Guangzhou General Mukdenne, a big fat man who is fatter than Ye Mingchen, actually stood on the side of Bai Gui, the governor of Guangdong? One tall and one short, one fat and one thin are also quite well matched, and Halder, the commander of the Guangdong Navy, seems to be swimming between the two forces.

Lin Haijiang can feel that Bai Gui has been hindering Ye Mingchen's so-called expansion of the army and Guangzhou, but he has strongly advocated directly losing the silver to the imperial court, in fact, in Lin Haijiang's opinion, the differences between the two sides are not big, but they do not give in to each other, just like two cows crossing a single-plank bridge and reaching a piece.

Ye Mingchen glanced at Lin Haijiang meaningfully and said: "In January of the third year of Xianfeng, the bandits captured Wuhan, and Chang Dachun, the governor of Hubei, was martyred, and the thief army increased to 500,000. In February, bandits captured Anqing, and Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui, committed suicide. In March, Nanjing was captured, and the Jiangning general Xianghou and the Liangjiang governor Lu Jianying were killed in battle. Nanjing was renamed the puppet bandit Tianjing and designated as the bandit capital. The imperial court was forced to set up camps in Jiangnan and Jiangbei to prevent the monstrous trend of banditry. ”

Immediately afterwards, Ye Mingchen snorted slightly: "Isn't there still a small number of feudal officials in this city?" Kashiwa-sama also wants to follow in his footsteps? ”

"This!" Bai Gui's old face trembled slightly, and then said coldly: "Zeng Guofan? He is the proud protégé of Mu Zhang'a, the Minister of Military Aircraft. In Beijing for more than 10 years, he has successively served as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, a scholar of the relocation of scholars, a bachelor of lectures, a cabinet minister of Wenyuan Pavilion, a bachelor of the cabinet, a scholar of the inspection of Chinese calligraphy, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Soldiers, the Ministry of Engineering, the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Officials. Seven moves in ten years, ten levels in a row. Is this something that ordinary people can compare? ”

Bai Gui glanced at the expressionless Ye Mingchen leisurely and continued: "In the second year of Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan was worried at home because of his mother's funeral. The long-haired bandits are becoming more and more chaotic, and the imperial court has mobilized a large number of officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion from all over the country to deal with the long-haired bandits. Due to the situation, in his hometown of Hunan, he relied on complex interpersonal relationships such as mentors and apprentices, relatives, and friends, and established a local regimental training, called the Hunan Army. In January this year, he took over the will of the Hunan regimental training, and after Guo Songtao persuaded Bao Sangzi, he arrived in Changsha to discuss the regimental training with Hunan Governor Zhang Liangji. Since March, the Taiping army has captured Jiangning and set the capital of Pseudo-Tianjing. In September, he was allowed to move to Hengzhou for training. A few days ago, I heard that the Jianhengzhou Shipyard was rushing to build warships, and it also sent people to our Guangdong to buy foreign artillery and prepare for the construction of a naval division. ”

Bai Gui's voice suddenly changed: "Lord Ye, do you know what someone has done to entangle the township party?" ”

Taking advantage of Ye Mingchen's slight stunnedness, Bai Gui said loudly: "The one who enters Nanjing first will be crowned king!" Could it be that you, Lord Ye, are also tempted? ”

Is this rumor true? Everyone, including Mukdenne and Halde, gasped, the extremely strong and huge temptation of being crowned king was something that no military attache could resist, especially since this kind of feat could be built on the battlefield.

As the saying goes, if you don't speculate for more than half a sentence, Bai Guidu alludes to Ye Mingchen's ill intentions, so naturally there is nothing to talk about, but Mukdenne and Halder are a little unscrupulous.

After Ye Mingchen served tea to the guests, only Lin Haijiang was taken to the north hall and detoured to the back garden, Ye Mingchen was sitting on a longan tree and pondering, and when he saw Lin Haijiang coming, he beckoned and said, "Can you take a few sips to refresh yourself?" ”

Lin Haijiang called a thousand first, looked around, Ye Mingchen asked him to sit down, but there were no chairs or stone piers on the side, so he simply sat cross-legged on the ground.

Ye Mingchen smiled very happily when he saw Lin Haijiang's straightforward expression, he liked Lin Haijiang the most simple and neat and capable person, so he decided to be open and honest: "I think you have also seen it, the two generals of Baigui, Mukdenne and Halder are not on my side, my superintendent is actually only two dissatisfied battalion head guards, a huge Guangzhou, these 800 people thrown into it may not even be able to make a ripple, so I need you to bring me a team of foreign guns on the dock that day in three months." ”

Lin Haijiang hesitated for a moment and said, "I will do my best, please rest assured!" ”

Ye Mingchen nodded with satisfaction and continued: "But I can't give much of this silver, you have to figure it out by yourself, but I need at least four battalion leaders, understand?" If you train elite soldiers to serve the imperial court, this governor will not treat you badly. ”

Lin Haijiang can be said to have made some preparations before, he knew that the wartime military expenditure of the Qing Dynasty was in addition to the regular military expenditure, such as the addition of wartime rations (including reward silver, packing silver and salt vegetable rations), wartime rewards (divided into three types: rewards for military merits, rewards for the death of the dead in battle, and rewards for wounds) and supplements after the consumption of weapons and equipment, military transportation expenses, etc.

