The all-army competition continues.

No matter how you say it, the Jiangnan battalion is also a large army of 90,000 people, and it takes nearly ten days to go back and forth, which is still the result of the majority of people living in chaos.

In any case, it will not be over anytime soon.

Festival.

The affairs of the entire camp are still very cumbersome, but fortunately, Jia Hui is a veteran who has been in charge of the affairs of nearly 200,000 Northern Expeditionary troops, and with the help of Deng Yuan, the chief officer, he is not too busy.

"Metropolitan Governor, this is the list of losses of our army in the first half of the year."

Deng Yuan walked out from behind the pile of papers, took a stack of documents and came to Jia Hui, who was reading the script cross-legged, on the Luohan bed next to him.

Most of the governors of the left army are here, if he doesn't seize this opportunity to cry poor and ask for things, he will not let himself go even if he dies!

"Huh? Show me..."

Jia Hui put down the notebook in his hand, took the abacus on the small case, opened the paperwork and began to settle the accounts.

Time gradually passed in the crackling sound of the abacus beads, and Deng Yuan did not dare to go back to continue to deal with military affairs, and kept standing in front of Jia Hui waiting for inquiries.

"Hey, with your loss, I'm afraid it's more than half a year, right?"

Finally finished this item of weapons, looking at the damage of up to 20,000 pieces of gun-headed steel knives and firearms that he had punched, he looked at Deng Yuan with a puzzled expression.

"Governor, Governor, you also know that our Huangmei is very humid, and a large piece of rust will be rusted if you are not careful! Sharpening things like gun heads, arrowheads, and waist knives can still be used. But this cannon and firearm are not capable of this!

You also know that almost all the firearms craftsmen are concentrated in the Shendu Military War Bureau and the Linzi Military Battle Bureau, and there are only ten firearms craftsmen in the big camp, and at most the parts can be repaired if they are broken.

For example, if this kind of gun pipe is rusty, they don't dare to dismantle it and repair it, so they have to send it to the two major military bureaus to repair it!

Last year and the year before last, the Governor's Office reduced the armament of our department on the grounds that it had been peaceful in Jiangnan for many years and that it was useless for our department to change its outfit without a war for a long time, and that none of its firearms had been updated..."

"And then you're eyeing me? Want me to give you something more? ”

Jia Hui picked up the teacup and drank the tea.

"The Grand Governor... Wise! ”

Deng Yuan clenched his fists and bent down deeply.

There must be a beginning and an end to doing things, although he is about to step down as the chief military officer of the Jiangnan battalion.

But even if he has to step down tomorrow and leave, he must fulfill the responsibilities of the general officer for the battalion before he leaves office!

Not to mention that this is the army he started with!

Tan Ji'an, who was sitting in the corner flipping through the verification documents, sat there quietly. This kind of topic is not a thousand households for him, especially a thousand households who can interject in the topic of embroidered clothes.

This is a conversation between the chief officer of the Jiangnan battalion and one of the five major governors of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Not to mention that whenever there is new equipment, the first thing to install is their embroidered clothes.

It's good to be a bystander.

"It's useless to cry poor. As you said, the Jiangnan battalion has not fought for more than ten years, and instead of putting the latest armaments here to slowly rust, I prefer to send them to Jiubian, to the southwest, to the Jiangnan garrison, and to the Anxi Protectorate!

I do sympathize with you, but the armies of the frontier need these weapons even more..."

"The Grand Duke!"

Hearing Jia Hui's words, Deng Yuan immediately knelt down anxiously, wanting to say something to refute, but couldn't say anything.

Because the Governor is right.

Those troops who have been at war with foreign races all year round are the ones that need to be replenished even more.

But how could he be willing to let go of these weapons!

"Report! Enlighten the Governor, the Commandery! There are embroidered clothes to report! ”

Deng Yuan wanted to say something, but the sound of a bulletin from outside the door interrupted their conversation.

"Embroidered clothes? Call them in! ”

Jia Hui also shouted towards the door.

"Yes!"

The herald outside the door hurriedly walked back.

"Let's put the matter of the military equipment first, and wait for the embroidered clothes to report to me first."

“… Be! ”

Deng Yuan was still a little unwilling, but he still obeyed Jia Hui's order, walked towards the backyard, and left the festival hall.

At this moment, only Jia Hui and Tan Ji were left in the festival hall.

