Although Li Yunzhong appointed himself as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front and wanted to command and enjoy the battle, it was a pity that the civil and military officials unanimously opposed him going to the front line to supervise the battle, and the people were angry.

"Cheer up, tell me about the war on the Eastern Front, where Chen Yucheng and Li Chunfa have fought, four months after sending troops, Fengtian has not yet been taken, what's the use of raising this bunch of waste!"

The staff officers were accustomed to the emperor's unreasonable trouble, glanced at each other, and signaled to the young man sitting in the innermost part together.

Li Yunzhong followed everyone's gaze and saw a serious Zhang Zhidong, and immediately pointed at him and said, "Zhang Zhidong! It's up to you! ”

Zhang Zhidong stood up expressionlessly, as if he was reading, and replied: "General Chen of the northern line has taken Jinzhou, because the Qing army is defending the city, the casualties are quite large, the intelligence department has a report, Weichen thinks it is very important, the Russians have been in frequent contact with the Manchus recently, and it seems that dozens of cannons have been sold to the Qing army, but the Qing army did not expect our army to land from the sea, so the 50,000 troops led by Li Chunfa successfully captured Gaizhou, Yingkou, and Haicheng, and the soldiers pointed directly at Liaoyang. ”

Zhang Zhidong was also depressed, he wanted to obtain an official position through the formal way, that is, the imperial examination, but he did not expect the Han Dynasty to implement a new policy, and the status of the imperial examination was greatly reduced.

Li Yunzhong smiled coldly at the sand table: "I didn't expect that Li Chunfa, who usually performs mediocre, is far ahead, and Chen Yucheng's 100,000 army is blocked, hum!" What a surprise! ”

The deputy chief of staff complimented: "Then General Li is the emperor's cousin. Since it is a royal family, it must be powerful to fight. It's all the work of the emperor's daily teaching. ”

Li Yun's center is not in a good mood, and he is most tired of these sycophants. Gu Gu said: "This is not necessarily, except for Li Chunfa, the rest of my cousins are wine bags and rice bags, a few days ago, there were people who asked me for officials, unless they were above the fifth grade, when I rebelled everywhere, they avoided me one by one, and now I dominate the world." One by one, they came out again, shamelessly begging for officials and lords, is this also the work of my teaching? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare!" The deputy chief of staff touched a nail and retreated with interest.

Everyone has heard of the emperor's relatives making trouble with the ministry, these people are from Li Shixian, the governor of Guangxi, but they didn't expect to threaten Zhang Weikun, the secretary of the ministry, to give them official positions as soon as they arrived in Beijing, Zhang Weikun delayed for three days and appointed some minor officials. Who knew that these people's appetite was getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Weikun didn't dare to be specialized, and he was afraid that the emperor would reuse the royal family like Hong Xiuquan, so after consulting with the ministers. It was mentioned at the court meeting, which made the emperor lose a lot of face, and of course those so-called royal families did not end well. One by one, they were sent home.

Li Yunzhong felt bored, and asked calmly: "How is the battlefield on the northern front?" Can Li Xiucheng's ministry make progress? ”

The staff officer in charge of the northern battlefield immediately stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, General Li's army is marching smoothly. Three tribes of Mongolia have been surrendered to the Han Dynasty, General Li has wiped out two tribes that are unwilling to surrender, to the latest war report, the south of Yinshan has belonged to the territory of the Han Dynasty, General Li reorganized the Mongolian cavalry under the Yinshan Mountain, and can continue to advance north within ten days. ”

Li Yun's central mood improved, and praised: "Mongolia has been operated by several generations of emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and has been accustomed to returning to the Central Plains, Li Xiucheng's army marched north, and the resistance encountered was less than expected, and it could not be compared with the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty. ”

The staff officers in the palace gasped together, the Han Dynasty was knighted very strictly, there were only seven first-class marquis, all of them were meritorious, and only those who followed the emperor from the end of the micro can be crowned marquis, otherwise even if the merit is great, it is useless, such as Zuo Zongtang, pacifying Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi five provinces, Zeng Guofan dedicated two lakes and thousands of miles of land, plus half of Yunnan, and the emperor became a family, and only obtained the title of first-class viscount, Li Hongzhang captured Beijing, pacified the northwest, and even the title has not been obtained, I didn't expect that there will be one more now.

Li Yunzhong asked the staff officer in charge of the Western Front: "Has Zuo Zongtang set off from Yili?" ”

"Emperor Qiqi, Lord Zuo has pacified Xinjiang and captured dozens of people including General Yili of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now he has crossed the Tianshan Mountains and entered the territory of the Russian Empire, and he thinks that he will engage troops with Russia in the next few months."

Li Yunzhong instructed: "You send someone to tell Zuo Zongtang again, occupy more territory, try not to fight with the Russian army, now the Russian Empire is all focused on the European battlefield, let's just pick up the cheap, anyway, Russia will not last long." ”

"Yes!"

