If we do not consider the unstable surname within the Manchus, Hu Chuyuan's overall strategy is not wrong at all - China can definitely afford to fight a big war, and slowly wear out the capital.

Even if he can be killed at one time, Hu Chuyuan is more inclined to consume the book and directly drag the book into the darkest abyss.

Purely in terms of national strength and the current scale of troop transfers, there is really no problem at all in fighting this war for three years.

1890 was the year when the pragmatists began to harvest a bumper harvest, and by October 1890, the country had added 7,942 kilometers of canals, 48 new reservoirs, 11 large control reservoirs, 3,790 kilometers of lake embankments, 4,558 kilometers of new railways, 27.8 million tons of coal mine output, 4.77 million tons of total annual steel production, 57 steamships, and more than 300 diesel engines.

As of October, China's total raw silk production in 1890 reached 18,752 tons, and the export volume was 9,338 tons, accounting for 92% of the international market.

China's total tea exports amounted to 422.05 million pounds, accounting for 85.4% of the international market share, and 91.3% in total price terms due to the large proportion of high-end and rare teas.

Hangzhou silk and Shanghai silk and cotton blended worsted began to be exported to Nanyang on a small scale in 1883, and became the main export product in North and South America, South Seas, the Middle East and Europe in 1887, and increased to 17.57 million horses in 1889, with a total export value of 115.42 million taels of silver, which is China's main export product.

In 1889, China's total exports of hemp textiles were 37.87 million taels of silver, and the total export of sugar was 17.72 million taels of silver, and China's total porcelain exports began to recover in 1885 after a long period of downturn, and in 1887 experienced a high-speed recovery of explosive surnames, and in 1889, China's total exports of porcelain reached 41.84 million taels of silver.

Stimulated by the entire processing industry, rice, soybeans, cotton, corn, and potatoes in China's main agricultural products have all increased by a relatively large margin, and the commercialization rate of grain has reached 17 percent, and the proportion of deep processing has exceeded 10 percent.

At the same time, the export of Chinese medicinal materials to the United States, Britain and other countries and the South Seas have increased significantly, and the growth rate of bamboo products, fur, duck down and other products is also steadily increasing.

Driven by the entire shipbuilding industry, Chinese ships first began to be exported in 1885, and in 1887 there was a relatively large increase, and in 1889, the total tonnage of exported ships reached 74,000 tons, and the total export value was 5.8 million taels of silver.

Generally speaking, China's silk, tea, hemp textiles, porcelain are the four most important export markets, especially the raw silk industry, based on the raw silk industry of high-end silk, silk and cotton blends have become the most important export products.

In 1889, China's total foreign trade exports reached 329.7 million taels of silver, equivalent to 14.4% of Britain's total foreign trade exports.

Similarly, China's total imports have increased to 130 million taels of silver, and the main importers are the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and it is also the second largest trade exporter and the largest trade importer of the United States.

Compared with 1888, the income of the Qing government axe in 1889 increased by about 17%, increasing to 299.7 million yuan, coupled with the appointment of Yan Jingming, the head of the household department with a tough attitude, the taxes paid by various localities increased significantly, and the actual income was 245.3 million yuan, an increase of nearly 71.3 million yuan year-on-year.

This greatly eased the financial situation of the Qing political axe.

Due to the war and other factors, the overall debt of the Qing government axe has increased to 740 million yuan, but if the current annual income growth rate can be maintained, the problem will not be too big, and it can be completely absorbed within ten years.

More importantly, the Qingdao industry, Tianjin industry and Shanghai industry have been established, followed by Ma'anshan, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Wuhan and Jingdezhen.

The data is gratifying, but unfortunately, the vast majority of Chinese do not know how to read data, and the Manchu people do not understand, they just want to continue to rule China and not make any mistakes.

Those who once pushed Cixi into the cold palace under the temptation of money now began to miss Cixi's prestige, and even said that if Cixi was still there, they would never dare to declare war on the Qing Dynasty.

What and what.

Only the Manchurians will be fooled, but who makes them Manchurians.

In Prince Gong's own words, the most of them are bastards who don't understand anything.

In fact, they can't laugh at their stupidity, the reason why they are stupid is precisely because they don't understand anything, in this world, in this era, there are too many people who don't understand anything, not only full of people.

To put it mildly, the Han people are similar.

Therefore, Hu Chuyuan was particularly determined to carry out the "anti-illiteracy" campaign in the troops under his actual control, and he was constantly creating opportunities for the development of the Fuxing Society.

Everyone has different choices and different opportunities, Ye Fu is not a member of the Fuxing Society, neither is Deng Shichang, not Lin Yongsheng, but Lu Han is.

Hu Chuyuan did not show up, he has always let Lu Han secretly take full responsibility for the development of the Fuxing Society in the East China Sea Division, and specially transferred Lu Han to the Ningbo Water Division as the first person in charge - the chief soldier of the Ningbo Water Division.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Han began to lobby Ye Fu and Deng Shichang, starting from his goal of making a breakthrough.

For Hu Chuyuan, what he really worries about is Dandong.

Dandong must be defended, otherwise, there will be endless troubles.

October in Lushun has become cool, and the short autumn will soon pass, and with it winter.

With the deepening of intelligence work, Hu Chuyuan became more and more aware that he had to hold peace talks, but they chose a crazy move to try to force China to fully surrender and accept their terms for peace talks in the terrifying way of "completely annihilating" Liu Ming's ministry and the whole of Dandong.

If possible, they will also take the opportunity to extort tens of millions of taels of silver from the Qing government axe on the basis of the conditions they came forward to save the domestic economic crisis.

