Chapter 298: Military Uniform

An hour later, Liu Chang personally sent Consul Fumar back to the consulate, leaving with a smile on his face.

As soon as Liu Chang left, Consul Fumar became angry again, and he took Feng Wenyi's hand and walked in together: "Ladies and gentlemen, we must form the new Ningbo Autonomous Organ before the Hongjun leaves Ningbo City, so I have to need your help!" ”

He has learned the initial lesson, not to mention bringing in such a strong foreign aid as Feng Wenyi, and then, he is not in a hurry to make a decision, but is engaged in political transactions with the Westerners present.

The British were the first to throw themselves at Fumar, and then they began to divide up the positions of the Parliament, the city government, the customs office, and the Self-Defense Forces, and since there were less than a hundred Westerners in Ningbo Prefecture, and only fifty or sixty people were present, everyone quickly got a satisfactory position.

Originally, if there was only a group of Westerners singing a one-man show there, the weight was a little insufficient, but with such an indigenous person as Feng Wenyi, the play would be wonderful.

When it was daybreak, the Hong army withdrew from Ningbo with their booty, prisoners, and recruits, and Feng Wenyi immediately appealed to He Guiqing in Hangzhou, and he led the righteous people to regain the city of Ningbo in one fell swoop with the support of the foreigners.

This is the biggest victory of the Qing army since the war with the Hong army, but it is a pity that the following officials below the Guangqing section of the original Ningshaotai Daotai abandoned the city and absconded, and there was nowhere to be found, and the Hong army gathered under the city of Ningbo.

At the same time, Consul Fumar's report was immediately sent to Shanghai, Singapore and Mumbai, and he called the agreement he reached with Feng Wenyi and Liu Chang as: "Our greatest gain in China in 50 years!" ”

This really opened the door to China, and together with the messenger came to Shanghai a group of newly appointed parliamentarians, officials, and officers, who began to buy all the materials needed by the Hongjun in the Shanghai Concession, from rifles, field guns, binoculars, military uniforms, cotton cloth, scrap steel, and pig iron, and they were ready to transport these materials back to Ningbo as soon as possible.

This immediately set off many huge waves in the Western society in Shanghai.

He Guiqing, as the governor of Zhejiang, has been reprimanded by Xianfeng several times these days, even if he doesn't look at the edict, He Guiqing can feel the anger of the deep palace.

He has changed from staying in his post to be prosecuted for meritorious service, to the extent of being negligent and severely punished, according to the news from Beijing, Xianfeng Ye said: "Is it rare that this emperor can't kill a governor?" ”

Since the Xianfeng Dynasty, the discipline has been very strict, and many officials above the second grade have been killed.

Now that the Hunan army has inserted a chess piece in Zhejiang, Zhejiang's political envoy Hu Xingren, a native of Hunan, is ready to replace him at any time, but what is even worse is that Deng Shaoliang, the governor of Zhejiang, was also hooked up with by their Hunan countrymen.

#阝绍良这么一支浙江最有战斗力的部队, he didn't go back to Hangjiahu, turned around and retreated to Quzhou, as long as anyone with insight can see it, it is to open a springboard for the Hunan army to enter Zhejiang!

"I'd rather die at the hands of red thieves than at the hands of Hunan people!" On the side, Wang Youling added a fire: "#阝绍良移防衢州的用意, can't Zhongcheng still see clearly?" ”

"It's because I can see clearly that I'm so desperate!" He Guiqing is an extremely smart person, and as soon as Deng Shaoliang moved his defense, he knew what was going on: "These Hunan people are very ...... hateful."

"It's not that Hunan people are hateful, it's Zeng Disheng who can be punished!" Wang Youling said: "Now I'm afraid that you and I will not die at the hands of the red thief, but at the hands of Zeng Disheng!" ”…,

He Guiqing let out a long sigh: "Hey...... Hateful, there are no available soldiers now, Xue Xuan, what are you looking for me? ”

"Ningbo Feng Ergongzi went to the urgent report, saying that the righteous people had recovered Ningbo Fucheng......"

"Nonsense, don't you and I know what's going on!" He Guiqing smiled bitterly: "If a group of righteous people can recover Ningbo, then what is the use of this governor!" ”

"So Feng Ergongzi made it clear, he got the help of foreigners!" Wang Youling said with a smile: "This year's Shanghai Little Knife Society rebellion was calmed down with the help of foreign soldiers, if there were no foreign soldiers to help fight, I am afraid that Shanghai would still be in the hands of thieves!" ”

"It's barely okay! Is there a note from a foreigner? ”

"Yes!" Wang Youling said with a smile: "Feng Ergongzi has said that in order to reward foreigners for their efforts in the war, Ningbo Huayang will be temporarily managed and neutralized, so as to move later, so that a good Huayang will be managed!" The consuls of Ningbo and Shanghai are afraid that they will all come to note! ”

He Guiqing also knew what was going on with this Huayang condominium, and it was obviously just an excuse for Liu Chang not to want to lose such a rich port as Ningbo Mansion, but he immediately asked: "What happened to Xiaoshan?" ”

"Xiaoshan is as stable as Mount Tai, and the red thief came to attack three times, and he was defeated!"

