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They don't advocate the Western system, which country is directly under the control of the emperor in the armies of Western countries, so their mental obstacles are still in terms of interests, mainly because they don't want to be subject to the civilian government, but this is the case in Britain, France, and the German army is also the most powerful in the General Staff.

It's hard to say whether the minions of the army have been cut off, but at least they have been put on a haunt so that they will not be screwed with the civilian government, otherwise there will be no budget, no logistical supplies, and even the civilian government can decide not to cooperate with the promotion of officers, and the army can be regarded as unified into the government.

Therefore, the situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has changed, and now the military department has the absolute right to speak, last year the General Staff made a plan for them, once the situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom deteriorates, the goal of the Ming Dynasty is to divide the territory of at least one province of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the most realistic is of course Zhejiang, from Fujian to the north can capture Zhejiang, and the land of the Ming Dynasty is connected. It is not bad to get the southern Jiangsu region, and it can also be connected with Jiangxi. Of course, the most perfect thing is that all of them are obtained, so that the Ming Dynasty controls the entire Jiangnan region in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

If you only need to divide one province, the Ming basically doesn't need to do anything, wait for the Hunan army to annihilate the main force of the Taiping army, and then the Ming army will go north to pick peaches, if the two provinces want it, the Ming army has to wait for the Taiping army to fail, and then mobilize troops to fight with the Hunan army for a decisive battle for the south of the Yangtze River.

But if you want to map the two provinces in the whole map, I don't know how long it will take, and no one knows how long the Hunan army will be entangled with the Taiping army in Jiangnan, these two sworn enemies have been fighting for more than 20 years, and no one is sure whether they will continue to fight. In the military plan, it is estimated that this kind of protracted war situation is reached, so the Ming army can choose to capture Zhejiang of the Taiping army first, and then fight Jiangsu, and finally the Ming army will fight the Taiping army first, and then fight with the Hunan army.

The current Ming army is no longer afraid of war, let alone fighting Jiangnan, even if it is difficult to fight the north, the call for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains has never stopped.

But will the great powers let the Ming Dynasty unify the whole country so easily, let alone unify the whole country, I'm afraid it is the Jiangnan region, and they can't accept being occupied by the Ming army.

In addition, Zhu Jinglun also saw that the unification of the whole country at this time is not good for Daming, it is likely to be negative, a disaster relief will make Daming a little unbearable, the entire national economy will be greatly affected, and the whole country will be unified, and it will be burdened with hundreds of millions of people with low education level, and the burden of backward areas with economic development is not that they can afford to bear the problem, but when the industrialization of Daming is developing, the opportunity cost of carrying this burden is too great.

Zhu Jinglun's very early strategy was to take the southeastern coastal areas, the provinces that are most likely to develop the economy, as the foundation, and complete industrialization as soon as possible, so as to accumulate the strength to unify the whole country; nearly 20 years have passed, and the economic development level of the Ming Dynasty is still only second-rate in the world, and in Europe it can probably be compared with Italy's poor egg imperialism, which is only a little stronger than Greece and other southeastern European countries, and there is a big gap between it and Britain, France, and Germany and other advanced countries.

Another concern is that if the Northern Expedition is launched now, how many more people will have to die if they are experiencing a famine? How much more will the vitality of the Chinese nation have to lose?

It is necessary to fight for Jiangnan with the Hunan army, and this obviously echoes the strategic concept of the Ming Dynasty giving priority to areas that are easy to develop economically, but to swallow Jiangsu and Zhejiang in one bite, regardless of whether it will cause the interference of the great powers, Zhu Jinglun cannot accept just one that may plunge this region into a continuous tug-of-war.

Jiangnan is undoubtedly the best region of China, after years of tug-of-war between the Taiping army and the Qing army, the loss of population reached seventy percent, although many of them fled, but probably half of them died. This is the essence of the region, not only economically, but also culturally, so the loss of China's elite caused by the turmoil in Jiangnan is incalculable.

