Chapter 11 of the third part: The sea embraces all rivers

When Ouyang Quan walked to the gate of the Guangdong-Guangzhou Governor's yamen, he couldn't help but feel nervous. Chen Congyun sent him to Guangzhou. There were two tasks. One was to represent Chen Congyun to give Gangyi 100,000 taels of silver, and by the way, he expressed Chen Congyun's meaning. Gangyi was dealt with at will. Shen Congyun only asked Gangyi to help him speak and confirmed the position of Gangxi Governor. Second, Chen Congyun needed some civil servants under him, and Ouyang Quan was here to recruit people.

Ouyang Quan has been in Guangzhou for half a month. He met Gangyi twice. This time he came to ask for a reply and to go back to give Chen Congyun a job.

Gangyi in the back house was now laughing with the newly acquired concubine. This 18-year-old little fairy was Hongjie who was made by Gangyi from the kiln. She was sitting on Gangyi's thighs and rubbing her hips at the base of Gangyi's thighs. Gangyi unbuttoned two buttons on her chest, revealing the suspender of her bellyband, a piece of snow-white and pink skin, and a small half of her breasts.

Gangyi hopes that foreigners will not be able to do it for a day or two. How can the oil and water of being a Beijing official be compared with foreign officials, let alone the fat position of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. As soon as he arrived in Guangzhou, Chen Congyun's master came to the door to give away silver, and he gave away 100,000 taels of silver. Without asking for anything else, he asked the court to confirm the position of the governor of Guangxi.

After collecting the money, he naturally had to do things for others, so Gangyi gave the court a memorial and said a few good things to Chen Congyun. Gangyi was very satisfied with Chen Congyun's approach, which was very good at. An official who could give money would naturally make money. An official who could make money would naturally make his official position bigger and jail. If Chen Congyun wanted to make his official position jail, he would naturally have to flatter him as the boss.

The memorial on Gangyi was left behind, and the whole story was not clear, but I knew that this was what Lord Lady said. Since it was what Lord Lady said, don’t mention this matter in the future. Anyway, I will do it after collecting the money, and I will just say something back.

Chen Congyun gave silver to Gangyi, but in fact, there was a last resort. Chen Congyun felt sorry for giving silver to Gangyi. But there was no way. Vietnam has always been an ambitious and restless nation. Chen Congyun must speed up the speed of assimilation and control. The most effective way is naturally to immigrate to Vietnam in large numbers. To immigrate to Vietnam in large numbers, one must grasp the actual control of Guangxi Province.

More importantly, Chen Congyun planned to spend some money to buy a safe birthday so that he would not give himself eye drops every few days.

"Master, Chen Congyun's master is here, meaning to ask for a correct letter." The butler whispered in Gangyi's ear. Gangyi couldn't help but pull out his hand from the lady's arms and patted the concubine's butt and said, "Master has something to talk about, go first."

"Hmph!" The concubine acted coquettishly with some dissatisfaction and twisted her butt down.

Gangyi asked the housekeeper to bring Ouyang Quan in. Ouyang Quan was waiting in the yard of the back house, and immediately came in as soon as he heard the greeting.

"I have met the Governor General."

Gangyi didn't even look at Ouyang Quan, and was stuffing snuff into his nostrils with his thumb. After sneezing a few times, Gangyi glanced at Ouyang Quan and said, "Go back and tell you Lord Shen that I have already submitted the memorials and the court will not post them. It is said that this is what Lord Buddha meant, and I have no choice."

Ouyang Quan didn't expect that after spending 100,000 taels, he bought it back, and felt a little bit like he had done a mess. When he was about to speak in the previous step, Gangyi had already said first: "I am short of an official, you can go down."

Ouyang Quan had no choice but to say goodbye and walk out of the secluded place not far from the gate. He couldn't help but turn around and glared at the high-walled courtyard, and spat fiercely and said, "My grandma, what's the matter."

Leading two guards Chen Congyun to Ouyang Quan, Ouyang Quan walked back in dissatisfaction. Several fellow villagers who contacted the inn were waiting there. The guards in a new military uniform were quite conspicuous walking on the street, attracting the eyes of passers-by from time to time.

