Russia wants to sell Alaska, the best target is, of course, the United States, because the United States has fought two wars with Britain and continues to expand to Canada, they think that the United States occupies Alaska can help them defend against Britain, and at the same time, the United States is not connected to Alaska, and it is impossible to expand to Siberia with Alaska. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It is puzzling why Russia would think that Britain would be interested in Alaska, because the United States has been communicating to them about British military deployment in Canada, constantly hinting that Britain is expanding northwest into Canada, and the United States has been misleading Russia.

The reason why the United States did this has been debated by later generations.

One argument is that the Americans are plotting against Alaska on their own, but this argument is somewhat untenable, because American public opinion has always been not interested in this land, but Russia has gone to the pole to ask the United States to sell the land, and for this reason it does not hesitate to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to bribe US congressmen.

Later, the United States successfully purchased Alaska, a very important reason is that in the Civil War, Russia firmly supported the United States federal government, and even tried its best to send a Russian fleet into New York Harbor, to be honest, their fleet was not as good as the American fleet at that time, but this is a political attitude, and it supported the United States federal government at the most critical time, so the United States bought this land out of favor to Russia.

Another theory is that the United States does not care about this land, but the United States needs to find an ally for itself to deal with Britain together, with Britain and France joining forces to fight a Crimean War, Napoleon III's policy has always been pro-British, and foreign policy has always followed Britain, which means that the United States has lost France, a traditional ally on the European continent, and they need to find a partner with common interests, and Russia has become the only option.

There is also a theory that the Russians did not know that there was gold in Alaska, and only thought that only the fur could be produced, and the local fur was almost hunted by the Russians and Indians, so they thought that it was a piece of frozen soil with no interest at all, so they fooled the Americans to buy it, and the result was that a huge treasure land was given to the United States for nothing.

Zhu Jinglun knew very well that at this time, the whole world knew that there was gold in Alaska, because the local Indians had been using gold to do business with Russian merchants, but no one knew where the gold mines were.

Therefore, Russia betrayed Alaska, not because they did not know that there was potential here, but most importantly, because they had a political purpose, and they needed to win over the Americans to fight against Britain and protect their security in Siberia.

There is another important reason, that is, the Russians are too short of money, after the Crimean War, the tsar was determined to carry out serfdom reform and continue to reform the funds, so after the war, the tsar immediately preached that Alaska was worthless, and the land of Alaska was worthless, which was the reason for the public opinion that Russia did not know the value of Alaska.

If the Americans have ambitions for Alaska, then Zhu Jinglun sent Xu Rongcun this time to snatch food from the mouth of the United States, if Russia insists on the need for a force that can confront Britain and protect Siberia for Russia, I am afraid they will not think that the new Ming Kingdom is a good choice, because no matter how you look at it, the Ming Dynasty does not have the strength to confront the British, so Xu Rongcun's task is not easy.

First of all, he had to convince the tsar to consider the Ming Kingdom, and secondly, to prevent the possibility of the United States suddenly making concessions and agreeing to the price offered by the Russians.

In mid-July, Xu Rongcun set off, Xu Rongcun was full of confidence in this mission, because he felt that this was just a transaction, it was the Russians who wanted to sell the land, although he didn't understand why the foreign hairs would even sell the land, but as long as the other party was willing to sell, he offered a higher price, in his opinion, Russia had no reason not to sell to the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether it will succeed or not, Zhu Jinglun does not have much hope, this deal has too strong political flavor, I am fortunate to lose my life, just follow fate.

To be honest, I can think about expanding my land at a time when I am still in a crisis, that is, because this opportunity is too good, I am really reluctant to give up, what if I don't work hard, and regret it in the future.

But the main energy is still on the country, five days after Zhang Qianshan attacked Yingde, what shocked Zhu Jinglun was that he really captured Yingde, Fang Shan fled back to Guangzhou in embarrassment, knelt in front of Zhu Jinglun's door to ask for guilt, Zhu Jinglun immediately scolded him, victory and defeat are commonplace, where is there a general who always wins.

Fang Shan had co-opted Tan Cai, the main force under Zhang Qianshan, before, it should be said that it was a matter of nine out of ten, how could he suddenly turn the tables, and he only knew after asking carefully.

"It seems that this old man of mine is really a ruthless character."

After knowing the details, Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but sigh.

"Weichen should be damned!"

Fang Shan knelt on the ground again to plead guilty, at this time he was embarrassed, unkempt, and still wearing a nightgown, obviously too late to change his clothes.

The situation is very simple, he was attacked by Zhang Qianshan, the root cause is still too careless, he and Tan Cai have indeed said yes, and they are sure that the other party is very credible, there is nothing to doubt about it, Zhu Jinglun is convinced, because Tan Cai, like Zhang Qianshan, is an ambitious person, and he is not willing to be subservient.

But the problem is that Tan Caiyuan is far less ruthless and sophisticated than Zhang Qianshan, he thinks he is secretive, and has always let his nephew have a one-line contact with Fang Shan, but who knows that Zhang Qianshan still notices it.

On the fifth day of his garrison, Zhang Qianshan quietly purged Tan Cai and Tan Cai's main subordinates, and that day was the date of the start of the army agreed between Fang Shan and Tan Cai, Tan Cai fought back in Fang Shan's army, and then Fang Shan would send someone to cover up the killing, Fang Shan promised to add a prefect title to Tan Cai after the matter was completed, and Shaozhou Mansion was handed over to him for management.

