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The earth was particularly uneasy in 1862. The whole world was fighting, wars were flying, and life was in ruins.︽

In Europe, Bismarck began to implement an iron-blooded policy. Taking advantage of Britain and France's defeat in the Second Yabo War, their vitality was severely damaged, and their interference in Nordic Europe decreased, they launched a war to unify the North and South German Federations in advance. Denmark was the first to be the one who was borne by Denmark. Taking advantage of the critical illness of the Denmark King Frederick VII, the Prussian army launched an invasion. The Prussian War, which should have occurred in 1864 in history, broke out early.

In the Americas, the American Civil War entered its second year. Before the Southern Army had been happy, the bad news of Fredericksburg occurred. The 120,000 Northern Army was completely wiped out by 30,000 Southern Army. The culprit was the Northern Virginia Legion of the Southern Army.

This is an elite army of the Southern Army that had just formed. All its members were officers and soldiers during the US-Mexico War. They had rich combat experience, but were equipped with advanced weapons from the Shanghai Shanghai Army. The Guardian rifles and Type 59 infantry artillery shone brightly in this battle, just like a meat grinder, killing 120,000 Northern Army.

The Southern Army won an unprecedented victory in the Battle of Fredericksburg, and morale was high. Alliance President Davis publicly shouted that he would enter Washington and twist Lincoln's head down as a ball.

Lincoln cried, crying sadly, because he was crying for the death of 120,000 American Northern soldiers, and was also crying anxiously, because the Southern Northern Virginia Legion equipped with the Guardian rifle and the Type 59 infantry artillery turned into a tiger, and it was even a tiger with medicine. He was marching towards Washington unstoppable. Wherever he passed, the United Zha* team was vulnerable, either died in battle or surrendered.

Washington is in danger, and the Lincoln administration is moving the capital to New York. It is promulgated by the Housing Land Law and the Declaration on Liberating Black Slaves, hoping to encourage northerners to actively join the army and block the attack of the Southern Army. It also lures the black slaves in the South to riot, create chaos in the rear of the Southern Army and delay the pace of the Southern Army's offensive.

However, Lincoln soon became so angry that he vomited blood.

It turned out that while Lincoln promulgated the homestead law and the declaration of liberating black slaves, Confederate President Davis also announced the immediate abolition of the circulation of the US dollar in the south, and temporarily used the British pound, francs and renminbi of the three allies, the British Empire, the French Empire and the Qing Empire, as legal currency. The US dollar instantly turned into a piece of waste paper in the southern states.

This was not a big deal, but soon the Lincoln government discovered that the US dollar began to depreciate on a large scale, and a large number of dollars suddenly appeared in the markets of northern states, and they frantically purchased military, civilian goods and fixed assets of each state, and exchanged gold, silver and foreign currencies in banks.

As time goes by, more and more dollars are available on the market. In the morning, you can buy a bag of flour per dollar, but in the afternoon you can only buy three bottles of beer.

The Lincoln administration realized it later. But the American people in the north were most touched. They were not asking for monthly salary, but requesting the settlement of Rising. They had just paid their wages. They went to purchase immediately.

Banks on Wall Street closed down and stopped exchanging dollars. The bosses of northern factories had to carry dozens of sacks of dollars to pay workers every day. Later, Americans completely distrust the US dollar and demanded settlement in foreign currencies such as pounds and francs.

The dollar collapses!

The Lincoln government was unable to stop it. They could not find the reason. The printing factory in Washington had stopped printing money. The government had already recovered US dollars on a large scale, but the US dollars on the market continued to increase, endlessly.

In 22 northern states, the collapse of the US dollar caused the economic losses of these states to be billions of dollars. The originally powerful northern industry collapsed instantly, factories collapsed, workers were unemployed, social security was chaotic, and turbulent.

The original good situation reversed instantly, and even the Northern Army was panicked, and they were confused and afraid of whether they could defeat the Southern Army.

"I found out that it was the Davis government that caused it. A large amount of dollars flowed from the southern states to the northern states."

"Davis, this terrible bastard!"

The culprit was found, but the Lincoln administration was confused and puzzled.

"How did they get the printing press, printing plate and banknote material? How did they get the US dollar encoding program?"

"The official who used to work in the Monetary Administration secretly fled to the south with a currency code program. Others such as money printing machines, dollar printing plates, and dollar making materials were all brought back from the Qing Empire from that bastard Hua Ruohan."

"A traitor Hua Ruohan also helped the Southern Army buy more than 100,000 advanced weapons and hundreds of tons of ammunition from the Qing Dynasty. The Northern Virginia Legion was equipped with these advanced weapons to become so powerful!"

"Who recommended him as the ambassador to China?"

