As soon as these words came out, Hao Shangjiu's whole person stood up directly, only to hear a sway, and the chair fell straight to the ground. He was still holding the teacup in his hand, but the tea was all splashed on his body. In this way, Hao Shangjiu still turned a deaf ear, but looked at Chen Kai who was still full of nonchalance in amazement.

Until, when the outside heard the movement, Hao Shangjiu's personal soldiers were about to rush in without hesitation, but they were immediately stopped by Chen Kai's guards, and the two sides were immediately tense.

"Handsome?"

"It's okay, don't move without the greeting of the marshal!"

This sentence burst out word by word, and finally made the pro-soldiers take a half step back. Hao Shangjiu had a pair of tiger eyes, staring at Chen Kai deadly, the bloodshot gradually formed, and the blood in his eyes was the same, anyone could see that Hao Shangjiu was angry at the moment, but Chen Kai still sat there noncommittally, looking at him with a light smile.

That gaze seemed to be casual, but in fact, it was a basin of cold water, which quickly poured anger into the sky. After a while, Hao Shangjiu let go of his fist, picked up the chair by himself, and sat down again.

"Chen Fujun, buying and selling is not benevolent and righteous, you hurt me like this, who will dare to do business with you in the future?"

It's already a reality, Hao Shangjiu didn't continue to dwell on it, but he couldn't avoid this complaint. However, Chen Kai still looked like that, and he only opened his mouth again after Hao Shangjiu's complaint.

"Hao Shuai didn't have hysteria just now, and this official wants to look up at you. To put it plainly, this official originally planned to lure the Kaqam monk Kexi to Chengxiang, and at the same time lead the army of the Duke of Zhangguo to come and fight with him with superior forces. As long as the Eight Banners of Manchuria can be defeated in one battle, the morale of the people will be immeasurable. ”

What Chen Kai said is inevitable. Even if it can't be compared with Li Dingguo's beheading of Nikan, it erases the psychological disadvantage of the Ming army to the Manchurian Eight Banners, which is also a great benefit.

When Hao Shangjiu heard this, how could he not understand what Chen Kai was thinking, but in his opinion, this was undoubtedly a fool's dream, and even the fingers pointing directly at Chen Kai were trembling slightly.

"Am I crazy?" In the face of Hao Shangjiu's reprimand, Chen Kai shook his head with a smile, and then said with a straight face: "Hao Shuai shouldn't know how many soldiers and horses Titicamu brought south, I think Shang Kexi's dog thief won't tell you." ”

"Do you know?!"

"Of course I don't know." Chen Kai said it for granted, playing cards so unreasonable, Hao Shangjiu was stunned, but when Chen Kai finished the following words, the blood in his eyes was quickly washed away by fear.

"But I know that the four banners on the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan only have a total of two thousand Eight Banner Army, including the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia. By the way, there were dozens of bowsmiths and blacksmiths with them. The importance of Jiangning is by no means comparable to that of Guangzhou, so it is already highly estimated that Titicham can bring a thousand people at most. In addition, there should be some Han army flag soldiers who assisted in the defense of Jiangnan, and the number will not be too much. To put it bluntly, Titicham came south in the most haste this time, and if he wanted to fight, he still had to rely on the feudal soldiers of Pingnan and Jingnan and the local green battalion. Those guys are old opponents, and they have any means in their hearts. If you don't take advantage of this time to catch him off guard, wouldn't it be too cheap a tartar? ”

is not only able to calculate, but also dares to calculate all the garrison Eight Banners, feudal soldiers, and green battalions. Everything seems to be on Chen Kai's chessboard, civil officials are like this, Hao Shangjiu is not uninformed, but compared to those civil officials who dare to claim to know soldiers after reading "The Art of War" a few times, Chen Kai's words and deeds are backed by the achievements he has achieved over the years.

Once you think of those, Chen Kai's arrogance at this moment, especially those calculations that have been carefully calculated and have been able to determine that the Ming army can occupy the advantage of troops, can no longer be called arrogance, but really strategize and win thousands of miles away!

Such an opponent has always been not far from his control zone, and even thinking about it will feel terrifying. With such feelings as the bottom, being calculated by Chen Kai is not a big deal.

"As a result, because the country surnamed Ye made peace with the Tartars, he couldn't make the trip?"

"Yes and no."

Chen Kai didn't have any more explanations, assuming that Yongchun fought and Zheng Chenggong won a big victory, then the next thing would be to sweep Fujian, and Guangdong would naturally take a defensive position. But even so, he was more inclined to obtain limited reinforcements from Zheng Chenggong while plotting against Hao Shangjiu, in order to continue to bleed the Pingnan and Jingnan domains.

This is a risk, but if he doesn't do it now, wait until next year, Hao Shangjiu is on his side, and it will never be so easy for him to do something bigger.

