Chapter Eighty-Eight: Compression (II)

It's still that afternoon hour, it's still the sign that posted the list, it's still the little official who is exhausted, and it's still the list of recruiting female workers, but it's not as good as the last time, but this time there are very few people who really have the patience to listen carefully, and some are more big girls and little daughters-in-law who run directly to the military uniform tailoring workshop once they hear about recruiting female workers.

Among them, the only thing that felt helpless was the tailor Zhou who was in charge of the interview last time, and this time he was not in charge, but the women who came to him without even reading all the list articles insisted that they were looking for him for an interview, so that the mouse beard had already begun to cast his suspicious eyes on this unlucky guy.

Due to the consequences of the previous recruitment, the performance of the marked treatment, the money is really a day, in Nanao City, and even in the entire Nanao Island, I know that I am working in the Ordnance Bureau, and the treatment is good and guaranteed, so once there is news of recruitment, I immediately flock to it, lest it will be too late, and I don't even have time to read the recruitment notice.

Chen Kai has already begun to plan the open space in the city to build a larger-scale military uniform-making workshop, rather than the small one it is now. As for the output, the modern garment production process, like Chen Kai, can directly increase the output by increasing the number of female workers, without the need for anything else. Moreover, the female workers are only responsible for cutting and sewing, which are compulsory courses for women in this era in the girlhood, as long as they are given a little guidance, they can be competent, and even the training cost is saved.

All the work of the Ordnance Bureau is actually on a normal track, and Chen Kai is not afraid that someone will dare to destroy the law. The task was delegated, and Chen Kai was left to supervise. Recently, he was preparing to establish a research institute in physics and chemistry, but he didn't have the right talents, and he hadn't figured out where to startβ€”in other words, he had returned all the gains he had gained early on to his teachers, otherwise he wouldn't have been so embarrassed.

After everything was arranged, Chen Kai found him and returned to the life of nine in the morning and five in the evening. However, as he expected, only a few days later, a new announcement came, and the smile on the tower of Guangji Gate City became a little thicker.

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After several days of planning and preparation, Zheng Chenggong issued a new round of personnel transfer orders a few days after Chen Kai returned to Nanao Island. First of all, there is the question of the organization of those newly annexed troops into Guangdong and Fujian.

"Appoint, the head town Shi Lang is the chief military officer of the left pioneer town......"

"Appoint, the head town Huang Ting as the commander of the army to aid the suppression of Zuo Town......"

"Appointed, Deputy Chief Soldier Hong Xishan as the Chief Officer of Youchong Town......"

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The strength of a large army was half of the original size of the army under Zheng Chenggong, and after joining, it also accounted for one-third of the total number of the whole army. This is an extremely large faction, and if one is not handled well, the result is likely to be a civil war.

In this regard, Zheng Chenggong chose to divide it into three, two chief military officers and one adjutant general to unify the department. But before that, even on the way back, he obviously had a plan, so after the army arrived in Chaozhou and disembarked, he asked the Chaozhou City Guards to place these troops in different camps, just to wait until they arrived to decompose.

"An army can only have one voice!"

Zheng Chenggong's thoughts, Chen Kai had already seen it on the city gate, so he proposed the issue of replacing military uniforms and collecting damaged weapons for replacement at the military meeting, in order to remove a large number of weapons and equipment from his ministry and prevent unnecessary turmoil caused by the split.

The two of them didn't need to speak, and they didn't even need to look at each other, they had already calculated Shi Lang. But if Zheng Chenggong is really hostile to Shi Lang like Chen Kai, it is not necessarily the case, the knots of disobedience of the Shi family's uncle and nephew when they were under Zheng Chenggong in the early years must still be one of them, and more importantly, Zheng Chenggong cannot let this newly attached army be too grouped within it, which will inevitably affect the stability of the entire army.

The army of 4,000 is divided into three, although Shi Lang, Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and other generals have too many common experiences, and those generals who unswervingly follow Zheng Chenggong can also be said to be different, and they will always be closer, but it is better than Shi Lang, or Wu Yibo Shifu, who doesn't know where he has drifted to, to command an army of 4,000 people.

