Chapter 376: Tianjin's Teaching Plan Peace Talks Succeeded
Wutang address selected small station, followed by the enclosure, the preparation for the construction of school buildings, barracks and training venues, covering an area of more than 2 square kilometers, Li Guolou to prepare for the construction of "Wutang" specific operation matters entrusted to Liu Jie, the small station town map to mark well, blue pen circle inside, are Wutang territory, see the people next to them are dumbfounded, such a big relocation project, Li Guolou alone has the final say.
Li Guolou put the map into Liu Jie's arms with a big grin, and said: "Lord Liu, the demolition and preparation projects should be started together, not a day's delay, who dares not to move out, give me a forced demolition, even if it is demolished by the Zhuangzi of the Internal Affairs Bureau, who dares to disobey the Tianjin mob, the construction team will settle in within three days, and the demolition project will be carried out in seven days, and I will see the construction fully rolled out in two months, and the first batch of students will settle in on the fifteenth day of the first month of the New Year, this is a military order!" β
Liu Jie held a stack of maps, frowned on his bitter gourd face and said: "Lord Li, the county official's big seal notice must be posted first, so that the people of Xiaozhan Town know, otherwise who will buy it!" β
Li Guolou suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "Oh, I almost forgot, the Tianjin County official stamped the notice to me here, there are ten blank sheets, which are now written by you, and then posted to all parts of Xiaozhan Town, so that the people of Xiaozhan know that the court will not treat them badly, and the forced demolition is not a disturbing move, but a win-win situation, and every relocated person can be compensated, as for the errand, you also have to find a job for those people to support their families!" β
Liu Jie saw the blank notice, and there was indeed a bright red official seal of Tianjin County on it, and he understood that this chief was in a hurry, and he didn't even give his subordinates a chance to breathe.
"Subordinate, I will do my errand well, and I will move my family to Xiaozhan Town tomorrow, with my old face, the people here will not lose face." Liu Jie took the letter of appointment, was full of spirit, rekindled the fighting spirit in his heart, and in the future, he asked foreigners to kneel at his feet.
"Well, this official believes you once, Liu Jie did it this time, it's not as simple as charging the army and distributing it, I don't want to atone for the money, understand." Li Guolou stared at Liu Jie with slender eyes slightly, in order to establish his authority, he wanted to hang his head on the gate, and it would be up to him to see which unknown person offered his head.
"The lower official understands and guarantees to complete the task." Liu Jie didn't dare to look at Li Guolou's face, he heard that this commander killed more than a dozen prisoners of war with his own hands, and the guards were all wearing American-made Colt revolvers, he didn't want to be shot black, the last time the French consul Feng Daye shot at him, and there was a personal guard Gao Sheng to block the bullet for him, and now he was bullied by dogs in Pingyang, and he didn't have such a good life.
Liu Jie has many doubts about Li Guolou's construction of martial arts, and wants to encircle more than 2 square kilometers of land, almost to demolish half of the residents of Xiaozhan Town and requisition two-fifths of the land, a "martial arts" As for using such a large plot, he is guilty, plus he is not familiar with Li Guolou, so he does not dare to ask Li Guolou, and the group of guards next to him are all Li Guolou's family members, they can't bear it, and whisper on the side.
Cheng Kun was pushed out, and said with a smile: "Lord Li, why does the scope of the martial arts hall need to be so broad!" β
Li Guolou glanced at him with great dissatisfaction: "You still want to be a soldier, you don't even understand this, we have an artillery battalion here, don't you want to open fire, the current Prussian Krupp cannon has a range of more than 1 km, and the howitzer and mortar are also more than 2 km, do we shoot the cannon at the people's houses!" β
"Ten kilometers." More than a dozen guard officers exclaimed together, they were going to enter the martial arts hall for training, of course read the military books, even the red-coated cannons located on the Weihaiwei Fort could not fall into the sea 1 kilometer away, and the red-coated cannons with a range of three or four kilometers were already lethal artillery, and those Furlong machine guns had a short range and an effective range of 2 meters.
