Qin Mo looked at the soldiers in strange costumes at the gate of Huzhou City, and couldn't help frowning, although he had heard of Lin Zhe's Yuyao County Yongying Camp being dressed strangely before coming to Huzhou, but he didn't expect it to be so immoral, this military uniform looked a bit like a soldier of the National Dynasty, just like those barbarian soldiers in Shanghai Port.

When he sat on the sedan chair and observed the soldiers of the remaining battalion at the gate of the city, several of his entourage also stepped forward to negotiate with the soldiers of the remaining battalion, why?

Because these soldiers of his mother's remaining battalion dared to collect the entrance fee from the dignified Zhejiang envoy!

A few meters ahead, an official who was also wearing an official robe was reprimanding the soldiers of the Yu Battalion in front of him: "Do you know who we are, it's Lord Qin in the sedan chair!" ”

No matter how stupid the soldiers of the Yu Battalion are, they can actually see that this group of people who want to enter the city are all big officials, but what about big officials? Our family Lin Dashuai dares to bombard the lord of Huzhou City, the largest official prefect in the city, Qu Shengchao, saw our family Dashuai, and still had to bow his head obediently, a few of you officials who don't know where they came out of nowhere, want to cross in Huzhou City, and there is no door.

Qin Mo's group of people hadn't entered the city yet, so they shouted at the city gate to let Lin Zhe go out of the city to greet him, and his tone was very horizontal, which made the soldiers of the Yu battalion stand it, and the second lieutenant and deputy company commander in the lead were also informed, and after a few battles, they thought that Lin Zhe was the biggest in the world except for the Heavenly King Laozi.

If you want Lin Zhe to go out of the city to greet you, unless you are Emperor Laozi or Huang Zonghan, there is no door!

Qin Mo looked at those few who looked indifferent, and thought to himself: It seems that this Lin Zhe's subordinates are all arrogant soldiers, and a small one dares to show a face to his own people.

However, he was not angry, he was able to mix with the top of the three grades, and the people who became the envoys of the province were all human spirits, he knew very well that Lin Zhe was in the limelight very strong now, and several big victories in connection made him famous in the officialdom of Zhejiang, not only did Huang Zonghan appreciate him, but even the imperial court also rewarded Lin Zhe lavishly, Qin Mo came to Huzhou this time to announce the decree.

And what is the content of the holy decree, it is naturally a reward for Lin Zhe and the soldiers of Yu Ying.

So Qin Mo bowed his head and said a few words to the people outside the sedan chair, and then the entourage stepped forward quickly, went directly to the second lieutenant and said, "Our family is here to announce the decree, why don't you let your family supervisor and Qu Shengchao go out of the city to greet you!" ”

The second lieutenant was also stunned, only in his early twenties this year, and he didn't care about it at first, but now when he heard that this was a holy decree, he was immediately stunned, and then said: "Is it really a holy decree?" ”

The attendant snorted with his nostrils: "Otherwise, what do you think our adults have come to Huzhou all the way to do!" ”

The young lieutenant was stunned for a moment, and then quickly turned around and ordered a few of his subordinates: "Treat these adults well, don't slack off!" ”

However, he directly took out a horse himself, turned over on the horse, and went straight to the camp headquarters!

Qin Mo looked at the reactions of these people, and finally nodded slightly, although the soldiers of the rest of the battalion were a little arrogant, they still knew the general situation, but if the soldiers of the rest of the battalion were not so arrogant, Qin Mo would have to wonder how Lin Zhe had won those battles before, and a defeated army would not be able to have such arrogant soldiers.

Qin Mo didn't wait long at the city gate, and soon he saw a large number of people at the city gate, including the soldiers of the Yu battalion wearing strange costumes, and the soldiers of the green battalion wearing traditional horse coats, and the clothes leading these people were also different.

The officers who led the soldiers of the Yu battalion were dressed in the same double-breasted dark blue uniforms as the young second lieutenant in Fangcai, wearing long leather boots and large-brimmed hats that must not be of the same standard, while the other group were all wearing traditional zombie official robes!

Among these people, two people quickly came out, namely Lin Zhe and Qu Shengchao.

Like their subordinates, the attire of these two people was also very different, Lin Zhe wore the new-style officer's regular uniform of Yu Ying, while Qu Shengchao wore his Cong Sipin official robe.

Qin Mo was honestly very unaccustomed to seeing the clothes of Lin Zhe and the soldiers under his command, and even had a certain contempt, but these thoughts in his heart naturally would not be said to Lin Zhe.

After all, he also knew that the reason why Yu Ying engaged in new military uniforms was because the old traditional military uniforms were inconvenient during combat, so he changed into this nondescript costume.

In fact, not only the clothing of the Yu camp is not the same as the traditional Qing army, in fact, the military uniform of the Hunan army has gradually become different from the traditional green battalion soldiers, and the military uniforms worn by the Eight Banners soldiers began to be different.

In addition, every local army in the country today has a considerable degree of autonomy, and has a completely independent command system, establishment mode, financial power, weapons procurement and equipment, and so on, not to mention such trivial matters as military uniforms.

Even Xianfeng himself knew that those local regimental exercises were actually the private armies of those Han landlords, not the army of the imperial court.

To put it vulgarly: even if the soldiers of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County fought bare-chested, Emperor Xianfeng could only stare dryly, let alone Qin Mo, a mere envoy from Zhejiang.

After some chaos at the city gate, Qin Mo finally entered the city under the welcome of Lin Zhe and Qu Shengchao, and then read the holy decree to Lin.

Looking at this holy decree in his hand, Lin Zhe couldn't tell whether he was happy or helpless, first of all, he praised Lin Zhe and other meritorious soldiers in the remaining camp, and rewarded him lavishly.

Emperor Xianfeng generously promoted Lin Zhe to a level, from the fourth grade of the alternate Taoist to the third grade of the alternate Taoist, with a reward of five hundred taels of silver, in addition, because of the brave battalion of Yuyao County, he was given the name of 'Yu Shengjun'.

In a practical sense, changing from a fourth-grade alternate Taoist to a third-grade alternate Taoist is of little significance to Lin Zhe himself, and the transformation of Yuyao County Yongying into Yu Shengjun will not actually change anything.

In addition to Lin Zhe himself, other meritorious soldiers in the Yongying Camp in Yuyao County also have many rewards, but it is still the same sentence, which has little practical significance.

And the material reward is so small that Lin Zhe can't be interested, he rewarded himself with five hundred taels, and the rest of the soldiers were more than one hundred taels, less than dozens of taels, he didn't know what the Qing court ministers who planned to give the reward thought, it's okay if you don't give it, just be generous if you give it, isn't it difficult to send it to Huazi to give such a little bit?

If the first decree of the reward mentioned above is of little practical significance, then the second decree is somewhat interesting.

Because this is an appointed holy decree, Xianfeng Chrysostom opened, he gave Lin Zhe the title of a minister of regimental training, and the original text of the holy decree said: Check the fourth grade candidate of Zhejiang Province, Lin Zhe is loyal and brave and good at fighting, and he is rewarded with the third rank, and the member cooperates with the governor of Zhejiang to handle the regimental training matters, and must block the southern escape of Guangdong thieves.

The official position in the late Qing Dynasty was relatively chaotic, although the holy decree did not say anything about the co-organizer minister, the minister of group training and the like, but the latter sentence according to the name of contemporary people, then Lin Zhe can be called 'co-organizer of the minister of group training', and the people are generally called "minister of group training".

Minister of League Training! This is the biggest reward that Emperor Xianfeng gave to Lin Zhe!

In the late Qing Dynasty, it was recognized that the grade top was not valuable, and Emperor Xianfeng himself knew that it was not of much significance to give a three-grade top wear, but it was obvious that Emperor Xianfeng could not give Lin Zhe a platform and the actual position of the governor now, so he gave him the title of the minister of regimental training to appease Lin Zhe.

