Chapter 154: Iron Coffin Provocation (I)
87_87379 Li Ershen, who led the Jingu war, is about to die, and it seems that there is a possibility of continuing the negotiation at the negotiation table, and the peace talks will start again the next afternoon, and it will still be bullshit in the evening, and nothing useful will be discussed.
All parties have their own demands, and it is difficult for them to talk about something effective in a moment!
The appearance of the Beijing Division Bureau seemed to be stable, and Rong Lu, who was left to preside over the overall situation in Beijing, hurriedly set off for Shanxi, leaving King Qing and Li Hongzhang to continue to talk nonsense at the negotiation table with the foreign devils.
Gui Shun, who can really control the situation in Beijing, also showed his shameless strength, got a big carriage, ate and lived in the car, and blocked the gate of Xianliang Temple every day to make trouble.
Facing Gui Shun, who looked like a scoundrel, Li Hongzhang was also helpless, who let him catch up with this?
Gui Shun made trouble, but by no means hindered Li Hongzhang to negotiate peace, every time it was time to negotiate peace, Gui Shun slept in the car, Li Hongzhang left, he went straight to the embassy area, to get along with the foreign devils over there, and when Li Hongzhang came back from the peace talks, this goods continued to block the door of Xianliang Temple.
Gui Shun, who can control the situation in Jingshi, is not terrible, what is really terrible is his shameless energy, if a person has no bottom limit, who can not be afraid? What's more, what about Gui Shun, who has an army of hundreds of thousands?
At the negotiation table, Li Hongzhang was accompanying the foreign devils to pull calves; Outside Xianliang Temple, Gui Shun was accompanying Li Hongzhang to pull calves; Li Dacheng on the sickbed, because of his stubbornness, his injuries also recurred, and he fell asleep for two days before his spirit improved.
The imperial court operates. is still the same sentence, even if the chief official dies, it can operate normally, and the seemingly stable situation in the capital is actually extremely unstable, and the refugees who moved to Beijing in the Jingu area. It is more than twice the population of the capital, and the current capital is also a world-class metropolis, and the population of one million is not a lie.
At least 6,700,000 refugees waiting to be fed, 4.5 million soldiers, plus the original population of 200,000 or 300,000 in Beijing. These are the ones on the back of the Kyoshi. Bomb, as soon as Jinmen is lost, Caoyun will be broken, and the grain and grass in Beijing now rely on eating the old book, so eat it like this. A month or two later, the official warehouse ran out of grain, and it was the time when the Jingshi was in turmoil again.
The negotiation table can naturally be delayed indefinitely, but the burden of the capital is not lost, but there are an unknown number of Japanese-Russian coalition troops in Jinmen, and more than 20,000 eight-nation coalition troops in Tongzhou, which can relocate the people or relieve grain and grass, for the Zhenwei army. It's a big problem.
If you go out, it means war, and if you start a war, you will inevitably lose again. Although there was no official letter from the three eastern provinces, the Tsarist side was afraid that it had already occupied a lot of cities.
The ownership of the Zhenwei Army, Guishun can't control it now, and he has to wait for the news of the old ladies in Shanxi, even if the three eastern provinces are really occupied by Lao Maozi, there is no Yizhi. Zhenwei Jun can only stay in Beijing honestly, and what happens in the future depends on the meaning of the old ladies.
The Zhenwei army could not move. It doesn't mean that no one can move, isn't it a good reason for refugees? The Zhenwei Army was already loosely organized. At this time, it is not a big deal to scatter some of them.
But if you can move, you can move, but you are particular about how to move, and the personnel of the Beijing Division can go west, but if you go north, I am afraid that it will be easy to cause trouble.
To the north, you can enter the Shanhaiguan Pass, and to the north, you can also copy the back road of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army in Tongzhou, or you can take the road to Changlu on the way to the north, and cut off the back road of the Japanese-Russian Coalition Army in Jinmen.
The commander of tens of thousands of horses, no one will watch hundreds of thousands of people move freely at his side, and although he has now entered the stage of peace negotiations, the war is still in existence.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees rushed to Shanxi, and Shanxi can't support so many people, so that most of them will starve, and if they don't get it right, they will starve to death, don't expect that at this time, the imperial court will have a large-scale disaster relief, when is it now, and the imperial court will care about the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people?
