Arriving at the office building of the National Security Council by car, the secretary Pan Pu opened the car door for Bai Nan, and Bai Nan stepped out of the car. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 A handsome-looking young man in the info foyer walked over, bowed slightly to Bai Nan, and said, "Hello, chairman, I am your new assistant, Qi Yuan." Please advise. ”

Bai Nanduo glanced at this young man a few times, he was a little lower than himself, he should be about 1.75 meters, not burly, not thin, and well-proportioned. The skin is very fair, the smile is a little creamy, and there is no military aura on his body, it looks like he should have come from the civil service path. But Bai Nan was surprised by his youth, he knew very well that the reason why he was assigned an assistant was because after he took over as president next year, his affairs would become heavy, and it was not enough to just wait for a few secretaries such as Pan Pu, but also needed an assistant who could help him take care of his official and private affairs.

Zhao Daling's presidential assistant has served three terms before and after, and the current one is a civil servant who is not a few years younger than Bai Nan, who is very capable, talented and knowledgeable. After Zhao Daling retired, this assistant will go directly to British Columbia as the deputy governor, which shows the high-end of the position of presidential assistant. And Bai Nan didn't think that the young man in front of him looked like he was over thirty years old. Naturally, ambition is not old, Bai Nan was not yet thirty years old, and he was already stirring up trouble in Datang.

Bai Nan boasted of his amazing memory, and he could basically remember the second-generation members of the Tang State Political Yuan and the high-level leaders of the National Revolutionary Party, and there was no such person as Qi Yuan in it. This guy with no background. How did you climb to the position of assistant in one step? Bai Nan remained silent. I'm going to go back and check the details of this wish.

Qi Yuan's face was full of honest smiles, he looked at Bai Nan with a serious look as if nothing happened, but in his heart, he was very aware of Bai Nan's thoughts, but he didn't break it. In fact, even if Bai Nan wanted to investigate, he couldn't find out too many nutritious things, and with his ability, it was absolutely easy to find an identity in the Tang government. And Bai Nan has too many things, and he may not spend a lot of time for him.

Bai Nam enters the office of the National Security Council. Pan Pu prepared all kinds of materials for him, and at the same time reported to him: "Judging from the situation we have summarized, even if the Qing court does not want to use troops against the Xishan Dynasty, Ruan Hui is also ready to send troops, Ruan Hui has prepared 50,000 elite soldiers, and after defeating Ruan Fuying before, he also got a batch of weapons made by our Tang Dynasty, and his strength is also good." Nguyen Hue had already begun to disguise his troops as bandits and harass the border areas of Guangxi, and some residents were harmed. Emperor Jiaqing was furious and had already instructed Sun Shiyi, the general of the southwest. Rectify the new army of Guangxi and Guangzhou, and prepare for battle. At the same time, the warships of the Nanyang Naval Division were ordered to be dispatched. Water and land concurrently, attacking Annam. ”

"So, doesn't Jiaqing want to mobilize the Wu Wei Army or the Wu Yi Army this time?" Bai Nan asked with interest.

Pan Pudao: "That's the case, in last year's Battle of Gurkha, Jiaqing should have seen that the system of the Wuwei Army and the Wu Yi Army had basically nothing to do with the Qing court, and on the way back, he also followed the Philippines, and completely lost trust in the Wu Wei Army and the Wu Yi Army." Moreover, in the Qing court's latest military rearmament plan, it hoped to further expand the number of personnel in its Praetorian Guard and increase the degree of new armament in various places. This time, the direct order of the new army in the southwest to fight is also a test of the combat effectiveness of the new army for so many years. ”

Bai Nan basically agrees with Pan Pu's analysis, in fact, the Qing court's distrust of the Tang Dynasty has been increasing day by day. A faction of officials in the Qing court advocated friendship between the Qing and Tang dynasties and shared peace; The other faction believes that Tang Fang's heart is unpredictable, and sooner or later it will be unfavorable to the Qing Dynasty, and it must be guarded against. Even if no one explicitly proposed to take action against the Tang Dynasty, only Bai Nan knew that every year, no less than twenty pieces of planning how to expel the Tang troops stationed in the Qing Dynasty were sent to Jiaqing's desk.

Not only did the Qing court plan to strengthen its own strength, but it also planned to strengthen its own strength in the Qing Dynasty, so as to pave the way for a better takeover of this huge empire in the future. The Wuwei Army and Wuyi Army system, which are supported and commanded by the Tang Dynasty, have maintained a scale of about 30,000 people since their establishment. In recent years, the Tang Dynasty has had the intention of strengthening the Wuwei Army and the Wuyi Army, but the Qing court has been biting on this matter and does not want the Wuwei Army and the Wuyi Army to further expand their scale

Originally, the Tang Army's troops stationed in the Qing Dynasty totaled about 30,000 people, and the Tang Army was well-equipped and had strong combat effectiveness, which was deeply feared by the Qing Army. If the Wuwei Army and the Wuyi Army, which are in the nature of servant armies, are strengthened separately, then the Qing court will really be uneasy. Although the Qing army has more than 600,000 troops on the scale, it is distributed in various places, and a single area is not advantageous in the face of the combination of the Tang Army and the Wuwei Army and the Wuyi Army, so the Qing court is desperately trying to strengthen its own military strength, and if it can overpower the Tang Army, how can the Wuwei Army and the Wuyi Army continue to expand.

In recent years, the amount of weapons purchased by the Qing court's military department from the Tang Dynasty has increased year after year, and the cumulative purchase volume of various types of rifles has exceeded 400,000, and there are no less than 500 artillery pieces of various calibers.

Among them, because there are two brigades of the Tang Army stationed in the southwest and a part of the Wuyi Army, the strengthening of the new army in the southwest is a key direction of the Qing court. During this period, the more than 100,000 troops of the Southwest New Army had completed the basic firearms, equipped with the old-fashioned SC-2 paper-shell rifle, to the latest Datang export version of the SC-3 metal fixed-loading rifle, and also practiced some semi-modern and unmodern skirmish tactics, so the strength was not weak.

However, the Qing Army's Southwest Military Region was responsible for the defense of Guangzhou, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Tibet, and although there were more than 100,000 people, there were not many people in such a large area. At present, there are about 70,000 new troops in the southwest of Liangguang, which is still insufficient in terms of scale compared with the strength in the hands of Nguyen Hue, if Nguyen Hue really invades the city in a big way, then the Qing court is bound to draw troops from other regions to defend, and if there is a plan to counterattack Annam, the Qing army needs to mobilize at least 200,000 troops to fight against the Tay Son Dynasty. In this way, the scale of the war will be larger than the previous battle of Gorkha. (To be continued.) )