Deb, the captain of the soldiers, had followed Hailancha to fight in Burma and the Jinchuan bandits. He was considered an old soldier. He thought that the bandits might have thought they were being deceived and did not dare to go out of the city to seize food.
Jia Liuyi thought it made sense. The so-called way of using troops is all about cunning. Suddenly a fleet passed under the eyes, so it is normal for the victorious army to be suspicious.
What if what is hidden in the ship is not food, but officers and soldiers?
This is also to judge a gentleman’s heart with a villain’s heart.
I think that since he became an official, he has always been upright and aboveboard, and has never conspired or schemed.
Winning means winning, losing means losing. In short, it's just like that.
Chang Shengjun has never dealt with the Prime Minister before, so it is normal to have this misunderstanding.
After thinking for a moment, he ordered the canal team to be released.
No matter what, we must ensure that the victorious army will not be short of food in the short term, so as to ensure that the grain transfer can be delayed as long as possible.
What is the concept of several million taels a year?
Just by farting, you can earn hundreds of dollars!
What was annoying was that the victorious army in the city still made no movement. They just watched the cannons one after another from the city slowly rowing towards the north.
The only thing that moved was the "Everlasting Victory" flag specially made by the religious bandits, which was being blown back and forth by the wind on the city gate tower.
Deb had no military experience to draw from, and he couldn't even figure out what the Chang Sheng Army guys were thinking.
Jia Liu also sighed: "You are not stupider than me, you are really stupid!"
Now that we have understood, this ever-victorious army cannot be plotted against, so no wonder we end up being surrounded on all sides.
If it weren't for them to make money and unite Shandong, the two governors of Tianjin and senior officials from Zhili would have sent their troops into the city, pulled out the leaders, and asked you if you would fight!
Angrily, he ordered a canal team to be released, escorted by captain Deb and 200 battalions of soldiers.
The Prime Minister personally met with the camp soldiers and gave each of them a reward of five taels of silver and a watermelon for the other three.
On a hot day, we cannot let our brothers work in vain.
"Thank you for the reward, sir!"
Jia Liu was still satisfied with the heartfelt thanks from all the soldiers in the camp.
When the cavalry team arrived at the west gate of Linqing, the escorting soldiers on the ship suddenly shouted and fired guns and arrows in the air. Several ships sank and several caught fire. Officers who jumped from the ship kept jumping into the river like dumplings.
Yin Jiang'a, the head of the Shandong Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, who had just arrived from Beijing, watched from a distance and couldn't help but close his eyes in fear and shouted: "Amitabha."
This Yin Jiangah is the son of Yonggui, the Minister of Household Affairs.
He has two great hobbies: one is good at poetry and poetry, and the other is good at worshiping Buddha and respecting monks.
Only others who were fond of Buddhism mostly went to temples to listen to Zen lectures by eminent monks. As a court official, Yin Jianga could not go to temples every day. He simply paid a lot of money to hire a king monk from the temple to return to the secular world.
Monk Wang obeyed his advice.
According to the information received by Yang Jingsu, the chief envoy of Zhili, this monk Wang was originally a monk from Guanghui Temple in the capital. He was a monk but his heart was not pure. He traveled to the mansions of high-ranking officials and nobles, married wives and had children, making him a pretty monk.
There are also rumors that many of Yin Jiang'a's wives and concubines had affairs with Monk Wang, and Yin Jiang'a even bumped into him on the spot several times.
However, Master Yin did not think it was evil, but instead felt happy, saying that the king was a Taoist monk, and it was a blessing for his wife and concubines to receive the essence of his Dharma Notes, which could indirectly help him purify his body and wash away dirt, and get closer to the Buddha.
When Yang Fantai talked about this, Jia Liu's eyes lit up. He only wished that he was now the authentic Prime Minister of Manchuria, otherwise he would have ordained and entered the temple to find an opportunity to get close to Master Yin so that he could save his wife and daughter.
If you give birth to a few sons or daughters, it will be considered as a way to save the country.
It is true that Yonggui had a reputation as a virtuous man, but he asked his son to come to Shandong to supervise the water transportation. It doesn't matter if he recommends a virtuous man without having to marry him, or he has ulterior motives.
The so-called wise officials are just that.
Agui was also the most virtuous minister of the Qing Dynasty, but he was written down in the history books because he could not resist collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.
Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin, hit the nail on the head, as long as he bribed Monk Wang, he would be dragging Yin Jiang into the water.
