The seal letter of Hainan Province is in Chen Kai's hands, and there is also paper for official documents, and Chen Kai even found someone to copy Peng Sanyi's handwriting, as long as the official document distribution records of the Daotai Yamen are correct, it will not be too easy for the Qing court to figure out whether these petty officials have listened to Peng Sanyi's abandonment of the city. As for Peng Sanyi, since he is willing to die for me, then the black cauldron is naturally carried by him.

After a round of thanks, Chen Kai conveyed a message to these civilian and military generals, that is, the Ming army is coming, and the surrender of Kaesong is the way to live, it's that simple. He never thought that killing people was the most effective way, and many times, it would be more convenient for him and the Ming army to live, especially those who had some seeds planted in their hearts.

After dividing the soldiers to guard Wanzhou, Chen Kai led the army to continue north. Wanzhou to the north, across the Longluo River and Li Penshui is the Le Hui and Huitong, the county governance distance of these two counties is not too far, Chen Kai showed these two counties Liu Bolu's head and Hainan Province, Qiongzhou Mansion seal letter, the two counties also did not hesitate to choose to accept Chen Kai's suggestion - to get a copy of Peng Sanyi's official document to go back to Leizhou. Of course, if there are people who are willing to stay and serve the Ming army, Chen Kai also welcomes them, but unfortunately these people still don't seem to be very optimistic about the future of the Ming army, and they have said that they are tired of officialdom and want to return to their hometowns to live for a long time.

Lamenting that the Chinese young people of the seventeenth century could be so gloomy, Chen Kai no longer held back, but just encouraged them as if they were from Wanzhou, and arranged a boat to send them away.

Next, there is Wenchang County and Qinglan Thousand Households on the bank of the Wenchang River. These two places, the former is in the middle reaches of the Wenchang River, the latter is in the mouth of the Wenchang River, Chen Kai went north along the official road, but before he arrived at the place, he had already found that there was no need to go to these two places at all, because the Qing army in these two places heard the news of the fall of Qiongzhou Mansion and the annihilation of Liu Bolu's entire army, so he simply surrendered to the Ming army.

"This is a way to live, so don't you think about it?"

"Thank you for the compassion of the boss of the Fujun, I am willing to do things for Master Wang, I just ask Master Wang to wait for me to have a way to live."

A group of guys who were frightened by the rumors were really not very sincere, Chen Kai couldn't do anything about them, so he simply took them back and resettled. And after this Wenchang county, and then turn to the northwest, you can go straight to the capital city of Qiongzhou, Chen Kai did not delay too much time on the road, hurried all the way over, not only saw this city, but also got the news that Ding'an, Chengmai counties and Haikou thousands of households entered the control.

Hainan Island is shaped like a sweet potato-shaped oval. In clockwise order, Fucheng, Wenchang County, Huitong County, Lehui County, Wanzhou, Lingshui County, and then from the southernmost Yazhou to Thanksgiving County, Changhua County, and then to Danzhou, Lingao County and Chengmai County. Except for Ding'an County, which is located south of Fucheng and on the bank of the Nandu River, the other three prefectures and nine counties are all in the coastal area.

After half a month of conquest, the Ming army had recovered seven counties in one state, including Qiongshan County, where the capital was located, and the rest were nothing more than Danzhou, Yazhou, Thanksgiving County, Changhua County and Lingao County, which were the western and southern prefectures and counties.

"The army has been transported by sea ship, and if nothing happens, we should be able to receive news from Lingao County today."

While Chen Kai was sweeping the eastern counties, Lin Cha and Li Jianjie were not idle, Li Jianjie accepted the surrender of Haikou Qianhusuo, and then went to scare a wave of officials and defenders in Ding'an County and Chengmai County, and easily took the city. On the other hand, Lin Cha, while blocking the Qiongzhou Strait with his naval divisions, dispatched sea ships and fleet transport troops from the west coast of Hainan Island to the south and seize the counties.

"There is a Bairentan in Lingao County?"

"Yes, it is."

Chen Kai asked inexplicably, and then simply didn't mention it, as if this sentence had never appeared at all. The main body of Qiongzhou Mansion is composed of an island, which is a natural anti-Qing base for the Ming army, which has the advantage of sailors.

This province covers an area of 34,400 square kilometers, more than three times the 10,900 square kilometers of Chaozhou Prefecture that Chen Kai now controls. However, while the territory was more than three times larger, Chen Kai overturned the records of the Qiongzhou government, and there were only more than 250,000 people in the entire prefecture, one-third of whom were in Qiongshan County. For example, Lingshui County, the first target of the Ming army to seize Qiongzhou this time, had only more than 3,000 people, and there were only more than 1,700 people in Thanksgiving County, which had not yet been recovered. Such a figure is unimaginable compared to Chaozhou, which had a population of more than 600,000 in the Song Dynasty.

