Shilin criticized Lin Yizhe so much, is it because he is enthusiastic about foreign affairs?

But in the current situation, if we don't do foreign affairs, we blindly cling to the defects, and we don't know how to forge ahead, how can the country be rich and strong?

At this moment, Yang Rui's opinion on Hunan celebrity Wang Minyun has quietly changed slightly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Judging from the various performances of this famous king, I am afraid that it is just a vain name!

Early the next morning, Yang Rui and several students came to visit the sick Wang Minyun. The servant led them into Wang Minyun's bedroom, and Yang Rui was shocked to see that Wang Minyun, who was lying on the bed, was accompanied by a maid who was only wearing obscene clothes.

Seeing the woman lying next to Wang Minyun, Yang Rui, who was still young and unemployed, couldn't help but blush.

Wang Minyun didn't care about this at all, he smiled and greeted Yang Rui and the others, Yang Rui noticed that Wang Minyun's complexion was as red as usual, and he couldn't help but be surprised by his quick recovery.

"You guys just in time." Wang Minyun said with a smile, "I wrote a letter here to the rebellious boy of the Lin family, you guys will take a look first." ”

Wang Minyun said, ordered the servant to take out a letter and handed it to Yang Rui and others.

Yang Rui and the others looked at the letter, and when they saw that the letter was full of vicious abuse and curses against Lin Yizhe, Yang Rui couldn't help frowning.

“…… What is the benefit of competing for the land of the Ryukyus and spending national funds? For the sake of fame and profit, so that the country is tired, the army and the people are in vain, and the heart is unpopular? ……”

Seeing that Wang Minyun insulted Lin Yizhe in his letter for recovering Ryukyu, Yang Rui's face turned a little red.

And some of the students who came with him were even more appreciative of the content of Wang Minyun's letter, which made him feel even more harsh.

After leaving Wang Minyun's apartment, Yang Rui made up his mind.

Back in his room in the Sixian lecture hall, Yang Rui wrote a farewell letter to Wang Minyun, asking another student to help transfer it, and then wrote two letters, one to his mentor Zhang Zhidong, informing him that he planned to go to Fuzhou to study, visit the Harbour Bureau, and visit Lin Yizhe, and the other was to his brother Yang Cong, asking his brother to come to Fuzhou together.

Lin Yizhe, who was far away in Fuzhou, did not know that the Yang brothers would come to visit him, and at this time, he had just received the news of the "Dian case".

Under the lamp, Lin Yizhe was looking at the letter sent by Li Hongzhang through the high-speed notification ship.

"To Lin Kunyu Fujun: Recently, the envoy came to the General Administration and proposed six articles on the Yunnan case: first, China Jian sent officials to Yunnan for a detailed investigation; Second, if necessary, a non-exploration team should be sent from India into Yunnan; 3. China reimbursed Britain 150,000 taels of silver; Fourth, according to the Tianjin treaty, foreign envoys are given special preferential treatment; Fifth, it is said that British businessmen are exempted from regular tax and half tax; Sixth, it is said that the unresolved cases of the past years will be settled quickly. If you can't be invited, you will be cut off. He also said that the Yunnan case was in my hands, and that the leaks at home and abroad have so far not been justified on the basis of facts, and that they have been roaring and wantonly extorting money, and the General Administration has nothing to do, and the British envoy is unwilling to go to Yunnan, and it is difficult to settle it if there are defendants and no plaintiffs. The General Administration has repeatedly said that it will be dispatched, but it will not be successful if it has not won the right people. When Yu Zheng was at a loss, when Fang Yijun was in Tianjin, he had a letter with the box, and then he looked at it, and got the king's strategy. …… The envoy left Beijing for Shanghai yesterday, thinking that he was going to meet Bailang and conspire to collude. ……”

Thinking that Li Hongzhang had dealt with the Margaret incident according to his own strategy, Lin Yizhe let out a long breath and put the letter away.

You're in control!

Lin Yizhe knew that the root cause of the Margaret incident was that Britain and France wanted to preemptively enter China's Yunnan Province from outside the border.

Both Britain and France wanted to enter Yunnan, which was an inevitable development of their invasion of Burma and Vietnam, respectively, and their intensified aggression against Burma and Vietnam was, in a sense, precisely to intensify their aggression against China's southwestern border. As early as 1824-1825 and 1852, the British had occupied Lower Burma after two wars of aggression against Burma. In the late 50s and early 60s of the 19th century, France occupied the southern part of Vietnam after successive wars of aggression against Vietnam. Britain and France had already gained a foothold in the Indochina Peninsula, and while continuing to expand their influence there, they began to look for a direct way into China from there, in an attempt to open China's "back door". As early as 1858, R. Sprye, a retired military officer (who had participated in the first war of aggression against Burma), proposed to build a railway from Rangoon to the northeast along the Salween River through Upper Burma to Smaozhi in China, and in 1863 a route through Bamo to Yunnan was proposed. Sprey's plan aroused widespread interest among the British capitalists, who were eager to enter the market of southwest China, so the British authorities sent someone to survey the route in 1867, but it was discontinued before it was completed. Since then, public opinion in Britain has continued to call for the completion of the Spreoy route. In 1868, the British first explored the route from Bamo to China, and the pathfinder team once reached Tengyue under the occupation of the anti-Qing **** in Yunnan, and affirmed that this route was passable.

