"Look, Lin Hou, the subsidy is not in vain."

"The court never gives rewards."

"Hey, if you don't give a reward, don't you allow us to have fun with ourselves?"

Speaking and laughing, Du Yonghe's head is naturally going to be made of nitrate and collected. Of course, before that, Chen Kai simply sent someone to take Du Yonghe's head around the dock a few times, so that those maritime merchants and ship owners could better understand the current situation.

The damaged Qing warship was dragged back to the port, the victorious Ming army flaunted its might, the head was hung high, the flag was thrown to the ground, when Du Yonghe's head was raised high, the cheers of the Ming army had attracted everyone's souls, and a pair of eyes with horror or trust were watching all this happen.

The former governor of Liangguang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which was an extremely bad event, but now the head has been hung on the spears of the Ming army, so the earlier bad has all been transformed into awe of the Ming army. Even if the governor of Liangguang was already a fallen phoenix, and he died on the way to escape......

The show-off here continued, and in the exclamations from time to time, the maritime merchants and shipowners who paid the license in exchange for tokens were more enthusiastic than in previous days, and even many shipowners directly unloaded their goods and traded with the Ming army and other maritime merchants here, as if they had regarded this place as a cargo distribution center to replace Guangzhou, which was still under the control of the captive division.

Looking at everything in front of him, a smile crossed the corner of Chen Kai's mouth. The Eight Banners Army in Guangzhou was brutal and unkind, and the Qing court's strict shaving of hair and making it easy to obey was unpopular, and at the same time interfered with the normal trade order and trade security. Historically, Hong Kong's prosperity was caused by the colonization of the empire on which the sun never sets, and as it is now, it is more like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's crusade that scared away the wealthy merchants of Suzhou and accelerated the prosperity of Shanghai.

After seeing the results of killing chickens and setting an example, Chen Kai returned to the official office, picked up a brush and wrote a letter, and sent someone to Shangchuan Island to express his gratitude to Chen Qice.

Regarding Chen Qice's matter, he wrote to apologize earlier, and Chen Kai began to discuss it with him when he replied. Chen Qice did not forget the love of cooperation during the Pearl River War the year before last, nor did he forget Chen Kai's generosity to him after the war. Limited help is the limit of what he can do, after all, he is different from Chen Kai who slowly got up in the Zheng group, and his relationship with the Ming court is not very deep, he is a serious Ming army general, the governor has an order, even if Yang Fengyin is violated, he must be able to get by on face.

Chen Kai can naturally understand this, but compared with the past friendship, he believes more in the cooperation between the present and the future, and believes that only the watering of interests can make this flower of friendship bloom more brilliantly!

For this reason, Chen Kai granted Chen Qice a subsidy because Chen Qice's defense area was already close to part of the western part of the Pearl River Delta. Although the route of sea trade is mainly to take the Pearl River Estuary to the sea, there may be a small number of guys who want to take advantage of this to "avoid taxes". Chen Kai gave Chen Qice a sum of money in this name, as the basis for cooperation at this stage, and at the same time it is also a bundle of interests.

Chen Qice's pursuit of Du Yonghe this time is, on the one hand, that his people adhere to the principle of "seeking for thieves" and being inseparable from the Qing army, and on the other hand, it is also indispensable for the continuous cooperation between the two sides. In the final analysis, letting the Qing army break through the island chain of the Ming army in the Guangdong Sea is not a good thing for Chen Kai and for him.

This matter is not small, and Lian Chengbi will know about it sooner or later, but the problem is that with the Qing fleet of such a scale transiting, even if Lian Chengbi is the governor, Chen Qice can't ignore it. After all, who knows if those Qing troops were just passing by, or if they still had the idea of attacking them with a false way!

"I really don't know if these guys are far-sighted or short-sighted to abandon the united front work at this stage that is related to life and death for the sake of interest disputes that may arise in the future."

Looking at the lively scene on the dock in the distance, Chen Kai shook his head and smiled at Lin Cha. But after laughing, I thought about it, such a character has never been less in the last days of the Ming Dynasty, sometimes, loyalty and traitor are just an excuse for faction disputes, and sometimes, factions are often just the residence of loyalty and traitor, but no matter what, infighting is always indispensable.

Chen Kai knows very well that in the days to come, he is afraid that he will meet more such characters, even if he is estimated to be "along" on the battlefield in Guangdong for some time. However, he is not too worried about this, because he is never afraid of any challenge, whether it comes from inside or from outside.

Fortunately, after this battle, there are more things that need to be worried, that is, the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that were scraped from Du Yonghe's hands when he organized the evacuation of Guangzhou, and finally completely relieved after this time, and he didn't have to worry about someone coming to ask for debts......

Hong Kong Island will be an important strategic location in Chen Kai's plan, and the construction of infrastructure is still ongoing, both for military defense and for daily necessities. The Ming army's auxiliaries had to go up the mountain every day to cut down trees in order to expand the port area. Even Chen Kai also sold the house in later generations, interpreting the word "every inch of land is valuable" in a real sense, and at this moment it is just a barren area with two pieces of land the size of a football to build a square and outbuildings that I can't understand the purpose.

"Well, here, build a pavilion, that's probably what it looks like......"

"Near the pavilion, well, it's this area and this area where kapok trees are planted, intermittently. Well, by the way, there's ...... there."

"Build a building here and use it for office ......"

“……”

The area that Chen Kai wants to build is said to be an office, but it is not the shape of the yamen, and it is even far from the shape of the yamen. However, after some arrangement, he gained a foothold at the mouth of the Pearl River, and ran here to collect import and export duties, although the license to rent Zheng's token was to be handed over to the Zhongzuo Institute, but a large number of goods no longer continued to go north to Guangzhou, but to transit here, and the profits in this were basically Chen Kai's responsibility for the Guangdong battlefield.

The expenses of inland administration are borne by Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, and the profits of sea trade are owned by Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong, and at most they will bear the operating expenses of some sailors and administrative personnel, as well as the construction costs of ports and towns.

The strength of the sailor is the guarantee of everything, Chen Kai arranged all affairs, handed over the defense to Lin Cha, and then set off to return to Chaozhou. In the final analysis, Chaozhou is the focus of all work at this stage, and the "sub-base" he opened in Hong Kong is just a strategic deterrence plus a collection counter for the time being. However, sitting on the boat, Chen Kai still wrote a letter to Zheng Chenggong, asking for more sailors to be sent over to ensure the safety of the room.

"Hong Kong Island must be turned into an unsinkable aircraft carrier blocked at the mouth of the Pearl River!"