ps: It's going to be cut off for another two months, sorry!

After Hong Chunkui agreed to join the National Defense Forces, Li Mingyuan summoned Liu Pu, Chen Guozhu, Zhao Yan, and others to the National Defense Forces Headquarters to seek their opinions on Hong Chunkui's job arrangements.

"Lord Hong is a veteran of the Kingdom of Heaven, and there is no doubt about his ability to lead troops to fight and train soldiers, but the position of the chief of military affairs is very important, and Lord Hong has just arrived, and it is inevitable that he does not know much about the situation of the military affairs department, and rashly taking over the work of the military affairs department will inevitably have an adverse impact on the training of the troops, so he suggests that Lord Hong can first go to the quartermaster department to assist the quartermaster in handling logistics affairs."

"My subordinates agree with Master Li's suggestion, Lord Hong has not made an inch, and it is not appropriate to arrange important positions at the beginning."

As soon as the discussion began, Li Sandou and Zhang Ansong clearly opposed Hong Chunkui's appointment in the Military Affairs Department.

The General Staff Headquarters is under the jurisdiction of the Operations Department, the Intelligence Department, the Military Affairs Department, and the Quartermaster Department.

Li Mingyuan and Hong Chunkui were arranged in the military affairs office, away from the front-line combat troops, which was just a transitional arrangement in Li Mingyuan's view, but Li Sandou, Zhang Ansong and other old Taiping troops who followed the king Li Shixian did not think so.

What they thought in their hearts was that Hong Chunkui was crowned king by virtue of Hong Xiuquan's kinship, and he suppressed Li Shixian and other generals during the Heavenly Kingdom, and now that the Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed by Hong Xiuquan, Li Mingyuan led everyone to finally grab a foothold in South America, why should the Hong clan enjoy its own success.

As Li Sandou and Zhang Ansong took the lead in opposing Hong Chunkui's appointment, there were more and more objections in the conference room, and finally even Liu Pu raised objections: "Your Highness, some old brothers of the Heavenly Kingdom may have some misunderstandings about Lord Hong, and forcibly promoting the appointment may exacerbate everyone's dissatisfaction with Lord Hong, I hope Your Highness will consider the opinions of the brothers more." ”

"It seems that the brothers still have some nostalgia for the past."

Li Mingyuan smiled bitterly, and then looked at the officers below who clearly showed dissatisfaction on their faces, and didn't know whether to be happy or distressed.

The propaganda of Hong Xiuquan's wanton appointment of relatives seems to have been successful now, but the reaction of the officers below is a bit excessive.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan canonized Hong Renfa, who had no military merits, as the king of Xin, and Hong Renda as the king of Yong, appointed them to control the government, and rewarded Hong's sons, nephews, and relatives as kings, and his status was still above Li Shixian, Chen Yucheng and other generals.

However, among these people, in addition to those who have climbed to the nobles, there are also people who have real skills like Hong Chunkui.

One thing should be viewed in two aspects, if Li Mingyuan wants to achieve great things, he can't tolerate useful talents like ordinary generals, so in the face of the dissatisfaction of the people below, Li Mingyuan smiled and comforted, "Brother Hong is different from Hong Renfa and Hong Renda, in the war established by the Kingdom of Heaven, Brother Hong also made great contributions, and everyone can't complain about the responsibility for Hong Renfa and Hong Renda's disaster in the government of the Kingdom of Heaven on Brother Hong Chunkui." ……”

Li Mingyuan explained, finally calmed everyone's emotions, and passed the appointment of Hong Chunkui.

In the evening, on the top of the moon, Li Mingyuan left Hong Chunkui to eat in the palace.

"Brother Chunkui, I hope you don't care about the things during the day, they are all soldiers who fight, and they are used to speaking straightforwardly, but in fact, they don't have any malice towards you in their hearts."

Li Mingyuan picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine.

"The Heavenly King mistakenly used the Hong clan as an official in the past, which led to the collapse of the Heavenly Kingdom, and the generals should be dissatisfied in their hearts."

Hong Chunkui cautiously agreed.

"The past has passed, and it is useless to dwell too much on the past, or it is more practical to look forward."

"Your Highness is taught."

"Brother Chunkui doesn't have to be so restrained." Li Mingyuan poured a glass of wine for Hong Chunkui with a smile, and then said, "I heard that Brother Chunkui has stayed in Hong Kong, Nanyang, the United States and other countries for a period of time, so has Brother Chunkui ever had contact with the local Hongmen organization?" ”

"I didn't dare to show my true identity when I fled overseas, but I didn't have any contact with the heads of the Hongmen halls, but when I was in Malaya, I saw a lot of Hongmen branches."

