Originally, Chen Kai presided over the weapons workshop and had outstanding achievements. He was already highly regarded by Zheng Chenggong. However, after outsmarting Chaozhou, he was no longer just the civil servant and staff responsible for weapons manufacturing, but became

It is the most indispensable and even the most important part of this new Zheng Group.

All of this is the result of Chen Kai's hard work. After a year of hard work, all-out effort, and even a desperate fight, now even Zheng Hongkui has to admit Chen Kai's ability and status under Zheng Chenggong.

After nightfall, the feast started. Zheng Hongkui, as the Duke of the country, made an exception and toasted to Chen Kai alone, expressing his respect for Chen Kai's willingness to take risks for this army and for his nephew Zheng Chenggong. This scene is not only

Zheng Chenggong had no objection, and even the loyal uncle Chen Hui had a natural expression on his face. On the contrary, Chen Kai had no choice but to thank Zheng Hongkui all the time, and even responded to Zheng Hongkui alone, in order to fulfill the etiquette here.

After the reception banquet, Chen Kai returned to his residence and lay on the bed, his eyes filled with the past year. After working hard for a year, he finally became an important part of this maritime business group, pirate group and martial arts group, even if he

He is still just a civil servant. Now that he has established a firm foothold, he will naturally need to work harder to help Zheng Chenggong increase his strength.

As for the future, whether he will always be under Zheng Chenggong or separate at the right time is another matter. But in any case, only if Zheng Chenggong has enough strength, will he have better personal development space, no matter what

Is it internal or external.

With all these utilitarian things in his mind, Chen Kai felt that he was going too far when he thought about it later. But the more he understood the reasons for the failure of Nan Ming's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, the more he wanted to gain greater rights, so as to truly reverse the future.

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"It's just the beginning."

He took a deep breath and stopped thinking about these things. But the moment Chen Kai closed his eyes, he suddenly remembered that he did not see the little girl at the reception banquet. But then he thought about it, and the women of the Zheng family did not follow him either.

The reason for showing up at the banquet casually. After all, Zheng Hongkui is not Qian Qianyi, and that girl is not Liu Rushi.

On the second day of the reception banquet, Zheng Chenggong also came to Chen Kai and mentioned two pieces of news. The first was that in the first month of the year, Zheng Cai killed Xiong Rulin, the chief minister of the cabinet of the Lu Supervisory Dynasty, and Wen Wen, an important minister in the court.

Xinghou Zheng Zunqian.

This incident originated from the contradiction between the Fujian people and the old Zhejiang people within the Lujian Dynasty. It was also the result of the expansion of the internal civil and military disputes. What's more, Zheng Cai was the leader from the beginning.

Determined to follow the example of Zheng Zhilong and Emperor Longwu, he would inevitably intervene when the situation began to get out of control, even if it was too drastic.

However, with the outbreak of internal strife in the Lu Supervisor Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui were even less optimistic about its prospects. After all, starting from the Hongguang Dynasty in the Southern Ming Dynasty, it was the internal strife that led to the state's decline to what it is today.

Now, Lu Jian Guochao and Zheng Cai are still unwilling to learn their lesson. Even if they don't need to tolerate each other for the sake of the country, they should not reach this point. But not only have they developed to the current situation, I am afraid that in the following days,

The anti-Qing movement in northern Fujian would soon encounter devastating damage.

"The people of Qin have no time to mourn for themselves, so that future generations will mourn for them; for future generations to mourn without taking note of it will also cause future generations to mourn for future generations again."

Saying these words word for word, Chen Kai sneered and shook his head. The loyalty and traitors of the Hongguang Dynasty were like this, the civil and military affairs of the Longwu Dynasty were like this, on the banks of the Qiantang River, in northern Fujian, in Zhoushan in the future, the Lu Jianguo Dynasty was like this.

The ministers also seemed to be illiterate, not knowing these words at all, let alone their meaning.

Of course, this kind of selective forgetfulness is not limited to them. The same is true for the Yongli Imperial Court in the Southwest. Even the Daxi Army that joined them later is not immune. This is like an infectious disease, spreading among the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In each cell, only a few people can be immune, but they are also unable to survive alone.

