Shengjing, Shengjing General's Mansion.

Cracking sound!

There was another burst of broken sound, from the study room in the inner courtyard of the general's mansion, since the invasion of Tsarist Russia, the four treasures of the study in this inner courtyard, antique jade is changed one after another, of course, in the last three days, the change is the most diligent, basically three changes a day, and the reason is naturally because the current Shengjing general Zeng Qi is venting the anger in his heart.

Zeng Qi, the word Ruitang, Ilari clan, Manchuria inlaid with white flags, once served as the deputy capital of Qihar, in 1897 promoted to the general of Fuzhou, as the minister of shipping, and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, in 1899 changed to the general of Shengjing.

What is General Sheng Jing?

It is not difficult to see from the name that General Shengjing is the supreme military leader of the Shengjing area, with full authority to control the military and political affairs of the Shengjing area, and at the same time, he must also be responsible for ruling the banner soldiers and the banner people, that is, the people who were incorporated into the Eight Banners of the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han armies.

General Shengjing, not only in charge of military affairs, but also in ordinary times in the jurisdiction of Shengjing, large and small matters need to be asked and decided, in postmodern terms, in fact, General Shengjing is the supreme head of the Shengjing Special Administrative Region, popular general, General Shengjing is actually the emperor of the soil in the jurisdiction of Shengjing.

As the current general of Shengjing, Zengqi's power can be seen, but in recent days, the days of General Shengjing Zengqi can be described as Wang Xiaoer's New Year, not every day and every year, no, it should be more and more sad day by day, no, he began to smash things in the study to vent his anger.

"Eighty thousand, did he think it was eighty thousand pigs?"

"This damn slave dares to agree to the Russians on any terms."

"I don't pay the army, I only give the establishment, and I still have to get together 80,000 people in ten days, Lao Tzu has at least 50,000 people here, Li Hongzhang, a dog minion, has the ability to try it himself,......。"

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Shengjing General Zengqi was scolding and smashing things at the same time, until the entire study was smashed, and he was dry and out of breath, before he felt the anger dispelled, and his whole body was much more transparent, and then he straightened his clothes and walked out of the study slowly.

"Master, master, your anger can be eliminated, if not, let's go to other places."

A beautiful young woman in flag costume, when she saw Zengqi pushing the door out, she found that the anger on Zengqi's face had been greatly reduced, so she twisted the waist of the water snake, stepped on the palace step, and greeted her.

"Whew." Zeng Qi exhaled deeply, stretched out his hand and copied it on the young woman's waist, and said with a smile: "It's still Xiao Jiu's method is so good, this way of venting is much better, but isn't it too expensive to vent it once?" ”

"Oh, sir, you're really joking, it's just a study, it can cost a few dollars, compared to the body and bones of an adult, what is it." Xiao Jiu sighed and continued.

Xiao Jiu, in fact, is Zengqi's ninth concubine, from Aihui, Heishui Province, full name Su Mafeng, twenty years old, in addition to first-class kung fu in bed, but also able to speak, very pleasing to Zengqi, just like this method of smashing the study and venting anger, Su Mafeng came up with it.

Not to mention, after Zengqi tried it, the effect was remarkable, so he had to smash it every time he was angry, as for whether it was valuable or not, to be honest, General Sheng Jing was able to miss this money, although Su Mafeng was only the ninth concubine, but he was Zengqi's most favored concubine.

"Haha, Xiao Jiu still knows that it hurts." Zeng Qi pinched Su Mafeng's blown-up face, and kissed it unrepaired, before laughing.

"Master, in broad daylight, people should gossip again." Su Mafeng said coquettishly.

"There is no one in this courtyard, who can see it, who dares to gossip, see that I don't pull out his tongue." Zeng Qi feigned anger and said.

In fact, the people in the entire courtyard have already let Su Mafeng drive out, after all, Zengqi wants to vent, and the inside of his mouth is not clean, he scolds and scolds, and the smashing is crackling, if this is spread out, it will not sound good.

"Hmph, are there still few people who chew Xiaojiu's tongue, and I haven't seen how adults are." Su Mafeng suddenly followed Zengqi's tone and turned into a face, first snorted coldly, and then cried and mourned: "Su Ma's family was destroyed by bandits, Xiao Jiu has no mother's support, everyone dares to take a sip, and I hope that the lord will send troops as soon as possible to avenge Su Ma's family." ”

It turns out that Su Mafeng is the clan of Su Ma's family, a second-station town under the jurisdiction of Aihui, Heishui Province, although Su Ma's family has been wiped out for more than a month, but Su Mafeng has not been able to get the news for a long time, so Su Mafeng has always been sticking to Zengqi recently, hoping that Zengqi can send troops to encircle and suppress the bandits, so as to avenge Su Ma's family.

But is this revenge so easy to repay?

Su Mafeng didn't know, but Zeng Qi clearly knew that the bandits who killed Su Ma's family had been in full swing in Heishui Province recently, and the momentum was a big mess, and even the Russians sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress it several times, which ended in a fiasco for the Russians, resulting in Tsarist Russia even having to let the Qing army increase its troops to assist in suppressing the bandits.

"Ahem.

