Half of the seven years of Dewu have passed unconsciously.

In the past six months, Zhu Fugui's energy may be most affected by the preparations for the New Shanghai Olympic Games.

But what really worries him is the war in the Western Regions on the other side of the world.

The news of the expedition to the west arrived with a letter of protest from the British.

They claimed that the Ming army had waged inhumane wars throughout the Western Regions.

The treatment of prisoners of war and shepherds violated the relevant provisions of the Geneva Convention of 1863.

By the way, after the original cut Sherman, Daming was condemned once for this.

Although the Ming Dynasty was not a signatory to the Convention, and even the Ming Emperor was still a pig when the Convention appeared, this did not prevent the British from pointing fingers at the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Liangzong attached great importance to this and said that he would immediately set up a special investigation team.

Two months later, the investigation team issued a report of more than 80 pages.

"A Study of the Massacre of 100,000 Civilians and the Assault of X42 Waggir Goats by British Soldiers in Afghanistan".

The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and the Manchester Guardian, which was launched just the year before last year but which firmly dominates the Manchester market, have all been silenced en masse.

None of the newspapers reprinted or refuted Daming's investigation report, and all of them pretended not to hear it.

This is not something that the Ming side can give in by spending a little money, Downing Street and Buckingham Palace have issued death orders that such fakenews will never be allowed to flow into the UK.

As for the major colonies, including Ireland, and the rest of Europe, the British government was out of control.

This is not the time when the news oligarchy will rule the world.

Even if many countries fear British hegemony, their royal families and governments do not have the ability to stamp out all kinds of disobedient tabloids.

In fact, a strong government like the German government, with all kinds of high-handed methods, has repeatedly banned and arrested people, and there is no way to completely ban the ghost from appearing in various tabloids.

However, in this era, because of the introduction of high-yielding pig breeds and grain breeds from the Ming Dynasty (which will degrade after a few generations), the per capita meat consumption in Germany has been greatly improved, and the society has stabilized, but some soil has been reduced.

In any case, due to the constant lobbying of the imperial concubine, the German crown prince Frederick, who had already participated in government affairs, presided over the news censorship work this time, symbolically and casually perfunctory remarks, and locked up a few people without pain.

However, the endless stream of reports is simply out of control.

The "New Berlin Zeitung", a newspaper controlled by Daming, reprinted Daming's investigation report in full and accompanied it with vivid and interesting pictures.

The newspaper office of the Neue Berliner Zeitung was bombed by suspected British agents, and Bismarck protested to the British ambassador.

In short, after the first three days of pretense, a large number of newspapers in the German Empire soon became full of news that the British were strong X goats.

So much so that a certain farm that introduced Valgir goats made a fortune as a result.

Truth be told, the British are really no match for the Germans compared to perverts.

It's just that now the Germans are still the representatives of the barbarians, and the British and French are the world's best.

It is also a decent thing to be able to have the same hobbies as the upper-class British.

After all, Vargil, a Afghan specialty goat, is indeed beautiful and beautiful.

(pictured)

As for the 100,000 Afghans who said they died, no one cared at all.

In fact, even the number of 100,000 was set by Zhu Fugui casually, and no one knows how dark the British are, and there is a high probability that the number of 100,000 is still less.

In the first Anglo-Afghan war between Britain and Afghanistan in 1842, the British, who had just beaten the Manchus to the point of bruising their noses and swollen faces, lost 16,500 men in the battle of Jalalabad.

Bloody revenge ensued against Kabul.

It is not known how deeply people lost their lives as a result.

Even on the Internet in later generations, Zhu Fugui could not find relevant records.

The crimes of the British have been completely wiped clean.

This may be the confidence of them to accuse Daming of farting despite being full of crotch feces.

Of course, to be honest, their accusations did not cause any harm to Da Ming.

Today's Ming is not the bald comprador government that thanks God at every turn, and thanks to civilized and friendly countries for upholding justice at every turn.

In essence, the Ming Dynasty should be regarded as a left-wing moderate dictatorial feudal autocratic dynasty.

The feudal dynasty, ploughing the court and sweeping the holes, with the absolute nine, is a routine operation.

This is a symbol of prosperity!

No one has ever been angry at Li Shiming's father and son for exterminating Goguryeo and bringing back hundreds of thousands of slaves, right?

There may be a bit of a double standard, but that's history.

As long as you are powerful enough and culturally influential enough to become an unspeakable cannibal, you can become the Emperor of France who returns to loyal Paris.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not choose to deny some flaws on the way to the west, but launched a resolute public opinion war against the British.

In addition to traditional channels such as newspapers, Daming also tried to use long-wave transoceanic radio for the first time to broadcast the "Voice of Daming" to Europe.

This is also due to the new breakthrough in radio technology made by the Royal Academy of Sciences in the United Kingdom, and the industrial production of radio stations in Europe has been realized.

It's just that they don't know that the power of the Daming Royal Radio Station is so powerful that it can actually output to them across the ocean.

Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Austria have either forced or warned their nationals who buy radios not to listen to enemy stations such as "The Voice of the Ming Dynasty".

The Germans were slightly better, but they also sent several notes to Ambassador Zhao Yijiong, asking Daming to censor the content on the program that was unfavorable to the German royal family.

There is little nourishment in the war of words with the countries of Europe.

In June of the seventh year of Dewu, Zhu Fugui finally waited for the Russians' request for negotiation.

In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Ming and Chu armies, the Russians realized that if they continued to fight, they would lose all their power in Central Asia.

In this regard, Zhu Fugui telegraphed Zuo Zongtang to hear Zuo's thoughts.

Zuo Zongtang replied with only two words: "Cross the river!" ”

To be honest, Zuo Zongtang's whole person was excited.

A year and a half ago, he carried the coffin and set out on the expedition, all he thought about was to fight for his old life and keep the homeland of the Western Regions for China.

Zuo Zongtang calculated the winning rate of the war.

He believes that if Ming and Russia do not intervene, their winning rate should be around 40%.

At this point, Zuo Zongtang is not modest, but fact.

Historically, Zuo Zongtang's entry into Xinjiang to quell the rebellion was not smooth sailing, and Liu Songshan and other Hunan disciples did not even enter the hinterland of the Western Regions, and they were cut off near Ningxia.

If it weren't for the support of the Zuo family, the Manchu court, or Li Zhongtang, the "backbone of the nation", would have broken off the idea of regaining the Western Regions.

But this time, the progress of the war was far beyond Zuo Zongtang's imagination.

He originally thought that it would take at least five years to pacify Ganshan and Shaanxi, and it would take two or three years to recover the Western Regions.

If Russia, Britain, Austria and other countries intervene, the war will be even more prolonged.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is far away in the Americas, and it is not connected to the Western Regions like Russia and Britain (India), and he will face a difficult and hopeless war.

However, the reality is:

You can always trust you Diliang Sect!

Zuo Zongtang found that his mother had never fought such a rich battle in her life.

Not enough livestock? Find Liangzong.

Lack of firepower? Find Liangzong.

Running out of military rations? Find Liangzong.

In fact, even Zuo Zongtang himself is a little skeptical about life.

Is this Ming court really that rich?

Because according to Hu Xueyan's calculations, there are a lot of materials sent by Daming, and the total value has exceeded 120 million taels of silver.

120 million taels of silver!

Now is not the time when Gengzi paid indemnities, and the price of silver plummeted.

Today's 100 million taels of silver is 15 times the size of the Beijing Treaty!

At that time, the Qing Dynasty could not make up 8 million taels of silver, so he had to borrow from the foreigner's bank, but the Ming Dynasty was able to quietly invest 15 times the amount of silver.

This made Zuo Zongtang feel related.

On the one hand, he was worried that he had failed the great trust of Emperor Ming, and on the other hand, he knew that he was a big and small officer of the Chu army, and knew that they had at least twenty percent of the benefits.

Profit sharing is divided into two.

To be honest, this is definitely incorruptible among the various branches of the Hunan army.

Not to mention the comparison with the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion.

This is Zuo Zongtang's own upright and honest style, which only left 30,000 taels of inheritance in his life, and only formed an atmosphere.

But Zuo Zongtang still felt ashamed of his great tomorrow.

I didn't cut down on food and clothing, and used all the money I saved.

However, Zhu Fugui is not dissatisfied with this.

Lao Zuo can really build the Chu army into an army like the Yue family's army, and my Ming Liangzong can't guarantee that it is difficult to sleep like Zhao Jiumei...

Of course, Chu Jun itself has no hematopoietic ability, and once he is weaned by Daming, that is, Sun Monkey can't jump out of the palm of Lulai Buddha's hand.

Zhu Fugui is not worried about Lao Zuo's loyalty at all.

Moreover, the most important thing is that those materials are not worth 120 million taels of silver at all.

In the past year and a half, Zhu Fugui's personal assets, the funds in the system platform account alone have risen from 26 billion yuan to 33 billion yuan.

Compared with the 110 net worth of Penguin King Ma, it is only 50 small goals short.

At the same time, the materials that Zhu Fugui used to support Zuo Zongtang were only worth 200 million yuan.

It is equivalent to 1.6 million taels of silver today, 15 of the "Beijing Treaty".

In fact, Zhu Fugui's funds on the platform account are already a little too much.

The cultural value can't keep up, and it's completely impossible to buy high-end equipment.

I can only buy some instant noodles, compressed biscuits, gas cylinders, Laiyang steel pipes and other things with low cultural value punishment coefficients to send to Lao Zuo.

It's not so much about support as it is about waste utilization and saturation poverty alleviation.

In the past year and a half, the imperial trainers of the Ming Dynasty have bought people's hearts while actively promoting the "Ming Military Moral Songs" written and composed by His Majesty Zhu Fugui himself, playing open-air movies, and harvesting a total of more than 92 million cultural values.

