I heard that it was the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, Cen Yuying's army, Liu Yongfu was also very surprised, the guard ** and the other armies of the Qing army rarely intersected, and he had always only listened to the orders of the minister of Nanyang Qin Kai, but in this battle, the Dian army came to help, and it was for this point, so it could not be less courtesy.

Waiting for Cen Gang to report the battle situation here to Cen Yuying's side, this news made the governor of Yungui also very surprised, he naturally didn't expect that the protector he had never taken seriously could have such combat power, for Liu Yongfu, he had also heard of it, but he was very surprised that this army was recruited into the guard, thinking of the famous governor of Guangdong and the minister of Nanyang Qin Kai these days, he immediately became a little more interested.

Since the French ** team was encountered here, it was natural that he could not rush forward, so after sending scouts, a large number of Yunnan troops went ashore from the dock and camped behind a small hill 2 miles away from the shore.

Cen Yuying asked people to recruit important civil and military officials in the army, and today the battle between the guards and the French was won, obviously they can learn a lot about the situation of the French, and it is completely necessary to let the officials under him know this, and when Liu Yongfu came in with a few thousand generals, there were already seventeen or eighteen more high-ranking officers and senior officers of the Yunnan army in the big tent.

Cen Yuying listened to Liu Yongfu's troops and horses, and specially asked people to move their seats, so that his commander, who was from Sanpin, also sat in a position, and after asking about today's battle situation, Liu Yongfu also reported according to the truth, referring to Cen Gang's report that the strength of the Seventh Brigade of the French Expeditionary Force in front of him was not small.

Hearing the news of destroying the enemy and capturing nearly a thousand enemies in this battle, Cen Yuying hinted with great interest, and expressed his willingness to take credit for the protection of ** as the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, although Liu Yongfu had just become an official of the Qing Dynasty, but he was very capable in this kind of thing, and this matter was a good thing for himself and Lord Qin, so he immediately bowed down and thanked him.

Waiting out of the camp tent, Cen Yuying's side of a master surnamed Kuai sent off guests on behalf of the governor, and when he got outside, he pulled Liu Yongfu aside, and asked with a smile: "Liu Tongzhi, this great victory was reported to the court by Cen Dashuai, this credit is indispensable, according to the usual practice, this time the enemy annihilated, captured the enemy Our Yunnan army took thirty percent, protected ** seventy percent, and the captured things, the marshal said that all of them will be given to you, and I will ......inform you."

Liu Yongfu was stunned when he heard it, it turned out that Cen Dashuai said that there was such a reason for himself to show merit, at this time, Zhou Ruidong, the commander-in-chief of the protection of ** Yuebei, was also hundreds of miles away, not to mention the Nanyang Minister Qin Kai, he thought about it for a while, and immediately agreed to agree with Master Kuai's statement, and agreed to send the head of the French army and the prisoners to the camp when he turned around.

As soon as he came out of the Yunnan army camp, Wu Fengdian behind him and several thousands of generals complained, somewhat dissatisfied, these exploits were all earned by the brothers, although the Dian army also came to help, but they took a lot of credit without firing a shot, but seeing that Liu Yongfu did not say much, he muttered for a while, and their old brothers were silent.

Back in the guard** camp, Liu Yongfu immediately summoned people to send a message to the news point in Hanoi, and then transmitted the news to the Zhiling Fortress through the guò waterway. And what he is most concerned about is the wounded soldiers in his battalion, this battle is the first independent battle after the Black Flag Army is attached to the **, and it is also the first battle in which the Black Flag Army has transformed from cold weapons to firearms.

In today's battle, due to the fierce front-line fighting, many soldiers were unable to move out of the trenches in time, so there were nearly 200 dead soldiers, and there were nearly 200 wounded soldiers gathered in the rear camp at this time.

The military doctors are nervously giving treatment, to be honest, Liu Yongfu is only about 20 years old when the military doctors first came, they do not attach much importance to the Chinese believe in traditional Chinese medicine, and these students also have a little understanding of herbal medicine, not proficient, in dealing with trauma mainly with Western surgery and horsetail self-produced wound powder, and there is no old Chinese medicine that is proficient in the taste of medical scriptures.

