Chapter 186: Tit for the Confrontation

When Zhang Pengyi and Li Chunbo returned to Yao Hong's residence, the situation was already very different. What kind of changes did Yao Hong's mind change? Zhang and Li didn't have to waste their thoughts. They were just in a bandit nest and did not dare to be too presumptuous. After a few words were made, they got to the point directly. After talking about about half a stick of incense, a plan to recruit people was completed. Both sides were responsible for persuasion and agreed to talk again on the abandoned streets of Yangxian County in three days. Yao Hong hoped to ensure the safety and future of the four kings of the Jianghuhui Association, and Zhang and Li could not agree, so they could only go back and ask Zhao Bingjun to make a decision. Therefore, it is best to have a three-day buffering time.

Because they were in a dangerous situation and had already negotiated the charter, the two of them said goodbye. Yao Hong sent personal soldiers to send them down the mountain. Looking at the two of them leaving, Yao Hong suddenly felt a little afraid, not afraid of the official army, but how to talk to Gao Yanfa. The words he just heard outside the mountain temple were so heartbroken. Gao Yanfa and Huang Ying were really too trustworthy. After thinking about it, Yao Hong sighed deeply, put on his cloak and walked out to talk to Chu Yu.

After all, Chu Yu is an outsider. If he is a good scholar, he will make an appointment to find Gao Yanfa and Huang Ying to talk to him, it will be better than to convince the three of them alone. Even if the negotiation fails, there will be no disaster immediately. He will always have a chance to find a way out.

When he arrived at Chu Yu's residence, he briefly talked about the way out, and faintly revealed the words he heard outside the mountain temple. Seeing that Chu Yu's face had changed, Yao Hong knew that it was time, so he sighed heavily and said, "Brother Chu, you think about it. In the past five days, what are our 7,000 people pointing to? Are you still going down the mountain to steal the people? Who are you embarrassed to do that? Besides, the people have so much food for you to grab?"

Chu Yu smiled bitterly and spread his hands out and said, "Military advisor, you have no choice but to ask me a rough man. By the way, I heard from my elder brother that he wanted to attack Chenggu."

"So still fight?" Yao Hong sneered and said, "If we are the heavenly soldiers and generals descended to earth? It would be fine if we don't fight Chenggu, but fighting Chenggu is going to die. Forty thousand government troops have entered Fengxiang Mansion during the day. It takes only one day to get to Chenggu. Chenggu. If you listen to this name, you will know that the battle is so easy to fight? Although the last time he defeated the official army, he killed one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred damage to himself. More than three thousand brothers were gone. If we continue to fight like this, how many times will the seven thousand people be able to go back and forth like this?" Zhang Pengyi and Li Chunbo exaggerated the numbers of the official army, and he also said it.

"Who said no?" Chu Yu shook his head and complained: "The more than 270 old brothers who followed me to find a future, only a fraction of them were left in less than two months."

"There are more than seventy left?"

"Where--" Chu Yu sighed and shook his head, "I chatted with the old brothers yesterday, and there were nine left." He sighed sadly, looked up at Yao Hong and said, "Military advisor, everyone says that the eldest brother has changed. I can't help but wonder that the soldiers under my command have died the most, but the number of newcomers has the least. Now, there are 7,000 people, military advisor, you are 1,500, and there are 5,500, how do you tell me how to divide it?"

"Brother is one thousand more than us. The meeting has just been decided." Yao Hong looked at Chu Yu in surprise.

Chu Yu shook his head and stretched out a finger: "One thousand, two thousand brothers, two thousand, and two thousand Huang Lao San. Hehe, I was thinking about fighting Chenggu again. If I could have five hundred under my command, I would laugh secretly."

