[Tomorrow's three watches, 9000+, today's less]

In fact, since coming to Guangzhou, Chen Liang has had a feeling of unsmoothness. It's not that the Heaven and Earth Society and the Hong Gang here have not been contacted, and the second layout of the dark camp is not going well, but the progress of things in Macao is too unsmooth!

really paid attention to Macau, and Chen Liang understood why his good nephew attached so much importance to Macau.

However, the red-haired ghosts in Macao have already stood on the side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and according to his verification, the Macao Hongmaomen has sold a batch of cannons to the Qing army, and has also sent officers to train the Qing army's gunners. Chen Liang delivered the news to the parliament of the red haired in Macau through the Jesuits in Macau, but the result was in vain.

And what about the thirteen lines? There is progress, but Pan Zhencheng, the current general manager of the thirteen banks, is a difficult bone to gnaw.

In order to make business bigger in China, it is necessary to collude with the government, and the Fu Han army can understand it, and there is no need for the merchants of the Thirteen Lines to show a clear attitude. It can be said that this small risk is almost non-existent for the people of the Thirteen Elements. What about the people of the Thirteen Elements? There are few people who are not slippery, they do business with foreigners, and they are really well-informed, and they have an attitude of not offending the current Fu Han army. Only this Pan Zhencheng is a different look, he also maintains some kind of contact with the Fu Han Army, but he has always maintained respect for the Fu Han Army. Chen Liang wanted Pan Zhencheng to inquire about the exact inside story of the transaction between Macau and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this thing should not be a secret thing, as long as the identity reaches a certain level, it can be easily obtained. As a result, Pan Zhencheng pretended to be deaf and dumb.

When Chen Liang was angry, the news of Zhang Qiu's defeat came from Fujian, and you said that he should be so angry psychologically.

"My lord, since those people don't know how to lift, then let's give them a great power!"

The environment can really change people, Xiang Chen Liang two or three years ago, just a relative of the Chen family who was in charge, ushered in the store, it was a businessman who saw people laughing. And now, if it's a little uncomfortable, you can kill someone!

The person beside Chen Liang saw that his proposal was approved by Chen Ming, and a bloody light flashed on his heroic face, this person was Xiao Jian, the master who surprised Chen Ming at the beginning. He is a top master in the dark camp in Jiangnan, and his family was originally a scholarly family, but the whole family was wiped out in the case of the pseudo-Sun Jiagan's manuscript, Xiao Jian and Xiaomei escaped with their lives, and embarked on the road of practicing martial arts to take revenge and oppose the Qing Dynasty.

Before being co-opted by the underdogs, Xiao Jian left a lot of criminal records in Jiangnan and was repeatedly wanted by sea arrests. Such a person is congenitally from the same country as the Fu Han Army, trustworthy, and skillful, and has friends in the entire south, Chen Liang admires him very much. From the time when Chen Liang went to Fujian, Xiao Jian served as his bodyguard, plus the captain of the special science operation team formed by the secret battalion, codenamed 'Broken Sword'.

"My lord, there are too many officials in Guangzhou City, but those who have weight are all heavily guarded. During this period, we repeatedly attacked and killed Manchu officials, and these Tartar officials also knew that they were sparing. Judging from the current situation, the easiest and most influential person is the Guangdong Customs Superintendent. ”

"Foren, who took office in March last year, was born in the ...... of the Ministry of Internal Affairs"

Since the seventh year of Qianlong, the positions of Guangdong Customs Supervision have all been contracted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There are about four or five hundred management personnel in the whole Guangdong Customs, except for the supervisors and members of the general office, such as the secretary of the general office, the case book of the Daguan, the library book, the ambassador of the library, the flat cabinet of the Daguan, the cabinet book of the general office, the secretary of the Qing gang of the mouth, the patrol officer, the kuding, the sailor, the fireman, the miscellaneous servant, and so on, all of which are recruited in the local places of Guangdong, just like the county officials and the small officials, they will not go when the officials leave, and they often entrench themselves in the pass for a long time, and they are inherited from generation to generation, and they are regarded as the same property. And these scribes and inspectors who control the various passes often use the power in their hands to enrich their own business and extort merchants.

A Guangdong Customs' year-round profit sharing and fishing is really incomparable to a big house.

