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Before Lin Haijiang's words fell, Xu Guangyuan, who was standing among the generals in Beiyang, helped Li Xubin and said loudly: "Don't you want our brother to give you his life if you say so much?" And then you yourself became emperor? You are Sima Zhao's heart and everyone knows it! ”

Zuo Zongtang glanced at Xu Guangyuan and Li Xubin, but he was speechless, the senior officers of the Chinese Empire didn't do it, and some people actually took out their pistols, Lin Haijiang's eyes glared and said: "Presumptuous!" ”

Then Lin Haijiang smiled and said: "You are Li Xubin, he is Xu Guangyuan, one of you is a fierce general of the Hunan army, and the other is a student studying in England, in fact, the best thing in Britain is naval technology, go to Britain to learn army tactics, and then let the Russians train you when you come back, the army in Beiyang is a four-like!" The Russians, whether it is industrial or technological development, or mechanical manufacturing, are the last in Europe! In terms of the population is even worse than that of China, you must wonder why the Russians dare to appear as greedy as polar bears, right? That's shameless for them! ”

Hahaha! Not only the officers of the Chinese Empire laughed, but even the generals of the Beiyang also laughed, they had a lot of contact with Russians, and they naturally knew what kind of surname the Russians were, but they didn't expect Lin Haijiang, a dignified head of the Chinese Empire, to scold him? This is very much in line with their temper. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Lin Haijiang pointed at Xu Guangyuan and said, "Just now you said that I shouldn't say so much, do you want your Beiyang generals to give me their lives?" And then I myself became emperor? Am I Sima Zhao's heart is a trick that everyone knows? I'm telling you now, my purpose is what you say! But I ask you to remember that you are not working hard for me Lin Haijiang, you are working hard for China, for the inheritance of China, for this nation with a long and splendid history, and simply put, for the people of the whole world! ”

Lin Haijiang paused for a moment and continued: "Saying that I am the emperor, I will never admit it, when China is unified, the struggle for hegemony with the great powers is over, I am old, and my energy is not good, the Imperial House of Representatives and senators and all citizens will be elected, and all the people will elect the next head of state, and my position as head of state will never be passed on to my son, my son will also join the army when he grows up in the future, and he will also go to the front line to start as an ordinary soldier, he will not enjoy a trace of privilege because it is my Lin Haijiang's son, The only power he has is to defend this nascent country, to defend his rights and duties as a citizen of the Chinese Empire! This is the Chinese empire in front of your eyes, making half the world tremble and collapse under our cannons! Restoring the territory of the Tang and Han dynasties is the goal that I Lin Haijiang must accomplish in my life, no matter how much sacrifice and price I pay! ”

The generals of Beiyang have been completely stunned by the madman in front of them! For the first time, they heard that Lao Tzu was the emperor, and the position was not given to the son, but what did they want to elect? Everything Lin Haijiang said was too new and shocking for them!

Lin Haijiang looked around at the crowd: "As long as I am a person in the Chinese Empire who can do his best for the people and die, if you are eager to make great achievements in war, to leave a name in history, and to live for generations!" The door of the Chinese Empire will always be open to you, but our Chinese Empire will never allow all kinds of old customs and customs, I have millions of soldiers under my command, I can guarantee that no one embezzles a dollar of military salary, I can solemnly tell you that those who join the Chinese Empire will be the elite of the elite, and in the future they will seize colonies for the whole country in the world, seize living space, and let our people have countless land and wealth, which is the mission and duty of soldiers. Is it not to be used by some people to make worthless sacrifices, to serve the public and go down in history, or to accompany the funeral of the decaying Qing Dynasty? The choice is yours, but I must reiterate that we only want the elite and the elite! ”

Lin Haijiang left, but the generals of Beiyang were still standing in place, everyone's hearts were like overturning the five-flavor bottle, Xu Guangyuan looked at Li Xubin, Li Xubin looked at Xu Guangyuan, the two of them didn't expect a sentence to lead to such a long speech by Lin Haijiang!

Where do we go from here? The generals of Beiyang also have their own opinions in their hearts, Lin Haijiang's demagogy is still a little immature for Zuo Zongtang, but Zuo Zongtang also admitted that he was indeed instigated, what is the concept of restoring the territory of the Tang and Han dynasties? How many battles does that have to be fought? The general died in a hundred battles, why bother with the horse leather shroud? Zuo Zongtang was a little excited, he knew very well that he still had a mission on his shoulders, that is, to return to Beijing to receive his death! This is the last task given to him by Zeng Guofan, after completing this task, even if he repays Zeng Guofan's kindness, perhaps the most difficult thing in the ages is to die!

After Lin Haijiang returned to Nanling, he immediately deployed the Intelligence Headquarters to send agents to escort Zuo Zongtang and secretly contact his family to escort his family to Guangzhou.

For the Beiyang New Army, Lin Haijiang planned to temporarily only educate the soldiers for six months, and then disperse and supplement the various units for intensive training, while the officers first carried out rectification and training, and then took them to visit the people's livelihood and weapons factories, steel mills, shipyards, and overseas provinces in batches throughout the empire.