Wherever there are people, there will be grievances, and where there are grievances, there will be rivers and lakes, and there will be fights. This is understandable. At the same time, within the Qing court, there were North-South party struggles between civil servants, and within the Eight Banners, there were also factional struggles among various banners.

But perhaps it was precisely because the Manchus, as a small clan facing a large country, had a strong sense of crisis that they always kept their fight within a certain level, at least not to a level that would affect military strategy.

"These pig teammates are really screwed up."

He complained in his heart but did not say it out loud, but when Chen Kai looked at Zheng Chenggong's face, he seemed to remember the words he used to criticize Qian Qianyi, and quoted Chen Kai this sentence from "A Fang Gong Fu"

A famous saying has the same feeling.

The defeat of Northern Fujian has been decided, but another thing, just listening to it now, when Zheng Chenggong looks at Chen Kai again, it has another meaning.

"It turned out to be a brilliant plan. The grain shortage in Fujian was ten times higher than usual. Fortunately, our army did not attack Tong'an. Otherwise, our army might have captured the county seat without the Tatars chasing us.

They will also be forced to return to the sea."

Zheng Chenggong's troops are now too weak, and there is still a long way to go before they can compete with the main force of the Qing army that went south to encircle and suppress Lu Jianguo Dynasty. During the Tong'an Massacre, Zheng Chenggong's troops encountered headwinds, which prevented them from being able to catch up.

It was indeed luck to arrive before the city was destroyed, but judging from the current strength comparison, even if Zheng Chenggong really arrived, it would be difficult to rescue the county town.

In fact, if Zheng Chenggong really had the ability to defend Tong'an and defeat the main force of the Qing army, but his success failed just because of bad luck, Chen Kai would be duty-bound and should do his best to turn Tong'an into another Verdun choke.

Meat machine, give the Qing army a good chance. But the problem now is the food shortage in Fujian. Not to mention that Zheng Chenggong's strength is far from the main force of the Qing army. Even if he tried his best and barely saved Tong'an City, it would be difficult to continue.

develop.

It was precisely because he saw this helpless reality that Chen Kai carefully planned the strategy to outwit Chaozhou. Now that the results have begun to unfold, he can also relax - at least, Tongan Bloody Ditch has finally been completely rewritten by him

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In addition to bringing news, Zheng Hongkui's trip also included several ministers who had served in the Longwu Dynasty on board. Most of them took refuge in Xiamen or Kinmen. Previously, they did not dare to serve in official positions due to the dispute between Tang and Lu. Now Zheng Cai has killed Xiong Rulin and Zheng Zunqian.

, has returned to the old path, even worse than Zheng Zhilong's old path at that time. On the one hand, it was out of disappointment, and on the other hand, Zheng Chenggong also had a reputation as a courteous corporal in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Chaozhou. Now his development is also good, so he might as well just

Riding on Zheng Hongkui's east wind, he came to serve.

Chen Kai looked at the list and saw that none of the names of Jiang Yucan, Huang Zhigao and others from Zhongshushe seemed familiar to him, so he simply didn't bother to think about it.

After resting for a few days, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong came to an agreement and led the army to go on an expedition. His target was Jieyang County, about sixty miles west of Chaozhou City. Zheng Hongkui used these few days to send people to fight with Liu Gongxian of Yuanyang Village in Jieyang County.

After contacting Chen Bao, the latter had taken refuge with Chen Bao, who was named the Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army by Emperor Longwu and was awarded the seal of General of the State. Here he joined forces with Zheng Hongkui, which could be regarded as another cooperation with the Zheng family.

When Zheng Hongkui set off, Chen Kai had already taken a boat and returned to Nan'ao Island, which had been away for nearly a month. Nan'ao Island was still the same, but the number of troops was much smaller. Chen Kai visited Hong Xu and Chen Bao first, and Hong Xu prepared for him early tomorrow morning.

Before his arrival, he was not in a hurry to return to the town hall. Instead, he went straight to the Ordnance Bureau to inspect the work.

When he arrived at the Ordnance Bureau, it was already lunch time. Chen Kai did not hesitate and went directly into the cafeteria. Seeing Chen Kai coming back, the employees of the Ordnance Factory also saluted with great enthusiasm. But here

In the middle, he saw something that made him a little unhappy.
Chapter completed!