Yao Hong knew that the time had come, so he patted Chu Yu on the shoulder and said, "Brother, are we waiting to die like this? It's not that I, Yao Hong, have no ambition. I was thinking, we will die if we fight Chenggu or not. There is a way to live, but we have to persuade our elder brother to succeed." Looking at Chu Yu's puzzled eyes, "There is 40,000 official troops in Fengxiang Mansion in the north, and the green camp in Chongqing Town to the south. Qian Yuyang, the general soldier there, is not a guy like Jiang Chaozong, who was born from a slinger... At this moment, it would be a good thing to attack Chenggu if the official army didn't suppress us. Even if we don't suppress us, we would starve to death."

"Then...we are waiting to die?" Chu Yu thought of Yao Hong's words, and nothing was not true. The current situation of the parody has reached a critical moment of survival.

"Can you still be invited to help me?" Ignoring Chu Yu's surprised expression after hearing this, Yao Hong continued, "I'm going to tell you that my second brother, today I met two lobbyists sent by the government. It's not that I, Yao Hong, are afraid of death, but that I have no other way to go besides."

Chu Yu was very shocked. Although he had thought that the copycat was getting worse every day, he never expected that the situation was so far as even the military advisor was thinking about reunion. Where did the heroic and handsome military advisor go?

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Yao Hong thought he was hesitating and continued to increase his strength: "Second Brother Chu, if you think I, Yao Hong, are afraid of death and surrendering to the government, you tie me up and see my elder brother!" Chu Yu shook his head, jumped up like a frightened person and explained: "What is the military advisor saying? I, Chu Yu, can't believe in the military advisor? It's really difficult to have the situation."

Yao Hong nodded, called Chu Yu to sit down, and then tentatively said, "Second brother, we still have a way out, that is, we leave this village and fly away! Otherwise, we will really have no way to live. I am also very dependent on my second brother, so I didn't die in the hands of Huang Laosan. I can't bear to leave my second brother and fly away alone."

Chu Yu held Yao Hong's hand in a touch, patted it, and choked, "Good military advisor, good brother. Let's go and see the elder brother together and say, the military advisor can't bear to leave Chu Yu, and I, Chu Yu, still can't stop these good brothers. You and I, are you blinded by the villain Huang Laosan. Can these people in our village still have a way out? Alas! Let's go--"

The two opened the door and realized that the sky was covered with heavy snow outside. The cold wind was howling under the moonlight. It really felt sad and sad. Chu Yu tightened her coat and greeted: "It's snowing, and our lives may be better. It's not easy for the official army to close the mountains with heavy snow."

Yao Hong did not take this incident and looked up at the Heavenly Dao: "In the past, Teacher Lin Fengxue Mountain Temple was a prosperous temple, but what about the end? Didn't you take the road of recruitment? I am sad, I am sad that people of the same fate in ancient and modern times."

"What the military advisor said is, Teacher Lin—" Chu Yu was happy at the beginning of the time that he was compared to the leopard head Lin Chong. He suddenly thought of something in his excitement, and his voice trembled: "Oh, after recruiting the amnesty, there is no good ending. Military advisor, why do we have such a miserable life? If we don't rebel, we will starve to death. If we rebel, we will starve to death. Why do you think God..."

"Second brother, coach Lin was in the hands of Song Jiang after recruiting the amnesty. He asked me to tell me, it would be better to live a life of a rich man after recruiting the amnesty? How many things happened later? How many brothers did the eldest brother Song Jiang harm for his own selfishness?"

This was already quite thorough when he said this. Chu Yu was stunned and stopped talking. The two of them silently stepped on the snow and walked towards the mountain temple on this snowy night.

Gao Yanfa in the Shanshen Temple still heard the good news. The three dipao brothers from Baoning Mansion, Long'an Mansion and Suiding Mansion were sent to the south. Huang Ying also said that there were brothers in the Sichuan Green Camp in the south. He had been ordered to go to Shaanxi to help with the suppression. There was a great opportunity here.

