In Tianjin, with the arrival of the combined fleets of France and the United States outside Tianjin, the entire Tianjin Fucheng was panicked, many shops inside and outside the city closed their doors one after another, and the wealthy merchants in the city also went out of the city to take refuge, and the officers and soldiers of the battalions stationed in Tianjin were also like facing a great enemy, waiting for battle, and no one knew whether a war would break out. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the outbreak of war with England, Dagukou Fort has received great attention from the imperial court, and in recent years, five forts, twelve earthen forts, and thirteen earthen forts have been built, and a group of forts has been initially formed.

On the fort with the word "Wei", the nearly sixty-year-old governor of Zhili, Ner, pursed his lips and looked at the sea in the east, the minister of the Qin Mission, the governor of the South Seas, Yi Zhicontent, went to the Western Fleet alone to negotiate with the envoys of the other side and did not return, which made him feel a little uneasy, and seeing the sun sinking in the west, he couldn't help but worry even more in his heart, he was afraid that something would happen to Yi Zhicontent, and he was worried that the Westerners would provoke a war.

"It's back! It's back! The deputy general Sheng Kui, who was standing behind him, handed over the telescope in his hand as he spoke, and said with a happy face: "Lord Qincha is back!" ”

Nal raised his telescope to look over, and saw that the slender Western-style ship that Yi Zhishu was riding slowly returned, and the hanging heart was finally put down, turned around and got off the fort, and walked to the dock.

The "Feiyan" arrived at the dock, Yi Zhifen, who was dressed in a long robe, stepped on the dock quickly, and the officials who saw it greeted him, and said with a smile: "It has been negotiated, the envoys of the other side and the officers and soldiers of the warship will not land, but they have to replenish enough supplies, and they have opened a list ......." As he spoke, he handed over a list.

The other party who listened to it didn't go ashore, Nerjing breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, as for the negotiation matters, he didn't care at all, it was not his errand, and he didn't understand, he took the list and glanced at it, and saw that it was all some ghost drawings, he hurriedly, "No one knows these foreign languages, and I have to work hard to translate them...... The main department is also good to arrange for people to buy. ”

Yi Zhishu nodded and said, "In addition, the Lord of the Ministry of Labor is ready to hurry up, and the draft contract negotiated will be sent to the capital overnight, and these Western warships cannot be moored here for a long time, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

It was negotiated so quickly, and a draft contract was made? Nerjing secretly sighed in his heart, and said with his head bowed: "Lord Qincha, don't worry, the fast horse is waiting at any time, and you will be able to arrive in Beijing in half a day." ”

Yi Zhishu was about to go back to the camp to translate the grass contract so that it could be sent to Jingshi as soon as possible, but he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and when he looked up, he saw that the twenty wanted to ride quickly rushed to the dock, and what attracted attention was not the rider but the horses, they were all high-headed horses, and they were all handsome and abnormal, and they knew at a glance that they were rare and good horses.

He was secretly surprised in his heart, where did this big mouth get so many good horses? When he saw that the riders on the horses were all wearing golden belts around their waists, he immediately realized that it was the group of clan disciples who had arrived, and it was no wonder that so many horses suddenly appeared.

Nerjing also guessed the identity of these riders, he didn't want to meet these yellow belts, so he immediately arched his hand and said: "The headquarters still has important business, go first." ”

A group of clan disciples led Su Shun, and when he was still more than ten steps away from Yi Zhicontent, he neatly turned over and dismounted, walked quickly to meet him, and bowed to salute, "I've seen the military gate." ”

A group of yellow belts behind him have followed suit, and they all immediately bowed forward to salute, Yi Zhizu glanced at everyone, and found that there were still a few familiar faces, and this group of people didn't seem to be young, all of them were over twenty, and after glancing at Su Shun, he said: "What's the matter, they all want to come to the navy to win military merits?" ”

Su Shun smiled, "When I go back to the military gate, it is not necessarily true, there are many people who are optimistic about the future of the navy." ”

Optimistic about the future of the Navy? Yi Zhishu nodded, pointed to those horses, and said, "These horses are good, they are rare to see in the south." ”

Hearing this, Su Shun smiled and said: "Before the inferior horses come, these horses naturally belong to the Nanyang Navy." So saying, he led his horse and said, "Please get on the horse." ”

Yi Zhixiang was not polite, took off his long shirt, turned over his horse, and said, "Go back to the camp." ”

Back to the big tent, Yi Zhizu first translated the draft agreement and shopping list signed with the envoys of France and the United States, and handed it over to the express horse to the Beijing division, and then summoned Su Shun and said, "You are here to fight the front station?" ”

There are no outsiders, Su Shun is also more casual, and he said: "Let's come to inquire and see how Brother Guocheng arranged?" ”

"How many are there?"