In fact, this is just He Guiqing and Liu Chang acting, if Liu Chang is really determined to attack Xiaoshan, let alone a Xiaoshan, even ten Xiaoshan counties have been broken by the Hong Army.

But in order to avoid too much stimulation of the Qing army, Liu Changcai faked the real thing, killed Xiaoshan City three times in a row, and immediately retreated back like lightning, and the defenders in the city were also very cooperative, and the guns and bullets rained down to the sky, and they never dared to hurt the Hongjun alone.

"That's good, I'll write an excerpt, if Ningbo is lost, the overall situation in the southeast will collapse, and now the plan is to temporarily drag the court as well! Of course, the soldiers of the red thieves cannot cross Xiaoshan! ”

"But Xiaoshan, it's just this year!" Wang Youling persuaded beside him: "Zhongcheng should make a plan early!" ”

He Guiqing heard him say this: "I, the governor, can still do it by the end of this year!" can drag on for a day, I don't know what that Hu Fantai thinks, does he want to drag it down with the red thief? ”

"He's going to have to drag it too!" Wang Youling thought it was funny: "If Zeng Disheng knew that the red thief was standing still in Ningshao, would he jump off the wall in a hurry!" ”

Speaking of which, letting # Yu Shaoliang lead the army to retreat to Quzhou is a good move, which not only folds He Guiqing's wings, but also serves as a springboard for the Hunan army to march into Zhejiang, but after all, people are not as good as heaven.

Who would have thought that Liu Chang and He Guiqing would reach a tacit understanding that the troops would not move and be safe, the Hunan army was counting on the Hong Army to send troops to Hangjiahu every day, and He Guiqing would fall, and then he would be able to enter Zhejiang and bring the entire Zhejiang province into the sphere of influence of the Hunan army like Jiangxi.

But now Liu Chang and He Guiqing staged a sit-down war, He Guiqing was unable to recover the six mansions of Wentai, Ningshao in Jin, but Liu Chang was able to let go of the temptation of the three mansions of Hangjiahu, knowing that this was the richest area in the world and not going to occupy it, and concentrating on running the place, the result was that the two sides became a situation of sitting.

In this case, as long as Liu Chang does not move, He Guiqing will not fall, and if He Guiqing does not fall, the Hunan army will not have the opportunity to send troops to Zhejiang, and can only watch precious time fly away.

Therefore, He Guiqing immediately made up his mind: "If people don't do anything, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and let me see Zeng Disheng's bitter appearance!" ”

The issue of the neutrality of the port of Ningbo has caused many waves in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and Mumbai, and I don't know how many people are racking their brains about this issue. …,

Only before that, the neutrality of Ningbo had become a fait accompli, and the new city government, city council, and customs office had been established, and many Westerners who had settled in Ningbo were one step late, and could only sigh that they had not seized the opportunity.

The Ningbo wharf is a prosperous scene, every day there are cargo ships from Shanghai to transport the materials needed by the Hong Army, from military materials to civilian materials, there are everything, the production capacity of an industrialized country is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

But the rainbow army is also a very amazing potential of consumers, just this year's autumn clothes and winter clothes let many cotton businessmen make a lot of money, you must know the unified system of the rainbow army, this year's autumn clothes alone need as many as 100,000 pieces, winter clothes also need the same number.

Liu Chang originally felt that he had reserved enough leeway, but he soon found that including the old Red Turban Army newly incorporated in Wenzhou, incomplete preliminary statistics of the entire Hong Army, excluding the township soldiers and the basic militia, the regular troops plus the Shanye Military Academy and all kinds of auxiliary units, the total strength has reached as much as 29,000, and it will definitely exceed 30,000 in the future.

These 30,000 people consider the factor of changing and washing, and they will be issued two sets of military uniforms at one time, which is 60,000 sets of military uniforms, and considering the reservation factor for the next expansion of the army, 100,000 sets of military uniforms is really nothing.

In fact, the change of uniforms began to be changed from the garrison of Ningbo Mansion, and when the new grass green military uniforms were sent to the soldiers, the entire Hongjun was shocked, this is two sets of brand-new military uniforms at one time!

Although from the perspective of future generations, such a military uniform looks rustic, similar to the People's Liberation Army in the fifties and sixties, but in this time and space, a grass-green foreign cloth military uniform makes soldiers proudly wear it all day long.

You must know that this time and space is a society that is extremely poor, many farmers have never worn a new dress in their lives, if they have a change of clothes at home, they are already a good family, and even in some remote mountainous areas, the whole family only has a set of formal clothes, and the big girls have to be naked.

And now the Hongjun has two sets of military uniforms, and two sets of winter clothes will be issued in the next winter, which makes everyone feel incredible and at the same time, it has also established a kind of confidence in the Hongjun.

And this is only part of the large-scale procurement of the Hong Army, with the finances of the two prefectures of Ningshao, Liu Chang is open to purchasing a large number of military supplies needed, and a good unit like the Dragon Spear Regiment can receive novelties every few days.

It's just that the purchase volume is a little too alarming, so that Yang Changmei quickly encountered some small difficulties, but these Western businessmen quickly put forward a suggestion of credit.

What sustains their faith?

It is a bumper harvest in Ningshao and Shao this year!