Yi Zhi's words are not tactful, and the meaning is also very clear, Yuan Qi's silver He would rather spend it on Yiyong than on the sailor, the smile on Guan Tianpei's face froze, and said with a dry smile: "No matter how bad the officers and soldiers of the sailor are, after all, it is still the division of the imperial court, the old man has not been less rectified since he became the commander of the navy, and he has not slackened in training, the old man still doesn't understand, how can in the eyes of contentment, the sailor is not as good as the newly recruited volunteers?" ”

Yi Zhixiang smiled and didn't say anything, he did have a prejudice against the water division, because of the battle of Humen, the performance of the water division was too disappointing, more than 10,000 people, they lost the tiger gate in one day, and even the boss was lost, such a water division can be said to be completely hopeless.

Seeing that Yi Zhizhi was silent, Guan Tianpei was also speechless for a while, he didn't know why Yi Zhifen had such a big prejudice against the water master, but for this God of Wealth, he really couldn't afford to provoke it, not only Emperor Daoguang favored Yuan Qi, but several military ministers also appreciated it, Deng Tingzhen and Yiliang in Guangzhou needless to say, not only appreciated, but also relied on it.

Besides, Yi Zhizhi bought 600 Western artillery pieces for Humen, and he would continue to provide high-quality gunpowder and shells, where did he dare to show the other party's face.

The two sat sullenly for a long time, Guan Tianpei sighed, and said: "It is difficult to bring soldiers, the green battalion is even more difficult to bring, and the Guangdong Navy Division is especially difficult to bring. And how can they be expected to do their best to defend the Tiger Gate? ”

Seeing him complain, Yi Zhifen smiled and said, "Guan Junmen has been in charge of the water division for four years. I would venture to ask below. How many soldiers are willing to die in the service of closing the military gate? ”

Guan Tianpei stretched out a slap. Said: "The two battalions on the center and left, at least fifty percent." ”

In the battle of Humen, the soldiers who died with Guan Tianpei were about 500 people, and about 1,000 were captured, and the two battalions in the middle and left of Humen Village were more than 3,000 people. Yi Zhizu nodded slightly, and said: "There are six hundred large and small artillery positions in Humen, three people in the small artillery positions, and five people in the large artillery positions, a total of two thousand people, and the elite of the Guanjunmen can't even meet the artillery positions, so what do you need muskets to do?" ”

"Naturally, it is a soldier who can't give a gun position."

Yi Zhizu shook his head slightly, and said, "Guan Junmen is not afraid that they will defect to the battlefield, I am afraid!" ”

Hearing this, Guan Tianpei was speechless. The sailors oppose the strict prohibition of crows. There are indeed a lot of officers and soldiers in the film, and this really has to be guarded against. Yi Zhizhi continued: "It is best to leave a battalion of personal soldiers to supervise the battle, this battalion of personal soldiers, I will give the best Citi musket, as for the shortage of manpower at the gun position, choose from the volunteers."

In addition, in order to build logistical supply channels for each battery, it is not possible to rely only on the surface of the water to replenish the supply, once the war starts, it is impossible to supply from the water surface, and the supply must be carried out from the back mountain. ”

These two proposals are very pertinent and very important, Guan Tianpei naturally knew it, and immediately said: "If you are content and thoughtful, the old man will start arranging." ”

At night, the lights on the Baietanjiang River are lit, and Huang Dianyuan, who is alias Su Yunhai, stands on the bow of the boat and looks at the night view of the river, but he is bored indescribably in his heart. piece smuggling, he heard that Lin Zexu's smoking ban in Guangzhou was quite strict, so he came to check it out in order to think of a countermeasure, but he didn't expect to meet Yi Zhishu in Humen.

The little girl dressed as a man next to Yi Zhicontent, he recognized Jin Ying at a glance as one of the two female disciples of the Qinglian Sect, but he didn't dare to conclude whether Jin Ying also recognized him, and he couldn't conclude what the relationship between Yi Zhishu and the Qinglian Sect was?

