After the New Year's holiday, everything returned to normal on Nanao Island, and the sound of ping-pong iron was heard again in the sea cruise, school drills, and weapons workshops. As for the nitrate accumulation field outside the city, it is even more stinky, that is, it has not changed in the slightest during the Chinese New Year, let alone now.

In the training of the army, the recruits who are supplemented to the old army must not only practice martial arts, but also integrate into the battle formation; In the three new towns, everything is starting from scratch, and there is even more that needs to be done. In the first month of the New Year, aside from the days of the New Year, the army has always been practicing. This was true in the first month, the same in February, and even in March, there was no movement of troops, not even the slightest rumor. Some of them just come and go by sea ships, constantly selling Chinese goods to Nanyang and Japan, and trafficking goods from Nanyang and Japan back to China, earning the price difference, purchasing military supplies, and enhancing their own strength as much as possible.

In late March, two sand boats from Fujian waters bypassed Nan'ao Island and entered the Chaozhou boundary from the Hanjiang waterway. Because it was an official ship of the Qing court, the unclear local tyrants and pirates along the coast also retreated, did not send people to contact and curry favor, nor did they send troops to intercept and kill.

The official ship moved slowly, and when it approached Chaozhou City, it sent an envoy into the city. Chaozhou is under the jurisdiction of Guangdong, and it stands to reason that even if there is something to do with the Fujian governor's yamen, it should be directly connected with the Guangdong governor's yamen, rather than directly sending people to Chaozhou. In this way, the tacit understanding between the magistrates was destroyed, and it was even more different from the law of the imperial court system.

Che Renzhong didn't understand this, but after listening to the report of the officer guarding the door, he also felt that something was wrong, so he simply sent someone to invite Huang Menglin, the prefect of Chaozhou, to come over to discuss countermeasures.

Huang Menglin is a Fujianese, who was the prefect sent here by Tong Yangjia, the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, and Li Chengdong, the governor of Guangdong, when the Qing army entered Guangdong the year before last.

Che Renzhong was supposed to cooperate with him to achieve this purpose, but his person was originally born as a thief, and his command was named Chaozhou Town Soldier, but in fact, it was a group of thieves who changed their official status, and the old bad habits were difficult to change, disturbing the people in the left and close to the Chaozhou capital city and unable to live in peace. Militarily, the crackdown on those local tyrants and bandits also seems to be a little more than enough but not enough. So far, that is, last year's suppression of Yiwang in Jieyang County has won some praise from the court and officials, and the rest is that even Wu Liuqi's regimental training can't be beaten, at most, he is just taking his thousands of "thieves" to guard the city.

To be honest, Huang Menglin didn't like this general soldier at all, but in the officialdom, face is to be given, and at this time it is rare, and he has to go to the sewer gate with the car to see what is going on.

Chaozhou City is located on the bank of the Hanjiang River, Jinshan is located in the north, Bijia Mountain is in the east, Hulu Mountain lies in the west, and the plain is fertile in the south, constituting the geographical pattern of "three mountains and one water protecting the ancient city" on the plain. The city is two zhang and five feet high, 1,763 zhang long, and has seven gates, including Shangshui Gate, Zhumu Gate, Guangji Gate and Xiashui Gate, all of which are concentrated in the east city facing the Hanjiang River.

The official ship of the Fujian Governor Yamen was moored at the wharf in the east of the city, and the people who came entered through the water gate and had contact in advance, so they soon met Che Renzhong and Huang Menglin and others.

"Student, Liu Yizhou, a staff member of the Fujian Governor's Yamen, has seen Mr. Che and Huang Fuzun."

The person who came claimed to be a staff member of the Fujian governor Tong Guonai, and was ordered to come here to wait for the results of the purchase of grain by the Fujian governor Yamen and the Guangdong governor Yamen, and to transport the first batch of grain back to Fuzhou by the way.

They had never heard of this matter, but the matter between the governor's yamen and the governor's yamen did not have much need to ward them before it was decided. It's just that this person's accent is very weird, some of them are like the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and some of them are like the dialect of Liaodong, and even Huang Menglin thinks about it carefully, it seems that there is still some like the tone of the Manchurian dialect, which makes him difficult to distinguish for a while.