"Brother--" Chu Yudang came in first and bowed to Gao Yanfa, "It's snowing and cold, so you're not at ease if you are brothers. Come and see the military advisor. Well, the third brother is here too."

The four of them bowed to each other and sat down, each with their own thoughts. The atmosphere became a little awkward. Chu Yu broke the deadlock and asked, "It snowed in the spring moon, and there was not much food left. We consumed seventy or eighty stones every day. What should we do if we finish eating these more than three hundred stones? We don't think about ourselves, but we should think about the copycat brothers. What do you think about brothers?"

"What the second brother said," Gao Yanfa was already in a state of irritability and said coldly: "What do you think of the second brother? What is the military advisor's constitution? You come up with it, probably have discussed it too? Let's talk about it, let's participate in Xiang and Xiang."

Seeing that Chu Yu was about to speak, Yao Hong snatched the conversation and said, "We don't have any rules, so of course we still have to listen to our brother in this big deal."

"The military advisor said so lightly." Huang Ying continued, "It turns out that you are not here because of snow, huh!" He stood up and looked at Yao Hong coldly and said, "I heard that the military advisor met the guest in the afternoon. Whose friend are they?"

"Two scholars in Yang County. Why did Mr. Huang San check on me, Yao Hong?"

Gao Yan got angry from his heart, and slapped the seat and said, "What are you doing? Show me your face?" The three of them looked at each other, each slumped into the chair, and looked at the ground coldly.

Gao Yanfa waved his hand in anger and said angrily: "That's it. Do you think I don't know if there is too much food in the copycat? Let your brothers eat enough in three days. That night, you will hit Chenggu! If you hit Chenggu, you will have food. And you will be the military advisor. No matter what guests you meet, you should always tell me, the head of the family according to the rules."

Yao Hong glanced at Chu Yu, and then hummed without saying anything. Chu Yu took over the conversation and said, "Since brother said that, he must not know. The official army in Fengxiang Mansion has 40,000 people, and he might arrive in Chenggu tomorrow. Although there is an ancient saying that rabbits do not eat grass beside the nest, we have also gnawed two of the three grass beside the nest. The official army would not expect that we will continue to gnaw Chenggu? Brother, we can't go to die!"

"What do you think you should do?" Gao Yanfa sneered and said, "Starting to death? You are so afraid of the government army. Otherwise, you are guarding the mountain village and I will take people there. The five thousand government troops in Qixingba have swallowed us? It's really strange. At that time, you, Chu Lao Er, weren't so courageous!"

"Only you have courage with your life!" Chu Yu replied coldly. He stood up impatiently and said, "Since the elder brother has plans, we won't talk nonsense. Just do it like this. In three days, I, Chu Yu, will give up my life! We won't leave, go fuck you! Goodbye!"

"Live?" Gao Yanfa waved his hand and said, "Don't be busy with your son, what's the way to live!"

"You ask the military advisor." Chu Yu pointed to Yao Hong and said, "It's just a recruitment. The government wants to recruit us. Isn't this a way to survive?"

This rash man! Yao Hong felt regretful. If he had known this, he would have been gold and ran away. Now that this guy said that, wouldn't he put himself on fire?

As expected, as soon as this said, Gao Yanfa and Huang Ying's eyes stabbed towards him like a knife.

In desperation, Yao Hong had to say the identities of Zhang Pengyi and Li Chunbo and the intention of the government to recruit the government. He gritted his teeth and looked at Gao Yanfa and said, "Yao Hong is also thinking about the village and the eldest brother. If you continue playing like this, sooner or later everyone will die together. Now, 40,000 official troops are in the north and south..."

"The Sichuan Green Camp in the south is right?" Gao Yanfa interrupted him coldly and said, "The Green Camp in the Chongqing Town of Qianyuyang is going to enter Shaanxi to assist in the suppression, right? The military advisors said the news from the two officials? I know too!"