"What is the strength of the Nanyang Hongmen organization?"

Li Mingyuan asked.

"Your Highness, you should have heard before that many Hongmen Tiandi Congregations joined the Heavenly Kingdom during the Heavenly Uprising, and the heroes of the Heavenly Kingdom such as Luo Outline and Su Sanniang were all born in the Heavenly Kingdom, and later the strength of the Heavenly Kingdom declined, and many Tiandi Congregations in the Central Plains and other places withdrew from the Heavenly Kingdom Organization and re-hid in the people to accumulate strength to prepare for the anti-Qing uprising, while the Tiandihui organizations in Nanyang and other places are different, the Nanyang Tiandi Society organizes to engage in human trafficking, transportation of Chinese laborers and other industries as Hongmen to make a living, and the goal of each Tangkou branch is mainly to make money and make a living, As for the anti-Qing claims of the Heaven and Earth Society, they are rarely mentioned. ”

"Nanyang is not as good as the mainland, the Hongmen organization gave up the anti-Qing proposition, turned to pursue economic interests, and could avoid conflicts with foreigners in a short period of time, but in doing so, they also missed the political proposition of uniting the Chinese in various parts of the Nanyang, just for the sake of making money, the previously strict political organization will quickly degenerate into a combination of economic interests like the Lanfang Company, lose the fighting and unity of the political group, and will eventually be eliminated by the foreigners one by one."

Li Mingyuan commented from the perspective of future generations.

In the small Lion City area, Yixing, Fuxing, Lianyi and other Tangkou often fought for territory, and in Kuala Lumpur and other places on the Malay Peninsula, Tangkou, which controlled tin and iron mines, was even able to gather nearly 10,000 Chinese to fight.

During his one-year stay in the Malay Peninsula, he personally witnessed no less than 20 large and small weapon fights, and in the entire Nanyang region, there were about 100 times of weapon fights in the various halls of Hongmen in a year. ”

"The forces of Nanyang Hongmen are intricate, there is not much difference between the forces of hundreds of Chinese in size, and no one has enough ambition to unify Nanyang Hongmen, and it is difficult to avoid fighting in the perennial years."

Li Mingyuan nodded, not optimistic about the situation in Nanyang.

Before sending Sun Bin to Nanyang, the plan for the Nanyang Chinese forces was to win over the upper echelons of the various Chinese forces and integrate the Nanyang Chinese forces that were not subordinate to each other under the unified command of the National Defense Force, but in Sun Bin's report, Li Mingyuan learned that the action to win over the upper class Chinese was not successful.

Sun Bin sent more than 40 people to contact the Chinese forces in various parts of the Malay Peninsula in the first batch, but the result was that more than 30 people directly refused the Wehrmacht's solicitation, and three or five Tangkou said that the two sides could cooperate and let them submit to Sun Bin's subordinates without talks, while the two Tangkou with the worst attitude not only did not agree to the Wehrmacht's request, but also publicly killed two Chinese sent by Sun Bin, directly provoking Sun Bin's subordinates.

Li Mingyuan understood Sun Bin's character, and he would not be careless in recruiting Nanyang Chinese forces, and sent unreasonable people to carry out liaison missions.

Therefore, the two cousins dared to provoke Sun Bin's subordinates, either because they thought that Sun Bin was in the northern part of Annam and could not go to their territory to retaliate, or they were confident that they had the support of foreigners and did not take Sun Bin's subordinates seriously.

As a mercenary who had been in the Nanyang region in his previous life, Li Mingyuan was inclined to the second possibility, and the two families who provoked Sun Bin's department had the support of foreigners behind them.

There are millions of Chinese in Nanyang, a large part of whom are young laborers in the labor force, and Li Mingyuan will not give up this largest source of overseas immigrants, so he cannot tolerate the continued existence of those who obstruct the Wehrmacht's immigration program, no matter what the forces. Li Mingyuan has already issued an order to Sun Bin that he will not tolerate any act of provoking the Wehrmacht, nor will he stop the action of developing the Wehrmacht's forces in various parts of Nanyang, and Li Mingyuan will allow Sun Bin to directly send soldiers of the Wehrmacht Nanyang Unit to infiltrate the Malay Peninsula and the East Indies in disguise as ordinary Chinese, and use his own people to establish Wehrmacht strongholds in various parts of Nanyang, annex or replace the old local Chinese forces, and complete the layout of the Wehrmacht in the Nanyang region as soon as possible.