In the past, the disability and mortality rate of the Black Flag Army after being shot in the battle with the French was extremely high, in fact, this was mainly due to the failure to perform surgery to remove the projectile in time after being shot, resulting in lead poisoning and later infection, after their effective treatment, the mortality rate was greatly reduced. ,

It is already nightfall, but the partial camp responsible for dealing with the wounded soldiers is still brightly lit, Yang Zhusi's battalion is disabled today, and now there are less than 300 wounded soldiers, and most of the wounded soldiers in the battalion at this time are his subordinates, he is naturally very anxious, so he specially sent 50 soldiers to help take care of the wounded soldiers here, the camp is in a mess, and there are wounded soldiers moaning from time to time.

He Ergou also hung up the lottery today, the left shoulder and left arm were each shot once, fortunately it was not fatal, after a simple operation bandaged and sat down to rest, at this time Wang Dali smiled and took a bowl of hot porridge, two cakes for him to send over, Lao Yuan shouted "Ergouzi, today's table is good, but not clever enough, you look at my brother, I will be unharmed......"

As a result, as soon as he finished saying this, Wang Dali noticed that there were unkind eyes flying all around, and then he was despised by the wounded group, only then did he find that he had lost his words, and he was busy making amends so that he was not sprayed with spittle, and after handing over the cake, he looked at He Ergou's left arm that was wrapped into a bear paw with concern, and was amazed.

He Ergou was comforting while nibbling on cakes and drinking hot porridge, and when he heard his strange sound, he asked curiously, "Brother Wang, what do you mean by this?" What's the point? ”

"Ergouzi, your bag is an authentic foreign cloth, I didn't expect our *** to be so rich" He smiled and pulled Ergouzi's bandage, "I guess you want to go back to the fortress to recuperate......"

"Yes, Mr. Qian said just now, I will leave tomorrow, I don't want to go, but now this left hand can't be forced, the military doctor said, if you don't take care of the injury, I'm afraid it will affect this arm" He Ergou was injured and didn't have a painful expression at all, but was a little excited, because as long as it was judged to be a medium-range injury in the battle, it meant that he would definitely be able to obtain the most basic merit of protecting ** - the fifth-class "Iron Red Star Medal".

This medal has no special purpose, but the Nanyang Minister Qin clearly stipulates in the non-commissioned officer system that the family of the non-commissioned officer who has obtained the fifth-class medal can enjoy a series of preferential policies, and He Ergou's younger brother and sister can get the opportunity to enter the Mawei Higher School because of this, of course, under the same conditions, and this is one of the things that his disabled father wants most.

Wang Dali looked at the wounded soldiers around him, it was obvious that they were very lucky now, his father was also injured in the war with the French, because at that time, the Black Flag Army did not have any military doctors, they were all bandaged by the soil method and lived and died, his father was a man of great fate, the last leg was completely rotten, but he still left his life, and dozens of hundreds of wounded survived.

Today's injured brothers, Yang Qian always said, eighty percent of the brothers can survive, and they can all get medals to win glory for their families in China, at this time, he is somewhat depressed, why didn't he suffer a little injury, otherwise he wouldn't have to covet the medal of the two dogs......

The Chinese and French ** teams confronted each other on both sides of the Lujiang River, and the protection ** did not intend to attack Xuanhua in the north, and Cen Yuying, according to the news of the scouts, judged that the opponent's troops were strong, and if they wanted to defeat the French army, they were bound to accumulate more troops, so they camped and waited for his younger brother Cen Yubao's troops, and at the same time urgently ordered Zhao Wo, a Yunnan Taoist stationed in Bac Ninh, to help.

The French army on the other side saw the increase in the Qing army's troops, coupled with the new defeat, and did not have the confidence to cross the river to conquer the dock, and did not make a new offensive move.

The battle between China and France was a protracted war, although the Qing army was a little weak, but it could still resist for a while on the front line, but because of the effect of his little butterfly, the French seemed to have invested troops and tactical directions that had changed, which made him, a strategist, feel a little difficult to judge afterwards.

