By 1845, the Chinese Empire had made great progress in all aspects, and by 1845, the merchant tonnage of the Chinese Empire had reached 3.6 million tons, which was the total tonnage of Britain in 1850, and at this time, Britain had only about 2 million merchant ships because of the existence of the Chinese Empire, and China's merchant tonnage accounted for 42% of the world's total tonnage, while Britain accounted for about 27%. In fact, the rapid development of the imperial merchant ship was also due to the resource protection policy proposed by Zuo Yu's cabinet, that is, to give priority to the mining of colonial minerals or the purchase of ores from other countries, and limited the exploitation of domestic mining for future generations. This policy greatly contributed to the development of the shipbuilding industry and the development of the colony.

Historically, in 1840, Britain's industrial output accounted for 47% of the world's total, and Britain's total merchandise exports accounted for 21% of the world's total trade, but with the rise of the empire, Britain's industrial output accounted for 23% of the world's total, and the total merchandise exports accounted for 19% of the world's total trade. The empire's industrial output accounted for 33% of the world's total, and merchandise exports accounted for 21% of the world's total trade. According to systematic statistics, in 1845, Britain's GDP accounted for 7.6% of the world's value, while the GDP of the Chinese Empire accounted for 19.2% of the world's value. It can be said that China has surpassed Britain in the economy, and the political system and judicial administration of the empire are far more advanced than those of Western European countries, and the only deficiency in the empire is that the ideology is not as emancipated as in later generations, after all, the premise of democracy and freedom like that of later generations is that the humiliating century has deeply awakened people's brains.

Railways are the tracks of trains, city railways and other means of transportation. Rail transport is a type of overland transportation in which a locomotive pulls a train on two parallel tracks. However, railway transportation in a broad sense still includes non-steel wheel travel methods such as maglev trains, cable cars, and cableways, or rail transportation. On September 27, 1825, the world's first railway was officially opened in the United Kingdom. On June 9, 1881, the Tangxu Railway was completed, which was the earliest railway in China. What is now China's first railway was the Tainan Railway, which was built in Tainan in 1832. Of course, it was built entirely with the help of the system at that time.

By 1845, the total mileage of the domestic railway has reached 23,000 kilometers, far exceeding the 6,000 kilometers of the British at the same time, of course, it is also caused by the large land area of China, and now the empire has built a network of three vertical and three horizontal railway trunk lines, plus the branch lines in the coastal areas to basically meet the needs of the development of the national economy, but has not stopped building, and the total mileage of the railway planned to be built in the next five years is as high as 10,000 kilometers, including a trunk line connecting Myanmar Province and North India Province and Lan Fong domestic trunk line connecting the east and west of Kalimantan Island.

Compared with the railway construction in full swing in China, the railway construction in the overseas colonies was relatively slow. In North America, the Governor of North America, Pang Lang, had just recently handed in a letter on the construction of a north-south trunk railway, and the Imperial Ministry of Railways sent a survey team led by the Minister of Railways to survey the terrain in North America. However, there is no railway in the East African territory, because Zheng Qi has built a complete road transportation system, which is still sufficient, but with the current development of East Africa, the road has reached saturation, and the railway is urgently needed to meet the development of East Africa.

In Zheng Qi's plan, the first thing to be built is the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway, which is a railway line connecting Addis Ababa, the capital of the Abyssinian region of the imperial protectorate in inland Africa, and Djibouti, the capital of Djibouti.

In order to make the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway possible, Zheng Qi sent divisions stationed in Djibouti to the interior in the name of military exercises, and the reason why Zheng Qi wanted to send troops was that Zheng Qi received information that King Menelik I of Shoa seemed to oppose the construction of the railway, and seemed to be interested in convening other principalities to discuss, as for what to discuss, only they themselves knew. And Saigo Takamori is also here, and this division is recruited from Mogadishu, most of them are Chinese immigrants, and the rest are black.

In fact, as the protectorate of the empire, Abyssinia can be said not to be under the absolute control of the empire, and it is not even the real protectorate of the empire. At that time, European countries did not doubt it, and European countries would not go inland to verify whether they were dependent on China.

This time, the mission of the 1st Division of the Foreign Legion, to which Saigo Takamori belonged, was to open the way for the railway survey team, and to suppress those unwilling countries along the way. The task of Saigo's 3rd Regiment was to maintain the logistics of the 1st and 2nd Regiments at the front, and although it was not a front-line combat mission, Saigo still completed his work without any scruples. Moreover, his colleagues in the army did not deliberately alienate or despise him because he was Japanese, which made him feel that life was extremely pleasant.

Although he was only in charge of logistics and transportation, Saigo still paid close attention to the situation around him, because the transportation was rudimentary, and the march of the 3rd Regiment was very slow.

In the vast wasteland, occasionally a herd of deer running in the distance, everything is so harmonious, but Saigo always has an ominous premonition, and he can't tell it, so he has to tell the head of the regiment to come to Hongbin.

