Chapter 390: Zhang Lingyang's 'Conspiracy'
Five days later, Wilson, the envoy of the embassy in Zhou, finally received a letter from China, and it was also written by Her Majesty the Queen.
After reading the letter, Wilson was in a terrible mood.
For a long time, Wilson thought that England did not want to start a war with Da Zhou, but just wanted to maintain trade with Da Zhou through normal means.
So Wilson has been working hard in this direction, even if Frank, the British governor in Tianzhu, rashly started a war with Da Zhou, Wilson thought it was Frank's own wishful thinking.
But the reality is that as early as the beginning of this year, the House of Lords in England made a specific report on the Great Week.
It was found that in the past two years, England's annual trade deficit with the Great Zhou has reached nearly 10 million taels of silver.
If only that's it, England, as an empire on which the sun never sets, can still accept it.
But what is worse than this is that in recent years, thousands of outstanding scientific and technical personnel have gone to Dazhou every year.
At first, the English government did not pay attention to this situation, and it was not until the end of last year that the director of the Royal College of England showed a certificate to the prime minister, and the situation was confirmed.
Since the fourth year of Tai'an, the Royal Academy of England has lost as many as 500 scientific and technological talents every year.
Among them, there are as many as half of the talents who go to Da Zhou.
At first, the dean of the Royal Academy of England did not pay attention to this situation, until the end of last year, when the dean of the Royal Academy made some statistics on a whim, and only then did he find out about this situation.
In fact, by the end of the seventh year of Tai'an, the number of scientific and technological talents in England to the Great Zhou had reached 5,000.
After an in-depth investigation, the President of the Royal Academy of England found that in addition to high-level scientific and technological talents, the cumulative number of senior technicians who have gone to Dazhou in recent years has reached more than 50,000.
This had to attract the attention of the dean.
Therefore, after an investigation, the president submitted this report to the prime minister without hesitation.
After reading this report, the prime minister immediately couldn't do anything and hurriedly ordered someone to investigate.
In fact, the results are even worse than the situation reported by the dean: in recent years, there have been no less than 10,000 high-tech talents in England who have gone to Dazhou, and no less than 100,000 high-level technicians.
So on the day he got the detailed information, the Prime Minister went to Buckingham Palace to have a candlestick talk with the Queen of England.
In the end, the two decided to notify the House of Lords of the matter for discussion.
And as a result, after learning about Da Zhou's situation, the houses of the House of Lords clamed for war with Da Zhou.
After all, a trade deficit harms not only the interests of the English nations, but also their own.
Therefore, in the meeting of the House of Lords at the beginning of the year, the issue of the war on the Great Zhou was passed smoothly.
But on the other hand, these parliamentarians coveted the silk, tea and porcelain of the Great Zhou, so in order to protect their own interests and enjoyment, they chose not to inform Wilson, but directly to the British governor in Tianzhu, Frank, to directly wage war against Burma, a vassal state of the Great Zhou.
In this way, England can not only maintain their own interests, but also have enough reason to shirk responsibility in the event of an unfavorable situation in the war.
England is so far away from the Great Zhou, it will take half a year just to go back and forth, so Ying Lucky is not worried that the Great Zhou Emperor will know about Yingli's plan.
After reading this letter, Wilson was remorseful and regretful.
What they hate, naturally, is the old men in the upper house of the country, and what they regret is that the empire rashly chose to go to war with Da Zhou.
It has been several years since the Great Zhou, and no one in England knows the Great Zhou better than Wilson.
In fact, Wilson already knew that in recent years, the level of science and technology of the Great Zhou has changed with each passing day, and the national strength of the British Empire alone cannot defeat the Great Zhou in East Asia.
But Wilson sent the letter back to China, but Wilson didn't know if Her Majesty the Queen and the Prime Minister had read it carefully, so the court caused the current situation.
Wilson was certain that Her Majesty the Queen and the Prime Minister had not carefully analysed their letters, otherwise they would not have chosen to go to war with Da Zhou rashly.
But it's too late to say anything now.
The British invaded Burma four months ago, and the British captured Mandalay, the capital of Burma, a month ago. But now it's good, not to mention that the 10,000 British troops who invaded Burma were all wiped out, and the Emperor of the Great Zhou resolutely announced the news of the march to Tianzhu.
Although the Great Zhou Emperor did not explicitly say the phrase 'march to Tianzhu', as an excellent diplomat, Wilson already knew that it had become an established fact.
The fact is indeed as Wilson expected, after sending away a group of European envoys, Zhang Lingyang immediately issued a secret decree, making Xining Boma Jinzhong the commander, and transferring 200,000 elite soldiers from the north to march to Tianzhu.
Originally, there were 300,000 elite soldiers along the Great Wall in the north, and they had begun to disrupt again according to Zhang Lingyang's plan.
But now that the incident happened suddenly, Zhang Lingyang had to reorganize.
In addition to leaving 100,000 elite soldiers to defend Warat, the remaining 200,000 elite soldiers all went to the western frontier. And from the west of Xinjiang, through the green ridge into the territory of Tianzhu.
In doing so, Zhang Lingyang naturally has the city in mind.
The soldiers of the north were not adapted to the humid climate of the south, let alone the more sultry and humid regions of Burma.
Starting from the western Xinjiang, this situation can be avoided.
More crucially, in Burma, Sun Tingzong was able to effectively attract the attention of the British, allowing them to relax their defenses on the northern border.
In order to achieve this goal, Zhang Lingyang also issued a clear decree to Zhang Guang, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, ordering him to mobilize 100,000 elite troops into Burma within a month.
On the one hand, it is naturally to attract the intellectual power of the British, and on the other hand, it is to achieve a smooth transition in the situation in Myanmar.
The 100,000 elite soldiers in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces are a lot, but in fact, their mastery of firearms is almost zero. Against the modern team of England, they are naturally inferior, but for Myanmar, they are rare heroes.
Yunnan and Guizhou provinces border Myanmar, both the climate and the natural environment are extremely similar, and the soldiers of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces participated in the pacification of the Miao rebellion before, and the combat experience is also extremely rich, if coupled with the cultural advantage, relying on 100,000 elite soldiers to control the current situation in Myanmar, it is naturally not a problem.
Therefore, Zhang Lingyang chose to do this.
Even, for the sake of secrecy, Zhang Lingyang did not even order anyone to inform Sun Dingzong, the general who entered Burma.
In order to prevent information leakage.
Now, both the British government and the Tianzhu Governor's Office have focused all their attention on Burma, and the garrison on the northern border must be extremely empty, which gives Zhang Lingyang time and space to move the tiger away from the mountain......<
(Education 123 Literature Network)