The word "again" conveyed too much of his heart. Jin Weixin said it unintentionally, but Chen Kai sat there, dumbfounded as he listened.

Last year, among the three Ming armies on the battlefield in Guangdong, Li Dingguo's troops only came out of Yunnan to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Military discipline and law have been extremely strict, and many people at the time have said that they will never violate them. In contrast, Chen Kai brought

The Ming Army in eastern Guangdong was mostly subordinate to Zheng Chenggong in terms of military power. Zheng Chenggong was famous for his severe punishments and strict laws. He was famous for his strict military management in Chinese history. He paid more attention to military law and discipline than Li Dingguo.

This is even more true given that Chen Kai is also stubborn about this.

However, the Ming armies in western Guangdong, some of which were official troops and some of which were just rebels, were mostly weak and came to help. Many of them had the idea of ​​​​taking advantage of the east wind to enrich themselves. As early as last year, their military discipline had been violated many times.

Questioning, Li Dingguo's troops, who were under strict restraint, were very dissatisfied with the harassment by the civilians. Many of his troops would point out various problems of these friendly forces to Li Dingguo. However, for the sake of cooperation, Li Dingguo could not restrain other troops.

This is often the end of it.

However, these problems did not disappear. On the contrary, they were reflected more deeply in the impression. At this time, the problems reappeared, and in the heart, the worries of the past would surge forward like floods from a dam.

Come.

After listening to Jin Weixin's advice and the specific situation, Chen Kai nodded, just said "I understand", and stopped mentioning this moment. It was not until the meal was over, and he was eating, that he walked to the toilet.

Someone came to see him and said that Li Dingguo had sent someone to invite Chen Kai. There was something to discuss, so the meeting ended.

The wheels rolled over the bluestone roads in the city, accompanied by the brass bells on the horses' necks, the light cavalry guarding them, and the hoofs ringing crisply with a vague melody.

Sitting in the carriage, Chen Kai closed his eyes and rested, but he did not think about the things he was about to face. Instead, he thought about some of the things mentioned in the letter Zheng Chenggong had just sent and recalculated.

What needs to be done now must first be prioritized.

The carriage drove quickly to the camp, but it did not take too much time. When he arrived, Guo Zhiqi, Lian Chengbi and others in the Chinese army's tent had also arrived early. Looking closely, it seemed that the expressions on the faces of everyone present

None of them looked very good, especially Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi. It didn't look like they had a quarrel, but the incident mentioned by Jin Weixin obviously made them very unhappy, otherwise they wouldn't be here in this big house.

In the evening, he was invited from the camp in the east of the city to the camp in the west of the city.

After bowing politely to each other, Li Dingguo bluntly mentioned the reason why he invited Chen Kai so late. To put it bluntly, it was the generals of the Ming Army in Western Guangdong who were responsible for the trouble. After hearing this, Chen Kai nodded and said:

He didn't pay too much attention to it. He just summed up the nature of the matter with the sentence "arrange troops to disturb the people" and didn't say anything else.

"Chen Fujun, I'm afraid this matter is not that simple. If there is no profit motive, why would they act so randomly?"

Guo Zhiqi asked sternly. Chen Kai looked at him, but as if he had heard a big joke, he choked back: "What Governor Guo means is that I ordered your restrained general to find it for me myself."

Aren’t you happy?”

This is indeed unreasonable. Then, before Guo Zhiqi could say anything, Chen Kai turned his head and raised his hand to Li Dingguo and said: "Your Highness, the more than 10,000 people in Guangzhou, Xiaguan had an appointment with Chen Linghai back then. So, when we wait,

Chen Linghai fulfills his promise, so the subordinate officials will naturally subsidize the food supply to reduce the losses caused by the departure of these people to Chen Linghai's troops."

"Speaking of it, the amount of this subsidy is not large, it can even be said to be very small. The reason is, first, that Xiaguan has accumulated many years of experience in Chaozhou and Qiongzhou. Last year, he spent a lot of money. In addition,

During the chaos in Fujian, almost all the storage in the warehouses had been used up; and secondly, it was precisely because the officials were afraid that someone would use this to rob people in exchange for money that they lowered the subsidy amount to this amount.