The Ding Wuqi famine is still in front of you, that famine, tens of millions of starvation deaths, tens of millions of displaced people, who saw the court's mercy?
Hundreds of thousands of refugees want to survive, they can only go north to the three eastern provinces and Mongolia, which is also in line with some of Li Dacheng's plans.
"Old Gu, how is the peace talks?"
"It's still like that, it's not three or five months, I'm afraid it won't come to fruition!"
"What about refugees outside the city?"
"I'm not starving to death for the time being!"
"How much grain does Jingshi have?"
"There are still more than a million stones, and drinking porridge is enough for two or three months!"
"How's Tsumon?"
"It is rumored that there are still survivors."
"Hmmm! What about fake death? ”
After listening to the general situation, Li Dacheng felt that he had to add another fire, so he waited like this, without the foreign devils marching, more than a million mouths could eat the Jingshi, go, I am afraid that many people do not want to go, if they want to solve the hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the Jingshi City, the only way is to migrate on a large scale, otherwise they may want to go back to the Jingu area.
The area around Jingu, I am afraid that it will be difficult to live in the near future, and it is easy for the plague to break out when they go back and come back, at least before the winter, these people will not be able to go back, and it will take at least five months to survive the winter, during which no one can afford to support these hundreds of thousands of refugees.
"There are already storytellers who are singing about the Jingu War, and most of them are listening to it as a lively storyteller."
"Hmmm! It's similar to what I thought, Lao Gu, do you think that foreign devils will let us transfer hundreds of thousands of refugees to the three eastern provinces? ”
"I'm afraid it's hard!
Hundreds of thousands of horses are heading north, and foreign devils can't sleep well! ”
"Hmmm! I think so, you said that if this Jingshi messes up again, will the foreign devils agree? ”
"Chaos? What's the mess? ”
"The refugees have been cut off from food and grass, and the army is ready to fight again!"
"Second master, this matter ......"
After listening to Li Dacheng's words, Gu Qixing, the master, was a little uncertain, what Zhenwei Army should do has been almost done, at this time, it should be as Li Erye said before, ignore political affairs, Taoguang and raise obscurity, the matter of refugees, its own court will solve it, and Zhenwei Army will act on its behalf, which is not appropriate!
"Wrong?
Lao Gu, after two months, the refugees will be chaotic in Beijing, and the Zhenwei army wants to protect Beijing. It is necessary to face each other with butcher's knives, hundreds of thousands of people!
At that time, the Queen Mother may be difficult to return to Luan, this responsibility, Zhenwei Army can't afford it, and Beile Ye can't afford it.
Zhenwei army of 300,000 people. The court can't afford to raise it, but it can afford to lose it! People who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries!
Withdrawing Hunan and cutting Huai is the weakness of Lord Belle! ”
As a staff member of the officialdom battle, Gu Qixing is qualified, and as a staff member of the minister, Gu Qixing is not qualified. He didn't know where the authority was, and at this point, Gui Shun understood better than Gu Qixing that Zhenwei Jun was Gui Shun's authority, and everything else was empty.
300,000 Zhenwei troops. Don't say that the military salary of one tael of silver a day is according to the current standard of five taels of silver a month for food and housing, and the consumption of 300,000 people a month is also more than two million taels of silver, which is 24 million a year, and the imperial court cannot afford such military expenses, rather than raising the Zhenwei army, it is better to cut it off as soon as possible, the Hunan army and the Huai army have all experienced this incident, and this matter is also a foregone conclusion. Nothing negotiable.
After the abolition, 10,000 or 20,000 can be retained, and at most 20,000 or 30,000 can be retained, which is why Li Dacheng wants to keep 10,000 or 20,000 bannermen. This force is Gui Shun's team, the others have to be abolished, and it is also a big trouble to dismantle the Zhenwei army in the future, how to dismantle it is Gui Shun's errand, the court will not offend the generals of the Zhenwei army, and some troubles must be solved before the old ladies come back.
"Second master. His line is short-sighted. ”
After listening to Li Dacheng's explanation, Gu Qixing was also sweating on his forehead. This matter is really short-sighted, and it will not be moved now. There will be turmoil in the future, the Zhenwei army is ultimately an army dominated by strong men, once it becomes chaotic, the trouble is Gui Shun, the Lord of Baylor, if you can't handle the affairs of the Zhenwei army, Gui Beile can be stable is called a strange thing!
