Lin Zhe is very greedy for the taxes of the old East Gate Pass, although it is not as much as the number of Jianghai North Pass, but there are tens of thousands of taels a month.

But this money is difficult to say, because he did not reach any agreement with Xu Naizhao, according to the reason, he has no right to use the taxes of the old customs of the East Gate, even if he is the same as the Jianghai Customs Road, the money of the old customs of the East Gate is directly attributed to the Yamen of the governor of Jiangsu, but the Yamen of the governor of Jiangsu has only changed hands, and it will be directly withdrawn by the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp if it is not put into the warehouse.

At the beginning, he was using guò to make false accounts to deduct the taxes of the old customs of the East Gate, but outsiders are not stupid, seeing that the import and export trade in Shanghai is becoming more and more prosperous, the taxes of the old customs of the East Gate are not increasing but decreasing, which is absolutely abnormal here, so in recent months, people have continued to impeach him.

Some say that he is directly corrupt, some say that he is derelict in his duties, in short, he Lin Zhe withheld the money, especially those generals in the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp, it is said that Xiang Rong has personally taken the fold, saying that since the opening of the trade zone, the Jianghai tariff has not increased but decreased, so that the military budget of the Jiangnan camp is in short supply, and the sergeants are not hungry!

Xu Naizhao also sent a letter, although he didn't say it explicitly, but it also hinted that Lin Zhe should not go too far, and should take care of the overall situation!

In this environment, Lin Zhe also knew that he was fishing too hard, the tax of the old gate of the East Gate was not much, far inferior to the Jianghai North Pass, and he would take tens of thousands of taels if he took it again, and the fools knew that there was a problem, and it was not surprising that Xiang Rong and Qi Shan were mad.

In the future, if you continue to so blatantly deduct the taxes of the old customs of the East Gate, I am afraid that it will not be as simple as impeachment, and maybe the imperial court will set its sights on the side of the business and trade zone.

Compared with the tax at the old gate of the East Gate, it is obvious that the business zone is more important to Lin Zhe!

For this reason, Lin Zhe was not ready to stretch out his hand to the old gate of the east gate, and was ready to restore the amount of taxes paid to the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu from the old gate of the east gate, and he was not prepared to use the extra part to make false accounts and other tricks.

For example, the current Jianghai Customs Patrol Police Department has many responsibilities such as water security, water rescue, port pilotage, etc., and the funds used to be drawn from the business and trade zone, but the service scope of this Jiangxi Customs Patrol Police Department is not only the business area, in fact, the entire Huangpu River, even the Yangtze River estuary, and the coastal sea are their patrol range.

In this case, the beneficiaries are not only Jianghai Beiguan, but also the old East Gate, when the time comes, the Jianghai Customs Road is in charge, and no one can say anything about the misappropriation of taxes from the old East Gate to the Jianghai Patrol Police Department.

If the Jianghai Patrol Police Department can't digest it, then it can set up other projects, for example, its own Yusheng Army Naval Division Battalion also participates in the seizure and smuggling operation, and it is also possible to give part of the funds to the Dian Shui Division Battalion to seize smuggling at that time.

In short, Lin Zhe is going to find various names to embezzle and deduct the part of the tax that has increased from the old gate of the East Gate.

As for the original low-level way of making fake accounts, he is not ready to use it, it is too easy to give people a handle!

Not to mention that Lin Zhe tried to find a way to play a game secretly and openly for the taxes of the old customs of the East Gate and other yamen officials on the ground in Jiangsu, but the overall tax revenue of the Jiang Customs, especially the taxes of the North Pass of the Jiang and Hai, increased significantly, which directly led to Yu Shengjun's military spending being greatly relaxed.

And Yu Shengjun is Lin Zhe's foundation, the first thing that is loose is naturally to expand the army and expand the army, if there is enough money on hand, Lin Zhe can't wait to expand the army by tens of thousands at once.

This is also the reason why Lin Zhe called Shi Langyi over today!

