As the western part of Guangdong gradually became occupied by the Qing army, not only was the Ming army there either wiped out by the Qing army, or was squeezed into a position in the corner to survive, and the problems in Chaozhou became more and more conspicuous.

In fact, as early as the beginning of Chen Kai's journey, Su Li, the Jieshi general soldier in the southeast of Huizhou Prefecture, and Hao Shangjiu, the Chaozhou general soldier in the northeast of Huizhou Prefecture, had already launched an offensive against the Chaozhou occupied area of the Ming army.

Su Li is the old opponent of the Fujian Ming army, and he is also the only one left in the seven great empires of Chaohai, he now occupies Haifeng County, Jieshiwei, Shengjiesuo, Jiazimen in Huizhou Prefecture and Huilai County and Jinghai in Chaozhou Prefecture, which basically includes the area between the southwest of the Lotus Mountain Range and the coastline. And Hao Shangjiu is still entrenched in Xingning and Changle counties in Huizhou Prefecture, and his territory has basically not changed, and he seems to be inferior to Su Li, a bandit, in terms of aggressiveness.

Prior to this, they had had many conflicts with the Ming army in Fujian, especially since Shang Kexi first decided to use them to consume the vitality of the Ming army, and the scale and number of conflicts have continued to increase. When this happened, the reprimands were sent to Jieshiwei and Xingning counties respectively, and under pressure, a new round of offensive broke out again.

As before, the spearhead of Suli's attack was concentrated in Puning County, which was in the hands of Chen Bin, who was not interested in attacking the Ming army-controlled areas and tolerating the transit of other Qing troops. Geographically, Su Li could only continue to the north, crashing into the Ming army's defense line in the southwest of Chaozhou again and again. And Hao Shangjiu's side is also a straight line to the east as always, and Chengxiang is downstream, which is also the only way for him, the general soldier of Chaozhou, to enter Chaozhou.

Major wars are rare, but skirmishes never stop. The Ming army needed to maintain an offensive in southern Fujian, so Chaozhou would inevitably take a defensive position. Du Hui, Zhou Quanbin and others will be in Puning, and Zhang Jin will be in Chengxiang, all of them will fight with the Qing army with all their might. However, in the hinterland of Chaozhou, under internal pressure, the work of dividing land and tuntian fields officially kicked off. Even if the agricultural time is not so favorable, at least we must always prepare for next year's spring ploughing.

Nanyang Village in Chenghai County, which was once the settlement of the Xu Long family. As the Xu Long family was forced to withdraw from this place under the pressure of the Ming army, Zheng Chenggong once returned some of the land of the people that Xu Long had invaded to their owners, which made the appeal and influence of the Ming army here extremely huge. Last year, Xu Long broke through Chen Kai in the Pearl River, and the whole army was annihilated, and even the hero was stabbed to death in the river. After receiving the news, the local people cheered, and the worries that the Xu Long family would return to this place with the momentum of the Qing army completely dissipated.

Gratitude to Dade is essential. It's just that at this moment, the people here are all indifferently looking at everything in front of them, watching the officials and officials sent down from the government and the county organizing the people of Guangzhou to plan and reclaim the fields here, and watching the land of Chaozhou being reclaimed by those Guangzhou people who came to take refuge.

Apathy, outside-in, inside-out.

This is just the tip of the glacier. In Fucheng, Nanyang Village, and Outing Village, there are many wastelands in the south of Chaozhou, and gradually local officials and the people of Guangzhou have begun to appear.

The number of people brought back by Chen Kai is too huge, and it is almost the total population of a county such as Chenghai and Haiyang. It is now urgent to turn the tens of thousands of people who put aside the soldiers and military families, or tens of thousands of burdens, into help. The law of dividing land and tuntian, which was quickly implemented after Zheng Chenggong's confirmation, was caused by the shortage of military food in the Ming army and the deterioration of the surrounding situation. It's a pity that not all of them have such a view of the overall situation and overall interests, or rather, their interests are not exactly the same as those of the Ming army.

