After Deshou finished speaking, Tao Mo pondered for a while, raised his head and looked at Deshou, his eyes were blazing, and he was completely no longer decadent before. "If this son is really as you say, to set up industry, run education, build bridges and pave roads, then it is very doubtful. Do you know what I'm most afraid of right now? Deshou shook his head, Tao Mo sighed, and then said: "I'm afraid that the matter of Heyuan is the command of Huizhou Luliang!" ”

As soon as Tao Mo's words came out, Deshou's scalp was numb and at a loss. Although Lu Liang has not been in Guangdong for a long time, he has many means and great wealth, and it has become a deep-rooted trend. If it is really his doing, I am afraid that it will be difficult to get rid of it, and rash action will cause a major earthquake in the whole of Guangdong, and the local forces will not see their interests suffered, and the money brought by those factories is millions, which is enough to make people take risks. Not to mention others, it is yourself, and every month there will be a filial piety of 10,000 silver dollars sent to your mansion, if the incident happens, you will not escape the blame!

"My lord, if Lu Liang was just a businessman, we would have done it, but he has hundreds of factories, thousands of hectares of fields, and no less than a thousand armed guards. Even more than half of the big gentry in Guangdong have close interests with him, and it is not easy to move lightly until the truth is ascertained. ”

Tao Mo nodded, regardless of whether he Lu Liang was a mess or not, the most important thing now was to keep his official hat. With the Heyuan riots in front, it is not suitable to provoke a big force again, and it seems that he can only turn a blind eye. Tao Mo looked into the distance with a dull gaze, could it be that the dignified Qing Dynasty slipped into the abyss step by step? Long-haired, boxers, foreigners, and chaotic parties, coupled with the endless anti-Qing uprisings in various places, it is clear that the chaos is a phenomenon.

"Lu Liang's application for group training is approved, the old man is a herdsman for the Qing Dynasty, he has the heart to serve the country but has no power to return to the sky, I hope Lu Liang is not what we imagined!"

"My lord, we can let Lu Liang's regimental training go to the junction of northern Huizhou and Heyuan, as a condition for approving his regimental training, to see if he will clash with the chaotic party, if the two are safe and sound, then it means that they must have colluded!" Deshou said, and Tao Mo nodded in agreement. In fact, Deshou has already decided in his heart that Lu Liang has colluded with the Heyuan rebel party, and his influence is all over Huizhou, how can he allow the rebel party to appear? Besides, the firearms used by the rebel party are advanced, they must not have been produced within the Qing Dynasty, they must have been imported from overseas, and they were transported from the port to Heyuan, how could they not be discovered by the people of Luliang? Although he can guess, Deshou is not ready to expose it, and he will also contact Lu Liang to show his support for the other party's attitude. It is true that Deshou is a Manchu, but he can also see that the time of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is short, and when the time comes, he will have to leave a way back for his family.

Tao Mo must have never imagined that he was a Han minister, who did his best to serve the Manchu rulers, but in the end, the Manchu nobles themselves surrendered and betrayed.

Among the big men in the city of Guangzhou, Tao Mo was physically and mentally exhausted, and Deshou Mingzhe protected himself, and only the Guangzhou general Bao Nian, who held military power and represented the interests of hundreds of thousands of Manchurians in Guangdong, was doing practical things. The Northern Boxer was aimed at foreigners, which was not a problem, and has now been used by the imperial court. Only this chaotic party, which not only has a political policy and organization, but can also get arms support from the outside world, brazenly waving the banner of being an enemy of the Manchus, aimed at the root of the Manchus, just like the Longhair Rebellion in previous years, and even more hateful. Once they are allowed to succeed, what will happen to the interests of the Manchus, who can be sure that the massacre of the Manchus will not happen? Just like the massacre against the Han people when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

Tao Mo, the dog official, in the face of the Heyuan chaos party, actually closed the door and thanked the guests, no matter what he asked! Such a governor of Liangguang himself has to refer to a book of whatever he says. Deshou, the Manchurian rat generation, was in cahoots with Tao Mo, and he didn't know what to discuss in the Governor's Mansion all day long, but he didn't see actual measures, and in the final analysis, he could only ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands of Manchurians in Guangdong. During this time, all the green battalion soldiers and patrol battalion soldiers stationed in various places were assembled and stationed near Guangzhou.

"Su Can, how many people have been gathered now?" Su Can is Bao Nian's most powerful subordinate, and he has some military talents, and now all the affairs of the army are handed over to him.

"My lord, I can't be optimistic, the number of people reported from all over the country is 87,000, and now there are less than 10,000 people in Guangzhou, including 1,000 cavalry, I estimate that this is all the number. Now the imperial court is at war with the foreigners, and Li Hongzhang has already negotiated peace with the foreigners in Tianjin, but the coastal defense battalions in various places cannot be moved, except for Lu Sanda, the general soldier of Jieshi, who is trapped in Heyuan, the rest of the general army cannot be moved lightly. ”

Bao Nian has no way but to scold in his heart, this helpless situation is very normal, because the biggest leader in the empty salary in various places is him Bao Nian, and he benefits the most from it.

"What about guns and artillery?"

"My lord, there are about five thousand guns collected, all of them are old single-shot breech guns, and even some flintlock guns, and the ammunition is quite sufficient, but it is impossible to say how much of a role it can play in battle. There were more than a hundred pieces of artillery, and the situation was similar to that of firearms, all of which were embarrassing due to lack of maintenance. I heard that the Heyuan rebels have gotten some advanced muskets and artillery out of nowhere, and with our current equipment, I'm afraid they won't be able to cope with it. ”

"How many people can there be in a chaotic party? This army of 10,000 can trample them to death! ”

"Calm down, it's better to be cautious!"

