Before Lin Haijiang walked back to the bookcase, he hesitated and said: "It is difficult to win the hearts of the people, but it is extremely easy to lose the hearts of the people. How many villages are there? What is the population? If half of the people support our great cause of reunification, then we will have a lot less unnecessary difficulties on the road to reunification! ”

Lin Haijiang looked at Wang Faren and instructed: "Concentrate on investigating and dealing with some businessmen who took advantage of the opportunity of the liberation to speculate and resell, allocate half of the military reserve grain to help the displaced victims, and urge the administrative organs at all levels to perform their functions as soon as possible, and the production and construction corps should also supervise and urge as many local migrant workers as possible, this is also a temporary solution to the problem of displaced people, and now it has just been recovered, so these work functions are pressed on your intelligence department, and I am not at ease if they are handed over to others." ”

Wang Faren was a little excited and said: "Please rest assured, Your Excellency, I will repay the Fuhrer's kindness!" ”

Lin Haijiang nodded and said: "People who have come to your position, saying that these oaths and heart-to-heart words have lost their meaning, I have unconditional and complete trust in you, we will create an era together, it is not only me who will leave a name in the future history, but also you, we are for the people, not for our own selfish desires." ”

After Wang Faren left, Lin Haijiang took out a top-secret document marked with the iron-blooded young officer corps from the drawer, the wax seal on it had been opened, and read the document again, Lin Haijiang came to the window and looked at the back of Wang Faren's departure, recalling that Wang Faren, who had been following him closely during the Battle of Ningxiang, suddenly dealt with an emergency the night before reinforcing Ningxiang, and failed to go to Ningxiang with him, and later contacted some changes within the empire and Southeast Asian provinces.

Lin Haijiang lit this document with a match with an expressionless face, the burning document Lin Haijiang thought that today's words had been said more clearly, he was in danger to stick to Ningxiang, in case of an accident, the huge Chinese empire was in danger of being torn apart at any time, and it was understandable for some people to make more preparations just in case, but Lin Haijiang had realized that the power of the Ministry of Intelligence was too great, and today when he explained Wang Faren's work, he hoped that Wang Faren could refuse, but unfortunately Wang Faren didn't know if he couldn't understand what he meant? Or are you unwilling to let go of the power in your hands?

Lin Haijiang played with the match in his hand, since the beginning of the previous year, the continuous improvement of safety matches can be said to have become an important material for the export of imperial light industry commodities, for the domestic Lin Haijiang only invested a small part, Lin Haijiang does not want to use this kind of profiteering goods in the domestic people to make money, and wait for a few years The overall positioning of safety matches will decline, and the cost of chemical refining will be reduced, and then the safety matches will enter thousands of households.

Who invented matches? At the beginning, Lin Haijiang consulted the relevant records, but there was no accurate statement, and later heard an old foreman of the match factory say that as early as in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, wars broke out, and the Northern Qi was forced by the enemy on its back, and there was a shortage of materials, especially the lack of fire, and cooking was a problem.

However, Lin Haijiang believes that the ancient matches at that time were just a kind of ignition material, not necessarily matches, and then introduced to Europe during the Marco Polo period, and later Europeans invented modern matches once called foreign fire by the Chinese on this basis, foreign fire can make fire through friction, and the person who invented this match was Walker of the United Kingdom, who used gum and water to make paste-like antimony sulfide and potassium chloride in 1826, applied to the match stem and pulled on sandpaper to produce fire.

However, there are two very fatal shortcomings of this early production of matches, one is that white phosphorus is very rare and easy to spontaneously combust when heated, which is very dangerous, and the other is that white phosphorus is poisonous, and the workers who make matches will be poisoned to death if they are not careful. In 1852, after the improvement of the Swedes from Tastronum, the safety match was invented, which uses phosphorus and sulfur compounds as the ignition material, and must be rubbed on a box coated with red phosphorus to make a fire, and the degree of safety is improved.

