The culprit Zheng Zhibao half-kneeled on the ground, lowered his head and said nothing. In front of him was a crushed inkstone. This ancient inkstone was obtained by Zheng Zhilong for 8,000 taels of silver from a famous scholar in Fuzhou. He cherished it very much, but now it made him smash it to pieces.

Fortunately, although Zheng Zhilong was extremely angry, he was still calm and did not smash the ancient inkstone into Zheng Zhibao's head, otherwise he would be a dead leopard now.

Zheng Zhilong's anger is understandable. In just a few days, the Zheng group suffered extremely heavy setbacks in the sea and land. First of all, the senior official was quickly taken down by the Liu family army.

The tens of thousands of farmers of the senior officials were all the hardcore Zheng Zhilong. These people not only provided food for Zheng Zhilong, but also provided a huge number of troops. But the problem is that the tens of thousands of people of the senior officials have been annexed by Liu Mingyu, and Liu Mingyu used the tens of thousands of people he immigrated from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, Fujian.

Because the senior officials' land was fertile and the rain was abundant, in addition to the tens of thousands of people he immigrated, there were also people who immigrated spontaneously. Now the senior officials were led by Liu Mingyu to form 129 towns, which is equivalent to 129,000 households.

There were about 500,000 or 600,000 people. The worst thing was that he planned to defeat the main force of the Liu family's naval army in one fell swoop, and then landed in southern Liaoning. In addition to the navy, he also transported more than 40,000 army soldiers, preparing to seize southern Liaoning while the Liu family army was newly defeated.

The more than 40,000 troops were almost sunk by the Liu family's rocket launcher or suicide fire ship. Even if they were not dead, they might surrender to the Liu family's army.

The naval battle was even worse, with more than 570 warships and more than 18,000 sailors losing! Although the Zheng Group owns 3,000 warships and 200,000 to 300,000 troops, such losses are unbearable.

The most serious thing is that these two crushing defeats almost shattered the prestige that the Zheng group had accumulated after more than ten years. Those forces that have been suppressed by them will definitely be ready to move. The Dutch, Portuguese, Spaniards and even the British will have strange thoughts.

The entire Zheng Group is about to usher in a terrible storm. It is precisely because of knowing what these two failures mean that Zheng Zhilong is so angry. In his opinion, how many soldiers and warships are lost is second, and the most serious thing is that his prestige is shaken!

"I have never suffered such a crushing defeat since my debut, and I have never!" After smashing all the things I could smash, Zheng Zhilong seemed to have exhausted all his strength, lowered his head, and his voice was filled with fatigue and unwillingness.

Zheng Zhibao rattled, "I'm sorry, brother, I underestimated the enemy so I've caused such a crushing defeat! But brother, don't worry, although the surname Liu has strong ships and powerful cannons, his warships are very small and his experience is seriously insufficient. As long as we can grasp their weaknesses, we still have hope of winning... I am willing to lead a fleet to fight him to the death, even if we lead the fireboat to rush up and hit him, it will make him bleeding!"

Zheng Zhilong smiled bitterly: "Do you think we can draw a fleet in a short time to fight north? What is most important now is how to resist the counterattack of the Liu family army!"

...

Of course, Zheng Zhilong was overthinking, and Liu Mingyu's eyes were definitely not comparable to those of him, a pirate king.

However, before Liu Mingyu could arrange his strategy to land in Luzon, Helena stuck on it like a candy.

"His Marquis!"

Without waiting for Helena to speak, Liu Mingyu said directly: "Don't say it, I won't sell this kind of artillery. I don't want to lie to you, but don't let me lie to you"!

A smart woman will never rely on her identity as a woman, and will stubbornly stubbornly and foolishly. Helena is a smart woman. She saw that Liu Mingyu didn't want to trade such equipment, so she didn't say anything else.

Even if she thinks from the perspective of this kind of military weapon, if Venice had such equipment, she would not have taken out for takeout.

Helena smiled slightly and said, "Marquis Marquis, to be honest, your troops once again made me admire you! You must know that the difficulty of landing operations is very high, and all links must be linked together and no mistakes can be made, otherwise the landing operations will turn into a disaster."

"I am lucky!"

