The attraction of fields to the Chinese is unquestionable. There were no officers in the Qin army who were born rich and noble, and no one was open-minded enough to regard wealth and nobility as if they were passing by the eye. At that time, the land that the Aftermath Bureau gave to everyone was the best watered land in Han, which was the lifeblood of people.

They will always envy the huge profits of match factories, cigarette factories, and glass factories, and they will think about when they can set up such a factory when they can go to bed, and it will be like an old hen with a golden egg. But no one would want to sell land for money and invest in industry.

The people of this era have not yet 'opened' to that time. The development of foreign affairs really needs power to guide and implement. The Chinese of this era, at most, use the spare money at home to invest one or two, and the land is an heirloom!

But now, Liu Xian forced his officers to make a choice. Choose the place, or choose the steel mill that feels like 'making a profit without losing money'. He promised 1 million taels of silver as an advance fund for the steel mill, and made 100 taels for one share, and he first subscribed for 5,000 shares. The rest were left to the officers and soldiers of the Qin military system.

Liu Xian sold 20 Zhuangzi, and the money he bought was ready to be invested in the steel factory. It is still 1870 in the Western calendar, no more than 20 years after Zhang Zhidong ran the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, whether it is the price of silver, the difference in the times, and the difference in the size of the steel mills on both sides, one million taels of silver can get things done.

Liu Xian has not yet said to Maisheng Foreign Company that Qin Jun has reached today's status, and Maisheng Foreign Company alone can no longer meet Qin Jun's needs. The Qin army could not hand over all foreign affairs to a foreign firm. Liu Xian needed to recruit foreign companies from Europe. It doesn't need to be the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and other small countries.

Anyway, Liu Xian has a winter to plan this matter.

The current Hanzhong is no longer the Hanzhong of the past, and the scars of the war have been blurred from the land of Hanzhong in four years. Now the land is sold, and some are buyers. As the farms were sold one by one, a large number of aboriginal people were emptied. Because they are not tenants, they are Liu Xian's slaves, and they have signed a deed of sale as early as the beginning. Otherwise, how could Liu Xian be so generous in implementing compulsory education in the farm system.

Some of these people were scattered to other farms in Liu's manor, and the other 2,000 young men set off from Hanzhong in a group and rushed to Liuzhou.

Whether it is the industrial park under development in Liuzhou, or the Hongji coalfield and port in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, which is about to start construction, a lot of manpower is needed. These two thousand young people naturally can't afford all the labor, but with them as the guide, then the number of young people who can control the hands of the Qin army system will be tripled, five times and more. In the future, Hainan Island will also need to develop Shilu iron mine, which also requires a large number of manpower. Liu Xian has a lot of places to employ people.

Time will not stop because of the distress of the officers of the Qin Army. It slowly walked through October, making Liu Xian's first child full moon, and then entering November.

In my hometown of Hanzhong, it was already a bone-chilling winter at this time. But in Guangxi, there is no need to wear thick clothes at all.

Shi Dakai's shape shì almost deteriorated. The difference in weapons made the Taiping army more and more powerless in front of the Xianghuai army.

The situation in Guangxi has also become more relaxed.

The Franco-Prussian War was fought in Europe, but the victory or defeat had not yet reached Asia.

Matches, cigarettes and other products in Liuzhou Industrial Park began to appear in the Lingnan market, and even textile factories had a chance to start, but they were still far from making money.

Liu Xian's daily work is to grasp the military, and in addition to that, he is looking at his little padded jacket. Zhang Miaotong gave birth to an eldest daughter to him. This made her happy and sad, after all, it was the boys who passed on the lineage. But seeing that Liu Xian didn't like it at all, Zhang Miaotong was happy again. The girl is also the meat that fell from her body. Besides, the three people in the house still have no sign of pregnancy. Zhang Miaotong can't have sex during pregnancy, and Liu Xian has worked Wang Luying, Liu Wanshu, and Wang Biyun. But it just doesn't bloom.

… The well water that Sun Shouqi, the prefect of Liuzhou, continued with the Admiral Yamen, did not interfere with the river water.

In November, Liu Xian's first arms deal with Vietnam was concluded.

Instead of front-loading smoothbore guns, Vietnam bought 2,000 Mini rifles for 60,000 Yingyang, plus 10 Han Yuan 1 guns and 4 Han Yuan 2 guns. At the same time, the Qin army sent instructors to assist Vietnam in organizing and training the Janissaries.

During this period of three months, Xie Jigui, the chief soldier of Qingzuojiang Town, who was stationed in Daliang Mountain, made endless achievements. Liu Xian gave him 1,000 front-loading smoothbore guns and 500 Mini rifles, and 10 artillery pieces, and Xie Jigui, Wu Tianxing, and Liu Yucheng had already suppressed the rest of the Taiping army in Beiqi. He also defeated Su Guohan [Chinese] and suppressed the uprising launched by Huang Qi [Vietnamese] in Quang An Province.

In fact, it was the powerful performance of Xie Jigui's ministry that made the Vietnamese court make up its mind to buy these guns and train the new army. Of course, the reputation of the Qin army fighting the Russians in Xinjiang is also very respected by the Vietnamese who were bullied by the Fasini.

They had no contact with the Russians. But that doesn't mean they can't ask who the Russians are.