The advantage of safety matches is that they separate red phosphorus from oxidants, which is not only safer, but also non-toxic in the chemicals used. So it is also called a safety match. The match head mainly contains potassium chlorate, manganese dioxide, sulfur and glass powder. The matchstick is coated with a small amount of paraffin, and the friction layer on both sides of the matchbox is made of a mixture of red phosphorus and glass powder. The advantage of safety matches is that they separate red phosphorus from oxidants, which is not only safer, but also non-toxic in the chemicals used. So it is also called a safety match.

Although, in 1852, after the Swedes from Tastronum to improve the safety matches, but due to the complexity of chemical refining, its production process is backward and the cost remains high, so Lin Haijiang took advantage of his complete industrial base, began to produce a large number of high-quality and exquisite matches for export to Europe, the Chinese Imperial matches across the ocean used heroin and Fushou paste in the sales of the MLM means, so in a very short period of time almost all occupied the European market.

Even the warring American Confederacy, Prussia and France, are using beautiful matches with calendars, nude images, riddles, lottery wins, etc. are all promotional methods used by Lin Haijiang, it can be said that the Chinese Empire is using its commercial means to surpass the times in commerce to achieve victory, in Lin Haijiang's view, whether it is the Battle of the Two Lakes or commercial operations, it is the same battlefield, and they must win in each battlefield, because whether it is a battlefield or a shopping mall, the relationship between them is closely related to the Chinese Empire.

Lin Haijiang also knew that this kind of good situation might not last long, because once his relations with Europe deteriorated further, then the warring parties were accustomed to confiscating the property of the belligerent countries and prohibiting the circulation of their goods in their own countries was already a common method in this era.

And in Xianning, outside Wuhan, Zeng Guofan looked at the fold in his hand and was speechless for a long time, he was originally going to be in Haoshang for two or three months, and then look for an opportunity to relieve the siege of Changsha in it, but he didn't expect that Changsha, which was full of military rations, was actually sacrificed by Lin Yi?

Zhou Fuming, Tai Qia, Tuatu and other three people were killed by the Chinese Imperial Military Police, everything came so suddenly, so suddenly that his layout had no chance to be implemented? Zeng Guofan looked at the direction of Monk Greenqin's camp from afar, and he knew that Monk Greenqin must have also known the news.

For Lin Haijiang to use Changsha as bait and prepare to encircle the point to reinforce Zeng Guofan, it can be said that this so-called strategy is just a small trick for him, and the Chinese Empire is equipped with the strength of two corps in turn to the north of Changsha, and the rest of the troops form a large diagonal line all the way to Yangzhou.

It seems that the troops on this diagonal line are all stationed separately, and it is easy to give people the feeling that they can have the opportunity to break through one by one, but Zeng Guofan does not see it that way, is Lin Haijiang in vain or not in vain? Zeng Guofan believed that after so many wars, there was no doubt that if he and Seng Lingqin joined forces to reach Changsha to relieve the siege, then someone would inevitably block the Lin rebel bandit army that might outflank his rear road from Liangjiang.

If the main force of the Beiyang New Army and the Mengman Eight Banners is handed over to Zeng Guofan or Seng Lingqin, this battle is not without a chance of winning, but the bad thing is that it is jointly commanded by two people, and one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

Zeng Guofan's plan at the moment is to first protect the first line of Wuhan, Lu'an, and Hefei, and wait for the will of the imperial court, after all, the fighter plane is lost, and he rushes out for fear of falling into passivity, Zeng Guofan knows that his mobile force can not be trapped in the defense, Zeng Guofan is a little anxious about this, because he is facing a very difficult choice, it is his responsibility to defend the territory, but if he defends the territory one by one, his mobile forces will be completely contained, but it gives the enemy the opportunity to break through one by one.

If you don't keep it, you will lose your land and land, and you will fall back into a comprehensive strategic passivity, Zeng Guofan believes that it is not only himself who has a headache at the moment, I am afraid that Seng Lingqin also sees this point very thoroughly, and the only way is to go to the court and let the court take the idea, either to give the next face the right to make arbitrary decisions, or the court to control the general trend.

