Zhu Fugui believed that Li Hongzhang, Sotna, and the criminal investigators would spend a lot of money to get this done.

Li Hongzhang and the others only saw that after Zuo Chu and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom left the country, they opened Wushuang in Central Asia and South America, so they thought it was easy to eat meat.

But they would never guess how much Ming Liangzong's internal funds silently subsidized behind the scenes.

Chapter 695

Zhu Fugui had no intention of subsidizing the battle between the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in the Indian subcontinent.

Of course I won't cheat them.

The supplies of Ming Dynasty, whether it is weapons, food, coal and cement, or life-saving antimalarial drugs, need to be exchanged by Xingzhen, Sotna, and Li Hongzhang with real money.

Since the London stock market crash and the British financial depression, Victoria and Churchill have accelerated the speed of sucking blood from India.

To put it simply, Li Zhongtang, you are late, and Qiu Zhongtang has already brought taxes to the 21st century.

India's poor have run out of money to squeeze.

Slaughtering a few Indian maharajas who cooperated with the British will definitely scrape off a little bit of oil and water, but it will definitely not make up for the gap.

The huge amount of wealth brought by the Chinese gentry is naturally a necessary supplement.

But in India, Zhu Fugui didn't care how Li, Suo and others, who were in control of the military power, extracted money from the old landlords who were lucky to have escaped from the clutches of Daming.

Anyway, during the Southern Ming Dynasty, military leaders such as Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, and Liu Zeqing had already set an example.

Even if it is a dog raised by a literati, it will still be able to stand up and become an uncle at that time.

What's more, Xingzhen, Suotna, and Li Hongzhang are not dogs, but uncles.

……

Dewu 11th year, November 1873, 12 AD.

Zhu Fugui put on all the guards of honor of the Son of Heaven.

Zhu Fugui actually doesn't like to wear traditional Hanfu, at least not as much as Yin Susu and Julie.

Zhu Fugui prefers the improved Hanfu, which is more convenient.

However, today is another good day for "Crossing South". Zhu Fugui will see them off by the Huangpu River.

Therefore, the majesty of the emperor must be displayed.

There are more than a dozen types of formal attire for emperors in Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Fugui can't remember clearly, but Ibowen has naturally taken care of these small things in an orderly manner.

Today, Zhu Fugui was wearing an all-red wubian uniform, and holding a jade kui engraved with the seal characters of "convicting the sinners and calming the people", he boarded the commanding height of the pier.

The top of this garment is sharp red, decorated with multicolored jade in the middle, falling like stars. The red clothes, skirts, skirts, and red boats are worn by the emperor when he sends generals.

On the one hand, this is to demonstrate the illustrious martial arts of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Zhu Fugui, as the monarch, ordered Tang Guogong to march south as a general.

The three big characters "Dianjiangtai" are engraved on the high platform.

Zhu Fugui stood on it, showing a bit of domineering arrogance.

This is the so-called man is clothed by clothes, Buddha is clothed by gold.

However, what Zhu Fugui wanted to say was that standing so high...

The wind on the Huangpu River in the deep winter is really cold!

Moreover, it is the most authentic Jiangnan in the legend, which is damp and cold, so cold to the bone!

If Zhu Fugui hadn't gathered a batch of warm babies during Double Eleven, he wouldn't have known how he would survive.

In addition...

After Zhu Fugui traveled through, the Krypton Gold dog with a naked eye strength of 2.0 saw that in the distance, while Yin Wei was in charge of guarding, there was actually a loli wearing a children's flying fish suit and a small embroidered spring knife standing behind him.

That's all, after all, I approved it.

But what happened to Shirley's child hero pen stuck in her chest?

Why does it look so familiar?

……

Beside Zhu Fugui, Bai Xia'er also put on the long-lost dark green Zhai clothes with a dress crown.

Of course, her clothes are also covered with warm babies.

The sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes belong to the sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, and Nuan Baobao still has to be posted.

