During the First World War, almost every country had a very fatal problem.

The problem of the British Empire is arrogance, if it were not arrogant, they would not have been involved in this war at all, and there would not even be the outbreak of World War I, and Song Biao's answer to the loss of the British Empire from the position of world hegemon was only two words - deserved.

Just as Churchill replied so brutally at the Cairo Conference in 1943 to Chiang Chung-cheng's question about the return of Hong Kong -- he did not want to take anything from the British Empire without going to war.

Well, since this is the case, then Song Biao's answer is that there will definitely be a real big war waiting for the nobles of the British Empire between China and Britain.

Now that I think about it, what a huge concession the British are willing to give up the Shanghai Concession and return the customs rights to China, at least in their own opinion, the Chinese should be grateful to the British Empire for a lifetime, especially on the issue of Tibetan Province, and the Chinese who do not make concessions to the British Empire are as dirty and shameful as rats in the sewers, simply the most incomprehensible ignorant race in the world, and they are not worthy of living on the same earth as humans and Anglo-Saxons.

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Germany's problem was supply.

At the same time, Germany was not worried about the problem of troops, but only worried about the shortage of supplies, especially after the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War, the German army attached great importance to light and heavy machine guns, and the premature large-scale use of submachine guns, which would give the German army a great advantage in the early stage, and in the later stage, with the smooth advance of the offensive leading to the elongation of the battle line, the supply problem would further become more difficult.

Supply, this is the Achilles heel of the German army in World War I.

Many people think that the German army in World War I was at stake, and they can't figure out why the German army lost, but in fact, the reason is very simple, there was such an important sentence in the ancient Chinese military -- the three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

In modern military affairs, supplies can't keep up, and everything can't keep up.

At this time, the German army was almost World War II in terms of weapons and equipment, but the supply was still in the Franco-Prussian War, and the shortcomings of inflexibility also made it impossible for the German army to break through the restrictions of traditional military establishment and baggage transportation on a large scale like the Northeast Army.

It is not that the Northeast Army is stronger than the German army at this time, which is basically unlikely, otherwise Song Biao would have sent troops to directly participate in the European war.

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The problem of France is fantasyism, fantasy dependence on other countries, unrealistic, France has always been a creative country, just without the down-to-earth logical surname of the Germans.

Russia's problem is that the quality is low, from the top to the bottom, from the commander to the soldiers, they lack enough quality to compete with the German army, and can only rely on numerical superiority to win, and the more the number, the more difficult it is to spend on military spending and material supply, and the greater the pressure of war at home.

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After the outbreak of the First World War, Song Biao's influence on the world gradually showed itself, on the one hand, the German army relied on its tactical and equipment advantages to tear apart the Anglo-French defense line in the breakthrough battle of the Marne River defense line, but the Anglo-French army continued to organize defensive lines in Compiègne and Laon to block the German army; On the other hand, Song Biao's former subordinates and superiors were heavily used in the Tsarist Empire, with Admiral Brusilov appointed as the supreme commander of the front, and the chief of staff he selected was Alexandrovich. Lieutenant General Neznamov.

The Germans won successive victories on the Western Front, but on the Eastern Front, the Russian army also quickly broke through the defensive lines of the Germans and the Austro-Hungarian coalition forces, forcing the Germans to transfer their reserves to the Eastern Front, delaying the further German offensive on the Western Front.

With the establishment of the French Army Chief of General Staff Chauffeur in charge of the French Wartime Commission, French industry and economy ...... Everything is beginning to serve the war, and the various obstacles in the military trade between China and France have finally been broken through in an instant, and a large number of guns, ammunition and artillery hoarded by Xinhua Company have been continuously shipped to France, and the major arsenals and related enterprises of the empire have begun to operate at full capacity.

The Far East Company even marketed to the French wartime committee a very special means of transport, the agricultural four-wheeler, which was to add a cargo compartment behind the walk-behind tractor, a very simple setup, but it could provide a very reliable transport vehicle in wartime, and it was inexpensive, easy to operate, and only required simple training to drive.

Chinese are naturally very good at business.

Although the British Empire did not believe in the level of Chinese industry, in the eyes of the arrogant British, Chinese was still an ignorant, backward and ignorant waste country that even had to import matches, but the Jiangnan Company adopted a very preferential sales policy, and the British War Department only needed a 10% deposit to buy 70,000 Jiangnan rifles in stock, and of course 7.7mm caliber Shenyang rifles.

