These iron-hat princes are experts in tossing state affairs, but when it comes to really doing things, they have no clue at all, but Prince Lidun loves Xin Jueluo? Cheng Hou mentioned a person, Hangzhou General Zhirui, he Tara clan, Manchuria Zheng Red Banner, born in Jinshi, known as a soldier

The next day, the edict of the imperial court was issued, ordering the Hangzhou general Zhirui to organize and train a new army, and recruit loyal and brave people from all over the country to join the army, referring to the Western training, and in the Hangzhou General's Mansion, the two seven or eight-year-old little beauties were joking and frolicking throughout, never expecting that their family would be caught in the whirlpool of the dispute between the emperor and queen in the future, and they would not be spared from that storm.

On April 7, after a month-long repeated consultation, in this battle between Zeng Kizawa and Yano Fumio, Zeng Kizawa negotiated almost word by word, and as the Nanyang Naval Division reappeared in Osaka Port, because the sequelae of the shelling caused a small civil riot in Osaka City, the Japanese imperial government finally accepted the contract after making a huge compromise.

The contract stipulates that Japan will apologize to China and pay 1.5 million taels of compensation for its aggression against the Ryukyus and Taiwan; With the middle line of the Anmi Oshima and Sanan Islands as the dividing line, the territory of the two countries was divided, and Japan recognized Korea as a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty and opened Nagasaki, Osaka, and two ports; Chinese goods have a half-tax preference at Japanese ports; At the same time, China enjoys the preferential conditions that Japan has signed with other countries.

The signing of this agreement is the first time in nearly 100 years that the Qing government has won a foreign war and indemnity, although the silver is not much, but it makes the Westernists and Qingliu in the court raise their eyebrows, Zeng Jize is once again established his strong position in diplomacy, in this regard, he is deeply touched, and privately wrote a private letter to thank Qin Kai for his help.

The proposal of the Military Aircraft Department has just been reached, and the edict has not yet been issued, Qin Kai has already received good news from Zhang Peilun, because it has not been recognized by the governors of various places, the plan of the court nobles to intervene in the Nanyang Navy Division has been stranded, but the relatives and nobles in the court who eat and drink together have come up with the idea of organizing and training the New Army of the Eight Banners.

Hangzhou General Zhirui...... For this name, Qin Kai felt a little familiar, flipped through the light brain, and found that this was really a character, if there were still people in the last Qing Dynasty who were desperate and wanted to save this dynasty in the bones that had rotten, this Hangzhou general was undoubtedly one of them.

And in his family, Zhirui's cousin has two celebrities, Emperor Guangxu's two favorite concubines, Concubine Zhen and Concubine Jin, and this Hangzhou general, history's evaluation of his ability is also average, he is a cadre, but not a general.

Qin Kai finished pondering, and smiled slightly, the wheel of history is rolling, and he can only take advantage of the situation, and the others will be completely crushed, and now because of his own reasons, the Eight Banners New Army has inexplicably appeared, and he wants to see what new ideas these Eight Banners New Army can come up with......

After discussing with Liu Kunyi, Qin Kai immediately ordered the transfer of ships to quickly carry out disaster relief along the Xijiang River, because it involved the transfer of a large amount of grain, Wu Jingui was responsible for purchasing grain locally on the Guangzhou side, and Fuzhou also purchased a large amount of grain, which was transported to Guangzhou by Mawei for later use.

Four hundred miles away, outside Wuzhou Mansion in Guangxi, Ji Fan, a local businessman who deals in local products, is driving an old-fashioned donkey cart out of the city gate with a dozen family members.

The one who closed the door was a fat and a thin one, and the thin one looked at the donkey cart in the distance and asked, "Brother Chen, this season, the shopkeeper has transported grain out to open a porridge shed again?" ”

"That's right, Shopkeeper Ji is from a famous scholarly family, a good man, have you heard, more than 30 families starved to death in Renhe Town, so Shopkeeper Ji rushed to put porridge"

"Why didn't Lord Zhizhou order the opening of a porridge factory?" The thin man asked, puzzled

"Shhhh

If you carefully calculate, outside this town with a population of less than 300, there are at least seven or eight hundred refugees gathered, and on the dock next to it, there are still a lot of people negotiating with the boat people.

In this famine year, what is the most worthless, undoubtedly the desire for human life and hunger is extremely strong, and can even make people lose their rationality and feelings, several boat people are bargaining with two middle-aged men, and their goods are actually a thirteen or fourteen-year-old little girl with a vegetable face behind the man. ,

The middle-aged man's name is Niu Dazhu, at this time with a painful look on his face, his eyes looked at a family of seven or eight people in the distance, who fled from the village of more than 100 miles to the West River, originally hoping that he could find food in this riverside area, or take a job to support the family, but the reality is obviously cruel, there have already been nearly a thousand refugees crowded here, and even the bark on the nearby mountains has been stripped naked.

Along the way, his wife didn't resist at first, and was strutted to death after eating a few pieces of Guanyin soil, and that thing could indeed be eaten to feed hunger, but it couldn't be pulled out, and finally the intestines were blocked, suffocating people to death.