"There are 500 disciples of the sect Jueluo, and 1,000 children of the Eight Banners of the Jingshi, a total of 1,500 people."

Yi Zhishu was speechless for a while, how uneasy is this for the Nanyang Navy? Unexpectedly, there are 500 disciples of the sect Jueluo, and there are 1,000 children of the Eight Banners of the Jingshi, so Daoguang is not afraid that these Jingyouzi will corrupt the naval atmosphere? After a slight groan, he said: "They will come to Tianjin as soon as possible and take the French and American warships south." ”

Su Shun shook his head and hurriedly said, "Those Xiyi agree? ”

"What's not to agree with?" Yi Zhi said disapprovingly: "The Nanyang Navy has just been built, and it is in urgent need of Western warships, so I am ready to buy at least ten warships from them for training." ”

"Brother Guocheng is really generous." Su Shun said with a smile: "I heard that Western warships are not cheap, and they cost about 400,000 yuan with artillery, and if you buy ten ships at a time, I am afraid that the imperial court will not be able to take out so much silver at the moment." ”

"When the Nanyang Navy is newly established, the imperial court should always make up a sum of money for its creation." Yi Zhizhi said with a smile: "Don't worry, the emperor will agree." ”

Old Summer Palace, Zhengda Guangming Palace, Xinuan Pavilion.

After reading the excerpt sent by Yi Zhifen, Daoguang's face was bitter, and he asked for four million when he opened his mouth, didn't this kid know that the current household treasury was empty? After being silent for a long time, he looked at Mu Zhang'a and said, "What do you think?" ”

Mu Zhang'a hurriedly said: "The draft agreements signed with France and the United States are all in accordance with the terms of the "Jiangning Treaty" on trade between the four ports, and there is nothing excessive in violation of them. After a pause, he continued: "As for the purchase of warships, one is the initial construction of the navy, and the other is that the treasury is empty at the moment, so it is not suitable to purchase a large number of warships, but two or three ships are okay." ”

Two or three? Daoguang shook his head slightly, he knew the reason why Yi Zhixiang was in a hurry to buy warships, with these ten warships, the Nanyang Navy might be free up next year to conquer the Japanese Kingdom, and he groaned slightly, before he said: "I let the Treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs allocate one million taels, and you raise one million ......taels from the household department, and the rest of the Yuan Qi will naturally think about it." ”

Listening to the words, Mu Zhang'a hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there are already thirty or forty large and small Western warships that the Nanyang Navy can mobilize now, and ....... ten more will be added?" ”

"Needless to say." Daoguang said in a deep voice, he knew what Mu Zhang'a was worried about, it was purely blind worry, thirty, forty, fifty, what's the difference? Did Yi Zhicontent dare to rebel and lead the fleet north to attack Tianjin?

"Yes, the minion obeys." Mu Zhang'a hurriedly said.

Tianjin Dagukou Barracks, Daxiao Field.

Yi Zhizu sat on the parade platform and watched his guards train the 1,500 recruits who had only arrived in Tianjin yesterday, about 1,500 people lined up in three neat squares, horizontally and vertically, and obliquely in a line, but because there was no unified military uniform, there was inevitably a fly in the ointment.

The children of the Eight Banners have always brought their own coat weapons, but I heard that the navy is a new army, and the military uniform is different from the Eight Banners Green Battalion coat, so no one wastes silver to buy a coat, not to mention the weapons, it is rumored that the navy's musket is the best musket in the Qing Dynasty, and a musket costs one hundred taels of silver, even if there is silver, there is no place to buy it.

Wu Mengtian, the commander of the guard company, who had changed into the new short-sleeved summer military uniform of the Yuanqi regiment, trotted to the parade platform in a standard posture, stood up and saluted, and said in a loud voice: "Report to the military gate, the team has been assembled." ”

Yi Zhizu glanced at the three teams and said, "Idle is also idle, let them stand in a military posture." ”

"Yes." Wu Mengtian saluted.

After Wumengtian trotted away, Yi Zhizhi glanced at the sun, took out a cigar and lit it slowly, Daoguang gave him a problem, he knew very well that Daoguang wanted to steal control of the navy through this group of sect Jueluo disciples, so that it would completely disrupt his idea of using the Naval Academy to train middle and low-ranking officers in the navy.

In fact, the best way to create a modern army is to build a school first, then build an army, first establish a military school, train a large number of backbones, and then recruit soldiers, these backbones are the skeleton of the army, but, knowing that he does not have this condition and does not have time, the formation of Yuanqi regimental training is too hasty, the reason is that there is too late.

Originally, the establishment of the two naval academies in Guangzhou and Shanghai filled him with confidence, but Daoguang played tricks again, wanting to use the children of the clan Jueluo to control the navy, and these children could be transformed into qualified grassroots officers? Hard! All they cared about was the Manchus.

