Because Zeng Guofan's purpose was to delay time to prepare for military operations in the country, on the way to London, he first went to the British colonies for a visit and visit, in order not to arouse suspicion, along the way Zeng Guofan made all kinds of remarks praising the British Empire, and put his posture very low, the British side was still too slow, but received the news from the colonies, so that the British cabinet had an inexplicable confidence, that China had decided to compromise with Britain, and the British people in Britain had a good impression of China. It was only the domestic newspapers that scandalized and threatened China after the British imposition of the press regulation law, and Zeng Guofan's speech in the British colony won great favor from the British people. This time, it was supposed to be only two months away, and it took four months to get to London.

After arriving in London, the officials and people welcomed by the whole city on the docks surprised Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, who knew the inside story.

"Sir, China and Britain have been full of contradictions over the years, how can the British people welcome us so warmly?" Li Hongzhang said as he looked at the British man waving the flag on the deck of the ship.

"Shaoquan, I think that's why Mr. is going to visit India and other places, right, sir?" Zuo Zongtang also turned his head to look at Zeng Guofan.

At this time, Zeng Guofan was only in his thirties, and he was a very young existence in the officialdom, especially in the field of diplomats, stability and maturity were the basics, Zeng Guofan shook hands with the 058th Charter, and he had a cordial conversation with the British reception officials.

Subsequently, he stood on a platform with luggage piled up and delivered a speech that was hailed by later generations as the beginning of conspiracy diplomacy, and was named the "Turke Speech" because Zeng Guofan and his party went ashore at the Turke Pier.

"Great England, you have everything you have, free and rich, I have seen a lot on my way here. British friends present here, thank you for coming to greet us, friendship from the East, although our two great countries now have a small contradiction, but the people of our two countries believe and firmly support the friendship between our two countries as always, and I believe that my presence will deepen the friendship between the two countries."

After giving a speech, Zeng Guofan and his entourage drove to the city to meet Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria, the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, and Chapter 058 and Zuo Zongtang traveled throughout London, especially the situation of the working class that Lin Hong urged to pay attention to, because soon in July, the Chartist movement in Britain will begin.

Lin Hong's plan was to take advantage of this movement to want Britain to go to war, and this movement would be bigger and more dangerous than the historical movement under the influence of Lin Hong's Jinyiwei.

At the beginning of 1840, preparations for war had begun.

In mid-January, the Imperial Northeast Military Region launched a large-scale winter exercise, secretly dispatching about 90,000 personnel and equipment from six divisions of two armies to assemble in Vladivostok and Dalian. In Vladivostok, it was necessary to wait for the ice period to pass before taking a ship to North America, so in order not to delay the plan, the General Staff specially asked the shipyards of the Navy to build three large icebreakers and even transferred the ironclad ships of the North Ocean to Vladivostok to break the ice.

"It's freezing this day, where are we going?" Sitting in the stuffy train, Wang Ba muttered indignantly, Wang Ba was originally named Wang Xiaoba because he was the eighth in the family, but since joining the army, he was called Wang Ba in the barracks, angry He was in his own army after overturning five veterans in a row Xu Chenxu, the captain of the special forces who was selecting team members, officially joined the imperial army special forces "Wolf Tooth", although his teammates will still call him Wang Ba, but after several years of training and life and death, he feels that his teammates still call him Wang Ba, he also feels very kind.

"Why aren't you happy!" Special Forces Sniper Xiao Ji turned his head and said with a grin.

"No, it's just a little boring, how to arrange this kind of windowless military column." Wang Ba explained.

"Okay, don't complain, the staff headquarters arranged it this way in order to ensure secret transportation," Xu Chenxu, as the captain, stood up and said.

"It's the captain." Wang Ba admires the captain the most, as the head wolf, Xu Chenxu is not burly and fierce, but the ferocious gaze often revealed in his eyes let people know that he is not easy to mess with, Xu Chenxu is also a non-system personnel, before he joined the army, he was a bandit from Taihang Mountain, but it was really the turmoil of those years * that led him to Liangshan. After being recruited, he originally thought that he would not be able to escape death, but the court acquitted him on the grounds that he did not harm ordinary people, and then came to the army, and became the captain of the army special forces with a fierce and ferocious spirit.

Over the years, the Navy's special forces unit, the Black Hawk, has been deployed overseas, and the wolf's teeth have not been idle, and they have a headache and brain fever in the north and west, either the bridge was destroyed or the village was slaughtered, and the Russians tried to exterminate them several times, but there was no return, so that Russia was not at peace in the Far East, and fortunately, the Far East is now the place where Russia exiles prisoners, and the tsar did not care about it, but was happy that these exiles who opposed him were killed.

"I can't wait," Xu Chenxu suddenly said calmly. The team members in the stuffy tank understood what the captain meant, and silently wiped their weapons.

In the south, in addition to secretly entering Siam, a vassal state of the empire, to the Malay Peninsula, the garrison of the Lan Phong Military Region will also be dispatched to be ready to cross the sea to attack Johor and Malacca.

In the southwest, the two armies going to Burma are also traveling day and night, because there is no railway, so the speed is slow, after the army enters Burma, the Burmese officials actually have informers to the British army, fortunately, Jinyiwei dispatched in time to kill the informers, the historical Burma did not submit to the Central Plains Dynasty very much, Lin Hong did not do two and simply let the Jinyiwei control the court in Burma, and waited until the end of the Sino-British war to clean it up. The Tibet Military Region has also recruited new recruits on the spot to expand its reserves, and now 80 percent of the Tibet Military Region's troops have been assembled in the Jidaling area, ready to attack both sides of the Ganges River at any time.

In addition, the vassal states of the empire, Korea, Gurkha, Vietnam, Siam, and even the Tokugawa family, Shimazu family, and Choshu domain in Japan all intended to send troops to help, but Lin Hong did not agree in order to maintain the situation in Japan, but in order to make up for the lack of the army, Lin Hong sent the royal instructor who had been in Beijing to the Indian battlefield.

By the beginning of May, the deployment of troops in all aspects was basically as follows: the Indian side had gathered more than 200,000 troops in the north and Burma, the North American side also had more than 100,000 troops, and the East African side had nearly 50,000 troops recruited in East Africa because of environmental problems.

In short, everything is waiting for Zeng Guofan to submit a declaration of war in Britain.