No one in the Ming Dynasty is willing to negotiate, and the news of the capture of Beiqi City has already exploded this country, such a new country, and suddenly countless patriots have emerged, teahouses, restaurants, are all trumpeting that the Ming Dynasty is orthodox, and the Ming Emperor is the destiny of heaven. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When he left, Zhu Jinglun and he and other Guangzhou officials and Xiangyong had just participated in the recovery of Guangzhou City, and when he returned five years later, Zhu Jinglun had already become emperor.

In fact, his life in the past few years has not been more dull than Zhu Jinglun, although he has not climbed to the height of Zhu Jinglun, it is because he has walked more thorns, and because he has never walked on the road of being an emperor.

Because of the recovering of Guangzhou City, he was Huang Zonghan Baoju made Ganzhou Tongzhi, with his 800 water brave, to Jiangxi to fight with the Taiping Army, because he has soldiers in his hands, and Jiangxi is the place where soldiers are used, he was promoted quickly, successively served as the prefect of Nanchang, Fuzhou, Raozhou, Ji'an Ganning Soldier Road, and the second grade Zhejiang political envoy.

But just in the middle of his career, if nothing else, he is likely to become a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty like Zuo Zongtang, but the credit is obtained by military merit, and he always comes and goes quickly, he was finally defeated, defeated in the hands of the newly rising Taiping Army famous general Li Xiucheng, and fortunately it was in the hands of Li Xiucheng, for any Taiping general, he was dead.

However, Li Xiucheng did not kill him, at that time Li Xiucheng had already begun to display his ambitions, corrected all the previous practices of the Taiping army, and began to favor the literati doctors, that is to say, he betrayed the peasant revolution, and even tried to go along with the landlord class, in the countryside he protected the property of the landlords, and in the city he pacified the surrendered Qing officials.

Lin Fuxiang did not surrender to Li Xiucheng, and Li Xiucheng did not kill him, but gave him 100 taels of silver and released him.

After Li Xiucheng released him, Lin Fuxiang went all the way south and entered the boundary of Quzhou, Zhejiang, and at this time Zuo Zongtang had risen and recovered Quzhou from the Taiping Army to capture Lin Fuxiang, and Zuo Zongtang directly killed him in history, because he heard that he had helped the Taiping Army do things.

But this time Zuo Zongtang didn't, because Zuo Zongtang heard that Zhu Jinglun of Guangdong used to be a soldier under Lin Fuxiang, and after carefully asking to confirm the news, Zuo Zongtang thought that strange goods were habitable, but before he could figure out how to use this person, the Ming army came over and occupied Fujian in an instant, and Quzhou was reoccupied by the Taiping army the following year, Lin Fuxiang fell into the hands of the Taiping army again, and Li Xiucheng still did not kill him.

At this time, Lin Fuxiang was able to return to his hometown, he was ashamed in his heart, and sighed that 800 children from his hometown went north with him, but none of them were able to retreat with their whole body, and there was only one servant by his side, Xiao Aqiao, a native of Guangzhou.

Xiao Aqiao is also fateful, he was originally a vegetable buyer in Guangzhou City, his family was destroyed by foreigners, he rose up to resist, and finally became a hero, and Lin Fuxiang fought in the south and the north, he felt that he was not a loss in this life, and it was worth much more than being a vegetable seller.

"My lord, Lord Zhu is now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, or let's go to him, my lord is full of economy and will not worry about having an official anywhere."

Xiao Aqiao has been knowledgeable for a few years, although he still hasn't learned to read and write, but he has seen more things, and he has seen more, and he can't say such things in the past.

Lin Fuxiang sighed: "The old man is tired and doesn't want to participate in political affairs, the old man only wants to go back to his hometown to be an old farmer, so where do you want to go?" ”

Xiao Aqiao sighed: "Where the adults go, Aqiao naturally goes." ”

Lin Fuxiang nodded: "Okay, your relatives are no longer there, so go to Xiangshan with the official, marry you a daughter-in-law, buy dozens of acres of land, and it will not be in vain for you to follow the official." ”

Xiao Aqiao opened his mouth and laughed happily, there were not many teeth in his mouth, many of which were knocked out in the battle.

Walked down the wharf in Xiangshan, which was ten times larger than the wharf Lin Fuxiang had seen in the past, and there was even that tall, smoky steamer docked, which Lin Fuxiang had only seen in Shanghai before.