Otherwise, simply leave them in Dinghai for closed training, and isolate them from naval recruits, it's a big deal, they won't enter Beijing in the future! In another three or five years, will the court still dare to turn against him? Even if you turn your face, you won't be afraid when the time comes.

It's not that simple! Daoguang will not fail to prevent this, if he really wants to do this, Daoguang is afraid that he will play new tricks again! Yuanqi group practice has now been included in the division of the imperial court system, and there are too many tricks that Daoguang can play.

Just when he was entangled, several horses galloped over, and when he looked at the rider's outfit, he knew that it was the courier of the Beijing Division, and sure enough, the rider stepped forward quickly, bowed down and said: "Lord Yu Qincha, the Beijing Division is six hundred miles urgent." ”

Open the express mail, first four original copies of the treaty that have been sealed, this is the original of the treaty sent by Yi Zhizu to Beijing for review, Daoguang has been sealed, then only the emperor or president of France and the United States approved the imperial court, the two sides exchanged photos, and the treaty will officially enter into force.

This was followed by an edict from Daoguang, who handed over the Great Seal of Qinchaguan Defense to the Governor of Zhili, Nerjing, and brought it back, without returning to Beijing, and returned directly to the southeast.

Finally able to leave the Beijing Division, Yi Zhixiang was secretly happy in his heart, to be honest, he didn't like the Beijing Division too much, because as soon as he entered the Beijing Division, he had a feeling that his wealth and life were under control, and he glanced at the three teams below, and he ordered, "Stand for an hour." After saying that, he walked quickly down the parade platform.

"What are you? is also worthy of shouting in front of the master! A shout of scolding came.

Yi Zhifen glanced over, and saw a yellow belt pointing at the nose of one of his guards and scolding, this shouting and scolding was full of anger, and the entire school field was sideways, this group of sect Jueluo disciples are pampered and excellent on weekdays, where have they suffered this kind of hardship, standing in a military posture looks relaxed, but in fact, it is very tiring after a long time, especially for the first time to stand in a military posture.

You don't need to ask Yi Zhishu to know, it must be that the yellow belt action is out of shape and was scolded by the guards, I feel aggrieved, I roared out of my voice, everyone who saw it looked over, the yellow belt became more and more energetic, and I pulled the golden belt around my waist, and said with a proud face: "Boy, this is the yellow belt ......." ”

"Get out of the line!" Yi Zhizhi shouted coldly.

The yellow ribbon obviously didn't understand what it meant to be out of the ranks, and after a pause, Yi Zhizhi said in a deep voice: "Take him out of the column!" ”

As soon as the guards heard this, they grabbed the neck of the yellow belt with one hand, and directly pulled him out of the queue, Yi Zhishu walked quickly to him, and said with a cruel smile: "It's very energetic, they stand for an hour, you stand for two hours!" Stand still! ”

"Why?" The yellow belt simply went out, and shouted with a stalk around his neck, looking at Yi Zhizhi with a provocative expression, with a look of what can you do to me.

"If you run into an official and disrespect your orders, how to deal with them in accordance with military regulations?" Yi Zhishu looked at the guard and asked.

"Back to the military gate, according to military regulations, ten military sticks should be punished!"

Yi Zhizu said expressionlessly: "Execution." ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to be beaten with ten military sticks, the yellow belt jumped to his feet and said: "Lao Tzu is gone, I'd rather go to Shengjing than be this bird navy!" ”

Listening to the words, Yi Zhicontent's heart moved, and he looked at him coldly, Su Shun was worried that Yi Zhixiang would not be able to get off the stage, so he hurriedly scolded: "Bato, don't mess around!" ”

Seeing that Yi Zhizhi was silent, Barto became even more emboldened, and shouted at the queue: "If you don't want to suffer this nest here, follow me!" ”

"Want to go?" Yi Zhizu sneered: "Yes, hit ten military sticks and then leave, come and execute." ”

Bato said loudly: "Master is not the navy, you are a minion, why should you care about the master!" ”

As soon as he heard the words, all the yellow and red belts were alive and well, and they would be driven out if they were beaten with ten military sticks? However, they soon thought that if they returned to Beijing with ten military sticks, would they not be sent to Shengjing or Jilin? If this is the case, it is worth it, but if there are fewer people, it is obviously not possible, but what if there are many people? There is a way that the law does not blame the public, if there are one or two hundred people, Daoguang can't send them all to Shengjing, right?

It is risky for the navy to go to sea on a warship, and all the yellow and red belts know that although the military title is good, it is not as important as their own lives, and many people are forced to come by their families, or it should be said that they were forced to come by Daoguang. (To be continued.) )