While internal turmoil plagued the Jiannu in Liaodong, the Great Ming side was far from idle.
On the tenth day of the eighth lunar month in the twenty-second year of Emperor Chongzhen, inside the Anping Mansion at Anhai Town in Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian (the Zheng family estate), Zheng Zhilong, the Regional Commander of the Fujian Navy for the Great Ming, sat surrounded by a group of his clansmen.
Half an hour earlier, Zheng Zhilong had received an imperial decree from the Imperial Court.
A quarter of an hour before that, he had received a confidential letter sent all the way from the Capital.
These messages had not arrived directly; they had passed through several hands before finally reaching Zheng Zhilong.
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