I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Mao Lijing hurriedly said: "It's just a small island, dare you call yourself Luoyang, and the theory of entering Luoyang is just for the Japanese to entertain themselves!"

While exchanging greetings, the two walked past the phalanx formed by the Daming navy and the warriors of the Maori family. At the same time, the musicians in the hall also played elegant music - "Tang Yin Qin Wang Breaks the Formation".

Afterwards, it was natural for the Maori Jingqin to entertain the newly promoted Governor-General with a family banquet.

It's just that compared with the past, the quality of singers and dancers at Maori's family banquets has declined slightly, but there is more than enough white rice, and there are several shaved white slaves dancing with fans to add to the fun.

Because of the trade with Daming, all the beauties and even beauties that the Maori family had originally recruited had gone to Daming.

But after all, it is a great domain that rules over a million people. As long as you work hard, you can still find resources such as beautiful women.

Nowadays, all women with a height of 1.5 meters and a dignified appearance have been centrally supported by Maori families by various means (1.5 meters is definitely not short in this era, even by European standards).

Women with lower standards were also registered as strategic resources.

After defeating the shogunate coalition forces last summer, the Changzhou Domain also took the initiative to plunder many women from the surrounding Xiaofan.

In addition, in the Battle of Xiaomu, Changzhou Fan captured a large number of samurai from the shogunate, and even captured the nearest branch of the Tokugawa shogunate.

With these captives, the Changzhou Fan exchanged nearly [-] Kanto women.

So now Mao Lijing has hoarded a large number of Japanese women in his own hands, hoping to expand the transaction with Daming.

In addition to the regular rice flour oilcloth, what Maori Jingqin most hopes to get is the white slave warrior.

White slave warriors are not only useful for the shogunate, they are even more useful for dealing with small feudal states that are afraid of foreigners.

Before Changzhou Fan went to the nearby Xiao Fan to plunder women, they basically used white slaves to clear the way.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of these white slaves equipped with Henry Lianzhu guns is indeed not bad.

As long as you don't use them to fight against vassal states like Satsuma who also like to chop foreigners, they will always have unexpected results.

Among them was a white slave named McCann who performed very well. In a crusade, he used Wei Mingliu's swordsmanship to kill 8 people in a row and became the captain of the white slave team.

Chapter 230 Maori's Wrath, Changes in Tianjing

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Mao Lijing saw that Zheng Baoguo was full, so he cautiously asked:

"Bao Guosang, the last battle was thanks to Daming's Shenwei General Cannon and the white slave warriors sold to Xiaochen, so Xiaochen was able to defeat the old Tokugawa thief. I wonder if Bao Guosang will have more white slaves in Changzhou this time. The slave brought..."

Zheng Baoguo smiled and said: "General Mao Li, it is very difficult to breed white slaves artificially, and the main thing is to rely on wild capture. Before the Ming Dynasty, a lot of white slaves were used to dig coal, and there is no surplus for the time being.

But when I went to sea, Long live had ordered the army to be ready, and Baja California was going to capture the white slaves.

General, please be calm and calm, presumably there will be new white slaves joining in soon. "

"Yo Xi!"

Maori Kyoko nodded quickly, "My Datian son is full of martial arts, and the white man who broke the Tokugawa shogunate's liver and gallbladder is nothing but the prey of my Datian son Chunweiqiu!"

Saying that, Maori Jingqin quickly served Zheng Baoguo full of sake and toasted again and again.

But at this moment, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the paper door in the distance opening a thin crack, and the old Emon of the Maori family was secretly waving to him.

Youemon has always been mature and prudent, so naturally he will not disturb the elegant mood of the head of the family and the angel of Shangbang drinking if there is nothing to do.

Obviously something important happened.

"Bao Guosang, please drink slowly, I feel a slight pain in my stomach, please leave for a while."

……

Emon brings news that shocks Moori Keiki.

It turned out that not long ago, news came from Edo's secret agents that the Tokugawa shogunate had formally signed an agreement with the French to loan 500 million Japanese silver coins to France with the Iwami Silver Mine as collateral, equivalent to US dollars/Spanish silver dollars/Fugui Tongbao ≈200 million yuan.

The money will be used to purchase French weapons and equipment, establish a French arsenal, and hire French military advisers to train the new army.

All of this is clearly aimed at the Choshu clan. Tokugawa Yoshiki seems to have felt that if he can't throw all his blood at the shame of the defeat of Xiaomu, the weak shogunate will be intensified by the voice of "returning the great government" drowned.

