The news of Chen Kai's acceptance of the title of Marquis quickly spread in the city of Guangzhou, not only because of Chen Kai's status in Guangdong, but especially his status among the people of Guangdong. Of course, this is also due to the fact that it has always been a rare thing for civil officials to give titles in the Ming Dynasty.

Before Jiashen, there were nothing more than Li Shanchang, Liu Ji, Wang Guangyang, as well as Wang Yangming, Wang Yue, Wang Ji and a few other people, except for Li Shanchang, they were basically earls. As for Jiashen, Dingyuan Marquis He Tengjiao, Wu Anbo Zhu Dadian, Pingyue Boding Kuichu, Jianming Bosu Guansheng, if it is posthumously crowned, the highest is only a marquis. Of course, in addition, there are also unilateral canonizations by Nanming such as Hong Chengchou and Tu Guobao, and they will not receive the decree if they do not receive the decree. But even if all of them are added, no matter before or after Jiashen, compared to the military generals, whether it is quality or quantity, the civil officials can only be described as a dime.

After receiving the wind and washing the dust, Chen Kai arranged for someone to take Na Qincha to play in Guangzhou City for a few days, and sent the ceremony when he left, and that was the end of it. On weekdays, it was the same after the feudal lord, there was no change at all, as if this thing had never happened at all.

"Don't be surprised, this time it's true."

The office of the Consultative Bureau is still under repair, and these parliamentarians who "have no time to seek a life for the country" have temporarily taken up official duties in the courtyard of a house contributed by a local councillor in Guangzhou, and they dare not have the slightest slackness.

There was another proposal that had to be voted on, and they invited Chen Kai as usual. Entering it, he talked and laughed with everyone, and there was no shelf for the Hou Ye, and he saw that everyone was secretly praising on the side.

As everyone knows, a marquis is not conspicuous in the Zheng Group, it is nothing more than that Zheng Tai, who has real power and is in charge of maritime trade, has just leveled up. As far as Chen Kai is concerned, when he landed on Nanao Island at the beginning of the year, Zheng Chenggong, Chen Bao, Lin Xishan, Zhang Jin, Chen Hui, and Hong Xu were five loyal marquis and earls when they met, and they were already accustomed to it, or they were insensitive.

Today's topic was brought up yesterday for discussion, and it is about the establishment of the relevant system of the Consultative Council. There wasn't much to discuss about this rule, which needed to be voted on, so a consensus was quickly reached.

"According to the mission of the Consultative Council to speak on behalf of the people and ask for the lives of the people, and the establishment of the Advisory Council is to make the contradictions of the people invisible. The voting on whether or not the system prohibiting members from participating, organizing, instigating, or planning private fights among members is included in the Consultative Council Act is now open. ”

In the process of discussion, there were not too many objections, it was nothing more than some powerful identities, or powerful parliamentarians behind their supporters, who were struggling with the severity of punishment. As a result, a Teochew gentry-born councillor proposed that the question of the severity of the punishment be discussed after the vote was passed.

This is experience, some of the skills of officialdom are used here, and the gentry, especially those who have entered the officialdom, have a unique advantage in the Consultative Bureau. Similar advantages, those who are rich businessmen are also the same, after all, the shopping mall is also a deception. In contrast, only those legislators who are from strong backgrounds must be stupid and fly first, otherwise it is inevitable that they will suffer.

Sitting at the top, watching the voting below proceed in an orderly manner, Chen Kai stretched his eyes forward, and couldn't help but laugh secretly. Most of these councillors he had met before the invitation, and he had already known them over time.

Glancing here, they are basically divided into gangs according to their household registration. There are also elements of interaction between the gentry, the merchants, and the powerful, because some proposals have different effects on different members of parliament. Just like the bill prohibiting participation in private fights that is now being voted on, the impact on the gentry and businessmen is naturally far less than Haoqiang, Chen Kai remembered that when he listened to the report of the people below in the governor's yamen yesterday, he mentioned that Yang Hu in Chenghai County had expressed doubts about the severity of the punishment.

Between memories and thoughts, the voting was completed, and the ensuing votes soon ended with an overwhelming majority of approvals and a very small number of abstentions. As for the next discussion on the punishment level, Chen Kai did not participate, and even he had already begun to think about waiting until the relevant system was formulated, and he would not come if there was nothing extremely important, so as not to delay his own work.

Leaving the Consultative Bureau, Chen Kai returned directly to the governor's yamen. There is not much official business today, he made an appointment with a few officials to talk, and they talked about them one by one, and it is not far from the hour of duty. At this time, his earliest scholar, Chen Song, who was still working in the governor's yamen, knocked on the door, and Chen Kai's spirit, which was already a little slack, was reinvigorated.