After the British bought these 70,000 Jiangnan rifles, because the bolt structure was roughly the same as the Lee Enfield rifle, it was named MK.4, and the effect of using it in the army was actually very good, although the manufacturing process was much rougher than that of the British goods, and it was a little clumsy, but it was very durable, safe and reliable, and even in the dirtiest environment, it could shoot back at the opponent at any time, and there was almost no problem of jamming.

As a result, the British market was also opened.

At the outbreak of the First World War, although there were still a large number of countries that did not participate in the war, in order to avoid the spread of the war, they also needed to produce and purchase weapons in large quantities, and increase military strength in case of emergency, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania and the Ottoman Empire, which had not yet joined the Allied camp, all purchased a large amount of arms from China, and even Italy in the Allied camp, China also exported arms through other channels.

By the end of 1914, the Xinhua Company had not only sold off a large number of arms it had hoarded in the previous two years at a high price, but also urgently produced 1.3 million Shenyang rifles, more than 4,000 imitation Mauser field guns, 88mm field guns, and 105mm light field guns, and produced 6.5 million tons of smokeless gunpowder and 7.84 million tons of nitro explosives and black explosives.

Except for the export of special commodities such as soybeans, raw silk, and tea, the empire's economy as a whole was relatively closed to foreign countries, and the impact of the trade collapse caused by the international war was smaller than that of a world trading power like the United States in the early days.

In order to make money, the Far Eastern Arms Corporation even exported 105mm and 120mm caliber mortars, except for the new semi-automatic rifles temporarily restricted by the empire, there were almost no export restrictions, especially in the state of stagnation of German foreign trade, the oil industry in the three eastern provinces suddenly found a very broad market, although the quality of the products is far from comparable with German goods, but at least it is cheaper, and it is the best substitute.

Under the protection of the wartime alliance policy, the textile industry of the empire broke through the protection of the British and French colonies, sold goods to these markets in large quantities, and took advantage of the gap in European products to occupy new markets significantly.

From the second half of 1914 to the first half of 1915, the production capacity of the textile industry in China, India, and the city more than doubled, and the total number of spindles in China surged from 6.8 million spindles to 14 million spindles.

After waiting for many years, China finally made a war fortune.

In 1915, when the empire's economy entered the stage of war prosperity, the empire also resolutely fulfilled the Sino-French alliance treaty, and with the cooperation of the French Asian fleet, attacked Germany's colonies in East Asia, occupied German New Guinea and the Caroline Islands, and occupied the Northern Mariana Islands after the declaration of war on Germany.

In order to consolidate this gain, the empire built light armored cruisers with a displacement of 4,000 tons at the same time at the only three major shipyards in Jinzhou, Jiangnan and Fuzhou, and only ordered some steam turbines in the United States and built some three-expansion reciprocating steam engines by itself.

In July 1915, after reaching an agreement with France on the Sino-Vietnamese and Sino-Laos border negotiations, the Reich kept its promise and sent six infantry divisions and the Central Expeditionary Fleet to the German colonies in Africa, and at the same time sent 200,000 army expeditionary forces to France to officially participate in the European War.

Throughout the First World War, with the number of belligerents assembling submachine guns more, the tug-of-war on various fronts has become more intense and crazy, each other's tactical level and theory are rapidly improving, and the equipment update is also accelerating, France after a period of struggle, officially determined that the 7.62 * 54F rifle cartridge is the standard rifle bullet, based on this to absorb part of the design of the Shenyang rifle to improve the Betier rifle, named the MLE1907 \ 15 rifle, due to the domestic rifle production can not keep up, It is also a large number of Shenyang rifles imported from China that use the same kind of bullets.

The Chinese are very good at doing business, and in order to actively promote weapons, they even set up a buy-back clause in the sale of firearms, and as long as France wants, they can sell some old guns back to China at a low price after the war.

Although it was more in the interests of the country that the empire did not participate in the European war, in order to maintain the honor of the empire and abide by the "Sino-French Military Alliance Entente", by September 1915, the number of troops sent abroad had also reached 370,000, and military service was increased throughout the country.

The Imperial Navy also increased its displacement to 220,000 tons, sent the Central Expeditionary Fleet to participate in anti-submarine and patrol work in the Atlantic, and cooperated with the British and French navies to annihilate the German Navy.

