Chaozhou, including Nanao Island, has long ceased to be the main strategic focus of the Fujian Ming Army. In the context of the Qing army's sweep of Liangguang, the reunification of the Zheng group, and the surprise attack of the center and left, southern Fujian became the main strategic direction, and Chaozhou had to take a back seat and become a supplement to the Ming army in Fujian in terms of taxes, military rations, manpower, and supplies.

Two months ago, the Ming army captured the Yongning Acropolis and Chongwu Qianhu, Shi Lang was arrested and escaped from prison and absconded but was intercepted and killed by Chen Kai, and the great victory of the magnetic stove was staged repeatedly, which was already destined to be impossible to calm down in the second half of the fifth year of Yongli.

Zheng Chenggong's punishment of Shi Lang's escape from prison further weakened the influence of the Shi family in the Zheng group, and at the same time Shi Fu fled, not long ago, he also received news that his people had surrendered and the appointment had not yet been issued, but it was pointed out that it was Zhang Xuesheng who induced Shi Fu to defect as a political achievement and invited credit to the Qing court, and at the same time suggested that Shi Fu be appointed to replace Ma Degong, who was killed by Chen Kaiyin in Xiamen, as the commander-in-chief of Fujian's right road, but it was not groundless.

"If Shi Lang surrenders, Shi Fu will continue to retire here."

When receiving this news, Zheng Chenggong said this to Hong Xu, and the latter also deeply agreed with it. Betting on both sides is the trend of family interests, and Zheng Chenggong did not suspect that Zheng Hongkui and his father were betting on both sides when he could not accept what his three uncles did in the First World War in Xiamen. However, today, such suspicions have gradually dissipated, and it is only when the news of the blessing and the captivity comes that the mind is hooked up again.

The historical reality is exactly as Zheng Chenggong said, but for now, Shi Fu's ability is not as good as Shi Lang, just more tactful, and he has been in Nanao and Xiamen for a long time.

As far as Zheng Chenggong is concerned, the loss has been avoided as much as possible, and as for whether he will really have the opportunity to fight Shi Fu on the battlefield in the future, he is even more looking forward to the day when he will have the opportunity to clean up the portal.

Before this day came, Zheng Chenggong was still trying to enhance his strength as much as possible. Zhongquan Town, originally intended to be led by Shi Lang, and now Shi Lang is dead, but he does not plan to change the name and establishment of the military town, and in June appointed a new Zheng general, Huang Xing, as the chief military officer of Zhongquan Town. At the same time, a Pinghe County official named Huang Wu killed the local magistrate to vote, and Zheng Chenggong rewarded him with 200 taels of silver and appointed him as the deputy general of the left battalion of Zhongquan Town.

In addition to Zhongquan Town and the Beizhen cavalry established earlier, Zheng Chenggong appointed Chen Chenggong, the former deputy general of the Rongqi Town, to manage the Liwu Battalion, Lan Yan, the deputy general of the Rongqi Town Association, the deputy general of the Rongqi Town Association, Chen Ze, the deputy general of the Right Pioneer Town, to manage the Xinwu Battalion, and the deputy general Wu Hao to the Zuo Town, to manage the Renwu Battalion, plus Yang Chaodong, who had been appointed as the chief military officer of Yiwu Town earlier, and the five battalions of Renyili Zhixin gathered.

On the one hand, the strengthening of military strength is one thing, and economically, Zheng Chenggong restored the Zheng clan flag system in the Zheng Zhilong era, and revised the original quota of 3,000 gold per ship to the East and the West. If there is no pay license or the old license plate is used, the sea vessel and cargo will be confiscated, and the owner and helmsman will be detained.

Xiamen Island, as the maritime trade center along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, has recovered the bustling scene of sea ships after a brief period of turmoil.

Among them, there are sea ships that come to pay their salaries, and there are also those who come here to trade. At the same time, in order to prove his ability to the Qing court, Zhang Xuesheng spent a lot of money to recruit the pirate Chen Chun to the waters of Xiamen to harass the local maritime trade.

There is no doubt that maritime trade is a core interest of the Cheng Group. As a result, Zheng Chenggong immediately sent Huang Shandu, the chief military officer of Youzhen, to suppress Wanli, Qianfeng Town, Chen Liuyu of Beizhen, and Huang Xingsuo, Zhongquan Town, to go to sea to hunt down. Chen Chun was defeated and fled to Kosaki, where he killed and plundered a lot for the Ming army. When the Qing army came to help, the Ming army lured it to the Dragon Cave, ambushed the soldiers in all directions, and annihilated all the reinforcements, re-ensuring the safety of the sea trade in the Xiamen Sea.

