Chapter 0074 became a city-level cadreAt the same time that Li Weiguo entered Shanghai County, there was the first disagreement between factions within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

At this time, the Taiping army has successively captured the three towns of Wuhan, Jiujiang and other important military and money and grain towns, 13,000 naval warships, 147 artillery pieces, more than 8,000 muskets and guns of various types, and a total strength of 800,000 (enveloping refugees), which can not only threaten Su and Anhui, but also deter Yu Shu, and the momentum is huge.

In the face of such a favorable situation, within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were three opinions on the future strategy, and the debate was very fierce.

Shi Dakai, Wei Changhui and others advocated entering Henan in the north and winning the Central Plains in order to achieve the cause of kingship. Hong Xiuquan advocated entering Bashu in the west, where the Qing army's defense was weak and easy to take, and then "tried to disturb again". Only Yang Xiuqing advocated going east to the south of the Yangtze River, occupying Jinling (Nanjing), relying on the Yangtze River to divide the world with the Qing court.

The three parties disputed, and in the end, Yang Xiuqing's people's desire for "Heavenly Father descended to earth and ordered him to directly attack Jiangning", and determined the strategic policy of going east along the Yangtze River, taking Nanjing as the foundation, and Xu Tu making progress.

Hong Xiuquan was very unhappy, the Taiping army was wiped out by the Qing army, if it weren't for Yang Xiuqing's expedient measure to boost morale and repel the Qing army, I am afraid that the Taiping army would have been exterminated.

Because of this, Hong Xiuquan simply acquiesced to Yang Xiuqing's father's "ghost trick", however, with the development and growth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Yang Xiuqing, the nine thousand years old, gradually became estranged from Hong Xiuquan, Hong Xiuquan vetoed Yang Xiuqing's marriage to Hong Xuanjiao, Yang Xiuqing stirred up Hong Xiuquan's desire to accept Su Sanniang as a concubine, on the issue of Fu Shanxiang, Hong Yang and Yang reached a compromise because of their respective positions and interests, which can be regarded as a draw.

Now Yang Xiuqing once again vetoed Hong Xiuquan's plan through Heavenly Father, which made Hong Xiuquan very dissatisfied, and the contradiction between the two further deepened.

The Taiping army then continued southward and soon launched the Battle of Anqing.

At this time, the Qing court was greatly alarmed. Su Shun's military aircraft minister Yi Xin was ineffective in suppressing bandits, forcing Xianfeng to remove Yi Xin from the post of military aircraft minister again, but he stayed in the military aircraft department to participate in politics, and changed the minister of the Qin mission to Huguang Governor Xiang Rong went to the front line to suppress the bandits, specializing in the military affairs of the two lakes, and made an exception to add two ministers: one was Qi Shan, the governor of Henan, and led the army to defend Xinyang and Xinye; One is Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, and the superintendent guards Jiangwan.

Due to the death and escape of hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, the Qing army was so frightened that they peed their pants when they heard that the Taiping army was coming.

In the end, the Taiping army killed Liu Junyi, the chief soldier of Anqing Town, in the battle of Anqing, defeated about 30,000 Qing troops in the department, and Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangguang, supervised the reinforcement of 80,000 water divisions, but was annihilated by the Taiping army's land and water attack, Lu Jianying fled back to Jinling alone, and Liu Jianzhang of Susong Taidao was sent out by Lu Jianying as cannon fodder, and unfortunately died in this battle.

The Taiping army pursued the victory and approached Jinling, the capital of Jiangning. At the same time, the Susong Taidao Knife Society rebelled, captured Jiading, Chuansha, Baoshan, Shanghai and other places, and established the Ming Dynasty.

When the news came out, the whole country was shocked, and Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing court suddenly couldn't sit still, and hurriedly discussed countermeasures with the minister of civil and military affairs.

Originally, because of Liu Jianzhang's death, Yixin felt the huge energy of Sushun's party, felt that he couldn't fight the other party, and wanted to temporarily protect himself and lurk for a period of time to accumulate strength.

But at this moment, Yixin received two good news from Li Weiguo, Li Weiguo led the Chongming County regimental training army to recover Baoshan County and Shanghai County, defeated the main force of the Little Knife Society, and beheaded 100,000 (concealed report).