Ouyang Quan felt in his heart that he had the heavy trust of Chen Congyun, and felt very uncomfortable. When he walked, he lowered his head and thought that he should come up with a new idea for Chen Congyun and take some other way to get things done to make things happen.

"Pu!" Ouyang Quan, who was not paying attention to the road, hit the person opposite and sat on the road. Ouyang Quan, who was angry in his heart, immediately became anxious and looked at the Guangdong man with glasses opposite him with his eyes and said angrily: "My mother, don't have eyes."

The person who came was scolded was not angry, but instead smiled and bowed: "I'm Zheng Guanying, how dare you ask if you are from the new army of Chen Congyun's troops?"

How could Ouyang Quan not know about Zheng Guanying's name, Chen Congyun, who always talks about it?

"Oh, it's really a flood that has washed away the Dragon King Temple. The whole family doesn't know the family. Ouyang Quan is walking in front of Shen. He just now had something to do and didn't pay attention to running into Mr. Zheng. Don't blame me!" Ouyang Quan quickly apologized and explained that Zheng Guanying would not be in his heart. He took Changsui out to prepare for the road. He didn't expect to see two guards wearing new military uniforms. Then he stepped forward and deliberately stopped Ouyang Quan and asked.

"Not hindrance! Don't be polite to your family. What are you doing in Guangzhou?" Zheng Guanying asked. Ouyang Quan hesitated for a moment, and still smiled regretfully, "I just went to the Governor's Office to do an errand, and the matter was a bit tricky, so I didn't pay much attention to the road when I walked."

Zheng Guanying had actually arrived in Guangzhou long ago. He could have set off for Vietnam half a month ago. Unexpectedly, he received a telegram from Tang Shaoyi, saying that the first batch of more than 100 young people from South China and asked Zheng Guan how to proceed to the next step. Zheng Guanying immediately replied, asking Tang Shaoyi to take Nanyang youth to Guangzhou to meet and meet with them, and then went to Vietnam together. This delayed the time to go to Vietnam. Unexpectedly, he ran into Ouyang Quan on the street.

Ouyang Quan had something in his words, but Zheng Guanying couldn't see it. He immediately smiled knowingly: "This is not a place to speak. Go to me, no, I'd better go to your place to explain in detail." When Zheng Guanying was halfway through, he remembered that there was a Zi Yu who was following him in the hotel where he lived, and quickly changed his words.

The group arrived at the inn, and Ouyang left the people in full screen, and then he told the things that Chen Congyun explained one by one. Zheng Guanying had discussed with Shen Congyun before about the development of Vietnam, so he naturally understood that Chen Congyun had the idea of ​​a large number of immigrants. When Ouyang Quan mentioned that Gangyi said that the matter was suppressed by Cixi, the old woman, Zheng Guanying intuitively realized that this might involve Cixi's means of playing balance.

Chen Congyun's plan was promoted by Li Hongzhang, and the word "Li" was engraved on his forehead. Now he is nominally an imperial envoy. Cixi is in charge of using and restraining his troops. With the usual style of exploitation and restraining, when Li Hongzhang's strength is growing, it is natural to use Chen Congyun, a rising star with relatively weak foundations to hit Li Hongzhang. At present, Li Hongzhang is the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang. If Chen Congyun makes some name in Vietnam and leads the military and political power in Guangxi, there is also a Liu Mingchuan in Taiwan. It is really a bit of a disturbance. Li Hongzhang raised his arms and shouted, and there was someone in the southeast, west and north, and the court was really hard to restrain.

Zheng Guanying figured out the joints and comforted Ouyang Quan and said, "It's not Mr. Ouyang's fault, and I'm not anxious. Let's put it aside for now."

The two continued to talk and decided to board the road to Vietnam at the same time. Three days later, a British passenger ship "Mary" sailed into Guangzhou Port.

Tang Shaoyi, who was in trouble all the way, had a look of fatigue on his face. After several months of running around in Southeast Asia, Tang Shaoyi's harvest was not very ideal. Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia have serious family concepts. Larger families have a lot of industries in Southeast Asia, so their children naturally would not leave the family's industry easily. Tang Shaoyi spent a lot of brains and barely recruited 105 people, which was already a limit.

