The army artillery team was also set up in the city, and the two artillery soon suppressed the Xiang local artillery and covered the pioneer until it hit the first long trench of Xiang. At this time, the Xiang guns fired and directly killed hundreds of soldiers. At this time, the flag soldiers were defeated
Xiang cavalry counterattacked and captured a considerable number of flag soldiers. Instead, the army was able to form a position and fight back and fled back to most of them.
The city also watched Fu Zhu Li look very bad. He felt that this pendulum was to let his hand die. He is now the commander of Tianjing Banner.
"That’s enough!"
He was angry and protested against Chen Ada.
Chen Ada’s expression "Well, do you think it’s righteous to eat my emperor’s salary for five years and not give him a fight?"
Raise a soldier for a thousand days. They have been eating food for more than a thousand days. Today, they finally sent a field, but they made Fu Zhu feel more ashamed than he was. When he walked away, his face looked lonely. The flag soldier was reduced to today, and he hated the Han people more and more, whether it was the army or the Taiping rebels or the Xiang army outside the city.
Section three hundred and seventy-three Xiang troops withdraw from the encirclement
Fu Zhuli feels that it is not the reason. In recent years, the flag soldiers have been more and more discriminated against in the army. Although they are still paid monthly, they have no dignity. Even ordinary soldiers look down on them. Let them refute the reason that they can’t fight. Can an army fight? ?
But how can we let them fight? If the army wants to fight, it is fighting with the imperial court. If so, all the soldiers are hanging out, gambling and getting drunk after they get paid. No one wants to think about their future, but they are divorced from the army. The flag bearers have already escaped from Guangzhou. They managed to escape to the north, but most of them can’t even escape, especially now that the soldiers in the army are in Guangzhou, and their families are separated from themselves at the front.
If you can’t escape, you’ll eat and die. Every day, the army gives you enough food and sleep to get by.
Fu Zhu Li didn’t know that Zhu Jinglun had been waiting for five years to fight this battle. He had long needed flag soldiers to fight the Qing army. I didn’t expect that it would be better to fight Xiang until now.
Because when Ceng Guoquan attacked them as a group of flag soldiers, his anger was ignited as soon as he saw that these flag soldiers were caught in their ancestors’ cotton armor and cloth armor, and he was still arrogant. He became angry and was dissuaded by the staff for fear that it would cause trouble.
However, Ceng Guoquan was more angry and refused to let things go. He directly cut down the remaining hundreds of flag soldiers.
The more he thought about it, the more angry he became that their Tseng brothers fought bloody battles in the Qing court. The Tseng family was damaged. Ceng Guohua died directly in the hands of his opponent, but in the end, their banners and soldiers came to fight them in Xiang.
Thinking of his brother’s repeated letters urging Tianjing, he didn’t want to call Tianjing as soon as he did. Why did he keep the little mothers in Beijing safe?
But his eldest brother, he was angry with Zeng Guofan. Although he may not be ambitious, it doesn’t mean that his hands are not ambitious. Many people have persuaded Zeng Guofan, including Hu Linyi and others. Li Hongzhang has also vowed many times that he was only a teacher, and the most radical one was Ceng Guoquan.
If his eldest brother becomes the emperor, the Tseng family can also win the championship, and he will not push anything.
However, no matter who persuaded him, he didn’t agree.
Now it’s good that Cixi’s little nia directly supports Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, whose wings are hardened. Zuo Zongtang’s status as a juren has been constantly rising in recent years. Even though Li Hongzhang is a governor of Jiangsu, he can recruit tens of thousands of troops and rely on the sea, money and food to feed them. These two Tsengs have hardened their tails. Over the past year, Ceng Guoquan has repeatedly written to ask Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang to attack Tianjing together, but they are full of words, but they just can’t see a single soldier.
If this were to be done before the arrival of the army, he wouldn’t pull his face and ask them to support him. He hates that he can’t monopolize the achievement of destroying the balance of heaven and conquering Tianjing. This achievement is his brother Zeng Guofan. He can also refuse to make things worse. Li Zuoer can pull his face himself and they still don’t give face.
Ceng Guoquan thinks that everyone is nothing.
At this time, soldiers suddenly came to report to the army, and countless Taiping rebels arrived at Yanji. The other side of the Taiping rebels attacked from Yanji and Shencemen, and they had captured the fortress around the Shogunate Mountain and occupied the long trench from Shencemen to the Yangtze River.
Ceng Guoquan sat down on the ground, Xiang was very tired, and the other party finally saved his strength and attacked. He knew that one day he had a bad temper and a strong liver-qi, and he was often recovered by qi and liver disease. This time he felt bad again.
