After another dozen hours of marching, the huge team finally crossed Wushan, and a heavy rain forced the already exhausted marching team to stop and repair again.

The sound of raindrops falling on the top of the tent is not as fascinating as in the poetry of the literati, and the only thing that brings the rain spirit is the irritability that cannot be stopped.

Listening to the monotonous sound of the radio, this feeling is even worse.

Li Zeng saw that the regiment commander's spirit was not very good, and silently handed her a few telegrams that had just been sorted out.

"The telegraph of the first factory, the production of iron wire is indeed more difficult to produce than steel plates and steel bars, but it is not to the point where it cannot be produced, and even skilled subway craftsmen can produce it by hand. However, if it is to be produced on a large scale, it can only be a large steel plant like theirs. ”

He said softly, for fear of aggravating the regiment leader's anxiety.

"Phew, I see." Yu Ling held her forehead and rubbed her temples, the continuous march and the humidity of the rainy day had already made her body a little unbearable, if it wasn't for some physical training, her ability to bear it would be even worse.

This time she personally led the troops, which really made her understand how torture war is, just such a boring march is already going crazy.

She could not imagine how an army, without a belief, even if it was false, could sustain itself until the end of the war.

Even now, she herself has been slightly shaken, not to mention the soldiers below?

She shook her head without saying that it was necessary to carry out detailed ideological education work, but the name of occupying the moral high ground was not so easy to think of.

Moving his neck a little, Yu Ling felt that his spirit was slightly better, so he forced himself to read the report of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Plant at a glance.

There was no large-scale laying of barbed wire at the front, and it should be partly due to the insufficient production of barbed wire; But it is still the responsibility of the front-line commander not to lay it at all, and if he really wants to do it, even if he asks the nearest blacksmith to build it by hand, it is okay.

But after all, they don't know how useful barbed wire is.

"Send this letter first: the Ministry of Resource Integration, add iron wire to the front-line supply supply, allocate 500,000 taels to expand the scale of transportation, and allocate a budget of 20,000 taels per month to maintain the scale."

Yu Ling quickly finished writing the manuscript paper and handed it to the communication team on the side, but Li Zeng stopped the communication team and did not let them send this order immediately, which couldn't help but make Yu Ling a little surprised.

This young man has only been in office for less than a week, and he should not have the courage to disobey his boss, or rather, according to the character of Chinese in this era, he should not have the courage to disobey his boss.

"What's wrong?" There was a hint of playfulness at the corner of Yu Ling's mouth, if it was a high-ranking officer in the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid he would have to leave immediately.

Sure enough, she still represents civilization.

Of course, this fantasy is to satisfy her inexplicable sense of superiority as a person in the future, and it is unknown whether this is the case.

"Also, the British and French consulates sent us letters of inquiry."

Li Zeng took out another one from the telegram that Yu Ling had read just now, and because he didn't care too much, Yu Ling didn't find that there was another telegram under the telegram.

"Ask if we need their mediation on the matter."

Mediation, how familiar a word, runs through almost the entire diplomacy of modern China, and is almost synonymous with diplomatic humiliation.

Even if, in reality, the term does not insult any country.

"What about the conditions?" Yu Ling restrained her smile, although she didn't think she was one of the humiliated warlords in history, but the word still touched a sensitive nerve in her.

"Lift the blockade of the Yangtze River and restore Chongqing as a treaty port, while maintaining consular jurisdiction and most-favored-nation status between the two countries."

There is no difference from the Qing Dynasty, as if they just want Yu Ling to maintain their interests during the Qing government.

This is not reasonable, for a newly emerging "uncivilized" regime in the East, it is impossible for these two old foxes to demand only this.

"That's more than that, right?" Although the light outside the window was a little dim, Yu Ling could still see that there was more to the telegram than that.

"And the last condition, which doesn't seem very important, is that they want us to develop industrial zones and strengthen cooperation with both of them." Li Zeng looked at Yu Ling with some confusion, this kind of thing about cooperation shouldn't be the focus.

But Rain Spirit's reaction was beyond his expectations.

Grabbing the telegram from Li Zeng's hand, she read it several times, and the edges of the paper were almost crumpled.

"Tsk, it's really a good calculation, this really regards me as one of those people in the Qing Dynasty."

She said with wide eyes, the ferocity in her eyes as if she wanted to swallow people alive.

Why do these countries dare to say such outrageous words on this land so brazenly? It is precisely because of the incompetent Qing government!

In later generations, countless people have made various defenses for the failure of the Qing government, but this still cannot change the fact that this government is incompetent.

It is true that the Opium War and the First Sino-Japanese War were because they lost the war and signed treaties that humiliated the country, and their skills were inferior to others, so there is nothing to say.

However, in the Qing-French War, this incompetence was undisguised: the soldiers fought for their lives to win, but the Qing government still "cautiously" signed the "Sino-French New Treaty", and the collapsed cabinet of France was invincible.

If the ministers had used half of their usual intrigue efforts in the signing of the treaty, what they would have ended up with would not have been like that.

"The bottom line for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare for negotiations is to restore trade after the war and maintain MFN status for both sides."

After calming down his mood, Yu Ling wrote another telegram to Chongqing.

Britain and France, accustomed to tyranny in this land, will soon find that in the weak Far East, a great surprise awaits them.

"Then, regimental commander, we are, don't fight?" Li Zeng asked puzzledly, the performance of the regiment commander and the regiment commander's approach are incompatible at any time, is it really necessary to cancel the military operation this time?

"Who said I wouldn't fight?" Yu Ling asked rhetorically, "The negotiation is a matter for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and our task is to carry out our original battle plan. ”

"The telegram ordered the Sixth Division to speed up the plan to cut off the Jinghan Railway, and at the same time put pressure on the Wuhan side."

After speaking, she looked down at the puddle in front of the tent and was stunned for a while, this puddle of water has been muddy...... Then, it is necessary to speed up the progress.