Ask for collection, ask for recommendation, ask for Sanjiang tickets, and the fourth is more present

A mansion somewhere in the inner city of Beijing. A very spacious flower hall with clean and bright glass on the windows, and the garden outside is a white snowy scene. There are fire dragons under the floor tiles of the flower hall, the room is warm, and a table of exquisite wine banquets is also set up, on the banquet, there are only two old and one young and a middle-aged man, and there is no one around to call people.

"Jiechun, this errand to negotiate with France was done very well...... These are the exact words of Long Live Lord. ”

It was an old man who spoke, with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, two cheekbones raised high, and a small beard, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a treacherous villain.

"This is all the work of Mu Xiang's mediation, Qiying just acted according to Mu Xiang's orders, and now he can get such a favor from the saint, I really dare not take it."

Another old man respectfully bowed his hand and said, this person is the new governor of Liangguang who entered Beijing and Mianjun, Qiying, and Jiechun is his name. The person who spoke to him just now was Guo Jia, the former first minister of Emperor Daoguang, the Minister of Military Aircraft, and a scholar of the Cultural Palace. Mu Zhanga.

"The emperor also said that the best thing about this errand is not that the treaty with the legal person did not damage the face of the Qing Dynasty, but that he has found out the truth of the West, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other, and not being defeated in a hundred battles, and now that he knows the inside story of the West, he will not suffer any more losses in the future."

As he spoke, Mu Zhang'a turned his gaze to Bai Siwen, who was honestly sitting beside Qiying, "Bai Enming, is it?" ”

Bai Siwen arched his hand and said with a smile: "Back to Mu Xiang, it is Bai Siwen who is humble." ”

"The so-called reading 10,000 books, it is better to travel 10,000 miles, Enming, you are now traveling 100,000 miles, traveling to more than a dozen countries in the West, what you see and hear, are unknown to the Manchu Dynasty, and you are a banner man, do it well, and there is always hope for the future of the Frontier Cabinet!"

Bai Siwen hurriedly stood up and waved at Mu Zhang'a, "Humble thanks to Mu Xiang's cultivation!" ”

Mu Zhang'a nodded, and his tone suddenly sank, "Enming, you seem to be extremely jealous of Zhu Jishi?" ”

"Mu Xiang, this person is after Zhu Ming, and he was supported by Prince Albert, the prince of England, and he is extremely proficient in Western strange and obscene skills, and his family fortune is million...... I have to guard against it! ”

Bai Siwen's words came from the bottom of his heart, Mu Zhang'a was old and refined, so he naturally understood it, and laughed lightly.

"So you're trying to assassinate the Assassin?"

Bai Siwen bowed again, "The humble positions are all for the ...... of the court"

Mu Zhang'a smiled and said nothing, looking back at the middle-aged man sitting beside him, the middle-aged man arched his hand at Mu Zhang'a, and said: "Enxiang, the student thinks that the strategy of Ming Fu is feasible, and the assassination plan needs to be delayed." ”

"Why?" Mu Zhang'a asked with a smile.

"There are many descendants of Zhu Ming, and there are thousands of people scattered everywhere? In the past 200 years, how many people have committed rebellion? What's more, Zhu Jishi has long been a minister of Yidi, not a person from my Huaxia, and this so-called person who entered Yidi is also Yidi. The student looked at his letter, and although the words were disrespectful, the method proposed in it was quite feasible, and the intention seemed to be to be good to me. Moreover, now that China and the West are discussing peace and the sea and the border are safe, it is better to be cautious about the matter of assassinating the Minister of Yidi, so as not to provoke again and stir up unrest at home and abroad. ”

Mu Zhang'a looked at Bai Siwen again and said with a smile: "Enming, what do you think Zeng Disheng said?" ”

Zeng Disheng is Zeng Guofan, Disheng is the number, the current Zeng Guofan officials worship to study for bachelors, Wenyuan Pavilion is on the cabinet affairs, and Bai Siwen is the same as Bai Siwen, all of them are from the official titles of the fourth grade. However, he is a Beijing official, and he is a Qingliu who was born in the third examination, and he is also Mu Zhang'a's proud protégé, Bai Siwen, who knows the rules of Qing Dynasty officialdom, of course does not dare to slack off, and hurriedly arches his hand at Zeng Guofan and says: "What Zeng Shi said is right, and the lower officials admire it." ”

Zeng Guofan's words of course represent Mu Zhang'a, and Mu Zhang'a is the best at figuring out the holy will, it seems that Emperor Daoguang was really scared by the British......