But the money is as good as it, spent a few taels of silver, hired a boat and drove directly to the vicinity of Xiangshan County, and his younger brother Lin Fuyong was already waiting for him on the dock.

The younger brother told Lin Fuxiang that in the past few years, thanks to Zhu Jinglun's blessings, there has been no oppression by officials, and the business has been much better, and the Lin family's business in Macau is also doing well, so they can still maintain the family business, and since Lin Fuxiang is back, he will hand it over to Lin Fuxiang to take care of.

Lin Fuxiang rejected his younger brother's statement, saying that he didn't want to ask about the world, and planned to concentrate on writing books, and when he was in Jiangxi and Zhejiang, he had already started to write, but it was not finished, and he still needed to write a lot, about the Opium War, about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he had too many stories to write down. The title of this book is "Pinghai Xinchip", and it is an important source for later generations to study the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Opium War.

Lin Fuxiang wants to be peaceful, but people like him, especially those who have a relationship with Zhu Jinglun, others will not let him be peaceful, and soon someone will come to the door, some new newspapers, after the Chinese and foreign new newspapers became famous, many idle and boring literati also had the idea of running a newspaper, there are many such literati, they are old literati who do not want to go out into the new dynasty, among them are those who know Lin Fuxiang, they came to ask Lin Fuxiang to write articles and submit, Lin Fuxiang is not easy to refuse.

They knew that Lin Fuxiang had seen the world, and they wanted to ask Lin Fuxiang to comment on international events, which were mainly the three countries of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, as well as other countries such as Britain and France.

Lin Fuxiang wrote his views casually under the pseudonym Mr. Pinghai, because he had seen the armies of these countries with his own eyes, so the content was detailed and the writing was really good, and the newspaper sales were increased a lot at once, so the friends who ran the newspaper kept pestering him to write manuscripts.

In fact, the most important thing is that Lin Fuxiang dares to speak, he evaluates that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom thinks that the emperor of the other party is very virtuous, and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty is relatively mediocre, mainly because he has contact with people like Li Xiucheng, and has not contacted Yang Xiuqing, but most of the literati's perception is stuck in the era of Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, so it is inevitable that there will be controversy, and only when there is controversy can there be topics, and only when there are topics can there be sales.

But Lin Fuxiang didn't say a word about Daming, he didn't want to make any evaluation of Zhu Jinglun, which made the friends who ran the newspaper very regretful, of course, they didn't dare to say anything about Zhu Jinglun, they didn't want to be outstanding, but they didn't want to cause trouble, in case the government came to the door and closed their newspaper, the gains outweighed the losses.

However, peace talks are currently the hottest topic, but this can't help but write, forcing Lin Fuxiang to write about it too.

Only then did Lin Fuxiang begin to pay attention to the issue of peace talks.

Britain, France, the United States, and Russia mediated, but they did not mediate with their mouths, especially Britain and France, whose warships had already been stationed in Shanghai, and were wandering around Hangzhou Bay outside Ningbo, and sent a note to the Ming army to withdraw from Ningbo, believing that the Ming army's occupation of Ningbo had harmed the interests of the two countries.

The Ming Dynasty insisted that the occupation of Ningbo by the Ming army had effectively improved the management level of Ningbo, not only did not damage, but greatly promoted the interests of the two countries, and also took out the latest data of Ningbo Customs to prove that exports had increased significantly during this period, rather than shrinking, and these data were published in the newspapers, which embarrassed Britain and France.

The French were the first to back down, their interests in Ningbo were not great, mainly because of the face of Napoleon III, and they have not yet established diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty.

The British refused to budge, Ningbo Customs was in charge of the British, and the Northern Treaty allowed the British to gain control of the Manchu Customs, and the customs needed to be supervised by the British, so they could not give up a seaport like Ningbo.

Another controversy was that in Beiya, the mediation of the ministers of the four countries was accepted by the Ming Dynasty, and they were willing to withdraw from Beiqi and sign a peace treaty with the Manchus, but they put forward quite harsh demands.

First, the Manchus were required to compensate the Ming Dynasty for 30 million taels of military expenditures, which were all the military expenditures of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and these military expenditures were of course used to fight against the Manchus.

