Zhou Bofu and Bell talked for a while and confirmed the cooperation. The big thing was decided, and the two of them became godly in the south and the north. Zhou Bofu is actually a very curious person who likes to play, and Bell is a naturalist who has completed a round-the-world voyage and is already well-informed, and at this time he intends to win over Zhou Bofu, so he is naturally willing to chat with him. And his various experiences in the world also opened Zhou Bofu's eyes. Like any small talk between gentlemen, the content of the small talk is often serious knowledge at first, but soon the content of their discussion has changed from different geography, products, races, customs and so on to the difference between women in different places.

"In general, from my experience of traveling around the world, the quality of women in the Islamic world is actually the highest except for China." "It's just that they're all veiled, and they're so tightly covered that it's hard for people to see clearly, but you still have the chance to see some very beautiful slave girls in the slave market." After all, they, like us, are not people of color. (In fact, Westerners did not initially count Chinese and other Easterners as people of color.) In their opinion, these Orientals, fair-skinned, are also Caucasians. It wasn't until I was beaten down by Westerners with cannons in the Qing Dynasty that we "degenerated" into people of color) and they still retained the habit of bathing diligently in the Roman period, unlike Tessy. It is generally believed that bathing is easy for evil spirits to invade the body, so many people stop bathing except after being baptized in the church after birth, until they die. The smell of them...... Hehe, in fact, what is easy to let evil qi invade when taking a bath is superstition. I've traveled all over the world, and I've seen a lot of people whose geographical conditions are close to Tessie's, but who like to bathe, none of them have similar statements, and they don't have serious health problems that far exceed Tessie's. Even, judging from the plague and the like, it seems to be better than Tessie. I myself bathed often, even whenever I could, and as a result, I was healthy enough to kill a tiger. Well, women in the Islamic world also bathe a lot, so they don't smell much on them. This is much better than the Tessie woman. Also, high-caste women in India are good. Well, you know, the religion of India divides people into a lot of classes. ”

"I do know that our Elder Tang mentioned it in the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty". In addition, many Buddhist scriptures also have relevant records. For example, Shakyamuni Buddha is the Kshatriya caste. I heard that there is no intermarriage between different castes on their side. "Zhou Bofu usually likes to read miscellaneous books, but he knows some things very well.

"In fact, the so-called non-intermarriage is more between the higher castes and the lower castes." "Because their higher castes and lower castes are not a race at all." The upper castes are all white, while the lower castes are all people of color. It is precisely because of this practice that their bloodline has been maintained very well, even for thousands of years, there has been no confusion. It's just that thousands of years have passed, and even the highest-level people, in fact, many of them are already poor. And their political ability is too poor, and the whole of India is a princely state, and none of them can fight. And their rulers are mostly idiots who only have fun. Therefore, there are already many people in Taisi who believe that although the Indians were once respectable and civilized people who can be compared with the Chinese, they are now on the verge of degenerating into barbarians. But their girls are really good......"

"They are on the verge of becoming barbarians" is not as simple as it seems, and once the word "barbarians" is put on their heads, it means that they immediately become legitimate targets on the table of the civilized world. However, Bell and Zhou Bofu were not very sensitive to this, and they didn't think too much about it for a while.

"You said that after we get bigger in India in the future, can we also arrange an outer room over there?" Zhou Bofu couldn't help but think.

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Just when Zhou Bofu was thinking about hiding an outer room away from his wife in the future, in Beijing, the newly enthroned Emperor Hongguang also issued a holy decree to crusade against the Liukou and avenge the previous emperor. Relying on borrowed military expenses, (this money was mainly borrowed from the Zheng family, but the imperial court did not actually get the money, because they had to pay most of the money to the army that set out to fight the Liukou, that is, the model army of Zheng Sen's commander. The rest of the money was to be used to purchase various supplies to support other armies, and these materials had to be purchased from the Zheng family according to the rules set at the time of borrowing. Therefore, the money is simply just going through the accounts, and where it was originally lying, it continues to lie somewhere. It's just that there is a bunch of IOUs next to these money. ）

After Emperor Hongguang issued a holy decree to defeat the Liukou, the various armies that had originally gathered in Beijing began to move. Wu Sangui left his brother to guard the Shanhai Pass, and set out from Beijing with more than 10,000 troops, following the route of Li Zicheng's retreat, marching westward. Most of the other generals were assigned to Wu Sangui and followed him into the army.

Zheng Sen's Model Army, on the other hand, left one regiment to defend the Beijing Division, while the rest of the troops turned to Jinghai, where they boarded ships and headed south, then entered the mouth of the Yangtze River, landed at Wusongkou, and then advanced west along the Yangtze River. The Zheng family's river fleet followed them all the way, providing them with logistical support.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the model army far exceeds the ordinary army of this era, and at the same time, their demand for logistics is far greater than that of the disposable army of this era. Therefore, if you don't want to prepare hundreds of thousands of auxiliaries and cattle for this army, which is no more than a few tens of thousands, you can only spread the army along navigable rivers as much as possible to ensure that it is more convenient to supply this army.

However, before the officers and soldiers, including the model army, approached Xiangyang, new news came from there. That is, Li Zicheng actually took the initiative to attack Zuo Liangyu and launched an attack. Zuo Liangyu, who was named Ning Nanbo by the imperial court, suffered several defeats in a row, and finally when the Shun army approached Wuchang, he actually took the army and left without a fight, and directly lost the huge Wuchang City to Li Zicheng, and fled east with the army and the refugees he was carrying. For a time, the wind along the Yangtze River was loud, and it was shocking overnight. There were rumors everywhere that Li Chuang planned to go down the river and fight his way into Jiangnan.

However, just then, the news of the update came. After Li Zicheng occupied Wuchang, he did not take advantage of the situation to kill Jiangnan, but turned to Sichuan as soon as he turned his head, and even had a little conflict with Zhang Xianzhong, who entered Sichuan earlier. However, it is said that they did not fight hard, and even soon jointly launched an attack on Qin Liangyu of Shi Yan.

"It seems that Li Zicheng did not block our confidence in Xiangyang." Hearing the news, Zheng Sen thought so.