The Emperor of the Tutu couldn't do it, and he was demoted by the Qing court, Hao Shangjiu naturally wouldn't give up, so he simply raised troops anyway.

Anyway, it happened on March 22 of the third year of Yongli, and at the same time, Li Dingguo's army entered Guangdong and prepared to launch an attack on Zhaoqing. Hao Shangjiu had already heard about this, so he simply sent someone to contact Li Dingguo, and at the same time led Zheng Chenggong to the west, preparing to join the three routes of the army to attack the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan in Guangzhou.

Hao Shangjiu "called himself the new Taihou and changed the Yuan Yongli for seven years", and "ordered the whole city to cut braids and wrap nets". Lu Zhenfen, the governor of Chaozhou, Xue Xinchen, and the magistrates of Puning, Chenghai, Jieyang, and Raoping counties were arrested. This is the area he actually controls as the "King of Chaozhou", but the territory of Chaozhou is not the only one in these counties. Tai Po Sanhe Dam in the north, Wu Liuqi is eyeing the tiger; In the south of Chenghai Nanyang Village, Xu Long chooses people and devours them; In addition, Su Li, who occupied Huilai County and Jieshiwei, also stared at the counties of Jieyang and Puning, Hao Shangjiu was still too busy to take care of himself, how could he cooperate with Li Dingguo to attack Guangzhou?

Due to Chen Kai's long-term existence in Chaozhou and Hao Shangjiu's seizure of the county seat of Chengxiang County, the Qing court was quite tolerant of him, not only was there much less suspicion, but also had the expectation of making persistent efforts against him.

At this moment, Hao Shangjiu is sitting in Chengxiang, Xingning, and Changle around the soil emperor, except for those squires, businessmen, and mine owners who want to increase trade restrictions every day, he is still relatively satisfied, who knows that there will be trading partners behind his back at this moment.

In the Chaozhou Mansion, Chen Kai, the representative of the insatiable Teochew profiteers, issued a secret order to his former scholar Chen Song, who understood by heart. It's only June at the moment, and it is estimated that it will be July when the news spreads, but he is not in a hurry about this, just waiting for this suspicion to tear the relationship between the Qing court and Hao Shangjiu to shreds.

Here Chen Song took the order and left, and a few days later, Chen Kai also ushered in another figure who came from afar. The arrival of this man is really what he has been waiting for for a long time.

"Zhan Ruo, it's been hard all the way, sit down, sit down and talk."

Kuang Lu is full of dust, but his spirit is very good. When I saw Chen Kai, I couldn't wait to tell everything I saw along the way.

Speaking of which, Kuang Lu has been on this trip for half a year, and the main thing is to go to Jiangxi Province. Tao Qian from Ganzhou, Zou Nan from Ji'an, and even those scholars who were sent to Jiangxi to lurk, Kuang Lu visited them one by one, not only to carry out activities, but also to broaden their knowledge and knowledge, and to benefit a lot.

"All of those scholars have gone through the initiation ceremony, and they have no hesitation about joining the Heaven and Earth Society. Speaking of which, it is still a good professor, and these people are all called Mr. by your name. ”

"That's good, that's good."

Heaven and Earth will be in Guangdong and Fujian, Chen Kai has not yet started, but has only absorbed some trustworthy friends. But in Jiangxi, Chen Kai wants to take the lead in building the foundation, and the purpose of Kuang Lu's trip is this. However, for the time being, this foundation is only to establish differences in identity, so as to strengthen the centripetal force.

"The teacher-student relationship is really a big killer."

This effect is not only due to the teacher-student relationship between Chen Kai and those Jiangxi scholars, but also to Chen Kai's preliminary operation and preparation during the training.

"Those new instructions and documents have also been issued, and they all said that they will act according to the instructions of Chief Helmsman Chen."

Naturally, documents and instructions are not easy to enter enemy-occupied territory. These things are all based on Kuang Lu's memory, if it weren't for his talent and excellent memory, Chen Kai would not be at ease, and now that Kuang Lu has confirmed the communication, he can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"How's it going?"

"I walked in a hurry, but I didn't see far. However, the documents were indeed very well written, and they were quite excited to read them. ”

There is no possibility for Chen Kai not to believe this, such as Kuang Lu, who has seen those things, let alone other people. Chen Kai had expected this, but with Kuang Lu's statement, he was even more inexplicably excited.

"Don't talk about this, wash the dust, let's stir-fry a few side dishes today, our brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, so we should drink happily!"