Zheng Chenggong's newly joined army Pan Gengzhong read the appointment, Shi Lang was frowning, and when Huang Ting and Hong Xishan accepted the appointment loudly, they glared at the two fiercely.

Since the surrender of this army, due to the retreat of Cheng Jibo Zheng Zhibao, Shi Fu has become the commander of the army, and the influence of the Shi family in this Fujian army has been increasing day by day, and it can even be said that this Fujian army can be regarded as a Shi army. Li Chengdong's split, Hao Shangjiu's plot, Zheng Chenggong's rescue and co-optation, and Chen Kai's push down the river, until now, Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and others have also revealed their desire to defect to the old master and centrifugal force on the Shi family.

In this regard, although Shi Lang was angry, he also knew that his old department, which was far inferior to Zheng Chenggong in strength, wanted to run away with the team, there was no food and grass, and even most of the weapons were taken away by Chen Kai. At this point, it was only when he had a heart that Shi Lang suddenly realized that the army he led to vote for had a large proportion in the army, which had aroused Zheng Chenggong's vigilance.

"Appoint, recruit the general Xingyuan to follow Shi Xian as the deputy general of the Central Army of the Left Pioneer Town......"

"Appoint, Deputy General Su Mao as the Deputy General of the Left Battalion of the Left Pioneer Town......"

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Hearing the next appointment, Shi Lang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, at least, Zheng Chenggong didn't intend to mix sand into the troops under his command, the generals of Zuo Xianfeng Town were either his younger brothers or his generals, but they were much purer and easier than the original control of the four thousand army. However, the troops under the command of Huang Ting and Hong Xishan, the influence of their Shi family will inevitably enter a downward trend, which is inevitable.

"Zuo Pioneer Town, it is the Shi Jiajun who has been refined after the compromise!"

On Nanao Island, a hundred miles away, Chen Kai carefully watched this series of personnel transfers, but he couldn't help but sneer.

Historically, Shi Lang took this army to Zheng Chenggong, because Hao Shangjiu had already killed the car and occupied the Chaozhou capital city, Shi Lang's department was plotted there, and fled all the way to Raoping County, and it took more than a month to break through the siege, and the loss was even greater than now. But at that time, Zheng Chenggong's forces were probably only a little more than half of what they are now, and in terms of proportion, the proportion of this newly attached army in the army was even more exaggerated than it is now.

However, with Chen Kai's efforts, Zheng Chenggong's troops are stronger than in history, even if the strength of this newly attached army is damaged and reduced, but the proportion is still much smaller. In this way, Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong have more room for maneuvering.

"Yang Cai, the former chief military officer of Youchong Town, was appointed to manage the right pioneer town, and the former chief military officer of the right pioneer town, Zhong Jingbo and Chen Hui, were in charge of guarding the Chenghai place; appointed the deputy general Huang Shan as the commander-in-chief of the right town; Abolish the establishment of the left and right guard towns, integrate the two departments, and form Rongqi Town, which is led by the general of Zhao; Guo Tai, the former chief military officer of the left protection town, guarded Raoping County, and Yu Kuan, the former chief military officer of the right protection town, guarded Dongshan Island......"

After reading the appointment carefully, Chen Kai did not rush to open the letter sent by Zheng Chenggong, but closed his eyes and recuperated. The establishment of the Left Pioneer Town and Rongqi Town is 2,000 each, and the seven towns of Right Pioneer Town, Aid to Suppress Left Town, Aid to Suppress Right Town, Zhongchong Town, Houchong Town, Zuochong Town, and Right Chong Town are each 1,000. If you count the local garrisons everywhere, that's 15,000 troops!

More importantly, the predecessor and root of two of the four ace troops of the land division under Zheng Chenggong's command in history, Rongqi Town, finally appeared on the stage of history. However, the proportion of the newly attached army was still too large, so big that when Chen Kai opened Zheng Chenggong's letter, he noticed at first glance that he did not intend to carry out too many military operations in recent months.

"It is still necessary to continue to try to reduce the proportion of the troops with greater influence in the army, and it must be compressed to a certain extent, so that this army can really be like an arm under the same banner."