Liu Chang said that he would send troops to fetch it, and the air in the audience became tense, everyone knew that Liu Chang was like a mountain, and he was a master who liked to hold money very much, he said that if he sent troops to get it, he would dare to send troops across the river.

Zhao Qi is even more directly facing the pressure of Liu Chang, he is usually a hero of the rivers and lakes, and he is used to seeing big scenes, but Liu Chang's words made him hard, so he could only smile: "It's a joke, I'm just joking." ”

Liu Chang didn't give Zhao face, he replied directly: "Brother Zhao likes to joke, but I don't like to joke." ”

Zhao Qidu wanted to raise his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, in the past few days, he left the defenders of Pingyang County and rushed to the Red Turban Army, and the most heard in his ears was this Liu Juehu, everyone's tone was both with a little admiration and a little fear, and they all described the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in front of him as a three-headed and six-armed monster.

He couldn't understand this, so he could only personally ask Yu Village, the envoy he sent to the Red Turban Army, and even blamed him for not promising a reward of 10,000 taels of silver to the Dragon Lance Battalion, but Yu Village had his own reasoning: "Brother Zhao, what do you think of the combat effectiveness of our Red Money Volunteers compared to the Red Turban Army!" ”

Zhao Qi carefully observed the combat effectiveness of the Red Turban Army, and immediately said: "We are five hundred Red Money Volunteers, I am afraid that we are not the opponent of the two hundred Red Turban Army. ”

"But the five hundred Red Turban Army is not the opponent of more than a hundred dragon lance whistles at all!" Yu Cun told him: "The dragon spear whistle attacks like a tiger, guards like Mount Tai, has excellent equipment, advances and retreats as one, and is the crown of the whole army of red scarves!" ”

It's just that Zhao Qi didn't have a chance to see the dragon spear battalion officially make a move, he only knew that the dragon spear battalion picked up a big bargain last night and grabbed Ruian County in one night, but think about it carefully. Such a big city. It is by no means a little luck that can pick up a big bargain, and the combat effectiveness of this dragon lance battalion is definitely beyond his imagination.

When he thought of the situation when the dragon spear battalion was fully equipped and dragged the cannon to Pingyang County to ask for money, he felt shuddered, and saw that none of the generals in the Red Turban Army who usually cursed Liu Juhu from time to time dared to speak for him, so he could only make up his mind: "Check, isn't it just 10,000 taels of silver?" Well, I'll pay for it! Just do me a small favor? ”

"What's the matter?"

Zhao Qi is a heroic style. He arched his hands and said: "I have to ask Qu Shuai for a small favor in this matter, now there are more than 1,000 soldiers in the Qing Demon Pingyang Association who are wandering in Pingyang County, and I want to ask Qu Shuai and the inspection to help me exterminate all these Qing demons!" ”

Liu Chang was not interested in this matter: "My dragon spear battalion has been fighting for hundreds of miles, and there are many injuries, but I can't get out to go to Pingyang, so let's do it!" Let's ask Qu Shuai to help, I can't help with this matter, so I will pay me a fifty-fifty discount for 10,000 taels. "How can that be!" Zhao Qi said loudly: "Check, after recovering the entire territory of Pingyang, I want to do a big thing." If the inspector is willing to help, not only will the 10,000 taels of silver be given to the inspector, then I am willing to send another 10,000 taels of silver to the inspector! ”

Pingyang County and Ruian County are both large cities of the same size. After Zhao Qi opened Pingyang County, he looted more ruthlessly, and now he has as much as seventy or eighty thousand taels of gold and silver in his hand, and it is normal to take one or two thousand taels of silver out and ask the dragon spear battalion, which claims to be invincible.

"What's the big deal?"

"After our Red Turban Army recovered Pingyang County, the Qing Demon will inevitably transfer troops from Fujian to counterattack Wenzhou Mansion, so we might as well strike first and take down Fuding County and Taishun County. If you can, you can take down Funing Mansion at the wrong time and enter Fuzhou. ”

Zhao Qi's plan is very good, but Fuding, Ningde or the entire northern Fujian are all hard bones that really have no oil and water, so Liu Chang still wants to develop in the direction of Ningbo, as long as he wins Ningshaotai Road. If you want Haikou to have Haikou, you want money to have money, you want to have a source of soldiers, and the grand plan to dominate has become one of them.

It's just that he didn't openly question Zhao Qi's plan: "How will it develop after the siege of Fuzhou?" ”

"As long as we take Funing Mansion, then we can take the opportunity to take the whole of Fujian, and then develop to Liangguang, and the three southeastern provinces are all owned by me!" Zhao Qi said very excitedly: "What's more, there are our Red Money Club brothers in Fujian, as soon as we launch in northern Fujian, they will inevitably respond in Fujian." ”

Fujian Knife Society, Red Money Society is Xianfeng three years of trouble, to the present (Xianfeng five years), whether it is the Southern Fujian Knife Society or the Fujian Red Money Society have been suppressed, but these two branches of the party are still active, especially the Red Money Society in central Fujian, the head of the meeting Lin Jun is still lurking in the mountains and forests ready to rise again at any time.

"Red Money Club?" Liu Chang had a little question: "Does it have anything to do with your red money volunteers?" ”

Zhao Qi gave Liu Chang a guarantee: "We will launch in northern Fujian, and they will inevitably launch in Fujian." ”

In fact, whether it is the Red Money Volunteers of this era, or the Pingyang Money Club in another time and space, in fact, it is similar to the name of the Fujian Red Money Society, and there is actually nothing involved, but Zhao Qi wants to continue this beautiful mistake.

