Chapter 25 Peace talks?

In the flower hall of the County Prince's Mansion, Ye Zhao fiddled with a rifle in his hand and carried a yellow wooden box beside him. There were more than a dozen metal bullet tubes in the yellow wooden box, and each bullet tube was loaded with bullets. When changing the rifle, there was no need to load one round. Just replace the bullet tube. The bullet tube was from the bottom of the gun handle. In this way, the rifle fire rate could reach more than twenty rounds per minute. In this era, the efficiency was greatly improved.

Ye Zhao knew at first sight that this was probably the same as the Spencer 1865 consecutive bead rifle.

Turning his head and looking at Thomas with a look of hope, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Very good. With this weapon, the entire European continent will be imitated."

Thomas grinned, and the prince praised him. The hard work he had been working hard for the past period was finally in vain.

However, Ye Zhao immediately smiled and said, "But it's not good at all." As he said, he carried the yellow wooden box and said, "This is too bulky. If you travel a hundred miles apart, you are afraid that the soldiers will complain. Your conical bullet is good to shoot, and the bullet case is good. You should think about it carefully."

In fact, if this kind of rifle is adopted, the combat power will be greatly improved. However, now there are corresponding conditions. Ye Zhao hopes to be in place in one step, using the Mauser rifle, Hanyang build and other models. If the steel pipe is prone to explode, casing can be reinforced. Of course, it is just adopted its concept. Because of the material gunpowder and other relationships, the power may not be as powerful as that of the Mauser post-89 generations and Hanyang builds. This is an era of rapid development of rifle technology, and various concepts emerge one after another. It was not until the Mauser rifle was improved for several generations before entering the modern rifle mode. Ye Zhao knew which concept would truly conform to the trend of future development, and hoped that the development of rifles under his rule would avoid detours.

Then Ye Zhao discussed the starting rifle technology with Thomas, such as spinning and pulling, pulling the shell hook, double-row bullet cabin, bridge clamping technology, etc. Ye Zhao naturally talked about it on paper, relying on his understanding of guns, but Thomas nodded repeatedly, obviously very inspired.

"Listen to the prince's words is better than reading a hundred years of books." Thomas sincerely wrote this sentence in stiff Chinese, which made Ye Zhao laugh and pat Thomas on the shoulder, "If you have good friends, you won't feel bored on the journey. I hope we will continue to work together and be intimate." Thomas quoted Chinese proverbs, and Ye Zhao replied in British philosophical words. Thomas smiled and nodded vigorously.

When the Prime Minister's affairs offices were in various countries, Zou Kaizhi, Minister of Commerce in Nanyang, came to the Prince's Mansion, Thomas had already said goodbye.

Zou Kai's experience is extremely rich. He has written a general translation and has served in the Hong Kong church for many years. He is very familiar with the Western Affairs Office. He loves several books written by Ye Zhao that analyses the situation of Western countries and regards them as the Bible. However, he has been a little worried recently.

Looking at Zou Kaizhi's frowning, Ye Zhao smiled: "Yiming, I don't care about this kind of behavior, why do you have to worry about this?" Ye Zhao knew Zou Kaizhi's concerns. His friend Hong Renyu from the Hong Kong church returned to China and went to Tianjing. He was highly valued by Hong Xiuquan. He heard that he had been named Gan Wang, and he had developed a Western system, but it also intensified the conflicts among the upper class of the Taiping Army.

When he was in Hong Kong, Zou Kaizhi seemed to have had a lot of contact with Hong Renyi. Now he is naturally afraid that someone will bring up old accounts and collude with the fake king. He is very guilty of being a serious crime.

Zou Kaizhi was stunned when he heard Ye Zhao's words, but he didn't expect that the General Wang would actually know about this. He was shocked and ashamed and bowed and said, "Prince, my subordinates dare not deceive the prince. Hong Renyu wrote a secret letter to his subordinates a few days ago. His subordinates were worried that they would be criticized after handing over it, so he concealed it and did not report it."

Ye Zhao waved his hand: "It's okay, why bother with these sub-sections? I'm here to come to you, not for this matter. Have you ever seen the British mission?"

"Yes." Zou Kaizhi answered respectfully.

Ye Zhao laughed: "This mission has a great appetite, so he mediates the war between the north and the south." He sneered twice.

Zou Kaizhi didn't know the general's intentions, so he was not easy to speak out.

