Li Yunzhong took the time to make a map of the world and a map of China according to the memories of later generations, and hung them in the room of the military meeting.

Lin Daji, the secretary of the military department, Zhang Suimou, the chief of staff, Li Xiucheng, the governor of Jiangsu, and Yang Kailin, the new squire of the military department, surrounded the map in amazement, and for the first time they intuitively looked at where the countries of the world were distributed.

Li Xiucheng pointed to England, gestured to China, and said in surprise: "Britain is thousands of miles away from China, and the middle is full of oceans, and they actually came to the South Seas two hundred years ago, it is incredible!" ”

Lin Daji shook his head and smiled bitterly: "That's nothing, you see that the sum of these European powers is not as big as my China, but the national strength is so strong, just send an army to defeat the Qing State and force them to sign an unequal treaty, what a demeanor!" There is no such precedent in all dynasties, and the emperor still has to guard against them. ”

Zhang Suimou has opened his eyes in recent years, and he is no longer the reckless landlord young master at the beginning, and after carefully observing Nanyang, he sighed to Li Yunzhong: "Emperor, there is actually a Lanfang country established by the Chinese here, whether we want to send people to contact them, the power of foreigners is mainly concentrated in Nanyang, I am afraid that their life is not easy, and for the future interests of the Great Han, it is necessary to establish a subordinate relationship with Lanfangguo." ”

Listening to their discussion, Li Yunzhong nodded involuntarily, these two maps can make them change some of their minds, which he did not expect, and praised Zhang Suimou with a smile: "What the chief of staff said is right, we have always paid attention to the war at home, and we don't know much about foreign countries, I have sent people to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Lanfangguo and other places to contact the locals." When the Han is really strong, these are the range of our Han's power. ”

Yang Kailin was not interested in these places. Facing Li Yunzhong, he persuaded: "Lan Fang Guochen has also heard of it, and it is located in such a remote place. Far away from China, the middle is full of the sea, such a barbarian land, why is the emperor interested in them, besides, foreigners walk everywhere there, the natives are not civilized, and there are no special products for the Han State to spend, why waste soldiers, horses, money and food to protect them. ”

Lin Daji said with a smile: "Lord Yang doesn't know, Nanyang is not barren. There are rich minerals, gold mines, silver mines are innumerable, the Chinese have a large population there, if the Han is strong, they can easily control there, crowd out foreigners, as long as the South Sea is occupied, foreigners cannot send troops to attack Chinese mainland. ”

Yang Kailin is a scholar, and he reacted immediately when he looked at the map. I admired Lin Daji's point of view, nodded again and again, and praised, "Foreigners must come to China through Nanyang, if Nanyang does not allow foreigners to pass." China can remain as it is and continue to live a life where the sun rises and the sun sets. ”

Li Yunzhong was shocked by these words, how can these scholars respect feudalism so much. I wish China would continue to develop like this and never change.

"If you fall behind, you will be beaten. Only when the Han is strong and prosperous will foreigners not dare to invade. If it remains unchanged, two or three hundred years later, won't the descendants still be bullied by foreigners! Li Yunzhong spoke earnestly, he felt that he was now a mother-in-law, as if she was teaching her granddaughter a philosophy of life.

How far is it from Nanjing, the capital of the Han Kingdom, to Beijing, Zhang Suimou compared the distance between the two places, and exclaimed: "This Nanjing can reach Beijing by sea, so that if you calculate it, Nanjing's sailors can't land in Tianjin, Tianjin is less than 300 miles away from Beijing, and the army can come to the city in three days!" It's a lot closer than taking the land. ”

Li Yunzhong had already thought of this point, and explained: "The sea is dangerous, if there is no large warship to escort the danger, I think it is better to slowly march north, besides, this Qing Dynasty is not as good as the Mengyuan, the Manchus have ruled China for more than 200 years since they entered the customs, and the foundation is solid, and our Northern Expedition has to take one step at a time, until we occupy Shandong, Henan, and Hebei, we can try to capture Beijing." ”

Zhang Suimou sat down disappointed, and especially felt that his suggestion just now was a bit whimsical, the Manchu Emperor was not the former Ming Chongzhen Emperor, staying in Beijing and hanging himself, in case the Han army attacked Beijing by surprise, Xianfeng Xiaoer ran away, wouldn't the Han army be like the Northern Expeditionary Army, the lone army went deep and returned with heavy losses!

