Chapter 382 After you sing, I will take the stage
Chapter 382: After you finish singing, I will go on stage...
"I will meet with the Admiral. Before we can get far away, I hope the Admiral will forgive me." Liang Pengfei stood in front of his general army yamen in Humen Town and saluted Wang Shouli, who came outside the yamen gate surrounded by a large group of personal soldiers.
"Okay, we two are not outsiders, and there are no outsiders here, so don't be so polite. Brother, I'm here to find you today. Although we have followed the orders of our grown-up governor, we can't do that between us, right?" Wang Shouli jumped off the horse, held Liang Pengfei, leaned over and leaned into Liang Pengfei's ear and laughed in a low voice.
"Hehe, I'm not doing this for people to see, so I can save time. Someone said, " Admiral, you..." Liang Pengfei smiled and said seriously.
Wang Shouli couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Okay, don't you bury me, go in, let's talk about it early, can you, your brother not even give me a bowl of water?"
"Brother, please." Liang Pengfei moved away and asked Wang Shouli to enter the mansion. He also asked someone to greet Wang Shouli's recruit generals, and then followed Wang Shouli into his own yamen.
"Brother, you are not busy with that thing in Guangzhou during this period?" Liang Pengfei asked after handing a cigar to the increasingly fat Wang Shouli, who was about to get fat. But for a moment, he couldn't remember what Admiral Wang was doing.
"What is what? This admiral is now not as good as his mother's general." It's okay if he doesn't mention it, but when he mentions it, Wang Shouli is full of fire. The British man went back and forth, and he was punished, and he was appointed as the admiral of the Guangdong Navy as the general. This is nothing. But the problem is that the White Lotus Sect is now causing trouble. The whole world is overturned. The money, food and military pay that should have been given to the navy has now been deducted 30%.
"No?" Liang Pengfei couldn't help but be surprised. "Fuck his ancestors, are our navy soldiers not the court soldiers? You know, those British men just gave the court to that court half a year ago. Now, it would be fine if the navy was not strengthened, but they even deducted our salary?" Liang Pengfei couldn't help but slapped his hand on the table, glaring at a pair of glaring eyes and said in anger. "Now, our Guangdong navy has not yet recovered. Although the general military commander of the Wu army has recruited all the troops, the number of naval warships in the entire Geshi Town is less than a hundred, and most of them are repaired after being fished out by the British that day. The artillery is not even enough."
"Did the court think that those British people who fired a few shots and earned millions of taels of silver would not get along with the court? If that were true, why did I try so hard to guard the Humen at the time?" Liang Pengfei was really full of evil fire. Although, the court did this, there were only benefits but no harm in his arrangement.
He started his career with the navy. The more he did not take the navy seriously, the more his power comparison between Master Liang and Chaoting would be tilted towards him.
But the problem is that after all, the coastal defense of a country has been curbed by the British, but they still don’t know how to repent. Liang Pengfei was indeed happy and helpless in this behavior. No wonder the Qing Dynasty in another time and space did not know how to repent after the First Opium War. As a result, the more he went to the back, his outer layer of strong and hard-working shell was completely peeled off by the Western colonists, and what ultimately led to the most heartbreaking suffering of the Chinese nation.
These words scared Wang Shouli and quickly shouted to Liang Pengfei: "My good brother, it's fine to say these words in front of me. Don't talk nonsense outside. Otherwise, if these words are passed to the court, even if you are a hero, you will not be able to escape the full censors who have been full and have been included in your books, which will be troublesome."
"What the hell is going on?" Liang Pengfei glanced at the people behind him. After these generals retreated tactfully, only the two men of Shusheng and Monk Chen stood at the door and became door gods. Liang Pengfei lowered his voice and asked Wang Shouli.
"This military expenditure is not something that my brother, nor is it our governor detained, but the emperor's order. Do you know that now, the emperor has ordered Fukang'an, who had just returned to Beijing, to go on a war again. In addition to gathering troops from Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu and other places, the emperor also issued an order to send 20,000 troops to Guangxi to Ping Bailian Rebels."
Hearing this, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but take a breath and say in surprise: "We Guangdong also want to send troops? We still have 20,000..." In fact, just half a month ago, Liang Pengfei had already learned that the White Lotus Sect members in Guangxi had also been releasing continuously to support the White Lotus rebels going south. This White Lotus Sect Rebellion was much more serious than he thought.
Although Liang Pengfei was sure that the White Lotus Sect could not become a climate, the time they chose was indeed just right, so they were probably more than the White Lotus Sect uprising that lasted for nine years in another time and space.
