Chapter 56: Hiding the Head and Revealing the Tail (1)

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Lu Ruoteng, Shen Yanqi, Shen Guangwen, Yu Tunan...... Shen Guangwen, Yu Tunan, Lu Ruoteng, Shen Yanqi......"

Reading the names of these people over and over again, Feng Chengshi couldn't help frowning Lu Ruoteng and Shen Yanqi were both from Fujian, and they were both officials appointed by the Longwu Dynasty back then, and even Lu Ruoteng's original official position was still the governor of the four prefectures of Ning Shao Taiwen, which was actually the control area of the Lu Jian Dynasty, and it was obvious that he went to choke the city. And the other few people are all officials of the Lu Jian Dynasty, and to put it bluntly, they are the group of people who were robbed of business. It stands to reason that even if there are no contradictions between the two sides, they will not be too close.

But the problem is that Feng Chengshi soon realized that his son was not guessing blindly this time, as if Shen Guangwen and Yu Tunan were recommended by Lu Ruoteng and Shen Yanqi to be appointed by Zheng Chenggong. Even not only these two, but also the other two, including Cao Conglong. If you look at it this way, there may be some correlation in this.

"Those old ministers of King Lu seem to have been appointed by Chen Kai for Wang Jiang. That's not surprising, Chen Kai ran away and rescued Wang Jiang when he passed through Hangzhou, obviously because he valued his ability. Later, Wang Jiang has also been working under Chen Kai, and has never changed places, and it is said that he has always done well. ”

Young and enlightened, he has been learning for half his life, and Feng Chengshi always likes to hold the pen when he thinks about it in detail, as if he wants to answer on the spot. Thinking about these in his head, he couldn't even take care of the meal, Feng Chengshi was always thinking about the connection. It wasn't until a long time later, when the food was already cold, that he suddenly realized what was coming.

"Chen Kai! Chen Kai and Lu Ruoteng and Shen Yanqi have a fateful relationship. ”

This is indeed a problem, because if Chen Kai is linked to this matter, then the civil officials within the Zheng group who worked in the Lu Jian Dynasty back then can basically be connected. But thinking of this, Feng Chengshi couldn't help but shake his head, because Chen Kai himself is the core figure of the Zheng Group, the current number two person, second only to Zheng Chenggong's existence. It makes no sense why such a faction should have such a big connection with the Lu Jian Dynasty, which was faintly hostile to the Zheng group.

Talents, in the administrative system of Zheng's Group, Chen Kai can definitely say yes. The earliest Ye Yiyun, Chen Ding, Chen Qi, followed by Lu Ruoteng, Shen Yan, later Wang Jiang, Kuang Lu, and even Zheng Chenggong's brother Zheng Xingying are also Chen Kai's old subordinates. It can be said that Chen Kai has the most connections among high-status civil officials and staff. Whether it is him, Pan Gengzhong, Zheng Qingzhu, Lin Qichang, and Huang Weijing, who lost power due to dereliction of duty in the sixth year of Yongli, these staff and civil officials who hold great power or once held great power are far inferior. In this way, there is no need to provoke those former ministers of the Lu Jian Dynasty.

"I really don't understand."

After pondering for a long time, Feng Chengshi didn't understand the doorway here. Since this is the case, he simply doesn't want to think about it, as far as he is concerned, the current priority is to work Zheng Jing's body. Don't talk about it, just talk about Zheng Chenggong's factional position war a hundred years later, as long as their father and son support Zheng Jing to ascend to the position of the leader of the Zheng group, then the power position is indispensable.

"It's better to find someone to look at, as a father, I always feel that this matter is not so simple."

"What do you mean, Father?"

Feng Xifan asked this tentatively, in fact, he was not without ideas in his heart, but he had been urged by his father to cultivate his qi in the past few years, and he was not so impatient as before.

At this moment, hearing his son's tentative question, Feng Chengshi raised his eyelids, his gaze was like a torch: "If there are really some conspiracies and tricks in this, it may be an opportunity for our father and son." ”

As Feng Chengshi pointed out, since Zheng Chenggong gave them a chance to return to politics, they naturally had to hold it tightly. The current priority is naturally Zheng Jing's academic problem. For this reason, Feng Chengshi and his son discussed daily at home, and at the same time managed to learn some relevant information from the gentleman who was enlightened by Zheng Jing. For example, Zheng Jing's academic status, such as Zheng Jing's personal preferences, etc., etc., the effort spent is not worse than when they were in the Ordnance Bureau.

