Chen Kaiyan mentioned this, Zheng Xiyuan certainly understood what his husband was referring to. This offensive was originally Chen Kai's choice to strike first in response to the war situation after Li Dingguo's entry into Yunnan, and with his own strong soft and hard power, Chen Kai did achieve the original strategic goal - to recover the Southern Jiangxi region.

However, after Hong Chengchou's operation, Chen Kai did control half of the prefecture's territory, but then not only did he regain the embarrassment of fighting on two fronts, but also faced a more severe internal and external situation. And if he doesn't fall for it, the initiative in the Liangguang region will completely fall into the hands of Hong Chengchou, and the strategic situation in the next few years will be even worse.

The lesser of the two harms, Chen Kai had to make a choice, but this light character may not be much stronger than the heavy character. However, this was a choice he had to make.

"Husband, what should I do next?"

"What else can I do, take one step at a time." Lying on the recliner dejectedly, Chen Kai said this, which was also full of helplessness.

This path is not what Chen Kai wants to take, at least this is not his original plan. What should happen next, Chen Kai's heart is not very bottom. However, he has always believed in the saying that "striking iron requires its own hardness", and now the resources and strength in his hands are much stronger than back then. When there are more unknowns in the future, his first reaction is to try to continue to strengthen himself in order to cope with all changes.

The rest time only lasted until dawn the next day, and after the war, Chen Kai should have recuperated, but Chen Kai quickly returned to work. The first step was to sit in the office and review the documents that needed to be understood and approved by him, so as to understand as quickly as possible what changes had taken place on the ground in Guangdong during the four months he was away.

In four months, from the ninth year of Yongli to the tenth year of Yongli, first of all, in terms of taxes, the tax reduction and exemption policy in some areas is about to end. These policies were intended to heal the wounds caused by the eight years of war in Yongli.

In fact, as early as the autumn tax in the ninth year of Yongli, the tax reduction and exemption of the eastern prefectures and counties of Guangzhou and Huizhou have ended, and it is now March, according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty that the autumn tax is only collected in February of the following year, these areas are already the same as the Chaozhou Mansion and Qiongzhou Mansion that the Zheng Group had controlled before.

However, the tax reduction and exemption has just ended, and the difficulties in the collection will not disappear because of an official document, everyone has selfish intentions, and if they can escape, there will always be people who try to do so, so when the tax collection work began, Wang Jiang, the political envoy of Guangdong, has been paying close attention to the progress of the collection work in those areas.

"Fifty percent ......"

In terms of tax collection, it is extremely difficult to collect 10% of the full amount, because it will inevitably involve various phenomena such as contribution, tax avoidance, famine evasion, and tax evasion. Even according to the examination law, less than ninety percent of the local officials will be punished. The tax exemption in these areas has just ended, but Wang Jiang's bottom line for tax collection is only 50%, and there is naturally consideration for the inevitable occurrence of tax evasion, but more aspects are still a kind of compromise.

"After the war, there was not enough cultivation of local fields, even after half a year of tax reductions and exemptions. For this reason, in order to complete the test quota, the magistrate will inevitably share the tax payable from the arada to the common people. Therefore, the lower officials believe that the tax collection of the newly recovered land should be delayed rather than urgent, and the people's livelihood should be effectively restored, rather than chasing short-term tax revenues and hurting the fundamental ...... of people's livelihood."

Wang Jiang wrote clearly on the report, Chen Kai read it carefully, put it aside for the time being, and turned out the report on the collection of taxes in the autumn of the ninth year of Yongli from those cases.

According to normal logic, the more such a strategic confrontation situation, the more resources are needed to strengthen the army, so as to enhance the chances of victory in the Qing counteroffensive.

After the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Ming and Qing dynasties were all like this, the civil officials forcibly collected taxes, and the feudal towns turned the people into armies, and the system of guards was the practice of serfs, for example, Sun Kewang turned Guizhou Province into a military cantonment, so as to maintain the supply of grain and grass to more than 100,000 troops in Xiying. Even as early as the beginning of the Liao Incident, the Liao salary played by the Ming court, as well as the continuous increase of the Liao salary and the subsequent suppression and training of the salary, was the same reason that the Later Jin and Qing courts killed the rich, killed the poor ghosts, and expropriated the tyrannical. After all, people have to eat to survive, and the army will be scattered if there is no food, which is the most important reason for soldiers.

suggested that Wang Jiang did not mention it to Chen Kai at the beginning, but at that time Chen Kai was intensively planning the war to recover Southern Jiangxi, which was to deal with it at his own discretion and let Wang Jiang play freely.

