In the official residence of the Governor of Liangjiang, on the night when the imperial envoy was sent to Yang Yi, the backbone of the new army came to Yang Yi at the same time.

In the living room, Liu Mingchuan and Nie Shicheng, the elderly who followed Yang Yi from the beginning, were also Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng who were reused as soon as they joined, Yang Yi's dog-headed military Zhang Jian, and the intelligence leader and third wife Shen Qingshuang all sat quietly next to Yang Yi.

"Why don't you talk? Mr. Zhang and I are planning to invite everyone. Now that I'm here, I'll say whatever I want." Yang Yi looked at it one by one, and he kept his head shut and said nothing, only Zhang Jian looked calm.

Chen Yucheng stood up suddenly and said, "Sir, I see these two bullshit imperial envoys are not at all kind-hearted. Let's just rely on the combat effectiveness of the Qing Demon troops. Look, it's easy to do." As soon as Chen Yucheng finished speaking, Nie Shicheng also stood up and said, "That's right, what are they here for? They are here to capture military power. Have they put some effort into this new army since its establishment? Now, we are here to pick fruits. I support Yucheng's opinion." Li Xiucheng and Liu Mingchuan also said, "Yes, fuck it." As everyone said this, the scene suddenly became active.

Yang Yi made a gesture to everyone to be quiet, then pointed at Zhang Jian and said, "Mr. Zhang and I have discussed with you, what he said first."

After Yang Yi finished speaking, Zhang Jian stood up and looked at everyone, then said in a slow tone: "With the current strength of our new army, it is easy to rebel successfully. It is not difficult to destroy the court, but it is not the time now." At this point, Zhang Jian paused for a moment, looked at everyone again, and found that everyone was listening very carefully. Then he continued: "Now the three provinces in Jiangnan have just settled down and need time to recover the trauma caused by the war, which is one of them.

Secondly, the problems of the Taiping Army's uprising troops and prisoners are also urgently to be resolved. The training and reorganization of the uprising troops, the familiarity of new equipment, the learning of new tactics, and the education and absorption of prisoners are also needed time.

Third, our army's military production is not enough to meet the needs of our army's long-term combat, and it takes time to expand the arsenal. At the same time, there is also a batch of new weapons to develop and form mass production, which also takes time.

Fourth, before the three armies moved, food and grass were first, our army's logistics support mechanism did not have a complete and feasible system. Taking the Luzhou Battle as an example, due to the slow logistics of our army, our army was unable to launch an attack on Luzhou in time, and the final battle delayed for a long time. The lesson was profound. Therefore, it is necessary and urgent to form a strong logistics support force, but it also takes time.

Fifth, war is about economic strength. Although our army has three provinces, we must see that launching an uprising based on the economic income of the three provinces at this stage is undoubtedly a way to kill chickens and get eggs. Therefore, what we need to do now is to accelerate the development of the economy and vigorously promote the path of industrialization. At the same time, we must strengthen rural land reform, increase the influence of our party in the countryside, and increase the efforts to develop our party members among farmers, so as to ensure that our party and army can receive the support of the vast number of peasant brothers.

Sixth, that is, we cannot forget that there are still Western powers. Once we revolt, we will seriously damage the interests of Western powers in China. At that time, they will definitely interfere with each other by force. China has a long coastline, but we do not have a navy yet, so we can only fight with them on land. Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are currently important sources of economic resources for our army, and emerging industries are relatively concentrated. With a strong navy, the great powers can land in the two provinces anytime and anywhere. We cannot be guarded against. Therefore, the adults suggested that merchants try to encourage them to run factories to Anhui. Once an uprising is revolt, they will need to be forced to move, which will take time. To sum up, our current work focus is to make every effort to delay the time to turn against the Qing court. Once an uprising is launched, we cannot give the Qing court a chance to catch a breath, and we cannot give the great powers a chance to collude with the Qing court.

Zhang Jian's speech was finally finished. Looking around, everyone was still thinking. Yang Yi waited for everyone to relieve themselves a little, and stood up and said, "Do you understand Mr. Zhang's speech?"

"I understand." Everyone answered in unison.

Yang Yi then continued: "That's good. Now the emperor has sent someone to force us. If we can't turn against each other, we will just drag him down. There is one thing that everyone should remember, the court has basically never given a few military pay to the new army, and I paid the money. Do you understand?" Yang Yi asked, and as he said, he looked at everyone with a vague look.

Everyone thought for a moment and suddenly realized.

