"The last general will see the Admiral, and before he can meet him from afar, I hope that the Admiral will forgive his sins." Liang Pengfei stood in front of his chief soldier Yamen in Humen Town, and saluted Wang Shouli, who had come to the Yamen gate surrounded by a large group of personal soldiers.

"Okay, our brothers are not outsiders, and there are no outsiders here, don't be so polite, brother, I came to you today, although it was on the order of our eldest governor, but between our brothers, it can't be like this, right?" Wang Shouli jumped off the horse, supported Liang Pengfei, leaned over to Liang Pengfei's ear and laughed in a low voice.

"Hehe, little brother, this is not for people to see, when someone says that you ...... Lord Admiral" Liang Pengfei smiled, squeezing his eyebrows and said.

Wang Shouli couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Okay, you kid don't bury me, let's go in and talk about it, I'm in a hurry, can't you even give a bowl of water?" ”

"Brother, please." Only then did Liang Pengfei move his footsteps, let Wang Shouli enter the mansion, and by the way, let people greet the new generals of Wang Shouli, and then followed Wang Shouli into his own yamen.

"Brother, during this time, you are not busy with that or something in Guangzhou?" After Liang Pengfei handed a cigar to Wang Shouli, who was getting fatter, he asked, but for a while, he couldn't remember what the hell Admiral Wang was doing.

"What is it called? Admiral Ben is not even as good as his mother's land army now. "It's okay not to mention it, as soon as I mention it, Wang Shouli is a fire in his belly, and the British came back and forth, so that he, the dignified admiral, was punished, and he was appointed as the admiral of the Guangdong Navy Division with the rank of commander-in-chief, which is nothing. But the problem is that now the White Lotus Sect has turned the whole world upside down, and the money, food, and military salaries that should have been given to the sailor have now been deducted by thirty percent.

"Isn't it?" Liang Pengfei couldn't help but be taken aback. "I'm his ancestors, aren't our sailors soldiers of the court? You know, those British guys just gave the court a meal half a year ago, and now, if they don't strengthen the sailors, they still deduct our salaries? Liang Pengfei couldn't help but slap his big hand on the table, glared at a pair of angry eyes and said angrily. Nowadays, the strength of our Guangdong Navy Division has not recovered, although the Exhaust Stone Town, like the general army of the Martial Arts, has now recruited all the soldiers and horses, but now, the number of naval division warships in the entire Exhaustion Stone Town is actually less than 100, and most of them are repaired after those small boats that were injured and disabled by the British, and the artillery is not even half of the share. ”

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"Could it be that the court thought that those British would not be able to live in peace with the court if they fired a few shots and earned millions of taels of silver? If that's the case, why did Lao Tzu work so hard to guard the Tiger Gate in the first place? "Liang Pengfei is really an evil fire in his belly. Although, the court did this, for his arrangement, there were only benefits and no harm.

He started by relying on the water master, and the more the court doesn't take the water master seriously, the more the power balance between his young master Liang and the court will be tilted towards him.

But the problem is, after all, a country's coastal defense, has let those British people clean up, they still don't know repentance, this kind of behavior, Liang Pengfei is indeed both happy, but also helpless, no wonder the Qing Dynasty in another time and space after the first Opium War, did not know repentance, as a result, the more to the back, his layer of external strength and dry shell was completely peeled off by those Western colonizers, and finally led to the most painful suffering of the Chinese nation.

These words startled Wang Shouli, and he hurriedly whispered to Liang Pengfei: "My good virtuous brother, you can just say these words in front of me, and you must not talk nonsense outside, otherwise, if these words reach the court, even if you are a hero, it will be difficult to escape those who are full of food and support the imperial history to participate in a few copies of you, then it will be troublesome." ”

"What the hell is going on?" Liang Pengfei glanced at the people behind him, and after these generals retreated in a witty manner, only the white scholar and Monk Chen were left standing at the door as door gods. Liang Pengfei lowered his voice and asked Wang Shouli.

"This military expenditure is not withheld by me, brother, nor by our governor, but by the emperor's order. Do you know that now, the emperor has ordered Fukangan, who has just returned to Beijing not long ago, to go out again, in addition to gathering troops from Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu and other places, in addition, the emperor has also issued a decree to order Guangdong to send 20,000 troops to Guangxi Pingbailian rebels. ”

Hearing this, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but gasp and be stunned: "Let's send troops in Guangdong?" and 20,000 ......" In fact, just half a month ago, Liang Pengfei had already learned that the White Lotus Sect in Guangxi had also continuously unveiled their rods to deal with those White Lotus rebels who went south. This rebellion of the White Lotus Sect was much more serious than he imagined.

Although Liang Pengfei could be sure that the White Lotus Sect would not be able to become a climate, the timing they chose was indeed just right, so I am afraid that it would really be three points stronger than the White Lotus Sect's great uprising that lasted for nine years in another time and space.