For this reason, we are even more willing to offend those generals who want to ask for more subsidies."

"I asked myself, I have thought everything through on this matter. As for some people who are greedy for profit and want to use this to force me to submit, what does that have to do with me?"

Chen Kai's words were conclusive and reasonable. After saying it, Li Dingguo and others did not say it clearly, but judging from their expressions, they seemed to be leaning more towards Chen Kai.

At this point, Guo Zhiqi did not continue to pursue the fight. He just said that he had sent someone to pass the order and ordered the generals not to harass the civilians. As for subsidies and other matters, he was waiting for the outcome of the discussion.

With such a reaction, Chen Kai certainly understood Guo Zhiqi's intentions. But to him, it didn't matter. He had a casual chat and left.

"Supervisor, why don't you continue to ask?"

They left in tandem with Chen Kai, but they had no interaction. Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi returned to the government office, where Lian Chengbi couldn't wait to ask.

"Rubai, there is no point in pressing us any further. Instead, it will only make His Highness more annoyed with us."

Shaking his head, Guo Zhiqi knew very well that although the governor in front of him was a high-ranking official, he had too little experience in the officialdom. Even though he had Wang Huacheng in front of him and his support and guidance in the back, he still had to figure out the human heart.

For an official who has not been working for a long time even at the grassroots level in a prefecture or county, no matter how talented he is, he will inevitably be short of time.

Thinking about this, he only sighed in his heart. Guo Zhiqi saw the confusion and immediately explained to Lian Chengbi: "Just now, I only asked one question, and Chen Kai already had so many words waiting for him. It was obviously early."

Be prepared. Based on this, you can be sure that this person must have planned what happened here. In this case, no matter how much you say, he will have something to wait for, so it is useless to say more."

Of course, Lian Chengbi can understand this. Apart from other things, just take "why not stop the subsidies" as an example. Chen Kai can either say "without the subsidies, the generals will not release the refugees", or he can use "

"It can be gone, but it can't be gone" as an excuse, bluntly saying that "once the subsidies are stopped, those generals who see no benefit are likely to kill the people who have taken refuge to vent their anger", and in turn asked Guo Zhiqi whether he could guarantee them

.

In this way, they are bound to fall into a new trap, one after another, making it difficult to escape. Thinking of this, Lian Chengbi suddenly realized: "So, when the governor sent people to pass the order to the generals, he hinted to them

We will compensate them accordingly after the incident, just to prevent Chen Kai from being accused of not being able to control our generals!"

It was revealed at one point. Guo Zhiqi couldn't help but feel happy about Lian Chengbi's performance. He nodded and continued: "As long as we prove to His Highness that we have no ability to control the generals under our command, when His Highness returns to Anlong to rescue him, the situation in Guangdong will be different."

It is bound to require him who has more real power to take the lead. This is his purpose!"

"He has seen through the core problem of the current situation in western Guangdong."

"Yes, he is using each other's strengths to attack our weaknesses. It took many years of hard work for Guangdong to be recovered. The more this happened, the more His Highness made sure before leaving that the place could be held on after leaving, and even continue to regain the lost territory.

We still need time to better control the generals step by step. And he, Chen Kai, holds the military power of Zheng Ci. Over the years, he has a high prestige in the hearts of his generals. He is like an arm.

Fingers, nothing more."

When Li Dingguo has decided to return to Anlong to rescue him, who will have the right to fill the military vacuum after the army leaves? This leading power is not in the hands of the governor Guo Zhiqi, nor is it in the control of the governor Lian Chengbi, let alone

Chen Kai could have the final say as soon as he was introduced as the governor. As for the Yongli court, it was beyond his reach. In the final analysis, whichever side Li Dingguo preferred would have a greater advantage. Apart from other things, this province of Guangdong

, Putting aside the Qing army in northern Guangdong, if the world is divided into three parts, Li Dingguo's share of the cake will fall into the hands of whichever party!

