After the tall and thin young man left, not long after drinking the wine in his glass, the scholar stood up and left. Today he made an appointment with an official from the Governor's Office to drink flower wine, so naturally he could not break the appointment.

At this moment, some officials in the yamen were already home, while the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chen Jin, was discussing the current situation in the southeast with a few aides who had just accompanied him.

"Mr. Army-building Master, since the Mandarin duck formation is available, you might as well write to the court to compile the Mandarin duck formation in Zhejiang Green Camp to eliminate the Dalan thief Chen Wen."

The speaker was Ji Zhenyi, a native of Taixing County, Yangzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, and a Jinshi in the fourth year of Shunzhi. Not long ago, Ji Zhenyi was the magistrate of Lanxi County, Jinhua Prefecture, but the Qing army was repelled by the Ming army in Xiaoshun Town. Chen Jin issued an order to burn the warehouses of Jinhua Prefecture, Lanxi and Tangxi counties occupied by the Qing army to avoid investing in the enemy. At the same time, he withdrew the official guards and pulled the defense line to the Longyou County area of ​​Quzhou Prefecture, and regained the forces to prevent the Ming army in Zhejiang under Chen Wen, and he also arrived in Quzhou.

Abandoning soil was a serious crime in the Qing Dynasty, but not long ago, Chen Jin had just achieved great contributions to capturing Zhoushan, and the high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty also realized that Chen Jin protected Quzhou to prevent the Ming army from entering Jiangxi, or Zhang Zisheng, the only remaining four major bandits in Fujian and Jiangxi, or invaded Fujian, and cooperated with Zheng Chenggong's intention to completely disrupt Fujian.

Therefore, Chen Jin, Zhang Guoxun, Ma Jinbao and others will not be punished for the time being, and will discuss it after they are recovered. However, they have not yet filled the pits of the officials of Jinhua Prefecture and the western counties. They can only be allowed to act as aides under Chen Jin in order to retake Jinhua Prefecture before being resettled.

Ji Zhenyi's suggestions caused the former Jinhua officials to nod frequently. Although they had never seen how the Ming army under Chen Wen defeated the Qing army last year, does that scene just now still explain the problem? Since the Ming army can use the Mandarin duck formation to win, with the current strength of the Qing Dynasty, as long as it is copied, it can be crushed and even eradicated through the overwhelming advantage of manpower, material resources and financial resources. By then, they can also return to Jinhua to become officials.

Unlike Ji Zhenyi and other former Jinhua officials in the same year, Li Zhifang turned his attention to Chen Jin like other staff members present. After all, changing the military system is a big deal, and in his impression, the last Qi family army had a confrontation with the Qing army in Hunhe decades ago. Many things in this are probably not applicable.

As Li Zhifang expected, Chen Jin seemed a little hesitant when he heard Ji Zhenyi's talk. It is true that he was a member of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han army, but he surrendered from the official position of the Dalinghe Dusi during the Huang Taiji era. He had heard of the Battle of Hunhe as a military general in Liaozhen, but he was limited to his period as a Ming army.

As for the Qing Dynasty, in his impression, it seemed that when the masters of the Manchu Eight Banners boasted about how the Eight Banners Army was invincible, they rarely mentioned the bloody battle of the Hunhe River. Especially those masters of the Manchu Eight Banners who should have participated in that bloody battle at ages. They always seemed to be very secretive about it. Although Chen Jin did not understand the meaning, there was no need to get into trouble for such a thing.

Besides, before the New Year, the senior leaders of the Qing Dynasty had already made plans. When the Jiangxi incident happened, they would draw troops from Quzhou to attack Jinhua Prefecture. In addition, Hangzhou stationed the Eight Banners, the Extra Biao Battalion and the Fubiao Battalion that was being rebuilt, with all the elite troops in Zhejiang and some of the Jiangxi Green Camps, to eliminate the Ming army that had just taken down Jinhua. It was not a matter of holding hands. There was no need to make it too complicated for the time being.

"This matter is of great importance. I have to consider it again." After that, Chen Jin turned the topic to something related to him. "How is Zhu Xie, how do you contact the gentry in the Jinhua Mansion in Jinhua?"

The editor-in-chief in Chen Jin's mouth is Zhu Zhixi, a talented man from Yiwu who Sun Yu had recommended to Chen Wen before. However, as Zhou Jingting said, Zhu Zhixi achieved a good result of ninth place in the second place in the first imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty in Shunzhi in the third year of Shunzhi, and he did have talent and knowledge. But if we think that the Qing army only occupied the Hangzhou-Jiahu area in Zhejiang, and the eastern Zhejiang was still in the hands of the Lu Jianguo, this person rushed to take the imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty, which shows how he was.

"If you go back to the army, the students will communicate with the familiar gentry through letters. The Dalan thief Chen Wen did a rebellious act in Jinhua Mansion. He forced money and grain to be called loans. Now the people of Jinhua Mansion are full of grievances, just like a child who has been looking for the king's army for a long time. When the king's army enters Jinhua Mansion, there will be people who will respond."

