Eunuchs who traveled through the Qing Dynasty

Seeing her smiling face, Xiao Ran knew that she probably had a solution in her heart, so he took her by the hand and said, "It's not impossible to do it. Good sister, good Lan'er, since you say that, there must be a way. Right? Don't tease me, just say it!"

Lan'er turned her head and smiled at Lin Qing'er: "Sister Qing'er, isn't this little third son always so glib with your sisters?"

Qing'er smiled and said, "That's not true. He was born with a good mouth!"

Seeing them singing together, Xiao Ran smirked and hugged Lan Er's shoulder sideways.Whispered in her ear: "Okay, if you don't say it, I will make you lose the strength to speak later! If you don't believe me, try it!"

Lan'er's body obviously softened in fright, her pretty face flushed, and she hurriedly said: "Okay, let's stop making trouble, it's important to talk about business. There is no way to get ahead. Although the situation is more sensitive now, this For a while, Sheng Zuo led the Firearms Battalion, and he did a lot of meritorious service. First, he wiped out the coalition forces. He pacified the oceans, and then he put down the rebellious party. He has made great contributions in escorting him. We can confer a title on him first, and add a first-class loyalty to him. Can’t say anything? With the status of Marquis, wouldn’t it be logical to be transferred to the governor of Zhili?”

"Tall. It's really tall!" Xiao Ran couldn't help but gave a thumbs up, and said, "Lan'er is simply my female Zhuge. With you, what's wrong with you? Come, as a reward. First kiss Mouth!" As he said, he put his arms around her pink neck, and kissed her hard on the lips.This action is a little too quick to hide one's ears and steal one's ears. How can Lan'er avoid it?His ears were red with embarrassment, he couldn't help himself, he hurriedly pushed away Xiao Ran and said: "No one is in shape! Sister Qing'er is still here!"

Lin Qing'er covered her mouth and couldn't stop laughing, saying to herself that you don't know yet.What kind of 3P is best for Xianggong, I am afraid that there will be less people and it will not be lively, so how can I be afraid of too many people?

After laughing for a while, Xiao Ran said again: "After settling these things, the rest will not be a problem. After a while, I will send someone to Nayan Xinduo from Shengjing, and Shi Dakai from Xi'an to revise the book, and order them to lengthen the book. The front line, the more chaos the north has, the better. This way you can’t see the ten-year month, so let me draw up a piece of paper on my eyebrows, and the plan to move the capital will be confirmed!"

When Lan'er heard about Shi Dakai, she couldn't help being startled, and then suddenly said: "Yes, it turns out that Shi Dakai has taken refuge in you. I said how could I kill all the way to Zhangjiakou last time in Shanxi!"

Before Xiao Ran could answer, Lin Qing'er smiled and said, "I'll tell you the truth, Shi Dakai is Qing'er's real uncle, speaking of it, he is not considered an outsider."

Now Lin Qing'er recounted her tortuous life experience.Lan'er sighed, and said: "I said that sister Qing'er is not like an ordinary lady, but she turned out to be General Lin's daughter! Sigh, why is this little third son so lucky? Even I feel jealous of him. "

The space for lunch was almost used up, Lin Qing'er ordered someone to clean it up, and followed her out of the room, leaving Xiao Ran and Lan'er to continue discussing big plans.Lan'er said: "although the plan to move the capital has been completed,

It cannot be taken lightly. The key is how to appease the conflict between the two local forces after the capital is moved. These are all issues that need to be considered.If Zeng Guofan was still there, he might be able to suppress him for a while with the authority of his boss; if he fell, there would be no leader. If the local governors broke out, I'm afraid the situation would be difficult to control! "

Xiao Ran said: "Yeah, this is the same problem that I have a headache now. The turmoil in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the rapid rise of local forces in the south of the Yangtze River, has already become a situation where warlords separate themselves and rule the land. If they can't be suppressed, there will be chaos."

Lan'er's eyes flickered, she sneered, and said: "Actually, it's not so difficult to deal with Li Hongzhang and his ilk. Killing three men with two peaches is a ready-made trick! It's just..." Shaking her head and sighing softly He took a breath, looked at Xiao Ran, and said: "Forget it, let's not talk about it, anyway, the third son has no intention of taking over the world, and doesn't want to be the emperor. If we don't want to be the emperor, we also have ways to not be the emperor."

