Chapter 371 Your Majesty, the Qing Dynasty must go to war with Russia! (Please order and vote)
"Wait, Xue Yan, what did you say?"
When Zuo Zongtang heard that Luo Xueyan wanted to attack Russia, he quickly interrupted him and asked: "You want to take the British and French ships to attack the Russians? Is it to attack Russia?"
Luo Xueyan nodded: "Yes! This is a rare opportunity...:.\n. Ji Gao, this is why I asked you to come here! I may not be able to leave now, can you go for me? As this
An imperial envoy who joined the Qing Dynasty’s war army?”
"I...:..I'm going to fight against Russia?" Zuo Zongtang was stunned again and again, "But, why is this? Now we haven't settled things in our country.
Before fighting the outside world, you must first make peace with yourself!"
"I understand this!" Luo Xueyan tapped the table with his fingers, "But by the time we are finished, the war between Russia and Britain and France will have been over for many years. How will we recover the lost territory of Sakhalin Island? How will we get involved?
New World? I have made an agreement with the British and the French. If we can capture Russian Alaska, they will give us some Russian Alaska islands.
Moreover, if we follow Britain, France and Russia in a fight, as long as we win, we will be recognized as a great power in the world.
This great power...:::.He has the treatment of a great power! The great powers can have independent customs duties, reject extraterritoriality, and protect overseas vassal states or colonies!
Once you get past this hurdle, it will be difficult to get a ticket to become a great power."
Luo Xueyan is so pro-British now. In addition to wanting to introduce some industrial technologies from Britain so that the territory he rules can embark on the road to industrialization faster, he also wants to take a ride on the Crimean War.
Luo Xueyan had already "calculated" the outcome of this battle, Mao Zi's blood loss!
Therefore, Luo Xueyan is bound to win when he joins the war. The question is a small victory, a medium victory or a big victory?
If the Russian troops on Sakhalin Island can be removed and the Heilongjiang entrance to the sea can be blocked, it will be a small victory.
If we can capture the Petropavlovsk Fortress on the Kamchatka Peninsula, we will win.
If Russian Alaska is also eaten, it will be a big victory.
If it can really win a big victory, then the Qing Dynasty will be able to carve out a few islands in the territory of Russian Alaska. If they are lucky,
Maybe he could eat the entire Alexander Islands.
From now on, China and the United States will be close neighbors separated by a strip of water.
In a few years, it seems like there will be another American Civil War?
In addition, if you defeat the Russian Empire, you will be considered to have passed the second round of the great powers test. From now on, you will be regarded as the "keeper of the great powers"!
Even if it is the last great power, it is still a great power!
How could Luo Xueyan be willing to let go of such a good opportunity?
If we let this go, Alaska will become a territory of the United States, and China and the United States will have no chance of being separated by a narrow strip of water.
Moreover, in the future, in order to drive the Russian troops away from Sakhalin and the areas north of Heilongjiang, another war with Russia will have to be launched.
By then, Britain and France may not necessarily support China.
If Britain and France support Russia, it will be difficult to fight with the "foreign".
As for the status of this great power, it is difficult to deal with.
"What? Take back the lost land of Sakhalin? Is Sakhalin lost?" Zuo Zongtang didn't know that Sakhalin had been lost a long time ago. He frowned and asked, "I seem to remember the "Nerchinsk Treaty" signed by the Kangxi Dynasty.
According to the treaty, Sakhalin was returned to the Qing Dynasty, why should we take it back?"
"Hey, treaty?" Luo Xueyan sneered twice, "If we don't take over the territory, the treaty won't work! Sakhalin Island has been lost long ago...\n.\n.\n.\n. North Sakhalin Island is here
The Qianlong Dynasty had completely lost it. As for Nan Kuye
The island was transferred by the Japanese...\n.\n.\n.\n. However, according to the "Edo Treaty", Japan's territory on Sakhalin Island must be returned to us. But if we don't
Russians walking on North Sakhalin Island,
Sooner or later, South Sakhalin Island will have to be lost.
But Russia is very powerful. Fortunately, this time the four countries of Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia are fighting against one of them. If we join in, it will be five against one, and the chances of winning are very high.
Moreover, our participation in the war was not in vain...:.\n. The British help us run the navy, which is one of the benefits that the UK wants to give us. This joint navy will have to participate in the war against Russia later, so
The British will definitely do their best to help us get it done. Ji Gao, do you understand my painstaking efforts now?"
After listening to Luo Xueyan's analysis, Zuo Zongtang finally understood the other party's plan..::..This wishful thinking was really well done, killing two birds with one stone.
But this wishful thinking seems useless even to Luo Xueyan, right?
Zuo Zongtang frowned and asked, "Has the Emperor agreed?"
"Not yet," Luo Xueyan shook his head, "I just received a letter from Weng Shengfu three days ago. The letter said that the emperor has recently been troubled by the Eight Banners soldiers joining the military training in Gyeonggi Province, and he has no time to interfere with our joint crusade with Britain and France.
It’s about Russia, so the coupon I submitted was retained.”
Having said this, Luo Xueyan looked at Zuo Zongtang and asked, "Ji Gao, do you agree?"
"Me?" Zuo Zongtang thought for a while, "Approximately how many troops will be sent?"