The Feng family's father and son are still studying teaching, and the matter about Feng Chengshi about to become Zheng Jing's teacher has not caused much turmoil in Fujian. In the final analysis, there are too many things that need to be busy in the current Fujian, and such small things, even if they will become big things in the future, will always seem a little inconsequential if they pay too much attention to it.

With the recovery of almost one province in Fujian, Zheng Chenggong also moved it to Fujian. The place has changed, but the busyness of the official room in Fujian's first-class has not changed, and it is even busier. Staff and officers, in and out, send documents pending review, and send documents that have been reviewed as soon as possible.

"It's like a hydraulic machine from the Chaozhou Manufacturing Bureau."

I have just read a military situation about a skirmish between the Shaowufu area and the Qing army, and then I sent a report on the pirate harassment of the place in northern Fujian. If you want to be idle, it is a fool's dream, in fact, Zheng Chenggong is not tired, and now the power of the Zheng Group has long been different from what it used to be, naturally, the possibility of completely eliminating the Manchus in the future is also a little greater, and the time is much faster. The energy in the whole body is even stronger, and this is nothing more than a self-deprecation, that's all.

The recovery work of the Ming army in Fujian has not changed much compared with last year, and the remaining passes in Shaowu Mansion have not been delayed, and the capital of Tingzhou Mansion has also invested a large number of soldiers in the Southern Jiangxi Qing Army, and it is by no means an overnight thing to take it down. Chen Kai's side provided the technology of the collapse method and the Hongyi artillery bombardment of the city, but the Qing army almost emptied the green battalion soldiers in Jiangxi, and it resisted Zheng Chenggong's army. In addition, the problem of Fujian's economic collapse has not been fundamentally resolved, and economic reasons inevitably limited the offensive of the Ming army.

To this day, the only thing to be thankful for is that the yield of sweet potatoes is really gratifying, not to talk about the problem of nutritional ratio, at least according to the current trend, with rice and sweet potatoes, the grain shortage in Fujian Province is estimated to be over this year, and the days of importing a large amount of grain from other regions are also coming to an end.

"Go back and tell Lu Fujun that I have given him full authority in civil affairs. This year's summer harvest and autumn planting are doing well, so let's keep up the good work. ”

After waving off the personnel sent by the governor's yamen, Zheng Chenggong looked through several reports, mostly about local bandits, coastal pirates, and skirmishes with the Qing army in Shaowu Mansion and Tingzhou Mansion. These are all insignificant, and Zheng Chenggong instructed Wang Xiuqi, the rear governor of Shaowu Mansion, and Huang Shan, the right governor of Tingzhou Mansion, to deal with them on their own. This is not the first time, it is estimated that they have already made a decision, it is nothing more than a report, and there should be results soon.

After flipping through these reports, the next one was sent from Xianxia Pass, Zheng Chenggong only glanced at the source of the military information, and immediately raised his spirits, solemnly opened the wax seal, and the contents of the letter appeared in front of his eyes.

"On the ninth day of the eighth month, Prince Zheng Jidu sent the Eight Banners Army to attack Xianxia Pass at night. Fortunately, the soldiers of our department were strictly guarded, and the captives failed to succeed, and they have retreated back to Jiangshan County. However, there are many cavalry commanders, and it is difficult for our troops to expand the range of early warning, and there are many losses in the horses, so please ask the general to allocate ...... as appropriate."

In September last year, Zheng Chenggong launched the work of recovering a province of Fujian on the basis of Chen Kai's economic warfare, which can be described as devastating, and almost the entire territory of Fujian was recovered in just one month. Xianxia Pass was recovered by Chen Kai after he went out to Guangdong, and by the way, he defeated the Qing army in Zhejiang. However, due to the economic collapse of Fujian, Zheng Chenggong reined in the offensive momentum, and the control area between the Ming and Qing dynasties at the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang was roughly divided by the dividing line between the two provinces, and the difference was not very large, at least there were not many counties or counties.

Since the Ming army destroyed the Qing court's rule in Fujian in one fell swoop, the Qing court sent Prince Zheng Jidu, who was still the prince at the time, to lead the Eight Banners Army south after receiving an expedited 800 li. The purpose is nothing more than twofold, the conservative is to hold Zhejiang and ensure that the Ming army will not continue to sweep north, and the more active is to recover Fujian. In the Qing court's mind, the former must be done, and the latter still has to see the situation, especially what kind of situation the war in Guangdong will end in If Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao and Zhu Mala defeat Li Dingguo, then the next year will be a flank attack, and that kind of picture is what they want to see in their hearts.

