C814 surrogate (1/2)

Jiang Nan was an area that Xiao Letian had to control very carefully, he could not lose Jiang Nan, but it was even more impossible for him to interfere too deeply. Last year, the incident of the new army attacking the Shanghai Road's Tai Mansion had already caused dissatisfaction on the part of the British, the Commissioner of the British Government in Shanghai had secretly sent a letter to Xiao Letian, hoping that he would notify the British Empire in advance if there was a next time.

The Yangtze River Basin was the scope of power for the British. From the Daoguang years, they had been managing their own forces in this area, the two Opium Wars and the one Taiping Heavenly Kingdom war.

Right now, Jiang Nan was under the control of the imperial government, Xiang Army and the British people, and Xiao Letian's influence in this area was roughly the same as the French, so he should be ranked fourth in terms of ranking.

However, Xiao Letian was after all, a Chinese, and had very compatible political ideas with Ceng Guofan, so both sides were now in a state of being half allies.

The reason why the bonds issued by Xiao Letian did not receive the full retaliation of the British Bankers, was because even until now, the westerner still thought that the and the Xiang Army worked together to obtain the money, and at this moment, the gigantic Xiangjun Group did not even dare to provoke them.

However, no one knew that there was no secret agreement between Xiao Letian and himself. The relationship between the two was far from what the outside world thought it was.

It had to be a secret, because Xiao Letian's current identity was too sensitive. If Da Qing and Europe found out that he and Ceng Guofan had a secret meeting, then the whole situation in East Asia would change greatly.

Xiangjun Group was currently in her prime, and although calling others as the five hundred thousand elites was a bit of an exaggeration, but seeing how Zuo Zongtang had easily taken away seventy to eighty thousand people, it could be seen that the Xiang Army's elites were at least twenty three hundred thousand.

This was already an extremely large Military groups in Asia. If they were to join hands with Xiao Letian, the number one Military groups in East Asia, would probably give even the British people a headache.

It was not that they could not win, but that they could not send out so many troops. His hometown doesn't want it anymore?

Even until now, they still did not know that Ceng Guofan had once secretly gone to the Tanggu. An old man and a young hidden dragons had long ago bumped into each other.

If they knew, the entire Myriad Miles Rivers and Mountains Range would have been dyed blood-red.

So, Xiao Letian had to go there secretly, and after he quickly finished what he needed to do, he had to go south immediately. On one hand, Xiao Letian had promised to bring Zai Chun out on a trip to Europe to study, and on the other hand, he had to go to Europe to negotiate things face-to-face with Bismark.

The Spanish Revolution of 1868 was about to break out, and Prussia was secretly plotting against France. The Prime Minister Iron-Blood was going to use this thorn to provoke the wrath of Napoleon III until the French took the initiative to declare war.

The Franco-Prussian War! This was the most important show in Europe in the 19th century, how could Xiao Letian miss it!

Inside the secret base built by the CIA on the Amami Oshima, Zai Chun discovered an unbelievable thing. Inside a room, he actually saw himself.

That's right, through the small window, he saw himself standing beside Xiao Letian, listening to his subordinates' reports. In front of him were Wang Huaiyuan, Sima Yun, Xiao Hexin, Luo Huo, Luo Huo … There were even four eunuchs and four guards.

Zai Chun turned to look behind him, only to realize that these people had not disappeared! Had he seen a ghost? Zai Chun was not the only one who was shocked, the useless eunuch immediately fainted with a roll of his eyes.