Who would have thought that when Fang Shan launched an attack as agreed, he fell into Zhang Qianshan's ambush, not only failed to sneak attack the other party, but was sneak attacked by Zhang Qianshan's cavalry into the city.

At that time, in order to show that he was calm, Fang Shan entrusted the military operation to the officer, and he slept in the room by himself, imitating Xie An's elegance of playing chess in battle, but Fengya didn't succeed, so he could only escape in his pajamas.

"You are not unjustly lost, maybe Zhang Qianshan has already killed Tan Cai, as for seeing through Tan Cai's scheme, it may just be a coincidence."

Zhu Jinglun comforted.

Tan Cai is not willing to be subordinate, Zhang Qianshan is afraid that he has long been calculating the elite soldiers under Tan Cai, the two of them could not get along with each other from the beginning, but Zhang Qianshan's choice of timing is too good, although it is unlikely that he will hit by mistake, but it cannot be ruled out that people have this kind of luck against the sky, of course, it is more Zhu Jinglun who is comforting Fang Shan.

"So what now? Why don't you send the Wukeng Army to Guangzhou? ”

The reason why Fang Shan asked for guilt was not because he lost the battle, but because the consequences of this defeat were very serious, Zhang Qianshan occupied LinkedIn, and the next step would be to go straight to Guangzhou Mansion, the Tutu protection regiment he brought to Yingde and the Dahong army stationed in Yingde were almost lost, and the troops currently left behind in Guangzhou Mansion were all recruits, and if Zhang Qianshan killed at this time, Guangzhou Mansion was very dangerous.

"The Wukeng Army must not move!"

Zhu Jinglun insisted that since the Qing court launched the three-way offensive, he had always been suspicious of Zuo Zongtang, transferred the Wukeng army in Chaozhou, and let Zuo Zongtang enter Guangdong, which worried him more than letting Zhang Qianshan's troops come to the city.

"Don't worry, my father-in-law is not the kind of person who cares about the past and the future, and I guess he will still talk to me about the conditions. He will definitely not work hard to spend it with me, and then let Jiang Yili and others pick up the cheap, the Qing court is currently our enemy, and for Zhang Qianshan, it is also his enemy. ”

Zhu Jinglun expected it to be good, and Zhang Qianshan wrote to him the next day, saying that he had exterminated the bandits in Yingde, so that Zhu Jinglun could rest assured, but he found that a small group of bandits had entered Fogang and Qingyuan, and he expressed his willingness to continue to pursue and annihilate these bandits.

This is to negotiate the conditions, Zhu Jinglun handed over Fogang and Qingyuan to Zhang Qianshan, and then Zhang Qianshan would not continue to fight with him.

Zhu Jinglun did not reply, and Zhang Qianshan did not take the next step, but firmly grasped the territory of Nanshao Liandao, and after the fire merged with Tan Cai, he also needed time to digest Tan Cai's power.

As for the bandits who entered Qingyuan and Fogang that Zhang Qianshan said, he probably refers to the defeat of the remnants of the Dahong Army and the Baotu Regiment, originally the two armies were added together, with a strength of more than 20,000, after a big defeat, there were only more than 5,000 people left in the Baotu Regiment, and the Dahong Army was less than 4,000, which can be described as heavy losses, but they chose to flee instead of choosing to surrender to Zhang Qianshan, which made Zhu Jinglun satisfied, although it was a regimental training and a change in the peasant army, as their large amount of silver continued to be smashed, they finally had a minimum of loyalty.

Zhang Qianshan was watching, but where did Jiang Yili start to launch a fierce offensive, and the Chaozhou area was also uneasy at this time.

At the beginning of August, suddenly an army entered Guangdong from Fujian and attacked Guangdong from Fujian, generally there were two routes, one was to attack Zhenping in Jiaying Prefecture, and the other was to attack Tai Po, the capital of Chaozhou.

Of course, Zhu Jinglun knew the importance of these two places, so he sent a brigade of troops in each of the two places, and maintained a brigade reserve in Jiaying Prefecture, ready to reinforce these two places at any time, and also put a brigade in Chaozhou as a backup.

However, the combat effectiveness of the other party was beyond the expectations of the black dog, and Tai Po and Zhenping continued to ask for help from Chaozhou and Jiaying Prefecture, Zhang Baoming, who was sitting in Jiaying Prefecture, and the black dog who was sitting in Chaozhou were a little unable to sit still, and the letter repeatedly explained the situation on the front line and hoped to send reinforcements, but Zhu Jinglun insisted that they always stick to their positions and not leave their posts without permission.

Jiang Yili stormed Wuzhou, Fujian's army stormed Tai Po and Zhenping, and Zhu Jinglun was not in a hurry to rescue, this time was really good for the ambitious Zhang Qianshan, I believe Zuo Zongtang also thought so.

Zhu Jinglun always believed that all this was planned by Zuo Zongtang, because he really couldn't think that except for Zuo Zongtang, who would have such a lot of energy and resources, at least to mobilize Jiang Yili, even Zeng Guofan.

Then the situation that appears now must be what Zuo Zongtang wants to see, Tai Po and Zhenping are in a hurry, Zhang Baoming and the black dog ask to go to the rescue, this is Zuo Zongtang's purpose, Zuo Zongtang wants to achieve the goal, Zhu Jinglun can't let him achieve it. (To be continued.) )