When Zhou Huai'an walked out unsatisfied, he still sighed a little confused.

Well, women's emotions are really unpredictable and unpredictable; Fang Cai still wants to live or die, and after a while, he looks lifeless again, and then he turns cheerful, and even becomes a little jerky and shy, but gentle and kind.

Together with Zhou Huai'an, under the graceful behavior of the beauty in front of the woman, he still failed to control himself in the end; And hastily came a tongue-in-cheek experience. If it weren't for the sound of the news outside interrupting the process, he would still want to continue to grind and linger one by one.

This time, it was an unexpected visit.

"Under is Ma Xiang, people call me Ma Da Ear. Brother Void also calls me like that. ”

In the temporary station, a veteran of the rebel army who looked scarred and bruised everywhere was born quite stout and heroic. The most conspicuous thing is the long scar that cleft the corner of his eye all the way to the back of his head, and the only remaining ear on the left that is much larger than normal.

"To tell you the truth, I plan to lead my troops to vote for you, so I don't know if I will accept it."

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but be surprised, although he had been secretly pulling people and digging the foot of the wall; But I didn't expect that there would be a veteran of the rebel army who wanted to take his subordinates to join him. As for the leaders and generals of the rebel army, the Taiping army has more or less established corresponding records.

For example, Ma Xiang, who is nicknamed "Ma Da Ear", is an out-and-out rebel brother; The time when he led the township party to participate in the uprising was even earlier than Huang Chao, and it was far from being comparable to the existence of a rebel boy like Chai Ping.

"But I don't know what kind of virtue I have, how can I let Brother Ma come and run away,"

Zhou Huai'an is kind and pleasant, but he is straight to the point.

"If you want a place to live, you can take your family and net worth to Guangfu to settle down and buy a house, and spend the rest of your life well."

"I don't have any net worth and expenses left, only a group of old brothers around me who are about to lose their lives."

But he said without thinking.

"Now that the Yellow King has manpower available, he can't count on old brothers like us anymore; I heard the news that the Void brothers are willing to accept all kinds of people; It's to beg for personal favors here with a face, to see if you can find something to do, even if it is to give a field to tenant planting, it can be regarded as expedient. ”

He seems to have a very low posture, and he does not have the confidence and self-control of seniority. But it made Zhou Huai'an inevitably have a certain curiosity and desire to explore, what happened that made them want to switch to others.

Then Zhou Huai'an talked with him for a few more words, only to know that the root of the initiator of all this still lies in the beginning; The Taiping army successively sheltered tens of thousands of people and their families who fled on the orders of Yang Shigu. Now that these people have settled down, most of them are no longer willing to return to their careers in exile.

However, the connection between the Taiping army and the rebel army was restored, and the corresponding correspondence also spread the status quo to the old relatives and friends; In addition, the Taiping Army was very active in doing business in private during this time, while soliciting people; So even a veteran like him can't help but get upset.

Of course, this is just his rhetoric; In private, I am afraid that there are other reasons and factors that are inhumane; For example, according to some of the information and inside information that Zhou Huai'an has.

Between the large and small hills of the righteous army under the command of the general's mansion, there are also many differences between the old brothers and the new leaders, the old and Jing Chu of Henan, the Huai Shangbu people, the children of Changheng and the party of the Wronged Township; Even among the staff and subordinates within the General's Palace, there is a distinction between the original subordinate and the new attached, the relatives and the clansmen.

It's just that these existences have been growing and changing with the ups and downs of the rebel army's battle situation; Could it be that there is something going on in this and what has changed?

Although the Taiping Army under his rule let others be used as a shelter for the old, weak, sick and disabled. But Zhou Huai'an was not angry; Because this is also a lot of potential prestige and appeal, it just takes time to brew before it can play a role.

After all, these people have relatives and friends; They will also grow old one day, and they will also have the sadness of the rabbit and the fox. In contrast, the cost of setting aside a spare village to support them for a period of time is actually negligible.

