Bourblon nervously spoke, "God! That guy Wenhan is crazy, no, he must have gotten more benefits from you. Please believe in our sincerity, and the British are a bunch of robbers and vampires, and you must have been deceived by them. What conditions did you promise to Wenhan? ”

Li Yunzhong deliberately straightened his face and said, "I don't think you need to worry about this. ”

Burbulon recalled what he saw when he entered the city, the city of Nanjing was heavily guarded, the soldiers were not numb from the past, but very energetic, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and it seemed that the Qing State was about to lose control of South China and be replaced by the Great Han State in front of it. France must not be on the opposite side of the Han state, there will be nothing, damn the British, let them go one step ahead again.

Bourblon made up his mind: "What the English can give, we can give in France, but please give us the same treatment as the British." ”

Li Yunzhong took the opportunity to take out the list of prepared Lu and handed it to Burbulon.

Krenswick rifle 600 rods, 10,000 rounds of ammunition

Brown Bess 2,000 strokes and 30,000 bullets

10 cannons, 1000 shells

15 howitzers with 1500 shells

100 barrels of gunpowder

Bourblon shook his head and said: "No, it's too much, Your Highness, you must know that France's interests in the Far East are not great, so there are very few troops deployed here, even if you take out all the weapons in active service, there are not as many as you want, and I don't believe that the British can give you so many weapons, which violates the agreement made by our three countries." ”

Li Yunzhong said with a smile: "Of course, the British don't give us so much, but as I said just now, don't you want the French to have more interests in the East than the British?" Do you want to know what the British get from me? ”

Lieutenant Li Yun handed a copy of the treaty with the British to the French minister.

Bourblon looked at the treaty above, his face turned from white to blue, and then from blue to red, slapped the treaty on the table, and said hurriedly: "Your Highness, you can't agree to the conditions of the British, in that case, we French will have nothing." ”

Li Yunzhong pretended not to care and said, "Then it depends on whether you French people are sincere?" ”

Father Golpida, next to Bourblon, picked up the treaty and said, "Can I see it?"

Seeing Li Yunzhong nodding, Father Nangelu also poked his head over and discussed in a whisper. Later, the two priests were seen arguing with Bourblon, and Marquez on one side looked embarrassed, but did not translate.

Meng Sheng, Hu Yihuang and others looked at each other. Even Li Yunzhong didn't understand, the situation looked like the priest was accusing the minister, and Bourblon kept explaining something, and the two priests kept shaking their heads.

Hu Yihuang whispered: "Could it be that those two old men are the big officials, and they have to listen to them?" ”

Meng Sheng nodded and said arbitrarily: "I think they are pretending to be gods and tricking us, and they have found someone who can't call the shots and talked to us for a long time, Your Highness, let's drive them out of the city." ”

Although Li Yunzhong did not understand the situation on the French side, he did lack advanced guns and cannons, and he estimated that as long as he had 2,000 foreign guns, he could attack the Jiangnan camp and be invincible.

Hearing that the Han people were willing to give up, he hurriedly explained in Chinese: "Mr. President of our country is particularly concerned about the development of Catholicism in the Far East, so the people of the Church have some ...... rights, even Mr. Minister has to take their opinions into account, and the two priests complain about Mr. Minister because you have given too many privileges to the British Protestants. ”

Meng Shengsheng, Hu Yihuang, and others seemed to understand whether they understood or not, but Li Yunzhong understood that it was related to the struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism.

Bourblon said to Li Yunzhong with a dejected face: "Your Highness, I will try my best to help you make up your list, but you must buy it with gold, otherwise I will not be able to explain it to Mr. President, it may take a long time, please be sure to promise the rights enjoyed by Protestants under your rule, and Catholics will also enjoy it equally." Of course, there are other things on the treaty. ”

Li Yunzhong said happily: "Of course there is no problem, in order to let you know more about our Han Kingdom, you can consider staying in Nanjing for one night and then leaving for Shanghai tomorrow, how about it." ”

Bulblon said, "Then thank you for your hospitality." ”

After the golden and silver generals brought the French and his party to the post house, Jiao Liang couldn't help but say, "Can they really sell us 2,000 birds?" ”

Li Yunzhong corrected: "I think they will definitely ship all the inventory in Shanghai to sell to us, and besides, it is not a bird system, it is called a rifle." ”