The superintendent of the Guangdong Customs, Fu Lun, has a small position, but it is very important, and his guard force is not even as good as the county order of the county government.

Guangdong Customs refers not to a single Guangzhou, but to the whole of Guangdong, in addition to the two general ports of Guangzhou and Macao, and the annexed provinces of ten small ports. In addition, Huizhou, Chaozhou, Gaozhou, Qiongzhou and Leizhou five general ports, and subordinated to the five general ports of each of the more than 40 small ports, which are all Guangdong Customs. So don't think that there are more than four or five hundred, the real number is more than five times that, just like the white servants of the county government, there are also more temporary workers in various parts of the customs.

"Not just one Flenn. I'm going to ruin the entire Guangdong Customs. Chen Liang suddenly laughed, the laughter became louder and louder, and he patted his head while laughing and said, "Stupid, stupid, such an obvious thing is in front of you, why can't you see it?" ”

"Yes, it's not just a follen for this attack. I also want the whole Guangdong Customs. Without this thing, it will cut off a financial route in Guangdong. "A large number of veterans who are familiar with the 'business' have been distinguished, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty quickly promoted a group of novice rookies, will they be able to restore the Guangdong Customs? And novice rookies will be more greedy. Those old oils are a little oily, but the people work for a long time, and the wealth accumulates more. How is it like a newcomer, a rookie who has never eaten enough falls on Roshan, so he doesn't eat hard, but he can fish hard?

"Xiao Jian, Foren's life, you go and take it yourself."

"Don't worry, sir. I could cut off his head in the night and come back. ”

"Just hang his head on Pan Zhencheng's Tongwen line......"

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In a corner outside Guangzhou, this conversation in this small courtyard has not yet been known to outsiders. So on the night of this day, Fu Lun died, not only he died, but also 7 members of the General Mouth Committee of the Guangdong Customs, 8 General Secretaries (including 2 in Daguan and 1 in each General Mouth), 6 Daguan case secretaries, 2 Treasury secretaries, 1 Treasury ambassador, and 1 Daguan Flat Cabinet, all of these important people died in the following three or five days. Although it was not as cool as the head of Fern being cut off and hung under the plaque of the general manager of the Thirteen Merchants, few of those people were good-looking.

In an instant, the name of the secret camp of the Fu Han Army shocked Guangdong.

At this time, Chen Ming, who was in Huai'an City, had just received an urgent report from Fujian, and he only glanced at it quickly, and Chen Ming popped out the same two words as Chen Liang: "Waste!" ”

It was only noticed when the official fleet entered thirty or forty miles, so what is the difference between it and being touched by the enemy on land at a distance of 100 meters? It's strange to be able to win!

Zhang Qiu, who escaped with his life, gave 10,000 taels of bonuses to buy Huang Gui's head, but Chen Ming didn't care at all. He must now consider the aftermath of the Fujian naval battle and the impact it will have on the general situation.

"The Metropolitan Governor, fight Huai'an, resolutely fight Huai'an, take Huai'an, enter the Yellow River, and everything will be solved."

On the Huai'an front, the important generals of the Fu Han Army and the members of the logistics department have all arrived. But it was Liu Dezhao who was the first to express his 'opinion', and he said it very much to Chen Ming's appetite. Isn't there a big defeat on the sea surface of Fujian, so wouldn't it be better for the Fu Han army to move this momentum back on land? Defeat Huai'an, the army is near the Yellow River, the army can cross the north to support the mixed Yuan Sect, and you can also cross the river into Xuzhou Mansion, and the troops will return to Germany; Not to mention that it can really break the general trend of the world, at least the negative impact of the defeat of the Han army in the naval battle can be subsided.

"What do you think?" Chen Ming asked the generals.

"Mr. Liu is right. Fujian is defeated, we will fight back in Huai'an, and we can't let the Tartars take over. ”

"Governor, hit Huai'an, pull out this nail......"

"The Governor ,......"

These are the current generals of the Fu Han Army, it's okay to listen to the command, let them ......fight by themselves, Chen Ming always feels that these people are wooden beads, and they won't move if they don't pluck them. "Alas......"

Looking at the group of big men shouting and shouting in front of him, Chen Ming sighed secretly in his heart, when will his top ten marshals and ten generals come?

It's been so long, is this group of people under him really uneducated?

"Then pull out Huai'an City and completely sweep away the Qing army south of the Yellow River!" Chen Ming made a decision, a decision that everyone expected. Anyway, he went north this time, and he also had this kind of thought. Besides, if you really want to take down the north of the Yellow River in Jiangsu Province, you can get 8,000 troops just by recruiting troops.

Without the Grand Canal, tens of thousands of workers in northern Jiangsu and hundreds of thousands of people along the canal would have been cut off from their sources of livelihood. Moreover, this year's menstruation in northern Jiangsu is not good, the salt factory is suspended, the salt workers and stove households have fled one after another taking advantage of the war, and the Fu Han army has raised and collected people, and it is not a matter of 8,000 people at all.

For example, in Yancheng, the Fu Han army easily recruited two or three thousand workers and a large number of hungry people with grain, and the army went to war, and the transfer of money and grain relied on thousands of boats fished from the Grand Canal, but it was not very laborious.

Chen Ming led the army from the east of Yancheng and approached Huai'an, and Baoying's Qing army directly retreated back to Huai'an City. The Fu Han army of Gaoyou Prefecture took the opportunity to go north, captured Baoying, and joined forces with Chen Ming's troops along the canal to the west of Huai'an City. The Qing soldiers did not go crazy and picked up the embankment of Gaoyou Lake [which is also the west embankment of the Grand Canal].

Chen Mingtun's troops had been under the city for four days, but they only pulled out a few strongholds placed by the Qing army outside the city, and did not launch a formal attack on Huai'an City. Because of the news from the secret camp, there should be 20,000 Qing troops, militia groups, and Cao Ding in Huai'an City. That's not a small amount.

And Huai'an City is not a city, these are two cities, divided into old and new. The old city is not to say, the history is very long, the new city was built by Shi Wenbing [Zhang Shicheng's general] at the end of the Yuan Dynasty when guarding Huai, it was originally an earth city, Ming Hongwu commanded Shi Yu for ten years, "take the treasure should be built with bricks and stones in the abandoned city". In the twenty-first year of Yongle, it carried out "additional construction and building on the door". Guo Hong, the general soldier of Zhengde in the second year, and Chen Wenzhu, the prefect of Longqing in the fifth year, repaired the new city respectively. In the eleventh year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the superintendent of the matter was approved once "more than 25,700 taels of silver", and Jin Bingzuo, the county governor of Shanyang, "undertook repairs, and the walls and soil were generous", and the new city was repaired "with the help of the old city auxiliary car".

Between the old and new cities, "this is the transport road", "the place where the grain ships used to gather", because the Yellow River migrated northward, the transport road was changed to the west of the city, and it was gradually silted up here, and it was mostly a lake place. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese were rampant and invaded Huai'an twice. In the 39th year of Jiajing, the northeast corner of the old city was connected to the southeast corner of the new city, connecting the old and new cities, which is the Liancheng, commonly known as the Jiacheng. Subsequently, the former Ming Dynasty made the city taller and thicker, and added four enemy platforms.

The construction of Huai'an Liancheng has made Huai'an's old city, new city and Liancheng connected as one, and this pattern of juxtaposition of three cities is the only case in the history of China's city building. It also caused a certain obstacle for the Fu Han army to attack Huai'an.

Chen Ming's headquarters was set up in the Ciyun Temple outside Huai'an City, Chen Ming had never heard of this place, but he knew the Ciyun Temple in Shushan very well. It's just that when I entered the temple and inquired, this place does have a history, and it is a place where a monk called Dajue passed away. This great jue monk law name Tongxiu, the word Yulin, Yulin, known as Yulin national teacher, and the rumors of Shunzhi monk have a lot to do with it, Yongzheng thirteen years, Yongzheng to Ciyun Nunnery for the place of great awakening and death, the edict allocated Huaiguan silver according to the big jungle style construction, put incense on the ground, ordered the Minister of Internal Affairs, Huaiguan Supervisor Nian Xiyao to supervise the construction of this temple, Qin gave the "Ciyun Temple" plaque, changed the nunnery to the temple.

Legend has it in this place that 'the official gets off the sedan chair and the military attache gets off the horse'. But this rule is pure vanity for the Fu Han army. (To be continued.) )