After the Revolution of 1911, how many people didn’t want to cut their braids and their heads were cut off by rough soldiers from the same background? Zhu Jinglun didn’t want to play this kind of low-level violence, but the army was an exception. He finally firmly believed that the army was the last place to talk about democracy.
But soldiers are also people, and people will have ideas. If they disagree with them, they will complain.
However, the way to quell the complaints of the army is very simple, so that they can win the victory. If they can win again and again, they can easily satisfy Napoleon. What is so popular and revered? Napoleon is a soldier. It is not just Napoleon who took them to victory again and again, but also how much they paid for it. They will soon forget it.
Therefore, Zhu Jinglun is not worried about the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, because he can bring victory to the soldiers, a great and brilliant victory, and Zhu Jinglun will send them to occupy Beijing.
At the beginning of September, when Chen Ada withdrew all Anqing garrison troops to Tianjing, he didn’t know the situation, but soon he got an order from the North. Zhu Jinglun sent him too many warships, each of which had a displacement of more than 1,000 tons. It was the warships bought from the United States.
Before the American Civil War, there were nine warships. By the end of the war, they had 76 warships. Obviously, 90% of them were built during the war, and many of them adopted the latest technology. Although there were two armored warships, a large number of sail steamboats were still quite powerful.
Zhu Jinglun bought two of the best and the Americans were willing to sell them to build advanced warships on their slipway. In total, he bought more than 300 ships with the largest tonnage, more than a dozen of which were 5 tons, and the remaining 100 ships with the smallest tonnage of 3 tons were 1 ton. As a child, there was no need to buy Guangdong, which could be directly manufactured by itself.
At present, these warships have arrived, and one of them has asked Chen Ada to lead the navy to change clothes as soon as possible. After the trial, he plans to carry out the Northern Expedition.
Also in early September, the solar calendar on September 7, the lunar calendar on July 10, the Millennium.
Escort the Xu Rongcun fleet to Alaska, which should belong to the United States, and now let the original American warships escort the freshman soldiers to receive it.
The Russian diplomatic mission also went to Guangzhou together, and the previous diplomatic procedure was completed, so the handover ceremony was carried out quickly.
There are not many Russians who want to stay here, and there are also some land in Russia. The bureaucrats have expressed different views on this. Most people don’t care about this land, but the czar doesn’t care who sells it.
In Alaska, Russian soldiers don’t even care. They have long been looking forward to getting out of this hellhole. Whether it is a Moscow ballroom or a Siberian wilderness pub, it is much better for them than this hellhole with a large number of indigenous people.
The flag of the Russian double-headed eagle was lowered, and the big ""flag was raised to America. For the first time, the flag from Asian countries was hoisted.
The world has paid attention to the big purchase of Alaska, but it has not caused heated discussion. Britain even Canada is not going to pay for the construction of Alaska in the north, let alone Alaska in the north. For them, it is better to let Alaska be occupied by Russia than by a country that poses no threat to them. So the British officials were silent about this. At that time, some scholars expressed different opinions. They cited some data to show that this is the first time that a non-white force has colonized this land in America.
However, when most media interpret this matter, they think that it is the absurd dream of the new emperor to reclaim land. Their basis is that Zhu Jinglun told the ambassadors of various countries that there is a lot of land to feed the people. Obviously, they laughed at the emperor for a long time.
Of course, there are also self-proclaimed strategic experts and scholars who make another interpretation. They think that this new country is looking for a way out for itself. Once their rebellion fails, they can retreat to this American land to take refuge from being driven out by the Qing court. It is because these strategic things are too unpopular that it is better to laugh at the great emperor and let the people like it.
Generally speaking, the Alaska issue has not caused any heated discussion in the world. Even China people don’t know where such a place is. Most people don’t know that their country has added a large area of land. What’s worse, foreigners?
It’s a pity that the Russians don’t know why they set fire to their broken wooden houses in the harbor, which means that the big garrison needs to rebuild its own barracks
Fortunately, they arrived here before winter, and fortunately, Alaska Bay is not as cold as expected, otherwise these soldiers from the southern mountainous areas would be able to explain here this winter.
One advantage is that there is no shortage of wood here. The vision lies in a vast forest. When Xu Rongcun left Alaska at the end of September, the first batch of wood had been cut down. Carpenters were unpacking wood and preparing to build wooden houses.
