Section 785 Only skillful hands can knead
Daming agreed to cooperate with the UK, is this sincere, Daming said sincerely, but the UK didn't believe it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But the British believe in interests, he believes that in the preservation of the Manchu Qing, they and the Ming interests are the same, although the British are for commercial interests, and the Ming has the purpose of unifying the nation and the country, but after all, they are the same, so they do not believe in the Ming, but interests.
After the Ming agreed to cooperate with the British, they immediately began to discuss, and the basis of everyone was to ensure the territorial integrity of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, whether it was a change of emperor or a republic, the territory of the country must be complete, and the Ming and Britain jointly opposed any country to carve up here.
The Ming demanded that Britain must support the Ming and put pressure on Japan to withdraw from the Manchu territory and set an example for the other powers, while the Ming would provide military support when necessary, including the use of force against powerful countries such as Germany and Russia.
Britain was so close to Germany that it was inconvenient to take action against Germany, and it was impossible to defeat the German army. The main reason was that if Germany was suppressed with a navy, it would cause a backlash from Germany, such as further prompting Germany to expand its navy and posing a threat to Britain. For Russia, Britain has no choice, this is a pure land power country, much purer than the Ming Dynasty. No matter how strong the British ironclad fleet is, it can't drive to the Russian Great Plains, so historically, Britain has been powerless against Russia, and Russia has never been willing to be a British thug and has never been obedient, so Britain has always rejected Russia.
If Da Ming can withstand the ground pressure of the Russian steam roller, and the British can help resist the pressure from other aspects, then it is still possible.
So Britain immediately negotiated with Germany and France, put forward the idea of preserving the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the French expressed their support, France is also the same as Britain, has long expanded to the limit, the main target is in Africa, which is closer to Europe, with convenient expansion, expansion in Asia, France has more than enough strength, they occupy Haizhou, mainly to see that Germany occupies Nantong, do not want German forces to continue to go north, and France is facing more and more powerful pressure from Germany, and they have always wanted revenge, Britain is one of their main allies.
Adhering to the principle that whatever was unfavorable to Germany was what France would do, the French and the British agreed to oppose the German occupation of the colony in Nantong.
The Germans, on the other hand, believed that their occupation of Nantong did not affect the interests of any country, that Germany had the right to maintain and develop the Chinese region, and that Britain should not interfere in their actions.
Although Wilhelm II was secondary, he was very commendable for daring to think that England would say no, which was much more common than Bismarck.
Of course, Bismarck also said to England, but it was too clever for ordinary people to learn. For example, when Germany intended to establish a colony in Africa, it had already established a trading house in the area, and the German merchants who had signed a contract with the local chieftain to sell land, and the German church that had established a church mission in the area, when they asked the German government to protect them. Bismarck pretended that Germany did not seek overseas colonies, but supported British possession. The British immediately declared the occupation of South-East Africa, and as a result Bismarck asked the British government what was their basis?
Britain had a ghost basis, which made the British government very embarrassed, and quickly explained that the British government had no intention of occupying this place, and that it was due to the demands made by the colonial government of South Africa here. A few years later, the African partition conference was held, and Germany got to come here.
Wilhelm II did things much more simply than Bismarck, Bismarck's alliance treaty was too troublesome, and it was abolished directly, and for the sake of Austria-Hungary, he had to give up Russia, and if he wanted to have a place in the Yangtze River, he would directly occupy Nantong. Britain wanted to oppose it, and without asking what the basis of the British was, they said that Germany had the right to do so, and since Britain could have a concession in Shanghai and a colony in Hong Kong, Germany could also have it, and Britain could not interfere with the power of Germany to breathe under the sky.
After reaching an agreement with Britain, France soon announced that France would soon withdraw from Haizhou, and France suggested that the European civilized countries should protect the territorial integrity of the Qing court, believing that this would help protect the interests of the civilized countries in China.
France was followed by Italy, and before Britain could negotiate with the Italian government, the local militia drove the Italian army out of Rizhao and captured 200 Italian sailors. Italy immediately agreed to the British, and Italy also supported the territorial integrity of the Manchus, but hoped that Britain would intervene for the Manchu militias to release the Italian soldiers.
After the problems of France and Italy are resolved, it remains to put pressure on Japan, and Japan is in a dilemma at this time and continues to march to Henan? Japan felt that there was no point, the country began to starve to death, the army's military rations must be guaranteed, and they could not rob on the ground of the Qing Dynasty, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would definitely come to intervene, at this time they felt that it was more difficult than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, thinking of the high spirits earlier, Ito Hirobumi was going to cry, scolding the army of bastards, bad things, the Lushun Massacre was carried out by them, and the attack on Beiqi City was also carried out by them, but it was he who was embarrassed by the prime minister.
