The back hall of the Beiyang Yamen is Zeng Guofan's small study, the room is paved with a large, two, and three fire dragons, the eunuch in charge of carbon has long figured out the temper of this Beiyang minister, and the temperature is naturally very comfortable, it can be said that the courtiers all over the world in addition to the clan Zeng Guofan is the only one of the two palaces to serve the eunuchs, since Zeng Guofan served as the minister of Beiyang, it can be said that he has no time to go back to his hometown to see it often, but he knows the dynamics of the two lakes well.

Zeng Guofan said to Yixin unhurriedly: "Lord, Lin Shun is already a big problem for my Qing Dynasty, as a member of the imperial court, the food of the king is the worry of the king, how can the ministers not ask?" ”

Yixin saw Zeng Guofan speak, so he hurriedly said, "Then what countermeasures do you have?" Now Lin Reyi's second army has entered Ganzhou, which is governed by the two rivers, and the two army corps that followed behind it are two flanks behind it, and its direction is not small! ”

Zeng Guofan sighed helplessly and said, "My lord! It's not that I'm indifferent, but Lin Yi's soldiers are too sharp, one of his corps has four divisions, this division is even bigger than our new army's association, and then each division has two brigades, plus logistics and subordinate troops, this legion is more than 50,000 people! ”

Zeng Guofan paused for a moment and continued: "Lin Rei's army went on the expedition, and all the supplies were dispatched from Liangguang and overseas, and the unloading, labor, and transportation labor in Guangzhou Port every day was more than 100,000 people, and the unloading of materials day and night was carried out. Lin Rebellious's gendarmes patrolled around the garrison, all the lawbreakers were brought to justice, the people applauded, distributed relief food, helped the people build houses, swept the streets, dug wells and repaired ancestral halls, they should have done it, or they shouldn't have done it, they basically did it, their arrival not only caused a large number of local food hoarders to lose a large number of merchants, but also benefited the local people, so who is willing to listen to our greetings? Don't even mention the matter of the township and the eternal resistance to Lin Rebellion? ”

Yixin was angry and yelled at the table: "This is obviously a demagogue to invite people to buy people's hearts, Lin Yi can do it, and our new army of the Qing Dynasty can also do it!" ”

Zeng Guofan glanced at Yixin, and said in his heart, is this prince really stupid or is he pretending to be confused with himself? When did the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty break off such trivial things as stealing chickens and touching dogs? Even the career of the women is not uncommon, when the Yongzheng Dynasty's Nian Qianyao ruled the soldiers as strict at home, he didn't march all the way to see which woman pulled to strip naked and sleep? Lost some money the next day?

Zeng Guofan thought for a while, shook his head helplessly, and said: "The Hunan army has no pay, and it has long become a habit for the Eight Banners to raid places. Will you still listen to the imperial court? Honestly tell the prince that the new army's salary household department is three points of attrition, to my hands is already insufficient, I am giving the following officials a point, to the hands of the soldiers, one or two feet of Taizhou with the tendon will become seven or eight points of miscellaneous silver, this is still my new army, the following soldiers can have three or two points, and even some of the garrison roster is a thousand people, in fact, a count of a few kittens, a year without pay is a common thing, ragged clothes are almost different bunkers, expect such soldiers to fight against Lin Rebell's army? It's possible to lose 10,000 to 10,000! ”

Zeng Guofan's words made Yixin's cold sweat flow down suddenly, Yixin looked at Zeng Guofan and said word by word: "These filthy bastards in the household department, and the silver of the new army in Beiyang also dare to report the loss?" That's the hard work and compassion of the two houses? Who is so bold? Could it be that his head is made of iron? Sincerely want to try the king's official law like a furnace? ”

Zeng Guofan smiled lightly and said: "Let's keep it in the Qing Dynasty, keep it, and now we are used to keeping it in any period, look at these dirty ghosts!" Make a good household a miasma, alas! ”

Yixin suddenly thought of Li Gao, the head of the household, and Cheng Siji, the head of the household, and thought of the embarrassment of these two guys who used to embarrass themselves, they were all licking Su Shun's gutter master, and the two palaces were afraid of the turmoil of the court after the chaos was set up, so it didn't affect too much, and now it seems to be a reason, I originally wanted to see the filial piety that the two of them gave themselves to temporarily let them go, but the silver aspect of Beiyang is absolutely unavoidable, Yixin naturally understands the purpose of Zeng Guofan's words, and now Lin is against the trend and the army is mighty, and the imperial court can only rely on Beiyang, which has high hopes.

