Just when the Ming and British negotiators began to spit on each other at the Jing'an Temple in Nanjing, the Ming army on the northern front finally completed the meeting in Jining.

Immediately afterwards, the Yan Shenggong of Qufu led the clansmen to welcome the king as quickly as possible......

Well, but Wang Shi doesn't like him.

Even if Yan Shenggong gave the God Emperor another copy of the Eight Desolations and Salty Songs, it would be useless.

The Emperor of God decreed that the Confucian family in Qufu should be confiscated for the crime of rebellion.

Of course, at this time, he can do whatever he wants, anyway, the title of Yan Shenggong, which has been inherited to this day, is gone, even the real estate of the Qufu Kong family is gone, the land property is gone, the property is gone, the slaves are liberated, Yan Shenggong hanged himself in order to avoid exile in Nanyang, his immediate family members were exiled to Nanyang, and the side family members were all reformed through labor......

It is said that at this time, there are already many village sages and celebrities to transform.

The main reason is that the Emperor is engaged in the large-scale development of copper mines, and urgently needs labor to go to Tongling and Dexing to mine stones.

In this regard, the mood of the people of Shandong is stable.

Moreover, immediately after Jinan, Wuding, Qingzhou, Yizhou and Denglai surrendered one after another, the local officials who took the initiative to surrender were also dealt with according to the regulations of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which can be regarded as the grace of the emperor.

Finally, by the end of this year, the control area of the Ming Dynasty had included Guangzhou, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui, Lutai, Beijing, Tianjin, and half of Hubei and half of Hebei, and the Ming army on the southern front also controlled a small part of southeast Yunnan and southern Qiannan, and with the transfer of one infantry brigade after another to the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield, the speed of the advance there was significantly accelerated, and it is estimated that it will be able to hit Kunming and Guiyang by the end of next year at most. Xianfeng, who had just ascended the throne, controlled the western part of the strategic line of Yanshan, Taihang Mountain, and Qinling, plus the southwest of Zhili, and the salient of northern Hubei in Henan. So far, all of the richest provinces in China, except for Sichuan, have fallen into the hands of Yang Feng, and the population is more than 250 million, which actually accounts for the majority, and the rest are Sichuan and Henan, two provinces with large populations.

And Shaanxi and Gansu have just died more than a million.

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

However, this salient is autonomous.

Not only is not a penny of taxes no longer paid, but even the system of avoiding officials in their own provinces has been actually abolished in the three provinces of Zhili, Henan, and Hubei, and a large number of registered candidates and eunuchs have been appointed as magistrates, or some of the frontier officials have simply run away, and the gentry have their own agents who wear their own tops, because the gentry who donate classes are overflowing, and there are such gentry in the people, which are almost to the point that there are many counties like dogs, and in fact, Daoguang's finances in recent years have largely relied on selling officials to support.

You can even buy flower feathers.

Originally, the price at this time in history was 7,000 taels, but now 1,000 taels can buy a single eye.

As for the army, there are also many named commanders, commanders, and the like, like dogs.

Anyway, the place is getting smaller and smaller, so many officials can't be vacant normally, so they simply break the jar and break it, and the supplementary officials don't pay their salaries, and the registered officials are all front-line provinces to solve their own salaries, and the imperial court is nothing more than a decree

Even some idle Beijing officials were sent to the province to serve as magistrates.

Or it can also be said that the imperial court can't afford to support so many idlers, so simply let them go back to their hometowns to eat, after all, the imperial court now relies on Sichuan's finances and taxes, and it is stretched thin just to feed those hardcore crops and supply monk Greenqin, and there is still spare money to support those messy officials. For example, at this time, the most important Kaigui Chen Xudao in Henan was Yuan Jiasan, the uncle of the big brother, who was ordered to be in danger during the great migration in Beijing, and was promoted to the prefect of Guide by Zhang Jing of the Military Aircraft Department, and then promoted to Chen Xudao, leading Kaifeng, Guide, Chenzhou, and Xuzhou to train the regiments to defend against the Ming army that had arrived in Xuzhou to ensure the east gate of Henan.

But even so, Xianfeng could not count on the loyalty of the officials of this salient department.

