Fighting a civil war, maybe Yang Meng can't find a suitable reason, but there are many reasons for fighting abroad, starting from the indemnity of 20 million taels in the first battle of Gengzi twenty years ago, to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River now, which can be linked to foreign devils.

The indemnity of 20 million taels is a sky-high price in the ears of the common people, and the military expenses spent by the imperial court to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as well as the money and food lost in the war, are also a huge and terrifying amount.

The common people live in poverty, and the taxes of the imperial court are extremely heavy, with these two major reasons, the resentment of the common people will also be temporarily transferred from the Qing court to the British, French, and foreigners, or other foreign devils.

The people are shrewd and stupid, and this kind of diversionary gaze is useful and effective when most people have food and clothing, but it is only temporary.

With the expansion of the scale of the war, the taxes of the imperial court will also become more severe, and when the taxes become unaffordable again, the Qing Dynasty, which has now launched foreign wars, will come to an end!

Previously, Peng Yunzhang organized the Hanlin to enter again, and packaged these, and Yang Meng selected dozens of articles that were very inspiring and increased the people's hatred of foreign countries, together with the national power and unanimous foreign documents drafted in the name of the four-color stick, and sent them to all places under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty.

From Jiangnan to Mobei, from the southeast coast to the southwest frontier, except in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet, such inscriptions were issued in the name of the Yang family, and other boundaries were issued in the name of the Qing court.

Now that the Qing Dynasty directly controls the territory of zhì, the administration is still clear, and the anti-corruption plus the local power of the Yang family. It can well carry out the decrees issued by the military aircraft department.

Even if the Qing Dynasty belongs to the prefecture of Daozhou County. Distorted these decrees. The local government to which the Yang family belongs will also correct the distorted decree in disguise at the level of townships and villages.

The decree could be conveyed and implemented in a timely and accurate manner, making the entire Qing Dynasty a terrible war machine, Jiangnan, Southwest, Northwest, Central China, South China, and North China, these places gathered the vast majority of the people of the Qing Dynasty. Hundreds of millions of people have built canals in order to protect food, and the progress of such a project is also extremely terrifying.

According to the feedback from the Yang family's low-level regime, Yang Meng predicts that the crops in most areas except the northwest will not be affected by the drought and floods next year.

If it is Siemens, Nobel and others, they can follow the large-scale production method of bringing back fertilizers. The self-sufficiency of grain in the Qing Dynasty will be within a year or two. can barely do it.

European planting technology, Millican's planting manor model, Xishan and Minghu are also slowly sorting, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet belong to the southwest of the large livestock, is also going out one after another, is still advanced animal husbandry technology, enough in three or five years, so that the number of livestock in the entire Qing Dynasty, double year after year, three or five years later, when these large livestock can be used for farming, that can save manpower is also an extremely terrifying amount.

The Yellow River waterway, which can barely connect Shandong, Henan, Gansu and Shaanxi, will also speed up the flow of goods and reduce the manpower and material resources required for transportation on a large distance.

Using water canals and chemical fertilizers to ensure grain production and increase production, and using livestock, canals, and railways to save manpower, the entire Qing Dynasty, the strong labor that can be idle will be counted in tens of millions, and the mines, factories, and troops are not enough to consume this batch of strong labor, so Yang Meng will also have the basis for large-scale immigration to foreign countries.

However, these are all premises, that is, the upcoming victory in the battle of Beijing and Tianjin, once the defeat of Beijing and Tianjin, the consequences are also extremely terrifying, with the participation of the Russian mercenaries, once this defeat is achieved, not only Beijing and Tianjin will not be reported, the Zhilure River will also be difficult to protect, and the three eastern provinces are in the pocket of Tsarist Russia.

In this war, Britain, France and Russia may feel that they have invested enough chips, why not Yang Meng's side? Compared with the south, the north is less vulnerable to attack, Yang Meng chose to start a war in the north, one is the location, the second is the time, and the third is the people, but with these, Yang Meng is also facing a huge crisis.

