Guan Xuqing also learned from them about the basic situation of building railways, such as surveying the land, after all, not all railways are built on the plains of Yima Pingchuan, especially to the west of Tongguan, which is full of mountains

After chatting until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Guan Xuqing hurriedly returned to the palace and immediately allocated 1 million silver dollars to the established railway department yamen for land survey, design railway lines and so on

Back at the Heart Cultivation Palace, Guan Xuqing was in a good mood, but he didn't expect that he had no intention of planting willows but finally got a positive result

"Your Majesty, the secret telegram of the Northeast Military Region" Wang Shang handed over a telegram

Guan Xuqing took the telegram, read it and scolded with a smile: "This Dong Liang grew up watching me, why didn't I see him so cowardly when he killed Cixi back then?" ”

It turned out that Dong Liang heard that the emperor was going to tour the south, and he did not let the local army escort him, and he did not clarify the route of the southern tour, but only took more than 200 imperial forest troops and dropped a guard regiment from himself, so he was anxious on the spot, and hurriedly sent a telegram to Guan Xuqing

The telegram said that either the First Division would be escorted, or the emperor would be asked to set the route of the southern tour, so that the local troops could arrange it in advance

Although Guan Xuqing scolded Dong Liang for being timid, he was warm in his heart, after all, Dong Liang was the main contributor to helping Guan Xuqing seize power, but for various reasons, the military power of the Qing Dynasty was finally handed over to Feng Xianghua, but Dong Liang didn't care at all, and still worked hard to do his job

In the palace of Prince Li, there is an endless stream of people coming and going

The shopkeeper of King Taiyuan Ji, who often supplies to the kings of the capital, has a smiling face when he sees people recently, can he not be happy? These days, Prince Li's Mansion wants more than double the usual things, not only the shopkeeper Wang, but also specially asked the guy who took the order if he remembered it wrong, the guy patted his chest and assured that he asked three times, there will never be a mistake, and the guy also said that he has seen a lot of fresh faces in Prince Li's Mansion recently, so he asked for more goods

Although the shopkeeper Wang felt strange, but according to his identity, where can he manage the affairs of the palace, and the goods are more, and the income is naturally more, it is really a thing that cannot be sought

The guy drove the car to the corner gate of the backyard of Prince Li's mansion, and the palace housekeeper who usually received them opened the door for them to see that there were too many things on the car, and the housekeeper waved his hand to let the subordinates go inside and called a few people out, and the guys of Taiyuan Ji often came and went in the palaces, but these people had never seen it, and at this time, they heard the sound of whirring and drinking in the backyard, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Hu Guan, what's going on in the palace, it's so lively"

The steward surnamed Hu turned his face when he heard this, glared at a few guys and said: "It's not good for you to know more about the affairs of the palace, so hurry back after unloading the goods."

A few guys hurriedly lowered their heads to move their things and stopped talking

Not long after, the goods on the car were moved into the palace by the subordinates of the palace, and at this time, a large lawn in the backyard of Prince Li was full of people, although they were all wearing the clothes of the people of the palace, but it can be seen from the neat queue that these people are by no means ordinary servants, in fact, their identity is the private soldiers of the palace

Due to the dismissal of the Eight Banners soldiers by Guan Xuqing, those princes no longer have military power in their hands, especially after the reform of the military system, all the troops were handed over by Guan Xuqing to the Ministry of War, and the political commissars set up in the army also ensured the loyalty of the army

These days, the palaces of several princes in the capital are full of people, and in fact, they are replacing the servants of the palace, replacing ordinary subordinates with soldiers of various banners

Prince Li Shiduo looked at the hundreds of soldiers in front of him with satisfaction, these soldiers have been carefully selected, there is no problem with being brave and capable, and being loyal, it is already quite difficult to pick out so many people, if it weren't for Guan Xuqing's always squeezing out the banner people, neither giving military power nor political power, and even the food and silver that the banner people stipulated by the ancestors could enjoy were deprived, and the emperor seemed to have suspected himself recently because of the embankment breaking, the looting of military camps by refugees, and the embezzlement of education funds. I'm afraid he didn't dare to get this far

The fortitude beside Shi Duo said at this time: "A total of seven hundred and eighty-one people, according to your orders, have all paid for the settlement of the family, just waiting for your order"

Shi Duo's face sank like water: "Don't let them go out these days, I've already received the news, maybe I can't do it in these days"

Resolute nodded

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In the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, between the Great Xing'an Mountains and the Changbai Mountain, there is an area of 350,000 wide plains, which is alluvial by the Liao River, the Songhua River, the Nenjiang River, the Heilongjiang River, the Ussuri River and other large rivers, in addition to the good irrigation conditions, it is also the most fertile black soil, as the so-called "with a hand to pinch straight oil, plug the roots of firewood and grass also sprout" there are only three such black soil in the world, one in the Ukrainian province of Tsarist Russia, one in the Mississippi River Basin in the United States, the other in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty of this black soil is the largest in the world

