Chapter five hundred and seventy-six Hunan governor Yuezhou possession of equipment
Yuezhou.
Years ago, under the strict orders of Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, Bayan San, the governor of Hunan, had to bring more than 7,000 green battalions and newly recruited warriors from the province to Yuezhou to resist the Xinghan bandits who might invade from Hubei.
After leaving the army, he had been dilly-dallying. When he heard that Dingxi General Fengsheng'e had led his troops to recapture Jingzhou, Lord Ba's spirits soared. He issued a few orders to urge troops and arrived in Yuezhou in two days.
Yuezhou is connected to Hunan and is an important town in Hubei. During the San Francisco Rebellion, the Wu army held Yuezhou for five years, preventing the Qing army from taking a further step south. Later, due to the death of Wu Sangui, the soldiers were shaken and the defenders abandoned the city, allowing the Qing army to drive southward.
Hundreds of miles.
It's just that since taking the waterway from Changsha to Yuezhou, the Bada people have never been ashore, and they have been eating and lodging on the Dongting Lake Navy's boat all day long.
The euphemistic name is to sit on the front line and prevent bandits from entering Hunan and disturbing the elders of Sanxiang.
In fact, he listened to dramas and prostitutes on the boat every day, and asked the Yuezhou people to continuously bring money and gifts.
If there is a change, it is also convenient to take a boat to escape in time, so as not to have the bandits surround the city and wait for death.
Master Ba doesn't understand the art of war.
Flexible, yet understanding.
This ship was affectionately called Ba Gongguan by the gentry in Yuezhou City. The gentry even laughed at the Futai master who was born in the Red Flag of Manchuria, thinking that he was a coward and a coward.
In fact, the Yuezhou gentry was right.
Bayan San is just a idiot.
This person had a pen-and-paper background thanks to his father-in-law Yinyou, and then he managed to get a job at the Military Aircraft Department as a Zhangjing.
They are the staff of the Secretariat.
The problem was that Secretary Bayan San couldn't even read a word, so he had no ability to deal with the overwhelming number of official documents from the Military Aircraft Department every day, so he often paid his colleagues for help, or he was passive and sabotaged, which made all his Manchu and Han colleagues look down on him.
As the core of the military affairs of the Qing Dynasty, the Military Aircraft Department had its own night shift personnel, and no one was willing to work the night shift. As a result, Bayan San, who was incompetent, was often assigned to work at night.
Unexpectedly, the unlucky Bayan was hit by dog feces.
On a certain day when it was his turn to be on duty, an urgent report of the 800-mile battle against Junggar on the northwest front was sent to Qianlong.
After Qianlong read the battle report, he asked the Military Aircraft Department who was on duty.
Eroli, the young eunuch serving in Yangxin Palace, looked at the duty list of the Military Aircraft Department and said it was Bayan San. Qianlong had Bayan San called into the palace and dictated several hundred words of military strategy to Bayan San.
The Military Aircraft Department drafted the edict.
At that time, Bayansan only hummed and agreed, but after leaving the palace, he completely forgot the emperor's instructions and could not remember a single word.
The emperor is still waiting for the manuscript of his imperial edict, but he can't remember a word of it. What should he do?
Just when Bayansan was so anxious that he wanted to jump into the pit, the goddess of luck visited him again.
Eroli, the young eunuch beside Qianlong, was born in Manchuria. I don't know if something happened in his family or something, but he became the first Manchu eunuch since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.
This man has received education since he was a child, is smart and has a good memory, and is quite smart.
When he came to get the manuscript of the imperial edict, Bayan San hesitated for a long time and couldn't come up with a word. As soon as Oroli saw it, he knew that the Manchu secretary had done nothing.
I had no choice but to draft the edict for Bayan San and take it back for delivery.
After Qianlong read the edict, he felt that Bayansan had written his meaning clearly and his writing style was good. He couldn't help but be very happy. Bayansan's name was now in the emperor's heart.
A few days later, Qianlong asked Fu Heng, Minister of Military Aircraft, if your military aircraft department has talents like Bayan San, why didn't you recommend him to the emperor earlier?
Talent?
When Fu Heng heard what the emperor said, he didn't dare to neglect, so he quickly recommended Bayansan.
Soon, Bayansan was appointed as a Taoist priest of Tongshang Road. Within a few years, he was promoted to governor of Hunan and became one of the feudal officials of the Qing Dynasty.
That is to say, from that night on, Bayansan treated Eroli, who was several years younger than him, as a benefactor. Even though he was now the governor of Hunan, he still did not forget his original intention and sent people to give gifts to Eroli every three or five days.
He can also be considered a compassionate person.
That is, he was too greedy as an official. After he was promoted to governor of Hunan, he did not want to do serious things, but only thought about how to exploit people's wealth in various names.
This is why the straw sandal tax was introduced.
Few poor people can wear cloth shoes, and most of them wear straw sandals. As a result, Master Ba ordered that anyone who wears straw sandals into the city must pay a straw sandal tax.
The reason is that wearing straw sandals hinders the appearance of the city, and doesn't it embarrass the government if they are in tatters?
There are policies and measures to counter.
When they heard that they had to pay a tax to wear straw sandals into the city, the poor people simply went into the city barefoot, but they thought they could pay less two copper coins this way?
dream!
Mr. Ba applied the patch in time.
The nature of being barefoot is even worse. It is a deliberate attempt to discredit the court, so he must be punished.
The straw sandal tax is two cents per time, and the barefoot fine is four cents per time.
If the masters hadn't advised you not to be too harsh on the people, I'm afraid Mr. Ba would have even imposed a sun tax, a garbage tax, and a smoking tax for you.
After staying on Dongting Lake for seven or eight days, no thieves came from Hubei. Logically, Mr. Ba should be happy, but instead of being happy, he was unhappy.
If the thief doesn't come over, how can he reimburse him?
So he just talked about the war on paper, and reported every two days to Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang who had taken refuge in Changsha, telling where the officers and soldiers had recently encountered the enemy, how many people had been killed and so on.
Since it is marked, there must be casualties, losses, and gains.
Mr. Ba has no casualties or gains here, but there are losses.
I went back and forth to the governor's office to report the expenses of 460,000 taels.
There was no need for the Governor to reimburse him for actual expenses. He spent more than half of the expenses himself, and the rest was left to be replenished when he returned to the provincial capital.
Don't you want to celebrate the New Year? Mr. Ba was bored on the boat. He thought that his entourage was wandering around the lake with him and suffered a lot, so he asked the accountant to bring him 20,000 taels of cash.
Ten thousand were distributed to the accompanying civil and military personnel, boatmen, sedan bearers, cooks, nannies, girls, etc., so that they would be grateful.
Ten thousand were sent to the Hunan regiment to train Xiangyong to lead the army officers, and three hundred and five hundred were distributed in different sizes.
As for the training warriors below, it is already a great kindness from Master Futai that they can have food to eat and a winter coat to wear, so there is no need to reward them again.
I didn't ask you to actually fight the bandits.
As for the Dongting Lake Navy, Mr. Ba is also interested in letting the Navy make its own New Year purchases.
How to fend for yourself?
Anyway, since the twelfth lunar month, navy officers and soldiers have begun to collect fish tax from fishermen. They also send special personnel to various aquatic product wholesale markets and docks in Dongting Lake to collect fish buying tax from vendors who come to buy aquatic products, including ordinary citizens.
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Those who sell must pay taxes, and those who buy must also pay taxes. One buy and one sale, the New Year's goods for the Navy officers and soldiers will naturally be provided for.
After handling the logistical problems, Mr. Ba felt that it was precisely because he personally came to Yuezhou to take charge that he ensured that the people of Yuezhou did not suffer from the ravages of the bandits. So, do the people of Yuezhou want to ask him for help?
