Making a fortune is the common ideal of Ge Zheng, Ge Yi and other officers from Daqiao Mountain. They have no faith, nor do they have a view of right and wrong in the general righteousness of the nation, they only have beautiful thoughts about how to get rich, how to be able to fish and meat every day, and how to count money until they are soft. Also, in today's Taiping Camp, I am afraid that except for Zhou Shixiang, there are few people in the Taiping Camp who consider the future of the Taiping Camp and the future of China from the national level.

Ge Yi said that he was going to fight Deqing, and immediately got the support of Jiang He and others, and they all said that don't look at the Deqing city wall is stronger than Luo Ding, but if you really want to use this medicine to blow up, I'm afraid it will be a paper paste. The walls were blown up, the city was destroyed, and the brethren became rich and happy. The strong man Chen Mo was even more active, saying that he would lead the battalion of dead soldiers to attack the city first, and he would definitely capture Lu Gongming in front of the thousand households, so that Zhou Shixiang was almost tempted, and he really wanted to concentrate the medicine in his hand to blow up Deqing.

Fortunately, he was sober up in time, there is wealth in Deqing City to grab, but what to do after robbing, should he occupy Deqing and the Qing army or withdraw to the ghost place of Luoding? There are so many medicines, if you really want to blow up the wall, I'm afraid you will have to consume it all at once, and if you don't have the medicine, what will you do next time you run into a "nail household"? Moreover, Deqing is currently a "friend" of the Taiping Camp, and has just gotten a large amount of money, food and materials from others, and it seems a bit unkind to turn around and smash people's doors.

Before he could get the source of gunpowder, Zhou Shixiang would not use the only medicine for blasting, this less than 200 catties of granular gunpowder was the only weapon in his hand to lead the Qing army, good things should be used in good places, and Deqing was obviously not a "good place" in his mind. Therefore, he ignored Ge Yi, as long as Tie Yi and the others summarized the effect of this blasting and made improvements to the deficiencies. This action made Ge Yi so bored, and it was really embarrassing to blink his eyes. Jiang and them saw that Zhou Shixiang had no intention of fighting Deqing again, so they didn't mention it.

After seeing the power of the Taiping Camp's medicine, the camp elders were ordered to go back to publicize the power of the Taiping Camp to the camp, and Song Xianggong went to prepare the Taiping Camp Military Uniform Division according to Zhou Shixiang's request.

Now there are only more than 400 sets of military uniforms in the Taiping camp, and most of the rest of the people are dressed as civilians, so tattered that they do not look like an army, and as the number of people expands, weapons have become in short supply. Zhou Shixiang did not have pig iron in his hands, so he could not cast weapons by himself, so he could only gather all the agricultural tools and iron tools in the city and hand them over to Guo Dazhui, who branded Jiangxi soldiers, and asked him to try his best to create a batch of long knives.

Guo Dazhui, who got on the "thief ship", was really bitter about this task, but he didn't dare to say nothing, so he could only lead two apprentices and more than a dozen teenagers transferred to him by the Taiping Camp to work day and night, and even rushed to provide the Taiping Camp with more than 60 long knives, but no more, it was impossible, because there was no iron tool for him to turn into a casting knife.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and there are no raw materials to provide to others, how can you expect people to provide you with weapons. Zhou Shixiang rewarded and punished clearly, and asked Song Xianggong to pay Guo Da Hammer 30 taels of silver, and then appointed him as the ambassador of the Ordnance Department of the Taiping Battalion, and the treatment was equivalent to that of the small flag officer of the previous battalion. Of course, this weapon ambassador is only a nominal name at present, and Guo Dazhui is actually a blacksmith, leading apprentices and helpers to help the Taiping Camp do some tinkering work when he is not forging knives.

Two more days have passed, and all departments have been running in these two days, and some training for recruits has also been put on the agenda, although it has not yet been systematically launched, but at least every day in front of the city gate, there are groups of soldiers shouting slogans in and out, saying what kind of running training. In addition, there are several teams of soldiers doing some barefoot and shoeed movements, which makes the people who have never seen such a training method really look strange.

The Military Uniform Division was also established, and Yang Shanyuan of the Teda Cloth Company was forced to join the army, and was also forced to serve as the ambassador of the Military Uniform Division, with a group of men from his Yang family and 300 women selected from various battalions to deal with cloth all day long.

There is a shortage of weapons in the battalion, so Zhou Shixiang naturally cannot ask the Military Uniform Department to provide armor for the whole battalion, as far as the current materials of the Taiping Battalion are concerned, even cotton armor cannot be produced by itself, so Zhou Shixiang has no requirements for the Military Uniform Division, only let them dye the fabric black, and then make a jacket and pants. The design mode of this military uniform is similar to that of the later generations of the tunic suit, and the current military uniforms of the Ming and Qing armies are incompatible, Song Xianggong was very dissatisfied after seeing the first set of sample clothes, thinking that this kind of clothes and Chinese dressing etiquette are not compatible, and the black one is really ugly to wear. Zhou Shixiang prevaricated him with a fit and insufficient conditions.

At the same time as the black military uniform was being produced, Zhou Shixiang sent someone to Deqing to find Tang Sanshui, but this time it was not a business, but a gift.

The gift is real gold and silver, a total of 100 silver ingots of ten taels, and there is also a landscape painting painted by someone who did not know who painted in the Song Dynasty, the former was directly given to Tang Sanshui, and the latter was given to Lu Gongming.

Stretching out their hands not to hit the giver, under the offensive of real money and the calligraphy and painting that I don't know how to value, Tang Sanshui and Lu Gongming revealed the deployment of Zhaoqing Mansion and the provincial capital for the "Ming Army" to attack Deqing on a large scale.

It is said that it is a deployment, but in fact there is no deployment, Xu Erxian, the chief soldier of Zhaoqing, tried his best to write to Guangzhou to ask for troops to be sent to attack the Ming army in Gaozhou and recover Luoding, but unfortunately Guangzhou did not agree with his opinion on sending troops, because the two princes in Guangzhou would be overwhelmed by the situation in Chaoshan.

After He Shangjiu's defeat, the Qing army, which thought it could control Chaoshan, did not expect that Zheng Chenggong of Jinxia was also eyeing Chaoshan. When the Qing army besieged Chaozhou, Zheng Chenggong ordered his Beizhen general Chen Liu to lead his troops to help, after the defeat of He Shangjiu, Zheng Chenggong and other generals led the troops to enter Jieyang, which borders the capital of Chaozhou, and repeatedly invaded Chaozhou to collect grain, and there were two times when the troops approached Chaozhou, so that the two puppet kings of Guangzhou Ping and Jing, who had just returned to the north for summer vacation because of the Manchurian army, did not dare to use troops in the southwest, lest after Li Dingguo used troops in the southwest, the northeast would be taken by Zheng.

The reason for the lack of troops will naturally not be publicized by the Guangzhou authorities, and the Ming Dynasty Pingping, Jing Erfan, and the Qing Guangdong Governor Li Shutai all strictly ordered the Zhaoqing Mansion to strengthen its military armament, and ordered the Zhaoqing General Soldier Xu Erxian to send troops to regain the lost territory in order to combat the arrogance of the "old thief".

Tang Sanshui got his wish and was promoted to garrison officer by the general of Qian, which can be said to be promoted and rich, and Lu Gongming was also reported to the governor's yamen by Zhaoqing Mansion for his "meritorious service in defending the land". When the happy event came, the two of them naturally greeted Zhou Shixiang's envoy with a smile, not to mention that they came with heavy gifts.

The news brought back by the envoy made Zhou Shixiang breathe a sigh of relief, he was not afraid of anything else, he was afraid that the Qing army in Guangdong would come to attack Luoding in a big way, and the situation of the Taiping camp would become extremely dangerous. Fortunately, the Qing army in Guangdong could not completely control Guangdong, there was the Zheng family in the northeast, Li Dingguo's department in the southwest, and the coastal areas were Lian Chengbi, the governor of Guangdong in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the righteous division convened by the university scholar Guo Zhiqi. If there is no containment of these Ming forces, I am afraid that the Taiping Camp will not be enough for the Qing army.

In the past few days, Zhou Shixiang has been devoted to the construction of the Taiping Camp, and he can't wait to build the Taiping Camp into a strong army in one day, but he can't become a fat man in one bite, no matter how anxious he is, he can't reach it quickly. Fortunately, someone from Gaozhou finally came, although it had been more than half a month since the occupation of Luoding, and they came a little late, but it was better to be late than not to come.

Strangely, the person sent by Gaozhou this time was not Zhongcheng Bangjun, the military department official of the Yongli Imperial Court who had contacted them before, but the guerrilla Lei Xianchu under Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures.