In the study of Ye Mingchen of the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Rong Lu smiled and said, "Hu Youlu, Zhu Hongying, He Goujian and others used to fight each other, but they still had the desire to lose their lips and teeth. Now they get together, they will naturally have the intention of annexing others. Moreover, the Heaven and Earth Association has always claimed to be the revival of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Hongying even regarded himself as a descendant of the Ming royal family. Hu Youlu is an old man from the Heaven and Earth Association, but he is close to Luo Dagang, the general under the long-haired thief, the pseudo-Western King, and this time, he changed the flag and changed the flag.

Hu Youlu received the letter from Luo Dagang and made it work together. But He Goujian heard that it was a piece of chess piece placed by the Long Hair Pseudo-East King in Guangxi. This rebel army is mixed with three forces. In fact, it is only necessary to slow down the progress of Governor Lao. The thieves have some relaxed life and will surely cause Xiao Yun and cause internal strife. After the internal strife, it will be much easier to carry out the suppression. But if Governor Lao is too forced, the thieves will definitely be in a group, and it will be difficult to start."

Ye Mingchen smiled with his fat belly and said, "Zhonghua is worthy of being Zhuge again. He has sorted out the main and secondary in just a few words, so that I can clear the clouds and see the sun."

Rong Lu said a few words, and then the two agreed on the details of Xiangyong's dispatch of troops to Guangdong Province. Ye Mingchen was in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he was also the Minister of Commerce of Wukou. In addition, Guangzhou's commerce and trade were prosperous, so Xiangyong's military expenses were borne by Guangdong and Guangxi. At the same time, Rong Lu obtained more franchise rights for several kinds of goods such as tea silk, which was exactly what everyone needed and everyone was happy.

While he was talking, Ye Mingchen's aide came to deliver a document. Ye Mingchen saw it, but when he saw it, he opened it and said in a lost voice: "Wenzhou is lost?!"

Ronglu's expression changed slightly and looked at Li Chong beside him. Both of them thought to themselves: "Is the attack of the long-haired thief so sharp?!"

Ye Mingchen's face was also extremely ugly. After taking a few more glances at the details, he passed the official document to Ronglu for careful reading. He stood up and walked a few irritable steps: "The military power of this pseudo-Western King is so rampant, can Zhonghua have a plan to defeat the enemy?"

Ronglu did not answer. Looking closely at the official document, it turned out that after Li Kaifang's troops in the southern expedition of the West Palace quickly moved south and ignored Chuzhou. Li Tingyu personally took charge of Wenzhou to defend, but Li Kaifang connected with the Red Turban Army leaders of the Southern Zhejiang Tiandihui Red Turban Army, Qu Zhenhan, Jin Peiquan and other forces, and captured Wenzhou within three days. Li Tingyu only led more than a hundred people to break through and escape.

Qu Zhenhan's original name was Zhenhai, with his courtesy name Zhenhuang and his pseudonym Biquan, was a native of Yueqing. He was very knowledgeable about literary meaning and was very powerful. He practiced martial arts with his younger brother Zhenshan, liked to travel, spent money to make friends, and used money to make money as a supervisor. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was on the rise, Qu Zhenhan and others were ready to respond early in the morning. However, at that time, the Western King Xiao Yungui was busy carrying out the new Sufu policy and had no time to send troops to the southern expedition. So he sent Bai Zetang's people to contact Qu Zhenhan and asked them to wait for the Taiping Army to launch an uprising again during the southern expedition.

As early as 1853, when the Taiping Army in the West Palace swept across the south of the Yangtze River, there were many famines in southern Zhejiang and thieves. Later, the Taiping Army captured Ningbo, and Li Tingyu sent troops to guard Wentai. Then the county and towns discussed the group training. Qu Zhenhan and others took the opportunity to set up a training bureau at Xiaoshun Bridge to control the training of the group training in nearby areas, with more than 500 people.

When Li Tingyu was in Wentai, there were many local powerful and wealthy families who set up group training, and even the villages protected themselves. Li Tingyu knew that it was difficult to fight against the Taiping Army by relying solely on the Qing army. Therefore, there were quite a lot of local group training in southern Zhejiang. Li Tingyu had also checked the details of these group training leaders. Qu Zhenhan had no bad record before and had not many soldiers under his command, so he was ignored by Li Tingyu.

Subsequently, Qu Zhenhan obtained the secret support of the Western King. After planning from multiple sources, he expanded his troops to more than 1,500 people, divided into three battalions, five sentries in each battalion, hundreds of sentries, ten sidings in each siding, and ten sidings in each siding. Deputy Commander Ni Tingmo, Zhenhan was also the head general of the central camp.

