Zhu Hongsan looked at Feng Ruoshu's back and said secretly in his heart: "This old guy is not simple, everyone else is taking one step at a time, but this old guy can take one step and see three steps." Old man Feng must have decided when Chen Zizhuang first arrived in Dongguan to let his son be loyal in public, and Feng Ziyong is now a political envoy, and the next step is to enter the cabinet to reward him. It seems that he has been mixing in the court for more than 40 years, and today Ma Mingyuan is far behind, and he can't help but see that Feng Ruoshu's strategy also took the initiative to jump out and sing the opposite. Ma Lao Er's ability is there, but he still needs to experience it in officialdom! ”

Zhu Hongsan twisted his beard and nodded, and Zhang Jiayu on the side saw Zhu Hongsan like this, and stepped forward and asked, "Your Highness, why are you laughing?" ”

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhang Jiayu, this guy has been working under him for two years, and he should go down to exercise.

"Yuanzi, you draft an order and send it to the cabinet."

Zhang Jiayu hurriedly prepared the paper to record the orders of the King of Chu.

"The first order, Li Zhi, began to stop attacking Zhejiang and the two banks of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili from the moment he received the order. The matter of transporting displaced people should be stopped for a while, and there should be no interference with the southward movement of the Qing army. ”

Zhang Jiayu's hands shook in fright when he heard this order, he had heard Feng's poisonous plan just now, he didn't expect the King of Chu to use it so soon.

The second order was that Xu Dali, the prefect of Zhaoqing, was promoted to the political envoy of Guangdong, Yu Shilong, the governor of Guangzhou, was promoted to the prefect of Guangzhou, and Gong Dacheng, the prefect of Dongguan, was promoted to the governor of Guangzhou. Zhang Jiayu served as the commander of Shaozhou Nanxiong. ”

Zhang Jiayu was very excited when he heard that he was being released to prepare for the army. Although he was not in a high position by the side of King Chu, now that it is a troubled time, the big husband does not want to make contributions.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhang Jiayu, who was overjoyed, and said: "Yuanzi, when you go out this time, the king will hand over the north gate of Guangdong to you, and you will guard it for the king." There are also two regiments from Nanxiong Shaozhou handed over to you, and you are responsible for when and how to fight them. But their numbers are too small, so you take 10,000 men of weapons and armor and recruit soldiers among the homeless. This king estimates that in another year, the Qing army will reach Guangdong, and then your Shaonan military preparation road will become the first line of defense. Motoko, do you know? ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, the lower officials will definitely make sure that the city is in the people, and the city is dead!"

Zhu Hongsan is very relieved about Zhang Jiayu's moral character, but he has no experience in leading troops, so he doesn't know if he can do it. Zhu Hongsan is now also rushing ducks to the shelves, if the military is used as the commander-in-chief of the cabinet, the group of scholars and doctors will definitely oppose it, in their eyes the martial arts are nonsense, and the high-tech work of fighting a war still depends on the literati.

Of course, Zhu Hongsan hated this kind of argument. But he can't help it, the general situation is like this, if you want these doctors to work, you have to listen to them. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan was very cautious when choosing commanders, and now there are two military positions in charge of literati, one is Fu Wenlong, the governor of Nanyang, and the other is Li Zhi, the governor of Nanzhili. But neither of them is responsible for specific military battles, they are only responsible for the strategic aspect, and the tactical level also relies on professional soldiers.

Zhang Jiayu and Fu Li in front of him are different, Fu Wenlong has a flexible mind and knows what to take care of and what not to manage, Li Zhi has been a sea patrol for many years, and he still has certain opinions on military affairs. Zhang Jiayu is different, he is a newcomer, I hope he can adapt to military life in this year.

Zhu Hongsan also has no choice, his side has limited manpower, if there is a person like Hong Chengchou and Sun Chengzong. It's a pity that now Hong Chengchou is a traitor, and Sun Chengzong was martyred in Taiyuan. But the living can't let the urine suffocate to death, the great men of later generations have a good saying, "cross the river by feeling the stones", if not, we will cultivate ourselves.

After Zhang Jiayu wrote the two orders, he went out and sent them to the cabinet for implementation, and the second order was nothing, just a normal personnel appointment and dismissal, but the impact was not very good after the first order was issued.

The order was issued on November 10 of the first year of Hongguang, and because Zhu Hongsan did not recognize the legitimacy of the Tang king, he did not use the Longwu chronology.

Li Zhi received the order ten days later, that is, on November 20. Li Zhi has been really high-spirited in the past few months, and the reason is very simple, he always wins battles, and the combat effectiveness of both the army and the navy under his command is simply off the charts.

At present, there are more than 10,000 people in the army, which is not a large number, but most of these 10,000 people have gone through the brutal Jiangyin defense battle and Jiading offensive and defensive battles. Under Zhu Hongsan, it can be said that combat effectiveness is the first.

Not to mention the navy, it is also the king and hegemon in the East Asian Ocean. At present, there are three forces along the coast of Zhejiang, one of which is Zhu Hongsan's navy, which is entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands. There is also the Manchu inland river division in the Yangtze River and Qiantang River basins. Because of Hong Chengchou's effective measures, he erected iron cables across the Yangtze River in the narrow places of the inland waterways, and at the same time built forts on the shore, so that Zhu Hongsan's big ships now dare not enter the Yangtze River and Qiantang River. However, the Manchumizu division can't get out of the ocean, so both sides are in a stalemate.

The third party is the Zheng family sailor in Fujian, Zheng Zhilong raised the Tang Dynasty, and naturally he and Zhu Hong's trinity are not at odds. At present, it is only superficially maintaining the situation of jointly resisting the Qing Dynasty, and basically each is doing its own thing and does not interfere with each other.

