.In July 1857, despite the scorching sun, there were still crowds of people on the ferry outside Shaozhou City, Guangdong Province. Ships scattered on the water, and small fish slid across the muzzles under the turrets on the shore, traveling between large cargo ships and naval gunboats. Because the waterway connects Hunan and Jiangxi, it is not only a military center, but also a commercial center. Commodities smuggled or properly transported are distributed here, so they are naturally prosperous.

In front of the civil aviation steam steamer of the Hesheng Transportation Hall in front of the ferry, merchants and travelers heading to Fogang Hall and Guangzhou Prefecture lined up in front of the boarding pedal, and the queues slowly squirmed forward in the scorching sun.

The people who were queuing helplessly glanced at the sun on their heads and covered their heads with wraps or fans. When they were hoping that the team would be quicker, there was a quarrel in front of the pedal. Everyone stretched their necks and leaned forward, hoping that something would disperse the hot pain.

Two people were arguing in front of the pedal ticket checkout. One was a young man with short hair on the ticket checkout. He was wearing a small vest, shirtless, and a shabby style hanging bag hanging around his neck. He was holding a ticket stub in his hand. He was yelling impatiently: "You can't go up without a ticket, go there to buy tickets!"

The one who quarreled with him was a middle-aged man dressed in a conspicuous manner. He wore a red turban, a Chinese robe and straw sandals, but this was not a conspicuous reason. The conspicuous reason was that his hair grew to the waist of his back.

Since Zhao Kuo issued the hair shaving order, because the imperial court took the lead, it has more and more short hair, and long hair is not encouraged to keep Qing braids. It would be better to wear a braid in a hot area like Guangdong. If the hair is spread apart and not shave it off, wouldn’t it be like wearing a shawl on your head, which is so hot?

This is the case with this big man carrying a package on his back and his hair is so long. He floats all over the place during a quarrel, which is particularly eye-catching. His name is: "Who's family pays for money before boarding the boat? Will I give you different things after boarding the boat? I won't give you money!"

"You give me the money and I'll let you get on the boat? I want it!" The ticket inspector said angrily: "But if you don't buy tickets, I'll put you on it. The boss won't cut my hands? We can't touch the money! This is a big company, not a small boat. Go and go out of the team, don't buy tickets and go to the south to take a wooden boat. Next."

As the guy said that, as soon as he looked, two big men next to him came over and pulled the long hair out of the team, "What a weird rule?! I'm not not giving money!" The man shouted and pushed and pulled his man hard, and the three of them pushed in front.

"Oh, big brother! Big brother!" Seeing that the three of them were about to fight, a young man with flat head jumped out of the queue and walked forward. His two naturally curved eyes seemed to be laughing at all times, wearing tight jackets, waving a red turban in his hand to fan himself, the other man was carrying two wine bottles, but with a spear on his back. The three were separated.

"Brother, from Taiping Army?" The young man pulled his fist and squeezed his long hair tightly, and said with a smile.

"Yes! Are you too? Are you?" Seeing that the other party had a red turban in his hand, the long-haired man screamed in surprise. But when he saw that the other party had a small flat head and a foreign gun, he was stunned again.

Seeing that the other party was carrying a gun, the two security guards also tactfully let go, turned around and walked back, saying, "Are you a sheriff or an officer? Please tell this person."

"I look familiar to you. Are you the big fish brother in Yangping Town, Fogang?" The young man looked at the long-haired man and said carefully.

"Big Fish is my nickname!" The long-haired man was stunned and asked in surprise: "What are you?" Mobile phone visit: wàp.

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"I'm yellow-haired! You don't recognize me anymore? No wonder. When you left the ground, I was only 14 years old. Now I'm 24 years old!"

"The third boy from Uncle Li in the East Head?! Haha. It's you! They are so big!" Dayu held the yellow-haired arm in surprise. Tears couldn't help but flow: "I've been away from home for ten years!"

The steamer, which was roaring in black smoke, slashed the wind and waves. On the bumpy boat, two soldiers wearing red turbans, wearing red turbans, sat shoulder to shoulder on the floor of the lower cabin. This was the cheapest boat ticket, without even a stool. The poor people squatted or sat on the ground, enduring the smell of sweat and seasickness and vomiting in the air, while the two red turban soldiers leaned against the bulkhead and talked about their experiences over the years.

