The silver dollar here is not the kind of silver dollar commonly known as Yuan Datou made by Yuan Shikai when he was president in the later period, nor is it the kind of marriage that only contains a small amount of silver for the future alloy commemorative coin, which is basically pure silver.

The Qing Dynasty began to mint silver dollars as currency circulation in various periods, the most famous is the Qing Dynasty's ten silver dollars, but the number is not very large, and it is rarely circulated in the hands of ordinary people.

And Huang Zhongting just dug out more than 10 boxes of silver dollars are made in Hunan Province Guangxu ingots, one of the top ten silver dollars in the Qing Dynasty, for the 23rd year of Guangxu to introduce British casting equipment, in Hunan casting and circulation.

After a preliminary count, there were about 150,000 silver dollars, which was a huge amount of money, and the discount of the silver grain tax in Hekou County for a year was not so much.

Huang Zhongting, who is familiar with history, also understands this better, and what makes him even more pleased is that not only these ingots, but also more than ten boxes of broken gold, pearls and gemstones, etc., are even more valuable.

I admire this eagle king very much in my heart, I can save so many treasures, but it's a pity that he is the king of the mountain in the mountains, and the treasures he saves are nowhere to be used, and he can't use them.

"Send a few people, divided into two groups, one group sneaks into Hekou County to find out the latest news, and the other group goes to Vietnam Lao Cai to look for the team that scattered and fled a few days ago."

At this time, Huang Zhongting is organizing all the backbones to deploy the next move, and it is impossible to be content with the status quo, but to take the big action of capturing Kunming before is to find death, and it is not yet that time.

"The Qing army that pursued us before was mainly reinforcements from Guizhou and Guangxi, and some of the local Qing troops in Yunnan revolted, and some of them were lost, and there were not too many left, and they had to defend the surrounding areas of Kunming and divide the entire territory of Yunnan, and it is estimated that there are not many people stationed at the mouth of the river."

Huang Zhongting looked at the rough map on the wall and continued: "Now the whole country is gradually in turmoil, there are some small-scale uprisings in various places, and the situation is not as stable as it seems, Guangxi and Guizhou are naturally no exception, so the Qing troops who came to support Yunnan will not stay long before they have to withdraw, we will wait for this group of Qing troops to withdraw, and then counterattack Xiahekou, and then hold on there." ”

"Defend the estuary, if the Qing army gathers tens of thousands more, how can we hold on to less than 1,000 people?" Huang Zhongyuan was a little puzzled.

"Then let's see if the Yunnan Governor's Mansion can transfer tens of thousands of people after the estuary is captured, the most important thing now is to prepare for the war, and the battle to take the estuary cannot be lost." Huang Zhongting didn't explain too much, and he had his own considerations in mind.

Then he looked at the head and deputy battalion commander of the new battalion who participated in the meeting and said: "Li Shaoyang, Gu Haiqiang, the new battalion should train a group of capable soldiers for me in a short period of time, and the second company and the guard company are not fully staffed, and they urgently need to be replenished." ”

The two hurriedly replied yes.

After the deployment meeting, Huang Zhongting went to visit his cheap father Huang Mingtang, and now he is able to move on the ground, and his physical condition is gradually improving, and the father and son briefly talked about life for a while. Huang Mingtang did not ask about military affairs, and it seemed that he really did not plan to take over military affairs anymore, which Huang Zhongting was also happy to see.

Then he went to look at the little white rich beauty Wu Ruolan in his eyes, and the two of them did not have the same strangeness as they met for the first time, and gradually had a deeper conversation.

As an intellectual in the 21st century, Huang Zhongting has ideas and views that people in this era do not have, economy, society, politics, history, etc., he can talk about anything for a long time, Wu Ruolan also listened to it so drunk, holding her hands, her beautiful eyes have been staring at Huang Zhongting, and her admiration is beyond words.

Three days have passed in a blink of an eye, and Huang Zhongting has lived a relatively fulfilling life in the past three days, checking the training and preparation of the troops every day, walking and chatting with his cheap father, and then being stuck to Wu Ruolan, the little white rich beauty, every day.

"Here's the news, our scouts have just returned from the estuary." Huang Zhongyuan hurriedly found Huang Zhongting, who was in love.

"Sister Ruolan will go play by herself first." Huang Zhongting immediately got up and casually dismissed the sticky Wu Ruolan beside him, and took Huang Zhongyuan away without looking back, leaving Wu Ruolan with a resentful face and kicked Huang Zhongting twice on the spot.

The two are getting closer and better.

Born in a wealthy family Wu Ruolan, she has received a more systematic knowledge education since she was a child, she is smart and loves to learn, she is praised as the most dazzling little princess among the many brothers and sisters in the family, she is already proficient in business at a young age, and began to independently take over several important industries in the family, naturally she is more proud.

But after getting along for the past few days, Wu Ruolan admired more and more this little army commander who looked a year younger than herself. There is also a little Jiujiu in her heart, hoping to dig Huang Zhongting to her side and help her realize the dream of a business empire, so she is so proud that she sticks to Huang Zhongting every day, looking like a good and beautiful girl, invincible and cute.

Looking at the back of Huang Zhongting leaving, she felt a little helpless in her heart, and after a few days of getting along, she understood that Huang Zhongting's ambition was not to be in business, but to be the boss, and I hope he can succeed.

"What's going on in the estuary now?" Huang Zhongting asked as he walked.

Huang Zhongyuan immediately replied: "Two news, one good and one bad, the good news is that the 30,000 Qing troops stationed in Hekou have basically withdrawn, leaving only one foreign commissioner with more than 1,300 people stationed in the garrison, many of which were recruited from Hekou County to temporarily form.

The bad news is that more than 200 of our brothers, who had fled to Hanoi, Vietnam, were arrested and sent to the Qing court by the Vietnamese authorities, and are now being held in the garrison camp in Hekou County, where they are all going to be publicly beheaded and executed on the first of next month. ”

Foreign commissar Qian was always a military attache in the army during the Qing Dynasty, awarded the captain of Fenwu, and commanded about 1,000 troops, which can be regarded as a general.

"Today is the 26th of May, it will take about two days to get to the mouth of the river, only three days to prepare, the time is very tight, the county town has to fight, and people have to be saved, so we must rush to attack the city before the execution, and at the same time to avoid our people being executed during the siege."

Huang Zhongting turned to look at Huang Zhongyuan and continued: "Call all the company-level officers over and deploy siege and rescue missions." ”

After a while, all the officers above the company level, including Li Shaoyang and Gu Haiqiang, the two chief and deputy battalion commanders of the new battalion, came to a conference room temporarily used as an ordinary wooden hut, and as soon as they entered the door, they found that Huang Zhongting's slightly immature face was extremely serious, and they all silently said in their hearts that I was afraid that something big would happen.

Seeing that all the personnel had arrived, Huang Zhongting briefly explained the situation, and then directly issued an order: "The recruit battalion immediately transferred 90 people who were basically qualified for training, mixed into one platoon of the guard company, one company, and one platoon of the second company, and another squad of personnel from the guard company was transferred as the guard squad, and the number of the guard company was changed to three companies, that is, the first company has 120 people in four platoons, and the second company and the third company have 60 people in each two platoons, and the company commanders of each company remain unchanged, and the squad leaders of each company are appointed by the company commanders, and after the appointment, they will be reported to the two staff offices of Li Desheng and Li Kan for the record. ”