Su Wenying couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"According to the fact that the Qing army has not arrived for a long time, Your Highness should be very worried. He must first explain the movements of the Qing army. Why do you have to report the situation of other strongholds first?"

"Even if there are any problems with other strongholds, they will not be defeated with the support of our country's firepower, and they will not lose their strongholds. This can be seen from the performance of the Dutch in South Africa"

"The current focus is on the island of Hong Kong. Is it true that the Qing people didn't care about losing a mere island, as everyone guessed? No, definitely not"

Sure enough, Timur was listening to Suha's report and did not immediately want to hear the Qing army's movements, but asked again: "A few people have been arranged to lurk on the mainland now?"

"Three people, one in Xin'an County, one in Guangzhou Wharf, and one in Foshan"

"Who are they?"

"One is a Mongolian, one is a Manchu, and the other is a Han Chinese. They can speak fluent Chinese and receive half a year of Cantonese training in Hongji Port in Bangladesh, Singapore, and Hongji Port"

"The leader is Omubu, the person in Guangzhou is Hatu, and the person in Foshan is Zhou Jixun"

Timur nodded.

Ombu is a Turkish man with a strong root and will never betray Truqin. Hatu is a surrendered flagman. He is the oldest and is in his thirties this year. However, he has been performing well in the Intelligence Bureau.

Like Suha, he is not an old Manchurian, but a Xibe, and is considered a new Manchurian.

And it was sent to the northwest of New Manchuria. Such people did not enjoy much of the benefits of the Qing Dynasty. They were simply a higher status.

Zhou Jixun is the actors behind those actors. Among them, the Su family (represented by Su Wenyu) and the Shen family (represented by Shen Muhua) are shining, but obviously not all actors can get the beggar tower afterwards.

After all, the few who can be favored by virtue are the ones he likes.

The Zhou family can only be considered an ordinary family. It would be good to have someone like Zhou Jixun stand out.

"What are they entering there?"

"They have been carefully designed. Now the Qing Dynasty has heavy taxes and taxes. The trade near the Pearl River Estuary centered on Guangzhou is booming. Many people in the mountainous areas in northern Guangdong simply abandoned their fields and came here to make a living."

"Yimubu disguised himself as a handyman from Jiayingzhou. He first used penicillin to save a kiln maker in the northern mountainous area of ​​Huizhou who was on the verge of death who also went to Xin'an County to seek survival, and successfully became his adopted son.

The population control is very relaxed, and there is no problem with the kilnmaker's cover"

"In Nanhai County, there are a large number of workshops, shops and gangs in Panyu County. Zhou Jixun disguised himself as a martial artist from the north and mingled into a small gang. Of course, by chance, he happened to rescue a gang and was rescued by other gangs.

The little gang leader who was hunting down"

"Zhou Jixun learned the fighting skills taught by His Majesty himself, and was good at sword skills, so he was immediately favored by the gang"

"As for Hatu, he is both brave and very intelligent, familiar with the lives of the Qing people, especially noble people. There are a large number of sacred households and a large number of pleasure boats in the Guangzhou Wharf area, which is actually a brothel. Hatu is dressed as a dress.

The northerner who was in trouble and met a top player as a client"

"In the end, he became the bodyguard and turtle man who was one of the best pleasure boats outside Guangzhou City"

The words made everyone laugh. While laughing, they were secretly impressed by the intelligence agencies.

Timur laughed too.

"Okay, let's talk about the movements of the Qing people next"

"Yes. Through the intelligence personnel arranged in three places, especially Hatu, we finally got the exact news"

"It turned out that when the Guangzhou government sent the news to Beijing in an urgent manner of 800 miles, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty went down to Jiangnan. This action was kept confidential, and only a few people knew that the people in the capital had received news from Guangdong.

After hesitating for a while, he finally asked the people in the palace to send a quick horse to Jiangnan to report first”

"After the emperor's permission, people from Guangdong were allowed to go there. This trip has been gone for at least two months."

"And the emperor was frightened after learning that our country had invaded its territory by sea, and fell ill on the way back to Beijing. He was already better on the road, but when he arrived in Beijing, he became more serious and was drowsy all day long and could not

Handle this very well”

"There have been two months since then. Of course, the most important thing is that there is no further action in our country in the past two months. When his illness is completely cured, it will be January."

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"When he learned that our country did not invade the mainland in large quantities, he summoned the ministers to discuss it. However, this time they did a good job of keeping confidentiality, but we still found clues"

"Oh?"

"A news was obtained from merchants from Guangzhou who came to Jiangnan. Since our country occupied Hong Kong Island, it did not rob the Qing merchant ships that were coming and going like pirates. These merchants just lie dormant for a short time and went south one after another.

"

"This is because the largest piece of goods in Guangzhou is raw silk, and the Jiangnan area is the most produced place. They must come here, otherwise they will be finished if they are pressed in their hands."

