Although Deng Fei wished to take down the map on the screen immediately, he had to find a professional to do such things as revealing and mounting. In addition, the headquarters was packing up and moving, so he had to wait until he finished his work.

As the battle progressed, the location of the Eastern Front Command was constantly changing. It was previously located at Laobian Station 60 miles west of Shengjing. Now its new location has been selected at the Falun Temple outside the small north gate of Shengjing City. It is less than six miles away from the city gate, and it is convenient to move into the city in the future.

If you look down from the sky, the entire city is like a mandala mandala surrounded by a square and a circle layer by layer. Such a city structure is unique among ancient Chinese cities.

The center of the entire city is the Shengjing Palace. The courtyard where the Phoenix Tower and the harem are located is at the highest point, which is the first floor inside the mandala; the city walls that are almost square enclosed the inner city, and the General Office, the Five Departments, Fengtian Prefecture, Chengde County Prefecture and many royal palaces form the second circle; and outside is the wall of the outer city that is almost round and a large number of houses, which is equivalent to the outer courtyard of the mandala. The eight roads connecting the inner and outer cities form a huge "well" shape; outside the outer contour are four pagodas and four Lama Temples, and the Beita Falun Temple is the largest among them.

When Huang Taiji built four pagodas and four temples, he hoped to use the power of religion to strengthen the "destiny of heaven" of the Qing Dynasty and prolong his life. As a result, he died before the construction was completed.

Zhao Xin intended to choose the Falun Temple. He wanted to tell his subordinates and the people of Shengjing through this action that the rise and fall of a dynasty has never had anything to do with religion. In the battle between flesh and blood and steel, even if the gods and Buddhas in the sky were surrounded by gods and Buddhas, they could not be defended or could not be defended.

The headquarters is located in the front yard where the Heavenly King Hall is located. There are three rooms in the east and west, all of which have been requisitioned, and two tents are set up in the yard. The front and back doors of the Heavenly King Hall are locked, leaving only a side door leading to the second yard and open. The lamas are all staying in the dormitory in the back yard. They should do their homework and go out to go through the back door. Now that the war in the city has just subsided, the people are not leaving, and no one comes to burn incense and worship Buddha.

Two days later, as the troops repeatedly played the "Code of Entering the City" with loudspeakers, the order in the city gradually calmed down. Although there were few pedestrians on the streets, the people had to buy grain and vegetables after all, and various stores also opened their doors one after another.

The guard company hired a calligraphy and painting shop owner who was proficient in frame from the city. He worked tremblingly for more than two hours and finally uncovered the map on the screen, and the Ming Dynasty official documents used as substrates were able to be reproduced in the world.

Deng Fei lay on the table and carefully looked at the handwriting of Qi Jiguang that had just been framed. This is a piece of official paper with a length of 77 cm and a width of 62 cm. On the right is written in small regular script, and on the left is Qi Jiguang's comments, with a total of 62 characters. Above the comments, there is also a black seal of "The commander of the Japanese capital of the Japanese" is also covered with a large black seal.

Deng Fei asked Zhao Xin, why did the official documents from the Jiajing era come to Liaodong?

Zhao Xin's explanation was that Kong Youde was afraid that he would not have enough bargaining chips to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty, so in addition to the artillery trained by the Spanish, he also carried away a large number of official documents from Dengzhou. He thought these were all good things, but the Later Jin Dynasty had no interest in these old official documents. Instead, because of the shortage of paper, he actually used them as the backing of the screen. More official documents were cut with scissors and used as paper pads between the letter bags; it was the one that Zhao Xin asked Chai Rugui to take away with him, and there were a lot of things similar to cigarette purses.

Deng Fei admired it for a while, checked other official documents, and finally carefully rolled up the framed original works and put them into a cowhide document tube. He decided to put them in a glass frame when he went back and hang them in his study.

Zhao Xin had already promised to give him the original work of Qi Jiguang. I couldn't bring this thing back, and there was also a picture in another time and space that was exactly the same as that in the museum.

As his understanding of porcelain calligraphy and paintings deepened over the years, Zhao Xin understood that some things were destined to be unable to be reclaimed and realized in another time and space.

