? It was five years ago that Chen Kai shot Zheng Zhiwan dead. But bringing up this old incident is completely unfamiliar to Zheng Chenggong, because that incident is too special for the entire Zheng Group.

It's too important - it's not just that Zheng Zhiwan died. What's more important is that the nature of the Zheng Group has been adjusted by Zheng Chenggong into a military and political group with the core goal of resisting the Qing Dynasty, rather than the usual ones in his father's era.

A maritime business group whose fundamental interests are ocean trade.

The last five years have also been the five years of rapid expansion of the Zheng Group. On the Fujian battlefield, it has grown from a small center-left institute, then to Zhangzhou Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture, and even the entire Fujian Province. On the Guangdong battlefield

It also expanded rapidly from Chaozhou Prefecture, making the entire Zheng Group become the pillar supporting the Nanming Dynasty, standing side by side with the Daxi Army in the southwest.

Here, Chen Kai revealed the matter again, and Zheng Chenggong was immediately stunned. Initially, he had realized that there would definitely be dissatisfaction and estrangement between Chen Kai and Zheng Jing, mainly reflected in Zheng Jing's potential power over Chen Kai.

But now, when it comes to Chen Kai's mouth, he has been doing this for many years, and the root cause is actually his son who was only a few years old at the time. How can he be easily convinced?

"He's still a kid!"

It was the word child again, and Zheng Chenggong was once again stung by his own words. From that day's talk, regarding the hidden worries about the expansion of Chen Kai's power caused by Jin Wengong's reforms, his

The eldest son is worthy of the word "precocious".

This seems to be of the same origin - his father Zheng Zhilong went to Macau to join his uncle who was a sea trader at the age of seventeen. By the time he was nineteen, he was already regarded as a glorious and prominent figure by the Japanese. The next year, he was directly involved in Yan Siqiyi

He was plotting to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate; and in his early years, he was under the influence of his father and had a smooth life. However, when he was twenty-two years old, he began to lead the army. At the end of the same year, his father was kidnapped and his mother died. However, he was not defeated by the suffering. On the contrary, he

Bucking the trend, he burned his clothes and raised his troops. He took more than ninety men on a sea ship and sailed towards the unknown.

For a moment, shock came to mind, but his face was still as hard as stone. However, after having known each other for many years, Chen Kai couldn't understand what Zheng Chenggong was thinking here.

"Damu, haven't you noticed the look in Jing'er's eyes when she sees me as my little uncle or mentions my name?"

The eyes are the windows to the soul. This was once said by Leonardo da Vinci, the most influential figure in the Renaissance who lived from the 15th to 16th century. However, as early as 1,800 years before Leonardo da Vinci was born,

Years ago, Mencius, who is also known as Confucius, said something similar.

Zheng Chenggong has read the books of sages, and of course he knows what is meant by "There is nothing good in a human being except his eyes. The eyes cannot hide the evil. If the heart is righteous, the eyes will be clear; if the chest is not right, the eyes will be dim." Here is Chen

Kai mentioned the look in Zheng Jing's eyes, recalling and searching for the fragments in his mind, especially the last time Zheng Jing used the topic, when he mentioned the word "little uncle", the emotions flashing in his eyes were extremely complicated, but the most difficult to understand.

What is covered up is that fear!

Zheng Chenggong is such a smart person. He only needed to lift the last fig leaf of his inner demon through memories, and he thought it all clearly in just an instant.

On the warship at Zhongzuo Pier, gunshots rang out, and Zheng Jing's third uncle fell down in response. The lead bullet penetrated his head, and red blood and white brains suddenly splashed all over Dong Yougu and Zheng Jing's faces. From that moment on,

Chen Kai became the devil in the eyes of Ishii Zheng, and he wanted to get rid of him quickly. The subsequent delay in the marriage between Chen Kai and Zheng Xiyuan was due to the family's backlash. As a witness to Chen Kai's killing and seizing the army, Zheng Chenggong was

His heir, Zheng Jing, who was only eight or nine years old at the time, that child who was longer than a woman's hands, once faced Chen Kai's fear of defeat in Shunchang when he killed Zheng Zhiwan and shocked Lan Deng, Zhou Quanbin and others.

Fear, in this way, fear is bound to be deeply rooted in the heart and become the inner demon in Chen Kai's mouth.

However, if you want to become a worthy leader and lead this group to survive and develop in such an era where the jungle has no cover, you can and must have a sense of awe, but fear is absolutely unacceptable.

should exist.