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

They are just reluctant to produce land, and the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang still have industry and commerce, but the gentry in Henan and other places only have soil, and they have soil and wealth, which is especially prominent in Henan, so at least when the Ming army has not threatened the lives of their whole family, they can still delay it for a day, if there is really a day when the Ming army is overwhelmed, they can continue to play the loyal ministers of our Qing Dynasty......

This can only be hehe.

Therefore, the actual control area of Xianfeng is Taihang Mountain and west of the Qinling Mountains, as well as Sichuan.

And in fact, he can't control the northeast, because of the distance and the difficult road, the six departments of Shengjing have actually been in Shengjing and left the six departments of Chang'an to do their own thing, and the three generals of Guanwai and Rehe have all vaguely formed an alliance, and the six devils are enshrined in Shengjing as a tablet. Anyway, even if the Ming army really landed in Gaizhou or Niuzhuang to attack Shenyang in the north, Xianfeng would not be able to provide them with any meaningful help, so there is no need for these people to listen to him too much, Devil Six was appointed by Daoguang to stay in Beijing, and he was originally restrained by Sheng Jing and other generals, and he is now sitting in Shengjing, and he can also be relied on as the Northeast Bannerman, but in name Xianfeng is still the emperor, but in fact, the two sides have ......

Father and mother are married, and everyone takes care of everyone!

Fortunately, after the Ming army on the northern front took Shandong, it did not continue to attack Henan, but transferred to large-scale land reform like Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

This gave Xianfeng a rare opportunity.

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

In other words, Dao Gu warned those princes not to engage in infighting, but the question is that those princes still have to listen? How could they be willing to let a Mongol from a foreign vassal take sole power? However, Monk Greenqin is Daoguang Tuogu, and firmly holds the military power, plus the queen mother in the palace......

is actually a concubine, there was no queen when Daoguang died, only the six relatives of the devil and the Jing Guifei who was also Xianfeng's adoptive mother.

And she is the Borzigit clan.

has a brand of taking care of his life, has military power, and has the support of the palace monk Greenqin, at this time it is indeed not those princes can resist, but it does not mean that those princes do not engage in conspiracy, in fact, after the death of Daoguang, Chang'an City is also turbulent, and there are many princes and ministers who want to do things. However, Seng Lingqin didn't care about these anymore, he was indeed a loyal minister, and then went to the battlefield of the Tianshan Mountains, leading an army of more than 100,000 people, especially with the support of the Mongolian princes behind him, and swept the Tianshan Mountains with bloody means against the wind and snow.

But at the same time, the Russian Cossack cavalry invaded and laid siege to the city of Huiyuan, and General Ili held on and called for help from Monk Greenqin.

Monk Lingqin had to stop the attack on Kashgar, and then lead the main cavalry back to the division to rescue Ili.

Fortunately, his bloodbath and cleansing were very effective, and without a responder, although Yusufu had a chance to breathe in Kashgar, he no longer had the ability to attack eastward, especially relying on the acquiescence of Seng Lingqin, the Mongol tribes in Moxi began to migrate to the southern part of the mountain, and the forces loyal to the Tatar Qing gradually began to fill the gap in the purge, because of the relationship of faith, they would not allow Yusufu to return.

In the end, Seng Lingqin was able to continuously draw the main force of the Qing army, and in July, he relieved the siege of Ili and drove the Cossack cavalry besieging Huiyuan City out of the Ili River Valley, but he also had no ability to drive the Cossacks out of the south of Lake Balkhash, which was still part of the Tatar Qing at this time, especially the lair of Emperor Yang Shenhuang in the Tang Dynasty was completely controlled by the Russians.

However, Monk Grinqin also had gains, and his cavalry, which could be called a hundred battles, actually defeated the Cossacks.

Although it was defeated with superior forces.

But this is simply surprising compared to the time when Kang Mazi personally recruited hundreds of Russian armed immigrants, and finally had to rely on a long-term siege to win.

"That's a lot of progress!"

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

It is said that even the God Emperor was surprised by them.

