"Minister, please Tian'an, long live, long live, long live."

"St. Gongan."

"Minister, thank you for God's grace, long live, long live, long live."

"Heavenly grace."

"Minister, forever obey the resignation, long live, long live, long live."

"Benefit is sincerity."

After five bows and three bows, Chen Kai stood up, took over the holy decree, and participated in politics from the Guangdong political envoy in his official position, Chaohui was promoted to the right attendant of the military department and the right of the Imperial Palace, the governor of Zhangquan Chaohui four mansions, and the commander of military affairs and the management of food and salary.

Such an official position, theoretically, Chen Kai will be fully responsible for the military and political affairs of these four prefectures as a civil official, and the civil and military forces of the Ming court, including Zheng Chenggong, must be controlled by it. In particular, the Ming court gave the governor the sword of Shang Fang as usual, and with this arbitrary authority, he could better control the local civil and military affairs.

However, theory is theory after all, and the system of using literature to control military force still exists, but the feasibility is no longer high. Even if it is a superintendent scholar like He Tengjiao and Wen Anzhi, even if it is Qu Shiyun, who was once left behind in Guilin, their moderation of military generals comes more from their own prestige, once the military generals do not plan to take risks for this, then the order of the civil official is a piece of waste paper.

This is the embodiment of the decline in organizational power at the end of the dynasty, and the military generals became clansmen, and began to cease to be controlled by the dynasty with the handle of the sword in hand, and acted on their own in military and political affairs. There is no difference in essence between the rise of the heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty, the division of feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and even today.

Only in terms of external factors, at the end of the Han Dynasty and the end of the Tang Dynasty, whether it was the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, or the Hui, Tubo, or Khitan, they could not reach the threat of extinction of the Han dynasty - invading, seizing, or even breaking the capital, but it would not be long before they had to go back and forth. However, the Manchu Qing at the end of the Ming Dynasty were completely different, they may not have the courage and ability to fight the great enemies they faced in Chinese history, but when it comes to cunning, I am afraid that they are those who are difficult to match together.

The tour in Hong Kong did not take much time at all. There is Lin Cha in charge, and the former Guangdong general army is now just a small boat blocking the Pearl River estuary to bully the Qing army, which is overkill.

Back in Chaozhou, the edict messenger had just arrived, and he was just on his feet. Chen Kai remembered that Zheng Chenggong had written earlier, saying that he had asked the imperial court to promote him to the eastern Guangdong army, and it seemed that the imperial court had already given them more consideration, so they would make their own decree. This is a good thing, not a good thing, the good thing is that Chen Kai's existence has attracted great attention from the Ming Court, but the bad thing is whether the relationship between him and Zheng Chenggong will be cracked due to the division of power, which requires Chen Kai to think deeply more than the next will.

As usual, the envoy of the edict was invited to speak and a celebratory banquet was prepared, which was the proper thing. Of course, such as the hard-earned money on the side of the edict envoy, it is naturally indispensable, officialdom, ushering in the send-off is the minimum etiquette. What's more, it is immoral to let the family work in vain.

"Angels came from Guiyang, traveled thousands of miles, and had to pass through the place where the captives were entrenched, which was difficult and dangerous, if it wasn't for the heart of serving the country with a fist, it would be difficult to do."

"Chen Fujun has an overreputation, and the subordinate officials are ordered to do their best. Besides, it's just a hike, and it's really not as good as Chen Fujun's outstanding achievements in sitting in eastern Guangdong and resisting the captive division. ”

Chen Kai was very polite, and the envoy of the edict did not have the slightest support, obviously with the intention of taking this opportunity to get along with him. After a pleasant greeting, he talked about Zheng Chenggong's acceptance of the title of Duke of the Kingdom, but the envoy of the edict complained lightly, as if he was a little dissatisfied with the superficiality of some people in the court.

