When Lin Zhe began to transfer his family business to the Shanghai Concession, greatly reducing the industry in southern Jiangsu, and at the same time expanding the scale of the nursing home, the situation in China continued to be turbulent.

Although the Qing court had successively prepared to set up the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp, in the battle between the Taiping army and the Qing army, the Qing army still lost more than won too little.

And in northern Zhejiang, this part is not calm, there are small groups of Taiping troops in northern Zhejiang, although it is not a large-scale Taiping army, but it still makes a cadre of local officials in northern Zhejiang extremely nervous, in addition to these decent small Taiping army, there are many bandits are also trying to make waves under the banner of the Taiping army.

The group of bandits besieging the Lin family Zhuangzi is the most typical example.

Under the wise command of the county commander Huang Peizhi, he led the county warriors and the gentry Ding Zhuang to win more with less, and broke the thief army, and solved the danger of Yuyao by Shun Lì, and beheaded dozens of people, injured hundreds of enemies, and captured a number of flags, knives and guns.

The whole month of March was relatively peaceful, and Lin Zhe was busy transferring his family business, expanding the nursing home, and all kinds of messy things, and he didn't have the heart to worry about the current situation.

But at the beginning of April, an invitation from Huang Peizhi was sent to Lin Zhe.

This Huang Peizhi wants to see himself? Lin Zhe was a little puzzled, what did this big corrupt official want to see him do? Could it be that the money given to him last time was not enough?

Lin Zhe frowned and looked at the invitation card in his hand, although he had doubts in his heart, he still had to go to this banquet.

In the evening of the next day, Lin Zhe sat in a small sedan chair for two people, and went out with a few subordinates and the nursing home, Yuyao County is not big, and soon he arrived at the county office, and after giving a red envelope to the porter, the porter took Lin Zhe into the back of the county office with a smile on his face.

After seeing Lin Zhe arrive, Huang Peizhi's fat face was full of smiles: "Brother Lin Xian, you are here, come, the kitchen is just ready, let's eat one together!" ”

Hearing the title of this Lin Xiandi, Lin Zhe thought in his heart, this Huang Peizhi is so kind, could it be that he has some bad intentions?

Lin Zhe naturally didn't express his inner thoughts, and immediately said with a smile on his face: "The old man invites, and the students don't dare to disobey!" ”

Immediately sat down very unceremoniously!

The relationship between him and Huang Peizhi is a typical relationship between the local gentry and officials, although the Lin family does not have any big officials, but the Lin family has a lot of money, and a lot of money can still be found in the officialdom to speak, too high-level to say, but in Zhejiang, the relationship network is still good.

Although Lin Zhe will send money to Huang Peizhi from time to time, he is also polite to him, but sending money is just a general rule in officialdom, and the word politeness can truly represent the relationship between Lin Zhe and Huang Peizhi, that is, everyone is polite, you are your official to make money, I do my business to make money, and the two do not offend each other.

So after the politeness was in place, in fact, Lin Zhe didn't give Huang Peizhi much face, he just sat down, but he didn't have the kind of apprehension that ordinary people had when they saw officials, and they didn't even dare to sit on a chair.

After the two sat down, their own subordinates began to serve the food, but after this serving, Lin Zhe found that the simple eating that Huang Peizhi just said was really simple.

Three dishes and one soup, I didn't see the slightest bit of oiliness, and the wine was also a bargain at first glance, and I could smell the smell of water seepage, which made Lin Zhe speechless.

You Huang Peizhi is a well-known big corrupt official, and he has made at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in half a year after taking office, but you are embarrassed to use such meals while entertaining guests?

Is this stingy or pretending to be high?

Although Lin Zhe was speechless in his heart, he didn't have the heart to guess why Huang Peizhi did this.

The wine and food are served, the two of them just ate in silence, the food that the scholar pays attention to is silent, the world often says that the Chinese people like to talk about things when eating, but it is not the case for the scholars in the feudal era, and it is quite rude to talk when the mouth is full of vegetables.

This meal can be regarded as a real coarse tea and light rice, and the cook's skills are not good, so that Lin Zhe, who is used to eating the meals of the chefs of the Lin Mansion, is very unaccustomed to it, and simply eats two bites to slow down the speed of the vegetables, but Huang Peizhi eats very happily, and it seems that he does not eat this kind of meal on weekdays.

This made Lin Zhe very puzzled, if he ate this kind of meal every day, how did he eat his fat meat?

One ate less, the other ate quickly, and this meal didn't take much time, and soon someone removed the leftovers and dishes, and served tea again.

This tea is as bad as the meal just now, just by smelling the aroma of the tea, Lin Zhe knows that this tea will definitely not be much better than the tea drunk by the people in his house.

After enduring the discomfort and taking two sips, Lin Zhe just put down the teacup, and at this time, Huang Peizhi also drank a large sip of hot tea, and then began to speak: "Last month, the bandits were still thanks to Lin Xiandi's help, otherwise the official would not have been rewarded by Shangguan!" ”

Hearing Huang Peizhi open the conversation, he knew that this conversation had really begun!

