As early as 1861, after the "Xinyou Coup", this was called Yehnara? When Xingzhen's woman just listened to the government with the dignity of the queen mother, in addition to the Hunan military lineage of Zeng Guofan, she supported Zuo Zongtang and Liu Changyou, two side branches of the Hunan family, who were in harmony with the Zeng family but had a discord, to check and balance the Zeng brothers; In 1864, just after the establishment of Tianjing, she forced Zeng Guofan to cut off the Hunan army to cut her own wings with the help of side knocks and grace and power; And another year later, under the name of "Ancestral Family Law", she issued a typo in the name of Emperor Tongzhi in the name of a piece of paper, which weakened Prince Gong Yixin, the leader of the Westernization faction who fought against her; With the rise of the Westernization Movement, and the growing size of the local governors as the actual operators, she deliberately cultivated a group of old-fashioned scholars headed by Li Hongzao and Shen Guifen to form the so-called "North and South Clear Stream" forces, and imposed more constraints on national policies, so that the governors of the southeastern provinces who advocated change have not been able to become the leading force of the country and society, and even successfully drove the wedge of Zhang Zhidong into the Westernization forces......

From Bingguo in 1861 to his death in 1908, the half-century history of Chinese politics is, in a sense, a chronicle of this clever woman playing with political balancing! Her flexible hand enabled the Qing Empire, which had almost lost all financial, personnel and even national defense strength outside the name of the central government, to survive for another half century!

It is a fact that the Empress Dowager Cixi is not opposed to foreign affairs, and she has never rejected new things. The fact that many of the undertakings of the Westernization Movement, such www.biquge.info as railways, telegraphs, and navies, were able to develop was not unrelated to her support!

But it is also in her folding and rushing that Li Hongzhang and other visionaries who advocate self-improvement have always been powerful, and the national fortunes of ancient China have been wiped out little by little!

Therefore, if you want to go against the sky and turn the tide, it is inevitable to wrestle with this woman who is almost self-taught in balancing...... However, Lin Yizhe, who has always been cautious, does not think that he has the ability to go head-to-head with this genius in the big chess game of political layout at this time! Now he is just a governor of Fujian who has just taken office, and when it comes to mental skills, experience, and power, he is also qualified to be a chess piece in that chess game at this time! Instead of pointing fingers at chess players!

And if he wants to become a chess player and really control the direction of the country, he Lin Yizhe still needs more time!

And now, all he can do is to use people with chess player qualifications inside and outside the court to jointly influence national politics!

The struggle for the dominance of national policy between the "internally light" imperial court and the "externally heavy" governor has always been a unique political landscape running through the last years of the Qing Dynasty! In the face of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who has an unusually superb skill, only Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, the master and apprentice, can still have a fight. In the original historical time and space, in 1862, that is, not long after Cixi had just instructed Zuo Zongtang to form another "Chu Army", Zeng Guofan arranged for Li Hongzhang to return to his hometown to prepare for the establishment of the Huai Army, and it was this mantle heir who finally barely kept his name as the first Emperor of Wen Zhenggong! Although Li Hongzhang lost almost all his power after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, he was still in Koujing of the Eight Kingdoms, and the opportunity of the two palaces to hunt in the west announced the death sentence of the Qing Dynasty in advance with a sentence "This is a chaotic life, and the ministers do not obey the edict"!

And now, through his own efforts, Zeng Guofan did not end up in disrepute because of the "Tianjin Teaching Case", but died with the reputation of "Zhongxing Famous Minister" and "the first person in the past and present". While Li Hongzhang successfully took over the teacher's career, Prince Gong, who was in the center, also regained Cixi's trust, which greatly reduced the resistance faced by the Westernization Movement.

The situation he has changed now is much more favorable than the original historical time and space.

But at the same time, he was also soberly aware that the resistance he encountered was much greater than he originally imagined!

The reason why the conservative forces are so strong in China's current problems is not because of the problems of one person, a few people, or even a certain class, but because of the deep-rooted small-scale peasant economic ideology from top to bottom caused by thousands of years of agricultural civilization!

In order to introduce China into the ranks of modern industrial countries, it is necessary to change the ideology of this small peasant economy of the whole people and transform it into the ideology of industrialization!

