In Li Fushou's hands, there is also a secret letter sent by Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, and now the Political Intelligence Bureau collects information on the Shenzhou Continent, as well as professional intelligence interpretation, and will send an annex to Guangzhou Prefecture, so Gu Yanchuan is familiar with the attitudes and tendencies of the international powers, as well as the extreme danger of Fusang in full combat preparation, and has a clear understanding of the current situation.

In the secret letter;

Lord Gu Yanchuan expressed his extreme disappointment with the imperial court, and he was not the only one who had written to the imperial court, but more than 10 other ministers had written to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to pay attention to the danger of Fusang and easily step into the whirlpool of the Korean Peninsula.

Xiang Zhuang dances the sword, which is intended for Pei Gong.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the ambitions of the wolf sons of Fuso are clearly exposed, and the so-called "Donghak Party uprising" in North Korea is nothing more than a peasant uprising.

Once the Qing army stepped into Korea to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the peasant uprising, if Fusang also sent troops at the same time, the possibility of a direct war between the two countries was extremely high, and it can be said that it was more than ninety percent.

The response of the imperial court was disappointing, in addition to issuing an edict to reprimand Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, Emperor Guangxu issued an edict to reprimand Shen Baozhen, the governor of Liangjiang, and Liu Mingchuan, the governor of Taiwan; "Don't be alarmed, you should keep your own duties", "Yuer Xiaobang also, don't care about the Japanese people".

At a critical juncture when Fuso is pouring all its strength into the expansion of armaments and the danger of war is looming.

On the contrary, the Qing Dynasty relaxed its national defense construction, cutting the military budget and diverting the garden on the grounds of financial constraints, stopping the purchase of military ships from 1888, stopping the allocation of equipment and ammunition for the navy in 1891, and still not allocating funds for the purchase of ammunition in 1894 when the danger was in sight.

Therefore, Gu Yanchuan said at the end of the secret letter;

If Yuan Ding does not have the idea of winning the Central Plains, it is not appropriate to involve too deeply, cover the Yuan Ding body is tens of millions of people's fortune, and the mountains and rivers change color, not carelessly.

Today's plan, it is better to be still than to be still.

Let's watch the changes in the wind and clouds, who is in charge of the ups and downs?

If the situation collapses under the all-out war between Qing and Japan, the two Guang can not be spared alone, and the only way back is in the place of Yuanding.

Yuan Ding should be watched on the wall, thinking that Austrian aid should not be forgotten.

Recently, I have ordered Liu Yongfu of the Black Flag Army to return to Guangzhou and plan to appoint another person. The veteran Feng Zicai is very old, and he gave a generous reward and mercy to return to the field, and he has been raising for a long time since then.

The military power in the northern part of Vietnam is concentrated in one body, which can be done cheaply.

With the assistance of Australian instructors, the Black Flag Army was reorganized in accordance with the military system of the new army, more than half of the old and weak soldiers of the Green Battalion were eliminated, thousands of student soldiers have been replenished, and the Green Battalion soldiers have also been reorganized, and they are undergoing intensive training.

According to the Australian military system

After the retraining in northern Vietnam, there will be 4 elite divisions, each with 8,000 personnel and a total of 32,000 people, all equipped with cutting-edge guns and artillery, and about 14,500 old and weak soldiers of the green battalion will be eliminated, so there should be no problem in dealing with the French soldiers head-on.

There are 2 auxiliary divisions, with more than 5,500 personnel in each division, totaling 11,000 people.

In order to complete the arrangement, Zhiwen nephew raised 1.1 million taels of silver in Liangguang, which was guaranteed by Gu's Commercial Bank and Huitong Bank Guangzhou Branch, with an annual interest rate of 7% and 8 cents.

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The secret letter was written a lot, and it can be seen that Gu Yanchuan relied extremely heavily on this son-in-law who made him win glory and show his face, and even considered that after the building collapsed, some of the Gu clansmen were relocated to Australia for development to avoid being stewed.

Li Fushou knew that this view was too pessimistic, with the small body and bones of Fusang Kingdom, he had no ability to swallow Wanli Shenzhou in one bite.

He thought about it, summoned Li Sizhong, the new deputy secretary general of the royal secretariat, and dictated a secret letter to him to send.

In addition, there are two ships of munitions and equipment, which will be sent to the port of Guangzhou in the near future.

After the end of the Civil War

With the retirement of a large number of soldiers, a large number of materials such as advanced rifles, barreled artillery, infantry equipment, tents and other materials equipped by the Ocean Kingdom have been sealed and stored to cope with possible large-scale battles in the future.

Today, the first-line infantry field division of the Ocean Kingdom has about 110,000 troops, plus more than 10,000 auxiliary troops, distributed in various regions of the kingdom and overseas states, from the easternmost Kingdom of Hawaii, Shangri-La Island in the South Pacific, Borneo, the Ryukyu Kingdom in East Asia, Australia mainland and Mozambique in Africa, of which there are about 50,000 people in six divisions of Australia's native troops, plus an artillery division and 20,400 Imperial Guards (of which 3,600 are deployed in the Ryukyu Kingdom), the total strength is less than 80,000.

Compared with the Fuso country, such an army seems to be a little inferior.

As of now

Fuso has established an army with 63,000 standing troops and 230,000 reserve troops, including 6 field divisions and 1 guards division, a total of 7 active divisions and 18 reserve divisions.

