There have never been individuals who have betrayed the class, and there has never been a class that has betrayed interests. Chen Kai did not think that the Confucian scholar class would betray their class interests, nor did he think that Guo Zhiqi was the kind of individual who would betray the class.

Seeking cooperation, but the other party didn't understand what was going on, and still held the old mentality of not hitting you today, even if you have to seek cooperation, you always pinch your nose, and you don't realize that at the political level, when the interests tend to be aligned, the enemy can also become an ally.

It's like three friends going out to play, one wants to eat hot pot, one wants to go to skewers, and the other is still thinking about the copy and going to the Internet café. At this time, you can't join forces to beat the Internet addict who hinders eating to death, and then destroy the evil party in the name of the hot pot cult, and the last person goes to the hot pot restaurant to order a mandarin duck pot, while drinking a little wine, while remembering the lost youth and friendship.

Taking this as an example, a more reasonable way is to propose to eat hot pot together, and after eating hot pot, you have the strength to surf the Internet all night, and you can order takeout as a supper.

However, the problem now is that when Chen Kai proposed, Guo Zhiqi was obviously still entangled in the matter that eating would hinder his next copy, completely ignoring the passage of time. At this time, a plan of friendship broke the face and punched over, and it was the right way to bring Guo Zhiqi's attention back, do you have to wait for him to wake up and be bored?

Of course, Chen Kai is not unprepared for this, if Guo Zhiqi and the civil official group behind him are always obsessed, then he also minds to continue to bleed them, so that they will slowly lose their vitality in excessive blood loss. It's still the same sentence, either get in the car, or be crushed into powder together. As for where the car goes, it's not a kindergarten anyway.

Both of them are smart people, and many things don't need to be explained too clearly, just a little bit. In the face of the convergence of class interests, Chen Kai's embarrassment of Zhang Xiaoqi is also completely negligible. It's just face......

"Hey, you are so difficult to be a general, how can you have any sincerity?"

"I don't make a fuss about the affairs of western Guangdong, can you come to Guangzhou in person? If I just talk to Zhang Jiangzi, whether he is qualified to decide whether he is still two talks, with his temperament, I am afraid that I will not have to talk. ”

Here, seeing Chen Kai's expression that I was also helpless, what could I do, Guo Zhiqi sighed, Chen Kai was right, Zhang Xiaoqi had no right to decide, nor was he a suitable person for negotiation. And he is also the most aware of the current situation, now it is not Chen Kai begging them, but the court is asking Chen Kai. This has nothing to do with the current competition between the two sides around western Guangdong!

Eased his emotions again, got rid of those old-fashioned thinking, and Guo Zhiqi spoke again as if the two of them were judged: "The Son of Heaven and the princes of the current dynasty are all praising each other's talents, and the court has already proposed that with the talents of the achievements, it is enough to enter the court as the secretary of the military department." However, the old man felt that he was using things in the local area at the moment, or he could better display his talents, so he stopped him. ”

"Well, the superintendent of this matter is thoughtful, and if the lower officials rashly enter the court at this time, eighty percent will also be trapped in the court, which is far better than in the locality."

affirmed Guo Zhiqi's words that seemed to be split personality before and after, Chen Kai knew very well that this was just the beginning, and the real drama was still to come: "Therefore, the DPRK intends to appoint Jing Cheng as the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, and hang the title of secretary of the military department, I don't know what to do?" ”

The governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, this was the norm in the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming army's recovery of Guangdong, under a game, Lian Chengbi continued to serve as the governor of Liangguang, and the official position of the governor of Guangdong was taken over by Chen Kai, the governor of Zhangquan Chaohui at that time. At that time, it could be divided into two, and now it can naturally be merged into one, and the transfer of the military department from the left servant of the military department to the military department is even more needless to say.

"Governor of Liangguang?" Chen Kai lowered his eyebrows for a moment, raised his eyes again, but categorically rejected this proposal: "There is a superintendent to run Guangxi, and the lower officials are very relieved." The two governors of Guangzhou, it is inevitable that their powers overlap and cause inconvenience, so forget it. The surname of the country was entrusted with the responsibility of recovering Jiangxi earlier, which is also justified. ”

"That's fine."

Promotion is a good thing, but Chen Kai's reluctance to get involved in Guangxi is also a sincerity. Even, there are more complex issues in this, Guo Zhiqi knows very well that Chen Kai understands this, otherwise he would not have said what he said when he first entered this official room.

