Nanjing Ming Imperial City, now in the palace of the Han Dynasty. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A smell of traditional Chinese medicine faintly passed into Rotony's nose, as a favored minister of the Han King, Rotony since he started his own kneeling and licking road, it is indispensable to open the way of 'sinicization' in clothing, food, housing and transportation, and he has drunk this Chinese medicine more than once.

To be honest, although Rotony is still very devout to God, he trusts Chinese doctors more than Western doctors. The cutting and burning (red-hot soldering iron) and bloodletting methods of European doctors, as well as diarrheal agents and laxatives, are as ridiculous and pathetic as the ancient Chinese medical techniques that have been passed down for thousands of years. Even some Portuguese who chose Chinese nationality still firmly believe that those extremely bitter decoctions are the devil's witchcraft, ignorant and cola.

Rotoni firmly believes in Chinese medicine. One of the clearest examples is smallpox, a devilish disease that is completely helpless in the West, if drinking holy water is a means of doing so. Almost one in 10 people die from the disease, and most people who get it are small children or older children. However, in China, there was 'human pox' 100 years ago, and in the past two years, the medical department has been studying 'cowpox'.

Rotony's eyes have been watching the progress of such a study, and the King of Han has also attached great importance to this research, which has lasted for more than a year, and has never been affected or disrupted by anything.

As far as Rotony knew, almost none of the prisoners who were used for the 'experiment', including some of the captive children [Banner People], had been infected with cowpox, and almost none of them had contracted the terrible disease of smallpox. Many people who were infected with smallpox were also rescued by doctors in the medical department through a method, and the survival rate was more than 80%.

Rotony believes that when this achievement is made public by the new Chinese government, his stubborn compatriots will all bow their stubborn heads.

However, it is precisely because of his great confidence in Chinese medicine that Rotony is even more worried, and he is worried about the health of Chen Hui, the king of Han. What kind of medicine do you drink without disaster or disease?

According to his observations, Chen Hui's health now is far less than when he first came to Chen Hui's side. And what the reason is, Rotony also has a guess on the psychological side, but he will never dissuade it.

Because he believes in the words of dissuasion, there must be many people around Chen Hui who have already said it, and even Chen Hui himself knows his health problems, but he still hasn't changed, which in itself speaks for itself.

"Russians? Are they going to get involved in the war in China? After hearing the reason why Chen Hui called him into the palace, Rotony was stunned.

"God, St. Petersburg is crazy! Russia is crazy! He really couldn't imagine why Russia had the audacity to intervene in the war of ancient China, did Catherine II think she was invincible as soon as she won the Ottoman victory?

Rotony still clearly remembers the "Outline of Army Building" handed over by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and in the future, China's national standing army alone will reach the scale of more than one million people.

Twenty main divisions, each division will have a strength of up to 25,000 men, which is the strength of 500,000 men; twenty local garrisons, each fifteen thousand, which is another three hundred thousand; One Janissaries, that is, three infantry divisions plus a cavalry division plus an artillery brigade, and other units, this is one hundred thousand people. That's 900,000 people! It's just infantry!

There were also six to eight divisions of cavalry troops, and this is another hundred thousand people.

Then there will be the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coastal Defense Forces, which will total 150,000 men. And then the rest are the gendarmerie units, overseas garrisons, and so on, with a total of forty or fifty thousand people.

The total number of troops initially planned is as high as 1.2 million!

When Rotony saw this extremely large number, his whole person was shocked. This figure encompasses the total standing armies of the entire European countries, excluding Russia.

And Chen Han has another reserve plan, as well as the Boy Scout program that will stick to it.

Rotony, of course, knew that the plan for the '1.2 million men' military was still on paper, and that the Fu Han army would not be able to form such a large and unrivaled standing army until it had established a solid rule. But most importantly, Rotony believes that China has the strength to build such a large standing army, and that Russia is really a 'crazy' move to provoke a huge China with its current strength.

