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Part One: Penghu Storm Chapter 299 Going to Taiwan

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    This day's play made Zhang Pu angry and happy at the same time.

    Angry that the imperial court actually appointed an "arrogant" person like Zhang Kentang to patrol Fujian, happy that Ding Yunyi respected him to such an extent that even everyone in Taiwan knew his name.

    He would never have thought that all these things were arranged by Ding Yunyi.  As for Shao Luchun, everyone in Taiwan likes to call him Xiaotu.

    Zhang Pu had the idea of ??going to Taiwan to have a look.

    But I am too embarrassed to explain directly that I am a guest.

    The next day, Ding Yunyi came to invite Zhang Pu to dinner again. While Zhang Pu was eating, he was thinking about how to express his thoughts indirectly.

    Zhang Pu suddenly wanted to go to Taiwan, which Ding Yunyi had never thought of.

    While he was making plans there, Zhang Pu's disciple came in and said, "Teacher, Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, wants to see the teacher."

    "He?" Zhang Pu looked disdainful: "No."

    Ding Yunyi had already expected that Zhang Kentang would definitely come. Zhang Pu was famous all over the world. When he came to Fujian this time, how could Zhang Kentang not see him?  At that moment, he advised on the side: "Mr. Ximing, Zhang Fushuai came to Quanzhou from Fuzhou and made a special trip to see him. There are always some things that can't be justified if he doesn't meet. I know that Mr. Xi is angry in his heart, but there is no need to share his common sense."

    Ding Yunyi said so, and Zhang Pu could only reluctantly agree.

    Zhang Kentang had long heard that Zhang Pu was coming. He was also a scholar. Although he was older than Zhang Pu, he admired Zhang Pu very much.  Since Zhang Ximing came to Fujian this time, he wanted to meet him no matter what.  I'm just busy with official duties, so I didn't take the time until now.

    As soon as he came in, the first thing he saw with Zhang Pu was Ding Yunyi. He couldn't help but be stunned. It wasn't until Ding Yunyi stood up and called "Fushuai" that he came back to his senses: "Ah, it turns out that Deputy Ding  The town is already here.¡±

    Then he said respectfully to Zhang Pu: "The governor of Fujian, Zhang Kentang, has met Mr. Xi Ming."

    He saw Ding Yunyi meeting Zhang Pu one step ahead of him.  He was confused and said this. Who would have thought that Zhang Pu would be even more unhappy when he heard this.  Is there any reason to add the words "Governor of Fujian" to one's name before visiting?

    At that time, he said calmly and calmly: "Zhang Pu, a common man, has seen Fu Shuai."

    Zhang Kentang was startled again, and then he realized that something was wrong with him.

    "Fushuai, please sit down. Please sit down." Ding Yunyi tried to smooth things over: "I guess Fushuai hasn't eaten yet? If you don't mind, please share some."

    Kentang Zhang gritted his teeth and sat down.

    Ding Yunyi poured him a drink: "Fushuai, I heard that Mr. Ximing was here. I admired him so much that I came to Quanzhou from Taiwan. I stayed with Mr. Ximing for a few days and gained a lot."

    Zhang Pu smiled and said, "The deputy mayor is too polite. It's Pu who needs to be taught."

    Zhang Kentang was very dissatisfied. God knows why Ding Yunyi came. God knows what Ding Yunyi is thinking

    Kentang Zhang accompanied him and said a few words.  Suddenly he said: "Mr. Ximing came to Fujian, and none of the students in Fujian knew about it. Mr. Ximing, I am bold and want to invite Mr. Ximing to Panheng, Fuzhou for a few days to meet the students in Fuzhou. Let them  You can learn from Mr.

    He asked the governor to invite him personally. I think Zhang Pu would always give him this face.  But who would have thought that Zhang Pu was not only proud, but he even pushed him to be the chief minister of the current cabinet. How could a governor look in his eyes?  Coupled with what happened yesterday, Zhang Pu felt that he was malicious towards Zhang Kentang and listened to Zhang Kentang's words.  He said calmly:

    "Originally, at the personal invitation of Fu Shuai, I must go, but I have already agreed to Deputy Town Ding to go to Taiwan to see him. I'm afraid I won't have time to go to Fuzhou."

    When these words came out, not only Zhang Kentang was surprised, but even Ding Yunyi was baffled.  Why did Zhang Pu suddenly want to go to Taiwan?

    He rolled his eyes, stood up and said, "You two talk first, I'll go and order some more dishes."

    As soon as he got outside, he closed the door and called Gongsun Yue over: "Go back to Taiwan immediately and tell Qin Yun that the great scholar Zhang Pu may be coming and ask him to arrange this"

    He ordered in a low voice, and Gongsun Yue nodded repeatedly.