"It's because I underestimated Chen Kai, or in other words, he was obsessed with us from the beginning, that's why he behaved so arrogantly."

How many faces does the opponent have and which one is the real one? If you can't see clearly, knowing yourself and the enemy is a Miao Tan. The two thought about it for a long time and finally felt that they had to find a way to turn passivity into initiative, otherwise they would always be Chen Kai.

If they take the move, they will only reveal more flaws, making Li Dingguo less and less confident in them.

"According to the ancestral system, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi also served as the governor of Guangdong. This was the case before Jiashen, and after Jiashen, Ding Zei, Wang Gebu, and Lin Zhu were all connected to this. As for Li Chengdong anyway..."

The governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi and the governor of Guangdong were under the old system of the Ming court. Anyway, Li Chengdong was a province of Guangdong at that time, plus half of Guangxi, and changed the banner of the Ming court. Li Chengdong seized the governor's seal from Tong Yangjia, and the Ming court cast Tong Yangjia idle.

, he was given the task of managing the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army and then left it alone. As for Li Chengdong, he was actually only in charge of the military affairs of Guangdong Province, and the power of personnel appointment and dismissal was handed over to the imperial court. Together with Guangxi, Ming

The imperial court promoted the governor Geng Xianzhong to be the Minister of War, leaving Qu Shichun behind in Guilin. Governor Zhang Tongchang and others took actual control of the military and political power in Guangxi.

This is also mixed with the east and west honors, the Wu-Chu party struggle, and Li Chengdong's general control over Jiang, Guang, Fujian, and Zhejiang. But in fact, there is no governor of Guangdong, and the government is no longer Wuzhou or Zhaoqing, but like the Qing court

In Guangzhou at that time, official positions varied from person to person, from time to time, and from event to event. After his death, Du Yonghe did the same. When Du Yonghe abandoned the city and fled, he even surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Lian Chengbi was ordered to do so.

The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was only in charge of the Ming army and rebel army that had retreated to the mountains and islands, and the administrative office was only in the small Wen Village, let alone the civil affairs of the entire province.

"Rubai, at this stage, we still need to get rid of the appointment of the governor of Guangdong first. With this appointment, we can continue to manage the affairs of Guangzhou Prefecture in a legitimate manner. Otherwise, if Chen Kai seeks the official position of governor alone,

As the governor of Guangdong, it is very likely that he will be asked directly to leave Guangzhou and return to Zhaoqing and Wuzhou."

"I'm afraid it won't be easy to handle in the near future."

"Yes, you can't hope for success there. The key lies with His Highness the King of Xining. In the near future, we should first finish the current matter before we can talk about other things."

Things have returned to the starting point. If the Western Guangdong Civil Service Group wants to gain the upper hand in the power struggle after Li Dingguo's departure, it must first take off the hat of being unable to control the generals.

At the end of the dynasty, the country's organizational and control capabilities declined, and it was inevitable that the grassroots and military commanders would lose control. At the grassroots level in the late Ming Dynasty, let alone the chaos in the north, let's just talk about Guangdong, which was also full of local bandits and the seven major tides.

Kou, embroidery needles are everywhere.

As for the loss of control of military generals, it is nothing more than the transformation of local armies into feudal towns. The Guanning Army in the late Ming Dynasty, the Chu Town in the Hongguang Dynasty, the four towns in Jiangbei, and later on were all armed by warlords in feudal towns. If not for this, there would be one more

As for the issue of ethnic oppression in the Qing Dynasty, it is somewhat superficially similar to the military chaos in the late Han and Tang Dynasties.

Sitting on the carriage returning to the train station, Chen Kai couldn't help but laugh out loud when he thought of this. However, there was no joy at all in that laughter, and some was just sarcasm, complete sarcasm.

Once on the Internet, Chen Kai saw a saying that said, "Guoheng was destroyed by weakness, but the Han Dynasty was destroyed by strength." With just this sentence, the tyranny of the Han Dynasty came to his face.

