Chapter 31: The Struggle, in the Ponytail

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At this time, the Huai Army Chengbei Camp is still brightly lit, as the strongest army in this era, more than ten years ago to suppress the war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, those veterans still have a slight impression, and most of the battalion are the new Huai Army children who have entered the camp over the years. In Tianjin Wei, this can be regarded as the world of the Huai army.

At that time, Li Zhongtang set the five-day drill requirements, and now few of the garrisons and commanders of each battalion have practiced in accordance with this regulation, and the recruits enter the camp to walk in a formation or something, and let the veterans take them, as for the training of foreign gun shooting and test artillery, it is just a show.

The soldiers have become the appendages of the officers in disguise, and the junior officers are not busy training all day long, but are busy keeping up with the bosses, and the resources at the disposal of the army have invisibly become tools for personal profit. As for the Taoism, it is even more varied, and it is unimaginable for ordinary people.

It is said that the general manager often lets the soldiers go out to work for others during the day, and the officers get the lion's share, and the soldiers only get the remaining profits, which is just the most common way to make profits, and the smarter officers, conniving at their subordinates, use the army signboard in their hands, swagger and deceive, even if the bitter master comes, this huge army has nowhere to find, even if the form is handed to the prefect's yamen, most of them will be lost at that time.

At night, there were soldiers coming and going from time to time at the gate of the camp, two Japanese ronins came slowly in a very ordinary carriage, and after handing over a post at the camp gate, a military attache leaned half into the carriage to take a look, and there was a few Japanese girls' hip-hop voices inside, and after a while, the gongfu carriage was put into the camp, and the group of soldiers at the door began to talk about the taste of Japanese girls.

Qin Kai has already received news from Ding Richang, and the old man has helped him win his future, although he often jokingly calls Ding Tieji secretly, but for this generous elder, even if he looks at it as a traverser, he is still full of gratitude, and the telegram transferred from the German consulate is also very familiar with the shipyard thousands of miles away. After nearly two months of working in the dark, I have now mastered everything.

His current position is definitely an unpopular thing in Tianjin Weina, but fortunately, his interest is not in this, the only thing that can attract his interest may be the meeting of Lord Li Zhongtang, who is also a famous minister of Zhongxing and a historical infamy, but at present, it seems that Lord Zhongtang does not have this arrangement.

Every day he took Huang Xing and Sun Xiang to visit the two warships of "Tai'an" and "Dengyingzhou", Tai'an was a familiar face, from Lu Han to the gunner, he could be named, and the pipe band of the Dengyingzhou warship was called Yan Gang, for some reason, Qin Kai felt that this person was quite hostile to him, so he just asked casually on the Dengyingzhou warship, and he was familiar.

Asked about Lu Han, Lu Han couldn't say a reason, he only knew that this Yan Gang was the henchman of Liu Shen, the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, which made him suddenly have a little more worry, this Liu Shen didn't have much to do with himself, the only time he saw it was in Ding Richang's yamen, and he immediately sent a telegram to He Xing to make some arrangements.

Old man Ding has also been very comfortable recently, since the textile machine was put into production, the profit of 10% has entered his money bag on time every month, this time he came to Tianjin Wei, he was addicted to collecting books, so when Qin Kai came to him, the old man was holding the basic ancient books and shaking his head and studying.

"Gale Wind, you haven't been able to live very well these days, running to the warship all day long, this supervisor doesn't want to fiddle with the sailor!" The old man has been much better since he often took the musk heart pill, and this has tossed a lot of good books, so naturally the old man is happy, and Qin Kai joked.

"My lord, when you talk about this, I really have an idea, our Nanyang sailors are really not very good, the ship is not strong, it is not good, if the Dongying dwarf has the idea of fighting Taiwan again, I really have to find Lord Zhongtang to borrow troops! That Dongying dwarf has several ironclad ships! "Qin Kai is not ambiguous at all now, let's go down the pole to fight the snake.

