Chapter 295: Mad Nicholas II

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I can't stand it, I can't stand it. I can't stand it! I can't stand it anymore......

Guangxu sat on the stone fence by the lake, and he couldn't get up even if he was killed. The three women said that they wanted to visit the Summer Palace, and according to the benevolent words, she had never finished visiting the Summer Palace. What is unexpected is that Cixi has not even finished, she basically stays in the north of the lake, and she has not been to a few places in the south, it is still early today, so she just walks around as she likes."

Do you know how big this Kunming Lake is? Just walking around the lake for a day is not enough. Guangxu wanted to roar and ask the two queen mothers, but he didn't dare. In my last life, I came to the Summer Palace several times, and each time I went to a different place, so I couldn't finish this Kunming Lake, and you two old ladies wearing flowerpot shoes just gave you another day, and you couldn't finish this Kunming Lake. Guangxu looked at the huge Kunming Lake and trembled in his heart, because he must follow, this is the rule for a son to bring a new daughter-in-law to the door. Although Guangxu wanted to curse Wang Jiudan, who set this rule, he really had to walk around this Kunming Lake in front of him, and he had to change his two legs. Guangxu really hoped that Yang Zao'er would refuse, because she still had classes to attend in the afternoon.

But the woman in front of her, who was still touching her tears in the room just now, couldn't see any sadness on her face at the moment, and asked Kou Liancai to ask her to go to the university hall to ask her for three days off: "The daughter-in-law doesn't know the rules when she comes here, so she has to follow the two queen mothers to learn the rules of this palace these days." It's good to honor the Queen Mother in front of me. ”

"It's not okay to follow our two old women all the time, you have to go back to the emperor this night. As long as you can give birth to a big fat grandson as soon as possible, it will work better than any filial piety. ”

Guangxu looked at Yang Zao'er with a red face and agreed to come down. also said that she was a first-time wife and still needed more teaching from the Queen Mother. By the way, I also patted Cixi's ass with the words that my aunt is also a mother, judging from the smile on the face of the queen mother of the two palaces. This sycophant is extremely comfortable.

The Queen Mother is headed by Cihui, and she is at the forefront. Cixi was naturally half a step behind. And Yang Zao'er is even more obedient and one step behind. Women are really born actors. Guangxu followed behind with a sneer, listening to the three women in front of him. Although no one talked to him, Guangxu listened attentively at first, listening to the Queen Mother talk about the history of the Summer Palace, listening to Yang Zao'er talking about the happy things in her hometown, and listening to the two old ladies whispering to Yang Zao'er to teach the secret recipe for giving birth to a son, Yang Zao'er still blushed and glanced back at Guangxu from time to time.

Just a quarter of an hour later, Guangxu's mind began to wander into space, and after another quarter of an hour, Guangxu's divine consciousness was only on his legs. Finally, more than half an hour later. Guangxu couldn't hold on anymore because his legs were numb.

Kou Liancai wanted to knock his leg for the emperor, but Guangxu didn't let him. Maybe I'm afraid that I'll fall into a comfortable nest, maybe it's more comfortable to do it myself, anyway, Guangxu hasn't let others knock his legs and rub his shoulders for more than four years.

has been resting for a long time, Kou Liancai reminded the emperor in a low voice on the side: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces and the Queen Mother have gone away. Is it better for the emperor to keep up now? ”

"I don't need to, I didn't see people talking and laughing. It makes no difference whether I am there or not. Guangxu stretched his waist: "Busy all day, it's rare to be idle today." It's not bad for me to sit here and soak up the sun. ”

Guangxu's voice fell. A benevolent voice came: "The emperor can't walk this way?" ”

Guangxu looked up and waved his hand and said, "I can't walk, you go slowly, my son won't be with you." ”

"Then the emperor should rest well. Young people, don't be greedy at night. Cihui took Yang Zao'er's hand and said as she walked, "Queen." The mourning family was also young, and it was common for the newlywed to be greedy for joy. But the emperor's dragon health is also a major event of the country. The queen has to grasp this well......"

Listening to Cihui's words from afar, Guangxu's face was about to twist into a bun. Guangxu swore that he was so tired that he had absolutely nothing to do with greedy joy. This is purely psychological. Not to mention foreign men, nine and a half out of ten Chinese men have a phobia of shopping. This has absolutely nothing to do with physical strength and physical fitness.

The queen mother of the two palaces dragged the queen away, and Guangxu was happy to have a day of leisure. The warm sun shone on me. The warmth is extremely comfortable. Guangxu thinks that it is also a good choice to sleep in the sun at this time. Just to catch up on sleep, I did get a little shorter sleep last night.

