A heavy snow in the fourth year of Xianfeng can be described as silver everywhere, but this silver can not solve the silver shortage in Xianfeng, the long-haired bandits in front of them are more and more fierce, and the foreigners actually sold foreign guns and foreign cannons to the bandits for a little small profit, so that the Hunan army suffered three consecutive fiascos after half of the mountain, and Zeng Guofan's family was almost defeated, if it were not for Zeng Guoquan's left flank barely supported, I am afraid that there would be no Hunan army.

Foreigners are untrustworthy and unrighteous Xianfeng knows, although foreign banks in various countries deny that they sell arms to bandits, but the foreign guns and cannons in the hands of the bandits are real guys, which will make Xianfeng think of the Guangdong Navy Admiral Lin Haijiang who is nesting on land.

In the previous battle, Su Shunjin said that he would buy foreign ships and hand them over to Lin Haijiang's command, Xianfeng was a little tempted, but because Jing Shou and others took turns to meet him, he couldn't make up his mind, but his Guangzhou sailors in front of him were already an empty shelf, and he let the bandits grow?

This foreign ship must be bought, this sea must be banned, the source of arms for the bandits must be cut off, and if there is no ban on foreign ships and ships on the sea, they will block the mouth of the Yangtze River to see how the bandits can transport foreign guns and cannons back to Tianjing.

This time Xianfeng was ruthless, not yet out of the New Year, three times in a row promoted Su Shun's official position, the current Su Shun is already a military aircraft in front of the important minister, although the title has not changed, but the discerning people know that this is a matter of sooner or later, making Jing Shou and others like red-eyed rabbits.

In the entire Yanjing Sijiu City, no one does not know that this Su Shun has recently been like a 'monkey piercing the sky', and even Zeng Guofan, who has eaten several defeated battles and wants to throw himself into the water, has not been punished, but the imperial court has also made an exception to allocate 300,000 taels of silver, everyone knows that this silver is given to Su Shun's face.

But at the moment, Zeng Guofan's son is very sad, the Hunan army is a soldier who belongs to the regimental training, to put it bluntly, it is a team without food, all relying on war and plunder, 300,000 taels is said to be a lot, but the Hunan army has been defeated repeatedly, and these silver may not even be enough for half of the pension, if you can't appease the family members of the old department, let alone continue to recruit soldiers.

The township party who used to be very cordial to each other gradually became estranged, and what shocked Zeng Guofan the most was that Su Shun actually had the intention of reusing Lin Haijiang? One mountain can't tolerate two tigers!

What kind of character Lin Haijiang is, how much ability he has, others don't know, Zeng Guofan knows it in his heart, that's a monkey! Who can hold it down? Can you afford it? Is Sushun the Buddha? In Zeng Guofan's view, not necessarily.

But saying that Lin Haijiang is not in front of him is tantamount to saying that Su Shun is not, Su Shun is now in the middle hall, his temper is growing, he is already the backer of his own court, and he is not as good as Monk Greenqin, so everything is still cautious, the power in Su Shun's hands is limited, Lin Haijiang is divided is equivalent to weakening his own side, and he has taken the children of Sanxiang to fight bloody battles in the end, it is better to play with Lin Haijiang who is playing with his mouth to catch a small boat?

How can Lin Haijiang make a stumbling block? This stumbling block had to be very clever, and it was obviously unwise to make enemies rashly, and Zeng Guofan fell into deep thought under the flickering light.

However, there is another family in Guangzhou City that is even more entangled, this is the family of Shen Tianfu, the chief shopkeeper of the Thirteen Lines, the whole family has broken their hearts for their daughter's marriage, after this year Shen Yilan has twenty-three, six sons, but only this one, the daughter is naturally extremely noble, for this high or low marriage, Shen Tianfu scolded his daughter Shen Yilan today.

But I didn't expect to get some unexpected information from the little maid Ximei and Caiyi, that is, my daughter secretly liked Lin Haijiang, the commander of the Guangdong Navy Division?

Most of the understanding of Lin Haijiang and Shen Tianfu is rumor, this Guangdong naval commander who holds real power has never taken the initiative to provoke him after taking office, and the filial piety he sent has also been returned, telling him that it is okay to pay taxes according to the regulations, originally thought that he and Lin Haijiang's father Lin Hanlin had a holiday, and the other party was ready to move himself, pulled a large number of foreign compradors to protect himself, and moved into the British Concession, but the other party did not move anything for more than a year?

Shen Tianfu secretly admired the open-mindedness of the Lin family and his son, if he could get in touch with the Lin family who was like Zhongtian, it would be fine, but could the Lin family do it? I heard that after Lin Haijiang entered Beijing, he was both a gege and a princess, and they all favored him and let his daughter be a concubine?

