Let’s start with Zuo Zongtang’s attitude change.

After Li Hongzhang reached a secret agreement with President Meng, he sent the Huai Army to directly help the Chinese country build the railway, and obtained the urgently needed food and grass from President Meng. The Huai Army survived and Li Hongzhang's strength was also preserved.

Originally, the Huai Army was stronger than the Chu Army, and had excellent equipment and a slightly higher personnel quality, which made Zuo Zongtang unable to stand it. After many people in the army passed away and ran to China.

Zuo Zongtang was moved and wanted to learn from Li Hongzhang, and continued to be with the Qing court, eased relations with China, and pleased both sides to ensure his status in the northwest!

Whether it was Zuo Zongtang or Li Hongzhang, they did not have the intention to surrender to China. In fact, they were a way to be loyal to the Qing court.

In order to make Zuo Zongtang still have the strength, the cute president continued to plow the land, plow Huihui and Xinjiang, and helped solve the border residents he did not want to touch. Moreover, Zuo Zongtang's power could gain a foothold and also curb the expansion of Tsarist Russia. The expansion of Tsarist Russia was too terrible. It was already terrible just to plunder from the Qing court by forced signing contracts. It was still secretly eroding. China's military power did not take into account the northwest for the time being, and then knocked down Zuo Zongtang, and the northwest would become a military vacuum zone. It would be guaranteed to be occupied by Tsarist Russia in a few years.

Therefore, Zuo Zongtang and Meng CEO were basically waiting for each other, but for the sake of status, Meng CEO could not find Zuo Zongtang, he had to wait for Zuo Zongtang to find him.

When the cute president went to find Princess Jie, Zuo Zongtang was also busy looking for someone, but the one he was not looking for.

"Are you going to Qinhuangdao?" Jie Ge was a little reluctant and held the cute CEO's hand.

The cute CEO smiled and touched Princess Jie's hand, nodded, and glanced at Princess Lihuang.

Since he had done something to Concubine Lihuang that day, the cute CEO has not found Concubine Lihuang again during this period. He was worried that he could not help it.

Concubine Lihuang Tai stood up and said, "You guys talk, I'm sleepy."

When the cute CEO saw that Concubine Li Huang Tai was leaving, he still said, "I'll give it to you."

Concubine Lihuang Tai burst into laughter, "No, you are so polite today? What should I give you if you have a few steps?"

The cute president whispered to Jie Gege, "I will send the imperial concubine back to the bedroom and come over immediately."

Gege looked at the cute CEO curiously. He didn't know what to give away for these few steps, but he didn't think much about it. He took a document and said, "It just so happened that I'm watching the construction of Henan dikes here. Princess Katrina Kaifu gave me a lookup, but I can't understand it."

"Well, you can take a look first. This matter is calculated by the engineer below. We just take a look." The cute CEO smiled and went to chase the concubine Li Huang Taigui.

"Shishou Zuo, why don't you go find Guo Songtao?" Hu Xueyan suggested.

Zuo Zongtang looked at Hu Xueyan, sighed, shook his head, and didn't say anything, but still couldn't hide his face. In fact, Zuo Zongtang and Guo Songtao were good friends before, but later turned against each other. The truth about literati always remained unchanged since ancient times.

They are not just literati, they should be said to be inferior to each other. Are military generals used to seeing each other? Anyway, as long as they are of the same type, they will dislike each other when they are together.

Guo Songtao was the governor of Guangdong and was very talented. He was quite insightful in both traditional literature and Western science. This made Zuo Zongtang, a group of Westernization pioneers, very disliked and stumbling on Guo Songtao, who was not good at flattering. In fact, Zuo Zongtang himself was also such a person. Zuo Zongtang was also a person like Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang was definitely not the most capable person in the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty, but he was definitely the one who was the best at being an official.

Zuo Zongtang and Hu Xueyan discussed for a long time. The next day, Zuo Zongtang decided to see Guo Songtao. There was no way, so he was embarrassed to go to the cute president again.

Moreover, looking for Guo Songtao is much less psychologically burdening for Zuo Zongtang than looking for a cute president. If you directly look for a cute president, it seems that Zuo Zongtang is directly betraying the Qing court.

