With the devastating victory over Su Li, the last of the seven great bandits of Chaohai, Chen Kai's evaluation of Chaozhou's internal and external troubles, even if he did not take Hao Shangjiu and other veterans in his eyes, with this head

When it comes to bottoming out, they won't have the slightest doubt.

However, with that question that was almost called by name, everyone present was immediately overwhelmed by fear - Chen Kai was dissatisfied with their performance in the past few months, and even pointed it out outright, what did this mean?

, everyone has their own explanation in their mind, but none of them is good. Even if they are just slightly optimistic, the sentence "impossible" or "thinking too easily" will immediately pop up in their mind to end this idea.

At this moment, almost everyone's breathing slowed down again, as if this could reduce their sense of presence and avoid being noticed by Chen Kai. But the other few were still thinking about explanations, excuses, and the like.

words.

Taking a sip of tea, Chen Kai glanced around with his peripheral vision and casually put the tea cup back on the case: "I know the root cause of what happened during this period. Your thoughts are other people's.

The thoughts of the people are nothing more than fear that the people of Guangzhou will take advantage of you, or that some of you want to take advantage of them or Master Wang, so there is nothing surprising."

Chen Kai's words were straightforward, and everyone's sweat was dripping down. Seeing this, several leaders looked at each other, and then the gentleman who took the lead in flattering him quickly explained: "Boss Chen

You know, there are indeed some incompetent people outside, but our hearts are really towards the court, towards Master Wang, towards Mr. Guo Xing and Mr. Chen. When the incident happened a few days ago, we are indeed responsible for our failure to appease them.

But it would be unfair to say that we are complicit."

The gentry was helpless. If the marriage had happened back then, he would not be so passive now. Although the husband his precious daughter later married was also a son of a wealthy local family and a well-known talent, he was really inferior compared to Chen Kai.

There are too many, and there is no qualification for comparison. Turn around and think about Chen Kai's first wife. Although she is the daughter of the Wu family, she is also the legitimate daughter of the Duke of the country. Even the gentry like them usually look down on military generals, but there are

A military commander who has achieved a noble title but still has to look up to him.

There was a huge gap between the two sides. He said the words with a low eyebrow, and everyone agreed with them one after another. Every word you said, I said, everyone felt aggrieved as if they were angry little daughters-in-law.

At this point, Chen Kai did not intend to continue to press: "What you said is consistent with what I have seen. Speaking of which, this Chaozhou is the place where I made my fortune. Back then, I had a lot of responsibilities, so I didn't do it with you."

Even after the reunification of the national surnames and even in the following years, all the gentlemen adhered to their duties and did their best. Even Magistrate Ye praised him a lot before leaving..."

They knew very well that Chen Kai would not touch local figures like them. However, the atmosphere was so exaggerated, and Chen Kai was so famous, fear arose spontaneously, but there was no way to suppress it. At this moment, Chen Kai

Kai's change of topic made everyone's hearts drop a little, and they all hurriedly agreed.

After expressing his absolute support for Chen Kai, Chen Kaixuan immediately said: "Prefect Ye has always been kind, but I can't tolerate sand in my eyes. The government office will post a message tomorrow to resolve the matters you are worried about.

Since you understand the truth, you should exert your influence and appease the people you know well."

"That's natural, that's natural." They quickly agreed. Seeing that Chen Kai's face was getting brighter, everyone tentatively asked about Chen Kai's actions. The answers they got made them even more excited.

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"Mr. Chen, isn't this just a cake?"

"What's the point? Even if it fails, we won't lose anything."

The local gentry were invited to meet, and then Chen Kai summoned some Guangzhou gentry in Haiyang County. After some exchanges, Chen Kai also revealed the plan. Compared with the local Chaozhou gentry, the Guangzhou gentry had a deeper understanding of Chen Kai.

On the contrary, they were more worried about their plan - they were not worried about whether Chen Kai would actually deceive them. What they were worried about was whether Chen Kai had the ability to fulfill his promise. After all, he had to face the Eight Banners Army directly!

Early the next morning, in the southwest of Chaozhou Fucheng, next to the canal where a large-scale fight broke out, local and Guangzhou people were summoned by the gentry and villagers. Even these gentry and villagers repeatedly said that it was the government. To be sure,

It is said that Chen Shenjun, who was responsible for tearing carts, issued an official document to resolve the dispute between Chaozhou natives and foreigners and wanted to publicize it. However, if a fight broke out, they would suffer losses, so they still went out with a large number of sticks, as did both sides.

