"Prince Hui?" Monk Greenqin shook his cloak fiercely and said: "The guards are not good, and the few thousand generals who are derelict in their duties will go and get the ten army sticks by themselves!" ”

There were a few bangs outside the tent! Monk Greenqin looked at Lin Haijiang and rubbed his hands and said, "It's really rude, let's be like this tonight!" I still have some property in the capital, and it is not a problem for me to work for a few days. ”

Lin Haijiang was about to say something heart-to-heart, when he suddenly heard a woman crying? Lin Haijiang looked at the monk Lingqin in confusion.

Monk Lingqin suddenly realized: "By the way, I still have hundreds of female bandit soldiers captured in various places before, let's go and take a look, they are all fresh, I guarantee that they have not been touched, and if there is anything that is interested, take them away." ”

Lin Haijiang knew that there was a lot of moisture in Seng Lingqin's words, because in addition to the plundering of the soldiers, the most profitable business was women, whether it was sold to a large family or bought into the Goolan Qinglou, it was a large amount of silver.

In the dark night, Lin Haijiang saw a row of large tall wooden fences with about a few thousand people locked up? The figure couldn't see clearly, and Monk Greenqin said disdainfully: "These are all bandits who have no food to eat, and they haven't accepted their names yet, so they will give them a full meal early in the morning, so that they can attack the city in the first wave." ”

Lin Haijiang looked at the captives and soldiers who looked numb and unclothed, shook his head helplessly, and said, "What combat power can you have in this way?" Catching up is not to die. ”

Monk Greenqin was speechless, and a staff member on the side smiled and said, "Lord Lin can't be soft-hearted!" If these rebels live, they will eat our flesh and drink our blood! It's good to waste a single gun in the fence, it's better than our own brothers. ”

Lin Haijiang walked into the big tent where the female prisoners were held, the temperature inside was not much higher than outside, and there was ice on the tent door, obviously the entry of Lin Haijiang and others detonated the resistance of the women in the tent, and it was obvious that it was not the first time that Monk Lingqin had allowed people to come here to choose women.

Between more than a dozen Goshhar pulls, a figure pounced on Lin Haijiang and bit Lin Haijiang's hand, and Goshha on the side pulled out his knife when he saw this, and Lin Haijiang glared: "Stand down!" ”

Lin Haijiang let the blood flow on his hands, and still endured the pain and smiled at the woman who bit him, because he saw a desperate horror in the eyes of this woman? Maybe it was resentment, but after a while, the woman in the yellow Taiping Army uniform slowly let go, and Lin Haijiang untied his cloak and draped it over the ragged woman.

But then the woman scolded angrily: "Qinggou, don't you pretend to be a good person, isn't it trying to affect our body?" He threw his cloak on the ground.

Lin Haijiang took a deep breath, turned around and left, and said to the smiling monk Lingqin: "These people, including those captives, I want them all, you can make a price!" ”

Yes? Monk Greenqin was dumbfounded? The staff on the side were also dumbfounded, and as soon as Monk Greenqin was about to ask, Lin Haijiang smiled and said: "These captives are just beheaded by us, it's too wasteful, the Westerners are short of slaves in building industries, and these people are sold in exchange for arms and silver, and let these damned rebels become worse than dead, and when they are exhausted, they will be thrown to the local indigenous cannibals, which will kill two birds with one stone for the court and for you and me!" ”

"Is that okay?" Monk Greenqin turned his head and looked at his staff, and for a long time, several staff members discussed it and thought that this was also a mistake to hurt Daya, and he also saved money for the imperial court, killing three birds with one stone!

After the 500 Omanli 5 guns and 200 Henry connecting rifles and ammunition were all counted, Seng Lingqin only took out 60,000 taels of cash, and the rest were ready to use prisoners of war to cover the account, the women were each 30 taels, and the men Lin Haijiang insisted on inspection and registration, and selected according to five criteria, and the price was based on quality! In the formulation of the ranks, the staff of the monk Greenqin carried forward the spirit of reluctance, almost did not give up at all, and were stubborn to the point that the head could be broken, the blood could be shed, and the price grade could never be allowed.

Looking at Lin Haijiang setting up a few large tables, watching with a quick gun on one side, and checking his body like a cattle on the other, after grading these prisoners, the soldiers outside gave each person two steamed buns with meat.

Seeing this scene, Monk Greenqin completely believed that Lin Haijiang's statement that he sold bandits to the West as slaves was true, but he couldn't help but despise Lin Haijiang, who was very keen on doing the business of having a son without an asshole, and the Qing army, who knew the inside story, looked at these fools with pity.

Lin Haijiang arranged for some people to deliberately reveal that they would transport these people to Guangzhou to do hard labor in order to stabilize the hearts of the prisoners of war. Therefore, the prisoners of war ate very well, and the throats of the Qing soldiers who were on guard on the side kept squirming.

The price of the Taiping prisoners ranged from fifteen taels to five taels, but the number greatly exceeded Lin Haijiang's expectations, because seeing that it was profitable, Seng Lingqin's subordinates mixed the prisoners in each battalion and some nearby people to fill the number.

