The military uniform manufacturing workshop, which is the latest unit to be incorporated into the Ordnance Bureau, originally had only a dozen employees, but when Chen Kai returned to Nanao Island, he went to review the documents again, and found that this small workshop has now evolved into a production unit with the largest number of employees under the Ordnance Bureau, and there is no one, and it is even moving towards the trend of surpassing other departments with the number of employees in a single production unit.

"Sure enough, if you want to make the pace of industrialization go faster, you still need capital and business to water it carefully."

New orders arrived, and recruitment continued, this time according to Rat Whisker's calculations, at least fifty new female workers would be hired to maintain the current output while ensuring that the orders were completed on time. After all, the Ordnance Bureau is a military manufacturing department, and the first thing to ensure is the use of its own army, not the acquisition of trade.

Here, Chen Kai began to expand his business outward to accelerate the development of the garment manufacturing industry, and on the Chaozhou side, Zheng Chenggong's attack on those local tyrants who refused to belong to the north of Chaozhou was also smoothly launched. With the continuous expansion of the actual control area, the local production is more and more in hand, the phenomenon of local business sluggishness caused by local tyrants and bandits everywhere has also begun to be alleviated, with the Chaozhou capital city as the center, more and more merchants from the south to the north, and a large number of goods carried, so that the supply of goods for sea trade is also more sufficient.

Chao smoke, tide porcelain, cloth, silk, salt, sugar, grain and pewter, these things are all popular commodities shipped from Chaozhou to various places. In this, Chaoyan lost its original largest export direction due to the dilapidation of Jiangxi, and now the private Chaoyan merchants are still readjusting their business direction, but the impression of other goods is very little, which is further enhancing the strength of Zheng Chenggong's department.

Chen Kai adjusted the strategic direction of Zheng Chenggong's department last year, and now the results are becoming more and more significant, and there is still more room for development. In Chen Kai's eyes, Zheng Chenggong appreciates it very much. There are endless correspondence between the two, even if Shi Lang is now firmly seated as the first person among the generals under Zheng Chenggong, Chen Kai, as a civil official, can still suppress him.

During the torrential rains in August, a seagoing vessel arrived at Nan'ao Island from Fujian waters. This Ming army, under the banner of Zhou Rui, Marquis of Min'an, Chen Kai and Chen Bao had already received the news earlier, and temporarily let Zhou Rui's troops temporarily dock on Dongshan Island, and Zhou Rui personally came to negotiate with Zheng Chenggong about the annexation.

Min'an Hou Zhou Rui, a native of Fuqing County, Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian, is the younger brother of Pingyi Hou Zhou Hezhi. However, the two brothers, not long ago, also broke out in Wenzhou Sanpan A civil strife, although not to use force, but the result was also to choose to part ways, one went north to Zhoushan, while the other simply went south to Zheng Chenggong.

This is the first large-scale infighting after the court of Lu Jianguo left Fujian, Zheng Chenggong received the news of Zhou Rui's arrival on Dongshan Island, and also went south by boat at the first time, and the next day after Zhou Rui arrived on Nanao Island, Zheng Chenggong rushed over and personally set up a banquet for Zhou Rui to pick up the wind and wash the dust.

In June, the Marquis of Dingxi captured the Jianqiao Station and welcomed the arrival of King Lu the following month. However, the place where Jianqiao is located is really not a place for development, and the land route is adjacent to the occupied area of the Tartars, and it is not very safe, so the last general heard that Dingxi Hou, Danghu Bo and Ping Xibo planned to welcome the king of Lu to Zhoushan, but Su Lubo's side probably would not agree. ”

Zhang Mingzhen, Marquis of Dingxi, the head of the military generals of the court of the Lu Jianguo; Danghu Bo Ruan Jin, the first famous sailor general in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the early Southern Ming Dynasty; Pingxi Bo Dynasty first, originally Sichuan Tusi, Chongzhen when the levy of Liaodong, Jiashen fled south, and then was plundered by Huang Binqing, in Zhoushan under its control; As for Huang Binqing, he was a native of Putian, Fujian, who had been entrenched in Zhoushan for many years, and served Emperor Longwu of the Tang Dynasty in the Tang and Lu disputes, so as to fight against the Ming army of the Lu Prison System.

These four people, as far as Chen Kai knows, will soon break out on Zhoushan Island for the second time of infighting, this time it is not so warm and affectionate, but a real life-and-death fight.

"If you come, you will be safe, King Lu has always been like this, Uncle Zhou is here, he is in the right place, we are all good men here who take restoration as their own responsibility."

"It turned out to be very true, after repairing for some time, wouldn't it be nice for us to send troops to regain the lost territory."

Zhou Rui's situation is much stronger than that of Lin Cha and Shi Lang, and it is nothing more than a three-plate, across the Taiwan Strait, and across Fujian Province. This army, in the final analysis, is only the exhaustion of the boat, and the replenishment of some weapons and food and grass, and there is nothing special to replenish the rest. Compared with the Lin Cha Department, which is like a beggar, and compared to the Shi Lang Department who was besieged and trapped to death, this road is already a tour of the mountains and rivers.

"The last general will strictly obey the order of the country's surname."

Zhou Rui's department, with more than 1,000 soldiers, Zheng Chenggong sent a military town to a naval division, and also responded to the Zhou brothers' original identity as pirates in northern Fujian.

Zhou Rui came to vote here, and Zheng Chenggong also had a few new readers, one of whom was named Yang Ying, and Chen Kai still had some impression of this name. It's not that this person has a high status within the Zheng Group during the Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Jing periods, but because this person wrote a history book about the Zheng Group, Chen Kai was fortunate enough to read it, so he had some impression of this author.

"In that book of "From the Record", my name should also be written."

It's a pity that "From the Record" was originally written after Yang Ying joined Zheng Chenggong's banner, and none of the previous things were involved. On Chen Kai's issue, Yang Ying will not record all the efforts he made earlier in that book, so if he wants to be remembered by more future generations, he must do more earth-shattering things.

In this regard, the efforts of the past two years, from a bare-ass road corpse reserve to the current Zhangzhou Mansion Tongzhi, in charge of the largest military industrial enterprise in South China, want to continue to make achievements, has laid an excellent foundation. But even so, there can be no slackness, and only by redoubling efforts can we truly win the final victory.

With the spur of the annals of history, Chen Kai's enthusiasm for work is high. It was just that August had just passed, and the September wind blew the news that he had to act.