While apologizing for the court, Zhao Guozuo also sent people to Shandong and urgently recruited Zhejiang governor Zhou Peigong to return to Hangzhou for discussion.

The title of this governor was awarded to Zhou Peigong by Zhao Guozuo before the last negotiation between Hangzhou and Sichuan Army. After the successful resolution, although Governor Zhao did not cross the river and demolished the bridge, he also felt that Zhou Pei was not very useful, so he did not keep him in Hangzhou for too long, nor did he further win over and bribe Zhou Gonggong. Now that he is in trouble, Zhao Guozuo was in a hurry and thought of the Deng Ming issue expert at the time of the battle. Moreover, what happened in Shandong was somewhat similar to the problems encountered by Governor Zhao now.

After sending the official document, Zhao Guozuo was also very uneasy, fearing that Zhou Peigui would not come to Hangzhou to serve with resentment; but Zhou Peigong's belly was far beyond Zhao Guozuo's imagination. At the first moment, he replied to Hangzhou through the Jinan post station system, saying that his recruitment in Jiaodong was successful, and he would immediately set off back to Hangzhou to solve the problems of the Zhejiang Governor.

On May 25, after learning that Zhou Peigong had a few followers rushed into the Hangzhou gate, the uneasy Zhao Guozuo and Songkui fell into the ground. Like Nanjing back then, Governor Zhao ordered the opening of the central gate of the Governor's Office, and all officials from Zhejiang collectively went out to welcome the Zhou Grand Administrator. The latter had just been recommended as the Shandong Administrator by Shandong Governor Zu Zepu. Now he has the title of governor of six provinces and has definitely the status of competing with Zhao Guozuo.

Despite this, Zhou Peigong still paid homage to the Governor at the following week. He was also very polite when facing Hangzhou General Song Kui. Hangzhou civil and military officials secretly praised him, believing that Zhou Peigong was modest and virtuous, and was an outstanding figure among the younger generation of the Qing Dynasty.

During the period when waiting for Zhou Peigong to return, Hangzhou and Beijing had two official documents exchanges. At first, the regent minister Oboi was obviously furious and threatened to let Zhao Guozuo and Songkui go to the northern border to leverage corn. He insisted on thoroughly investigating the Ming Dynasty case and never compromised with Zhuang Yuncheng and Zhu Youming's attack on the terrorist group headed by Zhuang Yuncheng. However, after Zhao Guozuo further reported on the sinister situation in Zhejiang, the regent minister's attitude also softened. The second reply sent back the day before yesterday implied that Zhao Guozuo could first use a slow-down strategy to stabilize Zhuang Yuncheng group, and settle the accounts after the situation changed - just like Shandong's way of treating the gentry of Jiaodong.

"The Minister of the Auxiliary agreed that we would equip the Green Camp with some firearms, but it was limited to tiger squat cannons and three-eyed guns. Bird guns are not allowed to be provided to the Green Camp." After reading Oboi's second instruction to Zhou Peigong, the governor of Zhejiang said helplessly: "But the three-eyed gun is also a firearm after all, and it is better than nothing."

As for the governor-general camp, which also belongs to the Green Camp, Oboi did not firmly prohibit the use of bird guns. In Deng Ming's previous life, before and after the Three Feudal Rebellion, the Qing court's ban on firearms was gradually relaxed. However, in this world, in Sony and Oboi's eyes, these banned officials were much more unreliable. The Han armed forces of the Green Camp still had a great threat to the Qing court, so Beijing had more concerns.

"The key to the problem is not Beijing, but Chengdu." After carefully reading various reports of the Zhejiang Incident, Zhou Peigong pointed out incisively: "Whether Zhuang Yuncheng and others can be allowed to accept the recruitment, the key is whether the officers and soldiers can ensure that their weapons and equipment are not behind too many rebellions. Zhuang Yuncheng and others must realize that if they do not accept the recruitment, they will have to pay a huge price, so that they can force them to give up besieging the county town and sit down to negotiate with the government. If the officers and soldiers want to be able to confront the rebellion, there are no other two ways. One is to let the Duke Baoguo stop selling rifles to the rebellion."

Now Beijing may still believe that the rebels used bird guns, but Hangzhou has realized that they have a more powerful weapon. The name is clear, called the "Flintlock Rifle". After two to three months of training, Zhuang Ding, a guardian, could kill the powerful generals of the court.

Zhou Peigong's words made Zhao Guozuo and Songkui nodded repeatedly. They were indeed experts of Deng Ming's problem. After only one hour of entering the city, the countermeasures coincided with the conclusions drawn by Hangzhou's research for a month. However, the governor of Zhejiang and the general of Hangzhou began to shake their heads. If things were so easy, it would be simple. The consul sent by Deng Ming was very tough and did not agree to stop the arms sales to Zhuang Yuncheng Group.

"This road may not be able to go through, what about the other one?" Zhao Guozuo asked. After hearing Zhou Peigong's words, he realized that in addition to this unlikely plan A, the other party also had a backup plan B - the intelligence of Zhou governor was so high that he looked down on the world.