Although he was reluctant, it was not impossible, but seeing that Lin Haijiang was not married, the girls from both parties were also sent to Nanyang with their families, Lin Haijiang could wait, but his daughter couldn't wait, and his daughter was two years older than Lin Haijiang!

Shen Tianfu was sad all day long, for the sake of his daughter's happiness, he decided to fight his old face, and if he couldn't do it, he came to visit the admiral of the Guangdong Navy.

And the Xianfeng master in the Forbidden City was even more worried, Xianfeng, who wanted to buy an iron ship but had no money, thought of a trick himself, that is, the next vague will, let Lin Haijiang Jinghai make money, and if he bought the ship, it would be assigned to the Guangdong Navy, which could be said to have given great preferential treatment in terms of policy.

After Lin Haijiang got the so-called holy decree, his understanding was that no matter whether you steal or rob, you must give me money to buy foreign ships! I want to avenge half of the mountain, shame!

For the will of this typical Four No Emperors, Lin Haijiang had a great headache, what did this idiot emperor think was a battleship? A bathtub in the ditch? From the purchase of training to form combat effectiveness, and to maintain that is not time, money and painstaking efforts?

However, with Xianfeng's will, he doesn't have to worry about the recruitment of the sailors, even if he openly owns a warship, he will not be reported by others, which is equivalent to being robbed by his own order! Lin Haijiang estimated that this might be a prelude to Xianfeng's preparation to transfer himself into battle against the Taiping Army.

Ordered robbery? Lin Haijiang almost laughed out loud, the first one to rob Baigui's domain? However, considering Bai Gui's thin physique and clean domain, Lin Haijiang still dispelled the idea of robbing the domain.

How to do things according to his will Lin Haijiang is not in a hurry, even the things that the emperor Yanjing of the Great Qing Kingdom can't do, he has a reason to delay time, but another thing makes his already big head bigger and bigger.

In the evening, when Lin Haijiang came out of the sailor's camp and was about to go to Ye Mingchen's mansion, a group of masked men numbering about thirty attacked him.

These guys with long knives, sharp swords, and even hoes pounced on the sedan chair that Lin Haijiang was riding in like madmen.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Within a few feet of distance, the loaded soldiers raised their guns one after another, and several people who rushed to the front were shot and rolled to the ground, but these people did not flinch, but rushed up even more frantically, and the soldiers pulled out the Colt M1852 revolver one after another.

After a chaotic burst of shooting, all the dozens of bandits were killed, except for a few bandits who were wounded and fell to the ground.

This thrilling ambush made Lin Haijiang feel very puzzled, even if someone wants to take his surname, shouldn't it be such a child's play? A single ambush with a bird gun or a strong crossbow is also more effective than this, but these bandits who are not afraid of death really surprised Lin Haijiang?

After some torture to extract confessions, it was discovered that these people were members of the White Lotus Sect, which made Lin Haijiang very angry, and he didn't care about decency, so he came to the Qinghua Building in his official uniform, smashed three tables in a row, and knocked over two turtle males, only to see Wanxin, who was belated.

Knowing that the admiral's camp of the Guangdong Navy Division surrounded the Qinghua Building, Wanxin hurriedly came to discuss the sect members not to panic, tidied up her dress, and hurried over, seeing Lin Haijiang's face, Wanxin knew that something was wrong, but she didn't know where she offended the admiral, you must know that she and her senior sister and others had a very happy conversation with Lin Haijiang a few days ago.

"Admiral Ben suspects that the White Lotus Sect demon is harboring in the Blue and White Building, come on! Search for this official, today is to dig three feet into the ground, and also to find out, anyone who dares to resist will be killed! ”

Lin Haijiang's vicious tone made Wanxin's heart skip a beat, wondering if the little junior sister stepped on Lin Haijiang's tail again? She hurriedly took Lin Haijiang's hand and begged him to enter the room on the second floor to talk in detail, but Lin Haijiang ignored the cleaning of the hall on the first floor, leaving only the soldiers with guns around.

Seeing that the people around her were not able to hear her own speech at a distance from herself, Wanxin knew that Lin Haijiang still wanted to talk, but she was too cautious, but when she knew what happened two hours ago, she knew that his caution was completely justified, but she showed more shock.

"Impossible, my little sister and I have already issued a fatwa to the White Lotus Sect members in Guangzhou City under the joint name, and I think no one dares to disobey the Holy Maiden's fatwa... But..."Wanxin seemed to think of something, and she wanted to stop talking, but seeing Lin Haijiang's gloomy face again, she hurriedly said: "Does Admiral Lin remember that you gave your little junior sister some addresses not long ago?" ”

Lin Haijiang nodded, he naturally remembered that they were some of the White Lotus Sect strongholds he had collected, but they were extremely dirty, and telling Jiang Rong'er about these strongholds was to remind her that the White Lotus Sect was not as perfect as she imagined.

