Guo Zhiqi's ancestors were from Putian, Fujian, and he first moved to Chaozhou, first settled in Dengyundu, Haiyang County, and then moved to Dongguan, the current Jieyang County, when Guo Cheng came. That Guo Cheng passed down the four generations to Guo Zhiqi's father Guo Yingkao, who had been a state acquaintance and had eight sons, Guo Zhiqi was the second, and many of the brothers in the clan called him the second brother.

In total, the Guo family has been in Jieyang for more than 100 years, and it is quite influential in the county's Shilin, even in the entire Chaozhou. At that time, Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Hongkui and Chen Kai successively ran Chaozhou, and they also had a wooing attitude towards the Guo family.

However, in the political struggle, the word faction is crucial. Although the Guo family has not had any major unhappiness with Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai, Chen Kai has clearly shown that he is trying to win over powerful people in Guangdong Province, so Chen Kai must not be allowed to succeed, because once Chen Kai succeeds, Guo Zhiqi's influence in Guangdong officialdom will inevitably decline, and there is even a danger of being hollowed out.

In the northern part of Qiongzhou Mansion and Zhaoqing Mansion in western Guangdong, Chaozhou Mansion and Huizhou Mansion in eastern Guangdong, and Shaozhou Mansion and Nanxiong Mansion in northern Guangdong, invited locals flocked to Guangzhou by boat and car. Among these people, each person and each group of people basically have the same thoughts, and there is no shortage of people like the Guo family brothers, but there are very few people who have made up their minds like the Guo family brothers.

The meeting is scheduled for mid-November, and the closer it gets, the more people will be invited to Guangzhou. In early November, when the session was approaching, the local powerful people from various prefectures and counties in Guangdong had become a new landscape in the city.

"Chen Fujun invited me this time, and I don't know why."

In the invitation letter, Chen Kai did not clearly say what the conference was doing, only said that it was to discuss the rejuvenation plan. What is the specific purpose of the so-called rejuvenation plan, and even if it is just a general direction and outline, Chen Kai has not mentioned even the slightest.

This undoubtedly caused speculation and even speculation among the invitees. In fact, it is not only the invitees, even those ordinary people who have nothing to do with this meeting, and they will inevitably wonder about Chen Kai's plan when they hear some words.

In the restaurant, all kinds of characters gathered together talked about each other's opinions. Some people thought that the war had just ended, and Guangdong's military rations and salaries were insufficient, so they had to persuade the prefectures and counties to pay them; Some believe that not long ago, the Ming army recovered Southern Jiangxi, but the eastern part of Guangxi fell at the same time, and the current strategic situation is like this, so Chen Kai wants to unite the strength of powerful people in Guangdong to fight against Hong Chengchou; Others feel that Chen Kai's move is to seek the official position of the governor of Liangguang, and now that Zheng Chenggong has set up a six-official system to centralize power, he will narrow the will of the people to move the court......

"The husband is tight-lipped now, and the tighter he covers it, the more others want to know, it's really bad enough."

Everyone has curiosity, especially a guy like Chen Kai who can toss some new gadgets at every turn, and the sense of expectation is much greater than that of others. During this time, Zheng Xiyuan naturally knew very well what Chen Kai was going to do next, but for those high-ranking officials, handsomes and female relatives of big families who had daily interactions, for those who intentionally or unintentionally probed the wind, she was just like Chen Kai, she refused to reveal such a word, and she was a husband and wife.

However, in private, Zheng Xiyuan has talked about her thoughts more than once, mostly because of Chen Kai's worries, because Chen Kai's purpose this time is to completely overturn this chessboard with the world as the game, similar things have not been done before, or they are not as deep as him, and it is still unknown whether it will succeed.

"Don't worry, no matter what they are thinking now, when I lift the curtain on this scene, I will definitely be able to scare them and make them feel worthwhile."

Chen Kai was as confident as ever, caressing Zheng Xiyuan's hair, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he returned to the study, making final preparations for his plan.

Soon, the meeting date has arrived, and according to the invitation letter, the invitees rushed to the venue early in the morning. There, it is not a certain government office, nor is it a landmark building in the city such as Zhenhai Tower and Gongbei Tower. Out of the city from the Great East Gate, there is a former military camp not far away, which was originally stationed in Fubiao, Guangdong, where there is a school field that covers a considerable area, and the Iron Man Army used this place as the main training ground, and now it has been reorganized into an open-air venue. In the past, under the platform, the sheds with green bamboo as beams and pillars and cloth as gray tiles shaded the rows of seats below.

When the Guo brothers arrived here, one person could enter with the invitation, and the older one nodded to the younger one, and then entered with the invitation letter, and then got together with several gentry who also came from Chaozhou, and entered the open-air venue together. The farther away the venue became, the more seats were available. I don't know how long later, the bell for the beginning of the meeting officially rang, and the whole room was already full except for some hurried people who came here again.

