Because of the system delay and stuck, Chapter 1169 was repeated by one more chapter, and the background was asked to inform that it could not be deleted. There is no way to www.biquge.info the bones, so I can only ask the reader to forgive me, and I will bring three or four hundred more words at the end of each chapter for the extra few cents spent, so as to compensate everyone in disguise.

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Chongming was originally under Shanghai County, but now it is directly under the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and has become a military base shared by the Yangtze River Naval Division and the East China Sea Division.

More than 2,000 original people on the island have been relocated to the shore one after another, some of them are located in Changshu in the south of the Yangtze River, and the other part is located in Haimen in the north of the Yangtze River. Now the residents of the island are the families of the sailors, most of whom are the families of the former Zhejiang army.

The three islands of Changsha, Sansha and Nansha under the jurisdiction of Chongming also built corresponding wharves and barracks, and arranged garrisons, which were mainly used to hoard supplies for the water division. Thanks to Ma Fengzhi's earlier operation in Chongming, the investment of the sailor is relatively small, otherwise everything will be rebuilt, which is really a big construction.

After the Jiangnan riots were quelled, the Metropolitan Governor's Office transferred a large amount of materials originally hoarded in Jinshan Port to Chongming, and at the same time, the military rations and materials raised from Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were also transferred to Chongming, which made Chongming Island very lively.

On 9 June, half of the New Second Army and the New Third Army, the main forces of the Northern Expedition, had arrived in Chongming, and the arrival of more than 20,000 officers and soldiers made Chongming very crowded, but it was also more popular.

In order to divert officers and soldiers, Tie Yi, the governor of the Fifth Theater of Operations, personally went to Chongming to take up the town, and placed the New Third Army on Nansha and Sansha Island, the New Second Army on Chongming Island, and the rest of the soldiers and horses on Chongming Island.

At present, both Jiangbei and Jiangnan are classified as forbidden areas within 30 miles, and no one in the restricted area is allowed to go out, except for the army, not even the local government.

Considering that the establishment of the forbidden area will be very troublesome to the lives of the local people, Zhou Shixiang specially ordered the Third War Zone to allocate some money and food to compensate these people. And try to recruit these people to work in simple engineering construction, so that their lives will not be in trouble due to the lockdown. The fishermen who used to fish were also requisitioned with men and boats, but instead of letting them go north to join the army, they were responsible for helping the army transport supplies on both sides of the Yangtze River, and were paid according to their work.

This policy applauded the people in the blockade area, because the Taiping army was very generous, the wage settlement was very generous, and there were many places where labor was needed.

The sudden increase in the transportation of goods and the entry of a large number of troops made the people in the blockade area smell the smell of a big war imminently.

The fishermen, who carry their own boats every day to help bring the soldiers on the shore to Chongming Island, always have mixed feelings when they watch the energetic young people humming a tune they have never heard before, and then excitedly discussing how many Tartars to kill.

There are always people who die in war, but I don't know how many of these young people will come back alive in the future.

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On Changsha Island, south of Chongming, more than 3,000 Taiping soldiers were stationed here for three days. On the sea, there are warships passing by from time to time, and whenever the warships pass by, the Taiping soldiers who are training on the island will always subconsciously stop their movements and look at those warships with a longing look.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army, who had been mobilized at various levels before the war, had unimaginable heroism and urgency to go north to participate in the battle of extermination.

The officers were also eager to board the ships and sail north, so instead of scolding the soldiers, they kept an eye on the ships in the hope that they would dock and take them north.

The sound of "bang" resounded at the eastern end of Chongming Island, where the commander personally guarded the entire eight towns of the musket brigade.

The brigade school is Yu Youming, a young prince of Zhejiang, who has just arrived from Suzhou and is now seizing the last time to train the troops.

The officers and men of the Musket Brigade were all flintlock muskets, with much better range, rate of fire, and power than the musket units of other towns. However, since its establishment, this musket brigade has not been engaged in a single battle, even when Jiangnan was quelled, the brigade was required to stay in Zhenjiang.

Under Xu Yingyuan's "help" and Zhou Shixiang's "pressure", as well as Yu Youming's cheekiness in order to be able to participate in the Northern Expedition, Liu Xiaozhao, who only wanted to marry a pretty scholar, was finally persuaded by his mother to put away his mind and become a duchess of a small country.

Qian Qianyi is still dissatisfied with this marriage, he is not dissatisfied with Youming, after being loyal to him, Qian Qianyi likes it in his bones. It's just that Zhou Shixiang's various actions in Jiangnan are thousands of miles different from what he said at the beginning, which made him lose face among the Jiangnan gentry, and even his nephew was canonically punished by Zhou Shixiang. In this case, how could Qian Qianyi still have the face to stay in Nandu to be his concubine, and finally resigned and returned to Suzhou.

