Above the watchtower, Hong Yun'er was taken aback after listening to Xiao Yungui's words, and she asked in surprise: "Will Ronglu be crossed by Sixuan or Qingyun?" ”

Xiao Yungui nodded, and immediately said that Qianjiang's strategy of making money was preempted by Rong Lu, and then told him what he was thinking about these days, zuihou said: "I have been thinking about it repeatedly these days, Rong Lu has suddenly become so capable, and he seems to be like us, predicting historical events in advance, and the only explanation is that Rong Lu is also a traverser. Since the two of us can travel here together, it is very likely that Sixuan and Qingyun, who were concentrated by thunder and lightning together, will also arrive here like us. ”

Hong Yun'er clasped her hands on her chest and muttered for a moment: "There is this possibility, but it cannot be ruled out that it will be other traversers, this shijie is too mysterious, and it is not necessarily what we guessed, instead of guessing here, we should find a chance to test it." Didn't we discuss looking for the two of them when we were in Changsha? At that time, we thought about pasting the class song to find it, but later we thought it was too reckless to carry it out. But now that we have a target, it's much easier to try it. ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "Exactly, we can find an intermediary to send a letter to Rong Lu, and write nothing on it, just a few lines of the class song, and see how Rong Lu reacts." ”

Hong Yun'er said with a smile: "This is the best, it is better to settle the name of the head teacher, so it is more appropriate, if Rong Lu is Sixuan or Qingyun, he will definitely find us to recognize him." ”

Xiao Yungui touched his chin and said: "Rong Lu is now in Jiangbei camp, which is close to Zhenjiang, when we return to Tianjing, we will go to Zhenjiang first to find an intermediary to send a letter to Rong Lu." ”

Hong Yun'er snapped her fingers and said, "Yes, for now, we should stabilize the situation in Shanghai first, and confirm Rong Lu's identity before returning to Tianjing later." ”

After the two agreed. The guards downstairs came to report that Lin Qirong had arrived in the camp, and Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er immediately came down to meet each other. Xiao Yungui ordered Chen Zhiming to guard Wusongkou, Li Tianxi, Lu Shunde, and Zhao Shunping attacked Chongming Island and transferred Lin Qirong back to Shanghai. A few days ago, Xiao Yungui also sent a letter to Wang Minyun in Wuxi, asking him to hand over the administrative affairs of Wuxi to Li Shourong as soon as possible, and Wang Minyun himself came to Shanghai to take charge of government affairs.

Since the Taiping Army of the West Palace, Xiao Yungui has maintained the management mode of the division of military and political affairs in the West Palace. There will be no such thing as the local military and political tie in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Before 1856, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have a provincial-level administrative unit, but only had the name "province", and set up a chief official system and a military supervisor at the county and county levels, called "land guards". Manage the day-to-day administration of the city. However, in fact, the chief officials of these two levels of cities are only "opening the government" - setting up an administrative authority, but there are other people who "sit in the office". They are either local garrison commanders. Either a high-ranking official sent by Tianjing presides over the affairs of the city in the name of "holding the seal to take charge of civil affairs". For example, in Fanchang County, Anhui Province, the chief official should be the supervisor of Fanchang County, but the actual person in charge is Yang, the general of the local garrison and the eighth commander of the palace. Most of the administrative powers such as criminal and public security are in the hands of these officers and commissioners, and the territorial guards can effectively govern them, except for the affairs of the township officials, which do not belong to the scope of urban administration. Only minor matters such as household registration, taxation, levy, cleaning, and business management remained, and these affairs were often interfered with by military officers, commissioners, etc.

In the past, wars were frequent, and it was beneficial for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to appoint generals to supervise military and political affairs, which met the need to mobilize manpower and material resources during the war. But if this goes on for a long time, it will not be beneficial to the construction of the place. Therefore, after the capture of Zhenjiang, Jintan, Wuxi and other places, Xiao Yungui appointed a general to be in charge of the army and an official to be in charge of political affairs. At present, the Wuxi guard is Tan Shaoguang, the Wuxi guard is Wang Minyun, and Li Shourong is responsible for money and food under Wang Minyun. After the capture of Shanghai, this place was very important, and Xiao Yungui planned to set up the Shanghai Military Administration Department of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Shanghai, with the steady Lin Qirong and the capable Wang Minyun jointly guarding and governing Shanghai.

After Lin Qirong arrived, Xiao Yungui took him to inspect the camp, and talked to him a lot as he walked.

First, the soldiers should train the new foreign guns and artillery, be as proficient as possible in drills, and master the methods of pure firearms combat. Of course, in order to ensure the firearms of the Shanghai soldiers, Xiao Yungui promised to give priority to Lin Qirong's department for the firearms he purchased.

Second, Xiao Yungui will set up the Xidian Taiping Military Officers' Martial Arts School in Shanghai, and Xiao Yungui will hire famous Chinese and foreign teachers and celebrities as lecturers to teach military affairs to officers at all levels of the Xidian Taiping Army. Xiao Yungui asked Lin Qirong that after the opening of the Shanghai Martial Arts School, in addition to letting the Taiping Army's own officers study, he would also recruit more aspiring young people to enroll, and Xiao Yungui hoped that this martial arts school would become the Taiping Army's own Whampoa Military Academy in the West Palace.

The third is to let Lin Qirong vigorously build a naval division, Shanghai is close to the Yangtze River and the sea, and must have its own naval division to defend the sea area and rivers, and at the same time, after the establishment of the customs, a strong naval division is also needed to crack down on maritime smuggling and piracy, so the creation of the Xidian Taiping Shanghai Fleet fell to Lin Qirong. Of course, Xiao Yungui suggested that Lin Qirong reuse Lu Shunde, Zhao Shunping and other generals of the naval division, and purchase new warships with foreigners as much as possible.