"How's it going?"

"If you go home, more than half of the villains and those councillors have expressed their willingness to join the Heaven and Earth Society. The rest, for the rest of the rest, is mostly not talked about yet. ”

"Very good, the matter of organizing the training will be handed over to Kuang Lu as usual." Affirming Chen Song's work, Chen Kaiji said: "In order not to attract attention, the situation of the Tiandi Society in Guangdong has never been rolled out. Now that the Advisory Council is on the table, there is no need to take care of anyone anymore. ”

In addition to still having an inextricable relationship with those councillors and waiting for the general election and the position of the government advisory bureau in the future, Chen Kai has also returned to his hometown through the Tiandihui members recruited from the Guangdong Business Alliance, and after the training of Chen Kai and Kuang Lu during this time, he has also returned to his hometown and started the work of layout in his respective prefectures and counties.

In addition, the civil official group of this province, Cao Conglong, has already revealed the identity of a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, and Wang Jiang's side is just one sentence is enough. From the top to the bottom, heaven and earth will spread rapidly among the bureaucracy in Guangdong. Only, Chen Kai never attacked the army, because he knew very well that it was Zheng Chenggong's forbidden belly and could not be touched.

"By the way, the head of the family, yesterday night, a child of the Jieyang Guo family, the brother of the superintendent, contacted the villain, saying that he had just returned from Gaozhou Mansion and mentioned two things. One was the letter from the overseer to the court, which he copied a copy of; The other is that the overseer has already set off for Guangxi, and the main work of this year should be to organize the defense there. ”

The copy was personally sent to Chen Kai's case by Chen Song. However, since Guo Zhiqi was able to ask his clan brother to copy a copy, Chen Kai no longer needed to read the content. In addition, Guo Zhiqi returned to Guangxi, what is the intention of his people, that is, they know each other's tacitly.

This is not a sudden event that is enough to affect Chen Kai's layout. After listening to it here, and after reading it, you can put it aside.

Nowadays, the most important thing is the construction of the Advisory Council and the development of the Heaven and Earth Society. At the same time that Chen Kai established the Consultative Bureau in Guangdong, a letter was sent to Ruijin County, where Tao Qian, who was in charge of the conference affairs in the Nanjiang region, immediately sent invitations to other members.

"The chief helmsman has already established an advisory bureau in Guangdong, and this advisory bureau will be the stage for us in the future. At this stage, the Consultative Bureau was initially established in Guangdong, and it is still under construction and running-in. The chief helmsman meant to let me send people to Guangzhou to observe the meeting and learn from the experience. At the same time, the members who remained in Nangan had to mobilize the other gentry to publicize the existence of the Consultative Bureau and let more people know about the birth of this good government. ”

The delegates were elected by the members from among others other than Tao Qian, and the others, under the leadership of Tao Qian, began to visit the gentry, merchants, and heroes of the provinces and counties of Southern Jiangxi.

The members of the Jiangxi Tiandi Society living in Nangan also walked on two legs - sending representatives to Guangzhou to observe the meeting, and at the same time trying to contact the members who were lurking in the prefectures and counties of Jiangxi, and spread the news of the establishment of the Advisory Bureau to the ground in Jiangxi.

In Ji'an, near southern Jiangxi, over time, the Qing court's defense line to retreat to central Jiangxi gradually formed. With the Nanchang garrison of the Eight Banners as the backing, the front line is the South Jiangxi Green Battalion that is being rebuilt, as well as the Jiangxi Upgrading and other departments to prevent the Ming army in the direction of South Jiangxi. In the past six months, except for the return of Jiujiang Zhenbiao to the Jiujiang garrison not long ago, and the arrival of the Nanchang garrison Eight Banners led by Dasu, Suke Saha returned to Beijing with those Niu Lu who had been disabled, and the number of soldiers has always increased.

The Qing court made it clear that it was to rely on troops to make up for the ease of attack and difficult defense of such inferior second-line positions, and there was even a consideration of finding the right time to recapture Southern Jiangxi.

Whether it is effective or not remains to be confirmed in the inevitable outbreak of war in the future. However, with the influx of Qing troops, the harassment of the local people became more and more intense. In order to avoid the exploitation and oppression of the government, and even more so to avoid the harassment and looting of those green battalion soldiers, a large number of people had to abandon their houses and fields and leave their homes.

