Just as the negotiators of the Ming and British countries began to snore each other at Jing'an Temple in Nanjing, the Ming army on the North Line finally completed the meeting in Jining.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Shenggong from Qufu led his clan members to welcome the royal army as quickly as possible...

Uh, but Master Wang doesn't like him.

Even if the Lord Yan Sheng gave the God Emperor another memorial to the prosperous age of the Eight Desolates, it would be useless.

The Emperor of God issued an order to conquer the Confucius family in Qufu for the crime of accusing him of rebellion.

Of course, it was now, so he would do whatever he wanted. Anyway, the title of Yan Shenggong, which has been passed down to this day, is gone. Even the property of the Kong family in Qufu has been lost, land, property, and property, and slaves are liberated. In order to avoid exile in Nanyang, Yan Shenggong himself was banished, his direct family members were exiled to Nanyang, and all the families in the side are transformed...

By the way, many local celebrities have already been transformed.

The main reason is that the Emperor of God is engaged in the development of copper mines and urgently needs labor to go to Tongling and Dexing to dig ore.

The people of Shandong are in a stable mood.

Immediately afterwards, Jinan, Wuding, Qingzhou, Yizhou and Denglai surrendered one after another, and local officials who took the initiative to surrender were also dealt with according to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regulations, which was also considered a blessing from the God Emperor.

Finally, by the end of this year, the Ming Dynasty's controlled area had already included Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui, Shandong, Taiwan, Beijing and Tianjin, plus half Hubei and a small half Hebei. The Ming army on the southern front also controlled a small part of southeastern Yunnan and southern Guizhou. Moreover, with one infantry brigade after another transferred to the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield, the speed of advance there was significantly accelerated, and it is estimated that Kunming and Guiyang will be able to reach Kunming and Guiyang at the end of next year. Xianfeng, who had just ascended the throne, controlled the Yanshan, Taihang Mountains, and Qinling Straits, and in addition to the southwest of Zhili, Henan and northern Hubei. At this point, all of China's richest provinces except Sichuan, all fell into Yang Feng's hands, and the population exceeded 2500 million, which actually accounted for the majority. The remaining are Sichuan and Henan. Even if half Hubei and Zhili add, the population of the Qing Dynasty controlled area was only more than 1.50 million.

Moreover, more than one million people died in Shaanxi and Gansu.

The main war zones between the Ming and Qing dynasties moved south to the mountains and steep mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou, and almost all other fronts returned to peace, and even Zeng Guofan gained a foothold in Xiangyang.

However, this protrusion is like autonomy.

Not only will the tax be paid, but even the avoidance system of officials in the province was actually abolished in Zhili, Henan and Hubei provinces. A large number of alternates and township officials were appointed as local officials, or some of the frontiers simply ran away. Among the gentry, there were the most popular gentry, and some gentry members came out to represent themselves. Because donation classes are flooded among the people, some of them are almost as numerous as magistrates. In fact, Daoguang’s finances have been largely supported by selling officials in recent years.

Even the peach feathers can be bought.

Originally, the price in history was 7,000 taels, but now it is possible to buy a single eye for 1,000 taels.

As for the registered admirals and generals in the army, there are also many like dogs.

A single pilot in the group training may be a second-rank official. Anyway, the place is getting smaller and smaller, so many officials cannot be missed normally, so they simply throw them out. Afterwards, they will not pay their wages. The registered officials are all on the front line provinces to solve their wages. The court is just giving an order.

Even some idle Beijing officials were sent to their provinces to serve as local officials.

Or it could be that the court could not afford so many idle people, so they could just let them return to their hometowns and eat. After all, the court now relies on Sichuan's finances and taxes, and it is difficult to support those hard-core crops and supply Senggelinqin. There is still spare money to support those messy officials. For example, the most important Kaigui Chen Xudao in Henan at this time was Yuan Jiasan, the uncle of Big Head Brother. He was ordered in the face of danger during the migration of Beijing. Zhang Jing of the Military Affairs Office was promoted to the prefect of Guide, and then promoted to Guichen Xudao, leading the four regions of Kaifeng, Guide, Chenzhou and Xuzhou to train to defend Guide against the Ming army that had already arrived in Xuzhou and ensure the east gate of Henan.

But even so, Xianfeng could not count on the loyalty of this prominent official.

It’s not that they don’t want to surrender to Yang Feng.

