Somewhere in the countryside of Changsha, the capital of Hunan, a group of well-dressed Confucian gentry with a big pigtail dragged behind them, escorted to this deserted land with heavy boxes under the escort of the Jiading Nursing Home. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Among this group of squires, faintly led by a powerful bald head standing at the front, who dared to keep a bald head without braids in the Manchu Empire, was either a monk or had a very hard relationship, and could shave himself in the name of a monk!

Compared with men with long hair, shaving their heads, the Manchu court's decree is still relatively generous, after all, people like monks are basically big bald heads, and the Manchu court is not going to get along with the Buddha, so naturally it will not be too strict with bald heads.

This gives a favorable way for those powerful but don't want to keep long braids for the local tyrants, these status is very ordinary, but they belong to the local snake, black and white squires, will team up with the government, forge the identity of a monk for themselves, and then run amok with a big bald head in the open.

Naturally, being able to walk around with a big bald head also shows how tough this person's local power connections are!

On the opposite side of the group of squires, led by the bald heads, they were very thin, except for the coolies who carried the boxes, there were only two Indian Asans slaves in turbans and a bearded white man dressed in gentleman's clothes with a wide brim triangular plum.

"Mr. John, don't come unharmed, what good things did you bring this time?" The bald squire at the head asked the white man with a smile, his eyes drifting to the dozen or so large boxes from time to time, obviously looking forward to what was inside.

"Aha, my Chinese friend, this time I'm bringing the latest good thing in the British Empire - a grenade that can be used by one person!"

"A grenade?" The big bald head and the squire behind him couldn't help but show a puzzled look, obviously they hadn't heard the term.

A white English man named John came to a box, asked the coolies to open it, and took out an early wooden-handled grenade from it, the style was completely different from that used by the Han army, the elongated wooden handle was more suitable for hand-throwing, but it could not be fired with a grenadier!

In fact, this kind of wooden-handled grenade has already been developed in the scientific research institutes of the Han Empire, but Zhao Dutian did not mass-produce it in order to pursue the standard integration of grenades and grenadiers.

The distance from the wooden handle grenade is far simpler than the grenade fired from the grenadier, and the British, who had experienced the power of the grenade in the American War, could easily imitate the practical grenade if they paid more attention to research and development, and even added a long wooden handle to make it easier for soldiers to throw!

The war of the Han Empire on the territory of the Manchu Empire, the British naturally already knew about it, and they were extremely dissatisfied with Zhao Dutian's behavior of opening the Manchu copy without permission regardless of the European battlefield, but the British were held back by the French Republic, and they still needed to maintain the alliance and peace with the Han Empire, so they could only use secret arms support to hinder the pace of the Han Empire!

Causing obstacles and difficulties to competitors is the basic quality of a politician, and the British are desperate for blood transfusion to the Manchu Empire!

However, before the British could transport the first batch of munitions to the land of China, the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners Army collapsed in front of the Han army, and the news of being beaten into dogs reached the ears of the British!

The army of the Manchu Empire was defeated so gorgeously, so quickly, and so completely, although there was a problem of the difference in weapons, but the fact that the Green Battalion defected in large numbers had to make the British pay attention to it!

The British felt that the Qing army was too corrupt, and the political system of the Manchu Empire was not conducive to uniting the regular army of the Qing Dynasty, which led to the defection of the formed green battalions on the battlefield!

Of course, what the British wanted to support was a Han enemy who could fight to the end, not a group of half-hearted wall grass!

After learning that Emperor Qianlong had thrown himself into the arms of Tsarist Russia, the British had no choice but to connect with the local group training of the Manchu Empire in the spirit of how many weapons they could send out!

This is also something that can't be helped, the Green Battalion has been proven to be a puddle of, and the Eight Banners Army has the courage to fight, but it has begun to be reorganized by Emperor Qianlong, and with the support of Tsarist Russia's weapons, there is no need for the British to add icing on the cake......

Naturally, in the Manchu Empire's rotten military system, it seems that only the emerging regimental training armament is quite reliable!

In fact, after the expansion of power to the Strait of Malacca, the British have been studying the East, a rich country rich in spices, silk, and tea, although the British know little about Chinese culture, but they still have a general understanding of the ruling structure of the Manchu Empire, which is also the intelligence that the British can collect, after all, such a rich and backward country, how can it be worthy of the aggressive British Empire without collecting some intelligence?

As a result, the British naturally also know a little about the relationship between the Han gentry, especially the strong chain of interests between local Han teachers and students, relatives and friends, and classmates, which makes the British extremely impressed!

The officialdom of the Manchu Empire has always paid attention to the relationship between teachers and students and classmates, as long as you are willing to put some effort into studying the government structure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you can realize this!

After all, this is a matter that the officials of the Manchu Empire put on the surface, and they all put their disciples, classmates and friends first!

Moreover, the corrupt officials in the officialdom of the Manchu Empire, although they were heinous and scraped the ground when they were on duty in other places, they were very tolerant of their hometown children, as long as they had money, they built bridges and houses in their hometowns, built private schools, and other good deeds that did not ask for anything in return, abounded!

This has created a strange phenomenon, the Manchu corrupt officials who stinky on the streets in history even have a shrine in his hometown!

Every household has a portrait of this big corrupt official, even if the court has taken down this corrupt official and cut off his head, the fathers and villagers in his hometown are also grateful to this so-called corrupt official!

This is the nostalgia of the Chinese, the British do not understand this, but they can see the result and know what this means!

This Hunan gentry leader, that is, the big bald head with the same status as the leader of the loose group training alliance, is the current patriarch of the Zeng family, known as Zeng Bald Head, this nickname is not derogatory, not a monk can still shout the name of the bald head so loudly in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which in itself means how strong his ability is!

Therefore, Zeng Guangtou simply does not use others to call him by his real name, and happily regards himself as Zeng Guangtou, only the closest insiders will call him by his real name, and outsiders and subordinates will use this 'honorific title' when they see Zeng Guangtou......