But for a long time, such a fertile land has been idle, suitable for forests and forests, suitable for pasture, and the fertile soil for planting grain is a bumper harvest, and there are only some pastures with low utilization rate, which is really a tyrannical thing

As for the land policy, Guan Xuqing did the opposite of the Chinese emperors, he did not inhibit annexation, but encouraged annexation, he even issued a decree that when a household owns a certain amount of land, tax exemption can be reduced, for this reason, the people almost set off a wave of land acquisition, and the price of land has also risen again and again

This has the same effect as the "enclosure movement" in Britain in those years, creating a large number of cheap labor who lost their land, although they have experienced several years of war, but because the main battlefields are abroad, it has not affected the areas of domestic economic prosperity, so industry and commerce have still developed rapidly, and the southeast coast with better basic conditions has begun to show signs of industrial revolution, and a large number of people have poured into the cities, injecting impetus into the development of industry and commerce in disguise

The annexed lands constituted a large farm similar to the Junkers manor in Germany, which no longer used the backward charter farming system of the past, but hired free peasants, who were no longer closely related to the land, and became employees of the farms, and due to the increasing demand for raw materials for industrial development, these farms began to concentrate on the large-scale cultivation of some cash crops, which also became the beginning of the cultivation of agricultural areas in the Qing Dynasty

But this land has been coveted by Tsarist Russia for a long time, and Shiduo dared to kill the king at this time also has his own plans, once he has already secretly contacted Tsarist Russia, as long as the emperor dies, and then the infant brother is killed, Tsarist Russia will come forward to let Zai Lian ascend the throne and claim the emperor at the cost of this 350,000 square kilometers of black soil

And at the very top of the Sanjiang Plain, at the junction of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, the place called Boli by the Qing Dynasty and Khabarovsk by the Russians, a flotilla of several gunboats and a dozen wooden boats sailed over

Several gunboats belonged to the Russian Heilongjiang Fleet, and at this time, a Russian ** officer who walked from the "Birobidzhan" led by him was already waiting on the shore and hurriedly greeted him

"General Enze, we're meeting again, are your people ready?" Russian ** official in long riding boots

Opposite him, a fat and broad officer wearing the uniform of a major general of the Qing army nodded and agreed, and said with a flattering face: "General Broske, this little thing also asked you to run over from the other side in person, it is really too troublesome for you My people are ready and are watching around"

Broske nodded and said, "General, you must try to transport these munitions as secretly as possible."

"Understood, understood......" The fat-headed and big-eared Enze said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, this neighborhood has been designated as a forbidden place, and what we do will never leak."

"That's fine, then we'll start ......" As he spoke, Broske asked his soldiers to bring down the boxes from several gunboats and a dozen wooden boats, these were Russian-made three-year-old rifles and bullets, and as for the artillery, even the Russian army itself lacked, of course, it was impossible to give it

To tell the truth, this Russian rifle is really not very good, neither as good as the German Mauser, but also as good as the rifle made by Daqing's own Hanyang Arsenal, these Russian-made munitions are used to equip the local security forces

But for the priests, it would have been nice to have access to these weapons at this time

The person in charge of this delivery alert is Tie Liang, the commander of the 153rd Regiment of the 51st Brigade of the 17th Division of the Northeast Group Army can be the commander of the colonel, this is really an extraordinary grace He also knows that this is the grace of Prince Li, in normal times, he must be grateful to Dade, but now......

Although the above has not been said, but with the intuition of the soldiers, he can also guess something, now the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia are tense, some time ago the brigade commander just came back from a meeting at the division headquarters and said that he wanted to keep an eye on Tsarist Russia, but now Prince Li was led by the military department and Tsarist Russia to do arms trading, and it was also when the emperor announced that he was going to tour south, it seemed that the rumors in the court that several princes and the emperor were not groundless, and it was almost time for the tip of the needle to deal with Maimang

But is the combined power of several princes as big as the emperor? Let's just say that the soldier in this hand, he is the one who leads the troops, this kind of thing knows that the military power is stable in the emperor, even if a few soldiers of the Eight Banners before the prince barely made up a hundred thousand, it is not the opponent of the Qing Army now, it is basically two grades, on the one hand, the fierce general who has survived a hundred battles, and on the other hand, the prince soldier who smokes opium

But Tie Liang is not stupid, he knows that there must be people around him staring at him, at this time, there is only one step at a time, if the incident can really be done, there will never be less among the heroes, if it is not successful, he has military power in his hands, and he can also act at the opportunity

Just when the undercurrents in the capital were surging and the clouds outside the gate were mysterious, the various forces that might have noticed this anomaly were busy at the same time, and everyone was busy with the emperor's southern tour, and Dong Liang also paid attention to the matter of selecting escort troops for the emperor

Guan Xuqing didn't expect that the catastrophe was just around the corner......