Huo Qiu, Xi Na and Qu Jie also did not understand the military significance of Liu Chang's move, they did not know that the large import of British cotton cloth would make the British textile industry rush to buy all cotton and cotton yarn all over the world, they were just thinking about how much budget they would save.

The military uniform of the Rainbow Army is a unified system, up to now, the Rainbow Army has occupied two complete provinces, four incomplete provinces, and after getting the support of the British and French powers, the Rainbow Army will continue to expand its territory, and all the officers and soldiers need a unified military uniform, plus the government personnel who refer to the military on the clothing, which is at least hundreds of thousands of off-duty personnel.

All these officers and soldiers and administrative personnel, even if they are only issued two sets of clothes a year, or even if they are not paid a substitute for clothing, this is an incomparably huge number, and the expenditure on industrial goods such as machinery, steamships, and so on is equally staggering in ordinary times, so everyone feels that they can completely depend on the central government in this regard.

Therefore, even if they have a lot of complaints about not directly purchasing arms, they only acquiesce in Liu Chang's suggestion, and everyone considers more issues or the first consideration, and with the support of the British and French powers, where will the focus of the next strategy be.

Like Sun Huzi, the Fujian overseer, he publicly expressed his opinion: "Your Highness, we fully agree with your proposition, but our Fujian province now only occupies one-third of the province's slightly stronger territory, and almost two-thirds of the territory is still in the hands of the Qing demon. ”

His meaning is obvious, the so-called is only limited to the present, obviously referring to Fujian Province, he has already included Liangguang, especially Guangdong, into his plate, for this reason he also turned his head and glanced at Huo Qiu: "Commander Huo, I know that you have worked very hard to suppress Hunan. But can you help me again! ”

Huo Qiu smiled, he knew that Sun Huzi had already taken a fancy to the territory of Liangguang, but he was unwilling to give up his plan to put his hand into Liangguang: "No problem, no problem!" ”

And Liu Chang also answered Sun Huzi's question as soon as possible: "What Sun Huzi said is very true, I have seen all the achievements of Fujian's army and government in the past few months, and the results have been very great, and it is time to pick the fruits." It's just that now the situation has changed again......"

As soon as he heard Liu Chang say this, he patiently waited for Liu Chang's answer, and Liu Chang told everyone a piece of information that seemed to have nothing to do with the Chinese battlefield: "St. Petersburg, Russia, has ordered the removal of the Governor of Eastern Siberia, Murajoviv!" ”

For this what Murajoviv and Siberia. You must know that the General Staff compiles a "General Report of the Enemy's Situation" every week, and this publication with a very small circulation cannot even be seen by many brigade-level cadres, and only cadres at the army and division level can read it, and each of them needs to be archived and processed, which not only has domestic intelligence, but also a small part of the intelligence of Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, so everyone knows that Russia has stationed a governor in Siberia. This man is shrewd and capable, and he has a lot of confidence in China.

And Qu Jie was different from Sun Huzi, so he directly said his question: "Your Highness, what does it matter to us that the Russians remove the governor of Siberia?" Isn't it enough for them to suffer a setback and want to send troops? ”

"That's right!" Liu Chang replied in the affirmative: "According to the information provided by the French and the British, the Russians have undying ambitions for our country, relying on the fact that they have tens of thousands of soldiers in Siberia and hundreds of thousands of troops in the country, and are ready to send troops to the Far East. Attempt to seize the north of the Yellow River outside the Guanwai and Guannei! ”

Count it up. This is to assist the rainbow army in the next military operations, but it is somewhat shrewd and capable. Cadres who knew more about the international situation became worried: "Your Highness is worried? ”

"There will be a war between China and Russia!" Liu Chang gave the answer directly: "China and Russia, the territory is adjacent to each other, the place is thousands of miles, there are trillions of people in the country, and each has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so there must be a war, according to the information provided to me by the British, this Muraviv is the main peace, so he was removed from his post by the Russian tsar." ”

This is very different from the truth, this governor is not a peacemaker, he is a staunch pro-war faction, sometimes even more radical in St. Petersburg, and the reason why he does not approve of war against China now is that he thinks that the time is not ripe and that he should delay it for a few more weeks or months, or simply wait until the beginning of next spring to start the war.

It's just that the Russian Empire, which lost the Crimean War, can no longer drag on, and domestic and foreign pressure forces them to start a war now, because Murajoviv, who was once extremely admired by St. Petersburg, is an eyesore and is directly replaced by St. Petersburg, ready to replace it with a tougher governor to preside over the war against China.

"With the current deployment of the Qing Demon outside the gate, it can't withstand the impact of the Russian barbarians at all!"

