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

Minister of War Lin Daji, Chief of Staff Zhang Suimu, Jiangsu Governor Li Xiucheng, new Minister of War Yang Kailin and others surrounded the map and were amazed. For the first time, they watched where countries around the world were distributed.

Li Xiucheng pointed to England, gestured at China again, and said in surprise: "Britain is more than ten thousand miles away from China, and the middle is full of ocean. They actually came to Southeast Asia two hundred years ago. It's incredible!"

Lin Daji shook his head and smiled bitterly: "That's nothing. Look, this European power is not as big as China. Its national strength is so strong. Just sending an army can defeat the Qing Dynasty and force them to sign unequal treaties. What a behavior! There is no such precedent in all dynasties, so the emperor still needs to be on guard against them."

Zhang Suimu has opened his eyes in recent years and is no longer the reckless young master of the landlord family. After carefully observing Nanyang, he sighed to Li Yunzhong: "Master, there is a Chinese country here. Should we send people to contact them? The foreign power is mainly concentrated in Nanyang. I am afraid that their days will not be easy. Moreover, for the future interests of the Han Dynasty, it is necessary to establish a subordinate relationship with Lanfang country."

Listening to their discussion, Li Yunzhong nodded involuntarily. These two maps could change their ideas. This was unexpected. He praised Zhang Suimu with a smile: "The Chief of Staff said it well. We have always paid attention to domestic wars and do not know about foreign countries. I have sent people to Japan, North Korea, Taiwan, and Lan Fangguo to contact the locals. When the Han Dynasty is really strong, these are the sphere of influence of our Han Dynasty."

Yang Kailin was not interested in these places and advised Li Yunzhong: "Lan Fang's ministers have heard of it. They are located in such a remote place, far away from China, and the middle is full of seas. Why are the emperor interested in them in such barbarian lands? Besides, foreigners are everywhere there, the natives are not yet civilized, and there are no specialties for the Han Dynasty to spend. Why waste soldiers, horses, money and food to protect them?"

Lin Daji smiled and said, "Mr. Yang doesn't know that the South Ocean is not barren. There are numerous minerals, gold and silver mines there. The Chinese have a large population there. If the Han Dynasty is strong, it can easily control it and exclude foreigners. As long as the South Ocean is occupied, foreigners will not be able to send troops to attack mainland China."

Yang Kailin is a scholar. He suddenly reacted when he looked at the map. He admired Lin Daji's point of view and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Foreigners must come to China from the South China Sea. If foreigners are not allowed to pass through South China Sea, China can remain the same and continue to live a life of rising, working and falling, and resting."

Li Yunzhong was so thunderous about this. Why did these scholars advocate feudalism so much? I hope that China will continue to develop like this and will never change.

"If you fall behind, you will be beaten. Only the great man is strong and foreigners dare not invade. If it remains unchanged, will the descendants still be bullied by foreigners in two or three hundred years?" Li Yunzhong said earnestly. He felt that he was just a mother-in-law now, and he was talking about life philosophy to his granddaughter.

How far is Nanjing from Yanjing, the capital of Han Dynasty, Zhang Suimu figured the distance between the two places and exclaimed: "Nanjing can be reached by sea. In this way, the navy of Nanjing cannot land in Tianjin? Tianjin is less than 300 miles away from Yanjing, and it can reach the city in three days! This is much closer than taking land."

Li Yunzhong had long thought of this and explained: "The sea was dangerous. If there were no large warships escort, it might be dangerous. I think it would be better to advance north slowly. Besides, the Qing Dynasty is not as good as the Mongolian Yuan. Since the Manchus entered the pass, they have ruled China for more than two hundred years and have a stable foundation. We will have to take one step at a time until we occupy the three places of Shandong, Henan and Hebei to try to capture Yanjing."

Zhang Suimu sat down in disappointment, and felt that his suggestion just now was a bit whimsical. The Qing emperor was not the former Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. He stayed in Yanjing and hanged himself. If the Han army sent surprise troops to attack Yanjing and Xianfeng's son ran away, wouldn't the Han army go into the deep and go back like the Northern Expedition Army?

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

Li Yunzhong held the information sent by Zhao Laoqi and sighed: " Raising a tiger will eventually cause trouble, and the climate of the Hunan Army has already become!"

Zhang Suimue took the official document and said in a brief look: "This Hunan Army expanded to 80,000 people in just one year. Has the Hunanese all gone to war?"

As a Hunanese, Yang Kailin saw Zhang Suimu sarcastic Hunanese and asked: "Hunan has a population of 20 million, only 80,000 people in the Hunan Army, and only one out of 300 Hunanese people is a soldier. If the whole people are soldiers, can we still have a place to survive?"

Li Yunzhong interrupted their argument and concluded: "No matter what, this Hunan Army is a major concern for us. The Hunan Army is more difficult to deal with than the Green Camp. The Ministry of War and the General Staff should pay attention, especially in Jiujiang, the Hunan Army will not let go."

Lin Daji replied: "I will send official documents to Jiangxi Governor Zhao and Anhui Governor Jiao immediately, asking them to join forces to defend all cities along Jiujiang and monitor the Hunan Army's every move."

Li Yunzhong remembered Anhui and asked, "Will Li Desheng, a war report be submitted in northern Anhui?"

Zhang Suimu said insincerely that he was confused, why did he forget about this matter, so he hurriedly took out the memorial and raised his hands above his head, saying, "This is a memorial sent by Li Desheng. Since he captured Luzhou, the 10th Army has captured Huainan, and now he is in a stalemate with Senggelinqin's army in Haozhou."

"How is that person named Zhang Lexing? Is the Huaibei Civil Army incorporated?" Li Yunzhong was a little worried that the Huaibei Civil Army would develop into the original Nian Army.