Everyone looked at Lincoln, who just moved his lips and didn't say anything for a long time.

"Ah puff..."

A mouthful of old blood was spurted out, and Lincoln fell down in a frustration.

In Asia and the Japanese archipelago, wars are also taking place at this moment.

Since Britain lost the Second Yabo War, its interests in China have been seriously damaged, without one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, low tariffs, and huge profits from Yabo trade. All of this has made the British government angry and the British side has aggrieved.

As soon as the Japanese Satsuma family broke out in conflict with the British army, the angry British government and the frustrated British side finally found the punching bag and immediately launched an operation against Japan.

The Satsuma War broke out, and the angry British army used ship guns to tackle Kagoshima. Then the British army landed and launched a fierce battle with the Satsuma Shimazu Guard. In the end, the Satsuma Basil was defeated, and the British army began to take bloody revenge and ravage the local Japanese.

In March 1862, the British army expanded the war, and British ships sailed into Edo Bay and launched a full-scale war against the Tokugawa shogunate, which caused all the anger on Li Weiguo and scattered them on the Japanese.

The most cruel killing war in history was also staged in the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing Empire fought a decisive battle with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Hunan Army, Huai Army and Shanghai Army launched an attack from all directions. The Shanghai Army had only made heavy thunder and little rain. After easily capturing the Xiaoling Guard, it turned into a defensive situation. It returned to the state of 1853 with the Taiping Army, and it was neither fighting nor in harmony.

However, the Hunan Army and the Huai Army had the most fierce offensive. Although Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang temporarily gave up the idea of ​​rebellion, they could not withstand the temptation of being the first to capture Tianjing. Whether it was the Hunan Army generals or the Huai Army generals, they all fought to the death with the Taiping Army.

Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom suffered serious national strength after the Tianjing Change, the Taiping Army still had more than one million. Although Li Weiguo did not conduct private arms transactions with the Taiping Army in recent years, a large number of old-fashioned muskets and artillery produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau were exported to the outside world. Since the British and French coalition could buy a large amount of weapons and ammunition from foreign merchants, the Taiping Army was the same. They used the so-called religious relations to buy muskets and cannons produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau from some British believers. Although it was sold several times and was expensive, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a big pot. It was not short of money and dared to buy them. The British greedy and huge price difference income made them take risks and help the Taiping Army purchase weapons and ammunition by any means, thus strengthening the strength of the Taiping Army.

In the late Taiping Army in history, the combat quality of Bingyuan was not as good as the early stage, but the weapons and equipment were much stronger than the early stage, and they were basically using firearms. Otherwise, they would not be able to compete with the Qing army at all, especially Tianjing was surrounded for many years and had not been compromised. Without a large number of firearms, it would be impossible.

The rising stars of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng were kings in Chengdu. Although they were both defeated by Li Weiguo, especially Chen Yucheng who almost died at the hands of Li Weiguo in the battle of Yuhuatai, they have now grown into a self-contained handsome man. Hong Xiuquan's brother Hong Renyu returned to China. He helped Hong Xiuquan and regained his vitality in the originally decadent Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

But it was too late to face Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, who had become a climate. Even if Li Weiguo did not intervene, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was doomed to fail. It was just a matter of time.

The civil war was too cruel. Before, the Taiping Army would kill all the bannermen and rich people inside every time they captured a Qing city. Now, every time the Hunan Army and the Huai Army captured a Taiping Army, it would be even more cruel. Almost every time they would slaughter the city, regardless of gender, age or young.

When the battle comes, the creatures are in trouble.

While the Huai Army and the Hunan Army fought to the death with the Taiping Army, Li Weiguo also carried out the third major expansion of the Shanghai Army and the sixth reorganization.

It has been a year and a half since the Second Yabo War. The victory of the Battle of Shanghai has made the Shanghai army famous all over the world, and its morale is unprecedented.

When Li Weiguo announced the third major military expansion, not only young people of Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province actively joined the army, but even young people with aspirations from other provinces rushed to Shanghai to fill out their application forms and requested to join the Shanghai Army.

The shadow of the famous tree, Li Weiguo has become a great hero in the minds of the people of the whole country. He resists foreign humiliation and promotes the power of our country. Any young man with ambition and passionate heart is willing to join the army under Li Weiguo's tent. Even some officers and soldiers who are talented but unsuccessful in the Hunan Army and the Huai Army have all gone to Shanghai to join the army.

This time, the Shanghai Army was reorganized and expanded at the same time. After the reorganization, the Shanghai Army was no longer called the Shanghai Army, but because Li Weiguo was promoted to the King of Wu, and his territory was under two rivers and four provinces. The character "Shanghai" could no longer represent everything. Instead, the Wu Army represented the entire East China.