Bai Siwen sighed in his heart, and didn't mention Zhu Jishi again, he is just a prefect, not a minister of military aircraft, why is the emperor not in a hurry?

"But if Zhu Jishi really arrives in Hong Kong, he will still be closely monitored." Mu Zhang'a whispered again, and Zhu Jishi's matter was over.

In fact, he said these words to Qiying and Bai Siwen, it was really out of good intentions, Qiying is also a member of the Mu Party, and Bai Siwen is a subordinate of Qiying, of course, he is a member of the Mu Party. These two saints are long, as long as they don't make any big mistakes, Qiying will join the military sooner or later, and Bai Siwen's future is also smooth. If nothing else, a few years later, Mu Zhang'a and his party will have one more governor. So Mu Zhang'a didn't want Qiying and Bai Siwen to talk nonsense when they were in front of you...... Mingfu's assassination is not what Emperor Lao Tzu wants to hear at all, will Sir the minister of Yingyi let you kill in vain? Don't kill it, and then it's a big soldier crusade, and then there will be no compensation of tens of millions of taels of silver, and the military expenses will not be able to pass at all. If anyone takes a wrong step on this issue, Lin Zexu's lessons are there!

"Mu Xiang, then...... ...... things above the foreign affairs"

Qi Ying's words also turned to foreign affairs, after all, he had never seen Zhu Jishi in person, and he didn't know how big Zhu Jishi's market was in the West.

"The affairs of foreign affairs are not in a hurry...... Since Xiyi is tens of thousands of miles away, it is not easy to go back and forth, so we don't need to be in a hurry, just push forward slowly. ”

Mu Zhang'a's answer made Bai Siwen stunned, this foreign affairs matter, it turned out that the emperor was not in a hurry, and the eunuch was in a hurry!

"Disheng, what do you think of foreign affairs?" Mu Zhang'a asked Zeng Guofan beside him again.

"Enxiang, the students think that other foreign affairs can be slowed down, only the training of the generals should be fast, if you can train tens of thousands of elite soldiers according to the Western law, the dynasty will no longer be afraid of the police in the sea and frontier."

Zeng Guofan's words seem to be taken for granted, the decay of the Eight Banners Green Battalion has long been known to everyone, and the battle with Yingyi has even thrown his face to the West, if he doesn't hurry up to train into an elite army, there will be Xiyi in the future, how will the Qing Dynasty deal with it?

Mu Zhang'a shook his head and said: "The training and selection of generals also need to be slow, the Xiyi soldiers are strong, the first is the best weapon, and the big sword and spear of the national dynasty are not the opponent of Western guns after all." Therefore, if you want to train elite soldiers, you must first learn the method of making guns and casting cannons......"

"Mu Xiang, Fa Yi has already agreed to teach." Qiying reminded with a smile.

"This can't be rushed." Mu Zhang'a repeated "no hurry" again, and said: "Fa Yi taught the method of making guns and casting cannons with good intentions, how can our dynasty not express it?" And this method of making guns and casting cannons is very important, and it is necessary for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send skilled craftsmen to study with Fayi, and after learning it, they can return to Beijing to open a gun workshop...... What is going on with this Internal Affairs Office, Brother Jiechun must know it, right? ”

Qi Ying touched his beard and said in a low voice: "Foshan, Guangdong has always been an important iron-smelting town, and there are many skilled craftsmen. ”

The eight-thousand-pound general refers to an eight-thousand-pound cannon. In this era, the Western metallurgical industry is just like that, converter steel has not yet been invented, the process of crucible steelmaking is not difficult, as soon as you learn it, as for the Western casting method is not much more advanced than China, if you let the French technicians go to Foshan to take apprentices, or a few years, Foshan's guns can be no less than foreign goods.

"Jiechun, the sharpness of this Western gun is not comparable to ** earth artillery! If it is mastered by folk craftsmen, can there still be a peaceful day in this world? ”

Qiying had an epiphany, patted his forehead and said: "Confused for a while, confused for a while, if it weren't for Mu Xiangmen, he would have said the wrong thing when he met you." This method of making guns and casting cannons in Xiyi must be firmly grasped by the Ministry of Internal Affairs! The elite soldiers trained by this Western Law must also be the elite of the Eight Banners! ”

Hearing this, Zeng Guofan sighed in his heart, an egg in the Internal Affairs Office dared to ask Emperor Daoguang for dozens of taels of silver, and it was an expense of thousands of taels to make up a dragon robe! If they were to make guns and cast cannons, wouldn't this gun be sky-high? As for the elite of the Eight Banners...... This soldier of Western France, don't practice!