In the blink of an eye, in the fifth year of Guangxu, Zuo Zongtang had recovered most of the territory of Xinjiang Province at this time and was preparing to recover Ili by force. The people of Xinjiang Province burned incense and worshiped him.

Tsarist Russia's old Maozi just fought a war with the British, French, and Ottoman coalition forces in Crimea, Crimea was just annexed to Russia from Ukraine this year, close to the Black Sea, when Tsarist Russia did not have Putin, just embarked on the "evil road" of capitalism, the strength was weak, Britain and France and other coalition forces dispatched more than 60 warships, more than 60,000 soldiers and 3 siege artillery regiments, and drove Lao Maozi out of the Black Sea.

Lao Maozi saw that the British and French strong ships and cannons were not easy to provoke, so he wanted to find a soft persimmon to pinch, he thought that the Qing Dynasty was more backward than Tsarist Russia, and he didn't want to meet the old man Zuo who carried the coffin and went on the expedition. Zuo Zongtang's character is not very good, but he is absolutely good at fighting, and when he is the most awesome, the minister of the court recommended him to the Empress Dowager Cixi and said: "The world cannot be said to be without Hunan, and Hunan cannot be said to be without Zuo Zongtang." Zuo Zongtang's Hunan army was stationed in Hami at that time, and Tsar Alexander II specially invited a German technician Fokker to the barracks to have a look.

As soon as Alexander II heard that the pressure was great and that Russia would be defeated, he hurriedly begged for peace talks with China. Prime Minister Yamen was selected to be selected, and sent Chonghou to talk to Lao Maozi, this old guy had a few glasses of vodka, and then he was dizzy, and he wanted to give Ili to the Tsar, and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces was furious when she heard the news, exiled him, and sent Zeng Guofan's son Zeng Jize to talk, so that Lao Maozi could be done.

Zuo Zongtang returned victoriously, and he was even more coaxed, he didn't even get into the Jinshi exam, and the Empress Dowager Cixi made an exception to seal him Kejinghou, and she wanted to pull him into the military plane. Li Hongzhang has not been idle in the past few years, vigorously strengthened the construction of the Beiyang Naval Division, ordered the "Chaoyong" and "Yangwei", and also sent Li Fengbao to Germany to customize the "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" ships.

The "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" ships were very awesome and cost China 3.4 million taels of silver. In particular, the "Dingyuan" ship, which is an ironclad ship, is 94.5 meters long, 18 meters wide, has a displacement of more than 7,000 tons, armor thickness of 12 to 14 inches, a speed of 14.5 knots, and a gun caliber of 305 mmThe firepower of the ships "Yangwei" and "Zhenyuan" also doubled.

But it's a pity that the Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong were busy with infighting, and Li Hongzhang quarreled with Weng Tongyi several times in the court, and the silver from the household department only arrived, and the large warships took a long time, and these four ironclad ocean-going warships had to wait for two or three years before they arrived.

He said that he had always acted relatively quickly, tightened his belt, shrunk his clothes and dieted and saved a lot of money to buy three ironclad warships in Britain, the "Fuso", "Kongo", and "Hiei", each of which could carry 1,350 soldiers, and the battleships at that time were generally equipped with four 12-inch guns. state, modified after the installation of 14-inch guns twelve guns. Taking advantage of the fact that the Chinese [***] ship had not yet returned to China, he said that he was one step ahead and occupied Ryukyu by force. Although Liu Mingchuan was in Taiwan, he could only swallow his anger for the time being, watching him take Ryukyu King Shotai to Tokyo and shamelessly relocate Ryukyu to Okinawa Prefecture.