When these words came into his ears, Chen Kai's eyelids drooped slightly, but he didn't pick up the stubble head-on, but smiled at the edict envoy on another topic: "I am glad to hear that the southwest king of Jingzhou and Guilin won two battles and two victories, and killed traitors and thieves with virtue, and opened up the morale of the world to resist the captives. The angel and the official are both civil ministers, and they understand the reason that the generals are outside the enemy and benefit more from the internal strategies of the civil ministers. Think about these two big victories, right? ”

Chen Kai finished his words unhurriedly, looking at the expression of the edict messenger, his joy flashed, but the recognition always remained on his face. Next, it is nothing more than to praise the talent of Sun Kewang, the king of Qin, the southwest Ming army under the leadership of Sun Kewang not only by Li Dingguo unified the army to achieve the two great victories in Jingzhou and Guilin, in Sichuan, by the southwest Ming army another commander Funan Wang Liu Wenxiu led the army also achieved a great victory in Xuzhou, and now the army is approaching Hanzhong.

"But the official has heard that the Imperial Court sent Prince Jingjin Nikan to lead the Eight Banners army south, intending to recapture Huguang?"

This is a fact, and even Chen Kai got the news about the further development, but although the envoy of the edict knew about it, he did not know much about the follow-up and the details, but repeatedly emphasized that Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo were both on the Huguang battlefield, and they would not let the Qing army get any advantage.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin has the ability to strategize, and the official is full of confidence, not to mention that there is also the King of Xining to help, I think the good news has already been played at this time."

"When it is so, when it is so."

The envoy of the edict set off early, and had already left Guiyang in October, first going to Anlong, and then continuing the trip. However, because Nikan went south and Li Dingguo went north, the Qing army began to sweep Guangxi, so he could only make a detour through Liuzhou, go to Nanning, sneak over Qinzhou, and come to the sea. first went to Zheng Chenggong to canonize the Duke of Guo, and then went to Chaozhou to find Chen Kai, which took a lot of time, and very few people knew about what happened during this period.

However, this person's information about the Southwest Ming Army is still not small, but once Nikan is mentioned, he still seems to be a little worried, and he is just a little confident and does it with Chen Kai.

After staying for a few days, Chen Kai arranged a boat to send the envoy of the edict back. The sea ship on which the envoy of the edict was taking was still on Nanao Island, watching the official ship leave Chaozhou, but Chen Kai recalled the temptation between each other on the day of the edict, and silently said the name of His Royal Highness the King of Qin.

"By the way, the messenger of this edict is called Wan Nianying, what is the relationship between him and Sun Kewang's sworn friend, the Shangshu Wan Niance of the Qin Palace, I forgot to ask."

Asking or not asking, in fact, there is no difference, this person is obviously from the Qin Palace, and his words are towards the Qin Palace. On the other side, although he did not say how the Son of Heaven was, most of those courtiers were incompetent in his opinion, and they seemed to have no ability to save the world except for being good at infighting.

The Ming court in the southwest was divided into two factions, on one side was the imperial court headed by the Yongli Emperor, and on the other side was the Qin palace headed by Sun Kewang. Nowadays, almost all the Ming armies in the southwest have been annexed by the original Great Western Army, and even the Yongli Imperial Court, from the Son of Heaven to the courtiers in the court, are basically under house arrest in Anlong Qianhu. The military power in the country is controlled by the Qin Wangfu in Guiyang, not Xingzai, and only some major events will be sent to Xingzai for approval by Emperor Yongli after the decision of the Qin Wangfu, which is actually just a political endorsement.

This is the case with the canonization of Zheng Chenggong and his promotion to governor. Of course, Wan Nianying naturally won't mention such things, they all come from Chen Kai's memory. The impact he caused in the southeast is not enough to affect the overall situation in the southwest, so there is no need to worry about any butterfly effect in it, as long as he remembers correctly.

This is indeed a big deal, but it has little impact on him, and Chen Kai doesn't care too much, as long as the official position of this governor falls into his hands, it will be enough.

After sending off the envoy of the edict, Chen Kai began to inspect the capital city of Chaozhou as a governor, the most important of which were the Chaozhou Quality Testing School and the Chaozhou Manufacturing Bureau, which were the places where Chen Kai's great efforts were condensed.

