This time back, Chen Kai had lost the interest in looking at the mountains and rivers, and directly locked himself in the cabin, seriously weighing the pros and cons from beginning to end.

Not long after the sea ships set sail from the Fuzhou wharf, a large area of land along the Minjiang River was requisitioned for the general's uniform. Next, a large number of craftsmen and people were requisitioned, and a large number of building materials were transported to the wharf, which was arranged in the stack of bricks and tiles like the Chaozhou Manufacturing Bureau, and was copied from the Hanjiang River to the Minjiang River.

"It is said that Chen Fujun admonished the national surname two years ago to change part of the production process of the Ordnance Bureau to hydraulic mechanization, just like the manufacturing bureau in Chaozhou."

"Then the production of this weapon must not be frighteningly fast after that?"

"Who said it wasn't, I heard my cousin say that it was because our Fujian made the Tartar scourge miserable, and the country's surname was intended to recuperate, so this matter was postponed to this day."

"Then this place will be called Fuzhou Manufacturing Bureau in the future?"

"No, it's still called the Ordnance Bureau, well, it's the Fuzhou Ordnance Bureau. The Ordnance Bureau of the original Zhongzuo Institute retained some functions and was changed to the Zhangzhou Ordnance Bureau. Oh, by the way, the South Australian Ordnance Branch was officially merged into the Chaozhou Manufacturing Bureau, and the Foshan Manufacturing Branch is unchanged. In the future, these will be assigned to the engineering officer to be responsible for management. However, I thought about it, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou can still get that Chen Gongguan, but on the side of the Foshan Manufacturing Branch, nine times out of ten, Chen Fujun will still be watching. ”

The establishment of six officials, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the territory is too big, and Zheng Chenggong wants to strengthen centralized power to manage. At best, it is to make efforts to one place, but more often it is to gloat at the weakening of the rights of Chen Kai, the number two person within the group. There is no shortage of them, and they are the children of the Zheng family.

"Da Mu finally got the hang of it, and he saw the tricks of that guy clearly."

"I don't think so, it should be that Chen Kai is too self-righteous and sent troops to occupy Nangan. With such a large territory, can it not arouse the jealousy of Damu? ”

"Hey, no matter what, Chen Kai's good days are over, that's enough."

In Fuzhou, in the Zhongzuo Institute, and in Anping Town, between pushing cups and changing lamps, there are those who whisper, and there is no shortage of those who talk loudly. When the wine was drunk, one by one they were even more gearing up, just waiting for Zheng Chenggong to kill Chen Kai, and then they could go to Guangdong to receive Chen Kai's political legacy.

These are not the only ones accompanying Chen Kai's return journey, the establishment of the six official system, especially the issuance of official documents that Chen Kai already knew at the meeting, the entire Zheng Group's control area inevitably moved.

"To solicit the military order of the General's Palace, Du Hui, the chief military officer of Zhongchong Town, removed the post of chief military officer of Qiongzhou Town, and led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to return to Fujian to listen to the use, and the post of chief military officer of Qiongzhou Town was changed to Guo Tai, the deputy general of Sanheba Assistant. After Guo Tai led his troops and horses to Qiongzhou, Zhongchong Town was opened on the same day, and there must be no mistakes. ”

"Recruit the military order of the General's Mansion, the local affairs of the counties of Guancheng Township, Zhong Kuang Bo Zhang Jin was reappointed as the commander of the new army of the Water Division, and Yu Kuan, the deputy general of the Sanheba Assistant, was reappointed as the local affairs of the counties of Guancheng Township."

"Recruit the military order of the General's Palace, and the right commander Huangshan is fully responsible for the defense of the Southern Jiangxi region, and the military grain and grass are still in charge of Guangdong. In addition to the right commander's left and right towns, the subordinate department also aided the middle town, the front town, the left town, the right town, the Xiaoqi town, and the iron riding town, all of which were sent to assist in guarding the place. In addition, the town of Guangzhou was transferred to the capital of Ganzhou. Zhang Ying was appointed as the general commander of the five armies of Southern Jiangxi and supervised the armies of Southern Jiangxi. ”

