Chapter 241 Changes (1)

When Li Han received the news that the first bid had arrived in the county town, it was already time for Qiming.

The night was gradually dispelled, and the sky had already faintly revealed a hint of whiteness.

It's dawn!

These days Li Han is destined to be busy and not have much rest time.

Shortly after Lu Sanfang went down, Chen Tianxiang also left to arrange defense for the seventh yard and mobilized troops to help Ji Yulin transfer his eighth yard overnight, which made the eighth yard so early exposed to some people's eyes.

After processing dozens of military affairs documents brought about by the mobilization of troops, he suddenly heard a little noise outside. Just as Li Han was about to get up and go over to take a look, he heard a knock on the door outside. After he allowed it, Lu San pushed the door and walked in.

"What's wrong?"

Li Han asked.

A trace of fatigue flashed in Lu San's eyes. It was obvious that he could not rest overnight last night. Today, he followed the army to Yingshan County again during the day. He only had a small sleep on the train for a while. Now he was extremely exhausted. However, after seeing Li Han's inquiring eyes, he nodded slightly and spoke: "Master, there is information from Yingcheng, but the man said that the information was critical and he needed to hand it over to the Master himself. Since Yingshan County is close to Xinyang, Henan, many Qing army spies have been lurking in the city, so his subordinates have strengthened the necessary inspection methods."

Li Han then relieved his frowning and nodded and praised: "It's okay, the Qing army is about to go south. It's not impossible to hide spies sent by the Tatars in the city. You need to be more careful. Go down and rest. After the guards outside check, you will bring him to see me!"

"Yes, Grandmaster, I'll call him now."

"Report"

After receiving his approval, Lu San left and came back soon, and walked in with two guard members and a young man who looked a little white and pink.

The young man was wearing a dark green military uniform, which was the latest civilian military uniform of the military government. Currently, he was equipped with only a group of student soldiers from the surveying and mapping school he brought from Hubei to the Telegraph Office, which had been under militarized management. He was obviously not young, and obviously he was from the Telegraph Office!

"big"

Seeing that he was about to salute, Li Han waved his hand to stop him, staring at the folder in the young man's hand, not caring about these false gifts at all.

"I'll be exempted from Xu Li. Was it a telegram sent by Ying Cheng?"

"When I go back to Da Zheng, not only Yingcheng, but also one from Xiangyang! It is urgent. Two of the documents are four-star intelligence. According to the regulations, they must be delivered to Da Zheng in person!"

The student soldier seemed a little excited, but he remembered very detailed the procedures formulated after Li Donglai took over the Telegram Office, and he was very informative.

The third standard was originally two telegraph machines. After capturing Xiangyang, Li Han sent two more. Now Xiangyang has become one of the four major cities controlled by the military government, but he has to be more cautious.

Although Hanchuan is not as important as Xiangyang, its unique geographical location has left a lot of marks in Li Han's mind, so there are also telegrams set up there.

The two places sent information directly here at the same time, without passing through Yingcheng. It was obvious that there was a major military situation.

"Thank you for your hard work, give it to me!"

After taking several documents he took out from the folder, it was obvious that these documents had been sorted out, and the above letters were not important. He just took a quick look and then passed by, only recording a telegram sent by Zhang Meisheng from Yingcheng. It is said that because of the abundant rainfall of these two people in Shayang, several Han River embankments in the town had collapsed and leaked to varying degrees. Although the situation is not serious now, in the view of prevention, a gentry from Shayang jointly reported to the military government, requesting that the military government be able to allocate funds to rebuild the embankment. Of course, they are willing to donate property and silver.

According to the statistics of local gentry, it would cost less than 100,000 taels of financial resources to rebuild several dams in the town. Although some local gentry promised to contribute half of the investment, Zhang Meisheng also knew that the war was about to begin and the military government's finances were still relatively rich for the time being, once the war broke out, in order to curb the prices of food and grass and ammunition supplies in the five palaces after the war broke out, salt tax alone might fall into a dilemma of not being able to make ends meet. Therefore, he did not dare to take the initiative and sent a telegram to inquire.

Despite this, Zhang Meisheng did not disappoint him and handed over all the government affairs in the military government to him. In the telegram, Zhang Meisheng analyzed the importance of the matter for him, hoping that he could allow the military government to approve funds to rebuild the Shayang embankment. First, it could appease the people's hearts in new places such as Shayang, and second, it could also appease the people's hearts in the palace through big publicity because the Qing army was about to move south.

Li Han frowned and thought for a while, and decided to listen to his suggestions. He had long heard of the chaos in the people in the mansion. Even if he had the Yingcheng, Xiangyang and other places where his army was stationed, there were many wealthy gentry and wealthy people who had been in a low-key manner or simply moved home. They were the most well-informed group of people, and many of them could vaguely gain the strength of the Qing army's army to the south through their relationship networks that they had been operating for many years. It is no wonder that they were so unconfident in the military government.

Their movement aggravated the panic in the hearts of ordinary people. According to the reaction of the patrol battalions in various places, since the news of the Qing army's upcoming large-scale southward spread in the mansion, there have been a lot of criminal activities such as smashing, robbery and other crimes in various places, and prices in several places, including Yingcheng, have risen a few points. It is obvious that the people's hearts are in panic.

Although he had punished several bad vendors who secretly raised prices, unless the military government can win a big victory in a short period of time, it would be difficult for him to purchase low-priced materials from a group of merchants in the mansion who had tightened their pockets and urged them to use them for military consumption, and calmed down the rising prices in the mansion.

At this time, the military government really needs to use some means to appease the hearts of the people in the government.

He gently rubbed his chin, which had already grown a layer of dense beard, and he was already worried.

He took out his pen with him and wrote the words "approval" under the telegram. After a slight pause, he continued to write another sentence, appointing Zhang Meisheng as the "Prime Minister of the Military Government Affairs Department" and temporarily dispatching Shayang and Yingcheng to assist in the construction of the embankment in Shayang.

Finally, he wrote the word "propaganda" in the lower corner of the telegram, and then made a circle.

With Zhang Meisheng's experienced experience, he will know how to do it.

Putting the reviewed file aside, he opened another file and started reading it.

After a closer look, he looked at it and his face was obviously relieved. Obviously, although it was not an important military situation, it was also a good thing, at least not a bad thing!

Indeed, this piece of information taken by Li Donglai only has a very small set of words, but the weight of the things in his heart is not light, and it is the introduction of the situation in Wuchang.
Chapter completed!