Chapter 198: South to Suzhou and Hangzhou
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In the dark, Guan Xuqing seemed to have a strange feeling, feeling that in the capital such a blatant research and manufacturing of aircraft will be discovered by the Germans, after all, the Germans now have many technical talents in the airship company in the capital, people will understand at a glance what the Wright brothers are doing there, in fact, he does not know what is happening in the capital, he is thinking about whether he can find some other excuse to cover up or simply put the research and development work in the remote countryside......
"Your Majesty, Lord Kang's urgent telegram from the capital" Wang Shang handed over the telegram and interrupted Guan Xuqing's thoughts
Guan Xu Qingzhong pulled his thoughts back and asked, "Well, is it the Zhengzhou prefect who confessed?" ”
Wang Shang said cautiously: "It seems that the foreign ambassador of the capital came to inquire about something."
Guan Xuqing took the telegram suspiciously and looked at it carefully
Sure enough, what he feared finally happened, and it turned out that Germany did not have direct contact with the imperial court, but condemned the United States for privately providing technical support to the Qing Dynasty, violating the cooperation plan signed between the two countries
The Americans directly asked the Qing Guo how the two Americans entered the Qing Dynasty, what technical support they provided, and asked the Qing Dynasty to provide the content of recent developments
"Hmph, it's too much of a deception, who I use to develop what content, do I still need to report it to foreigners?" Guan Xuqing threw the telegram aside and scolded angrily
Wang Shang hurriedly knelt on the ground, knocked his head on the ground, and said tremblingly: "The emperor is angry"
Guan Xuqing said to Wang Shang: "Spread my will, let Kang Youwei reply to the American ambassador, just say that the two foreigners they are talking about are not Americans but Germans, and they are only assisting the Qing Dynasty in developing airships, and the specific content can be asked to ask the German ambassador In addition, let Kang Youwei immediately transfer the Wright brothers to Xinjiang to find a flat terrain and less populated place for development, let Nie Shicheng send a regiment to guard, and all the students of Tsinghua University who participated in the design and manufacturing before will also go."
"Chirp"
Although on the surface, all the alliance agreements signed by the Qing Dynasty, whether with Germany or the United States, were equal agreements and did not have the humiliating unequal treaties in history, but in fact, the great powers still only regarded the Qing Dynasty as a country that had just grown up, and did not put the Qing Dynasty on an equal footing with themselves in the true sense, for example, what the Qing Dynasty was developing and what weapons it was, the great powers needed to understand it clearly, and they did not need to let the Qing know what they were developing. Only after they develop it, they can get a large number of orders and silver from the Qing Dynasty
The grenades, shells and mortars invented by the Qing Dynasty have caused the whole world to be shocked, and they will not let the same thing happen again, or rather, they hope that all the weapons developed by the Qing Dynasty will have their own participation, only then can they continue to have more initiative when cooperating with the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty will have a great dependence on themselves, and the effect that Wilhelm II wants to achieve now is that once the Qing Dynasty leaves Germany, it will not be able to obtain more advanced weapon resources, which is equivalent to losing the combat effectiveness of the troops, and the Qing Dynasty will not be able to leave Germany, When Germany came too far, the alliance between Germany and the Qing Dynasty was unbreakable, and while cooperating, Germany could still have more initiative
After dealing with the affairs of Henan, Guan Xuqing continued to go south overnight and rarely went out on patrol, he didn't want to stay in Kaifeng for too long, Guan Xuqing also learned that those temporarily opened porridge fields were all Kaifeng prefects paid out of their own pockets just to divert refugees, for the emperor's safety, the silver spent every day was like flowing water, if he stayed for another month, it is estimated that the prefect would go bankrupt and leave, He must have used other methods to get the silver out of the people, so Guan Xuqing decided to go south immediately
"Qi, as soon as I leave, the livelihood of these refugees will become a problem again, you draw up a charter, the imperial court will allocate some money to repair the embankment as soon as possible, and rebuild their homes for them, in addition, it is still the same sentence, if you are willing to go to Myanmar and Vietnam to farm, the imperial court will give the land and divert some refugees as much as possible," Guan Xuqing instructed
"Oh, I'll do it," Liang Qi turned around and left
Guan Xuqing continued to say to Wang Shang behind him: "Tell Feng Xianghua and Luo Ming, let's set off overnight and go to Hangzhou."
"Chirp" Wang Shang hurriedly ran out
Guan Xuqing and his entourage left Kaifeng overnight, originally Guan Xuqing also wanted to go to Xiashan again, where there must be many officials who are corrupt, but if so many officials are dismissed at once, not to mention that the official who took office is not necessarily a clean official, even if they are, they can't find so many people to make up for the vacancies of so many officials, and there may be problems with the normal management of the local government at that time, so Guan Xuqing can only open one eye and close one eye and go directly south to Hangzhou. It is hoped that the affairs of the governor of Henan and the prefect of Zhengzhou will sound the alarm for officials everywhere
Along the way, he received many telegrams from the imperial court
Since the U.S. government itself had not provided any technical support to the Qing Dynasty at all, it believed the words of the Qing Dynasty, and no one had seen the two Americans mentioned by Germany so far, but it was the airship factory jointly opened by Germany and the Qing Dynasty that made the Americans quite interested
Heinze reported to Wilhelm II everything he had seen in the capital, but only a day later, the place was empty and empty
In addition, Zhao Guangsheng, the prefect of Zhengzhou, finally gave up the repair of the river embankment issued by the imperial court, and Cai Kang, the governor of Henan, all of them were cleaned up, and as for the refugees, he didn't know anything about the trouble, no matter how Kang Youwei coerced and lured, he couldn't understand more than half of what he said
The matter came to an end, Zhao Guangsheng betrayed and beheaded all the family property confiscated, but the family did not suffer, all moved to Burma, and the court gave the land to become farmers there
After a long journey of half a month, he finally arrived in Hangzhou, and on this bumpy road, he also strengthened Guan Xuqing's determination to build a railway
Because this is a private visit to Weifu, the arrival of Guan Xuqing and his party did not alarm the local officials, the group only rested in the local inn and the guard regiment that had already dressed up as the people was to surround the entire inn inside and out three times, in order to protect the emperor's safety, Luo Ming even brought the urging class of the guard regiment to the inn, and all the food and drink of Xu Qing and the queen were responsible for the urging class
After coming to Hangzhou, I really felt what it means to have heaven, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou in the city, Guan Xuqing has integrated the whole person into the atmosphere of the city, due to the geographical location of Hangzhou itself, in the era of heavy industry in the southeast region is very prosperous, Hangzhou's shipbuilding industry, gun bureau is also very hot, in addition to silk, porcelain, tea and other things are special products Guan Xuqing tasted the authentic Longjing there, which is more mellow than the palace