After this meeting, the entire Huaihai Navy system fell into continuous rotation mode. The government, military, and companies all had to make a lot of adjustments.
First of all, on the government side, the biggest problem is the relationship between the military government and the local areas. There is basically no problem in Jiangbei, and most of the local officials have defected to the Huaihai Navy. If they want to return water, they will be the first to suffer.
Sunan's case is more troublesome. The landowners and gentry are deeply entrenched, and many families have close ties with the DPRK and China. It seems that we need to negotiate carefully with them, but if it doesn't work, we can only use force.
But in this way, Dong Shuheng could not predict the reaction of the court. Many of the arrogant things Dong Shuheng was doing now were also done by the Hunan Army in history. Therefore, Dong Shuheng thought that since the Qing government could tolerate the Hunan Army in history, it should not touch him.
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After the meeting, Liu Dahai took a group of transferred officers and sailors to Haimen. There he will gather the recruited naval soldiers for land integration training and prepare to receive naval warships.
The Army needs to integrate a large number of new recruits, and new officers also need to adapt to their positions. Therefore, it has not been suitable for large-scale military operations recently.
Dong Shuheng has been out for a few days. He cannot leave the Prussian mission in Shanghai all the time. He is pretty busy now, so he should go back to visit Prince Adalbert.
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In the past few days when Dong Shuheng was away, a unique martial arts performance was being held at the Yangtze River Security Company's headquarters in Lujiazui, across the river from Shanghai's Bund Concession.
Two thousand soldiers of the Yangtze River Security Company in black uniforms performed infantry formations, rifle firing and artillery firing.
Except for the dozen mercenaries hired by Hua Er in the concession, all the soldiers were selected by Huai Haijun from the militia. Their wages during the Yangtze River security period were twice what they were before on the farm. Many young people were competing for
Sign up.
However, all militiamen sent to the Yangtze River for security have signed confidentiality agreements and cannot reveal their identity as Huai Haijun during the mission.
The establishment of this team is still recorded in Huai Haijun's documents.
"Wal, where did you hire these Chinese? Their discipline is very good, and the infantry ranks are very orderly." Marsali, who was sitting on the rostrum, asked Wall next to him. He said this
The team is very satisfied, mainly because this is an armed force formed by Americans, which will enhance the United States' presence in Shanghai.
After comprehensive consideration, Dong Shuheng decided to let the Yangtze River Security Company use muzzle-loading guns because they were directly under the noses of the foreigners. Dong Shuheng did not want to expose his infantry tactics to Britain, France and the United States so early.
Fortunately, these militiamen usually trained with muzzle-loading muskets. Marsali was very happy to help him find the connection, allowing him to purchase 3,000 Mississippi rifles. This muzzle-loading rifle produced in the 1930s has a larger caliber than ordinary rifles.
It is large, so it is powerful and stable in performance. It also purchased 12 six-pound cannons. Although the caliber is not large, it is enough to deal with the enemies in front of you.
"Oh, Your Excellency, these people are all hired by me in Jiangbei. You know it is very poor and there are many refugees. I have allowed these poor boys to eat and make money, so they are very obedient and well trained.
It was very hard because they were afraid that I would drive them away and go back to starve," Wall said.
"Well, you are right. The poorer the soldiers, the stronger their combat effectiveness. They fear hunger more than death." Marsali said with a smile.
"Mr. Minister, I heard that you are going back to China?"
"Yes, I can go home early next year. I hope to see you in the United States in the future."
"I think there will come a time, Mr. Minister."
What I said just now gave Marsali a great inspiration. He was entrusted to return to China to help Dong Shuheng lobby the US government, but he didn't know how to speak, knowing that Congress was basically controlled by northern capitalists.
But now he had some ideas, and later mentioned in a report to President Pierce after he returned home: "Those poor children from the East became outstanding infantry after a month or two of training. They are brave, persevering, and indomitable.
If they are afraid of death, as long as they can be fed, it is best to receive a meager remuneration. As long as this remuneration is less than one-third of that of American factory workers, they can bravely resist the enemy under the command of the commander.
Bayonet advance..."
This report moved President Pierce, and he naturally thought of the Chinese workers in the west. If these people could be organized, they would be a considerable force.
These Chinese workers were basically consistent with the situation described by Marsali. President Pierce had already felt that the Compromise of 1850 could no longer restrain the restless North and South. Before the war, the government must have more weight in its hands.
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Hua Er chatted with Marsali. The wealthy businessmen on the side were extremely shocked by the scene of the martial arts performance.
Some people who have seen the British army feel that the formation of these black-coated soldiers is more orderly than the British red-coated soldiers.
At this time, Wu Jianzhang was also in the crowd watching, and he also recognized the combat power of this group of black soldiers. They were at least many times stronger than the Qing army.
As a soldier, he also has some green soldiers under his command, and the customs even controls more than a dozen patrol boats. But these soldiers of his can only scare business travelers and resist some bandits and thieves. If it is the Taiping Army, they will definitely attack.
