Hu Qili's department was originally the superintendent of the Guangdong Green Battalion, and there were more than 1,000 superintendents and more than 900 Shunde battalion soldiers anyway. After the Battle of Sanjiangkou, Hu Qili led 2,000 troops to seize Guishan County, the capital of Huizhou, and after designing to deceive the city gate, he killed the government and coerced Ma Anmin, the prefect of Huizhou appointed by the Qing court, to fight with him.

Ma Anmin was originally the governor of Lianhua in the Ming Dynasty, after the fall of the Shaowu regime, he opened the door to ask the Qing army to surrender, and was appointed by the Qing court to stay in office with the governor of Liangguang, Tong Yangxing, and later Li Chengdong returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, but this Ma Anmin had a long heart, and did not dare to change into the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty with him, but ran to Ganzhou in the north with the official seal overnight. As a result, after Li Chengdong was defeated, Ma Anmin, who was "not a thief", became prosperous in his official fortunes, first transferred from Lianhua to Zhaoqing to serve as a general judge, and later took over the position of Wang Zhangjun, the prefect of Huizhou, who went to Guangzhou to serve as a political officer. In just ten years, from a seven-grade Sanzhou governor to a four-grade prefect, it cannot but be said that Ma Anmin's choice back then was quite discerning, if he had taken a wrong step back then, he was afraid that he would have already become a white bone today.

In the current situation, although the Taiping army occupied Guangzhou, the king of Pingnan, Shang Kexi, and the king of Jingnan, Geng Jimao, died and surrendered, and the Manchurian general Hahamu and Mancheng called the Taiping army to kill them, but Ma Anmin is still not optimistic about Nanming, after all, compared with the Qing Dynasty, which has occupied most of the world, Nanming's gas is really not good. When Li Chengdong was anyway, the territory of Guangdong Province was returned to the Ming Dynasty in an instant, but what was the result?

The general trend cannot be reversed!

Ma Anmin didn't want to do it anyway, he wanted to run, and he ran as quickly as he heard about Li Chengdong anyway, but the speed of Ma Zhifu was a step slower. As soon as he held the official seal in his arms, Hu Qili's soldiers rushed into the palace.

"Is Master Ma willing to return to the Ming?"

Hu Qili asked someone to put a knife on Ma Anmin's neck, and he didn't say much to him. But I asked him if he wanted it, and if he didn't, he cut it down.

After some hesitation, Ma Zhifu, who was afraid of being liquidated by the Qing court but was even more afraid of death, chose a path that he was very unwilling to take - anyway, he returned to Ming.

Ma Anmin agreed to Hu Qili's request anyway, and on the surface he cooperated with Hu Qili to take over the Huizhou territory, but behind his back, he sent someone to Wu Liuqi in Chaozhou to ask for help, and even wrote a bloody letter to beg Wu Liuqi to hand over the Beijing division for him, so as not to kill him in the army. The Qing court cut off his head without asking. As for whether the blood used in writing belonged to the prefect of his horse or someone else, it is impossible to say.

With Ma Anminming's cooperation, Hu Qili's acceptance of Huizhou counties is progressing smoothly. Most of the magistrates appointed by the Qing court responded to the "call" of the prefect, and everyone changed into a brand-new Ming official uniform, but only the two magistrates of Longchuan and Haifeng really cut off their braids, and the princes of other counties still have braids on the back of their heads.

However, although Hu Qili has returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway. But many of his subordinates did not cut their braids. Even Hu Qili himself did not cut off his braids, so that the common people often saw a group of Ming soldiers raiding their homes everywhere under the leadership of a few officials with braids, and called it "persuading grain".

In view of the successful deeds of the Taiping Army, Hu Qili can be regarded as having learned from the Taiping Army, not only learning from the Taiping Army's "persuasion of grain" to collect his military salary, money and grain, but also learning from the Taiping Army's snowball. Crazy in Huizhou to recruit bandits. Forcibly recruited young and strong, and in just a few months, the 2,000 troops in the headquarters were expanded to 14,000 soldiers.

At the same time of expanding his strength, Hu Qili wantonly sealed officials in the name of the general army of Huizhou, not only the generals who followed him to the Ming Dynasty were promoted to the rank of knight, but the leaders of the battalions and bandits who were recruited were also given officials by everyone. If the official seal is not enough, they will carve it with wood, resulting in hundreds of officials in Huizhou who took the wooden official seal to the counties overnight, and two garrisons can appear in the same county!

These "wooden officials" have made Huizhou a mess, and the people are full of complaints. This kind of behavior was not only disdained by Zhou Shixiang in Guangzhou, but also ridiculed Ma Anmin, who went against his will, believing that Hu Qili's behavior was so ridiculous that it would definitely be untenable in Huizhou.

