"This, Chen Daotai, what do you mean by this?"

has been living in Fujian for many years, and recently, Tao Qian is indeed planning to return to his hometown. The reason for this is that the local tyrant who saved his life planned to let his student, that is, the son of the local tyrant, take the imperial examination.

Isn't reading books and writing eight-strand essays just to be able to be named on the gold list one day? This is also in line with the traditional Confucian moral concepts such as learning literature and martial arts, or with the emperor's family, at least Tao Qian did it back then. However, the problem with this matter is that the Ming court has not held the imperial examination for many years, and it is a question whether it can even be maintained, and the family plans to let the students he teaches to participate in the imperial examination of the Qing court!

Change the dynasty, the imperial examination still has to be the imperial examination, no matter what the imperial court is, don't you have to ask someone to be an official? The family could think about it, but Tao Qian couldn't think about it, so he simply had the idea of returning to his hometown. The worst thing is to go back to the hometown and go into the mountains, and it is better to be a savage than this.

has been in the mountains for a long time, and he is not very clear about the situation of the Ming army, but occasionally he hears the local tyrant talk about it, and it is mostly bad news. Some of this is propaganda from the Qing court, but there is also a lot of inertial thinking, and even if there is occasional news of the victory of the Ming army, it is often suspected of being a rumor. On the contrary, it is the Qing army, even if it is a fabricated victory, there will always be people who believe it, and firmly believe it, because the Ming army has lost too much over the years.

All this, until he was about to leave for his hometown, until Chen Kai sent someone to look for him, he finally learned some real information. Subsequently, he followed the visitor to Chaozhou, thinking that Chen Kai felt that he was a material that could be made, and he wanted him to serve the Ming army, and he didn't plan to twist it, just waiting for Chen Kai to say the request and then responded, and in the days to come, he would follow Chen Kai to do things, and he was also working for the Ming court and the Han family.

However, all these fantasies were shattered when they saw Chen Kai without even a cup of tea. Chen Kai's words came out, and Tao Qian was immediately stunned on the spot, but as his thinking gradually recovered, an idea quickly popped up in his mind.

"Chen Daotai wants the students to go back to work?"

After thinking about it, Tao Qian also came up with the idea of Jiezhongxi and others. But this time, there was no need for them to deny themselves, Chen Kai replied categorically: "Go and be meticulous?" Too big and too big to use. Besides, a small work can be so attentive to me Chen Kai? ”

"That ......"

Since it wasn't a fine work, Tao Qian didn't understand what Chen Kai needed him to do. However, Chen Kai's gaze was very firm, so firm that Tao Qian began to wonder if he was making too much fuss......

In the next ten days, Chen Kai conducted systematic training for Tao Qian, and the relevant content was very complicated, and in some places Chen Kai also trained and corrected at the same time. Ten days later, Tao Qian left the city of Chaozhou, accompanied by two Ming soldiers who had shaved their hair and changed into Manchurian clothes, and set out on the journey back to his hometown, Ruijin County, the capital of Ganzhou.

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Only this person, and only after a very short period of training, whether it can play a big role, whether it will adhere to and implement his philosophy, Chen Kai is not sure. In fact, when he planned this event, he always had doubts about whether it would be effective.

However, doubts are doubts, and what should be done is to continue to do it. Chen Kai has no intention of giving up halfway, once this matter starts, he must persist in doing it.

Back in the capital city of Chaozhou, the report of the county has also been delivered. The establishment of the two counties of Fengshun and Jiexi is of great benefit to the administration of the two areas beyond the reach of the whip, and the Ming army can better control the area of the two counties, and these two counties are now facing Hao Shangjiu in the north, and the other is deep in the Lotus Mountains, and is connected to Haifeng County in the south, and the strengthening of control is also a great strengthening of military defense.

In the two counties, the official team of one order and three assistants, the official team of each room and the three classes of officials, as well as the official office and its personnel, including the county school. After reading the report this time, Chen Kai is still quite satisfied, especially for the officials and personnel in these two counties, as well as the counties that have changed personnel due to the transfer and division, the enthusiasm for work is particularly high.

