The visitor told Zhou Shixiang that the imperial envoy sent by the court was Guo Zhiqi, the Grand Secretary, and the officials of the Qinzhou Governor's Office accompanied him were officials. As for the content of the imperial edict brought by Guo Zhiqi, Zhou Shixiang needed to receive the imperial edict himself to know. The imperial edict was awarded to the Guangzhou General Zhou Shixiang. Guo Zhiqi did not see the official lord, so how could he take out the imperial edict and read it? Song Xianggong and others naturally had no way to guess the content of the imperial edict.

Zhou Shixiang asked the person who came again, and Guo Shao, Liang Shuanghu, who had been sent to Kunming to Baojie in the previous period, had not returned. The person who came shook his head and said he had not come back.

Calculate the time, Guo Shao and Liang Shuanghu should have returned from Kunming, why did the Kunming imperial edict come, but Guo Shao and the others did not come back together?

Zhou Shixiang was confused and thought to himself, could something happened to Guo Shao and the others?

Guo Zhiqi's identity was much higher than that of the head of the Ministry of War, Cheng Bangjun. The Yongli court sent a grandson to Guangzhou to issue an imperial edict. The significance made Zhou Shixiang press the confusion in his heart. He did not dare to delay for a moment. He rushed back to Guangzhou with a quick horse. Before he could return to the generals of the General of the Army, he was stopped by Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde who had arrived after hearing the news.

Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde represent the descending general of the Pingnan Fan and the descending general of the Jingnan Fan respectively. One of the two was the deputy governor and the other was the governor. They were both first-rank high-ranking officials in the Qing court. However, now the Taiping Army did not lead troops, but served as the two admirals and deputy envoys of the Military Preparation Training Institute.

The Military Preparation Training Institute is a training base for junior officers of the Taiping Army. Zhou Shi was similar to the academic officials and appointed himself as the Admiral and Envoy of the Training Institute. There are four Admiral and Deputy Envoys below to be responsible for daily affairs. Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde are the deputy envoys ranked third and fourth. The first deputy envoy is Duke Xiang of Song, and the second deputy envoy is Zhao Sihai. (Author’s note: A provincial academic administration is also called the Admiral. It is called the Admiral and Admiral)

Zhou Shixiang attaches great importance to the military preparation training institute, the Taiping Army officer Yaolan, so he gave the officials and instructors to the institute. He himself served as the general of Guangzhou Town as the general, and Duke Xiang of Song was the second-rank governor, and Zhao Sihai was the deputy general. Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde, the two deputy envoys who represented the surrendered generals of Pingnan and Jingnan, naturally would not be inferior. Although he did not serve in the army, Zhou Shixiang gave them the deputy generals to meet them. This is currently a very high rank. After all, Zhou Shixiang is nominally just a second-rank Guangzhou general officer.

In summary, Zhou Shixiang now has three part-time jobs, one is the water camp commander, the second is the ambassador of the ordnance station, and the third is the admiral of the training center. The training center also has four-part offices for infantry, cavalry, artillery, and naval army. Except for the courses that Zhou Shixiang has made some changes, the rest are imitating the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty. There are instructors in the institute, Han people, Manchu people, and Western people, and all the students are active military officers of various towns.

Due to the tight time, the training of middle and senior officers has not yet been carried out, and the existing courses and hardware conditions in the training institute have not been perfected. Zhou Shi will hold a training class for middle and senior generals after next fall. He will also plan to form a school brigade similar to the teaching team of later generations. He will select young people under 16 years old and under 25 years old from the young army camp and the civilians to study in the training institute. After the study period is over, he will be assigned to the school brigade and awarded it to Wu Zhenghe's first-level officer, and he will become a formal officer of the Taiping Army since then. This plan is also the basis for the regularization of the Taiping Army.

Shang Keyuan once led his troops to capture Mancheng and killed Shang Zhixin with his own hands. In fact, he had become a mortal enemy with the Qing Dynasty and had no way out. Therefore, what he wanted was to gain a firm foothold in the Taiping Army and gain a high position. If the Southern Ming could really revive, he would also become an important official of the Shang family in the Ming Dynasty and revive the Shang family's family style. However, when Zhou Shixiang was reorganized, he did not give him important tasks, but instead asked him to be the deputy envoy of the Admiral of the Training Institute, which was as inconsistent as the nominal governor of Duke Xiang of Song. This made him very dissatisfied with Zhou Shixiang, and he felt a lot of resentment, thinking that Zhou Shi did not trust them.

