Zhu Jinglun told Hurd about the set of difficulties that Chen Zhiting emphasized. Hurd suggested borrowing from Britain. Zhu Jinglun was worried that Britain would be influenced by France and would not allow it to borrow in Britain.
Hurd asked him to take charge of this matter, which will certainly help Da borrow enough funds to expand his troops. At the same time, he hoped that he would not rush to the French war until he was fully prepared.
Zhu Jinglun knew that Hurd finally could not hold back after being dormant for so many years.
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Hurd suggested that almost every item was put forward by Chen Zhiting after discussion between Zhu Jinglun and Chen Zhiting? ? ? ? ? ．re`
If Hurd thought of Zhu Jinglun himself, he would never believe it. Hurd obviously inquired about what Zhu Jinglun wanted before he asked for it, and suddenly pleaded for help under the banner of suggestions. I’m afraid he would think it simple to say that everything was improvisation.
Zhu jinglun couldn’t help secretly surprised. It’s not that Hurd is so painstaking, but that Hurd has the ability to touch the conversation between the great emperor and the prime minister so clearly. What’s the secret of this big thing? Hurd doesn’t know what Hurd knows, and there’s no guarantee that Britain doesn’t know.
Hurd’s energy in the official field is deeper than Zhu Jinglun imagined.
However, Hurd has been keeping a low profile all these years and suddenly jumped out to suit the emperor’s wishes. He can’t be unaware that it will offend the civilian corps unless he is sure to challenge Chen Zhiting’s regiment.
Hurd helped the emperor suppress the bureaucracy, so what he wanted was not necessarily a small profit.
Zhu Jinglun knew for a long time that Hurd had a big plan. Now Hurd must have jumped out and thought that his position was ripe.
It’s just that Zhu Jinglun needs to appease the British Hurd’s British identity at this time. Perhaps it’s time.
Zhu Jinglunma agreed that Hurd would come forward to discuss the loan with British capital and visit Britain as a minister to Europe. Hurd could be responsible for the loan and diplomatic affairs.
Hurd soon formed a huge team and set off for Europe, so that they could contact not only Britain but also other countries, including France. Let’s take it as a last resort, not only to win the support of Britain and other countries, but also to stabilize France as much as possible.
China’s naval budget plan has been drafted. In order for the navy to keep pace with France, it is necessary to build 30 armored ships with an average price of 1.2 million, which is 30 million. In addition, there are small auxiliary warships such as torpedo boats. In recent years, new warships and training budgets have been less than 50 million.
In addition, once a face-to-face war breaks out with France, the main battlefield must be on land, so the army needs to strengthen its armaments more than the navy.
Therefore, it is necessary to raise less than 100 million two armies in the great war, which is still in the preparatory stage. Once the war is over, it will be like running water to spend the troops.
So Zhu Jinglun instructed Hurd to raise less than 100 million pounds in Britain, with a gold content of 73,223 grams of pure gold and a gold content of 3,125 grams of pure gold. 100 million pounds of pure gold is equivalent to more than 230 million pounds to meet the needs of expanding the army and preparing for the subsequent war, and he will continue to issue bonds and borrow all the money at one time, which is too high.
Hurd’s biggest mission is to borrow money from Britain and get a guarantee to continue financing, not how much money he borrows at one time.
It was November when Hurd left.
French military operations in Vietnam continue. Of course, they are not fighting the Vietnamese army, but not the local French armed forces.
The key point is that the Red River Tour is entrenched in the old street area to reclaim land and operate the Black Flag Army.
Led by the Black Flag Army in Liu Yongfu, it adopted the attitude of the Vietnamese government, helped the Vietnamese government to suppress the threats to seize Vietnam, and Li Yangcai suppressed the armed forces of Huang Chongying and Huang Qijun, who were entrenched in the 10-state area of the red river south. Then the Black Flag Army took its place and became the most powerful peasant army in the northern part of Vietnam, even the most powerful armed forces, even the Vietnamese army could not confront him head-on.
Because the Black Flag Army adopted a cooperative attitude with the Vietnamese government, the Vietnamese government allowed them to legally reside in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam and allowed the Black Flag Army to set up checkpoints in Baosheng area to collect taxes.
