Volume VIII 1258 Fuqing into Jiangning

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With Fuqing's current identity, it is no problem to mobilize a small steamboat, and the small steamboat from Shanghai went upstream, whining and whistle, and it only took two days to send Fuqing to the Jiangning City Wharf.

The current Fuqing is not the unambitious leader of the mausoleum guards in the past, the deputy of the prime minister's yamen, the confidant of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, the chief leader of the Manchu reform faction, the founder of the Qing Empire's telegraph network, and the prime minister who assisted in the construction of the Qing Special Economic Zone...... Layers of halos are put on his body, so that this second-grade master has the majesty of a first-class person.

Fuqing to Jiangning, worthy of Zeng Guoquan personally to greet, the pier raised artillery boom, thousands of firecrackers as deafening as a rainstorm.

"What is this for? Isn't Jiu Shuai tormenting the juniors...... I can't afford it, I really can't afford it, and I'm not sent to Jiangnan, how can I pick it up...... Put it away!"

Zeng Guoquan patted Fuqing on the shoulder and said with a smile: "What is Qin not bad, in my eyes, brother, you are even worse than Qincha! Not to mention anything else, just because you have built a telegraph line from north to south and east to west in more than two years, your contribution is no less than that ......of military merit."

"I'm convinced that people with real skills are trivial, and it's all trivial to fire a cannon to greet them...... The handsome man is waiting for you in the mansion, the banquet has been arranged, why don't you have a few more drinks today!"

A group of people rushed to the mansion of the marshal, and when they arrived at the door, Fuqing was surprised to find that there were many soldiers packing up the boxes and cages at the corner gate, and the four or five carriages were almost full.

"What is this?" Fuqing asked puzzled.

"Hi...... My eldest brother is preparing in advance, and he will leave for the north next month to become the governor of Zhili, and if he doesn't clean up his belongings in advance, he won't be able to make a mess of porridge when the time come......s!

Fuqing knew that Da Shuai was deliberately acting for himself, this was trying to figure out Guò's own mouth to sue the court, Da Shuai was ready to leave, and Da Shuai did what he said. This hard work is really not easy enough, who said that the local governors are easy to be, they have to be careful of the taboos of the court every day, and the hat of the king of Jiangnan is too big and too heavy.

Today's weather is really good, there is a table of banquets in the open air in the back garden, the dishes are very simple Jiangning specialties, salted duck, champion beans, assorted beans, Ruyi braised dry, Qinhuai River's cake dumplings, as well as exquisite steamed dumplings, pot stickers xiaolongbao, and finally the famous duck blood vermicelli soup.

Fuqing looked at this table of wine and food, and understood in his heart that Dashuai did not treat himself as an outsider, and did not prepare any good-looking and undelicious warm meals, but used local snacks to entertain himself, which is called real.

"The handsome heart...... Juniors! Juniors are really flattered!" Qing Sanye bowed his hand.

Before Fu Qing came, the old peasant had just served the marshal and smoked a pot of opium, and now Zeng Guofan knew that his time was short, and if he could survive for two or three years, it would be considered the life span that God rewarded him.

Jiangnan's wonderful hand doctors have been searched again, and everyone has been helpless, because Dashuai's cough is completely a disease caused by overwork, and the disease of running out of oil and lamps is incurable.

For such a patient, opium is a poison that doesn't matter, at least relying on a temporary anesthetic power, it can also allow the marshal to deal with some government affairs.

Zeng Guofan put his hands around Fuqing and was not polite, "The third master is here for the naval battle at the mouth of the Minjiang River, right?" The imperial court wants to hear the opinion of my old man, and he is embarrassed to speak directly? haha...... I think about it a lot, I was a subject of the Qing Dynasty in my life, and I am also a courtier of the Qing Dynasty when I die, so I have nothing to be embarrassed about......"

The three of them sat around the stone table, and after three or two glasses of wine, the topic turned to the main text, not that Zeng Guofan was anxious, but that he knew that he would not last long to rely on drugs to support that little bit of energy, and he didn't have much time and energy to greet and detour around.

"The old man wants to know why the Russians have softened? This question is said to be difficult for him! It seems that the old man is also confused by the authorities......

"What is war? It's not just like ordinary people who want to win each other, or they want to get angry, but it's not just to enjoy the feeling of stepping on the enemy's face...... The outbreak of any war is in fact a process of destruction and rebalancing of interests......"

"What is the land? What are the mineral resources? What are the forests, trees, plants, food, and the population...... All the qiē in a piece of land is actually just wealth!"

"Heaven and earth nourish all things, wealth originally has no owner, but with human beings there is greed, after separating the distinction between you, me and him, there is also a ...... of property rights"

"People are obsessed with this thing is mine, not yours, in fact, all the wealth since ancient times is heaven and earth, we mortals are just borrowing it......"

"Everyone has greed and possessiveness, and then there will be families, tribes, city-states, nations, and nations...... There are competing interests externally, and there are also competing interests for people internally......"

"Now the Far East is a big gold mine of wealth, the Russians think it is theirs, but Xiao Lotian does not think so, including the ministers of the imperial court also think that the Far East belongs to the imperial court...... Everyone has a small plan, but because the Russian family is dominant, no one can afford to mess with it, so that land can only be their ......"

"And now, the balance is broken, Xiao Letian wants to redistribute the wealth ownership of that land, he wants to reshuffle the cards but the Russians don't agree, then war has become the last inevitable choice!"

Zeng Guofan sneered, "Russians, you seem to be rude? In fact, Ulan Geli can become the ambassador of the Qing State, which shows that he still has the ability, scolding Xiao Letian and not scolding us in the Qing Dynasty, which shows that he can grasp the priority of the situation...... He knew that it was impossible for Russia to start a war with the Qing Dynasty and Xiao Letian at the same time......"

"Stupid! The imperial court is so stupid! How can you take the initiative to negotiate with the Russians at this time? You should treat it coldly, hang those grandsons, let them be anxious, let them take the initiative to come to us......"

"Ahem, ahem...... Look at it, the Russians will definitely put forward conditions, they have figured out the courage of the imperial court, they will definitely pull and beat, and even intimidate and persuade to put forward harsh conditions!"

Qing Sanye didn't expect Dashuai to be so honest, and he lifted the lid without any twists and turns, "Dashuai, what conditions do you think the Russians will have?"

"Hey...... Is this still a guess? It must be an excuse from the imperial court, hoping that their army will be able to make a detour from Jilin and Heilongjiang to attack the back road of the volunteers......

"Or ...... They will ask for an alliance with the imperial court, and the two sides will join forces to deal with the volunteers! In a word, Xiao Lotian wants to shuffle the cards, and these people will try their best to prevent Xiao Lotian from being on the table, that's all!"

Fu Qing's face turned white when he heard this, "How can this be? How can this be? The imperial court will not be so irrational, Russia has finally eaten the Far East, do you want to spit out some more to the imperial court...... This doesn't make sense!"

Jiushuai Zeng Guoquan smiled, "If there is no Xiao Lotian in this world, then it is really unreasonable, but now that there is Xiao Lotian as the number one threat, the imperial court and Tsarist Russia can't take care of it so much!"

"It's just a matter of trading, and the resources of the Far East will start to negotiate and distribute again...... Anyway, it can't be given to Xiao Letian!"

Jiu Shuai still had half a sentence hidden in his stomach and didn't say, "And ...... The interests of the Far East must never be distributed to the Han Chinese, and cannot be distributed to the Chinese...... This is the common point of interest between the two peoples, the Manchus and the Russians, and it is the final and final bottom line!"