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Chapter 527: Fujian-Vietnam Crisis

After Gao Huan defeated the main force of the Left Army, the remnants of the Left Army in Jiangnan immediately rushed to escape.

After Jin Shenghuan fled to Ningguo Mansion, he gathered tens of thousands of defeated troops and occupied Xuancheng. However, after Wu Ruyi led his troops to chase him, he had to continue to flee westward, pass Huizhou, and enter Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.

On the other hand, Zheng Hongkui retreated all the way to Chongming, seized Chongming and established a water camp, and sent a lucky boat to send Xu Yong and others to Zhejiang to deal with Zuo Liangyu's body. He continued to entrench the estuary of the Yangtze River to find fighter jets.

At this time, with the defeat of the Left Army, the Liang army recovered Nanjing, and the entire Jiangnan was shaking. The left army of various prefectures and counties fled south to Zhejiang. The Liang army recovered many prefectures and counties in Jiangnan without any effort, and chased the Left Army to enter the Zhejiang boundary controlled by Zheng Zhilong.

On the first day of October, Hangzhou.

After Zheng Zhilong captured Zhejiang, he has been living in the palace in Hangzhou.

Fujian is a high mountain and the emperor is far away, so it is suitable to live his life with his own little life closed, but it is too far from the Central Plains and is on the edge, not a place of dominance.

Zhejiang is different. Not only is it extremely wealthy, it is also close to the political center, which can facilitate the Zheng family to make decisions.

Therefore, in the past six months, Zheng Zhilong has been staying in Hangzhou and is preparing for the driver to capture Jiangnan.

Although Zuo, Zheng, and Beiming formed a coalition of the Union and jointly dealt with Gao Huan, the Zheng family's interests always occupied Jiangnan.

Because of this, Zheng Zhilong's performance was not very active when defending the Yangtze River. He only sent the navy to help the battle, and did not send the infantry to help the left army to deploy defense.

This also caused the Left Army to lack troops and only deployed defenses to the east of Nanjing, and neglected defenses for Wuhu, Dangtu and other places on the western front.

In Zheng Zhilong's mind, in fact, Zuo Liangyu and Gao Huan both suffered losses, or Zuo Liangyu was at a disadvantage and had to ask for him, he could take the opportunity to ask Su Songchang and other places as a condition for sending troops to assist the war.

However, although Zheng Zhilong had a good plan, he didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to be so thwart, or rather, he didn't expect Gao Huan to be so powerful.

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At the third update, the sky was pitch black in Hangzhou City, but there were lights in many places in the city, and vocal music came from several brothels.

On the Xizi Lake outside the city, the brothels and pleasure boats that moved from the Qinhuai River to Hangzhou were still open for business. From time to time, there were laughter from men and women, and the sound of chanting poems came.

Compared to Zuo Liangyu, Zheng Zhilong, who was a businessman, is undoubtedly more experienced in governing the local area.

After the Zheng family controlled Zhejiang, Zhejiang did not decline. Instead, it developed rapidly because Zheng Zhilong controlled the entire industrial chain of maritime trade.

Although the money earned by Haimao has been invested in Zheng Zhilong's pocket, the cake of Haimao is too big. The Zheng family eats meat and drinks soup, and they all make a fortune.

While the economy suffered heavy blows in all parts of the world due to war, only Fujian and Zhejiang, controlled by the Zheng family, continued to develop.

It was already midnight, and the rich people in Hangzhou were still indulging in the wine.

In order to develop business, Zheng Zhilong charged more taxes and canceled curfews in Hangzhou and other places, and stipulated that all commercial workshops could open all night.

However, in order to maintain public order and prevent people from causing trouble, the gate of the house must be closed after dark and will not be opened until dawn.

This means that after entering the commercial workshop, you can play casually at night, but you can't leave the workshop.

At this time, in the commercial hall, amid the bustling noise, a burst of rapid horse hooves outside Hangzhou City came. Several Zheng army cavalrymen, each riding two war horses to the north city, shouting to the cavalry: "Open the city gate quickly! The military situation is urgent."

On the city of Hangzhou, a defender poked his head out and saw the cavalry below. So he fell down the frame and hung the cavalry onto the top of the city.

Outside the palace of the King of Minyue in the city, several soldiers stood with guns. Suddenly, footsteps came. A report soldier rushed to the palace in one breath and shouted to the guards: "Emergency military information, we must report to the king immediately."

