Chapter 382 After you sing, I will take the stage--
"The last general will see the Admiral. If you don't have time to welcome him from afar, I hope the Admiral will forgive you." Liang Pengfei stood in front of his general government office in Humen Town and saluteed Wang Shouli, who was surrounded by a large group of soldiers, who came outside the gate of the government office.
"Come on, our brothers are not outsiders, and there are no outsiders here. Don't be so polite. Brother, I'm coming to you today. Although I'm on the order of our eldest governor, we can't do this between us, can we?" Wang Shouli jumped off the horse, supported Liang Pengfei, and leaned over to Liang Pengfei's ear and laughed in a low voice.
"Hey hey, I'm not going to show it to people, so that some people won't say you..." Liang Pengfei smiled and squeezed his eyebrows.
Wang Shouli couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Os, you boy, don't bury me. Go in and talk about it. Hurry up early in the morning. Can't you even give me a bowl of water?"
"Brother, please." Liang Pengfei then moved away and let Wang Shouli enter the house. By the way, he asked someone to greet the new general of Wang Shouli. Then he entered his own government office with Wang Shouli.
"Brother, during this period, you are not busy in Guangzhou or something?" After Liang Pengfei handed a cigar to Wang Shouli, who was getting fatter, he asked, but for a moment, he couldn't remember what Admiral Wang was doing.
"What is it called? Admiral I is not even as good as his mother's land commander now. It's okay not to mention it. As soon as he mentioned it, Wang Shouli was full of fire. The British came back and let him, the admiral, be punished and served as the admiral of the Guangdong Marine Division with the rank of general. It's nothing. But the problem is that now the Bailian Sect has turned the world upside down. The money, food and salary that should have been given to the sailors are now 30% deducted.
"Isn't it?" Liang Pengfei couldn't help but be surprised. I'm his ancestors. Aren't our sailors the soldiers of the court? You know, those British just gave the court a meal half a year ago. Now, it's okay not to strengthen the sailor, and they even deduct our pay silver? Liang Pengfei couldn't help patting his big hand on the table, staring at a pair of angry eyes. Now, the strength of our Guangdong Marine Division has not recovered. Although the exhausted stone town of the general of Wu has now recruited soldiers and horses, now, the whole exhausted stone town's naval division warships are actually less than a hundred, and most of them are repaired after being salvaged by the British injured and disabled boats, and the artillery is even half. The share is not enough.
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"Is it possible that the court thought that those British would get along with the court if they fired a few shots and earned millions of taels of silver? If that's the case, why did I guard Humen so hard at the beginning? Liang Pengfei is really full of evil fire. Although the court did this, there were only advantages and no disadvantages for his arrangement.
He started from the sailor. The more the court does not take the sailor seriously, the more the contrast between the power of Master Liang and the court will tilt towards him more and more.
But the problem is that after all, the coastal defense of a country has been cleaned up by those British, and they still don't know how to repent. In this kind of behavior, Liang Pengfei does feel both happy and helpless. No wonder another time and space-time Qing Dynasty did not know how to repent after the first opium war. As a result, the more Later, after his outer shell was completely peeled off by those Western colonists, it finally led to the most painful suffering of the Chinese nation.
This words shocked Wang Shouli and quickly whispered to Liang Pengfei, "My good brother, you can just say these words in front of me. Don't talk nonsense outside. Otherwise, if these words spread to the court, even if you are a meritorious minister, then It's hard to escape that those who are full of food have a few copies of the imperial ginseng, which will be troublesome.
"What the hell is going on?" Liang Pengfei glanced at the people behind him. After these generals retreated knowingly, only the white scholar and the monk Chen stood at the door and became the door gods. Liang Pengfei lowered his voice and asked Wang Shouli.
"This military spending is not my brother, nor is it deducted by our governor-general, but the emperor's life. Do you know that now, the emperor has ordered Fukang'an, who had just returned to Beijing, go on another expedition. In addition to gathering troops from Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu and other places, the emperor also ordered Guangdong to send 20,000 troops to Guangxi Pingbailian rebels.
Hearing this, Liang Pengfei couldn't help taking a breath of cold breath and was stunned: "We in Guangdong are also going to send troops? Another 20,000 yuan..." In fact, just half a month ago, Liang Pengfei had learned that the Bailian congregation in Guangxi had also continuously removed the poles to respond to the Bailian rebels who went south. This white lotus rebellion was much more serious than he thought.
Although Liang Pengfei can be sure that the White Lotus Religion can't become a climate, the timing they chose is indeed just right, so I'm afraid it's really more fierce than another nine-year-time and space-old White Lotus Uprising.
