"Du Niangniang?"

Du Jincian was taken aback all of a sudden, although his ancestors were from the south of the Yangtze River, but it has been decades since the family went to Pheasant River, and it can be said that he is not familiar with life in this Hangzhou City, how can anyone know himself, and even see through his origin at a glance.

Her eyes flashed, and she just wanted to hold the knife she was carrying, but she found a fatal problem, maybe she had been too freehand during this time, and when she went out, she didn't bring the short knife that was going to assassinate Liu Jiehu at all, and he only saw a handsome young man of eighteen or nineteen years old.

She felt that she had never seen this young man, otherwise she would definitely have a deep impression of this young man in her mind, but this young man was too elegant, just like the snow scene in the south of the Yangtze River, he was wearing a green gauze hat and a crown of Ming Dynasty clothes, and what made people even more happy was the temperament of this young man.

Before, Du Jincian would never admit that there was such a temperament that would make him so fascinated, and even almost fell off the broken bridge, it was really extraordinary, although Zhang Lexing was the leader of the alliance that commanded hundreds of thousands of twists, but compared with this man who walked quietly in the snow, he was nothing.

"Did you recognize the wrong person?" Du Jincian was a little flustered, she was nothing in Hangzhou City, she had to be a little wary, but the man opposite stretched out his hand: "I heard that Du Niangniang has been looking for me, and I don't want to disappoint Du Niangniang, so I made a special trip to meet me." ”

"Liu Juehu?" Du Jinchan almost immediately understood who this opponent was: "Are you Liu Juehu?" ”

Although he had heard of the name Liu Jiehu countless times before, Du Jinchan even thought that he was the enemy who knew Liu Chang the most, and after meeting, he knew that it was better to see than to hear, and he knew too little about Liu Jiehu: "What do you want to do?" ”

She didn t believe in the statement that she was going to make a special trip, Liu Chang was light and expensive, how could she take a rash risk, she looked up left and right, and sure enough, there were some guards near the broken bridge. I can't see any wanderers anymore, obviously it's Liu Jiehu, the dog thief, who is on guard when he travels, and he doesn't know how he bumped into himself.

"Give Zhang Le a way to live!" Liu Chang said very bluntly: "After all, this is hundreds of thousands of lives!"

This is said very bluntly, as if these hundreds of thousands of lives are just such a simple thing in Liu Chang's mouth, but Du Jinchan believes that she knows that the lives of the hundreds of thousands of twisters on both sides of the Huai River are in the hands of this Liu Jiehu in front of her.

She was a little bolder, thinking about the question of getting out, should she just jump into the river under the broken bridge? It's just that the snow is not easy to deal with this winter. She was also very interested in the topic raised by Liu Chang: "Liu Juehu, the twist of the pheasant river set is the weeds of the wilderness, you kill a pluck of bitterness haha, and a pluck grows out, you can't kill it all......"

This is the reason why it was difficult to pacify the Twist Army, and it was not until 1868 that the Qing Army finally solved the Twist Army through the fortress tactics of both military and political use. It's just that Liu Chang didn't have a good interest in talking about these details with Du Jinchan, he just said: "So when Liu Sanniang saw you, I came to say hello, Zhang Lexing and Twist should have a way to live, you don't have to force him to a dead end!"

Only then did Du Jinchan understand why she was exposed, but it turned out that Liu Sanniang's demon woman hooked up with Liu Jiehu, the dog thief, and she said indignantly: "Liu Jiehu, I, Du Jinchan, am not a woman who believes in Yanghua, I am the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family." There is no double heart. ”

Liu Chang knew that Du Jincian would be wrong: "I'm not Sheng Kezhai, why should Du Niangzi belittle herself like this, I still say the same thing, twists are weeds, cut and plucked, but they are also human beings, and they are also fleshy, and when I saw Du Niangzi today, it was fate." It is better for Du Niangzi to persuade Zhang Mengzhu. Let's go safe!"

"Zhao'an?" Du Jinchan couldn't believe his ears: "You're talking about Zhao'an." ”

"Just talk about Zhao'an!"

After speaking, Liu Chang finally opened the oil umbrella in his hand: "Since there is fate." Let's go for a ride!"

He does have the idea of dividing and disintegrating the Twist Army in his heart, although the Twist is a group of quite amateur military groups, when they have no money, they go out in groups to rob, and when they have money, they go back to their own polders to sleep, and the military discipline is not good, but it also means that this force does not have too much political ambition, and after the Rainbow Army gives them quite heavy losses, they can use these twists.

There is a group of best generals in this period, such as Ren Zhu, Zhang Zongyu and others, all of whom are heroes of a hundred battles, and more importantly, now we can't let the Twist Army merge with the remnants of the Taiping Army in Anhui.