If there is no change in ideology, even if he goes all out to promote the Westernization Movement, no matter how great the achievements he makes, it will be just a flash in the pan after all!

And the fate of this shipyard fleet that he has worked so hard to build is likely to end up with the same tragic ending as the Beiyang Fleet in the original historical time and space!

Lin Yizhe's eyes flashed suddenly—a point of light suddenly lit up on the sea not far away, approaching this side and getting bigger.

"My lord, someone has come from the shore and said that he has something important to see you." Zhang Cheng, the "Weiyuan" ship management belt, entered the officer's cafeteria with a bandaged arm (the arm was scratched by shrapnel during the East China Sea naval battle) and said to Lin Yizhe with some embarrassment.

Now that the sea and land war has been decided, he knows that Lin Yizhe came to the "Weiyuan" ship today, not for official business, but to remember his deceased wife.

After all, on this warship, with the first memories she gave him.

After Lin Yizhe went down to the cabin, Zhang Cheng deliberately arranged for his subordinate sailors to avoid it as much as possible, so that Lin Yizhe could be alone for a while. But he didn't expect that it would be not long before he had to interrupt Lin Yizhe.

"Oh, was it sent by Lord Zhou and Lord Tang?" Lin Yizhe retracted his thoughts, nodded, and walked towards the door with Zhang Cheng.

"It doesn't look like it's the outfit." Zhang Cheng replied.

Lin Yizhe didn't ask any more questions, he and Zhang Cheng came to the deck together, raised the binoculars, and saw a steam boat quickly heading towards the "Weiyuan" ship. Lin Yizhe couldn't help but feel a little strange when he saw that there were many people on the boat wearing the uniforms of the old sailor battalion, as well as a few people dressed as ordinary people.

Soon, the boat leaned to the side of the "Weiyuan", and the people on it all came to the deck, Lin Yizhe recognized the words marked on the livery ones, and then he knew that these people were the officers and soldiers of the Penghu Naval Division Battalion.

"Mark the front battalion of the Penghu Navy Division with the six-grade military merit Peng Baiwen, knock to see Lord Futai!" The leader knelt on one knee and saluted Lin Yizhe with a fist, and the officers and soldiers behind him also saluted, while the few people in common people all bowed.

"Everyone, please get up." Lin Yizhe noticed that these people were full of grief and indignation on their faces, and he was secretly frightened, and immediately stepped forward to help them.

"My lord! You...... You'll have to call the shots! My lord! ......" A soldier behind Peng Baiwen suddenly burst into tears, knelt down again and kowtowed heavily.

"Get up for me! Yang Jingchun! Hugh is going to sprinkle rat urine here! Fallen into the name of our Penghu water master! Peng Baiwen shouted loudly.

Yang Jingchun wiped away his tears and got up, and stood silently behind Peng Baiwen.

"My lord, his name is Yang Jingchun, he was originally the personal entourage of our sailor battalion Wu Qixun Wu, Lord Wu was killed by the Japanese Kou, he was too sad, it was rude, and I hope that the Lord will not blame him......" Peng Baiwen said, his voice became a little choked.

"Come on! The sea breeze is cold, please come into the cabin to talk! Zhang Cheng said on the side.

The group entered the officers' cafeteria and sat down separately, and Lin Yizhe asked them about their intentions, only then did they know that Peng Baiwen and others had actually come all the way from Tainan Mansion.

"Lord Lin, please report to the court and cure the crime of the traitorous villain Liu Xuan!" Peng Baiwen said sadly.

"Lord Lin, please be the master for us! That Liu Xuan...... It's better to be a ghost animal! Dong Changyi and several other squires in Tainan Mansion also wept.

Lin Yizhe was busy asking carefully, but the answers of Peng Baiwen, Dong Changyi and others surprised him.

It turned out that after the fall of the Penghu Naval Division, Peng Baiwen and other officers and soldiers who swam ashore in a catastrophe undead agreed that the Japanese army would invade the hinterland of Tainan, so they took the mountain road and went straight to Tainan Mansion, reported to the prefect Liu Zhang, and joined the army under Liu Zhang, intending to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army with Liu Jun and avenge the death of Wu Qixun, the commander of the Penghu Naval Division.

Liu Xuan attached great importance to the report of Peng Baiwen and others, and also agreed to Peng Baiwen and others' request to send troops to avenge the officers and soldiers of the Penghu Naval Division who died Wu Qixun and others.