The two met in Guo Songtao's small courtyard. When the cute president went to find Guo Songtao, it was the same scene. Both of them were wearing casual clothes, and neither of them wore official clothes.

Guo Songtao's official uniform was packed in four-pockets unified by China, so Zuo Zongtang's official government was naturally replenished from the first-rate Qing Dynasty python robe.

"Brother." Zuo Zongtang spoke with difficulty.

Because in the past, Zuo Zongtang suppressed Guo Songtao, so Guo Songtao must wait for Zuo Zongtang to speak first. When Zuo Zongtang called out, Guo Songtao immediately let go and hurried over and held Zuo Zongtang's hand, and smiled and said, "Ji Gao, there is no need to be too polite."

In fact, when they were at their age, they had seen through everything and didn’t need to be too polite. Zuo Zongtang and Guo Songtao talked about the opportunities they had lasted for more than ten years, and greeted each other’s families separately, as if they were a different life.

"I was narrow-minded at the beginning, but I still had a broad mind." Zuo Zongtang said sincerely.

"Ji Gao doesn't need to be humble. Ji Gao is a great talent in the world, otherwise he would not be so respected by the president. Did Ji Gao come for the purpose of using troops in the northwest?" Guo Songtao smiled and said straight to the point. "This is easy to deal with."

Zuo Zongtang also smiled. In fact, there is nothing difficult to deal with when he took this step. Today, China, as long as the cute president is supported, nothing is difficult to deal with. Nodded and waited for Guo Songtao to continue talking.

"When Li Hongzhang was driving the road ahead, just follow his old path. Li Hongzhang built two sections of railways from Datong to Beijing, Taiyuan to Beijing, and Ji Gao built the railways from Yinchuan, Baotou, Hohhot, and Datong, and simply trained the Northwest Railway into a piece. At that time, the entire northwest will be as solid as a soup for China!" Guo Songtao spread out a map and said with great enthusiasm.

Zuo Zongtang frowned. If he really did what Guo Songtao said, the northwest would be stable for China, but for him, Zuo Zongtang, it would be troublesome. If such a large project continues, it would be for others to make wedding dresses! At that time, will Xuan Yuemeng be in the northwest? Isn’t it going to take place in one day?

Guo Songtao saw Zuo Zongtang's concerns and smiled, "Do you dare to ask, does Ji Gao have the idea of ​​seizing power in the world?"

Zuo Zongtang was shocked, and hurriedly stood up, waved his hand and said, "Brother, don't say such words. I, Zuo Zongtang, have a vow to heaven. If you have such a traitor, you will be willing to accept thousands of arrows to accumulate your heart."

Guo Songtao nodded with a smile, "Ji Gao, sit down and talk, you and I are here. Let's open our hearts today. Since you have no idea of ​​seizing power in the world, no matter the world of the Qing Dynasty or the cute president's Chinese country, it is not the world of you Zuo Zongtang. Building railways and highways is a great thing that benefits the country and the people! No matter who it is in the future, it will still be the world of China!"

Zuo Zongtang was silent for a moment, his mind was very confused. In fact, before meeting Guo Songtao, he had already thought that China would propose a similar plan, but when this plan was truly put in front of him, he felt that the plan was too big.

Why? Because China is still an agricultural society, what should an agricultural country do in the northwest and southwest?

President Meng’s main resources are now placed in the Chinese-ruled areas, and the Chinese-ruled areas are all in the northeast, the central coast and the southeast coast, the southern coast, the northwest and the southwest, and the two parts are too big to reach.

Seeing Zuo Zongtang not speaking, Guo Songtao smiled and pointed to the map, "Don't worry about not having a stage to display his talents. Look at the northwest, more than a dozen countries, and then look at the South Asian Peninsula, India, this large space will be your stage in the future. But the premise is that China must be stable. Only when China is stable can China have such great strength."

Although the cute CEO has not yet made a clear idea of ​​the pan-Asian concept, or it only exists in the cute CEO's mind, and the cute CEO has not yet informed the whole world, on many occasions, the cute CEO has actually hinted at such plans. How could a person like Guo Songtao and Zuo Zongtang not understand the talent and strategy of the cute CEO? Once China has settled firmly, it will definitely expand outward.
Chapter completed!