Unlike the original history, the victory of Zhennanguan did not appear, and the Qing army was much stronger than in the original history, and did not retreat into Zhennanguan.

In the Sino-French war

The new army under the command of Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, and the veteran Feng Zicai's green battalion and the Black Flag Army worked together to achieve the "Northern Victory in Vietnam", and the Qing army still occupies the line of Taiyuan and Gaoping in northern Vietnam, and confronts the French expeditionary force.

After the war, the area was divided into areas to be defined and occupied by the Qing army.

The new army of Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, totaled 48,000 people, divided into five armies, left, right, front, and center, and the left battalion army and the front battalion army were stationed in the northern part of Vietnam, which were under the unified jurisdiction of Li Ping, the general of Zhennan, with a total of about 20,000 people.

The new army is equipped with the "Mauser 1871 Modified Bullet Rifle" and 60 mm field guns authorized by the Azure Weapons Company, and all of them have received training from Australian officers.

According to Li Fushou's suggestion;

The Liangguang Governor's Office has increased its support for the Black Flag Army under Liu Yongfu, and the strength of the Black Flag Army has increased to more than 12,000 people, equipped with 4,200 German-made "Mauser 1871 Cavalry Rifles", which is an old-fashioned rifle eliminated by the Australian army, and the power is not bad.

In addition, the Black Flag Army was also equipped with some captured French rifles and purchased miscellaneous muskets, the musket armament rate reached 7 percent, and the rest were equipped with cold weapons such as broadswords and spears, and their combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the Green Battalion Army, and their fighting will was far better than the latter.

Most of the children recruited by the Black Flag Army were Chinese in Vietnam, and in the face of the aggression of the French Expeditionary Force, they were more enthusiastic about fighting to defend their homeland and defend the country.

The Forces nouvelles and the Black Flag Army were like two powerful crab claws, holding the French Expeditionary Force in Hanoi firmly in place, unable to advance northward.

"France is a traditional army power in the world, and the main force of the new army guarding the northern part of Vietnam cannot be moved, so as not to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it, in order to bring all northern Vietnam into the colonial bag and realize the colonial dream of dominating the Indochina Peninsula, the French do not mind launching a second Sino-French war, which is the biggest threat facing the Governor-General of Liangguang at present."

Li Fushou saw it very clearly, so he advocated cutting out the green battalion soldiers with weak combat effectiveness and replacing them with a new army, so that the security of the southern border could be more effectively maintained.

"How easy is it to say?"

Gu Yanchuan shook his head and smiled bitterly, the military system of the Qing Dynasty is that soldiers are generals, and the 100,000 Hunan troops under Zeng Guoquan are the capital that he can intimidate.

The elimination of the green battalion soldiers is to take the lives of these generals!

Even if he was honored as the governor of Liangguang and went all out to implement the new army, now only more than half of the old army has been eliminated, not to mention anything else, the tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers in the city of Guangzhou are only under the direct jurisdiction of the Manchu Guangzhou generals, and Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, cannot move.

There are also green battalion soldiers, according to the Qing Dynasty military system, the green battalion soldiers are Han Chinese, but the ruling generals are mostly Manchurians, and Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, cut off the green battalion soldiers, which directly moved the jobs of these Manchu generals and cut off their roots, and the resistance can be imagined.

Li Fushou has no good way to do this, even if he is the governor and minister, Gu Yanchuan cannot do whatever he wants like in Australia, and there are many kinds of controls.

"Old Taishan, is there really no way for the Nanyang Fleet to get involved?"

"The Nanyang Fleet belongs to the sphere of influence of the Governor of Liangjiang, the Hunan army is dominant here, and no one else will be allowed to interfere in it, and the Beiyang Fleet is Li Hongzhang's world, alas...... To be honest, I don't have the energy to fight them right now. ”

"That's a pity, the naval fleet of the Ocean Kingdom doesn't think twice in the South Pacific region, and with a little help, it can help the Liangguang region to establish a small but powerful fleet, which is comparable to the South Ocean Fleet."

"Yuan Ding, I don't need to worry about doing things for the Qing Dynasty, how many years can I still be on the throne of the governor of Liangguang? Even if you are desperately trying to build an army with the highest military strength, what is the use of not rebelling? The court ordered all of them to make wedding clothes for others, and they were suspected of having different aspirations, so why bother! ”

"Oh, that's ...... too"

Li Fushou suddenly laughed dumbly, he also managed the power with his heart, but he never thought that he would not adapt to the water and soil in the Qing Dynasty, and he died before he gave birth to his mother's womb.

It seems that he is taking it for granted, the internal forces of the Great Qing Kingdom are intertwined, the physique is rigid and rotten, and it is difficult to get up, and it is definitely not something that can be cured by small repairs.

Weng and his son-in-law talked secretly for a long time, and seeing that Gu Yanchuan was exhausted and tired, Li Fushou ended the conversation, got up and left.

More than ten days after that

Prince Yixun, Guangdong Governor Qi Shan and others accompanied the martial king Li Fushou to inspect the city, the fort to be built at the mouth of the Pearl River, and the surrounding beautiful scenery.

The more I watched, the greater my disappointment became.

With more than 200 years of rule in the Qing Dynasty making the Chinese people deeply servile, the older they get, the deeper the poison will become, and it is by no means something that can be changed overnight, so he decided to limit the age of Chinese immigrants to Australia, and further lowered the upper age limit to 22 years old.

