Back on Nan'ao Island, everything is as before. The Ordnance Bureau and its various workshops are producing military supplies step by step. Only at the military uniform manufacturing workshop, it seems that there are still some orders from Zheng Hongkui that have not been completed. This is actually not the case.

It’s not surprising that while maintaining the production of military uniforms, Zheng Chenggong continues to expand the army. If some of the balance payments are not easy to collect, it may be even slower.

"I'll send Duke Dingguo's shipment over as soon as it's finished. I've already sent the money a long time ago. It's been almost a month. It's not kind of me to keep delaying it."

"I'll go and inform the warehouse to prepare."

Zheng Hongkui is still very kind to Zheng Chenggong, and this is all in the eyes of Chen Kai. Regarding Zheng Hongkui's orders, Chen Kai also adheres to the principle of honest business and strives to ensure quality and quantity. This batch of military uniforms is enough.

There are more than a thousand pieces, and there should be orders for continued production in the future. Chen Kai is not in a hurry, because Zheng Hongkui only has so many soldiers in the army, and it is a good thing to get a start.

The school has officially started, and Chen Kai sat in for a while. Those teachers who taught literacy still taught according to the old-fashioned method. In this regard, Chen Kai was thinking about whether to write "Flying to Luding Bridge" and "Young Runtu"

" came out and asked the students to copy it a hundred or eighty times, but when I think about it carefully, it seems that not only is the time and space misplaced, but the biggest problem is that he has already forgotten the content, let alone giving it to these "motherland"

The "flowers" have increased the academic burden.

"Three hundred thousand is very good. You can also learn some principles of life by reading the Analects. As long as you don't continue to talk about the eight-legged essay in depth, there is nothing intolerable."

After leaving the school, Chen Kai hurried back to the Ordnance Bureau. He came back this time not just to take care of the civil affairs work in South Australia and other places, but more importantly, he also came back with a mission this time.

"how?"

"If you go back to join the army, it will not be difficult to imitate it, but if you imitate it very carefully, it will not be easy if it is exactly the same as what is required to join the army."

"That's why I let you, the old master, personally preside over it. The people beside you are your favorite disciples. I can't trust it for the time being."

When the war came to an end, Zheng Chenggong immediately handed the gun to Chen Kai. The workmanship of this gun was unimaginably fine. With the matching measuring tools, the accuracy was much higher than the average. Of course, this gun said

In the end, it is only slightly more accurate than ordinary smoothbore cannons, but as reflected in the hit rate, the improvement in the army's combat effectiveness is still relatively obvious. Especially when Zheng Chenggong attacked Dabu County, this spiritual gun was not only used for testing.

In addition to the shots fired, the next few shots all hit the city walls and towers. This blessing of "God's blessing" greatly improved the morale of the soldiers.

"Thanks for joining the army, I will do my best."

It's okay to imitate one door. That's what Zheng Chenggong did in history. However, Chen Kai has always been very creative. He would imitate three doors with just one mouth. And it was a preliminary plan, which made the old master begin to doubt the rest of his life.

Will all the time be spent waiting for batches of imitation spirit guns?

This imitation still uses the clay mold method. From the beginning of making the wooden model, we dare not make even the slightest difference. This will be the most important task of the artillery manufacturing workshop this year, whether it is Chen Kai or them.

The emphasis on craftsmen is certainly not comparable to that of the previous cannons and small blunderbuss.

Chen Kai's return this time also brought with him a chief inspector of the Arms Bureau appointed by Zheng Chenggong. This person is called Chen Qi, a scholar who joined Zheng Chenggong six months ago. After half a year of inspection and trial, he started under Feng Chengshi

Responsible for the mining industry in northern Chaozhou, Pan Zhonggeng began to play a greater role in the post. At the same time, this person was also assigned to the Ordnance Bureau as his deputy.

Zheng Chenggong's trust in Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong still remains, but with the recapture of Chaozhou Prefecture, this army will face a new problem, which is the direction of the next attack.

Chaozhou is a prefecture, with the sea in the south, Jiangxi in the north, Fujian in the east, and the hinterland of Guangdong in the west. Going north and going south, either it is inconvenient for development, or there is no place for development, it is just two places in the east and west. Today's situation in Guangdong, Li Chengdong is

After his death, his generals were entrenched in various prefectures, and there was still a Yongli court in Zhaoqing. Compared with Fujian, which had suppressed a large-scale anti-Qing uprising, it was really in disarray. However, Chen Kai was unwilling to provoke internal strife, and Zheng Chenggong also valued Chen Kai.

opinions, then the only thing left is to march eastward to Fujian.

The two prefectures of southern Fujian and Zhangquan are also of great significance to this Ming army to fight back to their hometown. Now that Fenshui Pass is in hand, the Qing army in Zhangnan does not even have a good geographical shield, and is already passively being beaten.

Zheng Chenggong was naturally moved by the situation.

But in this way, as the magistrate of Zhangzhou Prefecture and the only prefecture-level official in this prefecture, Chen Kai will face the possibility of strengthening his position. And judging from Zheng Chenggong's appointment of Chen Qi now, when he takes over Zhangzhou

For Chen Kai, the official position of a prefect was a certainty, so someone was needed to help him take care of the work here when Chen Kai was unable to work in the Ordnance Bureau for a long time.

On the way here, Chen Kai talked with Chen Qi. Generally speaking, he felt that he was a relatively humble and down-to-earth subordinate. He was obedient and able to obey others. This was what Chen Kai wanted to see, and Zheng Chenggong chose this one.

A person should also be a being who can continue to perpetuate his will.

"If you want to mess with other things in the future, it may not be easy to hide it from Zheng Chenggong."

In the six months since Wanli returned, Chen Kai has successively delivered a batch of food and a batch of weapons to Changlin Temple. Especially that batch of weapons was specially sent by Lin Dezhong, and they were practiced using the same smuggling routes as in peacetime.

, the reputation of the Wan brothers was also present on the ground, so the arrival was relatively smooth.

Chen Kai had reported this matter to Zheng Chenggong. It was Chen Kai's duty to arm the volunteers in the area. Moreover, once they broke into Zhangzhou Prefecture, it would be easier to have such a group of people as internal agents, so this matter was done.

It's justifiable.

However, there were some things that Chen Kai did not intend to report too much to Zheng Chenggong. Apart from that, Shi Lang's existence was too threatening to him, not only because of internal fighting, but more importantly, once Shi Lang surrendered,

These private things may be exposed because of this, but he simply cannot tolerate it.

After everything was arranged, a sea-going ship that Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong had requested arrived just in time. After boarding the sea-going ship, they set sail towards the Fujian border east of Nan'ao. However, Chen Kai didn't wait until he got on the ship.
Chapter completed!