Li Hongzhang's shogunate was the cradle of the Qing Dynasty to train officials, of which there were 20 officials and governors, and more than 10 people served as envoys abroad. At that time, Song Xiao flew into Li Hongzhang's staff for four or five years, under Li Hongzhang's words and deeds, all kinds of officialdom unspoken rules and relationships are like a fish in water, but he took the imperial examination again, this time the thinking is no problem, but the writing is not standardized, plus his brush writing is too ugly, or not admitted, the career is still in place, only on the battlefield can make contributions, so Song Xiaofei asked Li Hongzhang to fight: "Now that I have occupied the Ryukyus, Taiwan is guarded by Liu Mingchuan, and they dare not act rashly." The next step is that my target must be North Korea, and I ask to bring troops into North Korea to be stationed in case there is a change. ”

Li Hongzhang knew that before Yuan Baoheng died of illness, he had spent money to donate a seven-grade Xiaojing official in the Chinese calligraphy department to Song Xiaofei, and he also wanted to find an opportunity to let Song Xiaofei take charge of himself and make contributions, but sending troops to North Korea could not be unknown, so he asked Song Xiaofei to wait.

After waiting for half a year, the opportunity came. There was a coup d'état in North Korea, and the emperor of the courtyard, Yi Yuying, that is, the father of Li Hee, the father of Gaozong of North Korea, and the father-in-law who was squeezed out by Concubine Min, was in trouble. The status of the king of the courtyard is very similar to that of Prince Alcohol, he is not at ease to be an idle king, and this time his rebellion is very thunderous: Concubine Min cuckolded his son.

There are no facts, that's easy to do, rumors are more disseminated than facts, he sent people everywhere to say: In the first year of Guangxu, Concubine Min went to Liu Mingchuan's military camp, and the two met alone for an hour and did something reluctant. In order to sit on this matter, Dayuanjun found an old man who told the story and made up the story with a sense of scene: Concubine Min took the initiative to take off her coat, bent down to pick up a handkerchief to hook up with Liu Mingchuan, and shouted "Smecta" in her mouth, the posture of the two was an old man's cart, it is said that Concubine Min's cry was very numb, and the cry was very loud, and the three thousand Royal Forest Army outside the barracks heard it. In addition, Concubine Min personally said that she had an eye-to-eye with the instructor who trained the Korean palace guards, and personally brought them sushi and spring water.

Suddenly the public opinion in North Korea exploded, at that time, the concept of chastity of North Korean women, learned from the big brother in China, the scholar advocated abstinence on the surface, but in fact, the imagination of the lower body was richer than that of himself, and the ministers who supported Concubine Min in the court originally thought that they were following the goddess, but they didn't expect it to be a green tea, and they were heartbroken and hung themselves for poison.

However, the coup d'état of Dayuanjun was successful, and because of the corruption of the Min Concubine group, the people's resentment boiled. During the Guangxu years, after Concubine Min came to power, she pulled her poor relatives Min Tai Ho and Min Qian Ho to the imperial court as officials, and most of the officials in North Korea believed in Min, and now the stupid Jin San Fat has not done this, the seven aunts and eight aunts are corrupt in the group of relatives, which is more powerful than that of Dayuan Jun back then, and has developed to the extent of buying and selling officials, poor North Korean people, I thought that they would change to a master, and they would be able to eat potatoes and roast beef from now on, but I didn't expect that Yuzi was still living miserably, to the point of cannibalism, To this day in the 21st century, most ordinary people cannot afford to eat beef.

According to the peace treaty signed by Chonghou and Yue himself that year, he set up an embassy in Seoul, and Hanafang Yoshishi became the first minister of Yuben to Korea, he was a chicken thief, and he knew that to annex Korea, the first step was to let North Korea dissolve its vassal relations with China, and then let North Korea send officials to Yuben to see, shop around, and know who was good and who was bad. Concubine Min thought that female men should also be self-reliant, so she sent Kim Yun-sik as the head of the delegation, brought a diplomatic mission to visit Yueben, and sent a "gentleman's tour group" dominated by young aristocrats to Yueben to inspect the political and economic system.

Originally, it was fine, but Concubine Min did a special stupid thing, she visited Liu Mingchuan's military camp that year, and deeply felt that the weapons and equipment of the Korean Imperial Forest Army were backward.

The common people of North Korea have been fooled by the Li family behind closed doors for hundreds of years, and they said that they were undoubtedly aggressors in their eyes. Although the North Koreans are poor, they have always been very ethnic, and Concubine Min is not good at eyebrow-raising herself. Therefore, many old-fashioned ministers have become nervous, like some Chinese people who miss Wen. Ge began to miss Dayuanjun, ran to Dayuanjun's grave and cried, asking him where he had gone.

