At the same time in history, in the Battle of Haicheng, the Qing army bombarded the outlying strongholds and Haicheng County with more than 100 cannons, while the Ming army returned the color by planting gunpowder in advance and then detonating it, and won the victory.

The victory in the Battle of Haicheng enabled the Ming army to finally keep the last stronghold on land - Haicheng County. In the previous two years, the successive battles and victories finally did not completely spit out all the gains because of the fiasco of Fengchao Mountain, and also laid some foundations for the next development.

Chen Kai read the letter and couldn't help sighing. Zheng Chenggong's department is stronger than the same period in history, not only in terms of quantity, but also in quality.

However, in the first few years of the Qing court's entry into the customs, it quickly occupied most of China, whether it was the Dashun Army, the Hongguang Dynasty, the Lu Wang Jianguo, the Lu Wang Jianguo, or the Longwu Emperor, the Shaowu Emperor, and the Yongli Emperor, who had many good fortunes, they were all defeated too quickly. Now with these borderline areas to compete with the Qing army, the huge gap in national strength makes it difficult for the Ming army to achieve great results. For example, the scene of the counteroffensive of the Great Western Army last year was also the total explosion of the strength accumulated for many years, and it cannot be easily seen.

The two sides fought hard for a month, which ended in the victory of the Ming army. According to Zheng Chenggong's letters, the number of beheadings should be four or five thousand, and the number of prisoners of the war auxiliaries also exceeded the 20,000 mark, of which no less than 2,000 were borne by the Han army banner soldiers stationed in Hangzhou to defend the Eight Banners. As for the more than 100 pieces of artillery, in Chen Kai's opinion, it was not as important as the casualties of those Han army flags.

However, the Ming army also paid a lot of casualties in this battle, Ye Zhang, who took over the post of Chen Chao, the chief military officer of Youchong Town, who died before the war, was killed in this battle, and many generals were wounded, and the twenty-one towns that participated in the war all suffered light or heavy casualties, and it was bound to take a while to recover.

"Anti-encirclement and suppression."

With a sigh, Chen Kai subconsciously shook his head. Wang Jiang was present, and he didn't hear what Chen Kai said clearly, so he hurriedly asked. Chen Kai just replied that nothing happened, and then remembered another thing.

"Uncle, do you know about His Royal Highness King Lu going to prison the country?"

This happened in March, and Chen Kai had already left for Qiongzhou Prefecture. Zheng Chenggong's letter was then sent to the Qiongzhou Mansion, but by the time he arrived, he had already taken a boat to Hong Kong, and finally followed him.

Chen Kai vaguely remembered that King Lu's decision to go to prison seemed to be related to Zheng Chenggong's persecution. It seems that anyone has heard that after Lu Jianguo went to Jianguo, Zheng Chenggong once had the intention of sending Lu Jianguo to the Yongli Imperial Court, and even took action for a time. But in the end, it seems that due to some special reasons, it was not achieved, and finally this Lu Jianguo returned to Kinmen Island.

Of course, Lu Jianguo on Kinmen Island is said to have a hard time. In terms of diet, the prince was nicknamed the "King of Sweet Potatoes" because of his frequent use of sweet potatoes. What's even more shocking is that, according to my Daqing statement, Zhu Yihai of Lu Jianguo was sunk by Zheng Chenggong and died!

The old grievances of the Tanglu controversy, analyzed from a reasonable point of view, seem to have some truth. However, the problem is that historical records record that Zhu Yihai died in November of the first year of Kangxi, and Zheng Chenggong died of illness half a year earlier than him. In addition, after Zheng Chenggong carried the black pot for three hundred years, in 1959 AD, the farmers of Kinmen Island discovered the tomb of Lu Jianguo when quarrying, and the archaeologists determined that the tomb owner was Zhu Yihai's identity according to the text of the tombstone and the analysis of the burial objects, so that Zheng Chenggong finally cleared his grievances.

The current situation of Lu Jianguo's existence, Chen Kai is not interested at all. At this moment, because Wang Jiang was an official of the court of the Lu Jianguo, he asked about it, but he did it casually. Who knows, Wang Jiangzi Chen knew about this, but he had never seen Lu Jianguo's face, and he didn't know how it was.

"Wanxun went to Zhoushan that year, and when he came back, he mentioned some of them. However, he stayed there for a short time, and then hurried back to Dalan Mountain. ”

Wanxun is the expression of Wang Yi, who partnered with Wang Jiang in Dalan Mountain. This person was killed in the fifth year of Yongli, on the eve of the Qing army's attack on Zhoushan. As for Wang Yi's visit, it was an earlier thing, if Chen Kai's estimation was not wrong, it should be after Lu Jianguo occupied Zhoushan.