The pattern of thirteen counties in Chaozhou, now the Ming army actually controls ten counties, two counties are in the hands of local tyrants who are inclined to the Ming army, and only one Cheng Township is still in the hands of Hao Shangjiu. On the other hand, Chen Kai also went south to half of Haifeng County after the fierce operation in the second half of last year.

After several months of defensive battles, the Ming army did not lose even an inch of land, which was a rare situation in the face of the Eight Banners Army since the end of the Ming Dynasty. On the northern front, as Guo Tai's troops moved north, the strengthened Sanheba Ming army, under the leadership of Zhang Jin, also resisted Hao Shangjiu's harassment more vigorously.

The external environment is tending to improve, and the internal dispute between the Turks and the Turks is gradually easing with Chen Kai's promise and the Ming army's successive victories, and when Chen Kai returns to the capital of Chaozhou, the old traffic begins to gradually recover, but the suspicion between the locals and the outsiders cannot be eliminated overnight.

"The general system, the lower officials think that the tuntian in each county is well planned, and it is indeed targeted to solve the problem of the shortage of food in the Wang Division......"

Wang Jiang was sent by Chen Kai to inspect the affairs of Tuntian in various counties, and during this time, he also sent Chen Kai a lot of relevant opinions and suggestions. Compared with other prefects, Chen Kai also has the right to be fully responsible for the military and political affairs of eastern Guangdong. For Chen Kai and others, rights are also responsibilities, so he has not sat in court like other officials to ask about the case to this day, but is busy with the war.

Now that Chen Kai is back, Wang Jiang has also made the necessary summary and detailed report on this. All in all, Ye Yiyun's land division is very good, which Chen Kai wants to mention to Zheng Chenggong. If there is still something to be improved, then it is how to raise the added value and better "realize the people's pursuit of a better and happy life".

"In the opinion of the following officials, Tuntian can be appropriately adjusted. For example, we can build fish ponds, plant mulberry and raise silkworms, feed fish with silkworm sand and silkworm pupa, and the pond mud from the fish pond can be used as fertilizer for farming and mulberry planting......"

Wang Jiang described it carefully, and the picture began to appear in Chen Kai's mind. Soon, the image disappeared, a term called circular agriculture began to come to mind, and the gaze of Wang Jiang began to change. It wasn't until after Wang Jiang finished saying these things that he suddenly came up with the words "The people in some places do these things very well, but the places where the land is divided into tuntian fields can't be seen at all", and he realized that it was not Wang Jiang who should bear his surprised gaze, but this era. (Note)

“…… With all due respect, the local people in Chaozhou are very willing to do it, because the land is their own. But the people who divided the land and the fields were not willing to do it at all......"

"Well, the official knows that they are still waiting to return to their hometown in Guangzhou."

This is a big problem, obviously can better improve the output of agricultural production, but due to the interference of people's hearts and administrative factors, the production capacity that could have been increased cannot be realized because the people are unwilling to do it.

"It takes a long time to plant mulberry trees. There is a way for the lower officials, which may be conducive to production. ”

"Oh?"

Wang Jiang mentioned a problem that cannot be ignored, but he does not have a real solution. But when it comes to this, it is obvious that he has already made a decision, and even those mentioned earlier are probably just his foreshadowing.

Seeing that Chen Kai was in high spirits, Wang Jiang didn't have the taste of holding half of it, so he simply said bluntly: "Rice cultivation is very common in Chaozhou. In the opinion of the following officials, it is better to raise fish in the rice fields......"

Note: In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, mulberry fish ponds have appeared. The earliest should be in Guangzhou, due to the popularity of raw silk and the combination of sericulture and fish farming that prevailed in the area. Once many people mention ancient times, they think that they are extremely backward, but the China of the Song and Ming dynasties is actually in a leading position in many aspects, especially agriculture, and the era when it really began to be comprehensively surpassed was in the glorious and prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty.