The sixth day of October.

The Gangnam Times, which has recently sold 6,500 copies per issue, has relaunched a special issue, with a front-page headline carrying news and commentary titled "The New Army of Gangnam Goes North to Join the War."

Underneath this astonishing news is the "Jiangnan New Army Investment Promotion Regulations" that occupies almost half of the page.

Two sudden major news, like a boulder smashed into a calm lake, the entire Jinling City was boiling.

The major merchants have convened the family shopkeepers to discuss and plan urgently, and the small businessmen who reacted quickly ran around with newspapers in their hands, trying to form a joint-stock company like Tiangong Commerce and Trade in a joint and complementary way, and concentrated their efforts to launch bids and become long-term suppliers and collaborators of the Jiangnan New Army.

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

The official office of Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the ministry, suddenly became lively, and the high-ranking officials gathered in the official office of Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the official department, to discuss the new army in the south of the Yangtze River, which was about to go north to fight, and Zhu Daolin, the opponent who was "forced to go north to resist the Qing Dynasty".

The leaders of the Donglin Party, who thought that their plan had succeeded and could finally move away from the mountain, were very excited, and their eyebrows fluttered one by one, and they celebrated with their crowns, as if they had seen Zhu Daolin, the culprit they hated, and the Jiangnan New Army he founded were going to perish, but few people saw the far-reaching significance contained in the "Jiangnan New Army Investment Promotion Regulations".

Zheng Sanjun, who was sitting on the main seat, and Feng Yuanbiao, the secretary of the military department, were full of red light.

Both of them received letters from many colleagues in the capital, and they both knew that Zhu Daolin openly humiliated the high-ranking officials of Donglin in the court and robbed the mules and horses of the Shanxi family in Tongzhou, and they both thought that Zhu Daolin led the Jiangnan New Army to the north to participate in the war this time, which was the result of Zhou Yanru, the first assistant, leading the colleagues in the court and the central government to work together to persuade the emperor.

In order to speed up the process of eliminating the opponent, Zheng Sanjun once again made a suggestion to Feng Yuanbiao: take back the Nanda camp under the Lion Rock in the name of the military department!

Feng Yuanbiao immediately understood Zheng Sanjun's purpose for drawing salary, thought about it for a moment, and felt quite embarrassed: "This ...... Nandaying is the station of Yulinwei. If the military department forcibly takes it back, it needs to be approved by the eunuch guarding Nanjing, and the 5,000 Imperial Forest Army left in Nanjing is nominally under the jurisdiction of our military department, but the right to transfer is in the hands of Wu Jingxian, the eunuch guarding the town, which is not easy to do! ”

Zheng Sanjun laughed: "Actually, it's very easy to do, just play the emperor." In order to protect the southern capital and a large area of tax sources in the south of the Yangtze River, the military department plans to resume the annual traditional drill, and it is necessary to use the vacant southern battalion for the drill and drill of the various armies. ”

In order to increase the persuasiveness, one can also be added: The military department plans to recruit homeless young and strong people in stages and batches, and conduct strict training to supplement the vacancies in the Jinling city defense and the various armies in the south of the Yangtze River. At the critical juncture, he was ordered to go out to fight, participate in the counterinsurgency or go to the border passes, resist the foreign captives, the Nanjing officials and household departments strongly supported, and the enlightened gentry from all over the south of the Yangtze River enthusiastically donated, with full sincerity to serve the emperor's favor and strengthen the prestige of our army! ”

Feng Yuanbiao was immediately moved.

Zheng Sanjun's support from the Ministry of Officials and Households and the donation of Jiangnan Gate Valve was, to put it bluntly, a sum of silver paid to the Ministry of War.

Regardless of whether the traditional Gangnam drill is restored later. It doesn't matter whether or not the soldiers are recruited for training, as long as the Nanda battalion can be brought back. Everyone's goal has been achieved, and their money will naturally be in hand, and in the end, it will definitely be the same as the similar things that have happened countless times before, and they will gradually be forgotten.

Seeing Feng Yuanbiao with a smile on his face, he nodded heavily. Zheng Sanjun was in a particularly happy mood and quietly revealed an important news to Feng Yuanbiao:

Under the personal supervision of the old man of Taicang Wang, more than 100 skilled craftsmen have imitated two hand-cranked printing machines after months of hard work, and are currently concentrating manpower and material resources. Referring to the metal movable type obtained from the Jiangnan Newspaper Printing Factory, and dozens of craftsmen are researching the ink also obtained from the Jiangnan Newspaper Printing Factory, and we will soon be able to build our own printing machine, hum! Ru Lin rebelled against Ruan Dayue and "Jiangnan Times" and had a few good days! ”

Feng Yuanbiao was greatly excited, and applauded again and again: "Okay! In the past six months, we have been at a loss by a Shilin scum and a few machines, passive everywhere, it is embarrassing to think about, it is really insulting to the reputation of my Donglin party! As long as the machine is imitated, the first thing will be to crush the Jiangnan Times and regain the public opinion in its hands! ”

Zheng Sanjun nodded frequently, and then beckoned to the confidant officials in front of Su Li's side, and soon the special meeting to "send off the Jiangnan New Army to fight in the north" officially began.

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At this time, the entire Jinling City was already in a hustle and bustle.

The news of the new army's march to the north was hotly discussed, and the business houses and workshop managers were nervously discussing the terms and conditions of the new army's investment promotion, paying attention to the huge number of long-term purchases of as many as 56 varieties.

The shopkeepers of the Qing and Lou on both sides of the Qinhuai Strait also connected with each other and discussed with each other to make some efforts for the expedition of the new army in the south of the Yangtze River, in order to thank General Zhu Daolin, the commander of the new army, for his concern and support for the sons and daughters of Qinhuai.

On the south bank of the Qinhuai River, the wide courtyard facing the wharf on the north bank is even more lively.

Hundreds of musicians, musicians, and instrument craftsmen gathered to discuss how to express their hearts to Zhu Daolin, who was about to lead the Jiangnan New Army north to fight the enemy.

This spacious courtyard covering an area of 12 acres is the "Jinling Musical Instrument Factory" led by three musicians and funded by dozens of musicians four months ago.

Outsiders thought that the "Jinling Musical Instrument Factory", which had become famous in the musical instrument making industry in just a few months, benefited from the funding of Xu Fu, the former first prostitute in Qinhuai and the current head of the Hushan Conservatory of Music.

Together with the various tools, knives, measuring tools, copper materials, various musical instrument manufacturing drawings and priceless manufacturing technology atlases that the musicians now rely on to make a living, they were all quietly sent by Zhu Daolin through Xu Fu's hand, and all the musicians in Jinling City were grateful to Zhu Daolin and regarded him as their benefactor.

Horse-drawn wagons and boats transporting grain and various supplies continued to rush to Hushan Manor and Shangyuan Wharf.

The leather goods workshops, oil cloth workshops, rope workshops, slaughterhouses and oil extraction workshops inside and outside the city of Jinling are all working overtime for the Jiangnan New Army that is about to go on the expedition.

At this time, even the huge trading fleet composed of 12 Franc machine ships arrived at Shangyuan Port, and there was no such spectacular scene of 10,000 onlookers as usual, and the focus of all the military and civilian discussions was Zhu Daolin and his Jiangnan New Army, and all walks of life were busy with the huge procurement of materials by the New Army and the bidding meeting held on 20 October.

Except for Feng Shengtai, the general manager of the Tiangong Trading Company, who was responsible for receiving the Franc machine caravan, and Zhao Xunting, the general manager of Hushan Manor, no one knew what Zhu Daolin had been busy with recently.

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