Tianjin, Zhili Governor's Office.

Li Hongzhang sat in front of the hall with a melancholy face, not knowing what he was thinking about.

At this time, Xu Ting walked in quickly from outside.

"Congratulations to the prince, Wang Kaitai's trick!"

"Take it seriously?" Li Hongzhang was happy at first, then frowned and asked, "How could Wang Kaitai surrender easily? Could it be a fraud?"

Xu Ting smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry, Prince, I promise, Wang Kaitai really surrendered."

Li Hongzhang asked back, "How can I see it?"

Xu Ting then explained.

It turned out that after Wang Kaitai was imprisoned, Xu Ting used both soft and hard work tortures to serve him, but he could not make Wang Kaitai open his mouth. In the end, Xu Ting threatened Wang Kaitai's family that if Wang Kaitai was not aware of the current affairs, he would kill all Wang Kaitai's wives, concubines and children.

This was Wang Kaitai's weakness, which eventually forced Wang Kaitai to surrender.

Li Hongzhang sighed and said, "So that's it. I didn't expect Li Weiguo to be so powerful!"

Immediately, he said angrily: "Does he have the magical test technique that he knew that I would rise more than ten years ago? Send someone to lurk beside me in advance, and his heart is punished!"

Xu Ting said: "My ministers don't really believe in ghosts and gods. However, Li Weiguo is indeed quite visionary, but he would never have thought that he used a secret chess to harm Zeng Guofan, but he reminded the prince that he would not repeat the mistakes of Zeng Guofan's defeat."

Li Hongzhang nodded, showed joy and said, "Thanks to Xu Ting. If it weren't for your report, I would never have thought that Wang Kaitai would be the secret chess buried by Li Weiguo by my side."

Xu Ting hurriedly said: "It's all the princes, Hong Fu, and the ministers are just abandoning the darkness and turning to the light!"

Li Hongzhang looked at Xu Ting for a few more glances and suddenly asked, "I don't understand one thing. Today, Li Weiguo has occupied half of the country and has a bright future. Why don't you help him but help me in turn?"

Xu Ting seemed to have known that Li Hongzhang would have such a question, smiled slightly, and said, "The prince said that Li Weiguo has already gained half of the country. For him, I was just adding icing on the cake, but for the prince, it was a timely help. I am willing to be Zhuge Liang and assist the prince in fighting for dominance of the world."

Zhuge Liang had ambitions, but instead of the powerful Cao Cao, he helped the weak Liu Bei, in order to obtain a unique position. However, Zhuge Liang was loyal and did not take away Liu Bei's foundation, so Xu Ting's answer was very satisfied with Li Hongzhang.

"I will definitely live up to you Xu Ting!" Li Hongzhang looked like this indeed, and he no longer doubted Xu Ting's ambitions.

After a pause, Li Hongzhang asked, "Since Wang Kaitai has surrendered, I wonder what you are going to do next?"

Xu Ting said: "The prince can use Wang Kaitai to get Li Weiguo's action plan, and then release vacation information to Li Weiguo, strive for a war and completely defeat Li Weiguo."

Li Hongzhang agreed: "Yes, it's impolite to come but not come. However, Li Wei's country is powerful and he will definitely be unrealistic in a battle. But if he can severely hurt him, it's also great."

Xu Ting immediately patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, my uncle, I will plan it. How did Li Weiguo harm Zeng Guofan at the beginning? Now we will kill Li Weiguo."

Li Hongzhang's heart suddenly moved, and he seemed to see the spectacular scene in front of him where Li Weiguo was cheated and the entire Wu army group collapsed instantly.

Three days later, Yi Xin summoned Li Hongzhang to Beijing, and the two began to conspire again.

"Britain and France have agreed to cooperate with us. The French are preparing to launch a coup in Cambodia and demand that we recognize Cambodia as France's protector. The British are preparing to launch an attack on Myanmar. They demand that Myanmar be included in British India as a province of British India."

France has been seeking Cambodia for a day or two. If it weren't for the defeat in the Second Yabo War, it would have occupied Cambodia as a colony.

Similarly, Britain was coveting Myanmar. In 116 and 152, it launched two British-Burma wars and occupied the lower Myanmar region. It was also because of the defeat in the Second Yabo War that Britain suspended its offensive against Myanmar.

Now Britain and France seem to have emerged from the shadow of the failure of the Second Yabo War. Both countries have obtained the production technology of the Weiguo rifle. Although they have to pay a large amount of patent fees to Li Weiguo, Britain and France have resisted it. In recent years, large-scale production has been carried out at home. With the strong industrial capabilities of the two countries, the British and French armies have now completed a major change.

In the Second Yabo War, the British and French Allied Forces suffered a huge loss of equipment that was inferior to their opponents. Now the British and French armies also had defense rifles, so the mentality of revenge naturally gained the upper hand.