"Five thousand to ten thousand," Luo Xueyan said, "It depends on whether Russia will invade the Heilongjiang Basin?"
"What? Russia will invade the Heilongjiang Basin?" Zuo Zongtang was stunned, "When?"
"This year," Luo Xueyan said, "Russian Governor Muravyov of Eastern Siberia has long planned to invade the Heilongjiang Basin. Their tsar should have approved it. Maybe the Russian fleet has entered Heilongjiang now!"
"This is happening!" Zuo Zongtang frowned deeply.
Luo Xueyan looked at Zuo Zongtang and said: "Ji Gao, Britain and France will send troops to attack the eastern coast of the Russian Empire as soon as the second half of the year. They should launch a large-scale attack next year. There is not much time left for the emperor to think about it. Can you go for me?
Go to Beijing and push for war with Russia!"
Zuo Zongtang expressed his beard: "I'm afraid this is not easy to handle, right?"
"Easy to handle!" Luo Xueyan said with a smile, "The Emperor is short of money now. Didn't we offer a discount before and said we wanted to buy the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and the Governor of Zhejiang?"
Zuo Zongtang's eyes lit up: "What? Is this possible?
"Yes!" Luo Xueyan said, "Weng Shengfu's letter said that the emperor's price is not low. My governor of Fujian and Zhejiang wants 800,000, and your governor of Zhejiang wants 300,000!"
"So expensive?" Zuo Zongtang had a look of pain on his face. After all, his financial resources could not be compared with Luo Xueyan's, so he was still a little reluctant to pay 300,000 yuan at a time.
"It's not cheap, but he's waiting for us to counter-offer!"
Zuo Zongtang asked: "Xue Yan, what are your plans?
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Luo Xueyan pointed her finger: "The Shanghai prefect, the Shanghai general soldier, the chiefs of the first department of the six counties in Shanghai, the deputy general Biao, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the staff generals of the subordinate third battalion, as well as the Ryukyu supervisor, the minister to Japan, the consul to the Straits Settlements,
Consul in California, Supervisor Lanfang, Supervisor Yaoluo, Supervisor Vietnam, Supervisor Sulu...\n. Pack these officials together, I will pay one million taels!
In addition, he declared war on Russia and asked Ji Gao to be the imperial envoy against Russia! Ji Gao, please help me go. I will pay half of your 300,000 yuan. I promised to help you become the governor of Zhejiang.
Yes, now the contract has been fulfilled."
"Really... half of it?" Zuo Zongtang didn't expect Luo Xueyan to be so generous.
"No joke!" Luo Xueyan asked, "Are you going?"
"Go, of course! When are you leaving?"
With 150,000 taels of silver, of course Zuo Zongtang went!
"Ten days later!" Luo Xueyan said, "Five days later, the Geely will arrive in Shanghai. After five days of repairs, it will set off back to Tianjin. Ji Gao, you will take the Geely north."
"Okay!" Zuo Zongtang nodded, "Then I have to go back to Ningbo quickly and settle in first."
Luo Xueyan smiled and said: "I also have to go back to Suzhou...::.\n:" He lowered his voice, "It seems something happened over there in Tianjing! How about we meet again in eight days?"
"Okay! It's a deal!"
Jiangxi, Ganzhou Prefecture.
Feng Yunshan's Nanwang Mansion moved from Hengyang, Hunan to Ganzhou, Jiangxi three months ago.
The reason why he wanted to move the palace from Hengyang to Ganzhou was actually to attract the Hakka people from Ganzhou to march into Guangdong.
Although Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui and other founders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom belonged to Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, they actually belonged to the same ethnic group, the Hakkas.
The Hakka people refer to the Central Plains immigrants and their descendants who migrated south to Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places to avoid the war in the north and were registered as Hakkas from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties.
However, the Guiping County area where the Taiping Rebellion occurred, as well as the hometowns of Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan, are not actually the places with the largest number of Hakkas. The state capitals with the largest number of Hakkas are Ganzhou, Tingzhou, Jiayingzhou and Huizhou, which are called "Hakkas".
"Four States"!
Feng Yunshan and Luo Gang had previously attacked Shaozhou and Lianzhou several times without success. At that time, the two decided to take Ganzhou first.
Then they mobilized the Hakkas there to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then went south to capture Jiaying Prefecture and Huizhou, and mobilized all the Hakkas in Guangdong.
Although Luo Gang, the Hakka boss in Jiaying Prefecture, was transferred to Nanyang by Luo Yaoguo to lead the Hakka immigrants there to worship God, Shi Dakai, who is more capable than Luo Gang, has arrived in Ganzhou and brought with him a total of five thousand people.
Military foreign gun corps and twelve foreign cannons.
Now Feng Yunshan is full of confidence!
But just when he was rolling up his sleeves and preparing to invade Guangdong with Shi Dakai, Hong Ren suddenly arrived in Ganzhou and brought Feng Yunshan very shocking news.
Luo Angel communicates with demons!
Are you kidding me? Luo Yaoguo knows demons...\n..\n.\n.\nIt's only right that he knows Ji Du!
What did Hong Xiuquan want to do? The situation was obviously very good, so why did he keep messing around?
Chapter completed!