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Under the bright skylight, Wang Chongba, who returned from the banquet, was also standing on the sailor clipper, slowly looking at the scene along the river. I saw the green hills in the distance like Dai and the strange weaving, and the near shore was the camp of Lin Lizby. Although it has become much less than before, it has taken on a neat and orderly meaning.

On the one hand, a considerable part of the rebels have been sent out to attack the city and expand the scope of the Israeli army's activities; on the other hand, it is the result of the "establishment of rules" and "the whole army" of the General's Mansion during this period;

And the navy army under his command is also among them, and has participated in the contribution and direct disposal of a lot; For example, from the water to cooperate with the suppression and annexation of those other troops who tried to cause chaos, or to block and intercept those who tried to escape across the river.

Therefore, in order to thank him for his personal contribution and performance in it, in private or on the surface, people from the General's Mansion invited him to drink several times at a large banquet to contact his feelings; Today, of course, this time is no exception, but it expresses the intention and intention of getting closer to each other.

"Obediently a hole, they are really willing to give it out, this is the commander of the sailors who are in charge of all the way."

A kiss beside him said with a grin

"As long as you are willing to take people around, you don't have to be controlled by others anymore. . . ."

"Are you tempted?"

Wang Chongba was undeniable, and looked at him with a smile.

"It's really a little tempting. After all, it's the leader of his own side.。。 No one can afford not to be moved. ”

The entourage said unabashedly with a salivating face

"You're honest, but... You know, man is the most precious and self-aware; ”

Wang Chongba sighed at him.

"Who do you think we are getting to this situation and the weather we are in? What did you rely on to defeat the enemy and defeat the river? Those people can only see the scenery and grandeur of our eyes, but they don't know that we are the basic relationship of the sailors; ”

"Although we claim to be the sailors on the river, the roots and reliance of the origin are still on land. Once they have left the well-run ports, shipyards and fish farmers on the shore to replenish their manpower; No matter how many sailors there are, they are just rootless wanderers who can't withstand the loss. ”

"And they themselves don't even have a stable place to live and gather, so why should they boast to us about the huge sea mouth, and dare to say that they can have whatever they want. It's just a temporary means of power to lure it to the advantage.。。 ”

"Moreover, in terms of public and private, leading the army is kind to my generation first, and the responsibility is heavy, what a person who is ignorant will abandon it; And what rebel leader dares to reuse it for a long time, such an ungrateful person for the sake of profit. ”

What's more, Wang Chongba still has a meaning that can't be said clearly; You must know that most of the families of the sailors and soldiers and the military fields under their names are all in the territory of Gangneung. In addition, the Gangneung Navy Branch, which has already set up a large training center in Gangneung, will be allowed to go through retraining and examination before they can be released if they are retrained and passed the examination in the future.

If someone really wants to tear their faces desperately and join another department, there is a high probability that their subordinates and soldiers will be called and instigated by the Yu Hou dispatched at all levels, and they will directly tie up the first initiator on the spot.

After all, in the current situation where the Taiping Army has already taken shape, except for a few speculators who are mad or too ambitious; No one will easily give up their low-hanging fruit and property to risk speculation on the so-called other futures and outlets at the cost of the expectation of a stable life in the future.

"So, after coming back this time, let's report to the Hou Si of Daoyu."

Thinking of this, Wang Chongba continued to command.

"Regardless of whether there is a real relationship and internal information, it is the most basic attitude of the army to deal with the world."

Listening to these words, among the guards standing a little farther away, there were two young faces whose eyes flickered and exchanged glances, and then returned to their blandness.

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In the city of Guangfu.

Liu Deguang, a new graduate of the latest crash course for retraining at the Grand Seminar, also carried a standard hard-cloth bag and an anonymous letter of recommendation, and sat in a horse-drawn carriage on the main road in the city to and from the carriage at regular intervals, and went to report to the place where he belonged with a little anxiety.

If he was originally just a son of a small merchant family in Fujian; The ancestral home is Shangcai, Henan. It's just that when he was a child, he escaped from Pang Xun's rebellion with his father Liu Anren, and the family moved to Fujian, and finally barely settled down by doing business for a living.

