Although the peasant uprisings in Hubei and Jiangxi did not affect the Liangguang region, Shen Youlong, as the governor of Liangguang, was still very worried.

Especially for Li Zicheng's army of King Chuang, these people are bandits who kill people without blinking, and the rich gentry must be slaughtered everywhere, and then confiscated their family property.

Shen Youlong is not the only one who is worried about this, but the officials of Liangguang are actually quite worried, after all, as an official, he is on the opposite side of the peasant rebel army.

In order to prevent the peasant rebels from these two places from flowing into the territory of Liangguang, Shen Youlong, as governor, convened a military meeting, the main purpose of which was to discuss how to deal with these rebels.

The generals and guerrillas who led the troops from all walks of life were summoned to Liangguang for discussion, and what everyone was most worried about at present was that Zhang Xianzhong would suddenly move south from Hubei to attack Liangguang. As for Li Zicheng, he is not very worried at the moment, because his troops are already massing to the west and north.

Zhang Xianzhong was not a good person, and most of the military expenses of the peasant rebel army in this period were obtained by killing large households.

At present, there are more than 100,000 soldiers and government troops in various places in the territory of Liangguang, but I am afraid that there are only tens of thousands of people who can fight, and they cannot concentrate superior forces.

Therefore, Shen Youlong's military orders to the defenders everywhere were to try their best to defend and not attack, so as not to fall into the enemy's trap.

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong seemed to have the intention of going south, Shen Youlong became more and more worried, so far Liangguang still lacks a force that can fight at any time, this army must be able to support various battlefields at any time, and the battle is not weak.

Although the 200 new troops had completed their training and fought a lot of battles, mainly against bandits in the two provinces, they had not yet fought on the battlefield.

There is no doubt that these people are very capable of individual combat. And there is also the fact that they use firearms, and they mainly rely on muskets to fight.

The difference in musket combat is that the enemy can be knocked down from a long distance, which is both a strength and a disadvantage, the disadvantage is that the soldier fights too much on the musket, and the ability in hand-to-hand combat is still not good, but the instructor from Australia is conducting a special hand-to-hand combat training for them.

It is said that if this training is over, it will change the current situation to a great extent.

Shen Youlong's concern now is that once Zhang Xianzhong goes south, whether this army will be able to leave the station and use it as a surprise army, but the number is indeed too small. He has now reported to the imperial court whether he can recruit some displaced people to train into the army.

However, training the new army is also a difficult problem, and it is impossible for the imperial court to spend such a large amount of military expenditure on military expenses alone, and the two hundred rifles are still half sold and half given away by the Australians, otherwise it is impossible for Shen Youlong to have the money to buy them.

Comrade Shen was now frowning and walking back and forth in the Governor's Palace, not knowing what to do.

Seeing this, the staff also knew what the master was worried about, so they arched their hands and said to Shen Youlong.

"Master, I'm afraid that the imperial court won't be able to give much support for this training of the new army, and it is not enough to allocate it to the government army in various places and disaster relief, so how can it be allocated to us. So this money has to be found from other channels. ”

"Oh, in this way, Mr. Yun has a good proposal to talk about."

Seeing that the staff suddenly spoke, Shen Yulong knew that he was definitely thinking of a way in his heart. Otherwise it wouldn't be the case.

Yun felt that since it was like the gentry and wealthy businessmen in Liangguang to raise donations, you must know that when the peasant army came, they were the first to bear the brunt. Therefore, they must donate money and food for the sake of their property and the safety of their lives. ”

It is not wrong to say that Master Yun thinks so, after all, this is the truth. It's just that he ignored one point, now most of the gentry and wealthy businessmen in Liangguang have transferred their assets, only the land has not been transferred, and they have deposited valuable things in banks opened by Australians, and some are more bold to invest their money in Australia to open factories with others.

So this proposal is good, but it does not necessarily have any effect, if it was before, these gentry might have been happy to pay, but now it is different.

They can pat their butts and leave, go to the Australians to hide for a while, anyway, the land will not run there, as long as their title deed is there, no one can take it.

"Mr. Yun, I'm afraid that this method won't work, and the money that can be raised is not much, at most I can only train a team of 100 people, so I still need to have other methods."

Even if you can raise money, but the training still needs a while, it will definitely not be possible to form combat effectiveness immediately, if you can form combat effectiveness so quickly, it is estimated that the imperial court will be shaken.

One thing is certain, however, that an army that uses firearms is definitely stronger than an army that uses cold weapons, and it only takes a small number of men to fight against a cold weapon army that is several times the number of its own.

"Master, if you really can't do it, you can still ask the Australians for help, I think they should help, the first two hundred rifles are half sold and half given, not to mention now."

Australians help, Australians have always been interest-oriented, but it is not so easy to help, last time these two hundred guns did not make Shen Yulong bleed, although only out of some of the policies he can give, but it also made it realize that cooperation with Australians is not so simple.

These Australian elders can do anything as a business, and if there is no benefit, they will definitely not do it easily, so now that Master Yun has proposed, he can naturally think of how much benefit he wants to pay, and the Australian old man will agree.

"Australians haven't done anything in Hong Kong recently," Shen Yulong suddenly asked.

"There is no special place, do you want to send someone to investigate, I heard that many wealthy businessmen have immigrated to Australia."

"Well, I've heard of this, after all, the situation is unstable now, people's hearts are naturally uneasy, and you can't stop you from leaving, not to mention that there are definitely Australians behind the back, and it's not a big deal, the Australians have helped us a lot to a certain extent, and it is not easy to recruit so many displaced people to the country for arrangement."

Shen Youlong stopped Master Yun's proposal, but talked about the good arrival of Australians, and he was very welcoming to Australians to accept immigrants.

"Well, arrange for me to meet with the Australian consul in the near future, and I want to talk to him to see if I can get some useful information from him." Shen Yulong commanded.

"Yes, sir, look at what tomorrow will be, I heard that Consul Zhang may go to Hong Kong recently, why don't you meet him before he leaves."

"Okay, that's it." Shen Youlong nodded in agreement. (To be continued......)