"That's good, that's really good. Your tip is so useful. This increases my chances of winning by two points..." Li Hongzhang twirled his beard and nodded.
Mailer was very satisfied with Li Hongzhang, and wanted to flatter Mr. Li again. Don't look at the Han ministers sitting across from him, but who asked his teacher to be Zeng Guofan? In other words, there is more hope of saving one's own life.
"Brother Shaoquan... Actually, there is still a flaw in the booklet that has not been written. For the sake of brother Shaoquan's righteousness, I feel sorry for myself..."
"This Xiao Letian is an evil spirit from the West. He looks like a man from the Qing Dynasty on the outside, but inside he is filled with the evil scriptures of foreigners... To deal with this kind of person, you have to use evil objects to break him."
"In a previous assault, we prepared countless pieces of dog blood, feces, foot wraps, and menstrual tapes... We mixed these pickled things together and threw them out... Hahaha, guess what, the enemy's defense line was actually breached .”
"That was the most rewarding assault. Brother, I led the cavalry into battle in person. The ancestral riding bow showed off its power, the horse leaped over the trench, and the bow and arrows in my hand were all fired... It was fun, it was fun."
Mailer looked intoxicated. The only time he jumped on the battlefield was really one of the few times in his life where he showed off his power. It was probably enough for him to brag about for a lifetime.
Li Hongzhang was dumbfounded. He felt sick in his stomach. He never thought about what Yishan and Yang Fang did during the Daoguang period. How could the Manchus still believe in it now? How many years have passed.
Li Hongzhang really couldn't stand it anymore. If he listened any more, he would vomit and quickly reached out his hand to stop it. "Slowly, slowly... If this strategy works so well, why didn't we win in the end?"
Mailer showed no shame at all and spread his hands, "Isn't there not enough food? I sent troops to search seven or eight villages in a row, which was enough for one assault. Xiao Letian, this evil man, has great magical power. Brother Shaoquan If you want to defeat him, it's best to hit all the pickled things in Langfang and Wuqing together, but it won't work if the amount is too small..."
Li Hongzhang was completely speechless. The scene that Mailer described to him was so beautiful that he didn't even dare to think about it. What if he sent troops to rob Langfang and Wuqing, hauling carts of feces, urine, dog blood, foot bindings and menstrual belts? …
What to do next, pile it inside the camp or outside the camp, how big a pile it will be. When Xiao Letian's new army comes, they can smell it just by smelling it without having to explore the road.
Besides, the Kirigakure brat has already said that there will be heavy rain in the next ten days. If this pile of yellow and white things is soaked by rain, no one will be able to stand inside or outside the camp.
Vomit... Li Hongzhang felt more and more like vomiting, so he quickly changed the topic, "Ahem, cough, cough... let's put this matter aside for now. My trip to the capital may be extremely dangerous. Do you have any plans?"
Mailer, who kicked the banknotes in his arms, sighed, "What else can I do? I can't let the money open the way, use my knees as my feet, and walk forward in shame."
"One intestine, one black heart, one cheeky face, one tongue at both ends, one pair of flattering bones, one pair of knees, no matter how many knocking insects there are, three points of smiling faces, the above eight medicinal herbs are chopped into pieces with a smiling knife and hidden in the turtle shell. Before use, boil one wolf heart and one dog lung into a paste, and take them with medicine."
Mailer recited the most popular joke in Sijiu City, but today the joke was going to be on him.
At night, Li Hongzhang sent Mailer away. Watching the fast horse disappear on the official road in the northwest, the veteran Hanchen clenched his fists and his eyes were extremely cold.
In his arms, there was a piece of information about Mailer, which was temporarily collected by his staff, and it was clearly written on it.
"Melle led the troops, but his cavalry often had no horses. The navy was never accustomed to the water. During exercises, the cavalry temporarily hired horses, and the sailors hired fishermen to replace them. The weapons were rusty and rotten. When making gunpowder, nitrate and sulfur were omitted. As long as they could make a sound, Just fine, the warship is made of thin boards and old nails, and it leaks when hit, and the shells in the artillery are as hard as sponge cakes..."
"The roster was falsified, and in order to cope with the situation, market coolies were hastily recruited. Although there was regular military training, the emphasis was on observation rather than actual combat. Troop training was like an opera... How could such an army be invincible..."
"In this siege of the special zone, the imperial court selected warriors from the Eight Banners troops in the Gyeonggi area and handed them over to him. It can be said that 70% of the best are in his hands. If this siege fails, the Manchu army in the Gyeonggi area will be severely weakened in ten years... …”
Li Hongzhang's Huai Army followed the military system of the Hunan Army, and Zeng Guofan attached great importance to the construction of the staff and spared no effort in recruiting talents. It was the gathering of heroes that could defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom step by step and compete with the Manchu court.
Li Hongzhang's staff are also very powerful. There are no showy Qingliu here. Those pickers who can only write eight-legged essays should be left to the Manchus. Just look at this analysis of Mailer and you can see that this is The elite group is so powerful, it can be said that they are extremely powerful.
The guard next to Li Hongzhang whispered, "Sir, if you really want to help such a bastard, how can you give him money back?"