After a pause, he said: "The situation in the south of the Yangtze River is the most beneficial situation for us. It is to let the forces of the provinces balance each other and check each other. We must not allow any one force to dominate. Why don't we do this..."

For the whole afternoon, Xiao Ran and Lan Er thought over and over again, studying all possible situations in detail.Now that everything is really ready, only Dongfeng owes it. In the evening, Xiao Ran called Ma Chao and other Tiji brothers, and ordered them to bring letters and go to Shengjing and Xi'an separately, to deliver letters to Nayan Xinduo and Shi Dakai.

Time flies, before you know it, half a month has passed.When Zeng Guofan fell from power, the Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp under the former Zhili Army confiscated their weapons and transferred them to the prefecture and Tongzhou for supervision.Seng Gelinqin and the others, now in the capacity of committing crimes and performing meritorious service, worked especially hard, bowed their heads to Lan'er's imperial edict, pointed east and dared not go west.

Chang Shengzuo of the original firearms battalion wing, made great contributions to the escort of the leveling, and was rewarded with a yellow mandarin jacket and a magic sparrow knife.All the ministers of the DPRK and Central Committee felt that Sheng Zuo was turning around, but there was no additional ambiguity. As a result, the entire Zhili Province's land and water armies fell into Xiao Ran's control logically.

The naval power in the entire Bohai Bay was originally divided into three parts, which were under the jurisdiction of the Zhili, Shandong, and Lushun mouth water divisions.Among them, the Shandong Dongying Navy and the Weihai Navy were beaten by foreign devils in the two Opium Wars so that they could not even get out of the inland river, and there were few warships, which were basically useless.When Sheng Zuo took office, with the support of Xiao Ran and Lan Er, he drastically reorganized the navy, transferred Lai Dingzhong from Lushun saliva master Xu Shichang, and made him the right-wing commander of the Zhili navy. Master admiral.However, since it is famously sponsored by Director Xiao, specially selected by Governor Sheng, and personally approved by the Queen Mother, these three auras are added together, and any one of them is enough for the Admiral of the Navy to drink a pot.Therefore, Lai Dingzhong, the commander of the foreign commission, is more like a special commissioner from the central government, and his posture is even stronger than that of the admiral of the navy.

With the Zhili navy and the Lushun saliva master in hand, Xiao Ran in the entire Bohai Bay became the boss.And Bohai Bay belongs to the sea gateway of the capital, and its significance is so great that it goes without saying.

Besides, Britain, France, and the United States have formed an unprecedentedly powerful combined fleet, and they invaded the capital with great fanfare by land and water.Most of the support ships are troop carriers and supply ships. They rushed all the way from the Strait of Malacca to the Bohai Bay. They thought that the war should be in full swing. The Chinese army was killed and wounded everywhere. The government was crying and shouting for peace. Look, it was calm and there was no movement, so I couldn't help being surprised.

As expected, the foreign devils were good at naval warfare and had rich experience. Seeing that the situation was not good, they sent a small fleet of fast fleets to sneak into the bay to inquire about the news, and a large force slowly followed.In their minds, the Chinese navy combined, and the large warships are only single digits.But I didn't expect that just after passing Laizhou Bay, countless Chinese warships BIU appeared in front of me with a beep, and the connecting ships [battleships and cruise ships are all heavy three-masted, and the two-masted ones are like locusts. come over.There is even a small steam steamer, which is emitting black smoke, and is so fast. It is covered with iron armor and wipes the water skin as if it is about to fly, directly cutting off the retreat of the United Fleet!

The foreign devils were completely dumbfounded when they saw it, and hastily opened fire to fight.But in the face of a torpedo saturation attack filled with high explosives, the wooden sailboat is so vulnerable.In just one round of attack, the foreign devils fleet lost nearly [-] ships, large and small. The British commander saw that the situation was not good, and directly handed over the white flag.

The Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms with the super-powerful lineup in the world were wiped out. The news spread that the whole world was hit hard, but the governments of the three countries did not launch a larger-scale military retaliation. Instead, they immediately proposed peace with the Qing Dynasty. At the same time as the Opium War started, Europe also ignited a raging war.