Obviously, after many years of continuous campaigns, especially after experiencing bloody battles with the Ming army on the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, Seng Lingqin and his Manchurian cavalry have really grown up, and in the later period, they have been able to charge with the Ming army's rifled guns, and occasionally they can break through the interception with their numbers and terrain, and suddenly replaced with a group of enemies whose firepower projection and projection distance have plummeted, and it is in their favorite grassland battlefield, this defeated army that was originally rubbed by the Ming army again and again on the southern battlefield, Suddenly, they showed their strength.

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

After all, the Russians also have limited power in Central Asia.

Their attack on Huiyuan City was only a few thousand Cossacks, and there were also a few thousand Kazakh herdsmen, which was already the maximum force they could invest, and the population of Russia in the whole of Siberia, including the Far East, was only about two million at this time, and the nearest fortress to Huiyuan City was still two thousand miles away in Semipalatinsk.

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

To cooperate, you must first have the qualifications to cooperate.

If Xianfeng didn't even have the qualifications to cooperate with the Tsar, then why did the latter support him, wouldn't it be better to just swallow him in front of Yang Feng? Now Xianfeng has shown his worth, he has the ability to be a friend of the tsar, so once Daming becomes an enemy of the tsar, the value of his friend will be immediately reflected. And 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 his first love father one by one, give him all kinds of support, and then let him continue to integrate those messy forces, let him act as a pawn to contain the Ming. Then in the war, those chaotic forces are constantly thrown into the meat grinder of the war and hanged, and after these guys are evacuated, the God Emperor can 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 has arrived in Kagoshima."

Chen Liu, the chief of the general staff in front of Yang Feng, looked at the message that the female soldier beside him had just translated, and suddenly turned around and saluted and said.

"Let's get started!"

The God Emperor said indifferently.

A minute later, two thousand miles away in Kagoshima.

'Fire!'

In the command room of the battleship Zhiyuan, Wu Ruxiao, the commander of the Ming Expeditionary Force and the commander of the naval task force, looked at the telegram in his hand and said.

"Fire!"

The captain next to him picked up the phone and yelled.

The next moment, the battleship that had just completed repairs, the two six-inch main guns suddenly roared at extremely short intervals, and then the roar of twenty four-inch guns on the gun deck in the cabin sounded rapidly, accompanied by the flames sprayed from the muzzles, the shells whistled and flew towards the shore batteries, and then the eight capital ships and twenty-four cruisers lined up on the sea also began to bombard the coastal batteries.

Negotiations between the Daima 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, there's really no way they're going to agree.

In other words, this is the domain of the Shimazu family, Yang Feng's request is completely vexatious, the Shimazu family is not unaware of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, after all, they are not far here, so the Shimazu family can give up control of the Ryukyus, anyway, they do not have a navy, it is impossible to compete with the powerful fleet of the Ming army at sea, but it is absolutely impossible to rent their own feudal city, even if the Ming Dynasty only rents Kagoshima City, this is completely an insult to their personality. As for the Tokugawa family, they don't care whether the Shimazu family lives or dies, but it is unacceptable for the Ming to block Yokohama, who would allow their own gate to become someone else's territory and station someone else's army?

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

In that case, the only way to do this is to use force.

"It's really unaccomplished to fight such an opponent every day!"

Looking at the fort that was flooded by the flames of the explosion, as well as the Japanese soldiers who were chaotically deployed on the shore, and the deputy of Luo Outline in the original history, Gu Wang Wu Ruxiao said helplessly.

At this time, the defense of Kagoshima was even far less than that of the original history of the Sath-British War.

At that time, it had been built by Shimazu Qibin for many years, and even there were artillery factories, and there were also a large number of shore defense batteries on the coast, all of which were artillery at least close to the normal level, so it caused certain losses to the British army, but at this time there was a fart, Shimazu Qibin had not yet come to power, and at this time the Shimazu family was still his father Qixing! Although because of the influence of Lanxue, it is relatively advanced in the Wa Kingdom, but in front of the Ming army is still like scum, not only their shells can't hit the Ming warships at all, but even their soldiers who run chaotically with flags behind their backs are more like a group of singing operas in the eyes of the Ming army.

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

A civil official beside him said indifferently.

At this moment, on the blue sea of Kagoshima Bay to the south, four large warships slowly approached, and behind the two Daming battlecruisers led by them, two battleships flying the American flag stood impressively, and one of them even had a spectacular three-layer gun door.