Section 21: Partition

Yang Chao has long figured out this question, and the great powers did not carve up China in history, not because the Qing government had any deterrence, but because of their own internal problems, and at the same time, the Boxer Rebellion also made them see that the Chinese people were not so easy to rule. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Divide China, how to divide it, there are so many countries among the great powers, you have more shares, he has less, where is the clear division! Moreover, Russia and Japan are close at hand, Britain and Germany are thousands of miles away, and they have a scale in their hearts about who is most beneficial to carve up China, so it is impossible for the great powers to achieve a fair goal of dividing up China.

At the same time, the Boxer Rebellion also made the great powers see that the Chinese are not so easy to rule, not so tame as the Indians, these ignorant people at the bottom, but will blindly vendet foreigners, so how many troops do they need to rule this land and rule this country? Less is not enough to protect the colonists, to maintain the colony, and more where is there so much human resources.

Of course, it is not that the great powers did not have the ambition to carve up China, after the First Sino-Japanese War, everyone saw the weakness of the Qing government, and the partition followed, after Japan occupied Taiwan, Russia occupied Lushun, then the Germans forcibly occupied Qingdao, and the British inserted a bar between the Russians and the Germans to occupy Weihaiwei.

This series of carve-up tides has been called by the history books as the frenzy of imperial China carving up China.

However, after this frenzy, the heat of partition cooled down sharply, and it was the relief of two factors, the violent tendencies displayed by the Boxers, and the contradictions between the great powers.

At this time, these two factors did not change, so Yang Chao had reason to believe that Cixi's death would not cause a huge change.

The contradictions between the first powers were not resolved, the Russians occupied Lushun and Dalian, the Germans occupied Jiaozhou Bay, and the British occupied Weihaiwei. At this time, although Cixi is dead, the Qing government seems to be six gods and no owner, and it should be easy to divide it, but how to divide it is a problem that cannot be solved.

As the only great power connected to China by land, Tsarist Russia naturally wanted to carve up China. And this time, Tsarist Russia also sent the most active and largest number of troops, gathering 130,000 troops in the northeast alone, and the tsar considered himself the commander-in-chief. It stands to reason that with the tsar as the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, then the Eight-Nation Coalition should let him be the commander-in-chief, but Britain could not accept it anyway, and in the end only sent less than 1,000 Germans to be the commander-in-chief, and before he came to China, the Eight-Nation Coalition had been in Beijing for several months.

It can be said that it is precisely because the Russians are too active and the appearance is too ugly that the British are the first to stand up against the partition of China, because no matter how you look at the partition of China, the Russians have the most advantage, at least the vast northeast region is almost monopolized by Tsarist Russia, and who can guarantee that once the Tsar's huge war machine enters China, it will not annex China.

At this time, the Americans were only the last of the great powers in terms of military strength and international influence, and they had just fought the Perfect West War, and they had neither the heart nor the strength to fight with other powers, so they united with the British and proposed an open door policy, just wanting a piece of the pie.

Although the Germans had a strong army, their navy was not strong enough to support their colonial expansion, and if they did not do a good job, they could easily be persuaded by the British and Americans to support the open-door policy and obtain Shandong as a sphere of influence for temporary satisfaction. Of course, this is only temporary, and the Germans may not have waited for their own strength to have the ambition to dominate China and build China into the Indias of the Germans.

After the Franco-Prussian War, the French remained in the shadow of the Germans, lagging behind Germany in both population and economic power, and they had expanded to enough colonies, the second colonial power after the British, belonging to vested interests, they were happy to follow the policy of the British, to ensure the balance of the world. Therefore, the French have no mind at all, and do not think that they are capable of gaining the upper hand in the operation to carve up China, and they are willing to keep China intact for the time being.

Other countries such as Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Belgium are in the same way, and they have no power to interfere in China's affairs, and can only watch Britain, Russia, and Germany dominate China's destiny.

Japan is a country that is very ambitious, and the ambition is probably greater than any other country, dominating China can be said to be a national policy of theirs, but it is a pity that although they defeated the Qing Empire, but the great powers are not very recognized, this time to send troops to China, the Japanese are also extremely active, but at most they are showing their strength to Western countries, rather than planning to carve up together.

The Japanese know very well in their hearts that they are still unable to speak in the international arena, and what can really enhance their international influence and make the world regard them as a great power is the victory of the Russo-Japanese War, which is just like China's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in later generations, although it did not achieve much material benefits, but the increase in international influence cannot be underestimated.

