Zheng Tai said it without any scruples, and Zheng Chenggong also thought so. It's not even their brothers, Zheng Hongkui mentioned this last time he wrote to him, maybe even their cousin, who has always been smart, probably thinks so.

It's a pity that most of the children of the Zheng family lack the necessary vision, and sooner or later this face will not only be lost, but it will be even greater.

Of course, at this stage, we can only continue to be like this for the time being. However, Zheng Chenggong never sat still, and mentioned the situation they had obtained from Guangzhou, and mentioned that he had already asked the imperial court to promote Chen Kai to the position of Guangdong as the commander of the Eastern Guangdong Army.

At first, the military preparation road could only be held by officials with the title of imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate or the imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate, but later it became universalized, and the deputy envoys or servants of the provincial inspection departments could serve as them. According to the deputy envoy of the inspection department is the fourth grade, and the servant is the fifth grade, Chen Kai is in charge of local military and political affairs from the sub-patrol road, and now he is already participating in politics from the third grade of the political envoy department, Zheng Chenggong simply omitted the deputy word, and directly asked the imperial court for an official position of the third grade of Guangdong according to the inspection envoy.

Hearing this, Zheng Tai naturally understood the deep meaning. Improving Chen Kai's status and using the weight of the imperial court to suppress those Zheng clan members is one of them, and the more important thing is that Chen Kai's exploits are there, and Chen Kai's promotion is also an incentive for other civil and military generals.

Now, it is nothing more than waiting for the will of the imperial court to be issued, and Zheng Chenggong believes that the imperial court will not refuse this request for promotion of the third-rank official. Counting the time, it is estimated that it will only be a few months.

The time is not long or short, but the will of the imperial court came much faster than he estimated, and only a few days after he talked to Zheng Tai about this matter, the edict envoy had already gone to Xiamen Island.

"Congratulations to Guogong, congratulations to Guogong."

read out the edict, because Chen Kai was too involved in the war in Guangzhou, and in the end, he also played against Du Yonghe. The bullet seal was on the desk, and the army of King Qin was still waiting for Zheng Chenggong over there, which all made Zheng Chenggong's title of duke of the country delayed.

But now, Du Yonghe descended to the Qing Dynasty, and even the news of his death has probably reached today, and the Ming court no longer has any scruples, and the edict of canonizing Zheng Chenggong as the Duke of Zhangguo was issued, and the civil and military officials present were all very happy.

"There is an angel of labor, please come in and talk."

It was late, but Zheng Chenggong was still very polite to the edict messenger. However, the latter did not accept this kindness, but asked Zheng Chenggong if Chen Kai was here.

"Chen Daotai is still acting in Chaozhou for local military and political affairs, and he is not in the center and left."

As for the questioning, Zheng Chenggong responded to Chen Kai's location, and when the edict envoy heard this, he also let out an "oh", and immediately told the truth in everyone's puzzled eyes:

"The lower officials are here this time, in addition to being ordered to canonize the Duke of the Kingdom, the imperial court thinks that Chen Daotai has repeatedly performed miracles over the years, which is really a rare talent. In line with the principle of meritorious service, he was specially promoted to participate in the politics of Guangdong, and Chen Kai, the prefect of Chaohui Prefecture, was appointed as the right attendant of the military department and the right governor of the Imperial Palace, and the governor of Zhangquan Chaohui four mansions, and the commander of military affairs and food and salary, and gave Shang Fang ......"

According to the normal itinerary, the people he sent are probably still bumpy on the sea road they are traveling. But now, the edict envoy not only arrived, but also brought two edicts, one was naturally canonized by Zheng Chenggong as the Duke of the Kingdom, and the other was actually promoted to Chen Kai as the governor of Zhangquan Chaohui Prefecture!

The post of governor is taken from the meaning of "patrolling the world and raising the army according to the people". When the governor was first established, it was a temporary dispatch, mostly to supervise the tax and grain, the prime minister's river, the care of the displaced people, the rectification of the border passes and other special tasks, such as the Hongwu Dynasty's prince Zhu Biao once patrolled Shaanxi. Later, as the status of civil officials became higher and higher, the original pattern of separation of powers between the administrative, judicial, and health departments designed by Zhu Yuanzhang was broken.

At this time, the governor's power was much greater than that of the high-ranking officials of later generations, and he was almost a high-ranking provincial official, a high-ranking official, and the commander of the provincial military district. However, the establishment of the governor was not completely in charge of one province, such as the governor of Southern Jiangxi Province governed Ganzhou and Nan'an in Jiangxi, Shaozhou and Nanxiong in Guangdong, Chenzhou in Huguang and Tingzhou in Fujian, and other places that originally belonged to the six provinces of the four provinces. Another example is the governor of Denglai, and the jurisdiction is only Dengzhou and Laizhou in Shandong.

