The Ninth Commander looked at these sincere men crying, and his own eyes were red. The Western Region is vast and sparsely populated, rich in natural resources, with mountains and deserts, hilly forests, and vast snow-capped mountains and grasslands... The people raised in this environment have become much more honest. .
Although Liu Jintang and the others came out of the Hunan Army system, and they were also intriguers in the past, in the past few years in the Western Regions, the mountains and rivers have subtly changed their personalities.
I am more straightforward, my emotions are richer and more willing to flow out, and my whole person has become much brighter and more transparent!
This may be a typical special case of the environment shaping people. If the same people are placed in the Central Plains, due to dense population and tight resources, people have to fight hard to stay alive and have to rob!
When a catastrophe comes, it is possible for people to eat people. This is a character forced by the environment!
The same applies to the officialdom. What kind of foundation will be what kind of culture there is. There are so many phenomena of intrigues and people stepping on others in the officialdom. In fact, at a deep level, it is the subconscious tension caused by the lack of resources.
If you don’t grab it, you’ll have nothing. There’s really no way around it!
But I have been in the Western Regions for many years. Due to the vast land and sparse population, sometimes I have to travel hundreds of miles to see a village. Two neighbors have to walk for a day to see each other across a valley.
In this kind of environment, the emotional exchanges between people are even more enthusiastic, because it is not easy to meet each other. If you continue to engage in false intrigues, then you will really have no friends in the future!
Environment shapes people’s character!
These people were washed away by the wind and snow in the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions, and their hearts were no longer the same as before. When they heard that a snowstorm that had never happened in a century broke out in the capital, and tens of millions of people in three or four provinces suffered, they immediately felt the same!
It's not to ask for credit or reward, or to do a face-saving project. The first thing they think of is to fill the Western Region with disaster victims. The Western Region is so big that they can bear as many disaster victims as there are!
Moreover, the population of the Western Region is too small. At this moment, after the rule of the tyrant Aguba, the population has not recovered at all, and the population of all ethnic groups is at a historical low.
Even if people from the Central Plains come at this time, serious conflicts will not break out, because the reason is very simple, the population is small, there are too many resources, and there is plenty of spare land, so there is no need to grab it!
"This is really a good idea! The imperial court only needs to order the provinces along the way to provide some rations... Sigh... but it's difficult!" Zeng Guoquan sighed.
"Central Plains disaster victims fill the Western Regions? The theory is correct, but do you really think it can work?"
"Damn it! How could Guiziliu let the victims cross the border? You were all stopped by Wang Mian's grandson when you were crossing Henan. Do you think he could let the victims cross the border?"
"The foundation of Guizi Liu's rebellion is to use man-made disasters to turn a natural disaster that was not serious into a once-in-a-hundred-year event... He has created so many refugees artificially. He is so good at recruiting people!"
"Most of the troops he attacked the capital were victims of the disaster like cannon fodder! They were victims of the disaster!"
"He can send the victims to the Western Regions for nothing? Just dream!"
"I'll tell you the truth! Now the Qing Dynasty is in complete chaos... Have you heard about it in the past few days in the Marshal's Mansion? Xiang Ying led the Chinese navy to approach the Huangpu River!"
"But do you really think it's all over? Wrong... There is also a fleet heading up the Yangtze River. Lin Zhen is leading the fleet. They have added troops to the Jiangyin Fortress and are heading straight for me, Jiangning!"
"This is showing off to our Hunan Army! You are trying to ride on my head to shit! That bitch... Xiao Letian doesn't even dare, how dare you, a little bastard, come to bully me?"
"See for yourselves..." Zeng Guoquan threw the telegram to Liu Jintang and the others. The generals of the old Hunan Army were stunned when they saw it.
These are all the specific details of the Chinese increasing their troops to the south of the Yangtze River. Wherever there are Chinese industrial zones, a large number of troops have been stationed, and the Qing army did not dare to stop them.
The Hunan Army was at a loss at this moment. It was impossible to stop them, and it felt wrong not to stop them. Everything in Jiangnan was in chaos!
The foreign devils are also crazy, and they keep sending warning telegrams to all parties, and the Ninth Commander also has piles of them here!
When everyone was worried, a soldier ran in, sent a top-secret telegram to the Ninth Commander's desk and whispered, "Shanghai Xiang Ying's secret telegram..."
Zeng Guoquan opened the code and took a look at it. He slapped the newspaper on the table with an angry sound.
The above are Xiang Ying's extremely rogue words, "Why are the Nine Commanders angry? Isn't it written in the treaty to increase troops in the south of the Yangtze River? When the Qing Dynasty cannot control the situation, we Chinese have the right to protect our own industrial zones!" "
"The additional troops in Jiangyin are not many, just a few thousand. As long as we don't want the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty, what are you in a hurry for?"
"If the Qing Dynasty really couldn't control the place and there were thieves and people everywhere, we wouldn't have increased our troops!"
"There are thugs rioting in various industrial areas. If we don't suppress them, can we still count on you?"
"Junior, I feel sorry for the commander in chief! I will solve it for you!"
"Bah...shameless!" Ninth Commander yelled angrily, "Repay the thug? I think you are the biggest thug in the world!"
"How many of the thugs who are causing trouble in Jiangnan are disguised as your subordinates? Don't you know that?"
"Order troops! Order troops for me...I don't care about other places. Anyway, with Jiangning as the boundary, if his Chinese soldiers dare to cross here, I will be the first to refuse!"
Liu Jintang and the others looked embarrassed and didn't know what to say. They were no longer under the command of the Ninth Commander. Even according to the past rules, they were still part of the Hunan Army. But they brought more than a hundred people with them this time, which was not enough!
"Commander, please calm down...Commander, please take a long-term approach...The civil war in the capital has not subsided yet. If fighting breaks out again in Jiangnan, the whole country will be in chaos..."
"Otherwise, what do you want me to do? Let the Chinese occupy Jiangnan and do nothing?"
On May 5th, in Jiangning City, Zeng Guofan sent a message to all the Hunan Army generals stationed in Jiangning to come to the Governor's Mansion for discussion. The drums for summoning the generals were rumbling, which shocked the people of Jiangning.
More than ten years have passed since the Taiping Rebellion, but the surviving old people still have infinite fear in their hearts. The sound of military drums beats many people to the point of frightened to the point of falling into coma!
"Is there going to be a war? Who is this with whom... Why is there going to be a war again?"
The Hunan Army Group does not have many generals at the moment. Many of them have been discharged and returned to their fields due to old age and wounded soldiers. This was originally the Qing Dynasty's plan to hollow out the Hunan Army Group in terms of personnel.
People like Liu Kunyi and Peng Yulin have been transferred away, and Zuo Jigao also brought a group of people to the Western Regions. At this moment, there are only a few of the Ninth Commander's men who can be called strong veterans.
Bao Chao, Liu Changyou, Huang Shaochun, Xi Baotian... these were second- and third-line generals in the Hunan Army back then, but now they have become first-line generals under the Ninth Commander!
Hearing the Ninth Marshal beating the drum to send orders to the generals, everyone did not dare to neglect and quickly found their official uniforms and war horses to gather at the Marshal's Mansion!
When these generals arrived, Zeng Guoquan slapped the table and became furious!