"Russia's economic hinterland is thousands of miles away from China's rich lands. Its trade with the Manchus was limited to a small amount of Kyakhta and other things, so why did the Russian monarchs and ministers take advantage of the Manchu fire? This is what Chen Hui is most puzzled about.

Russia has not yet conquered Central Asia, let alone Xinjiang, what benefits can the Manchus promise them to let Russia jump on the sinking ship of the Manchus?

"Your Majesty, the Russians are synonymous with greed in the Western world, and their desire for land is endless. Xinjiang is not within the reach of the Russians now, but what about the Outer Northeast? It is well connected to the territory of the Russians in the Far East. ”

Chen Hui was slightly stunned, and immediately shook his head, "This is impossible." It was the land of Longxing in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, how could it be ceded to a group of foreigners? ”

But apart from this, Rotony was not a roundworm in Catherine II's stomach, and he couldn't think of any other reason.

Rotony walked out of the palace of the Han Dynasty with a smile on his face, not affected by the dialogue in the palace at all, from his slightly raised eyebrows, people who are familiar with him can find Rotony's happy mood at the moment. Because he has a 'big bomb' to explode!

At this point, Rotony almost had a banner with a capital letter hanging over his head - I'm going to break the news!

"Dear Robert, do not doubt my sincerity. I can swear to God that what I say is true. The barbaric Russians, with shocking audacity, intervened into the civil war of the Chinese, stood behind the Tatars in the north, sending troops to China at least next year. His Majesty the King of Han is very angry about this! ”

When China's civil war will end, neither Rotony nor Robert can say, but who will be the final victor, both of them are undoubtedly extremely convinced that it will be Chen Han. "The army led by His Highness has already taken Tianjin, if it weren't for the arrival of the severe cold, which greatly limited the transportation capacity of the naval division, Beijing is now afraid that it has been taken by the Han army." Rotoni also knew that in the spring of next year, on the eve of the Great War, Chen Hui would be officially proclaimed emperor, and then the army would go on a northern expedition to dominate the world. Although he didn't have much feeling about the concept of dominating the world, he knew what it meant for Chen Hui to be emperor.

"The final decisive battle between the Tatars and the Han is coming. Judging from the current situation, the Han people have the absolute upper hand. Do you know? The news I just learned from the mouth of the King of Han is to Guide and Kaifeng......"

In Robert's room hung a map of China, and Rotony pointed his finger at the location of Henan, pointing to the location of Kaifeng and Guide, "The Qing army here has completely withdrawn. Now the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the area south of this great river, only here, Luoyang, is still under the control of the Tatar army. ”

"Beijing is in dire straits. The emperor of the Tatars was summoning the troops here to come back, and this generation had quite a few Eastern cavalry and Tatar armies. Although they have to give up large areas of land for this, the first thing they want to ensure now is Beijing's security. ”

"The Han army in Henan has already marched to the land abandoned by the Tatars. As long as the Tatars under the city of Beijing lose the decisive battle next year, from here, the land larger than the entire Portuguese mainland will easily fall under the control of His Majesty without any war. Oh, at that time, I should have become His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire. "Since the Ming Dynasty, the Western term for China has always been the 'Chinese Empire,' or China for short.

And even if the Tatars win the battle to defend Beijing next spring, it will not stop the overthrow of the general trend. Both in terms of money and food, and in terms of industrial power, the Tatars were at an absolute disadvantage. ”

Rotony toasted a glass of brandy, a French cognac brought back from Europe by the Roberttos, and the burning wine was indeed much more flavorful than rum. "The Russians are recklessly involved, and their hasty behavior will bring a great disaster to themselves. As allies, do Portugal and the British Empire need to fulfill their obligations as allies ...... to warn the greedy polar bear? ”

Rotony couldn't get a definitive answer from Robert, but he did his best. Whether it's for Chen Hui or for a certain invisible alliance formed after the Seven Years' War.