There are countless sayings about the power of the Han Dynasty in the past dynasties, especially in the Internet era. The most famous one is that of the Han general Chen Tangna who has resounded throughout the ages: "Those who offend the powerful Han in the bright future will be punished no matter how far away they are."

The high-spirited national self-confidence in the words can be clearly felt and inspired by it even more than two thousand years later.

However, after reading a lot of books, Chen Kai also clearly remembered that Chen Tang also said: "If you have five Hu soldiers and one Han soldier, which one? The weapons are simple and blunt, and the bows and crossbows are not good. Now I heard that the Han soldiers are quite clever, but

"Three should act as one." From one Han to the five Hus, to one Han to the three Hus, this in itself was a step back. Even by the end of the Han Dynasty, the degree of step back was not enough to reverse the comparison of combat effectiveness between the Han and the Hu.

, thus the local separatist forces can still suppress the barbarians.

However, at the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, warlords were fighting, and the people were in dire straits. There were many examples of cannibalism. Even by the time of the Three Kingdoms, the population dropped sharply, from 50 million at its peak to more than 7 million, which made Wei and Shu

The three kingdoms of Wu had to plunder each other's population to enhance their own strength, and even went to the point of capturing Hu people, Shanyue, Wuling barbarians, and southwestern barbarians to replenish their population. Among them, the useless flying army of the Shu Han regime was established through the conquest of Nanzhong.

It has reached this point, but the separatist forces are still waging wars in order to regain unification. But when the world was truly unified, due to the sharp decline in population and internal fighting, the Western Jin Dynasty simply migrated the Hu people to replenish the place.

, even such astonishing and enlightening ancient articles as "The Theory of Relocation to the Rong" could not stop them, which ultimately led to the Five Husbands' chaos in China. In the final analysis, it was still a trend of interests.

People have always been the most important resource, because without people, everything else has no meaning. The result of the warlords' melee is a sharp decline in population, and history is more like a cycle. As early as the early Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty also said

It has been said that "China is strong today, but the Rong and Di are weak. With a thousand of my infantry, I can defeat tens of thousands of Hu cavalry." As a result, the Anshi Rebellion and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms left the Song Dynasty with only the Western Region, Hexi, and the sixteen states of Youyun.

Falling into the hands of the Yi and Di, and Annan becoming independent.

Thinking of Annan, Chen Kai vaguely remembered that the letter sent from Qiongzhou Prefecture a few days ago also mentioned that it was the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty that caused the Han people to migrate to Annan, and the Ruan government vigorously attracted the Han people to develop southern Annam.

This gave Lord Ruan the power to compete with Lord Zheng.

The reason for this is that in addition to the long-term warlord wars that displaced the people and resulted in a sharp decline in the population, a large number of Han people were forced to migrate to the relatively stable Hu-controlled areas at the time and even to vassal states due to the people's lack of livelihood.

Migration allowed those nomadic peoples and small countries with low levels of civilization to quickly obtain the science, technology and culture that China had accumulated over many years to develop, accelerating their improvement in strength.

As one goes and the other goes up, the balance of power between Han and Hu reverses...

Today's Ming Dynasty, apart from the national oppression of the Qing Dynasty, has vassal towns all over the limited control area. In this regard, large warlord forces such as the Qin Palace, Xining Fan, and the Zheng Group have far stronger control over their generals than the imperial court.

There are too many places, and the civilian supervisors appointed by the Ming court are responsible for restraint, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, and Kuidong. There are so many small warlords in these areas, they are constantly at odds with each other, and they cannot suppress the harassment of the people.

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On the issue of subsidies, Chen Kai just pushed. Sure enough, those military leaders who were accustomed to freedom jumped out and presented the problem more clearly before Li Dingguo's eyes. And this was exactly what Chen Kai was doing right now.

What Li Dingguo needs to see is that no matter whether the method they choose is what it is now, as long as the problem is exposed, that is enough.
Chapter completed!