The word "again" spit out too many thoughts, Jin Weixin said it unintentionally, Chen Kai sat there, but he couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it.

Last year, the Ming army of the three systems on the battlefield in Guangdong, Li Dingguo's department only went out of Yunnan to resist the Qing Dynasty, military discipline and military law were extremely strict, and many people at the time said that they did not commit any offense; On the other hand, the Ming Army of Eastern Guangdong brought by Chen Kai was mostly subordinate to Zheng Chenggong in terms of military power, Zheng Chenggong was known for his strict punishment and strict law, and the strictness of governing the army was well-known in Chinese history, and the importance of military law and military discipline was greater than that of Li Dingguo, plus Chen Kai was also stubborn about this, even more so.

However, the Ming army in western Guangdong, some of which were official troops, and some of them were only righteous armies, and most of them were not strong. As early as last year, their military discipline was questioned many times, and Li Dingguo's subordinates, who were strictly restrained by the harassment of the people, were very dissatisfied with this, and many generals accused Li Dingguo of all kinds of problems of these friendly troops, but out of the consideration of cooperation, Li Dingguo was not able to restrain other people's troops, and often left it at that.

However, these problems have not disappeared, but have been more deeply reflected in the impression. At this point, the problem will reappear, and in my heart, the troubles of the past will be surging like a dam flooding.

After listening to Jin Weixin's advice and the specific situation, Chen Kai nodded, only said that he knew, and then stopped mentioning this time. It wasn't until this meal had been eaten and was eating that someone from Xingyuan came to see him, saying that Li Dingguo had sent someone to invite Chen Kai, and there was something to discuss, so the meeting ended there.

The wheels are crushed on the bluestone pavement of the city, accompanied by the brass bells on the necks of the healthy horses and the light horses guarding the side, and the farriers are ringing with a melody that seems to be absent.

Sitting in the carriage, Chen Kai closed his eyes and recuperated, but he didn't think about what he was about to face, but pondered some of the things mentioned in the letter that Zheng Chenggong had just sent, and recalculated what he needed to do at the moment, first of all, he had to sort out a priority.

The carriage sped towards the camp, but it didn't take much time. When he arrived, Guo Zhiqi, Lian Chengbi and others in the big tent of the Chinese army also arrived early, and if you look closely, it seems that the faces of all the people present are not very good-looking, especially Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi. quarreled, it wasn't like it, but the incident mentioned by Jin Weixin obviously made them very unhappy, otherwise they wouldn't have invited him from the east of the city to the camp in the west of the city on this big night.

After saluting each other, Li Dingguo bluntly mentioned the reason why he invited Chen Kai so late. To put it bluntly, it was still the generals of the Ming Army in Western Guangdong who were doing things, Chen Kai nodded after hearing it, and he didn't care too much, but just used the sentence "arson and disturb the people" to summarize the nature of this matter, and didn't say anything.

"Chen Fujun, I'm afraid this matter is not so simple. If they are not driven by profit, why are they so chaotic? ”

Guo Zhiqi asked sharply, Chen Kai looked at him, but as if he had heard a big joke, he directly choked back: "What does Inspector Guo mean is that this official instructed your lord's temperate general to come to me to find myself unhappy?" ”

This is indeed unreasonable. Subsequently, before Guo Zhiqi could speak, Chen Kai turned his head and said to Li Dingguo: "Your Highness, there are more than 10,000 people in Guangzhou, and the lower officials had an appointment with Chen Linghai back then. Therefore, when Chen Linghai fulfills his promise, the lower officials will naturally subsidize food to reduce the losses caused by the departure of these people to Chen Linghai's subordinates. ”

"Speaking of which, the amount of this subsidy is not much, or even very little. The reason for this, one of them is that the accumulation of Xiaguan in Chaozhou and Qiongzhou for many years has cost a lot in the past year and today, coupled with the chaos in Fujian, the storage in the warehouse has almost been used up; Second, it is precisely because the lower officials are afraid that someone will use this to rob the people in exchange for money, so they will reduce the subsidy amount to this share, and even offend those generals who want to ask for more subsidies. ”

Xia Guan asked himself, he had already thought about this matter. As for some people's desire for profit and want to use this to force me to give in, what does it have to do with me? ”

Chen Kai's words are conclusive and reasonable. In a word, although Li Dingguo and the others did not say it explicitly, looking at that look, they thought that they were already more biased towards Chen Kai's side.

At this point, Guo Zhiqi did not continue to chase and fight, but only said that he had sent someone to pass on the order, ordering the generals not to harass the people, and as for the subsidy or something, wait for the result of the discussion.

With such a reaction, Chen Kai certainly understood Guo Zhiqi's intentions. But for him, it didn't matter, he chatted casually, and then left.

"Inspector, why don't you continue to ask?"

and Chen Kai, they left one after the other, but there was no intersection. Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi returned to the government office, and there, Lian Chengbi couldn't wait to ask for the exit.

"Rubai, there is no point in forcing us to ask any longer, but it will only make His Highness more bored with us."

