Mazu belief began in the Northern Song Dynasty and quickly became popular among the people. Officials petitioned the imperial court and received official certification. From the time when Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty bestowed the title of "Shunji Temple" and Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty canonized "Mrs. Linghui", to this day

The three dynasties of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties have praised Mazu as many as 23 times. The most recent one was in the seventh year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chengzu who launched Zheng He’s seven voyages to the West praised Mazu as “Miao Lingzhao who protects the country and shelters the people”.

"Ying Hongren Puji Tianfei", in the Ming Dynasty, the government and the people used Tianfei as the honorific title of Mazu.

According to history, the next commendation was in the 23rd year of Kangxi. The Qing Dynasty praised Mazu as "the empress of heaven who protects the country and shelters the people, the wonderful spirit and the benevolent." The previous year, which was the 22nd year of Kangxi, was

It was the year when the Qing government captured Taiwan and the Zheng Group, which had once dominated the China Sea, officially declared its demise.

In the eyes of coastal people, Mazu is the patron saint of the sea. Later, whether they were businessmen, handicraftsmen, or suffering from difficult childbirth or other diseases, people believed that Mazu could help them solve their difficulties. It was precisely because of Mazu's fraternity that

, helping the weak and the poor, brave and indomitable spirit. Mazu belief is very popular in and around the China Sea, and even European sailors worship her as the ocean goddess of the China Sea.

Chen Kai mentioned that the reason for requesting the commendation was to protect Mazu, the king. In fact, many people in Guangzhou had also spread the word privately. It was said that Chen Kai personally went to the Tianfei Temple in Nanhai to worship Li Dingguo before he returned to his teacher.

Yes, as a result, the army really appeared on the battlefield at the most critical moment, establishing victory in one fell swoop.

This is something that many people know. From a perceptual point of view, the congressmen and participants present are all locals from Guangdong, and belief in Mazu is very common. When Chen Kai proposed, there was no possibility of them voting veto.

Some of them could vaguely see Chen Kai's thoughts in other aspects, and they couldn't help but praise him secretly in their hearts.

The vote for the imperial edict passed unanimously, and Chen Kai wrote a memorial on the spot and sent someone to Yunnan to send it. Next, the Advisory Bureau began to discuss the system envisioned by Chen Kai, unwilling to waste even a moment of time. On the contrary, the Advisory Bureau

The news of the establishment of the temple and Chen Kai's request to Emperor Yongli to confer the title of Mazu soon spread to everyone in Guangdong, and further spread to surrounding areas.

Enping County in the south of Zhaoqing Prefecture is the area controlled by Huben General Wang Xing. Due to the long-term turmoil between the Western Guangdong Civil Service Group and the Zheng Group, he always felt uneasy as he firmly stood on the side of Lianchengbi, so

He never abandoned Wencun, which he once defended at risk, but continued to transport grain, grass, and weapons there in order to stock up.

The news of Lianchengbi's death had reached here half a year ago. Wang Xing was filled with sorrow and anger, and fell seriously ill. Before he could recover from his illness, he wanted to send out all his troops to Wuzhou to fight Dingnan Fan, so as to save Liancheng.

Bi wanted to take revenge, but before he could set out, Guo Zhiqi arrived first, and after some persuasion, he finally calmed down his impulse for the time being. However, Wang Xing has been working very hard in training his soldiers and horses in the past six months. Obviously,

I haven't completely let go of this thought.

"If there is knowledge under the white spring, you should be relieved."

After sighing, Guo Zhiqi set off and left Enping County. As if chasing Guo Zhiqi's ass, when he entered the territory of Gaozhou Prefecture, he had already received the news that Chen Kai had established a consultative bureau in Guangzhou. He returned to Gaozhou Prefecture,

In the final analysis, he still had to meet with Zhang Xiaoqi, and Zhang Xiaoqi was also planning to use the proceeds from Hepu Zhu and the taxes from the three prefectures of Gaozhou to build a bidding war directly under his command, so as to better control the generals in his jurisdiction.

This was something that had to be discussed, but by the time Guo Zhiqi arrived in Gaozhou Fucheng, they had long lost interest in discussing whether to appease the bid or not. When they met, they only talked about the matter of the Consultative Bureau, plus Chen Kai's request for the title of Mazu.

Get the memorial.

"I don't talk about my strange power, but what do those stupid men and women know?"

At this point, Zhang Xiaoqi couldn't help but feel sad. He told Guo Zhiqi about the rumors he had heard in Gaozhou City these days. People were praising Chen Kai for his good deeds. They also said that Chen Kai had countless people living in these years.

The Heavenly Concubine is the most benevolent, so every request is answered. As for Chen Kai’s request now, it is actually out of gratitude to the Heavenly Concubine.