The reserve divisions of Fuso have a very high degree of combat readiness, and they are all organized separately based on each region, which has the advantage of being relatively close to each other and being able to assemble quickly.

Since the soldiers are all from their hometowns, many people are familiar with them, so they have a strong will to fight, and they can desperately rescue friendly troops in danger.

By the beginning of 1894

The Fuso Navy has 32 warships and 24 torpedo boats, with a total displacement of 72,000 tons.

In the Civil War

The number of infantry recruited by the Ocean Kingdom once reached an astonishing scale of 630,000, and the scale of the corresponding weapons reserves was quite large.

As for the infantry weapons of different models of the Southern Army, more than half of them were destroyed in the war, and most of the remaining 100,000 rifles and hundreds of artillery pieces were half bought and half given away, except for some high-quality ones that were sealed and put into storage.

The southern states were flooded with hares, a large part of which were bought by ranchers, and some were equipped with militias in overseas states, such as Shangri-La, Mozambique and Hawaii. The remaining 20,000 good rifles were given to the Qing Dynasty as a gift to Jinjian, and 20,000 guns were given to the Liangguang Governor's Mansion to equip the new army.

Now these two ships of munitions are the last remaining supplies, including more than 10,000 rifles, more than 70 gantry guns, more than 2,000 tents, tens of thousands of military uniforms, equipment, water bottles, etc., all of which were packed and sent to Guangzhou to be used as materials to support the troubles in northern Vietnam.

Having dealt with these trivial matters, Li Fushou recruited the Foreign Minister, Viscount Tang Zhaoyi, who needed to have a clearer understanding of the attitude of the European and American powers towards the current possible outbreak of war in East Asia.

Viscount Tang Zhaoyi said;

"Your Majesty, judging from the information that Weichen heard, saw and came into contact with foreign missions, the situation is not optimistic, and most of the European and American powers have a good show.

Among them, the United Kingdom has the most positive attitude and will likely make subversive moves.

Britain and Fuso are negotiating a new version of the Japan-Britain Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, and the terms are close to being reached, and it is estimated that the new treaty will be formally signed no later than July, and no later than August, according to sources;

In the new version of the treaty, Britain gave up its colonial rights and interests such as concessions and consular jurisdiction, agreed to the Japanese side to raise the import tariffs on British goods, made huge concessions in all aspects, and signed a treaty of commerce with Fuso on an equal footing.

This released a very bad signal, that is, London attached great importance to its relationship with Tokyo, and began to treat Fuso with an equal attitude, deliberately pushing it to the top.

The first is to counter the northern forces of Tsarist Russia, the second is to be used as a vanguard to test the strength of the Qing Dynasty, the third is to balance the regional hegemony of the rising Ocean Kingdom, and the fourth is to expand the market of Fuso.

Judging from the recent trends of the United States, although it has repeatedly stated that it wants to maintain a neutral stance, its rhetorical tendencies are obvious, and its attitude is extremely ambiguous, and this may be a negative effect of the Hawaii incident.

The German Empire, under the command of Wilhelm II, turned to abandon the policy of his predecessor Chancellor Bismarck, which focused on Europe, and instead pursued the sunlit colonies of the world, actively looking for possible colonies in Africa, East Asia, and the South Pacific, showing an aggressive offensive posture.

Considering the close relationship between Britain and Germany (only by blood), it was impossible for Wilhelm II to oppose British East Asian policy, because Queen Victoria was Wilhelm II's maternal grandmother, and British Crown Prince Edward VII was his maternal uncle, and from any point of view, the German Empire would not oppose British East Asian policy, but followed closely.

After more than 20 years of rapid industrial development, the unified German Empire has risen to become the world's second largest economic power after Britain (the United States only surpassed Britain in industrial output in 1894, not GDP surpassed Britain).

In the battle between the two great powers in East Asia, whoever is weak and who is unlucky will be broken to pieces by the African hyenas that will swarm up later.

France, the colonial power, was very happy to see the Japanese and Qing sides lose each other because of their interests and expansion needs in Indochina, so it was very strange that they maintained the same East Asian policy as Britain, that is, they waited for things to evolve.

The most important role is Tsarist Russia, because the current Tsar is seriously ill and may not die in bed soon, so the Tsarist side does not have a clear attitude, they are busy with palace battles, and they do not care about intervening in the situation in East Asia for the time being.

After analysis, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that the Tsarist side is also happy to see both sides lose in the struggle between Japan and the Qing Dynasty, so that they can reap the benefits of the fisherman.

In addition, Italy, Austria-Hungary are all concerned about the situation in East Asia, and like the African vulture, they are standard opportunists, ready to share the scraps in this feast.

Your Majesty, the great powers of the world are already eyeing the Qing Dynasty, and whoever disturbs them to share the feast at such a time will directly harm the interests of the European and American powers, then they are the enemies of the whole world. ”

After a few words, he fell into a long silence.

Thinking of the current treacherous situation in the Great Qing Kingdom, it really makes people feel chills in their backs, but there is nothing they can do.

Frowning and thinking about it for a while, Li Fushou said helplessly; "Okay, continue to keep a close eye on the situation in East Asia, report any new situation immediately, and add an infantry regiment to the Ryukyu Marine Police District to prevent the Fuso Kingdom from beating rabbits with grass and destroying the Ryukyu Kingdom as soon as it changes hands."

"The ministers obey."