    At this time in the room, as soon as Ding Yunyi left, Zhang Kentang said: "Since Mr. Ximing has agreed to Deputy Town Ding, I can't force him to do so. I just don't know if Mr. Ximing can transfer to Fuzhou when he goes to Taiwan."  , to relieve the pain of admiration among Fuzhou students?¡±

    "Zhang Pu is nothing, Fushuai is too polite." Zhang Pu said coldly: "With Zhang Fushuai in Fujian, the weather is smooth and the trend of reading is booming. Zhang Pu was not needed. Furthermore, Zhang Pu  I can only stay in Taiwan for a few days, and I will leave for the capital soon. I can only accept Fushuai's invitation.?It will be later¡±

    He spoke in a cold tone, leaving Zhang Pu confused and wondering where he had offended this great scholar.  After much deliberation, there was only one possibility, and that was that Ding Yunyi, who had seen Zhang Pu arrive earlier than himself, must have said something bad about himself in front of the young scholar.

    Zhang Kentang's sense of smell was far beyond that of Zhang Pu, and he could guess the whole story at once. He said cautiously: "Mr. Ximing, when I was in office, I devoted myself to serving the imperial court and refused to show favoritism. I offended some people."  , there are some bad things about me, please Mr. Ximing please don¡¯t misunderstand the rumors.¡±

    He kept saying "Benfu", which he was used to saying when he was in office, but when he heard it in Zhang Pu's ears, it felt so harsh: "Zhang Fushuai, although I am shallow, I will not misunderstand or misunderstand.  Some lies from others cannot deceive me, so please don¡¯t worry too much.¡±

    Zhang Pu's attitude was always neither yin nor yang, which made Zhang Kentang angry. He thought that he was a dignified governor. No matter how famous you Zhang Pu was, your status was far different from mine. He would not hesitate to run away from Fuzhou to invite you.  Is this your attitude?

    His tone became cold at that moment: "Since Mr. Ximing said so, I can't say anything more. Mr. Ximing came to Fujian, and I didn't take good care of him. Fortunately, Deputy Town Ding did these things for me.  . I am busy with official business in Fujian. I am in a hurry to go back, so I won¡¯t disturb you sir. I¡¯ll take my leave.¡±

    "Farewell." Zhang Pu sat there with no intention of getting up to see off the guests.

    "Fushuai is leaving now? You haven't eaten anything yet?" Ding Yunyi came in just in time.  Seeing Kentang Zhang about to leave, he immediately understood what had happened, but asked hypocritically.

    "Don't dare to disturb, leave!"

    Seeing Zhang Kentang leave with a displeased look on his face, Ding Yunyi shook his head: "Mr. Ximing, what happened?"

    "It doesn't matter if I don't talk about this person, I'm so angry for no reason." Zhang Pu put on a smile again: "Vice-President Ding. I just said I was going to Taiwan, it was just a joke"

    Ding Yunyi understood the meaning of his words very well: "Mr. Ximing, I hope you will go to Taiwan. If you are looking forward to the rain after a long drought, please give me a million dollars to help you."

    These words touched Zhang Pu's heart, and he laughed "Haha": "Since the deputy town invites you so kindly, if Zhang Pu refuses, it would be pretentious. I wonder when the deputy town is going to set off?"

    Ding Yunyi thought about it in his mind: "We can leave the day after tomorrow. It's just a barren land in Taiwan. Sir, please don't feel bad about it."

    "What the hell." Zhang Pu felt comfortable: "It's just that you, Deputy Town Ding, don't dislike Zhang Pu."

    The two looked at each other and smiled.

    Quanzhou is Zheng Zhilong¡¯s territory. Zhang Pu went to Quanzhou and Ding Yunyi met Zhang Pu. Zheng Zhilong had known these things for a long time, but what he also couldn¡¯t figure out was, why did Ding Yunyi go to meet a scholar?

    I heard that Ding Yunyi was very respectful to Zhang Pu.  Zheng Zhilong became more and more curious. Could it be that the scholar could bring battleships and cannons to Ding Yunyi?

    ?Zheng Zhilong¡¯s heart doesn¡¯t look down on scholars

    The only thing he was curious about was to see what Ding Yunyi could get from Zhang Pu, but the returns in the past few days greatly disappointed Zheng Zhilong.  Ding Yunyi spent the whole day drinking and playing with Zhang Pu, but other than these, he never did anything serious.

    What exactly does Ding Yunyi want to do?

    "Brother, I just got the news." Zheng Zhifeng hurriedly walked in: "Zhang Kentang just went to visit Zhang Pu, but he didn't stay there for long before he left angrily. It seems that Zhang Pu offended him."

    Zheng Zhilong was very curious: "Is there such a thing? A scholar dares to offend the governor. His bones are really hard."