The order to divide the land and Tuntian was issued, and the Chaozhou Mansion and the prefect Ye Yiyun never had a lack of opposition in their ears. These voices all came from the local officials, officials, gentry, and wealthy families in Chaozhou, and the people at the bottom could not reach the "officials" to listen, but the officials sent down, especially those from Fujian, who had no interest relationship with the Chaozhou people and the people of Guangzhou, also reported to him everything they saw among the people.

Chen Kai's early warning, Ye Yiyun has begun to understand a little, but if the decree is issued, there is no turning back. For this reason, Ye Yiyun decided to do some salvage work, such as letting the people of Guangzhou, who had been allocated land, help the people of nearby Chaozhou to build canals for irrigation during the slack time, so as to alleviate the contradictions between the two sides as much as possible and strive to eliminate hidden dangers invisible......

Ye Yiyun has a headache, and Chen Ding, the teacher of Fuxue, is also a head and two big. Fuxue has a learning field, but there is no land division here, so it doesn't matter. The key is that among the large number of people brought back by Chen Kai, there are many serious scholars, who either have fame or background, and places like government schools and county schools always have to be arranged, and this is all crowding out the teaching resources of Chaozhou scholars.

For this reason, Chen Ding separated the scholars of Guangzhou and Chaozhou, and at the same time selected a group of gentlemen who could be teachers from among the scholars who fled from Guangzhou, and asked them to teach the lessons of the scholars in Guangzhou, so that these people were barely separated. However, this year, I studied for the sake of entering the office, and the area controlled by the Ming army in Fujian did not have so many pits to fill these turnips. Especially among these people, there are still many Guangzhou officials like Ding Youyi, which further aggravates the tension in the vacancy.

The anxiety in Chaozhou has also affected Nanao Island. The first batch of people who were transported to Chaozhou by Chen Kai were here, and most of them existed as tenants to make up for the shortage of agricultural labor after the large number of recruits.

This was Chen Kai's method back then, Ye Yiyun didn't think of it, but the number of people Chen Kai brought back was too huge, so it was just a drop in the bucket. And now, when the news of Chaozhou's division of land and tuntian came, these tenants began to be impetuous—after all, returning to their hometown is still an endless dream at this stage, and it is much more reassuring to plant their own land than to rent someone else's.

As Hao Shangjiu's subordinates intensified their efforts to harass Chengxiang and its surrounding areas, some government-run mines were within its scope of attack, and production inevitably declined. On the other hand, the position of the Zhongzuo Institute as a maritime trade center has become more and more stable, and the formation of the five merchants of the mountains and seas, the Ming army has also purchased more and more raw materials through maritime trade, and this gap will become wider and wider in the future.

There are trade-offs, and even more so than expected. After Feng Chengshi made a detailed list, he proposed to Zheng Chenggong to move part of the functions of the Nanao Ordnance Bureau to the Central Left Institute, so as to better serve the strategic direction of southern Fujian today.

After a month of precipitation and careful consideration, Zheng Chenggong finally relented and decided to move some of the functions of the Ordnance Bureau to the Central Left Institute to better serve the battlefield in southern Fujian.

Confirming Feng Chengshi's suggestion, Zheng Chenggong recalled that step by step over the years, since Chen Kai outwitted Chaozhou, after more than a year of fierce battles, he finally pocketed that area. However, due to the interests of the Zheng group in maritime trade and the important position of the Zhongzuo in the trade of the Fujian Sea, even if there is no continuous deterioration of the situation in Guangdong, it has become inevitable to switch to southern Fujian.

Chaozhou, with the increasing strength of the Qing army in Guangdong, the pressure is increasing. However, Zheng Chenggong lacks skills, and it is really difficult to take care of both aspects at the same time, and now he has to order the Chaozhou generals to strictly guard against it. Strive to open up the situation in southern Fujian before the Chaozhou battlefield can not hold on, and then with the backing of the Zhangquan Second Mansion in southern Fujian, with the huge profits of sea trade, there is no need to be afraid of anything like Shang Ke and the like.

"July and August have passed, and in September, it's time to send troops."