Yi Xin said secretly in his heart, you two don't blame me for being untrustworthy, if you want to blame it, you are too ignorant of current affairs, and you even offended Zeng Guofan at such a time, which can be regarded as innocent! However, Cheng Siji's previous filial piety to his 1.5 million taels of silver can be regarded as having a source, and it took a long time for these two rabbit cubs to secretly smoke Beiyang's strips to honor themselves? This guy is a tortoise bastard, and he won't pay out of his own pocket when he dies?

The first thing Yixin did after returning to Yanjing was to enter the palace overnight, and in front of the queen mother of the two palaces, she participated in Cheng Siji and Li Gaoyi, and the queen mother of the two palaces who had just issued a decree to commend Cheng Siji was like being slapped in the face, you must know that the money of the Beiyang New Army was reduced from the use of the palace, and the eight thousand eunuchs and palace maids were compressed by seven layers, and the palace maids were happily out of the palace, and the eunuchs were crying bitterly, so that Ci'an had to settle down near the Baliqiao firearms camp first. promised to wait for the palace to recover and recruit them back to the palace.

Such bloodshot silver is also wasted for no reason? Cixi was the first to quit, and under Cixi's angry words, Cheng Siji, the head of the household department, and Li Gao, the head of the household department, were ordered to abandon the city that night.

The next morning, Yixin and Yigan Yushi had trouble again and again, Cheng Siji and Li Gao didn't even have a chance to argue, the two palaces directly issued an order and were dragged out, and the whole process didn't even have the time to dress and tea, it may be the negligence of the two palaces, or it may be that Yixin is in a hurry to succeed for fear that the two of them will bite back on their 1.5 million taels of silver, Cheng Siji and Li Gao were pushed out wearing official robes.

Cheng Siji, the head of the household, is a bachelor who wears a top product and a military plane, who would dare to take off his top and pick up his official uniform without the will above? When he arrived at the vegetable market, Huang Jingbin, the supervisor and beheader, saw this scene and was furious, since ancient times, only when the Qing official died wore an official robe, and the corrupt official was picked up early in the morning, and now these two are singing the one? So he didn't dare to act rashly, and after the cannon rang out at three o'clock in the afternoon, there was no intention of pardon, so he knelt on the ground and respectfully greeted the two adults, took off his crown and put it aside, and said that he would bring it back as it was after the execution, so as not to damage the official authority of the two adults.

The people below don't know what these two people committed specifically, they only know that this is a great loyalty, which can be described as crying all the time, which makes Cheng Siji and Li Gao very ashamed, and they have lost their knowledge of saints in vain. So the two scolded Prince Gong Yixin, and then died generously!

You must know that the punishment of the Qing Dynasty was abolished in the Yongzheng Dynasty, when the Yongzheng Emperor punished Yu Hongtu after the beheading, Yu Hongtu was beheaded and wrote seven tragic words on the ground with his own blood before he died of self-infliction.

Suddenly restored today, the original intention of the two palaces was to shock and drink the greedy villain, after all, the waist slash is much more shocking than the fish scale scraping! The main organs of the person are in the upper body, so after the prisoner is cut in two from the waist, he will be conscious, and it will take a long time before he dies. The family members of the prisoner will often give the executioner a touch of the executioner, so that he can move the knife from the upper part of the execution, which can make the prisoner die faster; If someone wants the prisoner to suffer more crimes, he bribes the executioner to use the knife from a little below, and even cuts off the upper half of the person who has been cut in half onto a tung oil plate, so that the blood cannot come out, and the prisoner can continue to live for two or three more hours, which can be said to carry the cruelty to the extreme.