"Hey, why hasn't Chen Fujun arrived yet?"

"Feudal officials, it's normal to be late."

"Your Excellency, I'm afraid you don't know, Chen Fujun has always been the most punctual, and he invited gentry and officials to meet in Chaozhou earlier, and he has always arrived in advance, and there has never been such a thing as today, when a quarter of an hour has passed, but he has not shown up."

The person who spoke was talking about Chaozhou, but the person was a gentry from Guangzhou. However, he had followed Chen Kai to live in Chaozhou, and when he was in Chaozhou, he also made up for the position of a county minister.

During this time, he told some old things about the past to his friend from Sanshui County, which also attracted the ears of the people around him. In the venue, there were a lot of people who knew Chen Kai, and soon there were more and more whispers about this exception, and the noise here inevitably became bigger and bigger with the number of people participating in the discussion.

However, this discussion did not last long, and soon, with a high-pitched announcement, Chen Kai quickly disappeared into the discussion and strode onto the point platform with only one seat.

"The student (villain) has seen the old man of Fujun."

The gentry with merit bowed their hands, and the businessmen and heroes without merit fell directly to the ground. Afterwards, Chen Kai stood on the stage, saying a word of courtesy, and at the same time, the palms of the hands slowly raised upward, and the participants in the audience stood up again in gratitude.

"Gentlemen, please be seated."

With a smile on his face, Chen Kai motioned for everyone to sit down, but then he bowed, so frightened that everyone hurriedly got up and saluted back, so that they were not in a hurry.

"When the official passed the Great East Gate, it happened that a family carried the coffin out of the funeral, and the official followed the family out of the city, delaying the hour, and should apologize, and the monarchs don't need to do this."

Chen Kai, many people present have a more or less understanding of him, especially the gentry, businessmen and local powerful people in Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Qiongzhou, many of them have actually dealt with Chen Kai, and their temperament is far clearer than others.

Speaking of which, Chen Kai's punctuality is known to many people, and it is even more famous if he doesn't talk about pomp, and the clean street is basically a scene that cannot be seen here in Chen Kai, and even the official sedan chair is never sitting, either riding a horse, or it is a very inconspicuous carriage. Some people say that Chen Kai is afraid of being assassinated, and some people say that Chen Kai does not dare to trespass because he has no fame, there are many theories, but one thing is certain, that is, Chen Kai can be said to be the most disliked official in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

This time, Chen Kaike politely expressed his apology, but the explanation was the same, and everyone present nodded in praise. After all, the dead are the greatest, and this is a long-standing Chinese tradition. Chen Kai's tardiness is indeed wrong, even with his current status, such a trivial matter as being late is completely negligible, and it will also cause dissatisfaction. However, the reason why he was late this time was that he was willing to follow the bones of a civilian out of the city as a feudal official, and even did not hesitate to break the convention for this, which is not just a low profile, this is to maintain morality and ethics, it is a reverence for tradition, and it is a completely different nature than simply being late.

The voices of praise began to come from the audience, and the vast majority of people believed that Chen Kaiping's temperament would never lie about such things. It was Chen Kai himself, who thanked everyone for their compliments, and secretly slandered himself for this temporary intention, which made him even more embarrassed.

Making the final preparations, Chen Kai left the city a little later than the invited attendees, but if he followed the team normally, he would not be late. However, seeing those, Chen Kai suddenly remembered some books and articles he had read before about and analyzed the Third German Reich, one of which mentioned in an article about the establishment of the ** party by the Führer, and his idea of relying on the late arrival of the rally to arouse the resonance of the participants with the current situation of the Weimar Republic, so he temporarily decided to follow suit.

Here, the resonance of traditional awe has been there, and Chen Kai secretly got his own way, so he officially opened the meeting after some thanks.

"You have been invited by the official to come here, but the official has never mentioned the details, and he must have been thinking and meditating on this a lot recently. Speaking of which, this matter is not deliberately concealed by the official, but there are some details that the official has not considered clearly at that time, and he does not dare to export it easily. However, during this period of time, the official has already taken into account all the things that need to be considered, and here he will share with you what he has thought and felt in the past. ”

Chen Kai told some good news since the recovery of Guangdong, including the recovery of Southern Jiangxi and the recovery of people's livelihood in some areas of Guangdong. However, instead of continuing to imagine the future on this topic, Chen Kai directly brought the meat up, and everyone sat upright when they heard the words, puffed up a pair of ears, and widened their eyes to see the things wrapped in the three outer layers here.