The prosperity of the war was more large-scale in China and the United States, and the 175 national industrial plans and the upgrading of the industrial base in the northeast coincided with a good time, and in the stage of stagnation and regression in Europe, the empire used the foreign exchange earned from the war in Europe to continue to purchase machinery and equipment from the United States, increase industrial capacity, carry out large-scale power projects, and continue to actively build railways in the country.

Relying on this war prosperity, the empire achieved a huge economic growth of more than 13% in 1914 and 1915, coupled with the unstoppable appreciation of silver in wartime, the empire's GDP in 1915 had exceeded 3.3 billion pounds in terms of data, and the emperor [***] The total fixed assets of industry swelled from £74 million in 1914 to £120 million, and with the great outflow of European population, the number of expatriates in the special districts and open coastal cities of the empire increased, and the number of specialists employed in the bureaus of foreign experts in the various cabinet departments of the empire also proliferated.

It was on the basis of absorbing the talents of the shipbuilding industry of Britain and France that the empire began to have a larger-scale shipbuilding capacity in 1915, and completed the self-construction of high-power reciprocating steam engines and medium- and medium-power steam turbines.

By World War I, the Chinese Empire was already destined to become the largest beneficiary after the United States.

At this time, the biggest problem for China was how to concentrate domestic forces to eliminate the Ma Jiajun entrenched in the northwest, and the problem of stabilizing the currency, as the exchange rate of silver in the international market continued to rise, even if the empire continued to sell silver reserves, this increase could not be effectively stopped.

From the second half of 1915, the empire began to discuss the issue of abandoning the silver standard, but the empire itself was the world's largest silver circulation, and even with the implementation of the national silver reserve and precious metal control system, the domestic private silver circulation still accounted for 40% of the international market.

If the empire announced its withdrawal from the silver standard and the price of silver plummeted, it was possible that all the benefits of the empire in the war would disappear, and the total wealth of the people from the state to the people would decline significantly.

After careful deliberation, the central bank finally decided to adopt a more prudent financial policy, while continuing to replace silver reserves in the international market with gold, while issuing a large number of gold yuan bills to recycle silver yuan in the country, reducing the total amount of silver in circulation, and on the other hand, it will continue to maintain the stability of the central silver reserves, even after adopting the gold standard, the empire will still maintain a huge amount of world silver reserves to ensure the stability of silver prices.

After many cabinet discussions, on October 10, 1915, the Reich's Central National Bank announced the adoption of the gold standard, and at the same time promised to continue to maintain the existing central silver reserves, China is the largest silver standard country in the world, and is also one of the two major driving forces for the continuous rise in silver prices, as the Reich abandoned the silver standard, the international silver price then plummeted from 24.3 (24.3 grams per 1 gram of gold) to 27.5 in two weeks, back to the level before the official outbreak of World War I.

The Reichsbank then bought some of its silver reserves, which stabilized over the next few months, with roughly equal longs and shorts.

With the empire steadily transitioning to the gold standard, maintaining 1,350 tons of gold and more than 115 million taels of silver in the Central Reserve Board, and transforming from Asia's largest debtor to creditor, Song Biao finally decided to send troops to wipe out the Majia army in the northwest and completely wipe out the last local forces in the country.

Another very important reason why Song Biao decided to send troops at this time was that the Sichuan Railway had also been built from Chengdu to Tianshui, and it had two supply lines for the railway, so that the Central Military Department would have a larger supply capacity in the process of exterminating the Ma Jiajun.

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In December 1915, the Russian army encountered a full-scale attack by the main force of the German army on the Polish battlefield, and was completely defeated, losing more than 1.5 million troops, but Britain and France purchased a large number of weapons and equipment from China and the United States, and only purchased as many as 33,000 Popnin light machine guns and Browning light machine guns and 770,000 rifles from the Far East Weapons Corporation, taking the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive on the German Western Front, forcing the German army to redeploy the main force to attack Britain and France.

The situation in Europe is unpredictable and unpredictable.

At this moment, Song Biao, accompanied by the newly appointed deputy chief of the general staff, Cai Yi, quietly arrived in Xi'an, and the location of the military headquarters of the Northwest Military Headquarters was in Xianyang County, not in the city of Xi'an.

In such a year, Xianyang is just an inconspicuous small county town, and the Northwest Military Headquarters succumbs to it, but it also has advantages, because it is far away from a city like Xi'an and it is extremely secluded, and there is no need to worry about the leakage of military secrets and the disturbance of military exercises.