He sneered and said, "I really didn't expect that, military advisor, where do you want to sell us? It's hard to defend against a thief, and it's hard to defend against a thief. Tell me, how big is you, Yao Hong?"

"Brother!" Chu Yu stood up and said, "The military advisor is for all of us!"

Huang Ying also stood up and said, "You are accomplices?"

The wind and snow were whistling. Although it was a fire, the atmosphere in the mountain temple seemed to be colder than the wind and snow outside. Gao Yanfa looked at Yao Hong and Chu Yu coldly, without saying a word.

After a long time, the four people reached a compromise. After Gao Yanfa said that the three Sichuan prefectures in the south had already contacted the brothers in the green camp in the Sichuan, the four people reached an agreement three days later, taking advantage of the government's luck of recruiting peace, they attacked Chenggu, robbed some food and went south to Sichuan, and asked the brothers in the south to raise trouble at the same time, and then made a decision after the momentum was made, either to go to Tibet or to the northwest to see the situation of the fight between the people and the government. At that time, the tiger skin would be plucked up, either to rebel against the Qing Dynasty or restore the Ming Dynasty, or to light a fire with the banner of Han and Manchu irreconcilable.

This wonderful show of Fengxueshan Temple is just like this.

The soldiers of the Green Camp in Shaanxi Province have resumed their exercises every day. Although the superiors said it was to suppress bandits, the new instructors also said this. However, there were not many courses every day. However, there were many Confucian scholars in class, and there were officers pressing each other. Although it sounded a bit boring, after a few days of courses, each soldier had already remembered that he would be adapted into a new National Defense Force in the future, and the military and towns and the military and towns were down one after another. In addition, why did the emperor take a new policy, what kind of new policy should be implemented, and how the emperor cared for the people. There was no difference in the world. Both Manchus, Han, and Tibetans and Mongolia were all Chinese people. If China wants to restore its ancestors' glory, it should throw away the burden of this and that. These courses are

Every day, everyone was confused, but they seemed to have some awareness. They would think about these things intentionally or unintentionally when they were idle. In short, compared to the past when they were fucked, ate, drank, and gambling, and to get along with the officials of the superiors, the general managers would take care of the officials of the subordinates. However, they would have to think more about the things they had to think about than before. Green camp, no, the National Defense Forces would have to change a group of soldiers in the next few years. What they would do after they were not soldiered? They always started to think about, either they would be successful in the army, or they would learn some culture to take the military school, or they would have to go home to farm. These things that they had never thought about in the past are now mentioned in their minds.

I heard that Prince Chun would stay in Shaanxi for a year and specializes in this military system. This seems to be a foregone conclusion. From now on, the military pay will be paid in full on schedule. It will be time to save it in the future. If there is really no way out, go back and buy some small fields to plant it yourself, and you can still deal with it. These things are the new thoughts of every Green Camp soldier.

The soldiers of the Green Camp were busy thinking about their future. For a moment, the security in Shaanxi Province was very good. Especially after the Ministry of Revenue Relief Grain and Spring Farming Grain were transported and distributed, Shaanxi was a little chaotic in addition to southern Shaanxi. Compared with the end of last year, the whole province was no longer the same as before. What was going on? Li Youfen, the Niishi, was happy, but the monk was also confused. Could it be that the Green Camp was also a source of chaos?

To say that the Green Camp is a source of chaos, there is nothing wrong to some extent. Qian Yuxing, the new admiral of the Sichuan Green Camp, has a deep understanding of it. He was originally an admiral of Sichuan, and the situation in various towns in Sichuan is mostly familiar with it. He also has an understanding of the situation in Chongqing town. There is a deputy general in Chongqing town, and the three participating generals are the eldest brothers of Pao Ge Renzi Tang or the big brothers of idle positions. Every year, the single-slay meeting in May, the Zhongyuan meeting in July, and the New Year dinner in the twelfth lunar month, he turns a blind eye.