After Qian left Nandu, Huang Zongxi took over his leadership position in the Jiangnan literary circle, and organized a great criticism of Gu Yanwu, which was unmatched for a while. It's just that it didn't take a hundred days to bloom, a month later, the situation reversed, Zhou Shixiang married the princess, the imperial court was restructured, and Huang Zongxi, who had spent all his efforts to drum up the "public servant theory" in advance, was put in the cabinet by Zhou Shixiang, and the six ministries of the cabinet and the palace affairs institute had no place for him.

Huang Zongxi was personally invited from Zhejiang by Qian Qianyi, but now he ended up with himself, Qian Qianyi was angry in his heart. At this juncture, Zhou Shixiang actually beat his daughter's idea to give his daughter to Yu Youming, the son of the late Duke of Zhejiang Yu Shizhong, but Qian Qianyi was unwilling.

It's just that Hedong Junliu looks at Yu Youming like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at it, the happier she becomes, and she insists on marrying her daughter to Yu Youming. Qian Qianyi really loved Hedongjun, and couldn't bear to brush her mind, so he had to pretend to be deaf and dumb and let her go.

He Dongjun knew that her husband had a problem in her heart, so she told him the psychological words one day, she said: "Since Jiashen, it is always more reassuring to hold a knife than a pen." My daughter has grown up, and I don't want to be a mother for anything else, I just want her to be safe and secure in this life. If we find a weak scholar to marry, no matter how talented we are, if something happens to the country, can he protect our daughter? ”

After Qian Qianyi heard this, he could only sigh secretly. Thinking that he is a dignified leader of the Jiangnan literary circle, the Qing court said that he would arrest him, but what about others. Now although the southern capital has recovered, the world is still in chaos, the Tartar is not peaceful, Wu Sangui is undecided, who knows when the world will be chaotic. In troubled times, what can best keep peace is undoubtedly the sword.

Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangsu, personally came forward to give Yu Youming a letter of appointment to the Qian family, and the Qian family accepted and returned the gift, and the marriage was settled.

Yu Youming, who finally let go of his heart, didn't have time to wait for Jiang Guozhu to send him a return gift from the Qian family, so he hurried to Chongming. He was afraid that the marshal would break his promise and not let him participate in the Northern Expedition.

Zhou Shixiang had no intention of letting Yu Youming go north, but his musket brigade was his own personal guard unit, so it was impossible to let Yu Youming go north. In addition, Yu Youming was eager for revenge, and he also wanted to exercise this little grandfather, so he approved his request to fight, and ordered him to bring the musket brigade to Chongming to board the ship at any time.

The sound of firecrackers sounding during the training of the musket brigade made the lively Chongming Island seem to be setting off fireworks.

On the beach by the sea, the roaring cavalry proudly showed off their horsemanship, causing the infantry to blush. But when they saw dozens of cavalrymen who couldn't control their horses being kicked and beaten by the officers, they couldn't help but feel sympathy.

This cavalry is the entire three towns of the Second Army, and the three towns are also the only pure cavalry towns among the five main forces, with a full strength of 10,200 people and 14,500 war horses. Just transporting the entire three towns with people and horses would have to account for one-third of the transportation capacity of the East China Sea Division and the Yangtze River Water Division.

The three wharves on the island are now full of boats of all sizes, and on the river and sea, there are still ships full of supplies waiting to enter the port. The officers and men of the baggage battalion, together with the islanders, were all busy carrying food there, and they were all tired and sweating profusely.

"One, two, three!"

With the sound of the trumpet, more than 200 shirtless men were laboriously moving several cannons to the ship little by little, and the men who gave the call were already anxious, according to the military order, they must pull these more than 20 new guns to the ship before dark, otherwise the military law will deal with it.

On the south side of the wharf, hundreds of young people sat on the ground around a steaming cauldron, each holding a pair of chopsticks in their hands. Some people have clean bowls in their hands, while others are dirty and black. They wore uniform white clothes, but they were not the sailors of the Taiping Army, but they also had a command system.

These people were all sailors who voluntarily went north in Jinxia, including fishermen, sailors on merchant ships, former sea outlaws, and even Fusang ronins and red-haired ghosts, with a total number of about 9,000.

They voluntarily went north with the Taiping Army for many purposes, and some hoped that they would earn a military merit and become a member of the Taiping Army from then on. There are also people who just want to go with the army to make a fortune, whether it is robbery or reward, as long as the life is bold and big, there will always be a harvest.

Some people went to the "sealed soil" posted by the Taiping Army. They want to have their own land in Liaodong, they want to have their own slaves, and they want to seek a share of glory and wealth for their children and grandchildren.

A ronin from the Wa Kingdom took out a piece of paper that had been crumpled by him in his arms, and asked the people around him: "Zheng Jun, do you say, is the headhunting order of the Taiping Army true or false?" Can an overseas person like me really become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty with the head of the Hu people? ”