Laoyu left home to survive during the famine in Lingnan, and followed Luo Yawang, the boss of the triad association who was robbing the rich and helping the poor, and was extremely fierce. It was Luo Dagang, the "King of Fen" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Two years later, they revolted, but failed. The Qing Yao was so anxious that they ran to Guangxi, believed in God, and joined the worship of God. Then, the old fish of the Guangdong triad association became a soldier of the Taiping Army. He followed the Heavenly King, the King of Dong and Luo Dagang to fight all the way south and north, and was still guarding Anhui in 1856.

Unexpectedly, the Wing King could no longer bear it and escaped from Tianjing. He waved his hand to summon 100,000 soldiers including Lao Yu, preparing to split and escape from the gray little paradise with shattered faith.

Shi Dakai ignored Qing Yao's surrender; the question is where this sad army is going?

The Northern Expedition had no logistics or gang support; the Western Expedition had to face the fierce attack of the mortal enemy Hunan Army, so it could only go south, but the road to the south was blocked by Hai Song. At first, Shi Dakai wanted to enter Fujian by attacking Jiangsu and Zhejiang, relying on Hai Song;

However, the Wing King, known as the Victory Land, discovered that once he splits from Tianjing, the God of Victory will leave him.

The Wing King was good at using troops by mobile, mobilizing Qing troops, tearing the enemy apart, and looking for opportunities to win. However, the more this kind of fighting style, the more solid and reliable base is needed. Without Tianjing as a support base, mobile has become an absolute bandit.

In the past, when attacking the city, the Wing King could attack fiercely while waiting for the enemy to come to help, and then besiege the city to attack reinforcements. When the reinforcements are finished, the city will naturally surrender. But now if the attack cannot be carried out, he is worried that he will be attacked from both sides, because this army has no home.

The morale of the lonely army, trapped in confusion and fear, was extremely low, and could not defeat the city, and the Qing army could not defeat the field, but Shi Dakai began to defeat repeatedly.

Not only were the soldiers weak, but the generals were the same. Huang Dashun, a general under the Wing King, secretly took 30,000 Jiangsu soldiers to leave Wing King and returned to Tianjing. Wing King was even more powerless;

Hai Song suddenly made a big move. The elite crusaders were transferred into the Yangtze River War Zone. In the name of asking for explanations for the Eastern King, they led the navy of the Sun and Moon Army to attack Anqing, an important Anhui town of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Even before the Tianjing Incident, Anhui's strength may not be able to stop heavy artillery, foreign guns, and steamer armed forces of the Song army. Now the strength of Anqing is even weaker. Within a few days, Anqing fell into Hai Song's hands. Tianjing could only send envoys to seek peace and bow to this former vassal state.

The fall of Anqing is equivalent to blocking Shi Dakai's lonely army into a palm-sized space in the southeast. Shi Dakai either returns to Tianjing to be an otaku, or accepts Hai Song's conditions to be an otaku. Or fight to the death in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where foreigners and Qing army jointly protect the joint protection of foreigners and Qing army.

Shi Dakai had no choice. He would never want to see him, who killed all his family, and chose to lead his army into the sea Song.

Lao Yu talked in a leisurely manner, talking about his experiences over the past ten years, sometimes excited, sometimes excited, sometimes tragic, sometimes helpless, and sometimes sad.

Finally, Lao Yu curled his lips disdainfully and said, "Now your Song Dynasty is powerful, I forgot who raised you back then. Our Wing King is equivalent to having no choice. Your pockmarked envoy said it nicely. But if he doesn't accept your conditions, Dou Wenjian, the young general in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, might hit us immediately. You don't believe that the Heavenly King and the East King are gods at all!"

"Brother Lao Yu, don't you guys, you're all brothers." Huang Mao was a little proud, but immediately asked, "You are also a commander of the throne, equivalent to a company commander like me. What are you going to do when you come back? Why did our Song Dynasty court tell you? There must be rewards, right?"

"What reward is there?!" Lao Yu snorted coldly: "I don't know, the great officials. After we soldiers came into the Song Dynasty, we would have a fewer people after walking for a while. They were all dispersed, and locals disbanded on the spot, and outsiders and homeless people were sent to some places. They also said that they would stay anytime after half a year."

"What kind of scene?" Huangmao asked in confusion.

