Yan Minghan, the governor of Guangxi, held a string of prayer beads in his hand, pulled his fingers from time to time, squinted his eyes, and looked at the young man in front of him, about twenty-six or seventeen years old, with a dignified appearance, and two sword eyebrows were very high-spirited, but a soft language of Wu Nong matched with his modest smile, but it added a few gentle and elegant atmospheres. 【Reading.com】

On both sides, only Yan Minghan's confidants all looked at this young man named Wang Jing with a puzzled or angry expression.

Not for anything else, just because this guy is that gang of thieves, it should be said that it is the envoy sent by the rebel Liang Pengfei, who has occupied more than half of Guangdong, Yunnan and most of Guangxi.

"You mean to say that you hope that Ben Shuai will cooperate with you to annihilate those White Lotus Sect rebels?" Yan Minghan finally opened his mouth after a long time, but these words still shocked several henchmen present.

"What?! What is the difference between boldly rebelling against thieves and those rebels of the White Lotus Sect who are making trouble, how can I be a teacher of the court and be in the company of thieves. The general of the Raising Battalion, who was sitting at the head of Yan Minghan's left hand, squinted at Na Wang Jing and said with a cold smile.

Wang Jing seemed to be blind to those pairs of eyes that implied murderous intent, and a sarcastic smile appeared on his face: "This lord, this is a bad word, my lord, but the dignified Guangdong Navy Humen Town Chief Soldier." ”

"Hmph, since you are the chief soldier of the court, why do you want to rebel?!" The senator who had just spoken would continue to retort.

"That's not because the new governor of Liangguang, Zhu Jue, can't get used to my family because of his grudge with Na Heshen, and he is embarrassed everywhere. The ancients had a saying: Scholars are used for confidants, women are used for those who please themselves, and when a countryman meets me, I repay it to a countryman. This Governor Zhu doesn't give my family a way to live, can my family still lead the neck and confer the head? Wang Jing glanced at the general lightly, and retorted not to be outdone.

"You! …… Hum. At this time, the general couldn't find any suitable words to refute for a while, so he just snorted coldly and acted disdainfully, and after glancing at the calm Admiral Yan Minghan, he didn't bother to say anything.

He closed his mouth, the room seemed extraordinarily quiet, Wang Jing smiled to himself, and said loudly: "My lord, before being forced to rebel by the governor of Liangguang, he was also the chief soldier of the court sailors, and conscientiously guarded the sea frontier for the court. Fujian sailors were all defeated, with countless casualties and great loss of national prestige, but my family, with only one town of sailors, refused to be destroyed by the British outside the mouth of the Pearl River, killed more than a thousand, captured thousands of people, and captured several huge ships......"

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“…… You can pat your chest and say a sentence according to your conscience, my family has meritorious service to the court and the people of the world, but what did you get in exchange? Do you know what kind of crime Governor Zhu charged my family? Do you know what the will of our emperor is? Wang Jing reached into his sleeve and handed the holy decree written in yellow silk to Yan Minghan's personal soldier next to him.

Those henchmen and cronies of Yan Minghan passed it on and saw the holy decree clearly, and the faces of one and two became ugly.

"Great merit, the appointment of the governor of Zhu said a word, the court listened to the words of this Qingliu minister, if my family does not fight against the army, I am afraid that not only will not even be able to save his life, but I don't know how many people and gentry will be involved, since the court is not benevolent, why should my family be foolish and loyal and righteous?"

"Your eloquence is good, it seems that you really have a bit of true biography from your teacher, Mr. Zhao." Except for Yan Minghan, who had been allowing his subordinates to argue with Wang Jing after asking a few words at the beginning, he interrupted Wang Jing's words at this time, and said with a smile.

"Don't dare, I'm just the most unsuccessful disciple under the teacher's seat. I have been learning the teacher's skills for more than ten years, but it is still difficult to see the teacher's back. Wang Jing was slightly stunned, and replied with a smile.

This Yan Minghan was originally a native of Jiaying, Guangdong, Qianlong was admitted to the Wujinshi in the twenty-fifth year, and has been mixed in the military, and has worked under Li Shiyao for a long time, when Li Shiyao was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he was the governor of Li Shiyao, and that Zhao Yi was in the rebellion of Lin Shuangwen in Taiwan, and he also served as the counselor of the Li Shiyao shogunate in military affairs, so he had a lot of dealings with Zhao Yi, although he couldn't talk about any close friends, but the relationship between the two was also very good, and Zhao Yi's views on military affairs, made Yan Minghan think that he was out of reach, but Yan Minghan heard that Li Shiyao praised Zhao Yi for his talent more than once.

It's a pity that this Zhao Yi has been completely disappointed in the dark officialdom, and he has repeatedly refused to keep Li Shiyao, and instead concentrates on smelting. What Yan Minghan didn't expect was anything. Zhao Yi, who was supposed to be lecturing at Anding Academy in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, was actually in Guangdong, and he read that his students were serving under Liang Pengfei, and he and Yuan Mei, a famous scholar from the right side of the river, were both at Liang Pengfei's place.

