"What!?" Feng Yunshan stood up with a snort, and said angrily: "Bastard thing! They still think that our Chinese Empire is as weak and deceitful as the Manchus, and they dare to threaten me! By the way, what are the specific conditions that he asked me to agree to them? ”

"Your Majesty, on the British side, the younger Erkin demands that the Sino-British-Dutch Tripartite Treaty of Singapore and Slope signed some time ago be abrogated, and not only that Borneo, Java and the South Seas to the east of the Chinese Empire, that is, the East Indies and the Malay Peninsula and other places that they call so, will be withdrawn from China and handed over to Britain. On the Russian side, Ignatiev proposed that China should cede the newly occupied Irtysh River Valley, the Amu Darya River Valley, the Aral Sea area, and the entire Outer Northeast region north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and only keep the Heilongjiang River estuary and Sakhalin Island to China, and the rest should be returned to them. Otherwise, they will unite and fight against us! ”

"Humph! It's just wishful thinking! Feng Yunshan laughed angrily, "Let them join forces to attack me, I want to see how my army of captives crusades against these foreign captives!" ”

After speaking, Feng Yunshan glanced at the unnatural Xia Er next to him, couldn't help but smile, and said: "Xia Er don't mind, of course, the foreign captives I said do not include Aiqing, now you are already a subject of the Chinese Empire, but those who want to plot against China." ”

"Wechen understands! Wechen retired first, and set off for Ireland the day after tomorrow! "Farewell Charles.

"There is Lao Aiqing, I am waiting for Aiqing's good news!" After Feng Yunshan waved his hand to let Xia Er leave, he reconvened Zuo Zongtang, Wu Ruxiao and Fan Ruzeng to discuss: "Let's talk about it, how to deal with these two Yangyi?" ”

Feng Yunshan is actually very familiar with these two people. In particular, the British minister named Ergin, who was not the notorious leader of aggression in history, led the LinkedIn French coalition to launch the second war of aggression against China, burned the Old Summer Palace, and forced the Manchu Qing to sign the "Beijing Treaty". And the other named Ignatiev, if nothing else, is also the person in history who represented Tsarist Russia and forced the Manchus to cede nearly a million square kilometers of territory by signing unequal treaties.

For these two people, Feng Yunshan naturally hated them deeply. Coupled with the fact that they were still so rampant now, Feng Yunshan decided to teach them a good lesson.

Wu Ruxiao already knew the emperor's attitude, so he naturally became tough: "Your Majesty, why don't you let Weichen reprimand them, and then send someone to drive them out of Shengjing!" ”

Fan Ruzeng also chimed in: "Why don't I send a few spies to pretend to be businessmen and go up to clean them up." ”

Zuo Zongtang said: "What Director Fan said is that these are the last means and are not advisable. Your Majesty, Wei Chen agrees with what Lord Wu said, and should treat them as a declaration of war, not only expelling them from Shengjing, but also ordering them to leave the territory of the Chinese Empire within a time limit, so that they can see the majestic national prestige of our Chinese Empire! In addition, it is necessary to pay close attention to preparing for war. Since these two foreigners dare to be so arrogant and have a fearless appearance, there must be their reasons. Presumably, after Britain basically quelled the Indian rebellion, it had confidence, and Tsarist Russia was even more likely to abandon grievances and collude together because many territories were occupied by our country. ”

Wu Ruxiao also said: "Yes, Your Majesty." Some time ago, the Secret Service had already learned that Alexander Dugameli, the Viceroy of Western Siberia of Tsarist Russia, had sent an envoy to meet with the British Viceroy of India, Canning, and that the Tsar's envoy had arrived in London shortly afterwards to plot, presumably that the two sides had reached an agreement. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded and shook his head, his brows furrowed.

Now, after several years of development, although the Chinese Empire has greatly increased its strength, it is still far from the world's largest power, Britain, coupled with the equally powerful Tsarist Russia, they unite to deal with themselves, which is undoubtedly a huge threat. Fortunately, Britain is strong in the navy, and although its army is strong, it does not have many troops, and its focus has always been on Europe and India. It is impossible for them to send more than 100,000 troops to the crusade against the Chinese Empire, otherwise they will have to pay a heavier price than the Crimean War, which is far farther away than the Crimean peninsula. And if Britain only sent tens of thousands of troops to crusade against China, then they would not have to be afraid. Nowadays, among the empire's million-strong army, there are many well-armed, and the tens of thousands of troops from the other side, even if they are three to one, sacrificing more than 100,000 soldiers in exchange for a big victory, to put it coldly, it is not so unbearable for the Chinese empire and itself.

In fact, the headache was still the British navy and the Cossack marines of northern tsarist Russia.

It depends on how many warships Britain is willing to send, and how many Cossack cavalry infantry can be organized by Tsarist Russia to attack and disturb.

"Shengbang, you take some people with you, just find an excuse, repair these two people well, and vent evil anger for me!" After Feng Yunshan finished speaking, he gave an order in his heart: "Spread my order, the entire empire has entered a state of war readiness, and everything will be dispatched and commanded by the General Staff, especially in the Nanyang area, to prepare for wartime." The Special Services Department made every effort to collect information on the dispatch of British troops, and as soon as there was a change, it immediately launched various operations in accordance with the previous arrangement, among them, Penang, Malacca, and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula were all occupied at once, and the Dutch-controlled island of Sumatra should also be on guard, and if the Dutch showed signs of helping the British army, they should also send troops to attack in advance, and we would not fight the British navy head-on, so as to attract them to land. It's just Charles' Irish plan, I'm afraid it's a little too late. ”

"Wu Aiqing, you immediately contact the authorities of France and Prussia and the United States, and implicitly remind them that Britain and Russia are about to jointly invade our Chinese Empire, and our trade with them is likely to be affected, and you can appropriately agree to them on some conditions, in exchange, ask them to exert pressure on each other. As for Fan Aiqing, your secret service department is working hard with some princes in Burma, the Sikh Kingdom, and India, as well as other anti-British forces, to bring them into allies and prepare them for trouble. By the way, there are also those vagrants and the so-called 'International Committee' in the UK, and the Secret Service Department should develop and organize as soon as possible to lead them to rebel against the British ......"

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Two months later.

The official residence of the Prime Minister in London. The Earl of Derby, who had just been the new prime minister for more than a year, was trembling with anger with a newspaper in his hand.

The Earl of Derby became the new Prime Minister early last year, following the resignation of the previous Earl of Palmerston. However, the Conservative government formed by the Earl of Derby did not have many supporters, on the contrary, the opposition Whigs and Liberals had more supporters. Last month, Derby was defeated in a vote on a modest citizenship bill that would recommend giving suffrage to different categories of professionals and others with different amounts of investment. In a few days, a new general election will be held, Derby has always been against war, while the previous prime minister, Palmerston, was in favor of actively waging war abroad, the reason why Derby was able to replace Palmerston by a narrow margin was because the damage of the Crimean War was too great, and the Indian rebellion caused great damage to Britain, because of these two factors, the parliament chose the more moderate Derby as the new prime minister.

was already in a weak position, and the general election was about to begin, when a newspaper news made Derby completely in trouble. As soon as the news appeared, he knew that he was going to lose the election, and his old rival, Palmerston, was likely to take his place as prime minister.

At this time, the front page of the "Times" of the same day was a sentence: "Declaration of war from the East: Sir Elgin Jr., the British Empire's minister to China, was tragically cut off by the barbarians of the East, and the fuse of the second war against China has appeared!" ”