After deducting the cultural value of the goods, there was a final balance of 1 million.

This business can be said to be quite a good deal.

Of course, because the population of the Western Regions is still a little smaller, the cultural value provided by Western Chu to the Ming Dynasty is still not as good as that of Lahua.

In short, to promote Zuo Zongtang and aid the Chu army, Zhu Fugui really didn't pay too much.

But in Zuo Zongtang's view, it is a heavenly grace.

Therefore, in April, when the ice and snow in Saibei had not completely melted, the Chu army took the initiative to attack.

Last autumn, the Ming and Chu armies had recovered all their homeland east of Kuqa.

Kuqa is the famous ancient city of Qiuzi, which was the last city in the Western Regions to lower the Tang and Han flags.

This time, Zuo Zongtang, Liu and Bai, two righteous brothers, and 100,000 Western Expeditionary Army swore an oath outside the ancient city of Qiuci and swore to repay the grace of heaven.

Continuing west from Qiuzi, the road behind is no longer good off-road with the quality of a Daming car.

With their indomitable will, these Hunan peasants relied on only a pair of feet to level the long yellow sand and Pamir hills.

At this time, there were only six cities left in the hands of Aguba, but they were all fortresses that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. 、

They are Aksu, Ush, Yarkand, Ingishhar, Khotan, and Karygar. (pictured)

Bai Zhixin led 7,000 people from his headquarters to carry 300 mercy jars to conquer Baicheng, killed 3,000 enemy soldiers, and captured 120 Kokand leaders, all of which were handed over to the slicing master of the Daming cooking class.

At the same time, Liu Songshan's headquarters of 12,000 people divided into 6 battalions to assist Aksu, and led the 14th cavalry battalion to the north to attack Wushi, and the enemy chief of Wushi, Haigula (the second son of Agubai), fled when he heard the news, and more than 20,000 troops surrendered on April 16.

Zuo Zongtang personally commanded the Chinese army, and after meeting with Zhao Xizhu and Liu Mingchuan in Aksu, he suddenly turned his troops north.

It turned out that the left army had made an illusion of going south with all its might, and the actual target was the Ili River Valley.

Yili, the real capital of the entire Western Regions in the early years of the Qing Dynasty.

The Ili general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty lived in the center of the Western Regions and exercised power on behalf of the Son of Heaven.

Ili is not only the center of the Western Regions, but also the center of the entire Eurasian continent.

This is where the sea breeze blowing from the Pacific Ocean meets the sea breeze blowing from the Atlantic Ocean.

It is blessed with unique natural conditions and is one of the most livable lands in Central Asia.

Later, Sun Wen proposed that "(choose the capital) to seek the headquarters of Wuchang, to seek the domain to serve Xi'an, and to seek the continent to seek Ili", which is the extreme importance of Ili.

However, as the Manchus weakened and the Western Regions were constantly encroached upon, Yili, which was once in the center, was already on the border, and had even been occupied by the Russians by force for several years.

Originally, in the battle plan proposed by Zhu Fugui, the hard bone of Yili was intended to be left to the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.

But Zuo Zongtang said, "The Son of Heaven treats me as a brother, and I repay him as a national soldier; The Son of Heaven has commanded me to be the king of Central Asia, how can I not do my best to repay the grace of heaven? If not, how will I see the Son of Heaven and my ancestors? ”

On April 22, the left army blockaded the eastern section of the Ili River valley with lightning speed and crossed the Jing River.

Historically, in May 1880, at the age of 69 and with a sick body, Zuo Zongtang braved the scorching heat of midsummer to go out of the customs and vowed to fight to the death with Tsarist Russia.

The Russians did not dare to engage the left army head-on, and sent warships into Tanggu to carry out strategic blackmail.

The extremely stupid Qing court was intimidated by the bravado of the Russians, and with an imperial order, Zuo Zongtang was transferred back to Beijing.

"The Russian ship went east, deviated from the sea frontier, formed a slave, and sealed the Liaohai, but it was just a false plan to threaten peace!"

"If you are in decline and return to the country, you will be exhausted, and you will have no time to take care of it."

Zuo Zongtang's bloody submission was shelved by the Prime Minister's Yamen.

On February 21, 1881 (the seventh year of Guangxu), three days before Zuo Zongtang arrived in Beijing, representatives of the Qing government signed the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty in St. Petersburg.

Intimidated by the strength of the Chu army, Tsarist Russia agreed to return the Turks River valley and the Muzar Pass to the south of Xinjiang, but still occupied the area west of the Khorgos River.

At this point, China lost half of the Ili River Valley forever.

Under the elbow of the Qing court, Zuo Zongtang never really crossed the Jing River and entered the Ili River valley in his life.

But under the account of Daming, 59-year-old Zuo Zongtang can finally fulfill his long-cherished wish and have a bloody fight with Lao Maozi in Yili.