Getting rich is the common ideal of officers from Daqiaoshan such as Ge Zheng and Ge Yi. They have no beliefs and no concept of right and wrong in national justice. They only have a good idea of ​​how to make money, how to be big fish and meat every day, and how to count money and get slim. In addition to Zhou Shixiang, there are probably few people in Taipingying today who consider the future of Taipingying from the national level and China.

Ge Yi said he wanted to fight Deqing, and immediately received support from Jiang He and others. They all said that although the Deqing city wall was stronger than Luo Ding, if he really wanted to use this medicine to blow it up, it would be a piece of paper. After blowing up the wall and breaking the city, the brothers made a lot of money and went to have fun. The strong man Chen Mo was even more active and said that he would lead the Deqing camp to take the lead in attacking the city, and he would capture Lu Gongming in front of the Qianhu Lord. Zhou Shixiang was almost moved and really wanted to concentrate the medicine in his hand to blow Deqing.

Fortunately, he was sober in time. There was wealth in Deqing City that he could grab one, but what should he do after robbing it? Should he take over Deqing and the Qing army or withdraw it back to Luoding? There is only so much medicine. If you really want to blow up the wall, you may have to consume it all in one go. If you don’t have medicine, what should you do next time you encounter a "nail household"? Moreover, Deqing is currently a "friendly country" of Taipingying. He just got a lot of money, grain and supplies from others, and turned around and wanted to smash the other party's door. This seems a bit unkind.

Before the source of gunpowder was not available, Zhou Shixiang would not rashly use the only medicine to blast. This less than 200 kilograms of granular gunpowder was the only weapon in his hands to lead the Qing army. Good things should be used in good places, and Deqing was obviously not a "good place" in his mind. Therefore, he ignored Ge Yi. As long as Tieyi and others summarized the effect of this blasting and made improvements to the shortcomings. This action made Ge Yi very bored and embarrassing in blinking. When Jiang and they saw that Zhou Shixiang had no intention of fighting Deqing again, they would not mention it.

After seeing the power of Taiping Camp's medicine, the old men were ordered to go back to publicize the power of Taiping Camp to the people, while Duke Xiang of Song prepared the military uniforms of Taiping Camp as Zhou Shixiang asked.

The Taiping Camp now has only more than 400 sets of military uniforms, and most of the rest are dressed in civilians, and they are so ragged that they don’t look like an army. As the number of people increases, weapons have also become short. Zhou Shixiang has no pig iron in his hand, so he cannot cast weapons by himself. He can only concentrate all the agricultural tools and iron tools in the city and hand them over to Guo Dachu, who is the soldier of Jiangxi, and asks him to try his best to create a batch of long swords.

Guo Dahui, who got on the "pirate ship", complained about this task, but he didn't dare to say no. He could only lead two apprentices and more than a dozen young men transferred to him by Taiping Camp to work day and night. Even the time he rushed to the scene, he finally provided more than 60 long swords to Taiping Camp. No matter how many, it was impossible, because there was no iron tool for him to transform into a cast knife.

A good wife is hard to cook without rice. If there is no raw material to provide to others, how can we expect others to provide you with weapons? Zhou Shi was clearly rewarded and punished, and asked Duke Xiang of Song to pay 30 taels of silver for Guo Daxiong, and then appointed him as the ambassador of the Military Weapons Department of Taiping Camp, and his treatment was equivalent to that of the small flag officer of the former camp. Of course, this ambassador of the military weapons is just a name for now. Guo Daxiong is actually a blacksmith. When he did not cast a knife, he led his apprentices and helpers to do some repairs and repairs.

Two more days have passed, and all the troops have been working together in the past two days, and some training for the recruits has been put on the agenda. Although it has not been systematically launched, at least every day, there are teams of soldiers in front of the city gate shouting slogans, saying that it is running training. In addition, several teams of soldiers are doing some barefoot and shoes, which really makes people who have never seen such training methods look back at it.

The Military Uniform Division was also built. Yang Shanyuan of the TEDA Bushang was forced to join the army and was forced to serve as the ambassador of the Military Uniform Division. He led his Yang family members and 300 women selected from each battalion to deal with cloth all day long.