You should know that because of the ban on the sea, there are many people in Guangdong and Fujian who are dissatisfied with the court. Moreover, there are many people in Guangdong, Guangdong, Fujian and other places who are brave. Coupled with the behavior of corrupt officials, not only pirates are popular on the coasts such as Guangdong and Fujian, but also countless bandits on land. Therefore, the Qingting has always been very defensive against Guangdong and Fujian, and the number of green battalions stationed is almost comparable to that of the Qingting's military provinces Shaanxi and Gansu.
But even so, the bandits in Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces have always been the most serious, because the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and soldiers in Guangdong is really not very good. Except for the town's standard and Fubiao and the bid, which can make up 10,000 to 20,000 combatable soldiers, the rest of the towns are almost no different from the peasants. Those land soldiers The ability to pretend to eat empty pay is better than that of a sailor. Nowadays, there should be more than 68,000 people in both water and land.
Since Liang Pengfei entered the sailors until now, as far as he knows, the establishment of more than 68,000 people on the two roads of water and land in Guangdong has never really been fully compiled. The establishment of 25,000 sailors alone has a shortage of 6,000 people, or they are still empty.
Just thinking about this, Liang Pengfei really felt speechless. Among other things, some time ago, the British invaded Guangdong, and the sailors fought in pieces, but it was good that the generals of the navy not only did not feel ashamed of this, but also felt that it was an opportunity to get rich, because they could take advantage of the recruitment. There is a chance to eat another sum of money, and he can also resell some newly distributed materials to those merchants, even pirates... Because Liang Pengfei is now the most powerful pirate leader in Guangdong and even Nanyang. Those people sold supplies and even muskets to pirates. How could Liang Pengfei not know?
Even if Master Liang spent his own pocket and let the Humen Town Water Master raise nearly 6,000 people, and Wu Qianjin was separated from his command and became the general of the Water Division of the Exhaust Stone Town, Master Liang stuffed the exhaustive Stone Town with 4,000 people, even so. In fact, the total number of soldiers and horses in the entire Guangdong navy will not exceed 19,000, that is to say, Master Liang's strength has accounted for more than half of the navy.
The other two town soldiers, together with Wang Li's town logo, ate the empty pay of 6,000 people. However, in the eyes of those generals, they didn't think it was enough, but they didn't dare to eat more, so they could only participate in smuggling, carry private goods, and even pretend to be pirates to rob merchant ships.
"I said, brother, you know very well what is the situation of our land soldiers and horses in Guangdong. The shortage of soldiers is greater than that of sailors. After the transfer of 20,000 soldiers and horses, the situation in Guangdong is a little worrying. Liang Pengfei's head was turning his crooked head quickly, but on the surface, he put on a face of loyalty to the country.
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"There is no way, you know, you know, those white lotus bandits, in the area of Hubei, have trapped several strong cities, killed two magistrates, and three generals who were ordered to calm down the chaos. Even the generals of Yichang Town, Hubei have been killed in the battle. Now, several provinces have been disrupted.
And those white lotus rebels marched south into Guangxi, Lianke Quanzhou, Xing'an, Lingzhou and other counties, and forced Guilin, and there were also white lotus rebels in Guilin City. Guilin Prefecture is already in danger. And we are one, and there are not many soldiers in Guangxi, so even if there is no imperial order, his governor will have to send troops to quell the chaos. Wang Shouli exhaled a circle of smoke and sighed.
When Liang Pengfei heard this, he curled his lips disapprovingly. If the initial uprising of the Bailian Sect was not beyond his expectation, what happened later prompted the development of the turmoil to spread so quickly that it had to be said that Qianlong, an old man, helped a lot.
Because at the beginning of the uprising of the Bailian religion in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, when the turmoil caused by Qianlongsheng was afraid of Yingyi, the chaos of the Bailian religion would cause a chain reaction, so a strict order was issued. However, those who are suspected of being a white lotus rebels can be interrogated first. In this way, those officials are worried that they can't shave more. The east wind sent by Long made them grateful.
Therefore, the big search for the rebels of the White Lotus Church in several provinces around the lake began. Although I had to admit that some results had been achieved, those officials were more eager to be able to make money in this way, so all the officials who were darker-hearted began to search for the white lotus believers wantonly, and generally looked for They are all rich people. There's nothing they can do. How can they collect money when they find the poor?
Catch those businessmen or rich people in prison. If you want to be innocent, okay, take the money first, and let the blood vessels of countless people explode. Whether it is the White Lotus Sect or not, they will go bankrupt, or even get a knife. Isn't that the opposite? Waiting for you to kill me?
As a result, in just a few months, the whole central part of the Qing Dynasty was completely encircled in the vortex of the White Lotus Sect. Qianlong never thought that in his last year of power, after the British were severely humiliated, the white lotus followers also jumped out and prepared to sing a big play that shook the world. This kind of immoral behavior of you and me on the stage made me extremely depressed because of the Zhenjiang Treaty. The stuffy Qianlong was going crazy.
(to be continued)