"Empress Du?"

Du Jinchan was shocked suddenly. Although his ancestors were from Jiangnan, it has been a matter of decades since his family went to Zhiheji. In this Hangzhou city, it can be said that he is not familiar with the place. How could anyone know him or even see through his origin at a glance?

Her eyes flashed with starlight. She was about to hold the knife she carried with her, but she found a fatal problem. Perhaps it was because she had been living too freely during this period. When she went out, she did not bring the short knife that was about to assassinate Liu Juehu. He only saw a handsome young man who was ten years old.

She felt that she had never seen this young man before, otherwise she would have had a deep impression of this young man. It was because this young man was too elegant, just like the snow scene in the south of the Yangtze River. He wore a green gauze and a Ming Dynasty suit. What made people even more delighted was the temperament of this young man.

Before, Du Jinchan would never admit that there was such a temperament that would make him so fascinated and even almost fell off the Broken Bridge. It was so extraordinary. Although Zhang Lexing was the leader of the commander of hundreds of thousands of cranzis, he was nothing compared with this man walking quietly in the snow.

"Did you recognize the wrong person?" Du Jinchan was a little panicked. She had to be a little cautious in Hangzhou City, but the man opposite reached out his hand: "I heard that Empress Du has been looking for me, and I don't want to disappoint Empress Du, so I came here to meet him."

"Liu Juehu?" Du Jinchan almost understood who this opponent was: "Are you Liu Juehu?"

Although I have heard of the name Liu Juehu countless times before, Du Jinchan even thought that he was the enemy who knew the most about Liu Chang. After meeting him, he realized that it was better to see him than to hear him at first sight. He knew too little about Liu Juehu: "What do you want to do?"

She didn't believe in the statement that Liu Chang was light and expensive. How could she take risks rashly? She looked up and looked around, and sure enough. Apart from some guards near the Broken Bridge, she could never see any wanderers. It was obvious that Liu Juehu, a dog thief, went out to guard the police, and didn't know why she bumped into herself.

"Give Zhang Lexing a way out!" Liu Chang said bluntly: "After all, this is a life of hundreds of thousands!"

This is very straightforward, as if these hundreds of thousands of lives were just such a simple thing in Liu Chang's mouth, but Du Jinchan believed that she knew that the lives of hundreds of thousands of twisted spiders on both sides of the Huai River were in the hands of Liu Juehu in front of her.

She was a little bolder and considered the issue of getting out. Should she jump into the river water under the broken bridge? But the snow water in winter is not easy to deal with, and she was very interested in the topic raised by Liu Chang: "Liu Juehu, the twisted seeds collected by the zhihe River are the wilderness weeds. You have to kill them and grow them. You can't kill them all..."

This is the reason why the Nian Army was difficult to pacify. It was not until 1868 that the Qing army finally solved the Nian Army through the fortress tactics used by both military and political parties. However, Liu Chang had no good interest in talking about these details with Du Jinchan. He just said: "So when Liu Sanniang saw you, I would say hello. Zhang Lexing and Nianzi should have a way out, and you don't have to force him to death!"

Du Jinchan then understood why she was exposed. But it turned out that the demon woman Liu Sanniang had hooked up with Liu Juehu, the dog thief. She said angrily: "Liu Juehu, I, Du Jinchan, are not a woman from Shuixin Yanghua. I am the wife of the Zhang family, and I have no choice but to be the wife of Zhang family."

Liu Chang knew that Du Jinchan was wrong: "I am not Sheng Kezhai, why should Miss Du be so mean? I still said that the twisted zie is a weed, and it was cut and pulled, but they are also humans and are also grown by flesh. Today I saw Madam Du, it was destined to see Madam Du. Why would Miss Du persuade General Zhang to invite peace!"

"Recruitment?" Du Jinchan couldn't believe his ears: "You are talking about recruitment."

"Just talk about reunion!"

After saying that, Liu Chang finally opened the oil umbrella in his hand: "Since you are destined to be together, let's go together!"

He really had the idea of ​​dividing and dismantling the Nian Army in his heart. Although Nianzi is a very amateur military group. When they have no money, they go out to rob and go back to their own dikes to sleep when they have money. The military discipline is not good, but it also means that this force does not have much political ambition. After the Hongjun suffered a considerable blow to them, they can use these Nianzi.

Among the Nianzi, there are one of the best generals of this period. For example, Ren Zhu, Zhang Zongyu and others are all heroes who win every battle. More importantly, now the Nian Army and the Yuliu of Taiping Army entering Anhui cannot be allowed to merge. After Lai Wenguang's group of Taiping Army generals merged with the Nian Army, they forced the banner of the Kingdom of Heaven for four more years.

