The time entered February, and Zhang Shouyan set off with a small group of people as the second wave of the Qin army's southward march. His task is to give Liu Xian a good front stand in the officialdom.

Li Futai, the current governor of Guangxi, is also a native of Shandong and has a lot of connections with the Zhang family. And it's not the Hunan army or the Huai army, and it's Liu Xian's future boss, so if it's not good to climb again, Liu Xian will die by himself.

This piece of Hanzhong Liu Xian was not handed over to his relatives. Among his relatives, except for Huo Guangzheng, who has the ability to carry the burden of Hanzhong, the others are either not at home, then they are the 'second generation' or 'second generation'.

Really, Liu Xian himself didn't expect that the income of his relatives would be so 'small'. Just like in the early days of reform and opening up in the 80s of the Red Dynasty in the previous life, relying on his own identity to take some goods from the factory, resell them, make a little money, and be happy all day long. It really hurts him.

The three factories and the artisan battalion that had not yet gone south with the army for the time being, Liu Xian handed over all of them to Li Ying, who was in charge of them. He can cook in one house, and several factories should be a piece of cake.

At the end of February, the equipment of Maisheng arrived as scheduled. Match factories, glass factories and cigarette factories have all been expanded several times, and new soap factories and a small caustic soda factory have been built.

In March, Liu Xian received a letter from Zhang Shoudai. In addition to greetings, it focused on the change of Li Ying's position. They did not hear anything, and the Zhang family did not hear any news about Li Ying's transfer. This made Li Ying, who had just taken over the factory, breathe a sigh of relief.

If it is a flat tone, or in that angry position, he might as well continue to be his prefect of Hanzhong.

In mid-March, Liu Xian took tens of thousands of Qin soldiers, his own family, and hundreds of 'petty bureaucrats' of the Qin army system, as well as a group of skilled workers and their families in match factories, glass factories, and cigarette factories, and finally left Hanzhong and rushed to Guangxi.

On the edge of the Han River, Deng Yuzhang looked at the team rolling south, and did not look back for a long time.

"Master, go back. The second young master and the third young master Ji Ren have their own natural appearance, and they will be fine. "The old housekeeper Deng Tai quit the active service of the Qin army a month ago and continued to return to the Deng family as a housekeeper. But no matter how much he wears civilian clothes, a fierce military atmosphere can't dissipate.

In the Qin army, in the expeditionary army, more than three years of hard work, fighting one battle after another, have been deeply rooted in Deng Tai's bones. Only time can blur the blot......

The three sons participated in the Qin army, and the second son Deng Kai entered the sharp knife team, went on an expedition to Xinjiang, was bloody on the battlefield, was injured five times, and when he returned to Hanzhong, he was already a squadron leader, and he was the top of the six products. And the third and fourth sons have been in Hanzhong for three years, and they are still only non-commissioned officers.

Stimulated by the second brother, this will cause the Qin army to split up again, and Deng Yuzhang's three sons will follow to the south. Among them, the third son, Deng Zhao, followed Qi Dalin to the south two months ago.

On the way home, Deng Yuzhang ran into two acquaintances. Wang Kunyang and Meng Chunxi. They are also here to see off their loved ones. How far away, I saw the carriage of the Deng family, and stepped forward to say hello.

Deng Yuzhang's eldest son, Deng Tong, jumped out of the carriage first and greeted Wang Kunyang and Meng Chunxi. Deng Yuzhang looked at the three juniors in front of him in the car and was full of emotion. I think that the Deng family, the Wang family, and the Meng family were all powerful and powerful in the city, and Liu Xian was a half-bandit and half-peasant guy, and he was not taken into account at all.

As a result, eight or nine years have passed, and the Li family, which is on a par with the Deng family, the Wang family, and the Meng family, has disappeared. Although there have been no definite rumors, who is Deng Yuzhang? That's a black-and-white strongman, and I've heard some rumors. It can only be said that Li Danyang did his own thing. Harming oneself harms the whole family.

And Wang Kunyang and Meng Xichun, as well as their eldest son Deng Tong, these younger generations who fought for me endlessly, are still ordinary people who are low-minded, and they are not even as good as their own second children. In the past two years, Wang Kunyang and Meng Xichun have worked together with Deng Yuzhang's eldest son, Deng Tong, to make some money by taking advantage of the geographical advantages to pour matches and vanity mirrors. But compared with Liu Xian, the fireflies are compared to the bright moon.

Every parent wants their son to become a dragon. But the real thing is better than the goods to be thrown away, which makes people hate iron and steel.

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Liu Xian's march was slow. First, because the army went south with too much baggage, for example, there were more than 100 Han Yuan cannons alone. Coupled with the large and small mountain splitting cannons and mortar cannons, as well as the corresponding shells and gunpowder, the Minfu and Ding Zhuang requisitioned on the logistics transfer of the Qin army can almost be compared to the number of soldiers of the entire army.

With so many people and so many baggage, in the absence of an emergency military situation, the team can't go fast if they want to. There is not a string in the heart, everyone is lazy.

And the second reason is that Liu Xian's wife is pregnant. If it weren't for Zhang Miaotong's unwillingness to give birth in Hanzhong, Liu Xian wouldn't dare to take her south. This era is not the same as the modern society in the previous life, and a woman who gives birth to a child without paying attention is a corpse with two lives.

So, the two-horse carriage is even and slow. Even if there are big potholes or ravines on the road ahead, they must be mated first, and the chariots and horses will walk through them. At this speed, you can't do it even if you want to be fast.

