Entering from West Anchor Bay and exiting from Liyumen, Lin Cha detached a part of the ships led by a general to escort Chen Kai back to Chaozhou with the beggars who were used by the Canton side to "compensate for the goods" and those goods purchased from Guangzhou.

For those goods sent to Guangzhou that can be sold overseas for 30,000 or 40,000 taels of silver, the payment received cannot be calculated in this way, and there are all kinds of goods, plus and minus minus, and even less than 10,000 taels of silver. The silver entered Chen Kai's pocket with the front foot, and the back foot was spent by Chen Kai on the purchase of local goods in Guangzhou. In this, Du Yonghe has to take a cut from those shops, he doesn't know, but these Guangzhou freight back to Chaozhou can also pull back the problem of low profit margins. As for the beggars, they were earned for nothing.

Wrapped in the human trade in the name of workmanship, Du Yonghe saved silver, and Chen Kai harvested the population. However, the beggars who were used as goods to compensate Chen Kai were always trembling in the cabin, lest they be sold by Chen Kai to a place where birds don't poop and do hard labor until they died of exhaustion.

"All the fathers and elders of Guangzhou, this official is the Marquis of Weiyuan, who recruited the general to join the army, and was in charge of the Ordnance Bureau, Chen Kai, the prefect of Zhangzhou Prefecture."

The sea was calm, and after a brief introduction to themselves, the people on the deck with fearful eyes seemed to have been so frightened that they couldn't even salute. In this regard, Chen Kai didn't care, but explained the destination of the trip and their future arrangements with a smile on his face.

"Nanao Island, located off the coast of Chaozhou. Ladies and gentlemen in Guangzhou, some of them may not know Chaozhou, this is actually very easy to understand, Guangzhou is the provincial capital, located in the middle of Guangdong Province, and Chaozhou is in the easternmost part of Guangzhou Province, or there is no ...... out of Guangdong."

Not leaving Guangdong Province somewhat reassured these beggars, especially those beggars who knew that Zhangzhou Mansion in Chen Kai's official title seemed to be a neighboring province, and they were even more relieved.

"Guangzhou besieged the city, the government was unable to provide relief, the Tartars were cruel, and the city was slaughtered at every turn. All the fathers and elders returned to Nanao Island with the official, the farming of the land, the work of the work, there is always a full meal for the fathers and elders. As for some people's rumors that the officials will buy you to merchants or reduce them to slaves or something, there is no need to be afraid of this, you are still a commoner, there is no other personal dependency, and those who work and farm can get paid, it is nothing more than a temporary change of place to live, it's as simple as that. ”

As soon as Chen Kai said this, the beggars on the deck grew their mouths, and they couldn't believe that there would be such a good thing. You must know that not to mention the cost on the road, the strong men and women among these beggars each compensated Chen Kai for one or two pieces of silver, and Rao was nearly three times that of the old and weak, and it cost Chen Kai more than 1,000 taels of silver.

However, since Chen Kai said this in public, he would not be too bad, but it was still hard for them to believe that he could really have such a good treatment.

Next, Chen Kai began to chat with the beggars, talking about the beggars' past livelihood, talking about the facilities on Nanao Island, talking about the analysis of the current situation and the future vision.

As Chen Kai expected, these so-called beggars actually came from outside the city, because the Qing army besieged the city and relied on plundering to force the people into the city and consume the food stocks in the city. When they were outside the city, they were not really beggars, and although there were no craftsmen or literate Confucian scholars, there were still yeoman farmers, tenants, vegetable servants, flower farmers, and some apprentice craftsmen.

The reason for this result is that among the people, there is indeed a beggar organization similar to the beggar gang. However, it is not like the kind of mutual aid non-governmental organization in martial arts novels, but it is the interest group behind the professional beggars who crippled people or disguised themselves as disabled and begged on the commercial street in later generations. They colluded with the officials, with the former providing filial piety and information to the latter, and the latter providing protection to the former. Therefore, when Du Yonghe's order was issued, the local beggars hid and did not come out to obscure the eyes for the time being, and the officials also selectively selected those "part-timers" who had just become beggars to complete the tasks assigned by the officials.