Jia Hui also put on his boots and got off the Luohan bed, and took a few steps to the Taishi chair behind the hall.

Tan Ji also left his seat and stood in front of the left side of the case.

Soon, three embroidered clothes appeared in front of his eyes.

"See the Governor of the Metropolis! See Grown-up! ”

The embroidered clothes dressed in a small flag took the lead in kneeling down and saluting Jia Hui, and then made another salute towards Tan Ji, and the two behind him did the same.

"Well, get up." Jia Hui nodded.

Tan Ji didn't say anything, walked to Xiaoqi's side, Xiaoqi only got up on one leg, and when he saw his own Qianhu adults coming, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and took out a small bamboo tube in his arms, holding it with both hands and handing it to Tan Ji.

Tan Ji took it over and began to check the details of the sealing technique.

Only then did the three embroidered clothes stand up.

"Well, where did you send it from?"

Tan Ji confirmed that this was the sealing method of their Jinling Thousand Households, so he asked while removing the seal.

"My lord, it's the carrier pigeon that Du Yi took away."

"Got it, stand down."

"Obedience!"

The three people who had just gotten up clasped their fists again and knelt down on one knee, then got up and left.

Uncovering all the seals, Tan Ji turned the mouth of the cylinder outward, pulled out the plug, and waited for a few breaths before turning the mouth towards him.

Took out the paper roll inside.

"Shhhh

Tan Ji's pupils shrank and he gasped.

"Governor, it's not good!"

Tan Ji hurriedly handed the note to Jia Hui.

Jia Hui took it and looked at it, there were few words on the note, but it was as heavy as a thousand pounds.

"Slavery

Mani changed his name to White Lotus

The gambling house is from White Lotus

I am lurking"

Mani... White Lotus... Teach?

Why is there a White Lotus Sect in this world?

Jia Hui was also stunned.

For the White Lotus Sect, a cult that had been a professional rebellion for 700 years in his previous life, it was the first time he had heard of it in his life, and he had even thought that it didn't exist!

Jia Hui stood up, walked in front of Tan Ji, and whispered: "Tan Ji, go to Jinling Hundred Households to check!" A rebellion of the magnitude of the Manichaean religion in the previous dynasty would have been impossible to wipe them out.

Go and find out if there was any mention of Mani or White Lotus in the great rebellions before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China! ”

"Yes, let's check it out!"

Tan Ji also whispered back, turned around and ran out of the door, almost tripped over the threshold, stumbled a few times to stabilize his body, and ran towards the stable.

Jia Hui also walked around anxiously in the festival hall.

In his previous life, he had heard a little about the Jiangnan slave change, and in general, it was the counterattack of the servants and tenant farmers who could not bear the oppression of the master's family for generations.

For example, Xu Xia's Hakka family was almost wiped out by the rebellious tenant farmers.

It also coincided with the entry of the Manchurians, and when they hit the south of the Yangtze River, there was a bizarre but not surprising scene.

The landlords and squires scattered their wealth to resist the Qing Dynasty, but the rebel servants below rushed to be the leading party.

This slavery rebellion lasted from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, until the imperial court abolished the untouchable status, and the untouchables had to be free to be good, obtained good status, and changed back from cattle to human beings.

This is easy to do, after all, if they want to do something, they must come from assassination and assassination in the dark to the sun.

At that time, Jia Hui didn't believe that he couldn't defeat a rabble of various small groups and small hills.

The problem is that the White Lotus Sect has been mixed in.

The teachings of the White Lotus Sect are the guiding light for those who have been trampled in the mud for generations!

After they have a unified and self-professed lofty goal, their combat effectiveness will definitely skyrocket.

But that's all, a mouse in the gutter is a mouse in the gutter, and it will never be different just because you walk in the sun.

Instead, they will be attacked more violently, and there will be nowhere to escape.

Jia Hui firmly believes that as long as they officially start an incident and run from the gutter to the street, he will definitely be able to crush them.

But the question is, how prepared are they?

It can be determined that the gambling house is a member of the White Lotus Sect, and even those two shopkeepers have a high probability of being from the White Lotus Sect.

If they were really the White Lotus Sect, it was impossible to imagine how much benefit they had gained by monopolizing the exchanges between the Faithful King and the salt merchants, and between the salt merchants and the army and the Jiangnan family!

Are all these people demented?

Jia Hui walked to Luohan's bedside, lifted the teapot and poured tea into the teacup, and drank it all.

With his mind clear and calm restored, Jia Hui sat on the Luohan bed, combined with the known information, and began to sort out the relationship again.

In fact, there are mainly two links.

The leader of the Jiangnan family in recent years is the Zhen family, and the Zhen family is the biggest staff of the faithful king.

Therefore, in order to grasp the Zhen family as much as possible, he almost obeyed the Zhen family. Anyway, the Zhen family has a shallow foundation, and it will not be difficult to deal with it after he ascends the throne.

This also led to his loyalty to the king and only contact the Jiangnan family through the Zhen family.

It is precisely because of this special relationship that the Jiangnan family can only contact the Loyal King through the Zhen family.

At this time, the stone shopkeeper and the white shopkeeper appeared.

They met when the King of Faithfulness was still training in the camp in Jiangnan and took refuge in him.

Because the two of them are quite talented, Zhongxin let the white shopkeeper be his agent for the business partnership with the Zhen family, and step by step became the plenipotentiary agent for Zhongxin to contact the Zhen family.

In this way, the proceeds of doing business with the Jiangnan family fell into the hands of the white shopkeeper.

Although Jia Hui can't play with Zhongxin, he has also been a classmate of King Zhongxin for many years!

Although there is a generation behind, in fact, Zhongxin, who is the fourteenth son of the emperor, is about the same age as Jia Hui.

In Jia Hui's impression, King Zhongxin also perfectly inherited the ancestral character of the Chen royal family - big heart.

Even because of the favor of the emperor and the concubine, he has been pampered since he was a child, and he wants to be windy and rainy. He has not experienced social beatings, and he has even become even worse - lack of heart.

Every quarter, he will only turn over the account books given to him by the two shopkeepers, and as long as he makes money, he will no longer care.

Only the two shopkeepers know how much they earned.

Presumably, the stone shopkeeper is similar, except that he was responsible for the contact with the Jiangnan camp from the beginning, and later the salt merchant was separated by the Zhongxin King and the white shopkeeper, and was specially handed over to him to be responsible.

Through the relationship within the church, through the casino, Hu Shen will be trapped, so that Hu Shen, who lost the red eye, will press the gambling house with a thing that is related to his life......

Just when Hu Shen was thinking about where to get money to pay off gambling debts and redeem things, the shopkeeper Shi took advantage of the familiarity of the generals of the Jiangnan camp to find him, and introduced the private work of the salt merchant to him in the gratitude of Hu Shen and others.

In this way, General Hu Shen became the first Jiangnan battalion commander to break the ring, and again and again pulled the close generals who were familiar with him into the water.

The next thing is nothing more than the resale of ordnance through these lords. Therefore, in the arsenal of the Jiangnan battalion, most of the knives and guns were actually not rusted and damaged, but were re-sold!

Thinking of this, Jia Hui put the teacup on his left, and put the teapot on the desk in the same place. Then he clenched his right fist and smashed the mahogany table on his right side with a single punch.

Is there a bottom line for these sub-generals!

No, with Deng Yuan's strict adherence to military discipline and his frequent personal inspection of various warehouses, he definitely knew about it!

"Deng Yuan!"

Jia Hui suddenly shouted towards the backyard.

Then he stood up again, and pulled out his Yanling knife, which was customized by the Shendu Soldier Bureau and was a few inches longer than usual. He took out a piece of silk cloth from his bosom and wiped it carefully.

Fortunately in the midst of misfortune, firearms are such a thing as a very strict control. No matter if the cannon is blown up until it shatters to the ground, then it is necessary to plow three feet into the ground to dig out all the fragments, and ninety percent of the prototype can be handed over to apply for replacement.

If it can't be put together, then it should be punished as reselling the ordnance. Moreover, the imperial court will send the three law divisions instead of the governor's office to investigate the case. It's basically dead.

"Governor Dadu, the lower officials are here!"

Deng Yuan, who had been waiting in the backyard, heard that Jia Hui was calling him, and hurriedly answered, opened the door curtain and entered the festival hall, and found that Jia Hui was facing away from him, Deng Yuan didn't think much about it, and walked behind him.

"Grand Duke, now we can talk about ordnance..."

Jia Hui suddenly turned around with an indifferent face, raised his leg suddenly, kicked Deng Yuan out, and smashed it on the table, and the table was instantly smashed and scattered in the air, swaying and falling down one by one.