It was here that Duan Qirui served as commander of the Northwest Military Region for five years, but he is not expected to stay longer.

Although Xianyang is a small county town, it is the place with the most royal tombs, the famous Maoling and Huo Quai's tomb are here, after arriving in Xianyang, Song Biao went to Maoling accompanied by Duan Qirui and Cai Yi and others.

At this time, the stone carvings in front of Maoling and Huo Quai's tomb are still well preserved, but it is said that they have been stolen inside.

Whether it was stolen or not, Song Biao didn't care too much.

There are large mounds of earth piled up on these two tombs, and the Maoling one is close to fifty meters high, and Song Biao has no scruples, so the surname Suo and Duan Qirui climbed to the top of the Maoling slope together, looking down on the surrounding scenery, and overlooking the northwest and the distant Huo Qubing tomb.

It was early winter, and the north wind was bitterly cold.

Song Biao was wearing the military uniform and tweed coat of the generalissimo of the empire, with a cloak on his shoulders, holding a saber and looking at the northwest, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart, Cai Yi and the first-class internal attendants Zhang Futian and Han Linchun were all accompanied, and Duan Qirui was slightly to the left, only three or four steps away.

After chanting for a long time, Song Biao's literary talent was limited, and he really couldn't use poetry to express the emotion in his heart, so he laughed at himself with Cai Yi and them: "Widows, widows, they are all widows, I hope that after my death, the widow will not be like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who was robbed of the tomb." ”

Hearing this, everyone laughed a few times, laughed for a while and then felt wrong, it sounded like a joke, maybe not.

Seeing everyone's solemn expressions, Song Biao comforted them: "Don't take it seriously, I'm joking, in the future, find a good location in the Fangshan area to build an imperial cemetery, and we will sell it there after we die. I even left the saber in the museum for posterity to see, and I just wore a military uniform and threw it in the coffin. ”

Duan Qirui always felt that something was not right when he heard this, so he said: "Your Majesty, it is still based on the national rites, and it is not good to be buried too thinly, although this matter is at least a hundred years later." ”

Song Biao waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about it, after a hundred years, if we can live for another fifty years, it will be considered a long life." The rejuvenation of the empire and the rejuvenation of the nation, it is better over there, otherwise it is like Li Hongzhang who lives a long life, it is better to die ten years early, ten years early is the hero of the nation, the meritorious service of China's coastal defense, and ten years late death is the scum of the nation and the culprit of China's coastal defense. As for the issue of thin burials and thick burials, everything must keep pace with the times, and there is no point in doing anything. I insist on cremation, don't scatter after cremation, I can't afford to lose that person, just bury a box and put it in the tomb, save trouble, lest the empire fall in the future, and another grandson will dig my old grave. ”

Cai Ye could only persuade: "Your Majesty, you are really thinking too much, you are the hope of China's rejuvenation, the hero of the nation, even if it is 10,000 years later, the descendants of all generations are grateful to Dade, how dare you make a mistake?" ”

Song Biao pointed to his feet and asked, "Is this master a national hero, is he a real Han emperor?" Among the emperors of the Han Dynasty, the exploits of this master are something that I can't catch up with. What about you, even if you chase again, how can you catch up with Huo Quai? Of course, you still have to strive to be the general of the empire, and I also have to strive to be the second Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, only in this way can we have the courage to say loudly, those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Huo Qubing shouted out, that is because they have this strength, what about us, we can't even take back Hong Kong at the door, although it is far away, it will be punished, to put it mildly, we are not as good as Huo Quai, let alone Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. As for the literati who said that they brought disaster to the country and the people, affected the people, and used military force to recklessly...... It's all fucking bullshit, nonsense, without the exploits of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty back then, the Han people don't know how many times they have been killed, and they still have to wait until the time of the five nonsense? Having said that, back then, I had to unify all places and leave no local forces, what was the reason, wasn't it afraid that Wuhu Chaohua would come again? If you really want the forces of various places to grab land together in a mess, like the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasty, the civil strife will continue, and the country's strength will not improve, and in the end it can only be bullied and slaughtered by countries like Yuben, Britain, and Russia. The British say that power is justice, this is a good thing, we are not convinced now, it doesn't matter, as long as we unite and continue to struggle, no one will engage in civil strife and small actions, one day, we will dare to say to the British, sorry for you, this is not power is justice, the lord will bully you, what can you do? ”

Listening to the emperor's words, everyone felt a lot of emotion in their hearts, especially Duan Qirui, he didn't know if he was too careful, or it was true, he always felt that the emperor's words were meant for him, but he really didn't make any small moves over the years, and even persuaded Liang Shiyi and others to toss less.