Now it seems that Wang Jiang did not take these things as the same thing at all, but chose to continue to reduce taxes in disguise. This is indeed an inevitable weakening of Guangdong's military food and salary reserves, especially after Chen Kai had just mobilized a large army to start such a battle with the Qing army, and the storage situation of Guangdong's prefectures and counties was so out of place compared with the reality that it still needed to survive until this year's summer tax collection.

"Short-term benefits, or long-term development, this is probably Wang Jiang."

Chen Kai remembers that someone had mentioned to him some things about the Ming army in Dalanshan, among which the "sustainable development" of Wang Yi and Wang Jiang was in stark contrast to the state of the anti-Qing movement in various places to exhaust the people's efforts in order to compete with the Qing court. Now, it seems that Wang Jiang is transplanting the spirit of the past to Guangdong, whether consciously or unconsciously, in fact, it is contrary to the normal mode of thinking.

The autumn tax in the ninth year of Yongli is already like this, which is a fait accompli, and Chen Kai has no intention of making trouble. The key is that if the summer tax in the 10th year of Yongli is still carried out in accordance with this state of requisition and suppression, at present, the army has entered the situation of fighting on two fronts in Guangdong, and the supply of military food and military salaries will inevitably be stretched.

Next, Chen Kai put aside all the other documents and reports, and looked intently at Wang Jiang's report on the autumn tax of the ninth year of Yongli, and at the same time asked people to bring up earlier records, such as the tax records when the Qing court controlled these prefectures and counties, as well as the income and expenditure records of the last year or so. In this way, I tossed until the afternoon, and I didn't even bother to eat lunch, so I finally made all the numbers clear again.

"I knew that I should have let Wang Jiang toss it himself, I really had my brain pumping."

In terms of income and expenditure, Wang Jiang has always done very well, but Chen Kai spends money like water, and he doesn't know how to be diligent and thrifty at all. Fortunately, Chen Kai's generosity will give more or less benefits to this group, this army, this dynasty, and this nation every time, and the capital invested is basically earned in the end, which is nothing more than the difference between earning more and earning less, earning early and earning late.

Wang Jiang did not write the figures clearly in the report, but said that he had calculated it, so he dared to put down his courage to do it. Chen Kai wrote that the vertical operation was calculated again, and he did get more accurate figures, but the time was wasted on a job that was sufficient for accounting, and at the moment when he finished calculating and got the actual figures, Chen Kai was suddenly speechless for a while.

"As originally expected this year, this should be enough. However, the situation of the battle has changed, and now that the enemy is being attacked on two fronts, the normal expenditure is even greater, and it is likely that more resources will need to be spent to do more to continue to ensure the continuation of the counteroffensive. In other words, the plan is not keeping up with the change. ”

Chen Kai didn't know how much the difference was. However, fortunately, these two armies are subsidized by the Zheng Group, but the Zheng Group also collects royalties in Hong Kong and South Australia, which means that Guangdong's market income will inevitably decrease.

Increase subsidies, this matter needs to be talked about by Zheng Chenggong, and there are other things that need to be discussed clearly at one time. Chen Kai is still waiting for news now, and after determining that there will be no new war for the time being, he can set off to meet with Zheng Chenggong. The location, of course, is still on Nanao Island, where they started, and it is the middle point between the two provinces, which is the most suitable place.

It will take time for these to be done, but on the issue of summer tax collection, Chen Kaisi decided to send someone to invite Wang Jiang to have a good discussion. After all, there is a lot involved in this, and Wang Jiang's political envoy Si Yamen is not far from the governor's yamen.

The meeting was soon held in Chen Kai's office, and Wang Jiang came prepared and did not have much effort to convince Chen Kai. In his words, the army now has the Zheng group's subsidy in terms of military food and salary, and the most important expenditure does not have too great pressure on Guangdong's finances, and there are indeed many places where it really needs to be spent, but compared with the long-term recovery, it is still worth sacrificing limited benefits for this.

"You have a good point, and I am speechless."

smiled and teased, in fact, Chen Kai already had a relatively large inclination before he found Wang Jiang, and it was more that Wang Jiang put down the weight of the decision on the scale.

After this matter came to an end for the time being, Chen Kai picked up another report sent by the political envoy Si Yamen, which was about Wang Jiang's advocacy of Guangzhou and Huizhou to learn from the advanced experience of Chaozhou during the agricultural slack last year, and to change ordinary farmland into mulberry fish ponds, rice fields and fish farming, and other compound agriculture in order to increase production, and the example of Fujian planting sweet potatoes on a large scale in the ninth year of Yongli to further increase the grain output of Guangdong Province.

