The visitor told Zhou Shixiang that the Qincha sent by the imperial court was Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of the university, and he was accompanied by an official from the Yamen, the governor of Qinzhou. As for what the content of the holy decree brought by Guo Zhiqi is, it is up to Zhou Shixiang to receive the decree himself. The holy decree was awarded to Zhou Shixiang, the general soldier of Guangzhou, Guo Zhiqi did not see the main master, how could he take out the holy decree and read it, Song Xianggong naturally had no way to guess the content of the holy decree.

Zhou Shixiang asked the visitor again if Guo Shao, Liang Shuanghu and others, who had been sent to Kunming to report the victory, had not returned, and the person shook his head and said that he had not returned.

Calculate the time, Guo Shao and Liang Shuanghu should also have come back from Kunming, why did the Kunming Holy Decree come, but Guo Shao and they didn't come back with them?

Zhou Shixiang was confused in his heart, and said in his heart, could it be that Guo Shao and they had an accident?

Guo Zhiqi's identity is much higher than that of Cheng Bangjun, the head of the Ministry of War, and the Yongli Imperial Court sent scholars to Guangzhou to issue an edict, which was of great significance to Zhou Shixiang's confusion in his heart, and he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and hurried back to Guangzhou. Before he returned to the Marshal's Mansion, he was stopped halfway by Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde, who rushed to the news after hearing the news.

Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde respectively represented the generals of the Pingnan Domain and the generals of the Jingnan Domain, one of them was originally a deputy commander and the other was a commander, and they were both high-ranking officials in the Qing court, but now they did not lead troops in the Taiping Army, but served as the two admirals and deputy envoys of the military training center.

The military training center is the training base for junior officers of the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang is set up as a political officer, and he is appointed as the commander of the training center, and there are four deputy commanders responsible for daily affairs, Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde are the third and fourth deputy envoys in the ranks. The first deputy envoy was Song Xianggong. The second deputy envoy is Zhao Sihai. (Author's note: A provincial school administration is also known as the admiral, which is called the admiral and the admiral)

Zhou Shixiang attached great importance to the military training center, which was an officer of the Taiping Army, so the officials and instructors of the training center were all high-quality appointments. He himself served as the commander of the Guangzhou Town Army, Song Xianggong was the political envoy of the second grade, and Zhao Sihai was hung with the rank of deputy general, Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde, the two deputy envoys representing Pingnan and Jingnan Shantou, naturally would not be low, although they did not serve in the army, but Zhou Shixiang gave them all deputy generals. This is a very high grade at present, after all, Zhou Shixiang is nominally only a second-grade Guangzhou chief military officer.

Count it up. Zhou Shixiang now has three part-time jobs, one is the commander of the water battalion, and the other is the ambassador of the ordnance institute. The third is the commander of the training institute. There are four branches of the infantry army, the cavalry army, the artillery army, and the naval army in the training center, except for the course being changed by Zhou Shixiang, the rest are set up in imitation of the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty. There are Han Chinese instructors in the institute, and there are also Manchurians. Westerners have it too. The trainees are all officers of the active duty Wu Zheng and above in various towns.

Due to the urgency of time, the training of middle and senior officers has not yet been able to be launched, and the existing courses and hardware conditions in the training center have not yet been perfected, so Zhou Shixiang will wait for the autumn of next year to open a training class for middle and senior generals according to the situation, and also plans to set up a cadet brigade similar to the nature of the teaching corps in later generations, and select young people under the age of 16 and 25 from the junior battalion and the civilian population to study in the training center, and after the completion of the study period, they will be reorganized into the recruit brigade and awarded to officers of the rank of Wu Zhenghe's team. Since then, he has become an official officer of the Taiping Army. This plan was also the basis for the regularization of the Taiping Army.

Shang Keyuan once led his troops to break through the city, and killed Shang Zhixin with his own hands. In fact, he has become a mortal enemy with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there is no way out, so what he wants is to be able to gain a firm foothold in the Taiping army and obtain a high position. However, when Zhou Shixiang reorganized the army, he did not give him a heavy responsibility, but asked him to be the deputy envoy of the training institute, which was as nondescript as Song Xianggong's nominal political envoy and deputy envoy, which made him very dissatisfied with Zhou Shixiang, and had a lot of resentment in his heart, thinking that Zhou Shixiang did not trust them as generals.