After Nanzhili came from Hong Chengchou, he issued a ban on the sea, and all the residents of the coastal thirty miles moved inland, so as to prevent Li Zhi's sitting.

However, these articles had limited effect on Li Zhi, because all his naval and army supplies came from Guangdong. If anything, it's hard to get immigrants right now. Therefore, Li Zhi planned to make a big move in the next few months, that is, to go north to the mouth of the Yellow River, attack the northern provinces under the control of the Manchus, and strive to get a large number of people.

For this reason, Li Zhi had prepared a large amount of military rations and war preparation materials, and was ready to start acting after the Chinese New Year, but he did not expect that the order of the King of Chu to stop all military operations arrived at a critical time.

Li Zhi looked at the edict of the King of Chu and said to a middle-aged scribe sitting next to him: "Virtuous brother among the people, it seems that our preparations have been in vain, and the King of Chu is not allowed to fight!" ”

This middle-aged literati is Chen Zilong, who went to take the exam with Ma Mingyuan in the tenth year of Chongzhen. But he didn't have Ma Mingyuan's talent, and he only won the fifty-third place in the top three. After the palace examination, he was released as the manager of Huizhou Mansion in Guangzhou, but before he went to work, his mother died, and Chen Zilong went home to guard his filial piety.

After Ding Wei saw the chaos in the court, Chen Zilong also lost his desire to go out of the mountain and devoted himself to studying at home. In the past few years at home, Chen Zilong sorted out Xu Guangqi's agricultural masterpiece "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration". Chen Zilong has always admired Xu Guangqi's personality and learning, and visited him in Beijing in his early years. Canran became the sixty volumes of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration". He also wrote "Ordinary Cases", which summarized the basic purpose, main content, ideological origins and unique views of Xu Guangqi. At the same time, he expressed his own social and economic opinions.

In the face of the great peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the advance of the Qing army, in order to save the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zilong finally gave up his personal plan, and in June of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, he served as the manager of Shaoxing Mansion in Zhejiang, and soon began to act as the governor of Zhuji. On the day of the official, due to the floods in his jurisdiction for many years, the hungry people swarmed, in order to maintain the stability of the local society, he used both rigidity and softness, suppressed and appeased, while "vigorously practicing the protection of the armor, setting up the law of mutual heads, and applying for the order of joint sitting" to quell the riots of the hungry people; On the one hand, he provided relief to the hungry, set up a porridge factory, set up a pharmacy, supported the elderly and children, treated the sick and sick, collected the dead bones, and saved more than 100,000 people.

At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Chen Zilong was awarded the military department for his meritorious contribution to the rebellion of Xu Du, who appeased all the students in Dongyang County, Zhejiang. However, after Xu Du surrendered, because Zuo Guangxian, the governor of Zhejiang, ignored Chen Zilong's repeated requests, violated the original promise that as long as Xu Du surrendered by himself, "he should wait to be immortal", and killed Xu Du and more than 60 people after Xu Du led the people out of the mountain to surrender. In this regard, Chen Zilong was very dissatisfied; Hearing that my grandmother was very ill, she did not go to work, and returned to China in March.

After Chongzhen hanged himself, Zhu Yousong took over the mess in Nanjing. Chen Zilong was also appointed as the military department of the New Dynasty under the recommendation of his teacher Huang Daozhou. Although there are only seven products in the military department, but you can directly discuss the important matters of national defense, Chen Zilong has been in the court for more than 50 days, more than 30 times, and put forward a large number of valuable suggestions, but Emperor Hongguang was overwhelmed by the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party at this time, how can he have spare time to take care of other things. Chen Zilong was extremely disappointed in the government, and at the same time, because his outspoken words offended Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others, he was ostracized, so he resigned again and returned to his hometown.

Unexpectedly, the Hongguang Dynasty was a short-lived court, which only lasted for one year, and was destroyed by the Qing army in May of the first year of Hongguang. After Chen Zilong learned the news at home, he and his friend Xia Yunyi organized hundreds of villagers to prepare to resist the Qing army.

Just when Chen Zilong was preparing to meet the Qing army in his hometown, the news that the Qing army was completely wiped out by the Ming army in Jiading came over, and Songjiang Mansion was preserved.

After Chen Zilong learned that the Ming army was resisting the Qing army, he led his men and horses to Jiading to visit Zhao Guodong. In this way, Chen Zilong learned that this army with extremely strong combat effectiveness was stabbed out by the young man back then, and that young man is now the king of Chu.

Chen Zilong recalled that he and Zhu Hongsan, Ma Mingyuan, and Feng Ziyong discussed the world in the past, but he didn't expect that everything Zhu Hongsan said that day had been fulfilled today. Chen Zilong saw the perverse behavior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and saw the people of Jiangnan who were massacred in large numbers in order to resist the "head shaving order", coupled with the agreement with Zhu Hongsan that year, Chen Zilong decided to stay and help Zhao Guodong.

Zhao Guodong is a big man and is not capable of managing so many refugees, so he was very happy to see that Chen Zilong could stay and help, and handed over the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of refugees to Chen Zilong to take care of.

With Chen Zilong's help, more than 100,000 refugees stranded on the banks of the Yangtze River migrated safely to Chongming County. After Li Zhi went north, he found that Chen Zilong was so talented, and immediately entrusted him with an important task and appointed Chen Zilong as the governor of Nanzhili from Sipin.

With the help of local literati such as Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi, Li Zhi was able to quickly get into work and organize a large number of refugees* from Nanzhili to be transported to Guangdong.