"To solicit the military orders of the General's Palace, the responsibility of defending Guangdong is still under the sole responsibility of Chen Kai, the chief of Guangdong. In addition, after the transfer, Ke Chenmei, the chief military officer of Chong Town, led the troops and horses of his headquarters to return to Fujian to listen to the use. ”

“……”

Military orders were issued one after another, and the transfers were mainly in Guangdong and Nanjiang, because these two places have changed greatly this year. Guangdong remained basically unchanged, but some troops were dispatched to the battlefields of Southern Jiangxi and Fujian. At the same time, Zheng Chenggong handed over the military command of Southern Jiangxi to Huangshan, and Zhang Ying supervised the army. The administrative power of Nangan did not set up a separate governor, but assigned officials to be responsible to Chen Kai in Guangdong.

After weighing it again, Chen Kai thought about it carefully, his administrative position in the Zheng group was not greatly weakened, and his power in military affairs was only divided into four towns and handed over to Nanjiang and Fujian, which was not greatly weakened overall. However, judging from the next situation, Chen Kai needs to focus on western Guangdong and eastern Guidong for the time being, and the existence of Huangshan and Zhang Ying is a division of power, but also a share. After all, it is impossible for Zheng Chenggong to invest most of the power of the Zheng Group in the Western Front, which is inconsistent with the secondary attributes of his own maritime group, and the Eastern Front is the real focus.

However, with the establishment of the six officials, the relationship between Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong is no longer the old state where correspondence can decide military affairs. The six officials are responsible for different functions, just like the six departments of the center, the six departments of the provincial level, and the six rooms of the yamen of Fuzhou and county, which are formed in one line, and the administrative, litigation, and military affairs of Guangdong must be reported to the relevant departments, and the six officials will assist Zheng Chenggong in management.

In addition, Zheng Chenggong also decided to continue to expand the army, with five people as a squad, with a deputy leader for every ten squads, and five main leaders for each battalion, each of which was in charge of two deputy leaders. The total number of soldiers has not changed, but the old-style establishment of the original thousand generals and generals has been changed. In addition, each town originally had two associations and four battalions, but after the expansion, it was changed to two associations and five battalions, of which the middle battalion was directly under the jurisdiction of the chief military officer, and the total number of soldiers in each town was also expanded to 2,500 soldiers.

For the six existing cavalry towns, such as Iron Cavalry Town, Hussar Town, North Town, Xiaoqi Town, Cheqi Town, and Ranger Town, Zheng Chenggong decided to expand the strength of the original three battalions to four, that is, the scale of two associations and four battalions of 2,000 cavalry under the jurisdiction of each town. In this way, the capture of the Ming army on the battlefield of Southern Jiangxi and the cavalry and war horses brought by the Qing army in Zhoushan and Taizhou were enough to deal with such an expansion.

Since the recovery of Fujian, the 28 Star Camp established by Zheng Chenggong has always played the role of assisting in the defense of various prefectures and counties and deterring localities. At this time, Zheng Chenggong also planned to expand these battalion heads into associations, that is, from one battalion to two battalions.

In addition, under the influence of the great victory in Ganzhou, Zheng Chenggong also decided to form two new towns, named Zuohuwei Town and Right Huwei Town, and the number of soldiers was relatively small, with only 1,200 soldiers respectively, that is, slightly larger than a Xie. However, these two towns are actually the same Iron Man Army as the battalion B team directly under Fubiao in Guangdong, and they need to select suitable candidates from each town, which is more troublesome than the expansion of other troops.

Such an expansion can be carried out because of the tax dividends brought about by the continuous improvement of people's livelihood in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, and the more abundant supply of goods of Zheng's Group after recovering a large area of lost land. Haimao has always been the biggest economic pillar of Zheng's group's military raising, and such a pillar has not seen a significant reduction in the proportion with the continuous recovery of lost territory, but has further stimulated the scale of maritime trade due to the more abundant supply of goods.

The territory of two and a half provinces is actually more than that. During Chen Kai's operation in Guangdong, Zheng Tai, the god of wealth who held the power of the Zheng Group's maritime trade, was not idle.