On April 26, [-], Bismarck led Prussia, using the control of the two principalities of Schleswig and Holstein as the fuse, united with Austria, and provoked a war against Denmark.The war was very short, and soon ended hastily with Denmark completely giving up all rights of the two duchies under the intervention of Britain, France and other countries.But just over two months later, on June [-], in order to establish a small German Empire, Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck openly announced the draft for reorganizing the German Confederation, excluding the former ally Austria, and using diplomatic means to help regain the German Empire. Austrian occupation of Venice as a condition, obtained the support of Italy and concluded a military alliance.Austria reacted quickly and declared war on Prussia.

At that time, the Prussian army implemented a universal conscription system, and was equipped with new weapons supported by China, such as new breech-loaded rifles, breech-loaded howitzers, short-barreled curved guns, landmines, and flower bombs; while the Austrian army still practiced a conscription system. The most important thing is muzzle-loading smoothbore guns and muzzle-loading artillery, but in terms of military strength, it is simply impossible to compete with Prussia.The allied forces of Bavaria, Saxony, Hannover and other states supporting Austria are even worse equipped than Austria, which is basically equivalent to making up for it.At the same time, it has to deal with the Italian army and fight on two fronts.The situation can be imagined.

In this war, Prussia invested a total of more than [-] troops. With the dense railway lines covering the country, it took only one month to quickly advance to Vienna.The unusually powerful fighting power of the Prussian army finally aroused the vigilance of France, because France was controlling the South German Federation at that time. At the beginning, it was thought that the Austrian army would definitely win, and it was imagining that it could get part of the territory on the Rhine River, so it did not intervene too much .But as the situation took a turn for the worse.Napoleon III was afraid that the rise of Prussia would shake the status of France, so he was forced to decide to declare war on Prussia.A Franco-Prussian war larger than the Austro-Prussian War broke out.

In this war, Britain did not want France to be strong.Want to use the power of Prussia to take the opportunity to weaken France, so secretly support Prussia.

At the same time, Russia also began to expand in Europe, on May [-]rd.Russian tanks blatantly tore up the Paris Peace Treaty and broke into Sevastopol. The Second Crimean War officially broke out.Relying on advanced military equipment, the Ottoman army was defeated steadily.Britain, France and other countries were forced to intervene.However, France is now in a bitter battle against Prussia. On the actual battlefield, only the coalition forces composed of Britain and the Ottoman Empire dominate, and it is less than ten months.The Russian chariots are in a state of destruction.Occupied the entire Crimean peninsula.

The situation throughout Europe is chaotic.The great powers have no time to look around, so they can only swallow their anger at this time.Forced to propose peace to the Qing Dynasty.Mei sent a telegram to appoint Prince Su Huafeng as the Minister of Plenipotentiary, and Zhou Peizu, a scholar, and Woren cooperated to negotiate with the missions of the three countries.The venue for the negotiation was deliberately chosen in Tongzhou. The humiliating scene of the peace talks three years ago is still vivid in my eyes. Today, it is time to get everything back with interest!

The Treaty of Tianjin, the Treaty of Beijing, and all unequal treaties shall be abolished.Regarding the treaty ports, they are still reserved. The Qing Dynasty fully lifted the sea ban, but proposed that the customs should take it back, ending the humiliating history of foreigners controlling China's customs.At the same time, various clear regulations were made on the principle of trade reciprocity, including the opening of Chinese markets in Britain, France, and the United States, and a complete ban on the circulation of opium.The three countries sent ambassadors to Beijing, but the premise was to pay a large amount of war compensation first, and redeem the hostages previously detained in Beijing, as well as the prisoners of war of the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms.

At the same time, China also proposed to send an ambassador for the first time, formally establishing reciprocal diplomatic relations with Britain, France, and the United States.

Regarding the land ceded by China in the previous two Opium Wars, such as Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Division, China took back all of them, and reconfirmed the integrity of China's borders and territory, and signed the "Records of the Great Qing Dynasty Boundary Survey", including Mongolia and Xinjiang. Territorial integrity, as well as subordination to Vietnam, North Korea and other vassal states, including the "Brief Outline of the Sea Boundary of the Qing Dynasty" for the sea frontier.At the same time, with regard to the railways built by Britain and France in China and the huge loans in the early stage, the Qing Dynasty has the right to regard them as strategic aggression and aggression gains and take them back.

