Next, Chen Kai and Zhou Tengfeng told a good story about the defense of the left in the year before last, Chen Kai asked himself to do things with a fair heart, but as a result, the Zheng children regarded him as a jackal and a hungry tiger, and even the marriage that had already been decided was delayed again and again. These are all facts that have actually happened, and Chen Kai is not afraid of Zhou Tengfeng to investigate, but he has poured out this complaint, Zhou Tengfeng knew that he had no way to get help from Chen Kai, so he could only say goodbye and go to the Zhongzuo Institute to visit Zheng Chenggong.

Chaozhou to the Zhongzuo Institute, it is not far away, Zhou Tengfeng arrived after a few days before Zheng Chenggong took time to meet him. However, the process of the meeting did not take much effort, to be precise, Zheng Chenggong ended the meeting with only one sentence, and then served tea to the guests.

"This matter, the national government has rarely asked about the affairs of Guangdong. The recovery of Qiongzhou is the credit of Chen Fujun and the generals, and they did write to them earlier that they wanted to collect taxes and salaries in Qiongzhou Mansion to protect the territory and the people. Specifically, Zhou Daotai can take this letter to Qiongzhou Mansion to discuss with Lin Hou. ”

Speaking of which, Zheng Chenggong is far away in southern Fujian, Chen Kai is slightly closer, but he is also in eastern Guangdong, and he is thousands of miles away from Qiongzhou Mansion in western Guangdong. Zheng Chenggong entrusted the military and political affairs of Guangdong to Chen Kai, whose seat of governance was in Chaozhou, which was beyond the reach of Qiongzhou, and it was only natural to hand over the actual power there to Lin Cha.

This is like the existence of governors in Liangguang, Guangdong and Guangxi also have governors, and the existence of the governors of the four prefectures of Gao Lian and Lei Qiong is also indispensable to Zhou Tengfeng, Hokkaido, which is a ruling structure composed of power levels at all levels, in order to be able to respond more quickly to local changes and maintain rule.

Holding the letter, Zhou Tengfeng took a boat to Qiongzhou Mansion, and after several waves along the way, he finally arrived in the sea area of Qiongzhou Mansion in November. When the letter was sent, Lin Cha and Du Hui did not continue to escort Zhang Xiaoqi to the island with the fleet of patrols. On the island, the sailor did not send Zhou Tengfeng and his entourage to the capital city of Qiongzhou, but to the Qianhu Institute in Haikou. Du Hui's head town and Zheng Xingying's prefect yamen were both in Fucheng, but Lin Cha was stationed in Haikou Qianhu, so he commanded the sailors.

Lin Cha is the coach here, and it is the right thing to pay a visit. Zhou Tengfeng came with Zheng Chenggong's letter, Lin Cha took the letter, and read it carefully, it was nothing more than asking for the opinions of the front-line generals. However, in this regard, Lin Cha said that he was only in charge of the sailors, ensuring the maritime safety of Qiongzhou Island, nothing more. For specific things, I have to discuss with Du Hui and Zheng Xingying before replying.

"Then the lower official will leave for Fucheng."

"No need, Ben Hou has already sent someone to invite, this is not far from Fucheng, it's a little late today, and tomorrow will come."

arranged for Zhou Tengfeng to rest, and the next day Du Hui and Zheng Xingying came to meet with him unexpectedly. Zhou Tengfeng put forward a request, but he was not as tough as Zhang Xiaoqi earlier, and only said that several states and counties should be divided for food, and that's it. But even so, Du Hui and Zheng Xingying also said that they couldn't do this thing.

"Qiongzhou Li is still in turmoil, and now it is easy to rely on the policy of cultivating and recuperating to appease those Shengli and Shuli, and then there are other kings and teachers to land on the island, who is listening to this government order and military order? If something goes wrong, who will be responsible? ”

Du Hui and Zheng Xingying shook their heads like rattles, and Lin Cha was helpless about this, so he only said that he would repair a book and ask Chen Kai for instructions. After all, this Qiongzhou Mansion was recovered by Chen Kai with them, and a series of policies in the past six months were also formulated by Chen Kai before he set off to return to eastern Guangdong, without Chen Kai's permission, it was not easy for them to change Chen Kai's plan without permission.