You must know that because of the relocation of the border and the ban on the sea, there are many people in Guangdong and Fujian who are dissatisfied with the court, and there are many people in Liangguang and Fujian who are brave and ruthless, coupled with the behavior of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, so that not only pirates are prevalent in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian, but also there are countless bandits on land. Therefore, the Qing court has always been very strict in guarding Guangdong and Fujian, and the number of green battalion soldiers stationed in the Qing court is almost comparable to that of Shaanxi and Gan, which were important military provinces of the Qing court.

But even so, the banditry in Guangdong and Fujian and other provinces has always been the most serious, that is, because the combat effectiveness of the naval divisions and horses in Guangdong is really not very good, except for the town standard, the Fu standard and the promotion of the standard can make up one or two thousand combatable soldiers, the rest of the town soldiers and horses, almost no different from the peasants, those land armed forces are better than the water division, and now, the combined land and land soldiers and horses should have more than 68,000 people.

From Liang Pengfei to the present day, as far as he knows, the establishment of more than 68,000 people on land and water in Guangdong has never really been fully staffed, and the establishment of 25,000 sailors alone is still short of 6,000 people, or they are still eating empty salaries.

Just thinking about this, Liang Pengfei really felt speechless to the extreme, not to mention anything else, some time ago the British invaded Guangdong, and the sailors fought scattered, but fortunately, those commanders and colonels of the navy division not only did not feel ashamed of this, but felt that it was an opportunity to make a fortune, because they could take the opportunity to recruit soldiers to eat another sum of money, and moreover, they could also resell some newly distributed materials to sell to those merchants, and even pirates...... Because, Liang Pengfei is now the most powerful pirate leader in Guangdong, and even in Nanyang, those people sold materials and even muskets to the pirates, how could he Liang Pengfei not know?

Even if Young Master Liang paid out of his own pocket and let the Humen Town Water Division raise nearly 6,000 people, and after the martial arts were separated from his command and became the chief soldier of the Water Division of the Exhausted Stone Town, the Young Master Liang also stuffed the entire 4,000 men and horses in the Exhausted Stone Town, even so, in fact, the total number of soldiers and horses in the entire Guangdong Water Division will not exceed more than 19,000 people, that is to say, his Young Master Liang's strength has accounted for more than half of the water division.

The general soldiers of the other two towns, plus the town mark of Na Wang Li, ate the empty salary of 6,000 people. But in the eyes of those generals, it was not enough, but they didn't dare to eat more, so they could only participate in smuggling, carry private goods, and even some of them were a little more vicious to rob merchant ships by pretending to be pirates.

"I said, brother, what is the situation of our land soldiers and horses in Guangdong, you also know very well, the shortage of soldiers is even greater than that of sailors. With 20,000 soldiers and horses, the situation in Guangdong is a little worrying. Liang Pengfei's head was turning his head quickly, and on the surface, he put on a face of loyalty to the country.

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"There's no way, do you know or not, those White Lotus bandits, in the Hubei area, have captured several fortified cities, killed two prefects, and three generals who were ordered to come to quell the chaos, and even the general soldiers of Yichang Town, Hubei have been killed in battle, and now, several provinces have been chaotic.

And those White Lotus rebels swung south into Guangxi, Lianke Quanzhou, Xing'an, Lingzhou and other counties, and forced Guilin, and there were also White Lotus rebels in Guilin City, Guilin Mansion was already in danger. And our two Guangxi are one, and Guangxi does not have many soldiers, so even if there is no imperial order, he has to send troops to quell the chaos. Wang Shouli spitted out a smoke ring and sighed.

When Liang Pengfei heard this, he pursed his lips disapprenously, if the initial uprising of the White Lotus Sect was not beyond his expectations, and what happened afterwards caused this turmoil to develop and spread so quickly, I have to say that Qianlong, this old guy, helped a lot.

Because at the beginning of the White Lotus Sect uprising in Xiangyang, Hubei, Qianlong was afraid that when the turmoil caused by Yingyi was decided, the White Lotus Sect's rebellion would cause a chain reaction, so he issued a strict decree, but anyone suspected of being a White Lotus rebel could be locked up and interrogated first.

So, the big operation to search for the White Lotus Sect rebels in the provinces around the lake began, although I have to admit that some results have been achieved, but those officials are more eager to make money through this method, so those officials who are a little darker began to search for the White Lotus Sect on a large scale, and they are generally looking for those who are quite wealthy, no way, where can they collect money if they are looking for poor people?

Arrest those businessmen or rich people and put them in prison, if you want to be innocent, okay, take the money first, so that the blood vessels of hundreds of people will explode, whether it is the White Lotus Sect or not, they will go bankrupt, or even be stabbed, then don't you do it? Waiting for you to kill Lao Tzu?

As a result, in just a few months, the entire central part of the Great Qing Kingdom was completely encircled in the great whirlpool of the White Lotus Sect. Qianlong never thought that in the last year of his reign, after those British Yankees were viciously humiliated, those White Lotus Sect members actually jumped out and prepared to sing a big drama that shook the world.

(To be continued)