Zheng Tie tapped his fingers lightly on the table, looking thoughtful.
At this time, the guard came over with a cup of hot tea, quietly placed the cup on the table, and then slowly retreated.
"What was the reaction of the nobles in Nanjing?" Zheng Tie asked.
Li Zhao said: "It's strange to say that we had such a big incident in Nanjing, but the nobles in Nanjing didn't react at all. I even suspect that the robbery of the warehouse was related to them."
"There is no doubt that it must be related to those companies." Zheng Tie said firmly.
The Tiger Flag can set up a warehouse in Nanjing and purchase silk, porcelain, tea and other items, and it is indispensable to deal with the nobles of Nanjing.
Li Zhao frowned when he heard this, and said: "What good does it do the nobles of Nanjing to do this? We have cooperated happily with them in the past few years, but they have completely offended us by doing this."
"The benefits are great." Zheng Tie snorted softly and said, "Don't forget, those nobles in Nanjing are also doing sea trade behind the scenes. Now that our sea trade business has grown, it is natural to invade It is in their interest to take advantage of the Lushun incident to attack us and cut off our business in sea trade, so that they can monopolize the benefits of sea trade."
Li Zhao sighed lightly and said, "It's a pity that there is no evidence."
"No evidence is needed. If I say they did it, then they did it. Even if they didn't do it, they still have to give us an explanation. Otherwise, no one will want to go overseas. They really think we are easy to bully." Zheng Tie He said with a cold face.
Li Zhao asked: "Then what are you going to do?"
"Simple, seal their entrance to the sea. As long as a ship comes out to sea, intercept it for me. If you can't intercept it, I will sink the ship and its cargo into the sea." Zheng Tie said coldly.
The Tiger Flag did not have this strength before.
Since the defeat of the Red Maoyi fleet by the Tiger Flag, many large ships have been built, many of which are built in the style of armed merchant ships and can be used as warships at sea.
The largest fortune ship in the Ming Dynasty could not even fight back in front of armed merchant ships.
Hearing this, Li Zhao said worriedly: "Two fleets have been sent to Liaodong. Our ships on Da Yuan Island may not be able to block all the seaports."
"If you can't block the outlet to the sea, then block their route. I don't believe they have the guts to change their route and go into unfamiliar waters." Zheng Tie said.
The risk of a ship at sea is high, unlike on land, where it is difficult to change direction. Even if you can walk through the mountains and forests without roads, it will be a bit more difficult at most.
But it's different at sea. Once you leave the familiar route and venture out into unfamiliar waters, you may not only lose your way, but you may also encounter various shipwrecks and fatalities.
Unless forced to do so, no ship would dare to change its course at sea.
When Li summoned Zheng Tie to say this, he had no choice but to nod in agreement and asked, "When will the ship be sent out?"
"Let people prepare and go to sea in the next two days. Since they don't want us to do sea trade business, then they don't want to do it either." Zheng Tie said coldly.
Nowadays, the sea areas around the Ming Dynasty are in the hands of their Tiger Flag. If you want to go to sea, you have to ask the Tiger Flag. Especially after Li Dan's death, the Thai and Western people in Luzon want to do business with the Ming Dynasty, and they can't bypass the guard. Da Yuan Island.
Zheng Tie added: "Also, send someone to tell Zheng Yiguan that he is allowed to attack Ming ships going to Japan. Any Ming ships going to Japan will be robbed by me."
"I'll send someone to inform Zheng Yiguan." Li Zhao nodded.
After Li Dan's death, although Zheng Yiguan inherited part of his power, it did not snowball like in history because the existence of the tiger-character flag restricted his development.
Later, Zheng Yiguan saw that the Tiger Character Banner was in dire straits. Even if Li Dan was still alive, he could not do anything about the Tiger Character Flag. And he had a close relationship with the Tiger Character Flag, so he directly defected to the Tiger Character Flag. flag.
As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing has a different prosperity from the capital in the north.
Unlike the Ming Dynasty, which suffered successive wars in the north, the wars had almost no impact on Nanjing.
Although there is no shortage of poor families in the south of the Yangtze River who are unable to put food on the table and sell their children and daughters, the situation is much better than in the north, and the place is much more stable.
"I would like to propose a toast to Master Zhao."
On the show boat on the Qinhuai River, a middle-aged man raised his wine glass with both hands.
Sitting with him was a young man.
Dressed in a wealthy outfit, the piece of jade hanging on his waist alone is equivalent to the expenses of an ordinary family for seven or eight years.
"The dance is beautiful and the person is beautiful. You are really thoughtful. You know that I like Miss Yunzhu." The young man said while scratching his head, but his hand did not touch the wine glass on the table.
There was a trace of embarrassment on the middle-aged man's face. He put down the wine glass in his hand and said in agreement: "Young Master Zhao likes it."
"I like it, of course I like it. You can be considered thoughtful if you can invite Miss Yunzhu here." Mr. Zhao said with a smile, while he picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it all in one gulp.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man's face turned even more ugly, but he still covered it up well and put on a smiling face again.
"Mr. Zhao, what happened when you were robbed in the warehouse is..."
But before he could finish his words, Mr. Zhao said: "Don't say such disappointing things when you are looking at beauties. Saying such vulgar things on Miss Yunzhu's showboat will not stain Miss Yunzhu's showboat."
When the middle-aged man heard this, he wanted to throw the wine glass in his hand at the other person's face.
But he knew he couldn't do this.
Although the other party was just an incompetent rich man who was just waiting to die, the one who gave him a good father was Zhao Zhilong, the uncle of Xingcheng.
After a meal, the middle-aged man did not get the answer he wanted.
The show boat docked, and Mr. Zhao stepped ashore with a folding fan swinging in his hand.
Standing on the shore, watching the show boat rowing away from the shore, Mr. Zhao said to the middle-aged man in front of him: "For the sake of you inviting Yunzhu to me, I will give you a way to survive."
"Master Zhao, tell me!"
The middle-aged people all thought that they would fail this time, but they didn't expect that things would suddenly take a turn for the worse.
Mr. Zhao closed the folding fan in his hand and said: "That warehouse is the warehouse of the traitor Tiger Flag. This has been confirmed by Yingtianfu Yamen. I don't want to be thought of as a traitor. Please stop asking in the future. Such a big place in the north." Isn’t it enough for you to toss?”
After saying that, Mr. Zhao didn't wait for the middle-aged man to say anything, and sat directly on the sedan chair of the Xingcheng uncle's house.
The middle-aged man watched the sedan chair of Uncle Xingcheng's Mansion gradually go away, knowing that his several hundred taels of silver were wasted.
As soon as the sedan chair of the Xingcheng uncle's house returned to the house, Mr. Zhao went directly to see his father, the Xingcheng uncle Zhao Zhilong.