The front-line generals are so handsome, Zhou Tengfeng had to take Lin Cha's letter to Chaozhou again to meet Chen Kai. This time, the road was smooth sailing, and I soon arrived in Chaozhou City. Chen Kai met with Zhou Tengfeng as quickly as last time, but after reading Lin Cha's letters, many of them were worried about the inconsistency of power, and some things about sea trade were mentioned.

"Don't hide it from Zhou Daotai, many of the goods on Qiongzhou Island are booked by the Zhongzuo Institute. In particular, the giant tree is the foundation for our army to maintain its superiority over the Tartar sailors. The official of the sea trade is not counted, and the surname of the country is the master, so the official will repair a letter and ask Zhou Daotai to go to the center and left to discuss with the surname of the country. ”

Chen Kai said that he would do it, and he didn't care about Zhou Tengfeng's feelings at all. The letter was written in a hurry, and then as soon as the letter was taken off, the people in the inner house came to report, saying that the lady was a little uncomfortable, Chen Kai's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he couldn't take care of Zhou Tengfeng anymore, so he hurriedly said goodbye and left.

Zhou Tengfeng heard about it when she came last time she came that Chen Kai's wife was pregnant. In the massacre of Datong that year, it is said that only five death row prisoners survived, and there will definitely be no Chen family in it. In this way, Chen Kai is left in the Chen family, and now that his wife is pregnant with a child, it is inevitable that Chen Kai will be so nervous when it comes to incense.

Next year, the king of Xining is said to have a big move, and now that it is a month, Zhou Tengfeng knew that there was not much time left, so he hurriedly set off to go to the Zhongzuo Institute again.

When he arrived at the Zhongzuo Institute, he learned that all the affairs of the Zheng Group about sea trade were in charge of Zheng Chenggong's brother Jianping Hou Zheng Tai. Zheng Tai went to Japan some time ago to discuss with the Tokugawa shogunate about expanding the scale of sea trade, and Zheng Chenggong was not very clear about the details of the sea trade with the Qiongzhou government, especially Zheng Tai's layout in several aspects.

"Zhou Daotai will stay for the time being, if there is no accident in Jianpinghou, he will always come back for the New Year."

After running at sea for a few months, it seems that it is not too far from Chinese New Year's Eve. Zhou Tengfeng couldn't, so he had to rest here, but as Zheng Chenggong expected, when the New Year was approaching, Zheng Tai really came back.

"Over there in Qiongzhou Mansion, Benhou has been running the maritime trade of the Japanese Kingdom, Korea and the Ryukyus recently. The main route there is Nanyang, and the people below have already done it, but the specific details are not very clear. In addition, Chen Fujun helped contact some Shengli Tusi in Qiongzhou Mansion earlier, and they didn't seem to have reached a word yet. It's better to write a letter to the Zheng Governor's Mansion and ask the Zheng Governor's Mansion how it is going, okay? ”

Zheng Tai was very polite, in addition to the rules of the title, he smiled before he spoke, and did not grasp his status as a marquis at all. Due to the limitations of transportation and communication technology in this era, many things will inevitably be delayed, and Zhou Tengfeng couldn't do it, so he had to take the letter and continue to return.

However, the ship is on the sea, and it is about already close to Nanao Island, and the letters of Chen Kai, Zheng Chenggong, Lin Cha, Zheng Tai and others in Zhou Tengfeng's mind have always been written very quickly, as if they had memorized them well and wrote silently in front of the teacher. As long as these pictures are put aside in his mind, especially when he recalls Chen Kai's serious handling of Zhang Xiaoqi, Zhou Tengfeng immediately scolded.

"People, you can be so shameless!"

Qiongzhou Mansion didn't go either, and Zhou Tengfeng went directly to Wencun to ask Lianchengbi for advice. The latter heard Zhou Tengfeng's experience in the past few months, and he couldn't help but scold. But after scolding, he also told Zhou Tengfeng that since the other party did not intend to give away the rights and interests of Qiongzhou Mansion at all, it would be in vain for him to go many times.