Not to be outdone, the French formed a reconnaissance team in 1866, led by Dou-dart de Lagrée and An Ye, to explore the possibility of entering China from the Mekong River (lower Lancang), but found that the upper reaches of the river were not navigable, so they turned their attention to North Vietnam in order to gain access to Yunnan here. In 1871, the French merchant J. Dupuis took advantage of the urgency of the local authorities in Yunnan, China, to suppress the **** uprising, under the pretext of purchasing arms on his behalf, to obtain the convenience of surveying the Red River, and personally confirmed that the river was a navigable waterway from Yunnan to the sea through Vietnam. However, after An Ye was killed, through the mediation of Lin Yizhe and Hong Jun, the French plan to invade North Vietnam and spy on Yunnan through North Vietnam was temporarily shelved.

However, the French operation to explore the Mekong caused great unease in Britain. In addition, in 1869, the United States completed the first transcontinental railroad and the Suez Canal was dug up, which Britain believed facilitated the trade competition of other countries with China; In order to maintain its dominant position in China and enter Yunnan before France, it paid more attention to the question of opening a land route from Burma to Yunnan. In the same year, the British opened a regular route from the Irrawaddy River to Bhamo. At this time, the British colonial authorities in India and Burma mostly advocated encircling the leaders of the **** uprising in Yunnan in order to take the opportunity to enter Yunnan, and they carried out activities for this purpose. But the final defeat of the **** perpetrators in 1873 disillusioned the conspiracy of the colonial officials.

In fact, during this period, Britain attempted to assert its influence in Tibet from India, suggesting that it had ambitions for the entire southwestern frontier of China. But the main focus of the British at that time was not Tibet, but Yunnan.

And Lin Yizhe, because he is familiar with the history of this stage, dug the pit early, and now, the British can be said to have jumped in!

By taking advantage of the pit of the Dian case, he could not only resolve the crisis caused by the Dian case and recover the rights and interests lost by the Qing government when it was forced to sign the "Yantai Treaty" in the original history, but also take this opportunity to knock a big deal on the British!

At this time, Lin Yizhe even felt that he should thank Margaret.

Margaret, you're finally hanging!

How many great things you have done with this head!

"Why are you laughing?" Xu Run looked at the corner of Lin Yizhe's mouth with a hint of a smile and asked.

"This is Li Boxiang's letter, sir, you can take a look at it first." Lin Yizhe said with a smile, "The British are in my hands!" ”

Xu Run didn't know that Lin Yizhe had given Li Hongzhang and Guo Songtao a secret letter of "something is happening" in advance, he took the letter and read it, and saw the words "Zhijun had foresight" in the letter, and knew that Lin Yizhe had already taken measures in the Dian case, so he relaxed a little.

Since learning the details of the Dian case, Xu Run has a keen premonition that this case will bring great trouble to China, but he doesn't know that Lin Yizhe has actually arranged this matter a long time ago.

"I'm afraid that this Dian case will still fall on adults in the future." Xu Run Zhengse said to Lin Yizhe, "This matter is extremely difficult to handle, and adults need to be more careful." ”

"How can Mr. feel that this case must be handled by me?" Lin Yizhe was surprised by Xu Run's keenness, but he still asked with a quiet smile on the surface.

"A while ago, the excerpts of the impeachment of adults were like snowflakes, and the past two days have suddenly stopped, do you know what the reason is?" Xu Run asked rhetorically.

"Xu is that they know that because the Queen Mother and Prince Gong have already made the country clear, it is useless for them to make noise." Lin Yizhe replied with a smile.

"Definitely! Definitely! Xu Run said a little anxiously, "My lord, all of them lost their voices, not because of the 'Dingguo is edict', but because they wanted the adults to handle the Dian case, once something went wrong, they could take advantage of the time to attack them!" ”

"I see." Lin Yizhe nodded, he thought about it, but he still didn't tell Xu Run all his arrangements, after all, the details of the Dian case now, no one in the whole of China knows more clearly except for him and the dead Ma Jiali, if he told Xu Run the truth, he would not be able to explain why he was prescient.

"I should take my reminder to heart." In order to reassure Xu Run, Lin Yizhe said, "This case can't fall on my head for the time being, with Lord Guo Yunxian taking the lead first, I am just preparing to deal with it in the future." ”

"According to the old man, this matter is extremely troublesome, and Master Guo is afraid that he will not be able to deal with it." Xu Run still said with a little worried.

Lin Yizhe remembered that Guo Songtao, who should have arrived in London at this time, should be able to know the news of the Dian case from the British, and looked at the box he gave him, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Sir, don't worry, I'm afraid that the show has already begun." Lin Yizhe smiled confidently and said.