When he received the paperwork of reporting victory, Zheng Chenggong was still handling official business in the festival hall. Ye Yiyun's official document had been delivered, and the matter of dividing the land and tuntian should have caused him to think deeply.

The pressure on food, for Zheng Chenggong, is no lighter than that of Ye Yiyun and other Chaozhou officials, as the commander in charge of the overall situation, his pressure will only be heavier than others, and it is much heavier.

In an agrarian society, the daily food intake of a strong laborer is one to two catties, which is divided into busy farming and idle farming. Eating when you are busy and drinking porridge when you are free is extremely reluctant, otherwise you will not be able to do the heavy physical work in the field without enough strength. In such an era, many people die of overwork because of insufficient nutritional intake.

Food, after all, is grown. The grain yield per mu in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong is not comparable to that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but at least the yield per mu is more than two stones. However, the Fujian Ming army only controlled the first prefecture of Chaozhou, and the two counties of Huilai and Chaoyang were missing, while the Zhangzhou prefecture was mostly some coastal islands, and there was only one Zhao'an in the county. In such a small space, tens of thousands of soldiers have to be raised, and now they are carrying the burden of 110,000 Guangzhou people. If you calculate it in this way, Chen Kai killed Zheng Zhiguan and guarded the warehouse of the Zhongzuo Institute, which was only hundreds of thousands of hundreds, and if converted into stone, it would only be half of this number.

The Teochew tax was already beyond its means, and the income from the warehouses of the bandits in the process of recovering Teochew, the grain stored on Nan'ao Island would one day run out, and they were more inclined to buy more profitable goods than grain in the maritime trade. Because of this, Zheng Chenggong would attack the Yongning Acropolis and Chongwu Qianhu earlier with all his might, just to eat in his mouth.

Chen Kai said earlier that if these people are not properly used, they will only become a burden. Now, after half a year of fermentation, the problem has begun to become clear, Ye Yiyun has turned to the division of land and tuntian, and Zheng Chenggong has to make the necessary deep thought after receiving the official letter requesting instructions.

"Yang joins the army, the surname of the country, please take the inventory in and out of the account book for the last year."

"The subordinate obeys."

After receiving the order, Yang Ying, the household official, found the account books of inventory receipts and expenditures from the archived records, and came to Zheng Chenggong's office with the account books.

Carefully flipping through the records, the summer and autumn taxes of Chaozhou and Zhao'an County last year, the inventory of the Zhongzuo Institute and Kinmen, the acquisition of the Daxing Institute, the Yongning Acropolis, the Chongwu Qianhu City and the Cizao area, all of which were recorded in the income column of the account book. On the other hand, the daily consumption of military food and military salaries by the army, the income of officials, the loss of King Qin along the way, the pension of the Battle of Xiamen, and especially the daily needs of the 110,000 people are also heavily pressed on the position of expenditure.

Expenditure is greater than income, which is the most unbearable for him, because no matter how thick the family is, sooner or later he will finish eating. As far as Zheng Chenggong is concerned, there is only one way for his life and the future of the Zheng Group, that is, to drive out the Tartars, and this is undoubtedly not something that requires a larger amount of income to support.

It has to be said that the division of land and tuntian is the most practical way to solve the problem. The employment rate of the people in Guangzhou and the imbalance in grain income and expenditure can be directly reversed. But the problem is that Chen Kai seemed to have mentioned it earlier, saying that it was not necessary to divide land for the people of Guangzhou, and he was too busy at that time to recruit soldiers, so he didn't bother to ask, but now it has become a problem.

"Yang joins the army, in your opinion, how to solve the problem of food loss now?"

"If you return to the country, the lower officials think that dividing the land and tuntian is the best policy to treat the symptoms and cure the root cause. Second, regain lost territory and control more prefectures and counties to increase food revenues. Again, it's to supplement ...... with sea trade."

Zheng Tai is mainly responsible for the financial planning of the Zheng Group, and Zheng Tai is also responsible for sea trade on the other hand, and the rest of the work will be shared with other soldiers. For example, Yang Ying is responsible for the collection and use of grain and grass in the process of military operations. However, in such a scope of work, Yang Ying also tends to divide the land and tuntian, which can't help but Zheng Chenggong thinks about it further.

"In the long run, it's really not a solution, it seems that we can only divide the land."