Once this war is lost, the north is not guaranteed, compared to the north, the south that is easier to be captured will not be protected, the battle of Beijing and Tianjin, if it is defeated, then the Qing Dynasty is the second India, the same colony as the subject country!

Forty thousand people are also wealth! After a few years or more than ten years, how many people will be left in the Qing Dynasty? How much wealth will England use the lives of the people of the Qing Dynasty to create zào?

The battle between Beijing and Tianjin must not be defeated, once defeated, Yang Meng has no way to retreat, no matter how many people die, Yang Meng must also ensure that Beijing and Tianjin are undefeated!

It may be difficult to win, but Yang Meng is still completely sure of filling an undefeated game with population.

The time and place are favorable, in the area of Beijing and Tianjin, Yang Meng is occupied, this is a national war, Yang Meng's previous means have also been used, people and nature are not a problem.

Even if the Europeans are accustomed to the cold, but fighting under cold conditions, even elite veterans are difficult to exert the corresponding combat power, Yang Meng's new army and militia on this side, although they are all recruits, although they will also be affected by the cold, but the cold can lower the gap between the soldiers on both sides, and the soldiers are stronger than the European veterans who have experienced the war, Yang Meng did not have such an idea before.

As long as Wei Huozi's new army can gain a foothold in the first battle, then even if this battle is unfavorable, it will be a mess, a mess between the Qing Dynasty and Britain, France and Russia, and the war will drag on in the Beijing and Tianjin areas, and the final victory can only be the Qing Dynasty.

The geographical advantage, one is Yang Meng's familiarity with the terrain around Beijing and Tianjin, the Qing Dynasty's seclusion and seclusion, there is also this advantage, for the terrain of the Qing Dynasty, Britain, France and Russia may have some understanding, but that is all peripheral, once deep into Beijing and Tianjin, the terrain there needs to be reconnoitred in advance, temporary reconnaissance, meticulous is not guaranteed, there are loopholes if not meticulous, there are loopholes is the weakness is the fighter.

The second is the convenience of transportation, the Grand Canal can be connected to Zhilu until the south of the Yangtze River and the southwest, and there are barges and Grand Canals. Troops in the south and southwest of the Yangtze River. That's half a month. With the Grand Canal, Yang Meng will continue to mobilize troops and collect food from the south and southwest of the Yangtze River, and the Grand Canal is the logistics channel of the absolute main force in the first battle of Beijing and Tianjin.

The northwest area is also connected to Beijing and Tianjin, as well as Mongolia and the three eastern provinces, almost the whole country. In terms of location, Britain and France fought a local war, while Yang Meng fought a national war, which was undoubtedly a favorable guarantee for victory in the war.

The time, place, and people are all accounted for by Yang Meng, but these are still a little insufficient for him, Daqing. In any case, it was backward, although there was a superior British-French Didre post-match gun. However, with regard to the application of firearms and firearms, even the new army, which has been honed for a long time, lags behind the European and American countries.

European and American muskets and artillery have been used for hundreds of years, without interruption, and from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Kang Yongqian III, the use of firearms is mainly to strangle, in Europe, maybe children also know how to use muskets, but in the Qing Dynasty, in the five battalions outside the Beijing Division, many soldiers are still unfamiliar with muskets, in their eyes, muskets are still not as good as large blades, this is the gap, the gap in use.

Once the war begins, in many cases, the flexible use of firearms will determine the victory or defeat of a local war, and if you lose again and again, Yang Meng will lose the north.

The large corps operations, whether it is the Anglo-French coalition army or the mercenaries of Oros, who have experienced countless wars, are already familiar with the large corps operations, and today's new army, the large corps operations are still carried out on the sand table.

The gap between the generals' su zhì may be narrowed by sand table deduction, but the soldiers' unfamiliarity with the operation of the large corps is undoubtedly a great weakness of Yang Meng's side.