They just couldn't bear to bear the land. At least the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang still had industry and commerce, but the gentry in Henan and other places had only land. There was land and wealth. This was particularly prominent in Henan. So at least when the Ming army had not threatened their entire family's lives, they could still delay it one day. If one day the Ming army was in a big way, they could continue to play the role of loyal ministers of our Qing Dynasty...

This is all I can do.

Therefore, the actual controlled areas of Xianfeng are the Taihang Mountains and the Qinling Mountains and Sichuan.

In fact, he couldn't control the Northeast, because the distance was far and the road was difficult. The six ministries of Shengjing were actually in Shengjing, leaving the six ministries in Chang'an, and the three generals outside the pass and the Rehe governor had formed an alliance. The sixth Japanese were enshrined in Shengjing as a tablet. Anyway, even if the Ming army really had to land in Gaizhou or Niuzhuang to attack Chenyang, Xianfeng would not be able to provide them with any meaningful help. Then there was no need for these people to listen to him too much. The sixth Japanese ministries were left behind by Daoguang before. They were originally restrained by Shengjing and other generals. He was now in charge of Shengjing, which was just as a supporter for the Northeast Banners. However, in name only Xianfeng was still the emperor, but in fact both sides had already...

My father died and my mother got married, and everyone took care of her!

Fortunately, after the Ming army on the Northern Front took Shandong, it did not continue to attack Henan, but instead moved into large-scale land reform like Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

This gave Xianfeng a rare opportunity.

Senggelinqin, who had just been appointed as the chief military minister, ignored the many internal contradictions that still existed after Daoguang's death...

By the way, Daoguang asked the orphans to warn those princes not to engage in internal strife, but the problem is that those princes still have to listen? How could they be willing to let a Mongolian in the outer vassal state take power alone? However, Senggelinqin was entrusted by Daoguang, and he firmly grasped military power, and the empress dowager in the palace...

In fact, it was the concubine. When Daoguang died, there was no queen, only the Japanese relatives and concubine Jing, who was also the adopted mother of Xianfeng.

And she is Borjigit.

The Senggelinqin, who has the life-threatening brand, military power, and the support of the palace, was indeed not something that the princes could resist at this time, but it did not mean that the princes did not engage in conspiracy. In fact, after Daoguang's death, there were also undercurrents in Chang'an City, and there were many princes and ministers who wanted to cause trouble. However, Senggelinqin didn't care about these things. He was indeed a loyal minister. He then rushed to the battlefield of Tianshan and led an army of more than 100,000, especially with the support of the Mongolian princes behind him, swept the Tianshan Mountains with bloody means in the wind and snow. By the time the summer of the new year came, Yusufu was left with only Kashgar to survive.

But at the same time, the Russian Cossack cavalry invaded and besieged Huiyuan City, and General Yili defended and asked Senggelinqin for help.

Senggelinqin had to stop attacking Kashgar and then led the main cavalry back to rescue Yili.

Fortunately, his blood-washing was very effective. Without the supporter, Yu Sufu got a chance to breathe in Kashgar, but he was no longer able to attack eastward. Especially with the acquiescence of Senggelinqin, the Mongolian tribes in the west of the desert began to migrate to the Shannan area. The forces loyal to the Qing Dynasty gradually began to fill the gaps in the cleaning, because they would not allow Yu Sufu to return due to faith.

In the end, Senggelinqin was able to continuously draw the main force of the Qing army, and in July, he lifted the siege of Yili and drove the Cossacks who besieged Huiyuan City out of the Ili River Valley. However, he was not able to expel the Cossacks from the south of the Balkash Lake, which was still belonging to the Tartar Qing Dynasty, especially the old nest of Yang Shenhuang in the time and space of the Tang Dynasty was completely controlled by the Russians.

However, Senggelinqin also gained something. His cavalry, who could be called after a hundred battles, actually defeated the Cossacks.

Although it was defeated by superior forces.

But this is simply a surprise compared to the fact that Kang Mazi personally conquered hundreds of Russian armed immigrants, and finally had to rely on long-term siege to win.

"This is also a great improvement!"

In the combat hall of the Nanjing General Staff, the God Emperor sitting on the throne said.

Even the God Emperor was surprised by them.

It is obvious that after many years of continuous battles, especially after experiencing bloody battles with the Ming army on the Jiangnan battlefield, Senggelinqin and his Manchu and Mongolian cavalry had truly grown up. In the later stage, they were able to charge with the Ming army's rifled rifle, and occasionally they could break through the interception with their number and terrain. They suddenly replaced a group of enemies whose firepower projection volume and projection distance plummeted. And on their favorite grassland battlefield, this defeated army, which was originally rubbed by the Ming army on the southern battlefield, suddenly showed their strength.