Chen Kai's appointment as governor of the four prefectures of Zhangquan and Chaohui was not the old official position, but just like Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures of Gaolian Lei Qiong, another governor of Guangdong today, they were in charge of the Ming army in these corners and corners where the power of the Qing army was not easy to fully develop, and in these places the local Ming army was restrained as an effect of restoration.

Among them, the only difference is that, first, Zhang Xiaoqi is an administrative official within the imperial court, while Chen Kai is a local official who is promoted step by step, one is inside, and the other is outside; The second is that Zhang Xiaoqi nominally supervised many Ming armies in the four prefectures, while Chen Kai's jurisdiction only had troops from the Fujian Ming army.

In other words, once Chen Kai's governor takes over, in the absence of a superintendent, a manager, or a governor, he will nominally become the highest-ranking official in this region, even if he only has the grade of Zheng Erpin, a prince like Zheng Chenggong will also be restrained by Chen Kai in front of the ancestral system of using literature to control martial arts!

Once such an appointment is displayed in front of everyone, it should be even a look. Chen Kai was appointed as the governor, coupled with Zheng Chenggong's earlier appointment of Chen Kai as the commander-in-chief, with full responsibility for the Guangdong battlefield, and Chen Kai's exploits over the years, his status as the second person in the Zheng group at this moment can no longer be questioned. Whether it is Feng Chengshi, who is in charge of the Ordnance Bureau, or Pan Gengzhong, who praises military affairs, or Zheng Tai, who exists as the God of Wealth, these most useful civil officials within the Zheng Group, they cannot be compared with Chen Kai, who has obtained the endorsement of the imperial court.

But in this way, the change in the status of the civil and military, the division of power between the governor and the general, the relationship between Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong, and those things at a deeper level, everyone was thinking deeply, thinking deeply about the development of the situation in the future, thinking deeply about their respective positions in it, and for a while they were silent.

"So that's the case, so why don't you ask the angel to go inside to talk first, wait for the wind to wash the dust, and rest for a few days, and then go to Chaozhou to proclaim the edict?"

"The lower officials are subject to the arrangements of the national government."

Zheng Chenggong generously let the Xuanzhao envoy in, and after a moment of greeting, Zheng Chenggong asked some about the situation of the Yongli Imperial Court and the Southwest Ming Army, and also introduced their efforts in Fujian and Guangdong, especially the Battle of Zhongcuo and the two Lufeng victories, which were not known to the Xuanzhao envoys, and even if Zheng Chenggong had not sent someone to the imperial court to ask Chen Kai's Fujian political envoy to participate in politics to Guangdong political envoy to participate in politics, I am afraid that even the three wars and three victories in the previous year would not know anything.

The two are thousands of miles apart, and there are also some rumors about the Ming army's victory in Huguang again, but there are some rumors about the Ming army's victory in Huguang again, but I don't know if it's true or not.

"Congratulations to the king, congratulations to the country!"

"Congratulations for Daming, congratulations for the court, congratulations for the Son of Heaven!"

The celebratory banquet was held after dark, and the news that Zheng Chenggong had been canonized as the Duke of Zhangguo quickly spread to every corner of the Zhongzuo Institute. Even with the canonization of this national duke, there is also the appointment of Chen Kai's governor, which caused an uproar on the island.

Those people who came from Guangzhou, as well as Chen Kai's blessing in the battle of Zhongzuo, all praised the wisdom of the imperial court, and while they were happy for Chen Kai, they were also rejoicing that such a capable official as Chen Kai was appointed as such a high-ranking official, and would better realize the counterattack against the Tartars.

Alcohol is quickly in short supply on the island, with some people drinking to be happy and others to relieve their emotions. It's just that this wine is sad, and often this sorrow is a little more sorrowful.

"That guy, after beating away a few Tartars, he was appointed as the governor, the governor, the court is so indiscriminately conferring official positions, it is really a traitorous minister!"

"It's not that a few Tartars have been beaten away, I heard that the imperial court doesn't know about this year's war at all, and it was canonized and promoted according to last year's standards. Damu is like this, and that guy is like this, if you can't wait for the angel to go back, maybe the guy will be a governor of Fujian and Guangdong when he comes back. ”

A few families were happy and a few were worried, and they originally planned to compete with Chen Kai within the Zheng Group for a long time, so as to ensure that they, the children of the Zheng family in Shijing, could continue to sit and enjoy the anointing, who would have thought that the imperial court would value Chen Kai so much.

This is nothing more than that they are accustomed to profit, they can't see the benefits of others at all, and they don't understand that a governor like Chen Kai is actually nothing. But now Chen Kai's promotion has made them feel tremendous pressure immediately-although from the political envoy of the third rank to the governor of the second grade, the three grades are not too much, and they are not too much, but the governor is already a local magistrate on the temperance side, even if he enters the court, at least he is a court official of the left squire of the military department, and even if it is a scholar, or it is not impossible to enter the cabinet.