Moreover, not to mention the sudden liveliness of Nanjing's 'Shangguan Street', not to mention the local troops that have arrived one after another, not to mention the progress of the Han army in Sichuan, or the confrontation between Zheng Zhu and the 'Confucian Three Heroes' in Annam, or the confrontation between the Xishan Army and the Guangnan Kingdom, as well as the changes in the situation in Nanyang, the re-war in Siam and Burma, and even the impatience of the Sichuan-Tibet-Yunnan Tusi such as Jinchuan and the Great and Small Jinchuan, nor the war in Anhui, Henan and the northwest, only the current Chen Ming.

There was a sudden silence between Beijing and Tianjin, and just when Chen Ming was puzzled by Hailancha's sudden retreat, an unexpected heavy snow stained the entire Zhili.

The ice-covered Beijing and Tianjin suddenly lost the tension they had before. Outside the mouth of Dagu, the warships of the Fu Han army moved to the sea area of Caofeidian. Soon, a group of them will also turn from Caofeidian to southern Liaoning.

Chen Ming also received an urgent secret report from the secret camp that the Manchu Qing were going to move the capital??? This unexpected and plausible answer caught him off guard. After thinking about it, "No wonder Hailancha suddenly wants to withdraw, it turns out that there is such a thing." ”

"Your Highness, if this news comes out, I'm afraid the morale of the Tartars will drop even more."

"So, let's get to the bottom of this as soon as possible. It's better to mess things up. Chen Ming immediately made up his mind. You must mess with this! What the hell, if more than a million banner people go to the Northeast, how can they stay in Beijing and come to clean up?

With the gradual withdrawal of the Manchu Qing army in Henan, Ah Gui had ordered the deputy general Wen Fu to lead 20,000 troops to Handan to gather the defeated troops of Yinglian and Shu Hede, which immediately became an army of 40,000 or 50,000. You don't care about their combat effectiveness, just looking at the number of people is quite bluffing.

At the same time, Ah Gui also dispatched a Eight Banners Infantry Cavalry Army to quickly return to Beijing, although in this way, the combat effectiveness and reliability of the Qing army on the middle front line will be greatly reduced, Ah Gui can't take care of it, the troops are led by the rising star of the Fucha clan, and now they are all in Baoding. Ah Gui himself also led an army to the Daimyo Mansion in Hebei, on the one hand, to prevent the sudden northward movement of the Henan Fu Han Army, and on the other hand, it faintly threatened the Dongchang Mansion in the northwest of Shandong, that is, Liaocheng and Linqing.

"November, December, and the first lunar month...... Chen Ming calculated the time, if he wants to completely thaw the ice floe in the Bohai Sea, at least in the second half of the first month, and the sailor will approach Dagukou again, that is, the beginning of February of the next year. And it's still October, with a gap of three months.

"Xiong Bingzhang, let people turn over Tianjin City again to see where there is still gunpowder." Chen Ming didn't want to leave Tianjin, but the logistics supplies were not enough, whether it was rockets, paper bullets, artillery shells, and gunpowder, there was a shortage. The rest of the weight will be fine for a few battles, but if there are more, the musketeers will become spearmen. Their only supplies now were the main fleet of sailors who were about to leave. All the ammunition stored on the ship will be removed!

"Why don't Your Highness send a general to stay in Tianjin." Then go to Caofeidian first and take a boat to leave? Since Chen Ming is reluctant to Tianjin, and Tianjin's material reserves are really a bit dangerous. Xiong Bingzhang proposed.

"Tianjin is a thorn in the eye of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a thorn in the flesh, and it will be pulled out quickly. There is a shortage of military supplies, and in this case, the governor left by boat, it was not to abandon the army and flee, leaving the soldiers to withstand the thunder......" Chen Ming felt that he couldn't get over the face, and he felt a little embarrassed. Escape, yes.

