Tainan Liu Mansion. This is already the center of power in Taiwan, and early this morning, there was an endless stream of people handing over posts to meet them. But people are different from people, some people stand at the door and wait for three days and three nights, and the final result is only to take two steps in the courtyard, listening to the reply of Liu Xian's attendant, they can't even step through the courtyard. It's some people, as soon as the post is delivered, they are invited to the mansion as quickly as possible.

It doesn't have to be a small flower hall that has been converted into a signing room, it may just be an office in the waiter's room. But this treatment is already a world of difference. Because Zhang Shouyan and Fan Debang, the two bigwigs, are also nominally among Liu Xian's attendants.

Now this person who was greeted by Zhang Shouyan as soon as he handed over the post really didn't see Liu Xian. Liu Xian has been a little bad these days, and his knees hurt! I'm in bed!

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"Hehe, Ruilin and Changshan want to sell arms to us? Or a rifle only fired to twenty-five eagles? Liu Xian smiled happily. Damn it, wishful thinking! ”

Twenty-five pieces of eagle ocean, sixteen taels of silver and a gun, is it expensive? Expensive fart! The factory price of the naked gun of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is thirteen or four taels of silver, with a hundred rounds of ammunition, and then delivered to the door, and the price of twenty-five Yingyang still makes a dime!?

Of course, the naked gun costs thirteen or fourteen taels of silver, which is the business of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. Put it in the Qin Army Arsenal, this price can also have a very good profit.

But Liu Xian will not be stupid enough to beat himself up to the 'true price'. In the domestic market, a breech gun with 100 rounds of ammunition is 30 yuan for the same price. This is already a big conscience price, compared with foreign businessmen. Liu Xian has a very good conscience.

The number of rifles purchased by Guangzhou was 20,000 rifles, plus grenades and a batch of artillery. and guns and shells, all of which were priced down by one or two hundred percent. With a small abacus, the small 200,000 yuan Yingyang is gone.

These two don't have such a big face in front of Liu Xian.

"Yuandu, don't get angry first. Although Ruilin and Changshan bid a little harder, they also gave promises. As long as the deal is reached, Guangdong Sailor will buy all Hongji coal in the future. ”

But Liu Xian didn't have any joy on his face, and when he heard the word 'Hongji Coal', his brows furrowed even tighter. "The two kings and eight lambs, after eating the leopard's gall, actually played a threat......"

Ruilin and Changshan are not really showing goodwill, but faintly pointing out threats. How did they not care about Liu Xian. But the two of them are rooted in Guangzhou, as long as they talk to the people below, Hongji Coal Shot's sales station in Guangzhou will be in big trouble.

Merchants are all watching people cook. Especially in China, no matter how big the interests are, they are bigger than the net worth. Power is always more useful than money.

"The rifle mentions at least twenty-seven pieces. The price of artillery and ammunition has been reduced by one percent! With a calm face, Liu Xian decided to endure this breath first. Tough can't be drawn, or as a 'ambitious' person, what he should pay more attention to now is not the hundreds of thousands and 200,000 eagles, but the use of Ruilin and Changshan to buy arms!

Guangdong's military training has long been organized. There were five thousand people. Now the two flag men have to buy arms again......

Liu Xian frowned and pondered for a while, and then ordered an attendant to go to Fan Debang and ask if there was any news about this at the Guangzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Department. He suspected that Ruilin and Changshan wanted to rectify the Eight Banners in Guangzhou. However, the eight flags and the green camp have long been rotten to the bone, that is, to give them Mauser 98. It's also useless!

"Reorganize the Eight Banners?" Fan Debang looked dazed and surprised, and replied solemnly: "There has been no report at Guangzhou Station. I also did not see Ruilin and Changshan contact the British, French and German consuls in Guangzhou. ”

The Qing Dynasty is now organizing and training a new army, regardless of whether there are conditions or not. The training of the West Fars is already a truth. If those two masters really want to rectify the Eight Banners stationed in Guangzhou, they must invite some foreign aid and foreign teachers. That is indispensable to Britain, France and Germany. As for the United States? Hehe. Lao Mei's current tiger skin has been punctured by Ta Kung Pao. There are only a few tens of thousands of troops in the country, and the navy is in shambles. Although its economic and industrial strength is strong, there is nothing to be proud of militarily. Moreover, the United States is still anti-Chinese, and there are countless Chinese souls on tens of thousands of miles of railways, all of which have been exposed to Ta Kung Pao, which has greatly smeared the image of the United States in China!

It seems a little unreasonable for Ruilin and Changshan to rectify the garrison of the Eight Banners and not contact the three powers of Britain, France and Germany. In Fan Debang's report, it was said that two of Changshan's aides had been to Macao a few days ago. But no one in the room thought that Ruilin and Changshan would find Portugal, which had already declined, if they wanted to rectify the Eight Banners.

Fan Debang looked at Liu Xian's expression and said thoughtfully, "At present, there are 10,000 young and strong men stationed in the Eight Banners in Guangzhou, and there are only 20,000 of them who have errands. If the imperial court really wants to organize and train the flag army, then it is inevitable to expand the establishment of the flag army stationed in Guangzhou, but it can win some people's hearts. In this way, the equipment was replaced, and the Western method was used for training, and within a year or two, Guangdong would have a banner army that was not weaker than the training of troops available. ”

Liu Xian has never shown any objection to his subordinates. However, as the head of a party, a person who is close to a feudal town, the realization that his own interests are absolutely not the same as the interests of the imperial court has penetrated into the hearts of everyone in the Qin army. Vanderbang thinks about things, especially military threats and changes. If Guangzhou is to train the flag army, then should Fuzhou be trained or not? This is an even greater threat to the Qin army.