Speaking of which, over the years, Chen Kai's reputation in the hearts of Guangdong people has always been extremely high, whether it was in his early outsmarting of Chaozhou, his righteous rescue of Guangzhou, or his subsequent efforts to regain Guangdong and advance into Southern Jiangxi.

Neither Zheng Chenggong nor Li Dingguo can compare with them, let alone them. And Mazu has always been very important in the hearts of the people along the coast of China. From Zhang Xiaoqi's perspective, Chen Kai was doing this by praising Mazu.

Improve his personal reputation and even mythologize himself.

"Aren't you afraid of being jealous of people with the surname Zheng?"

He shook his head and laughed at Chen Kai's fault. When Zhang Xiaoqi looked at Guo Zhiqi again, the other party did not show any smile at all. Instead, he expressed appreciation for his opponent: "General, you can see this, Chen

Kaijuan can't fail to see it. The key to why he still acts so confidently lies in the consultative bureau. He came here based on narrow public opinion, and this time he wants to give away those voices that oppose the establishment of the consultative bureau.

Block it back."

When Guo Zhiqi said this, Zhang Xiaoqi immediately had a sudden realization - denying the establishment of the Consultative Bureau, then the proposal to commend the Imperial Concubine, which was the first proposal of the Consultative Bureau, would naturally not be legal. But if the proposal of commending the title was acquiesced

, then the existence of the Advisory Council has its rational basis, and the two are complementary to each other.

Zhang Xiaoqi didn't know the word "bundled sales", but similar thoughts had already appeared in his mind. He spat out "this guy" three times in a row, but couldn't hold back what he said, leaving him speechless for a while.

It wasn't until a moment later that he regained his composure. He subconsciously looked around and saw that there was no one around him. Then he lowered his voice and said to Guo Zhiqi, "Supervisor, I heard that Zheng Ci set up Liuguan in Fuzhou."

Management jurisdiction, is this true?"

Intersecting with the Zheng Group, the Western Guangdong Civil Service Group mainly consists of Guo Zhiqi and the late Liancheng Bi. Zhang Xiaoqi's main job is to sit in southwest Guangdong, control the generals and manage civil affairs at the same time, and try to develop these three governments into

The area under actual control of the Yongli court was not a nominal control area with many vassal towns.

As he said, the information he got was just a rumor, not a solid one with evidence. On Guo Zhiqi's side, he and Lian Chengbi had previously deployed in western Guangzhou, and all the civil servants there were appointed by them.

Yes, Chen Kai did not carry out purges or large-scale replacements after taking control of Guangzhou. Although the civil affairs and litigation prisons in those counties have now been completely subordinated to the management of Wang Jiang and Cao Conglong, Guo Zhiqi still has a problem.

Sources of information are at.

When Zhang Xiaoqi mentioned this, Guo Zhiqi couldn't help but frown, then nodded and expressed his affirmation. Some sources pointed out that there seemed to be a rift between Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong. He didn't know the specific reason, but Zheng Chenggong was responsible for it.

The Six Officials System centralized power, and Chen Kai's backhand was to create the Guangdong Advisory Bureau, which indeed seemed to be a trick. However, based on his understanding of Chen Kai, the affairs of the Advisory Bureau were by no means that simple.

After exchanging their views, Guo Zhiqi returned to the post house to rest. He would stay in Gaozhou Prefecture for another month or two, in order to establish a settlement for Zhang Xiaoqi regarding the Fu Biao issue.

In the following days, Zhang Xiaoqi officially started to form Fubiao, while also reporting on the situation in Gaozhou Prefecture. Especially these two guys, Zhang Yue and Guo Dengdi, have become increasingly disobedient in recent times.

.This may have a lot to do with Guo Zhiqi's previous impeachment of Chen Kai. It is more likely that they have worked harder to get closer to Chen Kai after this incident, and I am afraid they will change their tune sooner or later.

"The situation with Chen Qice and Li Changrong is not very good either. They joined the Guangdong Business Alliance and fed them a lot of money. Now they have become dependent on Chen Kai. This guy is really not a fuel saver.

lights.”

Compared with the business cooperation of the Guangdong Business Alliance, Guo Zhiqi is more worried that Chen Kai will drag Chen Qice and Li Changrong into the advisory bureau. If that happens, these two people may not be able to get them back. But, no

I don’t know why, but Chen Kai didn’t bring them into the consultation bureau. He didn’t even send invitations to the gentry and merchants in Xinning County and Yangjiang County that they controlled. It was all the Zheng Group’s actual control areas that were doing the consultation.

Preparatory work for the bureau.