If the Anglo-French forces can break into the interior and realize the importance of the Haihe River, although it is a countermeasure to build a dam and barrage in winter, the river dam can still be destroyed, and the Haihe River during the dry season is also difficult to make a big flood that is enough to destroy the Miè warship.

The water batteries that can move quickly, the land corps that can cooperate with each other, once the British and French forces choose the right tactics, the war will be extremely difficult for Yang Meng's side.

Both sides have their own advantages and disadvantages, but there is another key factor that determines the success or failure of the war, that is, intelligence, for domestic intelligence, Yang Meng undoubtedly has an absolute advantage, but abroad, even Qin Ziqi's shadow, Sun Boqing's blood shadow, and Patrick's business investigation team, together do not have as large a scope as the intelligence network of Britain and France.

Although the Qing Dynasty does not have to care about how the international situation changes, but the changes in the international situation during the war still have a great impact on the war, if Britain and France instigated Europe and the United States to start a war with the Qing Dynasty, then Yang Meng's side will be completely isolated, and with the strength of one country to start a war with half the world, even if the population of the Qing Dynasty is the largest in the world, such a war has almost no chance of victory.

As an intelligence organization, the scale of the shadow in the country is a bit outrageous, with the continuous development of the Yang family in recent years, the number of shadows is there, Yang Meng is not clear, hundreds of thousands must be there, if you don't get it, it is more than a million, such a huge spy agency, the cost is a trivial matter, and it is his danger to see it.

Although Yang Meng cut off the combat power of the shadow and the domestic shadow with a knife before, these are all things on the surface, there are too many shadows, equipped with knives and guns, this is a combat power!

And with such a huge number, Yang Meng can't command the shadow like an arm, now that the overall situation in the country has been decided, some of the responsibilities of the shadow, the Yang family's power at the bottom can also do it for him, and a large number of shadows have been reduced, which has become Yang Meng's must-choose.

Shadow people, among hundreds of thousands, there must always be some talents, dispersed or merged into the new army, can not eliminate the influence of the shadow, in case there is an uncontrolled zhì underneath, and it involves the forces of both the military and the government, even Yang Meng, it is difficult to clear them in the future, it is better to block them than to let these elites of the shadow hide in the shadows, it is better to continue to let them fight on the bright side, so it is also easy to control.

Yang Meng's next step is to establish a foreign military intelligence network, so that the shadow elite is transferred abroad, even if something happens, it is not a matter inside the family, and it has no impact on the country, so Yang Meng doesn't care who the shadow scourge is!

The dismemberment of the shadow to establish a military intelligence network also played a huge role in the war, and now the shipping route from Europe to the Far East can probably be said to be two, one is the whole sea route through the Cape of Good Hope, and the other is the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea and the 300-mile Egyptian land route, and the future Suez shipping route.

The Suez Canal, now not excavated, but even after the 300 miles of nearly 400 miles of land, can be greatly reduced, the time from Europe to the Far East, in Yang Meng's view, many strategic actions of the British and French coalition forces, are extremely obvious, as long as the eyeliner is set up in these two places, the strategic adjustment of Britain and France, through the two routes of warships, merchant ships can be roughly guessed.

The creation of an intelligence network that could cover both shipping lanes and deliver information in real time was a top priority, and with the addition of the Shadow, Blood Shadow, and Commercial Investigation Missions, it would be possible to cover the entire continent.

There is also a target for collecting intelligence, that is, Millican, Millican's civil war, Yang Meng has waited for a long time, and he has not yet fought, which is undoubtedly a pity, but for the upcoming battle of Beijing and Tianjin, the civil war of Millican, which has not started, is undoubtedly a great variable, and it is also a great advantage for Yang Meng's side.

Now the logistics of the British and French coalition forces are basically dependent on Millican, once there is a civil war in Millican, the supply line of the British and French coalition forces will be broken, if the civil war of Millican be fought without the knowledge of Britain and France, then for Yang Meng, it is the key to determine the victory or defeat of the war. (To be continued......)