Speaking of the sore spot to Qin Kai, Ding Richang was also a little embarrassed, after he arrived, he spared no effort to support Beiyang, and a lot of warships and warships have been built over the years, among them, as long as the warships with iron wedges can be accepted by Lord Zhongtang for free, since this Nanyang sailor, there are only two iron wedges, or Beiyang should not be eliminated, thinking of this, Lao Ding also sighed secretly. ,

"Gale, you also know, the imperial court is now short of silver, we ship a year to allocate hundreds of thousands of taels, but it is all Zhongtang and Zuo Dashuai to fight for the military aircraft, Zhongtang and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau such a big head to settle it, I know that it is not easy for the two adults!"

"Where's Zuo Dashuai?"

"Zuo Dashuai! Two years ago, he went to Xinjiang to clean up the rebels, and he had to fight with Lao Maozi, and he also asked Hu Da to borrow 18 million taels of silver from the British foreign bank, and now Zuo Dashuai is a poor jingle character! ”

"Zuo Dashuai is a real hero!" Qin Kai secretly praised in his heart, this eighteen million taels of silver preserved the territorial integrity of Xinjiang, one-sixth of China, and the contest between this famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia in Xinjiang finally interrupted the polar bear's greedy thoughts, that is, Zuo Dashuai dared to lend this silver!

Ding Richang only realized at this time that he had nothing to do with Qin Kai here, so he hurriedly stopped the topic and asked, "Gale Wind, what are you looking for me?" Don't bother me with a dinner or anything like that, I've been very busy these days! ”

"A telegram came from Fuzhou, saying that there was some chaos in the shipyard, and I was afraid that the sailors would be implicated!" Qin Kai took out the telegram.

Ding Richang took the telegram and looked Qin Kai up and down, "Gale Wind, where did you receive the telegram?" Now this thing is only found by foreigners! ”

"I'm not going to make some deal with them, or I'm the one who feeds this game, my lord! You haven't even allocated me a copper plate yet! Qin Kai protested.

Hearing the silver, Ding Richang smiled and stopped digging into the matter.

The craftsmen of the Mawei shipyard were gathering sporadically at the door of their respective workshops, and they had been suspended for several days, and since the rumor of the deprivation of their salaries and the pockets of the upper officials of the shipyard appeared, the craftsmen who had been in a state of confusion all day long were no longer silent, and they gathered in groups of three or five to talk about these things.

"I heard that we built a warship, Shen Xiaoyan and the golden fat man can get tens of thousands of taels of benefits!"

"It's not enough to take the benefits, but we also have to deduct our salaries, you look at those students from the art garden, only take those copper coins!"

"Why are these two corrupt officials so arrogant......

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And when a few officials who were still attached to Shen Singhe and the golden fat man came to urge them to hurry up to work, they immediately ushered in a burst of spittle stars.

"Liu Gongzi, you are still following that corrupt official, sooner or later, you will pierce the backbone of Luo!"

Liu Mazi was obviously also anxious, "Brothers, I will give you a big salute, you should go back to work quickly, this has made the construction period of the warship wrong, and everyone has nothing to eat!" ”

"It's us who don't have anything to eat, Liu Mazi, you can still drink soup with you, what's the hurry!"

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Shen Singhe was in the camp of Liu Shen, the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, at this time, and the two of them were trying to do some irrelevant things, such as the piano skills of the new girl in the Qicai Building, and the antiques of Qianzhuyuan. Shen Songhe's round face was smiling, his heart was far from being as calm as it seemed, and he asked Liu Shen to send a few teams of soldiers and horses to the shipyard to suppress the formation, which could make him have the strength to eat milk.

Liu Shen is a thunderous posture, this unauthorized use of troops is a matter of losing his head, although he has a close relationship with Shen Singhe, and the benefits on weekdays are not less than his share, but between this head and silver, of course, the head is much more important, but for the sake of the silver, he still said that with the order of the official, he will send troops.

Ding Richang was not the only official of Liu Shen in Fuzhou Mansion, and sure enough, at noon, the golden fat man finally came in a sedan chair, and the governor of Fujian, Wen Shan, gave an order to let the Nanyang sailors assist Shen Sing and restore order in the shipyard!

After getting the chicken feather order arrow, Shen Sing and Zi immediately regained his confidence, and immediately urged Liu Shen to order the people, and also promised 5 taels of hard work per person, a trumpet cannon in the sailor camp, two hundred soldiers carrying Mauser spears and went straight to the shipyard, of course, Liu Shen was too lazy to do such chores in person, and sent one of his henchmen Wan Dafu out of the horse.

