Of course, Ninth Marshal knew the nonsense that Mancheng was talking about, but he didn't care. Even he was secretly promoting all of this.
In the study room late at night, Ninth Marshal, Liu Jintang, Bao Chao and other direct relatives were secretly discussing countermeasures. During this period, Liu Jintang also expressed a little worry.
"Commander! Can you let the people below have a unified view... What you said is a bit outrageous... I heard that someone has spread the word, saying that Marshal, you have invited Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain to help you do it... …”
"This...how old is this? It's not nice to hear such rumors..."
The Ninth Commander did not answer, and Bao Chao next to him took over, "You don't understand... It can only be this way, it must be this way... Otherwise, it will be difficult to stabilize the situation in Jiangnan!"
"People don't believe these nonsense, but ordinary people believe it! More importantly, those Eight Banners bastards all over the city believe it!"
Hey...Liu Jintang suddenly realized that this was the case. It turned out that these extremely outrageous rumors were for the followers of the Eight Banners all over the city.
An important system that the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty relied on to control the world was the Mancheng system. The so-called Mancheng was to build a separate city wall next to or within an important city to isolate an area.
The people living inside are Eight Banners soldiers and their families, this area is full of the city!
There are commanders and yamen in the city. If the soldiers of the Eight Banners commit a crime, the local officials are not allowed to judge them. They have to be sent to the city to be judged!
This resulted in many unjust, false and wrong cases. It was clear that the Eight Banners soldiers had committed a murder, so here they would probably be sentenced to a sentence of execution, and if they were transferred away after a few years, the case would be forgotten.
The Han people and the bannermen don't want to win in a lawsuit. Their own yamen judges their own people. How do you think you can win?
Especially during the war, Mancheng became an important base for the Eight Banners. It was from here that troops were sent to massacre various rebels!
During the Taiping Rebellion, there are many historical records that Changmao massacred the city, massacred the city! In fact, many massacres killed the entire city, not the entire city.
Of course, some cities were also massacred, but some of the records were exaggerated and misrepresented!
After the Heavenly Kingdom Movement was suppressed, the Mancheng system was quickly restored, and the demolished Mancheng cities in various places in the south of the Yangtze River were rebuilt and expanded.
Of course, these New Eight Banners who live all over the city no longer have the prestige of the past. They have to keep their tail between their legs in the face of the menacing Hunan Army forces, let alone the Chinese forces.
But these people are not good at fighting, but there is no problem at all in supervising the local area and acting as spies. The important task of this group of people is to report to the capital!
However, none of the bannermen are well-educated and promising. Each and every fighting cock lackey is no different from the Eight Banners disciples of the capital!
This is a group of maggots parasitic on ancient traditions, and their thinking is completely out of touch with the times!
This group of Eight Banner idlers like to listen most to all kinds of dramas, all kinds of ditties, and storytelling stories even more. Most of them don't read, so they rely on this channel to replenish the ink in their stomachs.
Therefore, smart people frown when they hear such bizarre rumors, but these gentlemen will applaud when they hear it!
The Ninth Commander waved his hand, "Just use these people's mouths to buy us some time... The Jaap Six in the capital and the long-lived master who took refuge will not believe it, so we still have to write our telegram carefully to make them believe it!" "
Bao Chao asked, "But now that the capital is in chaos...Long Live Lord has taken refuge and left the capital, and Jaap Six unilaterally announced his accession to the throne, we have not shown our loyalty..."
"Who should the telegram be sent to? Emperor Tongzhi or the so-called Emperor Guangxu? To whomever you send the telegram, you are expressing your stance. This is not easy to handle!"
The Ninth Commander sneered, "The fool is just expressing his stance now. He hasn't even announced the price of Guiziliu. How can I express my stance? This message will be sent directly to the Ministry of War!"
"There is no need to name names, just make the cable public...start with the Ministry of War and explain clearly what we have experienced!"
"The officials at the Ministry of War will send it to the top, and the spy who stayed in the capital will also be given to the industrial zone... It can be seen from both sides, and no one can run away!"
