"I wonder Mr. Song, how many acres of seedling fields can be transplanted for one acre of seedlings?"

"Report to the Duke of the Kingdom, twenty-five acres of seedlings can be transplanted per mu. Tianlai Novel | 2"

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"I wonder Mr. Song, which machine is the best for squeezing sugar?"

"Reporting to the Duke of the State, it is extremely convenient to use a sugar truck to squeeze sugar from a sugar truck."

“…”

"Dare you ask Mr. Song, is there any other way to refine brass, besides using calamine?"

"Report to the Duke, just have water tin."

“…”

At the beginning of the chat, everyone was a gentry or official, so they naturally had to report their own positions. At the beginning, they all applied for their former official positions, and those gentry who had not won the official position and the monk stopped talking. When the topic of the palace examination began, the juren also consciously closed their mouths. Without this experience, they could not talk about the palace examination. Let’s talk about the jokes that failed the exam on their own; after the palace examination, the year the exam became a topic again; and then, rankings were naturally inevitable.

The appearance, qualifications, and rankings are all the things in the imperial examinations, so there is a classification of levels in that doorman.

After pulling it over, each of them had a clear mind. When they were summoned, the order of openings would naturally form, especially the Shujishi, who was the first to open his mouth as their representative.

However, Chen Wen Yixing had no scruples about the hidden rules here. Even if it weren't for Mr. Song, he wouldn't have summoned them in advance. And here, he was even more excited to chat with this juren named Song. The Jinshi masters who had fought for the top in front of the palace became foils and background walls with other gentry. Especially when they couldn't hear what Chen Wen asked about, they couldn't find any gap to interrupt.

"Mr. Song's masterpiece "The Creation of Things in Heaven" is truly a masterpiece. My Zhejiang King Master has also benefited from it. Today, I was able to see Mr. Song's true appearance in person, which is a great blessing in my life!"

The Mr. Song mentioned by Chen Wen is Song Yingxing, the author of "The Art of Heaven", and a world-class encyclopedia-like scientist in the late Ming Dynasty.

Song Yingxing passed the imperial examination in the Wanli period, but then failed many tests. It was not until the Chongzhen Dynasty that he became an official as a juren. He had a strong sense of anti-Qing and worked in the Southern Ming court. Later, he lived in seclusion in his hometown and refused to take office. His works were also because the Qing Dynasty believed that he was an anti-Qing person, so he completely banned the "Siku Quanshu". It was not until the Qing Dynasty fell to the death of the Qing Dynasty that people could re-translate the entire picture of this 17th-century Chinese Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

"The Duke of the State is too good, and his works are just the words of the students. If it really benefits the king's master, it is the luck of the students."

Chen Wen remembered that in Zhejiang, even Quzhou, he had planned to send someone to recruit Song Yingxing without conquering him. Now that the army has recovered Jiangxi, the people who have been invited have not yet been sent out, but they have come by themselves, which has made Chen Wen very happy.

In comparison, the Shuji Shi who was tied up with the big guys here is at most a big deal, while those Jinshi, Juren and other things are not even a big deal.

Chen Wen was having a lot of chats with scientists, and others were more or less embarrassed, but there was no such thing as being looked down upon and then leaving. After all, this is the case in this world now, Chen Wen is also famous, and it is definitely not a good thing to make him unhappy. Now he is just leaving it aside, and just endure it.

As he talked, he didn't mention it, but Song Yingxing still had to take care of the face of these imperial examination predecessors and talents, and kept raising the topic on them. Chen Wen knew very well why this was so, so he started chatting with these people. After listening, he either came politely to congratulate Chen Wen on killing the rebel Hong Chengchou and regaining most of Jiangxi. He came to seek official positions. Another person actually came from Ji'an Prefecture and strongly asked Chen Wen to recover the lost territory as soon as possible and give the people of Ji'an a bright world.

What was even more speechless was that these people had obviously inquired in advance and knew that Chen Wen had a large loan from the army, and his repayment reputation in Zhejiang was very good. He understood the principle that he had to spend money to ask for help in the work of others. He simply said that he wanted to buy loans to help military supplies, so that the king's army could recover the lost land faster. Only Song Yingxing and the monk were empty-handed, which seemed a little embarrassed.

Song Yingxing is a talent that Chen Wen must recruit, and he has the authority in science and technology. It is too late to give money, so naturally he can't care about anything that has not purchased loans. He comforted these "righteous and generous people", and Chen Wen turned to ask what the monk who had never been involved from beginning to end did.

The head of the family knew that the firewood and rice were expensive, and Chen Wen, who fell into the eyes of money, suddenly realized that he seemed to be thinking about the monk's money for indulgence and oil. It was really a sin.

Upon hearing this, the monk still didn't speak, but just expressed inconvenience in speaking. He asked for a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone before he started to borrow a pen to answer.