Second, the Ming Dynasty demanded that the Manchus recognize the legal status of the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides sent envoys to each other for friendly exchanges and trade.

Third, the Manchu government was required to hand over Ningbo, Yantai, Tianjin and other port cities to the Ming Dynasty, on the grounds that the poor management of the Manchu Qing Dynasty seriously affected the economic interests of the Ming Dynasty.

Fourth, the disbandment of the Hunan army, the Ming said that it was because the Hunan army Jiang Yili took the lead in attacking the Ming Dynasty, which caused this war, so the Hunan army should be responsible for this, and the existence of the Hunan army was also the biggest obstacle to the peace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, so the Hunan army must be disbanded.

In the first two cases, States expressed their support, which was in line with the principles of international law, but in the third they insisted on not agreeing. The envoys of the four countries also objected, they could not accept the Ming Dynasty's control of all the important port cities of the Manchu Dynasty, even if the Ming Dynasty really had the ability to improve the management level of these cities, they absolutely could not accept it, and they could not leave any hidden worries about the Manchu market controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

And the last one, the Qing court itself could not agree, did not dare to agree, in fact, could not agree, because they could not do it. They don't dare to disband the Hunan army that is now the pillar, and now the disbandment of the Hunan army is tantamount to self-defeat, the Ming army is not mentioned, just the Taiping army suppressed by the Hunan army in the south of the Yangtze River once it loses the suppression of the Hunan army, what kind of blow will it cause to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court does not dare to imagine, of course, the Qing court does not have the ability to disband the Hunan army, the Hunan army is not something they can disband, if this is the case, they will not have to deliberately find constraints for the Hunan army, and will not support Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang to check and balance Zeng Guofan.

Except for the last one, the Qing court was willing to accept other terms, although those terms seemed to be much harsher than the treaties signed by the British and French alliances, but the Qing court's fear of the Ming at this time was far greater than that of the foreigners, because they had a concept of foreigners only seeking benefits for a long time, and for the Ming Dynasty, they were completely insecure, they were not sure, and they didn't even dare to believe that the Ming Dynasty came for money like the foreigners, they were afraid that the Ming Dynasty would come to fight with them for the world, so the Ming army would stay in Beiya, It's just so unreassuring.

Because he was more worried about Daming, he was willing to give more benefits, just hoping that Daming, like the British and French coalition forces, could take the money and leave.

At this time, Yi Xin wanted to grit his teeth and agree, but the foreigners disagreed, at this time Yi Xin felt ashamedly that the Qing court seemed to have become some kind of tool in the hands of foreigners, who could be manipulated and manipulated at will, and he deeply felt a kind of puppet taste.

Zhu Jinglun actually didn't think that he could really receive all the port cities, and the foreigners would never accept it, and he believed that Britain and France, especially Britain, really dared to go to war with the Ming Dynasty, and the will of the British to protect their own interests must not be underestimated, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, that is, the powerful Tsarist Russia, every time it went to war with the Ottoman Empire, no matter how great the military advantage was, as long as it took a step towards the Bosphorus, the British warships would definitely sail over, and the Tsar would definitely admit it.

On the European continent, there is no shortage of such lessons from the past, no matter which force wants to undermine Britain's continental balance policy, even if it is as powerful as Napoleon, Britain will spare no effort to confront it. Zhu Jinglun didn't want to get into trouble, and the reason why he put forward these harsh conditions was completely to prepare for concessions.

So in the end, Xu Rongcun, the negotiator of the Ming Dynasty, put forward a new plan, no longer requiring the control of ports such as Shanghai that had been opened by the Qing court, but instead asking the Qing court to open new ports, but these ports must be handed over to the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, the first port was Qinhuangdao in the north, Xu Rongcun also asked the Manchu Qing to agree to the Ming Dynasty to build a railway from Qinhuangdao to Shanxi; The second port was Qingdao in southern Shandong, which also called for the construction of a railway to Henan; The third port was Dalian, which required a direct railway through Dalian to the north to the Russian border.

The foreigners are happy to see the opening of new ports, but they are a little worried about the Ming Dynasty's control of these ports, and they have communicated with each other many times, and their attitudes towards each other are very inconsistent. The negotiation with Daming was even more difficult to reach, and after a long negotiation and continuous mutual exploration, an agreement was reached before the Chinese New Year.