Song Biao really didn't mean to point to Duan Qirui, he really felt it, and with a long sigh, he waved his hand and said: "Everyone, let's give Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty some respect, go down, pay a formal respect, and then pay homage to General Huo Quai, and protect this place well in the future, so that future generations will also have the opportunity to come and see the two real heroes of the Chinese nation and our Han nationality." ”

Cai Yi and the others nodded silently together, and then accompanied Song Biao down the dirt slope of Maoling, prepared a simple worship ceremony and incense below, and then went to Huo Quai's tomb to worship, praying that the military god of the Han Dynasty would bless the Central Defense Force to calm the chaos and thieves and bless China.

After paying homage to Maoling, Song Biao and his entourage returned to the headquarters of the Northwest Military Headquarters, and laid out the maps, materials, and intelligence in the conference room of the military headquarters to discuss the strategic planning of the Western Expedition.

In China's modern history, the Northwest Ma Jiajun is a very special local armed force, with religion, region, and clan as the link, crisscrossing the northwest, occupying most of the three provinces of Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Xinjiang, even when the empire was so prosperous, Long Jiguang and Lu Rongting were easily bulldozed, and the position of the Ma Jiajun was still solid.

At this time, the Ma Jiajun was not as strong as it was later, and it was not very difficult to exterminate it.

If you only talk about strength, Song Biao has always been able to exterminate the Northwest Ma Jiajun at any time, but he has been facing a special international environment for a long time, and he also hopes to concentrate time as soon as possible to stabilize the country, govern the provinces, implement the empire's transformation strategy and industrial plan, and also consider the special ethnic and religious problems in the northwest, so he did not deal with the Northwest Ma Jiajun, and left Ganningqing and Xinjiang Province to his own devices, and did not forcibly implement political reform.

In order to retain the proper surnames of the subsequent encirclement and suppression, Song Biao did not even appoint these local warlords with real power in Ma Jiajun as official officials, but only symbolized the surname to grant the post of overseer, and at the same time consciously split Ma Jiajun, appointing three overseers and three deputy overseers, so that they could have their own deployment and allocation to contain each other.

However, the split between the central government and Ma Jiajun was doomed from the beginning, with the expansion of the real power of the central government, the stability of the military, economy and politics, and the needs of national construction, the imperial railway in the westward strategy is unstoppable, and Ma Jiajun is the only obstacle, so that the imperial railway has been staying in Tianshui, Bayan Zhuoer, Jingbian after 1914, and even a group of employees of the railway exploration team were secretly killed in the area of Yuzhong County, including two American geologists.

The exploration team of Xinjiang Province of the empire also encountered danger several times and was forced to send a cavalry battalion to escort it, so that the exploration team entered Xinjiang Province to investigate the geological situation, and the Silk Road trade in West Asia, Xinjiang Province and the center of the empire was completely controlled by the Ma Jiajun.

At this time, Ma Jiajun was already a real national sinner, not only blocking the empire's stabilization of Xinjiang Province and expansion to West Asia, but also became the main protector of the activities of Russian [***] forces in West Asia and Xinjiang Province.

At this point, the empire must completely eliminate the Ma family's army, and there is no room for maneuver at all.

According to the investigation of Duan Qirui and the Central Military Intelligence Bureau, Ma Jiajun is indeed three major forces at this stage, namely Qingma, Ningma and Ganma, Qingma is the most strong, Ningma is second, Ganma is even more second, and Ningma is the most willing to contact and negotiate with the central government, but Ningma's conditions are also impossible for the empire to accept.

Therefore, the first battle to attack the Ma Jiajun must be in Lanzhou, first annihilating the oldest of the three horses, the so-called Western Army.

Song Biao's plan on paper was to quickly attack Ganma, implement the garrison after pacifying Lanzhou, separate Qingma and Ningma, continue to mobilize the main force to besiege Ningma, and finally go south to eliminate the most ferocious Qingma.

