Chapter 206: There will never be a free lunch in the world
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To tell the truth, this kind of establishment of the Weihai Special Zone is also a fatal matter for the Russians, and they are also facing considerable pressure and tests.
The reason why Cixi issued this edict in the name of the little emperor of Tongzhi, who could not even say a whole sentence, let alone "thought about it again and again", and which would soon cause a sensation in the capital, was able to come out precisely because of the unanimous appeal of the members of the "inspection group" and the theoretical agitation of Li Hongzhang, Rong Lu, Qi Ying, and Hua Shana, who was promoted to Minister of Military Aircraft and Household Secretary because of the successful issuance of the "Great Qing Dragon Coin" like waste paper. Of course, the huge power of the pillow wind cannot be discharged, isn't it that some people often like to say, women will become cruel because of love, and at the same time they will be willing to give their own qiē because of love.
In fact, even Muravyov, Bodhyatin, and Ignatiev did not expect that the establishment of the Weihai Special Zone was because someone wanted to put a shackle on them. These people are not those big guys and big people, but the emerging political forces headed by Li Hongzhang.
The central idea of Li Hongzhang and other theorists who really impressed Cixi and several major bureaucrats in the DPRK and China was to temporarily borrow the greed of the Russians and use a small place in Weihai to completely drag the Russians into the water and trap the Russians. In their minds, since the Russians were involved in the administration of the region, they could not sit idly by and watch the local economy fall into ruin. People want to save face, and the Russians are the same, when they have pressure, they naturally have to find ways to invigorate Weihai and make great changes in Weihai. In this way, the irreconcilable contradictions between the Russians and the people of Jiaodong were alleviated. As long as they get the sweetness from the Russians, they will immediately heal their scars and forget the pain, and they will closely chase after the Russians' butts and not relax. This is a great thing that kills two birds with one stone, and it will also find a shortcut for the true revival of the Qing Dynasty in the future.
It's a pity that Li Hongzhang was able to calculate the fate of the Chinese, but he did not count the Russians well. The Tsarist Russians only recognized interests and were shameless. They are not as good as Li Hongzhang imagined.
The Tsarist Russians made do with it, and they had no intention of calling for a strong China to appear around them. But even if they make do, they can't recruit so many "professionals" for a while.
As a result, Barushka and Dasamov invented a way of selecting officials, that is, taking the list of officers and soldiers, talking to soldiers who might be "talents".
Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be one joke after another among such election officials. It is said that there was a joke among the electors who were looking for a consultant in Wendeng County who was responsible for managing environmental sanitation. In the eyes of the Tsarists, the people's awareness of hygiene here is too poor, and they must be taken care of. However, I couldn't find a suitable talent after many selections, and finally found one after several tosses, and the reason is very simple, that is, this soldier was a prisoner who was locked up in a prison before coming to China, and was responsible for cleaning the pits. When his appointment was issued, the battalion full of Russian officers and soldiers laughed, it turned out that this guy was a well-known sloppy soldier, and lice would roam around his body in broad daylight, which made the officers and soldiers of the same team extremely disgusted.
As soon as the Weihai Special Zone was established, the first thing these Tsarist Russians who could already eat the Manchu Dynasty was to hurry up and build an Orthodox church. Second, they coerced the officials of the SAR government to borrow money everywhere, and even blackmailed the wealthy families to donate money and materials, built several new schools, and carried out compulsory "free and compulsory education" for three years, thus starting the work of popularizing the Russian language in the SAR region. Men and women, young and old, don't speak Russian, and you can't go to church. Even the official documents issued by the government of the Special Administrative Region or delivered to the Russian military bases were all in Russian, and Russian became the official language of the Weihai Special Region.
If anyone dares to disobey the above orders, if the officials are naturally too easy to say, you will immediately roll up the covers for me and leave, the Tsarists will not believe it, and there will be officials who are unwilling to come with such a generous treatment here? As for the common people, there is also a way to deal with the common people, and that is to suspend your certificate of good citizenship (pay attention, friends, this kind of certificate of good citizenship is different from the certificate of good citizenship invented by the Japanese, which everyone knows. The certificate of good citizenship here not only has the function of household registration, but also has the function of being called a border guard certificate by later generations). Without the certificate of good citizenship, ordinary people can't go out of their homes, let alone farming, working and shaving.