When Yang Yi saw that everyone understood, he continued, "There is another thing. After you go back, you will pick out a hundred people from each teacher. You must be good at martial arts and skilled shooters. I am useful."—

After returning from Yang Yi, Yiliang could no longer hold on to the pain caused by the wound on his butt, and could only recover from the wound first. This made him very depressed. Seeing that the military power of his hands was cheap and spring, he could only stare at him.

Hechun issued an order the next day to ask Liu Mingchuan and the others to hold a military meeting. Liu Mingchuan and the others cooperated very well and went all the orders. As soon as the new army arrived, Hechun was proud and could not wait to speak.

"Everyone is a pillar of the country. At present, the bandits in Shidakai in the south are rampant, and the bandits in Henan and Shandong are rampant. The court urgently needs everyone's efforts. This imperial envoy is loved by the emperor. Here we are here to preside over the overall situation. I hope you can help."

After talking to Chun, seeing that everyone's reaction was dull, he smiled and said, "Everyone, as long as you fight with all your heart in the suppression of bandits, this imperial envoy will definitely protect your future."

"I would like to listen to the orders of the Lord." Liu Mingchuan and the others answered very loudly, which made Hechun feel very satisfied. Then Hechun began to issue orders.

"Liu Mingchuan obeyed the order." He Chun was very proud when he said this.

"The last one is here." Liu Mingchuan stood up and bowed to salute.

"General Liu is an old man of the new army. He is highly respected in the army. I will ask you to return to Nanjing tomorrow and go straight to Jiujiang along the waterway within three days. There is a problem." Hechun spoke to Liu Mingchuan in the most polite tone. In his opinion, these main generals of the new army should not be difficult to dispatch as long as they are allowed to be rich in their duties. As long as these people are grasped and then they are sent away from Yang Yi, it will not be difficult to grasp in the future.

"I will get the order in the end." Liu Mingchuan answered in the loudest voice, and then stepped aside.

"Nie Shicheng obeys the order!!!" Seeing that everything went well, He Chun's excited tone changed.

"The last general is here too!" Nie Shicheng also came out to receive the order.

"General Nie, your troops are in northern Jiangsu and are connected with Shandong. I ordered your troops to set out as fast as possible, to enter Shandong, encircle and suppress Nian bandits, and to meet Lord Ying Shengbao. I hope your troops will obey Lord Shengbao's orders and cooperate with Lord Shengbao to eliminate Nian bandits." This plan was discussed with Shengbao when he was in Shandong. Shengbao has scared the rebel army over the years. I heard that the new army had never lost in the battle with the rebel troops, so I took the idea of ​​the new army. It has a good relationship with Chunhe Shengbao. It was originally a party, so of course I had to help Shengbao.

"I'm sure you have the order!" Nie Shicheng also stood aside.

Next, Hechun asked Chen Yucheng to pass through Zhejiang and enter Jiangxi, and cooperated with another imperial envoy, Jingtai, and the Hunan Army to attack Shi Dakai from the east. Finally, Li Xiucheng stayed in Shanghai to protect him. Hechun and his team were very good at making a decision. Hechun and his team had already found out how many of Yang Yi's family backgrounds were. This time, three imperial envoys came out, Jingtai went to Jiangxi, and on the surface they captured Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army. Yang Yi's new army would also be divided into four, Jingtai, Shengbao, Hechun, and Yiliang's.

After the order was issued, the generals went back to prepare, and Hechun also stayed in Shanghai to wait for good news for their war. But this wait took more than ten days, but Liu Mingchuan and the others did not make any noise. Hechun was very anxious and immediately sent someone to ask why Liu Mingchuan and the others did not set off.

The person who went out to ask came back soon, and the answer he brought back was: "Waiting for military pay." He Chunyi was anxious when he heard this. Hasn't this military pay always been paid by Yang Yi? How could he ask him for him? Liu Mingchuan and the others replied: "Isn't it the command of you and Lord Chun? If you don't ask for military pay, who will ask for? Lord Yang is not rich. Now Yang Yi is resting at home, so how can he care about these things?" Liu Mingchuan and the others almost killed He Chunyi.

Hechun had no choice but to ask Liu Mingchuan and Nie Shicheng to set out first, and he would get the military pay later. But Liu Mingchuan and the others said that there was no food and grass, and the emperor was not short of hungry soldiers. How could he fight this battle without food and grass? In short, Liu Mingchuan and the others just found all excuses, just stayed silent and sent a message to Beijing overnight to participate in Yang Yiyi's book. He said that Yang Yi secretly made bad things and instructed the new army not to listen to the order. Xianfeng was angry when he saw the memorial, but considering that the new army was a team led by Yang Yi, Yang Yi was afraid that the new army would rebel. He could only issue an imperial edict to question Yang Yi, hoping that Yang Yi could cooperate with the imperial envoy's work.