Guangxu ordered to move a chaise longue, and he also took out his organ and wanted to play a song. But as soon as his hand slipped, the melodica fell into the lake. I can't blow it up when the guards catch it, so it seems that I can only make up for sleep now.

The recliner was set up, Guangxu stretched his waist, and he was about to lie down. Before the butt was next to the recliner, the guard came to report: Your Excellency Prime Minister has an urgent report. It stands to reason that today he took the queen to the queen mother to say goodbye, and if there is no particularly important matter here, he should not come to bother. Guangxu frowned, thought about it left and right, but didn't think of anything special, but said: "Biography-"

"Wechen Li Hongzhang has seen my emperor, long live."

"Tell me something."

"After the Japanese fleet converged warships built by Austria-Hungary in the Mediterranean. The size of the Japanese fleet has reached 25 ships. and entered the Suez Canal three days ago ......"

"This seems to have been reported a long time ago."

"Yes, the emperor, there are indeed countermeasures for the Japanese fleet, but the Japanese fleet is followed by another fleet. Since the Russian Far East Fleet was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty in the Battle of Tsushima, Russia has no warships in the Far East that can fight in the far seas. As soon as we received definite news, on the very day that the Japanese fleet entered the Suez Canal, Russia suddenly announced that General Yub would send Stepan Osipovy Makarov to take over the post of commander of the Russian Far East Fleet, and that two battleships, Alexander II and Nicholas I, would be transferred as the main force to reorganize the new Russian Far East Fleet. At present, a total of seven warships of the Russian Far East Fleet have set sail for the Far East. ”

"Uncle him—" Guangxu wailed in pain: "What's the matter?" Why was there no warning before Russia sent its fleet? What does the CIA do to eat?! ”

This Russian guy is clearly going to wait for the Qing Dynasty to lose both sides to pick up the bargain. Historically, Russia sent a fleet to the Far East only after calculating the time of the opening of the Far Eastern Railway, hoping to compete with Japan for control of Northeast China and Korea by sea and land. But now it is different, and Russia is impatient to send a fleet to the Far East. Just when the Qing-Japanese war was inevitable, a fleet of two battleships was sent to the Far East. Could it be that Russia does not look at the British face at all, and has to give the British eye medicine? Was Nicholas II crazy?

This is a completely new historical event. This is an event that has never happened before in history. Guangxu believed in his own judgment of history so much that he did not consider the fact that Asian history had been changed beyond recognition. Changes to the global division of power. Guangxu was also immersed in the original historical pattern of replacing Japan with the Qing Dynasty. Now history is different, and unexpected events caught Guangxu, who has always been full of confidence in the future, off guard for the first time. Familiar with the context of historical development is Guangxu's hole card, but now it is not? So how will this new historical event change the world now? How will the situation in the world change? Guangxu didn't know anything about it.

Guangxu, who didn't have the slightest idea in his heart, still didn't have a flustered expression on his face, thanks to the steady temperament he had cultivated over the years of governance. But at this moment, Guangxu's face was black, and Li Hongzhang could see it clearly. Guangxu asked the guards to pass the word to the two queen mothers and queens, and he took Kou Liancai out of the Summer Palace. Guangxu did not return to the State Council with Li Hongzhang, but only sent a message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to pay attention to the reaction of the Western powers, and the General Staff Headquarters made a new strategic assessment. But he returned to Yingtai and asked Kou Liancai to guard the door, and closed the door alone and went up to the third floor.

In the study, Guangxu moved his desk. Open the dark compartment in the corner. There was only one and a half large iron box in the dark grid, which was chained to an iron pillar on the wall. This was built by Guangxu secretly from the prison when he was building this main building, just to keep the secret of this place - all the events he remembered about the historical development that Guangxu recorded when he first came to this world. Guangxu must keep the secret that he is not a person in this world, and all the death row prisoners who participated in the cultivation of the secret grid were all executed. Many people, including Bao Rankou Liancai, knew that the main building had been secretly renovated by the emperor, but no one knew where it had been renovated. The reason why Guangxu will build a basement under the main building is to divert the attention of outsiders.

