Chapter 55: Hidden Worries
Wang Jiang and Cao Conglong have indeed never met, but through some people who have crossed paths in eastern Zhejiang, such as Wang Yi, Zhang Huangyan, Li Changxiang, and Feng Jingdi, through their interactions with these people, they have brought out one old incident after another in eastern Zhejiang, and the familiarity between the two has also risen rapidly.
Starting from that paper shaving order, the land of eastern Zhejiang was surging, Ningbo Liumadsheng, the gentry of eastern Zhejiang supported the Lu Wang Jian State, Jiang Shangshi collapsed, Siming Mountain was established, Huang Binqing, Wang Yi visited the Qing army, and then the Qing army washed Siming Mountain, Wang Yi was martyred, the battle of Zhoushan, and even the three shocks on Sanpan Island and turned into Fujian to rely on Zheng Chenggong.
The more they talked, the more they talked, and many times even Chen Kai couldn't interject it. Until the end, with a sigh, if the Ming army in Simingshan repelled the Qing army, Zhoushan would have more time to integrate internally, so as to continue to compete with the Qing army in eastern Zhejiang.
It's just that this exclamation is just a wishful thinking triggered by nostalgia for old friends and regret for old dreams. Because, that year, it was the two most powerful troops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Zhejiang - the Eight Banners of Hangzhou Garrison and the Commander Biao Battalion of Zhejiang, nearly 10,000 elite troops, unless they learned about the deployment of the Qing army in advance and invited reinforcements from Zhoushan, so that they could win. Otherwise, with the local armament of Siming Mountain, the hope of winning without any external blessing is almost zero.
"In the two battles of Siming Mountain and Zhoushan, the loyal ministers and righteous men in eastern Zhejiang lost a lot."
Dream, Chen Kai couldn't bear to pierce it. When the two of them had finished speaking, he let out a sympathetic sigh, but something else was on his mind. This thought lasted until the two realized that Chen Kai had been silent for a long time, and Chen Kai's eyes focused on the two of them again, as if they were substance.
"Over there in eastern Zhejiang, is there still a like-minded old friend between Uncle Chang and Yunlin?"
Therefore, there must be old friends, and no matter how strong the Manchu Qing is, it is impossible to determine all the people who pose a threat to it through calculation like Hydra, and eliminate them. Not to mention, the future Confucian, the current master of inner boxing, Huang Zongxi, not only escaped the search and arrest of the Qing court, contacted the anti-Qing forces in various places, but also ran to rob the court, and let him succeed. Such a high-profile struggle against my Qing Dynasty has not been able to do anything, let alone those who are relatively low-key.
Hearing this, although the two of them were puzzled, they also realized what Chen Kai might do. Here, he nodded heavily, and seeing it, Chen Kai simply said bluntly: "I think I need the two of you to write a few letters and send them to eastern Zhejiang." ”
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sent Cao Conglong and Wang Jiang away, and it was already approaching the time of the next duty. In the past, Chen Kaiduo completed the work on the case, and then returned to the back office to share the joy of family with his family.
After more than a month, the pair of children seemed to have acquiesced to the existence of his strange father, at least the number of crying was much less, and the little girl became closer and closer to Chen Kai. Only Chen Kai's eldest son seems to be a little wary of this guy who has intruded into their lives, but as time goes by, he gradually disappears.
At the beginning of his birth, he set off on the expedition, and a farewell is more than half a year, even if the child is mostly forgetful, he also needs time to accompany him, and fill the gap with laughter.
It is precisely because of this that once his wife and children came to Guangzhou, Chen Kai began to force his workaholic bad habits, and tried his best to complete the work that needed to be handled during the upper duty, so as to spare more time to spend with his family. Only today, but it is inevitable to make an exception.
"Go back and tell Madame, just say that today is busy with official business, you have to go back later, don't wait for me for dinner."
"The villain obeys."
waved off the servant, and it didn't take long for Chen Kai to wait for the person he had to see at this moment. When he entered the office, he closed the door casually, and sat in front of Chen Kai by himself, obviously very familiar, not only for the owner of this office, but also for this office, even if it was just for this office, he was almost familiar with being able to find a seat directly even with his eyes closed.
"Actually, you know that I have already been on duty at this hour, why did Tete call me?"