Hongji's piece of land easily fell into Liu Xian's hands. The small coal yards that originally lived on it were left with nothing after the Qing army drove the Vietnamese rebels around. Xie Jigui just said hello to Wu Zhongping, the governor of Vietnam, and Liu Yucheng led a thousand troops there to build a fortress.

Vietnam is in turmoil right now. The four provinces of Nanqi were occupied by the French, and Beiqi was in chaos again. Reality: The remnants of the rebel army in Guangxi [Wu Lingyun organized Quanshengtang to respond to the Taiping Rebellion in Xinning. In 1861, the Yanling Kingdom was established in Taiping Province (now Chongzuo City). ], and then the remnants of the Taiping Army, and finally the mountain bandits and grass bandits who couldn't get along in Guangxi all came to Vietnam to fight the grass valley, plus the Vietnamese court itself was also corrupt, and the people's livelihood was many years old, and the indemnity that had been given to the French was apportioned to the people several times, and the peasant uprisings in Beiqi swarmed. How many governors have changed, how many have the governors folded, how many generals have died, and how many stubbles have the envoys changed? I can't count it. The control power of the Vietnamese imperial court in the provinces of Beiqi was infinitely close to none.

Therefore, Xie Jigui circled the land of Hongji Coal Mine, and he only needed to say hello to Wu Zhongping. Liu Xian is a good place. Not in the early years, the Vietnamese would not sit idly by; Not a few years later, it's time for the French to mix. Now is the time!

At the same time that the arms deal between Liu Siam and the Vietnamese was finalized, a news spread to the East through the sea - the Franco-Prussian War was over, 100,000 French troops surrendered, and Napoleon III fell.

In a word, the mighty Second French Empire, defeated. Defeat to Prussia, defeat to the Second German Reich a little later.

When the news reached the East, the Vietnamese were not excited. Their own enemies are defeated, even if the person who defeats the enemy is not themselves, it is enough for them to be happy. And the people in the southeastern coastal provinces of China, Tianjin and Beijing, can imagine what the mood will be. It's just a pity that it was only France that was unlucky, not the United Kingdom.

Liu Xian could not say the specific time from the beginning to the end of the Paris Commune, but he knew the news of the Franco-Prussian War, and it must have been Yan zhòng behind. Perhaps now the battle for the Paris Commune is underway! But the news had little impact on Guangxi. In Liuzhou, it is even more insignificant, and the attention of the people is far from being compared with the southeast zone.

"Lord Huang, Lord Wu." In the camp of the Qing army in Lang Son, Xie Jigui warmly entertained the commander-in-chief of the soldiers and horses in the Beiqi region of Vietnam, Huang Jiyan, the master of the horses, and the governor Wu Zhongping. The former just arrived this month. "The distinguished guest is here, thank you for being here and shining here. Gentlemen, please—"

A set of kind words, good wine and good food. Xie Jigui saw that Huang Jiyan and Wu Zhongping did not mean to get straight to the point, so he naturally would not take the initiative to take the lead. Nagging some nonsense, that Chinese can't play a few Tai Chi songs.

… From the time Huang Wu and the two entered the camp to the halfway point of the banquet, an hour had passed, and the nonsense in Xie Jigui's mouth was still one after another.

Huang Jiyan really didn't have the heart to play tricks with Xie Jigui today, seeing that Xie Jigui was so slippery, he sighed and took the initiative to get down to business. "General Xie, I can't hide it, the contemptible people and the Governor Wu came to your army today, and there is really one thing to bother the general."

"What did you two say?" Xie Jigui put on an angry face, "Isn't it polite for you two to say that?" But if there is anyone who can help, Xie will do his best to help. ”

Huang Jiyan's face instantly looked much better. Regardless of whether Xie Jigui is sincere or not, good words can always make people useful. "That's right, General Xie......"

Huang Jiyan opened his mouth and said what he requested, Xie Jigui's face changed in fright, and he almost had to send the guest on the spot. This group of Vietnamese, who do not remember what they eat, actually wanted to take advantage of the bad luck of the French to fall into the well. Let the French business. In recent years, the trading station that Du Buyi had established along the Red River was uprooted.

That's let. Du Buyi, Xie Jigui knows. What looks like a businessman, but is actually someone from the French government. He was the pioneer of the French army in the Beiqi area, and began to operate in the area of the Red River four years ago. There are hundreds of French Yankees under his command, and there are hundreds of Vietnamese thugs, and they have deep ties with many local heroes in the Red River area. There are even signs that in the wave after wave of peasant uprisings in Beiqi in recent years, some rebel armies have let them behind. The figure of Dubouil.

It was a nail in the eyes of the Vietnamese court, a thorn in the flesh.

"Honestly, let's not. Dubuyi, I have tried many times to eradicate it, but I have not succeeded. Governor Wu once sent personal guards to attack this person pretending to be bandits. It's not let at all. The opponent of the group of mages around Du Buyi. ”

"Then Lord Huang means to thank someone......"

"No, no! General Xie misunderstood. Contemptible means with the Black Flag Army-"

Huang Jiyan arched his hand at Xie Jigui, "I hope General Xie can be accommodating and temporarily slow down Liu Yongfu's ......" Saying that, Huang Jiyan put a silver ticket on the table and slowly pushed it towards Xie Jigui. r1152