So, Jidu commanded the army to the south, but he didn't go far on the road, and his son Zilharang went to see Nurhachi first. Before the tears of sorrow fell, the empathetic Shunzhi put the title of Prince Zheng on his head, asked him to continue to command the army, and rushed to Zhejiang in the starry night. As a result, before three months arrived, Chen Kai went to Guangdong to cooperate with Li Dingguo to pit the three positions, and as far as Jidu was concerned, he soon received the holy order to act conservatively.

For Chen Kai, whose appearance rate was really high last year, Jidu had a lot of thoughts. However, there was still a Fujian between Zhejiang and Guangdong, and the Qing court had great expectations that he would be able to hold Zhejiang, so he had to confront the Ming army at Xianxia Pass after rushing to Zhejiang as quickly as possible.

This road is not short, the Qing army is nothing more than relying on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal from Tongzhou all the way to Hangzhou by boat, and then from Hangzhou to Qiantang River, Fuchun River, Tongjiang River, Dongyang River, Xin'an River, Qujiang River, a series of waterways that can be collectively called Zhejiang directly to Quzhou Mansion in the southwest of Zhejiang Province. It took months of hard work before and after, and it didn't arrive in a hurry until February or March this year.

Quzhou Mansion is the seat of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian in Zhejiang, and the reason why it was chosen there is actually because Quzhou is as its name suggests, it is the thoroughfare of Zhejiang and the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Fujian. Jidu's army was naturally stationed in the capital city of Quzhou, and Jiangshan County to the south was the forward position, where there was also a strong fighting Eight Banners stationed there, and they were going to harass Xianxia Pass at every turn.

Zheng Chenggong had heard too many similar reports, except for one attack by a large army when Ji Du first arrived in Quzhou, and Xianxia Pass was basically a small-scale raid after that. The enterprising mind is not big, but it is more like doing it to the relatives and nobles in Beijing to see, his new attack on Prince Jidu of Heshuo Zheng did not spend time in Quzhou, and he still looked like he was doing things.

After putting down the report, Zheng Chenggong was also relieved, and gave encouragement to the defenders of Xianxia Pass as usual, and sent someone to send it over. The days passed day by day, and soon, from August to September, the front office was still busy, but the back office was already preparing for Zheng Chenggong's eldest son Zheng Jingzhi's apprenticeship to Feng Chengshi.

The auspicious day arrived, but the auspicious time was still a lot worse, Zheng Chenggong was still in the official room to deal with official business, but what he saw was a report that Chen Kai sent his former servant Chen Song to the Fujian Governor's Yamen, which mentioned that Guangdong needed to buy a large number of Fujian indigo.

The so-called blue indigo refers to the dye blue extracted from the leaves of a plant called horse indigo, which is blue, and indigo is the cyan color that comes out of blue, and was used as a dye in China and many parts of the world before the birth of synthetic dyes.

The order from Guangdong has been sent two months earlier, the quantity is very large, and even before this, Chen Kai has already informed the Fujian side of the planting of indigo, but the specific amount of planting, the yield geometry, these Zheng Chenggong is not very clear, but in this report sent by the Fujian governor Yamen is very clear.

Fujian's indigo is very famous and well-known overseas, and is a very important cash crop in this province. Chengping's indigo from Fujian is sold to all over the world, and Guangdong is a big one. Of course, compared with Nanzhili and Zhejiang, it is still not enough, because the output of silk and cloth in the two is not of the same order of magnitude.

The Zheng family was born in sea trade, and Zheng Chenggong has heard that this blue indigo is not only used to dye blue cloth and green cloth. The very light blue dyeing cloth can make the cloth look whiter, and this thing also has medicinal value, so the use of blue indigo is very wide.

In the recent correspondence, Zheng Chenggong also heard Chen Kai mention the successful case of the Guangdong Business Alliance in Shunde County, and it is said that a lot of these blue indigo were ordered by Shunde County, and many were ordered from Qiongzhou. Now, on the contrary, it has driven the economy of Fujian, which is also a rare good thing.

Zheng Chenggong had already delegated power to Lu Ruoteng in civil affairs, and after reading the report, he didn't pay too much attention to it. In the final analysis, Fujian and Guangdong provinces were recovered last year, and many places are still in the period of tax reduction, and the real ones that can collect taxes at present are the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou governments in Fujian and the Chaozhou and Qiongzhou governments in Guangdong. There is the wealth that swelled rapidly in the economic war last year, and there are also Chen Kai's spoils in Guangdong, but in the final analysis, it still has to rely on sea trade to support, and it needs to be held until the end of the tax reduction and exemption period, and it can be regarded as a head when taxes can be collected.

"The summer harvest is over, and the autumn planting has begun. This year's autumn tax can be collected in the eastern part of Huizhou and Guangzhou in Guangdong. When it comes to next year's summer tax, it will be more in Shaowu Mansion and Jianning Mansion in Fujian, plus some scattered counties in Guangdong. Speaking of which, you still have to break the eight-petaled flower for a penny. ”

Fuzhou, Xinghua, Yanping, and Funing Prefectures in Fujian, as well as Xinhui and Shunde counties in Guangdong, were either swept away by corrupt officials or baptized by the conquest of the two armies, and the people's livelihood was severely damaged. Chen Kai made a good example in Shunde, but other places are still far away, Zheng Chenggong calculated the account, and couldn't help sighing, at this time, the people in the house also came to invite, saying that the auspicious time was almost here.

"I'll go over here."

Standing up, walking through the corridor, and walking on the way back to the mansion, Zheng Chenggong couldn't help but think about the upcoming incident.

Speaking of which, after Zheng Jing was enlightened at first, he was going to send it to Guangdong and hand it over to Chen Kailai to bring. Chen Kai's talent is outstanding, which is recognized by the world, the children Hong Xu's son Hong Lei, Ke Chenshu's son Ke Ping and Chen Ding's son Chen Yonghua, who Chen Kai taught when he was in South Australia, although these three people are not very old, but they have already shown excellence compared to their peers, in Hong Xu's words, Chen Kai exerted a great influence on this.

Zheng Chenggong originally planned to let Chen Kai teach, but Chen Kai has always been in charge of the military and political affairs in Guangdong, and he must have the same daily management as him on weekdays, and the original three students have no time now, even if they take time out to teach Zheng Jing, I am afraid that they will not be able to spare too much time.

So, at the suggestion of his wife Dong Yougu, Zheng Chenggong simply retreated and chose Feng Chengshi as Zheng Jing's teacher. Feng Chengshi and his person Zheng Chenggong can see it clearly, it is not incapable, but it is a pity that he took over Chen Kai's team and wanted to do something, but in the end he couldn't go against Chen Kai's layout and influence.

Feng Chengshi has been thinking about it behind closed doors for half a year, Zheng Chenggong talked to him once earlier, and I feel that after this incident, Feng Chengshi's temperament is more introverted, and he is a little more stable in handling things, but he is an excellent candidate.

strode back to the back office, Dong Yougu, Zheng Jing, Feng Chengshi and the relevant people of Yiying were all ready, just waiting for him. The number of rituals has long been known, for the disciples of the salute, for the teacher to receive, as a parent is also indispensable to thank, admonishment, although the form has changed, but the essence is not much different from the later generations.

Watching his son bow down, the figure of a young man who was only thirteen years old fell together, but in a trance, Zheng Chenggong remembered the scene when he had just returned from Japan and his father Zheng Zhilong hired Zeng Qiwu, a young talent from Fujian, as his teacher. At that time, as if he was the son in front of him, he respectfully performed the number of salutes, and even because of the five words of Fuxiang, he simply changed the name of the original Fusong to a forest character, in order not to offend the teacher's name and not conform to the etiquette. However, compared to back then, this is no longer enlightened, but more like when Qian Qianyi was worshiped as a teacher later, but it was a few years earlier.

The apprenticeship was soon over, and Feng Chengshi had been preparing for the first class for a long time, which easily aroused Zheng Jing's desire to learn. In the next few days, Feng Chengshi went to teach Zheng Jing every day, and the relationship between master and apprentice became closer and closer, which was very good for Feng Chengshi.

"Perhaps, after a while, we can introduce Xifan to the eldest prince."

If you think about it, Feng Chengshi has finished this day's teaching and returned home. seemed to say that Cao Cao Cao was coming, Feng Xifan also seemed to be very careless, and rushed back from outside after a while. However, compared to normal times, he did not ask about the teaching, but waved away the subordinates in the mansion and came to his father to bring up the old things again.

"Father, Shen Guangwen and Yu Tunan, they are moving again."

"Oh?"

The teaching is going well, and Feng Chengshi has already calmed down some thoughts. I heard about it again, but my interest did not disappear because of this, but it became a little greater.

At this time, Feng Chengshi was like this, Feng Xifan subconsciously looked left and right, and even lowered his voice and said: "Today, Xu Fuyuan invited Shen Guangwen, Yu Tunan and several other civil officials who had followed King Lu to a party. There is news that Xu Fuyuan invited them to join those societies. ”

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