Yi Xin thought that he did not have any military power in his hands, as soon as Liu Jianzhang died, Yi Xin's only help in the field was also lost, at this time, Li Weiguo showed an excellent Wen Tao Wu strategy, which can not only govern the place, but also lead the army to fight, not to mention that it is still his own people, and he should be doubly encircled.

So Yixin took out Li Weiguo's merit and handed it to Xianfeng.

Although the scale of the rebellion of the Little Knife Society was far less huge than that of the Taiping Army, the problem was that the Little Knife Society established the Great Ming Kingdom and supported the descendants of Zhu Shizi to ascend the throne as emperors, which was the biggest taboo in the Great Qing Dynasty, so Xianfeng attached more importance to the Little Knife Society.

Knowing that Li Weiguo recovered Baoshan County and Shanghai County, and eliminated the main force of the 100,000 Little Knife Society, which made Xianfeng very happy, just when the Qing army was repeatedly defeated, Li Weiguo's regimental training army achieved a great victory, which was enough to boost the morale of the Qing army, so Xianfeng immediately Longyan Dayue, ignoring the strong opposition of Su Shun and others, promoted Li Weiguo to the prefect of Songjiang, acting Su Songtai prepared the road, admired this yellow coat, and ordered Li Weiguo to exterminate the Little Knife Society, and then led troops to reinforce Jinling, and cooperated with Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, to defend Liangjiang.

When the news came back to Shanghai, Li Weiguo was very happy, and he was promoted from county magistrate to mayor, which was much faster than the second generation of officials in later generations.

Originally, he thought that it would be good for Su Shun and others to obstruct Xianfeng from giving him a verbal reward, but he didn't expect Xianfeng to be able to directly promote him to several levels, from the county order of the seventh grade to the Songjiang prefect and Su Songtaibing, which is equivalent to legalizing the two territories of Baoshan County and Shanghai County that Li Weiguo had just beaten down, because these two counties are under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture, as for Chongming County, although it is not under Songjiang Prefecture but under the jurisdiction of Taicang Zhili Prefecture, a Su Songtai military preparation road allows Li Weiguo to meddle in the military affairs of Taicang Zhili Prefecture. It means that Chongming County is still in the hands of Li Weiguo.

This is a big bargain, Li Weiguo didn't expect that a knife would be so valued by Emperor Xianfeng, if the Daming Kingdom established by the knife would be destroyed, and if the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom was captured and handed over to Xianfeng, would it be given to a governor again?

Li Weiguo thought beautifully, and suddenly thought that if he really destroyed the knife society and arrested the Ming Emperor they supported and dedicated it to Xianfeng, I am afraid that the Heaven and Earth Society will have to form a mortal enmity with Li Weiguo from now on.

"Ya, it doesn't matter if he has a knife club or a heaven and earth club, as long as he dares to stand in the way of Lao Tzu, he will kill them all, and use them all as stepping stones for me!"

Li Weiguo thought about it, the gains outweighed the losses, so he was not afraid anymore, and it was a big deal to go out with groups of bodyguards in the future.

The main force of the Little Knife Society has been disabled by Li Weiguo, and it is easy to recover Chuansha and Jiading next, but Xianfeng asked Li Weiguo to go to reinforce Jinling, and asked Li Jiajun to fight with the Taiping army, which has to be carefully considered.

Although Li Weiguo was not afraid of the Taiping army, it was not in Li Weiguo's current interests to start a frontal war with the Taiping army too early. With the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attracting the attention of the Qing emperor, Li Weiguo had more opportunities and time to develop his strength, even if he occasionally did something out of the ordinary, the Qing court would temporarily turn a blind eye.

At present, Li Weiguo's only concern is his daughter-in-law Fu Shanxiang, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has clearly agreed that the two sides will exchange hostages, and the matter of Hong Xuanjiao and Liu Shaoting, the core members of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, must not be known to the Qing court, otherwise if the Qing court forces him to hand over Hong Xuanjiao and Liu Shaoting, he will be in a dilemma.

Therefore, the most important thing for Li Weiguo at present is to quickly exchange Fu Shanxiang back, but the Taiping army is fighting with the Qing army, and the surrounding areas are closely surrounded by the Qing army. And it is obvious that the army in the past cannot hide from the nearby Qing army, and if the news leaks, it will be very unfavorable to Li Weiguo.

