Under Zhang Yong's leadership, Tang Xingming soon came to Cai Tinggan's residence. Seeing Tang Xingming coming, Cai Tinggan hurriedly went out to greet him: "Brother Tang, please come in quickly. I'll be hungry after fighting for a long time. I'll ask someone to help you get some food." After Cai Tinggan reminded him, he immediately felt a twitch in his belly. He was indeed hungry.

The two sat at the dining table, and Cai Ting smiled dryly, "I haven't seen each other for many days, so I have to talk to Brother Tang well. But there are some ugly words that need to be said in my head. The Jiangnan dock is operated by private companies, so it is naturally impossible to provide free maintenance services."

"I naturally know this. As long as you offer the price, I will ask the central government to pay." Tang Xingming nodded and said.

Cai Tinggan smiled slightly: "Many of your warships have suffered heavy losses, and they need to replace armor and artillery, and some have to replace servo or even steam engines, so the price is relatively expensive. All of them are calculated, and it costs about 100,000 Yingyang."

"What? 100,000?" Tang Xiangming's face changed in fear. He knew that even if he submitted it to the imperial capital, Yuan Wei would not be able to pay the money. Because he wanted to suppress the rebellion of the Congress party, the Northern Region government, which is now financially tight, had to negotiate with the Six Kingdoms bank group, hoping to borrow some money to maintain military expenditures. If he wanted money now, he would probably be scolded.

Tang Xingming was a little restless. His face looked ugly, but he secretly scolded the excitement of repairing a ship. It seemed that he knew what Tang Xingming was thinking, Cai Tinggan took a document and handed it to him and asked him to take a closer look.

Tang Xingming took the document and found that it was written on it, which was written on it, as well as the various funds required for maintenance. It was written very clearly and arranged neatly. After reading the various items of the individual items, Tang Xingming nodded secretly. The price written on it was much cheaper, and it was obvious that the people had already given up on it.

Even though he knew that Jiangnan Dock had a discount, he could not get the money. Seeing Tang Xingming in a dilemma, Cai Ting smiled dryly: "I have a way to discount the funds for this repair, which can be all exempted. I wonder if Brother Tang is willing."

"Oh? There is such a good thing? Please teach me Brother Cai." When Tang Xingming heard that he could not spend money, he suddenly lit up.

Cai Ting leaned on the back of the chair and said calmly: "Didn't you capture a cruiser Yingrui? That cruiser was bombed so badly that it would be difficult to repair if it wasn't in the Jiangnan dock. You might as well pay me the repair money. In this way, I have a remark to my superiors for free repair. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

"You..." Tang Xiangming shook his head and sighed: "In the past, people said that you, Cai Ting, have many ideas, but I don't believe it. Today I have learned it. Don't worry about my warships. This time I lost several warships. Just a little compensation, you still want to get them away."

Cai Ting said calmly: "I just give you a suggestion, not to let you do this. I think all the soldiers are tired, so it's better to have a sleep after dinner. Anyway, the repair of the warship is not possible in a short while. However, Brother Tang needs to contact the president as soon as possible, because Jiangnan docks docks do not have credit, and I can't help this." After that, Cai Ting waved his hand and left.

After eating, Cai Tinggan left directly and hung Tang Xiangming in the hall, which made him stunned for a long time before he realized. After sighing, Cai Tinggan had to contact Yuan Wei. Soon Yuan Wei received a telegram from Tang Xiangming. Looking at the eye-catching numbers of the 100,000 Yingyang in the telegram, he felt so dazzling.

Song Jiaochu was assassinated, and then the national public opinion condemned Yuan Wei under the guidance of the Congress newspaper. Yuan Wei had not yet sorted out what was going on. Zhao Bingjun and Ying Guixin were assassinated one after another, and the charge was put on his head. He was really shot while lying down.

The Congress party took advantage of this matter, and in just two months, several southern provinces declared independence, which was obviously prepared in advance. Yuan Wei knew that all this was absolutely inseparable from Sun Wenhai, so he immediately declared that the Congress party was illegal and expelled all its members from the Congress. Due to the expulsion of the Congress party members, the number of Congress was insufficient, and later disbanded. In this way, Sun Wenhai arrested Yuan Wei for another charge and opposed the republican dictatorship.

After becoming more and more passive in public opinion, Yuan Wei decided to defeat the other party with military strength and completely solve the problem of the Congress party at one time. Soon, the governor of Qilu, Jin Yunpeng, mobilized the Fifth Division under his command, and jointly dispatched with the Dingwu Army of Jiangnan Province, Zhang Xun, the governor of Jiangnan Province, and pointed directly at Wenhai City. Wang Zhanyuan, the governor of Zhongyuan Province, also mobilized the Second Division, intending to go down the river and attack Tan Yankai of Nanyuan Province.

Originally, Wang Zhanyuan planned to join forces with Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Central South Province, to attack Nanyuan Province, but just when Zhang Zhenfang was about to raise an army, the Bailang Uprising broke out in Central South Province.

Since Zhang Zhenfang served as the governor of Central and Southern Province, he has unconcealedly imposed heavy taxes, causing local people to live in poverty, hungry people and beggars everywhere. Even wealthy families like Bai Lang, who were originally wealthy, have become increasingly poor. As the lowest class of society, if they can survive, they can always endure it, but when they cannot live in obedience to the people, they will go to another extreme.

As early as the Jiangxia Uprising broke out, Bai Lang organized an uprising army of 20 or 30 people in his hometown. They ate the big families and killed the powerful and distributed the food to the civilians who were not fed and fed. His prestige soon rose. In 1912, a large-scale drought occurred in Central and Southern Province, and the grain harvest was poor but the taxes were not reduced at all. The people who could not survive had to rise up.

Such an environment gave Bai Lang a good opportunity to develop. With his fame, the green forest heroes, scattered soldiers and many hungry people in Central and Southern Province joined him one after another. The Bai Lang's uprising army quickly grew to tens of thousands. After the number of people increased, Bai Lang became bolder. He used the method of beating east and attacking west and avoiding the real and attacking the virtual, and defeating the Northern Region Army that came to encircle and suppress several times.

Originally, Zhang Zhenfang did not pay attention to this rebel army that lacked weapons and training, but when he concentrated the Northern Army of the Southern Province to go south and cooperated with Wang Zhanyuan to attack Nanyuan Province, Bai Lang seized this opportunity and conquered Jun County, Lushan, Baofeng and other places, and the troops were approaching Yuan Wei's hometown Xiangcheng.

His hometown was almost defeated by others, Yuan Wei was immediately furious. He ordered Zhang Zhenfang to return to the army immediately to encircle and suppress the Bailang uprising army in a short time. The angry Zhang Zhenfang had to return to Central and Southern Province. In order to be on the safe side, Wang Zhanyuan also sent troops to help him clear the attack, which delayed the time to attack Nanyuan Province.
Chapter completed!