"Remember! The army is the dependence of power, and there is no power without the army!
The food of the refugees is decreasing day by day, and Li Ershen's remains are put into an iron coffin and placed in front of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Tongzhou. ”
When there is chaos, whoever holds the gun in his hand has the right to speak, and without the power to maintain the gun, it is all a matter of mirrors, up and down is just a matter of someone else's words, after instilling this idea in Gu Qixing, Li Dacheng also considered the law of acting, Jingshi is not Jinmen, and no one can say anything, even if it is the old lady.
There are too many refugees, and the attitude of foreign devils is unclear, so it is right to test it slowly and see the reactions of all parties, which is also one of the reasons why Li Dacheng is reluctant to enter politics, and he is too timid to do things.
"Second master, refugee rations, it's good to have rumors!
Carry the coffin to provoke, I'm afraid it's not appropriate! ”
Li Dacheng has an idea, it is easy to supplement Gu Qixing, the matter of refugees is a state affair, it doesn't matter if it is done well, it is easy to do this thing, but it is easy to provoke the Eight-Nation Alliance, this matter is not easy to do, once the game is smashed, you have to go to war!
"Wrong? What's wrong?
Inform Li Dahan and let him choose a brave person, wear Japanese and Russian military uniforms, carry the coffin to provoke, Lao Tzu wants to see where the bottom limit of those foreign devils is? ”
Fighting and not fighting, retreating and not retreating, it is torture for foreign devils, but the torture for Jingshi is even worse!
Some of the foreign devils are steamers, and it is easy to transfer grain from the south or even abroad, but the Beijing division will not become, the war in the three eastern provinces, Mongolia also needs to receive grain from the interior, the Gansu and Shaanxi areas are far away, and the grain is transported by land, the loss is too great, the cost is too high, and the time is too long, and it is the people of Beijing who cannot be relied on, and it is the Zhenwei Army, who the knows, is this the strategy of the Eight-Nation Alliance?
If they want to fight, the Zhenwei army is elite with Japanese and Russian military uniforms, and these two countries will naturally not hesitate and will directly start fighting; If they don't fight, even if the Zhenwei army shoots at the coalition camp, they will be patient, and the temptation is mainly to test the attitude of Japan and Russia, and the rest of the countries, even if they want to fight, will not go to war in a moment or three.
Tsarist Russia sent troops to the three eastern provinces, and it should not continue to fight in the area of Beijing and Tianjin, and it is more important for them to eat the three eastern provinces now; The British will not support the start of the war, it is their interests in China; Other countries don't matter; The only thing that makes Li Dacheng jealous is Little Japan.
The first battle of Jingu, the most losses are small Japan, do not admit defeat, you have to go into battle to the death, the firepower of the offensive and defensive sides is not much different, although the Zhenwei army is said to be a little worse than the head, but occupy the defensive position, in the battle of Jingu, the most lives are left behind is small Japan, the number of thirty or fifty thousand, I am afraid that there must be.
When China and Japan started a war, Li Dacheng was not afraid, he was afraid that the little devils in Jinmen would be ruthless and fight the Beijing division without his life, in that case, the pace of the war would continue, and it was a matter of time before little Japan was killed, but whether the current Qing Dynasty could consume people to death was still two words!
The front army fought the Beijing division, and the rear army was reinforced by sea, such a war, the Qing Dynasty could not bear it, as long as the troops were temporarily stopped, it would be difficult for the little devils to fight in the future.
Tianjin is a key rush, and the foreign devils of the world will not condone little Japan Hulai, the three eastern provinces? Little Japan wants to go, but Lao Maozi doesn't allow it! South? That little Japan is just looking for a draw, and the British will not sit idly by.
If you want to fight, you can only fight in Shandong, but there are still German devils in Shandong, and people are not vegetarians now, so do little devils dare to fight back!
War must always have its purpose, hit Jinmen, the south, Shandong, and the little Japanese fart can't get it, if you grab the three eastern provinces with Lao Maozi, this is where the interests lie!
Resources, land, interests, all that little Japan wants are in the three eastern provinces, that's why there was the Russo-Japanese War, and whether it can be fought now depends on whether little Japan is rational or not.
There were more than 300,000 casualties in the battle of Jingu, and he had to play tricks with the devils of all seas when he was trapped in Beijing, Li Dacheng was also very depressed, this terrible court, this terrible country! (To be continued).