The truth is like a window paper and it will be broken. Doro and the others can't sit still immediately. "What are you waiting for? Go away quickly, leave quickly... Go to Jinzhou immediately to see the Grand Marshal Zuo, beg the Grand Marshal to send troops immediately!"

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious... don't be impatient!" Rong Quan pointed to Samuel Baker and others who were resting on the couch behind. "You have to let the patient rest for three days. You are so lucky. This snowy day crosses the Tianshan Mountains, and there are no dead people. It's really the blessing of our ancestors!"

Rong Quan slowly filled the person sitting with a glass of wine, "I can't be anxious, you just came here and don't know the details, this matter is really unhurried!"

"The expedition team needs rest. Lord Baker cannot travel without three days. Your horses also need to replenish some feed and maintain their physical strength..."

"Although the Junggar Grassland is not a desert, it is also very dangerous to travel in winter. At this moment, I have sent countless cavalry to inform the tribes on your way back..."

"Long live the angel, the British distinguished guests are about to pass by. The elders of the tribe must greet them no matter how hard they are, and they must provide escorts!"

"Don't worry, when you arrive in northern Xinjiang, it will be safe as long as you don't get to the south. This is not five years ago!"

"But I have to tell you a secret. Zuo Dashu has a bad temper. If you want to get close to him, you have to be more careful... But don't be impatient. Xinjiang has been in chaos for five years. Even Agubai is not able to kill all the people even if he is a butcher..."

"I expect that if the court can recover Xinjiang within ten years, it will be the limit... exceeding this limit, we should not have that dream!"

The ten-year period is long for a person, but very short for a dynasty!

Not to mention anything else, it takes one year to transport supplies from Central Plains to Jinzhou, which is later Lanzhou!

Without railway transportation, without canal support, relying solely on the legs of humans and animals, the sufferings in this are really unimaginable!

Recovering the war in Xinjiang is actually very simple and does not take much time, but raising materials and training troops is extremely time-consuming.

In ten years, it was just a transport of ten batches of materials to Xinjiang along the coast of the Central Plains. Fortunately, the grain could be raised locally, but foreign guns, artillery and ammunition could be piled up entirely by manpower.

At ports such as Shanghai, Chinese and Western arms dealers have piled up in mountains. As long as you Zuo Zongtang has money, you can sell you as many weapons as you want.

But how to transport it? This is annoying!

Why did Zuo Zongtang set up a mechanical bureau in Lanzhou? In fact, it was a large assembly center that dismantled foreigners' weapons and transported them up in the form of parts.

Indeed, the industrial level of the Qing Dynasty was backward, but no matter how far behind the carpenters, there must be blacksmiths!

The Qing Dynasty could not make the barrel and gun barrel, and the rifle inside could not be cut, but could not be made of the wood structure of the rifle? Chinese carpenters could not even make one?

The blacksmith is purely handmade, but the cannon racks that create cannons do not have any technical content, right?

Zuo Zongtang has racked his brains to transport weapons. Red-topped businessman Hu Xueyan raised funds for him in Jiangnan, and on the other hand, he asked technicians to study foreign weapons.

All parts that the Qing Dynasty could not produce by itself were purchased and then sent to Lanzhou through supplies!

The rest of the remaining ones can be produced by themselves, buy the drawings and send them to them immediately, and send a large number of craftsmen to make their own products in Lanzhou. It is precisely this kind of local method that greatly improves the supply capacity of the Western Expedition Army.

Rong Quan only heard about these things, and he didn't know the specifics, but Rong Quan knew very well about Agubo's reality and reality.

Although Agubo is arrogant, this guy is even weaker. Lanzhou Machinery Bureau can still make some not-so-complex parts, but Agubo's men can't even make these.

Since Aguber had completely defected to Tsarist Russia, the British regarded him as their enemy at this moment and could not get any caravan's weapons supplies from the southern India direction.

All the weapons used by Aguber's army are transported by the Tsarist Russians!

Rong Quan and General Mingxu captured countless Tsarist Russian caravans in the Yili area. The most important goods of these caravans were to secretly transport arms and weapons to Agubo.

After all, it’s still the same cliché, it’s an economic issue. The Qing Dynasty was backward, but Aguber was even more backward, and he was more dependent on arms and weapons.

Every year, he relies on a little arms supported by Tsarist Russia to maintain the battle. Why is his expansion power now reaching its limit and he can no longer fight?

The root cause is that the territory is too large, and his arms consumption cannot keep up with the expansion of scale!

At present, Agubo is more about fighting with primitive cold weapons!

"Money! Now the biggest headache for Mass Zuo is money! In this Xinjiang quell, it is ultimately due to who has more foreign guns and cannons, and who has more supplies..."

"After all, I have to fight for someone's more money!"

Listening to General Rong Quan's words, Doro and Guan Lu's faces turned pale and said in their hearts, "Good, we ruined the 300,000 taels of Master Long live before!"

"How many foreign guns and shells have to be made when sent to Shuai Zuo? We are really ruining it, it's so bad..."

Rong Quan had no idea about spending money and was chatting at the banquet. "The Grand Marshal is poor! For the sake of the battle between the coastal defense and the mainland defense, the Grand Marshal was so angry that he said angrily that he raised his own military expenses, which was the result of the nod of the two empress dowagers..."

"It seems that the imperial court allocated 2 million yuan in one lump sum... that's all, and the rest are all the funds from various provinces and loans from private and foreign merchants..."

"O God! In fighting such a war, the country only gives 2 million taels?" Gordon and the resting Baker explorer exclaimed.

The two looked at each other and didn't dare to speak. Neither of them dared to mention how many golden francs Xiao Letian had taken away from Europe. If they said it, I'm afraid General Rong Quan would immediately vomit blood.

Doro and Guan Lu's faces were red. They had seen big European scenes. 2 million taels were enough to buy a few warships? Is it because the imperial court wanted to take back such a large Xinjiang by relying on the 2 million taels?

After two hours of a banquet, the expedition team finally slowed down the fatigue on the escape route. After Doro and Guan Lu were soaked in the steaming wooden bathtub, they let out a painful cry.

The hot water forced out the cold air from the bones, and all the muscles and bones were soaked.

The two bathtubs were lined up side by side, and the charcoal basin in the room was burning brightly. The two of them didn't say anything for a long time with a towel.

"Old Guan... guess what did I remember?"

"Bah... you must have missed Fusang girls... the group that scrubbed us... tsk, the open-air hot spring, the white butts and..."

"Exotic...hehehe..."

The two of them smiled lewdly for a long time, and suddenly their faces became miserable. "What should we do if we don't have money? How can we complete the mission of Long Live Master?"

"The court is really embarrassing. If you let Master Zuo pacify Xinjiang, you are so happy that you have given enough money!"

"Even if the court has no money, don't take two million taels of disgusting people!"
Chapter completed!