Britain and France conditionally accepted the Ming Dynasty's request to manage Qingdao and other ports, but did not recognize these ports as Ming territory, and the Ming Dynasty made a compromise and recognized that the Ming Dynasty only helped the Qing court manage these lands, but the taxes generated within the land did not need to be handed over to the Qing court as management costs. The British also strongly demanded that the customs at these ports should still be handed over to the tax department managed by the British, and the resulting customs duties would be deported to the General Taxation Department for accounting, and the Ming Dynasty had no right to interfere.

Generally speaking, the Ming Dynasty got the actual jurisdiction of these port cities, as for the tariff issue, the Russians ceded Lushun and Dalian as colonies, and the Germans ceded Qingdao, but the customs of these places are still managed by the British, and the taxes generated are still handed over to the Qing court by the British.

But for Zhu Jinglun, this is not unacceptable, he just wants to get a passage to the interior of the Qing court, whether it is economic or military, will get huge benefits, the most important thing is that he can easily obtain the huge resources of Chinese mainland, especially the coal of Henan and Shanxi, as long as it can be mined, it can be said that the energy supplied to Daming's industrialization is not worried.

The biggest obstacle encountered in the negotiations came from Russia, because Russia is different from Britain and France, especially from Britain, their foreign policy is not entirely based on economic interests, the tsar has already looked at the territory of the Far East, they are worried that the Ming will build a railway to the Russian border, which will threaten Russia's territorial security in the Far East, but this is just a pretext, what they are really worried about is that the Ming Dynasty will encroach on the territory of the northeast of the Qing court through the railway, and these territories have long entered the eyes of the tsar. Although there was no concrete plan for the Yellow Russian plan, the Tsar's ministers had already begun to survey the northeast, and they did not want to see the delicious meal they had already sighted of being targeted by another hungry wolf.

Therefore, Russia's attitude is very tough, requiring the Ming Dynasty to give up the requirements for building a railway in the northeast, even if the Qing government has made a compromise attitude, but the Russians firmly support the Qing government in the northeast to safeguard the interests of the Qing court, until the Ming and Britain and France reached an agreement, Russia alone bears all the pressure, and the Qing court itself does not insist, willing to let the Ming build a railway in the northeast, Tsarist Russia put forward some harsh requirements, and the Ming signed a treaty of understanding.

Tsarist Russia proposed that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to build the Northeast Railway, the construction of the line must be agreed by Russia, and they also gave them a suggested route, hoping to build a line from Dalian to Kyakhta. They also proposed that Russia had the power to participate in the Ming railway's railway in the northeast, and unless Russia voluntarily gave up this right, Russia had the right to take one-third of the shares, but they asked for participation in the operation of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming did not agree.

At this time, the development of Western capitalism was still in the early stage, except for Britain, other countries had not yet completed the industrial revolution, so the Russians did not think of asking for the mining rights of the Northeast, if in the next 30 years, they were afraid that they would add the priority mining rights of the Northeast minerals, but at this time the resources of various countries were not tight, and the industrialization of various countries was still focused on exploiting their own resources. The development of world transportation has not yet reached the point where it is profitable to transport minerals back from China, and China's significance to them is limited to high-value products such as tea and silk, and ordinary commodities basically have no future.

In addition, the frenzy of the great powers to carve up the world has not yet set off, and only Britain and France have expanded their colonial power in the world, because there are more meat and fewer wolves, the eyes of the French are only limited to Vietnam, and the British have not opened up colonies for many years, they seem to be satisfied with the current territory of the British Empire, so they have not yet considered gaining a sphere of influence in northern China.

What was pressing at the moment was the reform of serfdom in Russia, which had neither the strength nor the plans for a large-scale expansion in the Northeast. Therefore, in the original history, the Russians stationed troops along the northeast, used railway transportation and other privileges, not to mention that the Ming would not agree, Britain and France would not agree, and the Russians themselves did not mention it, maybe they themselves did not think of such outrageous conditions, or the Tsar, who was busy with the reform of serfdom, had not moved Russia to go south to obtain ice-free ports on the Pacific coast.

Therefore, not only Russia, but also Britain and France did not see the value of the Ming Dynasty's control of these ports, so after thinking that they had got the benefits they deserved, they agreed to the Ming Dynasty to occupy these places, which made them regret it for the next twenty or thirty years.

This concludes all negotiations. (To be continued.) )