"Okay, the good ones won't come?" Lin Zhe looked at the report in his hand with a gloomy face, then got up from his chair and walked to the window.

Bi Yutong on the side followed two steps behind, and said: "This new Futai method is vigorous and resolute, and it has just turned out a lot of our old accounts within two days of coming, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to send it away!" ”

Gil Hang'a came to Shanghai this time to obviously target Yu Shengjun and Lin Zhe, otherwise he would not have dismissed many officials of Shanghai County Order and Jiang Customs as soon as possible, and found out that Lin Zhe had previously deducted and embezzled the old tariff silver at the east gate of Jiang Customs.

At the beginning, in order to maintain Yu Shengjun, Lin Zhe used a lot of small means to deduct the tax money from the old customs of Jiang Customs, and also embezzled a lot of money from Su Songtai's military preparation, and these can't be hidden at all, as long as you are ruthless and hard, you can't find out.

In the past, Xu Naizhao and Lin Zhe had a good relationship, and they have always turned a blind eye to this, but now Gilhang'a not only has no friendship with Lin Zhe, but he was also ordered to rectify the trade zone and Jianghaiguan.

Not only did he dismiss a number of officials of the Shanghai County Order and the Jiang Customs, but the next day Gil Hang'a issued a formal letter to Lin Zhe, saying that the Jiang Customs was related to the imperial court tariffs and that it was necessary to be cautious, and that the appointment of a large number of foreigners was suspected of making the Jiang Customs fall under the control of the foreigners, and immediately demanded that Lin Zhe immediately dismiss many foreign employees in the Jiang Customs.

That's not all, he actually bypassed Lin Zhe later, and directly appointed many of the staff and alternate officials he brought with him as officials of Jiang Haiguan.

He also said that the agreement between the predecessor Xu Nai and Lin Zhe did not count, and the remaining taxes of the new customs of the Jiang Customs would not continue to be used as defense expenses for Yu Shengjun, and required that all the taxes of the Jiang Customs, whether it was the old customs of the East Gate or the new customs in the trade zone, must be handed over to the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu, so as to supply the military supplies of the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp.

As for Yu Shengjun's military expenses, Gilhanga said that since Yu Shengjun is a regimental training in Zhejiang Province, the required military expenses will naturally be provided by Zhejiang!

After learning about this, Lin Zhe couldn't hold back anymore, and scolded directly in front of many subordinates: "He thought he was something, and he dared to go to Shanghai to get it, and I Yu Shengjun's defense fee was cut when he said it!" ”

"Pass my words on, hum, as usual!" Lin Zhe can tolerate Gilhang's small means, but he is absolutely not allowed to use the military expenses of the Yu Shengjun.

At present, Jiang Customs provides 40,000 or 50,000 taels of silver every month for military expenses, which is a lot of money for Yu Shengjun, don't think that Yu Shengjun has captured a large amount of money in Suzhou, so there is no need to worry about military expenses, those extra money has already been predetermined, and the army expansion has to recruit new soldiers, buy guns and artillery. The battalion of sailors had to be expanded, new sailors had to be recruited, and steam warships and their guns had to be purchased, which were extremely expensive.

Now and in the future, Yu Shengjun is a gold-swallowing monster, and now Lin Zhe can't wait for millions of taels of silver to fall from the sky!

Now Gilhang'a wants to take away all the tax money from Jiang Customs with a word, which is something that Lin Zhe will never allow.

"What if the officials sent by Futai come to investigate and obstruct it?" Bi Yutong said worriedly.

Lin Zhe immediately said coldly: "Then keep them out of the trade zone." ”

"Also, I remember that last month's rated 60,000 taels of tax silver haven't been given yet, so let's deduct it first!" Lin Zhe wants to see what this Gilhang'a can do with himself.

Hearing that the officials sent by the trade zone were all blocked from the trade zone, and at the same time withheld the 60,000 taels of tax money that should have been allocated, Ji Hang'a was furious in the county town of Shanghai.

"Although I knew that this Lin Zhe was an arrogant person before I came, I didn't expect him to be so bold and dare to turn away the court officials, is he still from the court officials, is there still an emperor in his eyes!"

Several staff members next to him were also full of melancholy, and one of them with a goatee said: "The arrogant people have seen a lot, but it is the first time that Lin Zhe has seen it like this, he has not taken you in his eyes at all!" ”

"Yes, I heard earlier that Lin Zhe was blind to no one with only a few small victories, but now I see that this is indeed the case!" The man continued: "Lord Futai, we can't bear it at this time, otherwise in Jiangsu in the future, others will only know that there is Lin Zhe, but not that there is you!" ”

"The important land in southern Jiangsu must be completely controlled in hand, especially the new customs of Jianghaiguan, I have long heard that because of the establishment of the trade zone, the tariffs of the river and the sea have increased significantly, more than double that of previous years, if you can get all this money, the military expenses of the two large battalions in Jiangnan and Jiangbei will also be settled!"

"In addition, I also heard that Yu Shengjun's combat strength is not bad, if Yu Shengjun can be integrated into the command of adults, it will be like a tiger with wings at that time!"

"Yes, most of the generals on Yu Shengjun's side are literary generals who read poetry and books and understand things, Lin Zhe, the son of a merchant, doesn't know the way to be loyal to the monarch and become a minister, but those who read still understand the righteousness, and they will definitely be able to pull them over when the time comes!"

Listening to these staff members glance at me and say, Gilhanga also nodded and said, "I'm going to write an impeachment excerpt!" ”

In this impeachment excerpt, he said that Lin Zhe was not only corrupt Jianghai tariffs of one million taels, but also relied on Yu Shengjun's unscrupulousness, and there was no court and emperor in his eyes, and said that Lin Zhe had nearly 10,000 troops, but he refused to lead the army westward many times, and sat back and watched Zhenjiang fall into the hands of thieves, which seemed to be suspected of misdeeds!