Shaking his head, Guo Zhiqi knew very well that although the governor in front of him was a feudal official, he had too little experience in officialdom after all. Even if there is Wang Huacheng in the past, and he supports and teaches him later, but in terms of people's hearts, for an official who has not been at the grassroots level of the prefecture and county for too long, no matter how good his intelligence is, it is inevitable that he will owe the fire.

Thinking about this, the sigh was only in his heart, Guo Zhiqi saw the incomprehension, and even explained to Lian Chengbi: "Fang Cai, I only asked one sentence, and Chen Kai already had a lot of words waiting, obviously prepared. Based on this, we can be sure that this person should be planning to do this. In this case, no matter how much he says, he has something to say, and it is useless to say more. ”

Of course, Lianchengbi can understand this. Aside from the sidelines, just taking "why don't you stop the subsidy" as an example, Chen Kai can not only say that "without the subsidy, those generals will not release the refuge people", and can also use "there can be no more, there can be no more" as an excuse, bluntly saying that "once the subsidy is stopped, those generals who can't see the benefits are likely to kill those refuge people to vent their anger", and in turn asked Guo Zhiqi if he could guarantee them.

In this way, they are bound to fall into a new trap, and one by one, it will be difficult to get out. Thinking of this, Lian Chengbi suddenly realized: "Therefore, while sending people to give orders to those generals, the supervisor hinted that they would compensate them accordingly afterwards, just to prevent Chen Kai from being accused of not having the ability to control the generals under his command!" ”

One point is thorough, Lian Chengbi's performance made Guo Zhiqi couldn't help but feel happy, nodded, and continued: "As long as we prove to His Highness that we have no ability to control the generals under our command, when His Highness returns to Anlong to save him, the situation in Guangdong will inevitably need to be dominated by him who has more real power." That's what he's for! ”

"He has seen through the core problems of the current situation in western Guangdong."

"Yes, he's attacking my weaknesses with his strengths. Guangdong has been regained after years of hard fighting, and the more this is the case, the more His Highness will ensure that this place can hold on after leaving before leaving, and even continue to regain the lost territory. We still need time to restrain the generals step by step better, and he, Chen Kai, holds the military power surnamed Zheng Ci in his hand, and over the years, the prestige in the hearts of the generals under his command is also very high, and one is like an arm, not at all. ”

Li Dingguo has already determined that if he wants to return to Anlong to save the driver, which side should fill the power and military vacuum after the army leaves, this dominance is not in the hands of Guo Zhiqi, the governor, nor is it in the control of the governor of Lianchengbi, let alone Chen Kai, the governor can have the final say, as for the Yongli court, it is even more beyond the reach of the whip, in the final analysis, Li Dingguo is more inclined to whichever side, which side can occupy a greater advantage. Not to mention, this Guangdong province, aside from the Qing army in northern Guangdong, the world is divided into three parts, and Li Dingguo's share of the cake will fall into the hands of which side!

"It's me who underestimated that Chen Kai, or rather, he had the heart to numb us from the beginning, so he behaved so arrogantly."

How many faces does the opponent have, and which one is real, if you can't see it clearly, knowing yourself and knowing your opponent is a trick. The two of them thought about it for a long time, and they always felt that they still had to find a way to turn passive into active, otherwise it would always be Chen Kai's move, and if they took the move, it would only reveal more flaws, making Li Dingguo less and less confident in them.

"According to the ancestral system, the governor of Liangguang is also the governor of Guangdong. Jiashen used to be like this, and after Jiashen, Ding Thief, Wang Gebu, and Lin Zhu Ergong were all tied here. To Li Chengdong anyway......"

The governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong was the old system of the Ming court, and Li Chengdong was a province of Guangdong at that time, plus half of Guangxi, which changed the banner of the Ming court. Li Chengdong seized the governor's seal letter from Tong Yangjia, and the Ming court left Tong Yangjia idle and gave it to a messenger in charge of the military capital. On Li Chengdong's side, in fact, he was only in charge of the military affairs of Guangdong Province, and the right to appoint and dismiss personnel was handed over to the imperial court. Even with Guangxi, the Ming court promoted Geng Xianzhong, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, to be the secretary of the military department, and Qu Shiqi, the governor of Guilin, and Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Guilin, actually controlled the military and political power in Guangxi.

Li Chengdong was in charge of Jiangsu, Guangzhou, Fujian, and Zhejiang, but in fact there was no dispatch from the governor of Guangdong, and the place of administration was no longer Wuzhou and Zhaoqing, but Guangzhou as usual during the Qing court. After his death, so did Du Yonghe. When Du Yonghe abandoned the city and fled, and even surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Lian Chengbi was appointed as the governor of Liangguang, and he was only in charge of the Ming army and the righteous army who retreated to the mountains and islands, and the governance office was only in that small Wen Village, let alone responsible for the civil affairs of the whole province.

"Rubai, at this stage, we must first take down the dispatch of the governor of Guangdong. With this dispatch, we can continue to manage the affairs of the Canton Prefecture in the name of righteousness. Otherwise, with the official position of governor alone, once Chen Kai seeks the governor of Guangdong, then it is likely that he will be directly invited out of Guangzhou Mansion and back to Zhaoqing and Wuzhou. ”

"In the near future, I'm afraid it's not easy to do."