"We asked us to choose many factories. I remember that the largest ones are Pingxiang Coal Mine and Qiongzhou's marine iron mine. There are 20,000 or 30,000 homeless Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hunanese. They said that they would buy land and build houses directly when they go home for half a year! Nonsense! When we were in Tianjing, we were still in the army of Shengku. How could motherland do despicable work for merchants?" Lao Yu said angrily: "Anyway, if I don't go, I will go home first! I entered the kingdom of heaven from the Sanhehui. I burned my ancestral home when I was in the army, and my whole family joined the army. My mother is still here!"

"I know that Pingxiang Coal Mine will not go, I don't want to go, I have some money, but *** is too tired. I will almost be exhausted after working for half a year." Huang Mao smiled and said, "And that place is harassed by the Hunan Army from time to time, and there is no big war. The small war is constantly. While digging underground, I have to fight with guns at all times. There is an emperor where the army will give shares to the army officials. Of course, the army will throw you warriors to the place; but Qiongzhou iron mine is even more terrifying. It is not only on a deserted island, but also the naval officials are invested in, and it is managed and operated by unscrupulous merchants and foreigners. The miners are worse than the Qing Dynasty. It seems like exile as a slave to go there, which is not worth it."

Speaking of this, Huangmao asked, "That's it, you 670,000 people are equivalent to being dismissed. How much money do you take?"

"Just ten taels! There are even fewer soldiers!" Lao Yu gritted his teeth and sneered: "When our Wing King led us into Jiangxi, we said that your Song Dynasty agreed to continue to lead us to kill Qing Yao. Who would have thought that as soon as we entered Jiangxi, we would immediately take away the Wing King and the generals, and we would disband our soldiers on the spot! We didn't even let us take our weapons! What's your mind? Do you keep your word? I have a life and fought Qing Yao for ten years, but I didn't let us kill him??? Is Zhao Ziwei from Qing Yao???"

"Small sound! Small sound!" Huangmao looked at the boat full of people and cast a terrifying look at him. While quickly stopping Brother Big Fish's angry roar, she apologized to everyone: "It's too hot, my brother is so hot."

After saying that, he looked at Big Fish Brother, whose chest was so angry that his chest was undulating, and his yellow-haired eyes were bent, as if he was laughing, but he sighed and said, "Brother, you are at least from the Taiping Army and a foreign friendly army. Brothers, I am from the Sun and Moon Army, and they were all disbanded. Back then, I was a runner-up in Foshan Restaurant. When the boss ran over, I ran into the kitchen and picked up a kitchen knife and went to the yamen to chop the demon dog officials with the brothers of Foshan Tiandihui. Then, he carried the spear robbed in the yamen, stared at the bird guns and stones in the Qingde Earth, stepped on the ladder, stepped on the top of Guangzhou City, and welcomed the emperor into the city; then he followed General Zhu Qingzheng to fight Ganzhou, recover Nanchang, and killed him step by step from Jiangxi. But now? Ha. I have been dismissed!"

"Brother, you feel uncomfortable, too?" asked Dayu.

"Absolutely, although we have seen the power of the Royal Army, if we can have their artillery fire, we can also drive the Hunan Army like a rabbit." Huangmao gritted her teeth and said, "I'm not convinced."

After the power-up incident, Dou Wenjian quickly led the Crusaders into Jiangxi to take over the war between the Sun and Moon Army. Of course, he would not slash and kill the Sun and Moon Army that Zhu Qingzheng had pulled up as soon as he came up. He first set his authority on these earth-sucking gun teams that were not even military uniforms---let you see why you don’t need to join the army anymore.

Dou Wenjian attacked the Hunan Army. The Hunan Army was fighting against the Tujiu Team not long ago. Because of its poor skills, Zhu Qingzheng used cavalry to break it once, and suffered heavy losses. This time he replaced it with a more ruthless Crusader.

The Crusaders no longer need a crab formation. This has been in Guangxi, Yunnan, Annan, and Zhoushan. Not only did the foreign gun team have rich combat experience, but the equipment also produced a texture leap when they left Jiangxi.

When they met, they used artillery more than ten times more firepower than the opponent and powered the Hunan Army into a sieve, and the infantry fired several times. The Hunan Army was finished immediately, and the Hunan Army defended the basement, and all the artillery bombed for half an hour or an hour. Then the Crusaders stepped on the ruins to check if there were still living people who had not run away or were not killed. Facing the opponent's terrible firepower, the Hunan Army fell into a dilemma of death when they were killed, and guarding the basement was waiting for death.

But Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang had no choice but to fight the Crusaders. In addition to morale, training and weapons and equipment, they were just burning money.