In the end, some people even suggested that they simply go out and circle a few villages to bring people back and count the money together, and Seng Lingqin stopped this increasingly crazy behavior in time, because he knew very well that if this development continued, not only would it go against the original intention of the beginning, but it would also make this transaction a surname, and he and Lin Haijiang would probably directly face the impeachment of the imperial historians.

Fortunately, Lin Haijiang's side was very specific in registration, but even so, Lin Haijiang still cleaned out more than 1,000 nearby people, including woodcutters, charcoal burners, merchants, etc., all of whom were arrested as long-haired spies.

In the end, the accounts were collected, and as soon as the head money for food and cotton clothes was calculated, Lin Haijiang still had to find more than 1,000 taels of silver from Monk Greenqin, and Monk Greenqin was also blushing, and he refused to ask for Lin Haijiang's silver, and the two agreed that all the captives' long hair would be handled at this price in the future, and everyone would get rich!

Lin Haijiang and Monk Greenqin were all laughing unusually dirty! Everyone cooperates to make a fortune and take the route of common prosperity is the true meaning of official morality.

After counting the captives, Seng Greenqin sent 2,000 horses to help Lin Haijiang escort these captives to the Tianjin wharf, for the women in it, Monk Greenqin also gave special treatment, made dozens of ox carts with sheds, looking at the captives wrapped in new cotton clothes, Monk Greenqin felt that Lin Haijiang was too kind to them.

Lin Haijiang responded with a slight smile: "That's all money!" If you die, you will earn one less, and a few cotton clothes should not be tight! ”

When Lin Haijiang left, the cannon on the back was already rumbling, and Monk Greenqin began to attack the city again, looking at the more than a dozen cattle on the road dragging the slow-moving 10,000-pound general cannon, Lin Haijiang knew that this time Monk Greenqin was really moving, and the Taiping army was probably not happy.

On the eve of the Chinese New Year's Eve of 1853, in the autumn of the third year of Xianfeng, Lin Haijiang was still adrift at sea, and Lin Fengxiang, deputy minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Li Kaifang, minister of the local government, led more than 20,000 troops of the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to break into the direct subordination. On September 9, Xianfeng specially appointed Prince Hui Mianyu as the general and Seng Lingqin as the counselor minister, and deployed to resist the bandits to ensure the safety of Gyeonggi.

Monk Greenqin led the Beijing battalion troops out of Zhuozhou, the main force of the Taiping army arrived in Tianjin, according to Jinghai, Duliu and the two places stuck to wait for help, Xianfeng ordered the minister to attack the enemy, and Monk Greenqin moved the army to Wang Qing and Tuo to guard the second line.

From the beginning of the war to the first month of this year, compared with Lin Haijiang's Guangzhou crackdown on 200,000 Hong bandits, the Monk Greenqin's subordinates, who asked for money and food, were unable to work hard, so much so that a farce of 300 rounds of battle between the two sides of the firearms battalion was even created.

In Lin Haijiang's memory, the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was simply a major strategic failure, tens of thousands of elites were hanging alone, there was no ammunition, food and grass inside, and no reinforcements outside, but at this moment, the princes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were in the Tianjing overhaul palace to collect Wang Niang.

However, Lin Haijiang vaguely remembered that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not retreat to Lianzhen in Dongguang County until May of the fourth year of Xianfeng, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang agreed to divide the troops into two routes, Li Kaifang led the elite cavalry south to receive reinforcements, and galloped to Gaotang, Shandong.

Lin Fengxiang continued to be trapped in Lianzhen, lacking food and grass inside, and there were no reinforcements outside, so he stubbornly resisted the Seng Lingqin Department with inferior troops, and abandoned Xilian Town in Xianfeng for five years, and concentrated his troops to defend Donglian Town.

In the end, Monk Greenqin surrounded Lianzhen layer by layer, and when the rainy season came, the water of the South Canal was diverted, and Lianzhen was flooded, so that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fell into a situation of running out of ammunition and food, so at present, in Lin Haijiang's view, although Monk Greenqin fought lively, it was still far from completely exterminating the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The Spring Festival of 1854 is still two days away, for Yanjing is not bothered by the siege of Tianjin bandits, it still seems to be particularly lively, in the periphery of Tianjin monk Grinqin fought well, several times equipped with new foreign guns of the death squad have broken into the Taiping army to hold the earthen encirclement, although finally defeated, but this is not at all dared to think before.

For the direction of his almost influence history, Lin Haijiang broke out in a cold sweat, Prince Yi's mansion can be described as full of traffic inside and out, and Prince Yi Zaiyuan, who contributed a lot to the Guangzhou Rebellion, is a first-class celebrity around the emperor in front of him, so many officials also rushed to add icing on the cake.

Lin Haijiang, who was originally going to be idle for two days, suddenly remembered the errand that Xianfeng dictated to him, and now the Hunan army, Huai army, and Beiyang system that the Qing Dynasty relied on in later generations are still not a word, and the standing army in the hands of the Qing Dynasty is only more than 400,000.

The most elite of them is the Beijing camp of the forbidden army, as the number one imaginary enemy in the future, Lin Haijiang is still very willing to go to great lengths to witness it with his own eyes, in case of a future battlefield confrontation, he is somewhat prepared.

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