In history, the Red Turban Army Uprising in southern Zhejiang was actually because someone reported the news, so he had to incite in advance, and failed within a few days. However, this time, the King of Western King sent many experts from Bai Zetang to help. These Bai Zetang people were used to doing these activities, so they have always done a good job of keeping confidentiality. Anyone who came up with the first report was destroyed by Bai Zetang one by one. Therefore, Li Tingyu never knew that there was such an ambush near Wenzhou.

When Li Kaifang's troops headed south, he used thunder to wipe out the nearby regiment training forces. Li Tingyu ordered the surrounding regiment training forces to enter Wenzhou City to prevent these regiment training forces from being wiped out one by one by the Taiping Army. At the same time, it was also considered to add more troops to Wenzhou City. It was just because Li Tingyu's troops who reinforced Taizhou were annihilated and the troops in Wenzhou City were insufficient, so when these regiment training entered the city, Li Tingyu did not make any more identification.

The day after the Taiping Army arrived in Wenzhou, Qu Zhenhan and others immediately started to cause trouble. They wrapped their red scarves on their heads and thought it was different. They attacked the north gate of Wenzhou with Li Kaifang and occupied the north gate. Then, the Taiping Army and the Qing army fought for two days and finally captured Wenzhou.

Wenzhou was originally an important town run by Li Tingyu. Li Tingyu originally thought that he could hold on for ten months, and reinforcements organized by Wang Yide would arrive in Wenzhou in ten months. At the same time, Li Tingyu also asked Jiang Zhongyuan in Jiangxi for help. Although Jiang Zhongyuan and Li Tingyu had some rifts when they rescued Hangzhou, Jiang Zhongyuan was very loyal to the Qing Dynasty and therefore agreed to send troops to rescue. Moreover, Chuzhou was still behind the Taiping Army. Li Tingyu planned to stay in Wenzhou City for a period of time, and wait for all the rescue troops to arrive, imitate the Nanchang Battle to drag down the Taiping Army under the city, and the troops in Chuzhou could also attack from behind, which would severely damage the Taiping Army.

But unexpectedly, Wenzhou fell within three days, and Li Tingyu almost died. In the end, he was spared only and had to retreat to Fujian. Seeing this, the Qing army had to hold on to the army. Chuzhou, who was alone behind the Taiping Army, could not hold on for long, and then opened the city to surrender on the tenth day after the fall of Wenzhou.

After reading the details of the official document, Ronglu pondered: "The long-haired thieves have a fierce attack. I believe that Li Tingyu and Wang Yide from Fujian cannot support much. Looking at Changmao's strategy of advancing troops, they are still good at using the civil thief forces. The anti-stealing forces of the Tiandihui will be accelerated in Guangdong. As for the strategy of pacifying Changmao, the younger generation has no better strategy."

Ye Mingchen sighed lightly and said, "I didn't expect that the long-haired thief would become so prosperous in just a short time. There were thieves in the court and foreigners forced them outside. Zhonghua, if you say something heart-wrenching, is it really going to change?"

Seeing Ye Mingchen a little discouraged, Rong Lu smiled and said, "Taiwan Master, please be content. Although we don't have a better strategy, I think that the more space this hairy occupies, the more stable the Jinling City will be. Once it becomes stable, the inside of the hairy thief will be unstable."

Ye Mingchen said with an Oh, "What do you mean is there a battle between the fake kings of Changhai?"

Rong Lu nodded slightly and said, "Yes. Although Hong Thief called himself the Fake Heavenly King and was the common ruler of several kings, the real power of Changmao Central is in the hands of the Fake East King. Now the Fake West King is in full swing, and it will be a must forbidden by the two thieves Hong and Yang. The Fake West King has now attacked Fujian, the Fake East King is attacking Jiangxi, and the Fake North King is attacking Huai Shang. I hope that once Changmao occupy Huai Shang, Fujian and Jiangxi, there will be no threat of strong enemies in Jinling. The Fake West King will have a great internal strife. Then we can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight."

Ye Mingchen frowned and said, "Will the long-haired pseudo-kings really kill each other?"

Rong Lu said lightly: "Changmao established a country with divine power. The unity of politics and religion, but Hongzhe did not proclaim himself emperor, just for the common rule. The most taboo thing is that the power of politics and religion fell. Yang Zhe was very powerful and slandered, and he entrusted his heavenly father to come to earth. He controlled the power of religion, and used the power of religion to monopolize the major politics. Over time, it would inevitably attract suspicion from Hongzhe. There would definitely be a dragon-tie battle between the two fake kings. At that time, the fake Western King, the fake Northern King, the fake Wing King and other kings would not be able to survive alone. Changmao would definitely be divided into two factions of evil fights. Either the Hong Zhe killed the Yang Zhe, or the Yang Zhe was the dominant one. Anyway, Changmao would definitely be a serious injury to his vitality at that time."

