Chapter 757 "The Third America" ​​- From "Salty Self-made" to "Salty Tai Chi"

Spring of the thirteenth year of Tianli.

When Chen Yucheng was awakened by the whistle of the steam locomotive, the outline of the Tianjing City was already looming on the horizon. He wiped the fog from the car windows and looked at the towering city walls in the distance, with railroad tracks embedded among the blue-gray bricks. The flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom floating on the city tower, and the flag was blown by the river wind. Four years ago, when he left Tianjing and went to work in North America, the Tianjing City was almost the same as when the Emperor of the Zhu family was sitting in the dragon courtyard. Now, rows of cast railway lights are erected outside the wall, with dragon patterns wrapped around the lamp poles. A Tianjing Railway Station, which combines Chinese and Western styles, was built outside the Taiping Gate.

"General, Xuanwu Lake has arrived." The accompanying guard reminded.

Chen Yucheng's military rank is a major general, which is incomparable to the "His Royal Highness" in history, but his future path is long!

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is about to achieve "Taiping Unification", and it is also on the track of industrialization, and is a member of the great powers.

As a founding major general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was also a young and powerful sect from the Boy Scouts. He also drank in the Army Academy and the Army University, and followed Shi Dakai to fight against Russians in the Crimean Peninsula. In recent years, he made achievements in the Americas...:::. This is too valuable. It will be a matter of promotion to lieutenant general in the past or two years. It is possible to become a general or even a general in the future.

Chen Yucheng tightened the collar of the military uniform and picked up the patent leather briefcase. The corner of the bag was inlaid with copper pieces, and the emblem of "Taiping Army North American Legion" was engraved.

The platform was crowded with vendors, with Anhui merchants in silk robes and foreigners wearing top hats shoulder to shoulder. Two local soldiers in Taiping Army wearing gray military caps were maintaining order. They were not carrying front guns, but new breech rifles on their backs. They looked like they were imitated American Spencer’s rear guns, or extended barrels, and equipped with bayonet models. Chen Yucheng noticed the steel seals on the stock, "Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau Jinling Arsenal, made in the 13th year of Tianli."

"Do your car, go to Taiping Gate." He stopped a two-wheeled carriage. The coachman was an old man wrapped in a blue turban, and a wooden sign was hung on the shaft: "Yuan Ji's carriage, five cents per mile."

The carriage ran over the newly paved asphalt road, and Chen Yucheng looked out the window to witness his excitement. When he left Beijing four years ago, the road was called "Yudao Street", and the ground was full of ravines that had been rolled out by years of vehicles. Now the road has been three times widened, with four or five-story brick buildings next to each other standing on both sides. The first floor is a shop with glass windows, and flying eaves are lifted above the second floor, and various auspicious beasts are squatting on the tiles.

"This military master hasn't been to Tianjing for a long time, right?" The coachman suddenly spoke with pride in his words, "Did you see the green roof building? The Bank of Communications, which was just completed last month, is five stories high, and there are steam lifts inside, which can carry four or five people straight up to five floors!"

Chen Yucheng also showed a proud expression on his face. It has only been so many years since Tianjing has developed to such a state.

And he, Chen Yucheng, is one of such a magnificent career participants, and he is also the founding major general of the Kingdom of Heaven!

The guards in front of the Prime Minister's Office saluted Chen Yucheng, who was wearing a general's uniform: "Disclaimer."

Chen Yucheng handed over the officer certificate wrapped in calfskin. The guards carefully compared the photos. This was a photo taken using the wet version of the fire cotton glue method. There were only such photos on the IDs of officers at the school level or above in the Taiping Army. Chen Yucheng in the photo looked younger than now, and seemed to be in his early 20s, but he had already put on the school uniform of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and had the title of major general.

Ten years ago, a major general in his 20s...\n...\n. This is a respected father of the kingdom of heaven!

"Sir, please hand over Colt's revolver, we will keep it for you." The guards handed over the officer's certificate to Chen Yucheng and saluted respectfully.

When passing through the veil supported by the marble gallery columns, Chen Yucheng smelled a faint smell of gunpowder. Many school officials in military uniforms sat on chairs in the hall. He heard sporadic conversations: "Zeng Yaotou finally died...:.\n. Died in time, otherwise he would have to be the king of the destruction of the country..."

"You General Chen? I am Fu Shanxiang." Fu Shanxiang quickly walked down the spiral stairs. The former female top student in the first college entrance examination in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been working in the secretariat of the Prime Minister's Office for several years. On the day he arrived in Shanghai, Chen Yucheng sent a telegram to the General Staff. He got a call back to the Prime Minister's Office to meet King Luo Wu directly. He had made an appointment, so as soon as he reported to the Prime Minister's Office, someone immediately notified Secretary Fu.

"Luo Xiang is in the war room. Just after the Western Regions War Meeting is held, please...:.:" Fu Shanxiang led Chen Yucheng to the second floor. The moment he pushed open a wooden door, fierce debate came to his face.

