As the weather gets colder and colder, coupled with the imperial court's near-reckless expansion of the forbidden army, the capital has become more and more depressed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The streets are full of beggars begging for food, and if it weren't for the checkpoints set up by the city guards at the city gate every day to prevent most of the refugees from entering the capital, the capital would probably have turned into a refugee camp.

Compared with the yellow-skinned beggars on the street, the guards at the gates of the major mansions in the capital were flushed and full of energy, looking at the refugees begging back and forth on the street with a high-spirited expression.

As long as a refugee stays at the door of the mansion for a little longer, he will immediately attract the scolding of the guards.

If you are not lucky, the guards will let the dog bite away the refugees parked at the door.

The same is true of the county palace where Zaitao is located, especially after Zaitao was crowned the minister of military training by Cixi, because Zaitao's power and status in the court have greatly increased, the guards at the door are even more arrogant when they look at others.

The four guards were the same as usual, with exaggerated knives at their waists, and when they were inspecting passers-by on the street with a proud face, a sedan chair stopped directly at the gate of the county king's mansion.

Although judging by the sedan chair that the person who came was a fifth-grade official of the imperial court, the four guards still had no intention of moving, although the four were guards without any rank.

The official who came out of the sedan chair didn't seem to be surprised, not only did he not get angry, but accompanied by a smiling face and asked his subordinates to give each guard a silver tael of five taels, and then handed over the name post, hoping to see Zaitao.

Perhaps it was the silver that played a role, and the guards showed a rare look of respect when they came out, and then brought the fifth-rank official into the mansion, and brought him to the living room, where he was served a cup of hot tea.

This five-grade official is Liang Bin, the former commander of Anshan County, and it can be said that the imperial court was the first official to contact Yang Xingguo.

Because he had been in contact with Yang Xingguo for a long time and knew Yang Xingguo and the former Liaodong Army, from the very beginning, Liang Bin had a good impression of Yang Xingguo and the former Liaodong Army.

Even after being transferred back to the capital by the imperial court, there was still a connection between Liang Bin and Yang Xingguo.

As the strength of the Liaodong Army became stronger and stronger, and it developed into today's national defense force step by step, Liang Bin became more and more optimistic about the future of the national defense army.

In this case, after the mid-week mobilization, Liang Bin became the highest court official in the imperial court who was attached to the National Defense Army and sincerely served the National Defense Army.

The reason why Liang Bin came to Zaitao's mansion, the most powerful in the imperial court today, is for one purpose, to negotiate with Zaitao on behalf of Yang Xingguo, and to move Zaitao to stand on the side of the National Defense Army.

Of course, Zaitao at this moment does not know Liang Bin's true identity, nor does he know the true purpose of Liang Bin's coming. The reason why I agreed with Liang Bin was that I was completely moved by a sentence on Liang Bin's name post.

Liang Bin broke out to solve the problem of insufficient firearms and ammunition for the imperial court's forbidden army.

After all, Liang Bin is a petty official who is several grades worse than himself, and in front of Liang Bin, Zaitao has proud capital. Therefore, as soon as he entered the living room, Zaitao asked straight to the point: "What is your solution, if you can't satisfy the official, the official doesn't mind letting the court punish you for a big crime of disrespect." ”

If it was another five-rank official, he would definitely be so nervous that he would sweat profusely after hearing Zaitao's words. But behind Liang Bin stood the Wehrmacht, which made the imperial court fearful. Therefore, Liang Bin not only did not get nervous, but replied confidently.

"I don't know how many guns and ammunition you need, no accident, you can solve as many officials as you need for the prince."

Zaitao's first reaction was that the other party was talking big, but thinking of the other party's current situation and seeing the confident smile on the other party's face, Zaitao finally chose to believe.

After thinking about it, he replied: "20,000 new rifles, 5 million rounds of ammunition, if only 10 million rounds of ammunition would be better." ”

"Yes, the adults only need to prepare 700,000 taels of silver, and at most half a month, 20,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition can be delivered to the adults."

Zaitao's eyes quickly shot out two rays of light, and then asked with a nervous expression: "Are you sure you can provide these weapons and ammunition, and it only costs 700,000 taels of silver." ”

Liang Bin replied very confidently: "The lower official is sure, but the lower official has a request here?" ”

"What are the requirements, as long as you can get these weapons and ammunition for the official, whether it is to be promoted to the knight or others, as long as the official can do it, the official will promise you." In order to get these weapons and ammunition, Zaitao can be regarded as fighting, and directly gave Liang Bin a guarantee with his big mouth.

I said so much earlier, and that's what I'm waiting for. After pretending to hesitate for a short time, Liang Bin spoke: "My lord, you will definitely be able to meet the conditions of the lower officials. Xia Guan hopes that the lord will move the court and give up the blockade of the border pass. ”

As soon as Liang Bin finished speaking, Zaitao's brows furrowed, and after taking a deep breath, he threatened Liang Bin: "You are a member of Yang Xingguo of the National Defense Army." You don't have to worry that the official will arrest you and send you to the court now, you know, you are taking the court's silver. Not only did he not do anything for the court, but he also betrayed the court, and if you were sent to the court, it would be light for the court to cut off your head. ”

Liang Bin was not frightened, but replied confidently: "I believe that the adults will not, and the court will not cut off my head." Unless the Imperial Court is ready for a decisive battle with the Wehrmacht. ”

"Besides, lifting the border blockade does not do much harm to the imperial court, but there are many benefits. Not long after the Wehrmacht occupied the entire three northeastern provinces, even if the Wehrmacht had the ambition to enter the customs, it would not have the strength in a short period of time! As long as the imperial court does not take the initiative to provoke the Wehrmacht, the Wehrmacht will definitely not take the initiative to attack the imperial court! ”

"This means that the biggest enemy of the imperial court in the next few years is not the National Defense Army, but the Beiyang Army!"

"Today, the Beiyang Army has expanded to 150,000 people, and it is still expanding. The forbidden army formed by the imperial court was only 70,000 or 80,000 people, far less than the Beiyang Army. If the Beiyang Army has different intentions, does the imperial court have the ability to protect itself? ”

"As far as Xia Guan knows, the imperial court still has fifty or sixty thousand patrol battalions in the Gyeonggi area, if you can change the equipment of these patrol battalions and then train them, Xia Guan believes that with your ability to lead troops, at most half a year, the combat effectiveness of these patrol battalions will reach the standard of the forbidden army, even if it can't reach that, it won't be much worse."

"And the change of equipment requires a lot of equipment and ammunition, and the purchase from abroad is not only expensive, but also the purchase volume will not be very large, and it will definitely not meet the requirements of the imperial court. However, temporary cooperation with the Wehrmacht is not the same. ”

"The weapons and ammunition sold by the Wehrmacht to the imperial court were only five or six layers of foreign prices, and there were sufficient quantities to satisfy the imperial court. Also, the Wehrmacht can not only provide rifles to the imperial court, but also other light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even artillery, as long as the imperial court needs it, and can afford to pay the silver, the Wehrmacht can sell it! ”

"Also, there is a proposal from the Wehrmacht that if the imperial court does not have silver, it can be paid with minerals and other materials. In a word, cooperating with the Wehrmacht is beneficial to the imperial court. (To be continued.) )