Even the weapons were short of in the camp, so Zhou Shixiang naturally could not ask the Military Uniforms Office to provide armor for the entire battalion. As for the current supplies of Taiping Camp, even cotton armor could not be produced by itself. Therefore, Zhou Shi had no requirements compared to the Military Uniform Office, so he only asked them to dye the fabric black and then make a top and pants. The design pattern of this military uniform was similar to the Zhongshan suit in later generations, and it was incompatible with the military uniforms of the Ming and Qing armies. After seeing the first set of sample clothes, Song Xianggong was very dissatisfied and thought that this kind of clothes was inconsistent with the Chinese dress etiquette, and the black dress was really ugly. Zhou Shixiang used his fit and insufficient conditions to make him excuse him.

While producing black military uniforms, Zhou Shixiang sent someone to Deqing to find Tang Sanshui, but this time he did not do business, but gave gifts.

The gift is real gold and silver, with a total of 100 silver ingots of ten taels. There is also a landscape painting that I don’t know who painted in the Song Dynasty. The former was given directly to Tang Sanshui, while the latter was given to Lu Gongming.

Without trying to hit the gift-giver, under the attack of real money and the calligraphy and painting that I don’t know how to estimate, Tang Sanshui and Lu Gongming revealed the arrangements of Zhaoqing Prefecture and the provincial capital for the large-scale attack on Deqing by the "Ming Army".

It was said that it was a deployment, but in fact there was no deployment. Zhaoqing General Xu Erxian tried his best to write to Guangzhou to send troops to attack the Ming army in Gaozhou and to recover Luo Ding. Unfortunately, Guangzhou did not agree with his opinion on sending troops, because the two princes in Guangzhou were now overwhelmed by the Chaoshan situation.

After He Shangjiu's defeat, the Qing army, who thought he could control Chaoshan, did not expect that Zheng Chenggong, who was in Jinxia, ​​was also eyeing Chaoshan. When the Qing army besieged Chaozhou, Zheng Chenggong ordered his Beizhen general Chen Liu to lead his troops to aid. After He Shangjiu's defeat, Zheng Chenggong led his troops to Jieyang, which bordered Chaozhou Prefecture City, and repeatedly invaded Chaozhou to collect grain. Two backward troops were even approaching Chaozhou, which had just returned to Ping, Guangzhou, which had just returned north to escape the summer heat, and the two pseudo kings of Jing did not dare to use large troops to the southwest, for fear that after Li Dingguo was used in the southwest, the northeast would be taken by the Zheng family.

The reason for insufficient troops will naturally not be proclaimed by the Guangzhou authorities. It is openly pacified and pacified the two feudals. Li Shutai, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, strictly ordered Zhaoqing Prefecture to strengthen its military preparations, and ordered Zhaoqing General Xu Erxian to send his camera to recover the lost territory to attack the arrogance of the "old thief". In addition, it was a piece of food and no one or two silver was given. After receiving the reply, Xu Erxian took his personal soldiers up the mountain to hunt without saying a word, and never cared about the confrontation or the revenge.

Tang Sanshui got his wish and was promoted from Qian Zong to the garrison official, which was promoted and made a fortune. Lu Gongming was also reported to the Governor's Office by Zhaoqing Prefecture for "making contributions to defending the territory". If there was no mistake, it would not take long to be rewarded. The happy event was coming, and the two of them naturally greeted Zhou Shixiang's envoy, let alone brought heavy gifts.

The news brought back by the envoy made Zhou Shixiang feel relieved. He was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that the Qing army in Guangdong would attack Luoding in large numbers, and the situation of Taiping Camp would become extremely dangerous. Fortunately, the Qing army in Guangdong could not fully control Guangdong. The Zheng family was eyeing him in the northeast, the Li Ding country's troops in the southwest, and the coastal areas were the Yishi convened by Lian Chengbi, the governor of the Guangdong Province of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Grand Secretary Guo Zhiqi. In the short term, the Taiping Camp's alien army was sandwiched among several forces, but it could take advantage of the power. Without the restraint of these Ming army forces, the Taiping Camp's troops would probably not be enough for the Qing army to see.

In recent days, Zhou Shixiang has been focusing on the construction of Taiping Camp, hoping to build Taiping Camp into a strong army in one day, but he can't become a fat man without a bite. No matter how anxious he is, he will be useless, haste will not reach it. Fortunately, there is a person coming from Gaozhou. Although it has been half a month since the occupation of Luo Ding, they have come a little late, but it is better to be late than not.
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