"Don't get me wrong, I mean, Liu Jun is coming to meet Cixi." Seeing that the two people had misunderstood, Li Hongzhang hurriedly said.

can directly call Liu Jun's life, then there is only Li Hongzhang, after all, Li Hongzhang's identity is different, it can be said that without Li Hongzhang, there would be no Liu Jun's present.

It turned out to be this matter, Wang Shizhen, who heard this, nodded, indeed, as early as some time ago, Beijing sent a telegram, that is, Liu Jun was coming to Xi'an.

"Send a message to Beijing and ask them when they will be able to come to Xi'an?"

Okay, Zhang Zhidong, who was on the side, nodded, indicating that he would send the message in a while.

In the Renshou Hall of the Summer Palace in Beijing, Liu Jun, who was sitting on a chair, looked at the few people who came in with a puzzled expression, these people were Zhong Lin, Zheng Yiqian, and Ding Ruchang of the General Staff.

It seems that these guys must be here for the transformation of the southwest army, and Liu Jun, who thought of this in his heart, stood up.

"Head, I have a question?" After coming in, Zhong Lin said directly. Before Zhong Lin finished speaking, Liu Jun waved his arm: "You don't have to say it, I know what you mean by coming?" ”

Knowing, Zhong Lin, who heard this, looked at Liu Jun suspiciously, he hadn't said yet, how did Liu Jun know what he was going to say.

"You want to ask the question of how many corps in the southwest have been converted, right?"

Yes, hearing Liu Jun's rhetorical question, Ding Ruchang immediately nodded, and then came to the map and said: "Dashuai, although the political situation in the southwest has been stabilized, there is still French Vietnam below. British India. It's all close to us. Although we are now in a stable state with these countries, we cannot relax our vigilance against them, they are wolf ambitions, if we transform all the five corps in the southwest into the construction corps, then our military strength in the southwest will be greatly weakened, once Britain and France do something against us, we will fall into a passive situation. ”

Ding Ruchang had to worry that Ding Ruchang was taken aback when he received Liu Jun's order to temporarily transform the army in the southwest into a construction corps.

The southwest region is an important area for the defense of Liaodong in the future, and this place, after all, has two powerful countries here, and then they will attack themselves. But now, Liu Jun actually wants to weaken the defense here, which makes Ding Ruchang a little puzzled, why Liu Jun did this, so today, he came to Zhong Lin and asked Zhong Lin what Liu Jun meant, however, the current Zhong Lin and Zheng Yiqian all have doubts about these things, so the three of them decided to come here and ask for clarification.

"Yes, in the entire southwest region and Guangxi, we are ready to deploy a total of six corps, but now, if you let the four corps be transformed into construction corps, how will our national defense and defense be carried out, and how should we deal with the war, at that time, we are transforming the troops, and we can still have time."

Crackling. Zhong Lin asked so many questions in one breath, and this question did not confuse Liu Jun. In fact, he had already thought about the problems of these people.

The world situation has been changing during this time, originally, Britain and France are no less protective than Germany, but now, according to Zhong Lin's report, on the border of Vietnam and the border of India, the British and French armies are beginning to decrease, which proves that Britain and France are now releasing a peace signal to themselves, for this hard-won peace signal, Liu Jun of course knows that he must grasp it well and use all these precious time in one place, that is, to build the southwest.

There are two purposes for transforming the combat corps into a construction corps, the first is to be able to build quickly, especially the construction of railway kilometers, to get rich, to build roads first, to build national defense, and to build roads first, these are all the same roads, without roads, material transportation cannot be carried out, logistics cannot keep up, even if you have five corps, they are all empty. Therefore, the only way to quickly build roads is to use the army and let them participate in the construction.

Second, since Britain and France are gradually reducing their troops on the border, this proves that they want to reconcile, and it just so happens that they also want to give face and give them benefits, that is, in the southwest, I have transformed all the combat units into construction corps, so that our troops have not been reduced, but they have played a marginal ball. Let the army temporarily lay down its arms and go to build the railway, and once the time comes to find out what is going on, they can immediately arm themselves. Fight again.

He believed that Britain would agree to this, and France would be happy to see it.

"You really don't understand, or what's the reason?" I saw a few people looking at me with puzzled expressions. Liu Jun tilted his head, and then said his thoughts.

Gao, none of the people present were rice buckets, and after Liu Jun said it very clearly, Zhong Lin and the others immediately raised their fingers and agreed with Liu Jun's idea.

"Head, if you go down with this trick, it is estimated that Britain and France will cry by then." Zhong Lin finished speaking. Said with a grin.

Cry and cry, anyway, sooner or later it is a matter of fighting, you can't because they cry, you won't clean it up when the time comes, how is this possible, when these two things were beating themselves, but they didn't save face at all, and they burned the Old Summer Palace.

Now let them relax and put all their energy on where to Germany, now, Germany has salvaged the Yixin According to the news from the German side, now Germany is already researching and preparing to build, according to intelligence, Germany will build in the near future, and the German airship has now appeared, all of which are stimulating Britain and France.

It can be said that this time Britain and France in Asia were able to let go and give themselves time to settle down, which has a certain relationship with Germany. Not as tossy as they are in the European region. Britain and France said that it was not good to interfere in their own affairs in the southwest, but now it is good, except for Loushan Pass, the rest of the southwest has been stabilized, and they do not have to worry about other countries interfering.

"Head, when are we going to start converting?" Knowing Liu Jun's purpose for doing this, Zhong Lin raised his head and asked.

When? Liu Jun raised his head and thought for a moment, then looked at Zhong Lin, Zheng Yiqian and the others in front of him and said, "It will start after the battle of Loushan Pass." ”

The end of the Battle of Loushanguan means that the stability of the southwest has entered, and the rest of the time is to carry out construction, and strive for the original five-year work to be completed in three years.

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