After the Black Flag Army had a stable life, soldiers and officers all went home to take their wives and children to live in Vietnam and became semi-independent armed immigrants entrenched in northern Vietnam.
Moreover, after the Black Flag Army established itself in the Red River Basin, many fellow villagers came to him. "The poor people in Qinzhou Fangcheng area raised their own roads and traveled thousands of miles to Vietnam to find Liu Yongfu." In order to expand their strength, Liu Yongfu not only accepted these people, but also funded them to cultivate land. These people knew that Liu Yongfu did not know that Vietnamese officials usually cultivated wartime soldiers, which was equivalent to becoming Liu Yongfu’s hand station troops.
These poor peasants who are willing to fight to the death to protect their land helped Liu Yongfu Black Flag Army to become the biggest armed force against the French army.
In April this year, Li Weiye, commander of the French colonial navy, led more than 400 French troops to invade the paper bridge of Huaidefu in the west of the river. Liu Yongfu commanded the Black Flag Army to ambush the emperor temple on the west side of the paper bridge. After three hours of fierce fighting, Li Weiye killed and wounded about 200 French troops, and the French army was defeated.
Liu Yongfu was promoted by the Vietnamese government for his outstanding achievements and became a thorn in the side of the French army. Although the small Vietnamese court surrendered to France and signed the city alliance, the local forces in Vietnam did not support the Black Flag Army from the governor of Beiqi, Vietnam.
France has been sending more troops to the Red River basin to avoid making great enemies with the former. They have exercised restraint in the north of the Red River and pushed forward the squeezing of the Black Flag Army in Henan and other places step by step. Although the Black Flag Army relied on the favorable conditions of being familiar with the terrain, it was still at a disadvantage and had to retreat and suffered heavy casualties.
However, it is not easy for the French army to completely annihilate the Black Flag Army in mountainous areas, and there are more than one local Black Flag Army active in the northern part of Vietnam according to the intelligence reality. There are 153 shares of Heaven and Earth Armed Forces. Of course, most of them are small armed forces entrenched in mountainous valleys, but there are also armed forces that can compete with the Black Flag Army. For example, after Huang Chongying’s death, Ye Chenglin inherited the rest of him, and still holds the actual power in the ten continents from Baosheng to the river.
The French "mopping up" is impossible to succeed in a few years.
Delaying the tactics of the French army, a great deal of armed communication with these heaven and earth societies secretly gave them a lot of military equipment so that they could pose a greater threat to the French and further delay the pace of France’s March to the Red River.
At the end of November, the Vietnamese court suddenly changed again. At the age of thirty, Concord Emperor Ruan Fusheng suddenly died suddenly. It was reported that Nguy?n V?n T??ng colluded with Migong Xuefei to poison Concord Emperor. After his death, his nephew was only fifteen years old and Jianfu Emperor Ruan Fuhao succeeded to the throne.
Because of this political change, it is said that the French are very unhappy. Because Concord Emperor was pro-French, Nguy?n V?n T??ng poisoned Concord Emperor, which offended the French. Therefore, there was an anti-French voice in the Vietnamese court. A large number of officials who were angry at France’s continuous encroachment on Vietnam secretly promoted the anti-French movement
In the past year, not only the diplomatic situation has been unstable, but also the people’s economy has fluctuated considerably. During the period of economic upsurge, the capital of raw silk industry has expanded greatly, which has doubled compared with the past, making the silk reeling factory with neat power reach 5,000, and the tea factory has expanded by 50%, producing more than 50,000 tons of tea for export.
As a result, the economic crisis hit, thousands of silk reeling factories closed down in an instant, and tea production dropped by 30%. Obviously, the first capitalist overproduction industrial crisis broke out in these two most mature industries.
The government tried hard to help, but the scope of help was too wide. The government was in financial difficulties and had to fight against the crisis of financial order collapse, and it was able to accept these applications for closure of poorly run factories.
However, in other respects, it will be less affected, and the cotton textile industry will continue to expand investment, production and sales against the market. The market forces of railways hitting China are constantly emerging.
Although the local economy is backward, it is also the owner of handicraft industry, but when even Guizhou, a place that does not produce cotton, has manual weaving workshops, it means that the market prospect of large machine cotton yarn is very broad.