"Your Highness's words are wrong. His Royal Highness is not a general of an army, but the respect of the crown prince and the body of ten thousand times. The general trend of the world is in the hands of His Royal Highness, how can he compare himself with a general? Xiong Bingzhang disagreed, what a rare thing, flipping through the history books of China, how many faces do you have to make a big deal? As far as the current situation of the world is concerned, I definitely have to go back to Nanjing. Chen Hui is going to be the emperor in the coming year, how can he lack Chen Ming, the prince? "What's more, the Northern Expedition of the army in the coming year, more than 200,000 troops, if there is no His Royal Highness to preside over the center and order the three armies, who in Nanjing can be qualified for this position?" The high-sounding reason is easy to find.

In the final analysis, this is whether Chen Ming can overcome a hurdle in his own heart. Although as far as Xiong Bingzhang himself is concerned, it is fortunate to have a more faceless and disciplined monarch like Chen Ming.

Chen Ming was silent for a while, and waved his hand to let Xiong Bingzhang go down to do something.

Xiong Bingzhang, who returned to his own territory, immediately wrote two letters with a pen, and sent them to Yang Liuqing and Cao Zhuang's Gao Jinghui and Lu Long respectively.

In this matter, the prince just didn't have a step down. If you are in trouble, do you surrender to your labor? As long as Gao Jinghui and Lu Long shouted, it would be done. It's just that Xiong Bingzhang never expected that these two letters would be delivered to Liu Wu before teaching them to Gao Jinghui and Lu Long.

Chen Ming waved his hand again. Liu Wu retreated, "This guy is a bit interesting." Xiong Bingzhang admonished Chen Ming to leave Tianjin, which was not unusual, what Liu Wu didn't expect was that Xiong Bingzhang would also write letters to Gao Jinghui and Lu Long, the urine of these literati really can't be overestimated.

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It snowed heavily in Beijing and Tianjin, and it was just as cold in the northwest. In Feng County, the northernmost part of the area controlled by the Han Army in Hanzhong, Chen Qi convened an operational meeting to teach and teach major military officers.

"Brothers, the situation in this world is developing rapidly, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has brought down Tianjin. In the coming year, our army will be able to raze the city of Beijing. The results of the first and second divisions of the garrison are very gratifying, and you have all read the last edition of the internal magazine, and the rankings of these two teams have not increased anymore, but the scores are getting higher and higher.

There is also the first division, which took Chongqing and eastern Sichuan. This credit is also real, it's not far from us, what should we do as the big guys say?

Our instructor is the first elite of the Fu Han Army, and he is the old foundation of the whole army! Everyone here should know the origin of the officials in the first, second, and third divisions, and most of them are people who have gone out from our instructors. Damn, do you want our mentor to fall behind the apprentice's ass?

This is absolutely not a no-go! Chen Qi slapped the long table in the conference room. The instructors and officers present here are also blushing and thick-necked, and they can't do what they have to do, they can't do it resolutely, otherwise how will they put their faces on the teaching brigade?

"So. Let's take down Baoji and set off a big red fireworks in Shaanxi. "With the withdrawal of troops from Agui to the north, and the return of a part of the Qing army in Gansu to Gansu, the pressure on Hanzhong is even less, they are dealing with the situation in Gansu on the one hand, and they have to clench their fists on the other side to smash Shaanxi.

By now, the whole world has been demarcated by sharding.

The first division fought in the southwest, the instructor fought in the northwest, and the rest of the troops attacked Beijing, swept Zhili and Shaanxi, and then there was Mongolia in the northeast.

It's also very important, but it's not as good as the first teacher and the instructor, if the first teacher and the instructor can eat and wipe the food in their respective pots early, they don't need to worry about being blown up chrysanthemums. Among them, the gold content of the instructor's meritorious service is stronger than that of the first division.

And to earn a head swim, than the first, this is the urine nature of soldiers! (To be continued.) )