Chapter 32: The Commander of the Army (3)
"Your Highness, the front line is too far away from here after all, even if our news is sent to the front line, the King of England may not use it!" The god king sighed and said.
Hong Tiangui nodded, although the situation in Tianjing City has stabilized now, there are constant undercurrents underneath, and Hong Tiangui's only shortcoming is that he does not have his own strength to support it, so he does not dare to do too much. During this time, he has not expanded the influence of King Shin's rebellion, not because he did not have evidence, but because he could not expand it. Otherwise, it is very likely to repeat the Tianjing Incident of that year, and even the result will only be more tragic than the Tianjing Incident of that year, after all, when the Tianjing Incident occurred, the Heavenly Kingdom defeated the Manchus head-on, and it was the peak of its strength. Now it is quite embattled, so Hong Tiangui has to be cautious and cautious when taking action.
During this time, of course, he was not idle, he recruited many fatherless and motherless orphans and teenagers from the new army and homeless, and secretly set up the Intelligence Department, which was divided into two departments: internal affairs and foreign affairs, and the division of the Intelligence Department was the Heavenly Sword Daoist. Up to now, the Internal Affairs Section of the Intelligence Department has been able to grasp the intelligence of the entire Tianjing City and grasp the situation in Tianjing City, and the next step will be to infiltrate the princely and noble homes and radiate to the front line. The Foreign Affairs Department has also formed the initial team, and the person in charge is Tian Dian, the junior brother of the Heavenly Sword Daoist, a young man who looks honest. The Heavenly Sword Daoist selected twenty good seedlings for him from among the existing intelligence officers and trained them by him. Hong Tiangui visited his training once and did not ask any questions about the Foreign Affairs Section.
After following Hong Tiangui for a few months, the Heavenly Sword Daoist had long since lost the righteousness he had when he first came down the mountain. In addition to the fact that he has won Hong Tiangui's trust, he is not pedantic and does things very measured, and he is very respectful of Hong Tiangui's center, so he is naturally reused.
"Zhou Budo, you immediately draft the king's edict to reward the soldiers of our army on the front line for their brave fighting, double the military merit reward, and in addition, add some of the king's ideas to the edict, hoping to attract enough attention from the king." Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.
Zhou Budo, who was sitting on the side, did not dare to slack off, and immediately began to write the edict.
Hong Tiangui doesn't like classical Chinese, although Zhou Budo feels that it is inappropriate to write the edict in the vernacular, but Hong Tiangui insists on it, and as the secretary general, he naturally does not dare to refute.
For Zhou Budo, a reader who writes Bagu Wen with ease, the order to write a vernacular text is just a drizzle. In addition, before the arrival of King Gan, he had already talked to Hong Tiangui and already understood Hong Tiangui's thoughts, so in just a quarter of an hour, a vernacular edict appeared in Zhou Budo's hands.
Hong Tiangui looked at it, then said the incomplete place, asked it to make up, and then used the seal of the Heavenly King, and asked Zhou Budo to immediately send it out in an urgent manner with six hundred miles.
"Your Majesty, the King of England must have his own thoughts on this matter, and the King of England and the Zeng Thief have been fighting for many years, and now there is no logistical drag, and the suspicion is soaring, the Zeng Thief is definitely not the opponent of the King of England." The King is very confident in the abilities of the King of England.
Hong Tiangui smiled and said, "I hope so!" ”
Can one person's strength turn the days around? Can you change the fate of Heaven?
Hong Tiangui didn't know, and he couldn't tell outsiders, he could only do his best.
"Your Highness, is there a report from the loyal king?" Ganwang thought about it, but still asked.
Hong Tiangui shook his head and said, "This king has already issued three edicts, but King Zhong has not replied clearly. The king knew that he was determined to attack Shanghai, but there was a priority in everything, and he was ready to issue a fourth edict to prevent the king from taking Shanghai as much as possible. ”
King Gan looked at Hong Tiangui and suddenly said, "Your Highness, have you ever thought about the situation when Shanghai City was defeated?" ”
Hong Tiangui paused for a moment, it seems that Shanghai has never been captured by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, even if King Zhong gathers the strength of the entire Sufu Province.
"Your Highness, King Zhong has fought extremely well, and now he has the advantage of troops, it should be no problem to capture a small Shanghai, I have contacted the missionaries Joseph Smith, but they do not trust us." Ganwang said with a wry smile. He did an excellent job of logistics, but there was no progress in contacting the Western powers to borrow money.
"Your Highness, I heard that Shanghai is full of rich people and machines everywhere, as long as we succeed in conquering Shanghai, we can use Shanghai's machinery to develop our own industry." The Ganwang said in a deep voice.
Hong Tiangui thought about it, and still felt that King Zhong was unlikely to take Shanghai, after all, the gap between the weapons of the Taiping Army and the great powers was not small, and Li Hongzhang was in Shanghai, making Shanghai definitely a hard bone to gnaw.
"Uncle Ganwang, the problem of Shanghai will be put aside for the time being, our threat is mainly from the West. If possible, the king hopes to be able to take the throne in person! Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.
"Your Highness, by all means! How can you venture to the front line? The god king shook his head, he must not let Hong Tiangui put himself in danger, after all, the bullet is not long-sighted, once Hong Tiangui has an accident, the kingdom of heaven is turbulent, and the situation may become even worse.
"Uncle Ganwang, this is only the preliminary idea of this king, and it will not be implemented without complete certainty." Hong Tiangui said.
At this moment, Guo Yuanbao hurriedly approached.
"Your Royal Highness, I just received a telegram from the king of the front line, the king of the king of the front line dispatched an army to come as the acting commander of Lu Shunde under his command more than half a month ago, according to the time calculation, Lu Shunde should have arrived in Tianjing ten days ago, but we have not found any news of their arrival so far."
"What? The squire also drew an army? What about the front line of the king-servant? Hong Tiangui asked in a deep voice.
"Your Royal Highness, this is the battle report of the king, the Qing demon Zhejiang governor Zuo Zongtang is a powerful character, under his leadership, the Qing demon generals from all over Zhejiang are defending the city one by one, so that the pace of the king's attack has been greatly delayed, and now the main force of the king has withdrawn from Jingning County, and confronted the Qing army Yang Changjun."
Hong Tiangui nodded, the soldiers of the king have not changed much, according to historical calculations, the king of the king has opened up the second large-scale base of the kingdom of heaven with Jinhua, Zhejiang as the center. In its heyday, it almost occupied most of Zhejiang, and even Zuo Zongtang, one of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, was completely suppressed, until the Hunan army besieged Tianjing City, and the army of the king of servants sent a lot of assistance to Tianjing City, Zuo Zongtang only recovered the situation little by little.
"Send someone to look for it immediately, such a large army, and it is in the realm of heaven, it will definitely not disappear out of thin air." Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.
Guo Yuanbao didn't dare to slack off, and immediately went down to arrange.
"Uncle Ganwang, I am going to open a imperial examination in the Kingdom of Heaven in order to obtain talents!" Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty is wise!" Ganwang nodded, he also felt that the manpower of the heavenly kingdom was not easy to use, and everyone could not be promoted from the army, and counting on the recommendation of the powerful to be an official would only select some sloppy people.