Zhu Zhixi returned home in the fourth year of Yongli. At this moment, Chen Jin was willing to call him his official position in the court, but he had to regard himself as the people.

However, during his time in Jinhua Prefecture, Ma Jinbao levyed heavy taxes, forced his property, and even forced his whole family to death, the degree of rebellion was not comparable to Chen Wen. The public complaints may be said. As for the response of the crowd, Ma Jinbao, the "jealous master", was still in office for one day, and most of the gentry and people in Jinhua Prefecture may not have this idea.

Zhu Zhixi's words were quite exaggerated. Chen Jin did not know this. It was just that this statement was quite beneficial to inspire people. Naturally, he was unwilling to point it out. He just encouraged him a few words and asked Zhu Zhixi to continue to contact the gentry. He made up his mind and praised him for his paintings as soon as the matter was completed. After all, this person was a Shujishi who was the first imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty. He had a bright future among the Han officials. He naturally had to make friends.

Everyone present was a wise man. He could understand the tricks here just by thinking about them. Seeing that Zhu Zhixi had made contributions during Dingyou, he was naturally envious.

Chen Jin took advantage of the time when he picked up the teacup and drank water, and saw that everyone's expressions had changed. Among the unfamiliar former officials of Jinhua Palace, only Li Zhifang could still look as usual, and he recognized this person even more in his heart.

Although the Qing army was forced to withdraw from Jinhua Prefecture, during that period, especially during the period after the capture of the Jinhua Prefecture, Li Zhifang had a very appropriate handling and reaction, and preserved a lot of vitality for the Qing army. Originally, Chen Jin planned to ask for credit for this person's achievements, but with the defeat of the Qing army in Xiaoshun Town, this matter could only be temporarily put on hold. However, among these temporary staff members, the former Jinhua Prefecture Promoter Li Zhifang was the one who deserves his trust.

Especially Li Zhifang had previously advised Chen Jin to send people to the coast of Fujian to spread the three matters of Chen Wen's capture of Jinhua Prefecture, repelling the encirclement and suppressing the Qing army and Wang Jiang's capture. As a result, the Lu Jianguo sent a civil servant to compete for power with Chen Wen. One king's order and the other had real power. It would probably take a long time for the two to fight. At that time, they would not have the energy to do anything else. They could only wait for the Qing army to fight them like the other Ming army that was fighting the internal strife.

However, if Wang Jiang had not been captured, the Qing army would not have had such an opportunity. Since the Qing army headed south, there have been many rebels in Zhejiang who resisted Qing. However, the only one who really made the Qing army in Zhejiang was the Dalanshan Ming army, because this Ming army could not only support a large number of troops to fight, but also achieve strict military discipline. This might be the most threatening rebels that compete with the Qing Dynasty for the people, and Wang Jiang's contributions were the most important.

If the Dalan thief Chen Wen, who had begun to show his style as a famous general, was coupled with the practical civil servant Wang Jiang who could support the army in a corner of Dalan Mountain, such a combination would probably not be so simple to pacify.

Now, without Wang Jiang, Chen Wen can only forcefully ask for money in the name of borrowing. Even if he can survive this year, he will not be able to pay back the money tomorrow, and he will not be able to stand firm in Jinhua Mansion. After all, what kind of gentry are, Chen Jin, who has been an official for decades, knows it very well.

However, Chen Jin probably thought he was overthinking what Chen Wen could do until next year. As long as the Qing army in Jiangxi, Fujian, and southern Jiangxi Provinces and three regions completed the task of extermination of Zhang Zisheng, they could enter Quzhou in large quantities. At that time, they would naturally see what tricks the general could use.

As for Zheng Chenggong, let him bear for several months!

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Perhaps it was telepathy, when Chen Jin planned to free up his hands to deal with Zheng Chenggong after destroying Chen Wen, outside the Zhangzhou Prefecture in southern Fujian, Zheng Chenggong inexplicably shuddered in the tent of the central army of the besieged army.

Two months ago on the third day of the first lunar month, Zheng Chenggong led more than 2,000 ships to Haicheng Port, Zhangzhou Prefecture. Haicheng defended the city and commanded the commander of Haicheng County, Gantiyuan, Kaicheng, surrendered. A few days later, Zheng Chenggong divided his troops to cut off the Jiangdong Bridge, the important road leading from Quanzhou to Zhangzhou. Wang Bangjun, the general general of Zhangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, was forced to defend Zhangzhou Prefecture. For a time, Zhangzhou "people erected flags to respond", and the Qing army "had enemies on all sides, and the city was alone and dangerous. The situation was urgent and hesitated."