Among them, there are hidden households, and there are also the government's inaction in counting the population. Of course, the population statistics of the Ming Dynasty were only counted by the taxpayers.

Thinking of this, Chen Kai calculated the number of households in Qiongzhou again, and the number he got was indeed more than 56,000 households, with a ratio of between one to four to five in the population. In this way, there are four to five men in each household, and this family seems to be a little bigger, but it makes Chen Kai more and more unable to determine the approximate number.

When I opened the statistics book with my backhand, I saw that this population figure was from the forty-fifth year of Wanli, that is, thirty-seven years ago. This is not the biggest problem, the problem is that Qiongzhou is not only Han people, but also a large number of Li people, among which the Shu Li and the Han people live together, and the Li people are the structure of the matrilineal clan society, which is completely different from the Han people!

There are a large number of Li people in the central and southern parts of Qiongzhou, Shuli and Han people live together and accept Sinicization, while Shengli belongs to various large and small Tusi, which are supernumerary people.

In terms of toast, Chen Kai can't count on it for the time being, it's good if they don't make trouble. As for the Han people on the island, whether it is a civilian household or a military household, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were many rogues, and the losses were minimal in the massacre after the Qing army entered the customs, and even the biggest chaos they had seen in their lives was the Li people making a rebellion, but the Qing army went to the island but it was more like a small thing like a drizzle.

Population is crucial. In this agrarian society, the number of acres is also a matter of life and death. As soon as Chen Kai entered the city, he buried his head in the case, looked at the population figures, and fiddled with the abacus to calculate the number of acres of land, which was a more complicated project than the former, fortunately he did not calculate from house to house, as long as the records left by the Qing court officials were roughly merged.

"Three million and eight hundred thousand acres, this number is still a bit cute."

Picking up the pen, Chen Kai continued to count the number of acres. In other words, acres of land are one thing, and for him, it is still the tax that falls on the most important thing.

"Each mu is about a bucket of grain, and each bucket is 18 catties, 68.94 million catties, or 459,600 stones. By the way, you have to count the summer and autumn taxes......"

Chen Kai is calculated according to the calculation method of the official face, in fact, every stone on the market is absolutely not 150 catties, and there can be a pie in the sky if there is one hundred and twenty-three, and when it is miserable, 100 catties is counted as one stone.

"The monthly salary of each soldier is one or two and a half cents plus the true color of one stone, plus the reward of the New Year's Festival and the necessary consumption in the army. In other words, the regular tax of the entire Qiongzhou Mansion can probably support 9,000 soldiers for two years......"

After calculating such a number, Chen Kai shocked himself. What he brought in this battle was nothing more than 1,000 soldiers in Zhongchong Town, 500 cavalry in Hussar Town, 3,000 soldiers in Quanzhou, and Lin Cha's sailors.

"I'm going, and I've been able to earn so much with so many soldiers, isn't it?"

Chen Kai once suspected that he had miscalculated, because the proportion on the Chaozhou side was obviously not like this. But if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is not wrong, there is no calculation of the gentry's preferential exemption land, nor does it calculate the local officials' salaries, and the military salaries of the officers are not the same as those of ordinary soldiers. In addition, raising soldiers is not only enough to feed their mouths, but also to build weapons, issue military uniforms, build forts, and so on, and so on, the cost is really huge, even more than military salaries.

Of course, Chen Kai who should be subtracted is not counted, and what should be added is not included.

"By the way, salt tax, commercial tax, and fishing tax, who said it last time, these three revenues of Qiongzhou Mansion are very much, especially the salt tax and fishing tax, which are more than commercial taxes."

There are many ports on Hainan Island, "you can park boats everywhere, and you can go ashore to get water." The existence of these ports allowed maritime trade and commerce to flourish, which was a natural geographical advantage.

Chen Kai threw aside the books about the population and acres of land, flipped through the documents that recorded the maritime trade and commercial taxes, and at the same time invited the officials of the government to inquire about them.

The cash crops of Qiongzhou are led by betel nut and coconut. Hainan agricultural proverb "East Road Betel Nut West Road Rice" refers to the prosperity of betel nut planting. According to records, the betel nut of Qiongzhou Mansion "is produced all around, Wenchang, Qiongshan, and Huitongte", and Wanzhou "has the product of anointment, and each family has a betel nut garden and a coconut forest". The betel nut produced in Qiongzhou accounts for three-tenths of the sales in the territory of Liangguang, and seven-tenths of the sales are sold in Jiaozhi and Funan. In this way, this crop is an excellent choice for both export and domestic sales. In particular, its export proportion is huge, and it will not lose too much because of the war between the two radio and radio channels.