Li Guolou looked around, he was close to the guard, shook his head and said: "You guys, it's too outdated, the era of drinking a bowl of runes with a big knife to kill foreigners has long passed, modern warfare, that is a large-scale group operation, it is impossible to defend it, unless we occupy the natural danger, but is there a natural danger in Tianjin, a city wall, a ditch, plus a few forts is far from enough, only a head-on duel with the enemy in the field, how good it sounds' Ambush warfare', is there a place for you to make dumplings, it's too naΓ―ve to treat the enemy as a fool, everyone is setting up the battlefield, cannons, spears, grenades, directly against the dry, our artillery can't hit the enemy, and the enemy will kill us with a few cannons, is it possible to win this battle, plain warfare, only fight consumption, as long as our weapons are not too far behind, we will fight with foreigners to consume, fight to pull, in the future, you will each bring me a battalion, think about fighting with foreigners, die 20,000 people, and then tell me that you can win the Eight-Nation Alliance! β
"Yes." The eighteen guards had long been trained to be killing machines, knowing that their team would be used to defend an iron wall in the Gyeonggi region in the future, and other armies could retreat, so they could only defend the Gyeongsan division to the death, and the determination to fight to the end was engraved on the faces of each of them, and this was their own choice of path, and they stood up and sacrificed themselves for the country.
Liu Jie was surprised to see it, the eighteen guard officers, standing motionless, standing still like nails, their expressions were so unswerving, Li Guolou instilled the idea of loyalty and patriotism into this group of family members, what kind of motivation made this group of family members who could have spent their lives carefree willing to endure hardships and sacrifice to become soldiers, is it just for the title of officer, and a high salary.
Liu Jie was moved by this group of fearless guard officers, and roared angrily: "Yes." As Li Guolou said, the gunboats and foreigners are powerful, and it is inevitable that the foreigners will invade and land, but the infantry is not much worse than the foreigners, and it is not known who will kill the deer on the vast continent.
The French Minister Luo Shuya in Tianjin, the British Minister Wittoma, the Russian Minister Buzzer, and the American Minister Williams and other ministers of the seven countries, as usual, came to the meeting Li Hongzhang, Minister of Beiyang International Trade Affairs, and after greeting each other, Luo Shuya still spoke in a tough tone, demanding that the Qing government correct all officials at all levels in the capital and county of Tianjin, otherwise the French government will not be willing to give up, and will meet with the Qing government.
Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "Minister Luo Rongyu, the Qing Dynasty mob made trouble, burned, killed and looted the evil consequences, our Qing Dynasty undertook the responsibility of compensating for the losses suffered by various countries and arresting the murderers, of course, burning down churches and other buildings, but also by our Qing Dynasty government to rebuild as before, those mobs, our Qing government will not tolerate, we will bring them all to justice, in order to resolve the grievances of the people, but the Tianjin Prefecture and county officials are against common sense, and it is not in line with the laws of the Qing Dynasty, which of you Western countries have mobs to kill, If there is such a precedent, we can also revise the laws of the Qing Dynasty, and ask the ministers of various countries to provide evidence! β
The French minister Luo Shuya was a little timid in her heart, but she still roared: "Those mobs were instructed by the magistrates behind the scenes, Feng Daye, Simon and others will die in the line of duty, and if the magistrates are not punished on the spot, it will be difficult for the people of our country to agree!" β
The British minister, Wittoma, also shouted: "The Tianjin magistrate mishandled the matter, which caused the destruction of the church I built, and the magistrate should correct the law!" β
Li Hongzhang asked: "Then I want to ask Minister Luo, your consul Feng Daye shot and killed people on the land of the Qing Dynasty, Simon pulled out a gun and intimidated, which caused unnecessary incidents, in the final analysis, it was your people who took the lead, the mob couldn't control their emotions, and burned and stormed the church overnight, the magistrate did not expect this situation, originally tens of thousands of people just protested outside the church, and did not cross the blockade line, since the countries still have to negotiate well, don't dwell on the responsibility of the magistrate, Tianjin Prefecture and county officials were all removed from their posts and dealt with strictly, Our Qing government did not condone and tolerate these incompetent local officials, so that we can also have an explanation to the people of all countries, I hope that Minister Luo will not be embarrassed on this issue, and everyone should calmly talk about other matters related to compensation and aftermath! β
In fact, the ministers of various countries intimidated the Qing government, and did not want the local officials in Tianjin to correct the law on the spot, they were a country with a legal system, and they knew how to respect the law, so they would negotiate with the Qing government and blackmail the Qing government for a while.