The flow of people fleeing the famine, the mountains of western Jiangxi are the first choice. The arrival of these civilians has greatly supplemented the rebel army active here, and the expansion work is being carried out in every cottage. As the leader of the Ganxi Righteous Army, Liu Jing felt that he seemed to be busier in the past six months than in the previous years, busy patrolling various cottages, busy with the organization and training of various expanding rebel armies, if it weren't for Zou Nan's assistance and sharing the work on food and salary, Liu Jing once suspected that he probably wouldn't see the day when Ji'an Mansion was recovered—he was exhausted to death in advance.

Pain, and happiness, this is Liu Jing's current situation. However, when Zou Nan went up the mountain half a year ago, he used Chen Kai's ideas to put forward future threats. Now, with the increase of the Qing army, the people of this province are indeed fleeing into the mountains in large numbers, but in this way, Zou Nan's prediction has really come true. If nothing else, it is likely that the next step will be the large-scale invasion of the Qing army, and in the face of such a superior Qing army, their busyness here may really be just a flash in the pan.

Preparations have already begun for the transfer to other prefectures and counties, especially to the south, in the Nangan region, which is already under the control of the Ming army and is bound to receive more support. At that time, the Ming army, which was backed by the south, continued to intersperse and harass the mountains of western Jiangxi, and this game of chess would be completely revitalized.

For this reason, while busy with the case, Zou Nan is also trying to get in touch with the Tiandihui in Nanjiang, hoping to use the Nangan Tiandihui to open up the connection with Chen Kai in Guangzhou and the current military and political authorities in Nanjiang. At this point, Tao Qian is willing to help, and the former's report has also been sent to Chen Kai's case, but on the latter's side, due to the estrangement within the Zheng Group, it is much more difficult to handle.

"Don't worry, Liu Shuai, with the chief helmsman, nothing can't be done."

comforted Liu Jing like this, but Zou Nan was still scratching his head secretly. There is no way to talk about the anxiety in their hearts and their families, and the other members of the Ji'an Heaven and Earth Society, due to the influence of Yu Youhan killing traitors in the name of Chen Jinnan, do not have to worry about being touched by the government, but they are all lurking, so as not to find a new reason for the government. Therefore, the worry can only be said to be related to this guest and righteous figure who has not yet joined the Heaven and Earth Society, and many of them need Yu Youhan to go down the mountain to run for him.

"This time, there are strong men who have more to spare."

"Please rest assured, Mr. Zou, this matter is handed over to me Yu Youhan, and I will not fail in my mission."

With the assassination of Ji'an Fucheng, Yu Youhan seems to have found some sense of mission, and he has more energy to do things. The last time he went down the mountain, Zou Nan asked Yu Youhan to bring all the guilders he trained to the mountain, and he did very well with his earlier prestige. However, the two of them didn't dare to be too frequent, so as not to attract the attention of the government, this time, it was already a few months later, but he was asked to go to Ji'an Mansion City, there is a member of the Ji'an Mansion Heaven and Earth Association lurking there, and it is always in a latent state, now that the Qing army is increasing, he has to try to use it, and he must always get the general information of when the Qing army will enter and suppress.

Yu Youhan changed his outfit as always, went down the mountain and went straight to his destination. A few days later, Zou Nan was still anxiously waiting for news, and at the same time trying to press this urgency to deal with official business. It's just that Yu Youhan has just set off, so it is impossible for him to rush back immediately. However, without waiting for news from Guangdong and Nanjiang, a member of the Ji'an Mansion Heaven and Earth Association hurried to look for him, and found his location through Liu Jing's door.

"Brother Zhai, aren't you lurking, why did you come here?"

This member, surnamed Zhai, lives in Stork Chao Town, on the bank of the Yunting River. It was the southeast of Ji'an Province, and Zou Nan was now in the mountains of western Jiangxi, far away. According to the latent regulations of the Heaven and Earth Society, members who are in a latent state are not allowed to contact other members without authorization, so as not to cause a wider range of exposure, let alone contact members who have been exposed such as Zou Nan. However, since this person has come from so far away, he must have something important to tell, otherwise he would never have chosen to act so risky.

"Brother Zou, a great thing!"

The people who came were very excited, which intensified Zou Nan's curiosity. However, before he could say the question, "What is the matter?", the man could no longer hold the passion in his chest.

"A close friend of mine wrote from Xingguo County, saying that the chief helmsman had set up an advisory bureau in Guangzhou to gather the strength of the whole of Guangdong. Guangdong is like this, and there are already many longings in Nanjiang. This news is now spreading to our Jiangxi, and the old view of the recovery of Southern Jiangxi will surely emerge in Jiangxi! ”

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