Hearing this, Ye Mingchen cheered up a little and smiled bitterly: "I hope it's as Zhonghua said."

After the two of them talked about some political affairs. Seeing that it was almost evening, Ye Mingchen ordered a banquet to welcome Ronglu. During the meal, a group of civil and military officials from Guangzhou came to accompany him. Although Ronglu was only a general at the moment, he was appointed as the general. He did not seem to be a small official at the table. In addition, he was Zeng Guofan's son-in-law and a loyal descendant in the court. He was also a popular person summoned by Emperor Xianfeng. Therefore, Guangzhou officials also wanted to make friends, so Ronglu received a lot of gifts.

After drinking and eating, everyone dispersed, Ronglu stood up and said goodbye. Ye Mingchen pulled Ronglu and wanted him to rest in his house, but Ronglu wanted to take the opportunity to check some business matters here, so he politely declined.

After leaving the Governor's Office, Ronglu ordered his subordinates to send the gift back to the foreign business, and he and Li Chong took a few personal guards to the Thirteen Foreign Business.

The Thirteen Foreign Company has already existed. It is adjacent to the wharf of Guangzhou City. After the Jiangning Treaty was signed, Guangzhou was officially opened. Foreign merchants from all over the world clearly saw that the Eastern power with a population of 400 million contains unlimited business opportunities. Guangzhou is the southernmost bridgehead to enter the Chinese market and an old place in the trading circle with China. They rushed like bees smelling nectar, expanding shopping malls, setting up foreign businesses, building roads, and repairing warehouses on the Pearl River. At this time, the Thirteen Foreign Company became more prosperous than before.

Although it was already night, the Pearl River was still brightly lit and crowded, and many ships were still unloading and loading goods. Ronglu looked at it and felt that this place was more luxuriant than when he came last time. It was commercial trade that made the changes on the Pearl River change with each passing day.

I saw that some large and large docks and cargo warehouses in this area had not yet been completed, but they had already shown a row of trends. The docks were one by one, and each dock could dock cross-sea ships with a load of more than 1,000 tons. Behind the dock were rows of neatly arranged large houses, which were transporting thousands of tons of cargo every day. Several docks operated by Chinese merchants could only dock flat-bottomed boats and ferries carrying hundreds of stones of cargo. Compared with the Yang wharf, these docks were like mounds connected by mountains, small and cold.

The docks are filled with raw silk, white silk, yellow silk, kapok, tea, porcelain, antiques, and bulk foreign cloth, iron, nails, wax, glass, hardware and coal that are about to be sold inland. People can see foreigners with high nose, blue eyes and strange clothes, as well as Indians, Manilians and blacks employed by them everywhere near the docks and warehouses. If it weren't for the group of coolies carrying large items next to the foreign ship, people would inevitably ask if this was China's land.

Entering the Thirteen Street Block at night, there are shops on both sides of the left and right, and the shops are still brightly lit, and foreigners come in and out of the room from time to time. The weather in Guangzhou is still very warm at night, so Guangzhou is still very lively at night.

Since the Kangxi period, Shisanxing Street has been a concentrated place for foreign trade. In the past, only Guangzhou Shisanxing can trade with foreign trade, so there are many foreigners here, so the architectural styles here are mostly Western styles. Walking in the middle, Ronglu feels like returning to the modern era.

The first thirteen companies were public businesses that Pan Zhencheng, including nine foreign merchants, requested to the government during the Qianlong period. The bank had the functions of both officials and businessmen. The bank had the obligations of underwriting and paying foreign ship cargo taxes, regulating etiquettes, conveying government orders, delivering foreign business documents, and managing foreign merchant ship personnel, and playing an intermediary role in negotiations between the Qing government and foreign merchants. On the other hand, the thirteen companies enjoyed the privilege of foreign trade, and all import and export merchant goods must be bought and sold through it. The "Jiangning Treaty" stipulated that the opening of five ports of trade has now abolished the privilege of foreign trade. Although the real thirteen companies have declined, the thirteen companies have become more prosperous and still flourished.

When he came to the entrance of a Western restaurant, Ronglu looked up and saw that it was a distinct Western-style Baroque building with a round roof and many columns, which produced various changes of light and dark under different lights. The color was also very bold, with red and white as the main tones. What is more noteworthy is that the windows are not only of many styles, but also present wavy curves, making the entire building full of vitality. The signboard reads a large French word "French Restaurant".

Rong Lu smiled faintly and said to Li Chong: "Let's go in and have a foreign meat." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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