"The army, it stands to reason that Zhang Fujun is in charge of the Qiongzhou Mansion, and the court is ......"

"Zhou Daotai, don't expect the imperial court, now that the safety of the Son of Heaven is still in the hands of others, where can you take care of these things. What's more, even if the imperial court is willing to take care of it, as it did to you some time ago, Chen Kai, Zheng Ci and Lin Cha are pushing each other around, and if they have that kind of time, it is better to spend more effort on assisting the King of Xining to recover Guangdong! ”

There has long been a contradiction between the civil officials in western Guangdong and Chen Kai, and it is said that they are afraid that the power of the Zheng group will infiltrate Guangdong too much.

During this time, Chen Kai put on this attitude, it was a-for-tat gesture, Lian Chengbi secretly scolded him in his heart for underestimating Chen Kai's strength and ability earlier, but after thinking about it, even if there was no verbal conflict between the two sides at the beginning, Chen Kai would never let their forces infiltrate Qiongzhou Mansion, as if they did not want the strength of the Zheng Group to have too much existence in Guangdong.

Rights, always. Lian Chengbi vetoed the plan to continue to ramp his skin, and everything was just waiting for Li Dingguo's army to enter Guangdong again, and now the almost frozen pool water can boil.

………………

Zhou Tengfeng is running between the three lines of Qiongzhou Mansion, Chaozhou Mansion and Zhongzuo Institute, and Chen Kai will naturally not be idle.

In the winter, through the Guangdong Minbao and the apprentices of the quality testing school, they went down to the villages to preach, and compound agriculture began to be promoted.

Nanyang Village, Lianxia Town, Chenghai County, between Chaozhou and Nanao Island, the Xu family, which was originally located here and bullied everywhere, has long disappeared, and some are just scenes of people's farming and livelihood.

This place, together with Outing Village, Waisha Village, Guanlong Village, and Chenghai County, which is guarded by these walled cities, constitute the defense system of this fertile land in the Hanjiang River Delta. The Ming army under the command of Hong Xishan, the chief military officer of the local affairs department of Chenghai, was stationed here, and at this moment, under the view of the Ming army in the city, all the people were busy in the fields that had already been harvested in autumn and were regularly fallow. They are indeed preparing for next year's spring planting, but they are not as in previous years, and it seems that they are seizing all the time to transform the fields.

"These ditches, as written in the guidebook, are one foot deep and one foot wide, and they are the passages left for the fish to swim in this rice field......"

"The ridge should be heightened, this height is not enough, otherwise the fish jumped on the ridge and died, don't blame me for not saying it......"

"And this fish pit, dig deeper, the main habitat of those fish is here, it's too small to affect the ...... of production"

At the same time, the village elders of each village and town are responsible for counting the number of villagers who intend to carry out transformation, and then assign people to the countryside according to the region to provide guidance.

The use of fish farming on the surface of the paddy field can not only obtain fish products, but also use the fish to eat the pests and weeds in the paddy field, excrete manure, turn the soil to promote the decomposition of fertilizer, create good conditions for the growth of rice, and generally increase the yield of rice by about one percent. And that's just the increase in rice production, not the production of farmed fish.

"Mr. Sun, can you help me see what kind of fish should I raise?"

The apprentice of the Quality Testing Academy, who is less than twenty years old, is obviously accustomed to being called Mr. by the villagers and the people. At this time, the villager asked the village woman to hand over a bowl of water, and then asked that the apprentice had drunk the water and returned the water bowl, and said to the villager without thinking about it: "Grass carp, Wang Daotai said that it is good to raise this, eat the insect pests in the field, and also fertilize the field, it is the best." ”

This is a question that the apprentice has spoken about countless times. This is the case when I preach, and I still do this when I go to the countryside to guide, but fortunately, I can get gratitude every time, which is also a kind of satisfaction.

"We must ask the villagers to fill in the yellow eel holes and mouse holes, and once they are found during the planting period, they must also be filled in as soon as possible, otherwise they will suffer unnecessary losses."