"Ho... Ahem, ahem! The Grand Governor... Ahem... Why..."

Deng Yuan was kicked stunned, curled up on the ground with his stomach covered, and looked at the general with a steel knife and angry eyes with a look of disbelief!

"You ask me!"

Jia Hui lowered his head and stared at Deng Yuan, leaned forward and walked in front of him, and kicked it again, right in the middle of Deng Yuan's arms covering his abdomen, Deng Yuan actually smashed the flower pot rack with the vase in the air, and the glass ware placed on it shattered to the ground.

At the same time, a sound of bone cracking came into the ears of the two, and the pain of the bones in his arms being kicked and shattered made Deng Yuan want to shout, but because of the spasm from his abdomen, he couldn't make a sound, so he could only breathe out "ho-ho".

At this moment, the voices of soldiers who heard a loud noise came to check on the soldiers.

"Metropolitan Governor, Deng Zongzhen, you are..."

"Noise, get out!"

Jia Hui didn't have the time or obligation to explain to them, he yelled at the door with a murderous face, closed his mouth and looked at Deng Yuan who was writhing on the ground again.

The soldiers who were frightened by Jia Hui's murderous aura immediately crawled out of here.

"The Governor, the Governor... Ahem... Vomit! ”

With this strength, he didn't even go all out in the last competition!

It hurts me!

Deng Yuan fell to the ground and watched Jia Hui hold a steel knife to her neck.

"You know they sell ordnance. No, you're part of it! ”

Deng Yuan's pupils shrank, and then he closed his eyes in pain.

After all, still... was discovered.

I wanted to see that I had gotten acquainted with Jia Hui in the past two days, and I wanted to take the opportunity to smooth out this bad debt. Can...

What kind of information did you send from the embroidered clothes just now?

"Why didn't you say it then, why did you lie to me?"

Jia Hui forcibly regained his senses, and his tone was indifferent.

"Xia, Xiaguan, Xiaguan..."

Deng Yuan's mind was in a mess, and his underdeveloped language system, which was originally underdeveloped because he rarely spoke, couldn't make any words.

"I don't need to explain, I don't want to hear it."

Jia Hui let out a long sigh, retracted the steel knife from its scabbard, and hung it on his waist.

"Why, you still have to wait to explain to the Three Law Divisions!"

"Three... The law department..."Deng Yuan was instantly deflated, and collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud, no longer having the demeanor of a chief military officer.

"The lower officials are also forced to do so... I can't help it!

The lower officials were set up by them... Ahem... If you don't help them take out, there will be no me in Jiangnan... Ho... Ahem... My Deng family's place of standing... O place of cones! ”

Deng Yuan's mouth kept chattering. Jia Hui didn't leave, just stood in place, looking at Deng Yuan with an expressionless face and constantly explaining.

Suddenly, Deng Yuan stopped chattering and looked at Jia Hui expectantly.

"The Metropolitan Governor, the lower officials are dead! Ahem, ahem... It's not a pity for the lower official to die! Can... Ahem... Can you spare my family, please... Ho ho... Please, Jie'er, they adore you... And call you uncle! ”

"Uncle? Scold. ”

As if hearing something funny, Jia Hui sneered, squatted down and looked at Deng Yuan, who was full of anticipation.

"Don't you think that if you invite me to a few meals and let your sons call me uncle, they will become my own people?"

Deng Yuan's face suddenly became stunned.

"Who do you think you are? What are you? You're a convict who betrayed his accomplices to save his family's lives!

You take it seriously when you say a few polite words at dinner, and think of yourself as one of my gangs? What does the life and death of your family have to do with me? Worship me a lot, not bad for your sons!

Oh, what am I doing with you so much? ”

Jia Hui laughed at himself and stood up on his knees.

"Jia Hui, who killed a thousand knives, you must not..."

A boot slammed on Deng Yuan's face, and Deng Yuan could no longer utter the cursed words, and was knocked unconscious.

Jia Hui slowly lifted the foot that stepped on Deng Yuan's face and put it back on the ground.

"However, I still admire your eldest son Deng Jie, I will throw him to Anxi, whether it is life or death, then... It's all up to him. ”

Jia Hui looked at Deng Yuan's unsightly face and muttered in his mouth.

With a long sigh, he turned and walked out of the hall that had been covered in paper.

As if hearing Jia Hui's words, Deng Yuan's originally frowning brows suddenly eased a lot.

(End of chapter)