What do you mean?
Mr. Ba doesn’t want money this time, but wants the Wanmin Umbrella instead.
He ordered the magistrate Guo of Yuezhou to be summoned. First, he asked his master to tell Magistrate Guo about the Wanmin Umbrella.
Magistrate Guo is in a dilemma, because the gentry and people of Yuezhou have a very bad reputation for Lord Futai. It would be difficult for them to organize their own people to present the Ten Thousand People Umbrella.
The master told the magistrate's embarrassment honestly to his boss, Mr. Ba.
Mr. Ba was unhappy: "I'm not asking them to give money. At worst, I'll pay for it myself. I just asked them to organize some people to come to the dock to donate. I also hired the gong and drum team. What's the trouble?"
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Send the Master to explain things clearly to Magistrate Guo. It’s up to you whether you will be rated high or low by the provincial government this year.
Magistrate Guo had no choice but to go back to make preparations. He didn't dare to ask Mr. Futai to pay for it out of his own pocket, so he could only allocate money from the government.
I had just finished everything that day, but before Magistrate Guo came out to greet the prominent gentry in the city and asked them to cooperate with the gentry and the people in donating the Ten Thousand People's Umbrella, there was an urgent military situation.
The rebels from Hubei suddenly sent troops to capture Linxiang two days ago, and now they are rushing towards Yuezhou.
Those who reported the news said that there were tens of thousands of thieves and horses, with flags all over the place, and a vast darkness stretching for dozens of miles in front and back.
This shocked Governor Guo. He didn't care about the Wanmin Umbrella. He quickly asked someone to prepare a sedan and rushed to the dock to report the news to the governor. Unexpectedly, the governor's boat was going to Junshan.
Magistrate Guo was so anxious that he wanted to throw himself into Dongting Lake.
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Not using troops during the Chinese New Year has been an unspoken rule between warring parties since ancient times.
The problem is that the Xinghan Army did not reach any agreement with the Qing Army this time.
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Gu An, the nephew of Gu Zhengdao, commander of the Xinghan Army, and the division commander of the first division, the most elite main force of the Xinghan Army, received his uncle's military order and ordered him to immediately lead the first division to attack Hunan and must
To capture the important town of Yuezhou.
Along with Gu Zhengdao's military order, a copy of the memorial was sent to Gu An.
The content is the military strategy for the year to come that General Feng Sheng'e of Dingxi of the Qing Dynasty presented to the court.
The manuscript even included the opinions of the Military Aircraft Department.
After carefully studying Fengsheng's so-called strategic deployment of spreading a net on all sides, Gu An led the first division to march towards Hunan without saying a word.
My uncle is right. If you want to break Fengsheng's strategy of spreading a net on all sides, you must get ahead of it and cut off the so-called net. That is to say, if you want to cut down the big tree of Fengsheng'e, you must cut this big tree.
Cut off all the branches to make them bare.
The Hunan net is the most important of the four big nets. It contains not only the Hunan governor's office, but also two big fish, Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, and Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei.
Gu Zhengdao asked the First Division to capture Changsha. If not, it should ensure that Yuezhou is controlled. This can cut off Hunan's flank threat to Wuchang. If necessary, it can even march from Yuezhou to Jiangxi, thereby disrupting the enemy's rear.
This purpose forced the Qing army in Jiangxi to use this network ineffectively.
In addition, the reason why Gu Zhengdao asked his nephew to capture Yuezhou City was that members of the Yuezhou Tiandihui secretly came to surrender, saying that there was a large amount of ordnance hidden in Yuezhou City.
It is said that when Wu Sangui's troops abandoned Yuezhou, they hid it under the artillery bureau room of the former capital department in the city.
People from the Tiandihui said that there are at least hundreds of large and small cannons, as well as more than 30 general cannons weighing 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms. Therefore, if they can be captured, it will greatly improve the Han army's ability to attack fortresses and no longer suffer from the shortage of weapons.