Now Guangxu opened the dark grid again, took out his own record, and flipped through it from beginning to end. According to their own records and the current international situation. Guangxu is sure that East Asia has undergone earth-shaking changes because of its own appearance, and successive victories have given the Qing Dynasty a little bit of voice in East Asia. However, compared with the international situation, the Qing Dynasty, which was still very weak compared to the foreign powers, was not enough to change the overall international situation. So what caused Russia to suddenly send a fleet to reorganize the Far Eastern Fleet? Historically, Russia eased relations with Britain in the Middle East by demarcating a border line, and signed Balkan and related treaties with the Ottoman Empire to ease the situation in Europe. Europe reached a period of relative peace. At this time, Russia, which had no room for development in Europe, set its sights on the Far East. But even so, Russia's development into the Far East was extremely slow, and the Far Eastern Railway was not opened to traffic until 19o4. The newly sent fleet also arrived in the Far East at this time. Although the Qing Dynasty, which was weak at that time, infiltrated it, the fortifications of various forts, including Lushun and other places, were not completed. Even Nicholas II made it clear that time was the best ally of the Russians, and he did not want to rush into war against Japan.

But that's not the case in today's world. The Qing Dynasty wiped out the main military forces of the Russian Far East on land. At sea, the Russian Far Eastern Fleet was completely annihilated, and after the shelling, Vladivostok, which was like a ruin, was still full of broken walls and broken tiles, and the bombed Far Eastern Railway was still being repaired, and even the mines in the harbor had not been cleaned up. The new Russian Far Eastern Fleet could not even find an anchorage at this time, what made Nicholas II make a seemingly crazy decision? Britain's international policy was still a policy of regional balance, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, Britain would support Japan in rebuilding its navy, regardless of the opposition of the Qing Dynasty and the possibility of losing its interests in China, because the British wanted to balance the power of the Far East. At this time, Russia sent a fleet into the Far East, and once both the Qing and Japan were defeated, Britain would have to face the Russian threat head-on, which was not something the British wanted to see. It's already strange that the British didn't speak at the first time? So what's going on in Europe?

Guangxu recalled the historical context and carefully analyzed the existing world situation. It is believed that in addition to the impatience of Russia to regain its status as a great power after the defeat of both Qing and Japan, it is not found that Russia's sudden move has any other significance.

After Guangxu made up his mind, he put away the records, set up the desk, and turned to leave the main building. In the confidential conference room of the State Council, Guangxu, Li Hongzhang, Ouyang Zhenhua, and Wang Shizhen sat at a table and listened to Tang Shaoyi's report on the reaction of the European powers to Russia's dispatch of fleets to the Far East.

"On the very day that Russia announced that it would send a fleet to the Far East, the British Prime Minister summoned the Russian minister to Britain and bluntly said that Russia was aggravating the situation in the Far East by doing so. But the Russian minister rejected Britain on the grounds that Tsarist Russia no longer had a single warship on the Pacific coast that could protect the coastline. Although the British side did not refute this reason, it also proposed that Russia should not send battleships to the Far East, and Russia has not yet replied. Germany did not express any opinion on this, but the intelligence services found that the warships docked at Wilhelmshaven had suddenly increased their supply capacity in recent days, and some battleships that had not yet reached the maintenance period suddenly entered the port for maintenance. Therefore, we believe that if Britain could not prevent the Russian battleships from entering the Far East, Germany might also send battleships into the Far East. The French side also expressed only concern that France had only one colony in the Far East, Annam, and did not have sufficient military strength. But we think France will be happy to see that happen. In this way, the pressure on Britain in the Far East will increase greatly, and it will inevitably send more forces to the Far East, so that the competition between Britain and France for the African colonies will be more advantageous to France. As for Spain, the Netherlands, and other countries, although they have opinions, they really don't care much, because their colonies are all in the south. And Italy, Austria-Hungary and other countries that do not have colonies in East Asia, they report the mentality of watching the excitement. Only the United States reacted extremely strongly, and the United States suffered huge losses in the Qing-Russian War and did not receive compensation, and although the United States did not continue to invest in China's three northeastern provinces, it still had a lot of original assets, and the United States has officially raised its opposition to Russia. According to reliable sources, the US Congress has called for the strengthening of the Pacific Fleet and submitted proposals for the construction of new battleships, which are said to be four. ”

"Hey, the Yankees just have money, four battleships, plus other auxiliary ships, this is the size of the entire Chinese Navy." Guangxu sat on the top and sighed. The United States is really bullish, and it is good that the economy and industrial capacity are strong. But Guangxu asked rhetorically: "The Sino-Japanese war in the Far East is about to break out, and all the powerful countries in the world are waiting for the results of the decisive battle between China and Japan to decide the Far East policy. Sending a fleet to the Far East at this time will not treat the Russians regardless of the future war between China and Japan. For the sake of a little Far Eastern interest, Nicholas II was so impatient to send a fleet, did he really completely ignore the thoughts of the rest of the world? What I want to know is, what are the Russians trying to do by doing this? Was Nicholas II crazy? ("China Sky" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 1oo% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoo" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)