Therefore, after listening to the report of the Ministry of War, Zhu Jinglun told them not to aim at fighting for land, not even a single province to occupy it, and that as long as it can restore stability in this region in the shortest possible time, it is worth doing.

According to the revised plan, once the Hunan army gained a decisive advantage over the Taiping army, the Ming Dynasty immediately intervened, before the Hunan army destroyed the Taiping army, captured the weakly defended Zhejiang of the other side, and then sat down with the Qing army to discuss the division of territory.

Zeng Guofan, who had been in the Ming Dynasty for many years, had a certain understanding of Zhu Jinglun's character, although sometimes he felt that Zhu Jinglun was a little famous, but he believed that Zhu Jinglun had the idea of benevolence in his heart.

So Zeng Guofan talked to Zhu Jinglun about the road of benevolence and righteousness in the letter, commenting that since the worship of God cult advocated rebellion, Jiangnan has experienced war and chaos for a long time, and the people are more than one, and the Ming Dynasty is also a state of etiquette, so it should not be associated with these evil obstacles. Zeng Guofan also bluntly said that maybe the Ming and Qing dynasties will fight for the world in the future, but it is also a world with benevolence, righteousness, morality, loyalty and filial piety, not a world full of benevolence and righteousness, leading beasts to eat people, and even cannibalism. Therefore, he suggested that he should join forces with the Ming army to exterminate the bandits (Taiping Army), and Zeng Guofan said that the Qing Dynasty was very willing to fight with the Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River and become a friend forever.

Zhu Jinglun really wants to Yin Zeng Guofan, such as making this private letter public, this is a vain discussion with other countries to divide the territory, Zeng Guofan's reputation may stink again, I don't know if this old master can withstand this blow, what is even more yin is that Zeng Guofan can reply to a letter, saying that if it is to divide the territory with the Zeng family, Daming is very willing, if it is to divide the territory with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Daming will never agree, I am afraid that this reply letter will be sent out, it will completely destroy Zeng Guofan.

But how could Zeng Guofan not think of this, he dared to take the risk to write a letter to Zhu Jinglun, that is to regard Zhu Jinglun as a benevolent gentleman, if Zhu Jinglun yin him, it would be too inferior.

However, Zhu Jinglun really replied to Zeng Guofan, not talking about the issue of dividing the territory, but expressing the hope that the Hunan army would be able to reduce the number of killings in the process of fighting and put all human lives first.

The most incomprehensible thing about Zeng Guofan is his massacre, how could a literati who read poetry and books do such a heinous thing, the Anqing Massacre is very revealing.

After the Hunan army entered the city, tens of thousands of people were captured, and Zeng Guofan let them all be killed, but Zeng Guoquan couldn't bear it. Zeng Guofan wrote to appease his younger brother and said, "Since you came out to lead the troops, you should take 'killing thieves' as your ambition, why do you regret killing more?" This 'thief' kidnapped and killed a lot of people, and poisoned the south. The so-called 'Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother' teaching, the official of 'Tianyan Tianyu', even if Kong Shengsheng, the king of Zhou, was born today, there is no reason not to be able to plot to destroy it! Since you have made up your mind to destroy it, there is no reason to regret killing more! ”

Zeng Guofan's reply expressed his attitude, that is, his disagreement with the Taiping Army's beliefs. Judging by the facts, the Taiping army in Anqing has been surrounded for two years before being defeated, which is obviously a hardcore long hair, and it is impossible to win it over, so it is better to kill it.

There is also a saying that Zeng Guofan led the troops for ten years at that time, and sighed many times that he was unwilling to let his descendants lead the troops again, so he had to do everything thoroughly, that is, he could not leave future troubles, so he cut the grass and eradicated the roots.

No matter how it is judged, once Zeng Guofan captures Tianjing, the Taiping army and their families there may not end well, and they will either all die in battle or all be slaughtered. This is also the reason why the Taiping army fought very bravely against the Qing army, because they knew that there was no way to live.