In the righteousness, the imperial court ordered the provinces to hold regimental exercises to help suppress, but did not give silver, Zeng Guofan recruited the regiment Ding in Hunan as the official brave, set the system of camp posts, and the food and salary were taken from the war supplement, called Xiangyong or Hunan army, which was the beginning of the township regiment to change to Yong battalion.

Later, there were the Huai Army and the Yong Battalions of the provinces established in imitation of the Hunan Army system, and once the war was completed, they were basically dismissed on the spot, except for the battalions of the Hunan Army and some other brave battalions directly under the jurisdiction of Zeng Guo Fan who were not dismissed, the Yong Battalions were still retained in the dangerous places in the provinces, which were generally collectively referred to as the defense army. In addition to the defense army, there is also a training army, which is selected and trained from the green battalion, and its battalion system and salary medals are all imitated by the Hunan army, and the task is the same as that of the defense army.

And Lin Haijiang's Dapeng garrison camp normally belongs to the training army, but because it is under the direct jurisdiction of the governor and governor, it should be according to common sense that it should be taken according to the imperial court military system, but Ye Mingchen in front of him does not plan to give it, to let Lin Haijiang be self-reliant, Lin Haijiang is really helpless.

Taking Guangdong as an example, the town is set up from the second grade of the general soldier, under the jurisdiction of the town under the five standards, under the standard of four associations, under the association there are two battalions, in fact, Lin Haijiang's garrison is equivalent to a co-ordination, the only difference is that there is no limit to the head of the battalion under his coordination, Ye Mingchen is equivalent to telling Lin Haijiang, how many soldiers you have, how many soldiers you have, I can give you as many officials.

After getting Lin Haijiang's sonorous and powerful assurance, a middle-aged man dressed as a bookcase bowed slightly and whispered, and after hearing this, Ye Mingchen suddenly said angrily: "Bai Gui, this old horseman, can't rely on the old to sell the old?" However, in the twenty-fourth year of Jiaqing, he was born in the same Jinshi, Longxi, Puning, Longmen, Dongguan and other Ren Zhi counties, this Zhi County let him do enough, if it wasn't for the fact that he held Liu Junji's thigh in Nanxiong Zhili before he mixed with the governor of Henan, at the beginning of this year, I was awarded the governor of Guangdong, and I called him not qualified enough. ”

After roaring, Ye Mingchen realized that he was out of shape, so he said: "In the future, you have to pay more attention to Bai Gui, Mukdenne, Halder and others, in case they are not good for you." ”

Lin Haijiang scolded Ye Mingchen in his heart, obviously he was not well arranged, and he became a soft persimmon in the gap between the two forces, Bai Gui didn't dare to touch him Ye Mingchen, but it didn't mean that he didn't dare to find him Lin Haijiang, and the roots of the Lin family were in Guangzhou.

Although Lin Haijiang scolded Ye Mingchen over and over again in his heart, he verbally thanked others for taking care of him!

Leaving the Liangguang Governor's Palace, Lin Haijiang did not go home, but went straight to the dock, boarded the two ships of Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, which had been rested, and aimed directly at Dapeng, Lin Haijiang was very eager to see what kind of soldiers Mukdenne and Halder gave him?

The wharf in Daya Bay, where Dapeng City is located, obviously couldn't dock big ships like Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, so Lin Haijiang had to bring a hundred guards to row ashore quickly.

Walking all the way to Dapeng City, the Dapeng City, which is made of blue bricks and bluestones, looks extremely strong, but Lin Haijiang knows that this so-called solidity is just an illusion of self-deception, and in the second Opium War in the future, this solidity will become synonymous with vulnerability.

What makes Lin Haijiang very strange is that at this time, Dapeng City should still be a military fortress at all? He only saw listless, ragged ordinary people coming and going freely?

There wasn't even a sentry at the gate of the city? Lin Haijiang stood at the city gate for ten minutes, and finally Wang Dongxu led a team to find a guy who "resembled" Bing Yong from the shade of the crack in the city gate.

Lin Haijiang looked at the soldier who was standing in front of him and was old enough to be his grandfather, crying again and again, his clothes were almost ragged, and he still exuded a strange smell on his body, and suddenly became angry, he had never seen anyone as a soldier like this? The confused veteran doesn't seem to have figured out the situation yet, and is still shouting to let go of the uncle!

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