After that, it's not about building, it's about economic plunder. According to the grand development blueprint drawn up by the Tsarists for the Weihai Special Zone, the vast majority of the special zone's future financial revenue must first be used to import a large amount of equipment from Russia (in fact, it is in tatters, and they themselves are crazy poor in China, and it is no better than the Manchu Qing Dynasty).
Fortunately, three months later, Weihai was recovered by the heroic Celestial Red Army, otherwise it is hard to imagine what Weihai would have developed into with the connivance of the filthy Manchu colonial government.
Writing this, the little woman herself began to be a little confused. Since Cixi wants to be an open model, why didn't she choose Lushun? After thinking about it for several days, the little woman finally figured it out. In the end, Cixi is still smart, when Cixi listened to the high talk of Li Hongzhang and other theorists, she actually had a more vicious idea in her heart.
What did the Holy Grandfather of Qianlong do to use the "Siku Quanshu" to achieve the huge move of completely destroying the civilization of the Han nationality, in her eyes, it is simply pediatrics. She was thinking, isn't Shandong the hometown of your Han supreme ancestor Kong Laoer, okay, then I will change you from the roots. Although Kong Laoer's idea is only a few of the most rubbish things left, and it has indelible merits for her colonial rule, Na Cixi is also uncomfortable.
Because, when she thinks of the second Confucius who is sitting in the ancestral hall of the Confucian family in Qufu and the Confucian temples in various places, she will smoke in seven senses. She hated it, if it weren't for this bastard Kong Laoer, she would have become the emperor a long time ago.
Therefore, Cixi just wants to use the greed of the Russians to her advantage, starting from Shandong, it is best to use a short time to make the damned Kong Lao Er disappear from the earth forever, others will not say that she is willing to do this, she has thought about it, and when that day comes, she will definitely pretend to be extremely uncomfortable and personally issue an edict to mourn Kong Lao Er.
Sometimes, she even regrets it to death, why did she just ask those mud-legged "red bandits" in the south to shout the slogan of "women's liberation" first, otherwise, she also wanted to put forward this slogan, but unfortunately, it was so late. Alas, what the enemy likes, I will resolutely oppose it!
Pity? She has a lot of things to regret in the future.
However, the first thing Cixi needs to pity now is that her partner is not angry. The Russians do not understand the economy at all, otherwise it would not have failed everywhere, otherwise the domestic economy would not have been in repeated decline, and otherwise there would have been no serfdom that was even more backward than her in the Qing Dynasty. If her partner were to be more gentle, to another "civilized country" that would first give you a sweet date and then smack you with a big mouth, the result might be much more difficult to say. At least there will be more Han Chinese, or Chinese, who can be proud of those foreigners, at least when the Celestial Red Army arrives, it will not be like now, everyone treats the Tsarist Russia as a broken drum, and it is a person who will go and knock it.
Of course, the most regrettable thing is that Cixi met a person she should not have encountered, that is, Lin Haifeng, who actually led the Red Celestial Empire. It is no wonder that many people in later generations like to say that even if the Chinese nation does not have Confucius, nothing will be affected, but if there is no generalissimo Lin Haifeng, then the Chinese nation will never have its own steel backbone! Listen, this is the voice of the people.
In this way, in more than a year, Wendeng and Rongcheng, which originally had a population of nearly two million, or Weihai Special District, are now less than 100,000 people left. Such a tragic situation, not to mention the people of Jiaodong, even the local officials and wealthy families of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who had helped Tsarist Russia at the beginning, were all shocked and shuddered.
What foreigners bring will definitely not be real civilization, but a blatant trampling on their own national civilization, whether they are friendly at the beginning or brutal at the beginning, the result will always be the same.
In fact, in this world, there will never be a free lunch.
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