Li Yunzhong felt bored, the battle reports sent from the battlefield were all dozens of days ago, although it was one report a day, it was still impossible to accurately command the front-line battle, and the radio technology with high hopes was still in the testing stage, and it may take more than ten years to perfect and mature, I heard that Britain and France could command the army in Crimea on their own soil, I don't know how they did it?

Min Shu trotted in and said to Li Yunzhong: "Your Majesty, Foreign Minister Hong Renji wants to see you?" ”

Li Yunzhong asked, "Hong Renji? Did he bring anyone with him? ”

Min Shu was stunned for a moment, not knowing how the Emperor of Lu Dao knew Lu Dao, and paused for a while before replying: "I brought a foreigner, I heard that it was sent by Russia from the north." ”

Li Yun has a number of hundreds of thousands of troops fighting a dying Russia, and he has never worried about defeat, waiting for Russia's envoys to sue for peace.

"You go on here! I'll be back in a moment. ”

As soon as he went out, Li Yunzhong regretted it a little, and he should have asked the Russian envoy to wait a little longer, and deliberately circled around the garden a few times before turning to the side hall of Chaoyang Palace, which is where Li Yunzhong received foreign guests.

"Weichen Hong Renji pays a visit to the emperor."

"Excuse me!"

Li Yunzhong glanced at the respectful Russian envoy, who was in his thirties, handsome and extraordinary, with gentle and sharp eyes, a beard, and short hair, and the whole person looked young and energetic.

"Russian Crown Prince Alexander has seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty!"

Li Yunzhong listened to the half-baked Chinese, didn't understand it for a while, and asked Hong Renji, "Who is this person?" ”

Hong Renji explained: "Emperor Qiqi, this person is the crown prince of the Russian Empire, that is, the eldest son of the Russian emperor, Alexander, he was ordered by the Russian emperor to send an envoy to the Han Kingdom, and the foreigner next to him is an interpreter. ”

Li Yunzhong suddenly turned out to be Alexander, who was the top name...... Ii!

"I don't know why His Excellency the Crown Prince came all the way to Dahan?"

The interpreter translated Li Yunzhong's words into Russian.

Alexander replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, we and the Han have always been well water and not river water, why did you send troops to attack Russia, was it deceived by the British, or did the French promise any benefits?" ”

"The well water does not interfere with the river water?" Li Yunzhong smiled and replied: "How much territory has Russia invaded China?" How many people in China have been killed? I'm just taking back what belongs to me. ”

Alexander hurriedly explained: "But these are none of the Han people's business, the Mongols and Manchurians we killed are all enemies under His Majesty......"

"Enough!" Li Yunzhong said impatiently: "These are all Chinese, and they are all Chinese territory!" ”

"Okay!" Alexander knew that the result of the Dao Dao was like this, and compromised: "Then we apologize for this, and return to the territory that we have invaded China, and ask you to withdraw your troops, so that our two countries can get along well and sign a treaty of friendship." ”

Li Yunzhong moved and frightened: "It's too late, Britain has formed an alliance with France, China, the United States, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Kingdom of Austria to jointly crusade against Russia. ”

"No, no, no...... According to the information we have received, the United States, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Kingdom of Austria have not yet joined the war, and they are on the side of Russia, because our three countries have signed the Triple Alliance Treaty. Alexander shook his head fiercely, this Han emperor's understanding of Europe was beyond his expectations, and it seemed that Russia had another strong enemy.

Li Yunzhong sneered: "This is not necessarily, Bismarck, the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia, is in Beijing, and he has decided to stand on the side of China, if China needs it, the Kingdom of Prussia will go to war with the Russian Empire, and there is no joke." ”

Alexander's surprise and panic flashed, the news of the secret alliance between the Han State and the Kingdom of Prussia spread in Europe, and the Prussian Kingdom was ridiculed and ridiculed by the mainstream of Europe because of its alliance with the barbarian countries in the East.

"Your Majesty, there is absolutely no irreconcilable contradiction between our country and your country, on behalf of the Russian Empire, I ask you to withdraw your troops, Britain and France have wolf ambitions, they have defeated Russia, they will focus their energy on the Far East, which is not good for Han, from the analysis of the situation at this stage, our enemies are unanimous, you should not cooperate with Britain."

Li Yunzhong didn't understand, but who would stand on the side of the loser.

"Your Excellency the Crown Prince, he doesn't know, my country has signed a treaty with the allies, so it is impossible to withdraw troops alone to negotiate peace, you still want to think of other ways."

"There's a door!" Alexander couldn't help but show excitement, and plucked up the courage to say: "Our country is willing to return all the territories we have occupied in China and sell you a piece of land as compensation." ”

Li Yunzhong laughed, who would buy it now, everywhere the army went was the territory of the Han Dynasty, why spend money to buy it.

Seeing that Li Yunzhong was unmoved, Alexander hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this place is very large, enough to make up for China's losses over the years, you only need five million taels of silver!" (To be continued......)

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