Wan Dafu heard that he went to the shipyard to control the craftsmen, but he didn't take it seriously, followed Shen Songhe and left, and when he arrived outside the shipyard gate, he found that the gate here was already guarded, and a heavy wooden fence was set up.

Shen Songhe was also stunned, when did this gang of veteran ruffians become so active, and ran up to ask, and it was Jiupin who turned out in a hurry to make the total Huangdang. ,

"Huang Laosan, what do you mean by this? Who told you to put a card at this door? Shen Singhe naturally guessed one or two, and began to question in a stern tone.

Huang Dang looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and when he saw Shen Singhe questioning, he replied politely at the moment: "Lord Shen, this inspection and guarding the factory is the right thing that Zuo Dashuai sent us to do, I heard that there are thieves who are going to come to the factory to make trouble, so I specially brought someone to guard it first!" Of course, Lord Shen and Lord Jin can go in, brothers of the water master, this is not your territory, where should you go there. ”

Shen Singhe and Jin Fatzi were smoking, this Huang Dang was just a small Jiupin military attachΓ©, and he was the supervisor of the shipyard and the school, but this Huang Laosan really couldn't command, and this gang of old fritters of the Xiangjun army only listened to Ding Richang.

Huang Dang looked like a tough resistance, he transferred 4 groups of people today, but it was only less than fifty people, more than half of the people here sent their children to Qin Kai's research institute to study, Ba looked at the children who were not in the army's furnace to mix a stable future, listening to Huang Dang, they all felt that this was an opportunity to contribute, so they came without hesitation.

However, seeing Shen Sing and the thunderous appearance on the other side, a few of them were also worried, this sailor had more than 200 people, and they were also carrying foreign guns, if there was a fire or something, it would be a big deal.

"Huang Laosan, don't you give in a little way, this Shen smiley face is not easy to provoke!"

"! Du Erleng, you are stupid, your baby can seek this future from Lord Qin, Lord Qin has said, as long as your baby fights, he will definitely be a hundred times stronger than you in the future, you are soft here, how can you see Lord Qin in the future, your baby can't raise his head! ”

"That's it...... That's it, this Shen Xiaomian and the golden fat man are not things, this is the territory of our Hunan army, the handsome man didn't come back, could it be that this Shen Xiaoyan dared to turn the sky upside down! ”

A group of veteran ruffians giggled and emboldened themselves, and someone had already gone to the patrol camp to report the situation.

"Brothers, the old men and horses of our Hunan army have been bullied, and the boys of the sailor who have not grown up all of their hair dare to carry foreign guns to show our Hunan army the color."

"Liu Ergou, what you said is true? The handsome man is not here, Governor Ding is going out to a long house, and it is the other way around here! Let's take a look," a boss heard the news and was furious.

Shen Singhe saw that the other side had no intention of backing down, he finally asked for troops and horses, but he didn't expect to be blocked outside the shipyard, and the smiling face he often hung was long gone, and his face was pale. The fat man next to him also knew that it was so consumed, but it was no good, so he came up and whispered: "Brother Shen, let the water division's men and horses squeeze in, don't raise their guns, these veteran ruffians on the other side will not be hard to reason, don't they dare to shoot the water division's people?" ”

Shen Singhe immediately ordered to take all the foreign guns down, and immediately moved the wooden fence and prepared to squeeze in.

Seeing that these soldiers of the Nanyang Navy Division began to lift the fence one by one with their bare hands, Huang Dang did not break down all of a sudden, and the two sides pointed their noses face to face and resisted him at all, but he was not afraid at all, but he didn't expect Shen Sing and to come to such a move, so now he can only block the camp gate, and everyone resists.

"Old brothers of the Hunan army, I want to see what these little cubs can do today!" Huang Dang shouted loudly.

At this time, not far behind the gate, two young people were muttering and discussing, it was Zhou Ruidong and Zhang Kui.

"This Shen Xiaoyan has some decisive ability, I think Lao Huang can't stand it now, this shot can't be fired when it falls to the ground!" Zhang Kui sighed.

