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

In fact, after passing Xiangyang, ships over 300 tons cannot sail.

When they arrived in Shaanxi, even small boats with dozens of tons could only travel.

But it doesn't matter, Daming also used the transport ship to bring a large number of "Dingyuan-class" cement transport ships.

This famous boat is actually the kind of cement boat that transports sand in inland waterways in later generations, and it is very weak.

But in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Daming Navy, it is very sacred.

When Admiral Wang Zhonghuang of the Navy fired the first shot in the Xinjin Campaign, he was driving a cement ship of this type equipped with stabilizers from the Geng Ministry of Industry.

The "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" cement ships, as the first-generation flagships of the Daming Navy, have also been permanently preserved in the Industrial Culture Museum of the Daming Royal Museum.

Relying on these cement boats, the Southern Chu army entered Qin from Baihe County and went straight to Hanzhong.

As long as you get Hanzhong and want to send troops out of Xi'an, you just need to follow the old road of Shu Han.

The Southern Chu Army had more than 8 carts prepared by Zhu Fugui.

These iron trolleys are of excellent quality and have pneumatic tires for shock absorption. Compared with Zhuge Liang's wooden cows and horses, I don't know where they are.

It may be an exaggeration to cross the Qinling Mountains as a smooth road, but the Qinling Mountains are by no means a natural danger for the Southern Chu Army.

Moreover, there is no need for the Southern Chu army to take Wei Yan's Ziwu Valley's strange plot trail, as long as they follow the Xiegu and other major roads step by step.

It's just that the premise of all of this is the attitude of Yang Yuebin, Governor of Gansu and Shaanxi.

Whether he is loyal to the Manchu Qing, or his heart is bright, or he also wants to learn from the leaders of the Hubei army, which is very crucial to the Southern Chu army.

Just when Zuo Zongtang was about to write a letter to Hu Huilin, the magistrate of Hanzhong, Yang Yuebin's son-in-law, suddenly two fast horses galloped towards the Southern Chu army from Hanzhong.

Chapter 464

Yang Yuebin, governor of Gansu and Shaanxi, was also in the Hunan Army.

He was one of the founders of the Hunan Army Navy, and he made great achievements in Xiangyin, Jiujiang, Huangzhou, Wuchang and other campaigns to wipe out the Taiping Army. He was once as famous as Peng Yulin, the No. 1 general under Zeng Guofan's command.

After conquering Nanchang and Ganzhou successively, Yang Yuebin surrendered more than [-] remnants of the Taiping Army.

There is no doubt that everyone knows what it means to transfer a fierce general of the navy to be the governor of Gansu and Shanxi who eats wind and sand.

Reluctantly, Zeng Guofan, the boss of the Hunan Army at that time, was a "saint".

Give him a chance, he is useless!

Peng Yulin and Zeng Guoquan couldn't persuade him to get his hands on the artifact, let alone Yang Yuebin.

Governor of Liangjiang (Zeng Guofan · Hunan Army), Jiangsu Governor (Li Hongzhang · Huai Army), Jiangxi Governor (Liu Kunyi · Chu Army), Hunan Governor (Li Hanzhang · Huai Army / Wang Wenshao · Hunan Army), Sichuan Governor (Luo Bingzhang · Hunan Army) , Governor of Gansu and Shaanxi (Yang Yuebin Hunan Army), Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang (Zuo Zongtang Chu Army)...

Under such a good situation, Zeng Guofan refused to ascend to the top, but instead clamped down on his friendly troops and took the lead in abolishing part of the Hunan Army to show his innocence.

Of course, there are reasons for the Qing government's wooing and division, and Xingzhen's full power, but in the later "Xinhai Revolutionary Army's Fengtian Call for Manchuria", "Zeng Hu Zuo Li, as the leader of his own family, perversely acted against the enemy, so that the captives came back from danger. An, if you can't stay for a long time, this is a real filial son who is already drunk, and you can grow up without rebellious Hu." It can be said that it is appropriate.

Zeng Shengren was so virtuous, Yang Yuebin had no choice but to tearfully package and sell more than [-] Taiping soldiers to Li Hongzhang, and then took ten naval battalions of his confidants to Xi'an to take up his post.

On the way to his post, just as Seng Gelinqin died in battle, the Qing government quickly ordered foreign troops to enter Pingnian, Henan.

In fact, at that time, the Qing court did not dare to let Zeng Guofan, who had many soldiers and generals, come. The first thing they thought of was Li Hongzhang.

However, the latter directly lodged in Suzhou and refused the order.

The second savior that the Qing court thought of was not Zeng Guofan, but Yang Yuebin who was on the way.

Yang Yuebin immediately stated that his heart was attached to the imperial court, how could he feel at ease just to go to Henan to suppress Nian?

He asked to be relieved of the post of governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and to send troops to King Qin of Jing, and no matter how bad he was, he would come to Kinki to protect the safety of the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty and the emperor's two saints.

Xingzhen, who loves watching "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", wonders if she has any associations when she reads this memorial.

The young widow queen mother, the young emperor, the domineering Longliang local military officer...

