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"Xinghua, do you always make an analogy between the current China and the time when we first founded the country?" Liu Lan ignored Luo Jian's daze, and then asked.

In fact, when Liu Lan asked Luo Jian to do a multiple-choice question just now, Luo Jian had already realized this.

"Xinghua, we should be glad that our current situation is not much better when we first founded the country, at least now there are no foreign troops on the Yalu River to put tremendous pressure on us, and there is no Manchu court running to the island of Taiwan to shout 'counterattack the mainland', let alone an aircraft carrier fleet cruising in the Taiwan Strait."

Liu Lan said everything that Luo Jian thought in his heart, and Luo Jian nodded mechanically.

Seeing that Luo Jian was in thought, Liu Lan stopped talking, just took Luo Jian's hand and asked him to sit down on a chair in the garden.

Luo Jian sat on the chair for a long time, and Liu Lan didn't bother him, just went back to the house and made him a cup of tea, and then took a fan and gently fanned him beside him.

In fact, for a long time, Luo Jian has been comparing the current China with the country when he first founded the country, and he has always wanted to learn from the successful experience of that time, of course, to avoid the mistakes made at that time, but he did ignore an extremely important issue, that is, the current international and domestic environment is fundamentally different from that time.

At present, China has surpassed other countries in the world by too much in terms of science and technology and military strength, and there is no need to urgently develop now. And we need to take it step by step.

"Liu Lan. Thank you. You reminded me well that Rome was not built in a day, and you see that I am impatient again. After a long time, Luo Jian raised his head and said to Liu Lan.

Luo Jian's mood adjusted, and Liu Lan was also very happy, the two no longer talked about such a heavy topic, and the atmosphere became much more relaxed.

Luo Jian, who had come to his senses, no longer frowned for a day, and even the other members of the cabinet felt much more comfortable.

Shi Kefa finally rushed back to Nanjing at the end of July. As Shi Kefa returned to Nanjing, good news came one after another.

The first to bring back the good news came from Beijing, where the 4th and 6th Divisions had advanced to the area of Yulinwei in Shanxi, and the 6th Division fought a battle with Haoge, who had retreated to the area, outside Shuozhou, and Haoge continued to retreat towards Tatar territory.

Luo Jian really didn't know where Yulinwei was, so he pulled Shi Kefa to check the map for a long time, only to know that the fourth and sixth divisions had already fought in the current Mongolian area.

As for whether to march into Mongolia now, Luo Jian convened a two-day meeting of cabinet members, and finally decided that the fourth and sixth divisions would only advance to Guihua City (now ******** City) for the time being. The territory of the former Ming Dynasty was largely restored.

If this had been a month earlier, maybe Luo Jian would not have agreed with this opinion at all. But since the last conversation with Liu Lan, Luo Jian realized that some things were really in a hurry.

The ethnic relations at this time were also very different from a few hundred years later, although the Tatars and the Tiles in the history of the Ming Dynasty both expressed their submission to the Ming court, but they were both short and incomplete, and in general, the Han dominated Ming court and these ethnic minorities in the north were still hostile relations.

With the current strength of the Wehrmacht, it is not a problem to invade the territory of Tatar and Vasan and restore the territory of the Manchu Qing in another time and space, the key lies in the rule and management of these places.

In Shi Kefa's original words, "You have to eat one bite at a time, you have to do things one by one, and if you spread the stall too big, sometimes you will mess things up." ”

Luo Jian was really a little helpless, he used to think that the Wehrmacht now has two corps, five combat divisions, two cavalry brigades and marines, and the number of troops has exceeded 200,000 people, and it is completely enough to defeat the Manchu court, but after laying a huge territory, he feels that the number of troops is far from enough.

Luo Jian was a little envious of the United States in his time and space, they had a unique geographical advantage at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the neighboring countries were few and weak, which allowed them to concentrate all their efforts on economic development and scientific and technological progress, such a good external environment and the relatively advanced democratic system at that time, so that they developed quickly.

When he thought of this, Luo Jian didn't know what happened to Zhu Yujiao in North America now? Will they be able to gain a foothold there, and when the time comes, will China face a powerful United States, or a Ming kingdom with the same cultural roots as China?

He also had to concentrate a considerable part of his forces to support the Ming Kingdom in North America, which was one of the reasons why Luo Jian felt that he could not fundamentally solve the problem for the northern nomads for the time being.

Liu Zhaoji's First Army was facing a similar situation on the front line of Lanzhou and Xining, and there was no problem for the troops to advance forward, but after the territory was laid, they divided their troops to defend it, and when Shi Kefa was in Xi'an, he had already divided the four regiments of the Second Division with Liu Zhaoji to garrison them in various places.

The cavalry brigade of the First Army has been expanded into a cavalry division, and in the face of the harassment of the nomads, there are not enough cavalry to defend passively, and Shi Kefa and Liu Zhaoji are also very helpless.

However, except for Shi Kefa and Liu Weimin, the others in the cabinet neither agreed with nor understood Luo Jian's insistence on incorporating Tatar and Tartary into China's territory.

Shi Kefa supported Luo Jian because he knew much more than others, but he did not cause Luo Jian to start a large-scale military operation against the north now, his opinion was to strengthen his body first, and first completely solve the internal problems before considering expanding outward.

Although the Nanjing Government has issued an ultimatum to the group, Hong Chengchou has put forward the demand that the Nanjing Government can submit to the Nanjing Government, but that Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou must be autonomous, and that the National Defense Forces must not send troops to these three provinces.

