Since the departure on August 11, Chen Kai and his entourage barely arrived in Hong Kong after a full month and a half of adrift at sea, and even encountered a storm that was not much of a big deal on the way, and more than 20 warships under Zhou Rui's command were left behind, and it is really difficult to say clearly when they will be able to catch up.

Lin Cha is still on Hong Kong Island, and the goods shipped earlier have also been sent to Guangzhou in batches according to Chen Kai's arrangement, and the purchased goods and the Guangzhou "beggars" who have paid for the goods have also been sent to Nanao Island in batches.

The safety of the large fleet is guaranteed, and even the small fleet is not afraid of encountering ordinary maritime merchants who make cameo appearances as pirates - after all, it is impossible to say who robs whom. But if you encounter the Qing army's sailors, it is still very dangerous. Fortunately, in the waters of Huizhou recently, there is no trace of Xu Long, Chen Kai, Lin Cha and others don't know where Xu Long ran to, why he disappeared, whether he was annexed by Su Li, or shrunk in some places that the Ming army sailors did not observe, or is not in Huizhou Mansion at all, it is difficult to say, but one thing that can be lacking is that Lin Cha's fleet to transport the people of Guangzhou in batches should still have a certain amount of safety along the way.

"Joining the army, the last time I went to Guangzhou, Du Yonghe repeatedly said that he needed us to send more goods over. Especially the weapons, looking at the way he looks, he is probably preparing to expand the troops. ”

Du Yonghe has not lost his heart, which is a good thing. But Chen Kai was noncommittal about weapons, because he never planned to send many weapons to Du Yonghe, so as not to fund the enemy.

Next, Lin Chayou mentioned some things, saying that these two exchanges of goods, it was rumored that the porridge field opened by the government in Guangzhou had stopped, and Du Yonghe and others would rob many women from the "beggars" waiting for the exchange, and use them to ration the soldiers of the army as wives.

Du Yonghe and others, in the final analysis, are all outsiders who went south with Li Chengdong, and after the news of this matter spread, it caused a lot of dissatisfaction in the city of Guangzhou, and it is even said that the closure of the porridge field was also caused by Du Yonghe's refusal to distribute food, and the civil officials of the government and county government and the local generals of the guard office have discussed with Li Chengdong several times, and now they are only slightly restrained.

"The governor is the governor, and he can play more than me, the prefect."

Speaking of which, Du Yong and these people were all killed from the sea of corpses and blood in the northern land of Chongzhen, what haven't they seen? The reason why he did not put those "beggars" directly into the women's camp for the soldiers under his command to vent their desires was that Chen Kai estimated that he was afraid of causing public anger and was not conducive to defending the city, and second, he was not sure that Du Yonghe was also testing the mood of the locals and improving the morale of the army in this way. If the locals don't react much, but the morale of the army is greatly improved, it is not possible to expand it and assign a daughter-in-law to each of the bachelor's subordinates.

"It seems too unrealistic to say that free love is popularized. But the problem is that the destruction of Guangzhou is not a morale problem at all. In the history of the defenders in Guangzhou, there are many people who have chosen to stick to the death, but there is still no way to change the reality that the city has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and Du Yonghe has no meaning at all. ”

However, Chen Kai seems to have found something worth pondering from this matter. These things may make the execution of his plan smoother, but it is also possible.

"The officials, Langzhong, and officials all disembarked and waited for their orders. The flag was placed in Lin Hou's flagship and was not allowed to be taken out. Leave all the gunpowder and tung oil, take the other goods, and let's go feed Du Yonghe again. ”

After the negotiation was completed, Zhou Rui was relocated to Hong Kong Island, and Chen Kai and Lin Cha set off for Guangzhou. Out of the big tent, walking on the way to the port, in the distance, a man dressed as a Ming army was chopping firewood in the camp of the people who were temporarily stranded here, during which a woman dressed as a girl also came out to hand the man a bowl of water to drink, the man smiled and took the water bowl, drank it all in one gulp, and continued to chop firewood with an axe, looking very like that.

There is a harmonious relationship between the army and the people, but just after listening to Du Yonghe's joke, Chen Kai was suspicious, and simply turned his head to look at Lin Cha, who smiled affirmatively at this.

"The little rabbit cub has followed me for many years, never married a wife, this time on the island, I fell in love with the daughter of a common family in exchange, and took the initiative to help others work, the family saw that he was honest, so he gave his daughter to him, and he was scheduled to get married at the beginning of next month."

As Lin Cha spoke, Chen Kai vaguely saw that there seemed to be a figure of the Ming army between the tents, as if he was also doing some kind of work. Recalling Lin Cha's displeasure with Du Yonghe's behavior just now, it seems that it is not that the former Guangdong general soldiers pity the people of Guangzhou who once defended, but that it seems that Du Yonghe robbed the resources of the soldiers under his command.

"This group of feudal warlords, one by one, will play."

In any case, it seems that the sergeant on Lin Cha's side is still helping the people to work, in exchange for favor, and it is better to seek the approval of the woman's parents with the help of favor and security, than Du Yonghe's coercive methods.

In this regard, Chen Kai had no choice but to nod, and the right should be acquiesced. In this era, the discrimination against the old military households led to the low social status of the sergeants, and it was not easy to ask for a wife. This time, there was no clear robbery, and it was already Lin Cha who led the troops in a good way. What's more, in this apocalyptic era where there are mountains of corpses and a sea of blood everywhere, even if it is such a marriage, it is not something that everyone can want, so why should he say more about what he has and what he doesn't have.

Grain and a large amount of civilian supplies were put into storage, and the fleet soon arrived in Guangzhou. On the boat, Lin Cha mentioned some rumors, as if it was a matter of infighting in the Ming army in Guangxi, but who and whom, or who and who were infighting, Lin Cha did not have much tangible information. It's just that it sounds like this, it seems to be no different from Guangdong, and the situation of the Yongli Imperial Court in the Liangguang region doesn't seem to be much better, and the time left for him is indeed getting less and less.

When he arrived at the dock, Wu Wenwen personally greeted him, and he was so enthusiastic that he couldn't be better. Entering the city, Du Yonghe looked at the list of goods, and asked about weapons, Chen Kai said that the army was consumed a lot, and Du Yonghe, who was helpless, seemed to be a little unhappy.

However, when the goods arrived, it was a large amount of income, and the generals made a lot of money during this time, and Chen Kai was still regarded as a guest by them.

It's just that there were more people at the banquet, and after introducing each other, they learned that it was Bo Xingbo Zhang Yue and the generals he brought, Zhang Yue was defeated by Sanshui earlier, so he simply withdrew to Guangzhou City to assist in defending, but it seems that Du Yonghe also shared a part of the proceeds to Zhang Yue, and Zhang Yue also toasted Chen Kai with a special wine, expressing their gratitude to the Fujian Ming Army for supporting the Guangzhou Ming Army to resist the captive division.

However, at this point, the outlying strongholds of Guangzhou, Sanshui in the west, Qingyuan and Conghua in the north, and Zengcheng and Dongguan in the east, have all been occupied by the Qing army. This giant city, only the south is connected to the outside world by the Pearl River, once blocked, the soldiers and civilians in the city will completely become a turtle in the urn.

"September 27 of the fourth year of the Yongli calendar, and the last month!"