Liu Mingyu touched his face and said narcissisticly: "People who are handsome will have good luck!"

Helena smiled at Liu Mingyu's awkward whisper and did not point it out: "Even our Venetian Navy will spend more than half a year to reconnaise, plan, make various preparations, and practice repeatedly, and take into account all possible situations until 90% of the time are sure. You dare to implement them. You only took more than a month to prepare, but you fought so smoothly. The Dutch had no power to fight back in front of you. I really can't believe that this was the first time you implemented such a difficult landing battle!"

"It's not as good as you said. My preparation time is actually far more than a month!"

Liu Mingyu's eyes narrowed into a slit with smile. Obviously, the foreign girl's compliment made him quite useful: "Don't disbelief. Since the Dutch occupied the senior officials, the Ming Dynasty has been preparing to recover the senior officials. To be precise, I have been preparing for more than ten years."

Helena looked at Liu Mingyu and was even more puzzled: "How is this possible?"

“Because this is culture!”

Liu Mingyu knew that even in later generations, he would just ask a Chinese person who belongs to Lake Berga?

They will all answer that this is from our country.

Tsarist Russia robbed more than 1.6 million square kilometers of land from the Qing Dynasty. More than 1 million square kilometers of Kazakhstan were invaded. About 100,000 square kilometers of the state of Brut was annexed. More than 100,000 square kilometers of the state of Char Khanate were invaded. Donurhai and Outer Mongolia, as of 1945, a total of 5.883,800 square kilometers of encroachment, accounting for one-third of the national area.

This is the territory since ancient times.

In this time and space, Liu Mingyu will not let go of a single point, and it is also Liu Mingyu's goal.

"We are different from the Dutch. We are regaining lost land. This is our inherent territory in the Ming Dynasty and cannot be ceded in an inch!"

Helena was not confused about this issue. Instead, she pointed out what Liu Mingyu was wrong: "Marquis Marquis, you are a kind person, but your kindness will harm you!"

"Oh, how do you say this?"

Liu Mingyu has not yet discovered that he is a kind person.

Someone sent a good person card.

Helena's faint eyes fell in the distance, those absent-minded tribal leaders, with contempt, disdain, and murderous intent in her eyes: "Their natives, people and tribes like them, have too many very barbaric countries and tribes in America and Africa. One of their characteristics is that they can't remember to beat them well, you are good to them, they hollowed out their minds to kill you, and you beat them up and slaughtered several tribes, and they obeyed you! You are good to everyone, but the result is that everyone treats you as a fool..."

Liu Mingyu laughed: "I don't want to play with this trick of killing the chicken to warn the monkey. I sincerely make friends with me, or have the same pursuit and work hard together. No matter what his background is, I will treat him as a friend and will not feel superior because of their background, even if they are transcendents!"

Of course, Liu Mingyu would not have any ethnic characteristics, and that would only differentiate and make more and more confrontational. In fact, later generations have mature experience.

Treating everyone equally and not making special or special is equivalent to creating division.

The same nation and the same ancestor are not necessarily all good people, such as Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou, Kong Youde, and of course Shi Lang.

Liu Mingyu’s principle is that those who follow me will prosper and those who go against me will perish.

It’s not that Liu Mingyu doesn’t understand the principle of taking advantage of his illness to kill him. Zheng Zhilong’s nest, Fujian, is just Liu Mingyu. This is actually the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Wherever it is placed, the meat is rotten in the pot. It doesn’t matter when it is eaten. It depends on Liu Mingyu’s mood.

In this failure, Zheng Zhilong had no chance of turning around. What is different from Liu Mingyu is that Liu Mingyu has three shipyards, located in Lushun, Binzhou and Funingwei. Funingwei specializes in producing transport ships, while Binzhou and Lushun are responsible for producing first-class main warships.

With the production capacity of Lushun and Binzhou Shipyards, Liu Jiajun can produce forty-eight ships every year. This means that a navy of a middle-aged country in Europe can be launched in a year. With the proficiency of technology and production, this number will increase exponentially.

Now the bottleneck that restricts the strengthening of the Liu family's navy's strength is no longer the speed of shipbuilding, but the speed of naval guns.
Chapter completed!