    Zheng Zhifeng still knows something about Zhang Pu: "Brother. Zhang Pu is very prestigious and is the leader of the scholars. I think Ding Yunyi deliberately curry favor with Zhang Pu because he wants to improve his reputation in the minds of the scholars.  ¡±

    "Those leaders of scholars?" Zheng Zhilong laughed dumbly: "What effect can that have? Zhang Pu regards Ding Yunyi as his own son, how can he still give him battleship soldiers? Give him a box of books. Give him a gift.  It is unlucky to send a book away. This Zhang Pu has offended Zhang Kentang. Will Zhang Kentang give him a good reward? "

    Zheng Zhifeng didn¡¯t take this matter too seriously.  The role that a scholar can play is too limited: "Brother, we don't need to worry about Zhang Pu's affairs, but I have found out that Ding Yunyi has already begun to communicate with Hongyi from Batavia and Folangji from Malacca.  Started a business.¡±

    "What? He put his hands in Malacca." When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he suddenly became alert.

    No one is better than Zheng ZhilongNow we understand the importance of Malacca.

    It was from Malacca that the Falangji people got a relatively real impression of China, and the steps towards China also started from Malacca.

    After Vasco da Gama¡¯s fleet arrived at Kozhikode in present-day Kozhikode, Kerala, in the southwest of the Indian peninsula, they systematically collected geographical and humanistic information about Asia on a large scale, with the main target being China in the Far East.  After Folanji occupied Goa, he paid more attention to China.  Gorea, a historian who has lived in India for half a century, said that he encountered a "fortress of the Chinese" at that time, because the "white, black and long-haired" Chinese had many "official factories" in India.

    King Don Manuel I of Franco asked Fleet Commander Segra: "You must find out about the Qin people. Where did they come from and how far did they travel? When did they arrive in Manchuria or other places where they trade?  Where? What goods are they bringing? Are they Christians or pagans? Do they have more than one king in their country? What countries do they extend to?"

    The Folangji people who conquered Malacca bribed five Chinese shipowners and began to plan a plan to go to China.  In the twelfth year of Zhengde's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the Folangji people officially arrived on the southeastern coast of China, and then occupied Macau through fraud and bribery.

    The Folangji people were interested in the wealth of the Ming Empire, and imagined that China could easily fall into the hands of the Folangji people like Malacca. Even though they discovered that the Ming Empire was not the Folangji people hundreds of years after they came to the coast of China.  Ji can be swallowed in one bite, but the occupation of Malacca did start the most "splendid" history of Folangji's maritime empire.

    In addition to encountering powerful foreign enemies, another important reason for the demise of the Malacca Dynasty was internal decline and disputes.  The emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, the nominal suzerain at that time, were equally incompetent and short-sighted. They showed indifference to the fall of Malacca.

    The Ming court learned that Malacca had been occupied nine years after Malacca fell into the hands of the Folangji people.  In the past nine years, the footsteps of the Flemish people have already crossed the South China Sea and entered the coast of Guangdong, China.

    If it had not been for the impudence of the Folangji people and the envoy Muhammad of Prince Bintang of Malacca, who came to Beijing and sent Malacca's letter of request for help to the Ministry of Rites, Malacca would have fallen into the hands of the Folangji people.  Being kept in the dark.  However, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty had long lost the ability to solve the matter. This absurd monarch died after being ill for three months.  However, under the advice of a group of ministers at the time, they finally responded to the fall of Malacca: Fo Langji was not allowed to pay tribute. At the same time, Pires and his entourage, who were sent by Fo Langji as envoy to China, were taken to Guangzhou in the spring and summer of the same year and served as  The hostages who returned Malacca territory were thrown into prison.

    Faced with repeated requests for help from the Malacca court, the Ming court declared that it required Fo Langji to return Malacca, otherwise it would detain the mission until it was returned to Malacca.

    But after all, the Ming Dynasty had no military presence in Southeast Asia, and its tributary relationship with Southeast Asian countries was just a political commitment letter to each other, which was feeble.  When kings like Zheng He disappeared in Southeast Asia, the Ming Dynasty's weak diplomatic words and negotiations could not save Malacca from its fate.

    Southeast Asia has important strategic significance to traditional China.  Two-thirds of the vassal states of the Ming Empire were located here.  From here China received minerals, timber, spices, gold, jewels and rice in the tributary trade.

    In particular, tin ore and rice imported from Southeast Asia are of great significance to China's economy. The former is an important raw material for making copper coins, and the latter is a source of food for residents of Fujian and Guangdong.

    By exporting or re-exporting to Southeast Asia, China's porcelain, textile, tea and shipbuilding industries have made huge profits.  More importantly, China's activities in the Southeast Asian ocean were revealed, thereby establishing a China-Southeast Asia system under its own leadership, and establishing a huge strategic buffer zone for itself.

    China, which lost Malacca, opened the sea gate to the southernmost part of the empire.

    Zheng Zhilong has always wanted to insert his hand into Malacca, but he has never been able to do so. Now, Ding Yunyi has actually started thinking about it.

    The situation in Malacca has become a little complicated!  (This siteyour support is my greatest motivation.)
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