Zheng Hongkui's words immediately caused many people to nod their heads and say yes, especially Shi Xian, who regarded it as a guideline, but Shi Lang, and when he looked at Chen Kai again, the jealousy in his eyes became a little more serious.

It's a pity that Chen Kai really didn't have time to pay attention to the opinions of the Shi brothers, and Zheng Hongkui alone had choked him to the point that he had nothing to say. Especially when he thought that such a lovely girl would be the daughter of this stubborn guy, he couldn't figure out how this girl was taught.

"Well, you have magic skills, I have science. Since there is no speculation on this issue, then let's not talk about it. ”

Relying on the sophistication of the artillery and some residual memories, Chen Kai really showed off his existence. After the show-off, he began to think about his plans on Nan'ao Island, and was thinking about how to turn the conversation around. Who would have thought that Zheng Hongkui, a guy who is not shocking and endless, has refreshed his impression of his people.

"This spirit gun will be given to Da Mu, I wish Da Mu a successful trip."

Zheng Hongkui transferred his "new lover" to Zheng Chenggong, whether it was Chen Kai, Zheng Chenggong, or even Shi Lang and others were all dumbfounded, this was probably the first time that Chen Kai and Shi Lang had the same opinion. In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is normal, the look on Zheng Hongkui when he stroked the cannon just now, no one would have thought that there would be such a scene.

At this moment, Zheng Hongkui was so generous, but Zheng Chenggong was very embarrassed. is inconvenient to win people's love, and it really interprets Zheng Hongkui's appearance just now. But even so, Zheng Hongkui was very enthusiastic, and after several pushes, the cannon fell into the hands of Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong glanced at Chen Kai for the first time after determining the ownership of the artillery.

The tacit understanding between the two was early, and after seeing it at a glance, Chen Kai knew that this cannon was going to be sent to the Ordnance Bureau to be imitated. However, it may not be in the near future, because Zheng Chenggong still has military operations in the near future, but as the person in charge of the Ordnance Bureau, Chen Kai still needs to make corresponding preparations.

As a thank you, Zheng Chenggong set up a banquet to thank Zheng Hongkui, which was very enjoyable for the guests and hosts. During the banquet, Chen Kai proposed that the South Australian Ordnance Bureau could contract the production of military uniforms under Zheng Hongkui's department, due to the reduction of labor costs caused by the production method, Chen Kai's offer was also very satisfactory to Zheng Hongkui, originally Chen Kai thought that there was still a need to fight a protracted business negotiation was decided in a short time with a toast, so that he was wondering if this was Zheng Hongkui's drinking words, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

When the banquet was over, Chen Kai tentatively mentioned it again, Zheng Hongkui really agreed, and specially found the staff member named Chen Siming to connect with Chen Kai, anyway, he was too lazy to take care of such small things as military uniforms.

"Don't be so happy, price reductions, rebates, coupons, half price for the second piece, graded membership treatment, I decided without a word, can you have an attitude of doing business?"

Things went unexpectedly smoothly, even the staff member named Chen Siming may be grateful to Zheng Hongkui for avenging his family earlier, or know that Chen Kai is not a person to be messed with, and the next day he came to Chen Kai to discuss the details, and he was very happy about Chen Kai's offer, and even wanted to get rid of the military uniform manufacturing thing, and there was no hint of the kickback, which made Chen Kai a little uneasy.

"This posture, how does it look like getting rid of non-performing assets, it's really strange."

Strange and strange, when Chen Kai really started to check the numbers, he quickly figured out that this was really a laborious and not very good job for them, and now that Chen Kai took over, he naturally wanted to get out of the relationship quickly.

"It's not difficult, it's not. This small amount of money, Lao Tzu is sure to earn it. ”

The matter was decided, and Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui also began to make final preparations for military operations. Chen Kai won the order and prepared to leave for Nanao Island, after all, it was the focus of his work.

Since the problem of Ou Ting Zhai always exists, Chen Kai still returned the same way. Riding in a carriage, walking bumpily on the official road, he suddenly remembered that he went to Jieyang this time and was not able to see the girl, and a sense of regret came to his heart. But after thinking about it, it's a good thing not to see it, or if the girl asked about the military uniform, he might not be really embarrassed to use the offer that still has a lot of moisture to "slaughter" Zheng Hongkui.

The carriage carried the reverie and gradually went away, and when Chen Kai had arrived at the city of Chaozhou, he unexpectedly summoned him back on a fast horse. And the news that made him have to worry was that Li Chengdong, the prince of Huiguo, was martyred!

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In March of the third year of Yongli, the succession of Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces that began last spring contributed to the first great upsurge since the Southern Ming Dynasty resisted the Qing Dynasty. However, this dream of returning to the light did not even arrive for a year, and it was shattered with the three fiascos on the battlefields of Jiangxi, Huguang and Nanjiang.