, but filial piety never accepts. He knew that these people would not be able to escape sooner or later, and they had spent a few dollars on their future. It was not worth it. Since the Sichuan Nishishi Liu Xihai used the torture of "standing and dead pole" to kill Brother Pao during the Daoguang period, Brother Pao in Sichuan has been restrained for a while. When Changmao was in chaos, it was revived. At that time, there were many brothers in Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army. Zeng Guofan's iron-fisted rectification was revived. It took a few years to recover. Now, when Emperor Guangxu was in great prosperity, it was very prosperous.

Qian Yuxing was cautious about Brother Pao, but he also admired Brother Pao's intentions. He just watched it. The court did not have any explicit orders, so he didn't have to commit crimes. In the green camp in Sichuan Province, I am afraid that there are three levels of people, either openly or secretly, all brothers from Brother Paohui.

Now that they are busy going to Shaanxi to assist in the suppression, it is the time to use people, so there is no need to rectify these people in the army. Although these people collect protection fees, trafficking drugs, smuggling, opening gambling halls, setting up situations to deceive good people, collude with the gangsters, and use the name of benevolence and righteousness to engage in local gangsters, they are actually doing gangsters, which is actually a great disaster for public security.

He didn't know or expect that the bandits he wanted to suppress this time were actually connected with Brother Pao. Although strictly speaking, they were not Brother Pao, he didn't know that there were these people in Brother Huiyi Hall. He didn't know that one of his deputy generals and three generals had just received the wind of the elders in the meeting. Brother Pao was going to give the idle brothers in the army at Chaotianmen. The day was set for tomorrow - and the next day was the day when he agreed to set off to meet Qian Yuxing with him.

The elder brother of the Chongqing Pao brother was named Yu Peiqi, and another one was named Yang Wei from Baoning Mansion. The two of them were invited to a banquet for several generals at the Bayu Association in Chaotianmen. Everything they said and said at the meeting was shocking. After a meal, the four of them collected 400 small yellow croakers. The first time they felt that the money was so scary and panic that they were collected.

But when Yang Wei caught up and added a few more words, the minds of several people began to shake. They also heard that after the Shaanxi military reform, the next one would be Sichuan. Whether the future life will be good or not. How can it be, it is hard to say whether he can still be a general of the court and a eldest brother of the Brothers Association. At that time, maybe once the incident occurs, the court will order it to cut off the top of the head. Can the world still be sheltered and continue to be a big boss of Taiping? Will Brother Pao take the loyalty of the brothers really be so real? More than this little yellow croaker?

But this matter is really too big, and it is against the enemy at the last minute! This is easier said than done! Who would be a soldier who would be a good military officer in the court and become a bandit with you? What about the Manchus and Han dynasties? It has been hundreds of years, but they still have to live a life? Yang Wei's words are very exciting, complimenting and sarcastic, and very powerful. What should we do? He is not the leader, so how can it be so easy?

It was perfunctory now. After the four of them returned to the camp, they still agreed to a charter. It is absolutely impossible to rebel against water in the last battle. It is okay to let the water go, which is considered to be a good virtue. Just like that, the two soldiers of Chongqing Town, led by such a general with a ulterior motive, arrived under the military sign of Qian Yuxing, the Sichuan Admiral of Baoning Prefecture.

It was heavy snow, and the sky was heavy snow. It was not only southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan, but also heavy snow in Beijing. In the small study of Yangxin Hall, the charcoal was burning strong. I looked at the report on the military improvement process sent by Shaanxi and the regulations for the arrangement of the attack and the attack. Since the bandits were entrenched in the mountains and were easy to attack, the bandits were not in a hurry to suppress them. They surrounded them first, guarded by airships in the sky and muskets under the underground, and were not afraid of him flying into the sky.