With such a wonderful combination, it is hard not to think of the story of Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing.

In order to prevent the incident of staying overnight in Feng Palace and abolishing the young emperor, the Qing court resolutely rejected Yang Yuebin's kindness and ordered him to be the governor of Ganshan and Shanxi at ease, without worrying about Ersheng. Ersheng thank you for your old family.

Later history also proved that Xingzhen's internal fighting strategy was once again a great success.

Yang Yuebin, the general of the navy, did not behave well in the face of chaos in the northwest, and was finally found and dismissed from his post and demoted to the top rank of the third rank.

It wasn't until 15 years later that the Sino-French war broke out and the French navy fought fiercely along the coast of Fujian. The Qing government suddenly "remembered" that Yang Yuebin was good at navy, and asked Yang Yuebin to "transfer filial piety as loyalty" to help Fujian's military affairs and lead [-] battalions to aid Taiwan. , to support Liu Mingchuan.

In short, Yang Yuebin, a strong man from Hunan, wasted his life, but his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty was also very doubtful.

Zuo Zongtang is also a handsome talent who knows people with insight, and he can somewhat see that Yang Yuebin has the same obsession in his heart as he does.

It is a very good draw and cooperation object.

This is why Zuo Zongtang believed that Zhu Fugui's imperial decree to go west to the Tianshan Mountains in Gansu and Shaanxi was not a random order, but a certain feasibility.

Otherwise, it would be a fatal situation. No matter how much Zuo Zongtang put the nation-state as the most important thing, he would not be able to lead people to death for nothing.

Therefore, as early as the beginning of entering Shaanxi, Zuo Zongtang sent messengers to Hanzhong to throw stones to ask for directions.

But what he waited for was not an invitation from Yang Yuebin, but the arrival of Hu Huilin, the prefect of Hanzhong, on a flying horse.

This man who has been in the army for a long time has already had a messy beard and hair, and blood is all over his eyebrows and beard.

"Grandpa Zuo, save my father-in-law!"

Hu Huilin got off his horse and passed out after saying only this sentence.

Some master Bai with basic medical skills stepped forward to check, and Hu Huilin's forehead was hot, and his ribs and back were full of stab wounds with deep visible bones.

Hu Huilin's adjutant cried: "Mr. Zuo, the Hu people have linked up with Russia and barbarians, northern Shaanxi has fallen, Xi'an is already in danger, the governor is besieged and can't get out, but Lord Hu led the troops to rescue but was defeated by the Hu people, and all the soldiers and horses were lost.

Seeing that Qin Chuan was in danger, lost his army and lost his country, Mr. Hu almost wanted to commit suicide, but was rescued by us. At this time, Mr. Zuo came to Qin, so he rushed here desperately, begging Mr. Zuo to send troops quickly. Going into the city, I'm afraid there will be something unbearable! "

Hearing this, Zuo Zongtang and Zhao Xizhu were shocked.

As the de facto current army commander and political commissar, the two have repeatedly deduced the situation in the Northwest along the way, but they did not expect the situation to be in danger to such a point.

After careful questioning, it turned out that in March, the Hu people cheated to open the gate of Lingzhou city, and the Hu soldiers who were ambushing in the city joined forces inside and outside, and slaughtered all the Han people.

Tao Maolin, a veteran general of the Hunan Army, and General Xing'a of Xi'an both sent troops to crusade. They originally bombarded the city wall of Lingzhou with red cannons and were about to break the city, but they were suddenly attacked by two strange cavalry.

The two armies of Tao and Du were attacked from the front and back, and they were almost wiped out. The two generals also died in the chaos.

Governor Yang Yuebin also commanded Lei Zhengwan, commander-in-chief of Shan'an Town, and Cao Kezhong, commander-in-chief of Hezhou Town, with a total of 2 troops to fight against Jinjibao against the Hu army.

Only then did I know that the two cavalry, one was the Central Asian cavalry under the Kokand Khanate Agubai, and the other was the Tsarist Russian Cossack cavalry.

Compared with history, the Hu people received the support of Yagubo and Tsarist Russia earlier and more deeply.

It has to be said that the situation in the northwest has greatly exceeded the estimates of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty and the Generalissimo's Office.

This is mainly a lack of intelligence.

Due to language and ethnic barriers, [White Hound] knows nothing about Russian intelligence for the time being.

As for the Qing Dynasty, due to the emergence of the Ming Dynasty and the rebellion of Li and Zuo in the south, the intelligence work and control over the northwest region have become worse than in history.

It can be said that the Qing court has no interest in preserving the Western Regions.

This caused Daming to misjudge the situation to some extent.

Historically, the Russians sent troops to occupy Ely after 1870.

Moreover, the degree of cooperation between the Russians and Yagubohe is also very limited.

They even sent troops to destroy the Kokand Khanate (roughly present-day Uzbekistan) and annexed it.

However, the main reason for restricting the large-scale sending of Russian troops to fight against the Qing army in the Western Regions was the mutual containment among the imperialist powers.

Just as the three countries intervened to return Liaodong after Japan ceded the Liaodong Peninsula, the Russian occupation of the Western Regions also encountered huge resistance.