It doesn't matter exactly when it is, in terms of Lu Jianguo's character, according to Wang Jiang's words relayed by Wang Yi, he should be a brave monarch. Chen Kai also has some vague impressions at this point, such as when the Lu Jianguo Dynasty first started, Lu Jianguo personally went to the Qiantang River to boost morale; For example, during the Battle of Zhoushan, Lu Jianguo went out with the army, which proved that his courage was different from other monarchs of the Southern Ming Dynasty. However, the failure of the Lu Jianguo Dynasty was not only due to luck, but also a serious character weakness of the Lu Jianguo people, that is, a lack of assertiveness.

As Zhang Dai said: "It is an imperial virtue to always be thirsty for virtue and accept advice." If I am the king of Lu, I will suffer from both. When King Lu saw a person, he relied on his heart; When you hear a word, you believe that it is like a yarrow turtle, and it is true and modest, and everyone wants to use it. But it is not the case when it turns to hope, and when it sees the descendants, the predecessors abandon it like a hair, and when it hears the latter, the foreword is regarded as ice charcoal. Later, there were many people and no one could be used. ”

Zhang's family is a noble scholarly family in Shanyin, and his father was the right long history of the chief of the Lu Wangfu Division, so when Zhu Yihai went south, Zhang Dai welcomed him to his home. But soon, Zhang Dai said goodbye and went to Shengxian to live in seclusion. At that time, Fang Guoan, the marshal of the Lu Wang system, blackmailed the Zhang family for salary, and Zhang Dai was unwilling to ask for this incompetent monarch in his eyes anymore, which can be seen.

In fact, not only King Lu, there is a paragraph after Zhang Dai's sentence: "The King of Tang knows the text and ink, the King of Lu Bo Xiaoqin writes, the King of Chu knows how to cry, and Yongli only runs away; Huang Daozhou and Qu Shi wanted to follow the example of Wenwen Mountain's successive establishment of two kings, who knew that Zhao's piece of meat would be rotten and rotten. is so mediocre, and if you want to achieve it, you really can't get it. ”

The emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty have their own shortcomings, and no matter which one of them looks like the lord of Zhongxing. Fortunately, Chen Kai never expected any "Ming Jun" to show his might. As soon as this incident came out, Lu Jianguo officially withdrew from the stage of history. Even if the Lu Jian Dynasty actually has a lot of potential power.

"By the way, uncle, it just so happens that there are not many things today, can you tell me about the old things about the resistance against the Qing Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang?"

Chen Kai was full of interest, the old things were unforgettable, and refusal was not Wang Jiang's habit, so he simply chatted with Chen Kai about the anti-Qing anecdotes that happened in eastern Zhejiang in those years, especially about the Dalan Mountain where they had struggled.

After a long time, Chen Kai also had a good understanding of this. It's just that there are some things that have not been thought out clearly, and it is inconvenient to talk to Wang Jiang too early, and he is about to give up. It's just that Wang Jiang came here to ask for something to see Chen Kai.

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The Sanyang Gate of Chaozhou City was named after the three counties of Haiyang, Chaoyang and Jieyang in the Song and Yuan dynasties.

This is the south gate of the Chaozhou capital city, looking at the direction of the Hanjiang River waterway, you can vaguely see the water workshop in the distance. There, the seeds planted by Chen Kai about industrialization are taking root and sprouting. However, this is rare in Chaozhou and elsewhere in China, and more often than not, agriculture is the foundation of the entire country.

At noon, a dung truck full of feces came out of Sanyangmen. According to the regulations, the manure in the capital of Chaozhou is to be transported to the manure accumulation plant, but the amount of manure is too large, and it affects the fertilizer needs of farmers outside the city, so the daily manure accumulation site will not take all the nitrate, and always leave a part to sell to cover the government's employment costs.

The dung truck left the city, and did not rush to the manure dump as soon as possible, but arrived near a village where people were already waiting.

When the car arrived, the people hurriedly stepped forward, and although the workers driving the dung truck were covered in and smelly, they had no inferiority complex, and sat on the car with a proud look, just waiting for the people who came with buckets to come forward.

"Fourth Brother Liu, you're going to get fat again in a few days, it's really too good for you to come."

"It's not a good time, but this time we have to raise the price of a barrel."

Agriculture has its fixed production cycle, and each step of the process must be done according to the established time, which is the so-called agricultural time. When it is time to add fertilizer, it is necessary to prepare it in advance, because fertilizer is not enough to be thrown directly into the ground by the manure, and the most indispensable is fermentation.