Although the name has been changed, the military rules, military disciplines and spirit of the Shanghai Army remain unchanged. Note that the three major disciplines and eight items are iron-clad regulations. The new Wu army officers and soldiers must still strictly implement them and do not allow personal gain.

The previous sixteen towns of the Shanghai Army remained unchanged and were organized into the sixteen towns of the Wu Army. Among them, the first town to the eighth towns retained a complete system, and were not broken or reorganized. The eight towns of the Shanghai Army were still called the eight towns of the Shanghai Army. They were the old foundation of Li Weiguo's founding and the direct troops among the direct lines.

In addition, all the officers and soldiers from the ninth to sixteenth towns were disbanded, half of the personnel were retained, and the other half was supplemented from the B-type legion. The remaining personnel were assigned to the newly established seventeenth to fifty-fourth towns. Veterans led new soldiers to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of the new army.

The distribution of new troops is very strict. New soldiers from all over the country and each province will be assigned to a unit.

Li Weiguo divided the military garrisons under the names of provinces across the country. For example, in the 20th town of Zhili Province, the location of the military camp will also be named Zhili Town Guardian. In the future, the source of troops in the 20th town will be directly supplemented by Zhili Town Guardian, referred to as Zhijun.

Other towns are stationed in different provinces, and the names of the provinces are named as the guards.

Among them, the 17th town is stationed around the capital of Jingji, the 18th town is stationed in Shandong, the 19th town is stationed in Henan, the 20th town is stationed in Zhili, the 21st town is stationed in Shanxi, the 22nd town is stationed in Shaanxi, the 23rd town is stationed in Hunan, the 24th town is stationed in Hubei, the 25th town is stationed in Anhui, the 26th town is stationed in Jiangsu, the 27th town is stationed in Zhejiang, the 28th town is stationed in Jiangxi, the 29th town is stationed in Fujian, the 30th town is stationed in Guangdong, and the 31st town is stationed in Guangxi,

The 32nd town is located in Gansu, the 33rd town is located in Yunnan, the 34th town is located in Guizhou, the 35th town is located in Sichuan, the 36th town is located in Fengtian, the 37th town is located in Jilin, the 38th town is located in Heilongjiang, the 39th town is located in Yili (Xinjiang), the 40th town is located in Uliyasutai (Outer Mongolia), the 41st town is located in Ulanqab (Inner Mongolia), the 42nd town is located in Karausu (Tibet), and the 43th town is located in Xihaierut (Qinghai).

In addition, the vassal states were also assigned quotas. Among them, the 44th town is located in Korea, the 45th town is located in Ryukyu, the 46th town is located in Vietnam, the 47th town is located in Nanzhang (Laos), the 48th town is located in Siam (Thailand), the 49th town is located in Myanmar, the 50th town is located in Lanfang, the 51st town is located in Gurkha, Zhemengxiong, the three kingdoms of Bhutan, the 52nd town, the 53th town, the 54th town is located in Kokhan, Kazakhs, Brut, Bukhar, Sankhon, and Aiwuhan.

These numbers are not worthy of their reputation for the time being, but it can be seen that Li Weiguo's ambitions are not only to control the entire Qing Empire, but also to control all countries that have become vassal states. Although countries such as Gurkha (Nepal), Zhemengxiong (Sikkim), Bhutan have long since stopped paying tribute to the Qing Dynasty, and Lan Fang Kingdom has been destroyed by the Netherlands, in Li Weiguo's heart, as long as they have been vassal states, they will still be Chinese vassal states in the future, and will never change.

Of course, Li Weiguo only formulated major policies and policies. When implementing them in detail, he would formulate different plans according to local conditions and according to different circumstances.

The third major military expansion actually set the general tone of unifying the country and restoring Chinese hegemony.

There were as many as 50,000 young people with aspiring people from all provinces in China who came to enlist in the army. In addition, Li Weiguo sent people to various provinces to recruit soldiers, and finally completed the recruitment of new recruits in 20 towns.

The new recruits in these 20 towns came from 17 provinces in China. Except for Jiangxi who was temporarily not considered because they were controlled by the Taiping Army, the areas controlled by Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang in other provinces such as Hunan and Anhui were successfully recruited.

Of course, in addition to the eighteen provinces, there are also five generals in the country. Unfortunately, they are all ethnic minorities living in the settlement areas. Li Weiguo worshipped almost zero. They even hated Li Weiguo because Li Weiguo was a Han citizen. The fourth-class Han citizen actually turned over and became the King of Wu. This is a hero to the Han people and a deworming person to their ethnic minorities.

Therefore, people from these places did not come to Shanghai to enlist in the army, and they even raised their vigilance towards Li Weiguo. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!