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, no matter how weak the court is, the righteousness is not comparable to that of a family of the Zheng family, not to mention that the will of the court is not the meaning of the emperor, the weight of these two words is so heavy that they can't even breathe smoothly.

"By the way, what about Zhaoji?"

Speaking of which, Zheng Zhaoji is the most cheerful one among this group of Zheng children, but he is not here at the moment, but it seems a little weird.

"Hmph, someone's brother-in-law is going to be the governor, nine times out of ten, he will run back to Baisha to pull the corner of his sister's skirt, and he can still fight with us who are not powerful here?"

Envy, jealousy, and even more inevitably resentment. But like them, holding the pattern of one acre and three points of land, and not opening up a greater future, they can only be limited to that one acre and three points of land forever.

Just like when they tried their best to limit Chen Kai's position within the Zheng group by relying on the marriage of the boycott, Chen Kai was busy investigating the current situation of the four southeastern provinces to resist the Qing Dynasty, busy saving the crisis in eastern Guangdong, busy calculating with the army of the Jingnan Domain, and busy using the geographical location of Hong Kong and the maritime superiority of the Ming army to curb the expansion of the strength of the Shang Geng Domain. When Chen Kai did some major things, and then turned around, and the imperial court rewarded him with meritorious service and appointed him as the governor, they could only sigh here and let out a sour dog bark.

At the banquet, the cup was changed, the wine was passed three rounds, the food was five flavors, and all the civil and military personnel and the envoys of the edict were happy, and Zheng Chenggong went back to rest. The next morning, he rushed to greet his grandmother and officially reported the good news to the old ancestor.

After receiving the title of national prince, it is natural to open an ancestral hall to report the good news to the ancestors and ancestors. This is the fourth time for the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong, Duke of Pingguo, Zheng Hongkui, Duke of Dingguo, and Zheng Zhipeng, Duke of Yanguo, and now there is another Duke of Zhangguo, Zheng Chenggong, a family of four dukes, which is more popular than the Xu family when the founding of the country was difficult. But now these four princes, two of them are idle and scattered, and they are living at home for a long time, and one is even worse, they are under house arrest in the capital by the Qing court, and only one of the juniors who has just been crowned is still trying their best to save them, and I don't know whether it is ridiculous or lamentable.

Fortunately, with the experience of the first three times, I am also familiar with it. After all the rituals were completed, Zheng Chenggong had a separate talk with his old grandmother, and after Zheng Chenggong left the house again, he returned to the mansion and sent a letter to the branch guard yamen in Chaozhou, the content of which was nothing more than to let Chen Kai prepare for the marriage.

"It's finally over."

Putting down the pen, Zheng Chenggong leaned on the Taishi chair, took a long breath, and suddenly felt very relaxed. This is never just a marriage, but the Zheng Group's own positioning, whether it is a mercenary maritime group with the Ishii Zheng family as the core, or a military and political group that assists the cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty with sea trade, and all the contradictions are concentrated on this marriage.

Now, the matter has finally been resolved, and the authority of the imperial court has overwhelmed all opposition within the family, which is not only a victory for Chen Kai, but also for those within the family who have surrendered to the reserves like his father Zheng Zhilong.

As for Chen Kai's position as governor, he didn't think it was a big deal, it was a common practice to control martial arts with literature for more than two hundred years, but now it is not what it used to be, not to mention that Chen Kai was originally from his staff, could it be that Chen Kai could still use Shang Fang's sword to cut him down?

Zheng Chenggong's expression was full of relaxation, and even his steps were much brisker. Seeing all this in Dong Yougu's eyes, she didn't make a sound, but when she returned to the room, only she and her eldest son Zheng Jing were left, but they seemed to be extra frightened.

This panic never came from herself, even when Chen Kai shot Zheng Zhiguan in front of her, it was far from the same level as at this moment. Because she finally understood that Chen Kai and her husband had the same ambition, but her son, Zheng Jing, was still a child.

"Jing'er, if you can grow up a few years longer, you will be able to share your father's worries."

Holding her son, Dong Yougu said the fear in her heart. And although Zheng Jing is only ten years old, he can clearly feel his mother's fear, and it can even be said that this mother and son are connected, and even the source of fear is the same.

"Mother rest assured, the son will not let the murderer compare, and the father will value the son more."

"I hope so."

Thinking of this, Dong Yougu looked at her son's childish face, especially the determination that was bred because of fear, which made her take a deep breath, as if she had just seen her husband's look, because she realized that the courage she had lost had returned to her body.

"Chen Kai, this time, there is a court to suppress the family. Next time, you won't have such good luck again. ”