After thinking about it, Li Weiguo still gritted his teeth and decided to send troops to reinforce Jinling.

Since the Taiping army is about to attack Jinling, then the two armies can meet on the battlefield, and when the time comes, it is best to operate carefully, fight on the surface, exchange hostages secretly, and come up with a plan to hide from the world and cross the sea.

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo immediately called a confidant and told him to bring a message to the Taiping army, asking for a hostage exchange on the battlefield of Jinling.

After making this decision, Li Weiguo began to dispatch troops.

After three major battles in Baoshan County, Shanghai County, and Jiangwan Town, Li Jiajun can be regarded as adapting to the battlefield, and almost everyone has seen blood and become real soldiers.

However, after three high-intensity battles, the consumption of ammunition is huge, after all, the size of the Li family's army is there, and the consumption of ammunition for a force of 14,000 people is naturally very huge.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo had the foresight to hoard a large amount of ammunition every time he purchased arms, and now there are nearly two million catties of gunpowder in the arsenal in Chongming County, which is enough to support three more wars of 10,000 people.

However, there was one point that Li Weiguo misjudged, that is, every time he bought arms from the British, there were too few parts for the maintenance of muskets. After three high-intensity battles, the damage rate of the muskets used by Li Jiajun was very large, and more than 2,000 muskets needed to be repaired or replaced, including the destruction during hand-to-hand combat, as well as the damage caused by frequent shooting.

Of course, there is another important reason, that is, these British muskets are all from the British side, and they are not new guns that have just left the factory, but the British army has been used for a long time or even is about to be retired, so the life span is naturally not high.

In this regard, Li Weiguo again contacted John of the British Legation and asked him to negotiate with the British military in Hong Kong. In the end, the British military in Hong Kong responded by not compensating Li Weiguo for the muskets he had previously purchased, but would give preferential treatment in future arms deals as compensation.

Li Weiguo put up with this kind of overlord clause for the time being, after all, the equipment he purchased for the manufacture of weapons and munitions had not yet been shipped back to China, and now he had to fight again, so he had to buy British weapons for the time being.

Of course, Li Weiguo can also buy weapons from France, the United States, and Germany, but the only weapons that France can provide are the Charville 1777 rifle, which is too poor in performance and far less useful than British weapons.

And Li Weiguo's most eye-catching is the German Dresser M1841 needle rear-loading gun, because this is the world's first rifle, five times faster than the traditional musket, Li Weiguo wants this rifle, but Germany currently has no embassy in China, no contact, Li Weiguo can only entrust German businessmen to return to China for negotiations, so for the time being, Li Weiguo can only reluctantly continue to buy P1842 muskets with the British.

Because Li Weiguo proposed that the war was tense and asked the British side to supply as much as possible, and the British side was also taken aback by the rebellion of the Shanghai Knife Society, and they were worried about the safety of the concession, so the British Hong Kong military immediately responded to Li Weiguo's request, and urgently allocated 11,000 muskets, 30 artillery pieces, 200,000 catties of lead and 6 million catties of gunpowder from the stock, and sold them to Li Weiguo for 3.8 million taels of silver, which was nearly 10% cheaper than the previous price, which was regarded as compensation for Li Weiguo.

According to the old rules, 11,000 muskets included 10,000 P1842 firing smoothbore guns, and the remaining 1,000 muskets were P1851 firing rifled guns. The 30 guns included 10 32-pounder guns, 8 24-pounder field guns, and 12 16-pounder field guns.

Li Weiguo now has silver, and after capturing Baoshan County and Shanghai County, he brought Li Weiguo a huge wealth of nearly 20 million taels of silver from the captured booty, so Li Weiguo dared to eat such a large scale of arms.

You must know that at this time, the silver in the treasury of the Xianfeng Dynasty was less than five million taels, and it was not enough to pay the Eight Banners soldiers on the front line, so the local officials would be allowed to form regiments to train troops to resist the Taiping Army.

After negotiating an arms deal with the British, it would take a month and a half to arrive at the earliest, so Li Weiguo decided to send troops to Chuansha and Jiading first, and all the knives in his territory would be cleared, and then wait until the arms arrived, and then send troops to Jinling.