No matter what, Chen Kai is already flipping the table, so they will inevitably have to react. Whether it is to take precautions, or to switch from defense to offense, or even just to wait and see what happens, it is always better than burying their heads in the sand.

Zhang Xiaoqi's Fubiao soon had a skeleton. According to Guo Zhiqi's knowledge, Zhang Xiaoqi was not able to expand his establishment too much at this stage. It was just two battalions with a thousand soldiers and horses. After the official formation was completed, he would continue to stay in the previous one.

With the moon and the chart stabilized, he will set off to return to Guangxi. In the past six months, there has been no movement in Guangxi, but it does not mean that there will always be no movement. Some things must be prepared for a rainy day.

News from Guangzhou keeps coming, especially the latest news, which is that Chen Kai is demolishing the Jingnan Palace and building an office for the Consultative Bureau there. Regarding this, Guo Zhiqi, as the supervisor, naturally has to write a memorial.

The only thing to do is report to the court.

The memorial was written here, but a vaguely familiar voice came from outside. They were talking to the officials of the post house. After a while, the officials of the post house came to invite them in person. Guo Zhiqi also rushed out after hearing the news. Just when he saw him

A cousin of mine was waiting anxiously outside. He looked very tired and must have been traveling a lot recently.

"But is there anything important in the clan?"

Guo Zhiqi has been away from home for many years. He has been busy with state affairs and has no time to go back to his hometown to visit relatives, even since the liberation of Guangdong. This time his cousin hurried over, and his first reaction was that something was wrong with the clan. Who knew that there was something wrong with the clan?

Nothing happened, his cousin was still concerned about the Guangdong Consultative Bureau. Seeing this, he directly pulled him into the room and held the memorial on the case in his hand.

"Brother Yu has already figured out how to do it, so there is no need to persuade him."

Guo Zhiqi's memorials spanned Guangxi Province and were sent to Yunnan as quickly as possible. As early as February of the 10th year of Yongli, Li Dingguo escorted Emperor Yongli into Yunnan. At that time, the provincial capital Kunming had King Liu of Funan.

Wenxiu and Guyuan Hou Wang Shangli's troops were stationed. In addition, Wang Ziqi and He Jiuyi led 5,000 soldiers and horses respectively to station in Chuxiong and Wuding. There were a full 20,000 Ming troops stationed in Yunnan, although they were far less than those stationed in the Qin Palace.

Guizhou is also a place with strong military strength.

Compared with history, Li Dingguo's army did not defeat Xinhui. Instead, it took the opportunity to regain Guangdong to expand its troops. Now, the army has no less than 50,000 people, but the problem is that Li Dingguo still has to go to meet Anlong.

Selecting elite troops to attack, Sun Ke hoped to be caught off guard, so he was still at a disadvantage in terms of local strength.

After escorting Emperor Yongli out of Anlong's prison, Guangxi's army was gradually gathering in Yunnan. Counting time, when the army gathers, there will indeed be a greater chance of defeating the Qin vassal garrison, but what they will face is Guizhou

The army's return is still a risky move.

Earlier, Chen Kai's tips re-established the goal of advancing into Yunnan. On the way, Li Dingguo had already figured it out, so he left Jin Tongwu and Zhang Jian to lead some troops to continue to guard Emperor Yongli in Qujing.

And he led other troops to attack Kunming.

The news that Li Dingguo was escorting Emperor Yongli into Qujing reached Kunming faster than Li Dingguo's army. Wang Shangli, who was stationed in Kunming City, was a close associate of Sun Kewang, and he immediately panicked. As a result, Li Dingguo soon appeared in Kunming City.

Outside, two other highly prestigious figures in the city - King of Funan Liu Wenxiu and Duke of Guizhou Mu Tianbo urged the king to open the city with courtesy and welcome the emperor into the city, so as not to be accused of resisting the power of heaven.

Liu Wenxiu is one of the four great princes in Daxi, as is Li Dingguo, and the Mu family is a distinguished member of the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan, and has great prestige in Yunnan. It is true that Wang Shangli has a grandson behind him, but water from afar cannot solve the problem of the near.

Thirsty, and faced with such a situation, he had no choice but to follow Liu Wenxiu's advice and reluctantly lead his troops out of the city to meet him.

After Li Dingguo took control of Kunming, he immediately sent people to Qujing to invite him. Then, on March 26, Emperor Yongli visited Kunming City in person under the escort of Jin Tongwu and Zhang Jian. In the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan was regarded as a remote place.

It is said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away. When the "True Dragon Emperor" arrived, the people of Kunming were so excited that they "covered the road to welcome them, and even those who expected them cried." Emperor Yongli was very moved and asked his followers to pass the decree: "When I arrive, please don't

Separate the soldiers and civilians, old and young, and listen to them look up and watch. The patrolling officers and soldiers are not allowed to fight randomly." Except for Wang Shangli and others who were uneasy, the entire Kunming city was immersed in a joyful atmosphere.