As soon as he thought of these old things, Liu Chang felt that this thing could be done, and it must be done.

Although the three offensives expected by the Rainbow Army achieved great results, successively recovering three provincial cities, taking hundreds of county seats, and even taking all of Fujian, the war was not as high as those propaganda materials openly proclaimed, and the news of the Spaniards and Russians joining forces made the entire Rainbow Army feel unprepared.

In these three offensives, the Hong Army not only invested all its resources, but even invested its strategic reserves, and the result was that it was found that the Qing army on the Liangguang side was trapped in the consolidation of the newly occupied area after strengthening its armament, and could not enter Wuling at the first time, so that it felt like a tiger was in trouble.

What's even worse is the Anhui battlefield, originally thought that after the capture of Huainan, whether it was the twist of the pheasant river set, or the Shi Dakai of Anqing, or the Yuan Jiasan of Maozhou, as well as the fluctuating Fuji, Hong Xiuquan and other departments, it was a situation decided by the first war, but the facts proved that the Anhui battlefield was indeed one of the most important battlefields in the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and without the support of the first division, only half of Feng Sixian's eighth division could not consolidate the situation.

Strictly speaking, Feng Sixian still occupies the initiative in the entire Anhui battlefield, and has formed a situation of mutual support with the marine brigade in the direction of Huaiyang, but the problem is that although he has occupied the initiative and won many victories, there are still sporadic setbacks and losses from time to time, especially the newly attached former Qing army, the former Twist Army, and the former Taiping Army, which often have defeats, and it will take a while to completely control Anhui.

And now the key problem is Guangdong, there is such a tiger behind his back, Liu Chang has a feeling of thorns in his back, as long as he completely defeats Ye Mingchen in Guangdong, Liu Chang dares to relax and sleep well, and before solving Ye Mingchen, Liu Chang can temporarily compromise with the Twist Army.

Now Ye Mingchen is the number one enemy of the Hong Army.

Due to its special geographical location, Guangzhou is the Chinese city with the most contact with foreigners in history, and sometimes the depth of contact is even shocking, for example, some Arab historical sources claim that when Huang Chao entered Guangzhou, he slaughtered 200,000 Arabs in one go.

This figure is so sensational that many people doubt the authenticity of this Arabic historical document, but it also confirms from the side how developed the city's foreign trade was, and most of the time, Guangzhou suppressed important trading ports such as Mingzhou and Quanzhou, and was always the most important import and export port in China.

After entering the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou's status has reached an unprecedented point, because only Guangzhou has the qualification to carry out import and export trade in the entire coastal area of China, whether it is import or export, it must go to Guangzhou to transit, so there is a famous thirteen lines.

Under this system, there are many legends in the port of Guangzhou, such as the huge wealth with tens of millions of silver assets, the legend of throwing thousands of gold, and those Western merchants who came from far away, and some of the history is even more exaggerated than the legend, for example, two Chinese giants borrowed tens of thousands of taels of silver from the East India Company due to their inability to turn around, and in the following decades, these two Chinese merchants were overwhelmed by this usury, although they had already repaid the huge sum of four or five hundred thousand silver, But he still owes millions of taels and can't pay it back. In desperation, they could only delay the repayment, and the angry East India Company directly told the matter to the heavens, and it became a famous trade case in the Qianlong Dynasty.

After the first Opium War, the original monopoly of Guangzhou became a five-port trade, Guangzhou no longer monopolized export trade, and the rapid rise of Shanghai soon surpassed Ningbo, Fuzhou, such an old commercial port, directly launched a challenge to Guangzhou, and the rise of the rainbow army made Shanghai and Ningbo these two ports have a foot-in-hand with Guangzhou.

It was only in recent times that Guangzhou suddenly broke out again, like an old wealthy merchant in a desperate situation, and the number of ships entering and leaving the port of Guangzhou suddenly increased by 40 percent, and almost all of these new ships were opium ships sailing from Mumbai, except for some ships carrying arms and military supplies.

The victory of the Rainbow Army represented the end of the opium trade in the Yangtze River Valley, and the Rainbow Army never changed its attitude of banning opium, confiscating all captured opium, and even exporting the captured opium to the enemy-occupied areas, smashing the opium trade system under the control of the traditional British to the ground.

But this represents the opportunity of Guangzhou Port, and now batches of armed caravans take advantage of the fact that the Hong Army has not yet completely established a ruling order in the newly occupied area, and exchange loads of opium for a hundredfold profiteering by water and land, and this also makes Ye Mingchen see the opportunity, and now the governor of Liangguang is looking at the galleons that are speeding over: "How many usable munitions have the Russians brought this time?" ”