It's just that they don't know at all that Changzhou Fan has long since lost the idea of ​​returning the great power.

Maori Jingqin doesn't want to be Tokugawa Ieyasu now, but wants to be Li Chenggui, or even Muying!

But these are not important. The important thing is that the feud between the Tokugawa and Maori families has lasted for several centuries and has reached the point of irreconcilability today.

What angered Maori Keki the most was that Tokugawa Yoshiki's mortgage to the French was actually Iwami Ginzan!

Iwami Ginzan was the largest silver mine in Japan during the late Warring States period and the Edo period, and its output was as high as one-third of the world.

Of course, the current Iwami Ginzan is no longer doing well, and the output is declining year by year, but it is far from being exhausted.

In fact, Iwami Ginzan was not completely closed until 1943, and it is still very early.

Such a cornucopia is naturally the focus of competition among Japanese princes.

And it is precisely the ancestral property of the Maori family!

300 years ago, Mao Liyuan, the ancestor of the Maori family, finally grabbed this silver mountain in a long fight.

Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi suddenly emerged, and the Maori family did not dare to fight with him and chose to surrender.

However, the Toyotomi family did not do everything they could, but chose to co-manage Ishijian Yinshan with the Maori family, sharing the benefits.

But the Tokugawa family doesn't talk about Wude.

After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Mori family was defeated in the Battle of Sekigahara, and was greatly reduced by the old turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu, completely losing Iwami Ginzan.

This mountain of silver became the crotch plaything of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The current situation is that the Tokugawa family not only snatched Ai Ji from the Mori family, and occupied it for more than two hundred years, but now they also dedicated her to the foreign master in exchange for a sum of whoring money!

It’s tolerable, it’s unbearable!

Mao Li respected his relatives and anger from the heart, and the evil grew from the side of the gut. He opened his eyebrows and eyes, and gritted his teeth.

He gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and shouted...

"Captain, save me...Captain, save me..."

Mori Kyoki is one-dimensional but not a fool.

The Changzhou domain was just beaten by the French with the giant ship Semiramis equipped with 36 heavy guns in the Shimonoseki War in the first half of last year. Now let him face the alliance between the shogunate and the French alone , Isn't this courting death?

But if your shogunate can find a big brother, of course I, Maori, can also find a big brother!

My Maori's good elder brother is naturally the wealthy emperor of Ming Dynasty!

So, "Captain, Bao Guosang, you must give me a hand!"

Shouting excitedly, Mao Li Jingqing suddenly had a sore throat, and suddenly coughed up a pool of blood...

……

When the cloud of war and disease enveloped Fusang, in the south of the Yangtze River, the situation in Yingtian City was different.

Unlike half a year ago when his cheeks were sunken, his eyes were lifeless, and he was dying, Hong Xiuquan at this time had returned to his old manners as the son of God.

Even, his spirit is better than ever!

The clothes Hong Jiaozhu is wearing now are no longer the same clothes as the heavenly kings in the past.

Hong Xiuquan no longer wears dragon robes.

Because the heavenly father reprimanded him: "Your father is still alive, and you wear dragon robes in the mortal world?"

According to the decree of the heavenly father, Hong Xiuquan and all the senior officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom all changed into pleated curtain robes.

That's right, it is the legendary Roman robe of Jing Luo's ecstasy.

Hong Xiuquan was distinguished and wore a purple robe, while the others wore white robes.

At this moment, Hong Xiuquan was wearing a purple robe and a laurel crown on his head, with a solemn and solemn expression.

Standing behind him are two men in white robes, namely the loyal king Li Xiucheng and the dry king Hong Renxuan.

In addition, there was another child, Hong Tianfugui, the son of Hong Xiuquan.

In addition, there were hundreds of people, also wearing Roman robes, shivering in the cold January wind.

Hong Xiuquan and others are naturally not cold.

They have thermal underwear given by their heavenly father, and their robes are also thick and warm, not only not cold, but also a little hot.

Naturally, these nobles from the heavenly kingdom were standing on the square not for the sake of enjoying the wind.

The major events of the country lie in sacrifice and Rong.

Sacrificing to the Heavenly Father is more important than defending Yingtian Mansion.

And to this day, in the Yingtian Mansion, everyone in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not know that the Heavenly Father exists, and that everyone does not know that the Heavenly Father is protecting them.

Therefore, even if Hong Xiuquan had to expend manpower to pray to the sky on the seventh day of every month, no one objected.

