Zhu Hongsan looked at Feng Ruoshu's back and said in his heart: "This old guy is not simple. Others are just taking one step at a time. This old guy can take three steps. Old man Feng must have decided when Chen Zizhuang first arrived in Dongguan to let his son offer his loyalty in public. Feng Ziyong is now the governor, and the next step can only be rewarded by entering the cabinet. It seems that it is not a waste of time to be in the court for more than 40 years. Today, Ma Mingyuan is far from it. He can't help but not realize that Feng Ruoshu's plan has taken the initiative to jump out and sing the opposite tune. Ma Laoer has the ability, but he still needs to be trained in the officialdom!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded while twisting his beard. Zhang Jiayu next to him saw Zhu Hongsan like this and stepped forward and asked, "Your Highness, why are you laughing?"

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhang Jiayu. This guy has been working under his command for two years and should go on and exercise.

"Yuanzi, you draw an order and send it to the cabinet."

Zhang Jiayu quickly prepared the paper and recorded the orders of the King of Chu.

"The first order Li Zhi will stop raiding the Yangtze River from the time he received the order. The transportation of refugees will be stopped first, and the Qing army must not be disturbed from the south."

Zhang Jiayu was so scared that he shook his hands when he heard this order. He had just heard Feng Zi's poisonous plan, but he didn't expect that King Chu would use it so soon.

"The second order ordered Zhaoqing magistrate Xu Dali to be promoted to Guangdong governor, Guangzhou Tongzhi Yu Shilong to be promoted to Guangzhou magistrate, Dongguan magistrate Gong Dacheng to be promoted to Guangzhou Tongzhi. Zhang Jiayu served as the military preparation road in Nanxiong, Shaozhou."

Zhang Jiayu was very excited when he heard that he had prepared for his troops. Although he did not have a high position and power around the King of Chu, he is now in troubled times and the real man does not want to make achievements.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhang Jiayu who was overjoyed and said, "Yuanzi, when you go out this time, I will hand over the North Gate of Guangdong to you. You will have to guard it for me. There are also two regiments in Nanxiong Shaozhou. You will be responsible for when to fight and how to fight them. But their number is too small. You bring ten thousand weapons and armor to recruit soldiers among the refugees. I guess the Qing army will fight to Guangdong in another year, and then your Shaonan army preparation road will become the first line of defense. Do you know Yuanzi?"

"Don't worry, your highness, the emperor will definitely make the city and the city will be dead!"

Zhu Hongsan is very relieved about Zhang Jiayu's moral character, but he has no experience in leading troops, so he doesn't know if he can do it. Zhu Hongsan is now also rushing to put it on the shelves. If he uses military personnel as the commander-in-chief cabinet, those literati will definitely object. In their eyes, warriors are nonsense, and high-tech work such as warriors still rely on literati to do so.

Zhu Hongsan certainly hated this argument. But he had no choice. The situation was like this. If you want these literati to work, you have to listen to them. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan was very cautious when choosing a commander. Now there are two military positions with literati responsibility, one is Fu Wenlong, the other is Li Zhi, the governor of Nanyang, and the other is Li Zhi, the governor of Nanzhili. However, these two people are not responsible for specific military combat. They are only responsible for strategic aspects, and the tactical level depends on professional soldiers.

Zhang Jiayu and Fu Li in front of him are different. Fu Wenlong is agile and knows what should be taken care of and what should not be taken care of. Li Zhi has been patrolling the sea route for many years and still has certain opinions on military affairs. Zhang Jiayu is different. He is a newbie. I hope he can adapt to military life in this year.

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to have a limited staff here, so it would be great if there was a person like Hong Chengchou and Sun Chengzong. Unfortunately, Hong Chengchou is now a traitor, and Sun Chengzong died in Taiyuan. However, living people cannot be suffocated to death. There is a saying by the great men in later generations that goes, "Cross the river by feeling the stones." If not, we should train ourselves.

After writing two orders, Zhang Jiayu went out to send them to the cabinet for execution. The second order was nothing, but normal personnel appointments and removals. After the first order was issued, the impact was not very good.

The order was issued on November 10, the first year of Hongguang. Since Zhu Hongsan did not recognize the legitimacy of the Tang King, he did not use the Longwu Date.

Li Zhi received the order ten days after he received the order, that is, November 20th. Li Zhi was very energetic in these months. The reason is very simple. He always won battles, and his combat effectiveness is simply out of reach, regardless of the army or navy.

Now the army has more than 10,000 people, not many, but most of these 10,000 people have gone through the cruel Jiangyin defense battle and the Jiading offensive and defensive battle. Under Zhu Hongsan, it can be said that the combat effectiveness is the best.

Not to mention the navy, it is also dominant in the East Asian ocean. There are now three forces along the coast of Zhejiang, one is the Zhu Hongsan Navy entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands, and the Qing Dynasty Inland Water Division in the Yangtze River and Qiantang River Basin. Because of Hong Chengchou's effective measures, the Hengjiang iron chain was set up in the narrow inland waterway and the fort was built on the shore, which made Zhu Hongsan's large ship dare not enter the Yangtze River and Qiantang River. However, the Manqing Navy could not leave the ocean, so both sides were in a stalemate.

The third party is the Zheng family navy in Fujian. Zheng Zhilong supported the Tang King, so naturally he and Zhu Hongsanyi were indifferent. Now they are just maintaining a situation of jointly resisting the Qing Dynasty on the surface, and basically do their own things and do not interfere with each other.

