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The night gradually dissipated, and a touch of fish belly white gradually appeared in the eastern sky. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info The dawn of dawn is brewing behind the clouds.

In Beijing, Yu Zecheng stretched his waist, got up and walked to the basin in the corner of the room, and picked up the water and slammed it to his face. The cold water is a bit biting, Beijing is already quite cold in October, but it is not Lingnan who is still wearing single clothes. The coldness dispelled the sleepiness of Yu Zecheng all night.

A new day has arrived. Yu Zecheng's troubles are not yet half clueless.

But his troubles can't stop the awakening of the city of Beijing. Shops are open for business, and the streets and alleys of the city are sparsely populated to numerous.

Yu Zecheng's face was not good-looking, and he kept a straight face all morning. The surrounding guys and stewards didn't know his true identity, and when the boss was angry, he took the initiative to appear in front of Yu Zecheng's eyes; Those real descendants understand what their boss is worried about? also obediently dangled in front of him.

Yu Zecheng's brain hurts, but judging from the existing information, he really can't find the answer.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty successively sent the elite Eight Banners and the banner people Ding Zhuang back to the Kanto, was it really to grow grain outside the Guandong to help the shortage of grain in Beijing and Tianjin?

But if that's all there is to it, isn't there too much to send? Moreover, the Manchu Qing also increased the garrison of Tianjin, and a large number of artillery pieces arrived in Tianjin from Beijing, claiming to be shore defense artillery. However, there is a report in the secret camp in Tianjin, and there are not so many cannons added to the fort at Dagukou in Tianjin. On the contrary, the Tianjin Navy Division replaced a batch of cannons. Was the Manchus rectifying the water divisions?

How is this possible. Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty should indeed rectify the naval division, isn't the fort safer and safer at this delicate time? Even if the Tianjin Navy Division is reorganized, how much manpower and material resources and corresponding funds and time will be invested to build the Tianjin Navy Division into the scale of the Guangdong Water Division? And didn't the Guangdong sailors of that scale also die in World War I?

Yu Zecheng's brain was a mess, and he consciously told him that there was something strange in it. But he just couldn't comprehensively analyze the true intentions of the Manchus from the intelligence outside the customs and the intelligence from Beijing and Tianjin.

"Looks like we're going to be criticized again this time."

Yu Zecheng touched his forehead, which was a little hot, and he didn't know if it was because he used his brain too much, or because he stayed up late for several days in a row.

"Alas......" let out a long sigh. He felt very sorry for who he was now. Who likes to be criticized? At the beginning, Yu Zecheng was ordered to infiltrate the Third Artillery Factory, but he had achieved nothing in two years, and was severely criticized by his superiors. Now that this is going to be criticized again, I really don't know if he can keep his position as the head of the Beijing station?

So Yu Zecheng worked hard in this matter, very hard. It's just that the effort didn't pay off and the results were seen.

At this moment, Liu's mansion by the sea in Shicha.

Liu Tongxun, who is old and immortal, is perusing the fold handed over by Hailancha, which is a strategic summary of the Qing army's upcoming offensive against Korea.

Hailancha decided to follow the route of Kim to fight Korea that year, cross the Yalu River, capture Uiju, Jeongju, Anju, and then occupy Pyongyang, and stationed in Chungho, and sent an envoy to Seoul to make a forced landing.

As for the excuse of the Manchu Qing to conquer Korea - it is also very simple, the latter sacrificed to the former Ming emperor and had long accumulated different ambitions.

Decades ago, in order to repay the "reinvention grace" of Myeongson Sect, who sent a large army to aid Korea during the Imjin War, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he built a large newspaper altar in the back garden of Changdeokgung Palace in Seoul (now Seoul, South Korea) to worship Emperor Zhu Ming. The now reigning Li Yu, that is, the so-called King Yingzu in the mouth of the later generations, the objects of worship in the big newspaper altar have increased the Ming Taizu and Emperor Chongzhen.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty didn't look at North Korea very much before, but later Qianlong was poor and red-eyed, and restored the Korean tribute to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the standard of the Shunzhi era, that is, the annual (New Year's Day, Wanshou, Winter Solstice) Changgong regulations: 500 taels of silver, 200 pieces of cotton silk, 200 pieces of cloth, 60 pieces of ramie cloth, 10 pieces of mink skin, 30 pieces of otter skin, 15 pieces of green mouse skin, 7 pieces of deer skin, 20 pieces of flower mats, 100 rolls of large paper, 50 rolls of small paper, 2 knives, 10 knives, a pair of bedding, a pair of boots and socks, and a saddle horse, an empty horse.

Qianlong had halved North Korea before. But it's more like hysteria.

