273: We can also play force deterrence

Regarding the anti-Qing power, in fact, it did not cause much of a sensation within the Han army, and even most people just smiled slightly, and then they should do what they should do. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

They had already started doing the rebellion a few years ago, and it was just a little better on the surface.

And with the buffer of these few years, the soldiers of the Han army still look forward to seeing the fall of the Qing court in their hearts.

For nothing else, under the rule of the Han army, whether it was a recruit or a veteran, whether it was a peasant or a worker. The military commanders never withheld a penny from their salaries, and the factory leaders never once squeezed the labor power of the workers, and the common people were even more benevolent.

Although taxes such as war indemnities to be distributed to foreigners were added, under the rule of the Han army, the common people had more means to make a living.

According to the tax apportioned to the individual, in fact, as long as one person in the family is sent to serve as a soldier, it will take less than a year for the family to pay taxes.

And the most important point is that if a person becomes a soldier, he can reduce or exempt the benefits of tax contributions for one person in addition to the soldier, and this policy is equivalent to saving about six taels of silver for the soldier's family, which is placed in the reserve soldiers, which is equivalent to three months' military salary, and the regular army is also a half-month's military salary.

In this era, there is no such thing as a good iron and no nails, and good men are not soldiers, but now good men are vying to be soldiers, and if it is too late, it is still impossible to enter the army.

In fact, the people are not fools, and there are many people who can see the situation clearly. But now they are willing to go and pretend to be confused in their hearts.

Rather than let the Qing court, which exploited them endlessly, come back, it is better to let the Han army rule like this, at least, their lives are better, and they don't have to worry about some harsh government problems.

The people don't want much, as long as they are given a stable living environment, food and clothing at home, they don't want the best, as long as they can eat enough and don't freeze to death in winter.

Therefore, after the anti-Qing telegram was announced, it did not cause too much turmoil in the country as expected, and even the entire northern region behaved more calmly than usual, and even many people secretly hoped that the Han army could overthrow the Qing court as soon as possible, so that they would have no war, and they would no longer have to worry about the children who were soldiers at home.

December 25, 1903, the annual Christmas Day.

Those foreigners who are far away from their hometowns and drift away from the Far East are gathering together to spend this Christmas in the Far East.

For foreigners, Christmas is as important as the Chinese New Year.

It's just that this year, foreigners are not very comfortable.

The night before, on Christmas Eve, many foreigners got together and got drunk, and seeing that the situation in the Far East was getting worse and worse, these people could only take this opportunity to drink to relieve their sorrows, and in normal times, they did not dare to do so, for fear of delaying something important.

But no one expected that the next morning, when these foreigners had not woken up, Wang Sirui issued an anti-Qing telegram.

"Sir! Mr! Wake up quickly, something has happened......" A servant shouted Sa Daoyi from his sleep, at this moment, he couldn't care about Sa Daoyi's anger after waking up, he had to tell Sa Daoyi about it as soon as possible.

In his sleep, Sa Daoyi was woken up by a staggering shout, that feeling was very unpleasant, and he wanted to get angry, but seeing the servant's solemn expression, Sa Daoyi couldn't get angry for a while, so he could only ask with a trace of unhappiness: "What's wrong?" ”

"Sir, the Han Army just issued an anti-Qing telegram an hour ago." The servant said.

"What......?" Sa Daoyi was stunned suddenly, and his whole brain suddenly woke up, just like when he was drowsy, he suddenly almost encountered a car accident, and in just a second or two, his mind was more awake than usual.

Don't underestimate this envelope, the meaning of its connotation is by no means ordinary.

The failure to issue this telegram meant that the Han army would still abide by the rules of the game that had been laid down, at least on the surface, and the Han army was also a member of the Manchu court, and they had to abide by this rule as well.

But now that the anti-Qing telegram has been issued, then subjectively speaking, the Han army is equivalent to breaking away from the Qing court and being the enemy of the Qing court.

At this time, the foreigners had no reason to go to Wang Sirui again to ask for those war reparations, and let Wang Sirui admit all the benefits they had enjoyed in China before.

And who is Wang Sirui? At present, the actual controller of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he has already controlled most of China without issuing this telegram, and now he has issued this telegram, which means that in just a few days, the Qing Dynasty will collapse with a bang.

This is not a good result for foreigners.

What they needed was a complete China, but they didn't need a complete China led by Wang Sirui, they preferred that the ruler of the country be the Manchu court, so as to ensure that their interests were maximized.