"Shit, I'm just spending money to buy information and popularity. You think I will help him. Don't worry, none of our people in the capital will help him. He will kneel down with money. Go ahead."
"Hey... after all, this world is still full of people. Just give him some money to fool him and make him think that we will help. This is also a good cause. You know when you can use it in the future. Besides, people use their lives. It’s not appropriate for us to ask for the information we exchanged for nothing..."
The guard seemed to be Li Hongzhang's confidant, and he didn't have any right to speak. "The lives of the Manchus are important, but the lives of us Han people are not. If you ask me, we might as well just rebel while we are strong now..."
"With Marshal Zeng as the emperor, you can always be a side-by-side king or something. And that Xiao Letian, I think he is also a good man. If you drag him on the ship, it will be nothing more than a throne in the end... I heard that now nine That’s what it means to be handsome.”
When Li Hongzhang heard this, he turned around and slapped him with his backhand, "Are you crazy? You are talking nonsense. Do you want to die..." After speaking, he looked around and saw that there was no outsider before he said viciously.
"Don't mention this again in the future. The commander will never rebel, and I will never rebel... If I hadn't seen that you are a member of my family, I would have punished you long ago."
"Why? He is so innocent and unreasonable. Weren't you also angry when you saw the booklet and information just now? I can't figure it out. I just can't figure it out..."
This is really a member of the family. Even though Li Hongzhang was so angry, he still refused to shut up and kept talking nonsense, but his tone was indeed much lower.
"Hey... Silly boy, do you know what's going on here? Ever since foreigners started to interfere with China, our old rules and traditions have changed, and they don't work anymore..."
"Do you know the public law of all nations? Do you know what Western diplomacy is? Do you think that those treaties signed six years ago that were humiliating and humiliating the country would not be of any benefit to the Qing Dynasty? You are stupid..."
Li Hongzhang pulled his nephew into the account, "What Western treaties emphasize is the coexistence of rights and obligations. When the Manchu and Qing Dynasties compensated the silver and signed it, there was also an invisible right that came into effect... Since it was the money compensated by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, If we sign an agreement, which is an agreement between countries, then the Westerners will also promise to only recognize the Manchus as the masters of China."
"Do you understand, silly boy... As long as the foreigners sign an agreement with the Manchus, no matter what the agreement is, they will implicitly recognize that the Manchus are the only rulers of China, and all other forces will be excluded. …”
"After the signing of the Treaty of Beijing and the Treaty of Tianjin, there is no longer any arms embargo among the four countries of Britain, France, the United States and Russia. Have you forgotten that it was six years ago that our army began to equip a large number of foreign guns, which could not be bought with money before? ah."
"After the agreement was signed, the British Sir Gordon directly participated in the war on behalf of the foreign musketeers, and the fight was so long that they could not find North. You know how the Queen Mother and the princes and ministers laughed when the news reached the capital."
"Prince Gong once said after drinking that since he had known that the foreigners only valued money, why would he let the monk king go to war with the foreigners at that time? It would be great to directly sign an agreement and turn all the compensation into employment money, and then hire 100,000 foreign soldiers to fight for our dynasty. Fighting, how beautiful that is.”
Li Hongzhang sighed, "You see, the foreigners now have an irreconcilable relationship with the Manchus. If the Han people rebel now, the foreigners will have to intervene. Then our China will really fall apart."
What Li Hongzhang said made the nephew speechless for a long time. Finally, he sighed and turned away from the tent. Li Hongzhang sat in a chair and listened to the wind outside for a long time in silence. He had only one thought in his mind.
"In today's world, we can no longer live behind closed doors. If we want to change the tide of the times, we cannot do without the powerful force of foreigners. Those who can occasionally lead the trend in the future must be the Westernization elite..."
Thinking of this, Li Hongzhang was suddenly excited. He suddenly realized that the so-called master of Western learning in the Qing Dynasty was none other than Xiao Letian. When it came to engaging in Westernization, he thought who would dare to be the first in the world.
"Could it be that this Japanese devil is trying to use foreign power to seize the throne? No, this is really possible. God knows how many Western countries are standing behind him."
"This damn evil devil is really going to rebel. No, no...it won't be his turn if he wants to rebel. As long as I, Li Hongzhang, are here, you, Xiao Letian, can't do anything wrong."
Just when Li Hongzhang wanted to bite someone viciously, on the Haihe River southwest of Tianjin Wei, the retreating Wave Breaker was anchored in the middle of the river, with the lights on the ship brightly lit.
A fast horse came from the direction of Tanggu, raising a cloud of smoke on the river embankment. Before reaching a New Army sentry post, everyone shouted loudly, "Secret message from the execution hall... The Prime Minister's kiss... The rest of the people, please stay away... Tonight The password is 'Wild Wolf'..."
New army checkpoints guarded the vast land centered on the battleship. Xiao Letian's safety was above all else. These loyal warriors heard the command correctly and quickly gave way. The war horses almost brushed their noses and rushed over.
Soon the messenger came to the river and jumped into the boat and rowed towards the Wavebreaker. The messenger was still shouting "Secret message from the execution hall... Password to the wild wolf..." Soon there was a noise on the Wavebreaker. .
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