I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Fuzhou, Zheng family.

Zheng Zhilong's face was not very good at this time, because Dahua had not contacted him for a few days.

The slaughter on the battlefield is only part of the war.

Other trade wars and intelligence wars are also ongoing. However, compared to the frontal battlefield, these invisible struggles are not conspicuous enough.

But in reality, the impact of these struggles is enormous.

Just like Dahua's trade war with Nanming and Daqing, the effect is very significant.

Dahua relied on cheap commodities and frantically plundered the enemy's wealth.

Control the export of grain, and then purchase the enemy's grain and iron ore at high prices, raise the price of military materials in the enemy's territory, and increase the cost of the enemy's army.

These methods made Da Qing and Nan Ming very painful.

In the face of these trade wars, they still don't have many good solutions, because they don't have advantageous commodities, and they can't fight back if they want.

The only thing they can do is to levy heavy taxes on goods from Dahua, and they dare not even ban them.

After all, Dahua's products have become a necessity for those dignitaries.

If they prohibit the entry of Dahua's products, I am afraid there will be a wave of dissatisfaction inside.

Just levying heavy taxes has little impact on the dumping of Dahua products.

Anyway, the higher the tax, the more expensive their stuff will be.

Ultimately, the people who pay the bill are the people in their jurisdiction.

And the heavy taxation of the court makes them unable to use cheap things, and it will cause those people to be dissatisfied, and then they will have two hearts and hook up with Dahua.

In the past, the merchants in Huainan, not just because they wanted to use cheap goods in Nanjing, so they jointly designed with Dahua's army, and finally assisted Dahua in conquering Huainan.

These are all due to the trade war.

Not to mention intelligence warfare, a single piece of information can often determine the outcome of a battle.

Because of the backwardness of communication means in this era, intelligence warfare is actually not easy, but Dahua's intelligence department has been working hard.

One of the jobs they do most now is to instigate rebellion and persuade the enemy to surrender.

Some of those who surrendered to Lu Guangzu were persuaded by Dahua's spies.

There are people who are going to hook up with those little ones. People like Zheng Zhilong who can decide the fate of Fuzhou are naturally also hooking up.

Moreover, the Dahua Intelligence Department also listed him as a key target to win over, trying to persuade him and instigate a rebellion.

It's just that Dahua's spy and Zheng Zhilong only had contact once, and then there was no contact.

The reason is actually very simple. The conditions given by Dahua are too poor and are not attractive to Zheng Zhilong.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong did not express his position, and was still waiting for Dahua to increase his position.

However, Wu Zhao, who was in charge of contacting Zheng Zhilong, had given up his persuasion.

After all, Dahua is not Wu Zhao who has the final say.

As much authority as the above gave him, he gave as much commitment.

Zheng Zhilong didn't like it, and there was nothing he could do.

Make a promise to a high-ranking official first, and then deny it later. Dahua can't do it. They attach great importance to reputation.

Using this despicable method may benefit in a short period of time, but as a result, the enemy no longer believes in their greatness, and this long-term loss will be serious.

"Brother, what does Dahua mean? It's almost reaching Ningde, and we haven't discussed the decision to join us. If this goes on, our troops will be sent to fight them. That boy Zhu Yujian has already urged to us several times."

Zheng Zhibao said.

Previously, Zhu Yujian had urged their troops to go north to defend against the Dahua army many times, but unfortunately they kept pushing back, just because they didn't want to fight against the Hua army.

At this time, Hua Jun had already reached Ningde, and they had no excuse to refuse to send troops.

Therefore, several leaders of the Zheng family were very anxious and wanted to negotiate the conditions for surrender with Dahua as soon as possible and complete the matter of surrender.

They didn't want to accompany Zhu Yujian to die. Anyway, for them, being a minister to Zhu Yujian and Wu Changqing had little to do with each other.

As long as Wu Changqing's conditions were generous enough, they would be willing to offer Zhu Yujian's head.

However, they far underestimated Wu Changqing's miserliness, or in other words, they overestimated their own value.

What Zheng Zhilong wanted was the site in Fujian, plus the title of a duke. At worst, he had to be a marquis, not lower than Li Shaobin.

However, before he could speak, Wu Zhao gave Dahua's conditions first.

An earl title, and then the army will be completely reorganized according to the establishment of the Dahua army, and Zheng Zhilong will also be transferred to Nanjing.

Zheng Zhilong felt that unless he was old and confused, he would not agree to this condition.

He has now been designated as a different surname prince by Zhu Yujian, enjoying the treatment of the royal family.

There was only one earl who surrendered to Dahua, and this title was too much for him to accept.

More importantly, he wanted to stay in Fujian forever and be his emperor in Fujian.

However, Dahua not only had to take his army, but also transferred him to Nanjing.

Zheng Zhilong, who had no sense of security, was worried that if he went to Nanjing, he would be assigned an idle job to support him.

Without feeling any sincerity, he directly drove Wu Zhao away.

Then, there is no then.

Zheng Zhi

Long thinks that it is no exaggeration to discuss such a big event as recruiting himself.

How could such a major event be given up just because of one eviction order?

But the reality is that Dahua really gave up.

Strictly speaking, it was the Dahua military who gave up on him.

The civil servants may also support a little more surrender, so that they can fight less and settle the world more quickly.

However, military generals have always wanted to be able to fight more. They don't like to play recruiting and surrendering, especially recruiting and surrendering important people.

Every time an important person is recruited, he will be rewarded with a title.

The more people who get the title, the more the title will become worthless, and other people with titles definitely don't want this to happen.

This is also the reason why Wu Changqing bestows very few titles. The rarer it is, the more attractive it is to officials.

Like the generals in the Longwu court, who are always different surnames of kings and dukes and marquises, those people naturally don't care about this shitty street stuff.

In Dahua, there are only a few marquis.

In this case, if you can be named a duke, wouldn't it be under one person and over ten million people, and the status is extremely noble.

Therefore, in the Dahua court, those civil and military officials are extremely eager for the title.

At this time, there are still many people in Dahua's army who do not have titles, and they are still thinking of earning military merit to obtain titles.

And military merit can only be obtained by fighting, and the merit of recruiting and surrendering generals will not be recorded on their heads.

When all the enemies are surrendered, they will have nothing to fight.