Fourth, the control of the local gang Shili, Xiao Yungui obeyed Qianjiang's strategy, and has rewarded Mu Guandao, Xie Yinglong and other gang leaders who oppose the water in Shanghai, and several people have been awarded official positions ranging from general to general system, and transferred to Suzhou as officials, Xiao Yungui also sent a letter to Zuo Zongtang, asking him to keep an eye on these people, and at the same time arrange some irrelevant things for them to do. After the subordinates of several gangs were completely dispersed by Xiao Yungui in the name of the whole army, some of them were filled into Chen Yucheng's department, some of them were handed over to Lin Qirong's department, and some of the gangs with some specialties were directly handed over to Bai Zetang for training, and they could be used as Bai Zetang's spies or killers in the future. handed over to Lin Qirong, Xiao Yungui asked Lin Qirong to make good use of these people, and with these people being familiar with the characteristics of Shanghai, he sent Lin Qirong's powerful generals to re-establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's own black shili in Shanghai. Many things that are inconvenient for the Taiping army to come forward to solve are handed over to these gangs to deal with the most haode.

In May 1848, the French businessman Arunnet leased the No. 41 land of the British Deeds from the British Consulate to open the Aruné Foreign Company, also known as the Gongsheng, to engage in the arms trade. At that time, the French Concession had not yet been established, and Arunnet became the first Frenchman to lease land in Shanghai, and Arunnet became the first French foreign firm in Shanghai, but this foreign firm was on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor management in Shanghai for three years. Xiao Yungui had bought a batch of arms from Arune before, which could be regarded as saving Arune.

Therefore, Arune was very grateful to Xiao Yungui, and in the process of trading, Xiao Yungui had already negotiated with Arune, and when the Taiping army captured Shanghai, he would find Arune to import a gunpowder production line, a paper ammunition packaging line and a spherical flowering bomb production line. Due to the obstruction of the British, these transactions were carried out in secret, and these days Xiao Yungui had negotiated with Arunay that the two sides would smuggle all kinds of machines to Shanghai, and the Taiping army would hire foreign technicians to assemble them. Anyway, at this time, the smuggling of the Shanghai boundary was very serious, even if the machine arrived by then, the customs had already begun to operate, as long as there were people from the Taiping Army, Arune's ship did not even have to go to Shanghai for delivery, and the goods were directly delivered in Wusong or even Chongming Island, and then the Taiping Army could transport them to Shanghai for assembly. Xiao Yungui asked Lin Qirong to pay attention to sending troops to protect this transaction, and then the assembly of the machine, the hiring of foreign technicians, and the recruitment of workers will be completed by Wang Minyun. At the same time, Xiao Yungui asked Lin Qirong to send troops to protect this munitions factory, which will become an important ammunition supply place for the Taiping Army in the future.

Sixth, Xiao Yungui asked Lin Qirong to form local militia groups of the Taiping Army in the counties, towns and villages near Shanghai, which were responsible for maintaining local law and order, and were also regarded as reservists of the Taiping Army, and were also responsible for cracking down on local landlord regiments to practice shili. The Taiping army swept all the way, and the landlord's regimental training had been swept away, but Xiao Yungui still arranged it like this, he didn't want the landlord's regimental practice to resurgent. The local regimental training is carried out according to the number of people in each locality, and is handled in accordance with the principle of one ding for every five households; all the expenses for the local regimental training are paid for by the Shanghai local sacred treasury, and most of the weapons distributed are cold weapons, and at the same time, some of the firearms eliminated by the Taiping Army are also handed over to the local regimental training for use.

In short, Xiao Yungui, who had a lot of money, explained it in detail, and then gave Lin Qirong a detailed implementation plan, asking him to try it out in Shanghai first, and report to Xiao Yungui in time if there is any emergency. Xiao Yungui doesn't know what will happen to these things in the process, jihua is jihua, and the process of implementation is always unpredictable, so Xiao Yungui gave Lin Qirong the right to make ordinary small things by Lin Qirong himself, and report to him for handling when he can't make up his mind.

Later, Xiao Yungui told Lin Qirong to pay attention to some things that should be paid attention to in dealing with foreigners' affairs, foreigners attach great importance to their own rights, and Lin Qirong should pay great attention to some Western etiquette and principles in commanding troops in Shanghai, and should be reasonable and restrained in handling affairs, but he should not be cowardly, in short, he must be neither humble nor arrogant, so that there will be a lot less trouble.

Lin Qirong remembered them one by one, Xiao Yungui knew that Lin Qirong's personality was calm, unlike Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and others who were in a hurry, nor like Ji Wenyuan and Zhu Xineng, nor like Chen Yucheng and Tan Shaoguang, who were still immature, Xiao Yungui originally wanted Li Xiucheng to come to Shanghai, but he had already started the campaign to attack Ningbo, so he could only let Lin Qirong guard Shanghai, but I believe that Lin Qirong would not be worse than Li Xiucheng.

After giving Lin Qirong's explanation, Xiao Yungui ordered people to send invitations to ministers, consuls, and heads of foreign countries in Shanghai, inviting them to attend the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Shanghai Customs Affairs Seminar the day after tomorrow. Hong Yun'er had already set off to find Li Taitai and hired him to write tariff rules for Shanghai Customs. Wang Minyun will go to Shanghai tomorrow, and Xiao Yungui also has a lot to explain to him about the governance of Shanghai. Xiao Yungui planned to wait for the most headache customs tariff to be cleared, and then hand over Shanghai to Wang Minyun and Lin Qirong to govern and guard. Tianjing has already arrived with an edict from the king of the east, asking the king of the west to return to tianjing to report on his work after stabilizing southern Jiangsu. (To be continued......)