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The Military Intelligence Service was dead silent. Everyone felt as if their hearts were pressed against a stone. No one could break this trap, but everyone was still unwilling!

could make the farming civilization resist the invasion of the Northern nomadic peoples in a more economical way, but the importance of the Qing Dynasty had already been taken away!

In this epoch, the threat from the north had become the ruler. The strategic significance of the Great Wall was decreasing, and at the same time, the strategic importance of the Grand Canal was increasing!

The Qing Dynasty's political Center was in the north, but the economy was heavily reliant on the south, especially the most fundamental of grain security problems!

Jiangnan and the two lakes regions are the most important grain producing areas in Qing Dynasty. Although Sichuan is also a country of Heavenly Province, the entire basin is surrounded by mountains and it is very difficult to transport grain out.

In the north, they could only rely on the grain in the Jiangnan and Hubei regions to make up for the deficit, but the grain here had to be transported by water to Zhenjiang, and from there, they had to enter the Grand Canal to transport them!

During First Opium War's time, Dao Guang Emperor still fought with a bit of backbone, regardless of whether they won or lost, it did not have much of an impact on the entire Qing Kingdom's economy!

At that time, the Qing Dynasty believed that the UK was just like the pirates in the past. As long as they protected the sea well, Da Ming could eliminate the pirates, and the Daqing could also eliminate the British!

Furthermore, at that time, Official was not an idiot. Of course, they understood the accounts of the supplies. The fresh water and food in British could be looted, but where were the gunpowder?

This was very hard to replenish, just a little bit more, and it would be beneficial to the Qing Dynasty to drag on for a bit!

This was why Lin Zexu and the other main fighting factions were using their local advantage to hold on to their strategy. In fact, they were waiting for the British to use up all of their logistics!

That epoch was a set of Sail battleship. If the UK's supplies were to be delivered from a distant Lion City or even from a India, it would be unreliable!

The war had actually persisted for two years, and the war potential of the UK had almost been squeezed dry. It was only when the British Army had desperately fought his way into the mouth of the Yangtze River and fought his way into the river, fighting a fierce battle with the Qing Army in Nanjing that the entire Qing Ting was shaken!

The key point was still in Zhenjiang's economy!

After breaching Zhenjiang, the Fleet s of the British Army could be considered to have completely trapped the economic lifeline of the north and south of the Great Qing Kingdom. The Silver of the south and all kinds of supplies, especially the grain s, would not be able to transport even a single grain of it to the Capital!

Dao Guang Emperor panicked, and had no choice but to admit defeat!

This was a tragic past that no one in the Qing Ting was willing to talk about, but even if everyone did not say it, it did not mean that they did not know.

Is there a solution to this? With the current strength of the Qing Army, although they have made great progress compared to 1840, don't forget that the Enemy has progressed even faster!

Now, the Chinese had already started to fully push all the way to the Primordial Level! This kind of strong cannons was not something that the poor old field Artillery in the hands of the Qing army could handle!

As for those old garrison cannons, they were even less of a threat, as for the naval gun s imported from the Chinese, they could easily destroy any of the Qing Dynasty's walls!

Zhenjiang was an unguarded city to the Navy of the Chinese. They did not need to use the Army to solve it themselves!

Those in Military Intelligence Service today were all well-informed, and did not have many useless idiots, so they could understand the dao in there!

Minister of War's lips trembled, but he still wanted to retort, ”Your Majesty … But Zhenjiang is no longer the same as before. After destroying the long hair, we will increase the number of troops, increase the number of cannons, build up the city wall … ”

”What's more … Xiang Jun who has been through hundreds of battles in Jiangnan would never be as impudent as you … ”