Hong Xiuquan's killing of Yang Xiuqing was essentially just to regain his own power, but he underestimated Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang's hatred of Yang Xiuqing and the rest of the Eastern Party from the beginning.

Hong Xiuquan asked them to kill Yang Xiuqing, but Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang carried out unlimited implication and killing of the entire Eastern Party, not only killing Yang Xiuqing's family, but even killing many people close to Yang Xiuqing, including Lin Chengting's family.

By the time Hong Xiuquan found out and wanted to stop it, Lin Chengting had already led nearly 20,000 troops to attack Tianjing, shouting the slogan of bloody Tianjing.

And after hearing about the Tianjing Incident, Shi Dakai also led the army back from Jiangxi!

The development of the whole situation has completely exceeded Hong Xiuquan's expectations!

It can also be fully proved from this incident that whether it was before or now, in fact, Hong Xiuquan lacked control over the kings and generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Throughout the years since the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it will be found that Hong Xiuquan has never actually held the military and political power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he is at best only a religious and spiritual leader, and the military power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has always been in the hands of others.

In the early days, the real power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in the hands of Feng Yunshan, and the so-called founder Feng Yunshan was also. Later, Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui gradually became the actual military and political controllers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and after Feng Yunshan and Xiao Chaogui died in battle, Yang Xiuqing was in charge of the military and political power alone.

As for Hong Xiuquan, the nominal supreme leader, he has never controlled the real power of the military and government from beginning to end, and even the power of religious leaders is often challenged by Yang Xiuqing.

After Lin Chengting under Yang Xiuqing was afraid of the Jiangnan camp, Yang Xiuqing even took the initiative to ask Hong Xiuquan to seal himself as long live under the pretext of Heavenly Father.

In this environment, it is not surprising that Hong Xiuquan wants to kill Yang Xiuqing.

As for why Qin Rigang, Wei Changhui and others accepted Hong Xiuquan's secret edict and killed Yang Xiuqing, it was because they were even more dissatisfied with Yang Xiuqing, and there were many contradictions on weekdays, and it also involved the struggle for military power.

It's just that Hong Xiuquan didn't expect that what was originally just a small action to kill Yang Xiuqing turned into a massacre in the end, and everyone who had anything to do with Yang Xiuqing was killed.

And after the family members of Lin Chengting and others were killed, Lin Chengting raised the banner of rebellion, killed all the way from Changzhou to Tianjing, and shouted the slogan of learning Tianjing.

At this time, Hong Xiuquan was afraid and regretful, he knew that today, when he killed Yang Xiuqing, he would be cautious and cautious, even if he wanted to kill Yang Xiuqing, but he would not engage in large-scale implication and massacre.

However, regret is useless, the messenger he sent to appease Lin Chengting was beheaded and sent back, and even sealing Lin Chengting as the king of Ning could not eliminate Lin Chengting's determination to bloody Tianjing.

Facing Lin Chengting, whose eyes were red and he was bent on revenge, Qin Rigang and Wei Changhui on the one hand led their headquarters to vigorously defend Tianjing City, and on the other hand, they also asked Hong Xiuquan to give an urgent report to Shi Dakai, who was returning east, and asked Shi Dakai to rush back to Tianjing quickly. In addition, he also sent a letter to Zhenjiang, asking Wu Ruxiao to lead the army back to Tianjing.

Things have developed to this point, no matter what happens next, but the whole situation can be said to be chaotic to the point where it is difficult to guess, even Lin Zhe in Changzhou is difficult to guess from the limited information.

He also knew about the famous Tianjing Incident in history, but he couldn't remember the reason before and after the incident, but the only thing he was sure of was that there was no Yu Shengjun of his own in history, let alone Lin Chengting.

Now that the appearance of himself and Yu Shengjun has inevitably changed history, it has led to the fact that today's Tianjing Incident is completely different from the Tianjing Incident in history.

When history has completely changed, and he can't get too much effective information, what Lin Zhe can do is to stay out of the matter and get the most benefits while watching the drama in the back.

After marching into Changzhou, although Lin Zhe stationed most of his troops in Changzhou, he also successively sent small forces to recover Changzhou and other cities in Zhenjiang Prefecture to expand the tactical defense scope of Changzhou.

On May 13th, Yu Shengjun marched to take over Jintan, and then launched a tentative march like Danyang, but it was a little late, Wu Ruxiao had already sent 10,000 people to re-enter Danyang after Lin Chengting left, so he could only give up temporarily.

On the other side, after Xu Yanqing's second mixed regiment withdrew from Tianjing, it retreated directly to Lishui to rest, and has now made contact with Yu Shengjun in the direction of Jintan.

When Lin Chengting attacked Tianjing, Yu Shengjun's short-term strategic goal can be said to have been successfully completed!

From the beginning of the troops to Changzhou and Zhenjiang, Yu Shengjun's strategic goal was very clear, that is, to block the Taiping army from advancing eastward into Su Songtai, and now that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was busy with internal fighting, Lin Zhe did not think that they would have the time and opportunity to advance eastward.