At this time, he was discussing the affairs of the Zhanjiang Industrial Zone with Xu Guofang, Chen Bingkun, Sun Fu, and Zhang Jian, as well as Zhang Siqi, who was in charge of the Mawei Shi Yàn room, and several engineers were also called, and Chen Baotong, the prefect of Leizhou, was very efficient this time, and the positions of the 8 counties under the jurisdiction of the Leizhou Government have been sent, and these are all county officials and other positions, and the county order that is easy to make money will naturally not be vacant, even if it is not a rich place like Leizhou.

Qin Kai is not good at the operation of this Qing officialdom, so he has to ask Sun Fu, "Brother Sun, how long do you think it will take us to take over the civil affairs of this Leizhou Mansion?" ”

Sun Fu didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically, "Gale Wind, what do you think?" This can be slow or urgent, after Chen Baotong sent the list of counties, I have already checked the origin of these officials, 7 of the 9 county orders are donors, these people are all hoping to make some money in office so that they can operate in new positions, if you want to take them down, it is easy to ......",

“…… How to take it? Qin Kai was confused when he heard it.

Sun Fu looked at the honest engineers of Xu Guofang in the room, and knew that this kind of thing was too deceitful, so he leaned into Qin Kai's ear and said softly: "Gale Wind, there are two ways, one is to use silver, and the other is ...... That's it...... So ......".

Qin Kai looked at Sun Fu, these hurtful tricks were also thanks to Lao Sun himself, he thought about it for a moment, nodded with a smile and said, "Brother Sun, according to your idea, what about the other two counties?" ”

"The county orders of Beihe and Jianghong counties are all from the Tongzhi period, I sent people to check people, some of them have the ability to deal with political affairs, and they have no special connections, so they have been in office for more than ten years, if Gale wants to use them, I can recruit them on my behalf" Sun Fu waited for Qin Kai's reply after speaking.

Qin Kai pondered for a while, this is indeed a good way, he will not do anything important in Leizhou for the time being, mainly to engage in foreign affairs, no one can find his own stubble in this era, so he nodded and responded.

Sun Fugong took over the job, and then said: "Gale Wind, there is one more thing, you have reliable manpower that can handle political affairs, but Yan Zòng is insufficient, just the Leizhou Mansion is already stretched, you have to think about it earlier."

This made Qin Kai feel a little depressed about his Wang Bazhi again, there are not many capable people who have come to work, and all the students who can be used under him are the students of the ship administration, and now the student soldiers are the elite and pillars of the Nanyang Navy Division and the Protector, and he also expects that some of these students will be able to conquer and fight in the army, so that he can worry about it, but the importance of things in this place is not lower than this military affairs, and this problem really needs to be considered.

But at present, it seems that he can only transfer people from the army and Zhang Jian's side first, thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Zhang Jian, "Brother Ji, you see that you have manpower over there."

Zhang Jian's school is now booming, Guangzhou is a port bigger than Fuzhou, and the children's understanding of Western studies is higher than that of Fuzhou, so he asked Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangguang, and Qin Kai, the governor of Guangzhou, to open three primary schools, two middle schools, and two higher middle schools in Guangzhou, and is preparing to establish a Nanyang University, in addition to opening Nanyang Second Technical School in Zhanjiang, Leizhou.

He has some good seedlings in his hands to deal with government affairs, but he is too busy to do it, and when he saw that Qin Kai was coming, he shook his head, "Gale Wind, I don't have a problem with this, if you give me another year and a half, I will be able to help you cultivate a group of people, and I am afraid that you will not be able to eat such people at that time."

Qin Kai knew that Zhang Jian was talking about the students of Mawei College of Higher Education and Higher School, and he was the nominal principal, but this practice was completely handled by Zhang Jian, at present, there are more than 150 students in Mawei Higher School, and the number of students in the Higher School has reached an astonishing more than 2,000 people

Hit a soft nail on Zhang Jian's side, Qin Kai had no choice but to aim at the army, a telegram was sent to Zhang Kui, and more than a dozen student soldiers were squeezed out from him, and finally plugged the hole in this manpower, this person who controls the place has manpower, and there is no shortage of people who do specific things, Sun Fu is an expert in this regard, so he has full authority to take care of it.