Zheng Chenggong had already agreed with Zheng Tai to set up the Five Merchants of Shanhai, which was responsible for purchasing goods in the area controlled by the Qing court, and was headquartered in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, and the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth were distributed in Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shandong and other coastal areas. On the side of the five merchants, the five elements of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith are mainly responsible for the import and export trade of foreign countries, and Chen Kai is not very clear about the specific location, but he heard the mouse beard say that the Guangdong trading company has been in contact with some earlier, as if the leaders of the five merchants are all from Quanzhou, and four of them are called Zeng Dinglao, Wu Qiniang, Gong Sunguan and Gong Meiniang. Even Cai Cheng only had a few encounters with Zeng Dinglao, and the others were more likely to hear his name but not see him, and even Wu Qiniang and Gong Meiniang didn't know whether they were men or women.

"Husband, do you remember, when we got married, the servant sent by Brother Qiwu to send a congratulatory gift, named Liao Banniang, was killed some time ago."

Recalling the servant of Zheng Qiwu, another clansman in charge of maritime trade in the Zheng Group, whom Zheng Xiyuan had mentioned, Chen Kai vaguely remembered that although this person's name was feminine, he was a man. However, it seems that I have heard from other sources, saying that Zheng Chenggong set up a righteous business system before, and Zheng Qiwu once gave him a sum of money to go to the inland of Fujian to lurk and buy materials, but the guy actually absconded with the money and went to the countryside to become a rich man. Of course, before the Ming army recovered Fujian, the guy was first eliminated by the Zheng family......

There is only one word difference between maritime merchants and pirates, where can they tolerate such eating inside and outside. Chen Kai remembered that he had heard about this old incident at the beginning, and he didn't take it seriously at all. But this time, Zheng Tai made a request at the meeting, but it suddenly reminded him of the essence of the Zheng Group.

In order to avoid the levy of royalties, many maritime merchants chose to trade on the territory of the Ming army in western Guangdong, but the security of the Guangdong Sea is what we operate and maintain. Since Lian Chengbi is dead, then the generals of western Guangdong should naturally be temperate. ”

Of course Chen Kai understood the meaning of Zheng Tai's words. What is moderation and non-moderation, to put it bluntly, the Zheng Group needs Chen Kai to integrate the Ming Army in western Guangdong and actually control the territory of western Guangdong for the sake of interests, so that the Zheng Group can control all the aspects of salary, sea trade, etc., and the profits harvested will naturally be further improved.

Doing the math, the areas controlled by the generals in western Guangdong now include Gaozhou Prefecture, Leizhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture, and the southern part of Zhaoqing Prefecture, that is, the counties south of Cangbushui, as well as Luoding Prefecture, plus Xinning County in the southwest of Guangzhou Prefecture. This includes Chen Qice, Li Changrong, Wang Xing, Wei Yingdeng, Ye Biao, Zhou Jintang, Deng Yao, Guo Dengdi, Gao Jinku, Zhang Yue and a large number of Ming troops. They occupy the prefecture and county, and naturally they have to operate maritime trade in the coastal areas. For the Zheng Group's salary, it also refused to pay under the banner of friendly forces. Some time ago, it was the honeymoon period between the Zheng Group and the Yongli Imperial Court and the Xining Domain, and Zheng Tai adhered to Zheng Chenggong's intentions and was not too tough, so that the economic interests were naturally affected. Now that Lian Chengbi is dead and Li Dingguo has entered Yunnan, they naturally have nothing to take care of.

"Zheng Group, hungry."

………………

Since the end of last year, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties have fought each other for a great deal of land in eastern Guangxi, northern Guangdong, western Guangdong, southern Jiangxi, and southwestern Fujian.

The final result seemed to have its own gains, but in fact, the strategic situation of the Qing court deteriorated further, and the danger of the mountains and rivers that the original 10,000-mile long side could rely on was opened, and the purpose of isolating the Ming army from the southeast and southwest was not fully achieved.

After capturing Wuzhou Mansion, Quan Jie and Ma Xiong put all their forces into consolidating the defense. At the same time, Chen Kai sent Ke Chenshu to quickly advance westward, and quickly occupied a large area in the north of Zhaoqing Prefecture without the Qing army defending it, forming a confrontation situation with the Qing army in Wuzhou.

