Shi Dakai took away most of the princes and more than 80,000 Taiping troops, and most of the Taiping troops who were still worried about surrender followed Shi Dakai and others to Gansu. The rest of Chang'an and even Shaanxi are more than 100,000 Taiping troops led by Lin Fengxiang and hundreds of thousands of family dependents.

After receiving the news, Wei Ze held a meeting at the Central Military Commission, and the content of the discussion was to abolish the two military regions of Anhui and Hunan, merge these two military regions with Wuhan, and form a new Wuhan Military Region. This is the first time that the Liberation Army has merged and dismantled a military region so far. In the past, the number of military districts was always constantly expanding, and the number of troops was increasing. This is the first time that the number of military districts has been reduced.

"After the two military regions are dismantled, what will happen to the personnel?" The CMC's first concern was this issue.

"Shi Dakai asked him to go northwest, and we won't chase him for the time being. Now the Shaanxi Military Division will be established, the railway from Beijing to Zhangjiakou has been completed, and the next step is to recover Mongolia. How could there be a chance to keep them idle. Weeser recounted his arrangement, which made sense, at least not because of the massive downsizing.

Before everyone could completely recover from the impact, Wei Ze continued: "The Henan Military Region was merged into the Jinan Military Region, and the local military region also began to be abolished, and this part of the personnel was transferred to the Shenyang Military Region. The Jiangxi Military Region was abolished and merged into the Nanjing Military Region. The Fujian Military Region was abolished and merged into the Guangdong Military Region ......"

The current map of China is in the minds of the members of the Central Military Commission, and everyone has already counted it after listening to Wei Ze's words. All the surrounding military districts that did not directly face the enemy were all merged and abolished, and according to Wei Ze's intentions, all the provincial military districts would be abolished, and finally merged into several large military regions.

"What about the local garrison? Are you also transferred from various places? Army Commander Hu Chenghe asked. The Navy is constantly expanding, and they can only be strengthened, not reduced. But not necessarily in the Army.

Wei Ze replied: "There is no shortage of places to fight wars, and the purpose of the people's army is to defend the homeland and the country. The Manchu Qing Dynasty put the Eight Banners Army in the capital, and what was the result in the end? ”

As long as the reasoning is correct and no one is deliberately making things difficult for anyone, Wei Ze's orders can always be passed. Such a big matter as the abolition of military districts was simply passed. The office staff of the Central Military Commission hung up the newly drawn map of China, and the directions for the use of troops in the surrounding areas were clearly marked.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it is not marked, the Military Commission is responsible for the war, and at this time the eastern coast has been pacified, and the rest is Russia and Mongolia in the north. Looking at those two pieces of land with a total area of nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Central Military Commission felt a little headache. It is not easy to give these people a headache about war, but this vast area of land is really difficult to control.

Wei Ze's whip crossed from Mongolia, "to build a railway from Zhangjiakou to Xinjiang through Mongolia." The railway was built and many problems were solved. ”

"Are you building a railroad in that place?" Hu Chenghe said with a painful expression.

"It's not a ghost place, it's a good place." After Wei Ze finished speaking, he beckoned to the secretary, and the secretary quickly came in with a bunch of boxes with the staff. The conference table was quickly occupied by these boxes. When you open it, you can see that there are scarves, gloves, clothes woven from thick threads, and some long boots.

It's mid-September, and although the weather is starting to get cooler, the weather in Nanjing is far from the time when you need to wear thick clothes. To be more precise, everyone is wearing short sleeves.

"Try it." Weser said to everyone.

Woolen gloves, scarves, and sweaters are soft and warm, and they are very strong in summer. The wool-lined boots made the old soldiers feel a big difference. Hu Chenghe said suspiciously: "Although these shoes are warm, they don't seem to cover sweat." ”

"That's right, these shoes don't cover sweat at all. It was very suitable for the northern army, and even in Nanjing, these shoes were very comfortable in winter. Weese replied.

"Mongolian wool!" Hu Chenghe immediately figured out what Wei Ze meant.

Wei Ze nodded, "The wool in Mongolia can't be sold at all, and by weight, it's much cheaper than tea." ”

Having said that, the army understands. The members of the Central Military Commission and the local provincial officials are all old brothers, and they certainly know that in addition to deepening land reform and stabilizing grain production, all localities are now doing their best to develop cash crops suitable for their localities. Mulberry, tea, sugarcane, bamboo, if it is not suitable, plant trees. After the diversion of the Yellow River, cotton was planted on the original tidal flats in northern Anhui, which made life much better in many counties.

Silk is better, with the rise of cities, the domestic demand for silk has increased greatly. After the end of the American Civil War, the total demand for raw silk has also increased a lot, and the market is not yet saturated.

However, the sales of tea, which has begun to saturate, if the market in Mongolia can be opened, it is indeed great news for the tea-producing regions. And since Weeser said that wool has a future, everyone believes that wool has a future. Between this entry and exit, going to Mongolia is not a simple loss-making transaction. At least there is no need to worry about the lack of money, and the Ministry of Finance, which is so short of money that its eyes are green, will die together with the Military Commission.