These farmers are distributed to the city to provide food, and this is the main livelihood of their village. At this moment, the dung picker said that the vegetable farmers couldn't help but show displeasure, but no one dared to speak, but the dung picker was quite impatient with this cold pair.

"If you don't want it, forget it, this thing, some people want it."

As he spoke, the dung picker waved his hand, and the other, younger man, even responded. The animals pulling the cart were eating the hay, and the young manure picker got out of the cart and collected the hay bags directly. Seeing this, the vegetable farmer who had just opened his mouth to greet hurriedly stepped forward, nothing more than to say a good thing, only stopped them, and then reported the suffering.

"Come on, the prices of vegetables in the city have risen, and they still say that they are not profitable. In the eyes of the others, our brothers are not worthy of eating! ”

The vegetable farmers had no choice but to pay the new price, and then picked up most of the manure in the big bucket on the car one by one, and then watched the dung truck leave.

"Fellow villager, if this continues, we won't be able to use the dung in the city sooner or later."

When one said so, the others echoed suit. However, the villager who took the lead glanced at them, but shook his head: "This thing can only be used as fertilizer in the past, and it is easy to talk to each other, and the price is reasonable." Now the government is using these useful, it is said that they are still the raw materials of gunpowder, not to mention the extra use, even these guys are now from the yamen, do you dare to provoke? ”

"But ......"

The vegetable farmers planned to let the villagers say something to the above, but the villagers had no intention of coming out at all. Everyone seemed a little anxious, but the villager replied unhurriedly, "They can increase the price, we can, and it is not that they have not increased these days", and everyone had nothing to say.

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly went home with dung, after all, it was not good to delay the farming time. As for the villagers, in this way, in fact, I don't feel that those dung pickers will kill chickens and eggs, and the price increase is indispensable, but there will always be a limit. After all, in addition to the government's demand, this thing is used as fertilizer, and it will not be higher than the grain, vegetables and vegetables that are grown.

The people here were still busy doing things, and on the dung truck that was the first to leave, the younger dung pickers looked back at the big buckets while driving the mule cart, and their faces couldn't help but show a little worry.

"Fourth brother, there are fewer on weekdays, but there is always less less. There isn't much left of this experience, and when I get to the nitrate field, I'm afraid it won't be good. ”

The younger one was like this, but the other manure picker didn't care about it, and just told him to continue driving. Until the dung truck stopped at the edge of a stream, and without saying a word, the two tacitly scooped up the water with a bucket and filled the bucket again. After everything was completed, the two of them did not wait to get into the car, only to see two more dung trucks coming behind them. Everyone tacitly understood it, and they didn't say much, they drove directly forward, and after about half an hour, they rushed to the nitrate field on the west side of the city.

When they arrived at the place, the inspector stepped forward, took a wooden stick, poked in and shook it. Then, he didn't say anything, just sneered, but he didn't let people go, just looked at the two dung pickers with big eyes and small eyes.

The latter understood and hurriedly stepped forward to offer some of the money he had just fished from the vegetable farmers. But the little official who inspected it didn't stop as he did on weekdays, but said to the two of them slowly, "Liu Si'er, on weekdays, it's just a cart of dung and half a cart of water, Lao Tzu knows that you are working hard, just break it." What's the matter, I've learned to get worse, a carload of dung is more than half a carload of water, do you think we are all fools? ”

"Oh, look at what you said, how dare the villain."

The little official's face was pale, and the dung picker had to take out another copper coin and hand it over, and the latter turned it around before signaling the guards at the nitrate accumulation site to let him go.

However, when the dung truck entered, a helper beside the little official was a little worried, and lowered his voice to ask the little official how to explain the matter, but the latter only said "The weather is getting hotter, and the people in the city drink more water, so they urinate more", and then prevaricated.

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Gray income is perfectly normal to say. Things are happening outside the city, and Wang Jiang in the city is also talking to Chen Kai about the rise in food prices and vegetable prices. He is mainly in charge of agricultural matters, and now there are signs that something is wrong, but it cannot be completely solved by his authority alone, so he naturally has to come to Chen Kai to call the shots.

In fact, this is nothing new, just like when I was on Nanao Island, the price of eggs and radishes rose due to the purification of soil nitrate, which is an inevitable chain reaction. Chen Kai had already expected that it was nothing more than a choice between vegetable prices and saltpeter, and there was no need to hesitate in today's situation. However, the continuous decline in production at the manure accumulation plant has attracted greater attention. 8)