Geng Zhongde also has a grudge against Zhou Shixiang, but this resentment is not because he is idle and not reused, but because his old lord Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, was placed under house arrest by Zhou Shixiang in the palace, and it was rumored in the city that the master's mother, Fu Jin Shi Yuanling, was occupied by Zhou Shixiang in the Pingnan Palace, which made Geng Zhongde, an old general in Jingnan, very disgraced.

In fact, Shi Yuanling is not worth Geng Zhongde's anger as a woman, and it is impossible for him to be resentful of Zhou Shixiang. The eldest husband has no wife, and his nephew is not a woman like Shi Yuanling, the situation is stronger than others, and now his life is in the hands of others, if a woman can exchange his nephew for freedom, Geng Zhongde can wake up from his dreams.

When Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming crossed the sea to invest in gold, the female dependents of which family did not let the Manchurians spoil it, and it was not the Manchurians who forcibly occupied it at that time, but each family took the initiative to sacrifice it.

Shang Kexi's two wives, Geng Zhongming's concubine, Kong Youde's three beautiful ladies were sacrificed by their own men, not by the wheel. To commit adultery to death is to commit suicide after being humiliated. When the Manchurians sent the corpses back, the three "princes" who were cuckolded were not smiling at Mimi's front and back horses for the big golden saddle, and they worked hard for the Manchurians. (Author's note: this is the official history)

So in Geng Zhongde's eyes, women are not a thing at all, what makes him really resentful of Zhou Shixiang is the house arrest of his nephew, and no one knows whether he is dead or alive. If Geng Jimao is still alive, once the Yongli court canonizes him as the king of the Ming Dynasty, then Geng Zhongde and other old generals of the Jingnan Domain can naturally return to Geng Jimao's command in a proper manner, instead of being convicted under Zhou Shixiang and not reused.

When Zhou Shixiang was inspecting outside, the "idle" generals of the Jingnan Domain had many gatherings with Geng Zhongde, and each time they gathered, they would say something dissatisfied. Of course, these words will be secretly reported to Song Xianggong after the party. Zhou Shixiang is not a fool, it is impossible for him not to guard against the gang of people under the Jingnan Domain, but he did not take action because of this, but let these people get together and say bad things about him.

As long as Geng Jimao is in his hands, as long as Guangzhou City is in his hands, and as long as the Taiping Army is in his hands, Zhou Shixiang is not afraid that these generals who have no military power will make waves in the palm of their hands, not to mention that the people in the Military Intelligence Department have been secretly staring at them.

Geng Zhongde and Shang Keyuan came to see Zhou Shixiang this time, but they didn't complain or accuse Zhou Shixiang of anything, they didn't have the heart or the courage. The two of them had only one purpose on their trip, and that was to ask Zhou Shixiang to save their lives no matter what.

After the scholar Guo Zhiqi arrived in Guangzhou, Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde were afraid, and they couldn't help but be afraid, because they had killed many officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty, and among these people were Guo Zhiqi's nephews and students. And when they went south with Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, they slaughtered the city all the way, the Guangzhou Massacre had two of them, and the Chaozhou Massacre also had two of them, but their hands were stained with the blood of the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Guo Zhiqi was a loyal minister of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and he was a jealous and hateful person, so they were naturally worried that Guo Zhiqi would settle accounts with them.

Although Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde were not allowed to lead the army, this did not mean that Zhou Shixiang was really not ready to reuse these two, otherwise they would not have been allowed to serve as the deputy commander of the training center. How can he, the commander, have time to preside over the affairs of the training center, Song Xianggong is also in name, just so that the training center can get better resource allocation, Zhao Sihai presides over the military headquarters of the military marshal's mansion, this is a staff department in disguise, and he is also busy with the regiment, so the people who actually preside over the affairs of the training center are Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde.

Zhou Shixiang is more optimistic about Shang Keyuan, a "smart man" who broke through the city and killed his nephew, if Geng Zhongde was smart, he wouldn't mind using him. Listening to the two of them, Zhou Shixiang smiled, and comforted the two of them with what happened to Li Chengdong anyway, saying that Li Chengdong also caused several massacres in Jiangnan that year, and anyway, he was not reused by the imperial court after that.

"As long as the two of you are loyal to Ben Shuai and loyal to Da Ming, Ben Shuai can keep you fine. You must understand that there is only Ben Shuai who can decide your life and death in Guangzhou City, so you can rest assured that as long as you work hard and do a good job of the errand that Ben Shuai gave you, your head will not be cut off. ”

Zhou Shixiang glanced at Shang and Geng meaningfully, whipped his horse lightly, and galloped towards the military marshal's mansion

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