Wu Liuqi is dead, and the hard iron gun has no meaning in front of the soft lead bullet. This big man on the ground of Chaohui, one of the five tigers of Chaohui, the strongest of the seven heroes of Chaohai, and the character who once made the Che Ren, known as the king of thieves in Chaozhou, return with a heavy feather, died in the chaos in front of the real regular army.

In the final analysis, Wu Liuqi started with this group training, which was in Fengshun Camp earlier and later in Sanheba, all of which were entrenched forces. But there are still a few years left for him to eradicate Jiang Long, Zhang Wenbin, Ye Apo, Huang Hairu, Liu Gongxian and many other Chaozhou bandits, as well as Hao Shangjiu, who attacked and destroyed the majestic city under the wing of the Eight Banners Army, so as to train a local green battalion that is enough to compete with the Zheng family's partial division, and now he has encountered Zheng Chenggong's army, which is more powerful than in history.

When the head was delivered to Chen Kai, he had already entered the county government of Dapu County with Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Chenggong only glanced at it slightly, and then impatiently hung it on the flagpole with Jiang Long's head.

"The Seven Great Masters of the Chaohai Sea, now there is only Su Li of Jieshiwei left."

Taking advantage of the excessive military pressure of the surrounding Qing army, so that there was no time for other cares, he fought hard for a year, and finally almost recovered the capital of Chaozhou. However, Hao Shangjiu's threat has not been lifted, and there are still a large number of local tyrants in northern Chaozhou who do not have a clear attitude. Perhaps, it will take a war to completely quell the chaos in Chaozhou.

"With the heads of Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long, it will deter thieves and local tyrants from all walks of life."

This was the established plan, the envoy set out, the army rested for a while, left a small army to garrison the county seat, and then returned to Chengxiang. It was the center of northern Chaozhou, and taking Chengxiang could formally establish the ruling authority of the Ming army in northern Chaozhou.

The army went down the Ting River and crossed the Sanhe Dam, leaving more troops there than in the county town of Dapu to control the key point of traffic. Then he marched west along Meixi, and soon joined the division led by Zhang Jin.

"Tell the country surname, according to the report of the horse visit, Hao Shangjiu's thief has entered the Chaozhou territory yesterday."

Hao Shangjiu came along the Xingning River, but he didn't dare to go too deep, and seemed to be watching the local situation in Chaozhou. Even according to Chen Kai's opinion, there is probably still a praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches, which is unknown.

"He doesn't have a chance!"

Zheng Chenggong said this categorically, and the army immediately marched westward, and the local tyrants in Chengxiang County did not hesitate to choose Kaicheng to meet the fierce Ming army, and handed over the deployment to stand in line. In this regard, Zheng Chenggong reciprocated the favor and appointed him as the magistrate of Puning County in the southwest of Chaozhou, completing the cutting of local tyrants and local forces, and also achieving the effect of preferential treatment and demotion of people.

In the next few days, the local tyrants of Zhenping and Pingyuan counties also expressed their respect for Zheng Chenggong and were willing to serve Yunyun, and Zheng Chenggong was inconvenient to move these two too remote counties, so he only gave them a name, and collected a large number of grain and grass and Ding Zhuang, even if the initial integration between them was completed.

With the gradual arrival of the northern part of Chaozhou, the news of Hao Shangjiu's return to the boundary of Huizhou Prefecture soon came. The fact that this war did not break out is a good thing for Zheng Chenggong and a bad thing - on the good side, there is no need to bear the threat of turmoil, there is no need to fight in the same room; But the bad thing is that Hao Shangjiu's military threat in the northeast of Huizhou, that is, on the western border of northern Chaozhou, will always exist, which will undoubtedly contain a lot of Zheng Chenggong's energy and soldiers.

"Appointed, Zhong Kuangbo Zhang Jin in charge of Cheng Township local affairs; Gan Hui, the chief military officer of Youchong Town, was appointed as the chief military officer of Qinding Town; Appointed, adjutant general He De as the chief military officer of Youchong Town......"

The army was readjusted, and Zheng Chenggong also had to set up troops to guard the local areas in Chengxiang, Sanheba and other places, and at the same time send troops to fight against those local tyrants and bandits who refused to join him, so as to further integrate the localities.

This expedition, aside from the follow-up expedition and guarding, did not even arrive for a month. But compared to the effort, the gain is great.

Zheng Chenggong originally occupied the southern part of Chaozhou, where the main output was grain, cloth, sugar and salt, but this time he seized a large area in the central and northern parts of Chaozhou, not only the overall output has been increased, but the output has also shown a trend of diversification.

Guangdong Province, there are thirteen salt farms in the Ming Dynasty, Chaozhou has three of them, called Zhaozhao, Longjing, and Xiaojiang, all of which are in the southern region, and Zheng Chenggong has long occupied. Similarly, the sugar industry in Chaozhou is also the most in Jieyang and Puning, followed by Chaoyang and Huilai, and followed by Haiyang and Chenghai, all in the southern counties.

However, in addition to these and the grain and cloth abundant in the southern coastal plains, Chaozhou's minerals and related smelting industries, such as iron ore, are all in Haiyang, Jieyang, Chengxiang, Dapu, Pingyuan and other five counties, with a total of 65 iron-smelting fields. In addition, ores such as tin, iron, silver, and lead are also produced stably in Chaozhou, especially in the northern region.

In addition to these, the nine villages in the north of Raoping County and the Gaopi area in the south of Dapu County, which is separated by a mountain, are also extremely prosperous, and the production is mainly daily blue and white porcelain. The name of tide porcelain is exported overseas. It is the tide smoke of Dapu County, and it is also a best-selling product with a good reputation in China.

After seizing the entire Chaozhou, you can control these in your hands, which will be of great benefit to military supplies and maritime trade. In particular, the local handicraft industry in Chaozhou is also quite developed, and the most representative pewter has the reputation of "Gusu style, Chaoyang craftsman, and Jieyang's tin on it".

After Hao Shangjiu withdrew his troops, Chen Kai took the lead in leaving Chengxiang and returned to Nanao Island by boat along the Hanjiang waterway. According to preliminary explorations, there are Fengshun silver mines in the central part of Chaozhou, iron mines in the north, and many other minerals, but these two are the most relevant to the army. To this end, Zheng Chenggong has appointed the general Xingyuan to join the army, the Longwu Dynasty raised people, and Feng Chengshi, a native of Jinjiang in Quanzhou Prefecture, was responsible for the mining and preliminary smelting of ore, and then transported to Nanao Island through the Hanjiang River waterway for deep processing. In this way, Chen Kai needs to return to South Australia as soon as possible to prepare.

There are mature government-run and private iron-smelting plants in the local ironmaking and steelmaking area, but there are some other things, and Chen Kai plans to intervene. This time back to Nanao Island, the first thing to do is to plan out the land, and Zheng Chenggong is also recruiting skilled workers, from Chaozhou, also from southern Fujian's hometown, and when these professionals arrive, Chen Kai will build a factory, build the required equipment and so on.

Since being appointed as the governor of Zhangzhou Prefecture, Chen Kai has started from the perspective of military industry and vigorously tapped the production capacity of the control area. Although it has not yet been able to form a relatively complete industrial chain, the local production of Chaozhou supplemented by the processing of South Australia can indeed meet the needs of the army.

At this scale, it is nothing more than the expansion of the army, the maintenance of production and the slight increase, and this is probably it. However, Chen Kai does not intend to be satisfied with this, because the current little fish and shrimp is really not enough for him to look at a guy born in the era of large-scale industrial production.