Of course, there is no question of revenge or revenge among countries. The key lies in the entanglement of interests. The American civil war has basically ended, and the Southern Army has controlled the United States. The purpose of Britain and France to contain the rise of the United States has been achieved. Naturally, they will look for the next goal. China's rise is not allowed, so the next opponent of the British and French governments becomes China.

Provoking a civil war is the most effective way to international political game. Britain and France successfully provoked a civil war between the United States and the South in the United States, destroying the hope of American industrial rise. Now it is the Wu Jun group led by Li Weiguo, who led China. Then supporting the Qing government in the north became the only choice for Britain and France.

Therefore, Britain and France strongly supported Yixin, provided loans and helped train the army, and Britain and France also needed real interests, so Myanmar and Cambodia, two vassal states of the Qing Empire, became the first victims.

"Can Li Weiguo's Wu army fight south and prevent Britain and France from seizing Myanmar and Cambodia!"

Li Hongzhang made a brief analysis and put forward his ideas.

This idea coincides with Yi Xin.

Yixin agreed: "Yes, this is the same thing that I mean. Didn't Li Weiguo claim to be a national hero? This time Britain and France invade Myanmar and Cambodia, Li Weiguo has to ignore it."

Li Hongzhang nodded and said, "When Li Weiguo faked the attack number and annexed the six provinces in Jiangnan, we are now also going to have a fake attack number. The court launched a large army to fight south. Li Weiguo must not agree, so he had to send troops. Britain and France each had 100,000 troops in Myanmar and Cambodia. Li Weiguo had to dispatch at least 300,000 troops to win. Then the total force he stayed in Jiangnan would be reduced to more than 700,000. The ten provinces in Jiangnan needed at least 500,000 troops to divide the troops, and the remaining 200,000 troops were the troops that Li Weiguo could mobilize."

Yi Xin said: "Based on the reason of destroying Zeng Guoquan and Peng Yutian, I dispatched 300,000 troops to attack Huguang and Guang, occupy the benefits of the Yangtze River, and then heading eastward. In addition, Anhui had the remnants of the Taiping Army in Anhui. The Nian Army was rebelled. The King of Yan used this as an excuse to lead 500,000 main forces of Yan's army to attack Li Weiguo's nest Shanghai. Li Weiguo must have resisted with all his strength. All the surrounding troops were transferred to Shanghai. At that time, I had already conquered Huguang and led 300,000 troops to go eastward, and you and I would attack Li Weiguo in front and back. Destroying Li Weiguo is just around the corner!"

Li Hongzhang was suspicious and didn't believe Yi Xin, thinking that this old dog was putting a trap on him again, why did he let his Yan army attack Li Weiguo's nest?

So his eyes rolled and said, "This may be difficult. After all, Li Weiguo also has a powerful East China Sea fleet. It is said that Li Weiguo has been vigorously building the East China Sea fleet in recent years and has built dozens of new warships. Relying on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that it will be difficult for our Yan army to cross the river?"

Yi Xin smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry, King Yan, I have already negotiated with Britain and France. At that time, Britain and France will send fleets to contain Li Weiguo's East China Sea Fleet."

Li Hongzhang was speechless, but he was unwilling to be cannon fodder to attract Li Weiguo's main force. So he said: "The Yan army has been spending a lot recently, and I am also worried about money and food."

"Don't worry!" Yi Xin said hurriedly: "I have already negotiated with Britain and France. The first loan will be credited within one month. I will give you five million yuan!"

"This" Li Hongzhang also wanted to find excuses.

Yi Xin said, "I would like to ask the King of Yan to put national affairs and overall situation first. I promised to destroy Li Weiguo and allow the King of Yan to obtain the wealth of Jiangnan. I will never interfere."

Seeing Yi Xin's sincerity, Li Hongzhang was really hard to refuse. Although Li Hongzhang didn't believe Yi Xin, he had already become interested in taking the throne of King Yan. So it was only a matter of time to fight with the Qing Dynasty. However, the most urgent task now is to eliminate Li Weiguo, the biggest enemy, and Yi Xin and the court must cooperate, so Li Hongzhang could only accept Yi Xin's conditions.

"Since that's the case, I will encourage you to give it a try!"

Yi Xin immediately laughed and said, "With the King of Yan taking action personally, this battle to destroy Li will definitely be successful!"

The battle to destroy Li? Li Weiguo’s surname is Li, is Li Hongzhang’s surname no longer Li?

This is clearly a reference to the mulberry and apocalypse!

Li Hongzhang's heart was clear, but he did not reveal it, so he immediately said goodbye and left.

Looking at Li Hongzhang's back, Yi Xin's face turned cold and she snorted coldly: "Li Hongzhang. I can't understand your thoughts anymore. Let you jump around for two days first, destroy Li Weiguo, and then turn back to deal with you old dog. This world is the world of bannermen. You Han people will always be slaves. If you want to turn over, hum, there is no way!"