"According to the report of the Food and Payroll Bureau, our military spending in recent months has been relatively relaxed, but the extra money cannot be put unused. Now the size of our Yu Sheng army is still too small, and I plan to put together another infantry regiment and an artillery company! ”

It's really going to expand the army! When Shi Langyi heard Lin Zhe's words, he naturally had a lot of joy on his face: "My lord is right, our Yu Shengjun is now too few and too few people, whether it is men or artillery, but we have to garrison Huzhou, Songjiang and Shanghai at the same time, the strength is really unbearable, and it should have been expanded a long time ago!" ”

Lin Zhe said: "According to the old method last time, some backbones are transferred from various old units to form a new Sixth Infantry Regiment and Fifth Artillery Company!" ”

"The Su zhì of the first regiment is obvious to all, and when the time comes, some of the backbone will be transferred from your first regiment, and you go back and make good arrangements!"

Speaking of this, Lin Zhe turned around and looked at Shi Langyi, and after a pause, he said: "This time, a new regiment and a company have been formed, and our Yu Shengjun also has six infantry regiments, and they are scattered and scattered, and the existing command model is no longer suitable." And the last time the mixed group was good, I plan to use the mixed group as a regular practice to form a mixed group to be stationed in Huzhou! ”

Hearing this, Shi Langyi had already expected what Lin Zhe was going to say, and his heart was already excited!

Sure enough, although he listened to Lin Zhedao: "There are a lot of troops stationed in Huzhou now, and they have always relied on Shi Qingxuan to manage, but after all, he is a supervisor and is in charge of the training and combat affairs of the whole army, and it is impossible to stay in Huzhou all the time, this time I want you to go over and replace him, how about it, what do you think yourself!" ”

Shi Langyi suppressed the excitement in his heart: "The department is arranged by the adults, no matter where you go, there will be no complaints!" ”

Shi Langyi's reaction was within his expectations, it would be strange if he was still unwilling to be promoted and make a fortune, and immediately Lin Zhe nodded: "I plan to form the first mixed regiment of the troops over there in Huzhou, and when the time comes, you will go over and manage this mixed regiment!" ”

After Lin Zhe temporarily became a mixed regiment of Western Suppression, he officially fixed the establishment of this mixed regiment and formed the first mixed regiment, which caused a great direction within Yu Shengjun.

At the same time, because the mixed regiment establishment planned by Lin Zhe was a multi-arm composite establishment with two infantry regiments, an artillery company, and a cavalry company, it was no longer the previous model of strengthening the regiment.

In order to avoid confusion in the names of the existing infantry regiments and mixed regiments, and at the same time, Lin Zhe is absolutely that the current infantry regiment is only five or six hundred people, at most the size of a battalion, and it is too reluctant to say that it is a regiment, so he imitated the Hunan army and renamed the infantry regiment as an infantry battalion.

In this way, the standard four-level model of platoon, company, battalion, and regiment is constituted, rather than the previous three-level model of platoon, company, and regiment.

In mid-May, Lin Zhe formally issued a relevant order to the whole army, formally renaming the existing five infantry regiments as five infantry battalions, with the rank and salary of their commanders unchanged, and at the same time asking the Supervision and Training Office to prepare for the affairs of the new Sixth Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Artillery Company.

The next day, Lin Zhe ordered the formal formation of the First Mixed Regiment, which had jurisdiction over the Second Battalion, the Third Battalion, the Second Cavalry, the First Artillery Company, and the Fifth Artillery Company, which was still in the preparatory stage.

The department continued to garrison Huzhou to guard the security of northern Zhejiang, with Lieutenant Colonel Yu Shengjun Shi Langyi as the first head of the mixed regiment, and appointed Xu Pengan, the former deputy director of the Supervision and Training Department, as the first chief of staff and awarded the rank of major.

Shi Qingxuan, the superintendent who had commanded these troops in Huzhou, led a large number of Yu Shengjun's personnel who had left in Huzhou, such as the camp school and the supervision and training office, to Shanghai to accept the supervision and training affairs of Yu Shengjun's entire army again.

At present, Yu Sheng's army is stationed in various places, mainly stationed in Huzhou, Songjiang, and Shanghai, and he Lin Zhe has no way to directly command the troops in Huzhou, which are hundreds of kilometers away.

Considering that the scale of Yu Sheng's army will become larger and larger in the future, it is impossible for Lin Zhe to control all the troops all the time, and sooner or later a larger-scale establishment will have to be established, otherwise he will directly command dozens of infantry battalions scattered within hundreds of kilometers, even if he is an immortal, he will not be able to do it.

