Because of Zhu Houzhao, Franji's war was ready to go, and on the other side of the sky, he seemed not willing to be calm.

At the Ming Dynasty's exit, this continuous wall of passes through the pass and divides the inside and outside the pass into two worlds.

Ye Chunqiu left the pass without looking back and boarded the steam train heading north.

In a separate carriage, Ye Chunqiu sat on a specially set up sofa, watching the scenery outside the window swiftly pass by, and fell into his own thoughts.

For him, he had long budgeted that he would only stay in the capital for a short time. Now that the obstacles to the new policy were clear one by one and had been implemented smoothly, he finally said goodbye to the pass and returned to his main territory.

Ye Chunqiu knew that he had more important things to do.

Although he had been in charge of the capital for several months, after several months of preparation, the Ottomans had already heard that their army had already been stationed near Persia and was ready to attack at any time. The combat preparations for Lu were completely completed after the orderly progress.

Now, everything is ready, only the east wind is not available.

The Western Expedition is about to begin.

Obviously, Ye Chunqiu attached great importance to this battle. For this Western Expedition, Lu paid hundreds of millions of taels of silver to advance the railway line extending westward. Countless steel workshops sent the formed railway tracks to the extreme west by steam trains. Tens of thousands of craftsmen were crazily paving the railway in that bitter and cold environment.

Fortunately, the railway tracks of this era did not have high technical requirements, so in a sense, the laying of railway tracks is just a matter of silver and manpower.

The construction of each branch line has now been temporarily suspended, because all steel, railway tracks, and sleepers are given priority to supply main roads.

The small cabinet approved one decree after another, all of which were fully ensuring the construction of this railway. Now, the main road has reached the line of Hot Spring Pass, which is the gate of Junggar and the fortress of the Grassland Silk Road. After Mongolia rose, it became an important town connecting the four major Khanates. Qiu Chuji returned to the Central Plains from here, and outside this pass is Central Asia, connecting the Chahar Khanate and Afghanistan.

In this uninhabited place, countless craftsmen are busy with dust, relying on the materials transported by the railway, facing the scorching sun, working day and night.

Now, the full line is completed, which is a miracle.

For this railway, the country of Lu used almost all its strength. Now, the new army is ready to go. Now, the 50,000 new army has begun to draw out 30,000 people and will embark on the steam train and head for the journey thousands of miles away.

The atmosphere in Qinglong City and the mood for war have also risen. Merchants have always been most interested in war. War means consumption, and consumption means more production, and production is profitable.

The most important thing is that after the war is won, a large amount of land will inevitably be annexed, which means that there will be more markets. With the market, there will be demand, and with demand, there will be more benefits. No one is more willing to trade wars than merchants.

Under this emotion, Ye Chunqiu finally returned to Qinglong.

News had already been published on the same day, and everyone knew that an unprecedented expedition was about to begin.

Sure enough, Ye Chunqiu had just returned to the palace and before he could take a break, he ordered people to summon all military and political personnel.

After a meeting, some railway lines temporarily closed civil channels, and countless supplies and ammunition were transported to the Hot Spring Pass continuously. Teams of new troops also entered the train carriage and began a journey of seven or eight days.

At this time, Ye Chunqiu was not in a hurry to set out. Before the troops moved, the food and grass were ahead. However, he noticed a news that this was brought by King Wei of Lu, saying that the Ottomans did not send the army they had agreed to as promised. They had previously promised that they would have a scale of 100,000 people, but in fact, the scale was only 30,000.

Istanbul was even more nervous than before. Instead, a large number of military horses gathered to the north. A considerable number of Ottoman troops not only did not go south continuously, but went to Bulgaria.

The information revealed by this news made Ye Chunqiu feel a little worried. His eyebrows sank and immediately made people find Ye Maocai.

Ye Maocai soon arrived at Ye Chunqiu's office. After saluting, he heard Ye Chunqiu say straight to the point: "What's going on? Why did the Ottomans suddenly not trust? What did their envoy say?"

Since it was a war and Lu State had made complete preparations for this Western Expedition, any mistake could lead to fatal consequences at this time.

Ye Chunqiu dared not take it lightly at all.

Ye Maocai showed a little ashamed and said, "It's still being investigated, but the manpower has just been arranged, and the lower part needs to be prepared. As for the Ottoman officials, they just said that their army would arrive as soon as possible. However, the humble man thought that they might have hidden something and did not want us to know that your highness, you dare not take it lightly, and you must try your best to find out."

"But..." He paused, obviously he was also very clear that His Highness Lu would definitely not be satisfied with this answer, so he continued carefully: "But based on many signs, there are some inferences that it is very likely that the Ottomans were in trouble in the north. They did not tell us the real situation, and they were afraid that they were also guarding against us, and were afraid that we would see their weakness."

Ye Chunqiu frowned slightly. In fact, Ye Maocai's inference coincided with him.

But... in Ye Chunqiu's memory, the main opponent of the Ottomans in the north was Franchise Man, and the Franchise Man at this moment was always in a passive situation. To put it bluntly, Franchise Man rarely took the initiative. Basically, the Ottomans beat him up every now and then, and they defended by relying on the fortress on the front line of Vienna.

But now...what is the case? Could it be that the Ottomans wanted to fight on two fronts, going south to Persia, and trying to attack Vienna?

If so, this would be too arrogant and have a stronger self-confidence.

Thinking of this, Ye Chunqiu felt that it was unlikely. The risk was too great. The Ottomans did not need to open two fronts so urgently. Only fools would do this.

Ye Chunqiu thought for a while, and finally pondered: "Continue to contact the Ottomans, on the other hand, try every means to spy on the news, regardless of the cost."
Chapter completed!