It is not surprising that there are so many well-trained modern armies on the Chinese side, because China has such a large population and is so wealthy, spending hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy weapons, and recruiting more than 10,000 young people to train according to European military practices, it is easy to have such a force as it is now.

With China's huge resources, it is strange that it cannot make such a modern army.

It's just that, according to the intelligence, the Guangzhou side was a little too enthusiastic about the British army, and the Sanyuanli side was too rigid, but there was a suspicion of singing red face and white face.

"These Chinese just treat us as fools, thinking that we can join forces with the Chinese army in Guangzhou and attack the Chinese army in Sanyuanli.

If we really want to do this, when the Guangzhou army comes to counterattack, we will be completely annihilated. John consciously saw through the sinister intentions of the Chinese and said angrily.

"Well, it's not good to jump to conclusions so early.

I always feel that there are a lot of things that we haven't seen through, so let's gather more information first. Justudin felt that things would not be so simple, but he could not see what the problem was, so he could only persuade John not to act rashly.

"Diplomacy is your specialty, and I don't interfere, but it is a fantasy to merge our military with the Chinese army. John felt a little unhappy, but knew that he was only the temporary commander of the expeditionary force, and was reluctant to veto the opinion of Yilu too much, but he also made his intention clear.

So, the matter was settled, and the Sanyuanli coalition army and the British army were stepping up preparations for war, building fortifications, training soldiers, and the officials of Canton also prepared for war in their own way - that is, let the provincial troops who were called in be arranged everywhere, and then let the big families in the city pay for the repair of the city walls, and they did not rush to talk about it every day.

The officials in Guangzhou were particularly worried that after the Sanyuanli coalition army occupied Foshan, they would cut off the grain transportation to Guangzhou, but they did not expect that the Sanyuanguan side did not know what to think, but only embezzled the imperial court goods in Foshan, and did not offend the private property of the merchants, and even kept the transportation smooth.

After there were no officials, officials, and people in Foshan, the transportation of grain to Guangzhou became easier, and the cost of taxes and fees was reduced, so that the grain prices in Guangzhou rose a little in the early stage and then quickly fell back to a lower price than before, which made many people breathe a sigh of relief.

If Foshan really cut off the transportation of materials to Guangzhou, then even if Guangzhou knows that it is invincible, it must do its best to do its best to do a job in Foshan.

Shen Baozhen is self-motivated, thinking that Li Xian and others have bad intentions, even if they don't block the transportation of materials now, they will cut it off in the future, so they must take advantage of the rare opportunity now to issue foreign guns to the soldiers, and then actively train the soldiers in order to deal with possible wars.

His words were naturally deafening, and Yiliang and other feudal officials also praised it, but training and equipping soldiers required a lot of money, so the officials in Guangzhou were stepping up their extortion of the big families in the city during this time, and they couldn't really start training until the money arrived.

Moreover, during this time, there were many conflicts between the army from other provinces and the local people, which made many officials very busy, although they all knew that Shen Baozhen's suggestion was very useful, but they couldn't take it into account for the time being.

In this context, Li Xian finally had free time to step up the training of his recruits, and at the same time sort out various relationships in the team to replenish the scarce military supplies or something.

In the case that the three parties had no intention of provoking a war, time passed quickly, and more than a month passed in a hurry.

Li Xian has his own views on the training of soldiers in this era, a new soldier needs to go through more than three months of training and a big battle to become a regular soldier who can play a role on the battlefield; if he goes through another three months of training and more than one battle, he can be called a veteran, the kind that will not die but will disappear.

According to this standard, the peasants recruited in Sanyuan have also experienced several major wars, and they have been trained in an environment full of war atmosphere for about two months, although it is not very useful, but it is also worthwhile.

These recruits, in terms of average quality, were inferior to the convoy and the British army, but after training, they were no longer scattered, and they may not be good in field battles, but they could still play a significant role in defensive battles such as defending cities and trench warfare.

As for the Qing army, the organization and discipline were very different, and the training time was particularly insufficient, that is, the so-called elite soldiers did small-scale training every five days, and large-scale training every ten days, so that the training would be about 70 days a year, and even training for one or two years would be useless.

When Li Xian first came into contact with the military, he wondered why the training frequency of Qing soldiers was so low, but later he knew that extra food and even salary should be given to soldiers during training, otherwise soldiers would not have the physical strength and heart to do training, so he understood that it was impossible for an officer to train soldiers more, and then make himself uncomfortable.

At this time, he felt that his military strength had been greatly improved compared with a month earlier, and he had greater confidence in the face of the British or the defenders of Guangzhou, so Li Xian issued an order to Wang Jiuxuan in Foshan, making people cut off the grain transportation into Guangzhou.

If there were a large number of Qing troops on the periphery of Guangzhou, Li Xian might be afraid of three points and would not dare to directly cut off Guangzhou's grain transportation, but these Qing troops are now cowering in Guangzhou, and Wang Jiuxuan has also gained a firm foothold in Foshan in the past month or so and built quite complete fortifications, so he can try to cut off Guangzhou's grain route and test Guangzhou's reaction.

Naturally, Foshan's move caused an uproar in Guangzhou.

After discussing up and down for three days and three nights, the Guangzhou side sent an envoy to Li Xian, wanting to inquire about what the charter was on Li Xian's side, and the person sent Li Xian still knew, but it was Pan Shicheng's nephew Pan Wu, and Li Xian had met a few times when the vampires were in trouble.

It's just that for such an important matter, Guangzhou didn't dare to send officials over, and only dared to send Pan Wu, who was not very prestigious, to come over, which was much worse than Li Xian imagined.

"Pan Wu, if you come to me, I will naturally entertain you.

It's just that for such an important matter, those big people in Guangzhou City only sent you over with a white body, what do you think?" Li Xian poured Pan Wu a cup of tea and asked with a sigh.

"What's this, I'm an authentic Guozi prison student, and I'm one of the Ten Tigers in Guangdong, so I can't get involved in this matter. Pan Wu felt good about himself, and he didn't have the consciousness of being caught up on the shelves.

"What are the Ten Tigers of Guangdong, haven't you heard of them?" Li Xian couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the title of the Ten Tigers of Guangdong, and asked.

As for the Guozi prison supervisor and the like, Li Xian automatically filtered it, the identity of the prison student is very rare for ordinary people, and the close bloodline of a big businessman like Pan Wu would be strange if he didn't spend money to donate such a degree.

"The Ten Tigers of Guangdong are talking about the ten most powerful masters of our young generation in Guangdong, and Brother Li Xian himself is also on the list, why don't you know?"