Moreover, this year, Qianlong raised the Changgong of North Korea to the level of the early years of Shunzhi: 400 horses of tribute cloth, 200 catties of sumu, 1,000 bags of tea, 1,000 horses of various colors of cotton silk, 5,000 horses of various colors of fine cloth, 1,000 pieces of cloth, 5,000 horses of coarse cloth, 10 knives, and 1,000 bags of tribute rice.

This is a drop in the bucket for the huge big green fruit. In the end, a secret performance by Liu Tongxun from the sage's hometown opened a new window for Emperor Qianlong. He felt that Liu Tongxun was right:

"My life is gone, why do I have to face it?"

Moreover, according to the rules outside the customs, that is, big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat dried shrimp. If you suffer a loss in the east, you will make up for it in the west.

Emperor Qianlong gritted his teeth and finally decided to do it. In addition, in order to further find out the armament of the DPRK, the sticky pole was sent to investigate it in detail. As a result, he found a lot of things he couldn't think of, such as the big newspaper.

The big newspaper altar in the Joseon royal palace has to be sacrificed once a year, after the Joseon Sujong, the king has personally participated almost every year, it is the most solemn sacrificial ceremony in the Korean court, fully expressing the gratitude and longing of the Joseon Dynasty to the former Ming. After the completion of the big newspaper altar, Su Zong made it clear that from now on, the big newspaper altar "sacrifices and enjoys every year, and it should exist with the country".

Qianlong was found by the sticky pole of the North Korean secrets, and he vomited blood.

A little North Korea dares to deceive him like this? Lee's damn it.

The report at the sticky pole wrapped the nostalgia of the Korean royal ministers for Zhu Ming, as well as the fact that there were many Korean people who used the Chongzhen era name, and when they returned from North Korea, they brought back more than a dozen North Korean books, which used a piece of water in the Chongzhen era.

The news of the uprising of the Fu Han army has also reached North Korea, and the whole of Korea is ecstatic about this, whether it is the officials or the people, no one says that the Fu Han army has brought disaster to the country and the people.

In this way, Qianlong no longer had the slightest patience for the conquest of Korea.

And the purpose of this trip to North Korea, they also made a detailed investigation - North Korea's armament is lax and vulnerable. "There is no soldier for a hundred years, and the soldiers are cowardly and vulnerable."

[Later, I have time to write a chapter on the North Korean travels of the sticky pole, (*^__^*) hee hee ......]

Not only Hailancha on the land route, but also the naval division of the Tianjin Kou Army, which was reorganized for the battle, was not aimed at the naval division of the Fuhan Army in Shandong, but at North Korea. They will march with Hailancha and attack Ganghwa Island.

The latter was only separated from the land by two or three miles, and became a refuge for the princes and the royal family during the many crises of the Joseon regime. In the Later Jin Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty attacked Korea, and Li Brown [the king of Joseon] sent Cui Mingji and others to the Qing camp to negotiate in order to delay the army; On the other hand, the princess, the prince and the minister's wife were sent to Ganghwa Island again for temporary refuge.

Qianlong wanted to take North Korea clean this time.

Gold, silver, cloth, slaves, and very important grains will become the ten perfect pills of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Liu Tongxun is not very good at war, he is a very pure literati. Therefore, he read this report of Hailancha more carefully. It's just that Liu Tongxun, who is seventy years old, has no one in his body and bones, he didn't have anyone all night yesterday, and he doesn't have to go into the palace to be on duty today, he nests on the kang to read the folds, and there is a thick stack of books on the geography and history of North Korea in his hand, but people fall asleep unconsciously......

The old servant beside him didn't wake him up, but just gently put on his coat and quilt.

"The Emperor's ......"

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Wu Shulai watched with tears in his eyes as Qianlong took a vermilion pill. This is all tiger and wolf medicine.

If you eat too much, your body will be hollowed out, didn't the first emperor just swallow the pill and die violently? After this thing hits Yongzheng, it is a taboo. But now Qianlong, in order to maintain his vigorous energy and ruddy complexion, he ordered people to face and began to take pills as early as two months ago.

From the first one pill every other day, to the current one pill a day. Wu Shulai is really afraid that one day the emperor will go like this!

How many nights, when he was on duty in the Heart Cultivation Palace, he thought about whether he would hit the wall directly, hang himself, or use some other method to cut himself off?

Anyway, the fate that awaits him is death!

Qianlong, who swallowed a pill, seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, and his face turned red, but it was too red, too abnormal. Qianlong opened his neckline, and he was hot. Wu Shulai looked at Qianlong's bulging collarbone through his open collar, but felt that the emperor was even thinner than last month.

……

Not only Guangzhou, but most of Guangdong is rendered in red.

Chen Ming ordered the secret camp to act immediately, and before the Fu Han army attacked Guangzhou, there were uprisings in Shaozhou, Fogang, Luoding and other places.