It’s like a celebrity’s handwriting is always unique. Once he takes out one of the same ones, it’s another to say whether it’s money or not, trouble will definitely come to him. For example, Sanxitang’s book “Boyuan Tie” cannot be said to Wang Xun’s same mood back then, and wrote two identical letters, and even Dong Qichang and Qianlong even stamped the two authentic works with exactly the same stamps?

For example, the pair of Yuan blue and white cloud dragon-patterned elephant ear bottles enshrined in Zhihua Temple in Beijing are absolutely good things, unique to the world. The problem is that there is an inscription on the neck of the bottle, and it clearly says that it is a pair. He took out a pair of them, and the inscriptions are still the same, and it is difficult to not be investigated!

Deng Fei returned to the war room with satisfaction. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Zhao Xin sitting at the table, carrying two telegrams to read. He was in a good mood now and asked casually with a smile: "Who has the telegram?"

"He Xiwen."

"How is his progress?"

Zhao Xin handed over the telegram and said, "Just just took Yulin, and after he was captured, he still had to build a ship. Land transportation in Guangxi is really a headache. If a waterway of thousands of miles is unstable, the supply line will be broken. It's so troublesome!"

Guangxi is mountainous, with narrow roads and rugged roads. The Ming and Qing dynasties' post station system in Guangxi did not even have horses, and it was useless to have it. It all depends on people's feet to pass official documents, commonly known as "Thousand-mile Horse". Therefore, He Xiwen and his friends had no chance to march through the post road to Nanning, so they could only walk around the waterway.

In the combat plan he reported to the General Staff of the Northern Navy, after landing, the troops first walked on the Lianjiang and Liujiang River, then entered the Xunjiang River from Tengxian in Wuzhou Prefecture, then moved from Guiping in Xunzhou Prefecture to Yujiang River, and went straight to Nanning Prefecture. Although the waterways of thousands of miles were a bit surround, it was much better than leaping into a hundred thousand mountains.

"I'm going to be the logistics captain again after hearing this?"

"I'll talk about it after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he's not that fast." After Zhao Xin said that, he asked his staff to get an enlarged map of Guangdong and Guangxi, circled it with a red pencil, and explained: "Beiliu, Rongxian, Tengxian, Guiping, Guixian, Hengzhou, Yongchun, and all the way to Nanning, there are more than 2,000 waterways, and the army cannot be walked by land. He Xiwen has 6,000 soldiers. In September, he can reach the periphery of Nanning Mansion, God blesses."

"We must beware of the Qing army in Guangdong taking the back road, it is best to take down Wuzhou." Deng Fei looked at the map for a while and said in a deep voice: "It is still too hasty to fight Guangxi. We are not familiar with the transportation and people's conditions, and we are even more familiar with the waterways."

"Wuzhou is too close to Zhaoqing. I am afraid that the Qing army and regiment training in eastern Guangdong must pounce on it. Just occupy Teng County." Zhao Xin shrugged after saying that, "Who asked Heshen to do that? We are not Americans, we have to be trustworthy in doing things. 50 million, how many things can be solved! Otherwise, I would not even dare to repair the reservoir."

Deng Fei smiled and said, "By the way, are you still in Anping Port?"

"No." Zhao Xin lit a cigarette, took two leisurely and said, "Didn't he send Ma Bashisan to inform He Lin? Now the Qing Dynasty has controlled all the post roads leading to Yunnan and Guizhou outside, and even if there is news, it will not come out for a while. So he went to Xu Dayong the first few days and insisted on going to Guangxi, so I asked the Thunder God to take him south. Calculate the days, and we will arrive in Lianzhou in two days."

"I won't make any mistakes, right?"

"Don't worry, Xu Dayong is staring at him."

On September 7, 1794, the blue and white Thunderbolt broke through the waves and arrived at Bailong Port in the south of Lianzhou Prefecture. This time, the Thunderbolt was here to send military supplies. Although He Xiwen's troops were unstoppable in several battles, the inventory of shells fell down.