"This is an official document, and I ask the two officials to verify it."

Che Renzhong didn't know a single word, but he knew him in the official document, but he didn't know the dense text on the official document, let alone the authenticity of the writing format and seals and paper used in the official document. This matter can only trouble Huang Menglin, Che Renzhong just took over first, and looked at it pretentiously, so he had to change hands to others.

The format of the official document was at a loss, and there was nothing wrong with the paper or printing, but things were a little unexpected, which made him always feel that something was not right.

"I take the liberty of asking, why did the Fujian Governor Yamen come to our Guangdong to buy grain?"

Huang Menglin asked this with a smile, but in Liu Yizhou's ears, he frowned, and asked in a strange way: "Huang Zhifu can't trust our Fujian Governor Yamen?" ”

"No, no, Mr. Liu, don't misunderstand, the official is just curious."

In the officialdom, there is no need to offend people for no reason, let alone the staff of such a high-ranking governor level. I can't say, today he is still the prefect of Chaozhou, and tomorrow when the order comes, he will have to go to Fujian to take up his post, and when the time comes, he will fall into the hands of others, and people will have to give him little shoes.

"Hmph."

Don't look at it as a staff member, but since Liu Yizhou entered this Chaozhou City, his momentum is not lower than that of the chief soldier and the prefect in front of him. The seven officials in front of the prime minister, let alone the staff, are not unusual. At this moment, Liu Yizhou heard Huang Menglin's explanation, and his nostrils were idle, and the yin and yang tone came again.

"So that the prefect of Huang knows that now the puppet king of the former dynasty led the Haidong group of thieves to fight fiercely with my Fujian official army, and the thieves came out in all directions, making it difficult for a people to make a living. Not to mention that Fujian was not a grain-producing province in the first place, and it had to buy grain from other provinces in peacetime, and this time it came to buy military rations for the army. ”

Huang Menglin heard the news of the chaos in Fujian, there were the Lu royal family, the remnants of the Zheng family, the righteous army under the banner of Longwu, and the vassal king of a certain Ming court who raised troops, and even those who directly fought with the Qing army without even a banner, it was simply a mess. Originally, at the beginning, he was worried about whether he would come to Chaozhou, but later got the news that the Zheng family's people ran into a wall in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou and returned defeated, and most of the others were also active in northern and central Fujian, so he was temporarily relieved.

At this time, one of Che Renzhong's cronies also came over and whispered to Che Renzhong, who looked relieved, and the two just looked at each other for a moment, and hurriedly invited the staff to the government to talk. At least, it's not good to let people stand near the left side of this sewer door.

After entering the palace, the two sides saluted and sat down, and began to greet each other. Liu Yizhou claimed to be originally from Shanxi, and he joined the dragon 14 years ago and worked as a coated slave in Tong Guonai's family.

However, Liu Yizhou didn't mind the identity of the coated minion, and was even faintly proud of it. Huang Menglin calculated carefully, it was probably the time when the Qing army broke into Shanxi in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and this person was nothing more than a Han who was plundered, but the situation was stronger than people, and now it is the Qing court that has entered the Central Plains, and these original clothed minions have also begun to gain momentum.

"These two are the brothers Bai Hansong and Bai Hanfeng, the general of the Fujian Water Division, who originally followed the Zheng family to live, and later Zheng Zhilong was attached to our Qing Dynasty, and they were reassigned to the Fujian Water Division. If it weren't for their brother's understanding of the Zheng family this time, I'm afraid that we might not be able to get to this point smoothly. ”

The Fujian governor Yamen had two official ships, and there were more than 100 sailors and guards on them, apparently worried about the maritime safety of the Fujian Sea.

None of these things matter. The key is that this time, Fujian is short of food, so it has communicated with Guangdong to buy a batch of military rations in Chaozhou, but it is also reasonable, that is, Fujian's ship arrived first, but the official document issued by Guangzhou to Chaozhou has not yet arrived, which always makes Huang Menglin feel a little abnormal.

"As far as the officials know, there are also thieves and bandits in Guangzhou. Mr. Liu came like this, not afraid that if the discussion between the officials did not reach a conclusion, and the yamen of the governor of Guangdong did not agree to purchase military rations, wouldn't it be a trip in vain? ”