At this time, counting his father, wife, second brother, third sister, two sons, and a family of seven, it had been almost three days since he could eat anything, and he had no choice but to take his eldest daughter to the dock, ready to sell it to the boat boss who could afford the price, and with the boat boss, at least he could eat a boat meal on the river, which was better than starving to death.

"Fellow, there are no more than 5 catties of brown rice," a slender yellow-faced man shouted.

Niu Dazhu glanced at this man, he was about the same age as himself, he looked at his frightened daughter, and looked at the family in the distance, these 5 are close to brown rice, plus some wild vegetables and grass, that can also make a family of a few boil for ten days, and now it is a day of mixing.

He reached out and touched his daughter's withered yellow hair, stroked it gently, sighed, and was about to nod his head to approve the deal, when the daughter behind him said with tears in her eyes: "Dad...... I want to be with you guys, I don't want to leave."

Niu Dazhu squatted down, this sturdy man couldn't help but feel a little fluttery because he hadn't eaten for a few days, he wiped away his tears for his daughter with his sleeve, with a helpless look on his face, and whispered: "Juan'er, you can live with this big brother, and your father is also good for you."

At this time, the second brother's shout suddenly came from behind him, "Big brother...... Eldest brother...... Someone came to give soup kitchen."

He turned his face, and sure enough, there were already people in the empty porridge shed not far away, and the rising smoke brought him hope to live, he took his eldest daughter's hand and thought about it, and said to the boat boss next to him: "Big brother, let me think about it"

"Fellow, you think about it carefully, if your daughter wants to sell it again tomorrow, it won't be worth 5 catties of rice," said the boss of the yellow boat.

Niu Dazhu's footsteps stopped, thought for a moment, or continued to pull his daughter to run to the porridge shed, at this time the long line had already lined up to hundreds of people, their family was crowded in it, slowly moving forward, every step forward, that was the hope of survival

Ji Fan urged a few families to move the food to the porridge shed, and began to work nervously, but he was also a little surprised to see the longer and longer refugee queue, there were not so many people when he came to soup soup yesterday, it seems that the disaster is even stricter than imagined, and he only transported more than 100 catties of coarse grain, and if it is boiled into gruel, it is barely enough for more than 1,000 people here to eat.

But tomorrow...... And the day after tomorrow...... There are also seven or eight families like him in Wuzhou who are willing to give porridge, but the strength of each family is very limited, and there will be no surplus grain after a few days, and the Zhou family, who sells grain in the city, actually raised the price of rice by three percent, but this Zhou family and the prefect are in-laws, and no one can help him.

Thinking of this, he could only shake his head helplessly, and he tried his best to feel at ease...... After waiting for an hour, the first pot of porridge was finally cooked, and the aroma of rice spread around Renhe and the town, causing a commotion in the waiting soup kitchen, and the family began to slowly let people in one by one, all holding coarse porcelain bowls in their hands, staring at the soup chef with hot eyes.

Everyone who received the gruel held the coarse porcelain bowl very reverently, and then carefully went to the open space on the side and ate the delicious meal very carefully

100 catties of rice burned into gruel, three or four cauldrons but to burn for half a day, at noon, Niu Dazhu's family finally gave their share of gruel, after solemnly thanking Ji Fan, Niu Dazhu's family ate the first meal of food in three days.

After noon, the queue waiting for the soup kitchen was still the same length as in the morning, and many people continued to line up, hoping to get a second portion of food......

This vibration was orderly and dull, making everyone at the scene feel depressed from the bottom of their hearts, Ji Fan also clearly heard something, turned his head to look at the avenue to the west, in addition to the bare mountains in the distance, it was still a bare mountain, but he was very sure...... There must be something that has changed there,

Sure enough, a few minutes later, a large cloud of dust suddenly blew out from the end of the avenue in the distance...... That's right, it was a large piece of dust rising from the ground, and then from the end of the road, several variegated short-legged horses appeared, which are ponies endemic to the Southwest, commonly known as the Southwestern Horse, with a large head and a small body, and are good at walking mountain roads.

There was a dead silence...... Then there were countless frightened voices

"Black Wind Thief"

"The bandits are coming......

Ji Fan was obviously also surprised, this black wind thief is a group of bandits near Teng County, who rarely come to Wuzhou for activities, and usually rob businessmen, but he didn't expect to come to Wuzhou now, is it because of the catastrophe?

The old servant Huang San next to him had already rushed up and shouted loudly, "Big shopkeeper, let's go into the woods and hide, bandits are not easy to get along."

At this time, the whole field has already eaten a mess, there is a small wall around the periphery of the town, and there are more than a dozen idlers in the town guarding the courtyard, at this time, under the drive of the small officials, the gate into the town has been blocked firmly, and those fleeing people are not allowed to enter at all, can only run around outside the town without purpose......

The first few bandits were obviously the leaders of the bandits, spitting out Guangxi's unique scolding words "Diao you Di Niang", brandishing this cold and shining knife and breaking into the crowd.

