"I care whether the Mongolian tribe is unlucky or not! What the Ai family wants is victory, and what the Far East Volunteers want is all to die!" Cixi shouted in a sharp voice.

"What's the point of 20,000! Let Tepxin raise food and grass on the spot and send it to these Rakshasa ghosts. I'll let them eat it. The Qing Dynasty is rich in tens of thousands of people and we can afford it."

"A lot of 50,000 troops have to be brought to the battlefield. Xiao Letian's soldiers are not easy to deal with. This is recognized by foreigners! If you don't spend too much money, you can't defeat him! If you lack food, you can give him food. If you lack money, you can give him money. As long as you can destroy the Volunteer Army, it will be worth it no matter how much money we spend!"

Yihuan is a little more mellow. He swallowed dryly and whispered, "Will this do this cause controversy in the government and the public? The court must also be concerned about face."

"What kind of face!" Cixi slapped on the short table with a slap. "You can't be confused if others are confused? Destroying the volunteers will do all the benefits and harm to us. Haven't you figured it out yet?"

"First, destroy the volunteer army, which is equivalent to cutting off one of Xiao Letian's arm. This evil dragon entrenched overseas is best at deceiving the people. He looks like an imperial teacher on the surface, as if he is not in conflict with our Qing Dynasty, but he is constantly stealing our people's hearts and our wealth."

"I can't let him continue to spread. How much money does it have to take away in the damn stock market in Jiangnan! That's all ours, all ours from our Qing Dynasty!"

Cixi gasped and sweated on her forehead. "This cunning fox knew that she was entrenched overseas and drank the blood of our Qing Dynasty. She bullied us without a navy and could not fight him. If he dared to put the base camp in the Qing Dynasty, the Ai family could destroy him with one hand!"

"But he just didn't dare to go ashore, he was as disgusting as a thief!" Cixi's veins popped out in anger. The three people present, including Ci'an, had to admit that they had underestimated Xiao Letian before, and the most important thing was to underestimate Xiao Letian's strategy.

Taking overseas Chinese as the roots, taking advantage of maritime trade interests and eroding the wealth of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty could not understand this routine at all. Of course, they have some understanding now, but the Chinese people have become powerful, and the seedlings have grown into a small tree and they are no longer able to strangle them to death if they want to.

"Containing or even eliminating this Xiao Letian is the most important thing in front of our Qing Dynasty. Under this matter, anything else can be discussed! The Rakshasa ghost is greedy? Of course, the Ai family knows, but the Ai family knows that Xiao Letian is more greedy than the Rakshasa ghost."

The atmosphere in the Hall of Yangxin made Cixi feel tense and full of gunpowder. Ci'an took a sip of tea and suddenly smiled, "What my sister said is naturally good. In fact, it is not harmful to our Qing Dynasty when we cooperate with Tsarist Russia!"

"I will add the second point. Since Tsarist Russia needs us and they hope to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty, they have to calm down in the northwest!"

"Didn't Agubo rely on Tsarist Russia to support him? Otherwise, he would dare to invade Xinjiang! He used his two courages to send people to talk to Ulan Geli during this period. Although he did not agree, his tone had become much softer."

"Xinjiang and the Far East, he should choose one! He didn't say that two pieces of fat are all about to eat them! Fifty thousand Central Asian cavalry were transferred to Vladivostok, and the strength of Aguber will be greatly weakened. I have sent Zuo Ji Gaomi. The situation in the western region has improved significantly. Zuo Ji Gaojun is preparing to raise an army from Gansu and Shaanxi in early summer. It should not be difficult to pacify Xinjiang!"

This is really good news. The people present looked at the faces. Yihuan let out a sigh of relief. "This is the first good news I have heard this year. Buddha bless you! Buddha bless you!"

The strong rise of the Volunteer Army in the Far East directly broke the power divisions around the Qing Dynasty. Especially Tsarist Russia has been tilting its resources towards Central Asia in recent years. On the one hand, it wants to compete with Britain for Afghanistan, and on the other hand, it also wants to covet the rich Xinjiang of the Qing Dynasty, especially the Tianshan area.

In the final analysis, it is still the strategic idea of ​​going south. Vladivostok is indeed a good Pacific deep-water port, but its geographical location is still too north. The surrounding population density is not enough and there is still a three-month ice period every year, so Vladivostok's value can only be said to be slightly higher than the ports in Tsarist Russia.

The value of Vladivostok is completely incomparable to the tropical and temperate seaports occupied by Britain, France and other countries, and it is not worth mentioning in terms of military value or commercial value.

The estuary of the Baltic Sea was suppressed by the British Isles. Not to mention Tsarist Russia, even Prussia could not escape Britain's control. It attempted to compete with Turkey in the Black Sea, but a Crimean war eliminated Tsarist Russia's ambitions.

Although Vladivostok got it, it was still not perfect. In the end, Tsarist Russia's eyes focused on Afghanistan again. As long as it controls the Afghan Plateau, the Great Plain is to the south and the end of the plain is the warm and prosperous Arabian Sea.

If you want to compete with Britain for Afghanistan, it is not possible to provide war fuel without a stable rear. Helping Aguber seek a prosperous Xinjiang can weaken the Qing Dynasty on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also provide a very good logistics base for the legions traveling south. It is absolutely impossible to attack Afghanistan by relying on the poor Central Asian Khanate alone.

It's really good to make a plan. Unfortunately, no matter how much Xiao Letian came out, nor did he count the emergence of an emerging force that had just risen for two or three years, he had the courage to wrestle with the old empire Tsarist Russia in the Far East.

The Volunteers disrupted Tsarist Russia's plan. They had no choice but to start drawing troops from Central Asia. In order to compete for the Qing Dynasty, they could only temporarily cut off the resources of Agubo. Now is the best time for Zuo Zongtang to recover Xinjiang, a strategic turning point that has never happened in history.

Ci'an did not have as violent temper as Cixi. She was deeply involved in the situation in Xinjiang like a pattern on her palm. The two princes became more and more impressed. In the end, Cixi felt a blowjob in her heart.

"Damn it, why didn't I expect to use the power to fight? What a great opportunity to blackmail Tsarist Russian minister! Why did Ci'an take the lead? With this, Ci'an's prestige among court officials was three points higher. It was the little beast Zaichun who messed up the heart of the Ai family, otherwise I wouldn't have missed this negotiation opportunity!"

I don’t know how it happened, but the third reason why I suddenly became quiet in the Yangxin Palace and had to use troops to destroy the Far East Volunteers was no longer spoken.

The four of them suddenly fell silent. No one spoke for ten minutes later, Yi suddenly stood up and smiled, "Since the tune has been formulated, I will go and execute it now. I will telegram to Tepxin first and ask him to prepare a batch of food and grass for the Cossack cavalry."

Yihuan also stood up, "I have some friendship with Hunchun, so I should be more careful with my face. I will give him a private telegram to tell him not to move around and not to fight. As long as he can persist in cutting off the food route of the volunteers."

"Then I will take my leave now." The two of them turned their heads and left the Palace of Yangxin.

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