By the second day of the second month, after clearing the defense facilities outside the city, Zheng Chenggong decided to launch a general attack. On the battlefield, the Ming army bravely attacked the city, while the Qing army resisted stubbornly. After Wu Shizhen, the Yougang camp, died in the cannon and failed to succeed in the attack, Zheng Chenggong had to turn to order to dig tunnels and try to break the city with the method of releasing the collapse. The so-called releasing the collapse is a blast in later generations.

The tunnel has been excavated for more than a month. From He Ming, the firearm camp, he learned that the tunnel has been excavated and the bombing city can be ignited just after the gunpowder is filled.

After last year's Cizhao, Qianshan and Xiaoyingling three victories, the Fujian Ming army commanded by Zheng Chenggong was a successive victory. For a time, the Fujian Qing army had no troops to rescue Zhangzhou. With the fall of Zhoushan, the Zhoushan Ming army was forced to go south to Fujian and enter the sea stadium he occupied, only to become part of the Fujian Ming army under his command.

But the world's affairs will have advantages and disadvantages. Zhoushan fell, and the Qing army of Zhejiang was completely freed. At present, the Qing army in Fujian was powerless. Sooner or later, the Qing army of Zhejiang would go south to aid Fujian. In this way, his momentum in Fujian would be very likely to be curbed, and the military operation to restore Zhangzhou might also be hindered.

Fortunately, the threat from the Ming army in Zhoushan was no longer there, but a general named Chen Wen suddenly emerged from Jinhua Prefecture. Zheng Chenggong had asked Zhang Huangyan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War who came to contact. It turned out that Chen Wen had successfully annihilated an elite Qing army that followed him against the backdrop of the disastrous defeat of the Ming army in Simingshan last year. Then he learned from the court officials of the Lu State that the war in Jinhua Prefecture last year.

Zheng Chenggong knew very well that Chen Wen's existence in Jinhua Prefecture was very beneficial to him. As long as this person was in Jinhua Prefecture for one day, the Qing army in Zhejiang would never be able to bypass there to aid Fujian, and even the Qing army in Nanzhili and Jiangxi would be affected to a certain extent. After all, Jinhua is close to Hangzhou and Quzhou, and no matter whether Chen Wen takes any of these two prefectures, it will threaten the safety of these two provinces.

The only thing that made him uneasy was that this person was Wang Yi's general, and Wang Yi was the Zhizhe governor appointed by the Lu Jianguo. More importantly, while entering the Haitan, the Lu Jianguo sent another Minister of War to enthrone Chen Wen as Earl, and there seemed to be signs of returning to Zhejiang to merge with him.

Since ancient times, supporting the country has been a great achievement for all ages. However, the person who was supported failed to seize the supreme throne, and those who supported him were extremely guilty rebellion. The Zheng family offended the Lu family too much in supporting the Tang Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong would never believe that if the King of Lu won the world, the Zheng family would have good fruit. Therefore, when the Lu Jianguo made a big fuss in Fujian, he continued to use the banner of Emperor Longwu and was unwilling to fight with the Lu family's troops at all.

At present, the Lu family was in a dilemma. The Ming army in Zhoushan, who arrived in Fujian, was cut off from food and fodder. He was already trying to win over. As long as time permits, he could definitely try to take this remnant soldier with no bandits for himself and maximize his strength. But if Cao Conglong succeeds and Chen Wen and the Ming army of the Lu Jianguo, then even if someone stands in Zhejiang, there will be a risk of a civil war between the Lu family and the Gui family fighting for the throne in the future, which will inevitably affect his long-term dreams and plans.

Since the first year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong swore to the Qing Dynasty in the name of "Zheng Xiaobo recruiting the general to punish the country and the country" in Xiao Kinmen, he has been conscious of doing his best to realize the great cause of rejuvenation for the Ming Dynasty.

In Zheng Chenggong's view, only in this way can later history books despise Zheng Zhilong and betray the Emperor Ming and the elders of Fujian. It is certain that although Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Tartars, his son achieved the revival of the Ming Dynasty. Only in this way can he wash away the shame brought to the family and descendants of his father's bad deeds.

To this day, Fujian has no more Qing army to fight with, and Zhejiang's Qing army is also restrained by the military general named Chen Wen. As long as Zhangzhou is taken down, you can quickly roll the snowball by relying on the land, grain and fodder of this land, and the monopoly position of the Shijing Zheng family in sea trade.

It won't take long to recover the entire Fujian and even revived Nanjing all the way north. At that time, as long as the navy locked the river and then integrated the south of the Yangtze River, only the broken north was left, and the Qing Dynasty could not last long. However, he could easily accumulate strength and then attack the Central Plains along Xu Da and Chang Yuchun's old road.

By then, the Ming Dynasty's rejuvenation is expected, and he, Zheng Chenggong, can completely wipe out the great humiliation of the second year of Longwu!

Back at this moment, whether Cao Conglong can accomplish anything, whether Chen Wen will join the remnants of Lu Fan, is no longer the most important thing for Zheng Chenggong. As long as he is strong enough, he can deal with all changes. And being strong will start from today.
Chapter completed!