujian province to his Zheng family.
Chapter completed!