Chapter 205 It is hard for anyone to imagine that Weihai has actually become a special zone
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The constant appearance of deserters, or the soldiers who dared to sneak out in search of "cheap" soldiers, were constantly killed by some secretly organized revengers, and the Tsars turned their anger on the inhabitants of the coastal areas. Often, as long as the corpses of Russian soldiers are found in a certain village or near the village, or even in the vicinity of the sea where the corpses of Russian soldiers are found, they will be sacked by the Tsars. When the first phase of the Weihaiwei project was basically completed at the beginning of this year, almost all the villages near the coast in Rongcheng were intact, and the north and south areas near the Weihaiwei Navy Port had already become a no-man's land.
The tragic thing is not only that, from Fushan to Wendeng and Rongcheng counties under the jurisdiction of Ningzhou, I don't know when there began to be so-called ports established by Tsarist Russia on the coast, and all fishermen who go out to sea must pay them a "fishing tax", otherwise the Allied ships at sea will not guarantee the personal safety of those who go to sea. For a time, all the poor fishermen who relied on the sea for food had another exploitation, and the coastal area of Jiaodong became a cash cow for Tsarist Russia.
The construction of the Weihai Naval Port was the so-called unilateral investment of Tsarist Russia, but the accumulation of the blood and flesh of hundreds of people in Shandong. For the sake of the progress of the assault, no one counted, and no one wanted to count how many miserable laborers were buried forever with the cornerstone in the depths of Weihaiwei's forts, or in the tunnels. Except for the majority of the survivors who participated in the construction of auxiliary facilities such as wharves, docks, power plants, and locomotive factories, all the laborers who participated in the construction of so-called secret projects such as forts, arsenals, and cantonment tunnels have not been heard from at all since they were arrested and left their homes.
This is the so-called Russian input carried out by Muravyov, Barushka and Dasamov, the Russian invaders of Tsarist Russia.
It's a chaotic time. In order to save the fate of its demise, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty firmly grasped the life-saving straw of the foreigners, or the Russians to be precise, and did their best to be servile.
Just as the first phase of the Weihai Naval Port project was coming to an end, the Qing Dynasty organized a group of Manchu princes and ministers, Beizibeile and other wealthy men to visit and inspect the magnificent Weihai Naval Port built with the selfless assistance of their Russian allies.
They couldn't help but faint when they looked at the heavily walled and unusually beautiful and beautiful Mighty Navy Harbor that appeared in front of them almost like a trick, and at the mighty and majestic Russian warships (of course, the Russians would never tell them about their pitiful appearance in the repeated battles with the Red Navy of the Celestial Empire in the Yellow Sea), living in luxurious "barracks" and eating Russian dishes and bread cooked with caviar by their allies. Foreigners are really invincible in the world, and with such an impregnable military port guarding the sea frontier for the Qing Dynasty, they can have no worries.
However, if you think about it carefully, compared with the arrogant Tsarist military officers, the broad guys and young men feel as if they are missing something, what is missing? Seven days later, when the visitors set out on their way home on the warships of their Russian allies and flaunted their knowledge by saying a few stiff and broken words of so-called Russian, they suddenly understood that what they lacked was foreign culture.
At least more than half of them are feeling regretful, alas, if it were not for the fact that the Qing Dynasty was about to go crazy and poor, if the imperial court could pay the money, everyone would go to the real Russian or Western powers for field investigation and investigation, it would definitely be more affordable and comfortable than to see Weihai alone. Alas, China is too earthy, China is too dirty, China is too uncivilized and cultureless, and the so-called splendid history of civilization that the Han people liked to boast about in the past is actually just Lao Wang selling melons and boasting about himself.
As soon as the delegation returned to the capital, Cixi smiled with satisfaction when she had listened to the reports of these people in detail, drew a large circle on the case in front of her with her jade fingers, and immediately summoned her advisor, His Excellency Prayatin.
So, before the Weihai Navy Port was officially built, the minister of Qincha and the president of the Loyal and Righteous Salvation Army, Wang Yixun, came.