Hu Chuyuan pondered the word "total annihilation" and then the deployment of military forces, and became more and more convinced that their "total annihilation" was an unprecedented massacre.

At the end of 1889, in order to increase the defense of the Liaodong frontier, Hu Chuyuan proposed to merge Andong County, Fengcheng County, Donggang County, Jiulian City, and Kuandian County into Dandong Mansion.

Deliberating on the meaning of "completely annihilating the territory of Dandong", Hu Chuyuan also had a chilling feeling in his heart.

I really can't stay.

That night, Hu Chuyuan called Ye Fu, Ye Bojun, Lu Guangquan, Lan Jianshu, Huang Jianxun and others to the hall to discuss countermeasures.

I heard that Ben was going to launch a full-scale attack on Dandong at the end of October, and everyone deduced it on the sand table in Dandong's area, and felt more and more that Liu Mingchuan was difficult to hold.

Liu Mingchuan is a master of using soldiers, he has long been aware of the fierceness of the army, and everyone imagined that it is completely different, after arriving in Dandong, the main military forces will be deployed in Jiulian Town and Zhen'an Town, and the Toad Tang Town will be the base camp.

In this way, it is difficult to break through his defensive line, no matter which side of the breakthrough will be hit hard and blocked, the problem is that Toad Tang Town is a small basin, surrounded by mountains, and the north and south exits are very small, as long as the army captures two exits, it can block Liu Mingchuan's headquarters, and can also obtain an astonishing number of large amounts of military supplies.

It is very easy to replenish Zhen'an Town from Toad Tang Town, but it is more difficult to go to Jiulian City, and there is only one road to Jiulian City to Toad Tang Town, unless I don't plan to ask for baggage and artillery.

This road is the mountain pass between Wulong Mountain and the Eighteen Fuziling Mountains - Wulongkou, where is the breakthrough of Yue himself, as long as he breaks through there, he can open a flat road to defeat Liu Mingchuan, and even completely annihilate Liu Mingchuan's department.

When everyone analyzed their opinions, Hu Chuyuan understood in his heart.

Time was already running out and he had to make a choice in those two days.

At this time, he glanced at Lu Guangquan.

Lu Guangquan generally understood what Hu Chuyuan meant, so he said: "My lord, there are only two choices at the moment, increase the troops in Jiulian City, or increase the troops in Wulongkou, the former is more difficult, but it must also be done, just increase the troops in Jiulian City and defend the crossing of the river." ”

Everyone nodded, and Ye Bojun immediately asked for his life, wanting to lead his troops north.

Hu Chuyuan also nodded, but he knew in his heart that this was a good opportunity, and he must firmly seize it and give himself an unprecedented blow.

I wanted to inflict unprecedented heavy damage on the Qing army and let the Chinese know how powerful and terrifying they were, so Hu Chuyuan also wanted them to understand how terrifying the Chinese were.

He quietly calculated in his heart, preparing another battle plan.

Thinking of this, he said to the generals: "The garrison of Port Arthur can't move, and the Huguang camp secretly pulled over to help Lord Liu Mingchuan defend Dandong." If Dandong is lost, we will also have cold lips and teeth. ”

Everyone said yes.

Subsequently, Hu Chuyuan discussed with them the entire troop transportation plan, as well as the specific scheduling and arrangement, and after the negotiation, Hu Chuyuan asked everyone to go back first and hurry up the time, but Lu Guangquan was left alone, and asked Lu Guangquan to call Li Kaiye and others over.

After the main generals of the Huguang Battalion arrived, Hu Chuyuan said his thoughts, he wanted to use the equipment of the Huguang Battalion to fight a Jedi counterattack battle in Wulongkou, and completely annihilate the most elite Second Sendai Division and the Sixth Kumamoto Division.

He put forward the entire strategic objectives and the equipment and materials that could be provided, Lu Guangquan and Li Kaiye perfected the specific tactical arrangements, and the two sides talked for a long time all night, and it was only at dawn that they worked out a plan for the dragon's mouth.

The next day, the Huguang Third Battalion of Lu Guangquan's department began to reorganize, secretly arrived at Gushan Port by sea, and then entered Wulong Mountain Area through the Dayang River.

The three battalions here are all large battalions, equivalent to three regiments, equal to the same division, a total of 11,254 people, almost all the officers are born in Nanchang, Changsha Martial Arts School and Fuzhou Artillery School, half of the officers have the experience of studying abroad and further study, and it is also the most modern unit in the Qing army as a whole.

At the same time, they also have the best equipment that Hu Chuyuan can provide at present, and they have three artillery columns under their jurisdiction.

In the Huguang battalion, the artillery column usually has to increase the personnel of the infantry column by 30%, so that each column can be equipped with 20 new 122mm caliber light and medium Berkeley howitzers, due to the use of a large number of new designs and new materials, compared with the traditional howitzer, the new Berkeley 122mm caliber howitzer is much lighter, after the use of rubber tires and rubber liner design, it is more convenient to march in the mountains.

The Berkeley Arsenal is the artillery and rifle branch of the Oakland Military Factory, located in Berkeley, USA, which is responsible for the construction of artillery and rifles, initially by introducing Armstrong's patented licensed production technology, and later by introducing Krupp technology and part of the Belgian Arsenal.

After years of tempering, the Berkeley artillery does have more advantages than Krupp in light and medium-sized scales, and is as concise and simple as Krupp, focusing on the strengthening and production of materials, and at the same time being good at absorbing new technologies and materials.

In fact, the Jiangnan rifle used by the Huguang battalion was also produced here, and it was called the Berkeley M1890 rifle abroad.

(To be continued)