The successful conclusion of the enlarged meeting of the Consultative Council was in fact only the beginning. Guangdong's provincial advisory bureaus began to establish relations with the provincial advisory bureaus, and the delegates who came from the prefectures were also actively seeking seats on the provincial advisory bureaus.

For this reason, tandem and wishing are the least indispensable dramas. What's more, he simply proposed to Chen Kai to set up a county-level advisory bureau. It's a pity that according to Chen Kai's plan, the Advisory Bureau should be divided into three levels, and it is enough to arrive at the mansion. Moreover, there are more than 100,000 people in each county, and only more than 10,000 people in each county. At the very least, he didn't intend to use the Advisory Council to wipe out all the powerful local people - only when there is competition will there be an incentive to petition for the people.

On the ground of Guangdong, to be exact, most of Guangdong controlled by the Zheng Group, everything is in full swing. In other places that are waiting for it, since the purpose of the enlarged meeting of the Consultative Bureau has been announced as early as a year ago, when the meeting date is approaching, they are naturally already ready - running, liaising, and breaking the bottle, just waiting for the official document of the establishment of the provincial advisory bureau in Guangdong to be officially promulgated, and even the channels for transmitting news are the eight immortals who have crossed the sea to show their magical powers, and strive for a fast word!

Tao Qian was still on the matter of setting up an advisory bureau for the Southern Jiangxi region, and at the same time as he applied to Chen Kai, the news had already spread to Fuzhou at the fastest speed in this era.

However, it is ridiculous to say that the first person to get the news in Fuzhou was not the General's Mansion of the power center, but a group of local gentry and businessmen in Fujian, who combined the channels of commercial intelligence transmission with the truth that there must be brave men under heavy rewards, and even got the exact news half an hour earlier than Zheng Chenggong. Immediately, this group of people launched a more extensive liaison activity, bringing together the local people who had already reached a tacit understanding, as well as those who had not yet been determined, but had already expressed their intentions, and gathered together their beautiful imagination of righteousness and benefit, and finally condensed into a report before Zheng Chenggong's case that had nothing to do with the upcoming war.

"One stone stirs up a thousand waves, and the ancients did not deceive me - the advisory bureau in Guangdong has just finished its meeting, and there are already gentry in Fujian who have jointly opened an advisory bureau. They talked about the benefits of the Consultative Bureau as if there was nothing in heaven and on earth, as if Chen Kai and the officials and generals in Guangdong had done nothing in the past year, and all the things were done by the Consultative Bureau. ”

His fingers tapped the report on the case irregularly, and soon, the first letter arrived, Zheng Chenggong raised his eyelids and moved his eyes to Pan Gengzhong, who was tasting the fragrance of tea. The latter hurriedly put down the teacup, and immediately stood up, which was a salute.

"Country surname ......"

"It turned out to be a stone that was thrown down, and now it has stirred up all the water in Fujian." His thumb and forefinger pinched the corner of the post, and he showed it in Pan Gengzhong's sight, and then threw it on the table.

There is no need to read the words clearly, Zheng Chenggong, the most trusted mastermind after Chen Kai, can easily think of what will be written inside. In the moment just now, he savored the fragrance of tea in Wuyi Mountain, and he was also savoring Zheng Chenggong's tone. Among them, there is ridicule, excitement, and helplessness, but what is missing is the decisiveness of the weekdays.

Recalling the side, according to what he has learned for many years, this is not aimed at Chen Kai's efforts, or that the waves stirred up by Chen Kai were not in Zheng Chenggong's original plan.

However, it is this but, which precisely constitutes Zheng Chenggong's helplessness. After all, it still depends on the war, but the local gentry, merchants and powerful people, they have huge potential power, if they can be used by the Ming army, it will naturally be of great benefit. At this point, the Heaven and Earth Association formed by Chen Kai has already taken the lead in Nanjiang. Similarly, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was busy worshipping Confucius and holding imperial examinations as soon as they entered the customs, and it was obviously clear that in order to conquer China, it was first necessary to win over the gentry class, which had great power in the local area.

However, the Ming court has not been able to hold the imperial examination for many years, which is due to the precarious turmoil, the political reality of being controlled by others, and the ridiculous remoteness. But at this point, they have been thrown out by the Manchus far away, the order to shave their hair was issued, countless gentry abandoned their homes and businesses to fight against the Qing army, and the imperial examination cooperated with the suppression, and the means of both soft and hard have suppressed the initial trend. Now, Da Ming can't get much help just by virtue of his well-dressed civilization, and Chen Kai's advisory bureau can not be said to be a new road, which even Pan Gengzhong can't help but praise with his palms.

They needed the strength of the gentry, merchants, and powerful people, not only in Fujian, but more importantly, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where the next army would go, and wherever the Manchu Qing dynasty would inevitably fall in the future. At this time, Zheng Chenggong's gaze came, and Pan Gengzhong had already figured out the key.

"The surname of the country, the general trend has risen, and you can't go against the trend."

"Yes, Cheng Cheng once told me back then that if you want to succeed, it is nothing more than three ways: magic, art, and potential. The law and the art have been done, but when the power is finally exhausted, only a general trend is the real right way. Now that he thinks about it, he has already come to his senses. ”

Thinking about it carefully, Chen Kai advocated enterprising Chaozhou back then, and he had the consciousness of Chaozhou's chaos and people's peace of mind. The Ming army was able to quickly gain a foothold in Chaozhou, which had a very close relationship with this. In the following days, taking advantage of the momentum and building momentum, there was also a desperate fight against the trend, the only thing that remained unchanged was the original intention, the original intention of restoring the rivers and mountains of the Han family, which was no different from him.