The way to travel west to Xinjiang has been sealed by Xu Shichang. More than 100,000 people from the Hui tribe made trouble under the sponsorship of the Russians. This made me very annoyed. The Russians were so tough that they could not come, and now they also learned to play with evil things. But the Russians really didn't expect that in this era when international relations was still in its infancy, how could I be afraid of him if I wanted to play with such evil things?

"Zhuo Ru, from you, where is the root cause of the civil strife in the west?" I received the report and walked to the side hall. As I saw Liang Qichao copying the story, I stepped in and asked.

"Emperor—" Liang Qichao looked up and saw me coming in, got up and saluted, "I have no idea when I replied to the emperor for a while. I thought about it a few days ago, I am afraid it was a word: Agriculture."

I nodded and said, "Yes, the word "agricultural" is too affected by the weather. God is in a bad mood. If the court cannot keep up with the relief, there will be chaos. The two bandits in the west are all related to this word. So I want to let Prince Su go to France. I heard that foreigners have good fertilizers. We will build these things ourselves in the future. This is also a way for workers and peasants to advance together. Unfortunately, our Qing Dynasty still has no such talent."

"Reply to the emperor, some." Liang Qichao thought for a while and replied: "I have read the memorials of the Ministry of Education. Suzhou Prefecture's summary of this year's examination mentioned that Wuxi County's three educations are the best. The fertilizer for foreigners is chemical fertilizer. The emperor can issue an edict to investigate Wuxi County."

"Well, the Russians have a share in returning to Xinjiang. Remember, whenever King Su has news, I will report it to me immediately." Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered the education affairs in Wuxi County, and the complaints from the Jiangsu Dixue envoy Qu Hongji a few days ago, and asked: "Is Liu Kunyi's memorial to sue the governor who is asking the Governor of Liangjiang to investigate?

"Reply to the emperor." Liang Qichao smiled and said, "That's a secret letter, I dare not be good at it."

By the way, I have forgotten that all the ministers above the fifth rank have the power to report secretly. This matter is a scandal in Jiangsu. Liu Kunyi cannot report it clearly, so I called Kou Lian and said, "Go check the secret letters of Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, and move them all here."

"Zha——" Kou Lian just responded. I looked up at Liang Qichao and said, "That Yang Rui was not on duty today?" Without waiting for the answer, he continued, "You have transferred six capable people from the Cabinet Secretariat to take turns to serve, and you will be appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat. From the beginning, there must be no less than four people here every day."

"The emperor means—" Liang Qichao asked in confusion.

I waved my hand and stopped him and said, "I have drawn up an order. All officials above the seventh rank and above all give secret memorials. The power of the Prime Minister and Minister of the Cabinet is to keep the original copy here. If there are too many things, you and Yang Rui will not be enough. It is also the meaning of adding a burden to you. Remember one thing, the mouth is important and the heart is upright. Without these two, you don't have to be too big!"

After a while, Tan Xing came up and asked for a complaint for Vietnamese affairs to send it to the small study room. "Let's go back and say that the word "agricultural" is good. It is good to say that the fertilizer of foreigners is good, but we can't underestimate our ancestors for thousands of years. The old farmers in Fengtian Emperor's Village cultivated carefully. Do you know how much harvest last year?" I stretched out a hand and said in a slightly exaggerated tone: "The maximum amount of 557 kilograms of millet is produced! General Shengjing reported me auspiciousness. I said that it was not auspiciousness. It was provided by meticulous farming. Now the average yield per mu in the country is less than 400 kilograms. This more than 500 kilograms are coaxed like a treasure. I can't count them. For large areas, we still have to rely on foreign fertilizer."

"What the emperor said," Liang Qichao said with a smile: "But General Shengjing said it was not an exaggeration. This is the atmosphere of a prosperous era! If the emperor had not cured this prosperous scene, why wouldn't there be a yield of 557 kilograms per mu in previous years?" Brushing the horse's hooves, Liang Qichao knelt down and reported: "I'm brave enough to ask your Majesty to tell you this news to Master Kang."
Chapter completed!