"Governor, our Hubei Military Region is willing to be responsible for liberating Sichuan." Wu Liao, commander of the Hubei Provincial Military Region, approached Wei Ze to ask for battle.

At this time, Sichuan was in a rather comfortable state, Yunnan and Guizhou in the south, Hunan and Hubei in the east were under the control of the Guangfu army, and most of the Guangfu army's energy was spent in the South China Sea, and there was limited interest in expanding the territory in the country. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the north is carrying out the final blow to the Hui people, so there is no time to look south. During such a strategic window period, Sichuan had no foreign enemies.

Of course, this is the information summed up by the intelligence department of the Liberation Army, and as for whether Luo Bingzhang in Sichuan is suspicious and troublesome, that is the problem of Luo Bingzhang and the Manchu Qing government in Sichuan.

Sichuan is an easy to defend and difficult to attack place, from Yunnan, Hanzhong, the north and south banks of the Yangtze River to attack Sichuan, there are roads, but they have to go through the onslaught of checkpoints. Of course, the essence of Sichuan is in the Chengdu Plain, and if the Chengdu Plain is taken, the local government of Sichuan will collapse. Wei Ze didn't care at all that the Manchu officials and soldiers took up arms and ran into the mountains of Sichuan to fight guerrillas, of course, the premise was that the Manchu officials and soldiers really had this kind of backbone.

Wei Ze didn't speak immediately, he waited for Wu Liao to finish speaking. Wu Liao saw that Wei Ze was so calm, and he said a little hesitantly: "I don't know if the governor can allow it?" ”

"What if you let it? What if it's not allowed? Weeser asked.

Wu Liao's heart was crossed, and he said loudly: "If the governor allows, please also ask the governor to let Comrade Shi En go to the logistics department to help." ”

Sure enough, it was a meritorious thing, and Wei Ze already knew it in his heart. A few years ago, Wu Liao was the commander of the garrison military region, and that time he was blindly involved in political issues. The commander of the garrison military region got involved in the national congress of the Liberation Party and insisted on putting forward a proposal. This kind of political nature directly caused the Central Military Commission to make personnel adjustments. Wu Liao was relieved of his post as commander of the garrison military region and transferred to the Hubei Military Region as commander of the military region.

Several years have passed, and Wu Liao's political level has not improved in the slightest. The Liberation Army is an army under the command of the Liberation Party and a people's army. No matter what Wu Liao thinks, just the purpose of his request for war is the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to Shi Enchuang, which means that he can put on a big hat of army privatization. The purpose of the party's command of the gun and the army's heavy military operations includes the purpose of private service, and this is the line of struggle that is incompatible.

Looking at Wu Liao's sincere expression, Wei Ze's head was a little bigger. Morality is a style admired in the army, and Wei Ze does not want the matter of grace to be expanded. Now, if Wu Liao comes out again and criticizes it again, even if the whole army knows that Wu Liao should be criticized, this negative effect will inevitably be too great.

Holding back his unhappiness, Wei Ze said: "Comrade Wu Liao, I will now give you an order in my capacity as the chairman of the Military Committee of the Liberation Army. ”

"Yes!" Wu Liao stood straight, waiting for Wei Ze to give an order.

Wei Ze ordered: "The political commissar of the Hubei Military Region is also the national representative this time, and I now order you to bring the political commissar with you to Comrade Shen Xin, director of the Political Affairs Department, and you will tell Comrade Shen Xin what you just said in front of the political commissar word for word." Then you ask Comrade Shen Xin to comment on what you just said. Let's go! ”

Wu Liao was stunned for a moment, and he said, "The Governor ......"

Wei Ze interrupted Wu Liao's words and said in an unquestionable tone: "Give me the order now!" ”

Looking at Wu Liao's back, Wei Ze let out a long sigh, the compromise on politics is sometimes so fucked up. If you want to save Wu Liao's face as much as possible and prevent things from going out of shape in the spread, you have to have a third party, or you have to be in the presence of a third party who is conducive to Wu Liao. Wei Ze is extremely grateful to the party committee system now, if there is no party committee system, it is really difficult for this group of Sun monkeys to deal with it.