There was no way, the North Navy's 75mm gun fire rate was too fast, and it took only one shot in a few seconds. In the landing battle against Lianzhou, Zheng Wenxian's fleet used hundreds of naval guns to carry out saturated artillery bombardments on the Qing army's turrets in Daguan Port, Guantouling and Bazi Mountain, razing all three turrets to the ground. The shelling scene at that time was so powerful that it directly destroyed the resistance of Lianzhou City.

Xu Dayong came out of his cabin, came to the door of the cabin where Heshen was, and knocked on the door. After a while, the door opened, revealing Liu Quan's old face.

"Mr. Xu is here? My master is waiting for you."

Because of his lack of reading, Xu Dayong likes Liu Quan to call himself "Mr.", which sounds much more pleasant than the "Director".

Walking into the house, Heshen, wearing a moon-white cloth robe, was sitting at the table to make tea. The tea was the best Wuyi rock tea, and the tea set was a purple clay pot that looked simple and clumsy. Heshen smiled and called him down, and asked Liu Quan to pour him a cup. When Xu Dayong drank the tea with a faint fragrance in one sip, he praised him, and then asked, "Brother Xu, when will we get off the boat?"

"There will be another half an hour."

"Since that's the case, let's have another cup of tea." Although Heshen smiled and looked full of spring breeze, his cheeks were obviously much thinner than before, and there were a lot of white hair on his originally black and shiny braids.

In early August, Heshen's family, who were having dinner, learned from the midday radio that Qianlong's death and Jiaqing's succession to the throne. Not to mention that Fengshen Yinde's wife Hexiao fainted on the spot, Heshen also beat his chest and stamped his feet and cried loudly, as if he had lost his parents. Although he was the direct murderer who caused Qianlong's death, the two of them also had a relationship between the king and the minister for nearly twenty years.

As the ruler of a huge country, Qianlong needed a powerful helper politically after Liu Tongxun and Fu Heng, and his spiritual world also needed a soulmate who could sing with him. For Heshen, without Qianlong's appreciation and promotion, he could not reach the position of the first person under the emperor.

Qianlong had few favors for him in ancient and modern times, and he also wanted to devote himself to his work and be a famous minister like Liu Tongxun and Agui. The problem is that his miserable childhood left too many shadows on him, making him always want to accumulate more wealth and not be looked down upon.

Heshen was not Fu Kang'an, who had a prominent family background, nor was he Agui, who "takes horses and controls the army and dismounts the horses and controls the people". Although he was good at organizational management, had strong administrative execution, was proficient in finance, was well-versed in Mandarin, Mongolian, and Tibetan, and had a broad vision, he was still not as good as those Han ministers in his knowledge. If he wanted to realize his political ideals, he could only start by pleasing the emperor, but this move also led to being looked down upon by many people.

In addition to being sad, Heshen set up an incense table at his residence to bow to him, and wrote a tribute to burn it. Perhaps only in this way can he make up for the guilt he felt towards Qianlong.

People are so pretentious!

Since then, Qianlong's daughter Princess Hexiao has been unable to afford to be ill. No matter how many doctors he saw or how much medicine he had taken, it was useless. Heshen even asked Xu Dayong to invite famous doctors from Furdan City and Shandong to treat him, but after several famous doctors saw him, they all said that heart disease was difficult to cure.

Thor arrived at the ocean two kilometers outside Bailong Port an hour later. Because the water level of the North Temporary Wharf was too shallow to dock, Xu Dayong, Heshen and his accompanying guards could only board the North Navy patrol boat.

In order to protect Heshen, the North Navy General Staff arranged a twenty-person guard, all of whom were elites from the special operations battalion.

When the ship was docking, Heshen and his men were shocked to see the Bailong Castle by the North Navy artillery fire beside the port.

Afterwards, the group changed the cargo ship at the port and entered the inland river along the coast from the entrance of Lianjiang River. It was already dusk when they arrived at the Ximenjiang Wharf outside Hepu County. Before the ship landed, Heshen saw the noisy scene of crowds on the river bank, and couldn't help but be surprised to be so prosperous.