It's just that the world is difficult, and the thieves have started, first the Quanzhou army has internal strife, and then the grass thieves have gone south; So he had to follow his father as soon as he was crowned, in order to escape the war, he turned into a family, bought a ship and went south to Guangzhou, and continued to make a living from the goods and soft traders he brought.

However, as a foreign businessman, it is difficult to gain a foothold in the local area and is excluded; Especially the harassment and right and wrong from those city foxes and rats, it is also annoying.

Therefore, his father Liu Anren was also a decisive figure, and decided to scrape together all his savings and borrow money from his fellow villagers, and entrusted him with the old-style relationship of serving as a staff member in the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion, and obtained him the status of a small school colonel in the back of the Ya.

This can be regarded as a military official in the government, and most of the troubles and rights and wrongs from the bottom of the society can be used for the family's business. But as if by providence, the man who had accepted his family's invitation soon disappeared. And the fellow villagers who lent him money also seemed to change their faces.

And then there is no more then; His father fell ill and died in a state of grief, and although he tried his best to keep the business going, he was inevitably stolen by the creditors, and he was driven out of the rented courtyard and left to settle in a convenient courtyard in the monastery.

For a long time, he could only rely on his clever mind and good words, selling some firewood, melon and vegetables from villagers outside the city to sell in the city, and barely maintained a hungry and full daily life. In order to fight with those locals for a temporary sale, he was even beaten with blood all over his head.

His experience can be said to be one of the epitomes of most of the same kind of people in this era. And when the grass thieves/rebels continued to attack the ridge in the south, the officers and soldiers along the way had no ability to resist and fell in a blink of an eye. He also cut off this last livelihood in the blink of an eye.

When he was unable to continue living on the streets of Guangzhou, because of his family tradition of rough writing and counting, he was recruited by the newly established City Patrol Division of the Righteous Army and became the first batch of grassroots clerks who were "thieves";

Then, because of the more diligent and cautious habits developed by the merchants, they started from the lowest level of pedestrians, co-organizers, cadres, managers, assistants, and handlers.

In the end, among the opportunities for the expansion of the left and right city patrol divisions, the day passed the preliminary examination and obtained this retraining place.

It's just that after he survived the retraining for half a year, he was assigned to the original Left and Right City Patrol Division, nor the shipping, business, transshipment, and river affairs departments that he intended, but this little-known social investigation department.

After getting out of the carriage, he turned around and inquired several times before finding the location of this lonely alley at the corner of the street that he had ignored and missed twice, and the winding path was somewhat inconspicuous, and even some of the old courtyard wall portals were located.

It's just that this social investigation department has some strange existence. There was only a large area of buildings and abandoned and dead flowers and trees, and the corridor of the main hall of the front hall was connected to a number of separate and enclosed small courtyards, among which were rooms that had been renovated according to the uniform style.

Most of the time, there will be some figures in these rooms who are immersed in copying and reading and processing documents, and from time to time holding the corresponding sealed boxes, frequently and hurriedly going between the corridors;

Everything was always so orderly and quiet, it didn't seem to have a hint of a secret place or the fireworks of a powerful department, but more like a big tent in a merchant club somewhere.

In fact, the inconspicuous place outside the door is an old door plaque of "Nanhai Trade Union (Neijiang Hall)". And Liu Deguang's thoughts couldn't help but slowly cool down, but he looked at himself and wondered if he had been scattered by others.

"Aha, there's finally a freshman coming."

In a hall at the end of the corridor, there was such an undisguised grumbling.

"Why don't you bring it in quickly, and get started working as soon as possible, is it possible to stay overnight? . . Of course, let him memorize the confidentiality note first. ”

"Confidentiality."

These four words pierced Liu Deguang's eardrums like a scorching rocket, and immediately reinvigorated and refreshed him. Isn't this the premise and proof that he is going to participate in confidential affairs?

It's another 4,000 chapters, and I feel like everyone is a little bored

(End of chapter)