Back on Nanao Island, everything is as before, the Ordnance Bureau and its subordinate workshops are all producing military supplies step by step, but on the side of the military uniform manufacturing workshop, it seems that there are still some orders from Zheng Hongkui that have not been completed. This, in fact, is not surprising, while maintaining the manufacture of military uniforms, Zheng Chenggong is still continuing to expand the army, if some of the final payment is not easy to collect, maybe it will be slower.

"Dingguogong's batch of goods was sent over after it was rushed, and the people's silver was sent early, almost a month, and it was not kind to drag it out."

"I'm going to inform the treasury to prepare."

Zheng Hongkui is still very kind to Zheng Chenggong, which is all in Chen Kai's eyes. For Zheng Hongkui's order, Chen Kai also adhered to the principle of doing business with kindness, and demanded quality and quantity. There are more than 1,000 pieces of this batch of military uniforms, and there should be orders for continued production in the future. Chen Kai is not in a hurry, because Zheng Hongkui's army has so many soldiers, and it is a good thing to have a start.

The school has officially opened, Chen Kai has audited once, and those gentlemen who teach literacy are still teaching according to the old method. In this regard, Chen Kai pondered whether to write "Flying to Luding Bridge" and "Juvenile Leap Land" for students to copy one hundred and eighty times, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is not only the dislocation of time and space, but the biggest problem is that he has long forgotten the content, not to mention increasing the burden of schoolwork for these "flowers of the motherland".

"Three hundred thousand is very good, reading the Analects can also learn some principles of life, as long as you don't continue to talk about the Bagu Wen in depth, there is nothing unbearable."

After leaving the school, Chen Kai rushed back to the Ordnance Bureau. This time he came back, not just to take care of the civil affairs work in South Australia and other places, but more importantly, he also came back with a mission this time.

"How?"

"If you go back to join the army, it is not difficult to imitate, but it is finely imitated, and it is not easy to imitate exactly the same as the requirements for joining the army."

"That's why the official will let you, the master, personally preside over it, and the people next to you are your proud protégés, and the official can't believe it for the time being."

As soon as the war ended, Zheng Chenggong immediately handed over the spirit gun to Chen Kai. The workmanship of this cannon is unimaginably good, and with those matching measuring tools, the accuracy is much higher than average. Of course, in the final analysis, this cannon is only a little more accurate than ordinary smoothbore guns, but it is reflected in the hit rate, and the improvement of the army's combat power is still relatively obvious. Especially when Zheng Chenggong attacked the county town of Dapu, in addition to the test firing, the next few shots all hit the city wall and the city tower, and the blessing of "God bless" was a big boost to the morale of the soldiers.

"Thanks to the affordability of joining the army, Xiao Lao'er will definitely do his best."

It's okay to imitate one, that's what Zheng Chenggong did in history. However, Chen Kai's hand has always been large, and one mouth is to imitate the three doors, and it is still a preliminary plan, so that this master has begun to wonder if the rest of his life will be spent on the work of such batches of imitation spirit guns.

This imitation, still using the clay mold method, from the beginning of the creation of the wooden mold, is not to dare to have the slightest difference. This will be the most important task of the artillery manufacturing workshop this year, whether it is Chen Kai or their craftsmen, their attention is not the same as that of the previous cannons.

Chen Kai returned this time, and also brought a chief inspector of the Ordnance Bureau appointed by Zheng Chenggong. This person is called Chen Qi, he is a scholar who joined Zheng Chenggong half a year ago, after half a year of investigation and trial, at the same time that Feng Chengshi began to be in charge of the mining industry in northern Chaozhou, and Pan Zhonggeng began to play a greater role in the retainer of the curtain, this person was also assigned to the Ordnance Bureau, and he existed as his deputy.

For Chen Kai, Zheng Chenggong's trust is still there, but with the recovery of Chaozhou Province, this army will face a new problem next, that is, the next offensive direction.

Chaozhou is a prefecture, with the sea in the south, Jiangxi in the north, Fujian in the east, and the hinterland of Guangdong in the west. Going north and south, either it is inconvenient to develop, or there is no place for development, it is nothing more than two places: east and west. Now the situation in Guangdong, Li Chengdong is dead, the generals under his command are entrenched in various provinces, and there is a Yongli court in Zhaoqing, compared to Fujian, which has suppressed a large-scale anti-Qing uprising, it is really a scattered sand. But Chen Kai was unwilling to provoke infighting, and Zheng Chenggong also valued Chen Kai's opinion, so the only thing left was to go east to Fujian.

Southern Fujian, Zhangquan Erfu, for this Ming army, also has the importance of returning to their hometown. Now that the water division is in hand, the Qing army in Zhangnan does not even have a good geographical shield, and is already in a situation of being passively beaten, Zheng Chenggong is excited.

But in this way, as the governor of Zhangzhou Mansion and the only prefecture-level official in this prefecture, Chen Kai will face the possibility of correcting. And judging from Zheng Chenggong's appointment of Chen Qi now, when he wins Zhangzhou Mansion, the official position of a prefect will be a certainty for Chen Kai, so that someone is needed to help Chen Kai take care of the work here when he has been unable to sit in the Ordnance Bureau for a long time.

On the way here, Chen Kai talked to Chen Qi, and in general, he felt that he was a more humble and practical subordinate. Obedient and able to follow the rules, this is what Chen Kai wants to see, and the person Zheng Chenggong chose should also be an existence that can continue his will.

"Even if you want to toss some side things in the future, it may not be good to hide Zheng Chenggong."

In the past six months since Wanli was attached, Chen Kai has successively delivered a batch of grain and a batch of weapons to Changlin Temple, especially those weapons, which were specially sent by Lin Dezhong, and practiced, and they all took the usual smuggling route, and there was also the prestige of the Wanjia brothers on the ground, and it was relatively smooth to arrive.

Chen Kai reported this matter to Zheng Chenggong, and the righteousness of the armed jurisdiction is also the duty of Chen Kai, a fellow intellectual, and once he enters the Zhangzhou Mansion, it will be easier to have such a force as an internal response, and this matter will be justified.

But there are some things, Chen Kai doesn't plan to report too much to Zheng Chenggong. Not to mention, Shi Lang's existence is too threatening for him, not only because of the internal strife, but also because once Shi Lang is cleared, these private things may be exposed because of this, but he can't tolerate it at all.

After arranging everything, just waiting for a sea ship that Chen Kai asked Zheng Chenggong for earlier, boarded the sea boat, and set sail towards the Fujian border east of Nanao. It's just that when he got on the boat, Chen Kai knew that the task of the ship was not just to send him off, or rather, he was just a passenger who was "sharing the boat".