The same is true for coconut!

In addition, the spices and timber of Qiongzhou Mansion are also bestsellers on the mainland. Taking the former as an example, the social customs of the Ming Dynasty were quite widespread in the use of incense. Regardless of the people, monks, officialdom, large and small families, incense must be used for every ritual and sacrifice. Hainan produces dozens of kinds of incense, and the texture is excellent. "The taste is clear and long", "the air is clear", and the imported products from Southeast Asia and other places are of inferior quality, "not as good as the middle and lower grades of Hainan", but "Qiong is the right of the vassals", so Hainan's spices occupy a wide market share in the mainland. Among them, there are native agarwood, Penglai incense, partridge spotted incense, note incense, raw incense, cloves, etc., with many names, and Chen Kai is dazzled by it.

In terms of timber, ebony, rosewood, sumu, cinnamon and so on are quite famous in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In addition, there are Jibei, ramie, 楫bark, red and white vine, flower man, Li Jianmei, sea prune, agar cabbage, Haiqin, long report, galangal, fish bladder, yellow wax, stone crab, cuiyu and other special products, also a large number of shipped to the coastal provinces.

On the other hand, the coastal provinces, and even Jiangxi imported to Qiongzhou, mainly iron production tools and daily necessities, among which ceramics were the most large, and there were also a lot of crops and cash crop seeds. These things, not to mention the quantity, can be included in Chaozhou, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou alone.

"In addition to betel nuts, timber, spices, cloth and sugar, our Qiongzhou Prefecture also sells deerskins, horns, cowhides, sugar, tortoiseshells, jackfruits, climbing branches, beeswax and other things to Japan, Ryukyu and Nanyang's Cochin, Champong, Siam, Da Ni, Manraka, Luzon and other places, and Nanyang maritime merchants must come every year."

Chen Kai is famous, the clerk is the best at watching people put off the dishes, a character like Chen Kai is not a good stubble, he will never dare to lie in front of him, even to the point of knowing everything.

Here is "teaching each other", Chen Kai is secretly frightened. According to his original plan, in addition to the population and food, the biggest harvest should be the wood used for shipbuilding and the iron ore for making weapons, which he has coveted for a long time. And now it seems that he underestimated this Qiongzhou mansion!

Next, the officials talked about the handicraft industry in Qiongzhou, in addition to the textile industry, which is famous for Huang Daopo, the rattan industry, the hemp industry, the sugar industry, the mining industry, and the shipbuilding industry in the Ming Dynasty also laid a deep foundation. Most of these are from the local output of raw materials, supplemented by the advantages of the Han people's financial resources and technology to form today's scale.

"I'm here today, and I need to digest it well. If you have anything you forgot for a while, or if you have any comments or suggestions, you can also write a note and send it, the court and the royal master are now employing people, do a good job, don't let down this great opportunity. ”

After appeasing the people involved, Chen Kai waved everyone away, leaving him to close his eyes and ponder. After a long time, the door was lightly slammed, and Chen Kai hurriedly left the room, took the paperwork of the victory, and said a big "good" word.

Lingao County went down without a fight, and Lin Cha's fleet was continuing to move south, heading straight for Danzhou. A few days later, Danzhou, Changhua County, Thanksgiving County, and Yazhou, the southernmost prefecture and county in China, were recovered, and the entire three prefectures and ten counties of Qiongzhou Prefecture were all returned to the control of the Ming army. Next, it is nothing more than to intimidate the Lebanese Tusi inwardly, as long as they ensure that they do not make trouble, they can concentrate on "economic construction".

In all prefectures and counties, when Lin Cha seized it, they all sent Quanzhou soldiers to be responsible for guarding the town, and those local soldiers were like Chen Kai when he swept the east road, and all of them were pulled back to the capital city, which was called "rectification".

When Lin Cha returned, Chen Kai's order had already been sent to Lingshui County. Everything is going on step by step, whether it is Lin Cha, who has just returned, or Du Hui and Li Jianjie, who are sitting in Fucheng, they are all excited that the Ming army can quickly restore this place.

At this time, Chen Kai was the most indispensable, just waiting for everyone to gather, he jokingly mentioned the old things about pretending to be a Fujian governor's staff in Chaozhou earlier and pretending to be a businessman when traveling to the southeast.

"No, you can't pretend to be a Tartar."

"What do you mean by that?"

"If you don't brush your teeth or take a bath, you don't have the smell of stench that has accumulated for decades, you don't look like it!"