Tang Shaoyi's trip was not without gains. At least he saw the wealth of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia are a minority in various countries, but they have mastered most of their wealth. Tang Shaoyi saw this clearly and realized that overseas Chinese who do not have much social status in Southeast Asia are like a wealthy man who is wandering among a group of beggars. Such a social status is like a group of fat sheep living among a group of hungry wolves.

Tang Shaoyi felt it was necessary to convey this discovery to Chen Congyun to see what Chen Congyun thinks and measures it has.

When he saw Zheng Guanying from afar, Tang Shaoyi couldn't help but feel excited. The 105 young men in Nanyang had packed their luggage and got off the boat. Tang Shaoyi and the last young men were off the boat before they got off the boat.

"Shaochuan! Thank you for your hard work!" Zheng Guanying came up and held Tang Shaoyi's hand tightly.

"Brother Zhengxiang! How can you get your luck and pick you up in person?"

"It should be, it should be." Zheng Guanying finished politely and turned around to introduce Ouyang Quan beside Tang Shaoyi.

Without further ado, Zheng Guanying arranged for Tang Shaoyi and others to stay. After resting for a day, they would set off together early the next morning. The team was very mixed, including the Nanyang youth recruited by Tang Shaoyi, three Zhejiang masters recruited by Ouyang Quan, more than a dozen followers under Zheng Guanying, and a Zi Yu with other intentions.

Zheng Guanying was still very carriage to Zi Yu, so he specially made two carriages and asked Zi Yu to sit with two maids. The others were all five people in a car, and Zheng Guanying and Ouyang Quan were in a car.

At the beginning, Ouyang Quan thought Ziyu was the family brought by Zheng Guanying, and later he found out what kind of Japanese company it was the assistant to the representative in China. Ouyang Quan was not an incidental person and did not ask much about this matter. Zheng Guanying and Ouyang Quan could not explain it clearly, nor did he say it in depth. He just quietly sent a telegram to Chen Congyun the day before departure and briefly introduced the situation.

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Hanoi, in the military camp in the north of the city.

Aftershock urgently convened Zhao Xinglong and other student soldiers and held a temporary meeting. The topic was how to solve the training problems of recruits in a short period of time as soon as possible.

The new recruits were not well trained and were still embarrassed in front of Shen Congyun. These self-proclaimed student soldiers were a little unable to raise their heads when walking these two days. It should be said that Chen Congyun gave them enough rights and room for exercise. If they could not train well, the aftershock of the leader and Zhao Xinglong set the root of the problem on themselves at the beginning.

This tone is well set, and a group of student soldiers spoke, raised the problems they encountered during the training process, and we discussed solutions together.

Not to mention, "there are many people and the power is great", the effect of this statement is reflected, and it has really come up with some solutions for the student soldiers. For example, the new recruits have no sense of direction, so someone mentioned that they asked the new recruits to tie a red strap on their left arm, and so on.

When the aftershock reported the meeting minutes to Chen Congyun, Chen Congyun looked at it slightly and smiled: "Very good. The problem of recruit training is a good idea. It should be extended to the army. When encountering difficulties in the future, we will find a way to solve it. We will form a tradition in our army."

Chen Congyun seemed not in a hurry on the surface, but in fact he was more anxious than anyone else. Because Chen Congyun was eager to issue silver dollars in Vietnam, this matter would definitely encounter resistance and could cause riots. Without sufficient troops in his hands, Chen Congyun was completely worried about doing this.

Compared with the unhappy encounters with Hanoi, there was a good news from Guangning that the Simple Highway was successfully completed. After receiving the news, Chen Congyun ordered to release three thousand prisoners of war again.

This time, the release triggered another thing that made Chen Congyun feel interesting. After some prisoners of war left Guangning, they did not go south directly, but instead found Hanoi and asked to see Chen Congyun.

There were not many prisoners of war in this group, but only about a hundred people. They all had a common characteristic. Before the Sino-French War, they were all mercenaries of the French African Corps.

The mercenaries elected two representatives, and 133 mercenaries came to see Chen Congyun.

When the representative came to ask for a meeting, Chen Congyun was discussing the silver dollar production with Zhan Tianyou in his residence. When the guard came to report, Chen Congyun also asked with some confusion: "What are they here to do?"
Chapter completed!