Although Liu Xuan put on a posture of driving the Japanese army into the sea, in fact, he did not have any battle plan, but marched according to the feng shui he did (the original intention was actually to avoid the Japanese army), but once he fought with the Japanese army, the whole army broke up, ran all the way back to Tainan, and since then he has been cowering in the city, closing the city gate and not leaving. Peng Baiwen and others repeatedly asked to go to war, but they were all shirked by Liu Xuan on the grounds that "the troops are insufficient" and "the thief army is large, and the important places in Tainan also need to be armed".

Liu Jiao's "arming" work in Tainan mainly had two major aspects: First, he claimed to "rush to recruit a large guerrilla division" to strengthen Tainan's defense, but in fact he only hastily recruited a few battalions, and there was nothing more to do; The second was to "add more guns", but there was no follow-up to this, except for the temporary purchase of some old guns from foreign brokers.

In fact, after Lin Yizhe led the fleet to Taiwan, he sent someone to send an official letter to Liu Zhang, asking him to strengthen the defense of various parts of Tainan and send troops to support, but Liu Zhang did not respond to this, and even after the Huai army landed, Tang Dingkui sent him a document requesting support for the grain and grass people, but the result was still no news.

Liu Xuan became a shrinking turtle in Tainan, but the Japanese were not like him.

After having a contact with Liu's army, the Japanese generals may have realized that the Taiwan defense army would appear at any time, and in order to prevent the Qing army from concentrating its forces to launch an attack, the Japanese army began to attack everywhere and attacked the Qing army's defensive positions.

Seeing that the Qing army defending Taiwan was easily defeated, the Japanese army became more and more emboldened, so they wantonly burned and looted in the Han land, and the innocent people were tragically destroyed.

"That Liu Xuan hid in the city of Tainan Mansion all day long, and let the Japanese invaders slaughter the people, and we went to Tainan Mansion to meet Liu Zhang, and asked to send troops to save the people from fire and water, but he Liu Xuan actually said that he couldn't get out, refused to see us, and saw that we couldn't stay here, so he sent someone to deliver a message, saying, 'After the Japanese robbed the robbers, they will disperse'! Lord Lin, you say, is this still human talk! An older squire shuddered when he said this, and he was obviously very angry.

After listening to everyone's complaints, Lin Yizhe's face had turned pale.

"Take the boat and go to Tainan." Lin Yizhe turned his head and said to Zhang Cheng.

"My lord, what do you want to ......" Zhang Cheng noticed Lin Yizhe's face and asked carefully.

"Go arrest Liu Xuan and hand it over to the court for punishment!" Lin Yizhe looked at Zhang Cheng, "Is there any problem?" ”

"Undermarked...... Command! Zhang Cheng hesitated, but replied loudly.

'What's going on?' Weiyuan's Where is this going? ”

On the cruiser "Princess Pegatron", Deng Shichang noticed the "Weiyuan" ship that had already lifted anchor and was ready to be deployed, and he couldn't help but be a little confused.

"I don't know, I just looked at a dinghy." An officer replied, "Your Excellency is still on 'Weiyuan', maybe something is happening temporarily, right?" ”

"Send a signal and ask them, where are you going?" Deng Shichang thought for a moment and said.

Soon, the "Heshuo Princess" gave a flag signal, and after a while, an answer was raised on the mast of the "Weiyuan" ship.

"They're going to Tainan Mansion? What do you do in Tainan Province? Deng Shichang saw the reply of "Weiyuan" and couldn't help but be very strange.

"Ask them again, why did you go to Tainan? Do you need to travel with this ship? Deng Shichang saw that "Weiyuan" raised Lin Yizhe's general flag, and he was even more strange, and then ordered.

"When you go to Tainan to catch thieves, you don't have to go along."

The "Weiyuan" ship raised the flag of reply again.

"Thief? What do you mean? When Deng Shichang saw this word, he was even more inexplicable, "Could it be that there are thieves over there?" ”

"Maybe......" Several officers around Deng Shichang also had surprised expressions.

At this moment, the "Weiyuan" ship whistled for a long time and began to speed up to the open sea.

Tainan, Anping Port, Coastal Fort.