When the courtyard gentleman heard this, damn, I'm not dead yet, I'm just trapped in Yunxian Palace, and my daughter-in-law won't let me move around casually. He sent people to secretly contact his old party, An Jiyong, and recruited more than 30 ministers to plot to depose Gojong and make his eldest son, Lee Jae-heon, the king.

Daewonjun is the person who is the leader of the country's Korea, and of course he will not be stupid enough to rush to Gyeongbokgung Palace with a group of old ministers and pull Concubine Min down from the throne. He sent people to the rations of the 7,000 garrison troops of the 5th battalion of Seoul mixed a large amount of stones and chaff, and the cooked rice was more stones than rice grains, and it was simply impossible to eat, and the 7,000 soldiers were angry and wanted to make trouble, Concubine Min was hot-headed and sent the Imperial Forest Army to arrest the leader of the trouble, which provoked a mutiny, and these soldiers ran to Yunhyeon Palace to ask the courtyard to uphold justice.

Dayuanjun took the opportunity to provoke, saying that he coerced Concubine Min to arrest people, and the soldiers asked him to go out of the mountain, but this old guy also pretended to excuse himself, saying that this is not good, I grabbed the throne with my son, and it was passed out that it was a family ugly, where to put my old face. An Jiyong knelt down very tacitly and said, come out quickly, your daughter-in-law has cuckolded North Korea, if you don't come out again, she will circle and fork herself.

The soldiers were excited when they heard this, a beauty like Concubine Min, if you want to do it, we will go into the palace to do it, don't be cheap, so they shouted "kill me".

Seeing that the morale was high, the Dayuan Jun couldn't do it without doing anything, so the soldiers were divided into two routes, 2,000 people went to attack the legation and 5,000 people went to attack Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Hanafang Yoshishi was also born as a samurai, but at that time, the embassy in Korea was not protected by the army, and the number was only twenty or thirty people, in the face of a hundred times the Korean army, Hanafang Yoshishi gritted his teeth, did it himself, burned down the embassy, and fought with his back! He led people to open the main gate, took advantage of the weapon, concentrated firepower to fight a bloody way, and as a result, the instructors in the embassy were all killed, and he fled back to the book alone.

On the other hand, Dayuanjun personally led 5,000 men into the palace, and happened to run into Min Qianhao, who was hiding there, and immediately ordered the soldiers to execute him Ling Chi. Then began a carpet search, even the toilet was searched twice, but I didn't see Concubine Min, she didn't wrap her feet, she slipped fast, and before Dayuan Jun invaded the palace, she disguised herself as a palace maid and fled to Chungju in the south to ask for help from the Great Qing Kingdom.

In the toilet, the courtyard Jun found the trembling Gaozong Li Xi, scolded "wretched", and announced that Concubine Min died in the chaos, Li Xi didn't know who rebelled, and when he saw that his father was back, he quickly asked his father to take a seat and return to the palace as regent.

Dayuanjun was originally pro-China and loyal to the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang didn't want to send someone to intervene, but after Hanafang Yoshiki returned to China to report, he immediately sent 1,400 people from the navy and army to North Korea to help Concubine Min get justice.

At this time, after all, Korea was China's territory, and it was very close to the northeast, so Li Hongzhang sent Wu Changqing, another foreign tiger general of the Huai Army, who was stationed in Dengzhou, to lead 1,500 elite troops to take three warships and one troop transport ship built by the Mawei Shipyard in Fujian Province and quickly sail to Seoul.

Considering that Song Xiaofei and Liu Mingchuan had been to North Korea in the first year of Guangxu and said that Wu Changqing and Yuan Shikai's biological father Yuan Baoqing were friends for eight years, Li Hongzhang reported to the imperial court and appointed Song Xiaofei as the assistant of the Huai Army to help Wu Changqing enter the court to quell the rebellion. The Huaijun assistant is equivalent to a fourth-grade official, and Song Xiaofei was suddenly promoted to three levels and began to show his edge.