I have to say that Gilhanga still sees it quite accurately, and Lin Zhe really has bad intentions.

After writing the excerpt of the impeachment letter and sending someone to send it away, he did not wait for the result of the impeachment, he knew very well that there were more people who impeached Lin Zhe in the past year or so, not to mention ordinary local officials, even Xiang Rong, the governor of the Jiangnan battalion, Qi Shan, the former governor of the Jiangbei battalion, Qi Shan, the new governor of the Jiangbei battalion, and the Jiangning general Tuo Ming'a, the bigwigs on the ground in Jiangsu, had impeached Lin Zhe more than once.

On Emperor Xianfeng's desk, there are a lot of excerpts to impeach Lin Zhe, but what is the use of this, although it will cause some discussion in the imperial court, it actually has no effect, and it does not even give Lin Zhe the most superficial reprimand.

Why, because Lin Zhe will report a great victory to the imperial court from time to time, the great victory in Guangde more than a month ago, and the great victory in Suzhou not long ago have just been sent to the imperial court.

Even if he is dissatisfied with Lin Zhe, as long as Lin Zhe does not do anything actually rebellious, Emperor Xianfeng is estimated to turn a blind eye, at most it is to suppress Lin Zhe's expansion of power, for example, sending this Gilhanga to Shanghai to fight with Lin Zhe is such a consideration.

Gilhanga knows that the actual effect of impeachment is not much, and if he wants to snatch Jianghaiguan from Lin Zhe's hands, the only person he can rely on is himself, but how can he do it?

You must know that Lin Zhe even blocked the officials he appointed from outside the trade zone, let alone go to the Yamen of Jianghai Customs to take office.

At this time, a staff member leaned over to Gilhanga and whispered: "If you personally send someone to take office and forcibly open the way with Fubiao, will Lin Zhe still dare to stop it?" ”

"If he Lin Zhe dares to stop it, then this is a big crime of rebellion, although he Lin Zhe is domineering, he definitely doesn't have the courage, as long as he is soft this time, we can directly control Jiang Customs in the future, as long as we hold the tax money of Jiang Customs, we can even accept Yu Shengjun when the time comes!"

Hearing this, Gilhanga also thought to himself, and directly led the troops to escort the Jiang Customs officials appointed by himself to take office, this Lin Zhe should not dare to forcibly stop it, and as long as he let his people control the Jiang Customs, then it is equivalent to controlling Yu Shengjun's military spending.

At that time, even if he can't completely control Yu Sheng's army by virtue of this, he can use military expenses as a threat to force Lin Zhe to obediently obey his orders to go to Zhenjiang to fight.

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll personally take people to the business area!" ”

It didn't take long for him to gather nearly 1,000 people from the Fubiao Green Battalion of the headquarters, and then personally took the few officials who were ready to take up their posts at the new customs of Jianghai Customs to the business and trade zone.

Hearing that Gilhang'a personally took thousands of green battalions to escort those officials to their posts, Lin Zhe slapped the table directly!

"Good, good, good!" Lin Zhe was obviously made angry by Gilhang's move, and said three good in a row!

This Gilhanga dared to play hard with him, if he Lin Zhe couldn't make it in the mud, Lin Zhe immediately said ruthlessly:

"Give me orders at once and stop them for me!"

"But what if they break in?" Shi Langyi on the side asked cautiously.

Lin Zhe took a deep breath: "Then give Lao Tzu a hard beating!" ”

Immediately, Lin Zhe took a group of officers of Yu Shengjun and the first battalion stationed near his official residence to the west of the trade area, that is, on the moat of the county seat of Shanghai.

When they arrived, they saw a large group of Qing troops and many officials had already entered the trade area, led by Gilhanga.

Lin Zhe nodded at Bi Yutong, and then Bi Yutong rode forward to negotiate with those officials, although he was a hundred meters away, he could still hear the sound of quarrels.

Ten minutes later, Bi Yutong came back dejected and said to Lin Zhe: "Dashuai, they refuse to retreat!" ”

At the same time, on the other side, Gilhanga also had a gloomy face, and a staff member next to him said in his ear: "My lord, you just saw that Yu Shengjun's people were arrogant and rude, and they actually asked us to leave. ”

An official next to him also looked worried: "I don't think that person just now is telling a lie, if we continue to move forward, I'm afraid they will really shoot!" ”

At this time, Gilhanga felt that he had been difficult to ride a tiger, originally he thought that Lin Zhe would not dare to lead the army to intercept it, but he really came, did he need to continue to move forward or retreat in a gloomy manner?

After pondering for a long time, Ji Hang'a took a deep breath, and thought to himself: I am the governor of Jiangsu, and Lin Zhe is just a soldier under me, can he really dare to stop it.

Immediately he said, "Let's move on!" ”

The official on the side looked frightened and said, "What if they do shoot?" ”

Gilhanga seemed to be speaking to him, and seemed to be saying to himself: "He doesn't dare! ”

Seeing that the Qing army in front of him began to advance again, Lin Zhe took several deep breaths in a row, and his face slowly turned from the previous gloomy to calm, as if the situation in front of him had not caused any change in his mood.

I saw that he calmly pulled out the gorgeous command knife from his waist, and several orders came out of his mouth in succession:

"All of them!"

"Reload!"

"Aim!"

Gilhanga looked at Yu Shengjun's loading and aiming actions on the opposite side, and was horrified in his heart: Could it be that Lin Zhe really wanted to shoot?

And a few seconds later, Lin Zhe gave him the answer!

I saw him swing his command knife forward and say:

"Fire!"