Chapter 671 How can I do a good job of anti-China with you group of insects?

In the ninth year of Tianli, early summer.

There was already a whimpering whistle sound at the mouth of Wusong. Long smoke was spewed out of the chimney of the Eastern Queen, and the deck was filled with soldiers returning back. Shi Dakai's blue-gray tweed military uniform was blown by the river wind, and the Victoria Cross and the Legion of Honor on his chest kept shaking with the ribbon.

"Look!" Queen Zhanxi suddenly pointed at the river bank. Twelve fires suddenly exploded beside the dock of Wusong Military Port, and the roar of steel cannons continued like thunder. Bai Siwen's monocle glasses almost slipped down: "Armstrong installed the cannon afterwards. Is this a fake from the Kingdom of Heaven?"

When the "Queen of the East" approached the dock, three battalions-level blue and gray squares raised the three-year-old rifle of Tianli, and the bayonet was shining cold in the sun. Shi Dakai noticed that each soldier had a round bronze medal hanging on his chest - this was the Crimean Medal of Victory, which was only available to veterans who conquered Sevastopol.

As soon as the gangway was put down, the military music of "The Great Wall Never Falls" came over with the sound of the river slamming the shore. Luo Yaoguo stood in front in a gray-blue military uniform. Feng Yunshan's bright yellow dragon robe rolled in the river breeze. Hong Xuanjiao did not wear a crown, and her black braids were on her head, looking like an ordinary Jiangnan woman.

"Brother!" Luo Yaoguo saw Shi Dakai walking down the gangway, and bowed to him from afar. Wei Changhui, who was also wearing a new military uniform, suddenly coughed. Fu Shanxiang, the secretary-general of the Prime Minister's Office, quickly put on a vermilion tray - inside were two shining golden five-pointed stars and two golden epaulettes.

Luo Yaoguo pointed at the two Venus stars and said with a smile: "Brother, this is your marshal's epaulette and Venus! Let the third brother hang it for you now."

Shi Da drove to Luo Yaoguo, Wei Changhui swept his shoulders, and they both took on the rank of marshal!

However, Shi Dakai was not in a hurry to hang up the rank of marshal, but instead swept his eyes over the cavalry battalion behind Luo Yaoguo. Those war horses were all Don River species, and Cossack-like arcuate sabers were hung on the saddle, which were obviously the trophy of Crimea. He suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the cavalry: "King of Wu, these soldiers."

"It's all yours!" Luo Yaoguo smiled and pointed at the infantry and cavalry lined up next to the military port pier. "They are all good men who followed you to expedition to Crimea. They were sent back after being injured on the front line. Now they have all been well-behaved, and they are the good boys of my heaven again!"

As he spoke, Luo Yaoguo waved his arms at these infantry and cavalrymen, and then the cheers of "Welcome to King Ji for 5,000 years of triumphant return" sounded like an angry wave.

Bund Avenue.

There were still traces of water sprinkling on the asphalt road. Citizens in silk clothes were separated by rattan signs on both sides by Taiping military. There were also many blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, all holding small red flags and shaking desperately towards the approaching convoy.

The carriage that the Wing King was riding was pulled by eight red Indian folding horses, and the window was inlaid with transparent flat glass. As soon as Shi Dakai sat down, he tapped the glass window with his fingers. Feng Yunshan smiled and said, "It was made by the Shanghai Flat Glass Factory! It's not worse than the British goods, right? Eighth brother, in recent years, the industry of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has made great progress, and more and more things can be made."

Shi Dakai remembered the twelve salutes: "There are those twelve Armstrong cannons?"

"Tianli Ninth Year Style" Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "The gun barrel is processed using a large steam hydropress machine from Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant."

When the convoy passed the ferry bridge outside, firecrackers suddenly sounded on the south bank of Suzhou River, and a lion dance team that was knocking and beating out of the blue smoke. The copper bells on the lion's heads were clattering, and cheers were heard on both sides of the Bund Road.

"My brother wants to take any position?" Luo Yaoguo asked suddenly.

"Lead the troops." Shi Dakai lifted the curtain of the car and waved frequently to the cheering citizens outside. "There is also a Zeng Yaotou in the northwest."

When the wheel left the asphalt road on the Bund, entered Shanghai County, and ran through the bumpy stone road, the sound suddenly became louder. Luo Yaoguo calculated: "The Longhai Line has been built to Kaifeng, and you can reach Luoyang in one year at most. By then, India's food will also be shipped." He leaned closer: "When the King of Xiaoxi will be the commander general of the Western Expedition, how about you be the deputy general of the Western Expedition?"

Shi Dakai squinted his eyes and looked at the bustling street scene in Shanghai County outside the car window: "Why have to wait for the Longhai Railway to be built to Luoyang and India to be transported? Can the 30,000 Taiping Army still conquer Shaanxi?"

Luo Yaoguo laughed: "Brother is indeed a battle in the sky. You can't hide the war from you!" He lowered his voice, "This move is called driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf!"

"Turn the tiger?" Shi Dakai was puzzled, "Who is the tiger? Zeng Guofan?"

Luo Yaoguo was about to explain that the carriage had been parked steadily in the Yuyuan headquarters of the meeting of the kings.

Yu Garden, Dianchun Hall.