Although he didn't specify anything, he just introduced his disciples like introductions, and then told himself that his relatives had now been taken to him by his orders, and his wife and children were safe.

In addition, in that letter, he told his personal feelings about Liang Pengfei, as well as Liang Pengfei's approximate strength and equipment, and of course, he also briefly mentioned that the British fleet that made the entire Qing Dynasty helpless had fallen behind Liang Pengfei, and more than 10,000 English prisoners of war were working hard to build a new home for Liang Pengfei on Hong Kong Island.

Of course, there are also things that happened in Nanyang, Annan and other places, everything Zhao Yi knew about it, and Yan Minghan felt a shocking sense of heaviness.

Who is Zhao Yi, Yan Minghan, who has dealt with him, knows very well that there is no need for him to coax himself, because Yan Minghan is not the kind of fool who does not know how to climb to today's position by relying on Enmeng or nepotism.

However, as the governor of Guangxi, one of Liang Pengfei's divisions was forced to escape from Liuzhou, and finally squeezed into the Guilin Mansion to survive, such an experience was enough for him to remember the combat effectiveness and powerful firepower of Liang's army vividly.

The artillery fire and gunpowder smoke in the sky, the overwhelming black-clothed soldiers, the outrageously dense muskets, and the ultra-long range, the 7,000 soldiers and horses led by his own governor in Liuzhou only took less than an hour, and only led 3,000 people to escape from the city wall and escape from Liuzhou.

The opponent's artillery is not like any kind of artillery that Yan Minghan is familiar with, a projectile, at most, is a longitudinal penetration, causing damage to the soldiers on a line, once the opponent's artillery shells fall, it is a dazzling fire ball that is brilliant to the extreme, and the living people within a few meters around will be torn to pieces, and the soldiers who are a little farther away will also be blown away by the terrifying explosion for a distance, and smashed on the city wall, and even some unlucky ghosts were directly blown off the city wall, screaming and ramming to the ground, turning into a puddle of flesh.

At least hundreds of artillery pieces were firing at the same time, if it wasn't for the quick opportunity at that time, if it weren't for the fact that the soldiers around him rushed forward and guarded him one after another...... Touching the new scar next to his cheek, which was still a little red, Yan Minghan couldn't help but shudder.

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That's not all, after he fled to the Guilin Mansion, he saw that the Liang family army stopped advancing, and thought that these thieves had been weak, who would have expected that, and then, one after another bad news flew like snowflakes.

After Liang Pengfei fell to Liang Pengfei in the whole territory of Guangdong, Guangxi was occupied by him in addition to Guilin Mansion, where he was located, and there were shocking battle reports from Yunnan and Fujian, which made him really unable to believe where Liang Pengfei got so many troops?

And now, through Zhao Yi's letter, Yan Minghan has at least believed eighty percent of the letter and written, this Liang Pengfei, I am afraid that he has already planned to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but with such a big force, he can be so forbearing, he is really a terrible and terrifying character.

And his current situation can be described as extremely difficult, Guangxi has fallen into the hands of Liang Pengfei, and even Liang Pengfei's troops have been stationed in Guizhou, and the border with Guilin Province and Hunan happens to be the place where the rebel Miao people and the White Lotus rebels are concentrated.

In front, tens of thousands of people from the White Lotus Sect were eyeing each other, and in the back, Liang Pengfei's army was lying on the side couch. If it weren't for the abundant grain and grass in Guilin Mansion, Yan Minghan, the admiral, who has always governed the army strictly, this Guilin City would have been self-defeating long ago.

However, what Yan Minghan didn't expect was that many of the merchants in Guilin City had a deep connection with the thirteen lines, and Wang Jing was able to enter the city to see him, and those merchants made a lot of efforts, what does this mean?

It can only show that the gentry and businessmen in Guilin City are not monolithic, but Yan Minghan does not want to, nor is he willing to move those businessmen and gentry, these gentry and businessmen in Guilin Mansion, in the past few years, have purchased group exercises, opened righteous schools, built bridges and paved roads, and are very praised by the people.

Besides, among the more than 10,000 soldiers in Guilin's mansion, there are more than 3,000 regimental training soldiers organized by the local government to assist in defending the city, and this is only on the surface, who knows if they have other forces in private.

Although Yan Minghan is a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, he is not the kind of idiot who reads his own brain as a stupid bird by reading books, Yan Minghan thinks about it with his toes, and knows that if he really arrests those gentry and businessmen on the charge of countering thieves, not to mention whether the more than 3,000 regimental training troops can be stabilized, in case he really provokes the Liang family army stationed outside Guilin Mansion, he can't even think about escaping.

Don't forget, your relatives are still in Liuzhou now, how can these henchmen and subordinates who fled to Guilin Mansion with them not be like this?

(To be continued)