This is undoubtedly a good thing compared to the tax reduction, because there are already successful precedents in Chaozhou and Fujian. Whether it is the increase in grain production in Chaozhou, the development of aquaculture, or the alleviation of grain shortage in Fujian, there are many places where we can learn from experience.

There is no need to cross the river by feeling the stones as in Chaozhou and Fujian, and the development of Guangzhou will logically be more rapid. However, the fact is quite the opposite: the people of Guangzhou and Huizhou were very indifferent to this during the agricultural slack last year, and they did not have the enthusiasm of the people of Chaozhou and Fujian at all.

"Kuang Zhanruo's newspaper is in charge of the newspaper, and these days he is focusing on promoting the achievements of Wang Shi. There is very little space on mulberry fish ponds, fish farming in rice paddies, and sweet potato cultivation. ”

In this regard, in fact, mulberry fish ponds and rice field fish farming are not too new in Guangzhou, and the familiarity is better than the previous Chaozhou, otherwise there would not be a large number of Chaozhou people employing those Guangzhou people who temporarily live in Chaozhou.

However, what Wang Jiang mentioned here is indeed the truth, the army regained Southern Jiangxi, which was the largest strategic operation carried out by the Ming army after the great counteroffensive in the eighth year of Yongli. Moreover, this time it is not like the last time that Chen Kai cooperated with Li Dingguo to launch the offensive, but Chen Kai as the initiator and leader, assisted by the Zheng Group's partial division, Kuang Lu naturally wanted to write a special book, not only to enhance the confidence of the Guangdong people in Chen Kai, but more importantly, for the stability of the local area after the army set out.

Kuang Lu's approach was the right thing, and Wang Jiang didn't criticize it too much. In contrast, Chen Kai has become a pond fish that has been affected, so he can't cry or laugh.

"Last year, the army went out to fight during the slack season, and a large number of people were recruited, not to mention the lack of manpower among the people, and many people couldn't even reunite with their families during the Spring Festival, let alone have the spirit to handle these things."

This is the real situation, and Wang Jiangyan didn't mean that Chen Kai didn't mean it, but just confessed a fact. At this point, Chen Kai can agree, after all, this is still an agricultural society, and the amount of manpower plays a decisive role in production, unlike the World War II in later generations.

"In the next period of time, as long as Hong Chengchou doesn't owe it, I still tend to digest the territory of Nanjiang, plus further resume production."

Saying this with a smile seems to be reassuring, but in fact, it is more of an attitude towards the next direction of development. At this point, Wang Jiang can also understand.

After the Ming army's counteroffensive in the eighth year of Yongli, it lost two provinces in one go, making the Qing court's defense line in the southeast very fragile. It is undeniable that they did invest huge numbers of troops, forming one force after another to defend these areas. However, this line of defense is too long, and Rao is such a talent as Hong Chengchou has failed to block Chen Kai's breakthrough to Nanjiang with the assistance of the Changsha shogunate

Today, it is still a pattern of strategic confrontation, but Hong Chengchou's 10,000-mile long side has been poked out of a hole. Rao is Hong Chengchou used all kinds of means to take the capital city of Wuzhou, which gave the Qing army a relatively large advantage on the battlefield in Guangxi, and better realized the strategic blockade of the Ming army on the east and west. However, at the most critical juncture, Chen Kai penetrated it, and the strategic situation of the Qing court deteriorated even more than last year, which Wuzhou could not offset at all.

At this stage, the Qing army must still try to ensure defense, and then launch a counterattack against the Ming army when the strength has accumulated enough. During this period, as long as the Ming army did not jump out and toss blindly, they would not have that leisure for a while. But after that, the Qing army's re-attack is bound to be a thunderbolt.

Chen Kai has entrusted all the affairs of civil affairs to Wang Jiang, and it is natural for Wang Jiang to lead the post of political envoy in Guangdong. However, in the newly recovered Southern Jiangxi, Chen Kai still needs to discuss relevant military and political affairs with Zheng Chenggong, which cannot be clearly explained in one or two sentences.

The matters that needed to be discussed with Zheng Chenggong were too complicated, and Chen Kai had to continue to wait for the development of events in southern Jiangxi and western Guangdong. The latter undoubtedly delayed the meeting between Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong, but as the conversation between Chen Kai and Wang Jiang progressed, before the next hour of duty, a letter from Ma was delivered to Chen Kai's case, and this delay had to disappear on its own.

"The surname of the country invited me to rush to Fuzhou as soon as possible after the end of the war, saying that I had something important to discuss."

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