Chaozhou Quality Testing School, the earliest batch of students are now mostly working in the Chaozhou Manufacturing Bureau, responsible for designing machinery, drawing drawings, etc., and some of them stayed in the school to teach, because Chen Kai defeated Geng Jimao, he recruited students from Chaozhou again, and accepted the second batch of students to enroll, for scientific and technological talents, even if it is only basic science, Chen Kai's demand is also hungry.

In addition, some were sent by Chen Kai to the Zhongzuo Institute, Zheng Chenggong intended to build a fortress in Hui'an, he gave suggestions, and also sent relevant technicians, and let Zheng Chenggong do the rest by himself.

These people have begun to receive a lot of money, and they are more profitable than their fathers and brothers who simply become craftsmen. But among them, those who are still working in Chaozhou still have to find time to study here and learn other more interesting knowledge.

"When all objects are not subjected to external forces, they always maintain a uniform linear motion or a state of rest."

“……”

"The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the resultant external force experienced by the object, inversely proportional to the mass of the object, and the direction of acceleration is the same as the direction of the resultant external force."

“……”

"The action and reaction forces between two objects, in the same straight line, are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction."

“……”

Mr. shook his head in front of him, and the students shook their heads and read along, if the content was replaced with "At the beginning of people, the nature is good, the sex is similar, and the habits are far away", there will be no sense of disobedience.

"Just cramming?"

The sound of reading in the classroom was loud, and outside the classroom, Chen Kai asked casually, and the responsible official who had already hung up the title of professor of the government school hurriedly bowed his hand and explained to Chen Kai with a look of grievance.

In the early years, for the first batch of students, first of all, literacy in words, knowing words, being able to understand the meaning of words, supplemented by simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and then to "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" and other Chinese studies textbooks, as well as Chen Kai's textbooks translated through the translation of European mathematical theories and his memory, a toss is a few years.

Speaking of which, it is nothing more than language and mathematics, algebra, geometry, and even some new European methods of measurement and measurement, the construction of the fortress and the mechanical construction in the manufacturing bureau, these things have played a certain role. However, these are relatively easy to understand, or they already exist locally. But physics is a completely new discipline, and most of the faculty members, let alone students, are rote memorizing theories.

"Then let's do this first, you will study it yourself, and this official will come over to teach one or two when he has time to spare."

"Thank you Fujun for your understanding, thank you Fujun for your understanding, the lower officer must organize people to try their best to study the doorway."

"It's hard."

Having said that, if he thought about it in his heart, Chen Kai did not put it into words, at least he could not discourage the enthusiasm of others. Besides, with the theory, if someone really figured out some of the doorways, it would be a surprise, so why bother.

Hopefully, it's not big anyway, Chen Kai also needs time to ponder, or recall those related things. This was a difficult process, because at the same time he was still busy with the war in Guangdong, and a person's limited energy and lack of skills were also a major factor affecting further development.

The Chaozhou Quality Testing School is in Chaozhou City, and out of here, Chen Kai went out of the South City Gate and went straight to the Chaozhou Manufacturing Bureau on the bank of the Han River.

After several months of development, starting with the first hydraulic forging hammer in use, with the experience of the first machine, even if the subsequent machines are very different, it is always beneficial.

The waterwheel rolls, linking the vertical shaft, connecting rod, crank, chord, horizontal shaft and other interrelated parts, and the piston bellows are repeatedly pulled and compressed, and the air is sent into the furnace in one by one.

Increasing the furnace temperature can shorten the smelting time and smelt metals with higher melting points, and the appearance of bellows has accelerated this process. Hydraulic bellows appeared very early in China, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were mature practical machinery to help the iron industry since the official operation of a large number of large-scale smelting furnaces to increase the furnace temperature.