Sure enough, after a few small-scale tests with Hu Qili's troops, Wu Liuqi of Chaozhou suddenly transferred heavy troops to Yu Jieshiwei and severely damaged Hu Qili's general Han Chaozong, and the troops entered Lufeng, threatening to spend the Spring Festival in Huizhou.

Hearing the news, Ma Anmin was overjoyed, and secretly contacted some of the gentry in Huizhou who had been persuaded by Hu Qili to provide food, and prepared to open the door to respond when Wu Liuqi's army arrived, but Hu Qili asked for help from the Taiping army in Guangzhou, but the "strong general" did not even see the shadow of the Taiping army and hurriedly led his troops to retreat eastward, and was defeated twice in a row after being caught up by the cavalry of the Taiping army, with more than 1,000 casualties. Wu Liuqi, who returned to Chaozhou, did not dare to fight with the Taiping army, and retreated in the city of Chaozhou and never dared to come out again, allowing the Taiping army to turn the vicinity of Chaozhou into a "no man's land", plundering countless money, food, materials and people.

Wu Liuqi was useless, and Ma Anmin could only put the hope of restoring Huizhou on the Manchu, Mongolian and Han armies led by Prince Jian Jidu. What he was thinking about day and night in Huizhou was that Prince Jian's army could wipe out Taiping Kou and Hu Qili, the bastard, but the news he waited for was that Prince Jian's army was surrounded by Taiping Kou in Jieshiwei, and finally the Mongolian soldiers killed Prince Jian and surrendered to Taiping Kou!

This news was no less than a thunderbolt from the blue, and the prefect of Ma was like hearing bad news, his face turned white at that time, his hands were trembling, and he couldn't eat or sleep in the mansion for several days. Several of Ma Anmin's cronies knew why the prefect was afraid, and they also participated in Ma Anmin's collusion with Wu Liuqi and contact the gentry in the city, worried that Hu Qili would ask for their heads after knowing about it, so some people were unwilling to wait for death, and asked Ma Anmin to take risks, take advantage of the small number of Ming troops in the city to quickly contact people to seize Huizhou City, and then mobilize the people of the whole city to go to the city to hold on.

Ma Anmin agreed to the suggestion of his cronies, but the gentry and big families who had contacted him before avoided him, the prefect, and none of the people sent to contact him could enter their homes, without the support of these powerful local snakes in the city, what could Ma Anmin do with a bare prefect, could it be that he relied on these cronies to disperse the hundreds of battalions left by Hu Qili?

Ma Anmin thought about committing suicide, but he couldn't do this ruthlessly to himself, and several cronies saw this and knew that they couldn't count on the prefect, so they also fled for their lives. After Ma Anmin waited in the palace for more than ten days, a team of Hu Qili's soldiers suddenly came, saying that they were ordered by the commander of the Taiping Army and the Ming Dynasty Xingpingbo, and asked Ma Governor's Mansion to go to Lufeng immediately to discuss matters.

In addition to the prefect Ma Anmin, all the magistrates of Huizhou counties received a notice to rush to Lufeng, and Hu Qi, the chief soldier of Huizhou in Haifeng, also took his subordinate Wang Dalin and others to Lufeng. As soon as he entered the city, Hu Qili asked Han Chaozong, a subordinate who had been in Lufeng, about the purpose of Zhou Shixiang's summoning him, but Han Chaozong did not know.

On 23 April, Zhou Shixiang summoned dozens of civil and military personnel from Huizhou to the Lufeng County Ya. As soon as the buttocks sat down, Hu Qili led a group of civil officials to greet Zhou Shixiang, and after they saluted, Zhou Shixiang openly and honestly told them that he was determined to reorganize the Huizhou soldiers, and reorganize the Huizhou soldiers into the seventh town of the Taiping Army, and the civil affairs of Huizhou would also be taken over by the political envoy Si Yamen in Guangzhou.

"The battle of the Eastern Expedition was all successful, the puppet prince Jidu was awarded the head, more than 10,000 puppet soldiers surrendered, and the eastern part of Guangdong was no longer threatened by the puppet soldiers, so Benbo decided to return to Guangzhou, and after a short rest, he led the elite soldiers into the king of Guangxi Qin. Before King Qin, Benbo wanted to rectify the military and political affairs in Guangdong, so as to make the orders clear and the government orders smooth. In the future, all military affairs in Guangdong will be handled by the military marshal's office, and civil affairs will be handled by the political envoy and the yamen. The generals of the towns and guards in various places are no longer allowed to have private soldiers, and they are all included in the Taiping Army to listen to and listen to them. In any case, all officials should be evaluated by the department, or promoted, retained, or dismissed. Now, I'm done, but Benbo needs to know one thing, and that is," Speaking of this, Zhou Shixiang got up and glanced at the Huizhou officials who had not yet reacted, and said loudly: "Who is in favor and who is against!" (To be continued.) )