"I am now a minister of the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Liangjiang! I sent a message to the Ministry of War of the Qing Dynasty. As for who the emperor is? Hahaha... let's just wait and see!"
"Gao! The handsome and wise man!"
The three of them began to think carefully and consider the message word by word. Of course, these nine handsome men could not talk nonsense like the rumors in the market. They could only tell the truth mixed with lies.
"Zeng Guoquan, Governor of Liangjiang, sent an urgent message...On the 5th, Chinese warships invaded along the river. Due to the previous "Concession Treaty", the garrison troops in various places did not dare to block the Chinese warships..."
"Write...just write like this...the troops stationed in various places and the banner camps all over the city are afraid of the new Chinese warships and powerful guns..."
"I am fully aware of the great responsibility, and I know that the Chinese navy is difficult to defeat, but I still deploy 50,000 elite troops on the front lines of Guanyin Mountain, Lime Mountain, and Lion Mountain. All the artillery of the Hunan Army have been gathered on the Yangtze River defense line..."
"On the morning of the 5th, the Chinese giant ship sailed into the waters of Jiangning... I was terrified... Only then did I know why the people along the river did not dare to resist!"
"The Chinese new battleship Qinling... is a heavy battleship... towering like a mountain, with cannons like a forest... The thickness of the armor is already over 300 meters from a closer look... Our Qing Dynasty's existing artillery may not be able to resist it..."
"But Jiangning is the foundation of the defense of the Yangtze River. I dare not take a step back even if I die... The soldiers and civilians on the Jiangning defense line made a loud noise and shouted loudly, forcing the giant ship to stop in Jiangning..."
"I boarded the Qinling in person to hold talks with the Chinese Lin Zhen... However, Lin Zhen was arrogant and refused to retreat. I scolded him with a death wish and suppressed him with heavy troops on the Jiangning defense line..."
"In order to defend the country, we will not give in! After an hour and a half of verbal exchanges, Lin Zhen was forced by our army's fighting spirit and finally made a compromise!"
"In the Chinese Navy, all battleships have pushed out of the Yangtze River waters and returned to the sea... and the remaining cruisers and small gunboats, in accordance with the "Concession Treaty", can patrol the Chinese industrial areas along the river..."
"I am incompetent and did not stop all the Chinese warships...but my heart is clear to the sun and the moon!"
"Heavy battleships are really not something that our existing 120 shore guns can resist, so I have to risk my life to force these giant ships back!"
"The rest of the cruisers and other small boats are still afraid of our shore defense artillery! Even if they are cruising, they will not dare to make any mistakes..."
"Well... that's about it. You continue to add more, let Master and the others polish it, and send it to the Ministry of War tonight!"
Jiu Shuai waved his hand, then rubbed his temples and remained silent. Bao Chao took the draft and went down to polish it for publication. Liu Jintang and Jiu Shuai were the only two people left in the room.
He didn't speak for a long time, and ten minutes later, Jiu Shuai suddenly raised his head and said, "Hey... you can't survive telling the truth these days! You can only lie..."
Liu Jintang quickly persuaded him, "What the Marshal said is true. There is no adulteration, it's just a little embellishment..."
"Haha... you don't understand! How do you know the details here! Eagle is in the north now. He personally participated in the Battle of Tianjin and is currently accompanying Hunchun in the Chinese industrial zone!"
"Did you know that the Northern Industrial Zone can already produce steel plates for light cruisers? Eagle saw it with his own eyes and found out through insinuations..."
"The thickness of the main armor of these Chinese cruisers is approaching 200, and the weak points are also over 100..."
"Haha... Do you think the 120mm cannon, the largest caliber we have, can handle it? Do you really think so?"
Jiu Shuai's eyes were lonely, as if he had aged several years. "Xiao Letian... he has never regarded us as opponents... I finally understand, all this layout..."
"They are all aimed at the British! All the plans are made to fight with the British!"
Note: There was a clerical error yesterday. The thickness of the 330 steel plate is basically the distance between two strands for an adult, which is the maximum distance between the thumb and index finger.
There were a bunch of typos, sorry!