Of course, Chen Kai also set restrictions specifically for this. It's not that he discriminates against the elderly, the weak, women and children, and the disabled, but that he needs to use these people to be more "useful" to silence some people with a heart.

"No hurry, this is just the first time."

There are only so many people that can be transported by the ship, and the people on the other ships do not enjoy the treatment that Chen Kai personally narrates, but there are literate people on each boat to explain Chen Kai's notices, although it is always very inferior, but for these people, they can only believe in such words.

Compared with the time, the speed of the return voyage was affected by various conditions, so that Chen Kai returned to Nanao Island at the end of July. Fortunately, the clothes, bedding, toilets and dining utensils brought by Chen Kai ensured a certain degree of hygiene, and did not encounter any shipwrecks and epidemics, even Xu Long was still nowhere to be found, except for dozens of people who were sick due to seasickness and weakness, and finally died, although most of the other people seemed quite weak after a journey, but they finally arrived at their destination alive.

"Lin Hou is really a general, and every time he goes to sea, he has to bring two or three times the reserve of fresh water, he is really experienced."

Compared with Lin Cha, who was used to starving, Chen Kai was even more fortunate that these people were born in Guangzhou, had more dealings with rivers, lakes and seas, and had better physical adaptation. Not to mention, if it is a group of inland people, more than half of them will die of illness in the past month.

On the island, the people were assigned to a military camp outside the city for temporary restoration. The officials of the Yamen organized a physical examination of Langzhong, and at the same time compiled the household of these people, and recorded their production and life skills, so that they could be assigned to the subordinate departments of the Ordnance Bureau and the villages and towns that had been severely reduced due to the large number of conscriptions, so as to strengthen the production of agriculture and handicrafts among the people.

Everything unfolded slowly as Chen Kai said on the boat, and some of Chen Kai's past and achievements were also spread among the people intentionally or unintentionally, whether it was the Ordnance Bureau, or Chen Kai's efforts in Chaozhou and Zhangzhou, all of which deepened the people's trust in Chen Kai. At the same time, this is also constantly improving Chen Kai's experience in this area, and the lack of preparation earlier is bound to be made up for in the future.

After completing the routine meeting with Chen Bao, he immediately inspected the camp to ensure that the people were integrating into the military industry and civil affairs system step by step, Chen Kai returned to the Ordnance Bureau to inspect, when he was not there, he had his own superintendent Chen Qi was responsible, and his people acted in accordance with Chen Kai's system to ensure the production capacity of the Ordnance Bureau, which was what Chen Kai was most willing to see. In particular, the manufacture of gunpowder, military uniforms, and flags, as well as the acquisition of a large number of daily necessities, which he specifically emphasized, are also being carried out in an orderly manner.

After leaving the Ordnance Bureau, Chen Kai turned to the Military Uniform Manufacturing Workshop, which was the largest workshop under the Ordnance Bureau, and could even be said to be the most profitable among the various departments under the Ordnance Bureau, even if it was just selling military uniforms with a very low profit margin.

When he came to the military uniform manufacturing workshop, the rat beard was already waiting at the door, and then accompanied Chen Kai to inspect the entire workshop, his attitude was even more deferential than a month ago, and even when he followed Chen Kai's side, he always seemed to feel as if the eunuch he had seen in the TV series following Lafayette's side.

The production of military uniforms is very efficient, and the production of new tents, bedding and flags before leaving for Guangzhou is not slow. After the inspection, the rat beard welcomed Chen Kai into the official room, and then drove back from the people, and only then presented Chen Kai with a few pieces of cloth that seemed to be expensive from a locked box, looking at the color and pattern, but it should be for women.

"This is a lowly post specially entrusted to get it, and when I get off duty, I will let people send them to join the army and send them to the house."