What he didn't know was that although the Qing Dynasty implemented a one-time trade ban, because Lianzhou was too close to Annan, it was difficult to ban private exchanges and trade, and private transactions were always under the eyes of the government. The development of maritime trade also led to local trade, and a large number of goods from Annan also entered the inland of Guangdong and Guangxi along the Nanliu River.

Lianzhou Prefecture is located on the coast and has long heard of various news about Beihai Town. The Beihai Army took over Mo Guanfu and Chen Tianbao and fought against Xishan Dynasty. It has long been rumored by the merchants. After experiencing the first few days of bleakness, as the announcement of the people in various places was released, it quickly returned to its former prosperity.

The people sent by He Xiwen to the dock to pick them up had already hired several sedan chairs in advance. As soon as Heshen and Liu Quan got ashore, they got in. Then they entered the county town under the escort of the guards and settled at Yin Hotel in the east of the city.

At dusk, Xu Dayong took two men to the General Office opposite the West Palace, where the command center of the southern line troops was located.

After checking the ID at the door, the officer on duty who was notified in advance first invited Xu Dayong to the reception room and went to the backyard to report. A few minutes later, footsteps sounded outside the door. Before anyone could enter the room, he had a thick throat and loud voice.

"Sir Xu, I've been looking forward to you!"

Before he finished speaking, a middle-aged man, who was about 1.6 meters tall and about 40 years old, walked in, followed by three officers.

He was wearing a military uniform without a military rank, no hat on his head, no belt on his waist, and a pair of cloth shoes with a thousand-layer sole on his feet. His dark and red square face had two beards on his face, raised cheekbones, and two thick eyebrows were slightly raised, like two sharp swords.

The visitor was not someone else, it was He Xiwen. Xu Dayong had read the other party’s information before coming and knew his appearance.

But he didn't dare to take the big shot. He Xiwen's military rank was two levels higher than him. He hurriedly got up and raised his hand to salute, and shouted: "Report to Chief He, Xu Dayong is ordered to come and report!"

He Xiwen knew that the other party's identity should not be made public, so she replied with a smile.

"Sir He, I often hear your name in Beihai Town. I came to Guangxi for business operations this time, and I hope I will give you more advice."

"Hahaha, it's easy to say. I've received the telegram from the General Staff. In a word, as long as you make a request, I will cooperate with you with all my strength!"

He Xiwen showed great enthusiasm for Xu Dayong's arrival, but the reasons are actually two things.

One is Xu Dayong's identity. Although the Intelligence Bureau has not been visible in Nanyang for many years, he has heard of what this agency is doing. Before Xu Dayong used it, he had received a telegram signed by Zhao Xin from the General Staff, telling him to cooperate with him with all his strength.

Another thing is that he had heard Wang Yuanfang say inadvertently that this man had also been a pirate before joining Beihai Town and acted boldly, which made him think of making friends.

As mentioned before, the upper and middle classes of the North Navy are divided into three factions, namely the "Bear Island Sect", the "Dispossessed Border Sect", and the "Submission Sect". However, for He Xiwen, who has been in Nanyang, he has nothing to do with any faction.

He Xiwen only participated in a short-term training class taught by Zhao Xin in Bacheng. He had not been to Beihai Town yet and was not familiar with the officers in the north. If you have any knowledge, it is Zheng Wenxian and Guo Xuexian, who are also from Guangdong. However, both of them belong to the navy and have been fighting in the Southeast Asian countries in recent years.

This is not his fault, but the lack of senior officers familiar with the local people's conditions in Nanyang has been lacking in Nanyang. Zhao Xin signed several transfer orders, but in the end it was cancelled.

However, not being involved does not mean not wanting to touch it. He Xiwen heard more or less about the internal affairs of the Northern Navy from his son He Xianyang’s letter. You must know that the Northern Navy will go south sooner or later, and he will go north sooner or later. At that time, he will look around and his eyes will turn dark. How can he make progress?

Well, he learned the word "progress" from Wang Yuanfang. What is referred to behind it is future.

So although Xu Dayong's military rank is just a major, he is the deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau and belongs to Zhao Xin's confidant, so he is also considered by the outside world to be an important figure in the "displaced and border sect."
Chapter completed!