King Zheng Zhilong of Minyue visited a Japanese Shimazu family last night and gave it to his concubine.

The Zheng family occupied Zhejiang and had the ability to intervene in the upstream silk and cotton spinning workshops.

In the past, major farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang controlled the upstream supply of goods. They reduced production and increased prices, so that the Zheng family could only sell them to Japan and Western barbarians at higher prices.

Although the Zheng family was able to make money during the trade process, the high price of Ming Dynasty goods also kept some customers away.

Since the Tokugawa family unified Japan, some textile workshops have also appeared in the Edo area, and began to produce cloth and capture the Japanese market.

The Zheng family has always wanted to defeat Japan's textile workshops and occupy the Japanese market, but the big players in Jiangnan were not very cooperative.

After all, if you sell less production at a high price or sell more production at a low price, most people will choose the former.

After Zheng Zhilong occupied Zhejiang, the handicraft workshop that was originally not under his control was directly influenced by the Zheng family.

After controlling the upstream and downstream of the entire industry, Zheng Zhilong immediately increased production and jointly smuggled with the Shimazu family and Takawa family in Japan, dumping cloth into Japan, causing a large number of Japanese workshops to go bankrupt. Then the price rose back, and both the Zheng family and the Shimazu family made a lot of money.

In order to please Zheng Zhilong, Shimazu family competed for favor with the Takawa family, so they gave the adopted daughter of Shimazu family to Zheng Zhilong.

This Japanese woman has some tricks. Zheng Zhilong has been staying in his room every night recently, and will not get up until the sun is over.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong had just fallen asleep, but was gently pushed by the adopted daughter of Shimazu, "Your Highness! Your Highness!"

Zheng Zhilong half opened his eyes tiredly and touched his adopted daughter's breasts, "Tonight won't be done, tomorrow~ tomorrow."

"Your Highness! There is an emergency military report outside."

Today, Chinese dialect is the common language in East Asia. The nobles of Japan, North Korea and Vietnam all write Chinese characters, and many people can speak fluent Northern Mandarin.

Hearing that it was an emergency military situation, Zheng Zhilong woke up suddenly and asked quickly: "Is it the military situation sent by Zheng Hongkui?"

The adopted daughter shook her head, and Zheng Zhilong could only sit up from the bed, and then found a eunuch kneeling outside the curtain.

Shimazu adopted daughter put on him a robe, Zheng Zhilong put on her outer robe, walked out and asked, "Where is the military newspaper?"

The eunuch walked forward and presented a military report. Zheng Zhilong took it, tore open the sealing wax, opened it and read it quickly. It suddenly felt like five thunder thunder, which made three souls and seven spirits leave their bodies, and stood in the hall.

At this time, the military newspaper fell from his hands and fell to the ground. Zheng Zhilong's legs became weak. Seeing that he was about to fall down, the eunuch hurriedly supported Zheng Zhilong, "Be careful, your lord!"

"Your Highness!" Shimazu adopted daughter put on a piece of veil and helped Zheng Zhilong to sit down.

"What happened to your highness?" Shimazu adopted daughter couldn't help asking.

Zheng Zhilong just shook his head in pain, and suddenly, he cursed loudly, "Gao Huan, the Heaven Kills! Zuo Liangyu, the Heaven Kills! Zuo Jun is incompetent!"

The military newspaper that Zheng Zhilong read was naturally about the news that the Zuo Army was defeated and Gao Huan captured Nanjing.

The news of the defeat of the Left Army shocked Zheng Zhilong, the King of Minyue!

The army reported that he was fleeing to Zhejiang, and the Liang army was behind him. When the army was about to come to Hangzhou, Zheng Zhilong was afraid.

Gao Huan defeated Dorgon and now defeated Zuo Liangyu. Zheng Zhilong's heart suddenly became shaken.

Dorgon didn't say that, after all, the Zheng army had never fought with the Qing army, so I don't know how strong Dorgon was.

Zheng Zhilong is still clear about Zuo Liangyu.

After all, before Gao Huan defeated Dorgon, the two fought with the left army in order to compete for Jiangnan.

At that time, Zheng's army had 50,000 troops, but failed to defeat the left army.

Now Gao Huan defeated 200,000 left troops and rushed to Hangzhou. How could Zheng Zhilong not be afraid?

Zheng Zhilong was shocked for a while and suddenly said anxiously: "Hurry up, dress up orphan, and then send all the generals to come quickly to discuss the major issues!"

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