Chen Kai's hardline attitude has not changed in the slightest as it was in the negotiation of a compensation agreement six months ago. If you have to say anything, then it is a little tougher than the last time - this time you won't even give them a chance to speak!

The two guards outside the door had already reopened the door, the posture of sending off the guests was already there, and Chen Kai's hand was also stretching out to the tea cup. The generals originally planned to say something and look for the scene, but the general who took the lead stopped him, then saluted and led the generals out of the governor's yamen.

"That Chen Kai, it's really too deceitful!"

These words expressed the most sincere indignation in the hearts of the generals at this moment, and one by one they were naturally filled with righteous indignation. However, this is Guangzhou City, not to mention the garrison troops, only to say that the more than 200,000 Guangzhou people in the city, who do not regard Chen Kai as a reborn parent, dare to spit out half a sentence of disrespect, and one person can drown them in this five sheep city with a mouthful of spittle.

After a while, it was easy to get out of Guangzhou City and find a place where no one was, and the generals were finally able to vent their anger in their chests. For a time, words such as "nothing is right" and "arrogance" abounded. Only, but no one remembered the sentence "bullying others", it seemed that they had forgotten it invariably, or they had already understood in their subconscious that Chen Kai did rely on the strong strength of the Zheng Group as the backing to dare to be so arrogant, but the Zheng Group can have today's strength, and there are many Chen Kai's efforts, and the number two person in the group has always deserved his name, and it is not like that at all.

He scolded a little, and relieved his emotions a little. However, the real problem is still in front of him, and Chen Kai's protective attitude towards those businessmen can already be described by writing on his face the four bright characters "I am shameless", but it makes people have nothing to say for a while.

To be reasonable, they will definitely not be able to talk about the lawsuit of the thousand corps; In terms of horizontality, Chen Kai sent them away in three or two sentences, not to mention the tens of thousands of Ming troops stationed in Guangzhou City and the surrounding areas, all of whom were subordinate to Chen Kai's orders.

Civil, military, they are clearly not enough to see. If they go back in such a gloomy way, I am afraid that it is the allies they have connected with, and the generals who are more powerful may not jump out to help, and in the end, they will lose face on the ground of the entire Guangdong.

Chen Kai has never been easy to provoke, they have been mentally prepared for this situation early, but this time Chen Kai didn't even give them a chance to speak, waited for a few days, and sent them off directly, this is no longer simply tough, but they don't take them seriously at all.

"Is it tolerable or unbearable, go to Zhaoqing, please come forward for us!"

Speaking of which, it has been more than a month since the incident happened, and if you count the people who fled to the new society to reclaim the wasteland, it will be even longer. During this period, they have been busy connecting with the generals and enlisting the stronger generals of the army under their command as support, but they have not gone to their direct leader, Lian Chengbi, the governor of Liangguang, for help. It's not that Lian Chengbi is not Chen Kai's opponent, but that there are some tricks between them and Lian Chengbi, and they are not really intimate.

"This time, the king of Xining went out on an expedition and handed over the land of Zhaoqing Prefecture and six counties in one state, including Fucheng, to the company army. The company army is good, but it is necessary to keep the troops of the king of Xining to continue to garrison, and they want to set up a superintendent, but they refuse to give us the territory to garrison, which is clearly to prevent us. ”

"That's it, the generals of western Guangdong, he can trust the embroidery needle. It's no wonder that the embroidery needle was said by him with a sharp mouth, and he was the one who later asked the court for his title, and he was stationed with Wencun when the Tartar was strong, and he was the one who ran for recruiting troops and collecting grain and grass. It is estimated that if it weren't for Chen Qice and Li Changrong hooking up with Chen Kai, he would still need embroidery needles to clamp in Enping and Wencun, but I am afraid that he would have been transferred to Zhaoqing Mansion City a long time ago. ”

Civilian officials are in charge of the army, and more of them are generals who control the army, so most civilian officials will have tendencies in support, such as Sun Chengzong to Ma Shilong, Yuan Chonghuan to Zu Dashou, and Hou Sui to Zuo Liangyu. The friendship between Lian Chengbi and Wang Xing can be described as a friend of life and death, and it has long surpassed the interaction between ordinary feudal officials and military generals under his command. Compared with other generals, Lian Chengbi trusted Wang Xing even more. However, Lian Chengbi refused to hand over these territories to them for garrison, and the reason was not so simple.

