During this time, no one expressed any objection to Chen Kai's use of Xiangshan County in exchange for the people of Guangzhou to return to their hometown.

On the surface, Chen Kai gave away people and land, and it was a 100% loss-making business. But Chen Kai always had deep intentions in doing things. These generals, except Zhou Hezhi, had all worked with him for many years, and Zhou Hezhi

I have also heard about Chen Kai's abilities, and I have seen with my own eyes how Fujian's economy collapsed, so naturally I will not talk too much about it.

After discussing the next military battle, the generals dispersed. Chen Kai sat alone in the tent, quietly recalling today's events, but he did not feel anything that needed attention in the future.

The place.

Speaking of which, he had tried his best to rescue those Guangzhou people from the city of Guangzhou. He had resettled them in the unfamiliar land of Chaozhou over the years. No one had ever died of hunger or cold. It can be said that he had a deep bond of kindness. Those people

To him, every family worships immortal tablets, and his various policies are also the most supported by the people.

To put it bluntly, these Guangzhou people are Chen Kai’s base and staunchest supporters. As far as Chen Kai is concerned, the interests of his supporters are just like his own interests, and they must naturally try their best to safeguard them, so that they can be more

Tightly united around him.

This is a force!

In a similar way, he has been in power in Chaozhou for many years, eradicating the local bandits and protecting the safety of the people under the siege of the Qing army. Naturally, the gentry and people there strongly supported Chen Kai. Another example is his role in the Zheng Group

Over the years, I have had excellent friendships with many generals and officials, which is undoubtedly a kind of strength. What's more, there is still the Heaven and Earth Society, even if it is just a bud.

Of course, during the weighing process, Chen Kai had not thought that if he could find a way to get Li Dingguo to leave Guangdong, then waiting for the army to withdraw and then using public opinion to take Guangzhou City away would be the least likely way to cause conflicts.

But he had already promised it for three years. Now, after three years, the city has been recovered. However, if it is delayed in allowing the people to return to their homeland, it will have a negative impact on credibility.

In addition, the current situation is very different from that in history. The two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong have been recovered. With Li Dingguo on his left and Zheng Chenggong on his right, Chen Kai feels that he can completely coordinate these two most skilled commanders in the Southern Ming Dynasty to send troops to Jiangxi and Zhejiang respectively.

, and then like a pincer to achieve a pincer attack on Nanjing. As for the direction of Huguang, just continue to try to make Sun Kewang and Hong Chengchou fight to the death and reap the benefits.

Such an idea is somewhat unrealistic in practice, and at the very least it is extremely difficult. However, Chen Kai believes that everything depends on human effort. Just like the things he has done over the years, there are several things that are easy, and it must not be because of difficulty.

It is absolutely taboo to give up easily if you want to succeed.

After the two provinces were restored, it was no longer certain that many things would develop according to their original history. Even Chen Kai could not guarantee that, so it was even more necessary to operate according to the current situation.

The matter has been settled, Chen Kai continued to write to Zheng Chenggong to explain the reason. Of course, it is not easy to use the basics. He only said that it was a foreshadowing for the future, nothing more. As for the foreshadowing, Zheng Chenggong left it to himself.

Just make up your mind.

The fight stopped for a few months and then broke out again with the process of distributing the spoils. In this world, there are always people everywhere, such as the rivers and lakes, party fights in the court, palace fights in the palace, overt and covert attacks in the workplace, and even

It is inevitable for relatives to fight over trivial matters. Today's fight is nothing more than a continuation of the struggle for local rights in Guangdong between the Western Guangdong Civil Service Group and the Zheng Group. Guo Zhiqi and Liancheng Bi can attack Xinhui

, he tried his best to help me while in Guangzhou, which is a rare good character in Nanming.

As for fighting in the future, Chen Kai asked himself that he had never been afraid of anyone in his life!

The army was exhausted, so the next offensive would naturally focus on political instigation, supplemented by military offensives. After resting for a few days, Li Dingguo's cavalry took the lead in attacking, and went up the Beijiang River, arriving at San San on the same day.

Water County Town.

In this county town, before the Battle of Jiangmen, Jin Tongwu led tens of thousands of troops to attack fiercely. However, under the tight defense of Du Biao and Sanshui Green Camp, they were able to hold on until Zhu Mala's army arrived. That was probably less than a month ago.

When Li Dingguo's general General Wang Hui arrived at Sanshui County with his troops, the Qing troops here had already escaped. In the words of the local gentry, even the Tatars in Guangzhou City were dead. Sanshui

How could the Tatars dare to stay for long? They had already fled like rabbits.