After coming from Hong Chengchou, Nanzhili issued a sea ban, and no sails were allowed to go into the sea. At the same time, all residents 30 miles away from the coast moved to the inland to prevent Li Zhi from growing bigger.

However, these actions have limited effect on Li Zhi because his navy and army supplies all come from Guangdong. If there is any impact, it will be difficult to get immigrants now. So Li Zhi is planning to make a big move in the past few months, which is to go north to the mouth of the Yellow River, attack the northern prefectures under the control of the Qing Dynasty, and strive to get a large population.

For this reason, Li Zhi had prepared a large amount of military rations and combat preparations, and was ready to start the action after the Chinese New Year. Unexpectedly, the order of the King of Chu to stop all military operations at a critical moment has arrived.

Li Zhi looked at the edict of the King of Chu and said to a middle-aged scholar sitting next to him: "My brother among the people, it seems that our preparations have been wasted. The King of Chu is not allowed to go to war!"

This middle-aged literati was Chen Zilong. He went to the imperial examination with Ma Mingyuan in the tenth year of Chongzhen. However, he did not have the talent of Ma Mingyuan and only won the 53rd place in the third place. After the palace examination, he was released as the manager of Huizhou Prefecture, Guangzhou, but before he could take office, his mother died, Chen Zilong went home to mourn.

After Ding You saw the chaos in the court, Chen Zilong also lost the desire to leave the mountain and devoted himself to studying knowledge at home. In the past few years at home, Chen Zilong compiled Xu Guangqi's agricultural masterpiece "The Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs". Chen Zilong has always admired Xu Guangqi's personality and knowledge. He visited him in his early years. After Xu Guangqi passed away, Chen Zilong obtained dozens of volumes of the draft of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" from the second-hand Sun Xu Erjue, and copied it day and night. Canran became sixty volumes of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs". He also wrote "Fairy Regulations", which outlined the basic purpose of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs", the main contents of each article, the ideological origins and Xu Guangqi's unique insights. At the same time, he expressed his own social and economic propositions.

Faced with the prairie fire of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and the step-by-step advance of the Qing army, in order to save the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zilong finally gave up his personal plan. In June of the 13th year of Chongzhen, he became the manager of Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and soon began to act as the magistrate of Zhuji. On the day of his official position, due to the continuous floods in his jurisdiction, hungry people rose. In order to maintain the stability of the local society, he used both hard and softness, and used both suppression and retaliation. While "working on the baojia, setting up a law of mutual heads, and exerting the order of the whole nation" to quell the riots of hungry people; while personally taking care of relief, relief of hungry people, setting up porridge factories, setting up pharmacies, caring for the elderly and the children, treating diseases, collecting dead bones, and saving more than 100,000 people.

At the beginning of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Chen Zilong was awarded the military department for his rebellion for recruiting Xu Du, a student from Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province, and was appointed as the military chief. However, after Xu Du surrendered, the Zhejiang Inspector Zuo Guang, ignored Chen Zilong's repeated requests and violated the promise that Xu Du would surrender himself and "should not die." After Xu Du led his men out of the mountain to surrender, he killed more than 60 people of Xu Du and his subordinates. Chen Zilong was very dissatisfied with this. He also heard that his grandmother was very ill, so he did not go to the post and begged to return home in March.

After Chongzhen was hanged, Zhu Yousong took over this mess in Nanjing. Chen Zilong also served as the Xinchao Military Academy under the recommendation of his teacher Huang Daozhou. Although the military Academy was only a seventh rank, he could directly discuss national defense matters. Chen Zilong had written more than 30 letters in the court for more than 50 days, and made a lot of valuable suggestions. However, Emperor Hongguang was frustrated by the struggle between the Donglin Party and the eunuch Party, so he had no time to take care of other matters. Chen Zilong was extremely disappointed with the government affairs. At the same time, because his blunt statement violated Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others, he was excluded, so he resigned again on the pretext of returning home.

Unexpectedly, the Hongguang Dynasty was a short-lived court. It lasted for only one year and was destroyed by the Qing army in May of the first year of Hongguang. After Chen Zilong learned the news at home, he and his friend Xia Yunyi organized hundreds of local tyrants to prepare to resist the Qing army.

Just as Chen Zilong was about to fight against the Qing army in his hometown, news that the Qing army was completely destroyed by the Ming army in Jiading came, and Songjiang Prefecture was preserved.

After Chen Zilong learned that the Ming army had resisted the Qing army, he led his troops to Jiading to visit Zhao Guodong. Only then did Chen Zilong learn that this highly combative army was stabbed by the young man back then, and that young man is now the King of Chu.

Chen Zilong recalled the three of them who discussed the world with Zhu Hongsan, Ma Mingyuan and Feng Ziyong. Unexpectedly, everything Zhu Hongsan said that day had worked today. Chen Zilong saw the Qing Dynasty's rebellious actions, and also saw the people of Jiangnan who were massacred in large numbers in order to resist the "Big Shaving Order". In addition to the agreement with Zhu Hongsan back then, Chen Zilong decided to stay and help Zhao Guodong.

Zhao Guodong is a rude man and has no ability to manage so many refugees, so he was very happy to see Chen Zilong staying to help, and handed over the resettlement of more than 100,000 refugees to Chen Zilong for management.

With the help of Chen Zilong, more than 100,000 refugees stranded on the bank of the Yangtze River moved safely to Chongming County. After Li Zhi went north, he found that Chen Zilong was as talented as such. He immediately entrusted the important task and appointed Chen Zilong as the Governor General of Southern Zhili from the fourth rank.
Chapter completed!