The gentry and village elders had brought their children with them early, and the tribesmen had divided the area. Separated by a canal, the people on both sides were clearly separated. However, they were all like-minded. At this moment, they were all listening attentively to the front.

Ye Tuiguan, who still had a bandage on his head, was preaching for fear of missing even a single word.

"...Dividing land for farming in Chaozhou is a good way to make the best use of things and make full use of people's talents. As for the local people in Chaozhou, there is no need to worry about people from other places seizing their own land. From now on, dividing land for farming will continue as usual until Wang Shi regains Guangzhou.

, the people of Guangzhou returned to their homeland, and the land was taken back by the government and sold only to the local people; and the people of Guangzhou who participated in farming and paid taxes were given double the amount of land as compensation in the restored Guangzhou..."

Ye Yijun did not leave with his brother, but continued to stay to assist Chen Kai in settling the dispute between natives and foreigners. After a long time of recuperation, the wounded soldier was getting better day by day, but his body's weakness could not be recovered in an instant.

He came over. However, even so, he still read the words on the notice in a straight and clear tone. Later, local and Guangzhou officials preached to their respective people in Chaozhou dialect and Cantonese.

Before coming, according to Chen Kai's explanation to him, Chen Ding, and Wang Jiang, who was about to take charge of farm affairs, the so-called dispute between natives and guests actually lies in the distribution of production means. It takes many forms, but the most common one is

A plundering scramble.

The dispute between natives and guests has existed since ancient times, but it only really broke out into large-scale armed fighting that spread across several provinces in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, especially in the years after the Opium War.

In those years, in Guangdong, in Guangxi, in Jiangxi, in Hunan, in Zhejiang, in northern Jiangsu, in the northeast, in a large area of ​​land, those Hakkas, Jiangyou people, and those who moved to other places due to livelihood, as well as people who traveled to Guandong, etc.

As the people poured into this strange land, they were inevitably bound to have major or minor conflicts with the aboriginal people.

The dispute between natives and guests in the late Qing Dynasty originated from the bankruptcy of the natural economy. A large number of people had to migrate to new places and competed with the original residents for the means of production. However, the reason for the outbreak of large-scale armed fighting was that the Qing government's ruling strategy was different from that of the Chinese.

The previous dynasties tried to appease this situation, but instead instigated the two sides to fight each other, thereby stabilizing the ruling authority of the court and the government.

The dispute between natives and guests in Chaozhou also originated from the competition for the means of production. However, Ye Yiyun had already divided the land for farming. This policy was extremely important to alleviate and supplement the military food pressure of the Ming Army in Fujian today.

It was impossible for Chen Kai to veto this, let alone to change the order day and night because of the fight, so he drew a pie that would be redistributed after returning to Guangzhou to appease the emotions of both parties - for the locals, as soon as this method came out, Chaozhou

The land is still the land of Chaozhou, and Guangzhou people will have to leave sooner or later; and for the Cantonese people, returning to their hometown has been a long-standing dream. With this hanging, the dissatisfaction will be alleviated.

Chen Kai relied on his huge prestige in Chaozhou and the people of Guangzhou to carry out this matter. If it were anyone else, the doubts would instantly overwhelm all explanations. However, he was not only the wise man who designed to get rid of the Chaozhou thief king, but also the one who saved him.

As the living Bodhisattva of hundreds of thousands of Guangzhou people, as the official announcement was gradually understood by the people, among the whispers, doubts did not explode like nuclear fusion. The vast majority of the people trusted Chen Kai personally.

, has already acquiesced to the government's decision.

Ye Yijun has followed his elder brother for many years. His elder brother also served as a local official in the Chongzhen Dynasty. He was well aware of the people's distrust of the government, but just by telling Chen Kai's name, it was enough.

It can appease the people who were fighting to the death between the two parties not long ago. Compared with them, the local officials who have been managing the local area for several years, it has to be said that it is the most natural anomaly.

At this moment, he could only lament that he was inferior. Not only him, but even his talented brother at this moment, he had to admit that he was indeed inferior.

Ye Yijun looked at everything in front of him, recalling the fighting that day, and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. But at this moment, a commoner stood up and loudly expressed the question in many people's minds, that is, what is the fate of the Ming army?

When can Guangzhou be recaptured? And Ye Yijun recalled Chen Kai's resolute words before setting off, and even gave the same answer.
Chapter completed!