The war in the North is filled with smoke, and the situation in the South is also undercurrent.
The Taiping Army's attack on Hubei was unfavorable, so they retreated and stopped attacking. The Hubei Army was newly established in Hubei and did not have the energy to actively attack the Taiping Army's territory.
Zuo Zongtang got the governor of Hubei he wanted, and aggressively installed cronies in Hubei. He seemed to want to completely control Hubei.
Most of his former close friends and confidants in Hunan and key members of the Hubei Renaissance Association were assigned to important local positions.
However, Zuo Zongtang kept a low profile. Hubei passed through the Taiping Army several times, and many official positions were vacant, which made it convenient for him to install his cronies.
Zuo Zongtang is different from Dong Shuheng. Most of the people under him are famous. However, like Lao Zuo, they all learned the science of managing the world and applying it.
These people cannot pass the Jinshi examination, but most of them are good at politics.
Selection of these officials is a matter of course.
After taking control of the local area, Zuo Zongtang learned Zeng Guofan's trick, which was to engage in showdowns with local landlords and gentry and collect donations.
Nowadays, in the local area, the common people have little money, but the landlords and gentry have a lot of money.
Zuo Zongtang's reason is very simple. I now have soldiers and can fight well. You give me money to raise soldiers, and I will protect you.
Although you have lost some blood now, it is better than the Taiping Army coming and ransacking your home!
The local gentry in Hubei are all aware of the methods of the Taiping Army. What's more, the Taiping Army has now announced the "Chinese Land Acquisition System", which is to dig out the roots of these gentry and landlords.
Although Zuo Zongtang was a bit domineering, he did not touch their bottom line. The whole of Hubei was in a delicate balance.
I don’t know what the Taiping Army is doing. No news has come through.
On May 3rd, the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing celebrated his birthday. There was a grand celebration in Tianjing City.
Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, decreed that every household under the rule of heaven should pray for His Highness the East King.
On the night of the banquet, all the kings went to the East Prince's Mansion to congratulate Yang Xiuqing on his birthday.
In the middle of the journey, Yang Xiuqing was possessed by the Heavenly Father again, and everyone knelt down. The Heavenly Father said that the Eastern King worked hard and made great contributions to the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven.
He asked everyone to wait for the Heavenly Father to leave and kneel down to King Dong to celebrate his birthday. Yang Xiuqing glanced at the people below, especially pausing at the face of the King. This meaning couldn't be more obvious. Even you, Hong Xiuquan, have to kneel down.
Hong Xiuquan lowered his head, the flesh on his face twitched imperceptibly, and his eyes were filled with hatred.
The matter of Yang Xiuqing's birthday was made into a special report and sent to Dong Shuheng's desk. Dong Shuheng shook his head, this was a death-defying rhythm.
In fact, Yang Xiuqing was not as miserable as Dong Shuheng thought. He also had his own reasons for doing this.
On the one hand, by monopolizing the foreign trade of the Kingdom of Heaven (actually the trade with the Huaihai Navy), Yang Xiuqing concentrated a large amount of resources in his hands.
He did not waste all these resources, but used them to win people's hearts. Half of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Heaven defected to Yang Xiuqing.
These armed forces not only controlled the surrounding areas of Tianjing, but also controlled some important wealth areas in the areas controlled by the Taiping Rebellion.
After Yang Ximei and Fu Shanxiang took charge of commercial work, they also imitated the Huaihai Navy and made some reforms. For example, they encouraged and supported the development of family workshops. Silk production in some places in Anhui and Jiangxi quickly returned to the level before the turmoil, and even continued to increase.
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These contents are actually contrary to the "Celestial Land Acre System" issued by the King of Heaven. However, it was endorsed by the King of Dong and the officials in these places were from the King of Dong, so it was implemented.
This also increased Dongwang's popularity in disguise, so Yang Xiuqing was not arrogant, but had arrogant capital.
On the other hand, Yang Xiuqing also wants to declare his status to everyone through such actions. Sometimes as a superior person, you have to be deliberately strong, so that others will trust you boldly.
Many high-level political struggles are like this. If you keep a low profile, you will only become more and more marginalized.
At this time, Dong Shuheng had finished his inspection of the river control project ahead of schedule and returned to Yangzhou. As the commander-in-chief of a force, in the early days of starting a business, he could travel around, fight monsters, and gain experience, but he could not forget his hometown.
Still have to come back and take a look.
Of course, every time he comes back, it means that Dong Shuheng will be overwhelmed by piles of documents.
In the past, as a small employee, Dong Shuheng always felt that being a leader was easy. He could just tell the people below him to do something.
If you have nothing to do, just look at the documents and sign them in the office. Some documents don't even need to be read, just sign them.
Now that I am sitting in this position, I realize that this is such a brain-burning thing. Because I still have to read most of the documents, and some I think are important and have to read carefully. How much reading did I get in this day?
Dong Shuheng feels that the amount of reading he has done in one day has equaled that of a novel.
In novels, it is often written about having a beautiful secretary by your side to help you read the report. It is indeed comfortable and comfortable to wear red sleeves. But such a thing is not realistic.
No matter how fast the beauty's mouth is, it is not as fast as her own eyes! If Dong Shuheng approved documents like that, Huai Haijun would probably be paralyzed.