Anyway, the names of various regimental training ministers have been issued out by Emperor Xianfeng, and they will definitely continue to be issued in the future, throughout the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, there are more than 100 regimental training ministers of various names officially appointed by the Qing court, and the more the name of this regimental training minister is later, the less valuable it is.

However, this is a timely rain for Lin Zhe, what is Lin Zhe's biggest worry before, that is, he is afraid that his army, which is only recognized by the local government and county, will not be officially recognized by the Qing court, so that he will be subject to some unnecessary interference in collecting taxes in the occupied area, and he is more worried that one day Zhejiang will come to a regimental training minister, and then accept his Yuyao County Yongying in the past.

In that case, he would definitely be unwilling, but if he resisted, it would mean rebellion, and it was too early to rebel, and naturally it was not what Lin Zhe wanted.

Now Emperor Xianfeng has given him the title of a minister of regimental training, although it is only a co-organizer, and his status is far less important than that of Huang Zonghan, the superintendent, but it is also not light.

During the Xianfeng period, there were many names of the ministers of regimental training, and various names were different, including 'supervising the regimental training matters of a certain province', 'handling the suppression of bandits with a certain province', and the title of "assistant regimental training title" and "regimental training minister" awarded by the award

But their actual core is the same, and there is no clear subordinate relationship between the various superintendents, guild offices, co-organizers, etc., because they are all officials appointed by Emperor Xianfeng, and this kind of person has another name, that is, the minister of the Qincha.

Therefore, the contemporary ordinary people will have a unified name for each regimental training minister, that is, 'regimental training minister'.

According to the specific dispatch of the ministers, the size of their rights is also very different, not to say other places, only to speak Zhejiang, at present there are two ministers of regimental training, that is, Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, his name is 'supervising the regimental training matters in Zhejiang Province'. And Lin Zhe is 'cooperating with the governor of Zhejiang to handle group training matters'.

In other words, Huang Zonghan is the real person in charge of the group training affairs in Zhejiang Province, and Lin Zhe is just a deputy who handles it collaboratively.

In addition, because Lin Zhe did not have any other official positions, unlike other regimental training ministers who held local real power positions, he did not have the right to meddle in local government affairs, and he did not even have the right to command those green battalion soldiers, and his power was limited to the Yongying camp in Yuying County.

However, this is also a huge improvement for Lin Zhe, at least he doesn't have to worry about his Yuyao County Yongying being robbed.

Yuyao County Yongying has become Yu Shengjun, and Lin Zhe has also changed into an extremely fashionable minister of regimental training in this era.

After getting this kind of reward, Lin Zhe didn't care much about how much money Emperor Xianfeng didn't actually come up with, and the court itself didn't have a few taels of silver, no matter whether it was now or thought, he couldn't expect the court to give him much money.

If you want to expand the army, if you want to support the army to fight, you have to rely on yourself to make money!

For most of the following month, Lin Zhe was busy making money and expanding the army in Huzhou, and the Taiping army didn't know whether it was scared or the war in other directions was tight.

Lin Zhe was naturally happy to see this happening, it was a good thing that the Taiping Army did not come, so that he could free up more time to expand the army and train.

However, Lin Zhe wanted to work hard to train the troops for a few months, but the land of China in Xianfeng's three years was destined to be unstable.

On July 13, under the influence of the uprising of the Fujian Little Knife Society, the Little Knife Society of Jiading County, Taicang Prefecture, Jiangsu Province broke out under the leadership of the leader Xu Yao, and captured the city by Shun, followed by Liu Lichuan and others of the Shanghai Little Knife Society.

The news that Shanghai was captured by the Little Knife Society was like a small stone thrown into the calm water, which made the Susong Taidao area of Jiangsu Province and the Hangjiahu area of Zhejiang Province, which had not yet been invaded by the war, instantly set off a stormy wave!