At this time, in the center of the square is the "angel" model made of wicker and thatch by skilled craftsmen.

I saw that the angel's body was like a disc, with four claws on its abdomen, and there were rings like a Buddha's halo on the claws, full of steampunk atmosphere.

If Zhu Fugui is here, he will definitely praise Hong Xiuquan and his drone cosplay level.

It's a bit like the Stars and Stripes of the Pacific Natives and the meaning of worshiping the plane.

Following the ceremonial officer's shout, Hong Xiuquan shouted "Abba", Hong Tianfugui said "Grandfather", and the rest of the crowd shouted "Grandpa God", and the square fell to their knees.

Hong Xiuquan recited tens of thousands of words of prayer with emotion, and offered a few real Tartar heads. Then, according to the traditional Chinese custom, he burned the giant thatched drone and the heads together, and dedicated them to " Heavenly Father".

Of course, if Zhu Fugui could really receive these tributes, he would definitely spit out the last night's meal because of those half-rotten real Tartar heads, but this is really a gift carefully prepared by Hong Xiuquan, which is quite filial.

You know, Nanjing Mancheng was massacred by Yang Xiuqing ten years ago, and Nanjing was founded without a Manchu.

Outside the city are mainly the Hunan Army and a small amount of Huai Army. The Eight Banners soldiers are as cherished as the three-legged toad, and even fewer dare to attack the city and fight hand-to-hand.

These real Tartar heads were sent in by reinforcements from the servant king Li Shixian and the blocking king Huang Wenjin.

Because the city of Tianjing was impenetrable, the rest of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom at this time was not completely dismantled as it was in history.

Instead, with the two kings Huang and Li as the core, a relatively large base area was established in Huzhou, Jiaxing and other places in northern Zhejiang, echoing Tianjing from a distance, and forming a corner with each other.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but since Zeng Guofan organized the last full-scale attack on Tianjing at the end of last year, the intensity of the war has decreased visibly to the naked eye.

Even, just this month, Huang Wenjin left Jiaxing, passed through Gusu, and succeeded in entering Tianjing King Qin, so it may not be that he was not suspected of being released by some people...

And the instigator of all this is Hu Linyi, Li Hongzhang, and... Zuo Zongtang!

Chapter 231 Li Zuo's Conspiracy

Shanghai, Public Concession, Xing Mansion.

Several months have passed since Prince Gong Yi Jujin went south on a foreign steamer for a secret meeting, and since then this Xing Mansion has become the little gold house for Xing Jiurou and Bi Luo.

But on this day, the Xing mansion has become tense again.

Of course, this kind of atmosphere cannot be seen by others.

The location of the Xing Mansion was remote, and occasionally a few rickshaws passed by, and the coolies and passengers in the cars would not pay a second glance to this ordinary small western-style building.

No one realized that the two key figures who could determine the fate of the late Qing Dynasty were talking inside at this time.

……

"Brother Ji Gao, it's been five years since Su Song left!"

"Shaoquan's complexion is getting better and better. It must be a foreigner's American ginseng raiser?"

"Brother Ji Gao, brother Ji Gao, you still have such a bad temper, those foreigners, especially Citigroup, have their merits..."

The two people in the conversation were Li Hongzhang, governor of Jiangsu in the Qing Dynasty, and Zuo Zongtang, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty.

Unlike Li Hongzhang, who was smooth and good at dancing, Zuo Zongtang was ten years older, but his personality was much stronger.

He sat on the chair with a strong sword, while drinking tea, he looked at the Western objects everywhere in the house, and said with a cold snort: "You still remember the matter of Susong, I think you have completely forgotten it. "

Li Hongzhang pretended to be surprised and said: "Brother Ji Gao, why did you say that? You left in anger that day when you didn't receive the order. Zeng Shuai, Duke Wen Zhong, and Brother Yu all gathered in Susong to run for your brother!"

The Wen Zhonggong that Li Hongzhang was referring to was naturally not referring to himself.

As one of the top posthumous titles in the Qing Dynasty, "Wen Zhong" is second only to Zeng Guofan's "Wen Zheng".

There is more than one person who has received this honor.

Sony, Lin Zexu and others were given the posthumous title of "Wen Zhong" after their death. Several decades later, when Lao Li went west by himself, he also received the posthumous title of "Wen Zhong".

The "Wen Zhonggong" Li Hongzhang refers to here is Hu Linyi and Hu Gongbao who just passed away 4 years ago.