"These people saw calm after arriving in Guangzhou, and naturally they would go to the pleasure boat outside the city to play, and naturally they were discovered by Hatu"

"According to his words, just a month ago, a large number of naval ships continued to go south to the Songhu area, and they were still gathering together. Look at the flags, including Zhili, Shandong, and the Yangtze River."

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Timur's expression frightened, "Tell me what you think"

Suha nodded, "It's early March now, and the north wind season is about to end in mid-April. If the Qing Navy wants to move south smoothly, it will be in the last month, otherwise it will be the wind to move south."

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"They obviously know that it is not possible to attack our fleet with a loose formation. They must risk all ships being destroyed in the sudden and before they can get close to our fleet to have a chance of victory."

"If it was still the south wind season, they would need to carry out wind operations outside the sea, so the situation of the ship fleet would inevitably disperse, which would have no impact on our fleet."

"As for those on land, they did not make any moves, but not long ago, Guangdong and Guangxi suddenly launched an expansion operation, especially the Pearl River Delta area is expanding its troops, and it is said that all of them are supported by taxes from 13 companies."

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"Obviously, they will not mobilize troops from other places, but will rely solely on Guangdong and Guangxi's own troops, and at most, the nearby Huguang and Jiangxi will also expand their troops"

"The focus of expansion is obviously in Guangdong. According to the information sent back by Hatu, there was originally a general in Guangzhou, Huizhou, and Zhaoqing Prefecture, with two subordinate generals, with a total force of about 10,000, and now they are about to expand.

to triple”

"That is to say, every mansion costs tens of thousands, and ordinary people obviously do not want to join the army, so they went into exile to the kilns, mines, and commercial areas where they were arrested, and Omubu was also arrested. Of course,

This is what we hope for”

"Which Zhou Jixun from Foshan joined the company actively. As for Hatu, since he still had to communicate, he continued to work on the pleasure boat"

"A message came from him yesterday"

"Oh?"

"It is said that the Thirteenth League jointly provided three million taels of silver to the government for the expansion of the Guangzhou Prefecture, Zhaoqing Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture, while the expansion of the other prefectures in Guangdong was provided by the Zhou family of the same literary store.

Two"

Everyone couldn't help but gasp.

"Good, these businesses are so rich?"

Timur sneered, "It's not just about paying money, but the court must have a good official title."

"Yes, Your Highness is as wise as a torch. Now the Thirteen ranks have all obtained virtual official positions of fifth rank or above. If there is a shortage of the family, the youngest is also a prefect, and the highest one has also obtained a high position like the Right Governor, ten

Each of the two families can have a quota for Juren. As for the Zhou family, Pan Youwei has been awarded the title of Jinshi by the emperor and can also walk in the Hanlin Academy.”

Timur nodded, "So, in addition to these three prefectures, there are Chaozhou Prefecture, Shaozhou Prefecture, Gaozhou Prefecture, Leizhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture, and eight prefectures in total. If each prefecture is based on the plan of 10,000 soldiers,

This is the army of 80,000”

"As for the newly expanded sturdy men, they obviously came as cannon fodder, otherwise they would only have one month of training, what can they do?"

"But there are still 30,000 Green Camp soldiers in Guangdong, which is their last strength. With the large number of ships on Shanghai, it seems that although it is not a huge force, it is still a very large force."

"However, just relying on this little force, I want to defeat our country?"

"For our country, from now on, patrol patrols will increase from one to two, and the patrol waters will also expand outward by 100 miles"

"Your Highness", Deng Quan inserted, "Since that's the case, we don't have to be polite. Why not send a squadron to sweep north to sweep away their coastal naval ships in Fujian and Zhejiang"

Timur thought about it but shook his head.

"Forget it, it is said that Fujian and Zhejiang's coastal coastline are very tortuous, with islands and reefs everywhere. If they are caught, it will be bad. Besides, we are just trying to attract all their vitality to the attention of here.

Confidence”

Deng Quan smiled and said, "The Ministry of Justice is naturally confident. Since Your Highness said that, the Ministry of Justice has nothing else to say."

....

After the meeting, Deng Quan, Zhuang Jiyun and other military generals all went to their own way, but Su Wenying and Su Leiman were still staying in Timur's mansion.

Su Wenying is Su Wenyu's younger brother, and Suleiman is Jeddah's younger brother. They are both independent in one aspect. Truqin is a noble child. He can come here with Timur's hard work. Obviously, he begged.

Tade is also optimistic about them.

Among them, although Su Wenying is a military doctor, she also has a lot of experience in government affairs, and Suleiman has been training in the Ministry of Works.

After the three of them chatted for a while, Timur suddenly said, "How?"

Su Wenying said: "If the vocational department guessed well, we must have spies inside."

Suleiman nodded, "Not to mention this time, it was the last time when Hongji Port was involved. European merchant ships suddenly gathered together to move south. It must have been a cover for the Qing army, but they also need to know Hongji Port.

Specific situations, such as military geometry, where are the ships cruising overseas generally located?”

"There are two Batulus who are going to escort our cargo ships. Such things are not something that Pan family stores can get."
Chapter completed!