"Your Majesty, the minister retracts what he just said. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Wang Wenshao also suddenly found that his suggestion seemed to be very inappropriate, and if he didn't do it well, he would set himself on fire.

"Wang Aiqing, it doesn't matter. Everybody's trying to figure it out. Guangxu didn't blame Wang Wenshao because he was in a good mood.

However, because of this small episode, the topic of the next discussion is very clear, that is, to discuss the details of Liang Qichao's going to Mengyin.

There is no objection to Liang Qichao's identity, he must be the "Minister of the Qincha"!

There is no objection to Liang Qichao's purpose of going to Mengyin, which is to "recruit An"!

But everyone also discussed that the strength of the Mengyin Xu bandits is strong, if the territory given is small or the position is low, it is estimated that it will be difficult to achieve the purpose of appeasement, but even Guangxu himself does not dare to express this attitude when the territory is large!

In the end, the conclusion was that Xu Lie's specific official position or something could be discussed, as long as he was pacified and not allowed to send troops outside of Yimeng, it would be a victory.

"Okay, since everyone has no objection to this matter, then Liang Aiqing, you can leave in two days." Guangxu saw that he was in charge for the first time, and the process went very smoothly, and he ended the court meeting in a very good mood.

It's just that Guangxu's holy decree was lost two days later.

Two days later, the imperial court received another telegram, which was also sent to the imperial court by the Jinan Telegraph Office. Unlike the previous one, the last telegram was sent by an official of the imperial court, while this telegram was sent by the bandit leader Xu Lie.

The telegram sent by Xu Lie was to tell the court that Nie Shicheng and others were in his hands, and if the court didn't want people, if they wanted to, they would take money to ransom them, and there were a total of 20 people from Nie Shicheng down, and as long as the court took out three million silver, Xu Lie would guarantee to release them.

"Bastard! Vile! Shameless! "Guangxu has rarely scolded people in his life because of his identity, but after seeing the content of the telegram, he was so angry that he scolded three times in a row.

Because as soon as he saw Xu Lie's telegram, he knew that the situation was more complicated than he imagined.

Because Xu Lie sent a telegram, it was equivalent to making public all the news of the defeat of the more than 100,000 troops in the imperial court. Because Xu Lie's telegram was not sent directly to the imperial court, but was similar to "telegraphed"!

If the news of the defeat of hundreds of thousands of troops is not properly made public, the imperial court will face a great crisis, who knows where there is still a giant bandit like Xu Lie who will suddenly attack the imperial court? It turns out that the local governors who were originally in good order, will there be any changes?

Similarly, Nie Shicheng and other twenty people were captured, and all the "foreign and middle-powered" of the imperial court were displayed in front of the people and powers.

As for the slap in the face nature of this telegram, that's not to mention. Even Xu Lie didn't have that idea.

Xu Lie's telegram was tantamount to forcing the imperial court to a dead end.

This is a desperate way, it is not that the imperial court immediately sent a large army to encircle and suppress it, this move, Xu Lie didn't care from the beginning when there were only a few dozen people in the calf village, let alone now.

This desperate way means that the imperial court can only appease, and it can only give Xu Lie a bigger official, otherwise, it will not be enough to settle the matter.

Could it be that Xu Lie wants to be appeased?

Xu Lie didn't want to answer this question! However, for the convenience of acting in the future, Xu Lie's advisory group felt that Xu Lie could accept appeasement.

The first reason is that Xu Lie does not have the strength to enter the Beijing Division now, and even if he has the strength to enter the Beijing Division, he does not have the strength to manage the world, and of course, the imperial court has not eliminated Xu Lie's strength, that is to say, the two sides will actually have a period of coexistence for a period of time. During this period, Xu Lie can and should turn passive into active. That is, to take the initiative to seek an environment for peaceful development.

The second reason is that what Xu Lie wants to do is good or bad, and taking Mengyin as an example is not enough to illustrate the problem. But what if we take Yimeng District as an example, and take Shandong as an example? If Xu Lie is given one to two years, Shandong's economy and people's livelihood will change greatly, and the so-called mule and horse can't explain the problem? Xu Lie was able to gain the support of the common people and the local squires, who had always been the basis of the rule of the feudal dynasty.

The third reason is that Xu Lie accepted the appeasement, and the imperial court would definitely give certain conditions, such as opening up the ban and allowing the free flow of goods between the Shandong territory and other places, and similar economic or cultural "openings" would eventually make the Qing court lose the legitimacy of its rule and shed the last drop of blood. At that time, there will naturally be the power to push Xu Lie to the whole country.

Of course, the main reason is the second one, Xu Lie needs time to win the country's talents.

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When the imperial court received the telegram, it was natural that it had to meet again.

However, in the face of Xu Lie's asking price of five million taels of silver, even Guangxu felt that this Xu Lie was completely a lion's mouth. Don't say that the court has no money, but if it has money, can this money be given?

Of course, this meeting was not about this at the beginning, at the beginning, including Prince Shiduo of Li, they all said that it must be exterminated, exterminated, and it is not enough for the people to be angry with such a demon!

There are also other ministers who advocate extermination, resolutely extermination! The reason is naturally that Xu Lie before them, in their impression, there is a suspicion of "rebellion", although the court should definitely exterminate the "rebels", but in terms of personality, the rebels and the court are actually the same, they are just "those who hold different views/politics/views/", and it is also based on this premise, so the court can often "recruit peace" to the rebels.

However, as soon as Xu Lie offered a price to the captive, it was equivalent to a big taboo in this era!

One of the taboos, he treated Nie Shicheng and others as goods, which was an insult to Nie Shicheng and others, and also an insult to the ministers of the imperial court, only this article turned the "public enmity" between Xu Lie and the imperial court into a "private enmity" between Xu Lie and the ministers, although people were captured in this era, there are precedents for ransom with money, but that is a bandit, and at the same time it is very personal, for example, if Xu Lie wants money, he has to send a telegram to Nie Shicheng's family, or privately collude with Nie Shicheng's family, instead of sending it to the imperial court and telegraphing it publicly.

The second taboo, Xu Lie asked for money, and suddenly degraded himself to a "businessman", and he was a despicable and clumsy bad businessman, this kind of businessman, no character and no morality, can be said to be scolded by everyone, at least, Xu Lie's move will lose points in front of a large number of squires, others will say, oops, Xu Lie's move is insulting to Sven, insulting to Sven!

Therefore, when some people in later generations studied Xu Lie's telegram, most of them sighed at Xu Lie's political skills and level, perhaps although Yuan Yong and others felt that something was wrong, but considering Xu Lie's strength, Xu Lie's unique characteristics when he was born did not stop it.

Of course, the merits and demerits are offset, and Xu Lie's electrification is a small mistake.