The formation of a train bureau actually raised 18.5 million taels of silver? It's really unbelievable, if this is according to Emperor Xianfeng's thoughts, most of this silver will be used as compensation, plus the silver from the internal affairs government and the household treasury, you can pay off the debts at once, and then live an easy life. {Starter} This is really a dead thought, and the 1.85 million pounds of foreign capital dare to swallow it? Foreign capital belongs to the great powers, and this is not to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.

Railroad ...... Well, it is still customary to call it a railway, which is also very beneficial to the reform of the flag people, and the flag people can be sent to work, and it is also called "the flag people have a high cultural quality, so it is preferred." "This is true, Nalan Xingde and Cao Xueqin are both flag people.

Isn't it hard to build roads? Why do you need cultural people? Daqing News explained: The team organized by the Bank of Zurich is a global spire, and the heavy work of opening mountains and transporting earth is all industrial and mainframe, which comes from the Suez Canal Company, the ancestor of modern engineering. Only a literate person can manipulate these complex things. The people of the Qing Dynasty suddenly realized.

Although the team's assembly stone is in Singapore, preparations for Shanghai and Beijing can also begin immediately. The main thing is that the supporting factories need to be built, the railway needs a lot of cement, steel, cement is outsourced, and the steel king is ready to build a giant steel mill, this is the Daqing Steel Plant. Daqing Steel Plant is located in the suburbs of Shanghai, which is super large-scale, and Daqing steel can be produced in the factory.

Now there are many steel mills under Downing, British steel mills, Japanese steel mills, European steel mills, Indian steel mills, Singapore steel mills, all of which are national-level, and one can supply a country's market, and British steel mills even export a large number of North and South America, and European steel mills sell well throughout Europe, except for Prussia, which has cooperation agreements, and unfriendly Russia. There are also steel mills in North America, like Sweden, that read the patent and illegally use technology similar to British Steel's steel converters. One of the most troublesome was a guy named Carnegie.

Of course, Carnegie's steel mills could not perfectly solve the problem of phosphorus, and the quality was far inferior to those imported from England, and the real business, such as Vanderbilt, the richest man in the United States, only purchased steel from British steel mills for his railway company, no matter how expensive it was. Carnegie was among the wave that was most supportive of the new President Lincoln's high tariffs to protect American industry. This is also a major factor in accelerating the division between the North and the South. The United States has raised tariffs on industrial products, and Europe, represented by Britain, has also threatened to raise tariffs, but at this time, the United States is still mainly engaged in agricultural exports, so the interests of the South will be damaged.

The retreating British army from Beijing had already assembled in Shanghai, and asked the Qing court to send an important general to help them exterminate the Taiping army, so that they could be paid the 5 million taels of silver as soon as possible. "Emperor Xianfeng" asked Zeng Guofan to recommend candidates, and he could also go on himself. However, as the commander of the Hunan army, Zeng Guofan still would not go in person, and finally waited for a good opportunity for him to go it alone, and Li Hongzhang immediately recommended himself.

Li Hongzhang is also an ambitious person, he once went to his hometown in Anhui with Lu Xianji, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, to run a group exercise, but the effect was not very good, the trained Huai army was defeated by the Taiping Army, and was turned into a green forest by the Hanlin Office. Because of the old relationship with Zeng Guofan, he joined the old Zeng's cabinet members, he learned a lot of methods of running regimental training from Zeng Guofan, and this time he can also fight with foreigners, he may learn more, according to his estimate, the future weapons will definitely be fully Westernized, in this respect he can be more radical than Zeng Guofan.

Zeng and Li had just finalized the itinerary, and suddenly received a holy decree, the emperor directly appointed Zeng Guofan's second son Zeng Jize as a Taoist member of Su Songtaidao, equivalent to the mayor of Shanghai, (Su Song Tai has jurisdiction over Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion and Taicang Zhili Prefecture), and is a member of the four grades, and can directly report to the emperor. After receiving the holy decree, Zeng Li and Xiao Zeng were deeply shocked. The reason of the imperial court is that "learning from the West has made achievements", Xiao Zeng is only 21 years old now, in the eyes of his father and Lao Li, he is a casual hairy young man, but he has traveled to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Kingdom on the Great Eastern, and has been working hard to learn English since then, but he did not expect the imperial court to attach so much importance to Western learning.

As for Xiao Zeng, who will be ordered to carry out drastic reforms after he arrives, Lao Zeng and Lao Li don't know.

It is okay to help the Qing Dynasty reform, but everything must be under his own control, so Tang Ning will never be able to build a strong army for the Qing Dynasty, in case he coerces the Son of Heaven to expose the affairs of the princes, the future will go in an unpredictable direction. Therefore, after careful consideration, Tang Ning decided to set up a road police in the name of the Daqing Railway Bureau, a police force controlled by the people of the International Academy, called the police, which is actually the army, and equipped them with FN-1855 rifles that are powerful all over the world. This rifle was only equipped with the most trusted troops, and there were no other troops except for the mercenaries brought back by Saigo Takamori.