Jia Liu deeply thought so.
Cathay, one of the four elders, wrote to Yu Yijian, the chief envoy of Jinan City, and ordered him to spend a lot of money to buy two beauties from a brothel and send them to the camp.
Yin Jiang'a and his party just arrived in Qinghe County yesterday, and these two beauties were sent to Monk Wang's house in the evening.
He also gave Monk Wang a hundred taels of gold, but Monk Wang was completely defeated.
The officials from the Ministry of Revenue who came with Yin Jiang'a, whether they paid tribute in writing or paid homage to Tang'a, each received a meeting gift of 200 taels, and all their expenses before the army could be reimbursed.
After a thorough operation, except for Yin Jiang'a himself, who was kept secret, everyone else was named Jia Jia.
Seeing that the canals on the canal were burning and sinking, and the civilian soldiers kept jumping into the river, the tragic situation made Yin Jiang'a's heart tremble, and he chanted the Buddha's name again and again.
Monk Wang also had a Bodhisattva heart, and immediately said that he could build a Buddhist altar by the canal to save these living beings who died in vain. This would win the hearts of the soldiers and the people.
Only a thousand taels of silver are needed for rituals.
Yin Jiang'a, who usually wouldn't dare to trample an ant to death, was very supportive, but he didn't have a thousand taels of silver, so he asked Prime Minister Jia Jiashikai for temporary support.
"It is a great deed for the common people to save Ding Yong for the officers and soldiers who died. It is a good thing to accumulate virtue. Mr. Yin will do it even if he doesn't mention Jia."
Without saying a word, Jia Liuer ordered to pay three thousand taels to Yin Jiang'a on the pretext of paying for food. At the same time, he ordered others to cooperate. He also ordered that everything needed by Master Yin from now on should be given priority.
This move made Yin Jiang'a's heart feel warm.
So, on July 14, the auspicious day chosen by Monk Wang, hundreds of monks recruited from the local area, as well as 300 soldiers temporarily dressed as monks, began to perform rituals on the tall Buddhist altar set up by the canal.
Come.
The governor of Shandong, Cathay, did not come because he had other official duties. The governor of Tianjin, Xu Ji, the chief envoy of Zhili, Yang Jingsu, the general of the army, Wan Chaoxing, the deputy general, Marqing'a, and others all put down their affairs and came to attend.
Everyone is pious.
Yin Jiang'a himself even changed his official uniform and wore a monk's robe, because Monk Wang needed him to go on stage to pray for blessings.
So the monks and soldiers sang together, and the sound of wooden fish resounded on both sides of the canal.
The ever-victorious army facing the Qing Dynasty must have been alerted, and reports were raised one after another. Soon the backbone of the ever-victorious army, large and small, was gathered at the top of the city.
"What are the Qing soldiers doing?"
Wu Sanniang, who was dressed in red makeup, looked puzzled at the tall Buddhist altar in the distance and the densely packed monks under the altar.
"This must be the Qing soldiers casting a spell on me!"
Wang Lun, the leader of the ever-victorious army and the self-proclaimed "Lord of Receiving Yuan", made a magic move with both hands, suddenly pointed towards the Buddhist altar on the other side, and shouted: "Thousands of hands are blocking it, ten thousand hands are covering it, the green dragon and white tiger are coming to protect it, so I have to report to the Holy Spirit
Master Zhong learned that, hurry, hurry, kill, kill, the Five Holy Mothers are here, all the clear dog demon monks will die!"
The Prime Minister, Shandong Military Affairs Minister Jia Liu, who had just finished a few important tasks, also hurried to the canal. In order to show respect for Yin Jiang'a's faith and his grief for the soldiers and civilians who died, he also put on a cassock.
It was Yang Zhi who took people to a nearby temple to snatch it.
It was really a robbery, because the master of the cassock, Fat Master, was beaten badly.
At that time, it was Yin Jiang'a who led hundreds of monks to sing a chorus. Influenced by the sound of the wooden fish, he actually had an artistic conception in his heart. From a distance, he saw that the victorious army in Linqing City seemed to be doing something, and made a lot of messy things hanging on the wall.
At the top of the city, I was stunned for a moment and didn't understand its meaning.
Immediately he realized that these bandits were treating themselves as foreign devils. Not to be outdone, they immediately made a magic weapon with both hands and pointed angrily at Linqing City: "The mighty heavenly dragon, the World Honored Ksitigarbha, Prajna Buddhas, Prajna Parmakong!"