Zhao Laoqi walked in silently and handed an official document to Li Yunzhong.

Li Yunzhong held the information sent by Zhao Laoqi and sighed: "Raising tigers will eventually be troubled, and the climate of the Hunan army has become a success!" ”

Zhang Suimou took the official document, and after a cursory glance, he exclaimed: "This Hunan army has expanded to 80,000 people in only one year, and all the Hunan people have gone to war?" ”

As a Hunanese, Yang Kailin saw Zhang Suimou's sarcasm for the Hunan people, and asked: "Hunan has a population of 20 million, the Hunan army only has 80,000 people, and only one of the 300 Hunan people is a soldier. ”

Li Yunzhong interrupted their argument and concluded: "In any case, this Hunan army is our henchmen, and the Hunan army is more difficult to deal with than the green battalion. ”

Lin Daji replied: "Weichen immediately sent an official letter to Lord Zhao, the governor of Jiangxi, and Lord Jiao, the governor of Anhui, asking them to join forces to defend all the cities along the Jiujiang River and monitor every move of the Hunan army. ”

Li Yunzhong thought of Anhui and asked, "Can Li Desheng in northern Anhui be reported to the war?" ”

Zhang Suimou was secretly confused, how could he forget about this, and hurriedly took out the fold and raised his hands above his head, and said: "This is a fold sent by Li Desheng, since the capture of Luzhou, the Tenth Army has conquered Huainan, and now it is in a stalemate with the army of Monk Greenqin in Miaozhou. ”

"How's that guy named Zhang Lexing? Can the Huaibei People's Army be co-opted? Li Yunzhong was a little worried that the Huaibei People's Army would develop into the original Twist Army.

Zhang Sui Mouxi said: "Everything is going well, many farmers in Huaibei are raising their own horses, Zhang Lexing's civilian army has more than 10,000 cavalry people, often fighting with the Mongolian horse team of Monk Greenqin, after Ye Lian's cavalry team arrived, it is like a tiger with wings, Monk Greenqin has not dared to fight in the field, can only retreat in the city of Maozhou, with the city wall to guard. ”

Li Yunzhong put his mind at ease, there are dozens of howitzers, even the Beijing city wall can blast out a hole, the small city of Maozhou, the Qing army can't hold it for long.

Seeing that the emperor showed a look of relief, Zhang Suimou continued: "The General Staff intends to expand Ye Lian's cavalry and form a cavalry army. Please ask the emperor to rule. ”

"This method is good, and the cavalry can play a better advantage north of the Yellow River. Let Ye Lian be the commander of the army, and Zhang Lexing will be the deputy commander. The rest of the commanders at all levels should try their best to arrange their own people, and the people's army should serve as deputies. ”

Zhang Suimou comprehended and nodded to write it down.

Lin Daji took out a copy of the memo and reported: "Lord Zhao, the governor of Jiangxi, requests to capture Nanchang. ”

Li Yunzhong looked at the twists and turns, it turned out that the Hunan army intended to move south, so Zhao Liewen wanted to occupy Nanchang first and win the first move.

Jiangxi is going on the offensive again! When Li Yunzhong was in Jiangxi, he studied the situation in Jiangxi and found that the Hunan army could turn a blind eye to the capture of other places by the Han army. According to the troops, once it is found that the Han army wants to capture Nanchang, it is like going crazy to support, those who can enter Nanchang will enter Nanchang, and those who cannot support Nanchang will attack the nearby prefectures and counties, so as to achieve the goal of containing the Han army.

Therefore, when Li Yunzhong left Jiangxi, he gave instructions that except for Nanchang Prefecture not to fight for the time being, the Third Army should capture all the other prefectures and counties in Jiangxi, and then concentrate on attacking Nanchang City when it has a firm foothold.

But at this time and at that time, since the Hunan army is moving south. It's certainly not the same as it used to be, with only a few thousand people at a time.

