The next day, out of politeness, when Chen Kai went to greet Dong Yougu again, he was invited in by the latter. Fortunately, the servants in the room, as well as Zheng Jing, are also easy to talk. And what Dong Yougu wants to talk about is actually not out of the etiquette.

"In the past few days, I have been recuperating in South Australia, and I am tired of worrying about Chen joining the army. Now that the concubine is in good health, she plans to set off by boat this afternoon, and asks Chen to join the army to arrange it on her behalf. ”

"So fast?"

Chen Kai blurted out, and immediately apologized again and again, saying that he would arrange this matter with Chen Bao. But this surprise surprised Dong Yougu too, if it weren't for the fact that the words had already been spoken, it was really inconvenient to change her words, I was afraid that she would probably ask to leave Nanao Island by boat immediately, I don't know if she might think that there is a monster that eats people on Nanao Island.

In the afternoon, Dong Yougu got on the boat and left Nanao Island, and left here with Zheng Jing and the girl. One was going to see her husband, and the other two were going to visit their respective fathers, since it was an accident to stay on Nanao Island, then when the accident ended, everything would naturally return to normal.

In the afternoon, the sea ship sailed away, as far as Chen Kai knew, now Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui are in Jieyang, but there are still some local tyrants and pirates who refuse to submit on the road, so they still chose the safest route - from Beixi into the Hanjiang waterway, and after arriving in Chaozhou City, send troops to escort them to Jieyang.

When the ship came, Chen Kai had to wait as a magistrate, and when the ship left, Chen Kai had to send it off as a magistrate, which was the minimum etiquette of magistrates from ancient times to the present, especially in this country of etiquette.

It's just that when the ship came, he hurried away, but it made his heart empty, and it didn't look like it. Chen Kai knew very well what was the reason for such a feeling, but once he remembered everything he had talked about with that girl in the past few days, the heaviness could only make him feel difficult to breathe, and he no longer knew if he was really qualified and had the leisure to look forward to a love.

"Forgive the concubine for being blunt, I'm afraid this is not Chen's style to join the army!"

"Perhaps, maybe it was just a beautiful encounter from the beginning."

Lost, brought pessimism, Chen Kai dismissed the attaché, standing on the dock alone, looking at the calm sea in the distance, and the dark traces of silence on the sea and sky, which was the starting point before he came here two years ago, and now two years have passed, he looks back again, the country is still the same, but the mood has been very different.

"Gentle Township is both a hero's mound, or a child's love for a long hero's shortness of breath, although it is really unkind to attribute the reason for not succeeding to a woman's body, but for me, I may have been really distracted too much recently, and every day I wait in a trance to have a private meeting with the little girl who doesn't even know the name, which is really a bit too unusual."

Some things, once you figure it out and settle down again, the weather will be very different. Chen Kai returned to Nanao City, and as his work gradually resumed, a series of meetings began a few days later.

First of all, the Ordnance Bureau, the current Ordnance Bureau is no longer just a workshop, not to mention the continuous expansion of the workshop itself and the expansion of personnel, and the subordinate weapons test site, charcoal factory, nitrate accumulation field, gunpowder manufacturing workshop and military uniform manufacturing workshop have also been on the right track.

Among them, the large-scale output of nitrate has been able to support the large military, and even Zheng Chenggong was once in this to support the use of Zheng Hongkui's department, and the military uniform manufacturing workshop now has more than 100 regular employees and all kinds of miscellaneous miscellaneous servants, they produce ready-to-wear garments in large quantities at an unimaginable production speed in this era, if it is not for the standard size uniforms for the time being, that is, the official and the army have enough customers, Chen Kai is even considering building this workshop into the world's first large-scale garment manufacturing enterprise, and entering the international market.

The foundation has been laid, but it is not very solid. Not to mention, iron ore, sulfur and cloth either need to be purchased by sea trade, or Zheng Chenggong needs to be issued, and it cannot form a complete industrial chain.

This problem was not too much of a problem for the magistrates, but the area in charge of Chen Kai was nothing more than the enclave of Nanao, Dongshan, Haishan and Zhao'an, and the human and material resources were really limited, especially in terms of raw materials, and the people's self-sufficiency may not be able to achieve it, let alone carry out production under the quasi-industrial mode.