The monk's handwriting is very beautiful, but it always carries a crazy atmosphere. A few strokes fell. Chen Wen looked carefully and clearly wrote the words "I am the King of Yiyang", which made him suddenly shocked.

Jiangxi is not Zhejiang, there are vassals here. Among them, the Ningfan, which belonged to King Yiyang, was originally granted by the title of Daning, but later changed the title of Nanchang, Jiangxi during the Yongle period. At that time, the Ningwang Zhu Quan, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, borrowed the Three Guards of Duoyan during the Jingnan period, and was deceived by King Ning.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty is now either in the occupied areas of the Ming army or invisible. There is no way. First, the people of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were class conflicts, attracted revenge against the Ming royal family; the Qing Dynasty then also had the same word as killing for the Ming royal family, for fear that they would take the lead in rebelling.

Zhejiang has two feudal states in history. The Wu Fan in Hangzhou and the Yue Fan in Quzhou were both eliminated by one generation, so he had never encountered such a problem at the beginning. Now when he arrived in Jiangxi, it was different immediately. There are several vassal kings here. Although the phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken, it is not a good thing to say about the crime of treating the royal family. Especially these vassal kings have fiefdoms, which makes it a headache to think about it.

After finishing the first seven words, the monk continued to write the three words "seventh generation grandson".

It seems that the reaction is too fast and sometimes it is not a good thing.

Hearing the three words behind, the big rock in Chen Wen's heart slowly fell down. He did not call him a title by himself, but said that he had many generations of descendants of a vassal king. He was usually just an ordinary royal family, so there was no need to consider too many issues.

"I dare to ask the master's name for his layman family?"

"Zhu Da."

It looked familiar, but I couldn't remember it for a while, especially the gentry seemed to know nothing about him, so I simply stopped mentioning it and invited these people to spend dinner together before sending them back to the inn. During this period, the monk did not mention anything that made him feel unhappy, such as enthronement, royal palace, fiefdom, etc., and did not say anything other than congratulations.

After nightfall, Chen Wen lay on the bed, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the name Zhu Da sounded very familiar. After thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly began to think about it.

"Zhu Da, Bada Shanren!"

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The surprise at night did not affect Chen Wen's meeting the next day. Zhu Da was a royal family and a painter, and these were not important to him. In the current situation, steel and passion are what China really needs. He has now reversed the comparison of enemy-to-me power south of the Yangtze River. What he needed is to further expand his strength and prepare for the next battle, rather than focusing on appreciating poetry and paintings.

Song Yingxing must be recruited vigorously, and from this person's mouth, Chen Wen could also hear that the two hit it off at this point. However, it is impossible for other gentry to be appointed directly. They should go to the civil service training class to train first. It is impossible to be appointed if they are not professional and have not been brainwashed. This is a matter of principle. As for Zhu Da, Chen Wen finally sent someone to give him some money, just to think that it was to improve his life.

In the next few days, Chen Wen still spent a series of work such as formulating a plan to improve the military system and meeting guests. It was not until the eve of Wang Jiang's arrival that it came to an end.

During this period, most of the gentry from Jiangxi Province and officials who worked in the Ming Dynasty were like that. The only thing that happened was that. Only a merchant from Huizhou was of some interest, but Chen Wen did not keep him, but just gave him one thing. If it was done, the subsequent things would be easy to say, and he just took it as a letter of fame.

As for Cai Shiying and Qin Jiazhao, Chen Wen didn't even meet each other in the end. It was one thing to throw it away. More importantly, it was not interesting to meet these two people at all. Especially after Wang Jiang met, he said that these two men were going to be prepared to sacrifice for the "Qing Dynasty", so there was no need to see them, and it was a waste of time.

Since winning the Guangxin Prefecture, Chen Wen has been racing against time to take over the Jiangxi province. After Wang Jiang and the civil servants transferred to Jiangxi and the military officers who arrived one after another, they went to various counties as quickly as possible under the protection of the garrison, and took the cities from the war camps to facilitate the implementation of the government as soon as possible.

From eight prefectures to eighteen prefectures, and nearly two provinces, the Zhejiang Mingjun Group operates with all its strength in order to evolve this province into the basic board of the Zhejiang Mingjun before the reaction that the Qing court would inevitably make, so that it can exert greater power.

Time is very tight, and major forces in the surrounding provinces have gradually experienced drastic changes in Jiangxi, and they have begun to react in shock.

The first person to get the news was naturally Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Jiangnan. He was the governor of the two provinces. Now one province is gone. Even if it was lost by Hong Chengchou, the Qing court would definitely hold him accountable. If you are not careful, you will be dead.

Now, the imperial edict for accountability has not yet been released. Ma Guozhu urges his aides and officials below to prepare the accounts of Hong Chengchou swept the treasuries of various governments in Jiangnan for future use. Those deficiencies must be made up as soon as possible, and it is more likely to overcome this level when the imperial envoy arrives.