The person who came looked impatient, but he still came. In this regard, Chen Kai was too accustomed to it, and he didn't care at all, so he simply explained the situation directly: "Zhan Ruo, the Lotus Hall in Fujian has begun to play with fire. ”
Lotus Hall, there was no need to say anything more, Kuang Lu immediately understood that it was the matter of the Heaven and Earth Society. It has been more than two years since the establishment of the Heaven and Earth Society, and during this period, Kuang Lu has contacted those members from Jiangxi and Southern Jiangxi who have been sent out to infiltrate and develop, and after returning to Chaozhou, he is even doing the work of publishing the Di Bao in Guangzhou. In the words of later generations, he was regarded as an official in charge of literature and propaganda.
Kuang Lu is the first member of the Heaven and Earth Society, a real founding father, and knows many things far more clearly than others. Chen Kai started to lay out the situation of this heaven and earth meeting early, but he has not invested much, or it is inclined in terms of resources and energy. In the final analysis, the military pressure of the Qing army was too great. The first thing that Chaozhou needs to do is self-preservation, such as the two battles of Lufeng Fortress. The second is to launch a counterattack on the basis of self-preservation, as was the case with the earlier occupation of Hong Kong and the capture of Qiongzhou. It was not until after the First World War of Guangzhou last year, especially not long ago that Chen Kai led the army to recover the capital city of Shaozhou and built a northern defense line for Guangzhou, that the huge pressure on the military was temporarily relieved.
On the macro level, the formation of the strategic stalemate stage of the Ming and Qing dynasties gave Chen Kai more time and energy for recovery and development. As an abnormal feudal civil official, Chen Kai's methods are also very different from those of other civil officials, such as the Guangdong Commercial Alliance. As for the Heaven and Earth Society, Chen Kai did plan to tidy it up, but he didn't expect that the wanton growth of the Lotus Hall had forced him to move.
Chen Kai told Kuang Lu all the information he had obtained from Cao Conglong, and the latter quickly came to the same conclusion as Chen Kai from the perspective of the chief rudder of the Heaven and Earth Society.
Locked up, Chen Kaila Lu Ruoteng and Shen Yanqi joined the gang at the beginning, it was really because after the two defense battles of Lu Fengleng Fort, he had entered the counteroffensive stage on the battlefield in Guangdong. In the coming days, he will be more and more geographically distant from Fujian, so he needs someone he can trust to continue to play a role within the Zheng Group, or at least to play a role in trying to buy time for him in case of problems. Lu Ruoteng and Shen Yanqi are very suitable, because Chen Kai and they have lived and died together, and Zheng Chenggong's side, because of their performance in the defense of the center and left, and the role of staff in the subsequent period, can also gain trust.
This trust has developed to this day, Zheng Chenggong has appointed Lu Ruoteng as the governor of Fujian, and Shen Yanzhi has also been given a deputy envoy to promote the official position of the province's Huimin Pharmacy. This is indeed a good thing for Chen Kai and the Heaven and Earth Society, but these two people recruited a group of courtiers from the Lu Jian Dynasty to enrich the power of the Heaven and Earth Society in Fujian, but this is too much.
"Zhan Ruo, you know, if I had planned to lay out in Fujian, there would have been a lot of people I could absorb. Among those personnel, the most suitable is also the monk of the Dao Sect, who is a layman and has a good network of connections in Fujian Province. What's more, that Wanwu monk is a member of the Wanjia brothers of Changlin Temple, their eldest brother Wanli is now sent by the general army of a town, and the national surname is already interested in reusing his people, and even Na Wanyi and Wanlu are also expected to be in a town. Just pulling a Taoist sect can directly bury a crucial nail in Fujian! ”
However, Kuang Lu knew very well that Chen Kai did not do that. As for the reason, it is precisely because of the righteous knot of the brothers of the Wanjia family in Changlin Temple. To make it clear, Chen Kai did not intend to affect the relationship between him and Zheng Chenggong because of this, so he tried not to interfere in the affairs of the Fujian military as much as possible. Even in Guangdong, he can form local troops, but he rarely intervenes in the towns of the soldiers, and the reason is the same.
"Actually, the Lotus Hall must be reined in as quickly as possible. They have consciously infiltrated Fujian's administrative system, and this sign is wrong. I'm afraid ......"
"I'm afraid of this too!"