Lai Hongbin looked at Xixiang and said with a smile: "Lieutenant, maybe this is your first mission, you are too nervous, you look at this beautiful East African scenery." Relax and unwind. ”

"But the head of the regiment, it's better to be careful!" Saigo said without giving up.

"Alright! The whole regiment was ordered to be on alert, the bullets were loaded, and the infantry in front slowed down to speed up the artillery behind, ready for battle at any time. ”

"Yes, Captain!" The deputy head of the group next to him replied loudly.

Sure enough, just as the soldiers were talking and laughing with their guns, there was a muffled thunderous sound from the north, and the sharp-eyed soldiers saw cavalry similar to a herd of bison moving towards them at high speed on the grassland to the north.

"There's cavalry to the north!" "There are cavalry!" ”

After all, it was a recruit who had just finished training, and most of them were scared and frightened in the face of the cavalry that wanted to be like a wave.

"Calm down, line up! Lined up! The scolds of the company commanders and platoon commanders came and went.

Under the reprimand of the commanders, the soldiers lined up the battle line, in the face of such a large-scale cavalry impact, it was too late to dig trenches, and now there was no invention of machine guns, and the cavalry still had a great advantage over the infantry, and Lai Hongbin could only let the whole regiment accumulate to form a firepower network.

"Let the artillery fire quickly!" Lai Hongbin yelled at the herald.

The Abyssinian cavalry was getting closer and closer, and Saigo Takamori was also standing with the soldiers with his gun, and seeing the young commander standing with him, the soldiers who were lined up in the battle line were no longer afraid.

"Bang! Boom! Bang "The artillery, which did not have time to establish a position, opened fire first.

For a while, the Abyssinian cavalry that was charging was blown up by the men and horses, and some of the horses were frightened and scurried around, but the number of artillery in a regiment was not enough for so many cavalry, although the cavalry suffered heavy casualties but could not stop their charge, looking at the Abyssinian cavalry that was getting closer and closer, Saigo did not pinch the sweat of his palms.

Just when the cavalry entered the effective range of the Type 1840 rifle, a platoon company commander gave the order, "Fire!" ”。

The crackling gunfire is like a firecracker during the Chinese New Year, continuous, and the three-stage arrangement ensures sufficient firepower.

The bows and arrows on the opposite cavalry of 200 meters, 100 meters, and 50 meters also began to shoot over, and gradually the soldiers of the third regiment also suffered casualties, and some black soldiers began to collapse in the face of the cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and the Chinese soldiers were also afraid, but they did not drop their weapons and turned to flee.

At a distance of a hundred meters, it took less than ten seconds, and the soldiers of the 3rd Regiment alternated their bayonets and prepared for hand-to-hand combat, and the artillerymen stopped firing and prepared their rifles.

The Abyssinian cavalry let out a strange cry of wah wow, and soon the cavalry rushed into the infantry battle line, and the strong impact caused a large number of casualties in the third regiment, but the cavalry without the impact was a live target in Saigo's eyes, and he flexibly raised his gun to shoot in the human push, and the long-haired Abyssinian cavalry fell off their horses one after another, and some of the infantry next to them also learned to shoot with rifles. "Come in a circle," Saigo kept shouting. Soon, the soldiers of the third regiment formed a circle of about a dozen people, and as soon as the enemy approached, the rifles in their hands were killed, maybe one might miss, but after a circle, at least two infantry would fire at the enemy at the same time, and the Abyssinian cavalry could only inflict damage on the soldiers of the third regiment with their spears, and more and more Abyssinian cavalry fell from their horses.

It was a cavalryman who seemed to be the leader roared, and the Abyssinian cavalry turned the dock away from the battlefield

Looking at the cavalry running farther and farther away, the surviving soldiers raised their rifles in their hands and cheered loudly.

When the statistics were made after the war, Saigo learned that the third regiment suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and in the end, less than 300 people remained of more than 1,000 people in the whole regiment, all the artillery was destroyed, the deputy regiment commander was also killed in battle, and the regiment commander Lai Hongbin had an arm cut off. However, the results of the battle were also brilliant, according to statistics, the corpses of those indigenous blacks on the battlefield were about 2,000 people, and the killing and wounding of nearly three times the enemy also made the Third Regiment famous.

But now Saigo finally had to temporarily act as the head of the regiment and send someone to contact the headquarters behind the first and second regiments in front -

The 3rd Regiment had to withdraw to the city of Acaita, while the 1st and 2nd Regiments were attacked as they reached Morale and Nazret but were annihilated by the two regiments that had been prepared.

When the two regiments arrived outside Addis Ababa, Menelik I and the other principality kings respectfully greeted them outside the city, and then Zheng Qi personally arrived in Addis Ababa within a week, Menelik I said that those attacks were completely the private actions of several small countries, and they were willing to hand over the murderers, of course, Zheng Qi would not give up easily, under Zheng Qi's angry condemnation and coercion, the various kingdoms of Abyssinia were forced to "voluntarily" sign a protection agreement, and the empire officially included Ethiopia in the imperial colonization. And Abyssinia officially entered the dark era of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

Yesterday I was absent from school and overslept, and I can't live in the late shift, but I will add it today