Chapter 123: Chrysanthemum Set Electric Drill
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On February 21, another www.biquge.info of Liu Xian's life began. Beijing approved the petition of the official document with an unimaginable speed, dismissing Guo Songlin as the governor of Hubei, Liu Xian as the governor of Shandong, and Liu as the governor of Hubei.
Liu Xian, who is less than twenty-six years old, has unusually thick officialdom qualifications, and he has served two terms as admirals.
Liu Xian, who received Beijing's order, did not have the slightest joy on his face. He felt that there was a pair of big hands playing in his direction, allowing himself to go farther and farther away from the Xianghuai Chu army, and he would never be able to go together with the Hunan Gang. Just like Tang Yougeng, who is currently the governor of Sichuan, his side is full of Hunan gangs like Liu Xian, and even his benefactor Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan, is also friendly with the Hunan Gang, but because of the position of a Sichuan governor, Tang Yougeng and the group of Hunan generals around him will never be able to pee into a pot.
This is a conspiracy, or even a conspiracy. No one is allowed to enter it.
Guo Songlin, who lost the governor of Hubei and had no governor of Fujian to do, must have been a hundred disagreeable to Liu Xian. Zeng Guoquan, who had just cut off one of the official documents' arms and was still murderous, would definitely keep his eyes on Liu Xian. Even Zeng Guofan, who can see one qiē clearly and wrap the next qiē with his heart, will not move a finger. Just like when he faced the generals of the Xianghuai army and threw Liu Xian aside, he would also continue to give up at this time. He would even be happy to see this happen.
With Zeng Guofan's wisdom, how could he not know Beijing's role in this matter? And what Beijing wants to do now is not what Zeng Guofan is willing to do?
Anyway, it will not damage the existing 'strength' of the Hunan army, but just like Tang Yougeng, add an 'opponent' to the Hunan Gang.
In this way, Beijing's suspicion of the Hunan gang can be alleviated, and Zeng Guofan is very happy.
In this game, Liu Xian obviously supported the army very strongly, and the official residence was a first-class commander, but he couldn't help himself at all. At the end of March, Zhang Shoudai's letter from Sichuan Province contained only four big characters: Loyalty to the king.
Liu Xian wanted to cry and laugh, and really wanted to say to Zhang Shoudai: Uncle, do you know that there was a saying in your previous life, called-Wear Qing and don't rebel, chrysanthemum set electric drill!
Throughout March and April, Liu Xian sent troops to drive out the scattered horse teams of the two twisted armies, and while training the troops, his eyes were full of the fight between the first and second leaders in Hubei.
The official literature is deeply rooted in Hubei, and both the military and the government are hard, and they directly chopped off Zeng Guoquan's hand that stretched out to the military power, and he even reached out to hook up with the third battalion of Fubiao. This is a slap in the face of everyone in Huguang officialdom. Although it did not allow Zeng Guoquan to leave Wuchang City with the decree of the first governor, it also made Zeng Guoquan unable to even gather the money and food to support the battlefield.
As for Zeng Guoquan, a fierce general who doesn't know how to be a minister and doesn't know the hard work of his eldest brother, took advantage of Zeng Guofan's earlier prelude to ask Beijing to approve the regulations and camp rules of the Yangtze River Naval Division, and pulled the Hunan Army Naval Division to several battalions, and while controlling the Hubei waterway, he was spinning under the nose of the official document. The money and grain that should be transported and circulated by the waterway issued by the official document must be checked and carded.
Even Liu Xian suffered, and the money and grain in March and April had to be raised by the Jiangbei provinces and transferred to Xiaogan on the riverside by land.
However, after 'taking refuge' in the official document, Liu Xian really gained great benefits. In just these two months, the official document allocated six six-pound British guns, four nine-pound British guns, four twelve-pound French cannons, 300 mules, horses, and bullocks, and 500 British Enfield M1853 rifles to Liu Xian's department.
While directly increasing the strength of Liu Xian's artillery team, he also replaced five shotgun squadrons.
When he got these things, to be honest, Liu Xian was happy at that moment. He was thinking that if he made such progress every month, what if he hugged Guanwen's thigh first?
In the middle of May, Wang Qing in Shanghai once again stretched out his hand to Liu Xian to ask for silver, and the little unhappiness in Liu Xian's heart was washed away in an instant in full joy.
Although Wang Qing spends a lot of money in Shanghai, he also has achievements. However, Liu Xian is a little curious, why did Wang Qing, who was born as a scholar, not do legitimate business and get involved in the dark?
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Shanghai, on the banks of the Huangpu River.
The drizzle is soaking the whole Jiangnan, and in the rainy season, even people are plum.
A huge hybrid sailing ship in China at the moment is quietly moored at the 16-ppu pier, and from the English logo painted on the side of the ship, it is known that this is the ship of Jardine Matheson.
As one of the most beneficial people in the war, the speed of development of Jardine Matheson over the years is incomparably amazing. Shipload after ship of ** from India, while poisoning countless Chinese, also packed countless silver into their own pockets.
In Liu Xian's history, in another six years, Jardine Matheson, which had completed its dirty capital accumulation, would completely withdraw from the ** trade and rise to the top. But now, trade is still the most pillar industry of Jardine Matheson.
The cargo ship was filled with square boxes, and dozens of men, like worker ants, unloaded boxes of heavy wood from the ship in an orderly manner and piled them up on the side of the dock.
Most of these men were shirtless, with only a little linen on their shoulders, and with every few steps, you could hear their grunting and panting.
Every time a box was unloaded from the cargo ship and carried to a designated place, the men would get a small stick from the steward who was standing on the side, and with this little stick, they would get paid from the steward in the evening, and then use the money to buy some grain from the grain store, and bring back the family for tomorrow's meal.
This is the life of these dock laborers, simple and tiring, and only when they return home and see the joyful smiles of their wives and children when they receive the food, their faces will also show a real smile.
"Bang!"
There was a loud noise, and a laborer slipped and fell to the ground. He slipped off his shoulder with the wooden box on his shoulder, and fell heavily to the ground, the huge momentum made the wooden box fall apart, and pieces of spherical black ** were scattered on the ground, and a lot of ** paste was stained with soil
The young laborer was dumbfounded all of a sudden, and it wasn't until an overseer scolded not far away that the laborer woke up and hurriedly bent down to pick up the ** paste on the ground desperately.
"Bastards, you poor ghosts, do you know how much this box of goods is worth, even if you sell all these pigs, you can't afford to pay for it!" The overseer brandished his whip and rushed at him in a rage. But unexpectedly, the whip in his hand only struck the clearing, but not the laborer.
The faces of the laborers who were scolded as pigs showed a hint of anger on their faces, and two of the young ones glared fiercely at the overseer. And the overseer scolded and scolded, and the whip in his hand was like an ornament, just waving in the air.