"It's not that we're afraid that we'll be like Wei Shuai, Ye Shuai, as well as Uncle Zhangping and Deng Jingqi in Gaozhou Mansion, Lianzhou Mansion, and Leizhou Mansion, and they will hold on to the authority of the place. But he didn't want to think about it, in this world, where is not our martial arts to support the Ming Dynasty. ”

"That's it, His Royal Highness the King of Xining, Zheng Ci of Fujian, and even His Royal Highness the King of Qin in Guizhou, which one is not a military general. Chen Kai is indeed capable, and we can't ignore this, but in the final analysis, he is not a staff member surnamed Zheng Ci, even if he has a high status, he can't forget it. ”

As he spoke, he turned to Chen Kai again. In fact, they have always felt that there is no need to provoke Chen Kai in vain, because Chen Kai has the Zheng group in Guangdong, and even the generals and officials who are directly responsible to him are completely different from ordinary civil officials. Sitting in the locality, commanding the army to resist the enemy, and recovering the lost territory, these generals under Chen Kai are competent, and when it comes to combat effectiveness, the towns under his command are far better than the Ming army in western Guangdong, and they are probably slightly inferior to Li Dingguo's headquarters and horses, and they are not needed at all, so they are just without desire.

Chen Kairusi is just that, and now even Chengbi is openly and secretly supporting Wang Xing to take the throne, and they are going to ask for this, so they are going to be low. It is very possible to get the support of Lianchengbi, but on the other hand, the governor of the people goes out to fight with the governor, and it can't be that the slightest benefit will not fall, and in the end, they will even have to spit out a lot of rights and freedoms in their hands now, how can it be more than worth the loss.

However, it is impossible not to get back to the field after being humiliated like this. And to find the field, with their strength, if the battlefield is put right, and other towns are not used, a single standard can clean them up, let alone force Chen Kai to comply.

After the discussion was completed, the generals went straight to Zhaoqing. There, it has always been the place where the governor of Liangguang was stationed, and Chen Kai was appointed governor of Guangdong to better ensure the military defense of Guangdong. In the past six months, Lianchengbi's main work is to restore production in the northern part of Zhaoqing Prefecture, and when Li Dingguo's army marches westward, it is also responsible for transshipment - compared to Sanshui, Zhaoqing is closer to Wuzhou Fucheng, the first target of the Ming army this time, along the channel of the Xijiang River, the continuous supply of military resources is like blood vessels to deliver nutrients to the body.

After nearly half a year of exhaustion, since Li Dingguo officially set off on his journey, Lian Chengbi is still trying to raise grain, grass, money, and weapons and equipment to prepare for the next preparation for the establishment of the Liangguang Governor's Standard Battalion.

It has been a year since the Qing army entered the customs, and Lian Chengbi can see it clearly, if you want to succeed, you really still have to master a trustworthy army, He Tengjiao and Qu Shiyun did this, and Du Yinxi also did this, Wen Anzhi is doing it now, and Chen Kai is looking for another way, but it is already the same way. As for him, he trusts Wang Xing, firstly, the friendship between the two is irreversible, and secondly, he believes that Wang Xing is a loyal person. With his people, he is always more at ease than other warlords. And this governor is also his efforts as a civil official sent by the imperial court to build a trustworthy direct force for the Yongli court.

Grain, money, military supplies and other resources are the source of the prefectures and counties in the north of Zhaoqing Province. In addition, there are some profits from the First World War in Guangzhou, but unfortunately those are all counted, and the more they are used, the less they are used. As for the personnel, the soldiers are recruited, and it is better to be local or Guangxi, and he plans to draw some officers from Wang Xing first. Of course, it is not only Wang Xing's generals, and other generals in western Guangdong are naturally indispensable. The personnel are mixed, so that the civil officials can better control this force for the imperial court.

Just like Chen Kai in Guangzhou City, Lianchengbi in Zhaoqing Mansion is also so busy that his feet don't touch the ground. However, he was not ignorant of the situation in Guangzhou, especially when there were still a large number of civil officials appointed by him and Guo Zhiqi in the western part of Guangzhou-even if the situation was stronger than people, those county officials did not dare to resist Chen Kai's decree, but it was still easy to secretly report the news.

Compared with those generals, the news reached Lianchengbi's ears earlier. In the second hall of the governor's yamen, Lian Chengbi listened to the report, but his face was cloudy, and a very close staff member around him rewarded the messenger with money, and let him retire temporarily. After that, they turned to Lianchengbi.

"Commanding the army?"

He was the township party brought by Wang Huacheng from Jinxi, and later after Wang Huacheng's death, he followed Lianchengbi, and he was also a relationship with the township party, so he was naturally more trustworthy than others. This close identity makes him know more about the inside story, not to mention it, just to say this, from the beginning of the Zhaoqing people fleeing to Guangzhou, to the generals going to Guangzhou in tandem to ask for explanations, and then to the gray departure, all under the monitoring of Lianchengbi, and even the mouth of Gaoming County has not been blocked is also deliberately done by Lianchengbi, waiting for those generals who can't bear it.