Without the navy’s confrontation, he knew that Tianjinggen could not surround foreigners. Horatia Nelson Lay suggested that the court purchase the British fleet. Who did the court want to promise? His eldest brother actually opposed it. Later, I heard that the fake had also done the work, and the British didn’t sell it. If only I could buy some foreigners’ steamboats for Xiang, but his brother would recruit some skilled craftsmen to hide in Anqing, but he wouldn’t buy them from foreigners.
Ceng Guoquan sometimes feels that Tian Tian is fighting with them, and the enemies of Xiang are fighting with them.
Sigh, order the withdrawal, and withdraw all the troops from Shence Gate to form a fortress in Longbo area. This purple mountain should be able to stop the other side’s strong ships and guns unless they can put the warships into Shence Gate and come to the lake behind the Taiping Gate.
Zeng Guofan wrote to the army again and reported that there were more deserters. Ceng Guoquan gave a long sigh and looked at Tianjing City. That night, they quietly withdrew their troops. The last withdrawal was the army stationed in Yuhuatai.
He can’t really ignore his eldest brother Zeng Guofan. That’s to increase the backbone. Zeng Guofan’s ordnance office in Anqing has always been surrounded by Anqing army. Zeng Guofan has also been surrounded. Can he let it go?
The soldiers have long been reluctant to attack the city. When they heard the withdrawal, they were in high spirits. They withdrew from Tianjing to the west, and the strongholds along the way, such as Fenglinzhou, Dasheng and Sanshanji, were in their hands. Therefore, it was also thrilling to withdraw.
The waterway is occupied by the army and Taiping rebels. They can walk 6. When passing by the quarry, Ceng Guoquan became ill. He has been carried through Dangtu, Wuhu and Tongling until he found the channel to cross the river by boat.
Li Xiucheng has always been very steady. He is pressing hard, but he doesn’t force Xiang to fight hard with them. He doesn’t care if he keeps this army and wants the other party to go quietly. He won’t worry even if the other party sets fire to all the cities along the way. He doesn’t care if he.
After Xiang retreated to Anqing, Taiping rebels also chased Anqing.
However, Li Xiucheng was not in a hurry. In total, he was not in a hurry because he believed that it was on his side that the army kept sending them ships and sent people to teach them to operate temporarily. The urgent task was not to fight with Xiang in Anqing, but to unite with the Taiping rebels of Li Shixian, Jinwen and Wang Haiyang. They have been fighting in Jiangxi. Li Xiucheng sent 10,000 troops south to Huizhou and planned to unite them to expand the Taiping rebels together.
When the troops arrived in Li Xiucheng, he didn’t intend to fight with Xiang in Anqing. He thought that it was a horse attack on Jiangsu and Zhejiang to recapture Sufu Province, where he had been operating for three years. He believed that once he could recover Sufu Province, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would get rid of the current dilemma of living by selling Wangfu assets.
At the same time, the situation of Taiping Army is getting better and better. At the same time, the military side is not without this period. Chen Zhiting ordered Zhang Baoming and Wen Xingrui to help the people in Fujian. Wen Xingrui is a Fujian family and a large group of businessmen doing business in Guangdong. They negotiated with Fujian’s big landlords and big clan forces to win each other’s trust. In fact, the other side is also afraid that no people are afraid of the government. Therefore, Fujian soon took control of the countryside and the city.
Zuo Zongtang’s troops retreated to Jiangxi and Zhejiang, and soon they were deployed along the border of Fujian and Fujian, and they could attack at any time. Therefore, Zhang Baoming and his men had to be prepared for a long-term war, and Fujian should keep at least 60 thousand troops at the front for a long time.
It’s not so severe in Guangxi. Although it’s near Hunan, Jiang Yili quickly rallied with the support of local forces after he retreated to Hunan, but he obviously doesn’t intend to attack, so he might as well be stationed in the barren Guangxi on the border of Hunan, which is far less interesting for Jiang Yili than in the local Hunan.
Therefore, it is enough for Guangxi to need two armies, but it didn’t make progress at the moment. Perhaps whether it is to attack Hunan over the endless mountains at the junction of Hunan and Guangxi or to continue to attack Guizhou or Yunnan to the west, it is no longer an army that can support it. Even Sichengfu, Qingyuan Fu and Sienfu in the west of Guangxi are beyond the control of military forces. The foundation is smooth waterways, and the western border is from the north of Liuzhou to the south of Guilin to Nanning.
If other state governments want to show that their ministers will not fight them, they will be autonomous.
Chen Zhiting’s defensive position was not his own, but Zhu Jinglun told him before he left.
What Zhu Jinglun dares to walk is to know that for a long time, the army can’t have room for expansion. Jiangsu and Zhejiang are reserved for the Taiping rebels to fight with the Hunan-Huai regiment. He can control Fujian to Guangxi, and the border line in this area stretches for thousands of miles, so it is hard enough to defend where to attack.