As soon as Luo Jian heard that Hong Chengchou was going to be a country within a country, he refused without hesitation, Shi Kefa was still far away in Shaanxi at that time, and when he heard about it when he came back, he was also angry.

"Xinghua, no, let's transfer the Seventh Division back first, and simply solve the problem at once? After all, what you said was a year later. Shi Kefa discussed with Luo Jian.

"Brother Xian. It was easy for the Seventh Division to be transferred out. But what about the defense around Beijing? You must know that Azig arrived in Mongolia with tens of thousands of cavalry. Now that Hauge has withdrawn with tens of thousands of cavalry, can the Fourth and Sixth Divisions alone defend it? Luo Jian said with some concern.

"Xinghua, what do you think of this? Let's quickly set up the Beijing garrison division, isn't this time a new musket that captured a large number of Qing soldiers? Although it is not as good as Yangzhou, it can always be used to deal with it, at least it is much stronger than the previous firecracker, and the defense should not be a problem, not to mention that there is Leng Yundeng's cavalry brigade. If you want to come, the Qing soldiers don't dare to come in easily. Shi Kefa also thought about it for a long time before he said.

Seeing that the national problem was about to be solved, but the army's stall was getting bigger and bigger, Luo Jian was very reluctant in his heart, but now there was no other way, so he had to nod and agree.

Seeing that Luo Jian agreed, Shi Kefa immediately went back to the house and drafted a telegram to Zuo Maodi, took it to Luo Jian to sign and sent it to Beijing.

Wang Qiang was bored in Beijing during this time, and the training of the troops had already been on the right track, and Ma Qianjun was staring at them, but he didn't have to worry too much.

Seeing that Wang Qiang was idle and had nothing to do. Zuo Maodi simply dragged Wang Qiang to the Beijing Temporary Working Committee to work with him, and Wang Qiang's ideas were not very reliable most of the time. But there are often some whimsical ideas, which have opened up a lot of ideas for Zuo Maodi.

An investigation team formed by the Nanjing government, under the personal leadership of Lu Daqi, arrived in Beijing a few days ago and began to investigate and screen a group of princes and ministers of the Manchu court, and a special court was also being prepared.

After receiving the telegram from Nanjing, Zuo Maodi knew that Wang Qiang was about to lead the Seventh Division on an expedition to Sichuan, and he was quite reluctant, but he also knew that with Hong Chengchou entrenched in Sichuan, the Nanjing government would feel constrained in doing anything, and this cancer must be completely solved first.

Wang Qiang was very happy, he was originally an idle person, and now he heard that there was another war, of course, it was exactly what he wanted.

Wang Qiang transferred 800 men from the Seventh Division to Zuo Maodi to help Beijing form a garrison division, and the Seventh Division began to pack up and prepare for a thousand miles of maneuvering.

Maneuvering from Beijing to Chongqing, during the Chongzhen period, Qin Liangyu led the Shizhu soldiers into Beijing and walked for more than two months, and the non-combat attrition reached thousands of people along the way, and the Seventh Division certainly did not have so much time to spend on the road.

In order to mobilize the 18,000 men and horses of the Seventh Division to Chongqing, He Gang, director of the General Logistics Department, requisitioned and transferred more than 400 merchant ships, plus more than 100 naval warships that had been modified by the Anqing Naval Division, and drove from the canal to Tongzhou.

For a time, thick smoke billowed over the entire canal, obscuring the sky and the sun, where had the people of Gyeonggi seen so many ships on the canal? Countless people flocked to the canal to watch the excitement.

"Damn! What is this called? Wang Qiang sniffed vigorously and scolded in a low voice.

"Xiao Wang, my old left has lived for so many years, and I really haven't seen such a spectacular scene!" Zuo Maodi, who came to see him off, sincerely admired that the appearance of so many steamships in the canal at one time gave him a new understanding of the strength of the Nanjing government.

"This thing is too backward, the pollution is too great, and it must be eliminated as soon as possible." Wang Qiang was extremely dissatisfied with the billowing smoke.

"What? Xiao Wang, you said that these ships will be eliminated? That's not good, this thing is fast and labor-saving, if there are no these boats, the people of Beijing are still starving, and your troops still have to use two legs to go to Sichuan, see if you don't think it's too big? Zuo Maodi said with a smile.

Wang Qiang also knows that it is impossible for people to have a strong sense of environmental protection, and the current stage of development is inseparable from the power of steam engines.

"Xiao Wang, after defeating Hong Chengchou, will you come back?" Zuo Maodi's relationship with Wang Qiang has been getting better and better these days, and when he saw that Wang Qiang was about to board the ship, he asked reluctantly.

"Zuo Lao, you have to ask our chief, I can't be the master, I just need to fight. Zuo Lao, you have to take care of yourself! Wang Qiangqiang was arrogant but didn't care.

Although the maximum speed of the steamship had reached 25 kilometers per hour, such a large fleet still walked for more than a week to get from Beijing to Nanjing, and this was only after the Nanjing government had organized personnel to clean up many sections of the canal that were somewhat silted, otherwise it would have taken more time.

Wang Qiang returned to Nanjing for three days, and the troops had to replenish ammunition and logistics supplies, as long as Ma Qianjun guarded these things, Luo Jian and Shi Kefa both approved him to go home and stay for three days.

In fact, Luo Jian and Shi Kefa called Wang Qiang back to Nanjing not only to let him go home to see, but also to make some plans for the next battle.

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )