Chen Gongyin is the son of Chen Bangyan, one of the three loyalties of Lingnan, when the Lingnan Sanzhong was defeated against the Qing Dynasty, the Chen family only survived him, and it can be said that the whole family died. In these years, in order to avenge the hatred of the family and the country, Chen Gongyin traveled to Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to contact the rebels and seek trouble. In the original history, he should have gone to the Yongli Imperial Court this year, but he didn't meet him, so he returned to Guangdong and settled in Zengcheng County. Now, it is due to the recovery of Guangdong and the establishment of the Advisory Bureau that he returned to Guangdong in advance.

When I returned to Guangdong, I went back to my hometown to worship first. He is a native of Longshan Town, Shunde County, and has lived here for generations, but this time when he returned to his hometown, the mountains and rivers are still vivid, but the hydraulic workshops on the shore, the mulberry forests that were originally used for rice fields, and the sewage discharged from the town's dyeing workshops made him almost think that he was in the wrong place for a while.

Chen Bangyan is a hero of the anti-Qing Dynasty, and the Shunde County Ya has made a lot of efforts to sacrifice things. When the worship was over, Chen Gongyin set off for Guangzhou, one to visit friends, and the other to thank Chen Kai in person, thanking Chen Kai for specially instructing the Shunde County Ya to repair Chen Bangyan's tomb to pay respects, and thanking Chen Kai for preserving the land of the Chen family under the trend of Shunde Silk Weaving Workshop's wanton annexation of land in Shunde County.

"Iwano Gong is a heroic martyr who fought against the captive, and these are all things that this official should do."

After being humble, Chen Kai mentioned the old things of the year, recalled the old things when Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu, and Chen Zizhuang raised troops in Guangzhou to resist the Qing Dynasty, and mentioned his struggle in Chaozhou at that time, and bluntly said that the bloody battle of Lingnan Sanzhong not only stopped the limelight of the captive division sweeping the two Guangzhous, but also attracted the attention of the Qing army in Guangdong, so that he and Zheng Chenggong could have such a great opportunity to recover the whole territory of Chaozhou.

"The country and the nation have been reduced to a degraded country, and without sacrifice, there will be no future. And later generations should make 10,000 efforts, even sacrifices, in exchange for the bright future of the country and the nation, so as to comfort the sacrifices. ”

"What Chen Fujun said is extremely true."

Chen Kai talked eloquently, and Chen Gongyin coped with it freely. For this person, Chen Kai knew something in advance, no matter what the talent is, Chen Bangyan's only surviving son, according to feudal morality, as the parent official of Guangdong Province, should also be given a certain amount of care. This, even in later generations, taking care of the children of martyrs is the unshirkable responsibility of the government, which is the same reason.

"I know that Yuanxiao has been awarded the hereditary position of commanding the Jinyi Guard by the Son of Heaven, but the Han family is employing people in the world, and Guangdong is in dire need of talents like Yuanxiao. This trip to Yunnan is thousands of miles away, and it takes too much time on the road, so the official thinks that it is better to stay in Guangdong to benefit the township. Especially in the near future, Guangdong is also about to send troops again to regain lost territory, and Yuan Xiao should be reluctant to make it difficult. ”

After some talking, Chen Gongyin happily accepted Chen Kai's appointment, and after only a few days of rest, he went to Guangdong to serve as the Yamen of the Inspectorate Department. As for how talented this person can be, he doesn't care - his father is Chen Bangyan, who was a generous martyr, and with this alone, Chen Kai can keep him in Guangdong to work for him, which is an attitude for scholars and doctors in this province and other provinces. Just like when he first went to Nanao Island, Zheng Chenggong also had the idea of a horse bone in the gold market, and his subsequent achievements were additional output value.

It is obvious that the Heaven and Earth Society is now in the limelight in Guangdong. However, Chen Kai does not intend to get by, he has never spared any effort to win the hearts of the people, because he knows very well how he can continue to make the Heaven and Earth Society bigger and stronger.

Both conferences have been over for a long time, but he still needs to meet with a large number of local people every day. This is not limited to the participants, but also many other places have come to the meeting, such as the representatives of Southern Jiangxi and Jiangxi, such as the envoys of the Fujian gentry, and some places in Guangdong Province that have not yet been included in the control of the yamen of the governor of Guangdong.

"As long as it's profitable, they'll be more motivated, and I need to guide them to my advantage."

A smile appeared on his face, Chen Kai stood up, stretched his body, and relieved the fatigue of sitting for a long time, and then called the official in charge of reception affairs.

"Whose turn is it in the afternoon?"

"If you return to the old man of the Fu Army, according to the order in which the posts were handed over, the following should be some gentry and businessmen from Xinning County and Yangjiang County." Bow down and salute, without looking at the roster, the official can recite his life and identity backwards.

Xinning County and Yangjiang County belong to Guangzhou and Zhaoqing Prefectures, although they are connected by land, but the administrative regions are different, and it stands to reason that they will not be easily put together. However, now the two places have one thing in common, and this common point is the reason why they came to Guangzhou together to meet Chen Kai.

"Oh, a bunch of petitioners."

The official didn't quite understand what the petitioners meant, but he didn't ask too much, just waiting for Chen Kai's decision. Whether to meet or postpone, Chen Kai has Chen Kai's own decision, and he can serve in the yamen all the year round, he is the most clear about what to say and what not to say.

"Then let them come to see me in the afternoon, the public will still want it."

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"Public opinion? What kind of public opinion, Chen Kai is coming for his own officials and the court this time! ”

Chen Kai approved the Guangdong Consultative Bureau's ban on the Tan people from going ashore to earn a living, and the first to bear the brunt were those who were begging for a living on the Pearl River.

The Tan people have lived on the ship for generations, and their production and life depend on it, which will undoubtedly cause a lot of inconvenience. However, even after the historical problem of the Tan people was completely solved during the Republic era, this group still made a living from the fishing and shipping industries, but the living area was transferred to the case.

The decree was issued, and for the Tan people on the Pearl River, it was nothing more than that they could go ashore in the future, nothing more. Other than that, they still do what they have to do, and it's no different. And as the news spread, when Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures of Gao Lian Leiqiong, got the news, the people of southwest Guangdong had no way of knowing about this good governance. However, sitting in Gaozhou City, he was furious at this decree that seemed to have nothing to do with him, and he really startled Zhou Tengfeng, who had just come back.

"Fujun?"

"Look at this report."

Pushing the urgent report from the study that was stationed in Guangzhou City to the other side of the bookcase, he leaned back on the Taishi chair, and Zhang Xiaoqi's heavy breathing in his nostrils was audible.

Zhang Xiaoqi was obviously very angry, Zhou Tengfeng saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to copy the emergency report, and he didn't care about sitting down again, so he stood there and looked at it word for word. And after reading this paragraph, he immediately reacted, where is Chen Kai's drunkard meaning.

"He wants to use the affairs of the Tan people to meddle in the Hepu Zhu business, but that's a tribute!"

Hepu Zhu is delicate and dignified, smooth and crystalline, round and clear, smooth and colorful, and has great medicinal value, so Qu Dajun once had the words "West Pearl is not as good as East Pearl, East Pearl is not as good as South Pearl" in "Guangdong New Language".

This is not a boast of a person in this province, but the queen of England in the empire of the future world will have a thumb-sized Hepu pearl on the crown. In China, the Hepu Zhu into the Great Inner began with Qin Shi Huang, and the violent Qin opened up the territory of Baiyue, and there were Zhu officials. In the following dynasties, whether it was a unified empire or a secession force in a remote corner, the collection of Hepu beads never stopped, which was nothing more than a ban on the merchants and the common people.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, Hepu pearl diving reached its heyday in history. The streets on both sides of the Lianzhou River are brightly lit, and the sailboats on the river come and go like a carp. Li Hui's "Lianzhou Chronicles" has a cloud: "In the Ming Dynasty, there were ships on both sides of the Lianzhou River, the sails were like weaving, the shouting was noisy, day and night were continuous, the merchants were diverging, and the people were densely populated. This is the grand occasion of Lianzhou Zhu City in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the price of the economic boom was a sharp decline in production caused by excessive pearl diving, and the third and fourth great migrations of Hepu pearl shells in history took place in the Ming Dynasty, so that today, the production of Hepu pearls is no longer the same as it was in its heyday.

However, in addition to the usual tribute, the economic value brought by the production of Hepu Zhu today is a due expense for the Fubiao camp of the governor of the four prefectures of Lei Qiong, and it is also a financial subsidy. Even if it's a lot less, it's better than nothing. The collection of Hepu pearls requires the pearl people to dive into the pearl pond, and even the deep sea, in that era when there is no diving device, and at the same time need to face sharks in the sea, which can be described as very dangerous. In fact, most of this kind of work is done by the Tan people.

In this way, Chen Kai approved the proposal of the Consultative Bureau, since it is impossible to receive the actual effect of manpower replenishment, then it is obviously a warm-up for attacking them!

In the game, they feel it most clearly. Zhang Xiaoqi was furious, and Zhou Tengfeng couldn't help but be indignant, especially when he thought that Chen Kai actually represented the power of the feudal town, so calculating them as orthodox court courtiers was obviously attacking the court. Whether it is in the current situation or in the era of peace, this is intolerable and cannot be compromised in the slightest.

"Fu Jun, is it possible that Chen Kai can still lead the troops to kill him, he will not tear this last layer apart."