Geng Zhongde also had resentment towards Zhou Shixiang, but this resentment was not because he was idle and not heavy, but because his old master, Geng Jimao, King Jingnan, was placed under house arrest by Zhou Shixiang in the royal palace. In the city, it was rumored that his mother's wife Shi Yuanling was occupied by Zhou Shixiang in the Prince's Mansion, which made Geng Zhongde, the former general of Jingnan, face very dull.

In fact, Shi Yuanling is not worthy of Geng Zhongde's anger, and it is impossible for him to resent Zhou Shixiang. Why don't a real man have a wife? His nephew is not Shi Yuanling, his situation is stronger than others, and now his life is in his hands. If a woman can get his nephew's freedom, Geng Zhongde can wake up in his dreams.

When Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, after Geng Zhongming and the other two crossed the sea to invest in gold, the female family did not ask the Manzhou people to abuse it. At that time, it was not the Manzhou people who forcibly occupied it, but each family took the initiative to offer it.

Shang Kexi's two wives, one of Geng Zhongming's concubines, and three beautiful wives of Kong Youde were offered by their own men, either by being raped to death or committing suicide after being humiliated. When the Manzhou people sent the body back, the three "princes" who were cuckolded were either smiling and working hard for the big golden saddle, and they were devoted to the Manzhou people, but they didn't see anyone who was angry with the beauty.

So in Geng Zhongde's eyes, women are not the case at all. What made him really complain about Zhou Shixiang was that his nephew was under house arrest. No one knew whether he was dead or alive. If Geng Jimao was still alive, once the Yongli court enthroned him as the king of the Ming Dynasty, then Geng Zhongde and other old generals under the Jingnan vassal could naturally return to Geng Jimao's command by justification, rather than being cowarded under Zhou Shixiang and not being reused.

When Zhou Shixiang was inspecting outside, the generals who were "idle" under the Jingnan vassals gathered with Geng Zhongde many times. Every time they gathered, they would say some dissatisfied words. Of course, after the gathering, someone would secretly report these words to Song Xianggong. Zhou Shixiang was not a fool, and he could not be afraid of the people under the Jingnan vassals. However, he did not take action, but allowed these people to gather together to say bad things about him.

Saying bad things and making complaints is not a big deal. As long as Geng Jimao is in his own hands, as long as Guangzhou City is in his own hands, as long as Taiping Army is in his own hands, Zhou Shixiang is not afraid that these surrendered generals who have no military power can make waves in his heart, not to mention that the people from the Military Information Department have been staring at them secretly.

This time, Geng Zhongde, monk Keyuan came to see Zhou Shixiang together, but he was not complaining or accusing Zhou Shixiang. He and the two of them had the intention but did not have the courage. The purpose of their trip was only one, that is, to ask Zhou Shixiang to save their lives no matter what.

After the Grand Secretary Guo Zhiqi arrived in Guangzhou, Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde were scared. They had to be afraid because they had killed many officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty, among which were Guo Zhiqi's nephews and students. When they followed Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao to massacre, they massacred the city all the way. There were him in the Guangzhou Massacre and him in the Chaozhou Massacre. The hands were covered with the blood of the military and civilians of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Guo Zhiqi was a loyal old minister of the Southern Ming Dynasty and a person who hated evil. They were naturally worried that Guo Zhiqi would settle accounts with them.

Although Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde were not allowed to lead the army, this does not mean that Zhou Shixiang was not ready to reuse these two people, otherwise they would not be allowed to serve as the deputy envoy of the training center. He, the admiral, had no time to preside over the affairs of the training center. Duke Xiang of Song was also named in order to allow the training center to obtain better resource allocation. Zhao Sihai presided over the military headquarters of the Military Commander's Office, which was a disguised general staff, and he was also busy, so the actual presidency of the training center was Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde.

Zhou Shixiang was even more optimistic about Shang Keyuan, a "smart man" who destroyed the city and killed his nephew. If Geng Zhongde was smart, he would not mind using him. Hearing that the two of them knew the purpose of the situation, Zhou Shixiang smiled and comforted him with the fact that Li Chengdong had done anything wrong, saying that Li Chengdong also committed several massacres in Jiangnan that year, but he was still valued by the court afterwards. He was granted the title of Duke, his subordinates were granted the title of Marquis, and his uncle. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of King.

"As long as you are loyal to me and to the Ming Dynasty, I will ensure that you are fine. You must understand that only I will determine your life and death in Guangzhou City, so you can rest assured that as long as you use your life and life to do the errands given to you, your head will not be cut off."

Zhou Shixiang looked at Shang, Geng and others with great meaning, whipped the horse and ran towards the military commander's mansion.
Chapter completed!