Now that the First Mixed Regiment is an experimental formation, Lin Zhe needs to know what kind of contemporary formation can maximize the combat effectiveness of Yu Shengjun

If this mixed formation of two infantry battalions, two artillery companies, and one cavalry company is effective, then in the future he will form the second mixed regiment, the third mixed regiment, and so on according to this template.

And not long after the formation of the first mixed regiment, it was Lin Zhe who received an urgent battle report from the messenger sent by Shi Langyi: "Lin Chengting attacked south!" ”

Since being defeated by Yu Shengjun last year, Lin Chengting has been criticized by the Taiping Army, if it weren't for his outstanding military achievements in the past few years, plus a few bigwigs to protect him, it is estimated that he would have been removed directly.

In the past year, he can be regarded as hiding his courage in the southern Anhui area, on the one hand, to strictly prevent Yu Shengjun's army from going north from Guangde to southern Anhui, and on the other hand, he is also accumulating strength to prepare to go south again, washing away the shame of Si'an's fiasco.

At the beginning of the year, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom retreated from Zhili, and the Northern Expeditionary Army sent reluctantly arrived in Shandong, but from the generals to the ordinary soldiers, they knew that continuing to go north was to die, and they refused to continue to go north, and then the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Northern Expedition reinforcements were continuously counterattacked by the Qing army, and continued to suffer heavy defeats, and even fierce generals such as Ji Wenyuan were killed in battle.

At this point, it can be said that the three-year-old child knows that the Northern Expedition strategy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has completely failed, and it is still a question whether the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Northern Expedition reinforcements can escape back.

At the same time, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army was also compiled and released "Seeking Cantonese Bandits" from Hengzhou, although the Hunan army and naval division were once defeated, Zeng Guofan almost committed suicide because of the defeat, but Zeng Guofan came back to his senses and immediately made a comeback to recover Xiangtan and annihilated a Taiping army.

Now that a large number of people and horses of the Hunan army have gone straight to Yuezhou, it is not necessary to say who will win and who will lose in the follow-up battle of Yuezhou, but even if the Taiping army wins?

In recent years, the Taiping army has won countless battles, and Wuchang has been defeated several times, but what is the use of this, the Qing army is like Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, and then the Taiping army repeatedly fights for it, the Qing army and the Taiping army in Hubei, the repeated tug-of-war in the northern part of Hunan, are about to be crippled along the river in these two provinces, it is polite to say that ten rooms and nine emptiness are polite words, you can't see ordinary people along the river at all, except that the Qing army is the Taiping army!

The so-called westward expedition seems to be victorious, but in this repeated tug-of-war situation, there is very little hope of completely controlling Hubei and Hunan.

In this grand strategic environment, there are also people who have come up with other methods, such as going south and going east!

Eastward? If the Jiangnan camp is not broken, there is no way to talk about advancing eastward, but although Xiang Rong's ability to attack the enemy is not good, his ability to camp and defend is still good, at least at present, in the case of a large number of main forces of the Western Expeditionary Army returning to Tianjing, it is impossible to break through the Jiangnan camp.

Then there is only one left to go south, although Zhejiang's wealthy Cheng dù is not as good as Jiangnan, but if you go in, you will definitely gain a lot.

And the most important thing is that there is no large Qing army stationed in northern Zhejiang, there is only one Yu Shengjun, and it is only a part of Yu Sheng's army.

With the influence of various external factors, Lin Chengting has always wanted to find Yu Shengjun's shame, and with the support of the upper-level bosses of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lin Chengting once again led his soldiers and horses south to northern Zhejiang, this time he brought more troops than last year, and had more artillery and guns.

Lin Chengting, who was beaten by Lin Zhe's musket last year, was ruthless, not only with a large number of captured or self-made shotguns, guns, etc., but also used the money looted to buy a lot of foreign guns from foreigners.

This time, he brought a team of 4,000 muskets, and in addition, he brought all the artillery that he could bring, and even the Hongyi cannons that were originally guarding the city wall were pulled by him with a dozen of them!

This time, he wants to fight Yu Shengjun to the death, and he will be ashamed of Xue Si'an!