If Yi Zhicontent doesn't know Jin Ying's identity, it doesn't matter, if Yi Zhicontent enters the Qinglian Sect, then his identity will be revealed, not only has his thoughts about wooing Yi Zhicontent been in vain for more than a year, but I'm afraid that Su Mengdie will be affected.

"Young master." Yao Qichang walked over slowly and said, "Are we going to Huadi or Xiguan?" ”

"Go to Xiguan and go to Huadi tomorrow morning." Huang Dianyuan said in a sullen voice, the relationship between Su Mengdie and Yi Zhicontent was there, and he had to pay attention to the impact.

Hearing his muffled voice, Yao Qichang knew that he was upset, and said with relief: "Yuan Qi is now famous, and the Qinglian Sect naturally wants to be content, Jin Ying estimates that it is just a shadow. ”

"I hope it's a shadow, too." Huang Dianyuan sighed lightly as he spoke, and said, "Do you still remember the incident when Yi Zhicontent was kidnapped in Shunde?" I guess it's the handwriting of the Qinglian Sect. ”

Yao Qichang pondered carefully, it was really possible, he muttered: "Or, try it?" ”

"I'm going to have to test it." Huang Dianyuan nodded.

Rongqing Garden, backyard.

Su Mengdie lazily half lay on the bamboo couch, supporting her head with her hands, listening to Bai Xue singing the song "Legend" over and over again, which was to invite a famous musician in Guangzhou to arrange the music for "Legend". To be honest, the lyrics of this song are lingering and tactful, but the tune is difficult to compliment.

"Miss." Dai Qing walked over quickly and said in a low voice, "The young master is here." ”

As soon as she heard this, Su Mengdie hurriedly sat up and said, "Take it to Zhuyuan, and I'll come later." ”

After a little dress-up, Su Mengdie rushed to the bamboo garden and ordered the two maids to stay outside the garden, she walked in, and when she entered the hall, she saw Huang Dianyuan and Yao Qichang, she hurriedly squatted down and said: "The slave family has seen the young master, Mr. Yao." Standing up, she said with a smile: "Lin Zexu banned smoking in Guangzhou and forced foreigners to pay more than 20,000 boxes of crows. piece, the slave family estimated that the young master would not be able to sit still. ”

"Crow. It's a small thing. Huang Dianyuan said expressionlessly: "Yi Zhizhi has people from the Qinglian Sect around him, but Dieniang didn't notice it at all?" ”

Qinglian Sect? Su Mengdie couldn't help but pause, and after a slight thought, she asked, "But it's easy to be content with a close person?" ”

"It should be a personal maid." Yao Qichang said: "Yesterday, Yi Zhishu took her to Humen and bumped into the young master, that little girl is the head of the Ten Lands of the Qinglian Sect - a disciple of the Zhenren Sect, and she has seen the young master before. ”

Su Mengdie's face suddenly turned extremely pale, if Yi Zhixin knew that she was a member of the Three Points Society, what would be the consequences?

Huang Dianyuan glanced at her. said: "Don't worry. Sit down first. Now I can't tell whether Yi Zhicontent has entered the Qinglian Sect, if I haven't entered the Qinglian Sect, then the girl will definitely not expose my identity. ”

Yao Qichang followed: "Dieniang think about it carefully, could Yi Zhicontent be a member of the Qinglian Sect?" ”

Slowly sat down and took a sip of tea, Su Mengdie quickly calmed down, and thought for a moment before she spoke: "It is unlikely that Yi Zhizhi will be content to enter the Qinglian Sect. ”

Huang Dianyuan, who was holding a teacup and sniffing the fragrance of tea, glanced at her. "Why?"

"Yi Zhizhi is an ambitious person in his own right." Su Mengdie said slowly: "Since he founded Yuanqi the year before last, in just two years, Yuanqi has monopolized a provincial money village in Guangdong, monopolized the raw silk in Shunde, opened Changle Machinery Manufacturing Factory, Changzhou Shipyard, and Yuanqi Yixue.