A glass of boiled water was placed in Wei Ze's hand, and it was Zuo Zongtang who poured the water, and it was really commendable to let this person serve this brightly.

Zuo Zongtang smiled: "Your Majesty, you are really kind-hearted!" ”

"Hey, hey!" Wei Ze smiled bitterly, "If I don't be scolded and said, I will be satisfied if I train people in different ways!" ”

Zuo Zongtang can imagine what kind of straight intestines the rough men in the army are, although he doesn't like Wei Ze's father-in-law Qi Yuchang, but he quite agrees with Qi Yuchang's words, "If it weren't for Wei Ze's leadership, which of Wei Ze's subordinates would be famous?" ”

But such a group of guys from low backgrounds and not outstanding abilities can do such a career under Wei Ze. Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but sigh: "The more generals, the better, and the better generals." ”

This is a paraphrase of the famous conversation between Han Xin and Liu Bang, and of course Wei Ze knows it. He smiled: "Lao Zuo, you are not worse than Han Xin. ”

This is Wei Ze's sincere words, being able to go on an expedition of thousands of miles to recover Xinjiang, Zuo Zongtang's military level is by no means weak. The inability to get ahead in the Guangfu Army is not because Zuo Zongtang is not capable, but that this era has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Han Xin was captured, and Zuo Zongtang was also captured, and Zuo Zongtang could only smile bitterly at Wei Ze's appreciation. He changed the subject, "Your Majesty, doesn't the Military Commission have any plans to liberate Sichuan?" ”

Wei Ze replied: "The military plan to liberate Sichuan is basically almost completed, and as long as there is one way to attack the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan will also be liberated." Not only Sichuan, but also the liberation of the four northern provinces are also in the plan. ”

"Whether this will conflict with the budget, I think the new government is very strict with the budget card." Zuo Zongtang frowned and asked.

Wei Ze smiled smugly: "Industrial society is different from agricultural society, as long as every war can be profitable, then the more wars will promote social development." The key depends on whether the money goes into the hands of a small group of people when it flows, or whether the broad masses of the people make money by selling their labor power. It is not only whether the masses get money or not, but also land and output, and constantly expand our industrial capacity. If all these can be satisfied, then the more wars are fought, the better it will be for the country. ”

After all, Zuo Zongtang is Jinliang, and his unprincipled flattery is really beyond his ability. So Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but say: "Where in the world is there a perfect thing, the earth is so big, there is always an end to this kind of expansion, right?" ”

Having said this, Zuo Zongtang also regretted it a little, such an almost contrarian approach for the sake of disobedience was indeed not respectful enough for Wei Ze. What I didn't expect was that Wei Ze actually praised Zuo Zongtang's almost completely thoughtless words, "What you said is not bad at all, this kind of infinite expansion cannot be maintained forever." This cannot be done by the market alone, but also by planning. The reason why I wanted to go further south around 1870 was because the market could not have remained unchanged. ”

Zuo Zongtang was completely confused, and he asked: "Your Majesty, isn't it that after 1870 Europe is only afraid of internal strife, and it will be easier for us to do it at that time?" ”

Wei Ze shook his head slightly with joy on his face, "That's an external problem, from the inside. I'm just afraid that there will be an economic crisis. ”

Zuo Zongtang understands that putting the two words together does not look like a good word to describe the peace of the country and the people. But looking at Wei Ze's happy face, it seemed that he could get great benefits from it. Zuo Zongtang had to sigh that Wei Ze deserved to be the emperor, and he was always able to look at problems from different angles. At least so far, it has been proven that Weeser is often right.