Taking advantage of Zhang Xiaoqi's disobedience to the "public will" represented by the Consultative Bureau, he took advantage of the situation to attack southwestern Guangdong, which was a possibility that they could imagine at the first time. However, once the soldiers met, the window paper between the imperial court and the feudal town was broken, and the subsequent impact was obviously not a price that a southwestern Guangdong or a Hepuzhu could afford.

They have news channels, and they have heard that it seems that some military generals in southwest Guangdong are keen on Chen Kai's reform achievements in Guangdong, and secretly organize river thieves to plunder Shunde silk, and Chen Kai is not only unwilling to expand with the existing excuse, but only to suppress it locally, obviously still has some scruples.

Since there are scruples about that matter, it is obviously unlikely that there will be a big fight in southwest Guangdong. So what is the purpose of going around this bend?

Of course Zhang Xiaoqi understands the meaning of Zhou Tengfeng's words. There has always been a discord between the Zheng clique and the civil official clique in western Guangdong, but it has never reached the level of a real fight. Everything is still only within the scope of political struggle, and Zhang Xiaoqi, as the governor, although he is not comparable to Chen Kai in rank and title, but he is also the governor, if Chen Kai refuses to act, the threat he can pose will become extremely limited.

"Impeachment, this official is not afraid of him. I'm afraid that he doesn't intend to leave the decision-making power to the center at all, but continues to use his advisory board against us. ”

The Consultative Bureau can win over the hearts and minds of the people, which is something that anyone with a discerning eye can see. Although the right to share profits is extremely limited now, and it is more of an organization that coordinates the local government and assists Chen Kai's administration, the future development trend, as long as you have seen the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty, can have a premonition, and the Fushe Society is the best example.

In the southwest of Guangdong, military generals are entrenched in various prefectures and counties, each with their own thoughts, and the real power that the civilian clique can control is extremely limited. This is the inevitable result of the loss of the actual control areas of Wuzhou Mansion and the northern part of Zhaoqing Mansion after the martyrdom of Lianchengbi, and their initial plan to accumulate resources and regain control of the army and local areas was interrupted by Hong Chengchou, and the current situation can only be more cautious.

Although Zhang Xiaoqi has never been to Chen Kai's jurisdiction, he can also imagine that the scholars there must be more supportive of Chen Kai, at least more than the scholars in Gaozhou, Lianzhou, and Leizhou. Once Chen Kai promised to set up advisory bureaus in these places, then the morale would turn against him, and if the gentry class, which the civil official clique in western Guangdong Province relied on the most, would no longer use it, they would be strangled to death by these people.

This is true, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, as a local fiefdom, they were bound to defend this area for the imperial court and for the civilian clique. This is the capital of the central government to fight against the feudal towns, and it is also the confidence of the civilian officials to prevent the military from chaotic government.

There is really not much confidence in southwest Guangdong, where feudal towns are everywhere, but whether there is or not is the essential issue, and it has nothing to do with how much. And the reason why these civil bureaucrats in western Guangdong did not deal with Chen Kai from the beginning is, in the final analysis, because Chen Kai was not an orthodox civil official and a doctor, and a civil official who was born as a staff member of a feudal town is an alternative to the civil management team in the eyes of these people. The confrontation between them and Chen Kai was to try to limit the rapid expansion of the Zheng clan, a feudal town, and become the future enemy of the dynasty and the civil official group.

Now, Chen Kai has made a move, and they must react. Whether it is defense or counterattack, Zhou Tengfeng already has the answer to his first reaction, and Zhang Xiaoqi obviously thinks more deeply than him.

"Chen Kai is obviously bound to win this time, and our strength is not enough to compete. We must try to gain the support of the imperial court, as long as the imperial court can fully support us, we will have room to turn around. ”

"However, Fujun, Kunming is thousands of miles away......"

Gaozhou Mansion in southwest Guangdong is already far away from Guangzhou, but compared with Gaozhou Mansion and Kunming, this distance is just a walk after eating.

They are all successful in the imperial examination, at least their IQ is above average. Over the years, he defected to the imperial court from all over the country, followed the imperial court to run around, and was sent to southwest Guangdong to preside over the anti-Qing war.

Zhou Tengfeng is so worried, and Zhang Xiaoqi is not. However, after reading the letter one step earlier and starting to plan one step earlier, Zhang Xiaoqi had obviously thought of this, even if he pointed out that they could ask Guo Zhiqi's superintendent scholar for help-although Liuzhou was not close, at least the time should still be in time. And with Guo Zhiqi coming forward, I think it should be possible to further delay the time, drag it to the imperial court to put pressure on Chen Kai and the Zheng Group, for the sake of the overall situation, Chen Kai will also return to his "sanity".

"Of course, this is not enough, and we can't all hope for the court and the Governor Boss. Now, Chen Kai must be given a little stumbling block, and he must not be allowed to win the hearts of the people in southwest Guangdong too easily. ”

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