A few months ago, Yuan Qi set up another group of protectors, and I heard that it was a size of five hundred people, which was allowed to be equipped with muskets. Changle Machinery Manufacturing Factory has set up a factory protection team of 200 people, in addition. I heard that the Thirteen Lines have also been recruiting sailors for the past two years, and the number is not small.

Now that Yuan Qi wants money and money, and there are people, there is no need to enter the Qinglian Sect at all, besides, Yi Zhicontent has risen rapidly with the help of the Thirteen Elements, and the Thirteen Elements and the Three. Combine. will have a close relationship, if you want to use the power of the gang, it should also be the choice three. The Syndicate, not the Blue Lotus Sect. ”

"Makes sense." Huang Dianyuan said: "However, can Dieniang remember that Yi Zhixiang was kidnapped in Shunde the year before last?" ”

"What the young master means." Su Mengdie hesitated and said, "Yi Zhishu may have been forced into the Qinglian Sect?" ”

"It's not impossible." Huang Dianyuan said: "According to the real person, two female disciples, if you want sex. Temptation is easy to be content, it shouldn't be the little girl who sent Jin Ying, but the unusually beautiful Bai Zhi. ”

"Angelica dahurica? Abnormal beauty? Su Mengdie frowned and said, "The Qinglian Sect has been quite active in Shunde recently, and there is a woman nicknamed 'Guanyin in White' among the female silk reeling workers, I heard that she is very beautiful, is it Bai Zhi?" ”

"I don't know." Huang Dianyuan shook his head slightly, groaned slightly, and then he said, "Yuan Qi still starts a righteous school?" ”

"It's a very large-scale righteous school." Su Mengdie said: "According to the inquiry, there are many students of Yixue, please have Westerners as gentlemen, but in Guangzhou and the surrounding areas, there are very few people who know Yuanqiyixue, it is obvious that Yuanqiyixue does not recruit local students in Guangzhou, and should be the children of Yuanqi resettlement village."

In the past two years, Yuan Qi has bought land to resettle displaced people on Henan Island, Luoxi Island, Xiaohoowei and Changzhou Island, and now there are six resettlement villages, resettled nearly 10,000 displaced people, and the children of these resettlement villages, regardless of their size, are free to study in Yuan Qiyi. ”

Yao Qichang couldn't help but sigh lightly: "This Yuan Qi is such a big hand. ”

"What's going on with the Yuanqi Guardian Merchant Group?"

"The Guangdong Sailor recruited volunteers last year, and the Yuanqi Merchant Group was formed in the name of Volunteers, but so far I haven't seen the Merchant Protector Group show up."

Huang Dian Yuanyi said strangely: "How could the government allow Yuan Qi to build a merchant group? ”

"I don't know."

"Easy contentment has a tight mouth?"

"He came to Rongqing Garden and rarely talked about Yuanqi."

"Bai Xue and Ling Xuan, has he taken the house?"

"Nope." Su Mengdie shook his head and said, "He didn't agree to the hints a few times, but after Bai Xue and Ling Xuan came, he came significantly more often." ”

"It's rare that he can hold it." Huang Dianyuan smiled and said, "Send someone to wait, Yi Zhizhi will return to Xiguan, so I will invite him to come and test it." ”

In the afternoon, Yi Zhizu rushed back to Yuanqi from Humen, and as soon as he got off the sedan chair, Dai Qing, Su Mengdie's personal maid, quickly greeted him, squatted down and said: "The slave has seen Yi Da's shopkeeper." ”

Seeing her, Yi Zhixiang smiled and said, "Dai'er doesn't have to be polite, but Su Gongzi sent you here?" ”

"Exactly." Dai Qing said with a smile.

"I'm sorry to come back to the recovery boy, I'll be there later."