Ji Fan hurriedly fled into a nearby wood, staring nervously at the bandits in the distance, there were about fifty or sixty bandits, all on horseback, and at this time they were wielding a big knife to disperse the fleeing people, let them gather, obviously these bandits did not come to kill people, but for a few people who tried to escape, the two bandit leaders rushed forward without hesitation, and cut off the skulls of the two people from behind, and the scene was suddenly filled with the smell of blood......

Immediately the field was filled with shouts of terror, and soon, almost all the refugees were arrested by the bandits.

Seeing that these refugees were surrounded, more than a dozen bandits jumped off their horses and began to pull people outside one by one, snatching the packages and gold and silver jewelry of these people, but it did not hurt their lives, and soon, a lot of property was piled up on the ground, and in addition, more than a dozen women with a bit of beauty were also taken to the side alone, and their families were driven aside and did not dare to speak.

Niu Dazhu's family was also surrounded by them, but they really didn't have anything good except for a few broken clothes and a broken quilt, and the two bandits took a look at it, scolded a few words, and kicked them aside.

These bandits are extremely clever in their means of looting property, and soon the only little property on the refugees here is looted, and the bandit leader saw that he had robbed a whole bag of things, and happily came down and selected a plump woman, and put it directly on the back of the horse to prepare to take it away, and some other bandits also took the opportunity to start robbing those women, and the scene was full of crying

Ji Fan saw these bandits raging, his eyes were full of fire, but he was helpless, and suddenly the old servant Huang San next to him pointed to the river in surprise, "Big shopkeeper, look...... You see......"

He followed Huang San's hand and looked at the Xijiang River, there was a foreign steamer with a bright red flag on the river, he was doing local goods business, and ran back to Guangzhou a few times, this Western steamer had been seen, but he had never seen a steamer coming up along the Xijiang waterway, and he was also very surprised

What's even more bizarre is that the steamer didn't seem to know what was going on on the shore, and stupidly emitted black smoke and slowly leaned towards the wooden pier on the small pier...... Ji Fan's heart was on fire, and he wanted to run out immediately to warn, but he knew very well that he was afraid that going out to warn at this time would be equivalent to sending him to death

The movement on the river also made the bandits a little confused, the bandit leader touched the big ass of the woman on horseback, obviously very excited, I didn't expect to make a vote, and I could also meet the fat fish, this smoking boat must be full of rich people, if you grab a vote, then you can't make a fortune......

"Black Three!" The bandit leader shouted loudly, "You take a few brothers to take care of the silver and women here, and the other brothers dismount, and when the ship docks, they will rush up immediately, rob all the silver on this ship, and make you ...... mother."

Yiqiē looked like it was all smooth sailing, and after the stupid smoking boat slowly approached the trestle, he didn't know what he was doing, and he didn't see anyone coming down anyway, the bandit leader made a big move, except for the ten bandits who stayed in place, the remaining fifty bandits with big knives and followed the bandit leader to rush to the trestle and rushed to the foreign steamer.

Fifty meters......

Forty meters......

Ji Fan looked at the ship helplessly, could it be that the people on the boat were idiots, and such a large number of bandits with big knives rushed over and turned a blind eye? ,

Thirty meters......

Twenty meters ......

Ji Fan shook his head, he couldn't imagine what kind of idiots were on this boat, as long as they were a few meters away from the trestle, there was nothing these bandits could do

10 meters ...... Ji Fan was completely out of ideas, such a group of vicious black wind thieves rushed to the fire wheel, it must have ......

However, at this moment, almost in an instant, dozens of soldiers in neat military uniforms flashed out from behind the side of the ship and behind the cabin, holding a firearm in their hands, Ji Fan saw that the firearms in the hands of those soldiers were smoking green, and the fire of the muzzle of the gun was flickering, and soon the world was occupied by a strange spitting sound

The leader of the Black Wind bandits who was running at the front saw the soldiers who appeared in the vicinity, and subconsciously thought of a thought-", "It seems that the other party is ambushed and there are firearms"

But he still rushed forward without hesitation, and the firearm ...... It can also sound at a distance of 10 meters, and when Lao Tzu is close, that thing is not as good as a burning stick, and he jumps up and yells, "Diao you Di Niang......

Then, he saw a scene that he would never forget for the rest of his life, the muzzle of the opponent's firearm flashed and flickered, and then he immediately felt the strange feeling of being pierced, and it was pierced continuously......

It seems to have drilled more than a dozen holes...... He glanced down...... It's true, my feeling is still as accurate as ever, and there are indeed more than a dozen holes on my body, but what kind of firearm is this on the other side, it is much more violent than the bird guns called by the officers and soldiers...... With this question, the bandit leader closed his eyes weakly

In a stormy stream of bullets, the bandits on the trestle fell apart like a string of severed beads, and the only ones who survived fell into the water

After the soldiers who fired the guns swept down the bandits, they immediately rushed onto the trestle and rushed straight to the stunned remnants of the bandits not far away...... The bandits were captured in a state of complete surprise, until they were tied up with their weapons, and these people were still in ignorance, completely unable to believe what happened in front of them.

Lu Shu walked down majestically from the small steamer, the bandits here are really stupid, such an idiot's ambush can work so well, and he has no better way to do it in a hurry, he didn't expect these idiot bandits to rush up and ......die like this without any suspense.

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