"Sue sù front line continues the onslaught!"

It was already dark, and in the face of the communication soldiers who came to ask for instructions, Liu Xian seemed to say this sentence very unreasonably. But in fact, Jiao Wenbin led his troops to annihilate the enemy of Tianma Mountain, and was thinking about the march of Zhuqu Town.

The Marine Battalion is running for nearly 100 miles today, and now it is continuing to attack, so what reason does the front-line soldiers have to relax their fighting spirit?

After the communication soldiers retreated, Liu Xian continued to look at the forty-year-old businessman beside him. "China Merchants Steamship is doing a good job. In just a few years, you can regain so much share from the hands of foreigners, trade in various seaports in Beiyang and foreign Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and other places, and carry Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Cao grain, you Zhu Qiang has made a great contribution! ”

Zhu Qiang, a forty-year merchant, who was also known as the 'Northland Boat King', immediately straightened his bent waist, his face was full of pride, and all the worries in his heart disappeared at once.

King Qin can say this about himself, obviously, he recognizes and appreciates himself.

"You go back in peace. Unify your thinking within China Merchants. Tang Tingshu, Xu Run, and the two, this king admires them very much. With Li Hongzhang's move, the two of them were able to immediately give up the 'great country' they had laid in the proprietor of a foreign foreign bank, give up the preferential treatment in the foreign bank, and defect to the China Merchants Bureau in the grass creation. This shows that both of them have a heart to serve the country. As a Chinese, I saw the resentment and resistance of foreigners running rampant in China.

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But everyone has their own aspirations, whether they are willing to follow the king or accompany the Manchus, everyone must think about it. When the war in Shanghai is over, you China Merchants will change its name, Beiyang Shipping Company. And then what to do. How else to do it! ”

Liu Xian, the four major compradors in Shanghai, is only ready to get rid of one - Dongting Dongshan Xi Zhengpu!

Up and down, inside and out. Eradicate this cancer once and for all. To Shanghai, to Tianjin. A most stern warning from the rampant comprador class!

At the same time, it also reminds foreigners and foreign businessmen in China not to take the new Qin as the Manchu Qing Dynasty. China has changed its dynasty, and the emperor is different, and his attitude is different!

After Zhu Qiang, several leading figures in Shanghai's business community came to meet Liu Xian. Behind each person is a force, such as the Guangdong Merchant Gang, the Ningbo Merchant Gang, the Longyou Merchant Gang, the Hui Merchant Gang, and so on. Of course, this is also indispensable to the Dongting Merchant Gang, that is, the Dongting Merchant Gang represented by the Xi Zhengpu Xi family that Liu Xian is preparing to bulldoze!

Of course, it is impossible for a merchant gang to rise in just a few years or ten years, and the Dongting merchant gang had a name as early as the Ming Dynasty, and Xi Zhengpu's Xi family was just a guide due to the situation. Relying on his identity as a comprador to seize the dominance of the Dongting Merchant Gang in Greater Shanghai.

In fact, the Dongting merchant gang is divided into two major shares, Dongshan and Xishan, the former because of the influence of the Taiping Rebellion, the business in southern Jiangsu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been greatly affected, it is a last resort, and it is also a matter of course, looking for 20 years ago to enter Shanghai, a place where foreigners gather, and thus achieved the dominant position of Xi Zhengpu's Xi family in Shanghai Dongting merchant gang. The people of Xishan are more affectionate along the shores of Dongting Lake, so the Dongting merchants in Shanghai refer to Dongting Dongshan!

Liu Xian directly refused to meet!

As for the local gentry in Shanghai, their level really couldn't hook up to meet Liu Xian. Lu Qiao was the first prefect of Shanghai in Xinqin. Liu Xian set up Shanghai as the Zhili Prefecture in accordance with the law of the municipalities directly under the central government in later generations, and the level was equal to the provincial level.

Some local gentry in Shanghai can meet Lu Qiao, which is very valuable.

The news of Liu Xian's refusal to meet with the Dongting Dongshan Gang quickly spread in Shanghai. Not to mention what a group of people from the Xi family will be in a hurry, not to mention what many Chinese and foreign businessmen in Shanghai will think in their hearts. Liu Xian is more concerned about the situation of the war in Shanghai, and is more concerned about whether the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is safe and sound!?

Ding Richang has sent a telegram to Tianjin for the third time. Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau will not be blown up? Shanghai's seven or eight thousand Huai troops were wrapped in dumplings. What is Li Hongzhang's plan?

Ding Richang can't be the master. It all depends on what Li Hongzhang thinks!

A rush of footsteps came from outside, and Ding Richang's son Ding Huiheng walked into the flower hall with a complicated face. Ding Huiheng called his father to Ding Richang. A piece of paper was handed over. Then he said to Wu Changqing, who was disheartened and didn't care about anything, "Wu Junmen. Don't be angry, Lord Nakado told us to come down! ‘

Wu Changqing's calm face cracked, and he picked up from the chair at once, looked at Ding Richang with his eyes protruding, looked at Ding Richang and sighed when he looked up to the sky, shook his head and gave him the message.

Wu Changqing's heart seemed to have fallen into a bottomless abyss, 'Zhongtang, Lord Zhongtang really told us to descend?' ‘

'Lord Nakado told me to wait and protect myself! Ding Richang was in no mood to mock Wu Changqing anymore. He was so tired now that he just wanted to get rid of everything and leave nothing behind.