After entering Kunming, Emperor Yongli did not occupy the most prosperous place in the city - Sun Kewang's Palace of Qin in Kunming. Instead, he set up his palace in Ai Nengqi's former residence, which was the former Yunnan Gongyuan.

In April, Emperor Yongli consecrated Li Dingguo as the King of Jin, Liu Wenxiu as the King of Shu, Bai Wenxuan as the Duke of Gong, Prince Yuan Guyuan as the Duke of Baoguo, general Wang Ziqi as the Duke of Kui, He Jiuyi as the Marquis of Baokang, and King Qin's guard Zhang Hu as

Uncle Chunhua and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Li Bengao were appointed as Uncle Chongxin. At the same time, Duke Mu Tianbo of Guizhou was a distinguished nobleman of Shizhen Yunnan, so he naturally gained the trust of Emperor Yongli. In addition to being able to attend the memorial at any time in case of emergencies, he also allowed him to

He was in charge of the Praetorian Guard.

These were rewards for protecting the emperor, and they were also a sign of goodwill to Sun Kewang. In addition, Emperor Yongli decided to directly canonize Zheng Chenggong as the King of Fujian, bypassing the Duke of Zhang and directly canonizing him as a prince!

This move is actually the expansion of the Zheng Group in Fujian and Guangdong provinces. At this time, the news that Chen Kai has regained southern Jiangxi has not yet come, otherwise there will be no hesitation. In this way,

, on the contrary, from the original situation where there was only one prince with a different surname, Sun Kewang, and the prince Xia Tianzi, there were four princes, and Sun Kewang's prominent position was suddenly diluted.

The canonization of Zheng Chenggong is one of them. Zheng Chenggong's generals are also going to confer a group of marquises and earls. However, the duke is not in a hurry because the court is not very clear about the war situation in the southeast. They just focus on those they are familiar with.

Just canonization.

Fortunately for the military general, there is still Chen Kai in the Zheng Group. Now he controls the military and political affairs in Guangdong and is dispatched by the governor of Guangdong. His position has already been promoted to the rank of left minister of the Ministry of War and left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. With that,

Given Chen Kai's meritorious service, it is only right that he should continue to be promoted. However, the problem is that Guangdong and Guangxi still have the governor Guo Zhiqi and the governor Lien Chengbi, and Chen Kai no longer has suitable personnel to dispatch.

After this hesitation, within two days, Gong Yi, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, petitioned to refuse the appointment of an official position by the imperial court, and the reason was the astonishing words "I can expect to be generously favored in Yunnan for ten years." For a time,

, "There was a huge uproar in the court", and they all accused him of following Sun Kewang wholeheartedly, but on the contrary, they ignored Chen Kai's promotion.

The limelight was not over yet. Soon, Guo Zhiqi from Guangxi sent a memorial, reporting that Chen Kai had recovered Nangan and Lianchengbi, Gao Wengui had died in Wuzhou, and the news of the fall of Guidong. The imperial court ignored it for a while.

The emperor reprimanded Gong Yi and quickly discussed the candidate for the new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Naturally, some people think that Chen Kai should be directly appointed as the Minister of War to lead the governorship of Guangdong and Guangxi. However, there are also quite a few voices that believe that the power of the Zheng Group is already too great. If Chen Kai continues to be appointed, it is likely to lead to the Yongli Imperial Court.

The control areas in western Guangdong and Guangxi were infiltrated by the Zheng Group. As a result, there was another quarrel in the court until someone understood Guo Zhiqi's memorial, which mentioned that Guo Zhiqi was going to Guangdong in the near future.

Decided to wait for new information from Guo Zhiqi before making a decision. As a result, Guo Zhiqi's new memorial was to impeach Chen Kai for annexing friendly forces. All of a sudden, those voices in the court proposing to promote Chen Kai to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi disappeared without a trace, because

That memorial directly aroused the imperial court's concerns, and the consideration of restricting the Zheng Group inevitably fell on Chen Kai.

In the days that followed, the Yongli court was naturally busy appeasing Sun Kewang of Guizhou, and at the same time preparing for the civil war that might break out at any time. Until the end of the tenth year of Yongli, the people in Kunming city could not even buy new year goods.

When there was nothing left from the purchase, new news was sent to the cabinet from Guangdong, including Chen Kai's request and Guo Zhiqi's memorial. Reading the two texts, the two bachelors Fu Gang and Lei Yuelong were talking about each other.

After staring at each other for a long time, they finally smiled bitterly.
Chapter completed!