The Rainbow Army fought with the Eight Banners Army transferred from outside the Guan, and also confronted the Russian infantry head-on, and the conclusion is obvious, that is, in a one-to-one situation, the Russian army will achieve a complete victory, even in a one-to-three situation, it is still not an opponent.

You must know that during the Kangxi period, when the Qing army was at its most prosperous, tens of thousands of elites and the best artillery in the country were concentrated, and there was still nothing to do about a small city like Yaksa, where only a few hundred Russians were stationed.

Therefore, Huo Qiu came to a conclusion: "Your Highness, shouldn't we speed up our actions?" ”

"That's right!" Liu Chang agreed with Huo Qiu's point of view, he stood up, and his voice became excited: "We must speed up our actions, fortunately, we have achieved great results in reorganizing the army and building government in the past few months, and now we can boldly fight against the Qing Demon, we can't give up an inch of land outside the Guan!" ”

"That is the eternal pain of the Chinese nation, and it is also a knife in our hearts, and it is the price I am willing to sacrifice everything, and I will never give up!"

Many people are pessimistic that if the Hong Army cannot recover Guanwai, then it is very likely to evolve into the second Ming Dynasty, and the entire core ruling area is under the direct impact of the barbarians, and has to carry out self-defense counterattacks again and again.

Some people think deeper, they know that there is the most fertile land in this time and space outside the Guan, and because of the Manchu slaughter policy, the Han people cannot appear outside the Guanxi at all, and some are only a part of the illegal immigrants, who will be driven and slaughtered by the Manchus at any time.

The direct cause of the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twisted Army Uprising is population pressure, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising has a direct relationship with the contradictions between the Turks and the Turks in Guangxi, and the Twist Army Uprising is inseparable from the local people, less land and a high degree of concentration, in fact, the outbreak of this series of uprisings is actually the pinnacle of China's traditional peasant uprising model, only this time China is facing the impact of a full 400 million people, in Chinese history, In the past, there was only a shock of more than 100 million people, but this time more than 400 million people are crammed into an agrarian country with extremely backward production levels, and there is no traditional solution except after the peasant uprising.

In fact, decades after the Taiping War, despite the influence of Western technology, the whole of China was still under considerable population pressure, so there was a large number of bankrupt peasants who went to the Kanto region, and this kind of immigration to Shandong continued until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and finally laid the population foundation of Northeast China.

It's just that compared with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, the entire southeast region is now much less affected by the war, and many places are even almost not affected by the war, although the original productive forces have been preserved to a large extent, but the original population pressure has also been preserved, especially the Zhejiang region is the most typical, although the rainbow army has established its own rule in the entire Zhejiang region, including the island, but there is some pressure, especially the traditional relationship between tenant farmers and landlords still maintains fierce confrontation, Sometimes they even turn into small-scale riots – historically these have often turned into large-scale popular uprisings or even peasant uprisings.

Therefore, many people of insight in the Hongjun feel that while introducing Western technology, they can also carry out large-scale immigration to the vast and sparsely populated customs outside the customs to reduce the staggering population pressure in the customs area, which is also their direct motivation to fight against Russia, but even if they do not put the customs outside the customs so seriously, they still attach more importance to the customs inside.

It's just that Liu Chang's opinion, although he can't get everyone's agreement, but because of his prestige in the Hong Army, everyone still didn't raise a voice of opposition, but a few officers put forward a few opinions: "Your Highness, the Russian barbarians have hundreds of thousands of male soldiers, so everything must be careful!" ”

"Yes, confronting such a powerful country, there is a disaster of destruction at any time!"

"I heard that the population of Russia is tens of millions, and it can mobilize millions of soldiers, but we can't stop it!"

Although in the battle near Shanghai, the Rainbow Army was the final victor, but the most optimistic people admit that the Russian army is indeed a good force, and in the battle near Shanghai, the Rainbow Army participated in the battle with some top equipment and history, but in a one-on-one confrontation, it is still not the opponent of the Russian army, and often can only take the method of suppressing a company with one battalion.

And they have tens of thousands of troops in the Far East, hundreds of thousands of standing troops in the country, and millions of reserve troops, this is indeed the strongest opponent in the history of the Rainbow Army, and Liu Chang ignored these voices, and directly talked about the next deployment: "In the next step, we must first take the Yangtze River, control the two Huai, and develop towards Lingnan at the same time, what do you think?" ”

It's just that now Sun Huzi stood up again: "Your Highness, do you mean that the two lakes front is the primary focus?" ”

ps: I found out that it's already 500 chapters, continue to sprinkle flowers......