Chapter 200: Carrying on the Past and Forging Ahead (9)
After the commendation of the heroic model of the battle was over, Wei Ze received a report from the Anhui Military Region. The group of guys in Beijing who "insist that they are Han" have been sent to Wuyang, Huaibei. Voryang is now completely under military control, and the former Twist Army, the Henan refugees who were recruited to Voryang by the Hunan Army, and these guys who "insist that they are Han" held a public trial meeting together. More than 10,000 captured Hunan landlords were sentenced to death and executed by former soldiers of the Twist Army who defected to the Liberation Army.
The guys who "insisted that they were Han Chinese" were frightened one by one, and the Henan refugees were thunderous with joy. In the past few years, they have not starved to death as tenant farmers, but they have not suffered a lot when they work under the hands of these staunch landlords. After knowing that they were not the ones to be executed or attacked, how could the tenant farmers be unhappy to see that these guys who had oppressed them for several years were killed?
Knowing that these landlords were swept away, Wei Ze also felt a lot more relaxed. Any country that tries to industrialize has exterminated its landlords. In the distance, there was the French Revolution in Europe that slaughtered the feudal landed aristocracy. More recently, there was the plantation economy that destroyed the large landowners of the South after the American Civil War. In the "future" of South America and Asia, it is common for landlords and families to be killed hundreds of thousands.
The execution itself also confirmed the correctness of the politics and strengthened the class stance of the Liberation Party itself. Weize made every effort to prepare the party's theoretical program and lay a solid foundation for the future system. However, the trees were quiet and the wind did not stop, and the external affairs rushed to Weser almost at the same time.
Zuo Zhidan is the minister of foreign affairs, and he can only manage diplomatic negotiations, and the final decision is still the political bureau. The representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, the representatives of France, and the representatives of Britain were no longer able to cope with Zuo Zhidan. These matters must be left to Weeser to decide.
The Second Battle of Choshu, also known as the War of the Four Frontiers, ended in a complete defeat for the shogunate. The Sacho League also surfaced from the bottom of the water, and the Satsuma Domain openly turned against the water in the Second Choshu Expedition, and one guy pitted the shogunate. Shinsaku Takasugi of the Odd Soldiers won a big victory. The Tokugawa shogunate again sent Katsukaishu to China to ask for assistance. The previous Tokugawa shogunate heard from Katsukaishu the attitude of China, "The shogunate cannot afford to lose", which made the Tokugawa shogunate, who had a good face, very dissatisfied.
However, the truth is as Wei Ze said, after the defeat of the War of the Four Frontiers, the southwestern feudal clans secretly sided with the Sachang Alliance. The situation of the Tokugawa family was very bad. On the surface, the Tokugawa family still had a huge advantage, but in fact, the war between the four borders caused heavy casualties to the Tokugawa family's field army. There was no field army, only the defending troops, which meant that the war had been basically lost. This point did not need to be emphasized to the Tokugawa shogunate.
At that time, the Toyotomi family was killed by the field army, and finally lost to the Tokugawa family in the Battle of Sekigahara. In the later Battle of Osaka, even Yukimura, who was known as the first soldier in the world, could not save the fate of the Toyotomi family. This is true of the Toyotomi family, and the same is true of the Tokugawa family.
At the time of the attack on Luzon, Weser still had imperial righteousness, thinking that he would simply strangle the Meiji Restoration. Now Wei Ze's attitude has changed considerably, and after meeting with the representatives of the three countries, Foreign Minister Zuo Zhidan clearly saw the clues. He couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, I think you look like you want to cooperate with the British?" โ
The British clearly supported the Sacho League, while the French supported the Tokugawa shogunate. Weeser talked to the British in a more speculative way.
Regarding Zuo Zhidan's question, Wei Ze stopped talking a little rarely, and after a while, Wei Ze said: "Our party is anti-feudal, and the Tokugawa shogunate represents the old feudal forces in Japan. At this time, I supported the Tokugawa shogunate, and I was always worried that some comrades in the party might take this as a matter. โ
Hearing Wei Ze express his distrust of a certain part of his comrades, Zuo Zhidan didn't dare to speak. Wei Ze also felt that he was wrong, and after a moment he continued: "I am only completely against feudalism, but not against our own comrades. It's a difference in philosophy, but it's not a matter between individuals. โ
Even so, Zuo Zhidan didn't dare to answer. Anti-feudalism has always been something that Wei Ze talked about, and Zuo Zhidan, based on his understanding of Wei Ze's study of the text, clearly saw that there were by no means no supporters of feudal ideas in the Guangfu Party. The idea of throwing off the party committee and doing it alone is by no means just one or two people.
It's just that Wei Ze firmly controls the army, and most of the people in other departments come out of the army. Everyone knows that without the support of the army, everything you want to do is a petty fight. Thanks to Wei Ze's blessing, everyone's understanding of feudalism is not superficial. If you want to be feudal, you have to be able to divide the territory of Cheng dรน, and the feudalism of different Cheng dรน has something in common, that is, one acre and three points of land in a certain place is decided by a certain person or a certain force.
For the new government, there is no such thing as zร i in the whole world. It is one thing for the party and the government to turn a blind eye, but when the party and the government really open their eyes and want to speak, the local forces have to be honest and obedient. This is because when the party and the government use the army as a tool, any force that tries to resist will inevitably end up in pieces.
Zuo Zhidan had called Wei Ze His Majesty a long time ago, perhaps the diplomatic department paid more attention to rhetoric, but Zuo Zhidan had long understood that the power in Wei Ze's hands was more powerful than that of any emperor. The comrades in the army called Wei Ze the governor, which was not so much that they were not used to changing the old title, but that the comrades in the army thought that they and Wei Ze were completely one faction. The use of the governor instead of the majesty is to strengthen their difference from other departments.
Seeing Zuo Zhidan's silent appearance, Wei Ze asked, "What do you think of it as a foreign minister?" โ
Zuo Zhidan pondered the vocabulary for a while before he replied: "If Your Majesty really wants to fall out with Britain in the future, it is better to cooperate with Britain now." I think so these days, the British are afraid that they will not allow us to take the Dutch East Indies. However, in our experience in Luzon, as long as we start quickly, the British will not be able to react. In the end, they will have to admit the facts. The Dutch East Indies are much bigger than Luzon, and we really do it. The slower the British reacted, the better. It's not a bad thing to perfunctory them in front of you. โ
This is also a relatively normal strategy, Wei Ze said in a deep voice, "Do you think so? โ
Taizu once said that if you seek peace through struggle, you will live in peace. In the second half of the 19th century, Weeser did not think that China had anything to call an ally. In fact, the great powers of the whole world, like China's Warring States Period, changed their allies and enemies at any time according to their own interests.
It's just that the territory that Weese wants to lay is too big, which will offend almost all the real powers. The iron-blooded policy is carried out entirely with the backing of force, and a more flexible means are implemented on some kind of process. The fierce battle between these two options in Weeser's mind made him a little undecided.