The Qing army put on a posture of strict defense, and although the Ming army was violent, it was limited to recovering the lost territory of Zhaoqing Mansion, and was not in a hurry to attack Wuzhou Prefecture. There are many reasons for this, but it is a bad battle in one or the other. At least at this stage, the Zheng Group needs to digest the newly recovered areas before they can think about other things.

The war finally came to an end under the exhaustion of both sides, and under the advance of the Qing army, in Xunzhou Mansion south of Wuzhou Mansion, Li Chengjue, Shi Shangyi, and Li Xianfang, three generals who had evacuated from Wuzhou Mansion without authorization earlier, sat in the secret room, looking at each other in amazement.

Not long ago, reliable news came that the news that the Ming army had defeated Nangan, that Chen Kai had died in the chaos, and that the Qing army of Southern Gan had gone straight to the city of Guangzhou was purely a rumor fabricated by Daniel Zhang and Hu Maozhen. With this information, they immediately figured out what was going on. It is undeniable that Hong Chengchou's remedial efforts have indeed achieved results, but the problem is that not to mention the loss of Wuzhou Fucheng, even Gao Wengui and Lian Chengbi are dead, and their reinforcements, who should have contributed and worked hard, have become the fingers of thousands of people, which makes them deal with themselves.

"Originally, we said at that time that we would withdraw first, and force the Lian Zhi army and Gao Du to withdraw the army. In this way, you can still keep your vitality and continue to toss with the Tartars. But these two dead-eyed ......"

"Hey, is it still useful to talk about this now, who will believe us?"

Speaking of this, the three of them couldn't help but hang their heads. There is no way to do this, at least they do not have the ability to recover the capital city of Wuzhou on their own to make meritorious contributions. Not even mentioning any crazy words about guilt and meritorious service, they were not too afraid of the Ming Court's criticism as a feudal town that did their own thing, but this time it was not only the Yongli Imperial Court that was offended, but also His Royal Highness the King of Xining, who was the king of the two famous kings, that was the real killing god that could not be provoked.

"Otherwise, let's send someone to find Chen Fujun and say Xiang, isn't he always at odds with the company?"

Chen Kai and Lianchengbi are not on good terms, to be precise, the Zheng clique and the civil official clique in western Guangdong have dirty relations with each other, which is a matter that everyone in the two Guangxi and Guangzhou officials and generals knows about. If so, Lian Chengbi died, the civil official group in western Guangdong suffered a heavy blow, and Chen Kai took advantage of the situation to seize the northern area of Zhaoqing Prefecture, which was also in line with their intentions. However, as soon as these words came out, they were immediately refuted by another voice.

"Chen Kai can even handle his wife's own uncle, such a notoriously ruthless character, we didn't even have to swallow the bones and meat in the past. When the time comes, we will have to shoulder the responsibility for the fall of Wuzhou. ”

"That's not necessarily, aren't Li Jianjie, Ma Bao and Hao Shangjiu all doing well?"

"Did they throw the civil servants of the prison army to the Tartars? Chen Kai is a civilian official in the supervision army in the final analysis, just like the company army, even if the two people can't get along on weekdays, but this kind of thing is always inevitable for a rabbit to die and a fox to be sad. ”

The three of them looked at each other, and all they saw was each other's distress, and nothing else. In this way, I don't know how long it took, and suddenly a voice woke up the silence again.

"Otherwise, let's go ......"

"To descend the Tartars? I'm not going. Lao Tzu has been fighting with the Tartars for so many years, and for today's things, the court can always forgive me for the credit of the past. Now go and descend the Tartars, do you want your ancestors?! ”

"What are you anxious about, I didn't say anything about descending tartars."

"And where else to go?"

"Let's go find Inspector Guo."

"Looking for Guo Zhiqi?" The head shook like a rattle, one of them did this, and so did the two of them: "Then it's better to go to Chen Kai." ”

Indeed, Guo Zhiqi and Lianchengbi have been friends for many years, and their personal relationship is very good. In addition, they are all subordinate officials of the Yongli Imperial Court, and they are all members of the civil official group in western Guangdong, and now that Lian Chengbi is dead, Guo Zhiqi must be the most angry. If you don't pull them out and punish them properly, it will be considered reasonable.

This is clearly a dead end, but the voice doesn't see it that way: "At this time, Inspector Guo is afraid that he is more afraid of Chen Fujun than us little people." ”

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