Yi Xun summoned officials from Shandong Province, Dengzhou Prefecture, and Ninghai Prefecture, and read out a holy decree from the little emperor of Tongzhi in front of the Russian officials headed by Barushka and Dasamov. This errand was originally arranged for Cixi to the parliamentary Wang Yixin, who had completely become a good person, but Yixin, who was depressed and abnormal due to her estrangement from the Queen Mother, had no choice but to hand over the errand to this even more nominal Yixin.
This is a holy decree that is unimaginable to all the Manchu officials present," ...... In view of the true feelings of the princes, nobles, and court officials I sent to Weihai to inspect some time ago, in view of the misunderstanding of the people of Dengzhou towards the Russian allies, in order to truly reflect the friendship between the Qing and Russia, and in order to develop the barren Jiaodong, after careful consultation between me and the ministers of the DPRK and China, from now on, the two counties of Wendeng and Rongcheng, which originally belonged to Ninghai Prefecture, were divided out of Ninghai Prefecture and established a separate Weihai Special Zone. The establishment of Weihai Special Zone is a groundbreaking event, no one has ever come before, and it is another great feat after the outstanding cultural and martial arts of the two holy grandfathers of Kangxi and Qianlong.
For the sake of prudence, the newly established Weihai Special Zone is temporarily directly under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Affairs Premier's Yamen, and all officials are appointed by the Foreign Premier's Yamen, and the rest are not to be left to their own devices. I thought about it again and again, the main reason why our Qing Dynasty became more and more barren and backward was that the thinking of the people in the government and the opposition was not civilized enough, and Yelang was arrogant, and he was obviously inferior to others, but he regarded foreigners as foreign objects and advanced technology as ghosts. At the same time, this is enough to prove the ignorance of the people of the Qing Dynasty and the degeneration of culture. Looking at the Qing Dynasty and the opposition in our country, there is no one who is good at the technology of foreigners, proficient in the excellent management methods and good management methods of foreigners. Therefore, I hope that the Weihai Special Region can set an example for the Qing Dynasty, and that its people should conscientiously study the advanced civilization and excellent culture of the foreigners, mingle with the Russian allies, become one family, completely abandon the original decadent and degenerate culture, and find a good way for the economic take-off of the Qing Dynasty, so as to serve as a model for other regions in the future. I hope that the officials and gentlemen of Weihai will understand the hardships of the country, and strive for the rejuvenation of our Qing Dynasty and the complete elimination of the scourge of the Red Bandits......"
In fact, a discerning person can know at a glance that this is definitely not the original text of the holy decree of the little emperor of Tongzhi. Here I want to explain that because the original text of the holy decree compiled by the Manchu Hanlin at that time was too red tape, and few people may not be able to understand it when it is written in its original form, so the holy decree of the little emperor of Tongzhi written here is a vernacular text that was later compiled and published by the Celestial Empire. But rest assured, this article is definitely written in accordance with the original text, and many linguists have been hired to translate it word by word and meticulously, and absolutely no one has tampered with the meaning of even one word.
War is only a means, it is a continuation of politics.
What does the new Weihai Special Zone look like? Although it was short-lived, it only lasted less than three months, which is so short-lived, but now it is necessary to tell you in detail about the system of the Weihai Special Zone. Because it determined the great process of the Red Army of the Celestial Dynasty to recover the Weihai area in the future.
The head of the Weihai Special Region is called the Governor, and he is a member of the Zhengerpin Imperial Court, and his high position can be seen. The governor of the special district is also the commander of the Weihai garrison.
Speaking of which, it is not difficult for everyone to imagine that just by the names of the above two institutions and the Weihai Special Zone, anyone can think that they will definitely not come from the brains of the Manchu Dynasty Hanlin or cabinet ministers or anything, even the genius Li Hongzhang will not have this kind of word in his head, obviously these are all from the Forbidden City's senior advisers, it is a foreign product.
The government of the Weihai Special Administrative Region has a large group of Russian advisers, from the governor to the lower counties and townships. When it comes to the garrison headquarters of the special region, it is even more of the world of the Russians, and the total number of Manchu garrisons in Weihai is not enough for 1,000 people, so it is conceivable that the garrison task can only rely entirely on the Russian allies, and the army commander in charge of land defense, Colonel Dasamov, naturally acts as the chief adviser of the Weihai Special Region.
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