After returning to China for more than a month, killing the seeds of a coup d'état, revising the provisions of the law, and making changes an uncomfortable thing, whether it is a semi-forced change with officials or the unconditional obedience of soldiers, they are all backlogged and dissatisfied. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the civil ministers say that they are free to choose, who dares not to cut their braids, braids mean loyalty, at least most civil officials think so, if they don't cut their braids, it is estimated that the future of this life will come to an end.

Most of the soldiers came from the bottom, but they also didn't want to move their braids, they were used to it, they didn't feel inconvenient, and with a traditional mentality that this was something left by their ancestors, they didn't care that this mentality was made by those literati who succumbed to the Manchus more than two hundred years ago to comfort themselves, and they really believed it.

After the Xinhai Revolution, how many people didn't want to cut their braids and be cut off by those rough soldiers who were also from the lower classes, Zhu Jinglun didn't want to play this kind of low-level violence, but the army was an exception, he always firmly believed that the army should not talk about democracy in the most important place, and only talk about obedience here.

But soldiers are also human beings, and if they are human beings, they will have ideas, and if they do not agree with their ideas, they will complain.

But to calm the complaints of the army, the way is very simple, let them win, no matter how big the dissatisfaction, as long as they can achieve victory, victory after victory, they are very easy to satisfy, why Napoleon is so popular, the most revered Napoleon is the soldiers, not Napoleon can lead them to victory again and again, as for how much it costs, and the price that they directly bear, they will soon forget.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun did not worry about the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, because he could bring victory to the soldiers, a great and brilliant victory, and Zhu Jinglun would send them to occupy the city of Beijing.

At the beginning of September, when Chen Ada withdrew all the Anqing garrisons to Tianjing, he did not know the situation, but soon he got the order, the order to go north, Zhu Jinglun sent him too many warships, each with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, which was the warship bought back from the United States.

Before the American Civil War, there were only about 90 warships, and by the end of the war, they already had 706 warships, apparently more than ninety percent of them were built during the war, many of which used the latest technology, although there were only two warships that were not yet mature in the form of ironclads, but a large number of sail steamships were still quite powerful.

Zhu Jinglun bought the best of them, and the Americans were willing to sell 200 of them, and bought a total of more than 300 of them with the advanced warships built on their slipways, with more than a dozen of the largest tonnage being 5,000 tons, and the remaining hundreds of 3,000-ton ones, and the smallest ones being 1,000 tons.

This batch of warships has now arrived 100 ships, let Chen Ada lead the navy to change as soon as possible, and after the sea trial, he plans to carry out the Northern Expedition.

Also at the beginning of September, on September 7 of the solar calendar, and on the 18th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, white dew.

The fleet escorting Xu Rongcun also arrived in Alaska, which was supposed to belong to the United States, and now it was accompanied by warships that originally belonged to the United States to escort 1,000 soldiers from the Ming Dynasty.

The Russian diplomatic mission also went with them, and a series of previous diplomatic procedures had been completed in Guangzhou, so the handover ceremony proceeded quickly.

Basically, there are no Russians who are nostalgic for the land here, and there are only a few traditional bureaucrats in Russia who have a very strong land plot to disagree with it, and most people don't care at all, this land is for the Tsar to sell, who cares so much.

The Russian soldiers in Alaska didn't care, they had been waiting to get out of this haunted place as soon as possible, whether it was a ballroom dance hall in Moscow or a tavern in the Siberian wilderness, it was much better for them than this haunted place only by a large number of natives.

The Russian double-headed eagle flag was lowered, the Ming Ming's "Ming" flag was raised, and for the first time in the sky of the Americas, flags from Asian countries were fluttered.

For the Ming to buy Alaska, the world is concerned, but it has not caused heated discussions, Britain does not even plan to pay Canada to build, let alone Alaska further north, for them, rather than let Alaska be occupied by Russia, it is better to let a country that has no threat to them occupy, so the British official expressed silence on this, and then some scholars put forward different opinions, they cited some data, saying that this is the land of the Americas, For the first time, there was a colonization by a non-white power, thinking that there was some historical significance.

But when most of the media interpreted this matter, they thought that it was completely the absurd dream of the new Ming Emperor, and they relied on Zhu Jinglun's statement to the ministers of various countries that where the land was large enough to feed the people of the Ming Dynasty, apparently they laughed at the Ming Emperor for a long time.

Of course, there are also scholars who claim to be strategic experts to interpret it in other ways, believing that this is the Ming Dynasty, a new country, looking for a way back for itself, and once their rebellion fails, they can retreat to this land of America for refuge, so as not to be exterminated by the Qing court. It's just that these strategic things are too unpopular, and it is completely better to ridicule the Ming Emperor and make the people like it.