There are many points to pay attention to, whether it is in the preliminary preparation or in the breeding process. In the final analysis, this is not a simple rice planting and fish farming, put together, it can increase the yield per mu, and there can be fish, but it can only be achieved when the relevant agricultural technology is done.

"By the way, do the villagers know why those Cantonese people don't raise fish in their own fields, but come to help?"

It is said that the craft of rice and fish farming is not new in Guangzhou, at least in the past few months, many people in Guangzhou are far better than their apprentices who have only undergone paper training. However, it is particularly strange to hear that not only here, but also Haiyang, Raoping, and Chenghai County, where the land boundary of Zhangzhou Prefecture is divided to the people of Guangzhou, and those people would rather come to help and get a salary than work hard for themselves.

"Oh, this matter, don't hide it from Mr. Sun, it was strange to be old and decayed earlier, and even felt that they might have ulterior motives. Later, I learned that those people in Guangzhou said that they would return to their hometown next year, and their efforts in Chaozhou were in vain. ”

"Next year? Back to Guangzhou? ”

This made the apprentice stunned, and the first thing that came to his mind was whether there would be anything unusual. But when I think about it, it is obvious that this is not a conspiracy. Once he thought about it, he immediately realized what was going on.

"Oh, it's about three years, isn't it next year?!"

………………

This year's autumn tax is still being collected, and the days in southern Fujian are better, and there is no need for grain from Guangdong as a supplement for the time being, while Chen Kai is controlling the outflow of grain from Chaozhou and storing it in the warehouse as much as possible for later use.

Compound agriculture began to unfold, and according to Wang Jiang's statistics, the number of acres of rice and fish farming is far better than that of mulberry fish ponds. It's normal to think about it, after all, in Chaozhou, fish farming was far less important than rice farming, and the people chose according to their own needs, which is also a good thing.

These two items have occupied a lot of human and material resources, and even the planting of sweet potatoes promoted by Chen Kai in the Guangdong People's Daily has also been affected.

Speaking of which, the low popularity of this thing is also due to the people's own choice. After all, even in the land where sweet potatoes first entered China such as Guangdong, there are not many people who have really planted them for a long time, and more people are still more inclined to grow rice, a traditional crop.

Fortunately, this thing has one advantage over rice, that is, it is not very picky about the planting land. Islands, mountainous areas, almost nothing is unsuitable. This attracted some people who agreed to the conditions, but there were also a few in the Chaozhou territory.

"Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, if you plant it and know that the yield is large, some people will naturally flock to follow suit, and we can't use too much effort."

For these, Chen Kai has always been optimistic. Wang Jiang's report has been read, and there is also news from Nanao Island that Zhou Tengfeng is heading in the direction of Qiongzhou through Nanao Island again.

Shirk is the best means of bureaucrats, and Chen Kai doesn't feel that he has any problems with Zhou Tengfeng like this. In fact, for the aid of the Ming army in western Guangdong, Chen Kai has always been doing, Chen Qice is one of them, after the last shelling of Guangzhou, Li Changrong also came to Chen Kai to lose his sincerity, he was also not stingy, and began to give monthly subsidies for sea patrols.

The principle still lies in whether you are willing to obey his orders - obedient people will naturally have benefits, and if they are disobedient or troublemakers, then they will take it with them wherever they want, and if they want to take advantage of it in vain, it is a fool's dream.

In fact, in the past six months of correspondence, Chen Kai also heard from Chen Qice and Li Changrong that the various departments of the Ming Army in western Guangdong were envious of this subsidy. Among them, generals such as Deng Yao are said to have also come to contact, and there is a willingness to go through their doors. It's just that all this came to an abrupt end in September, and there is no need for Chen Qice and Li Changrong to remind them, Chen Kai also knows it. But compared to the optimism of those Ming troops, he believed in his own strength more.

"I'm the only variable next year!"

With this belief, Chen Kai perfunctory Zhou Tengfeng without any psychological pressure, and heard that Zhou Tengfeng had passed Nanao Island, so he calculated the time and set off, going to the Zhongzuo Institute in the direction of Zhou Tengfeng's departure, to draw a suitable symbol for this big play.