After Cheng Siji and Li Gaobei were executed, there was goose feathers and heavy snow on a sunny day? How many thunders did you hit for the first time? Winter thunder is amazing! The whole capital is secretly rumored that Prince Gong Yixin is the lone star of the Qing Dynasty, the great annihilator, comparable to Qin Hui, etc., which makes Yixin's ears hot all day long, Cheng Siji and Li Gao have become loyal ministers and righteous men who were unjustly killed in the Qing Dynasty, and Yixin is so angry that he is seriously ill!

However, compared to the new household Shangshu Qian Zhiqing replaced with his own doorman, Yixin still feels a little worth it, and there are a few people who can say it clearly on the merits of these years, and the mouths of the people of the world will be said by the people of the world, anyway, it won't be long before the people will forget! In the inscription of the Qing Dynasty, there will only be a strong stroke of his Prince Gong Yixin, and there will be no Cheng Siji and Li Gao at all, even if there is no chat about a few lines, Cheng Siji, the head of the household department, and Li Gao, the waiter, do not think about Jun'en, wantonly and recklessly corrupt the law, and were sentenced to death!

On March 29, 1861, Lin Haijiang, who was sitting in Guangzhou, decided to personally inspect the five main army corps participating in the Liangjiang and Lianghu campaigns because the campaign was approaching, and for the Liangjiang and Lianghu battles, Lin Haijiang also mobilized local reserve reinforcements equivalent to 16 standard brigades, as well as the first and second brigades of the Marine Corps with the most rich combat experience.

When Liu Quansi's Second Army of the Chinese Imperial Army entered Ganzhou, there were only open city gates and debris all over the ground, except for the old people who couldn't run and the lost children, it can be said that the city was empty, but there were also those who had the courage to stay, the Wang family in Ganzhou was born in the maritime merchants, and now a lot of business is still in Liangguang and the imperial fortress, and there is still some understanding of the military discipline of the Chinese Empire.

After the whole city was taken over, for fear of causing panic, the troops who entered the city did not carry long guns and machine guns, but uniformly carried Mauser pistols and shovels, and only the military police followed the army into the city, and the four divisions belonged to the four aspects of Ganzhou, and the troops entered the city and began to clean up the streets, repair the city wall fortifications, dredge the sewers, take care of the lonely old people and lost children, etc., and gradually the fleeing people came back one after another, and the people had the most real experience of whether a force was good or bad.

Ganzhou is connected to Fujian Sanming and Longyan in the east, Meizhou, Heyuan and Shaoguan in Guangdong in the southwest, Chenzhou in Hunan in the west, Ji'an and Fuzhou in Jiangxi in the north, and is in the transition zone of the southeast coastal area to the central hinterland, which is one of the important passages leading from the mainland to the southeast coast, and is the place of the four wars in Jiangxi.

Finding and developing tungsten ore for Lin Haijiang is almost the same as his enthusiasm for building a navy, and Jiangxi's tungsten ore belongs to scheelite scheelite color is gray-white, there are yellow-brown, green and light red, etc., scheelite can emit a beautiful light blue fluorescence, tungsten can be used to make firearms, high heat-resistant nozzles, metal cutting blades, drill bits, superhard molds, wire drawing dies, etc., tungsten is widely used, involving mining, metallurgy, machinery, construction, transportation, electronics, chemical industry, light industry, textiles, military industry, science and technology, various industrial fields.

In the 50s of the 18th century, chemists discovered the effect of tungsten on the quality of steel. However, tungsten steel began to be produced and widely used in the mid-19th century, so the tungsten extraction industry has developed rapidly, and the emergence of tungsten special steel marked a major technological progress in the field of metal cutting processing, and tungsten became the most important alloying element for military applications.

Ganzhou is bound to win for Lin Haijiang, Ganzhou is located at the intersection of the Wuyi Mountains, the Nanling Mountains and the Luoxiao Mountains, belongs to the southern edge of the subtropics, the climate is generally suitable for agricultural planting, and there are many natural disasters, so Lin Haijiang has mobilized a large amount of grain, ready to be used for the investment and stability of the occupied area, and expanded the army by continuously expanding the occupied area and publicizing the military service law.