Can't stop it.
Therefore, he made up his mind to hire a group of black soldiers to help him maintain the security of Shanghai Customs.
After the martial arts performance, he found Hua Er. Wu Jianzhang felt that Hua Er had a very military temperament, and unconsciously trusted Yangtze River Security even more.
Under Yang Fang's recommendation, Wu Jianzhang met with Hua Er. Naturally, Hua Er would not refuse the order that came to his door. So the two happily discussed hiring a thousand Yangtze River security guards at a price of 200,000 taels of silver per year.
Soldiers are used to defend the customs in Shanghai. Of course, the food and ammunition consumption of the soldiers must be calculated separately.
If Wu Jianzhang knew that he had put 1,000 soldiers from the Huai Navy into his own customs, I wonder if he would be so angry that he would vomit blood.
Yangtze Security's advertising was very good this time. Under the operation of Yang Fang, a large number of orders were received. Many large households were preparing to hire a platoon or a squad of black-clad soldiers to protect their family businesses.
During this period of time, the Intelligence Department has been clearing out those members of the Little Knife Society who have not transferred in Shanghai County. Many of the original gang leaders disappeared mysteriously, and their territories and subordinates were absorbed by the tanks. However, there are still some fish that slip through the net.
These forces that slipped through the net launched an uprising on September 1st, and the scale was much smaller than in history. The uprising army had less than a thousand people, and they were all local ruffians. These people planned to occupy the county town of Shanghai, but were defeated by the new
The Shanghai garrison formed was easily repelled.
After retreating, these people wanted to rob the customs outside the city. However, Wu Jianzhang asked the black army to take the initiative.
Under the command of the commander, 1,000 black-clothed troops came out in full force and marched towards the insurgents in neat formation outside the pass. Since the number of the opponents was not too large, the black-clothed troops advanced to 100 meters before firing. Suddenly these people who participated in the uprising
The gangsters fell in rows on the charging road.
Basically, with just one contact, these rebel armies composed of local ruffians were annihilated. This made Wu Jianzhang exclaim that the money was well spent. After returning, the food and accommodation conditions of the black army were upgraded to a higher level.
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This time Dong Shuheng returned to Yangzhou without meeting Wei Yuzhen. It is said that she opened a journalism class at Huaihai Academy. Although she was a female teacher, which was difficult to be accepted in this era, there were not many students at Huaihai Academy.
Traditional scholars, their thoughts.
Dong Shuheng estimated that many students saw the identity of the dean's daughter, coupled with Wei Yuzhen's fresh and refined temperament that was different from the women of the Qing Dynasty today. Anyway, there were a lot of people taking this course.
Fortunately, Dong Shuheng is a modern man, otherwise he would have had to fight Feidi and rush back to Gaoyou to get rid of these singles.
As soon as he arrived in Shanghai, Li Cunxun sent him an eight-page folio newspaper. On the front page, there were four big characters "Yangtze River Business News" written clearly.
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The front page uses a large space to introduce the Grand Canal Market in the east of Yangzhou City. The person who wrote the article is very good and the introduction is very organized. First, he describes the size and construction of the market, then the various functional areas inside, and then writes about it later.
After considering the location advantages of this market, it finally looks forward to the future of this market. At the end of the article, a rendering of the large market is attached, which is very realistic.
After reading the whole article, people have an impulse to buy a shop here as soon as possible. Dong Shuheng really wants to add a title to this article: "Backed by Yangzhou, on the bank of the canal, in a scarce location, a golden and prosperous shop, that is,
Buy and earn!”
Dong Shuheng seriously doubted whether this editor was a real estate agent from later generations who traveled through time. This article was very agitative and had the potential to speculate on real estate.
The second page was business information, and one of the articles mentioned that the price of tea might increase due to the Taiping Army's occupation of southern Anhui.
In addition, since Jiangxi is also at war, the price of ceramics is also at risk of fluctuation.
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Dong Shuheng even saw an article at the back, using most of the page to publish a book review. This review introduced Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", but it was written in a simple and profound way. However, the author used a pseudonym. He turned to Wei Yuzhen
Ask, who is the author of this article?
Of course, in addition to these formal contents, there are also many small advertisements inserted in the newspaper. For example, Yunmei's advertisement is inserted on the front page, with Yunmei's trademark painted on it and "Yunmei embroidery, every day" written below.
All of them are collections." The following also introduces the fact that Yunmei embroidery has been praised by the Queen of England and so on.
This is just a sample newspaper, sent in advance to Dong Shuheng for review. Tomorrow this newspaper will be officially released, and it will be sent to important commercial cities in the Yangtze River Delta, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi and other regions.
The newspaper will use the original distribution network of Huaihai Bookstore, which saves the cost of early promotion. However, after Dong Shuheng read it, he felt that there should be no problem with the newspaper selling well. Moreover, the newspaper itself is basically sold at cost price, and the price is very cheap, because
The newspaper's profit mainly comes from advertising revenue.