It's just that the performance of these gentry can't help but remind him of some unpleasant memories. To be precise, in Nanjing, he also reprimanded his teacher Qian Qianyi for this.

However, Chen Kai is Chen Kai after all, and since he dares to play with fire, he must have thought of the possibility of playing with fire. For this reason, he will definitely not sit idly by, and may already have preventive measures, or means of coping, so as to try to turn the disadvantages into advantages. And these are what he is most excited and looking forward to.

"Chen Fujun is a genius in the world, and he is ashamed of himself. However, Xia Guan thought that the general trend was rising, and it was better to take advantage of the situation. ”

Mr. Pan is right, and it is necessary to take advantage of the situation. But now there is no need to rush for a while, our army has more important things. ”

"What the country's surname says is extremely true."

As one of the most important cronies, Pan Gengzhong certainly understood that Zheng Chenggong was referring to the next war. However, this matter is not unimportant, otherwise Zheng Chenggong at this moment is already in northern Fujian, or even Zhejiang, instead of sitting in the city of Fuzhou, it is clear that he is waiting for this wave of waves.

"Xia Guan thinks that it is time for the Heaven and Earth Association in Fujian to come out and carry out activities."

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong's eyes were like torches: "Well, it's better than chanting poems." ”

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In Guangzhou, the excitement did not end with the end of the meeting, or rather, the time was still short, and the excitement had not yet dissipated.

It seems that God has the heart to see and continue to enjoy this lively scene, and soon, news came from Fujian, saying that local people in Fujian jointly submitted a letter to Zheng Chenggong, asking for the opening of a consultation bureau. Zheng Chenggong spoke highly of their worries about the country and the people, and even appointed Lu Ruoteng, the governor of Fujian, to preside over relevant affairs.

At the same time as receiving the news, Chen Kai also received a handwritten letter from Zheng Chenggong. In the letter, Zheng Chenggong said that he could not go against the trend, but he wanted to take advantage of the situation, so he asked Chen Kai to preside over the Heaven and Earth Society, to be precise, the Fujian rudder to play a leading role in the Advisory Bureau, and share the worries for Wang Shi.

After reading the letter, he probably understood the intentions of Zheng Chenggong and Fujian. In this regard, he did not care, and immediately issued an order to the Fujian branch rudder to resume normal operation and actively prepare for and participate in the affairs of the Fujian Advisory Bureau.

Immediately afterwards, he convened a special meeting of the Consultative Bureau in his capacity as the governor of Guangdong, announcing that the preparation of the Fujian Advisory Bureau had been approved by Zheng Chenggong and that the Fujian Advisory Bureau would be prepared using the Guangdong Advisory Bureau as a template.

This is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the top and bottom of the Consultative Bureau, as well as to the powerful people in the local area. Because, from today onwards, the Consultative Bureau is no longer just a unique phenomenon in Guangdong Province, there are two, there are two, there are three, and there are countless three, and the more the Consultative Bureau spreads, the greater their power will be, and the more benefits they can get, which is like a snowball, even if the vast majority of them have never seen what a snowball looks like in their lives.

At the same time, Chen Kai announced the order for the official start of the preparatory work for the establishment of the Advisory Bureau in the Southern Jiangxi Region. However, unlike Guangdong and Fujian provinces, according to the Ming court's system, there was not a separate administrative envoy, but simply a governor's jurisdiction, and the significance of military affairs was more important than civil affairs. Among the Nangan districts, there are problems with the division of Nanxiong Mansion and Tingzhou Prefecture.

Therefore, Chen Kai decided to prepare the advisory bureau in the southern Jiangxi region to be based on the government, to be precise, the Ganzhou Prefecture Advisory Bureau and the Nan'an Prefecture Advisory Bureau were established separately. In the future, whether to set up a separate provincial-level advisory bureau in the southern Jiangxi province, or whether to merge the advisory bureaus of the five prefectures under the jurisdiction of the governor of southern Jiangxi into the four provinces of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Huguang is a matter for the future, and there is no need to rush it now.

In Guangdong, Fujian, and southern Jiangxi, the Consultative Bureau has become a hot topic that people cannot fail to mention after dinner, and if they do not talk about two sentences related to the Consultative Bureau during small talk, they will be suspected of ignorance of current affairs.

The hustle and bustle is even better, even in the depths of the huge governor's yamen, Chen Kai can easily feel it. It's just that after reading Guo Zhiqi's reply, it didn't take long for the news of Liu Wenxiu's death to come, which made Chen Kai not have the heart to immerse himself in it for a while.

Through history, he knew very well what Liu Wenxiu's death meant—Li Dingguo's military brilliance was indeed a key condition for the Southern Ming to defeat the Manchus, but his clumsy or stupid political ability hastened the demise of the Southern Ming.

Or, it is in response to Chen Kai's sentence that he has long been familiar with: "It is expected to govern the country well, and the country can use soldiers." Let them work together, and the work of the southwest may not be Ai, but will attack each other, and they will be destroyed." Judging from the situation before and after the Battle of Jiaoshui, even if Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu can work together, it will not be as in history.

"Heroes don't have to be flawless, people are inevitably flawed, it's nothing more than looking at flaws and not hiding them, or vice versa. Li Dingguo is like this, and Zheng Chenggong is also like this, they all have their own problems, but this does not hide their greatness. Fortunately, none of them are perfect in my eyes; Fortunately, my perception is not as ridiculous as black and white; Fortunately, in this era, there is still me! ”