After complaining, Yixin felt much more relieved all over her body, and soon called Bayantu to discuss the major event.

"King Ba, how is the army training?"

Bayantu was the commander of the new Manchu and Mongolian army, and was highly valued by Yixin. He was in charge of 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian army and was the last pillar of the Qing Dynasty.

Bayantu said: "Don't worry, the Eight Banners' children are stepping up training. They can go on the battlefield and kill the enemy just when the new equipment arrives."

"Very good!" Yi Xin nodded. He had high hopes for Bayantu and said, "The funds have arrived. I will allocate them tomorrow. The equipment will be shipped to Tianjin in a month. You can take people to receive them. Don't let Li Hongzhang take them. That is our last reliance."

"He dares!" Bayantu shouted suddenly: "Dare to touch our bannermen's things, let me not kill him!"

Yi Xin frowned slightly and said, "Don't be impulsive! Now we still hope that Li Hongzhang will deal with Li Weiguo. When Li Weiguo is destroyed, Li Hongzhang will inevitably suffer great damage to his vitality. At that time, we will kill Li Hongzhang together and support the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop."

Bayantu was excited when he heard this, and immediately patted his chest to ensure that he would train his troops diligently, and then become a famous minister of the Revival.

Just as the north was shrouded in dark clouds, Li Weiguo in Shanghai met Zhou Fu.

Zhou Fu was ordered by Li Hongzhang to go to Wuchang to find Li Weiguo's house to Hubei Province, but was fooled for a month but didn't see Li Weiguo. He thought he could ask Li Weiguo in person when he arrived in Shanghai, but he stayed in Shanghai for more than a month and was fooled around.

Now I finally saw Li Weiguo, but Li Weiguo kept silent about Hubei. It was not until Zhou Fu couldn't help asking that Li Weiguo proposed a condition that made Zhou Fu feel in trouble.

Hubei can give Li Hongzhang, but the condition is that Zhou Fu will transfer to Li Weiguo's account to serve.

"King of Wu, you are so troubled!"

"I have already said the conditions, please let yourself do it!"

Li Weiguo did not give Zhou Fu a chance to defend himself and left directly, leaving Zhou Fu in a daze in the hall.

Zhou Fu had no choice but to write a letter to inform Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang was furious when he heard this, but in order not to alarm the enemy, he could only temporarily endure it and convene a meeting of staff to discuss countermeasures. As a result, Xu Ting, Qian Dingming and others suggested accepting Li Weiguo's conditions and giving Zhou Fu to Li Weiguo would be equivalent to installing a nail in Li Weiguo's country.

It just so happened that Xu Ting wanted to use Wang Kaitai to make trouble and implement counter-espionage plan. Li Hongzhang has been very dissatisfied with Zhou Fu's performance during this period, so he replied to Zhou Fu and agreed to Li Weiguo's conditions.

Zhou Fu was stunned and followed Li Hongzhang for many years, doing his best, but never thought that such a result would be the result. Although Zhou Fu knew that this was Li Hongzhang's plan and was just a stopgap plan, he felt uncomfortable and felt betrayed.

The next day, Zhou Fu came to see Li Weiguo, conveyed Li Hongzhang's letter, agreeing to exchange Zhou Fu for Hubei Province.

Li Weiguo was immediately happy and attacked Zhou Fu and said, "It seems that Mr. Zhou is not very important in Li Hongzhang's eyes. A Hubei Province can be exchanged."

Zhou Fu heard it awkwardly and snorted coldly: "If you don't take the King of Wu, you will have your own reasons for doing this. Zhou Fu is just an idle person. He is so proud that he can exchange the King of Yan for a Hubei Province."

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Then tell me why Li Hongzhang did this?"

Zhou Fu shook his head and said, "The grass people don't know!"

Li Weiguo asked again: "I guess Li Hongzhang's intention is not to drink, right?"

Zhou Fu's expression moved, but he still shook his head and said, "The grass people are stupid!"

Your uncle!

This is clearly the rhythm of Xu Shu entering Cao’s camp!

Li Weiguo was no longer interested. Although he loved talents and hoped that Zhou Fu would join him, the forced melon was not sweet. Li Weiguo didn't have to touch his cold butt, so he turned around and left.

Zhou Fu bowed and said, "I respectfully send you to the King of Wu, and I also ask the King of Wu to fulfill his promise as soon as possible and return Hubei Province to His Highness the King of Yan."

"When will you be willing to offer advice for me, I will fulfill my promise!" Li Weiguo snorted coldly and left without looking back.

Only Zhou Fu was left alone standing there in a daze, and then I realized that from the beginning to the end, Li Weiguo probably had no intention of returning Hubei to Li Hongzhang.
Chapter completed!