When Liu Chang thought of these old things, he felt that this thing could be done and that it must be done.

Although the three expected offensives of the Hong Army achieved great results, recovered three provincial capitals, captured hundreds of county towns, and even took all of them to Fujian, the war was not as sing and striving as publicly promoted by propaganda materials. The news that the Spanish and Russians joined forces made the entire Hong Army feel unprepared.

During these three offensives, the Hong Army not only invested all resources, but even the strategic reserve team was invested. As a result, it was discovered that after strengthening the military preparations, the Qing army in Guangdong and Guangxi was trapped in the consolidation of the newly occupied areas and could not enter the Five Ridges as soon as possible, so that they felt like raising tigers was a disaster.

What's even more terrible is the battlefield in Anhui. I originally thought that after the capture of Huainan, whether it was the nianzi of Zhiheji, Shi Dakai from Anqing, Yuan Jiasan from Haozhou, and Fuji, Hong Xiuquan and other troops, they were all determined by a battle. However, the facts proved that the battlefield in Anhui was indeed one of the most important battlefields of the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Without the support of the First Division, the situation could not be consolidated by just half of Feng Sixian's Eighth Division.

Strictly speaking, Feng Sixian still occupies the initiative of the entire Anhui battlefield and forms a mutual support situation with the land brigade in the Huaiyang direction. However, the problem is that although he has the initiative and has won repeatedly, there are still sporadic setbacks and losses, especially the newly attached former Qing army, the former Nian army, and the former Taiping army often suffer losses. It will take some time to fully grasp Anhui.

The key issue now is Guangdong. There is such a tiger behind him. Liu Chang feels like a thorn on his back. As long as he completely defeats Ye Mingchen in Guangdong, Liu Chang dares to relax and sleep. Before solving Ye Mingchen, Liu Chang can temporarily compromise with the Nian Army.

Now Ye Mingchen is the number one enemy of the Hong Army.

Due to its special geographical location, Guangzhou is the Chinese city with the most contact with foreigners in history. Sometimes its contact is in depth and even shocking. For example, some Arab historical materials claim that when Huang Chao entered Guangzhou, he slaughtered 200,000 Arabs in one go.

This number is so sensational that many people doubt the authenticity of this Arab historical material, but it also indirectly confirms how developed the city's foreign trade has reached. Most of the time, Guangzhou suppressed important trade ports such as Mingzhou and Quanzhou, and has always been China's most important import and export ports.

After entering the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou's status reached an unprecedented level, because only Guangzhou had the qualifications to trade imports and exports along the entire coast of China. Whether it was imports or exports, they had to be transferred to Guangzhou, so the famous Thirteen Lines appeared.

Under this system, Guangzhou Port has many legends, such as the legend of a wealthy man with tens of millions of silver assets, spending thousands of dollars, and the Western merchants who came from thousands of miles away. Some of the history is even more exaggerated than the legend. For example, the two Chinese merchants borrowed tens of thousands of taels of silver from the East India Company due to their inability to turnover. In the next few decades, these two Chinese merchants were overwhelmed by the usury. Although they had already paid back a huge sum of 400,000 to 500,000 silver, they still owed millions of dollars to repay. In desperation, they could only delay the repayment of the court, and the angry East India Company directly turned this matter to the heavens and became a famous trade case in the Qianlong Dynasty.

Although such a good life lasted for two hundred years, it would come to an end. After the First Opium War, the original Guangzhou monopoly became a five-port trading service. Guangzhou no longer monopoly export trade. The rapidly rising Shanghai soon surpassed Ningbo and an old-fashioned commercial port like Fuzhou directly challenged Guangzhou. The rise of the Hongjun made the two ports of Shanghai and Ningbo stand side by side with Guangzhou.

But in recent times, Guangzhou suddenly broke out like a wealthy businessman in desperate situations, and the ships entering and leaving the Guangzhou Port suddenly increased by 40%. Except for some new ships that transport arms and military supplies, the rest were almost all opium ships coming from Mumbai.

The victory of the Hong Army represents that the opium trade in the Yangtze River Basin has reached a recent day. The Hong Army has always refused to change its attitude of banning opium. All captured opium is confiscated, and even exported the seized opium to the enemy-occupied areas, smashing the opium trade system under the control of the traditional British.

But this represents the opportunity for Guangzhou Port. Now batches of armed caravans have not yet completely established a ruling order in the newly occupied areas, and have used the opium that has been packed into the water and land to exchange for huge profits of hundreds of times. This also gave Ye Mingchen the opportunity. Now the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi looked at the speeding sailboat: "How many available arms have the Russians transported this time?"
Chapter completed!