The last time Bai Xia'er wore this empress crown dress was when she worshiped her ancestors in the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum.

In Yinzhou, Bai Xia'er basically didn't regard herself as a queen.

But in Shenzhou, she is the empress of Ming Dynasty, the mother of a country.

Today, she looks dignified and generous, and the gentleness of a Jiangnan woman reveals her indomitable heroic spirit.

At this time, there were still [-] majestic generals standing on the steps on both sides of the platform and around the pier, wearing helmets and armor, shining golden light.

Zhu Fugui's speech today does not use loudspeakers, but relies on the sound of these strong men with amazing lung capacity to be like a bell, and the voice is transmitted by human power.

They want to spread the jade sound of the emperor to every landing on both sides of the Huangpu River.

At this time, the surface of the Huangpu River was already a scene of tens of thousands of boats scrambling to flow, and the once vast waterways also appeared to be congested.

Some of these ships came from the 500-ton small steamer produced by the Fujian Shipyard, and some were transport ships that Li Hongzhang rented from Daming with money.

These ships all flew two flags.

High above the sky and with a larger flag is the Great Tomorrow Sun and Moon Flag.

And a little smaller below is a golden partridge flag.

This is when Li Hongzhang listened to the Huangmei song, he felt it and set the flag of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Li Shangyin wrote: "If you want to look northwest, you see partridges flying again."

Qin Guan said: "The south of the Yangtze River is far away, where are the people, and the partridge sings to break the sorrow of spring."

The partridge is a favorite munia of ancient scholars.

The wanderers who travel far away live in other places and miss their hometown. They entrust their deep and long feelings to this little bird flying in the forest-partridge.

Under the long embankment of declining willows, the heartbroken man heard the sound of heartbroken.

And when Li Hongzhang was about to leave his hometown of China where he had lived for fifty years, the Wenqing blood in his bones burst out.

Therefore, the Southern Tang Principality, which is destined to take root in a foreign land, has a partridge national flag, and its national bird is not the beautiful blue peacock in India, but a simple bird in the south of the Yangtze River, the partridge.

This little bird, which has nothing to do with the Indian subcontinent, will deeply affect that place.

……

Standing on the pier, Zuo Zongtang looked at the Southern Tang Partridge Banner, feeling a little envious in his heart.

Until now, the Chu army still uses traditional flags.

It is a plain white flag with the word Chu written on it, which serves as the national flag and military flag.

If it is Zuo Zongtang's personal soldier, the word Zuo will be written.

The same is true for Bai and Liu.

In fact, in Daming, such a traditional flag is still preserved and widely used in the army.

This is the natural advantage of Chinese characters over alphabetic characters.

Chinese characters are picturesque and have a natural beauty.

When the Great Food Kingdom rose in the seventh century, it also used a black letter flag. To be honest, it's a bit ugly, not to mention it.

It's just that no matter how beautiful the Chinese characters are, the flags made of a single character will look a bit bland after all. On the contrary, some gaudy national flags and family emblems of Europa and Japan are too gaudy.

But still the same sentence, Daming is by no means a country that sticks to its laurels and sticks to tradition.

The practice of using patterns to represent the country is indeed very useful for consolidating the collective impression of a nation, so Daming also adopted it.

The simple sun and moon flag made the sons and daughters of Daming proud.

Now, seeing Li Hongzhang use a partridge to represent the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang's mind is also alive.

He wants one too!

Among the four elephants, the west is the master of killing, and its image is a white tiger.

And in the Caspian Sea area where the Chu army is currently entrenched, it is also the distribution area of ​​the large tiger-the Caspian Sea Tiger.

So the first plan Zuo Zongtang thought of was the Western White Tiger Banner.

It's a pity that the white tiger flag is the military flag of the Ming Royal Army, and it has already been boarded first.

Is it really necessary to use rolling?