Qin Kai also knew Sun Fu's scruples, so he made it clear to him, just grasp it in two sentences, "appoint people on the basis of merit, promote meritocracy and do not avoid relatives"

Sanji County, Leizhou Prefecture, is a good place in Leizhou Prefecture, there is a seaport, there is a good tax every year, and the real estate and seafood here are also rich, so Huang Yu of Sanji Zhixian County is also mixed with taste in office, he is a native of Huizhou Mansion in Guangnan, and his grandfather has been the prefect of Xingning for several terms, but he has also accumulated some family background, and in his life, he is just a local tyrant in the township.

However, Huang Yu is an understanding person, he is the concubine of the family, and there is not much family property that can be shared, but he is also a character who has read books, and after some calculations, he donated a seven-grade top, and then asked for a sum of silver from the family, and raised more than 2,000 taels of silver from several local businessmen in the name of the Huang family, and sought the real shortage of this three auspicious.

After taking office, he brought the three entourages to lend him money to the children of the three merchant families, which can be described as a veritable official group, and he was concerned about everything in the affairs of the county, but the concern was indeed the problem of the silver, he naturally did not ask about the local security, did not ask about the livelihood of the people, did not ask about the grievances of the case, only cared about the local people's feelings, understood the local specialties, and what places could be accommodating in various cases. ,

Since then, the yamen is full of abacus and board sounds all day long, and the county magistrate Huang Lao is rich in resources, and Sanji has set up a major project to repair water conservancy in the past two years, and the poor and rich families have to pay money and grain.

In the first year of his tenure, Sanji, which had a population of only 20,000 households, Huang Yu earned back the five thousand taels of silver spent on donating officials, and removed the usual practice of giving it to the prefect and the Guangzhou Yamen, and there were still thousands of taels of earnings, which made them very happy and prepared to make persistent efforts to operate in a richer prefecture and county.

Unexpectedly, one day in early August, Sun Daotai of the governor of the yamen suddenly broke into the yamen directly with a team of high-spirited personal soldiers, Huang Yu wondered if it was the usual time when the money was not delivered, but he was startled by the stack of bitter masters thrown out by Sun Fu, and turned over two or three things, all of which were done by himself, and his crime of corruption was definitely not escaped.

At that time, Huang Yu almost peed his pants, thinking of these daily routines, the money was no less than the governor's yamen, and he came to beg Sun Fu with a handful of snot and tears, but fortunately, this Sun Daotai was a righteous man, and instructed him to move to a place with silver quickly, preferably not the boundary of Guangdong, and when the new official took office, he would naturally not have nothing to do, and it would fade after a while.

Since it was the opinion of the Daotai master, and he was afraid that he would be arrested by the governor's yamen to punish the crime, he naturally did not dare to disobey, and convened a group of four people to discuss the matter overnight, and entrusted Sun Fu with 2,000 taels of silver to make up for the actual position of Leizhou from Liupin Yunju, and his vacant position of Sanji Zhixian was quickly filled by Sun Fu's subordinates, as for this Huang Yu master, he quickly disappeared from everyone's field of vision.

Among the nine counties in Leizhou, only the magistrates of Beihe and Jianghong counties did not move in the same place, Sun Fu personally recruited these two county orders from the imperial examination for Qin Kai, for this sudden good news, these two young officials who are over forty years old are naturally grateful, the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty is not easy to mix, and now that he finally has a backer, he immediately came to take refuge.

The Governor's request was very simple and straightforward, to set up a new school in the local area, recruit laborers to the Zhanjiang Industrial Zone, and make every effort to maintain local stability. Although the governor said that he didn't ask about other things, these two county magistrates were much more sober-minded than those donors, and they used Zhanjiang as a template for everything, and they did a good job.