Therefore, he thought that the Qing army would leave him alone, so he buried himself in the exhibition of Fujian tea and Guangdong raw silk. In a few years, the export of trade will reach 10 million levels, and the army will be able to completely complete the training and consolidation, and he will play wherever he wants.
Zhu Jinglun, is it still time?
American cruisers soon blocked the south during the war and made hundreds of cruisers.
Lincoln said that all these warships would be dismantled, and Zhu Jinglun planned to buy them. Of course, Lincoln needed to give him a discount. Not only the 3oo warships with the most advanced technology among the active warships of the US military, but also the warships of the American shipyard, Zhu Jinglun would directly underwrite them if they could be purchased at a scrap price.
But the Americans must send consultants to every ship to help Zhu Jinglun train the captain, so that Zhu Jinglun can not only worry about the navy, but also form a huge ocean-going merchant fleet
Section three hundred and seventy-four Returning home
Four American warships that sent Zhu Jinglun home arrived in Guangdong at the end of July after three and a half months of sailing, but Zhu Jinglun asked them to continue to fly the American flag and temporarily anchor in Kowloon Port.
After several years of development, Kowloon Port has become the largest port in Southeast China. Due to the good business environment, Kowloon Port can rely on its own business to develop in a rolling way without the government’s investment.
A few years ago, Chiwan Port also appeared. With the impact of capital, farmers nearby finally sold their land. Of course, for the sake of conservatism, most of them were sold to Kowloon Port by lease. A large number of hoarded land along the coast have entered the port reserve. At present, the land area controlled by the port has reached 10,000 mu, exceeding the sea concession.
Of course, every year, the contribution is extremely high. Kowloon landlords and second landlords have raised the rent by about ten times in the port. They have no reason not to sell each mu of land every year, and it is also stipulated that the two sides can renegotiate the rent every three years, which has dispelled their worries. You should know that the land in the sea is a permanent rent, and foreigners pay a little rent to landlords every year through a large amount of land appreciation.
The preparation of 100,000 mu of land makes the port pay 1 million yuan in rent every year, but this expenditure is now affordable.
I bought land, warehouses and docks from a foreign firm in Hong Kong a few years ago and rented them for two years, then I earned them back from the foreign firm.
China must pass through Nanyang, and the development potential here is really great.
Even across the water from Hong Kong Island, it is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Robinson didn’t work hard. In the past two years, he built ponds, solved the water problem in Hong Kong, and constantly reclaimed land to expand Hong Kong Island, but all this was in vain because it was too high.
Competition in Kowloon Port has made Hong Kong’s business decline day by day. Before the construction of Kowloon Port, the scale of Hong Kong’s re-export trade was huge. Every year, opium imports 22,000 cotton, 72,000 wool, 52,000 hardware exports 22,000 raw silk, 122,000 tea, 292,000 cotton and 62,000 cotton. The total import and export value is as high as 10,000 taels, and now it has dropped to about one third and barely 272,000 taels.
Shrinking trade leads to shrinking industries that rely on trade, which in turn leads to falling taxes. Their tax revenue has dropped to less than 30,000 pounds in 147, and it was as high as 70,000 pounds just three years ago. However, it needs constant investment to build a large number of public works in Hong Kong. As a result, robinson can increase taxes and add water, which makes local people dissatisfied, especially local China businessmen. They think that Hong Kong is "not donating" and would rather abandon its industry in Hong Kong than move out of this place.
As a result, the population has dropped from 100,000 five years ago to 50,000 now, and the decline in population has intensified, which has led to the depreciation of land assets. The Hong Kong government has no money, so it has to increase taxes, and the labor force has become more and more willing to berth in Kowloon, further causing the industry to shrink.
Of course, it is not only the history of competition in Kowloon Port, but the main reason why Hong Kong has shrunk since the 1950 s is actually the rise of the sea. However, one industry has saved Hong Kong, and that is coolie trade. However, in this era, the strong competition in Kowloon Port has made the situation in Hong Kong worse, and it is no longer sustainable to rely solely on coolie trade.
A free trade port, when the import and export trade shrinks, Kowloon Port will gradually replace Hong Kong as a good entrepot trade port, and even when the first choice of British businessmen is to dock at Kowloon Port, Hong Kong will have no future.
In addition, Zhu Jinglun also intends to crack down on the coolie trade in their pillar industries!
Of course, the most important thing before is to solve the national problem.
There’s nothing Zhu Jinglun has quietly landed on that doesn’t let people know his whereabouts, but he’s worried.
He secretly summoned a rather young official of the Kowloon Port Tax Department from Zhang Zhang Liang, Kowloon.
Kowloon is an entrepot and a well-informed port. Zhang Liang knows what is happening in most big countries.
The situation is complicated, and Zhang Liang himself can’t judge the situation.