In short, the problem of Alaska in general has not caused any heated discussion in the world, even the Chinese do not know where such a place is, and most Daming people do not know that their country has added a large piece of land, let alone foreigners.

In short, in silence, the Ming added a territory larger than the current land area, but unfortunately, the Russians did not know for what purpose, he set fire to their broken wooden house in the harbor, which meant that the Ming garrison also needed to rebuild its own barracks.

Fortunately, they arrived here before winter, and fortunately, the bay of Alaska was not as cold as expected, otherwise this winter, these soldiers from the southern mountains would have been able to account for all here.

One advantage is that there is no shortage of timber here, as far as the eye can see, there is a large forest as far as the eye can see, and when Xu Rong left Alaska at the end of September, the first batch of timber had been cut down, and the carpenters were dismantling the wood and preparing to build the wooden house.

In order to strengthen the momentum, the fleet brought by Xu Rongcun is not small, there are 50 warships, they will go south, and then join the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty in the Bohai Sea, complete the blockade of the Bohai Bay, and then follow the route of the British and French forces to Beijing.

Alaska in November was already cold, and 1,000 Ming soldiers finally moved into wooden huts, stockpiled enough wood to survive a harsh winter. In November, the Bohai Bay was still lingering in the residual heat of autumn, the Ming fleet had completed the blockade of the place, and the first landing force had landed in Beitang.

Four years have passed, the Qing court's defense of the Tianjin area, is still outrageously empty, who let them have not stopped for several years, in August 1861 Xianfeng died, in November his brother and his daughter-in-law joined forces to do the minister he left behind, and then Cixi and Yixin joined forces, using political means to disintegrate the Hunan army group, from the Hunan army group split the Huai army and the Chu army two heavy army groups.

Not long after it stopped, the monk Greenqin, who had always been the pillar of the Manchu Dynasty, was killed by the Shandong Twist Army this year, and after the death of one of the most capable princes of the Manchu elite, Monk Greenqin, they just wanted to find someone to reorganize the defense, but they couldn't find anyone.

Therefore, the landing of the Ming army in Beitang was very smooth, and the officers studied the case of the British and French forces attacking Beijing, and the purpose of their landing from Beitang was also Dagukou.

Soon detoured to break the Dagu Fort, here than the last Anglo-French attack is more dilapidated, many of the forts have become ruins, there is no one to guard, the most capable of fighting those armies have been destroyed when fighting with the British and French forces, history, in 1875, the Qing government expanded the fort again, now it is simply a ruin, everywhere there is a high barren grass.

After occupying Dagukou, the main force would be able to land from the dock and then drive directly to Tianjin.

No one expected that the capital of the Qing Dynasty would be so loosely defended, and the soldiers were extremely excited, forgetting the dissatisfaction of letting them change their clothes.

The city of Tianjin was self-defeating, and thousands of ragged defenders abandoned the city they were defending and scattered to the outskirts of the city as bandits, which may have been more troublesome for the Ming army, which meant that they could not calmly establish the passage from Tianjin to Beijing.

But at this time, the Qing government was already panicked, and they did not expect that the Ming army would dare to ignore the threat of the Han warlord forces in the south of the Yangtze River and divide their troops to drive directly to the north from the sea route.

At this time, they thought of the mediation of the Americans, and Yi Xin urgently met with the American minister Pu Anchen at the Prime Minister's Yamen, telling Pu Anchen that they were willing to negotiate peace, and were willing to divide the border with the Ming Dynasty.

Pu Anchen regretted that he told Yi Xin that the attitude of the Ming army was very clear, and because the Qing court had refused to mediate with the United States, the Ming army said that it would not take Beijing and would never negotiate peace.

Ten days after the capture of Tianjin, the information was transmitted back to Guangzhou, thanks to the laying of telegraph lines in Kowloon to Shanghai, so that the news only needed to reach Shanghai and it could be transmitted back to Guangzhou quickly.

Knowing that it was going so smoothly, although it had been expected for a long time, Zhu Jinglun was still quite excited, but also a little worried.

Armies in warm regions attack cold regions, and there have been many tragedies in history.

"How's the winter supplies going?"

Zhu Jinglun has asked this question many times, and he has not completed the reserve before, but it was finally completed as planned a few days ago.

Chief of the General Staff Xie Qi can breathe a sigh of relief: "Back to the emperor, we have collected enough charcoal for 30,000 people to survive the winter, and rented 1,000 houses in Tianjin, repaired 2,000 houses in the Qing army camp, and can also house tens of thousands of people in temples and other places. Enough for our army to garrison 30,000 people. ”

Zhu Jinglun nodded, but still asked worriedly: "Solicitation?" I didn't have any conflicts with the locals. (To be continued.) )