Shi Dakai had already changed into casual clothes, sat on a Taishi chair, shaking a paper fan, watching Wei Changhui outline the northwest map with a red pen. The arrow pointed directly from Lanzhou and then divided a dotted line to extend towards the Central Asian grassland.

"Turn the tiger and swallow the wolf?" Shi Dakai pointed to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains with a folding fan. "Li Yaotou's Huai Army is a tiger, and the Khanate in Central Asia is a wolf?"

Luo Yaoguo picked up the blue and white bowl and blew away the foam: "Although the northwest is vast, it is a place of drought and barren, and it really cannot afford to support 30 million strong people. Those people are Zeng, Li Yaotou's troubles, and we are also our big troubles. If you are not careful, it is a big chaos that starts in the northwest, and refugees wander around. I know that you are sharp and quick, just kill him for millions, but Li Yaotou already has the intention of going west to Central Asia to become the Western Regions and the Great Protector of the Beiting. Let him go! Even if he can only take two or three million away, that is the most stunning thing for two or three million."

Maria added: "Li Yaotou's French wife Princess Mathilde is also a long-sleep dancer. She married a Russian husband in her early years and had a good relationship with the Tsarist family. Therefore, she contacted Alexander II and helped Li Yaotou contact Russian aid. Every month, 50,000 rubles of supplies were sent to the Ili River Valley through the Kazakh grasslands. Li Yaotou had already established a broken leaf city in the west of the Ili River Valley."

"That's why my ninth brother deliberately kept it in the northwest and refused to take it," Shi Dakai finally understood a little, "Is it to let the Russian rubles fill the hungry tiger Li Hongzhang, and then let the Huai Army's blade clear the grassland for us?"

Luo Yaoguo nodded and said, "Brother, you have traveled to the world. When you know that most of the world are very empty now, the population in East Asia exploded. China and Japan added nearly 500 million to the three countries, accounting for 40% of the world's people, and the land must also account for 40%! They are all earthlings, so why do we only take such a little land? Can God, the Heavenly Father, agree?"

"No!" Shi Dakai shook his head.

"Definitely not!" Feng Yunshan also felt that the Heavenly Father and God could not be so unfair.

Wei Changhui was more realistic and said with a smile: "We won't take more, we can stop if we get enough 40% of the money."

"Yes!" Luo Yaoguo pointed to Central Asia, "That part was my Chinese during the Tang Dynasty. Li Hongzhang happened to be the surname Li, and maybe he was the descendant of Li Shimin. Let him take Central Asia!" He said to Shi Dakai again: "Brother, why don't you be the chief of staff for a while, follow the example of the General Staff of Prussia, and form a General Staff that can assist the meeting of the kings and the Prime Minister's Office to lead our Taiping Navy and Army armies!"

Under the dome of the Sacramento State Capitol, California Governor John Weller's cowhides with leather boots stomped on the pine floor.

"Gentlemen!" Weller's fist hit the podium, shaking a few drops of it splashed in the ink bottle. "I propose a special tax of 20 cents per ounce of gold and a special tax of 10 cents per acre of land - this is to defend the white civilization of California!"

Bigler, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly frowned, and the walrus beard was so angry that he caught a glimpse of a state representative sitting in front of a "True Covenant" with a cover printed with the statue of Hong Xiuquan on the cover - the True Covenant members sat in the parliament to discuss how to dismiss China.

"I don't agree with anti-China!" A farmer from Santa Barbara suddenly stood up, "Does white farms in California mainly hire Chinese workers or rent land to Chinese to operate? If all Chinese are driven away, California's agriculture will collapse. At that time, everyone will have to eat high-priced food shipped from the East Coast! Eggs will even rise to one dollar each!"

San Francisco representative Tony also jumped up. He was also a true believer and shouted on the spot: "Oppose! Oppose the license tax paid by Chinese last year accounts for 40% of the municipal income!" He waved a gilded pen, "Except China? Ask the accountant of the city hall first!"

Former Governor John Bigler's brows became tighter and tighter. After the last midterm elections, the number of true members of the California Legislature seemed to have increased a lot!

"Silent!" The Speaker lifted the wooden hammer and knocked it hard.

"Gentlemen," Weiler said in a tone of coaxing children, "The Anti-Chinese Affairs Bureau only needs $200,000 initiation funds." He looked at the members of the Mine District Council, "enough to add 3,000 militias."

"I object!" A member of the Los Angeles Congressman shouted, "If you want to dismiss China, do it now. What's the point of collecting taxes? Damn, you have to collect taxes if you dismiss China. Then will you also have to liberate black slaves in the future and ask for money from California?"

"That's right! We support anti-China, but tax increases are absolutely not possible!"

"The Chinese Exclusion Act is a federal bill, why should California pay for it?"

"If you are anti-Chinese, you are anti-Chinese. Why do you have to increase taxes? Isn't this trying to increase taxes in the name of anti-Chinese? "

"Hmph, I think the state government has no courage to prevent China at all, only the courage to make money in the name of anti-China."

The members of parliament oppose it. They either oppose anti-China or oppose tax increases - but how can they oppose anti-China without money?

Bigler clenched his fists, his face turned pale, and muttered in a low voice: "How can you do a good job of anti-Chinese medicine with you gangsters? No, you have to find another way..."
Chapter completed!