On the 15th day of the third month of the fourth year of Longwu, Li Chengdong, the governor of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, announced in Guangzhou that he would return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and that Emperor Yongli would be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The generals of Guangdong, most of them came from the command of Li Chengdong, the commander was against the Qing Dynasty, the generals were from Jingcong, and the officials of various prefectures and counties were also busy changing their courts, and even the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, Tong Yangjia, the banner man, was forced to cut and change his clothes.

Li Chengdong was influenced by Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in Jiangxi anyway, and it was also due to the fact that the Qing court adhered to the ruling principle of emphasizing the use of "Liao people" and using "Liao people" to check and balance other Han people in dealing with Han officials, and it caused Li Chengdong, who single-handedly destroyed the two emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty and swept a province in Guangdong. Among them, the one who caused him such dissatisfaction was this Tong Yangjia.

In fact, Tong Yangjia was not one of the Tong Jia clans who really followed the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Liaodong. At the beginning of the Liao incident, the Tong family rebelled, and the Ming court arrested the members of the Tong family in the control area, Tong Yangjia changed his name and surname, and lived in the Guannei, and later claimed to be surnamed Dong Mingyuan when he was working in Zuo Liangyu's curtain. Since the Qing army entered the customs and went south, he relied on his restored surname from a staff member who supervised Zuo Liangyu's salt and salary, and rose step by step, and even when Li Chengdong seized Guangdong and made great strides in Guangxi, he even sat on the high position of the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, but he became the chief military officer of Xuzhou Town when the Qing army entered the customs, and he was also the top boss of Li Chengdong, who fought bloodily for the Qing court after the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, in addition to Li Chengdong, who was affected by this principle, there was also Jin Shenghuan, a military general who also seized Jiangxi Province for the Qing court by himself. In this regard, it can be said that the anti-Qing upsurge in the second year of Yongli was itself caused by the policies of the Manchus themselves.

After Li Chengdong raised his troops, he sent people to show favor to Emperor Yongli at the first time. At the same time, under the influence of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong successively, Geng Xianzhong, the highest civilian official of the Qing court in the Guangxi occupation area, also promoted the half of Guangxi Province occupied by the Qing court. From the fact that the Yongli Imperial Court had been squeezed into the southwest, the control area suddenly expanded to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the southeast coast!

However, Li Chengdong is indeed subordinate to the Qing Dynasty anyway, but for Zheng Chenggong, it is still a hostile existence, because Li Chengdong respects the Yongli Emperor of the Gui Domain, and Zheng Chenggong is still loyal to Emperor Longwu.

The news of the change of banner in Guangdong blew like the wind in all directions, blowing the minds of every authority. As for Chaozhou, because it is located in the easternmost part of Guangdong, it is even known as the end of the province. The speed of getting the news here was much lower than that of the neighboring prefectures and counties in Guangzhou, especially below the control of Li Chengdong's generals, but it also reached Zheng Chenggong's ears before Chen Kai's vacation was over and he was ready to leave for Nan'ao Island.

"It's okay now, don't worry about Li Chengdong. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and our army must seize the time to expand its strength! ”

Chen Kai's earlier predictions were reflected one by one, a sentence that was beyond the reach of the whip and powerless, but now that I think about it, it is so accurate, so accurate that as soon as people hear the current situation, they immediately think of Chen Kai's deduction, but after thinking about it, it seems that what he mentioned at the beginning has nothing to do with the current actual situation.

The news of the great changes in Guangdong came, and at the same time, even the affairs of Jiangxi were known to Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai by the way, and overnight, the territory of the two provinces went back anyway, and the general trend changed abruptly, which was indeed refreshing. But this excitement passed, and the contradiction between the same Ming army, but the different Son of Heaven emerged. Even compared to before, when Li Chengdong was a Qing army, he still had to worry about Chen Bangfu and other army leaders in Guangxi and various rebel armies operating in Guangdong, but now these have become friendly forces, but Zheng Chenggong's troops in Chaozhou are even more eye-catching.

"Chen joins the army is reasonable, and it is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Li Chengdong had no enemies to the west, but the Nanjiang region north of Guangzhou was still in the hands of the Qing army. It is located at the junction of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and Huguang provinces, and its geographical location is very important, and most of the area is under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi, but the Ming court has set up a new governor's jurisdiction here to ensure the ruling order here.

Southern Jiangxi is in the hands of the Qing army, Guangdong and Jiangxi are not connected to the line, Li Chengdong anyway, must first run in their relationship with the Yongli court, and militarily it is even more necessary to take Southern Jiangxi as the primary target, but the "remnants of the Tang Domain" in Guangdong Province do not have so much effort to pay attention to.

Comparing hearts to hearts and weighing priorities from the other party's point of view, Zheng Chenggong has a better surrounding environment. The problem now is that his own strength is weak, of course, Li Chengdong's side can't be unguarded, who knows if that guy will smoke or something, and send someone to come over and make trouble.

"Fortunately, Uncle Dingguo will arrive soon, and with more Uncle Dingguo's men and horses, when he exterminates these Chaozhou thieves, he will at least have more strength."

Zheng Hongkui's letter promising Zheng Chenggong's invitation has already arrived, and it will arrive soon. For this reason, Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai have left the capital city of Chaozhou and waited in Chenghai County. The first is to be close, and the other is to better take into account the control area of this line, after all, Zheng Chenggong's current control area is just a line, and he is most afraid of being cut off.

"That's true, it's better to seize the time to continue to expand your strength."

The second of the seven great heroes of Chaohai has gone, and Zheng Chenggong's next goal is to have the right to choose, one is to go east, take Haishan Zhu Yao and Huanggang Huang Hairu, and take advantage of the situation to seize the water pass, so as to achieve the defensive advantage of the Qing army in southern Fujian; And the other direction, is to the west, Gongwei Chenghai County of the four major villages - Nanyang, Outing, Waisha, Guanlong, of which Nanyang is on the opposite bank of the Beixi Lianxia Town, Guanlong is located in the northwest direction, and Chenghai County is located on a delta, both of which are already in the hands of Zheng Chenggong, the remaining outer sand is in the south, across the East Creek, and the Outing Village is further south, has crossed the Xixi.

Chenghai County outside the city plus these four villages, constitute the defense system of the Hanjiang River Delta, as far as Zheng Chenggong is concerned, Ou Ting Village may be able to ignore it for the time being, but the outer sand village should be taken down as soon as possible, so as to better ensure the safety of Chenghai County.

Whether it is to use troops or to persuade has not yet been decided, because whether it is the Chaozhou City Garrison Association, or the Houjin Town, or the garrison battalion of Chenghai Association and Nanyang Village, these new troops are seizing the time to train, not to mention, because the expansion needs to transfer some of the old troops to bring the new, the original towns also need a lot of time to train and run-in.

"If you can persuade, you will persuade, and if you can't persuade, you will send troops to attack, so that the soldiers can see blood."

Zheng Chenggong has made up his mind, and Chen Kai doesn't plan to say anything more, it was his idea to train troops with the Tukou who refused to be attached to Chaozhou, and now there is no need to pretend to be compassionate.

Saying this, the soldiers from outside came to report that the ship of Zheng Hongkui, the Duke of Dingguo, was sailing into the dock outside Chenghai County and would soon arrive here.