Seeing that Liu Chang had some questions, someone on Ye Niangzi's side asked: "Are you really going to Fujian and northern Fujian?" ”

"yes!" Zhao Qi said very happily: "When the time comes, we will launch the red money in northern Fujian and central Fujian together, and we will definitely make a great cause by attacking the north and south." ”

As soon as he said this, the man who spoke over there was moved: "Okay, I'll do it with you, you march on land, and I will support you at sea!"

"Your Excellency?" Zhao Qi had a question: "I haven't asked the daimyo yet." ”

"I'm the Yellow Bit!" The man on the other side was a standard man at sea, and he spoke with a little arrogance: "I've seen Leader Zhao, I've seen Qu Shuai, and I've seen Liu Checkpoint." ”

He only said that his name was Huang Wei, but he did not say his origin, as if everyone present had heard the name Huang Wei countless times.

"Cowhide bit? Hokkien knife will? After receiving a confirmed reply, Qu Zhenhan immediately raised his thumbs: "Good man!"

Saying that he is called cowhide is not that he is the best at bragging about cowhide, and this yellow bit made a fortune by slaughtering cow tanned skin, and later operated the cowhide export business in Nanyang, and the business is very prosperous, so it is called "cowhide bit" by friends on the rivers and lakes.

In the third year of Xianfeng, the Southern Fujian Knife Society had an incident, and the momentum was not inferior to the current Red Turban Army Change, which not only captured several county seats, but even occupied Xiamen.

Huang Wei's position in the Little Knife Society Righteous Army at that time was the Generalissimo, second only to the Great Commander Huang Demei, and later the Little Knife Society failed in the uprising, Huang Demei was captured and martyred, and the remnants of the Little Knife Society rebel army were in the Fujian Ocean under the leadership of Huang Wei, and last summer they also attacked Keelung, Taiwan, but unfortunately it ultimately failed.

Recently, they heard that Ge Mengjin and Ye Niangzi occupied the ocean of Yueqing Bay and could get support on land, so they led this anti-Qing fleet to meet Ge Wu.

It's just that they are all children of southern Fujian, homesick, as soon as they heard that Zhao Qi intended to fight back to Fujian, they were eager to try: "Marshal Qu, you are willing to fight to Fujian, we have more than a dozen ships, and we can be the vanguard at sea." ”

"And there are a lot of remnants of our Little Knife Society, we not only respond to the incident in southern Fujian, but also can immediately pull a few warships over, if there is a place to build and repair ships on land, and can replenish supplies, there will definitely be hundreds of good men to come and work."

In history, this anti-Qing fleet has been held out until the eighth year of Xianfeng, because of the failure of the attack on Keelung again, long-term drifting at sea without seeing the future and disbanded, Huang Wei dived to the South Seas for several years, or decided to return to the roots, changed his name to Huang Qingyun in the Tongzhi years and dived back to his hometown, died in the third year of Guangxu.

And now he saw a great opportunity to return to his hometown, and immediately wanted to leave Ge Wu and Zhao Qi to fight in his hometown: "I also have some old friends in Fujian, and the Lin Jun brothers of the Red Money Club have known each other for many years. ”

As soon as he said this, even Liu Chang was a little moved: "This matter is too important, let me think about it first." ”

Huang Wei made up his mind and directly broke away from Ge Wu's command, so he asked Qu Zhenhan: "As long as Qu Shuai is willing to go to Fujian, I am willing to be a pioneer officer, these dozen sea ships, hundreds of good men are Qu Shuai's." ”

"Good! Good! Good!" Qu Zhenhan just thought about one thing: "But before going south, there are still two things to do, one is to clear the Qing demons in Pingyang, and the second is to take the city of Fucheng, in that case, the entire Wenzhou Mansion will be our Red Turban Army!"

Regarding Qu Zhenhan's public digging of his own wall, Ge Mengjin, the little fat man, just smiled and said to Huang Wei: "Cowhide, let's divide and disperse, but one thing must be made clear, this Fujian ocean can belong to you, but this Zhejiang ocean is my territory." ”

"Huang Wei is grateful to be able to be contained by the fifth master, but he just asks the fifth master and the fifth lady to do a favor and help Qu Dashuai take down the city as soon as possible, and then I can ride the wind to the south."

Everyone's topic quickly shifted to Fucheng, and the confidence was relatively sufficient, since the county seat of Ruian had been taken, then Fucheng was a lonely city, in addition to the possibility of receiving support from the direction of Qingtian, three sides were facing the forces of the Red Turban Army.

It's just that everyone has a little controversy about whether to go to the Qing army in the control area first, or attack Fucheng first, and Zhao Qi even advocated that the Red Turban Army borrow him an elite soldier like the Dragon Lance Battalion to let him directly take Taishun County and Fuding County.

He has already inquired, there are no decent green battalion garrisons in these two counties, and there are two or three hundred soldiers in the city and some temporarily mobilized people, and it is relatively easy to fight, but now he only has more than 1,000 red money volunteers and 400 reinforcements sent by the Red Turban Army, and it is very reluctant to control Pingyang, let alone seize two more county seats.

In the end, it was decided to first clear the remaining Qing demons in the controlled area, and at the same time let Huang Wei's fleet join Zhao Qi's command, and then capture the city in one fell swoop, and then decide the next strategic direction.

It's just that Liu Chang felt that there was always something in the discussion that he couldn't guess, and it wasn't until Ye Niangzi came to visit after the meeting that he directly revealed the secret: "Qu Zhenhai has decided to go south, check which direction you are going to develop!"

I see!