It is truly unprecedented that the planned national defense force of the Qing Dynasty was actually played by "road police". The train bureau alone has a budget of 18.5 million taels for the Beijing-Shanghai line, which is a pivotal force wherever it is placed, and all parties are not surprised by the establishment of road police, but they did not expect to be equipped with FN-1855.

In the future, wherever the network of the train bureau goes, it is where Tangning's military strength reaches, and the mobility is super strong, and the entire monorail network represents the pace of reform planned by Tangning for the Qing Dynasty. He was fully prepared for the revelation of his identity.

Emperor Xianfeng and others have been under house arrest for several months, and the Rehe Palace has only entered and not exited, and some people have already begun to suspect that something is wrong.

The auction of the Old Summer Palace was deliberately delayed by Tangning, and one day he did not auction it, and one day he had a reason to keep the troops of the East India Company there. The 100 treasures had already been brought to Shanghai by the British and French forces, and they were being hyped up, and the Bank of Zurich asked for an auction to be held in Shanghai, which made the British and French very dissatisfied, because then they had to increase their publicity, and the rich people in Europe and the United States would come to Shanghai if they had nothing to do.

Li Hongzhang had just connected with the British army, and an astonishing holy decree came from Emperor Xianfeng, who was recognized as having a big brain. The main content is to pardon all the participants in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, including Hong Xiuquan, on the grounds of pursuing a quick return to Taiping, and inform the British troops participating in the siege that as long as the other side surrenders, they will not be asked. During the siege of the city by the British, those who resisted died, and those who abandoned their weapons lived. However, anyone who follows the Taiping Army to do evil again on the date of the promulgation of the holy decree will be sentenced and investigated in the future.

The decree and proclamation spread with the Qing News, and the Taiping army felt the unprecedented determination of Emperor Xianfeng, and the soldiers were quietly talking about it. The cannons of the foreigners have approached the city of Suzhou occupied by the Taiping army, brothers, there is still time to escape.

The Taiping army defeated the Green Camp and the Hunan army, the monk Greenqin defeated the Taiping army, the foreigners defeated the Monk Greenqin army, and the faithful of the Worship of God Church, you should weigh your own weight.

Even King Hong was exempted from capital punishment! Holy, this ...... It's incredible. There is even more powerful, the Qing army that participated in the siege has prepared a large amount of military rations for the reception of prisoners! Surrender and eat white rice, resist and eat guns.

Tang Ning had asked Qi Taiyu to procure a large amount of rice from Nanyang, which was a granary with huge production capacity, ensuring that the surrendered Taiping army would also have food to eat.

Suzhou's position was quite important, and the Taiping army continued to increase the military strength of Suzhou Prefecture, while the British army moved more and more slowly, because Li Hongzhang told them that it was best to wait for them to be fully prepared and succeed in the first battle, and destroy the will of the Taiping army. The guns of the British army were much more advanced than those sold by small arms dealers to the Taiping army, the Qing army, and the Hunan army, and Li Hongzhang was confident that they would be able to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

What made the British army even more confident was that the angels in white at the Windsor Military Hospital also appeared out of nowhere, saying that they had been summoned by the Duke.

Winter is coming. The 100,000-strong army of 8,000 British troops and the son-in-law of Li Xiucheng in Suzhou City, Muwang Tan Shaoguang, is about to start a decisive battle!

These 100,000 large firearms are pitiful, in fact, it is a war of flintlock pistols against cold weapons, of course, the British army also has high-explosive howitzers, which is very good for destroying the will of the enemy army, and watching their comrades be bombed into scum before they can engage in battle, this is the strongest shock to the brave soldiers.

The Tianjing Incident was a watershed moment in the fortunes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which occurred in 1856, in which Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, and Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, were killed, and about 20,000 people were killed, including the entire clan of the winged king Shi Dakai (Shi Dakai himself escaped). (http：／／.）。 Yang Xiuqing was the actual leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the early stage, and Hong Xiuquan was overthrown by him in the name of "Heavenly Father", which can be traced back to when Hong Xiuquan was taken into custody by the government, it was all dependent on Yang Xiuqing to pretend to be the Heavenly Father to lead the parishioners to rescue Hong. And Shi Dakai is a very outstanding general, and he is also the most educated in this group of peasant rebels, and he was born as a martial champion.

In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a policy of abstinence was implemented, and men and women were separated from each other, and even husbands and wives could not have sex together. This kind of policy is helpful for the Taiping Army's strict military discipline and courage in battle, and there is fun to play, who wants to play with their lives. However, after the capital of Tianjing, everything changed, the kings began to enjoy life, and the combat effectiveness of the Taiping army became worse and worse.

The 100,000 troops that are now fighting the decisive battle with the British army are the army in a state of decline, which is far worse than the Mongolian cavalry of the monk Gelinqin, and far worse than the battle of Zhenjiang, where Tang Ning personally led his troops to smell the blood. Coupled with the "Xianfeng Emperor's" policy of not asking ordinary soldiers, their will was even weaker, the first charge was defeated, the second time was a complete rout, and only a very small number of soldiers returned to Suzhou City. The 100,000-strong army vanished.

In the era of cannons, there was no way out to defend the city, Tan Shaoguang's subordinate Gao Yunguan killed the main general, led the remaining 10,000 defenders out of the city and surrendered, and Suzhou was recovered.