Zuo Zongtang thought of the iron-eating beast that bit the instructor of the Ming Dynasty in the Ziwu Valley surprise attack when he marched into the Qinling Mountains.

This kind of ferocious beast called "Rolling" by Shangbang in the Ming Dynasty was unexpectedly popular.

Zuo Zongtang didn't understand why people like this kind of creature at all.

That is Chi You's mount!

Since the white tiger that the Lord killed could not be used, then using the mount of Chi You, the god of war, as the national flag and symbol of Western Chu would definitely be able to deter the Hu people.

Therefore, Zuo Zongtang silently decided that the future would be frightening in Central Asia, and he could be called a beast that screams at night.

Chapter 696 The Death of Xing Jiuliu

Zuo Zongtang was very satisfied after conceiving his own national flag of Western Chu.

But soon, he found that he still had too much to learn from Li Hongzhang.

The graduation ceremony held by Li Hongzhang was much more grand than the ceremony when the Western Chu Army took the oath of Weishui and Zuo Zongtang carried the coffin to the west.

From shamans in the Northeast to face-changing skills in Sichuan, from lion dance juggling troupes in Guangdong to Huangmei Opera Troupe in Anhui, there are performances from all over the world, almost becoming a grand parade of traditional Chinese culture and customs.

It can be said that in the 21st century China's intangible cultural heritage catalog, more than half of them are here.

All kinds of dazzling performances made Ming Liangzong and his wife hooked and amazed.

Li Hongzhang patted the stunned Zuo Zongtang on the shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile: "Brother Ji Gao, I can't do it when it comes to fighting, and you can't do it when it comes to showing off.

Brother Yu went south this time, the mountains are far away, the water is heavy, and it is difficult to see his homeland, but Brother Ji Gao and you are separated by Xingdu... Xingdu..."

"You mean, the Hindu Kush?"

Zuo Zongtang almost memorized the maps of the Pamir region, so he naturally knew what Li Hongzhang was talking about.

Li Hongzhang nodded and said: "That's right, that's the mountain. Sanskrit and Persian are hard to remember. Anyway, the Chinese means the mountain range called 'Kill the Indian' mountain. Our two families are separated by it. We need to walk more in the future." After all, the two of us hunted hand in hand... we had a tacit understanding when we hunted down the Taiping soldiers, and now we need to cooperate more to hunt those other people..."

……

The so-called happy time is always short.

The five-hour Nandu swearing-in meeting soon came to an end.

Because the show was so interesting, Zhu Fugui even forgot to eat the Snickers bar he had prepared.

In the end, Zhu Fugui, as the emperor of Shangbang's mother country, held up a cup of warm Shaoxing rice wine and poured it into the Huangpu River, doing it for the brave warriors who voluntarily or forcedly.

At the same time, the majestic "March of the Sun and Moon Empire" was also played by the Royal Military Band of the Ming Dynasty.

On the high mast of Lujiazui Wharf, the sun and moon flags of Ming Dynasty were slowly raised, finally fluttering in the wet and cold river wind.

This is not over, because after the flag of the Great Ming Empire was hoisted, the flag of the Principality of the Southern Tang Dynasty would also be hoisted on the second-class small flagpole.

At this time, an Hui opera troupe from Li Hongzhang's hometown in Hefei babbled and played the national anthem of the Southern Tang Principality "Li Guogong Music". (The specific melody is from Baidu's "Li Zhongtang Music")

"The golden palace is at the head of the purple pavilion, and the jade hibiscus is on the cactus.

The sage, the son of heaven, faces the sun and drives the six dragons in front of the emperor. "

The lyrics are very simple, and Xiao Guo is also very straightforward.

According to the level of Zhu Fugui's Chinese reading comprehension in high school, this should be the meaning of Li Gongye's direct expression of his desire to be the pioneer minion of the Ming Empire.

But Zhu Fugui felt that he was thinking too much.

If Daming's minion is a paper maker like him, then Daming will definitely become a paper dragon.

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