You should know that due to the relocation of the boundary and ban on the sea, there are many people in Guangdong and Fujian who are dissatisfied with the court. Moreover, people in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places are brave and fierce. In addition, the behavior of corrupt officials has made it more popular in coastal areas such as Guangdong and Fujian, and not only are pirates popular, but there are countless bandits on the land. Therefore, the Qingting has always been very cautious about Guangdong and Fujian, and the number of green camp soldiers stationed is almost comparable to that of the Qingting’s military provinces Shaanxi and Gansu.
But even so, the bandits in Guangdong and Fujian provinces have always been the most serious, because the combat effectiveness of Guangdong's naval troops is really not very good. Except for the towns and tuitions, which can raise 10,000 or 20,000 to fight, the remaining soldiers in the towns are almost no different from farmers. Those who are capable of land armed forces are better than those of the navy. Nowadays, the total number of soldiers and horses on land should be more than 68,000.
Since Liang Pengfei entered the Navy, as far as he knows, the more than 68,000 people in the two waters and land routes in Guangdong have never been fully equipped. The 25,000 people in the Navy alone have still vacancies for 6,000 people, or they are still paying empty wages.
Just thinking about this, Liang Pengfei felt speechless. Not to mention anything else, the British invaded Guangdong some time ago, and the navy fought in disarray. But fortunately, the navy generals and generals were not ashamed of this, but instead felt that it was a chance to get rich, because they could take the opportunity to recruit soldiers and resell some newly distributed supplies to those merchants and even pirates... Because Liang Pengfei is now the most powerful pirate leader in Guangdong, even Nanyang. Those people sold supplies and even muskets to the hands of pirates. How could Liang Pengfei not know?
Even if Master Liang paid out of his own pocket and asked the Humen Town Naval Division to raise nearly 6,000 people, and Wu Ganjin was separated from his command to become the general of the Naval Division in Jieshi Town, Master Liang also pulled and pulled the entire 4,000 troops. Even so, in fact, the total number of troops in the Guangdong Naval Division now does not exceed more than 19,000. In other words, Master Liang's strength accounts for more than half of the Naval Division.
The generals of the other two towns, plus the King Li's Town Biao, ate a total of 6,000 empty salary. However, in the eyes of the military generals, they still didn't dare to eat more, so they could only participate in smuggling, carry private goods, and even a little vicious, just pretended to be pirates and rob the merchant ship.
"I said, brother, you know very well what the situation of land troops in Guangdong is like. The shortage of soldiers is even greater than that of the navy. After 20,000 troops are drawn, the situation in Guangdong is a bit worrying." Liang Pengfei was quickly turning his mind into his head, and on the surface he showed a loyal face for the country.
"There is no way, do you know that those White Lotus gangsters have trapped several strong cities in Hubei, killed two prefectures, and three generals who were ordered to quell the rebellion. Even the generals of Yichang Town, Hubei have been killed in battle. Now, several provinces have become chaotic.
The White Lotus thieves rushed south into Guangxi, conquering Quanzhou, Xing'an, Lingzhou and other counties, and advanced to Guilin. There were also White Lotus thieves in Guilin City, and Guilin Mansion was already in danger. And our Guangdong-Guangxi was originally one, and Guangxi did not have many soldiers, so even if there was no emperor's order, he had to send troops to quell the rebellion." Wang Shouli sighed in a smoke ring and sighed.
When Liang Pengfei heard this, he curled his lips disapprovingly. If the initial uprising of the White Lotus Sect was not beyond his expectations, and what happened later caused the turmoil to develop and spread so quickly, it has to be said that the old guy Qianlong helped a lot.
Because at the beginning of the White Lotus Sect's uprising in Xiangyang, Hubei, Qianlong was afraid that the turmoil caused by the British and foreigners would cause a chain reaction, so he issued a strict order. Anyone who suspected of being a White Lotus Sect's rebellion could be locked and interrogated first. If this is the case, the officials were worried that they could not take more ground. The east wind sent by Qianlong made them cry.
Therefore, the major operation of searching for the White Lotus Counter-Americans in several provinces around the lake began. Although it had to be admitted that some results were achieved, the officials were more eager to make money through this method. So those officials who were a little bit unconscious began to search for the White Lotus Counter-Americans, and they were generally looking for those who were quite wealthy. There was no way to find the pauper and how to collect money?
If you arrest those businessmen or wealthy families and want to be imprisoned, you should take the money first and make the blood vessels of countless people explode. Whether it is the White Lotus Sect or not, they will lose everything or even be stabbed. What else will you do? Wait for you to kill me?
Chapter completed!