It took more than four months to walk from Hanzhong to Liuzhou Mansion, where the governor of Guangxi was stationed. It was July, and Liu Xian met with Li Futai, the governor of Guangxi, in the Baise Hall.

There is nothing to say about the meeting between the two this time. Liu Xian was not an ordinary commander, and the governor could be regarded as a subordinate completely. He now has the aura of 'a famous general of the country', and has the glory of pacifying the western frontier alone, and Li Futai, as the governor of Guangxi, has to carefully consider his words when talking to Liu Xian.

However, because of the Zhang family, the atmosphere was still very harmonious when the two sides met. Except for pointing out the trouble of the Yellow Flag Army and the Black Flag Army for Liu Xian, Li Futai never talked about Guangxi. What was said at the banquet was also the good of the family, and the praise was Liu Xian's hard work and hard work, and with Zhang Shouyan as his company, this meeting with Baise was a success.

As for the factory that Liu Xian still began to build in Liuzhou, preparing to set up a match factory, a cigarette factory, a soap factory, etc., and a textile factory, a new project that he was preparing to set foot in, Li Futai did not mention it, and obviously turned a blind eye.

Guangxi's current provincial governance is Guilin, and Admiral Liu Xian's residence is Liuzhou, and the two sides do not match each other on weekdays. Liuzhou, like Qiongzhou, can be regarded as the territory of the Qin army. However, the current Liuzhou prefect Sun Shouqi is not a simple figure, he is sixty years old, but he is energetic, and he has governed Liuzhou for several years, eliminated the accumulated bad rules, rehabilitated the accumulated unjust cases, reduced the burden of the people, and won the support of the people. The prefect's yamen was destroyed in the military disaster, and the reconstruction was not burdened by the people, and it was completed, and the three words of "clear, cautious, and diligent" were written in the hall to self-police.

This person is proficient in calligraphy and painting, and his thinking is somewhat conservative. Liu Xian asked people to prepare the factory in Liuzhou before, and he is still just watching from the sidelines, but it doesn't mean that he really has no opinions at all. That's the same as Li Futai, trapped in Liu Xian's great fame and prestige, and the establishment of the factory has not harmed the people's livelihood, so he can not ask for the time being. It's not that it's for rubber stamps, confused officials, and doesn't care about anything.

Liu Xian smiled and listened to Li Futai's reminder, which is a way to show closeness in officialdom. It doesn't have to be really useful. For example, now, Li Futai said that Sun Shouqi, as soon as Zhang Shouyan reported the information to Liu Xian. It's just one way. Li Futai said this, and Liu Xian heard this. Say a few more words, 'Thank you for your advice' and 'Please rest assured', and it's over.

For Sun Shouqi, a sixty-year-old man, Liu Xian has a good impression. This person still has a bit of love for the people.

As long as he doesn't get in the way of Liu Xian, Liu Xian won't do anything to him.

In late July, when Liu Xian's army arrived in Guangxi and the military and civilian capitals had just been settled, a fleet of more than 30 cargo ships sailed from Guangdong to Wuzhou, and sailed directly down the river to the city of Liuzhou.

Maisheng is really keeping its promises. Say it will arrive before August, and it will arrive before August.

Zhang Shouyan was busy for half a year, enclosing the land and building the factory, and it would be filled with equipment all of a sudden. Of course, what was more important to the Qin army was the second batch of arms that Mai Sheng Yang Xing arrived.

Thirty-two seven-five mountain guns, eight howitzers of 105, eight cannons of 105. The arrival of these breech steel cannons made the artillery strength of the Qin army more and more in the forefront of the country. The 3,000-piece Remington medium-shot rifle, the 500-shot Henry rifle and the 300 Colt revolvers also gave Liu Xian the confidence to compete with the Huai army and the Chu army.

You must know that since the Huai Army purchased a batch of Snyder-Enfield breech guns and the subsequent introduction of Krupp 75 breech steel cannons, although the Qin Army is still the strongest army in the world, its real combat effectiveness has fallen behind the Huai Army.

The advanced nature of weapons can really represent the combat effectiveness of a unit. At least the combat effectiveness of frontal positional warfare.

Now seeing that after the Huai army, the Chu army has also begun to reload breech guns on a large scale, how can Liu Xian not be in a hurry? Compared to the combat effectiveness of the troops, money is a small matter!

Liu Xian continued to eat all the tens of thousands of shells and 500,000 rounds of ammunition of various calibers brought by Maisheng Foreign Bank this time. But it's also the last time. Among the orders placed at the meeting, Liu Xian ordered equipment for loading guns and shells.

Although the bullet casings are entirely brass, they cost a lot of money. But it is more nonsense than buying bullets and shells and always leaving your fate in the hands of a foreign company.

Liu Xian doesn't have the strength to make guns and cannons now, and the steel is not up to par. His steel mill hasn't been built yet. But it is completely possible to make guns and shells and repair guns and artillery first. There is no need to change the plaque, continue to hang the signboard of the Gunpowder Bureau, and it's OK.

The last batch of breech steel cannons that arrived had trained a lot of artillery for the Qin army, but there was still a big gap in matching all the artillery that arrived. It can only be a veteran with a novice. And for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, Liu Xian also needs a place to get it back. That is Vietnam -- In the six months since Liu Xian arrived in Guangxi, he has already established relations with the Vietnamese.

Do you want a musket? Do you want artillery? Although they are all front-loaded, and there are a lot of old goods, it is cheaper.

Vietnam has had a hard time in the past few years. R1152