Lin Haijiang's arrangement made nearly sixty percent of the young Beiyang officers, including Li Xubin, Xu Guangyuan and others, stay, and they wanted to take a good look at what kind of opponent they had lost to?

However, Lin Haijiang couldn't wait to convene a meeting of the provisional cabinet of the empire in Nanjing, where Zhang Yunji, Li Anmin, Li Haibo, Hu Weimin, Zhang Xiatong, Fu Shanxiang, Jia Wuji, Gao Qi, Zhang Zheng, Liu Quansi, Xu Dawei, Zheng Zhipeng and other representatives of all aspects of the empire gathered together.

After listening to the reports from all sides, Lin Haijiang also realized that the empire has now basically become the end of the strong crossbow, although the northern expedition of the army is very tempting to directly attack the Yellow Dragon, but if the large-scale recovery is carried out rashly, the empire's economy can not bear the overall military expenditure and the reconstruction and assistance of the recovered area, so the overall strategy of developing the economy first, building the south of the Yangtze River, sending troops to cross the river and advance to the Shandong coast, setting up the campaign launch point, and establishing the base city for attacking the advance has been formulated.

When they heard that the Führer was determined to use three years to develop the economy and build the region, and then unify China in one fell swoop, the participants could be said to have breathed a sigh of relief, although the current situation in the empire was very good, and the recovery of the whole country and the elimination of the Manchu Qing were just around the corner, but the foundation of the empire was not solid, even if the whole country was recovered, it could only be said that it had brought more chaos, and the empire's talent reserve was also facing a serious shortage, and the domestic situation and the local people's situation were very complicated, so Lin Haijiang finally slowed down the implementation of the overall military strategy.

Lin Haijiang also had a very important thing to do, that is, in March 1863, he would rush to Paris, France to attend the enthronement ceremony of Kaiser Wilhelm I.

Lin Haijiang knew that the round-trip time required for the entire voyage was close to half a year, so all the work of the empire must be arranged in an orderly manner, and the Russians would definitely not give up after suffering a big loss, and as for the Qing court, I am afraid that it is more powerless!

However, the accession to the throne of Kaiser Wilhelm I stimulated Lin Haijiang greatly, especially the indemnity of five billion francs made him extremely angry, Lin Haijiang knew very well that Germany in the mid-nineteenth century was still dominated by agriculture, and more than 40 percent of the population was still engaged in agricultural production during 1852, although as early as 1834 the German region had formed a customs union to eliminate tariffs between states and promote economic development, but the development has been slow.

With the large number of orders from the Chinese Empire, Prussia's economy began to develop rapidly, coupled with the large amount of reparations received after the Franco-Prussian War, and Bismarck's full efforts to implement the industrial revolution in Prussia, which would make Germany's economy grow by leaps and bounds.

Germany has the iron-blooded chancellor Bismarck, and who does he have? It seems that no one can have Bismarck's courage and courage, whether it is Li Anmin, Hu Weimin or Zhang Yunji!

The first thing after returning to Guangzhou, Lin Haijiang found the Admiralty Li Haibo to come to the Imperial Navy's shipbuilding plan, opened the file and looked at the shipbuilding plan in front of him, and the three shipyards with 30,000 tons of docks in Hainan, Guangzhou, and the Imperial Fortress were to start construction in May 1863, building six Zhenyuan-class battleships with a standard displacement of 11,000 tons, and four honorary-class heavy cruisers.

Lin Haijiang knew that looking at the plan was indeed a big deal, and at this moment, the empire's finances, technical reserves, and other aspects could bear it, but Lin Haijiang was very worried that the navy's move would lead the empire into an optimistic blind obedience, blind leap forward production stage, and the goal of doubling steel production in five years proposed by the Ministry of Engineering seemed to be related to the navy's shipbuilding plan.

At present, the current Chinese Empire has completely occupied the south of the Yangtze River, when to send troops to the north is just an order of Lin Haijiang, at that time, hundreds of battles will be contended, several battlefields at the same time, completely end the rule of the Qing Dynasty in China, Lin Haijiang knows through intelligence that the Qing court has recently gone very close to the Russians, since the elimination of Veledovsky's 200,000 troops, although the Russians sent about 300,000 reinforcements, but these troops seem to be in Heilongjiang, and the Qing court played a scoundrel.

The Qing court, which lacked sufficient strength, also regretted the Russians' lack of trust, and it was not so much a knife to kill people before, but this time it led a wolf into the house and suffered from it!

For the sake of all aspects of this trip, but also to demonstrate the national prestige, Lin Haijiang decided to combine the battleships Zhenyuan and Dingyuan with the heavy cruisers Yanjing, Suzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Jinan, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Fuzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Changsha, Xining, Lanzhou, Quanzhou, Seventeen warships, including the heavy cruiser Nanchang, formed the visiting fleet, and the 1st Brigade of the Marine Corps, as well as the honor guard and gendarmerie brigade of the Imperial Command, traveled with the ships!

(To be continued)