There is no need to say the latter words anymore, the worries and even fears about the backdoor listing of the Lu Jian Guochao have been responded to by each other in the eyes of each other.
If this is really the case, then they will continue to infiltrate the administrative system, and even control the Fujian officialdom, while attacking the Zheng group's army, which will only result in playing with fire and self-immolation, because Zheng Chenggong faced the crisis of military power in the Longwu Dynasty back then, and his sensitivity to military-related affairs is far greater than others. Those guys will definitely be exposed, and they will pull the whole world into the water.
Even, even if Chen Kai and Kuang Lu guessed wrong, Lu Jian Guochao did not have a plan to go public through a backdoor, but only a situation inadvertently caused by Lu Ruoteng and Shen Yanqi when they were developing members. However, if they are allowed to develop like this, it will inevitably trigger a crisis of trust between Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong, which should not happen to Chen Kai and the Tiandihui.
"In my opinion, let's stop the work of the Lotus Hall for a while. With this time, it's time to make adjustments. ”
"I'm afraid it will cause resistance among the members of the Lotus Hall, if they don't have that kind of idea, if they do this, I'm afraid that there will be some estrangement, but they will squeeze out this thought, then it won't be beautiful."
The discussion lasted for a long time, and it was not until late at night that the two of them put an end to the matter for the time being. Kuang Lu left for home, and there was still a newspaper to review tomorrow, because the next issue of the newspaper had not been published in many days. And Chen Kai's side is indeed closer, but after passing the courtyard gate between the front and back offices, he can be regarded as returning home. At this hour, the two little ones had already rested, only Zheng Xiyuan was still waiting, and when he saw Chen Kai coming back, he hurriedly asked his subordinates to heat dinner, but he still inevitably had to tell two words such as late at night, eating too much will save food.
"Well, I can't eat too much either."
Chen Kai's expression was a little tired, which was all in Zheng Xiyuan's eyes. With patience, when dinner was hot, Zheng Xiyuan waved away the servant girl on the side, and then came to Chen Kai and asked softly, "Is it because of the new envoy?" ”
Zheng Xiyuan naturally knew about Cao Conglong's appointment, and he knew very well that Chen Kai planned to win him over, because the Guangdong Business Alliance would inevitably cause more lawsuits in the future.
In this regard, Chen Kai has been prepared for a long time, soft and hard, Zheng Xiyuan knows some of them. But seeing today, Chen Kai was sad as soon as she came back, and she immediately thought of Cao Conglong's position when she didn't know more about it. It's just that to her surprise and Chen Kai's surprise, Cao Conglong doesn't need to be wooed at all, but it is precisely because there is no need to woo, but it is a bigger hidden danger.
"Yes and no."
The words stopped here, Chen Kai was reluctant to say more, and Zheng Xiyuan didn't ask more. After eating dinner quietly, the couple took a walk in the yard, washed up and fell asleep. Early the next morning, Chen Kai summoned his original entourage, Chen Song, who was now serving in the yamen of the governor of Guangdong, and after some secret talks, the latter set off for Fuzhou Mansion, thousands of miles away.
Fuzhou is a superior geographical location in Fujian, as early as the fifth year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang canonized Wuzhu as the king of Minyue, and built a city in Fuzhou Yeshan, which is the beginning of the construction of the city of Fuzhou. For more than 1,000 years after that, whether it was the Han Dynasty's annihilation of the Min and Yue Kingdoms, the separation of the Three Kingdoms, the southern crossing of the clothes, or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the violent Yuan and Song dynasties, and the Ming and Qing dynasties, the status of this area as the central area of the land of Fujian has never changed.
Today's Fujian, even though it has made a huge turn with history, its status here has not changed. The only thing that is different is that the most powerful place in Fuzhou City at the moment is not the Yamen of Fujian, but the residence of Zheng Chenggong, the general of Zhangguo, which is the military and political center of the entire Fujian and even the land of Fujian and Guangdong.
Here, the most important thing is the hurried footsteps, Fujian, Guangdong, and the surrounding Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili's military and political affairs, military news, collected from all over the place, after the review of the staff, sent to Zheng Chenggong, so that the supreme commander of the southeast Ming army, the leader of the Zheng group can be informed of all aspects of the situation at the first time, so as to respond.
At this moment, Zheng Chenggong was not busy dealing with the official business at hand, and it was reported that Feng Chengshi, who had been very trusted by him earlier, but was thrown into the army due to the large reduction in production of the Ordnance Bureau and the adultery case. The two sat opposite each other and talked for a long time, and the latter slowly withdrew after bowing.
Feng Chengshi was ordered by Zheng Chenggong to go home and think about it behind closed doors earlier, and now half a year has passed. Fujian's cake from the provincial level to the prefectures and counties has long been divided, and even Zheng Chenggong of the Ordnance Bureau has been promoted to the Grand Governor Chen Qi to join the army and manage the Ordnance Bureau. There are no more official positions and assignments worth mentioning, but Feng Chengshi is not discouraged by this, and always waits for the opportunity until this opportunity really comes.
"Today's national surname is called as a father, and it is intended that the father will be the teacher of the eldest son."
Zheng Chenggong had been sitting on the title of Duke of Zhangguo for several years, recovering a province of Fujian, plus Chen Kai assisting Li Dingguo in recovering Guangdong, and the Zheng group controlling most of Guangdong, almost everyone had already decided that the next decree of the imperial court would canonize Zheng Chenggong as the prince of the county, and even the prince. This is already an open secret in Fujian, and even many people's title for Zheng Jing has become the prince, not the eldest prince. However, Feng Chengshi himself was born in the Longwu Dynasty, an orthodox Confucian scholar, and he still had to be more rigorous about this, even if he was about to become a teacher of Zheng Jing, he did not change because of this.
The teacher of the eldest son, after all, is Mr. Xixi. This is indeed a bit inconspicuous for Feng Chengshi's identity, especially as one of Zheng Chenggong's most important aides. However, Feng Chengshi did not show even the slightest dissatisfaction with this, but was very happy.
Obviously, Zheng Chenggong still values Feng Chengshi more, and when the anger passed, he brought Feng Chengshi out of the entrainment again. It's just that it's not as strong as the original limelight, and now Feng Chengshi has to retreat to the next echelon, but it is also an indispensable waste.
"After that, the position of power is not to be taken lightly. In addition, you also have to have a good relationship with the eldest son, this is the future of our father and son. ”
"The child understands, please rest assured father."
Sincerely taught, Feng Xifan took advantage of the situation and bowed. Knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, in the same way, Feng Xifan also understood why his father was like this, and was sincerely happy for him. At least, their Feng family has not completely lost ground in the Zheng Group, which is already the best news in recent times.
The formal apprenticeship was scheduled for an auspicious day at the beginning of next month, and Feng Chengshi also had to prepare the teaching content, striving to not only satisfy Zheng Chenggong's academic progress in Zheng Jing, but also to narrow the relationship with Zheng Jing. The father and son talked for a long time, and you and I also talked about a lot of things. It wasn't until dinner time that Feng Xifan suddenly remembered something.
"Father, my son found that Shen Guangwen and Yu Tunan, who were originally working at King Lu, had a very close relationship on weekdays, and it seems that their relationship is very unusual."
Speaking of which, Feng Xifan's concern about these people is due to the fact that Zheng Chenggong appointed Cao Conglong as the envoy of Guangdong not long ago. Fujian's feudal platform and Zhentai have been occupied by Ye Yiyun and Pan Gengzhong, both of whom have deeper qualifications than Feng Chengshi, even if there are no two things, Feng Chengshi may not be able to compete with them. But in Guangdong, the governor is Chen Kai, who can't be changed, but Chen Kai appointed Wang Jiang as the political envoy, but Zheng Chenggong did not pick a person to join the army to be the envoy, but appointed Cao Conglong. There was indeed a plan to win over the courtiers of the former Lu Jianguo and then prepare for the next venture into Zhejiang, but it attracted Feng Xifan's attention, because according to his ideas, his father had to be at least a political envoy or an envoy to be worthy of his position in Zheng Chenggong's curtain.
"This is normal, those people are basically from Zhejiang, even if the relationship with King Lu is broken, there is also the friendship of fellow villagers."
Feng Chengshi didn't care too much about this matter. This kind of thought lasted until Feng Xifan said the next sentence, which was the end of it.
"However, they also have extremely close contacts with Lu Ruoteng and Shen Yanqi, as if it is not just as simple as being a superior official or a subordinate official."
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