Bao Nian is to say angry words, he understands very well, since the Long Hair Rebellion, the imperial court has attached great importance to the use of gunpowder weapons, but no matter how good the weapon is, it must be used in the right person. The generals of the Huai Army who participated in the Korean War in the First Sino-Japanese War once said to Bao Nian that before the war, the Qing army had been equipped with advanced weapons, including Mauser single-shot breech-loading rifled guns, repeating Mauser guns, Grimm guns, Krupp fast guns, etc., which were one grade higher than the Japanese weapons. That is still an elite Huai army, what can it do if it is replaced by these green battalions of its own?

"The green battalion is unreliable, and I heard that the imperial court even wants to abolish the green battalion, and the new army should be trained. The Heyuan rebel party must be exterminated, and the question now is what to exterminate them? ”

"It's a pity that the imperial court is at war with foreigners, otherwise we can hire foreigners to fight in the same way as the Longhair Rebellion."

"No, the Queen Mother is angry now, isn't it a mess for us to provoke foreigners! The number of people is too small, we will find a way to increase, those lowly bandits are mostly taken care of by us on weekdays, if it weren't for my Bao Nian, they would have been killed by Li Hongzhang a long time ago, and now is the time for them to work for us. If you contact them, they will be allowed to cleanse them for three days after breaking through the source of the river! These forgetful things will definitely agree, pay attention, they must be kept secret, and no one will know that we have agreed to their plunder. ”

"My lord! Those bandits can be used as cannon fodder, how many of their deaths have nothing to do with us, when the time comes, we will not only pacify the chaotic party, but also suffer very little losses, but also hit the arrogance of the bandits, it can be described as killing three birds with one stone, the small one admires the adult five-body throw! Su Can hurriedly sent it over, Bao Nian smiled slightly with the teacup, and was proud of his intelligence in his heart.

Bandits are rampant in Guangdong, but not all bandits are professionally engaged in this industry, most of them are semi-professional, robbery and theft is their sideline, and even some villages do it entirely, and when they encounter outsiders, they put on knives and axes and get up and down, without any psychological burden. It can be said that they have no humanity, but from the depths, they are actually forced by the environment, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, this is the case in Guangdong, pirates are even more prevalent, and in Xiangxi and other areas, the mountain bandits there are actually the same situation. The matter of encircling and suppressing the Heyuan Revolutionary Party was useless for pirates, and most of Su Can's contacts were mountain bandits.

"Boss Liu, how do you think about this matter? That Su Can represents the Guangzhou General Bao Nian, we have been able to live in peace these years, how much we rely on the care of the New Year, although we are not afraid of officers and soldiers, but how much is also trouble, we still try not to provoke Bao Nian is good. "It was the Guangdong giant bandit Mao Wu who spoke, and after getting Su Can's invitation, Mao Wu was very moved, Su Can not only promised to loot casually after breaking through the source of the river, but also cleared the case records of his own people, and gave a group training identity, that is to fly on the branch and become a phoenix, and it will be more convenient to loot in the future! Of course, the matter of persuading other bandit gangs is handed over to Mao Wu, he has a lot of face in the underground forces in Guangdong, not only has more than 3,000 outlaws, more than 200 single-shot, continuous guns, but also has some connections with the Heaven and Earth Society, and he himself is the incense master of the Heaven and Earth Society, but now the power of the Heaven and Earth Society is weak, and he is just a name, he is not concerned about the anti-Qing affairs at all, even if there are few people in the Heaven and Earth Society who want to oppose the Qing Dynasty, they are all busy making money and seizing power!

No one knows Boss Liu's real name, just because he has a long scar on his face, nicknamed "Liu Da Scar", this person is the king and hegemon in Foshan, Guangdong, with more than 2,000 people and more than 100 guns, no one dares to provoke. All past merchants and local squires must pay him protection money, otherwise their heads will fall to the ground and their lives will be lost, of course, he will not rashly attack those big households, people's homes and guns are not less than his own, but he disdains to do business without capital. Liu Dascar has always looked down on Mao Wu, thinking that he is a wall grass, where there is a benefit, where to drill, a few years ago Mao Wu once fought with himself for Foshan iron smelting, both sides suffered a lot of losses, and it was a tie. This time, Mao Wu invited himself to Guangzhou Ziqiang Hotel to discuss a big deal, and he hesitated for a long time, and then Su Can, who was under Bao Nian, personally posted that he was relieved, and with the guarantee of Bao Nian, Mao Wu didn't dare to do anything to himself.

"Boss Mao, I agree with what you say, but do you know what kind of road the Heyuan Chaos Party is? I heard from my subordinates that they had fast guns and cannons, and Tang Chun, the governor of Huizhou, and Lu Sanda, the general soldier of Jieshi, led the troops to clear and suppress, and nearly 3,000 people were defeated and lost, and the lives and deaths of the two were unknown. In this way, those chaotic parties are not easy to provoke, we must be cautious. ”

"Liu Dascar, I think you are the bolder and younger you are, this time the leader is the Guangzhou general, there are tens of thousands of horses, fast guns, artillery countless people, can bring us to show that General Baonian is open-minded, rich and does not forget his brother. Are you going to give up this good chance to make a fortune? I can tell you, if I don't agree, I can't promise to settle accounts when the year comes, even if the source of the river is a fire pit, we will have to jump into it! ”

"Pole tower old wood, count me in, rich and dangerous, after this vote, we can be regarded as people with official status, it is convenient to do anything in the future, it is worth the risk!"

"That's right, Brother Liu, the brothers in the west will be handed over to you, Lord Su Can has said, this time let all the powerful brothers join in, such a big business, the sooner you join, the more you will profit!"