"It's not a secret, since Sun rebelled and surrendered, the court has been actively preparing for war. Shortly before the old man's departure, the Emperor Luo Tuo and the Huguang Commander captured Chenzhou......"

Chenzhou has changed hands for the third time in the last two years. Because of the fall of Chenzhou, Sun Kewang had to delay the time of the civil war; Because Chenzhou was regained again, Sun Kewang, who had a bottom in his heart, was able to gather heavy troops to commit internal crimes. In the final analysis, Chenzhou is really the gateway to Guizhou, and now that Chenzhou has fallen into the hands of the Qing army again, they have the geographical advantage of driving straight into Guizhou, which is really bad news for the war situation.

This, as well as a wider area, the Qing court has been impatient to attack the Ming court since it got Sun Kewang, a once-in-a-lifetime and once-in-a-lifetime strange commodity. In other words, when Guo Zhiqi was in Guangxi earlier, he determined that Chen Kai's greatest reliance was that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the Ming Court, forcing the Ming Court to compromise with it. In contrast, the threat to Zhang Xiaoqi on the surface of the military generals, the advisory bureau, and the Tan people was never really fatal.

At first, Guo Zhiqi looked at it like this, but when he met him in person, he knew that he was still narrow-minded, and Chen Kai thought obviously more far-reaching than them.

During this time, Guo Zhiqi made his words clear, and Chen Kai did not hesitate at all, even if he expressed his attitude: "If the court is in trouble, the courtiers naturally want to try to save it, and it is incumbent on the lower officials to try to contain the traitor Hong Chengchou and the captives in Huguang and Guangxi." However, the captive court must be doing its best this time, trying in vain to complete the battle. The imperial court also needs to be prepared to deal with a greater threat. ”

In the process of the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were many accidents, but Sun Kewang's surrender to the Qing Dynasty can still be said to be the accident of the number one in the sky. Since the beginning of the six-year counteroffensive of Yongli, the confrontation between the Ming and Qing dynasties has existed for a long time, especially after the eight-year counteroffensive of Yongli organized by Chen Kai, the situation is constantly moving in an unfavorable direction for the Qing court, but with Sun Kewang, who was once the fake emperor of the Ming court in the southwest, the Qing court immediately had the capital to solve the southwest problem at one time.

Not now, but when!

This encounter must be Mount Tai's top, standing at a sufficient height, Guo Zhiqi naturally understands the danger. Hearing this, I saw him nod, and then said with relief: "If there is a containment, there is an extra chance of winning." The rest, there is the imperial court, and His Royal Highness the King of Jin is here, so there will be no worries. ”

What I'm worried about is Li Dingguo!

Having said that, Chen Kai really couldn't talk to Guo Zhiqi. Because the general trend has been formed inside and outside, even if you say it, you can't change anything. Since it is useless to talk too much, it is better to do more practical things.

"Governor Zhang of western Guangdong is an official who is honest and admitted. However, there are still many things that are not considered in the way things are done. The lower officials thought that it was better to go back to the court to experience some time, and then go to either side, what did the superintendent think? ”

Except for those lowly officials who have just entered the officialdom, such as the revision and compilation of the Hanlin Academy, such as the head of the six departments, they were delegated to the local government after being trained in the court. In addition, it has always been officials who have been trained in the local area, and then entered the court as officials. Zhang Xiaoqi has been an official for many years, and when he returned to the dynasty, it was like gibberish. However, Chen Kai was talking nonsense, but Guo Zhiqi looked deeply concerned.

"What about Zhou Daotai?"

"Western Guangdong also needs officials who are familiar with the situation, and they also need to supervise teachers to cut love."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's all for the sake of the state."

In a few words, Chen Kai and Guo Zhiqi finalized the two highest-ranking civil officials in western Guangdong, Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures of Gao Lian Leiqiong, and Zhou Tengfeng of Haibei Province.

This is both a transaction and a run-in. Compared with these two, Guo Zhiqi pays more attention to those feudal towns in western Guangdong - the existence of the ancestral system of large and small, even if these feudal towns are mostly just five scum, but they can also be used to restrain the big feudal towns and maintain the authority of the center.