This era was the era of military revolution. Fierce and fiercer weapons were constantly invented by foreigners. The Crusaders were not only used, but their boss Zhao Kuo could afford them, which was richer than the Hunan Army.

He has been smuggling opium, and business has become developed. Annan pays compensation and the great powers have loaned him, allowing Zhao Kuo to equip his direct descendants with more powerful cannons, allowing his officers to transfer dozens of cannons at any time to blast them for an hour. The shells are as valuable as stones.

The Hunan Army can't afford to face such a ruthless opponent.

The Hunan Army mainly relies on financial resources, which means trading and transporting local taxes in its own country. Now I wish I could put a tax card every few miles on the waterway, and a box of matches in Haisong for 1 cent. If I didn't smuggle, I had to sell half a tael of silver to make a return when I arrived in Changsha. All the extra money was taken to the Hunan Army to raise soldiers.

But this money is far worse than Hai Song Sansheng. Not long after fighting with Dou Wenjian, the Hunan Army found that its soldier Enfield rifle was broken and no new gun was used, so they had to use brown besie instead. Later, even bows and arrows came up. A soldier used to be equipped with 60 rounds of paper ammunition, which was later reduced to 40. Later, it was reduced to 20 rounds of cannons. Not only were the cannons not as far as the other party, but the number of shells was used to be used to be smaller and smaller. He was beaten by the other party at any time.

Moreover, the purchase and transportation of foreign guns and cannons in the Hunan Army has become a big problem. Those who come from Haisong will definitely not be a large number of arms. If they come from Shanghai, they are hindered by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Haisong territory ahead, and the cost of transporting them to Huguang is very scary.

Even if you can buy it, you can't afford it. Even if you can afford it, you can't afford it.

The Hunan Army was completely stunned when facing the foreign gun team. The foreign gun team is a good thing, but this thing cannot be afforded.

It’s like two restaurants next to each other are competing for promotions. If you don’t promote, you will go bankrupt if you don’t promote. But if you also promote, you will not have the other party’s foundation and others have money. If you can’t afford it, you will still go bankrupt if you end up;

After the important cities along the river fell one after another, Zuo Zongtang threw his face and ran to Shanghai to find the British and French. With diplomatic pressure, Dou Wenjian finally stopped the momentum of the Yangtze River Xiang Army completely slaughtering the Yangtze River Xiang Army.

This time, the violent show of artillery and foreign guns was almost hanged by Zeng Guofan, but also shocked the Sun and Moon Army. Guan Ju, the leader of the navy, was the first to express his obedience to all the arrangements of the court and willing to reorganize the army according to Dou Wenjian's wishes, and would not make small moves; the navy always values ​​artillery and ships more than the army.

Dou Wenjian naturally would not say: I want to kill the Sun and Moon Army, but he said: Look, our Royal Army is stationed in the Yangtze River, and your Sun and Moon Army earth gun team is unnecessary and you have idle food.

So yesterday's elite earth gun team in the army became unnecessary after the Crusaders arrived. They were laid off, and the rest were cavalry, errand soldiers, transport soldiers, sailors, and these non-elite soldiers who usually envy the extreme of the earth gun team.

Huangmao naturally couldn't escape: he was the backbone of the earth gun team and a company commander. He also did not believe in God. He followed his leader Li Wenmao to worship Hongwu Taizu and Guan Gong. So he took his rifle and left the army and Jiangxi with his own money.

He naturally felt his future was confused, as if he was walking in the smoke of gunfire with fierce fire. He could not see anything and didn't know what he was going to do.

"Anyway, this is not bad. I heard that many of my brothers who have not served in the army have become rich. If I had known, why would I have followed General Zhu Qingzheng to join the army? Now I have no official position and no money. I have been holding my head and killed Qing Yao for 4 years, but I have no money. I have been bullshit! Go home and take a look, I will go to Foshan to do my job again." Huangmao finally smiled bitterly, hugged Dayu's shoulder and smiled: "Brother Dayu. If you have nothing to do at home, why don't we go together?"

"By the way, where is sister-in-law?" Huang Mao hesitated for a moment. He asked. He knew that the Taiping Army was all from one family. Seeing that the 30-year-old big fish was still alone, he expected that nothing good would happen.