The seven countries first offered 1 million taels of silver in compensation, but no consensus was reached, and the two countries did not give in to each other in compensation, and they had been talking about it for more than a month.
The French minister Luo Shuya even threatened to attack the Qing Dynasty and launch a bloody revenge.
Li Guolou suddenly jumped out and read out the edict of the Tongzhi Emperor, saying that as long as the French dared to open fire, the Qing government would no longer recognize all treaties with France, recover the French concession, and sign a treaty of commerce.
The British minister Wittouma hurriedly stood up and said that it was better to negotiate, and the mob caused an incident and did not go to the situation where the two countries exchanged troops.
At this time, a dramatic scene suddenly occurred, the original Prussian Empire originally had no consulate in the Qing Dynasty, and the Chinese consulate had a British consulate at the same time, Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck suddenly sent the first minister to China, Knepin, and as a mediator, maneuvered between the countries, and then successfully signed a memorandum, and the parties reached a compromise.
The two sides began to deliberate the detailed rules for compensation, and reached the following results: first, compensation and pensions were paid to the widows of the families of the dead and injured foreigners, the seven murderers who caused the murder were brought to justice, 18 officials of the prefecture and county in Tianjin were removed from their posts and severely punished, and the mob destroyed churches, consular offices and other facilities, and the Qing Dynasty was responsible for the construction as before, and the Tianjin teaching case was too harmful to France and the French people, and the Great Qing Dynasty must send ministers to France to apologize in order to show that it was repaired, and the Qing Dynasty compensated France, Britain, and the United States and other seven countries with 250,000 taels of silver.
When the French minister Luo Shuya saw that the Prussian minister Knepin, he immediately turned into a low-eyed and pleasing minion, and he was silent at the negotiating table, and signed and sealed it in a friendly manner, revealing a page of unpleasant history on behalf of the French government, and the French Mediterranean fleet left the sea area of Daqing from the port of Tianjin the next day.
The ending of the Tianjin lesson plan made the Western powers reshuffle, a newly emerging Prussian Empire coveted the ambitions of the Qing Dynasty, so that the Western powers looked sideways, and the Prussians also came to the Qing Empire to reap the benefits, and the Prussian Minister Knepin led a delegation of more than 100 people to Tianjin and was about to start an official friendly visit to the Qing Dynasty.
The people were strongly dissatisfied with the Tianjin Kinmen Bridge, the killing of seven national righteous men in court, and officials from all over the country jointly wrote a letter to impeach the "traitor" Li Hongzhang, and the students of the Gongyuan and Hanlin Academy staged a sit-in demonstration, demanding that the imperial court remove Li Hongzhang from his official position, and the snowflakes were like a flakes to the Forbidden City, but the court was still calm, because the Prussian diplomatic mission needed Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang trade affairs, to receive it, and an edict from the imperial court abolished the yamen of the three ministers of trade and commerce, and put them under the jurisdiction of Li Hongzhang. The Yamen of the Minister of Commerce and Trade of Tianjin was changed to the Governor's Office of Zhili, and Li Hongzhang had more say in foreign affairs, and was awarded the title of Scholar of Yingwudian University, and became the head of the Han Dynasty.