The local strength of the Qing army was really weak. The Qing troops in the prefectures and counties were all withdrawn, and the only thing they could rely on was to reorganize the regiment and train the people. These forces are not in the hands of the government, of course, there are also ministers of regimental training in Guangdong, but unfortunately all the people who can be mastered by the ministers of regimental training have already gathered in Guangzhou.

Therefore, the chess pieces that the Fu Han Army buried or bought in the secret camp, once they started, they really immediately changed the color of 'heaven and earth'.

When the Fu Han army took the city of Guangzhou, the huge Guangdong did not need Chen Ming to send troops to attack, and most of the prefectures and counties were still replaced with red red flags.

Chen Ming's subordinates ordered the First Division to pursue the remnants of the Qing army who escaped in Guangzhou, and ordered the rebels in western Guangdong to block the river and do their best to leave the remnants of the Qing army who fled westward. Then he ordered the 1st Fujian Division to advance north to Fogang and Shaozhou, and the local rebels cooperated one after another, almost bloodlessly, and communicated the connection between Guangdong and Hunan.

However, during this period, Chen Ming's attention was not focused on this aspect at all, at most he stared at the west road, and even ignored how the Southeast Naval Division and the Nanyang Naval Division conquered the city, and put his main energy on dealing with foreigners, as well as the liquidation of the Thirteen Lines.

Led by Pan Zhencheng's Tongwen Bank, Taihe Bank, Yuyuan Bank and other foreign banks have large and small business scales, and their industries are both good and bad. But no matter what, even the youngest guy here is the most open-minded person in China in this era, and he is also the person Chen Ming needs the most.

For example, Pan Zhencheng has traveled through Manila three times and speaks four foreign languages.

In Manila, he witnessed the scenes of local Chinese being oppressed by the Spaniards, and knew that the Dutch had also poisoned the Chinese, Pan Zhencheng was not a insensitive person, and he was also angry. But as a businessman, Pan Zhencheng, whose social status was definitely not as high as Europeans imagined, could not stir up a wave of resistance to the Spaniards and the Dutch, so how did he do it?

In the case that any trade resistance to the Spaniards and the Dutch is irrational behavior, the method given by Pan Zhencheng is: not to boycott the Spanish and Dutch, but to cultivate their opponents.

Pan Zhencheng's chosen target is the Swedes!

As a European superpower, Sweden first drew with the Spanish-led Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War, and then lost to Peter the Great's Tsarist Russia in the Great Northern War.

Compared with Spain and the Netherlands, whose hands are stained with the blood of the Chinese, the United Kingdom, which has become stronger and stronger, has secured the position of the first naval power in the Western world, and defeated the Netherlands three times and seized a series of the latter's strongholds in Southeast Asia.

China and Sweden are natural allies, and they should be treated favorably and wary of Great Britain, France with courtesy, and Spain and the Netherlands as they should be.

At the end of the fourth year of Qianlong, the first trip to China "Gothenburg" arrived in Guangzhou, then Pan Zhencheng, who was still a man, persuaded the boss Chen Kuiguan to undertake this seemingly very risky business, but the profit is relatively meager, he ran up and down, warmly received, and dotted in many ways, as much as possible to maximize the profits of the Swedish customers who came to China for the first time. Sure enough, only two years later, the "Gothenburg" reappeared at the mouth of the Pearl River, brought two other Swedish merchant ships, and named them to do business with Chen Kuiguan's foreign firms, making other foreign companies whose goods were unsalable jealous.

Of course, the first Gothenburg soon ran aground and sank. Just a few hundred meters from the shore.

This was a huge blow to both the Swedish East India Company and the newly established Tongwen Company. The Swedish East India Company, which was not yet financially abundant, lost its capital ships and could not recover for a while, and Pan Zhencheng also lost important trade channels, because the other Swedish merchant ships were smaller than the "Gothenburg", and the "Gothenburg" still owed some money to Tongwen Bank, and over time, this small deficit could turn into a vicious circle and become a bottomless pit.

In the years that followed, Sweden's trade with China declined significantly. As time passed, the Swedish East India Company owed more and more money to Tongwen Bank, resulting in Pan Qiguan himself living in poverty for a time. Pan Qiguan's second son, Pan Youwei, once recalled to outsiders that at that time, Pan Qiguan's wife, Huang, was a female celebrity during the day and still spun paper cloth at night to subsidize the family. He had no choice but to wear rags, not even a change of clothes, and when it rained and wetted his clothes, he would bake them around the fire, and his life was not at all like a rich merchant's house, but like a poor beggar.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the business with Wenxing to flourish.

Chen Ming didn't know that in his previous life, there were rumors on the Internet that Pan Zhencheng had personally gone to Switzerland to attend the shareholders' meeting of his East India Company, because the Swedes owed him money, and Chen Ming, who only knew a little about the Thirteen Lines, did not know this period.