"Yes, what you can't count on over there, the key is His Royal Highness the King of Xining. In the near future, we still have to do the current matter well before we can talk about it. ”

Things are back to square one, and if the civil official clique in western Guangdong wants to gain the upper hand in the power struggle after Li Dingguo leaves, they must first take off this hat that is unable to control the generals.

At the end of the dynasty, the country's organizational power and control declined, and the loss of control of the grassroots and military generals was inevitable. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the chaos in the north is not to mention, only to say that Guangdong, is also full of bandits, the seven big robbers of the tide sea, and Wang Xing, the embroidery needle, can be said to abound.

As for the loss of control of the generals, it is nothing more than the feudal townization of the local army. The Guanning Army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chu Town and the four towns of Jiangbei in the Hongguang Dynasty, and then later were armed with warlords everywhere. If it weren't for the fact that there was an additional problem of national oppression in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it would have a superficial similarity with the chaos of the military in the late Han and Tang dynasties.

Sitting on the carriage returning home, Chen Kai couldn't help laughing out loud when he thought of this. It's just that in that laughter, there is no joy at all, there is only sarcasm, outright irony.

Once on the Internet, Chen Kai saw such a saying, saying that "Guoheng died with weakness, and Han Du died with strength". With just this sentence, the strong spirit of the Han Dynasty came to his face.

Regarding the strong statement of the Han Dynasty, all dynasties, especially in that Internet era, can be said to be numerous, the most famous of which is the Han general Chen Tang's resounding throughout the ancient and modern "those who commit strong Han crimes, although they are far away, will be punished", the high-spirited national self-confidence between the lines, even after more than 2,000 years, can be clearly felt, and feel excited.

However, after reading a lot of books, Chen Kai also clearly remembered that Chen Tang also said, "Fu Hu Bing is five and Han Bing is one, what?" The blade is blunt, and the bow and crossbow are unfavorable. Today, it is quite skillful, but it is still three and one. "From one Han enemy to five Hu, to one Han enemy three Hu, this is a kind of regression in itself. Even, by the end of the Han Dynasty, the degree of regression was not enough to reverse the balance of combat effectiveness between the Han and Hu, so the local separatist forces could still beat the Hu people.

However, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, warlords fought, the people were poor, examples of cannibalism abounded, and even by the time of the Three Kingdoms, the population dropped sharply, from 50 million at the peak to more than 7 million, so that the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu had to plunder each other's population to enhance their own strength, and even to the point of capturing the Hu people, Shanyue, Wulingman, and Southwest Yi to replenish the population, among which the Wudang Fei Army of the Shu Han regime was established by conquering Nanzhong.

It has reached this point, but the separatist forces are still waging wars in order to regain unification. But it really dominated the world, due to the sharp decline in population and internal strife, the Western Jin Dynasty simply moved the Hu people to enrich the place, and even the deafening and ancient strange texts like "The Theory of Migration" could not stop them, which eventually led to the chaos of the Five Wants, in the final analysis, it was still a trend of interests.

People are always the most important resource, because without them, everything else is meaningless. As early as the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong also said, "China is strong today, Rong Di is weak, with a thousand soldiers in my army, I can hit tens of thousands of Hu cavalry", as a result, after the Anshi Rebellion, five dynasties and ten kingdoms, what was left to the Song was only a Western Regions, Hexi, Youyun Sixteen Prefectures all fell into the hands of Yidi, and the situation of Annan's independence.

Thinking of Annam, Chen Kai vaguely remembered that it was also mentioned in the letter sent by the Qiongzhou Mansion a few days ago, saying that the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty caused the Han people to migrate to Annam, and the Ruan lord's regime vigorously recruited Han people to develop the southern part of Annam, so that the Ruan lord had the strength to compete with the Zheng lord.

The reason for this was that in addition to the long-term warlord fighting, the displacement of the people, and the sharp decline in the population, due to the lack of livelihood of the people, a large number of Han people were forced to migrate to the relatively stable Hu controlled areas at that time, and even vassal states. The migration of the population has enabled those nomadic people with a low level of civilization and small countries to quickly obtain the science and technology and culture that China has accumulated for many years to develop, and accelerated their strength.

The balance of power between Han and Hu reversed......

Today's Ming court, in addition to the national oppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, is full of feudal towns within the limited control area. At this point, large warlord forces such as the Qin Wangfu, Xining Domain, and Zheng Group had much stronger control over their generals than the imperial court, and those civil officials appointed by the Ming court were responsible for control, such as Liangguang and Kuidong, and the small warlord forces in these areas were as numerous as cattle hairs, and they were constantly filthy with each other, and the harassment of the people was also irrepressible.

On the issue of subsidies, Chen Kai just pushed it, and sure enough, those military leaders who were used to being free and comfortable jumped out and showed the problem more clearly in front of Li Dingguo's eyes. And this is exactly what Chen Kai needs Li Dingguo to see at the moment, no matter whether the way they choose is like it is now, as long as the problem is exposed, it will be enough.

"Inspector Guo and Lian Zhijun, the two of them met teammates like pigs, so think they are unlucky."