Ye Zhao took a sip of tea and said, "I have met with the two empress dowagers with the mission. I have discussed with the two palaces and prepared you as the minister of peace talks and to discuss peace with the Northern Dynasties."

Zou Kaiyi: "Party discussion?"

Ye Zhao smiled: "If Yixin wants to discuss peace, then just talk to him. It doesn't matter. You told Yixin's people that peace can be negotiated, and the river can be divided into rule. The south of the Yangtze River belongs to this dynasty, so that he can breathe. Moreover, it is interesting to talk about fighting."

Zou Kaizhi originally wanted to give advice. Now Changsha is a great victory and the civil strife in Jiangbei is a great opportunity to embezzle Jiangnan. How can you miss it? But when he heard the prince’s peace talks, the lion opened his mouth wide, and he couldn’t help but smile and said, “What the prince is saying.”

Ye Zhao smiled again and said, "What's more, Jiangbei is ruined, it's not a good thing. If he can not be restrained by the Northern Dynasties and suppress the bandits, it will be a blessing for all people."

Zou Kaizhi was solemn and said, "Yes! The prince always cares for righteousness and kindness and forgiveness. This is the blessing of the people in the world and the blessing of all people in the world."

Ye Zhao smiled and said nothing.

Although we did not want the war in Jiangbei to continue, if we could take this opportunity to calm down the enemy and recover the two rivers, Fujian and Zhejiang, the situation would be sweeping the world.

In fact, the peace talks between the north and the south are simply a joke. This is completely different from the peace talks between the Southern and Northern Dynasties and even later generations. There is no two days and the people, and now Jiangnan and Jiangbei all recognize the orthodox Qing Dynasty. How can we truly stop the peace talks between the north and the south? It’s just that each has its own abacus.

The Six Kings hope to take a breath and speed up the armed new army, and they hope to pacify the southeastern half as soon as possible. The economic circle they imagined has become increasingly powerful. From then on, the competition with the Northern Dynasties will only lead them further and further away. They will no longer be afraid of him in the fight between civil and military affairs.

What's more, the first time for Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Fujian is to unite people's hearts, especially in Hunan. If you want to conquer the hearts of Hunan people, you have to spend a lot of effort.

Another reason is that Ye Zhao did not want the power of the Later Party to expand rapidly. Nowadays, the more officials surrendered, the more powerful the later Party is. Most of the surrendered officials were the two empress dowagers and Emperor Tongzhi, whether they were the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Yuan Jiasan, or the governor of Yunnan Lao Chongguang, they can actually be called the Later Party.

But these officials need to digest them well.

However, although Concubine Lan was so envious of power, she was really not very ambitious. She was extremely convinced of peace talks. She was obviously satisfied with the peace talks and was quite satisfied with the peace talks of Guangzhou and the honor of the world.

One is that she is chaotic in this life, and she has never enjoyed the true peak of power. She has less experience and less ambition. Secondly, she lives in the inner palace and has heard of the strength of Pingyuan Army. She is afraid that she will exaggerate her. She has less confidence in urging Yixin from the throne in the capital. Therefore, she strongly agrees to peace talks, but then again, this woman is not very good at playing with power, but she has never had a very good knowledge, right?

Looking at Zou Kaizhi, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "The peace talks are scheduled to be held in the Shanghai Concession. You can select capable personnel and report them to the General's Mansion. If you encounter strange and complicated diseases in Shanghai, just send a telegram."

"Yes." Zou Kaizhi hurriedly bowed and agreed.

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There are few updates in the past two days because we have reached another hurdle. The battle of Changsha has 3,000 words and two chapters. In fact, I spent six or seven hours writing every 3,000 words. Because this battle is relatively large and it is a real collision, and there is no advantage of leading technology. So I studied the ancient map of Changsha and studied the battle of Changsha in history. It took a lot of thought to think about how to fight.

To be honest, the battles in this era are difficult to write, that is, they are not passionate collisions in the era of cold weapons, nor are they airplanes, submarines and tank wars in the era of hot weapons. To talk about hot weapons, they are not very powerful, their range is not very long, and they do not have the most basic radio command, so there is no tactical variability in the era of hot weapons. To talk about cold weapons, it is a sea of ​​rifles, and we do not have much technological advantages ahead of others. It is still very difficult to write in this situation.
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