Of course, in addition to dealing with punishment, we must deal with official duties more hard. It is not just government affairs, but more importantly military affairs, which is the real top priority.

As the central and northern Jiangxi fell into the hands of the Ming army, the remaining three prefectures were also separated from Jiangnan, just like the jurisdiction of the Zhejiang-Fujian Governor General, Fujian and Hangzhou-Jiahu in Zhejiang were cut off in half. He had lost control of the three prefectures of Nangan and Ji'an. Only Yi Yonggui and Hu Yousheng could count on their personal abilities.

In addition, Jiangnan, who is still in hand, should also urge the green camps in various places to fill the gaps in order to deal with the subsequent wars, whether it is the attack of the Ming army or the reinforcements of the Qing army.

This is impossible. As soon as Jiangxi was lost, the four southeastern provinces were immediately cut into two sections by Chen Wen. Fujian and Nangan and Ji'an were one section, while Jiangnan was connected to the only remaining Hangzhou, Jiaxi and Huzhou in Zhejiang. Both areas were under the military front of the Ming army - Fujian and Jiangxi, prefectures and counties bordering Zhejiang, and the coastal areas, the southern Jiangxi and northern Ji'an Prefecture, the Qiantang River in Zhejiang was natural danger, and Jiangnan was Chizhou and Huizhou.

What's even more terrifying is that ships can be gathered in Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, all of which are large troops boarding the ship and going straight to the city of Jiangning along the Yangtze River. Every time I think of this possibility, Ma Guozhu will be immediately overwhelmed by fear.

"As General Liu saw, where would the rebel Chen Wen use his troops?"

Liu Fangming, the governor of the Jingbiaohou Town, had already arrived in Jiangning. The money they had recovered from Raozhou Prefecture also embarked on the way to the mansions of various powerful people in Beijing. There was no way, saving lives was the first priority. As Li Benshen and Hu Quancai also arrived in Jiangning, Zou Zhuoming, who was ordered to Hong Chengchou, and his party also stepped into the Jiangnan and Jiangxi Governor's Office to sell goods after some discussion with Hu Quancai. The one who was famous for their strange goods was General Liu and Liu Cheng mentioned by Ma Guozhu.

Sitting upright in the second hall of the Governor's Office, the idle people had already been bombarded out. He was at the center of power and was valued by others, which made Liu Cheng feel very comfortable.

He sat upright here, and when he heard Ma Guozhu's question, he replied confidently: "Reply to the words of the boss of the army, he was under the command of the rebel Chen Wen for many years. He used military affairs and then acted. He always analyzed the grand strategy as clearly as possible. He also had a good sense of smell. He could always feel a little bit of a fighter in the chaos, and sometimes it even made people feel like a premonition of the uncertainty."

Liu Cheng talked freely, but did not answer Ma Guozhu's question directly. If it were someone else, or at some point, this person would have been bombarded by him long ago. However, in the current situation, Chen Wen has become bigger in the southeast and wants to prepare in advance. Such an expert who understands Chen Wen's personality is naturally the best consultant, which is much better than guessing.

On this point, Chen Jin and Hong Chengchou had no such advantages before, and now he has it, so he must make good use of it.

Ma Guozhu leaned forward slightly and became a little stiff. He simply changed his posture, but he still did not interrupt Liu Cheng. Next, Liu Cheng did not continue to talk about Chen Wen's strategic sense of smell from history, and gave Ma Guozhu an answer directly.

"The General of the Mok's understanding of the Ming army in Zhejiang has swallowed a province of Jiangxi. They are now more than defending but not enough attack. They rashly enter, and they will be defeated by them in the field. The incident of Guangxin Mansion has also proved that their ability to attack is extremely strong. However, in the opinion of the General of the Mok, Chen Wen has no possibility of going north in two months. Consolidating the newly occupied areas and eroding the surrounding prefectures and counties is Chen Wen's style."

"I see."

After hearing that Chen Wen would not launch a large-scale offensive within two months, Ma Guozhu's long-lasting heart could be considered as the ground. Looking at Liu Cheng, who answered his questions, naturally he became more pleasing to the eyes.

"General Liu came anyway and surrendered to our Qing Dynasty is a feat of abandoning the darkness and turning to the light. I will report to the court that with the court's magnanimity and the elegance of our emperor, it is not necessary to mention the title of the general. As long as General Liu can make contributions to our Qing Dynasty, it is a matter of nostalgia to be granted titles!"

"The last general thanked the old master of the army and thanked you all."

"No gift, no gift."

After a gift, the guest and the host and the host were having fun, but Liu Cheng suddenly remembered a possibility and hesitated for a moment before he said this.
Chapter completed!