Therefore, no matter how eager the Japanese were, they knew that the great powers would not allow them to cut another piece of fat on the map of China after they had just ceded Taiwan. Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return Liaodong, which had been seized in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, for example.

Therefore, although the Japanese have ambitions, they do not have the strength to carve up China, so they prefer to choose to keep China and leave it for them to enjoy in the future.

It can be said that in addition to the great powers, except for the Russian Empire, it is not in the interests of any other country to carve up China at this moment, and the Russian Empire has excessively revealed its ambitions for Northeast China this time, but has begun to stimulate other countries to unite to suppress Russia.

Of course, it is undeniable that the Boxers' blind vendetta against foreigners made Western countries begin to consider the cost of occupying China, and similarly, except for Russia, no country can have such abundant human resources, so after that, the great powers changed their policies in China and began to avoid direct contact with the common people as much as possible, and the missionary boom began to cool down.

After the foreigners understood this, they began to support the Chinese government as much as possible to indirectly control the Chinese people.

"There's only one question left!"

Yang Chao found that his killing of Cixi should not affect the overall situation of history, but he was very worried about the issue of compensation of 450 million silver, and those silver were not only the humiliation of one person or two, but also a noose on the Chinese, and the government did not have so much money, so it could only borrow from foreigners, and this kind of Yanwangzhai was not paid off until New China.

If China wants to develop its industry, then this huge reparation cannot be paid, and it is much better to use this money as the initial capital for industrialization than to turn it into a huge debt to foreigners.

"Mr. Yang, we're rich!"

After killing Cixi, Yang Chao couldn't help but think for a while, and was suddenly interrupted by a voice, and a soldier shouted loudly.

Yang Chao followed the prestige, saw a few soldiers, and found a few large and small boxes on one or two carriages, after opening, they were all gold and silver treasures, thousands of taels of gold and silver, walnut-sized beads, jade, jade Ruyi and so on.

"Hey, I'm really rich!"

When the Empress Dowager Cixi fled, it was impossible not to bring things, of course, if she was in too much of a hurry, she would definitely only be able to carry these convenient ones.

"Mr. Yang, what should I do with all this gold and silver?"

The soldiers only had gold and silver in their eyes, but the jewels did not care much, perhaps because they did not know the value.

Yang Chao is also worried about these gold and silver, divided?

To be honest, Yang Chao had ulterior motives for the Germans to train this army from the beginning to the end, and if these soldiers had divided the gold and silver, and everyone went back to buy land, there would definitely be no one to be a soldier, and he did not have full control of this army now. Now it's the end of the Qing Dynasty, and only when you have money and guns in your hands can you have power, and that's how Yuan Shikai started, so Yang Chao doesn't want to divide it.

But regardless of it, these people are eyeing each other one by one, and when the wealth is moving, they can't get the red eye to kill Yang Chao. "Mr. Yang, can I?"

At this time, the black bull laughed innocently, and he pointed to the group of women standing on the side trembling.

These are the palace maids of the palace, even if they are not Tianzi and the country, but they are drafted, and it is absolutely impossible to be ugly.

These women are all peasant women with good facial features, and they are also very eye-catching after looking at them for a long time.

They had just been pulled aside with a group of eunuchs and some injured people, and after discovering the treasure, the soldiers went to see the treasure, but they never dared to take the opportunity to escape.

Although the black bull also had red eyes, his eyes kept looking at one of the women, and finally asked Yang Chao.

Yang Chao's brain suddenly moved, and he laughed: "Good boy, you are a thief enough." Okay, I agree that you go and bring one and bring it home as a daughter-in-law. ”

The black bull answered, and ran over happily, his family was poor, he thought that he would be like the old bachelor in the village, he couldn't afford to marry a daughter-in-law in this life, but he didn't expect to meet here, he had already taken a fancy to one of the women, the woman stood in the rain and trembled, he looked itchy.

These soldiers are all seventeen or eighteen years old, and they are hot-blooded men who are bubbling white in the cold water, where can they not want women, but they have not thought about pulling them home as daughters-in-law, at this time, after the black bull got up, they also shouted.

"Okay, good, one person chooses one, go quickly, otherwise the beautiful ones will be picked away."

Yang Chao couldn't help laughing in his heart, he didn't know if the powers would divide China or not, he would let people divide these palace maids first.

But suddenly it turned out that there was one more person who did not go.

Horses take off.