In other words, if Zheng Jing wants to inherit Zheng Chenggong's career, it is not enough to just rely on blood and patriarchal clan. If he cannot get rid of his inner demons, he is not worthy of inheriting this huge military and political group!

This has also happened to Zheng Chenggong - when Zheng Zhilong was kidnapped, the de facto leader of the Zheng Group was neither Zheng Zhilong's brother Zheng Hongkui, nor Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Chenggong, but Zheng Cai, a descendant of the Gaopu Zheng family.

Because he had a stronger military than Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong at that time, and controlled more maritime trade resources. More importantly, Zheng Cai was never afraid of competitors within other groups. At most, they were just trade-offs and trade-offs at the game level.

It was just a response. Zheng Chenggong finally defeated Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers and reunified the Zheng Group, and everything that followed happened. Otherwise, he would only be limited to a corner of eastern Guangdong and would not be able to have the momentum and power he has today.

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Wherever there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there will be conflicts of interest. Zheng Chenggong has known this truth since he was a child, because his father used his legendary experience as a precept and example.

Therefore, since Zheng Chenggong led the army, he has always done an excellent job of checking and balancing the power of his subordinates. Even without the help of Chen Kai, the uncle and nephew of the Shi family, who was very powerful at that time, still managed through differentiation, wooing, suppression, etc.

The method was used to control it within a controllable range. Later, Shi Lang became domineering and even rebelled and fled. Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and others who were once the leaders of the Shi Jiajun all chose to be loyal to Zheng Chenggong instead of rebelling, and even

Even the deputy general Su Mao promoted by Shi Lang only helped him escape to repay his kindness, but he still chose to follow Zheng Chenggong during the Ming and Qing wars.

He has always done an excellent job, but what he never expected was that the conflict between Chen Kai, whom he trusted most, and his eldest son and future heir would have developed to this point.

, when his son grows up, the two of them will inevitably meet each other. So Zheng Jing has now begun to try to weaken Chen Kai's power. That's why Chen Kai did so many things without telling him. It's because of them

We all know that this battle is inevitable.

"As long as I am alive, none of you can turn this world upside down!"

Falling into the abyss, it stirred up huge waves. Zheng Chenggong was still sitting there, but as he said this sentence, an unquestionable aura came out of his body, as if his whole body was lifted up by tens of thousands of feet.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong's momentum was terrifying. Even though Chen Kai stood among thousands of troops several times, he could not help but have difficulty breathing, as if even the air was much thinner.

After being stunned for a moment, Chen Kai suddenly secretly laughed. The laughter was not that of Zheng Chenggong. In fact, Zheng Chenggong still had enough confidence to control the fate of the group, and he could indeed do this. He laughed

But the thing is that he knew from the beginning that if Zheng Chenggong was still alive, there would be absolutely no way to tell a life-and-death fight between him and Zheng Jing. And Zheng Chenggong's life span, according to his memory, should not be more than a few years, but he recently

In Southern Gansu, the career of one of the chief culprits in the death of Zheng Chenggong in history has just been ruined. His hard work over the years was also to reverse the tragedy of national decline. In this way, in theory, Zheng Chenggong's lifespan is unlikely to be as long as in history.

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"Yes, as long as you live for one day, Jing'er and I won't really be in a life-or-death situation."

An agreement was reached again, but in Zheng Chenggong's eyes, or in Chen Kai's attitude, there was no trace of compromise on either side. The Zheng Group succession war will still break out in the future, and so will Chen Kai.

He will continue to do what he is doing now. What Zheng Chenggong can control is only within his life span. Once he exceeds this limit, he will no longer be able to do anything.

We have known each other for nearly ten years, and our understanding of each other is incomparable even to those who sleep with each other. This is nourished by the tacit understanding and cooperation of fighting side by side for many years, and it is incomparable. Study Room

In the middle, the abyss and the turbulent waves froze for an instant, and the two of them returned to the state of sinking into water, as if even time had stopped at this moment.

Just looking at each other like this, the past was vivid in our minds, and there were thousands of thoughts, but no one spoke. It lasted for an unknown amount of time before Zheng Chenggong reopened the last round of dialogue.

"I have two choices for you now. Either I ask the imperial court to appoint you as the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and Jing'er will join your sect by then; or you continue to go back to be your governor of Guangdong and wait.

The imperial court asked you to take over Lian Chengbi's errand. You can decide this matter with one word."