Xu Rongcun brought a large fleet of five warships to the south, and then joined the main fleet in Bohai Sea to complete the blockade of Bohai Bay, and then followed the March route of British and French Coalition forces to Beijing.
It was already very cold in Alaska in November, and a big soldier finally lived in a wooden house. They prepared enough wood for them to spend a cold winter. In November, Bohai Bay was still wandering in the autumn heat. The Chinese fleet has completed the blockade here, and the first landing troops have landed in Beitang.
Four years have passed, and the defense of the Qing court against Tianjin is still appalling. Who let them never stop in recent years? In November 161, Xianfeng died, and in November, his brother and his daughter-in-law joined forces to kill him. After that, Cixi and Yixin joined forces to take political measures to disintegrate the Hunan Legion and split the Huai Army and the Chu Army from the Hunan Legion.
It didn’t take long for it to stop. It was the pillar of the Manchu Dynasty, Sengqin, who was killed by the Shandong Twist Army this year. One of the best princes in the Manchu Dynasty, Sengqin, was killed. After they died, they just wanted to find someone to reorganize their defense and couldn’t find anyone.
Therefore, the army landed smoothly in Beitang. The officers studied the case of the British and French allied forces attacking Beijing. They landed from Beitang with the purpose of Dagukou.
Soon, the Dagu Fort was broken in a roundabout way, which was even more dilapidated than when the British and French allied forces attacked it. Many forts were in ruins and few people guarded them. Those troops were destroyed during the war with the British and French allied forces. It was only in 175 that the Qing government expanded the fort again. Now it is simply a ruin. There are one person and tall grass everywhere.
After occupying Dagukou, the main force can land from the dock and then drive directly to Tianjin.
No one expected that the defense of the capital of the Qing Dynasty was so lax that the soldiers were so excited that they forgot to meet and let them change their clothes.
Thousands of ragged defenders in Tianjin abandoned them to defend the city and went to the suburbs to be bandits, which may be more troublesome for the army, which means that they can’t build a passage from Tianjin to Beijing
But at this time, the Qing government was already in a panic. They didn’t expect the army to dare to divide the army from the north by sea regardless of the threat of the Han warlords in the south of the Yangtze River.
At this time, they thought of American mediation, Yi Xin’s emergency meeting with American envoy Pu Anchen at the Prime Minister’s yamen, and told Pu Anchen that they were willing to talk about peace and rule with China.
Pu Anchen regretted that he told Yi Xin that the attitude of the army was very correct. Recently, the Qing court rejected the American mediation army and said that it would never hold peace talks without fighting Beijing.
Ten days after attacking Tianjin intelligence, I returned to Guangzhou, thanks to the laying of the Kowloon newspaper line to the sea, so I can return to Guangzhou soon if I need news to the sea.
Although Zhu Jinglun was quite excited to learn that the progress was so smooth, he was also worried.
There have been many tragedies in the history of troops attacking cold areas in warm areas.
"Are the winter materials ready?"
Zhu jinglun has asked this question many times, but he has not finished the preparation before, but he finally finished it as planned a few days ago.
Xie Qi, chief of the general staff, can breathe a sigh of relief. "Report to the Emperor that we have collected enough charcoal for 30,000 people in the local area, and rented 1,000 houses in Tianjin, and repaired 2,000 houses in the Qing army camp, which can also accommodate 10,000 people in temples and other places, enough for our army to station 30,000 people."
Zhu Jinglun nodded, but still not worried and asked, "Sign? There is no conflict with the locals, right? "
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Xie Qi said, "We all spent 20,000 silver on it. The local people welcomed Julian Waghann outside the military camp, and now it has become a good city."
Zhu Jinglun laughed. "That’s good. Don’t care about buying things at twice the local market price. It’s not a loss. It’s a bargain."
"Are reinforcements ready?"
At this time, the troops that landed in Tianjin included Xin ‘an First Army plus 5,000 flag soldiers and 15,000 people. It can be said that the materials were more than enough. However, it is obviously not safe for such soldiers to attack Beijing. In fact, the British and French Coalition forces did not dare to enter the city. They have been stationed in Yuanyuan, which is precisely outside the city wall.
Zhu Jinglun will not only attack Beijing, but also occupy the city, so that he can best bargain with the Qing court. Therefore, he will also send the second and third main forces, the first and second armies of Beixin’ an and the three main forces of Wukeng Army, to attack Beijing to ensure that in case of loss.