At least the strength that the Russians can invest in Central Asia is already difficult to overwhelm them.

After all, the Russians have limited strength in Central Asia.

Their attack on Huiyuan City was only a few thousand Cossacks, and there were also thousands of Kazakh herders. This was the greatest force they could invest. Russia had only more than two million people in the entire Siberia, including the Far East, and the closest fortress to Huiyuan City was still two thousand miles away.

This is very good, so that the Tsar can change his attitude towards the Qing Dynasty.

To cooperate, you must first be qualified to cooperate.

If Xianfeng did not even have the qualifications to cooperate with the Tsar, why would the latter support him? Wouldn't it be better to just swallow him in front of Yang Feng? Now Xianfeng has shown his value and he has the ability to be the friend of the Tsar. Then once the Ming Dynasty becomes the enemy of the Tsar, the value of his friend will be immediately reflected. Moreover, he is not only a good friend of the Tsar, but also a good friend of Victoria. In the end, Victoria will support Xianfeng with her first love father, give him various support, and then let him continuously integrate those messy forces and let him act as a pawn to restrain the Ming Dynasty. Then in the war, those messy forces were constantly thrown into the meat grinder of the war and hanged. After all these guys were taken away, the Divine Emperor could slap Daoguang to death and get a clean land.

This is the value of Xianfeng to Yang Feng in the future.

"Your Majesty, the fleet arrives at Kagoshima."

Chen Liu, the chief of staff in front of Yang Feng, looked at the telegram that the female soldier had just translated, suddenly turned around and bowed and said.

"Then let's start!"

The Emperor of God said calmly.

One minute later, Kagoshima, two thousand miles away.

"Fire!"

In the command room of the Zhiyuan battleship, Wu Ruxiao, commander of the Japanese Expeditionary Force of the Ming Dynasty and the admiral of the Navy task force, said as he looked at the telegram in his hand.

"Open fire!"

The captain beside him picked up the phone and shouted.

The next moment, the battleship that had just completed maintenance suddenly roared at the beginning and end of the battleship, two six-inch main guns suddenly roared at very short intervals. Then the roar of twenty four-inch cannons on the artillery deck in the cabin sounded rapidly. Accompanied by the flames ejected from the muzzle, the shells roared towards the shore turrets, and then the eight main battleships and twenty-four cruisers lined up on the sea also began bombarding the coastal turrets.

The negotiations between the Ming Dynasty and the Tokugawa Shogunate on the lease of Kagoshima and Yokohama broke down.

The Tokugawa shogunate refused to rent out Yokohama.

The Shimazu family even refused to rent out Kagoshima...

Well, they really can't agree.

By the way, this is the Shimazu family's vassal city. Yang Feng's request was completely unreasonable. The Shimazu family didn't know how powerful the Ming Dynasty was. After all, they were not far away, so the Shimazu family could give up their control over Ryukyu. Anyway, they didn't have a navy, so it was impossible to compete with the powerful fleet of the Ming army at sea. However, it was absolutely impossible to rent out their own vassal city, even if the Ming Dynasty only rented Kagoshima City, this was a complete insult to their personality. As for the Tokugawa family, they didn't care about the life or death of the Shimazu family, but it was unacceptable for them to block Yokohama. Who would allow their door to become someone else's territory and station other people's troops?

In short, the Tokugawa shogunate sternly rejected the request made by the envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

Since this is the case, we can only use force.

"It's really a sense of accomplishment to fight such an opponent every day!"

Looking at the forts flooded by the explosion flames, as well as the Japanese soldiers who were chaoticly deployed on the shore, Luo Dagang's deputy in history, Gu Wang Wu Ruxiao said helplessly.

At this time, the Kagoshima defense was even far from that of the Saying War in history.

At that time, at least after many years of construction by Shimazu Kibin, there were even artillery factories, and there were also a large number of coastal defense artillery on the coast, all of which were at least close to normal levels, which caused certain losses to the British army. But at this time, there was a big deal. Shimazu Kibin had not yet come to power, and at this time the Shimazu family was still his father Qixing! Although it was relatively advanced in Japan due to the influence of Lanxue, it was still like a slag in front of the Ming army. Not only did their shells not hit the Ming army's warships at all, but even the soldiers who ran chaoticly with flags behind them looked more like a group of performers in the Ming army.

"It's enough for acting. I don't know if our guests are satisfied!"

A civil servant next to him said indifferently.
Chapter completed!