"Zhang Kui, you just talk about it, why don't you gather everyone together, there are more people than people? There are more people out there than in the shipyard, stupid...... The students in the art garden also pulled out. Zhou Ruidong was as calm as ever, no matter how much Shen Xiaoyan and the golden fat man tossed, they would have already been calculated by the instructor, these two were just blind jumpers who were dying.

"Ruidong, I think so too, can't you give me a chance to say it first!" Zhang Kui muttered unconvinced, turned around and went to arrange.

At this time, the wooden fence at the gate has been emptied, and Shen Singhe ordered with a gloomy face: "All march forward in a group, squeeze through, don't do anything, they will be the number 30 people!"

The sailor's men and horses immediately lined up in groups of ten and slowly marched forward.

Thirty steps!

Twenty steps!

Ten steps!

Five steps!

It's about to be bumped into! At this time, there was a sudden commotion on the road outside the factory, and the men and horses of the Hunan Army Inspection Battalion and the Navy Division, who were staring at each other with wide eyes, couldn't help but look back and muttered and guessed. ,

The veterans of the Hunan army in the seventy or eighty patrol battalion appeared noisily, shouting one by two, "Which kings/eight/eggs are looking for trouble with our Hunan army...... When Lao Tzu was twisting, you boys were still breastfeeding! ”

Now the situation is chaotic again, seeing that the manpower of the patrol camp has increased all of a sudden, Shen Singhe is a little anxious, just now he can still deal with seven or eight against one, but now he can only deal with two against one, he gritted his teeth and shouted loudly to Wan Dafu, "Wan Zong, hurry up and rush in, rush in!" Occupy the factory gate for me! ”

The patrol battalion and the sailors were crowded together at once, but both sides had obviously made up their minds not to make the first move, and the gate of the shipyard was a foot wide, and the ten people standing on it were already crowded, and both sides were squeezing around the door. But soon, Shen Singhe and the golden fat man saw some clues.

These nearly 300 people squeezed around the door, tossing for almost half an hour until they squeezed in half a foot to the door, at this rate, even if they tossed all night, they also advanced the door, and these sailors' men and horses seemed to be using their strength to eat, where to push around, this also saw a few people who had time to chat.

MD, these soldiers are not good material, they can't work alone, Shen Singhe scolded secretly, and when he was thinking about how to make these sailors work hard, he only heard a commotion in the factory, and looked in from the gate, only to see countless heads pouring out of the factories inside.

These people obviously also saw Shen Singhe and Jin Fatzi, and saw that they actually transferred the soldiers and horses of the water division to the factory, and the rumors during this period of time were all confirmed at once.

"This Shen Xiaoyan is going to destroy our mouths, and he also transferred the soldiers and horses of the water division!"

"The fat man is really not human, what does he want to do, he also brought soldiers and guns, fortunately, there is a patrol camp of Lord Ding's Hunan army here!"

"Get out of here and kill this bastard!" I don't know who shouted!

"Kill corrupt officials ......"

The flow of people inside rumbled over, and the Hunan army patrol battalion that was tossing with the sailor in front of it was directly pushed out of the shipyard gate, and the sailor outside had already seen that the shape was wrong, and immediately dispersed.

Shen Sing and the fat man were discussing with Jin Fatzi, and went to bring the documents issued by the governor's yamen to the old ** of the Hunan army in Zhenzhen, but when he turned around, he saw countless people rushing up angrily......

He Xing sat in the carriage with an anxious look on his face, and beside him was Master Liu of the Governor's Yamen, Master Liu was holding a telegram manuscript and looking at it with a sweaty face, this Mawei Shipmaster had a shocking event, and he didn't even know that this was a telegram sent back by Governor Ding at the Weiyangren Embassy in Tianjin.

When the carriage hurried to the Mawei Shipbuilding School, the two of them knew that Shen Singhe had transferred the sailor soldiers and horses to the shipyard, and when they turned around and arrived at the shipyard, the scene in front of them really frightened the two of them, the shipyard gate was full of people, there were veterans of the Hunan Army patrolling the battalion, there were also sailors, and countless shipyard craftsmen and art garden students, all of whom were scurrying in place, as if they were chasing someone.

What's even more outrageous is that the sailors and patrol battalions with foreign guns in their hands are hiding far away one by one, and they don't know what they are doing.

"Governor Ding will order! Governor Ding will be ordered! Governor Ding will be ordered! ”

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