In addition, there are Hangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Jingzhou, Xi'an...... Wait a minute. If the imperial court really organized and trained the flag army, it would not only be the Qin army that would be touched, but also the three armies of Hunan, Huai and Chu! The impact is huge.

Liu Xian thought in his heart. The number of bannermen in Guangzhou should be about 4,000, and at least seventy percent of them did not touch knives and guns, and only waited for their salaries to live every month. Most of the people here live in poverty. A small number of people are diligent themselves, doing some small work in private, and life is okay.

Of course, this is definitely a bad rule for the rules of the Eight Banners. Banner people do not work in agriculture, nor in labor, let alone in business. For the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Qiding was to carry knives and guns to suppress the Han people throughout the country and maintain their ruling power. This is their national policy. It's just that more than 200 years have passed, and the wild boar skins of the past have long since become parasites. There are many poor jingle bells among the Guangzhou flag people, and bastards who smoke big cigarettes.

But the forest was big, and there were all kinds of birds. There are tens of thousands of men in the Eight Banners of Guangzhou, but the number of soldiers is only about 4,000, and more than half of them have no errands to do, they can't get hardcore crops, and the life of the people at the bottom of the banner is also very difficult. Many banner people, relying on their special status, have engaged in tricks and tricks. But there are also some people who learn the craft in a down-to-earth manner and embark on the right path. But like a white bird flying out of a flock of crows, such people are very discriminated against in the group of the flag people, thinking that they are not promising.

It was only as an open port to the outside world in the early and middle Manchu Qing Dynasty, and after more than 30 years of twists and turns in the late Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou was the most heavily influenced by foreign culture and ideology. In other words: compared with the attractiveness of money and the importance of Uncle Eight Banners' face, the balance is more biased towards money.

After all, there are so many banner people Ding Zhuang, so few errand positions, and there are too many monks and few porridges, some people have to find a way out for themselves. Therefore, there are many banner people who don't care about any rules and regulations, and they look at the money. It's just that the number of people in this group is still a small part compared to the base number of flag people. The children of Eight Banners are still an unmistakable derogatory term in Guangzhou.

"20,000 rifles, that is, half of them are left as spare arms, and Ruilin and Changshan also need 10,000 soldiers. Could it be that the Eight Banners of Guangzhou will be expanded by five or six thousand people all at once? …… Knock all the young men on it? ”

Fan Debang thought for a while and said, "Guangzhou Eight Banners, except for the vest, there is no need to change clothes, and the cavalry of foreigners is also using spears and broadswords now, and the rest must be changed again!" According to the number of 10,000 people, a year's worth of silver, rice, and festival rewards will be worth millions of eagles, oh no, it's silver dollars. And West France drills, guns and cannons are indispensable. With the addition of quilts, shoes, etc., in a year, the Guangzhou flag soldiers spend 10,000 soldiers, how can they cost 1.5 million silver dollars? ”

"I can't say what the combat effectiveness is. This consumption is not easier than that of my Qin army. ”

"Can Guangzhou afford to spend this money now? This is not a one-time job, but millions of taels of silver every year! "Fan Debang is still a little unaccustomed to counting in silver dollars, and if he doesn't pay attention to it, the 'two' will run out again.

"Guangzhou is also the largest city in the Qing Dynasty facing foreign countries. As long as the foreigners are ready to use force, Guangzhou is the place of the first battle, and it is close to our Qin army. For the imperial court, the meaning is heavy. If the imperial court didn't reuse the Eight Banners, would they still be able to reuse Liu Songshan's Hunan army? Or the people of this province? ”

In the current year of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there have been countless militia regiments in various places, and Guangdong is no exception. However, the Minyong regiment here practiced the Manchu Qing and there would really believe it. There are many bandits in the two Guangxi associations, which are intertwined and intertwined, and have long been deeply rooted in the people, and it is difficult to eradicate them. In that year, Guangdong Hongmen responded to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to launch an uprising, once gathered 200,000 people to besiege Guangzhou, and after the defeat, the rest of the army retreated to the border of Guangxi and Guangdong to establish the Dacheng State, and the rebel army was maintained until the year before Liu Xian entered Guangxi. Therefore, if you want to use Guangdong Minzhuang to work for the Qing Dynasty, it is not reliable at all.

Liu Songshan is unreliable, the green battalion is unreliable, and the people are unreliable, can the 5,000 troops integrated from the green battalion be reliable? Demons don't believe either. In the end, the Manchu Qing Dynasty could rely on the Eight Banners of Guangzhou, or the banner people!

It's just that how the money of one million taels of silver came from, Liu Xian and the others never came up with it. He immediately ordered the Military Intelligence Department to investigate this matter with all its might. Not only Guangzhou, but also Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places should inquire to see if this is just the separate idea of Ruilin and Changshan, or the decision of my Qing Dynasty.

In April, Ruilin, the governor of Liangguang, joined hands with Changshan, the general of Guangzhou, Zhang Zhaodong, the governor of Guangdong, and Yinghan, the governor of Guangxi, to set up a donation bureau in Liangguang. (To be continued......) R1292