Immediately, he said: "There, there, it is the students who should thank the county lord for his help, otherwise the Zhuangzi in the east of the city will not be able to keep it!" ”

Huang Peizhi smiled: "Brother Lin Xian is too modest, the last time Ding Zhuang under your hand gave me a deep influence, others don't say, just the head of the Wang Sect under your hand is a fierce general, and the first battle that day had the style of killing all sides!" ”

When Lin Zhe heard this, he was a little puzzled, why did Huang Peizhi say this at this time, but soon Huang Peizhi gave him the answer.

"I don't know what Brother Lin Xiandi thinks about running a group practice?" Huang Peizhi said after taking another sip of tea.

Lin Zhe wondered in his heart after hearing this, group practice? What did Huang Peizhi do when he rashly talked about this today?

Group training, this is not an unfamiliar term, since the bandit rebellion, Emperor Xianfeng has repeatedly issued an edict to persuade the gentry to hold group exercises.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, there were basically two kinds of group exercises, one was the group training organized by the pure gentry at private expense, and there was no official document issued by the imperial court, that is, the traditional sense of Baojia Xiangyong. One is the group training organized by the imperial court officially granted by the 'minister of group training' to supervise, organize, and co-organize. The Hunan Army and the Huai Army are the latter, although they are also called regimental training, but the funds mainly come from local government officials, including the newly established gold checkpoints, customs duties, local embezzlement of taxes, etc., these are their sources of funding.

For ambitious people, there is no point in engaging in the first kind of regimental training, because you don't have official personnel and financial support, you can't expand the scale at all, even if it is a rich family like the Lin family, it will definitely not be able to support a force of several thousand people for a long time, and if the scale is large, it will cause official suspicion, and then it will be absorbed.

The second type of group training must have a head, and it is easy to do a good job of separating the localities, and even playing rebellion. However, the threshold of this kind of group training is quite high, and Xianfeng is not a random "minister of group training", generally only senior officials or former senior officials can obtain the qualification to host group training, taking the most famous Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang as an example, both of them are registered senior officials, that is, senior officials in their hometowns due to Ding worry, dismissal, Zhishi, etc., Xianfeng gave them the title of minister of group training, and sometimes Xianfeng will directly appoint the current senior officials to supervise and handle the group training. For example, Xu Naizhao, a cabinet scholar, and Li Hongzhang also returned to their hometowns to handle group training as the current editor of the Hanlin Academy.

Most of the ministers appointed throughout the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period were of these two types, either in the national high-ranking official or in the current high-ranking official.

It is basically impossible for ordinary people to take up the banner of the minister of regimental training to handle regimental training, and they can only make a small fuss and make a village bravery; if they want to engage in a large scale, they generally have to get the approval and support of the local government, and no matter what era it is, it is impossible for the official to let individuals form a private army without asking.

It's been a few months since I came to this era, and to be honest, when I first arrived in this era, Lin Zhe also thought about whether to defect to Zeng Guofan, but the reality told him that these ideas were unrealistic.

The biggest obstacle is that he Lin Zhe is not an official, and he doesn't even have the fame of a showman, he belongs to the civilian class, you say that you want to go to Zeng Guofan, whether you can see Zeng Guofan is still two different things.

Later, he also thought about doing group training by himself, but he has been suffering from no chance, although he Lin Zhe is now the only son of a wealthy family with assets of millions, but it is also very difficult to engage in group training.

However, now Huang Peizhi asked himself what he thought about holding a group practice? What else can you think, if Xianfeng goes crazy and gives himself the title of the minister of the regimental training, well, it is the kind of dispatch that 'supervises the affairs of the regimental training of such and such a province', he Lin Zhe will definitely do it, and even take out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of two fortunes to paste it in, but is the key possible?

It's something you don't know if you think about it with your toes, so the group practice in Huang Peizhi's mouth should be an ordinary local village warrior.

But even if he does this, Lin Zhe feels that there is a lot to be done!

It's just that engaging in these local township warriors is not as good as training the bodyguards of the nursing home for yourself, and it is your own business to train the bodyguards of the nursing home, to save your life and escort the caravan, the scale is small and the cost is not big, but to engage in formal group training, even if it is just a group training in the local government and county, the cost will be at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, and looking at Huang Peizhi's expression, it is obvious that the official does not plan to pay for it, otherwise he will not find himself.

Seeing that Lin Zhe didn't speak, Huang Peizhi was not obviously impatient, but continued: "Since the last battle in the east of the city, the nursing home in your mansion has left a deep impact on me, and now it is valued by the superiors, and our Yuyao side is also not very peaceful, so this official is thinking of running a brave camp, and looking at my Yuyao Yingjie, I think only Lin Xiandi, you can afford this important responsibility!" ”

After Lin Zhe heard this, he also thought about it in his heart, this Huang Peizhi didn't know what crazy he wanted to run a brave battalion, and looking for himself definitely didn't mean that he valued his military talent, there could only be one reason: that is, he was rich!

So he said cautiously: "I don't know what the charter of this Yong Battalion is, how much does it cost?" ”