Therefore, as soon as Su Mafeng mentioned revenge, Zeng Qi felt that his heart was weak, to be honest, how could the Qing army be able to defeat the bandit army that even Tsarist Russia could beat, this self-knowledge, Zengqi still has it.

"Xiao Jiu, it stands to reason that you shouldn't talk to you about military affairs, but in view of your desire for revenge, your husband might as well reveal a little to you, in fact, your husband has been busy recruiting troops recently, and the purpose is to cooperate with the Russians to go to Heishui Province to suppress bandits, you can rest assured, the great feud of the Su Ma family will definitely be avenged." Zeng Qi whispered.

"Ah, if that's the case, then it's great, when the time comes, the master must kill all the bandits who attacked Su Ma's family." Su Mafeng was overjoyed.

"That's nature." Zeng Qi nodded, and said in vain: "Okay, the husband has to convene his subordinates to discuss the expansion of recruitment, although Li Hongzhang is hateful, but Lafayette personally explained the matter, and the husband still has to do his best to do it." ”

"Master, you go and get busy with your big things, Xiao Jiu will boil a good tonic decoction and wait for the master to come back and drink it."

"Okay."

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General Shengjing's jurisdiction, Quang Ninh County (now Bei * Town), Zhaojia Temple.

A team of people and horses hurried back from Shengjing, the head of the person, riding a high-headed horse, although the height is not high, but it is extraordinary, passers-by along the way all bow their hands to say hello, this person's surname is Zhang (Zhang), the name is Lin (Zuolin), the word rain stop (rain pavilion), is the head of the insurance team in the Zhaojiamiao.

Since the beginning of the year, the rise of the Boxer Rebellion, and then the large-scale occupation of the northeast by Tsarist Russia, resulting in turmoil in the entire three eastern provinces, Hu bandits, Zhang Zuolin is actually also a Hu bandit, but Zhang Zuolin saw the opportunity of social turmoil, and led the team to Zhaojiamiao to organize an insurance team, responsible for the security of several nearby villages.

Although Zhang Zuolin was born as a bandit, he was very well-behaved in the insurance area, not only abiding by the rules and regulations, but also for the husband's security, thus making the public security in this area significantly better, and the bandits did not dare to commit indiscriminately, Zhang Zuolin was also praised by many village people, Zhang Zuolin also became famous, and the scope of his jurisdiction gradually expanded, reaching more than 20 villages, and the number of brothers under his hands reached two or three hundred.

In recent days, the Qing court has been moving constantly in Shengjing, recruiting new soldiers on a large scale, and even going deep into the village to catch strong men, which naturally attracted the attention of Zhang Zuolin, so after getting up in the morning, he hurriedly entered the city to inquire about the news, and now he just rushed back, so he quickly gathered several backbones under his hands.

"Brothers, my Lao Zhang has just come back from Shengjing, and I finally figured out why Shengjing General Zengqi is recruiting troops and horses, if my Lao Zhang is not bad, from now on these brothers will wear official robes." Zhang Zuolin said with a smile.

"Really, big brother, we can also be officers and soldiers and get paid?"

"Big brother, hurry up and tell me, what's going on?"

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Since Li Hongzhang reached an agreement with Dmiyev three days ago, after Zengqi learned that the Qing court wanted to devote the Qing troops in the three eastern provinces to assist Tsarist Russia in suppressing bandits, Shengjing's general Zengqi and Jilin's Changshun had to use various means to quickly recruit troops.

This is also no way, who let the Qing army up and down are eating empty salaries, Sheng Jing and General Jilin, the establishment claims to still have more than 40,000 troops, but the actual strength may not be 20,000, now it's okay, three days later, Tsarist Russia will increase the number of soldiers and horses to 80,000, and at least 50,000 under the command of Zengqi alone, and it must be assembled within ten days.

What does this make Zengqi do, there is no way, then he can only do a few things, one is to recruit troops in various places through formal means, the second is to conceal and send soldiers and horses into the village to force strong men to join the army, and the third is to incorporate local militia groups and even bandits.

And the insurance team of the brothers under Zhang Zuolin is actually between the militia and the bandits, of course, they must also be the targets of the Qing army, and the Qing court will still give some preferential treatment to this kind of powerful co-optation objects.

For example, Zhang Zuolin's department, with two or three hundred brothers under his command and more than 100 guns, is considered a very powerful armed force, if he is willing to take refuge in the Qing army, then the Qing court can increase Qi, so that they can be independently organized into a battalion, and immediately turn from the militia to the official body, which is very attractive for the Chinese people who have been poisoned by thousands of years of feudal ideology.

No, as soon as Zhang Zuolin mentioned it, the brothers in the field immediately boiled, as for why the Qing army recruited troops extensively, it seems that it was directly ignored by Zhang Zuolin.

Historically, the rise of Zhang Zuolin (Zhang * Zuo * Lin), simply put, was by kidnapping Zengqi's concubine, and then through Zengqi's concubine, he finally joined the regular army of the Qing army, and then began his warlord career, and now history has quietly changed, Zhang Zuolin's future is also changing, I don't know what the future of the little man Zhang Zuolin will be, let's wait and see.

…… (To be continued.) )