The inherent concept could not be completely changed for a while, and Chen Kai did not speak immediately, but just sat there and looked at him with interest, only to see that Guo Zhiqi was a little hairy, and then continued: "The generals of western Guangdong are entrenched in the locality, and they do have the role of protecting the safety of the local side. However, the situation has long been different, and most of those places are hinterland, and there are many feudal towns, which hinders local administration, which is also a major drawback. The lower officials thought that instead of going on like this, it was better to dispatch the various departments to recover the lost territory. Xia Guan thought that this was probably the wish of the generals, otherwise he would not have persisted for such a long time under such difficult conditions back then. ”

'Dispatch troops? ”

The various ministries have been operating in the defense zone for many years, and it has long been "difficult to leave the homeland." As for the deployment of these troops, Guo Zhiqi has never considered it. When Chen Kai talked about it here, he couldn't help frowning.

However, if you think about it carefully, he is different from Chen Kai - for these generals, he can only use the authority of the imperial court, the identity of the superintendent, and his personal prestige to inspire, move, and coerce with these soft powers, but it is difficult to drive as the generals of the Chongzhen Dynasty before they lost control. Chen Kai is the opposite, he is the second person in the Zheng group, and he has full power in Guangdong, and his prestige in the army is so high that it is no longer beyond the reach of ordinary civilian officials. This time, once Chen Kai makes a move, the generals in western Guangdong will not have the slightest ability to parry. It's just that in this way, the intensification of contradictions will naturally destroy internal unity, and it will affect the progress of cooperation, which is really not what Guo Zhiqi wants to see.

"I'm afraid that the generals will not be angry in their hearts, and they will not be able to go all out in battle."

"The order of the imperial court, it is up to them whether they want it or not!" With a sneer, Chen Kai then explained: "Those who are willing to stay in western Guangdong to protect Sangzi can be treated equally, and there will be no shortage of them in terms of military rations and armaments." However, the Tu Emperor did not want to think about continuing to do it, the administrative power of the prefecture and county was handed over to the governor of Guangdong, the advisory bureau was established, the army was reorganized, and the training was re-trained according to the new method of warfare, otherwise it would be a burden on the battlefield. As for those who are unwilling to stay in western Guangdong, they will ask the superintendent to take them to Guangxi for installation, and the enemies of Wuzhou and Guilin are also quite threatening. ”

"What if you don't want to change the status quo?"

"Huh."

It's just two words, Guo Zhiqi has already heard the cold and piercing killing intent. This is not a threat, Chen Kai's ruthlessness is well known, he dared to go deep into the tiger's den with a very small number of guards, behead his commander, and seize his army, and now he controls a province in Guangdong, and the fierce generals are not counted, but the troops under his jurisdiction are basically the elite who can fight against the Han Eight Banners without falling behind. provokes him, and the unlucky ones will only be those feudal towns who don't know the times.

"I'm afraid that at that time, the government and the opposition will look sideways, which will be detrimental to His Royal Highness the King of Min and to the reputation of Jingcheng."

The civil officials in the troubled times have the rules of survival and the way of doing things in the troubled times, Guo Zhiqi talks about reputation, which is exactly what many people value the most, he believes that Zheng Chenggong, who was a Confucian student, is like this, and Chen Kai, who is going to enter the cabinet sooner or later, is also the same. However, Chen Kai has always been an outlier.

"The superintendent should understand that the affairs of western Guangdong have long been not as simple as this one-third of an acre of land in western Guangdong. As for what others say, let them go, is it possible that they will not do things anymore? ”

Chen Kai's tone was full of undoubtedness, this was not an attitude of discussion and cooperation. It's just that when Guo Zhiqi heard this, he still couldn't understand the deep meaning of this.

To put it bluntly, in order to safeguard the interests of maritime trade, the Zheng Group imposed an embargo on Manila's Franc Machine, which was strictly implemented in most of Fujian and Guangdong. Only the western coast of Guangdong not only did not have an embargo, but the local civil officials and military generals were laissez-faire based on their own interests, and even took the initiative to trade with the Francois people. This has damaged the fundamental interests of the Zheng Group, and Chen Kai, as the leader of the Zheng Group in Guangdong, is naturally duty-bound. Otherwise, his prestige within the Zheng Group would inevitably be affected.

Whether it is for the Zheng Group or for Chen Kai, the problem in western Guangdong must be solved as soon as possible. That's the real basis of cooperation, not the governor's office.

Never!