Overlord clause, always manipulating on the tough side.Relying on their own fists, the Chinese appeared in front of the great powers for the first time with an extremely tough posture, declaring

Rise of an ancient yet youthful Eastern Dragon!

The peace talks were basically carried out in a one-sided manner and went very smoothly.Only on the last day, there was a small ambiguity. The reason was that scholars in the capital, Su Ru, jointly signed a letter to the imperial court, requesting that the great powers build a stele on the Dagukou Fortress to show that the people of the country had experienced Commemorate the sufferings that have passed, and commemorate the awakening of China today.This is more or less sour and rotten like a student, and the foreign mission group was suffocated in their hearts, but they dared to be angry and did not dare to speak. They tried to make a few theoretical sentences, but were reprimanded by Wo Ren, so they had to obediently sign the matter.

Xiao Ran laughed it off.Of course he knew who this monument in the hearts of the common people was built for.

While China was negotiating peace with the big powers, Xiao Ran instructed Japan to propose to the big powers a revision of the previously signed treaty of goodwill, including the integrity of sovereignty over territory and territorial waters, as well as unequal trade treaties.With the demise of Japan's fallen forces, the shogunate has regained its former hegemony.Under the pressure of the Qing Dynasty, the big powers had no choice but to give up competing for Japan's interests. Since then, Japan has actually been reduced to a vassal state of China in terms of politics, economy, and military.

This time the Qing Dynasty negotiated peace with foreigners, the treaty was signed, and when the news was sent back to the capital, the people suddenly became overwhelmed.The entire city of Beijing is beating gongs, drums and setting off firecrackers, which is even more lively than New Year's Eve.But at this time, Xiao Ran and Lan'er didn't have the heart to feel the joy, and the move of the capital was still in full swing.

After receiving Xiao Ran's secret report, Shi Dakai immediately led his army eastward, and in less than a month, he had completely wiped out Shanxi and went straight to Zhili.The garrison of Nayan Xinduo in Chifeng also quickly marched westward, reoccupied Chengde, and harassed everywhere.In addition, Governor Sheng Zuo of Zhili deliberately released water, and for a while, fires broke out everywhere in Zhili Province, and people were panicked.

Li Hongzhang of Jiangnan, together with the local governors, published a "Request to Move the Capital", stating the disadvantages of the times, and believed that the most urgent task is to move the capital to Jiangning first to stabilize the situation, and then the southern provinces will join forces to move north to quell the turmoil in the north.Wang Yi, who discusses politics, is the territory of the Bannerman, so he has long been out of control.Mei immediately telegraphed back to Beijing, and Laner presided over the political discussion in the capital to discuss the matter of moving the capital.

The Manchu and Han parties quickly split into two camps, with one side in favor and one against, each holding a word.And when the courtiers were arguing, Xiao Ran had asked Yu Lai to secretly move the head office of Tongran Hall to Hangzhou.The reason why they moved to Hangzhou instead of Jiangning was because Hangzhou was Zuo Zongtang's territory, and Tongran Hall, as a main pillar of the current industry and even the economy of the imperial court, was delivered to Zuo Zongtang, which would inevitably arouse suspicion between him and Li Hongzhang.

Containing each other, this is what Xiao Ran wants now.

It is not yet possible to relocate all the factories under Tongrantang to the south, after all, the project is too big.Xiao Ran handed over all the affairs here to Zhang Zhidong, and promoted him to be a doctor of the Ministry of Industry, and awarded him a bachelor's degree in the Imperial Academy. Shattered to pieces" to repay Xiao Ran's kindness.At the same time, Xiao Ran also transferred some key technicians from the factory, preparing to go to the south of the Yangtze River to develop a new industrial world.

The old lady Xiao Yushi, his wife and children also went south with the rain, but they didn't go to Hangzhou. Instead, Duan Xingnian led a group of brothers to protect him, and settled secretly in Yangzhou.Settling down the family is a big deal, Xiao Ran doesn't want to be so passive like Zeng Guofan did last time.

On July [-], Nayan Xinduo's troops broke through Meixian County, and the capital was in a hurry.Lan Er presided over the meeting of ministers overnight, and the proposal to move the capital was finally finalized.On the morning of the [-]th, he telegraphed Jiangnan to move the capital immediately.