Li Hongzhang is comfortable in Japan, he does not return to China, under the pretext of recuperating from his injuries, he stays in Japan to watch the changes in the situation, he has no ambitions, and the situation does not allow him to have any ambitions, China's world loves Xinjue Luo can do it, Zhu Jinglun can do it, he Li Hongzhang can't do it, his Huai army has been scattered, and there is nothing to rely on, it is estimated that whoever comes to power will let him be a diplomat, and he has to negotiate with Japan, why not stay in Japan, anyway, the Japanese seem to be reluctant to offend him now, take care of him quite well, and have no worries about food and clothing, Good wine and good food are waiting, and every once in a while, Ito Hirobumi and others still come to visit, and the Japanese emperor has come three times, all hoping that Li Hongzhang will get better as soon as possible, or persuade Li Hongzhang to sign a contract.
Britain proposed to Japan to withdraw its troops, and suggested that several countries jointly form a provisional government to control the situation in the north, and Japan could also send people, but the Ming Dynasty resolutely opposed it. The Ming Dynasty also put forward a proposal to Japan to withdraw its troops, telling Japan that if Japan did not withdraw its troops from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the great powers would not withdraw their troops, and once the forces of the great powers entered the Manchu Qing region, other countries in East Asia would inevitably be impacted, and the Ming Dynasty could resist the impact, but Japan might not be able to resist easily.
The pressure of the Ming and British countries put Japan under great pressure, but they didn't get a dime, and they had to pretend to be generous and declare that they had no ambitions for the Manchu Qing territory, and set an example for the great powers.
However, the "suggestion" of Britain and the Ming Dynasty was not a joke, the polite suggestion in front of it, the warships in the back had already come, the British fleet visited Japan, the Ming fleet visited Japan, and visited Japan one after another, and Japan was very angry, and it could only accompany the smiling face, express the praise of the other fleet, and praise the friendship between the two sides.
At the Japanese Imperial Council, they could not reach a unified opinion, and in the end they could only reach a specious consensus, that is, as long as it could guarantee that the future regime that inherited the power of the Manchu government would compensate Japan for its military expenses, Japan could withdraw its troops.
But neither Britain nor the Ming Dynasty dared to guarantee that who knows which force will come to power in the future? Will this force be easy to deal with, and dare to take on a lot of debts to others. But if they did not agree, Japan was unwilling to withdraw its troops.
Da Ming said, if you love the garrison, you will garrison it, as long as the Japanese army dares to rob, Da Ming will send troops.
The hard-line attitude of the Ming Dynasty forced the Japanese to other fronts, and they approached the Russians for negotiation and the Germans for support.
The Russians also valued the meat of the Manchus, and Japan was also a wolf, so where could they tolerate Japan, and they were not interested in Japan's proposal to divide the Manchus, and Japan said that Japan wanted Manchuria and was willing to admit that Russia occupied Mongolia, and the Russians felt that Japan was too greedy, and Russia still wanted Manchuria.
Japan told Germany that it was willing to support Germany's interests in Nantong in exchange for Germany's support for Japan's occupation of the Liaodong Peninsula, and that Germany would not reach any agreement with Japan, and that the occupation of Nantong depended on Germany's strength, which Japan loved to admit or not.
After a circle, Japan did not get any guarantees, and the daily military spending was spent, and it really couldn't stand it, so it continued to negotiate with Britain, almost complaining, Britain gave Japan a promise, that is, to allow Japan to borrow their debts to extend, no, no, no, no, the emperor sold his wife to go to the South Seas to make chickens, but it could be extended, turning the ten-year treasury bonds into thirty years, and the British government gave Japan a guarantee to replace the original short-term bonds by issuing thirty-year treasury bonds.
As a result, Japan reluctantly announced that Japan had begun to withdraw its troops and supported the British proposal to guarantee the territorial integrity of the Manchus.
At this time, Russia and Germany were left without agreeing, and the rest of the countries gave up the partition, and most of the territory of the Manchu Qing was finally pinched, and now it was only necessary to strike at Germany and Russia, and the geopolitical impact of the collapse of the Manchu Qing was released.
At the same time, Daming has already obtained a part of the benefits, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangnan and other territories have become Daming territory, the rest of the territory, Daming does not want to give up, Zhu Jinglun took this opportunity to unify the goal of the whole country has not changed at all.
The last obstacle is only Germany and Russia, and the war with these two countries at the same time is very stressful for Daming, especially after the war with the United States has just ended, Daming needs to recuperate, so Daming does not plan to resist this wave of geopolitical shock.
Therefore, Zhu Jinglun believes that it is time for Cixi and Guangxu to come forward.
Where are these two now?
It's probably almost time to Xi'an, and those who were frightened along the way have long regretted their intestines.
Cixi didn't want to celebrate her 60th birthday for a long time, and she didn't have the heroism of "who made me unhappy for a day, I made her unhappy for the rest of her life", and Guangxu no longer dreamed of a generation of heroes.
But Guangxu and his imperial father are now very suspicious, and their rivers and mountains have all been occupied by the Ming Dynasty.