Chapter 220: The Underworld (Crying for a Monthly Pass)

After sending Yu Village away, Liu Chang was in a very good mood.

Yu Cun is willing to dig the foot of the wall from Qu Zhenhan for him, which can be said to have helped Liu Chang a lot, although in the past few months, the Hong Army has trained one main company after another in actual combat, there are too many new recruits, which has greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the troops, if he can dig hundreds of veterans from Qu Zhenhan, Liu Chang is very welcome.

It's just that his mood was just good for a while, but he was broken by an urgent letter sent by Ye Yudie and Fu Wendao from the sea.

"The righteousness of "Spring and Autumn", the doctor goes out of Xinjiang, and there is a way to settle the society and save the people, and it is also specialized!"

It's just that as soon as he saw this text, Liu Chang's mood calmed down: "You can actually quote Hanshu without Xiangdao Fu Wendao, this sentence is from the final military biography, right?" But the person who said this did not end well. ”

Although Ye Yudie and Fu Wendao are in charge of their own affairs, Danshi also has a lot to do with the communication conditions of this era, in the absence of reliable communication conditions, many times the front-line commanders can only make decisions on the spot and make decisions without asking for instructions.

From the Han Dynasty to modern times, this kind of thing can be said to be repeatedly prohibited, and the Han Law has long had such a provision, "Correction, harm, abandon the city, correction is not harmful, and a fine of four taels", and Liu Chang felt that Ye Yudie might not have had time to ask for instructions this time, but wanted to say goodbye to Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei.

When Huilai cleaned them up, Liu Chang thought about another thing, that is, whether to spend a lot of money to build a telegraph network.

Now the territory he controls is in addition to the Panshi Village in Yueqing County, including Yuhuan County, there are a total of seven counties connected together, Danshi due to the limitation of means of communication, many changes in front of the time, he can only get a report after two or three days.

And with the expansion of the control zone, communication will become more and more troublesome, and the communication system yijing, which traditionally uses stagecoaches to transmit information, is outdated, while in the West, the telegraph network yijing changed everything.

It was only in China that it was twenty or thirty years before the Qing officials realized what kind of revolution the means of communication had brought about and began to build the first telegraph line.

Do you want to start a pilot now, this can be said to be an urgent need in the military, when he was xiangdao this problem, Zhang Chengye walked in with his head down: "Check, check, great joy!" ”

"What's the big deal?"

Liu Chang still attaches great importance to this Taiyong leader: "Did you throw your military salary on the gambling table again?" ”

"Nothing like that, nothing like that!" Zhang Chengye's face was not red at all, he lowered his voice and said, "The Cixi Feng family has sent a representative to contact." ”

Cixi Feng family? Although Liu Chang was bent on arranging the strategy of Jinhua Mansion on such a day, Danshi was also very concerned about Ningbo, and as soon as he heard that there was a representative of the Cixi Feng family, he immediately asked: "Is there really a representative of the Cixi Feng family?" ”

He is trying to tie up with the Feng family, please when the autumn harvest attacks Ningbo Mansion, with the help of the Feng family or to maintain neutrality, then Ningbo Mansion can be passed on, and Zhang Chengye, who is not xiangdao, will be connected with the Feng family unconsciously.

"It's the second grandson of the long house!" Zhang Chengye told Liu Chang: "When I was in Ningbo, I did things for Mrs. Feng, and now Feng Gongzi is outside, do you want to invite in?" ”

"Please come in, please come in! Let him come in quickly! ”

The second grandson of the Feng family, the eldest son of the long house, is a handsome man in his early twenties, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, a scholarly appearance, and a Taoist behind him, he gave Liu Chang a big salute: "Feng Wenyi has seen Lord Inspector!" ”

"Feng Gongzi, please come in, please come in!" Liu Chang was very enthusiastic: "Feng Gongzi, please come in, you don't have to be so polite!" ”

He glanced at Feng Wenyi, a Taoist, who was in his early thirties, white and clean, wearing a yellow Taoist robe with black edges, and carrying an ebony whisk in his hand, but between his eyebrows was quite dusty, and it was estimated that he was a Shaoxing master-like character. …,

Feng Wenyi saw that he was paying attention to his mastermind, and immediately said: "This is the patriarch of the family, the underworld, and the master of the family is afraid that I will not be stable enough when I come out, so he invited the underworld to come with me." ”

"The Underworld?" Liu Chang said with a smile: "Hard work. ”

It's just that this underworld man immediately corrected Liu Chang's mistake: "Before entering Zhejiang, Yijing made an oath that before he could achieve a great career, he would never be called a Taoist, and if the inspector could afford me, call me an underworld!" ”

This name is so strange, Liu Chang hurriedly asked them to sit down: "Feng Gongzi, underworld, please sit down, Brother Chengye, please make a cup of tea for the two gentlemen!" ”

Making tea is false, driving people is real, Zhang Chengye naturally got out with interest, and Feng Wenyi said a little apologetically: "It's not that the underworld people deliberately offend the inspection, it's really that the underworld people have a senior brother Shen who is very open in the Jinling Tianwang Mansion, and the underworld people went to join the senior brother, but they ate a closed door, and went south into Zhejiang in a fit of anger. ”

Liu Chang knew that this underworld man must be the three sects and nine streams in the Daomen, and maybe he would still be able to play a little imperial role, so it was not surprising: "The two brothers came just in time, I happened to enter Ningbo Mansion in the north, and the two of them were the king's forerunners, and after their success, they will be rewarded." ”