On July [-], the first batch of troops, led by the old fifth grandfather, Hui Prince Mianyu, left the capital with tears and marched towards Jiangning.The next day, Lan'er led a group of ministers to hold a grand ceremony in the Forbidden City, and invited down the long-hanging portraits of previous emperors, announcing the official departure of Luan to the south.The famous "upright and bright" plaque, together with the dragon chair symbolizing the supremacy, were covered with yellow satin and loaded onto the car. It will be an unknown fate to meet them.

This time the capital was moved, but it was by water, from Beijing to Tongzhou, to Tianjin, and then to take a boat from Dagukou. The Zhili Navy and Lushunkou Navy jointly commanded, left Bohai Bay, and traveled south along the coastline from the Shandong Peninsula.The moment the fleet set sail, Xiao Ran stood at the stern holding Lan'er's hand, looking back, the majestic capital had long since disappeared.Only the Taku Fort, which is gradually going away, does not know whether it is signaling the end of a period of history or the beginning of another period of history.

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After half a month's journey, in mid-August, Xiao Ran and Lan'er and their party arrived smoothly. This trip belongs to the move of the capital, and there are portraits of the spirit plaques of previous emperors, so the reception ceremony is particularly formal, even more grand than the emperor's tour.Jiangning sent eight groups of pick-up teams, starting from Shanghai to meet Luan, and then going up the river to Jiangning.

At this time, a whole year had passed since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fell. In Xiao Ran's impression, Nanjing City, which had gone through wars and catastrophes, would not be ruined and desolate, but at least it should be full of refugees and hungry people, right?Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the city, he could see the endless stream of businessmen coming and going, a thriving scene.In contrast, the porridge factory built at the bridgehead of the Qin family looked deserted, with only three or five beggars picking fat and thin there, probably feeling dissatisfied that the porridge was too bland and unpalatable.

The so-called porridge factory is a form of relief in the famine years of the Qing Dynasty. To put it bluntly, it is the yamen's porridge, where victims of disasters or poor households can receive porridge for free.Since the Changmao disaster in the south of the Yangtze River had just been put down, the imperial court issued a special edict ordering local government offices to open porridge factories to help the people suffering from the war.But seeing the porridge factory's business so deserted at this time, both Lan'er and Xiao Ran were surprised: Could it be that the people here are already rich?

Lan'er ordered Luan to stop, and told Xiao Ran to send someone to fetch the porridge to have a look.A young eunuch rushed over to bring a bowl, and saw that the porridge was three points thicker than ordinary people's, and radish and pickles were added in it.Xiao Ran frowned and said, "Did Li Hongzhang deliberately act for us?"

The higher rank in the pick-up team is Jiang Ning's inspector, and Lan'er ordered someone to pass him to the front of the car.He said: "Why is this porridge factory so deserted? Is it because the yamen dismissed all the refugees in advance to welcome Luan?"

The voice is not loud, but the tone is very serious.The inspector trembled in fright, and hurriedly knelt down and played: "return to the queen mother: slaves and others are so courageous that they dare not lie to the sky! According to the imperial edict, all places in Jiangsu have opened The porridge factory, Master Li Hongzhang even specially issued a supervisory order to help the victims. But...but the most urgent need in various places now is labor, so I have to rush to find the refugees. I still worry about not finding them, how dare I dismiss them?"

"Lack of labor?" Lan'er was startled, and said, "How do you say that?"

According to the inspector carefully said: "It is like this. Since the Shanghai Tongrantang branch was established, the industrial and commercial development in Jiangsu has been particularly rapid. Textile factories, machine manufacturing bureaus, mines, smelting, etc. all over the country are recruiting a large number of laborers. Even so, it seems to be in short supply. Especially at the beginning of the year when China Merchants Shipping was founded, four small private shipyards were established. Mr. Li Hongzhang took the lead to merge these four shipyards into Jiangnan Shipbuilding General Factory in a joint-stock manner. This shipyard requires at least tens of thousands of laborers. How can there be any extra refugees?"

"So that's it!" Lan'er and Xiao Ran looked at each other, and said in their hearts: This Li Hongzhang really has means and courage!He pondered for a while.Lan'er asked again: "These recruited laborers are still stable? How much is the salary?"