Chapter 465

This resistance comes precisely from the British Empire.

At that time, Russian forces entered the front line of Mongolia-Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Northern Iran, while Britain started from India and penetrated into the area of ​​Tibet-Darak-Afghanistan-Southern Iran.

Therefore, the Western Regions just became a buffer zone between the two great powers.

Looking at the map of Afghanistan today, the long and narrow Wakhan Corridor bordering my country is the remnant of the confrontation between Britain and Russia, and the dividing line between the two forces at that time.

Historically, the main enemy of Britain in the Far East and Central Asia was Russia.

In order to guard against Russia, the British wooed their world-enemy France to fight the Crimean War and supported Japan in East Asia.

Of course, they can also prevent them from fully extending their claws to the Western Regions in order to contain Russia.

Of course, the resistance of the Chinese sons and daughters represented by Zuo Zongtang is the main reason, but the British are indeed an objective factor.

However, in this era, since Ming appeared in America and defeated the French twice, the situation in the Far East changed drastically.

If it is said that when Ming defeated the French motley army for the first time in Japan, the British had considered wooing Ming to deal with Tsarist Russia and supporting Ming as Japan,

Then when Ming defeated the main force of France in Mexico with a thunderbolt, the British lost all intention of helping Ming to fight against Russia.

Not only did they dare not support Ming, but they believed that Ming posed a huge threat to British Canada and British interests in the Far East.

According to the usual style of the shit-stirring sticks, they have started a strategy of promoting Russia to fight for enlightenment.

Therefore, the tense relationship between Britain and Russia, at least in the East, has been greatly eased by the naked eye.

This allowed the Russians to advance more confidently and boldly to the Western Regions of China.

With the help of Hu Huilin's soldier talisman, the Southern Chu Army entered Hanzhong smoothly.

In fact, even if there is no soldier talisman, Hanzhong is still an empty city, with no strength to resist.

Now there are only a few hundred old, weak and disabled soldiers left in Hanzhong City.

However, thousands of people were spontaneously organized by the people.

They have learned the lesson of Lingzhou that all merchants and ordinary people who want to enter the city must bite a pigskin, and if they don't bite, they will be killed.

The southern Chu army also went to the countryside to do as the Romans did. When they entered the city, each of them carried a can of pig's feet in spicy sauce.

Seeing the sauced pig's feet that even civilian husbands have, the common people in Hanzhong were dumbfounded.

This is 10,000+ pig feet!

How many pigs are there!

Did these guys kill all the pigs in Fujian and Zhejiang and take them on the road?

What shocked the people of Hanzhong even more was that when the Southern Chu army entered the city, it was not the legendary Marshal Zuo who had killed people like hemp, but a young man who came out to post the Ann Min notice.

But this young man is not simple, even Commander Zuo wants to call him Staff Zhao.

The first notice issued by the staff officer Zhao Xizhu was the "Order of Braid Twisting".

"In troubled times, heavy codes should be used. Now when Hu soldiers invade the bandits, regardless of the Han and Manchus, they should respect the emperor's orders and follow the orders of the left commander. Anyone who does not twist their braids is a barbarian. They should be eunuchs as slaves. Anyone who twists their braids is a Ming Dynasty." Youngsters, we should work together to face national disasters.

Order, each braid can be exchanged for a can of extra-spicy secret pork knuckles, first-come, first-served, while stocks last. "

Firstly, through Yang Yuebin's secret arrangement, the anti-Qing sentiment in Hanzhong and other places was already undercurrent, and secondly, with strong enemies outside, every ordinary person's simplest instinct of holding together and protecting oneself was also stimulated.

With the addition of bayonets and bullets, the Braid Order was quickly executed.

Even because they were worried that there would be no rewards if the braids were finished, the entire Hanzhong Mansion almost twisted the braids in three days.

The materials were transported to Hanzhong, and the cement ship that was supposed to return empty, went back with braids.

These braids will be used as goods, after being disinfected and rinsed, they will be transported back to Fengdu.

There is a braid recycling factory wholly owned by Zhu Fugui's internal funds, and the demand is quite huge.

Braids, or human hair, is also very important as Zhu Fugui's strategic material in exchange for the "foreign exchange" of RMB.

The unscrupulous system identifies human hair as an unprocessed raw material for livestock.

This means that the culture value penalty of human hair is almost nothing.

However, the price of human hair is very high in later generations, and it is a very profitable business.

Almost single-handedly, the mysterious Boss Zhu, with his huge shipments, reversed in one fell swoop the embarrassment that our country, as the largest country in the wig industry in later generations, needs to import a large amount of human hair raw materials for a long time, and even smuggled it.

Moreover, compared with the smuggled hair, the washed hair provided by Zhu Fugui is of excellent quality and has not been dyed at all. Moreover, it is all East Asian hair, which is the favorite of wig manufacturers. It is straight and tough, and it is first-class. of high-quality raw materials.

It can be said that it was Zhu Fugui who made Chinese programmers and African women of later generations live a life of free wigs in one fell swoop.

Of course, the people in Hanzhong actively cut their braids and got good returns.