"Look! Over there! A warship is coming! ”

On the battery, a gunner suddenly noticed a tall and mighty battleship on the sea, and couldn't help but be taken aback.

One of the generals heard the gunner's shout, hurriedly came out of the room, raised the monocular in fear, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the fluttering dragon flag.

"What are you afraid of! That's the dragon flag on it! It's the wheel of our Great Shimizu Division! ”

Recognizing that it was their own warship, the defenders on the battery also breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Lin Yizhe was standing on the flybridge of the "Weiyuan" ship, and he was also holding a telescope to watch the situation of the fort.

This fort is very crudely built, and the style is still the old-style earthen fort, and there are several old iron cannons of different sizes scattered around, although the distance is very far, but Lin Yizhe can still see the rust on the cannon from the telescope.

He was now skeptical that the cannons would be able to fire.

"My lord, Anping Port has arrived." Zhang Cheng said to Lin Yizhe.

"Enter the port, let the foreign guns come ashore, and follow me." Lin Yizhe nodded and ordered, "Dismantle a sampan and take it ashore." ”

Hearing Lin Yizhe's order to bring a sampan, Zhang Cheng understood what Lin Yizhe wanted to do, and was secretly frightened. But he did not disobey Lin Yizhe's order, but ordered his subordinates to do so.

Soon, a 75mm Krupp sampan was disassembled and assembled, and looking at Lin Yizhe's murderous face, Zhang Cheng's heart couldn't help but tighten.

After everything was prepared, when the "Weiyuan" ship entered the port, Lin Yizhe got off the ship, got into the steam boat, and headed for the dock first.

After a while, all the shipmaster and sailors went ashore, and in the surprised eyes of the surrounding people, they went straight to the city.

"My lord! My lord! Oh no! Outside the city walls...... A group of red-clothed soldiers came, shouting to open the city gates! ”

In the prefect's office, Liu Xuan was pondering the picture on the bookcase, but he was unexpectedly interrupted by a panicked voice of a personal attendant, and couldn't help but be very annoyed.

"Redcoats? Where did the redcoats come from? Is it a Japanese crown or a foreign soldier? Liu Xuan held back his anger and asked loudly.

"It's not a Japanese soldier, it's not a foreign soldier, it's ...... It's our soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, but the color of the uniform they wear is different...... "Follow the road."

"You see clearly, it's not a Japanese soldier or a foreign soldier?" Listening to the answer of his entourage, Liu Xuan couldn't help but be stunned.

"The little one sees it clearly, no! The Japanese soldiers were black and white-trousers, and the foreign soldiers were red, which was not the case. "Ask them who they are, and they say it's the shipmaster's sailors." ”

"The shipmaster's sailors?" Liu Xuan frowned, and asked again, "How many people are there?" ”

"About a hundred or so people, all with foreign guns, all murderous, and with a cannon......" said Qin, with a look of fear on his face.

"There are only about 100 people, and they dare to be so presumptuous!" Liu Xuan sneered, "What do they think of my Nanfu?!" ”

"My lord, they led the team and said that it was Lord Futailin who was going to enter the city...... "Seeing Liu Xuan's disdainful expression on his face, he carefully reminded him.

"Lord Futailin? Where did Lord Lin come from? Liu Xuan reprimanded, "Futai in Fujian Province is Lord Wang Kaitai!" When did a Lin Futai pop up? ……”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Xuan seemed to remember something, and his face couldn't help but change.

"Could it be him? ……”

"Your Excellency, why don't you go and have a look! I'm afraid that if those people get annoyed and really start firing, they will be in trouble......" said Qinsu.

"Don't dare to forgive them!" Liu Xuan's heart was on fire, and he said to his relatives, "You go over now and tell them that you are not allowed to open the city gate!" No one is allowed to let it in! ”

"But, if it's really Lin Futai......"

As soon as the words came out, Liu Xuan interrupted viciously, "Who do I care who he is?" Is it a person who said that it was Lord Futai, and I was going to open the city gate to greet him? How can this be true? Maybe it's a Japanese impersonation! Regardless of him! If he dares to shoot, let's shoot too! ”

"Lord Liu, is this trying to hit me with a cannon?" An extremely cold voice came from outside the door, and when Liu Xuan heard it, his hands and feet were immediately cold.