But he knew that Pan Zhencheng's relationship with Sweden was really good. Poon Chun-shing gave his glass portrait as a gift to Nikolas Savengri, the director of the Swedish East India Company, which proved that he valued his friendship with Swedish merchants.

Pan Zhencheng is a person, Chen Ming feels that he can be put into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in preparation.

Have a vision, a long-term vision of the world.

Therefore, although Pan Zhencheng has contracted the arms transactions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty many times, Chen Ming did not let the secret camp attack Pan Zhencheng. In fact, if it were according to the consistent standards of the Fu Han army, the secret camp would have killed the Pan family many times.

When the Fu Han army reached Guangzhou, the Fu Han army, as the occupying army, did not do anything to Pan Zhencheng, but the previous Qing army almost emptied Pan Zhencheng's treasury.

So in the face of Chen Ming, who recruited him again after entering the city, Pan Zhencheng naturally obeyed.

"Your Highness may relax some policies towards merchants from Protestant (Christian) countries such as Swedish ships, Denmark, Prussia, and other countries that have no Eastern colonies, and may purchase as much as possible all the commodities they have brought, and allow them to purchase our commodities on credit, at appropriate prices; For British and French merchants who did not have colonies in the Far East, most of the goods they brought with them were forbidden, and they were forbidden to buy Chinese goods on credit, but with slight variations; The Dutch and Spaniards who occupied the South Seas should be bought and sold in accordance with the market situation, and they were strictly forbidden to buy commercial goods on credit. ”

Pan Zhencheng was very sad about Zenghai's 'ruthlessness', and he thought he was worthy of Da Qingguo. Pan Zhencheng took over several arms transactions between the Manchus and the Portuguese and the British and French, and he donated no less than 200,000 taels of silver before and after, and there were also a large number of grain, rice, ships and other materials, and even two of the arms transactions were also paid by Pan Zhencheng on his behalf.

As a result, because he was unwilling to leave with the Qing army, Zenghai asked Su Bai to lead troops to almost raid his home.

Pan Zhencheng still can't decide whether to continue to do business or enter Chen Han as an official. However, in terms of foreign policy and understanding of European countries, he is very active in providing Chen Ming with help within his ability.

After entering the Qing Dynasty, because Guangzhou had direct trade with Manila, there were not many Spanish merchant ships that directly reached China.

"Your Highness, the number of British merchant ships coming to China has been increasing day by day recently, and this must be guarded against." If all the objects of China's exports become British, it will be too rebellious.

"Western countries, those who can compete with England are not France. The Double Eagle Kingdom (Otili) and the Single Eagle Kingdom (Prussia) are also said to be Western powers, but they are especially inferior to Britain and France. More than ten years ago, the Western War, known to foreigners as the 'Seven Years' War, was the allies of Britain and France respectively......"

Pan Zhencheng's exposition of the idea of 'commerce', Chen Mingpin is more and more like 'razing to conquer raze'. It's just that China in this era is not like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, and the Western powers are derogatory to call 'Yi' just to save face, and now China really has the capital to call Europeans 'Yi'!

Macau has been reclaimed, and Portuguese flags have been lowered from battery after fort. Guangzhou will remain open.

The number of Portuguese who chose to 'naturalize China' was not too large, but it was also a little more than Chen Ming imagined, there were three or four hundred. Many people in the Fu Han army have a little opinion about this.

The Opium War shattered China's dream of the Celestial Empire, and before the Opium War, the Chinese who were intoxicated with the dream of the 'Celestial Empire' really had their eyes on the top of their heads!

"Liu Wu, you also look down on those foreigners, right?"

"Look down. Red-haired and blue-eyed, he doesn't look like a human. Liu Wu replied honestly.

"Then the black man is even less human." Chen Ming followed Liu Wu's words and said a cold joke.

"In terms of guns, foreigners are better than us." In the beginning, the Fu Han army could 'borrow' from the technological achievements of many Europeans. "Not to mention our iron molded cannons, as well as rockets. The foreigners' guns are more powerful than ours, and the warships are also better than ours, just take the previous big green fruit to see, if we really get close, the two sides fight, will we definitely be able to win the foreigners? ”

Liu Wu has seen the world map. The territory of the West is not smaller than that of China, not to mention the Americas, which is even larger than China's territory.

"Since there is no certainty that you will be able to win against foreigners, why should you look down on foreigners?"

Of course, Chen Ming knows the answer in his heart, the power of tradition, the power of culture, and habits have become natural.

The Celestial Empire capsized in the previous life, so I hope that the Chinese at this moment can truly continue to dream of the Celestial Empire. (To be continued.) )