After all, Ma Jiajun is cavalry, once the encirclement and suppression are unsuccessful, let them flee all the way west into Xinjiang Province, and it will be more difficult to pursue them in the future, so it may become a protracted and protracted war, and it may even further intensify the ethnic problems that are difficult to appease in the northwest.

On the evening of the Northwest Military Headquarters, Song Biao determined the specific battle plan, discussed some details and some problems that several generals were worried about each other, Song Biao continued to sit on the chair, holding the saber in both hands, and then he and Duan Qirui instructed: "I will stay for half a year when I come here this time, and then go back after they are cleared, the Ma Jiajun is very fierce, if they are sure that they have no way to retreat, they may come out of the nest to attack the military headquarters, you must be prepared for it." ”

Duan Qirui was shocked, he had heard that it was Cai Yi, the deputy chief of staff of the imperial cavalry field, who came to supervise the formation, but he didn't expect that the emperor would come over to command in person, which really caught him off guard, and he was not prepared at all.

Duan Qirui immediately got up and saluted, and said: "The emperor is here with a dragon, and his subordinates are honored, but the funds of the Northwest Military Department are tight, and his subordinates have never learned about the emperor's personal expedition, and they are not well prepared, and I hope that the emperor will exempt his subordinates from the crime of disrespect." ”

Song Biao waved his hand and said, "I only decided to come here a few days ago, you don't have to worry too much, I didn't mean to keep it secret from you, and others don't know." I have always been not very demanding in this aspect of life, there will be some suitable arrangements for the General Administration of the Inner Court, you don't have to pay attention to it, I will live in whatever house you and Cai Ye live, let alone according to the specifications of the palace, there is no need, sweep away these small warlords, and there will not be many opportunities for me to come to the northwest later. ”

Duan Qirui sighed a little in his heart, and bowed down again and said: "The emperor is a saint and benevolent, forgiving his courtiers, caring for the people, and his ministers have thanked the emperor for the people of the world and the Chinese people." ”

Song Biao laughed and joked with Duan Qirui: "You are still responsible for commanding the armies to fight, and I will be the chief of staff for you, if you don't worry that I won't fight for several years, then you can also report to the Central Military Department and ask the Central Committee to change another chief of staff." It's just that I still have to approve it in the end, so ah, you just accept the reality honestly, as long as I'm the chief of staff, you have to accept it if you don't accept it. ”

He was joking and joking, but Duan Qirui was sincerely afraid, if it weren't for the fact that the imperial monarchs and ministers were not allowed to kneel unless they were respectful, Duan Qirui really wanted to kneel down for Song Biao, and he was so scared in his heart, but he was grateful.

The emperor can say two jokes to him, that is, if he really treats him as a descendant of the courtiers, at least most of his descendants, and Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang, etc., after all, he is still in the army, and the army is a direct subordinate of the emperor, so he has this opportunity to integrate into the imperial party.

Thinking of this, Duan Qirui was really happy.

Life is like this, to be able to mix with him, he feels that he is not really much, the emperor can still leave him the credit of pacifying the northwest, so that he has the opportunity to leave a name in the history of the empire, compared to Zuo Zongtang, as a soldier, how he doesn't understand that this is the real saint Longen, I don't know how many people ask for such an opportunity in their lives, but they can't ask for it.

As a matter of fact, everyone here knows very well that pacifying the northwest is really not a big problem, and the most troublesome thing is not the military, but ethnic and religious issues, and sending troops to pacify the pacification can be dealt with in only half a year.

Therefore, regarding some other details of this expedition, Song Biao will not continue to discuss with Duan Qirui and Cai Yi, anyway, it will take a long time, so let everyone retreat first.

Thousands of miles away from home, Song Biao is also worried about his wife and children.

Time flies, it has been ten years in a flash, according to the lunar calendar, now he is also thirty years old, with a daughter and a son under his knees, although there are not many children, they are all growing up healthily, the daughter is six years old, and the son is three years old.

It's just that Empress Shu Xuan is getting older, but he is in the prime of life, energetic, and ambitious to become the first emperor of the Han people after the Han Dynasty.

After letting everyone else leave first, Song Biao picked up the brush and wrote a letter to the queen, this time pacifying the Ma Jiajun in the northwest is not a big problem, he also wants to use this time to walk more in the northwest, do a good job of research, and formulate various policies to solve the problems in the northwest in one go, as well as some new ideas for the development of the northwest economy, which will take time, so he will live in the northwest for a long time.

(To be continued)