"This year, it can't be done. In my opinion, it will not be possible to fight next year. But in the year after tomorrow, when the Tartar comes back, it will be a thunderous force, and even if I see that Hao Shuai is willing to sell the iron ore to me during this time, I am afraid that I will not be able to help you. ”

Chen Kai still had that indispensable expression, but Hao Shangjiu heard Chen Kai's dissatisfaction with his restrictions on iron ore and metal trade. All along, he was so afraid that the Qing court would find out and Chen Kai's military production would expand rapidly. But now, Chen Kai obviously can't continue to tolerate it, so it's like this - either get rid of him with the hands of the Qing army, and then go to a decisive battle with the Qing army from afar; If you don't force him to do it anyway, join forces to fight the Qing army together, it will not be so easy to continue riding the wall.

"Chen Kai, you're threatening me!"

Calling them by their first name was equivalent to swearing in ancient times. Before the words fell, Hao Shangjiu raised his eyebrows, and he was already glaring at each other. However, Chen Kai's side was not as breezy as he was, he sat upright in a rare way, staring at Hao Shangjiu's eyes as if they were locked, and looked at Hao Shangjiu's eyes slightly for a moment, and the sneer at the corner of his mouth finally came out.

"Whether it's a threat or a prophecy, Hao Shuai can watch. Next year, within May, Guangdong will surely be in chaos. When the time comes, I want you Hao Shangjiu to give me a clear answer, otherwise don't blame me Chen Kai for being ruthless. ”

After saying that, Chen Kai got up and left, leaving Hao Shangjiu to continue in this empty house. I don't know how long it took, the sky was already slightly dark, and the soldiers outside couldn't bear it anymore, so they simply came in and asked for instructions. It was only at this time that Hao Shangjiu, who had been silent for a long time, scolded the street, and then left the village with his own soldiers.

After a short pause at Sanheba, Chen Kai went down the river and returned to Fucheng. Compared with the first half of the year, the capital city of Chaozhou has undergone great changes in the past few months.

The gathering of large armies caused the proportion of soldiers and civilians in this city to rise again. However, as always, the soldiers were bound in the barracks and on the school grounds, and there was very little disturbance to the people. Moreover, with the establishment of earthworm farms and chicken farms, the supply of meat in the army is increasing, the meat and egg intake of the soldiers is increasing, the morale is increasing, and the resentment is decreasing.

The migration of the army meant a surge in population, and the previously high and rising prices of vegetables, grain, and even meat were gradually returning to normal levels at the same time as the price of manure, which was the cause of the decline.

However, according to Chen Kai's plan, it is impossible for these troops to be stationed here for a long time. Sooner or later, the problem would recur, so he established an earthworm farm and a chicken farm, and tried to further expand its scale, replacing some of the functions of human and animal manure with earthworm manure and organic fertilizer from chicken manure. It's just that it's just the beginning, and the proportion that can be affected is not high.

With the support of the governor's yamen, the Guangdong People's Daily quickly established distribution points in the county seats, and as the editor-in-chief, Kuang Lu was a well-known talent in Guangdong, and in addition, there were few channels for people in this era to obtain news, and once the newspaper was published, it soon had a large number of readers, and every once a month, those distribution points would be overcrowded.

Although this is not Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the literacy rate in the south is already higher, and Guangdong is also a relatively wealthy province in the south, and there are many gentry and ordinary people who can read newspapers. However, there are always those who can't afford to read or can't buy, so those storytellers also found a new livelihood outside the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, Romance of the Gods, and Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, that is, reading newspapers, which is called "Doctor Bao".

"At that time, the boudoir was cherished, and what was the matter with the skirt chasing the waterfront.

Sending a message to the parents to rest and fall in love, entering the river is still a daughter. ”

Dr. Bao held the already yellowed newspaper and shook his head and read it. This is a small story published in the first issue of Guangdong Minbao a few months ago, telling the story of the slaughter of the Qing army in Huguang, the Qing army killed men and robbed women, and a woman who did not enter the cabinet left a farewell poem after being forced to board the boat, and then plunged into the water to save the name and festival.

This is not the first time I have read it, but in Chaozhou, Guangdong Minbao is almost the only newspaper, and it is published monthly.

"Every time I hear this poem, I can always see the scene of the woman resolutely throwing herself into the river, which is really poignant and magnificent."

"That's true, that's true."

Death by starvation is a small matter, but loss of temperament is a big matter, this is a very famous sentence in science. The loss of discipline here is not only the name of women, but also the integrity of scholars. In the occupied area, there may still be some complicated reverie, but in this place, where the banner of the Qing court was changed for only a year, and it was soon re-returned to the Ming Dynasty and recovered for more than five years, the self-positioning of the scholars and doctors was also to observe the festival for the Ming Dynasty, rather than the people who lost the festival, and its touch was also quite huge.

"This month's brother has seen it, the story is also very well written, and Kuang Haixue's name is well deserved."

"That's natural, but Brother Yu appreciates the technical details of rice and fish farming later, which is a way to benefit people's livelihood. It's just those mud legs, how many people can read the newspaper? ”

"This is not necessarily, Chen Fujun and Wang Daotai have started training personnel a few months ago, and now the students of the Quality Testing School have begun to go down to the countryside to explain. In the first phase of each village, it is necessary to put up the shelves while the farmers are slack this year. ”

"Chen Fujun is really an extraordinary person, but he is a foolish brother who is too worried."

When the farming is busy, the people don't have time to listen to these things, even if they send people to the countryside to explain them. But when it comes to the slack time, forced labor, odd jobs, and there are always endless jobs, so there is a saying that farmers are not idle all year round.

For this reason, Chen Kai stopped this year's large-scale forced labor, just so that these people can have time to learn this knowledge, have time to do what they have learned, as long as the benefits of compound agriculture are displayed, there will always be people who will do it. And those who do it get benefits, which will naturally attract more people to do the same.

The great changes in Chaozhou's agriculture are slowly kicking off, Chen Kai returned to Fucheng, before going to Nanao, Zheng Xiyuan was not feeling well, and found Lang Zhong but diagnosed the happy pulse, which really made Chen Kai very happy.

Child, what it means, it goes without saying. After a few days of excitement, he was busy with official business, so he had to set off for the south, and then Zheng Chenggong's letter was delivered, and after discussion, he had to go to see Hao Shangjiu again, and it was only at this time that he finally found some time.

"Come, let the husband listen to what the little baby has to say."

After entering the room, Chen Kai sat aside, and he wanted to listen to Zheng Xiyuan's stomach. At this moment, there were still many subordinates waiting on the side, Zheng Xiyuan was ashamed, and hurriedly waved everyone away, until the subordinates snickered and walked out of the house, she did not complain.

"What are you afraid of, we are husband and wife, and we haven't done anything that is not enough for outsiders, I see it when I see it, is it possible that the lady is still afraid that they will not chew their tongues?"

The subordinates of the governor's yamen back house, except for the cooks, florists and maidservants who followed Chen Kai in Nanao earlier, the others were brought by Zheng Xiyuan from his mother's house, and they knew the roots, and they were all used to it, and the relationship between master and servant was also excellent.

Half a year after getting married, Zheng Xiyuan also got to know Chen Kai a little more. Outside, he is a civil official, and he always has to put some etiquette and shelves, but when he gets home, he has to relax a lot, and he has always taken things for granted without skin and face, and she was very uncomfortable at the beginning, but now, there is nothing she can do, so she has to let Chen Kai do it.

"It's not that the concubine is afraid of them, it's just that the husband said about the prenatal education some time ago, and the concubine is afraid that the child will be bad in the concubine's belly."

"This ......"

Lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot, Zheng Xiyuan's mouth covered and smiled, Chen Kai was stunned for a while, but he could only laugh at himself.

After half a year of marriage, in front of the subordinates, Zheng Xiyuan already has the aura of a housewife, and in front of outsiders, she has the calmness of the governor's wife, and she has always been unpicky. But in front of Chen Kai, the girlish heart still hasn't faded, and sometimes she is naughty, not like Chen Kai saw a woman like Dong Yougu in the early years, and it also adds a touch of color to the monotonous life.

The concubine remembered that her husband said that playing the piano can cultivate sentiment. After dinner, the concubine will play it to her husband and the child in her womb, okay? ”

Just played a cautious eye, Chen Kai laughed at himself, Zheng Xiyuan snickered and hurriedly begged for peace. She has long been familiar with the craft of giving a sweet jujube with a stick, and Rao is Chen Kai is strategizing for this, but she still has nothing to do with her every time.

smiled and responded, and the two also looked at each other and smiled. Together, or even between husband and wife, the joy at first sight is not as good as being together for a long time, but if you can see each other, it is better than not getting tired.

When I returned to the house, it was already afternoon, and it was soon time for dinner. In the past few days, Zheng Xiyuan has been a little sensitive to smells, and even the dishes on weekdays are a little uncomfortable. The chef in the house worked hard to come up with a few slightly light, but nourishing dishes.

"If you want to eat well, now it's not one person, one person eats, and two people use."

"The concubine knows, husband, please rest assured."

Chen Kai was picking up the food like a storm, and at the same time looked sideways from time to time, and saw Zheng Xiyuan pick up the chopsticks he had just put down several times.

After a meal, the husband and wife went to sit in the small pavilion in the garden of the governor's yamen's back house, and then in the melodious sound of the piano, Chen Kai closed his eyes and appreciated, until the untimely Chen Song came with a letter, which was considered to be the end.

The content of the letter is not complicated, but after reading the letter, Chen Kaixuan smiled at Zheng Xiyuan: "Lady, this Fujian-Guangdong Provincial Shameless Competition is about to enter the final stage, quickly cover your belly, I don't want to teach the child badly." ”