Taking advantage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's busy infighting, Lin Zhe also focused on his own development, and what is his own development? Naturally, it is the expansion of the army.

In this battle, Lin Zhe faced the 780,000 elites of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and deeply felt the inadequacy of his own troops, so he felt that it was necessary to further expand the total number of troops of Yu Sheng's army.

In addition to these purely military reasons, it is also related to Lin Zhe's concern about the chaos of the current situation.

With such a big variable of his own, Lin Zhe is not sure if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can last for more than ten years like history, and now that the Qing court and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are running new armies one after another, if this drags on for a few more years, maybe they will be able to really train the new army, and it will be even more unfavorable to themselves at that time.

The uncertainty of the future also gave Lin Zhe a greater sense of crisis, and he felt that it was necessary for him to speed up the process of raising the flag to rebel.

And if you want to rebel in advance, then you have to accelerate the pace of army expansion!

"The formation of the Sixth Mixed Regiment has been carried out smoothly, and the soldiers recruited from Jiading and Songjiang have basically been in place, and now they are waiting for the ordnance from the Linde Machinery Factory!" As the general office of the Supervision and Training Department, Xu Pengan, the supervision and training officer, is naturally the main person in charge of the formation and training of the new unit.

"In addition, 2,000 recruits urgently recruited from southern Zhejiang have been sent to Huzhou one after another, and our supervision and training department expects to transfer 1,000 of them to supplement the second mixed regiment and the battle damage of our Chinese army headquarters!"

"For the remaining 1,000 people, our supervision and training department will supplement about 200 people to raise enough troops for two infantry battalions to garrison Huzhou and Guangde areas."

While listening, Lin Zhe looked at the report in his hand, and asked from time to time: "When will the weapons and equipment of the Sixth Mixed Regiment be in place, I remember that the 1856 rifle at the Linde Machinery Factory has been finalized, when will it be able to equip our army in large quantities?" ”

Xu Peng'an said: "The Sixth Mixed Regiment is expected to use the 1856 rifle just mass-produced by the Linde Machinery Factory, which has been produced in small batches, but according to the Linde Machinery Factory, they are still in the process of technical adjustment, and the output will not be too high, and they can only produce about 500 pieces per month. ”

Lin Zhe calculated in his heart, frowned, and said, "This daily output is less than twenty?" That's too little! ”

Xu Pengan said: "However, the Linde Machinery Factory also said that after they complete the technical adjustment, the output is expected to double again!" ”

Lin Zhe is still a little dissatisfied: "In recent years, we have invested a lot in the Linde factory, but now the output has not been able to increase!" ”

In order to allow Linde Machinery to have sufficient funds for equipment introduction, technology research and development, etc., Yu Shengjun has allocated up to 300,000 taels of silver to Linde Machinery Factory in the name of 'purchase advance payment'.

In addition, Yu Shengjun's other ordnance was also purchased from the Linde Machinery Factory, including the old Linde rifle, a large number of smoothbore front-loading guns, naval guns, bayonets, sabers, etc. Even if you don't talk about the advance payment, just the normal purchase order is enough for the rapid development of Linde Machinery Factory.

However, Lin Zhe still underestimated the difficulty of building a large arsenal from scratch, and in order to be able to mass-produce the 1856 Linde rifle, the Linde Machinery Factory has accumulated more than 600 sets of various types of equipment and built more than 10 specialized factories in steel, casting, gunpowder, wood and other fields.

And that's just about rifles, and all kinds of factories needed for artillery, shells, etc., will not be much less than rifles, if not more.

Due to the continuous expansion of the factory requires a large amount of factory land, and the original site of the Linde Machinery Qì factory is in the British Concession, the land price is high, and it is not suitable for the development of large enterprises.

Therefore, during the subsequent expansion, Lin Deji opened a branch factory in the south of Shanghai, for which Lin Zhe once again used his power as a political envoy in Jiangsu Province to plan a so-called 'factory land' of up to 1,000 acres in the south of Shanghai. The area is also included in the management of the trade zone.

After obtaining sufficient land for the construction of the factory, the new factory of Linde Machinery Qì Factory has built more than 20 branches of various specialties, covering almost all departments of the modern heavy industry system, employing up to 2,500 people, and the recruitment of workers is still continuing, and the number of employees is expected to exceed 3,000 in the future.

However, even with such a lot of energy, due to the short time, the results of the Linde Machinery Factory were still unsatisfactory, at least not to achieve Lin Zhe's psychological expectations.

It's just that this kind of thing can't be rushed, even if Lin Zhe is not satisfied in his heart, he can only endure it first, but said: "If the Sixth Mixed Regiment doesn't have new weapons now, even if it is trained with old guns first, so that after the new weapons arrive, they can quickly form an army!" ”

After Lin Zhe finished reading the report in his hand, he found that there was no content of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment, so he took the initiative to ask: "Have you made a plan for the reorganization of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment?" (To be continued.) )