"No wife." Dayu choked and said, "It was once that it was not easy for a soldier from Taiping Army to get married. At that time, a leader caught a boat who wanted to escape to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. A wife had her face branded in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. She shaved off her own face and her face was disfigured. The boss asked me if I wanted it, and I looked pretty. A Jiangning woman, who heard that it was a maid from Tianjing who escaped from the palace, escaped, so I wanted it, and then she ran away again!"

"Have peace of mind, there are so many beauties in the Song Dynasty." Huang Mao was stunned for a while after hearing the story of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that Dayu told me, "Why don't you do that? When I arrive at Fogang Hall, I will invite my brother to go to the brothel to have fun."

"Shut up! Are you not afraid of going to hell? Mobile phone access: wàp.1#6k.cn" The big fish roared suddenly.

After getting off the boat from Fogang Hall, although I saw that this kind of city was very different from the past, and it was a hundred times more lively. New houses were crowded into the small city, as if they were about to squeeze the four-cornered walls. Houses, shops, and factories spread across the city along the city walls, and foreigners were everywhere, and Chinese in costumes were everywhere. The factories outside the city were gurgling and smoked like steamers. From the ferry to the city gate, there was a wide road, full of dust and dust. It was better that the yellow hair was seen. He had seen Ganzhou and Nanchang, but the big fish was dumbfounded and wanted to go in and see the city that had been away for ten years. In his impression, the city close to his hometown was a quiet and frugal small town by the water, which was not like the current scene that seemed to be spreading out.

However, no one of the two people who were eager to return home did to the city to take a closer look. They found a restaurant outside the city, took a few bites of rice, and ran back to the ferry to take a boat to Yangping Town, their hometown.

The town has not changed much. Apart from the strange telegram lines on its head, the town has a few rows of new houses and a church, the two red scarf soldiers recognized this familiar scene at a glance.

The two broke up at the entrance of the town and rushed towards their homes.

After reunited with his parents, second sister-in-law and several nieces in a simple house, Huangmao sat on the bench, took a glass of water handed over by his second sister-in-law, turned around and swept the house and yard. He shouted: "Brother, second brother, where is the eldest sister-in-law? Still in the field?"

"No, you should write a letter back. They are all working in the factory in Fogang Hall." Old Man Huang smiled.

"Workworking? Who cares about the field?" Huangmao asked.

"There is no land, I will sell it to Huang Crooker in the village." said the father.

"What?!" The bowl in Huangmao's hand fell to the ground and exclaimed: "Didn't you give our family 20 acres of paddy fields? How could you sell it?"

"No, Uncle San." The second sister-in-law next to her came over and picked up the bowl on the ground, saying, "Now you can't eat enough for farming unless you go to work. Old Man Huang sighed fiercely and said, "I wrote in my letter to you that in the past two years, it was either drought or heavy rain, and the harvest was very bad! There was no money for farming and I couldn't afford to buy oil."

"No way?" Huang Mao was stunned: "I came back when I went to Jiangxi. At that time, wasn't my family still very well?"

"It's not as good as those two years now." Huangmao's mother interrupted: "The weather is not good, and the foreign machines in the city make yarn everywhere, which is very cheap. Li Dayan's weaving workshop does not collect our yarn and cloth anymore. He buys yarn and weaving his own cloth. Now he buys foreign machines, let alone our yarn and cloth. Now he doesn't need our yarn and cloth. Now he has no money to make a living in the countryside except for workmanship. Otherwise, why does my sister-in-law go to the silk reeling farm. She has nothing to do at home. Or she can't afford oil."

"Then you can't sell land!" Although Huangmao often left home to work when she was very young, she couldn't stand the impact for a while. He pointed to the table and shouted: "Isn't there a post office opened by the emperor now? I've mailed you 35 taels of silver, so I won't sell land and become a refugee."

"No, your second sister-in-law needs treatment." Old man Huang sighed.

"What's wrong with the second sister-in-law?" Huangmao turned his head in horror to look at the second sister-in-law who was suppressing the cough.

"I cough up blood. I can't breathe. After working in the spinning mill in the city for half a year, I started like this."

"Are you tired?" Huangmao opened her mouth wide: "You dare to go to the foreign factory to "supplement the household expenses. I may have sucked too much cotton wool inside, and many people coughed up blood like this, and couldn't breathe." The second sister-in-law said in a low voice.

"It's just foreign machines drinking human blood!! Otherwise, why are foreigners so rich?" Old Man Huang slapped the table suddenly, and suddenly he became angry. He pointed at his son and asked, "Do you believe in foreign religion?"
To be continued...