The young Ding Huiheng still had the heart to glance at Wu Changqing, and muttered to himself in his heart, "It's really brainless." Can Lord Nakado say such a red fruit? The four words of self-protection can only be understood but not spoken. ‘

Time went back another hour, and the gunfire around Shanghai County stopped violently. The military and political bosses of the Huai Army stationed in Shanghai surrendered happily. Ding Richang and Wu Changqing, the two leading figures, came to see Liu Xian in person. In just one day, the huge Shanghai was dyed with the bright red of the red flag.

This effect is something that even Liu Xian could not have imagined. He enthusiastically picked up Ding Richang and Wu Changqing, who were kneeling on the ground and asking for surrender, and he couldn't help himself with joy in his heart.

Ding Wu and the two surrendered so briskly and cleanly, without mentioning any conditions, does it mean that Li Hongzhang behind them is also ready to change the court?

For Liu Xian, this is a great thing!

Today's Huai Army is not the same as the Huai Army 20 years later, most of the leading generals still dare to fight, and at the same time, a large number of talents gathered in Li Hongzhang's staff group are also the most open-minded people in China's Shilin in this era! If you can take it all in, these people can make a difference!

Liu Xian raised more than 20,000 troops to cross the sea on an expedition and took the huge Shanghai in just one day. The 8,000 Huai Army surrendered, and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the Shanghai Treasury and Customs were intact. The Qin army only rested in Shanghai for one day, and then divided the troops into three routes. Launched a large army against northern Jiangsu, Nanjing and southern Jiangsu.

The 8,000 surrendered Huai troops plus the Huai troops who were captured before exceeded 10,000 people. It was organized into an independent regiment plus two independent battalions, one against one and assigned to the three-way army. The Chuansha militia was changed to the Shanghai garrison regiment. Got the beauty of being stationed in Shanghai.

Liu Kunyi lost a lot in Jiangxi, and Jiangsu's troops were really drained a lot. Therefore, the Qin army's more than 20,000 troops are in the limelight, which is as easy as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.

Nantong, Yangzhou, Taicang, Changshu, Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, really swept all the way.

Mu Teng'a, the Jiangning general in Nanjing, complained to Beijing and Liu Kun three times a day. He only had less than 2,000 New Army of the Eight Banners in his hands. Although Jiangning was recaptured from the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom by the Qing court for thirteen years, the bannermen here are far from being compared with the time before the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, and there are less than 20,000 people now. Dingkou is only 2,000!

Coupled with the Liangjiang training troops and a small number of Hunan troops left behind, the current strength of Nanjing City is only 5,000. In the face of the Qin army tracing up the river, what is this person enough to do? Mu Teng is in a hurry to hang himself!

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Jiangnan Manufacturing Administration. Liu Xian has long admired the name of this place. Now that it's in your own hands, you have to take a look.

You must know that all the military quarters of the Qin army are all transferred from Guangxi. It's too much trouble and too expensive.

If, if the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau can achieve the great task of logistics and military supplies in a short period of time, the convenience it will bring to the Qin army will be no less than adding 10,000 people on the battlefield. Not to mention how much freight can be saved.

Machine factory, foreign gun building, artillery shell factory, gunpowder factory, steam furnace factory, foundry, steamship factory......

As the lifeblood of Li Hongzhang, the investment of millions of taels of silver over the years, even if a considerable part of it is stuffed into the pockets of the Huai Army, the entire Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can be called a big character!

The equipment in the machine factory is very good, and it is quite complete. As long as it is reasonably rectified. Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can fully take on the heavy responsibility. As for this large factory with nearly 2,000 workers, Liu Xian is not worried at all about how to transform and eradicate many old problems.

This plant belongs to the Armament Bureau of the General Logistics Department. It's the property of the military! Liu Xian believes that the military has enough means to guarantee its interests.

As for how many people will be killed and how many people will be suppressed during the period. He doesn't care how many people he judges.

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Late October.

A beautiful horse-drawn carriage stumbled through the potholed streets, and the violent jolts turned the passengers upside down. Although the feeling is no different from the streets of Tianjin, the passengers still find something unusual through the windows.

'Brother Yunpu. What are those Reba built in the middle of the road? The passenger asked Zhu Qiao, who was sitting opposite, curiously.

That's not Liba, it's a worker at a construction company under the Yamen Transportation Bureau. It is a traffic sentry box. There is a traffic policeman standing above, directing traffic, holding two flags in his hand, one red and one green, the green one is guò, and the red one stops, and whoever dares to violate it will be detained on the spot.

And that drive on the right, it is one of the new policies after the new Qin occupied Shanghai!

The road will be repaired in the future. These are all the potholes that fell from shells during the war. It will be leveled before the year. If you come to Shanghai again in the next year, you will definitely not feel bumpy. Zhu Qiang said with a smile.

What if a man walks? So what traffic cops don't care? The man asked again.

Then he doesn't care. However, jaywalking is not allowed, especially at street intersections, and zebra crossings are allowed. Zhu Qiao's answer always made the passengers feel that they could not understand in the clouds.

'What is a zebra crossing?' ‘

'This one...... The road hasn't been built yet, and it hasn't been painted yet. In fact, it is a white line drawn on the ground, which is similar to the pattern of a zebra, hence the name. …… Don't ask me what a zebra is, I haven't seen it either. That's what it says in the traffic brochure issued by the Transportation Bureau. Zhu Qiang was a little sneering. But there is no way, this is a person sent by Li Zhongtang, and he must entertain it. Zhu Qiang didn't want to leave the name of a white-eyed wolf outside.

Although he had already hugged Xin Qin's thigh. But for Li Hongzhang, Zhu Qiao only has a hundred respects.

The passengers in this car are also his old acquaintances, Sheng Xuanhuai! (To be continued......) R1292