"Why didn't the Tatars come and tell them that they had escaped?"

Suppressing the displeasure of questioning, Wang Hui, who had already received the order, had no choice but to appease him, and continued to lead his troops north to Qingyuan, still going up the river, but from the west to the north.

Qingyuan is located to the north of Guangzhou, but it is not the northernmost part of Guangzhou Prefecture. To the north of Qingyuan are Shaozhou Prefecture and Nanxiong Prefecture, directly west of Shaozhou Prefecture, and connected to Qingyuan County are Lianshan, Lianzhou, and Yang

Shansan County. However, the target this time is still Qingyuan, which serves as the northern gateway to defend Guangzhou City. Going further north, with the current military strength, I am afraid it is not enough.

Wang Hui headed north, followed by Jin Tongwu's troops. In the Battle of Jiangmen, Jin Tongwu failed to catch up. When he arrived, he only had to rush into Jiangmen Market to clear out the remaining enemies. Waiting until he attacked Guangzhou

, Chen Kai copied Shang Kexi's tactics again. The Qiannu battalion that entered first encountered some resistance. When Jin Tongwu's troops came on stage, once again only the task of clearing up was left.

This force can be regarded as the most intact one under Li Dingguo's command. This time, following Wang Huisu's troops, they crossed Sanshui County and went straight to Zhaoqing Mansion, where Li Dingguo had failed last year.

A small number of soldiers and horses were sent to seize the Sihui County town in the northwest of Sanshui County, where it is said that all the green battalion soldiers had fled.

The troops were divided and progressed very quickly. They first went down for four meetings, and then went straight to Guangning in the upper reaches of the Suijiang River. As for Jin Tongwu's headquarters troops, the military operation to seize Zhaoqing Fucheng was also very smooth, but they only captured this

However, they found out that a large number of feudal soldiers and green battalions who escaped from the Jiangmen Battle had fled here. Then when the Ming army captured Guangzhou, they all rushed to Wuzhou.

Here, there were not only the green battalions that the northern front had not had time to clear out, but also the elite vassal soldiers led by Shang Zhizhi who had captured the hills on the left flank of the Ming army on the southern front and almost caused the collapse of the entire army.

I passed by here. Although I looked exhausted when I arrived here, I didn't leave any weapons, clothes or armor behind. The local government officials saw everything with their own eyes.

"The bones in the back may not be so easy to chew."

Jin Tongwu said this secretly, Wang Hui's headquarters troops and horses have also arrived at the foot of Qingyuan City. The gate of Qingyuan County is tightly closed, and the Qing army is guarding the city, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Seeing this, Wang Hui summoned a surrendered general who had just had his whip cut off. He was a guerrilla general transferred from the north last year and was sent to Dongguan Town. Before the Battle of Jiangmen, Chen Kai led his army to attack Dongguan, and Dongguan Town was tightly defended.

However, when Guangzhou fell, they did not dare to turn against Chen Kai, so they simply sent people out of the city to contact Li Dingguo and opened the gate of Xiaoximen.

"Wang Dana, it's up to you from now on."

"Don't worry, Marshal Wang. I know the Qingyuan Guardsman well. I will go and persuade him to join His Highness and the Marshal."

Nodding and bowing, this green battalion officer who had joined the army as early as the Chongzhen Dynasty and later surrendered to the Chuang and the Qing Dynasty subconsciously slapped Qianer, then stood up and, under the eyes of the Ming army,

, walked towards Qingyuan County with his head held high, as if the person standing behind him at this time was not Wang Hui, but the famous Xining King Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo's two generals, Jin Tongwu and Wang Hui, set out with their troops. On Chen Kai's side, Ke Chenshu, Shen Ming, Xiao Gongchen, Huang Xing, Chen Yaoce and others led the Ming army from six towns to march eastward.

Unlike the two battles between Xinhui and Jiangmen, Li Dingguo's troops and the Ming Army in western Guangdong had taken advantage of the situation to occupy Xinhui, Shunde, Gaoming and other counties. During that period, Chen Kai led the army and only occupied one Xin'an County, not even Dongguan.

Capture. This time, the army was divided into three groups. Chen Yaoce went north to Conghua, Xiao Gongchen, and Huang Xing attacked Zengcheng, and then continued to advance along the Zengjiang waterway and captured Longmen County. These two groups were from the northeast of Guangzhou.

, while Ke Chenshu and Shen Ming led the Ming army from three towns to attack the undefended Dongguan County, and then launched an attack on Huizhou Fucheng - as long as Hao Shangjiu had not captured that Fucheng.