"Speaking of which, I haven't congratulated the newlywed wedding yet, no, I have to go back, if I don't even have a meeting gift, I will be told that I am ignorant."

Kuang Lu clapped his hands and praised, but Chen Kai laughed and said, "Zhanruo my brother, aren't you planning to give me Luqitai again." As the saying goes, a gentleman does not win people's love. When Guangzhou is recovered, you can make up for my wedding gift from those collections. ”

Chen Kai was like this, and Kuang Lu couldn't help but shake his head and smile. The temperament of the two of them is relatively casual, and they are not much bound by these red tape, at this moment Chen Kai pushed it, and he really didn't have any decent gifts in his hand, so he could only accept it, just saying that he was going to eat Chen Kai for nothing.

"And rightfully so!"

Chen Kai laughed, and after laughing, he remembered something, and then lowered his voice and said to Kuang Lu: "There is just a baby, after receiving the wind and washing the dust today, it will be good for Zhan Ruo and my brother to open his eyes the day after tomorrow." ”

Hearing this, Kuang Lu's interest suddenly rose, and even when he asked Chen Kai why he could only see it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, instead of today, when his appetite had been suspended. Chen Kai always has some new methods, Kuang Lu has seen too much, and every time there is a sense of freshness, which is his appetite.

However, Chen Kai shook his head, saying that it was not that he couldn't see it today, but that the thing was a little disgusting, for fear that it would affect Kuang Lu's appetite.

"Then it will be as it is."

After returning to the house to wash away the dust, Kuang Lu returned to the governor's yamen. After entering the back house, Zheng Xiyuan was already preparing, Chen Kai and Kuang Lu chatted in the living room for a while, and Zheng Xiyuan took his subordinates to serve the dishes. Drinking until late at night was the end of this long-lost reunion.

After a night of hangover, Chen Kai was groggy when he got up the next day. But Kuang Lu, who seemed to be very excited, came here again before noon, saying that he would immediately go to see the new thing.

"Okay."

There is no way, Kuang Lu came up casually, and Chen Kai had no choice. Just during the lunch break, Chen Kai took Kuang Lu to the back house of the governor's yamen again, but this time it was not the living room, but a backlit ear room. There are a lot of things in the transept, but the most obvious thing is a few large flower pots placed on the side, which are not planted with flowers and plants, but there is a lot of soil.

Kuang Lu was led by Chen Kai to the flower pots, and Chen Kai scooped out some swill scum from another bucket, causing Kuang Lu to cover his nose.

However, Chen Kai was not tired of this, scooped out the swill dregs, and then poured it on the soil of each flower pot. After that, I simply moved two stools over and sat there watching the movement in the flower pots.

Chen Kai always has some strange ideas, which Kuang Lu is familiar with, and even has a lot of expectations for Kuang Lu, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed here today. But Chen Kairusi still made him feel a lot of surprise. Not to mention, the smell in this room is really bad, but looking at Chen Kai's movements, it seems that he has always been here recently, which is really incomprehensible. It's just that after a little thought, Kuang Lu's attention was quickly attracted by the movement in the flower pot.

The sound was almost negligible, but with the faint light of the thickened window paper, Kuang Lu soon noticed that the dirt began to churn, and then rattled out of the flesh. Those flesh worms, thinner than vegetable worms, longer than maggots, dark red in color, more and more gathered on those swill dregs, it looks really disgusting.

"This thing, it's an earth dragon?"

The so-called earth dragon is an earthworm. Chen Kai nodded, and immediately took one out with a clip, and then strode out of the ear room, and then turned into another yard, where there was a free-range hen, eating vegetable leaves, as soon as he saw Chen Kai threw the earthworm on the ground, he immediately threw down the vegetable leaves, and ate the earthworm into his stomach after dividing it by two.

For the joy of food, even if it is not the same species, Chen Kai and Kuang Lu who were present can feel it clearly from the hen. Seeing this, Kuang Lu turned his head and looked at Chen Kai, and even suddenly realized.

"It's actually going to make this work of raising earth dragons bigger, and then use it to raise chickens and ducks?"

Hearing the strings and singing and knowing the elegant meaning, Kuang Lu drew inferences from one another, and even attracted Chen Kai's applause and praise. Later, he explained that he was more excited to see chickens eating insects than vegetable leaves, and he had such thoughts. But there is really no way to explain the fundamental protein to Kuang Lu, not to mention the side, let Kuang Lu hear that there are human elements and insects in general, and I guess he won't believe what he says.

