A few days later, in an open space in the city, the men of the conscripts were sweating and toiling. This area is the new factory area of Chen Kai's planned military uniform manufacturing workshop, which is many times larger than the original courtyard.

Under the command of the supervisors and craftsmen, the people demarcated the area, tamped the foundation, and transported the building materials, and the whole area was in full swing.

Not only here, but also the courtyard of the military uniform tailoring workshop that is still in use has long been filled with female workers. The room was no longer sufficient, and they had to sit under the porch, in the courtyard, and even outside the courtyard, setting up tables one after another, some cutting cardboard according to the size, some according to the size of cardboard, using lime or charcoal blocks to rub the edges on the red and white cloth to draw the outline, while the rest of the female workers were divided into two groups, cutting and sewing, and finally some long-time female workers were responsible for checking and storage.

The bustle of the new factory and the crowding of the old factory are still only the inevitable transition period, but this atmosphere can still make people feel excited. Not to mention, in the last days of the Ming Dynasty, where there are mountains of corpses and blood everywhere, a vibrant large-scale enterprise, even if it is just a military industrial enterprise, isn't the essence of its construction more worthy of expectation than those destruction?

However, as the creator of all this, Chen Kai did not have the leisure to watch all this. The day after receiving the notice, Chen Kai had a secret discussion with Chen Bao, and the latter sent a team of elite soldiers to leave Nanao Island by boat with Chen Kai. At the same time, there was Lin Dezhong, who had just taken over the captain of the Guards of the Ordnance Bureau, and even the first destination was the original hometown of the Lin family.

"Then, isn't it the Dezhong of the old Lin family?"

"Oh, I really didn't see it if you didn't say so. It's only been more than half a year, and Dezhong has become an officer! ”

“……”

When Chen Kai and his entourage arrived, the people in the village all hid in the house and behind the house, looking at the group through the cracks in the door and the corner.

Lin Dezhong took this team of personal soldiers to guard Chen Kai who was sitting in a sedan chair. The banner of the Zhangzhou Mansion was raised, but the squires and Li Zheng in the village did not rush out to greet them.

After all, this is the boundary of Chaozhou, and the government of the neighboring province is still not able to manage them. But as some of them suddenly vaguely remembered that they had heard someone say a few days ago, saying that it was a certain guy who killed people without blinking an eye and sat on the official of Zhangzhou Mansion, and for this reason they also let go of that breath of atmosphere, this group of guys jumped out like crazy, and fell down in front of Chen Kai's sedan chair, calling it a capital crime.

"Get up, this official is an official of Zhangzhou Mansion, and he can't care about these people from Chaozhou Mansion, right?"

"Don't dare, don't dare, Chen joins the army and has a heavy responsibility, and the Chaozhou Mansion is shocked. But if we are told, we will absolutely do it, and we will absolutely do it. ”

The squire bowed his head to the ground, beads of sweat the size of beans crackling and smashing on the ground. Chen Kai sat in the sedan chair and didn't come down, but when he heard this, he smiled instead; "Since that's the case, then the official personally talked to you, were you moved?"

"Don't dare, don't dare, never dare to move."

"Then if you don't move, just kneel."

A cold sentence was spoken, the sedan chair was lifted again, and Lin Dezhong walked straight forward with his own soldiers, but the squires, Li Zheng and their cronies and nephews who were lying on the side of the road didn't even dare to let out a fart.

The group continued to move forward and soon came to the Lin family's old house. After half a year, the small courtyard looked dilapidated, and vaguely, Chen Kai seemed to have heard some chickens and ducks from it, but sitting in the sedan chair, he didn't know whether it was from the small courtyard or the movement outside.

"Let's go, come back and tell those squires and Li Zheng or something, this courtyard is so empty."

"Yes, join the army."

A pro-soldier took the order and asked a few questions, and those squires got up tremblingly, but they didn't dare to get too close to Chen Kai and his party, they just followed.

In this way, Chen Kai and the others came to the small courtyard of Lin Dezhong's childhood sweetheart's house, and without using their own soldiers, the squire instructed his sons and nephews to call people, and soon the old and young of the family knelt in front of Chen Kai's sedan chair. Just before he could speak, Li Zheng took a group of Ding Zhuang to tie up a family in the village.

"In April last year, the Lin brothers saved the official in the mountains and forests, and the twenty taels of silver were also rewarded by the national surname. This fornication with the Ming army, you are indeed not wrong. ”

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately fell to their knees again, and one by one they didn't even dare to say the capital crime, just a vigorous kowtow, like pounding garlic. After a while, two of them had fainted on the ground, but no one except their children could take care of them, and they were still there, and there were even more tears that were deliberately suppressed.

The people of Chaozhou are unclear, and this phenomenon can also be understood as the people's self-protection law, but such people, for the sake of a woman, they have to force others to fornicate with the Ming army, and the handover with the Ming army is regarded as a heinous crime, but it must not be kept.

Chen Kai would not dirty his own hands, and directly asked the squires to send the family to the official, which was an old matter, which could be regarded as a bad breath for the Lin family. Turning his head again, he talked to Lin Dezhong's childhood sweetheart's father, but it was already in a different tone.

"My husband is very smart, your luck is also very good, Brother Lin saved my Chen Kai's life, and his future in the army is also limitless, having this son-in-law is a blessing for your family."

"That's what Boss Chen said, that's what Boss Chen said."

"Okay, that's it, find someone to choose a good day and an auspicious day, and do the family affairs. However, you have to wait for Dezhong to come back from his errand, aren't you in a hurry? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, everything is arranged by Master Chen, and the villain has nothing to say."

"Well, let's go back to the house and pack our things."

The Lin family left, and Lin Dezhong's childhood sweetheart family was not in a hurry to marry their daughter. Especially when I thought that the reward was twenty taels of silver, I always felt that maybe the Lin brothers had helped a Ming army official, and it would be difficult to explain how it would be in the future, so I didn't rush to marry the girl. Now it seems that this weight is really necessary.

This is what Chen Kai promised Lin Dezhong at the beginning, and leaving Nanao Island this time is also to end the matter as soon as possible. After all, if a girl is married, she is a woman, and everything is different.

"It's better to move your Yue's family to the island together."

"Joining the army said yes."

"Let's go, state affairs are as urgent as sparks, if you come out this time to do your family affairs, Shi Lang is estimated to have strange words."

"Forgive me for talking too much, I'm afraid that if I join the army and take us to do things, that guy will be even more angry."

"Then him off."

Lin Dezhong is Chen Kai's confidant, and he doesn't need to mention it, and he doesn't mind others knowing about his discord with Shi Lang. With a smile, the matter was settled. Chen Kai was a matchmaker, and others didn't dare to say anything more, and the squires and Li Zheng gave some gifts, just as a good fate for a fellow villager.

After deciding on the family, Lin Dezhong talked to his childhood sweetheart, and early the next morning, everyone set off. It's just that what Chen Kai wants to do is not in Chaozhou, but needs to cross the water barrier and go to the neighboring province for a trip.