It can be said that the initial Battle of the Two Lakes or the Two Rivers needed to be completed in two stages, and now it is resolved through one campaign, which undoubtedly makes Lin Haijiang's total forces still feel very stretched.

But Lin Haijiang can't wait any longer, he doesn't need tungsten, and it's a lot of tungsten, if he takes the two rivers for the sake of tungsten ore first, then he will be in a passive position in the overall strategy, because the special existence of Shanghai makes Lin Haijiang have to make up his mind, once he occupies Shanghai, whether to abolish the so-called treaty privileges of the European countries, you must know that in the history of the Beiyang political axe, the Republic of China political axe did not dare to directly abolish these treaties, until the establishment of the Republic of China decades after the final complete recovery of the colony, It can be said that the abrogation of the treaty is basically equivalent to declaring war on all nations, just like the year of Gengzi.

It can be said to be an extremely irrational feat, at most it is not recognized and will not continue to repay, but the recovery of the leased land is bound to be an extremely long process, and there is no accurate positioning for Shanghai Lin Haijiang to declare war on all nations? Recycling Hong Kong? Lin Haijiang was very hesitant, now the power of the Portuguese has long since retreated under the guns of their own warships, and there is no longer any suspense in Macao, but Hong Kong is still in the hands of the British, and even the British still have a concession in Guangzhou!

It is certain to take back, but only if it waits until it unifies the whole country, stabilizes the country, and under suitable international political conditions, abolishes all unequal treaties and recovers all the ceded lands, including Siberia!

If he declares war on the wrong object at the wrong time and in the wrong place, Lin Haijiang knows very well what the risk is, that is, he will be beaten by almost all the countries in the world, and bitten by a group of mad dogs.

After learning the secret report that the Yuan wanted to come to Ganzhou to inspect, Liu Quansi immediately went to the Daqing Palace in Yugutai and walked around, in addition to building artillery emplacements and repairing fortifications, Liu Quansi changed almost all the plaques in the Daqing Palace and replaced them with fashionable slogans that are popular nowadays, such as serving the empire wholeheartedly, being loyal to the Führer, and hanging the Tuanlong totem flag everywhere.

Yugutai is located in the northwest of Ganzhou city on the top of Helan Mountain, 131 meters above sea level, is the commanding height of the city, the ancient city wall of the Song Dynasty in Ganzhou from the stage to the winding through, Liu Quansi used this city wall to build hundreds of machine gun bunkers and thousands of meters of covered trenches.

Liu Quansi was very busy, and Wang Faren, who rushed to be responsible for the safety and security of the head of state's travel, scolded Liu Quansi, so that this pig's head was so engaged, and fools could know that Ganzhou was going to have a big man, so the two of them carried out a few big rectifications that disturbed the people, and the price of disturbing the people really found out more than 300 Qing court spies, and all kinds of characters were basically complete, and there were rich businessmen in the city, girls in Qinglou, beggars on the streets, merchants walking in the streets, and monks on their feet, which made Wang Faren also an eye-opener.

Under the tricks of professionals and non-professionals, a few rounds, the Qing court's detectives fell one by one, and they were basically recruited without waiting for the torture tools, and this group of detectives was deliberately arranged by the Qing court, although they were nominally all the way to the Qing court, but they were not all the way, and it could even be said that they were dozens of passers-by.

Because most of the so-called detectives are not real detectives, but for example, a certain surname in the Jin merchants wants to contact the Chinese Empire, and an official in a certain place in the imperial court who is not well mixed and has a crisis wants to secretly express it to the Chinese Empire, or a certain local force intends to find out the real truth about the territory under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Empire.

Only the Beiyang Yamen and the Prime Minister of the Military Aircraft Department sent by the Yamen for National Affairs are really with different tasks and purposes to come to Ganzhou with the intention of taking root, it is a pity that the peers are enemies, someone has rectified someone in Gyeonggi, and as a result, someone was found on the streets of Ganzhou, so naturally he will not be polite! There is revenge!

The final result was that everyone entered the newly renovated prison in Ganzhou and became the first batch of residents here!

(To be continued)