Hu Yihuang said excitedly: "I heard that foreign devils ...... Rifles can be used in thunderstorms, I don't know if it's true or not, the Qing demon in the direction of Hubei is about to move recently, if there are hundreds of rifles, it will be able to break through Wuchang again. ”

Li Yunzhong heard that Hu Yihuang was going to fight Wuchang, shook his head and said: "Wuchang is still forgotten for the time being, if our army's battle line is too long, it is not easy to defend, didn't the Taiping army attack Sichuan?" Will they send troops to attack Hubei? ”

Zuo Zongtang couldn't believe it: "How can Hubei not want it, it is the heart of China, the terrain is the upper reaches of the Liangjiang region, and it is also an important place for grain production, if I capture Hubei by the Han Kingdom, then the Qing State will be divided into two halves, and the southern provinces are bound to be panicked all day long, and it is easier for him to sweep the world every day." ”

Li Yunzhong saw Zuo Zongtang's opposition, and suddenly had no idea in his heart, he opposed the occupation of Wuchang, just because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom repeatedly fought a tug-of-war with the Qing army in Hubei in his previous life, and finally lost the enemy and withdrew from Hubei.

Li Yunzhong worried: "When I gave up Hubei, I already planned to go all out to develop to the south and capture Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”

Meng Sheng saw that Zuo Zongtang was going to continue to refute in public, for fear of damaging Li Yunzhong's prestige, so he hurriedly interjected: "If you can get Hubei at the smallest cost, it will be much easier." ”

Hong Xuanjiao saw that they had been discussing for a long time, but before the results were discussed, she compromised and said: "It's better to let the Taiping army occupy Hubei, which can not only weaken the Qing demon, but also make the Taiping army thank us." ”

Zuo Zongtang said with relief: "To capture Hubei, there must be a naval army, my country's naval division is not strong, and we have to defend Nanjing, so let's give Hubei to the Taiping army." ”

Li Yunzhong glanced at Hong Xuanjiao approvingly, and cheered everyone up: "When we consolidate Jiangnan, we are bound to attack Hubei and Hunan, and then we will capture the two lakes in one go." ”

Hu Yihuang looked very disappointed, he originally wanted to preside over the western expedition to Hubei, but he didn't expect the King of Han to be interested in this at all, and said: "Luzhou, the capital city of Anhui, has not yet been captured, please allow me to lead the army to attack Luzhou." ”

Li Yunzhong nodded and said, "The occupation of the Seventh Army in Luzhou can be completed alone. ”

Hu Yihuang thought so, and then said: "Then I will go back to Anhui tomorrow to prepare." ”

In the dead of night, Li Yunzhong and Su Sanniang were engaged in a man-making movement, I don't know how long they tossed, both of them were exhausted, lying on the bed panting, Li Yunzhong rested for a while, hugged Su Sanniang again, stroked her smooth back, put the beautiful woman's body on himself, looked at the squeezed and flattened chest, Li Yunzhong said happily: "I finally understand why those kings in the past were so obsessed with women." ”

Su Sanniang felt that this posture was too embarrassing, so she slipped off Li Yunzhong's body, pillowed on his shoulder and persuaded: "Now so many people's lives and deaths are placed on you alone, you must not learn from the king of the dead country!" ”

Li Yunzhong laughed softly: "Even for the sake of you sisters, I won't let the Han perish." ”

Su Sanniang asked in a low voice: "Sister Hong and I are now your wives, it is not suitable to be in the army anymore, who are you going to let take over the position of commander of the first and fourth armies?" ”

"Some people have enough qualifications and lack ability, and some people have enough ability and insufficient qualifications, Sanniang, do you have any good candidates, forget about the Fourth Army, the first military is very important, don't be sloppy." Li Yunzhong sighed

Li Yunzhong also planned to build the First Army into a model army, slowly deploy firearms, personally train grassroots officers, and expand the army in the future, all of which had to draw backbone cadres from the First Army to serve as officers, so the post of army commander was very important.

Su Sanniang thought about it and said: "Li Xiucheng was personally promoted by you from your own soldier to the division commander, and Li Chunfa is your cousin, these two people must be coveting the position of army commander, and choosing any one will hit the other, so it is better to transfer Luo Outline back to serve as the army commander." ”