Just when Zuo Zongtang was thinking about whether to ask what the economic crisis was all about, the intelligence staff officer in the confidential room came to send Wei Ze a telegram, and Wei Ze frowned slightly after reading it. Zuo Zongtang hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, something happened?" ”

Weser did not answer, and went back to the office with the telegram. Zuo Zongtang was very surprised, what was the news that made Wei Ze so surprised. But a secret is a secret, and no one dares to ask if Wei Ze doesn't say it.

This telegram came from Xuzhou, and there were only five words on it, and the Eastern Twist Army was defeated. Wei Ze originally thought that the Twist Army would not lose even if it could not win in the face of the weak Qing Army, but he did not expect the Twist Army to be defeated. The Manchus were still able to defeat the Twist Army at this time, which makes no sense.

The situation that surprised Wei Ze was great news on the Manchu side, but there was a murmur in this good news that made the Manchu side extremely unhappy. An important help to the victory of the Qing army was Miao Peilin, who proclaimed himself the king of Qi with Jining as the center.

"Empress Dowager Qiqi, this Miao Peilin has ill intentions, and now although he is begging for acceptance from the court, this person is by no means credible." Prince Gong Yixun didn't mean to ask for credit for Miao Peilin at all.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an of the East Palace did not answer immediately, she thought for a moment and said, "Let's talk about the situation of this battle again." ”

Prince Gong Yixun is not particularly clear about the overall situation, and there are many unclear things that he just said. The Empress Dowager Ci'an of the East Palace asked him to continue to speak, and Prince Gong Yixun had some confidence in the overall situation after Fang Cai's narration, and he stated it again.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty now had three major enemies, the Guangfu Army, the Taiping Army, and the Twist Army. The four major military forces in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Hunan Army, the Huai Army, the Mongolian cavalry of Seng Lingqin, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion. No matter which military force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was, it did not have the courage to challenge the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army was not interested in going north at this time. On the contrary, the two sides are at peace. The Taiping army fought hard against tens of millions of enemies in the northwest, and they were unable to look east. Except for the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, the other three main forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were fighting hard against the two armies of the East and West.

Knowing that the Huai army of the Hunan army had slaughtered Wuyang, the two twisted armies went south one after another, gradually breaking away from the battle in Zhili. This certainly put the Hunan army and the Huai army into a bitter battle, but the Manchu Qing were also able to calmly put the three main forces in Henan and Shandong. Miao Peilin, who was seized in southern Shandong, showed its importance.

The Manchus never attacked Miao Peilin for a very negative reason. With Miao Peilin blocking the Liberation Army in the south, the Manchus could at least be easier. Miao Peilin also asked the Manchu Qing to be crowned king, and the two sides were false and wronged, and they were okay on the whole. To the surprise of the Manchus, Miao Peilin was quite hostile to the Eastern Twist Army. He first proposed to cooperate privately with the Manchu Qing, and the Manchu Qing also used dead horses as live horse doctors, so he temporarily agreed.

The advantage of the Twist Army is that there are a large number of people among them who make a living by selling illicit salt, and they are very familiar with the roads between Henan and Shandong. Miao Peilin took action to crack down on these smugglers and cut off the intelligence line of the Twist Army. The Mongolian cavalry of Seng Lingqin pursued the main force of the East Twist Army relentlessly, from Henan to Shandong, after more than 30 days of pursuit battles, plus Miao Peilin's ventilation and reporting, also carried out some interceptions on the Twist Army. The two sides finally fought a decisive battle near Heze, 12,000 Mongolian Eight Banners against the main force of 6,000 Twist Army, and finally the Mongolian cavalry won a crushing victory and annihilated the main force of the East Twist Army.

Miao Peilin thought that he had a plan, so he once again asked the Manchu Qing to "ask for the king".

After Prince Gong finished speaking, he said to the Empress Dowager Ci'an of the East Palace again: "Empress Dowager, Miao Peilin can never be trusted!" ”R1058