Zeng Guofan knew that he and Lin Haijiang were in a very tense moment at this moment, because both sides had no reason to fight at the moment, so both sides were very afraid of each other's attack, the Beiyang New Army was preparing for war, and the army departments of the Chinese Empire were also preparing for war, and the two sides began to arrange troops along the line of Yueyang, Anqing, and Jiujiang, among which Yueyang and Xianyang became a vacuum area, and occasionally only the cavalry patrols of both sides engaged in small-scale firefights, which often ended with the annihilation of the cavalry squads of the Qing army.

Zeng Guofan had plenty of time to wait for Yanjing's reply, and he also believed that Seng Lingqin would not sit idly by, and he was afraid that this prince's son would be handed over earlier than his own.

On October 9, 1861, the weather in Yanjing began to cool down, because the battle line of the two lakes stabilized, the dignitaries and nobles in Yanjing City sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Yi Xin, who was far away in the Forbidden City of Yanjing, was rushing under the palace wall with Zeng Guofan's share that made him feel hot, and knocked down a palace maid without paying attention.

At this time, I heard someone next to me: "Prince Gong has such a big temper?" Cailan hit Xiao and followed Bengege, I haven't seen anyone beat her yet, are you going to beat her or me today? ”

Yixin turned around and saw that it was Daoguangye's four-grid, Princess Shou'an Gulun, whose identity was extremely noble, and even the queen mother of the two palaces had to take care of her face.

Yixin had no choice but to Shou'an Gulun and said: "Sigege, you don't care about the villain, I'm dizzy today, the two lakes let the Lin rebel bandit army take most of it, originally wanted to take advantage of the bandit attack Lin rebel to flatten it all in one fell swoop, but the Lin rebel bandit army came to a big reversal, and now the bandit is dying, and there is only one Wuhan left in our two lakes in the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Yixin hurriedly took out a silver ticket from his cuffs and stuffed it to the palace maid and said, "I'm sorry!" "Then hurry away!

Soon, in the apse of the Yangxin Palace, Yixin wiped his sweat while introducing the situation to Ci'an and Cixi, the two empress dowagers, Ci'an and Cixi's faces continued to change, and finally Cixi glanced at Ci'an and said: "Sister, we don't understand the matter of this arrangement, and it is a mistake to interfere rashly!" The matter between Seng Lingqin and Zeng Guofan is now going viral below, you also know, the people below are unreliable, a spark to our ears is a prairie fire, I wonder if to send a reliable person over, the identity can suppress these two people, in which to mediate and supervise, the people below naturally dare not go too far. ”

Ci'an nodded and said, "It's still my sister, you think thoughtfully!" Who to send there? The monk is a prince, and the general clan can't bear it even if he holds a gold medal and arrows! ”

Cixi smiled slightly: "Far away in the sky, close in front of you?" ”

Ci'an was slightly stunned and looked at Prince Gong Yixin, who was extremely surprised, Yixin actually thought about this possible surname on the way here, his original intention was not to leave Beijing, and he was naturally psychologically aware of the danger of the war in front, but the matter of Shou'an Gulungege on the road was disturbed and messed up, and now the matter proposed by Cixi to let him go to supervise the war is also stuck here, I don't know what to do? To go or not to go?

Cixi didn't continue to speak, she didn't want to push Yixin too quickly, some things and words had to be done by Ci'an, so that her play could continue to sing!

Seeing that Cixi was silent, Ci'an hesitated for a moment and said: "The country is unfortunate that there are many demons, which is really not the blessing of the community!" Prince Gong, you can work hard! Now we orphans and widows in the court can count on you! ”

Yixin knew that as soon as Ci'an opened his mouth this time, he had lost the opportunity to choose, so he had to solemnly kneel on his knees, lean over and say, "Chen Yixin takes the order!" Long live our emperor, long live, long live! ”

When Yixin left the Heart Cultivation Palace, it was already dark, and the whistling autumn wind made Yixin fight a full cold war, Yixin looked at the night sky silently for a while, and there was a strong man who would never return to the posture of pulling away, and every step seemed to have some weight!