The governor of Zhejiang and Fujian restarted their game. Zheng Chenggong actually proposed such a choice, which was beyond Chen Kai's expectation. I remember that at the beginning of last year, Guo Zhiqi also used this position to win over him. The result was not only

He rejected it on the spot and informed Zheng Chenggong afterwards. As a result, only a year later, this choice was placed in front of him again, as if he was destined for this position.

"If I choose the latter, will I not be able to leave this study room?"

Zheng Chenggong's martial arts enlightenment began with the Japanese swordsman Hanabusa Gonemon. This man was not only a good friend of Zheng Zhilong, but also said to be the successor of the "Two Sword Style" created by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. This statement may be based on

However, being able to become a good friend of the great maritime merchant at that time, and to teach martial arts to his friend's son, it would not be that low. In the years that followed, Zheng Chenggong also passed the exam with Zheng Zhihu, the most powerful general of the Zheng family.

Zheng Hongkui, who is in the martial arts examination, hone his martial arts and trains his body. Chen Kai has seen the superb martial arts as early as when he was at the South Australia Ordnance Bureau. In comparison, the most he has learned over the years is riding a horse and using a gun. What is remarkable is that

After getting rid of urban sub-health, if you use swords and swords, even if you have loaded the gunpowder in advance, you may be dead before the trigger is pulled.

As the words came out of his mouth, there was absolutely no look of fear, sadness, or anger on his face. Instead, some of them were more ridiculing and meaningless, and there were even some expressions on Zheng Chenggong who were still trying to resolve the conflict between him and Zheng Jing.

The feeling of hard work.

"You knew from the beginning that I would not kill you, so why would you say such evil words."

After many years of friendship, the only time Zheng Chenggong decided to get rid of Chen Kai was when he insisted on going to Jiangxi. But even so, his order to Cai Qiao was that Chen Kai must surrender before he could eliminate this serious trouble for the country. Otherwise,

Even if Chen Kai is used by the Jiangxi Ming Army, he must not take action.

At that time, he had never thought of using violent means to get rid of Chen Kai, and he has never had such an idea now. There is not only the bond between the two over the years, but also the family affection between Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Xiyuan, and Chen Kai.

If he died in his hands, it would definitely cause the collective despair of the generals and officials under his command. Even if it was for Zheng Jing, he would never touch Chen Kai!

From the beginning, Chen Kai used Zheng Jing's fear of him as a breakthrough point, with the purpose of letting Zheng Chenggong understand the weakness of his son. Assuming that Zheng Jing cannot break through Chen Kai's inner demon on his own, then he is not qualified to become this

The leader of the group is not good enough to inherit Zheng Chenggong's career; if Zheng Jing can eliminate Chen Kai's inner demon on his own, then Zheng Chenggong's early removal of this thorn for him is not to protect him, but to harm him.

This makes him lack the experience and temper of confronting the powerful in his life. Just like when Zhu Yuanzhang almost killed all the founding fathers for Zhu Yunwen, but Zhu Yunwen still couldn't keep the throne. This is reasonable.

In all this, Chen Kai brought Zheng Jing's fear to light, and there was already a tacit understanding between them. Even Zheng Chenggong could imagine that if Chen Kai became the winner of the Zheng Group's succession war a hundred years later, then

Zheng Jing will probably become a rich man. But if Chen Kai loses, he will definitely die without a burial.

Fairness is the rarest thing in this world. But no matter what the outcome, this duel must happen, because Zheng Jing's fear of Chen Kai is real, it's that simple. And for Zheng Chenggong, he can

What he did was to ensure that the internal struggle of the Zheng Group would not affect the fight against the Manchus before expelling the Tartars. At this point, he believed that Chen Kai had the overall situation in mind, and his son was still young after all.

He is not old enough to pose a big enough threat to Chen Kai.

"You go back to the posthouse to rest first. There will be a meeting tomorrow. Marquis Jianping and Governor Lu will attend."

"Yes." Standing up, Chen Kai bowed his hands and retreated towards the door. When he was about to push the door open, he suddenly turned around again and bowed to the end. He had never felt so solemn before.

"Damu, I'm sorry." After saying that, without waiting for Zheng Chenggong's answer, he opened the door and left the room in a hurry.

As the sun set, Chen Kai's back gradually disappeared in the re-enclosed sunlight. Only then did Zheng Chenggong sigh sincerely: "Jingcheng, you didn't feel sorry for me. You did it for me and our common cause."
Chapter completed!