Today's Australian immigrants can be said to be famous, and it is a good thing to break through in the coastal provinces and regions.

Many developed Chinese township parties in Australia returned to their homeland, spent huge sums of money to repair ancestral ancestral halls, built bridges and paved roads, benefited Sangzi, and brought more local people to Australia when they returned, such things have been common.

Everyone knows that Australia is a good place flowing with milk and honey, and can realize the wealth dreams of Chinese immigrants.

Therefore, today's Australian immigration agencies are not so much guiding immigrants as restricting immigration.

By opening the door to knowledgeable young people and closing the door to adults with no skills, young women are more likely to pass through, helping to balance Australia's disparity between men and women.

For the general public

Immigrating to Australia is not an easy task, first of all, the huge cost of shipping is an insurmountable mountain, take the immigrants whose destination is Borneo as an example;

A minimum fourth-class immigration ticket costs £6 7 shillings, a second-class ticket costs £18 6 shillings, and the value of a fourth-class ticket is almost 38 taels of silver and a second-class ticket is worth 110 taels of silver.

If you arrive in mainland Australia, the ticket price will increase by 30%.

Such a high ticket price almost 9 out of 9 Chinese immigrants are blocked, want to immigrate to Australia, you must first obtain the Shangri-La Bank loan review qualification, in addition to the lack of arms and legs, immigration guidance policy is one of the most important reasons.

Before arriving at the place of immigration, Chinese immigrants who apply for preferential immigration loans cannot see cash, and the most important thing is to be able to get a ferry ticket, and then with the ferry ticket, they can enter the waiting area, where they can get enough food to fill their stomachs, receive policy lectures, and prepare for boarding.

Australian immigration has now become a major industrial chain, and in addition to Pan Asia Steamship, Shangri-La Bank and other service industries can benefit from it and get good returns.

The only discount is for immigration to Mozambique, because the distance is too long, it takes 70~80 days to make a one-way trip at sea, and the cheapest ticket price is 14 pounds 3 shillings, and the Royal Home Affairs Office subsidizes more than 5 pounds per migrant to support the reclamation program.

According to the average annual migration scale of 300,000 people in Mozambique, this alone will require an annual subsidy of more than 1.5 million pounds, which also greatly limits the scale of immigration to Africa, and there is no way to increase it quickly in a short time.

Zhaoqing Province, Guangdong Province

After visiting the military barracks of Wuwei Houjun stationed here, accompanied by Qi Shan, the governor of Guangdong, Gu Zhiwen, the envoy of Guangdong Xuanwei, and other officials, Li Fushou and the queen visited the famous Seven Star Rock in Zhaoqing Mansion, and rested at a Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain.

In the house

Li Fushou is admiring a painting on the wall, which is a "Fishing Return" by Huang Shen in the Eight Monsters of Yangzhou in the early Qing Dynasty.

Gu Zhiwen walked over from the verandah outside, raised his hand to stop the secretary Li Siyi, who was about to report, and stepped in from the door, and said with a smile on his face; "Your Majesty, can you still see the scenery of Lingnan?"

"Not to mention the eyes, the language here, the humanistic customs, the eating habits are different from the Central Plains, there is a unique charm, it can be said that every Lao Guang is a gourmet, worthy of being an outstanding person, impressive!"

"What Your Majesty said is that the two Guangxi regions, especially the coastal areas of Guangdong and the towns along the Pearl River, are the most prosperous, not inferior to the south of the Yangtze River, and have a unique Lingnan culture, which makes people forget to return." Gu Zhiwen walked over and stood still, and said with feeling; "After working here for a few years, I feel that I have fallen in love with this place, and I have some plans to take root in Lingnan and live in Lingnan for a long time......

"Oh......"

Li Fushou glanced at him and understood the meaning of Gu Zhiwen's words.

The Gu government has a tendency to make the Lingnan region a traditional family sphere of influence and to cultivate it deeply.

This requires that during the tenure of Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, Gu Zhiwen, Gu Zhixue, and Li Ping, the core cadres of the two regions, have successively risen to high positions, firmly controlled the military power and economic lifeline of the Liangguang region, and become de facto local wealthy families.

Now it seems that the 48,000 new troops are undoubtedly in the hands of the training, with the help of the huge strength of the Normandy Bank and the Huitong Bank, the Gu government has a decisive voice in the thirteen banks in Guangzhou, and the economic strength is beyond doubt.

What is lacking now is the control of local power.

Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, did not shy away from his relatives, and a few days ago promoted his nephew Gu Zhiwen to be the envoy of Guangdong Yiwei, taking charge of the new army and local law and order in Guangdong, which can be regarded as the first step.

In the next step, through the channel of Prince Yiyun, you can directly submit the excerpt to the case of Emperor Guangxu, Gu Zhixue, Li Ping, a general of one article and one martial arts, is about to soar, and there is no suspense.

Gu Yanchuan, the governor of Liangguang, spent a lot of money, 70,000 pounds is equivalent to 420,000 taels of snowflake silver, and it is more than enough to buy a third-grade Imperial History of the Right Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, plus a second-grade military commander of Guangxi, which can be described as full of sincerity, and there should be no twists and turns.

Comparatively speaking, Xuanfu makes this martial arts position a little insufficient.

Do not suffer from few, but suffer from unevenness.

Gu Zhiwen is also the eldest son of the Gu Mansion, and he feels a little embarrassed that the second uncle spent a lot of money to pave the career for the younger brother and a domestic slave.

So, there was a faint hint of meaning in the words.