Wan Xin said: "Little Senior Sister went to check on the strongholds you provided, and as a result, she was furious, and in a fit of rage, she beat these people and expelled them from the sect. ”

Lin Haijiang said strangely: "What does this have to do with me, just find Jiang Rong'er for revenge." ”

Wanxin sighed helplessly, a little afraid to look at him, and complained extremely resentfully: "Admiral Lin and the little junior sister are really a pair of enemies, a few days ago, you didn't let your subordinates arrest her, make her so embarrassed, come to me to complain." So she said to the outside world that she was forced to rectify the teaching affairs and was really helpless, because the Guangdong sailors were forced too tightly, and there may be people who can't turn their heads to think that it is the adults that you have cut off their financial routes......"

"Smack!" Lin Haijiang slapped the table heavily and said, "Nonsense! This official is safe and the people protect the environment! ”

"Tell Jiang Rong'er to let her come to the camp to see me at midnight, and she is not allowed to bring any weapons, otherwise I will send troops to clear all of your White Lotus Sect's Dark Pile Sect altars." Lin Haijiang threw it away, left Wanxin and turned to leave.

The evening breeze blew lightly, but the soldiers and battalion officers patrolling the camp of the sailor were extremely vigilant, and Lin Haijiang saw Jiang Rong'er as scheduled.

Looking at this White Lotus Sect saintess with an unusually calm face, Lin Haijiang couldn't see the look of guilt he expected, it seemed that shame was something that this woman couldn't learn in her life.

"I said before that I want to make a deal with you to ensure that everything is normal for your White Lotus Sect in Guangzhou City, but you also want to ensure that the White Lotus Sect will not interfere in the affairs of the army, but what have you done?"

Jiang Rong'er pursed her lips and sneered: "Those people want to kill you, I have already expelled them from the sect." ”

Lin Haijiang sneered twice; "You've pushed it clean, and if you hadn't accused me of cutting off their money, they would have risked their lives to assassinate me? Assassinate a second-class member of the imperial court? This crime is not as simple as killing your head, the court doesn't care if they are from the White Lotus Sect now, they used to be a member of the White Lotus Sect, and this reason is enough to exterminate you. ”

"You're so despicable and shameless!" Jiang Rong'er was so angry that her teeth trembled, and she really wanted to stab her with a sword, but when her hand reached her waist, she found that she didn't have a sword, so she gave up.

"But!" Lin Haijiang paused and said: "If you make a mistake, you have to take thousands or even tens of thousands of innocent people to accompany the funeral, and if you do this, you are considered to be unprecedented, and there is no one to come, and you should die without regrets, but unfortunately, if you are young, you will ....... before you get married."

Jiang Rong'er's eyelids jumped a few times, what she hated most in her life was that someone mentioned marriage in front of her, at a young age? Her childhood playmates got married and had children three or four years ago, and she is still single, even in the White Lotus Sect, it is rare, but those who hate those who are inferior to her see that their martial arts can't beat her, so they often make up some silvery little jokes to secretly criticize and slander her.

"What do you want me to do to spare the Holy Sect?"

"Hehe, I'm finally smart." Lin Haijiang was waiting for her words.

The agreement made with Jiang Rong'er before, Lin Haijiang was not completely at ease, just like this unprovoked attack, if it wasn't for the guards, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to stand here and speak. However, the number of personnel of the Special Intelligence Detective Team is still insufficient, and most of the personnel are still training in the old port, and the return date has not yet been determined, and even if the training is completed, it will take some time for these personnel to integrate into society and play a role.

The officers and soldiers who seem to be elite sailors can be said to be loyal to him in general, but after all, the time is still short, and most people are afraid that in their hearts they are loyal to the Qing Dynasty, which is full of holes, Lin Haijiang can't fully trust them, and his dealings with the White Lotus Sect and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can't always take the guards of the brigade to swagger through the city, right? There is no impermeable wall in the world, and once this secret is revealed, he will have no choice but to flee to the old port.

In the world, in any religion, as long as the word saint is named, it usually has a very high status, which can be said to be one person under ten thousand people, although it does not have much real power, but the spiritual symbol is very great.

The White Lotus Sect is such a secret organization, with many followers, and its members are complex and widely distributed, so he can't underestimate Jiang Rong'er's influence among the low-level sects In Lin Haijiang's opinion, although Jiang Rong'er has a good martial arts, her surname is impulsive, and she can be called bold and reckless, otherwise she would not have the same thing as when she broke into the Zhenyuan ship at night and threatened herself with a sword! For such a time bomb, it is better to put it outside than to put it on the side.

After making up his mind, Lin Haijiang slowly spoke: "Be my personal guard for a year!" ”

(To be continued)