In war, civilian officials are naturally inferior to military generals, but when it comes to political struggles, the average level of the latter is not enough to shine the shoes of the former.

Now, the development of things is as Lian Chengbi expected, the plan should be implemented step by step, while using the power of the generals of western Guangdong to squeeze Chen Kai to spit out something, and on the other hand, using Chen Kai's counterattack to force the generals of western Guangdong, and at the same time taking the opportunity to establish authority. Political struggles have always been like this, even if only one of these three gains is gained, it is a great good thing for Lianchengbi, which has not lost anything, or for the Yongli Imperial Court, and it is finally gained.

However, at this time, it was estimated that it would not take long for the generals to arrive, and Lian Chengbi seemed a little hesitant. The staff was beside him, and after a little reminder, Lian Chengbi raised his eyes and looked at him, just sighed and said what he was thinking.

"The person sent to Fujian by Inspector Guo has returned, and the news was sent to Inspector Guo, and it was transferred to me yesterday......

As early as Chen Kai's arrival in Xinhui to assist in the destruction of the city, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi had doubts about the sudden death of the Qing court's ruling order in Fujian. Everything happened too suddenly, especially Chen Kai's indifferent behavior, which couldn't help but make them not suspicious.

However, at that time, the war was raging, and everyone was afraid that it would not be enough to devote all their minds to the war, so where would they have the kung fu to send someone to Fujian to investigate a question.

In this way, it dragged on until the war was completely over, Li Dingguo decided to leave Guangdong, and the two sides entered the battle for the city of Guangzhou and the control of Guangdong. In this context, Guo Zhiqi sent someone to Jieyang's hometown, and the Guo family in Jieyang tried to find out the truth in Fujian. And the truth obtained, after some scrutiny, is even more shocking!

"Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Tartars to send envoys to negotiate peace, he made a button, as if opening the floodgates and releasing water, and the economy of a province collapsed. I have seen Chen Kai's methods a long time ago, but now that I think about it, especially in such a comparison, it seems that he never used all his strength when he was with Inspector Guo and me. ”

Chen Kai's political struggle methods are not very old-fashioned, but he is victorious in a variety of tricks, which are always unexpected by others, and can hit the nail on the head and achieve a fatal effect. But for Lian Chengbi, when they have done their best, and the opponent not only takes their tricks, but can still have reservations, this is not only terrifying, maybe some things if you think differently, maybe there will be a different result.

It was not early, and when the hour of the next duty quietly came, news also came from the post house outside the city, saying that the generals stationed in Xinxing County and several flood areas in the south of Zhaoqing and Guangzhou Prefecture came together, saying that they had something to ask to see Lianchengbi.

By this hour, the gates were closed as usual, and they had one night to think through and prepare accordingly. However, time passed as Lian Chengbi pondered, and the staff who had been waiting by him always felt as if they were not enough.

"Commanding the army?"

It's not the first time I've made an inquiry, and from the point of view of the staff, compared to Wang Huacheng, Lian Chengbi has been working hard in officialdom for too few years after all, and the problem of lack of experience has obviously affected the speed of decision-making. However, as a fellow villager of Jinxi, at the same time, through Wang Huacheng's legacy, they can also connect with Wang Weigong, the uncle of Shangguo, not only his staff, but even the emperor and queen also have great expectations for Lianchengbi, so he has to redouble his efforts to do a good job of praising and painting for him.

"Let's go according to the original plan, and the rest will be talked about later."

made a decision, and Lian Chengbi met with the generals of western Guangdong who came to complain early the next morning. For their appeals, Lian Chengbi naturally clearly stood on their side, but it inevitably caused discord between the governors and appeased, and embarked on the old road of the fall of Guangning, thus ruining the state affairs, Lian Chengbi said that he would write a letter to Chen Kai first, asking about the people of Zhaoqing Mansion fleeing to Guangzhou. Wait for Chen Kai to reply, and then continue to follow up.

coaxed away these rough generals, and even Chengbi's letters were sent directly out of Zhaoqing Fucheng. The wording of the letter was relatively mild, and for him, this time it was the least necessary to engage in any cross-eyebrows, gentle borrowing, gentle squeezing, gentle persecution, and at the same time a warm and affectionate reaping the benefits, so sufficient.

This is just the beginning, the easiest start. However, even if it was just such a beginning, before the letter was sent out of the territory of Zhaoqing Mansion, Lianchengbi received new news.

"Guangdong, Commerce, Alliance!"

Intermittently reciting these six words that should have been done together, but in his eyes, he suddenly realized.