On September 11 of the second year of Yongli, the Qing court appointed Prince Zheng Jierharang as the general of Dingyuan, "commanding the army to fight against Li Jin, the rebel thief in Huguang". In October, Jilharang's army marched to Cao County, Shandong Province, where it participated in the suppression of the peasant revolt, and arrived at Lu'an in northern Huguang in December. However, due to the distrust of the Loyal Battalion by He Tengjiao, the supervisor in charge of the Huguang Battlefield, he tried his best to squeeze out the Loyal Battalion and the military affairs of the Governor of the Military Commissariat of the Ministry of Reinforcement, resulting in the emptiness of the Huguang Battlefield. In the case of asking for help, he was captured and killed by the Qing army in the first month of the following year.

Also in the first month of the third year of Yongli, the eight-month-long siege of Nanchang never arrived in Huguang He Tengjiao and Guangdong Li Chengdong, two reinforcements who had the opportunity to relieve the siege, especially He Tengjiao's "chapter to save the country", blindly forged Jin Shenghuan's good news of breaking the Eight Banners Army in Nanchang to create an excuse for his slow eastward expansion, and finally broke through for the Qing army.

In the service, Jin Shenghuan, the Duke of Yuguo, committed suicide, Jiang Yueguang, a scholar, threw himself into the water and died, and Wang Deren, the Marquis of Jianwu, was captured and dismembered. The Qing army slaughtered the city, and 200,000 people were martyred!

In the first month of the third year of Yongli, Li Chengdong went north to Southern Jiangxi for the second time, trying to relieve the siege of Nanchang, which was about to fall. By the end of February, the army had all crossed Meiling and entered Jiangxi, but with the destruction of Nanchang City, part of the Eight Banners Army sent by Tan Tai went south, and Li Chengdong was soon defeated by Xinfeng, and fell into the water and drowned as the army fled.

The successive defeats of He Tengjiao, Jin Shenghuan, and Li Chengdong announced the official end of the first Southern Ming Dynasty anti-Qing upsurge that began last year. Bad news followed, and the Yongli court was suddenly full of grief and panic.

However, the successive deaths of He Tengjiao, Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong do not mean that the anti-Qing movement in these three provinces has been completely suppressed. In order to plan for the future, Emperor Yongli gave Yinxi Shangfang the sword, the governor of Huguang military affairs, and the commander of the loyal revenue to recover the lost land of Huguang; Appointed the right capital of the Longwu Dynasty, the leader of the Jiangxi Righteous Army, Jiezhongxi as the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, the governor of Jiangxi military affairs, and controlled the Ming army and volunteers from all walks of life in Jiangxi; When the news of Li Chengdong's death came, Emperor Yongli wept bitterly, and immediately posthumously presented Li Chengdong as the king of Ningxia, loyal to the martial arts, and gave nine altars of sacrifice, extremely mournful, and the court also launched Liu Yuansheng, a squire of the military department, to go to Guangzhou to comfort the generals, intending to take advantage of the relationship between Liu Yuansheng and Li Chengdong is fellow villagers in Shaanxi to take over the governorship of Liangguang.

The first two items were confirmed without any hindrance, and the Ming army and the righteous army and the Qing army in Huguang and Jiangxi respectively led a long-term tug-of-war between the Ming army and the Qing army, but by the time Liu Yuansheng arrived in Guangzhou from Zhaoqing, Li Chengdong's general Jiang Ningbo Du Yonghe had already mastered the Great Seal of the Governor of Liangguang and openly opened the seal. The Yongli court had no choice but to acquiesce in the fact that Du Yonghe had stolen the governor of Liangguang.

The news was shielded by Huang Yingjie and Hao Shangjiu, the two "Green Dam Niang", and it did not reach Chaozhou until May. After receiving the news, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui on the Chaozhou side were also uneasy, because with their strength, once the Eight Banners Army went south, the Ming Army in Guangzhou basically could not be counted on, and although Zheng Chenggong had the courage to fight with the Eight Banners Army, his strength was too weak, and the probability of winning the battle was too low, but it was more likely to lead to the accumulation of this year being completely wasted.

When Chen Kai was urgently asked to return, Shi Lang was expressing his views on the generals under Li Chengdong's command. In his words, it is a group of thieves who have no overall view, and the gap is too big compared to Li Chengdong, even Du Yonghe, in the final analysis, is still a little sensitive to fighting for higher positions, and it is really a fool's dream to expect them to be able to do so.

On this point, Xia Guan and General Shi have the same opinion. Liu Yuansheng failed to take over as the governor of Liangguang, and the imperial court did not take back the name of Guangdong's military and political power, Du Yonghe was originally just a Chinese military general of Li Chengdong, and his status was roughly the same as that of others. ”

Chen Kai agreed with Shi Lang's judgment, the two were able to reach an agreement on one thing, which really stunned the generals who were used to seeing Chen Kai and Shi Lang tear each other apart.

However, Chen Kai did not give them time to diverge, but directly admonished Zheng Chenggong: "The situation is already like this, and its variables are nothing more than the gradual recovery of the military and political power in Guangdong by the imperial court, or the southward movement of the Tartars to sweep Guangdong Province." But in any case, there is not much time left for our army, and the progress must be accelerated! ”