Everyone present was like this, Chen Kai smiled slightly, and said calmly: "As we all know, this official was born in the Northland, and he has seen a lot of troubled times before and after the Tatars entered the customs. When the Emperor Liehuang was in the dynasty, the rogues were everywhere, the lives of the people were ruined, and the slaves were in chaos in Liaodong, and every time the king was defeated, the people of Liaodong who fled into the pass were countless. As for the Tartars who entered the customs, they shaved their hair, changed clothes, enclosed land, and surrendered, and as for the cruel escape method, even Geng Jimao's Laozi was forced to commit suicide. The latter, north and south together; As for the former, before he originally went south to join Wang Shi, the official once recognized that Jiangnan was singing and dancing, and the Fujian-Guangdong maritime trade was in full swing, until he really began to follow the national surname to run Chaozhou, and he didn't know that this was not the case! ”

This is not the case, almost everyone present immediately thought of what Chen Kai would say next. Sure enough, Chen Kai started from running Chaozhou with Zheng Chenggong, talked about Che Renzhong, Wu Liuqi, Xu Long, Su Li, talked about the withering on the Xiangzi Bridge when he entered Chaozhou at the beginning of that year, and even talked about the Niujia Village that attracted him to the Lin family brothers, and the headless corpses in that village......

For the locals of Chaozhou, those are already seven or eight years ago, and many people don't remember them very clearly. So, Chen Kai named him, and then the local Haoqiang representative called Yang Hu from Chenghai County boarded the military platform and talked to everyone about the situation at that time with his memory.

"At that time, the local government couldn't manage a lot of things, so many bandits made trouble in the place, just like Xu Long and Su Li, and even a Xiucai named Chen Junge also started a business without capital, and even had to peel off the belly of the captured people and pull out the intestines......"

The old things of Ou Ting Village made many people's faces not very good-looking, Yang Hu didn't seem to notice this, and continued to talk about the local bandits, the heroic rebellion, he was in Chenghai County to protect the territory and the people, and Xu Long, Huang Hairu and others fought against it, which is sinister and not to mention. Such days were until Chen Kai outwitted the capital city of Chaozhou, and Zheng Chenggong went south to collect Chenghai County and Nanyang Village.

"Today's Chenghai County, fertile fields are everywhere, and when it comes to the harvest season, the fragrance of rice strikes. On the banks of the fields, there are no longer villagers and villagers who are on guard, some are just laughter, and in those old and newly built schools, the sound of children reading is like returning to a peaceful and prosperous world. ”

In a peaceful and prosperous world, this is really too much. However, the Chaozhou rebellion mentioned by Yang Hu here was not only in Chaozhou, but also in other prefectures and counties.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, internal and external troubles were never limited to the Liukou in the north and the Manchu Qing in Liaodong, and in the south, the drama of oppression and the collapse of the grassroots order was also constantly staged, but because the geographical and climatic environment in the south was less affected than in the north, the scale of these phenomena was also much smaller. However, the small scale does not mean that it did not happen, and the peasant uprisings, local tyrants, and bandits divided one side became more serious the closer they were to Jiashen, and they were very similar to those before the fall of many dynasties.

"From the first year of Hongwu to the present, the Ming Dynasty has enjoyed the country for nearly three hundred years. In the past 300 years, the changes in the dynasty have been so great that the old system has long been difficult to return. If the normal trajectory is followed, then the year of Jiashen should be the starting point for the change of dynasty, replaced by a new Han dynasty to replace the Ming dynasty, and the new dynasty will also take the essence of the Ming Dynasty and remove the dross of the Ming Dynasty, and the Chinese civilization will also enter a new chapter in the process. However, Li Zicheng's incompetence and the cunning of the Tartars have completely interrupted this process, and China is in danger of sinking again, and we need to face no longer the loss of the country, but the destruction of the world! ”

As a feudal official of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Kai said such an unspeakable thing as changing the dynasty so calmly that everyone present was dumbfounded. Fortunately, Chen Kai then led the Manchu Qing Dynasty out, pointing out the issue of not the death of the country but the death of the world, which is talked about in Kuang Lu's Guangdong Di Bao, and many people who have read the Di Bao already have a basic concept of cognition, and when Chen Kai talks about this, he can immediately understand the deep meaning, and he is exempted from that embarrassment.

"Fighting is the only thing we can do now, and we must do it. Only by driving the Tartars out of China can we be worthy of our ancestors and ancestors, and can our children and grandchildren not be reduced to the tragic fate of being slaves to the country by birth. However, this is not a fundamental solution to the problem, maybe two hundred years later, maybe a hundred years later, maybe decades or more than ten years later, we are likely to face a similar situation, such as the Ming Dynasty, such as the Two Song Dynasty. ”

Although the ancients did not use such a word, it does not mean that they did not know that there was such a thing. This is an extremely real problem, and it is also a cruel problem, especially when it is mixed with the decline of civilization, and they can't help but think deeply.

At this time, Chen Kai said the preface, paused slightly, and then said loudly: "This official has been an official for many years, and he has been confronting the captive for many years, and he has been thinking about this matter for many years. After thinking about it, the official thought that only retro restructuring could turn the catastrophe into invisible. ”