Zhang Suimu said happily: "Everything goes well. Many farmers in Huaibei raise horses. Zhang Lexing's civilian army had more than 10,000 cavalrymen, and they often fought with Senggelinqin's Mongolian horse team. After Ye Lian's cavalry team arrived, they were even more wings. Senggelinqin no longer dared to fight in the field, so they could only hide in the city of Haozhou and defended by relying on the city wall."

Li Yunzhong felt relieved. There were dozens of howitzers that could even be knocked out even if the Yanjing city walls were in danger. The Qing army could not defend the small Haozhou city for long.

Seeing the emperor showing relief, Zhang Suimu continued, "The General Staff intends to expand Ye Lian's cavalry and form a cavalry army. Please make a decision."

"This method is good. The cavalry can give full play to its advantages north of the Yellow River. Let Ye Lian be the commander of this army, Zhang Lexing as the deputy commander, and the other chief officials at all levels try to arrange their own people and the civilian army as deputy positions."

Zhang Suimu understood it in a heart-to-heart manner and nodded and recorded it.

Lin Daji took out a memorial and reported: "Jiangxi Governor Lord Zhao, requesting to capture Nanchang."

Li Yunzhong looked at the memorial and found that the Hunan Army was intending to move south in large numbers, so Zhao Liewen wanted to occupy Nanchang first and win the first move.

Jiangxi is about to launch an offensive again! Li Yunzhong studied the situation in Jiangxi when he was in Jiangxi and found that the Hunan Army could ignore the capture of other places by the Han army and remained silent. Once he found that the Han army wanted to capture Nanchang, it was like crazy. If he could enter Nanchang, it would enter Nanchang. If he could not support Nanchang, it would attack nearby prefectures and counties to achieve the goal of restraining 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 would capture all other prefectures and counties in Jiangxi, and then concentrate its efforts to attack Nanchang City until it gained a foothold.

But once and then, since the Hunan Army has moved south in large numbers, it is definitely no longer the same as before, with only a few thousand people at a time.

"What do you think? Zhao Liewen plans to conquer Nanchang and fight against the Hunan Army."

Zhang Suimu cared about this barbarian and said to Li Yunzhong: "Report to the emperor, capturing Nanchang can expand the territory of the Han Dynasty, and Jiangxi's prefectures and counties are connected together. The Hunan Army lost its logistics base, so it would not be so easy to capture Jiujiang. I agree with Lord Zhao's opinion."

Li Yunzhong nodded and looked at Lin Daji again.

Lin Daji did not dare to ignore it and stood up and said, "I also agree with the capture of Nanchang."

When Yang Kailin saw the emperor looking at him, he bowed and said, "I am reconsidering me. It is obvious that the purpose of the Hunan Army going south this time is to capture Jiangxi. Our army occupied Nanchang, so the Hunan Army has no way to start."

Li Yunzhong smiled, and wrote the word "correct" on the memorial, handed it to Lin Daji, and ordered: "Send this memorial to Jiangxi quickly. Zeng Shuiyuan is the leader in the war in Jiangxi, and Zhao Liewen manages logistics in the rear and forms a militia to join the war."

Foreign Gun Team Station

Li Yunzhong pointed at Jack and asked Tang Liang: "Does Jack often come to the foreign gun team? I can see him every time I come here. He doesn't care about the affairs of the Army Military Academy?"

Looking at Jack who was shouting and commanding a team of foreign gun players to line up, Tang Liang couldn't help laughing and replied: "The emperor doesn't know that a group of Prussian officers came to the military academy two months ago. He did not agree with Principal Jack's teaching model. Moreover, the leader was also the chief of education at the Prussian military academy. Chief Zhang saw that he was indeed a good teacher, so he appointed him as the chief of education. As a result, the students in the military academy all went to listen to the chief of education classes. The students were all the pride of heaven, so Jack could only ask these members to vent his anger."

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

Tang Liang was not clear about this question. Seeing that the emperor was waiting for an answer, he hurriedly waved to Jack and asked him to come over.

"I'm busy! What's the matter with you calling me here?" Jack asked with a frown.

Tang Liang repeated the question and signaled the emperor behind with his eyes.

Jack immediately changed his smile, ran over happily, bowed to Li Yunzhong and said, "Your Brigadier General Jack pays homage to His Majesty the Emperor, I wish you immortality and live for a long time!"

Li Yunzhong heard the auspicious words he said, and laughed and scolded: "What a mess? You haven't answered the question I asked you yet!"

When Jack mentioned the Prussians, he became angry and complained: "These Prussians came prepared. They not only brought hundreds of breech guns to the military academy, but also a chief educator of the Prussian military academy. I admit that I am not as good as him in teaching. He is a colonel from Bavaria. I think they came to Han for investigation. Soon they will send formal ambassadors to establish diplomatic relations with Han."

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

Jack asked in surprise: "Germany is unified? Your Majesty, don't joke, Germany can never be unified!"

"Why do you say that?" Li Yunzhong clearly remembered that Germany was unified by later generations under the leadership of Iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck, and of course, it did not include Austria, a powerful country.

Jack gestured: "Germany is just a name now. It is composed of 23 states including Prussia, Austria, Bavaria, etc. Prussia is just one of them. There are many states in the south controlled by France, there are pro-Austrian states in the west, and there are hostile destiny in the north, so it is impossible for Prussia to unify Germany unless it can defeat these three powerful countries within ten years."

Li Yunzhong said humorously: "You guessed the beginning, but didn't guess the result. Do you think my great man is likely to cooperate with Prussia?"

Although he couldn't understand the previous sentence, Jack immediately answered the latter question: "Of course we can cooperate with the Kingdom of Prussia, but His Majesty must be careful of France's intervention. France on the European continent is the least willing to see German reunification."
Chapter completed!