The next day, Geng Jingzhong ordered Chen Yi to be appointed as the "Tingzhou Guardian Chief", and to be the fourth rank of chief, and to be in charge of eight hundred soldiers.

The fourth rank is the largest military position that Geng Jingzhong can currently grant.

After all, so many veterans are looking at each other. If they are directly sealed Chen Yi, the general, are afraid that many people will jump out and cause trouble.

Even so, many people are quite criticized when Geng Jingzhong treats a boy who is only sixteen or seventeen years old so well.

However, due to the other party's identity as the "Dragon Minister", he did not put this argument openly, which gave the new prince a face.

In fact, in addition to Chen Yi, Geng Jingzhong also installed many confidants in various places in the army, nearly half of which were the "people from Jianghu" brought by Chen Yi.

Of course, positions are far from comparable to Chen Yi. Most of them are low-ranking officers such as "President" and "Dianyi" below the seventh rank.

Although the people from the Dragon Sect and the Tiandihui have no military qualities, it is still okay to be such low-level military officers. After all, it is not their turn to command any military operations. There are only a dozen or dozens of soldiers under their command.

However, these people were the first means for Geng Jingzhong to infiltrate the army. He first put these people into the military for training. When the war really begins in the future, he will not be in a hurry.

Chen Yi transferred Fan Gang and Xuanzhen Taoist of the Tiandihui to him on the grounds that he needed someone familiar to take over the work of the garrison camp.

Before this, these two people had been incorporated into their guards by Geng Jingzhong.

Although Fan Gang's martial arts skills were only in the early stages of second-rate, he was calm and sophisticated and had a relatively reliable job. Taoist Xuanzhen was already very strong. After obtaining the second-rate top-quality internal skills given to him by Chen Yi, his strength reached the peak of second-rate, and it was more than enough to be a brave pioneer.

The most important thing is that with these two people around you, many things will be easier to do in the future.

So, the group of three rushed to Tingzhou for their posts.

...

Tingzhou Prefecture is located at the southern foot of the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian, adjacent to Guangdong in the south and Jiangxi in the west. It is the ancient road hub of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, and has always been a very important place.

In addition, the place is mostly surrounded by mountains and the people are extremely brave. They often gather in the mountains and forests to fight against the bandits in the government, and the bandits are in trouble.

The reason why Chen Yi was able to take over as the Tingzhou Guardian Chief was first because his former Tingzhou Guardian Chief was the man of Geng Zhaozhong, the "Second Highness" and has been taken to the capital together, so the position was naturally vacant.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, there are many bandits and bandits here, which is a good place to train troops.

Geng Jingzhong transferred him here to see if he had real military talents besides playing "conspiracy".

After all, although Geng Jingzhong is not a military man, he is not a fool. It is impossible for him to hand over his troops to Chen Yi without hesitation in the future without investigating Chen Yi.

Chen Yi knew this very well, but he did not bother him - although he had always been talking about it on paper, he was not sure what level he could do.

But, he has a master!

His master Chen Jinnan, the so-called "Headmaster of the World Association" in the world, is actually not his most important identity.

The most important thing about him is his identity, he is the military advisor of the tens of thousands of troops of Zheng in Taiwan!

Zheng Chenggong highly appreciated him and once praised "Yonghua is the lying dragon today". Although it must be exaggerated, it is enough to show Chen Jinnan's military talent.

(Author’s note: Chen Yonghua is Chen Jinnan’s real name.)

With such a master here, Chen Yi would not have to worry about not being able to play with a Tingzhou garrison camp with only 800 people.

The head of the Tiandihui Society was originally in Fujian. Although Chen Jinnan was in Taiwan at this time, Chen Yi had already passed the secret line and asked him to help him.

Chen Jinnan has also replied that he will come to help him when his disciples go to any side.

Chen Jinnan was surprised and was also very happy that his apprentice actually became a confidant general under the command of King Jingnan. This represented his great cause of anti-Qing, and he had a step further.

Especially, the relationship between the court and the Three Feudalists has been very stalemate recently, and Taiwan has long been eager to watch the fun.

Just waiting for the Three Feudalists to fight against the Qing Dynasty, they could sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, and maybe they would have a day to counterattack the inland.

It’s a pity that Grand Secretary Chen – at least Grand Secretary Chen – is still a too idealistic military strategist. He didn’t see clearly that, including his own prince Zheng Jing, there were only a few people in the world who wanted to “re-reincarnate”.

In fact, everyone just used the slogan of "restoring Ming" to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

The same is true for his current apprentice.

After beating on the winding and rugged mountain road for ten days, Chen Yi rushed from Fuzhou to Tingzhou.

Along the way, I encountered three small-scale robbery groups and seven large-scale beggar groups, which shows that Fujian cannot be considered peaceful.

If Chen Yi and the other two had no martial arts skills and were quite experienced, they would have died halfway through the Tao.

...

The Qing Dynasty's army was mainly composed of Eight Banners soldiers, Green Camps, and local garrisons.

Originally, the Eight Banners soldiers had the strongest combat power, but in recent years they have become increasingly corrupt, and they are not as good as the "pseudo-army" of the green camp composed of the Han people.

The combat effectiveness of local garrisons is generally poor, only stronger than militia and others.

However, the situation in Fujian is quite special. The coastal area is full of harassment from Japanese pirates, pirates, and Taiwan, so even the local garrison has a strong combat power, and now the Qing court can rank among all parts of the country.

On the west side of Fujian, there are deep mountains everywhere, and there are very few fertile land that can be cultivated carefully, and the taxes are no lower than those in other places. So many people here often abandon their homes and go up the mountain and gather together as bandits.

Even some of them are brave enough to attack the county town!

Therefore, the number of guards in the mountainous areas of western Fujian is often higher than that in other places, and their individual combat power is much stronger - after all, they often have to suppress bandits or suppress civil unrest.

That combat power is comparable to that of the city's appearance regulator.

At least when Chen Yi led the three of them to the garrison camp gate, the rows of men stood solemnly, as if they were coming out to greet him. They looked quite weak, and they could be considered as having a strict military appearance.

However, when they saw that the new Dusi was actually a half-year-old boy, the disdain and ridicule in their eyes were fully betrayed that they were called to welcome them, but in fact they were here to demonstrate.

Chen Yi was not angry at this, and the solution was even simpler.

"I didn't target anyone. I mean everyone present - they are all trash. Are you not convinced? OK, come up and fight one-on-one! You can choose whatever you want!"

So after just half an hour, looking at the dozen or so squeaking and crying at the soldiers in the army, no one dared to mock the young Dusi any more.
Chapter completed!