In the middle of the night, Dong Shuheng stopped working and took a rest. He was still comforting himself in his mind: "The work will never be finished. Let's continue tomorrow morning."
Under Hui'er's service, Dong Shuheng soon fell asleep...
Just after breakfast early in the morning, Li Cunxun walked in, followed by a young man, who was about twenty-five or six years old. Dong Shuheng knew that this was Wei Yuzhen's second brother, named Wei Yuxiang.
It is said that this second brother is also an outstanding person. He was selected as a scholar at the age of 12 and was also known as a child prodigy in the local area. However, he failed in the exams many times and gave up the exam out of anger.
Under the influence of Lao Wei, this son fell in love with studying Western learning. Later, he traveled to Guangzhou, and for personal livelihood, he became a guest of a county magistrate in Guangzhou.
While handling county affairs, he continued to study Western learning. Guangzhou was also at the forefront of contact with the West, with many foreigners living there and many books, newspapers, and magazines imported.
So after two years of living in Guangzhou, Wei Er's body was full of foreign flavor.
This time, Dong Shuheng asked Old Wei to call over Wei Da and Wei Er. On the one hand, he wanted to reunite Yuzhen and her family. On the other hand, he also wanted to recruit two more helpers.
The eldest son of the Wei family, Wei Yuxiang, was selected as a candidate, but he was a little duller than the second eldest son. But he was extremely serious about his work, so Dong Shuheng arranged for him to train behind Zeng Xianfeng. Dong Shuheng planned to put him in a higher position after a period of time.
Today, the second son came with Li Cunxun to report to Dong Shuheng's presidential palace attendant's office. Dong Shuheng plans to transfer Li Cunxun out if there is an opportunity in a while.
Although Dong Shuheng started his career not long ago, everyone has already discovered that the people around Dong Shuheng will be promoted in a short time. These people have now become a vague faction - the attendant faction.
"President, today we are going to Gaoyou. You agreed to watch the launching ceremony of the No. 1 ship. Tomorrow we will go to Dafeng City from Gaoyou to attend the listing ceremony of Huaihai Krupp Company."
"Well, I understand, Cun Xun. If you usually have some work to do, try to take Yuxiang with you and let him go through it with his own hands. I know you are already impatient to fly out. It just so happens that you can also think about it during this time.
What kind of work do you want to do by yourself?" Dong Shuheng said.
"President, based on what you said, Cunxun thinks it's good to stay by your side. I can learn a lot."
"That's a bit false, Cun Xun. I didn't teach you how to talk, right?" Dong Shuheng joked.
Li Cunxun didn't know what to say for a moment, which made Wei Yuxiang on the side feel a little embarrassed. He wanted to interrupt but couldn't.
I thought to myself that this future brother-in-law is really mouthy, so I have to be careful when speaking in front of him in the future.
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Go get ready and take Yuxiang with you. Okay, call me and I'll handle some more things in the office."
Business was important. He was joking with Li Cunxun just now. He was usually more serious with Li Cunxun. Now that Li Cunxun was going to be released, Dong Shuheng rarely relaxed towards him.
After Dong Shuheng finished speaking, he turned around and went to the office, followed by Hui'er. When Li Cunxun was away, Dong Shuheng always had someone by his side to help with things, and Hui'er would take the initiative to fill in at this time.
Since Hui'er and Wei Yuzhen became good sisters, they no longer deliberately avoided Dong Shuheng, but returned to the previous state.
The cute, considerate Hui'er is back again. It makes Dong Shuheng's life in Yangzhou much better.
After arriving in Yangzhou, Shangtai was thrown into the academy by Dong Shuheng. With his status, it was understandable that he was exempted from the examination and admitted.
Du Ji couldn't continue to follow Dong Shuheng. She also went to the academy and returned to Qi Bin. However, she still obtained the qualifications of an academy auditor from Dong Shuheng. She was indeed a unique woman.
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The blue waves are rippling on Gaoyou Lake, and the lake is extremely calm. None of the merchant ships that usually come and go are now visible.
The Canal Navy has cleaned up the entire Gaoyou Lake and announced that it was going to conduct military exercises.
At this time, in a wide inlet on the east coast of Gaoyou Lake, the military shipyard of the Huai Navy was hidden here.
At this time, a slender big guy was lying on the slipway of the shipyard. It was all gray and white, with rows of huge rivets neatly arranged on its body.
These rivets firmly connect the forged steel plates together. What's strange is that there is a nose-like structure on the lower front of this warship.
When Dong Shuheng inspected the shipyard, he found that the front of the ship on the slipway was bare.
Dong Shuheng asked the person in charge of the shipyard, shouldn't there be a bulbous nose in the front of the ship? This question made the designers of the shipyard confused.
Later, Dong Shuheng drew a simple diagram and told the shipyard designers some of the principles of the bulbous nose that he had vaguely grasped.
Designers feel that this design is simply unnecessary, similar to the ramming horns of ancient warships, but who would install ramming horns on today's ships?
Judging from the knowledge they possess, these designers seem to have no theoretical basis for such a design.
If others made such a suggestion, the designers of these shipyards would definitely sneer at it. But this suggestion was made by Dong Shuheng, so everyone should always pay attention to it.
So several designers set up a bulbous bow experimental group and quickly built a model. Through experiments, it was found that adding a bulbous bow structure can effectively reduce the resistance of the ship traveling in the water. Moreover,