"How did the railway reach Tianshui?" Luo Yaoguo's voice still sounded full of energy, "What I want is the railway to Dingxi! Ji Gao, your progress is too slow!"

Zuo Zongtang, the Minister of Transportation, had a tall beard: "Slow? Your Highness, King of Wu, please go to Longdong to see. The railway was winding along the Wei River Valley, and there were mountains on both sides...:.\n. It was too difficult!"

"Brother-in-law, please call the Wing King back!" Luo Yaoguo sighed and did not argue with Zuo Zongtang anymore. "Although the railway was not completed as planned, the battle to recover the northwest must be carried out on schedule!"

When Zuo Zongtang heard that he wanted to attack the northwest, his spirit immediately came: "King Wu, I can't miss the northwest. This is a promise. ::::. I will not be the Minister of Transportation. I will work with King Shiyi to recover the northwest!"

"Okay, okay," Luo Yaoguo nodded repeatedly, "You are the one who can be regained the Western Regions!"

Chen Yucheng stood by the door with breath. The small red flags on the sand tray were densely inserted into the northwest, like a burning wasteland. He suddenly remembered that the Rocky Mountain sand tray he made with Zhao Si were inserted into small flags of black, red, yellow and white.

"Tell me, what does Zhao Si want?"

The shutters of Luo Yaoguo's office were half open, the sunset in Jinling cast a slender grating on the sandalwood desk, and Chen Yucheng unfolded a three-meter-long parchment map in front of Premier Luo.

"These are the six major passes of Rocky Mountain." His fingertips drew across the undulating mountain lines, "Fenghe Pass, Huangshi Pass, Great Divide, San Juan Canyon...\n:::" Each pass is marked with fortifications painted by cinnabar.

Luo Yaoguo suddenly sneered: "He wants to be the King of the Mountain?"

"It's Zhao Taiji." Chen Yucheng took out this letter from his briefcase and handed it to Luo Yaoguo.

"Zhao Taiji?" Luo Yaoguo frowned, "Will he follow Huang Taiji?"

"Prime Minister Mingjian, Zhao Si said that the Eight Banners system that Manchus built was really suitable for the western United States. So he borrowed one, one, two black flags, two Indian red flags, two white flags, and two Chinese yellow flags."

Luo Yaoguo frowned even more: "White people will follow his mercy?"

"Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada have large gold and silver mines." Chen Yucheng explained, "Zhao Si granted the white people the "two white flags" to specialize in mining rights, and also allocated the Utah territory to the two white flags as private land."

Luo Yaoguo suddenly stood up, his military boots treading the floor. He grabbed the magnifying glass and looked at the railway lines on the map: "What are these dotted lines?"

"This is the mountain railway. Zhao Si wanted to ask the Celestial Empire to help build a narrow-gauge railway. He said that the railway that crosses the Rocky Mountains to connect the eastern and western United States cannot be built, but the railway connecting Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and the West Coast Chinese states must be built!" Chen Yucheng also took out another document, "This is the "American Eight Banners Rules" he drafted, one by one, in the West Coast Three State of the West Coast and the White House, the Third Western America outside the Utah Territory. Black farmers, Indian grazing, Chinese business, and white mining. Each flag is not allowed to cross the border without permission, and violators are issued to railway construction sites."

"What he wants is not the Eight Banners of America," Luo Yaoguo slowly took off his glasses, "but the American caste system."

When Fu Shanxiang came in with a tea tray, he saw two people lying on the map. Luo Yaoguo's red pencil circled the three states on the West Coast: "The three states on the West Coast are not under his jurisdiction, that is the territory of the True Job School."

"That's of course. His purpose of seizing Rocky Mountain is to serve as a barrier for the three states on the west coast." Chen Yucheng pointed to Rocky Mountain on the map, "Rocky Mountain is not a natural danger. If no one guards it, wait until the two Americans in the east are finished.

Whites can easily build the railway to Nevada, and then.........The three states on the West Coast cannot be defended!"

"Can he really defend this trick?" Luo Yaoguo was a little suspicious, "The United States is the second industrial country in the world!"

"There is no big problem in the short term," Chen Yucheng said. "The US civil war will always have to fight for a few more years... ::.\n. After the fight, you have to rest for a few years. Only after 10 years will the Americans be able to enter the west...\n..\n. If Zhao Si manages well, it will not be certain to persist in his independence for 10 years."

"Ten years later it will be 1873," Luo Yaoguo muttered, "Add another 10 years will be 1883. Well, it's almost done,

That day is coming soon...

"

"Your Highness, the day you mentioned was...

Luo Yaoguo did not answer Chen Yucheng's words, but nodded and said, "Yucheng, I have already approved your plan with Zhao Si... You guys do it well!"

When he walked out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the lights were on in the city. Chen Yucheng retrieved the revolver in the doorman, thinking in his mind that Luo Yaoguo said "that day".:...What will happen that day?

Fu Shanxiang chased him out and stuffed him with an unsealed envelope: "General Chen, this is the letter from the King of Wu to Nanyi Jinma."
Chapter completed!