Prior to this, manpower or animal power was the most prevalent, such as the South Australian Ordnance Bureau, animal power is insufficient, and there is a lack of suitable water resources, so you can only use manpower to blow the wind, and the iron can only be forged by manpower, even if Chen Kai relies on the division of labor and cooperation and improve welfare benefits and other ways to effectively improve production efficiency, but many hard things are limited in production efficiency due to technical limitations.

This is the case with the South Australian Ordnance Bureau, and the current Central Left Ordnance Bureau still maintains the production mode there, but some rules have changed, and many basic hard production conditions cannot be changed by the bureaucracy with a pat on the brain.

This thing is not unusual, China's hydraulic bellows are more than 1,000 years earlier than those in Europe, and they have gradually developed during this period. In the Song Dynasty, the leather bellows of the water drain were replaced by trap-type wooden doors; In the Ming Dynasty, the wooden fan was replaced by a piston wooden bellows, which made progress in structure one by one, promoting the development of the smelting industry in ancient China.

The one in front of Chen Kai is the local technology, and the other one is in the other, which is using the technology from Europe. It remains to be considered which of the two is superior or inferior, but the existence of the Chaozhou Ordnance Bureau is to allow the technology to be put into use, so it is necessary to create more different forms in advance.

"Fujun, this is the hydraulic boring machine you mentioned last time."

Under the encouragement of the bellows, the flame in the furnace is very pleasing in color. Chen Kai saw two water conservancy bellows, led by Ding Youyi to the next workshop, inside is a water-driven tool, with the cutter as the origin of the positive space, through the rotation to achieve hole processing operations.

Chen Kai knew that this kind of hydraulic machinery was used to polish the inside of the gun chamber at this stage to ensure that its interior was smooth and reduce the danger of explosion and other dangers.

Before that, including the South Australian Ordnance Bureau's cannon casting craftsmen, such as the master, they are using manpower boring cutters to polish the inner wall of the finished artillery, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also tests the skills of craftsmen.

The hydraulic boring machine is relatively stable, the technical requirements for the craftsman are low, and as for the speed, it is unimaginably fast, that is, the consumption of the tool is faster, but under the benefit of fast grinding, this is not a big deal.

As soon as Ding Youyi waved his hand, the craftsman manipulated the machine to show Chen Kai the rapid grinding of the barrel by the hydraulic boring machine in public. What is the situation inside, Chen Kai can't see clearly, and he can't evaluate it through the sense of touch, but just look at the speed of the knife, and then think of the apprentice of the old master in the South Australian Ordnance Bureau who used a boring knife to polish a little bit of effort, as long as a comparison is enough to explain the situation.

"Very good, you have done a very good job!"

After taking a big turn and seeing the results of the past few months, Chen Kaiton felt that his efforts on Hong Kong Island and Lufeng were not in vain. Hydraulic machinery is far more promising than manpower or animal power, even in such an era, under such a technical level can greatly increase production capacity.

In this regard, the officials and craftsmen of the manufacturing bureau were also excited. Chen Kai single-handedly created the Ordnance Bureau, realized the weapons production capacity in Fujian and Guangdong provinces to surpass the Qing army, large-scale, batch equipment of the army uniforms, spears, waist knives, rattan cards, rattan helmets, guns, artillery, gunpowder and other weapons and equipment, these have greatly improved the combat ability of the Ming army, in the beginning of a series of attacks against the Chaozhou bandits, with the advantage of the strong soldiers, it is very advantageous. Even when fighting against the Qing army, there were no unnecessary casualties and defeats caused by the inferior weapons and armor of other Ming or rebel armies.

Chen Kai has become the most useful staff member and the highest-ranking civilian official under Zheng Chenggong with the Ordnance Bureau, of course, there is no lack of his efforts in other aspects, but the Ordnance Bureau is the foundation of everything, which is beyond doubt. And now, he wants the name of a manufacturing bureau, but he is creating another legend, and they are all participants in this legend.

"This is just the beginning, from today onwards, these hydraulic machines don't need to make weapons or anything, and the official wants to use them to make more machines. Only machinery manufacturing machinery is the real industrialization! ”