"That is, we also bought rifles from Baoguo Gong to equip the green camp. Now the court has agreed to us to produce tiger squat cannons. As long as the officers and soldiers also equipped rifles and tiger squat cannons in large quantities, Zhuang Yuncheng's advantages will be gone, and he has to sit down and discuss the conditions for recruitment with us." Zhou Peigong said confidently. Seeing that Zhao Guozuo and Songkui were both embarrassed, Zhou Peigong made the statement clear: "If you cannot recruit Zhuang Yuncheng, or if you cannot recruit Zhuang Yuncheng with a reasonable clause, the Governor General

The generals and generals must be punished by the court and exiled to Ningguta. Then the court will change people to Zhejiang, but can the new people solve the problem? Can they do better than the governor and generals? Obviously not! In the end, their solution must be to buy rifles from the Duke Baoguo and then recruit Zhuang Yuncheng. Sooner or later the court will agree. For the court, this is not different. Instead, it delays the time for the problem to be resolved, and also leads to the injustice of the governor and generals."

Of course, Zhao Guozuo and Songkui would not think that others would perform better than themselves in the face of this problem. Zhou Peigong said it very reasonably. If later people use this method to solve the problem in the end, then it would be too unfair to be exiled to Ningguta. Instead of being unlucky for later people to sell the country, it would be better to sell it yourself. Selling it as soon as possible can preserve more vitality for the country.

This reason can well relieve Songkui as the Taijun of Manzhou and Zhao Guozuo as the godson of the Eight Banners of Han, but the court still cannot avoid it. If they use firearms to arm the green camp despite Oboi's ban, even if they successfully recruit Zhuang Yuncheng Group, they would probably have to face the anger of the court.

Seeing that the two were already moved but could not make up their minds, Zhou Peigong asked all his irrelevant staff to go out, and even the guards rushed out of the door, then lowered his voice and said to the two: "Governor General, General! If there is a little misunderstanding between Zhejiang and the court, do you think Baoguogong may remain neutral? It is similar to Baoguogong's neutrality in the conflict between us and Zhuang Yuncheng?"

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Beijing,

Oboi has been in a very bad mood recently. The court held his nose to admit the Jiaodong incident. Now Zhejiang is in trouble again. The mastermind behind the scenes is undoubtedly the unconventional Deng Ming. He has blatantly destroyed the unspoken rules for fighting for the world. In order not to allow the Qing Dynasty to get the world, he actually armed the landlords and powerful people regardless of the consequences. Zhao Guozuo and Songkui seem to be unable to hold on anymore and want to use firearms to arm the Green Camp. Do they still have basic thinking ability? If the Green Camp becomes so powerful, how can the deterrence of the Manchu soldiers be maintained?

If a country is about to perish, there will be evil spirits.

In addition to the monsters like Jiaodong and Huzhou, there was something wrong with Liaodong. A few days ago, Liaodong came to report that some Westerners attacked Ningyuan - who knows what the ghosts were thinking about? Since the Qing army entered the pass, almost all the Manchus in Liaodong moved to the flower world inside the pass, and the bitter and cold land in Liaodong was abandoned. Ningyuan, the former important town of the Ming Dynasty, is now just a station connecting Beijing and Shengjing, with only dozens of coat slaves. What is there to rob the ghost place?

Ningyuan's strange thing did not cause any major storm in Beijing. If an inn was robbed, it would be robbed. When the Qing court, who received the news for a long time, sent people to clear the post road, the ghosts and barbarians had retreated, and the losses seemed not great - it was impossible that it was very large, there were only some post horses in it. Anyway, the communication with Shengjing was not very important, and now it has been recovered in time, so Beijing no longer cared about this matter. The most important thing now is the chaos in Zhejiang. As long as there is something unrelated to Zhejiang, the ministers of the regent will not spend any effort to pay attention to it. In other words, the Empress Dowager asked a few more questions about the concern for Manchuria. After getting the irrelevant guarantee of this matter from the three regents, he felt relieved. The ghosts who had been to Ningyuan and saw that the place was so poor, probably wouldn't go there again.

Oboi, Sony and Suksaha discussed it and believed that if necessary, they could also slow down some weapons restrictions on Green Shadow. After suppressing Zhuang Yuncheng, the powerful man, they might not be able to recover their firearms.

...

Huzhou, the dealer's courtyard.

An Lesi, who disappeared in February, appeared again. Zhuang Yuncheng introduced him to gentry leaders from all over Zhejiang. There were two British people with high noses who appeared together with An Lesi. They were pirates wanted by the Batavian Parliament and had a superior performance. The British ship owner and his first mate were chased by the Dutch and had nowhere to hide in Nanyang, so they came to Zhoushan to repair the ship and replenish the supplies. As a result, when Chongming collected information on Dutch porcelain merchants, he was recruited by An Lesi and hired to go to Liaodong for a trip at the cost of two thousand taels of silver.

This trip to Liaodong was a new starting point for An Lesi's career development, marking his growth from an arms smuggler to a multinational arms tycoon.
Chapter completed!