.Yang Yi received the imperial edict and immediately submitted a memorial, saying that since the establishment of the new army, it has not asked the court for a single tael of silver. All the expenses were earned by his own business. In addition, his wife's family sponsored a little, it can last until today. Now that he has stepped down, does the court still need to pay for his own money? Now that the court wants to use troops, he supports it with all his strength and resolutely implements the emperor's will, and the military power has been handed over. He Chun is incompetent, and the army has no military pay and food. How to fight is all basic common sense. In short, a month has passed in a flash.

Within this month, new troops in various places have been training, and each army has also quickly formed its own logistics support system, and then summarized it into Zhang Jian to agree to the dispatch. In terms of party affairs, Wei Xiaosheng from Suzhou and Xu Ming from northern Jiangsu are all vigorously developing new party members. The 1,000 soldiers transferred from each army were also handed over to Yang Yi. Yang Yi specifically asked Shen Qingshuang to find a place beside the mountains and rivers to build a military camp, gather these people together, use the theory of special forces from later generations to train them, and personally formulate training materials. The martial arts instructors were also recruited by Shen Qingshuang for a large price. This army was formed and trained completely in a modern way. Yang Yi would give them great use in the future.

While having a verbal battle with Hechun, Yang Yi was also working on his designs to get all the parts processed by the Chinese apprentice. Yang Yi closed the door all day long and fiddled with these parts at home. Soon, the first real blocking rifle was born in Yang Yi's hands and was soon equipped to the special forces.

Xianfeng knew that he was in the wrong when he saw Yang Yi's memorial. Logically speaking, the emperor, the new army had nothing to worry about from the establishment to the battle. If nothing else, he would just talk about the foreign guns and cannons equipped by the new army, which was not a small number. After all, He Chun was still incompetent. He had done something long ago, and he knew how to make it. If he had no money, he would find a way to buy it. If he had no food, he would get it. He Chun was so angry that he had no choice but to come and find him again.

Yang Yi, but Yang Yi didn't know where to go. After careful investigation, he found out that Yang Yi had taken his wives to Huangshan, Anhui for a trip. He Chun couldn't find Yang Yi, so the new army could not command him. How could he fight this battle? In fact, Yang Yi was not going to Huangshan. He was choosing a new site for the arsenal. Yang Yi planned to build a large military base in Anhui and gradually moved the arsenal in Suzhou in Shanghai to Anhui one after another.

Yang Yi was not found, but the situation changed a lot. Jingtai in Jiangxi commanded the Hunan Army to fight. The Hunan Army always listened to Zeng Guofan. Xianfeng gave Zeng Guofan's military power. The generals below quit. They ordered Jingtai to disobey Jingtai's generals. In short, they could not command. Even Shi Dakai ran away as soon as he came. Several times the Hunan Army ran too fast. Jingtai checked and asked Shi Dakai to arrest him. The battlefield in Jiangxi in Hubei was completely defeated. Besides, the Nian Army was in Shandong and Henan. Shengbao was a bucket of food. When Senggelinqin was there, he could fight with the Nian Army a few times. When Senggelinqin died like this, Shengbao only dared to hide in big cities such as Jinan and not come out. As a result, the vast areas of Shandong and Henan were all stationed by the Nian Army. Xianfeng's old illness relapsed and he vomited blood.

It would be better to keep a good period of maintenance in the bed. After this series of struggles for military power, Xianfeng and his Manchu aides clearly saw that it was unrealistic to rely entirely on the Eight Banners disciples to maintain the world. After Xianfeng decided to deprive Zeng Guofan and Yang Yi of military power, he recruited the imperial envoys he personally sent in less than two months, restoring the military power of Yang Yi and Zeng Guofan, and entrusting them with full responsibility for the extermination of the Taiping Army and Nian Army. Xianfeng made concessions, but Yang Yi and Zeng Guofan did not agree and further stated that if they commanded the troops to fight, the court would not allocate funds or distribute grain. This battle could not be fought. Xianfeng had to hand over the financial and administrative rights of various places to two Han officials who held heavy troops.

The ugly drama of seizing the military power of Han ministers by Manchu nobles came to an end. After this struggle, Yang Yi and Zeng Guofan not only consolidated their respective prestige in the army, but also further gained administrative and financial rights within their jurisdiction.
Chapter completed!