"I've been feeding this chicken like this for more than half a month, and it grows fast, probably like the truth that people eat more meat and grow meat faster."

"I see."

If she understood it this way, Kuang Lu immediately understood. If the chickens grow fast, then it means that the production of chicken increases, which is a good thing by all accounts. What's more, Chen Kai said that this matter is not so simple, in addition to feeding chickens, there are other benefits that can be developed.

"Then the foolish brother waited for good news."

………………

In the city of Chaozhou, the current governor of Zhangquan Chaohui and the original Zhongshu Sheren, a powerful bureaucrat, and a Qing noble civil servant in the court, when these two big men were interested in insects, the Eight Banners Army sent by the Qing court to reinforce Shang Kexi to fight against Li Dingguo's army was also on the way to Guangdong.

The Battle of Zhaoqing began on March 26, and 12 days later, in the Battle of Longdinggang on the eighth day of April, Li Dingguo's troops retreated to Guangxi to rest after a small defeat.

Speaking of which, the war has long been over, but the distance between Guangdong and Beijing is long, Shang Kexi issued an urgent warning in March, the Qing court received the news and decided to send the four banners of the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan as reinforcements, when the urgent decree was sent to the hands of Angbangzhang Jing Kakhamu in Jiangning, it was already the tenth day of the fifth month.

It has been a month since the end of the war, but Guangdong is not close to Jiangning. After receiving the news, Khaqam hurriedly dispatched more than half of the Manchurian Niulu, and set off with some of the Han army's banner soldiers who assisted in the defense of Jiangning, taking a boat from the Yangtze River into Poyang Lake, and then rushing all the way to Guangdong along the waterway.

Li Dingguo's rise to the top of the world is really a great threat. At the same time that Kaqam received the order, the Qing court also sternly warned him not to rush into battle - if Shang Kexi defeated Li Dingguo on his own, that would be the best, of course, this possibility is not very likely; But if Shang Kexi can't even maintain the battle line, then try to meet the troops of the two feudal domains as much as possible, even if he gives up Guangzhou, as long as he can hold the Meiling defense line in Southern Jiangxi.

Tikkam didn't dare to hesitate, but it didn't take long to receive the news that Shang Kexi had repelled Li Dingguo. At the same time, the prince of Pingnan meant that he hoped that he would lead his army to cooperate with the two feudal domains to take over Chaozhou, and solve the problem of Chen Kai who was entrenched there first.

In this regard, Titicham is very willing to serve. Not to mention, Chaozhou has been in the hands of the Ming army for five years, it is said that the two prefects before and after - Ye Yiyun and Chen Kai are good at developing people's livelihood, there must be enough food and clothing for the people, as long as the slaughter round, the benefits are absolutely unimaginable.

Titicham did not change the route of travel, and soon the Qing court agreed to the order to assist in the suppression. For this reason, Titicham accelerated his march, because as far as he knew, Jin Li's Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners were also preparing to attack Zheng Chenggong in Fujian, and if he let that minion catch up in front, his trip would be in vain.

At the end of July, Titichama rushed to the city of Guangzhou, and the news of Jin Li's defeat was also received on the way. Seeing the arrival of real Manchurian reinforcements who had been waiting for a long time, Shang Kexi hurriedly invited the Jingnan generals Angbangzhang Jing Kaqam and Mel Zhangjing Galai Daoga to the palace to discuss countermeasures, and specially invited people from the Jingnan Domain to come over.

Lian Decheng, the commander-in-chief of the right wing of the Jingnan Domain, and several deputy generals of the commander-in-chief of the Jingnan Domain, were present on the spot, and even Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan who had been ill for a long time, also rushed over.

Li Dingguo's defeat was heard of by Kaqam and others, and when asked about the details, they also praised the gratifying use of troops like a god. However, this is not the most important thing at the moment, Jin Li's army was defeated, but it is said that it also gave the Ming army a lot of casualties, according to intelligence, the focus of the Ming army is in southern Fujian, and the troops in eastern Guangdong are not much, not long ago Chen Kai also transferred a part to recover Qiongzhou Mansion, and now it is obviously the biggest weakness.

Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, this is the most normal reason, but there is a problem, that is, attacking Chaozhou from west to east, the best coastal plain area, the Ming army has used those two fortresses to seal the line of the Luohe River, Geng Jimao was defeated twice, the Qing court spent a lot of effort to make up for the soldiers of the Jingnan Domain, but the loss of combat effectiveness is not so simple.

"With all due respect, those two fortresses are really impregnable."