And on the hot imperial fortress Sumatra Island, Lin Haijiang misses the coolness of the north and the ice and snow very much, in the era of no air conditioning and no Internet, the days after dark are very difficult, at this moment Lin Haijiang's family has all moved back to Guangzhou, including Lily, Zijuan, Shen Yilan, Caiyi, Wanxin, Fu Shanxiang, Jiang Rong'er, Lin Haijiang remembered seven women in a row but none of them were there, and even Clouna went to inspect the financial situation of the provinces below at night.

Moon viewing became Lin Haijiang's only hobby, although Lin Haijiang tried to go down to the tavern to have fun with the sailors, but as soon as he entered the tavern, there was immediately silence inside, whether drunk or not, all stood up and saluted, excitedly shouting Long live the Führer, and his voice was so loud that it almost broke the roof.

In desperation, Lin Haijiang tried to go to the officers' club again, and the result was the same, which made Lin Haijiang completely realize that the kind of drinking a little wine, eating a few peanuts, and chatting about family life said goodbye to him completely, as the head of the empire, he got honor and respect, but he was also destined to lose some.

On October 27, 1861, Myers, an international arms oligarch who was active in Europe, the United States, and Asia, on a par with Miller, arrived at the Imperial Fortress with seven warships returning from Prussia.

Prussia sold both of their own ships to their Far Eastern allies, as Prussia received news that Queen Victoria was secretly sending envoys to wander around Europe, targeting the rising Chinese Empire.

Britain, which originally did not engage in arms deals with the Qing court, took the initiative to lower one-seventh of the total price, selling five armored protection cruisers of 3,670 to 8,600 tons, as well as a large number of Armstrong large-caliber rear-loading shore defense guns and Fiant rifles.

Under this premise, Prussia sold all the warships it had started building to the Chinese Empire, and Prussia even allowed Lin Haijiang to pay a certain amount of arrears, so that Lin Haijiang had to pay attention to such favorable conditions, the British were different from the Russians, although the Russians threatened to send troops to threaten before the launch of the Battle of the Two Lakes and Two Rivers, but in the end it was only a few small boats of more than 2,000 tons that took a trip.

After the Crimean War, the Russians are now a foreign power, but the British are definitely not, before Lin Haijiang received information that the Dagukou sail battleship suffered a big loss of armored protection cruisers, and the British started construction of more than 30 armored protection cruisers at the same time in large shipyards across the country, and there is even news that the British are actively preparing to build a giant ship of more than 10,000 tons.

The British looking for allies in Europe is definitely not a good thing for Lin Haijiang, how many people have he offended? Lin Haijiang is very aware of it.

However, seeing the information of two of the seven battleships sailed back from Prussia reassured Lin Haijiang!

The two battleships were built by the Prussian shipyard in Hamburg according to the standards of the Imperial Dragon-class capital ships, with a standard hull length of 139 meters, a waterline length of 129 meters, and a width of 24 meters. The draft is 6.7 meters, the standard displacement is 11,270 tons, the full load displacement is 13,600 tons, the power is eight Gülen oil-coal mixed boilers, four large horizontal reciprocating steam turbines, two-shaft linkage propulsion system, single horsepower 5,200 horsepower, the maximum coal can be loaded 900 tons, the load of heavy oil is 1,100 tons, the maximum combat speed is 14.2 knots, and the standard 10-knot endurance is 2,670 nautical miles.

The whole ship has a crew of 760 people, with 8 260 mm 35 times the caliber main guns, the main guns are arranged in a double upper and lower ladder front and back cross arrangement, the secondary guns are 100 mm Krupp rapid-fire guns, a total of ten guns, and five on the left and right sides of the ship! In consideration of the maturing fish technology, the whole ship installed waterline armor plates on the basis of sacrificing a certain speed.

It can be said that the appearance of two brand-new behemoths made Lin Haijiang suddenly become confident!

(To be continued)