But now, Isaac Daoyi knows Wang Sirui, and he will definitely refuse to recognize those treaties.

Seeing that there were only a few days left before the date for the payment of compensation, but now that this kind of thing had happened, Sa Daoyi panicked instantly.

"How dare he do that? Is he crazy? Sa Daoyi said with a look of surprise on his face, he couldn't believe it could be true.

"Quick, go tell the others, we need to meet soon."

"Yes, sir!" The servant quickly retreated, everyone knew the seriousness of the problem, and no one dared to mess with it at this time.

In fact, Sa Daoyi knew that it was too late, he only notified the farthest away, and then met several other people on the road who had gone to inform them.

Inside the house, there was a lot of smoke, and almost everyone had a cigarette pouch or cigarettes brought from China.

They don't smoke big cigarettes, but they're still interested in regular tobacco. At this moment, they can only rely on tobacco to relieve their worries.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we must come up with a way, we must stop Wang Sirui from doing this, otherwise, our interests in the Far East will not be guaranteed." Sa Daoyi tapped lightly on the table and spoke at first.

But what can we do now? We misestimated the situation, and we thought that under our interference, Wang Sirui would definitely have some scruples and would be forced to withdraw his troops from the southern front. His current strength is empty, and he has no ability to go further, but all of us are wrong, we seem to have forgotten a point, Wang Sirui never seems to like to play cards according to the routine.

In fact, from the very beginning we planned a route for him that was in our interest, but he did the opposite and did not follow the route we had set for him, and we did a lot of things in this that he did not want to see.

So here comes the question, excavators...... Cough...... We have been listed as enemy targets in his mind, now what are we going to do? Showing favor to him? Hope he will be able to abide by the agreement signed before? Or do we send troops directly to help the Qing court restore its rule, so that the Manchus will be completely reduced to our colony? Komura Shoutaro stood up and said.

Since the defeat of the Second Qing-Japanese War, Wang Sirui has refused to pay any war reparations to Japan, and even does not recognize a series of treaties that Japan has signed with the Qing court before.

This made the Japanese very unhappy, but there was no way, the army lost the battle, although the navy was strong, but the Han army did not have a navy, and the coastal areas were almost all the interests of the great powers, and the Japanese did not dare to bomb the coast easily.

What's worse is that Wang Sirui refused to compensate Japan, but the compensation for other countries did not stop, which also made other countries have no reason to put pressure on Wang Sirui, for the sake of the Japanese? They can't do it yet.

Without the reparations from China, the Japanese had almost wiped out all their family resources in that war, and the development of the country had come to a standstill, and the Japanese finally tasted the taste of defeat, and they were completely different from after the victory.

Therefore, Komura Shoutaro had only one task in the past year, to instigate other powers to start a war with Wang Sirui, and it was impossible to defeat Wang Sirui just by relying on the Japanese, and only by another coalition invasion, only by defeating Wang Sirui, could the Japanese restore their interests in China.

This time, it was finally Komura Shoutaro who found an opportunity.

"I think the first argument is still good, we can try to talk to Wang Sirui to see what his attitude is, if we can ensure our interests, then it is not impossible to acquiesce in this matter." Rou Keyi said.

Others nodded in agreement, and it wasn't a few years ago. The Great Powers simply could not afford to send more troops to the Far East to fight a war that seemed impossible to win.

The British fought in the Boer battlefield for three years, and this war completely wiped out the self-confidence of the British, if it is decided to start a war with Wang Sirui now, it is estimated that the British mainland will not even send a soldier, at most it is to send a little Ah San from India.

It is even more unlikely that several other countries will send heavy troops over, so only Japan and Russia can send troops over, but the number is also very limited.

As far as they know, Wang Sirui has almost a million troops in his hands, and if he wants to completely defeat Wang Sirui, how many troops do foreigners need?

It's not that they haven't calculated, it's not that they haven't thought about it, plus the previous events, the muscular strength displayed by Wang Sirui in the Second Qing-Japanese War has already played a deterrent role.

At least, no one from any other country is willing to send troops except for the Japanese, who are clamoring for revenge, and the Russians, who are boundless greedy for land.

The British were indeed prepared, but this preparation did not include the British Army, and they hoped to use the Japanese, Russians and Mongols to force Wang Sirui to compromise.

"Peace talks are the real way to solve the problem, but we must not let go of force, and I suggest that we should organize the naval and army forces to conduct exercises in the Bohai Sea, North Korea, and Hong Kong." Sa Daoyi said slowly, he had to put pressure on Wang Sirui.

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