Feng Wenyi didn't speak, but the underworld man spoke: "Check this is wrong, now Qu Zhenhan has returned from Fujian, Ni Tingmo has withdrawn from the state, and the inspection point ignores the back road, but goes north to Ningbo Mansion, which is extremely wrong!" ”

Liu Chang could only smile bitterly: "It is really a lack of food and salary in the army, and it is not allowed to prepare to send food to Ningbo Mansion, the two brothers can rest assured, my Hong Army will enter Ningbo, and I will never commit a single grass and tree of the Feng family." ”

Feng Wenyi was juvenile, he just said: "The inspection is wrong, there are five streets in Ningbo Wharf that belong to our Feng family, and as soon as the inspection point enters Ningbo, these five streets have to be closed." ”

He said the importance of transit trade to Ningbo Mansion, and then changed the conversation: "This time, Duan Jinghu Duan Daotai came to find the ancestor of the family, and asked our Feng family to come forward and raise six or seven hundred thousand taels of military salaries, after all, it is the parent official, and the ancestor has no choice but to agree!" ”

For this kind of donation task, even the biggest merchant family can only grit their teeth and agree, at most to lower the price afterwards.

It's just that Feng Wenyi said again: "Although the task of donation is to be suppressed, the ancestor of the Danshi family has not taken action so far, and I have sent someone to find out the meaning of the inspection." ”

Liu Chang smiled lightly: "That's not simple, I've been in Taizhou Mansion for a whole year, and the silver in my hand may not be six or seven hundred thousand taels, but you move your mouth in Ningbo Mansion, it's six or seven hundred thousand taels, and I have tens of thousands of heavy soldiers, can you not be moved?" ”

This is telling the truth, but the underworld people have their own opinions: "The inspection is wrong, although Ningbo is said to be rich, and has three benefits of fishing and salt, in fact, it is all thanks to the trade, millions of yuan a year, once the inspection takes Ningbo, it is the reopening of the forbidden sea, Ningbo thousands of businesses, can only close the door together, and then the inspection is only an airport." ”

Feng Wenyi's voice was very soft: "What's more, Ningbo Huayang Miscellaneous, once it angers the foreigners, this is not something to provoke, if we take a step back from the inspection, our Feng family will raise 50,000 taels for the inspection point to redeem the city, and the inspection point will contact the foreigners to make Ningbo a neutral port?" ”

"That's an interesting suggestion." Liu Chang smiled: "As soon as Duan Guangqing opened his mouth, you would raise five or six hundred thousand taels for him, but you gave me fifty thousand taels of ransom fees, is that all I have for Liu!" ”

He patted the two revolvers on his armed belt: "Your Feng family doesn't raise money for me, I only have 7,000 elite soldiers, 3,000 foreign guns, and 40 foreign cannons. ..., Liu Chang's words were arrogant, so the underworld man smiled: "Check, I don't think you have the heart to capture Ningbo, and then you must be to capture Chuzhou and Jinhua, why don't you give us personal favors, you can have an explanation." ”

Liu Chang sneered: "When I mobilized the army, I went to attack Ningbo Mansion, and it was really nonsense to say that I was going to attack Chuzhou and Jinhua Mansion." ”

"If you attack Ningbo Mansion, why do you want to use mosquito repellent drugs in the city, and if you attack Ningbo Mansion, why bother Jinhua and Guizhou two guild halls are crowded, and if you attack Ningbo Mansion, why do you search for the two mansions of Jinhua everywhere!"

The underworld immediately made a summary: "Presumably, the inspection point released the wind to attack Ningbo Mansion is false, and the westward side is zhende!" ”

Liu Chang is not afraid that they will see his flaws: "So, the two of you are not going to use my Linhai City, whether you come or not, I will go west?" ”

"No!" Feng Wenyi said angrily: "It's different, when the time comes, after the inspection of Jinhua in the west, I will try to take the Ningbo Mansion to the door, and now the door is completely different, so the conditions I said are still valid, I just ask for the inspection point to slow down a little, so that Ningbo can retain some more vitality, waiting for the righteous teacher to return." ”

The underworld man said to the side: "I observe the point, it is definitely not a thing in the pool, and it will definitely be able to achieve a great cause, in that case, what can I do if I let the Ningbo Mansion stay in the Qing Demon for a few more months?" ”

Liu Chang smiled: "It's easy to say, even if the Ningbo Mansion excludes trade, the tax amount for one year is million, and I will raise troops to take it, and the name is justified!" ”

He continued: "It's only 50,000 taels, I look down on someone too much! ”

Feng Wenyi immediately asked: "I want tens of thousands of taels for inspection, let's say a number, before my ancestor goes out, let me be the master of everything, and I can agree to come down below 100,000." ”

"You're not afraid of being accused of being a thief?" Liu Chang immediately asked: "This is a big crime to destroy the door." ”

just replied that Liu Chang was an underworld, and he stood up excitedly: "What about the thief, what about the destruction of the door!" In today's troubled times, people are not as good as dogs, fame and wealth are true, check, can you give a number? I bear the responsibility of the second young master being blamed by the proprietor, and I can also agree! ”

It's just that Liu Chang laughed out loud: "The underworld is really a happy person, I will tell the truth, that's right, I will now go to the west to conquer the gold, and then turn back to Ningshao when the autumn harvest comes, if the underworld man you promise to do a few things for me, I will temporarily let Ningbo Mansion go for three months!" ”

ps: The first update was delivered, and the classified monthly pass list was exploded, asking for a monthly pass for emergency

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