"What do you think? Zhao Liewen planned to capture Nanchang and face the Hunan army. ”

Zhang Suimou was quite concerned about this, and bowed to Li Yunzhong: "Your Majesty." The capture of Nanchang could expand the territory of the Han Kingdom, and the prefectures and counties of Jiangxi would be connected, and the Hunan army would lose its logistics base. It is not so easy to capture Jiujiang, and Weichen agrees with Lord Zhao's opinion. ”

Li Yunzhong nodded. looked at Lin Daji again.

Lin Daji didn't dare to ignore it, got up and said, "Weichen is also in favor of capturing Nanchang." ”

Yang Kailin saw the emperor looking at him. He bowed down and said: "Weichen reconsidered, it is obvious that the purpose of the Hunan army going south this time is to capture Jiangxi, and if our army occupies Nanchang, the Hunan army will have no way to start." ”

Li Yunzhong smiled, approved the word 'quasi' on the fold, handed the fold to Lin Daji, and instructed: "Quickly send this fold to Jiangxi, the war in Jiangxi is decided by Zeng Shuiyuan, and Zhao Liewen manages logistics in the rear and organizes a militia to participate in the war." ”

The foreign guns are stationed

Li Yunzhong pointed at Jack and asked Tang Liang: "Does this Jack often come to the foreign gun team, I can see him every time I come over, and he doesn't care about the affairs of the army academy?" ”

Looking at Jack, who was shouting in place and commanding a team of foreign guns, Tang Liang couldn't help laughing, and replied: "The emperor doesn't know, two months ago, a group of Prussian officers came to the military academy, and they didn't approve of Jack's teaching model, and the leader was still a Prussian military academy's chief of education. ”

Li Yunzhong was very interested in these Prussians: "How could Prussian officers come to the Far East?" And entered the Royal Army Academy? ”

Tang Liang didn't know this question either, and seeing that the emperor was waiting for an answer, he hurriedly waved to Jack and asked him to come over.

"I'm busy! Why did you call me here? Jack asked as he patted the dust off his body and frowned.

Tang Liang repeated the question and motioned to the emperor with his eyes.

Jack immediately changed his smiling face, ran over with a fart, bowed to Li Yunzhong and said, "Your brigadier general Jack meets His Majesty the Emperor, may you live forever and live to be ten thousand years old!" ”

Li Yunzhong listened to his nondescript auspicious words, and scolded with a smile: "What a mess, I asked you a question, and you haven't answered it yet!" ”

Speaking of the Prussians, Jack was furious and complained: "These Prussians came prepared, not only did they bring hundreds of breech guns to the military academy, but there was also a Prussian military academy chief of education, I admit that I am inferior to him in teaching, he is a colonel, from Bavaria, I think they must have come to Han for inspection, and soon they will send official ambassadors to establish diplomatic relations with Han." ”

Li Yunzhong asked: "Prussia is still only a small country now, and Germany has not yet been reunified?" ”

Jack asked in surprise, "German reunification?" Your Majesty, don't be kidding, Germany will never be reunited! ”

"Why would you say that?" Li Yunzhong clearly remembered that Germany was unified under the leadership of the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck, and of course Austria was not included.

Jack gestured: "Germany is now only a name, it is composed of Prussia, Austria, Bavaria and other 23 states, Prussia is only one of them, there are many states in the south controlled by France, there are also pro-Austrian states in the west, and there is hostility to Denmark in the north, so it is impossible for Prussia to unify Germany, unless he can defeat these three powers in ten years." ”

Li Yunzhong said humorously: "You guessed the beginning, but you didn't guess the result, do you think it is possible for my big man to cooperate with Prussia?" ”

Although he did not understand the previous sentence, Jack immediately answered the latter question: "Of course, it is possible to cooperate with the Kingdom of Prussia, but Your Majesty must be careful of French intervention, and France on the European continent is the last thing to want to see the unification of Germany." ”

Li Yunzhong stayed in the school field for an hour, and soon it was lunch time, watching Chen Yucheng, Tan Shaoguang, and Bai Yinwu come over together, Li Yunzhong was bloody, and said to them: "Let's have a private visit to Weifu today, and I will take you down to the restaurant!" (To be continued......)