Jin Ying frowned, and when she entered Rongyuan, she motioned for Li Wang to stay outside the courtyard, and she couldn't help but say, "Young master, the other party is so anxious to invite, isn't it?" ”

Yi Zhizu laughed softly: "I'll just say, you are such a quirky elf girl, how can people not pay attention." ”

"Then the young master is still going?"

"Why not?" Yi Zhishu said casually: "Fetch water, I want to bathe and change clothes." ”

"Young Master isn't worried at all?"

"Worried about what?" Yi Zhishu smiled: "Even if the other party recognizes you, what does it have to do with me?" You can push 369, a sentence that is not clear about your identity, you can perfunctory past, if you don't go, the other party will be suspicious. ”

"That's just as well." Jin Ying nodded, and hurriedly went to fetch water.

Entering the room, Yi Zhizhi drank a glass of water, picked up a puff fan and fanned it a few times, it was March, the weather was already a little hot and unbearable, a little movement was a sweat, Huang Dianyuan pleased, he was not worried, in Guangzhou, this acre of three points, Fujian's three points will not dare to come nonsense, the other party wants to test him, he is also trying to test the other party.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yi Zhizu took a boat into the backyard of Rongqing Garden, the boat docked, and Su Mengdie, who had been carefully dressed, greeted him, squatted down with a smile and said, "The slave family has seen San Lang." ”

Yi Zhizu smiled and stretched out his hand to help him, and then said: "Brother Ling came to Guangzhou again, but it was not because of the smoking ban. Naturally, he didn't ask this nonsense, he knew very well that Guangdong's three. The union is the largest crow in Guangdong. Piece sellers, the same as the Fujian three-point meeting of the Heaven and Earth Society, do not do crows. The film business is a strange thing, as the second leader of the three points will be in charge of finance, Huang Dianyuan came to Guangzhou at this juncture, needless to say, he must have come to inquire about the smoking ban.

Su Mengdie glanced at him and said, "My brother is famous, why does San Lang ask like this?" ”

Huang Dianyuan is indeed famous, this is not false, Yi Zhixiang smiled and said, "I met Brother Ling in Humen yesterday. ”

"Lord Lin confiscated foreign merchant crows in Humen. film, this is a very happy move, who doesn't want to see it for themselves? Su Mengdie said with a smile, "My brother has already prepared a banquet for San Lang, and the slave family took San Lang there." ”

Walking slowly all the way, Yi Zhishu asked casually: "Bai Xue can make up that song into a tune?" ”

"It's coming." Su Mengdie said: "The slave family has invited the best musician in Guangzhou in the past few days, and they are listening to the music and arranging, but it is not easy. ”

The difficulty is naturally not small, Yi Zhizhi smiled, and did not answer, I am afraid that it is more suitable to invite a Western musician for this matter, but a few women are idle at home, and it is not a bad thing to find something for them.

The two chatted all the way, to the bamboo garden, Huang Dianyuan, Yao Qichang was already waiting at the door, as soon as they met, Huang Dianyuan smiled and said: "Yesterday I was content and had something to do, and I couldn't drink bitterly. ”

"There are a lot of Brother Rong, but he is not an opponent in the next place." Yi Zhishu returned the salute with a smile, stretched out his hand and said, "Brother Rong, please." ”

"Be content, please." The three of them politely entered the hall, and after sitting down, Huang Dianyuan opened a jar of wine, personally poured the wine for the three of them, and raised his glass and said: "Contentment is not good at drinking, for my brother this time I specially purchased a jar of 'Baihua Wine' from Zhenjiang, which has been chilled for half a day, sweet and cool, with endless aftertaste. ”

Yi Zhisuff was suspicious, and took a dry sip, it was really sweet and delicious, and the degree was not high, Huang Dianyuan took a glass and said with a smile: "This wine is good, but it is only suitable for Jiangnan." As he spoke, he opened another jar of wine, and a rich aroma of wine immediately spread. (To be continued.) )