Hao Shangjiu had already confessed his sincerity to Chen Kai, so Chen Kai did not intend to waste the strength of Hao Shangjiu's troops in the process of conquering the city. Cooperating in sending troops, firstly, showed an attitude of treating everyone equally, and secondly, it was also to finish off Eastern Guangdong as quickly as possible

war, in order to re-establish local security before the spring plowing in the ninth year of Yongli.

When the army is dispatched, it naturally brings with it a lot of surrendered generals. If they come to talk to them, they can always get twice the result with half the effort. At the very least, Chen Kai no longer intends to gnaw down these cities one by one.

The heads of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao were put into brocade boxes and sent to Anlong Xingzai. The Ming army gathered under the city of Guangzhou spread out to the surrounding areas of Guangzhou like flowers blooming. Whether it was Wuzhou Prefecture or Huizhou Prefecture, perhaps

There is a possibility that a battle is still needed, but the glorious record of the Ming army killing two kings and defeating Guangzhou has spread, especially in Chaozhou Prefecture. With the arrival of Lubu Feijie, there was a joyful moment.

of ocean.

"Guangzhou has been liberated, Guangzhou has been liberated!"

In the first month of the first month, the New Year has just passed, and the festive atmosphere has not yet dissipated. Good news came from the west. For the people of Chaozhou, this is undoubtedly a great victory. Chaozhou is the longest-running area of ​​​​the Ming army.

In the occupied area, there were many Chaozhou descendants in the army. The Ming army achieved a great victory and took advantage of the situation to capture the provincial capital. Hao Shangjiu, who originally occupied the northern part of Chaozhou, is said to have taken over Chen Kai's recruitment and turned to attack the Qing army in Huizhou Prefecture.

In this way, starting from the fourth year of Yongli, Chaozhou Prefecture, which was under attack from the Qing armies of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, first got rid of the threat from the east with the recovery of Zhangzhou. Now Guangzhou has been recovered, and Huizhou is about to be recovered. It has been worried for many years.

It has finally become a hinterland. Even though the north is still bordering the Qing-controlled area, the main threat direction has disappeared, so you can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The people were happy to be able to live peacefully, and the local scholars quickly began to set up camp. After the first battle, the overall situation of Guangdong was decided. Even if they wanted to share the profits with other Ming armies, they would not be able to get the prefectures and counties in their hands.

Quite a few. Those are all ready-made official vacancies.

Ordinary scholars are still anxious, and those who praise the governor's office may not be much relieved. Over the past few years, they are aware of Chen Kai's habits, and they prefer to use experienced officials to do things. As they do

, all of them have worked in the governor's yamen for many years, and there are many examples of them being sent to other places. They are in Chaozhou Prefecture, Qiongzhou Prefecture, Zhangzhou Prefecture and Quanzhou Prefecture, and even in the whole of Fujian today, there are figures like them in every prefecture.

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Compared with Li Dingguo's department, which lacks an independent civil service system, the Zheng Group has always developed independently. The civil servants headed by Chen Kai, such as Ye Yiyun, Chen Ding, Feng Xifan, Pan Gengzhong, Lu Ruoteng, Shen Quanqi, Yang Ying and others are already

It has its own system. In addition, there are people like Zheng Tai who are engaged in maritime trade, which can be said to be full of talents. For example, these Zanhua painters from the governor's Yamen, in addition to working in the governor's Yamen, they actually also have talents here.

The purpose is to release it directly when needed. This is like Zheng Chenggong's talent reserve. The only difference is that the characters inside have the rank of imperial examinations and scholarly reputation, and the official positions after release.

It is a foregone conclusion that another group of people will be released. However, who will go and who will not, and where they will be appointed, all need to be worked out in advance. Those who are in the hearts of Jane and Chen Fujun will naturally

They can wait for a good position and have the opportunity to display their talents on a bigger stage, but those who are not so prominent have to work harder and at least become familiar with the officials responsible for the selection, even if they don't know it yet

Who exactly is responsible?

For the people of Chaozhou, this is basically the situation. At most, it is the distribution of cultivated land after the Cantonese people leave. More efforts may need to be made. As for the gentry and common people of Guangzhou who live in Chaozhou, the Guangzhou Massacre that year, many people

There are relatives and friends who have disappeared without a trace. Whether they are dead or missing, no one knows. Naturally, they are very resentful towards the two feudal lords who caused all this.

It is extremely satisfying to be beheaded by an enemy now. However, what is more important is the word "go home". For the people of Guangzhou at this moment, and even for the Chinese people, its weight is so heavy that it should never be underestimated.
Chapter completed!