Compared with the state operation of the government of the Republic of China, the recovery of Shaanxi is less important. After Hong Tianfugui was sent to Nanjing, Wei Ze cordially received the child, and after a brief reassurance, he sent the child to a school where he began to study in elementary school. Wei Ze didn't care about letting Hong Tianfu go to college. Now Hong Tianfugui is 21 years old, even if he can skip a grade, he will have to be more than 30 after finishing college. It would have been easy to get him a job when the time came. No matter what Wei Ze thinks of Hong Xiuquan, Wei Ze has long since lost the ferocity of shouting at every turn when he was young.

Zhang Yingchen, Lin Fengxiang and others can assist in dealing with the problems of the Shaanxi Taiping Army, which is useful at this stage, and let them spend the rest of their lives in peace according to the standards of the rebel generals in the future. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were not all the way, and naturally they did not need to be treated equally.

Weeser was trying to deal with domestic problems, but he didn't expect the British to set their sights on China again. There are two reasons for this. The first is the matter of the Paris Commune. The second is China's announcement of the completion of the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway.

The Paris Commune was destroyed by the Prussian and French governments, and all sides went on a frenzy of arrests, then went through the motions in the "courts" of various organizations, and then shot the captured members of the Paris Commune in batches. In order to rescue these people as much as possible, Uncle Ma has asked the Chinese ambassador to Britain to tell Wei Ze, hoping that the Chinese ambassador to France can help save people.

Uncle Ma actually didn't have any illusions about this matter, France is so far away from China, and it takes several months to go back and forth. Even if the cable telegraph is used, I am afraid that it will take half a month to get the news to China. Counting on the Chinese bureaucracy to do its own thing, Uncle Ma has completely despaired. Uncle Ma asked the Chinese ambassador to Britain dozens of times, hoping that they would help the communists in Europe. Each time, the Chinese officials were polite and polite enough to tell Uncle Ma that they would think about it. Except for the sponsorship of Uncle Ma from the Chinese Zheng Mansion, which has never been broken, there is not even a penny for other support.

This request is not a simple money, China wants to use diplomatic resources to get people out of the hands of the reactionary French government, which is extremely hostile to the communists, and Uncle Ma is just holding the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

However, to Uncle Ma's surprise, the day after he finished speaking, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom actually gave a reply. As long as Uncle Ma gives the list, the Chinese government will try its best to help. These people will be temporarily sent to Sweden for refuge, and where they will go after that, the Chinese government will do its best to arrange. Of course, the Chinese ambassador to the UK also made it clear that China's diplomatic relations with European and North and South American countries are very average. After trying its best to get people, unless these people take refuge in China, China cannot guarantee a safe future for these people.

China in the East used state power to rescue the French rebels, which was already a very appalling thing, and Uncle Ma could not imagine what China was going to do. The only thing that can be called friendship between distant China and European countries is war. The Chinese government asked the French side to release the people, which is unreliable no matter how you look at it. But at this time, the only country that could openly express its willingness to support the members of the Paris Commune was China, and Uncle Ma could only trust China.

Of course, it was impossible for the Chinese side to convince the French republican government that China was following the Prussian path. Before the Franco-Prussian War, China made a deal with Prussia, in which China gave Prussia the technology of its black medicine metal-shelled rifles, and Prussia provided China with their steel artillery technology. Not to mention China's gains, Prussia's gains were very large. In the Franco-Prussian War, the Mauser 1869 rifle designed by the Prussian Mauser Arsenal to imitate the Chinese rifle performed well, and comprehensively overwhelmed the French Shaspo type firing pin gun on the battlefield, making great contributions to the Franco-Prussian War.

With this relationship, the Chinese ambassador to Germany asked to meet with Prime Minister Bismarck. After meeting the European magnat, the Chinese ambassador told Chancellor Bismarck of the Second German Reich about his visit.

Bismarck was surprised to hear the Chinese ambassador's request to fish for people from France. As far as the facts are concerned, the Chinese ambassador to Germany made a very correct judgment. Now it is said that the French government has killed these Paris Commune elements, and the only thing that can be fished for is Germany, which is the victorious country and continues to garrison troops in France. But why should Germany provide such help to China?

The Chinese ambassador said frankly: "After the signing of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty, Germany and France will inevitably be in a state of hostility for a long time to come. Even if war does not break out anytime soon, both countries will consider a long-term strategy to defeat each other completely. France was defeated and had to pay 5 billion francs in war reparations. In order to make up for the losses in this regard, France will certainly do everything in its power. We have a saying in China that the loss outside the embankment is made up for the loss inside the embankment. France will certainly increase its looting of overseas colonies. At this time, French hostility to China was itself a German interest. With the wisdom of the Prime Minister, I am sure you will understand this. ”

Geographically, Germany and China have a natural condition for cooperation. Moreover, the chancellor also understood that there was no room for real reconciliation between Germany and France in the future, and that offending France would not make Germany-France relations worse. So, the prime minister agreed. This incident caused quite a stir in Europe.

Britain saw that China had actually extended its hand to Europe, and naturally became vigilant. The completion of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway made Britain feel that the speed of China's railway construction was a bit outrageous. The combination of these two events has to make the British feel that they need to pay more attention to China.