Chen Kai's intention in holding the meeting was to speak freely, but these guys either didn't dare to talk much because of his prestige, or they didn't understand it at all, and in the end, all the opinions gathered together, and it was nothing more than a sentence of "Please continue to regain the lost territory", as if they didn't know anything else besides this.

"This group of guys, it seems that I really have Zheng Chenggong to talk to."

The level of capital, raw materials and science and technology has limited the further development of the enterprise, and the development of the enterprise has fallen into a bottleneck. However, this is never the only burden on his shoulders, and it is indispensable for the civil affairs of these four occupied areas, and even how to deal with Shi Lang, a traitor.

"I still have to meet Zheng Chenggong."

Here, Chen Kai has already begun to prepare a plan, and when the time is right, he will go to Chaozhou to meet Zheng Chenggong to sell his new plan. At the same time, perhaps it was telepathy, Zheng Chenggong was also preparing to send a messenger to South Australia to invite Chen Kai to Jieyang for a while.

"Let Chen join the army and go to Jieyang? Husband, this is not appropriate. ”

Dong Yougu and his entourage arrived in the capital city of Chaozhou, and it happened that most of Zheng Chenggong's subordinates also returned here for repairs. After a long absence, Zheng Chenggong began to write to Chen Kai, planning to talk to Chen Kai about some things and listen to his opinions, but Dong Yougu was not very relieved about this.

"Huh?"

Husband and wife for many years, even if there have been few reunions in the past two years, Zheng Chenggong still knows about Dong Yougu. His original wife is the most typical lady, a woman raised by a scholar family, who reads and knows etiquette, and is even more obedient to her husband, and she has no choice for her husband and children. Two years ago, Zheng Chenggong fought bloody battles in South Australia, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and even Chaozhou, Dong Yougu supported his grandmother Mrs. Huang in his hometown in Anping Town, and raised Zheng Jing very carefully.

Sure enough, as Dong Yougu told Zheng Chenggong what she saw and heard on Nanao Island one by one, those changes that were different from the side were secondary, but in Dong Yougu's opinion, there may be some hazy feelings between Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong's cousin, but it aroused Zheng Chenggong's interest.

"It's a fate?"

Zheng Chenggong was stunned when he heard this, but after carefully recalling the possible intersection between the two, he skimmed a smile: "This thing is somewhat interesting." ”

didn't expect Zheng Chenggong to react like this, Dong Yougu was anxious, and began to explain her thoughts. But to put it mildly, it is nothing more than to let Chen Kai go to Jieyang now, or even to see Zheng Chenggong, in case Chen Kai suddenly wants to ask Zheng Hongkui for marriage, Zheng Chenggong will have some reasons such as passivity.

"Husband, fate is good, but she is the pearl of the fourth uncle after all!"

Speaking of which, how could Zheng Chenggong not understand the meaning of his words: "Lady, you are not afraid that you will not be worthy of fate, because you know that with your talent, in the current world, even if it is the county lord's mother, she is not unworthy, and even those phoenix sons and grandsons who have the Spring and Autumn dream of becoming emperors are afraid that even the so-called princess is willing to do so." To put it bluntly, you're afraid that if he marries fate, he won't be used by me anymore, right? ”

"Well, that's what the concubine body means."

It is true that Zheng Hongkui is Zheng Chenggong's fourth uncle, and it is not false that Zheng Hongkui has taken care of Zheng Chenggong over the years, and even Zheng Hongkui's current strength has already been surpassed by Zheng Chenggong, but in the final analysis, Zheng Hongkui is different from other uncles and brothers in the Ishii Zheng family, and he was the second person in the Zheng Group under Zheng Zhilong, and now he is still the sole leader of the army, and there are also six or seven thousand tigers and hundreds of warships in Jieyang and Kinmen, and his strength should not be underestimated. If Chen Kai really marries Zheng Hongkui's daughter, then he will only be closer to the Yue family, and once the arm helps change the court, it will be very unfavorable for Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong can understand this thought, and he is also very moved by Dong Yougu's ability to conceive this for him. However, there are some things that he has already seen clearly and thought clearly, but it is not something that can be persuaded by a deep woman's words.

"This, the lady can rest assured, the fourth uncle is old and sophisticated, and he has been in battle for a long time, but he doesn't need to become such a national soldier, and he won't be able to obey him!"