The current population of Tianjing is said to have reached one million, because the economic conditions in Jiangnan are really good, a few years of peacetime, the economic recovery is quite good, Nanjing as the capital, the development of commerce and trade is very fast, there are one million people living is not impossible, plus the Taiping army has the custom of captive craftsmen in various places, so the craftsmen of the entire Jiangnan are probably concentrated here again.

The loss of a million craftsmen is incalculable, and how many long-standing crafts may disappear. Therefore, Zhu Jinglun couldn't accept the Hunan army's bloody behavior of Tianjing, so he wrote this letter to Zeng Guofan.

But he believes that with Zeng Guofan's firm belief, he will not be moved by his words, and the Ming Dynasty must take substantive action.

Changes in Jiangnan were rapid, forcing the Ming army to put military operations on the agenda.

After the Hunan army crossed the river, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom immediately panicked, and King Hong Tianwang gathered all the first-class princes with troops for the first time, at this time the princes of the Taiping army were divided into five ranks, and Li Xiucheng and others were the first ranks, ruling over other small and medium-sized princes.

Hong Xiuquan severely criticized Yang Fuqing and Wang Haiyang, blaming them for not respecting the 9,000-year-old order of the king, so that they had today's defeat, and they should not violate the king's order. Hong Xiuquan was obviously appeasing Li Xiucheng, he really didn't approve of these two people, why did he go earlier, how many times Li Xiucheng asked him to come forward to suppress Yang Fuqing, he didn't care.

At this time, I jumped out, I was really anxious and scared, but it was too late.

Yang Fuqing also saw that the situation was extremely unfavorable, gave up the power struggle with Li Xiucheng, no longer had the selfish intention of preserving strength, and launched a bloody battle with the Hunan army, but let alone recapture Wuhu, a big battle made Yang Fuqing's troops be defeated again, and the remaining troops were less than 30,000, and they had no combat effectiveness at all.

Wang Haiyang's ministry was not much better, Li Xiucheng sent him to rescue Yang Fuqing, he was defeated faster, and the war was only a little more than a month, and there were no soldiers available in the Taiping army except for the soldiers and horses of the loyal king's headquarters.

Li Xiucheng had high hopes for the sailors, but when he asked Lu Shunde to take the sailors to seize the right to control the river and cut off the back road of the Hunan army, Lu Shunde was also defeated, and three of the ten ironclad ships were sunk.

The Hunan army is equipped with ironclad ships, and the news Daming still learned from the Taiping Army, Li Xiucheng sent someone to ask Daming if Daming sold the ironclad ships to the Qing army, but it was really not, it was not that Daming refused to sell, but that the Qing army did not want to buy it.

The Taiping army soon found out that those sailors wearing the brave uniforms of the Hunan army were all blonde and blue-eyed Yiren, so far it is very clear that Zeng Guofan probably formed an Aspen fleet again, and this Aspen fleet is probably not so simple, the officers and soldiers are directly drawn from the British army, and the warships are simply the British Navy, at least they are all retired British officers and soldiers, because they can skillfully operate the ironclad ship and form combat effectiveness, it is not achieved overnight. Only the British in the world can draw such a large-scale ironclad fleet and hand it over to others without breaking their bones.

Seeing that the British spared no effort to support the Hunan army, in fact, they also supported the Manchu court, Zhu Jinglun guessed that the British might have gotten some great benefits from Li Hongzhang, and they really did not want to see the Ming Dynasty monopolize the interests of Jiangnan through the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime.

At the same time, it is obviously impossible for them to support the Ming Dynasty's annexation of Jiangnan, and as for the whole of China, it is even more impossible.

Zhu Jinglun knew very well that it was time for the Ming army to be dispatched, and no matter how late it was, I was afraid that even half of Jiangnan would not be able to survive.