Chapter Forty-Six: Make Big News
Chapter 46 is a big news
This is the case with the international community, which cooperates in confrontation and confrontation in cooperation, and does not play if it is not happy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe British are veterans of this game, and in the Napoleonic era, they united with Germany, Russia and other countries to form an anti-French alliance, and the French were desperate to death. Until the time of Napoleon III, the British supported the Germans, tearing the French from their position as the strongest in the Franco-Prussian War.
After the French knelt down and the Germans gained momentum to dominate Europe, the British began to encircle and intercept the Germans again. This is the case in Europe, and in Asia, the British are also playing this trick to the end, wanting to tear China apart like Europe.
Therefore, on the one hand, the British were cooperating with the Northwest Town Guard, and on the other hand, they were also arming Feng Guozhang, the remnant of Beiyang. Otherwise, why did Feng Guozhang arm an army of 200,000? Well, he seems to have grown tobacco soil in Jiangsu....
What happened in Liaodong was nothing to this world. The number of participants in the war was small, it did not last long, and finally it ended in a hurry. Except for the Japanese who nervously summed up the lessons learned, the people of other countries completely ignored this.
In the words of the Americans, it is "two yellow-skinned monkeys fighting", is there anything else to see in this?
In addition, the campaign also led to some changes in power in the city. Duan Qirui retired from the position of army chief, and most of the soldiers under him, except for those who changed their skins and collected taxes in Tianjin, were also brought to Liaoxi by him. Now the person with the most troops in Beijing has suddenly become Zhang Zhidong and Zhang Nanpi, who are ridiculed as "governing the country with a circle of friends".
This discovery stunned Zhang Zhidong for several days. The fact that he suddenly became the most powerful man in Beijing makes people very uncomfortable, and they will also feel a little restless. As the strongest man, of course, he wants to do something worthy of this identity.
However, Zhang Zhidong looked around and found that there were only three or two large and small cats jumping in Beijing. The only one whose status is above him is Li Hongzhang, who doesn't care about anything and just drinks tea and listens to dramas every day. Do you want to do a few things to call Li Hongzhang?
Zhang Zhidong pondered for a few days and found that this was not a good idea. Li Hongzhang is now looking at it, he doesn't care about anything, and government affairs are pushed to his subordinates. He had no reason at all, and there was no need to do anything against Li Hongzhang.
Then, lowering the standard a little, the biggest one in Beijing is Wang Shizhen, who took over as the army chief. But Wang Shizhen's title is just a name, and he can't control anything, so it's not interesting to scold him.
After all the calculations, there is no one in Beijing who is worthy of his Zhang Zhidong's action. Then, set your sights on the whole world..... All of China. Didn't the Northwest Town Guard help solve the problem of the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant? Then build a few more steel mills and multiply the country's steel production!
But as soon as the proposal was made out at the meeting, the people below began to pour bitter water. Now that the treasury is already capable of starving rats, where is there still money to set up a steel plant? What the? You said that you would ask the princes of the whole country to collect money? Don't, those Qiu Ba are all armed with guns, it's lucky not to rob us, and they still ask them for money?
Zhang Zhidong lost his temper and shouted that he would transfer troops from Hubei, but this was just a beautiful idea. Not to mention that now that the Hubei army has been divided and disintegrated a lot, even if all of them still listen to him, it is impossible for the Northwest Town Guard Mansion to let so many troops pass through their own territory.
Descend the Yangtze River and then go ashore on the sea route Tianjin? I'm sorry, but there are tens of thousands of troops on the edge of Beijing. As long as Zhang Zhidong dares to do this, the army in the northwest will immediately come over and wipe out these people in Beijing.
By the end, the subordinates were already in tears. Master Zhang, you are a big shot, and people will not do anything to you, but we just want to eat with a mouth, don't always want to make a big news.
At this time, Zhang Zhidong finally understood that this Beijing city was a big fire pit, and whoever came in would be groomed. But he was reluctant to let him give up the post of vice president and return to the northern district of Laowo.
Li Hongzhang is older than him, and his health is not good, if he doesn't work at any time, he can immediately transform himself into China's president.
Eating without meat and discarding it tastes like it is the current situation. Since Zhang Zhidong can't see it and can't let it go, he can only spend it in the big fire pit in Beijing City, in the position of vice president. Hearing that Zhang Zhidong finally dispelled the idea of making a big news, Li Hongzhang laughed a few times, and then picked up the teacup and continued to listen to the singing.
As time went on, the steel produced by the Japanese Hachiman Iron Works turned into battleships on slipways and guns in the arsenal. Iron ore mines from Daye and Kaiping were constantly being shipped to Japan, and money from Britain and the United States turned these resources into military supplies.
The Russians reacted to such an obvious attempt by the Japanese to prepare for war. This kind of shocking behavior made Chen Cheng's evaluation of the Russians even lowered. The Russian Empire now appears to be a strengthened version of the Manchu dynasty.
If it weren't for the fact that the Russian nation occupies the dominant position in this country, it would not be much better than the Manchus. Wen Tian Wuhuan, kings, ministers, and generals, are all rotten and unlikely. That is, the low-level soldiers still maintain the brave nature of the ice and snow, which makes this huge empire one of the great powers.
In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, most of the time, the higher the class, the more despicable, while the people at the bottom are much more direct and simple, of course, it seems that it is okay to call it barbarism. Those Russians, who professed Orthodox Christianity, were brutal and savage, and they were among the best soldiers in this world. In the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, the Russians, relying on bayonets and bravery, as well as huge numbers, entered Europe several times and established the prestige of "road rollers".
But in an age when sheer bravery did not solve the problem, the Russians no longer worked. Not to mention that the courage of the Japanese and Chinese is not inferior to that of the Russians. As long as they are organized, the Japanese and Chinese will not be worse than the Russians in terms of the army.
And if you talk about the quality of generals alone, the Japanese are even more unique in the world, and they can be regarded as the top part in the world. )