In the 19th century, the Tongzhi period occurred in the northwest of the year is a very taboo topic, this is actually a genocide as the goal of large-scale massacres and wars, the goal is to establish a pure Islamic state in China's Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo regions, in the decade from 1862 to 1873, conservative statistics about 20 million Han people died of the slaughter and disasters caused by plague and starvation, some counties were killed hundreds of thousands, in the county annals of Gansu counties can find out the number of Han people who were slaughtered at that time.

This problem did not erupt suddenly, the Han-Hui dispute has been in the northwest for a long time, the two sides often fought in villages in the Qing Dynasty, and many of the Hui people were also Han people, so the problem is even more complicated. At that time, many leaders of the Hui army were the most authentic Han people in terms of blood, but their goal was not only to build such a country of reading power, but also to kill the Han people in Shaanxi, and the goal of several troops in Shaanxi was to destroy the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum, and the Qing army and the Han regiment were also sworn to resist, and the two sides fought extremely fiercely, and even the people who fled into the northwest had to rise up to resist.

What a great hatred, to be so ruthless?

Is it ignorance? Or is religion really more important than human life, more important than 20 million lives, what kind of religion needs to preach doctrine in such a way?

In fact, it doesn't matter if these are Han Chinese, or Mongols, or Tibetans, or Uyghurs...... The 20 million "people" themselves are the most terrifying and profound bloody disaster in human history.

The problem should be split into two, and there is something wrong on both sides, but why bother?

Why was Zuo Zongtang so ruthless in the end, almost all the way to the border of Xinjiang Province, to a large extent, it was indeed too much of a deception.

Perhaps for a person like Zuo Zongtang who is familiar with scripture and history, he can't help but ask Cangtian, is it because we Han people are going to survive the massacre so far?

What exactly are we doing wrong?

Why is that?

Obviously, what is more terrible than the national question is not poverty, but ignorance, and the question is how many books have been read to be considered ignorant?

Root. Did bin Laden read fewer books?

So what is the problem more evil than ignorance?

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In short, the internal contradictions in the northwest are definitely not something that ordinary political parties can handle, and at this point, the whole world has to admire that the turtle is really powerful.

Song Biao knew very well that no political party within the Imperial Congress could handle this problem, no matter which political party came to power, it would not be able to solve it, and sooner or later something big would happen.

Therefore, now we must be ruthless, not only ruthless, but also ruthless.

War can't solve all problems, after all, it's not the era of the Han Dynasty, and killing in one go will cause a big problem, so it's even more important to start with yin, to be ruthless, if it's really just to fight, why did Song Biao bring so many troops over.

It's really just a military war of annihilation, so why did Song Biao wait until today?

His goal was simple: to force one of the three horses into complete submission by force that could not be stopped, to "assist" the other two to turn the problem into a more just central and insurgent problem, and then to stifle the radicals and prop up the moderates on the religious issue.

According to Song Biao's plan, he wanted to transfer people from the northwest to the four northern provinces, further complicating the problem of Han and Mongolia and making Lamaism and Islam more chaotic in Outer Mongolia, gradually reaching a situation where the proportion of Han and Yimeng accounted for 1/3, and the Han nationality was in a mediating and buffer position in the middle, and whoever made trouble would support the other side to suppress this side.

If you don't have diamonds, you don't have porcelain goods, and you don't have the mind and wrist of TG, you can't think that you can smooth everything, you can't do it.

The Northwest Majia Army was gradually divided into three factions in the late Qing Dynasty, and later became four factions, that is, the so-called four horses, whether it was three horses or four horses, Qingma was the most ruthless and murderous.

Ma Jiajun has also made contributions to the nation, and has fought bravely when resisting the Eight-Nation Alliance, and he also heroically killed the enemy during the War of Resistance and Resistance.

The previous dynasty gave them the opportunity to occupy the land as the king, and the so-called governor of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia could only govern Shaanxi, and it was only a clamp on Gansu and Ningxia.

Song Biao just gave them the opportunity to gather a crowd to rebel, and the more people gathered, the better.

After Ma Tingfu went back, the Ma family in the northwest sent people to express their allegiance one after another, in a vain attempt to recruit peace, Song Biao was unmoved and waited silently, and finally negotiated with Ma Fuxiang of the Ning army, and pardoned them, on the condition that the Ning army must take the lead in clearing the other two Ma Jia army, after the end of the purge, the Ning army retained a part of it and reorganized it into the Ningxia patrol army, and the clan moved to Yanjing, and arranged for one person to serve as the chief and deputy minister of the cabinet, one person served as the chief of the Ningxia patrol, and one person served as a member of the National Assembly.

The reason why Song Biao chose Ningma was that Ningma was less guilty and had the least contact with Britain and Russia, and second, although Ningma's combat effectiveness was not as good as that of Qingma, it was stronger than that of Ganma, and it was not the worst.

In terms of military command, the Central Military Department has arranged for the staff office to be responsible for command and dispatch, and the two sides are responsible for intelligence work in coordination.

By May 1916, after a brief reorganization of Nyingma, the State Procuratorate appointed a local procuratorial agency to prosecute, and if there was no local court, it was transferred to the Central Supreme Court for direct trial, and 27 people, including Ma Anliang, Ma Qi, and Ma Lin, were tried in absentia on more than 20 major crimes, including treason, treason, armed association, massacre, embezzlement of state property, illegal gold mining, and illegal gold possession.

After the summons of the Central Supreme Court expired, Ningma officially fought against Ganma with the cooperation of two cavalry brigades, the Fourth Cavalry Division advanced from the front, and gradually recovered Gansu behind Ningma, Ma Anliang was quickly defeated and captured, Qingma and Ningma fought fiercely in Ledong County, and actually defeated Ningma with new equipment, and the whole army of Ningma was defeated, and in the end it was only the Fourth Cavalry Division that came forward to defeat Qingma.

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On this evening at the end of May, the weather in Guanzhong was still as cool as rain.

Because his wife and children came to accompany him, Song Biao is still in a very good mood these days, and Ningma's rout is a black comedy cold joke for him.

My daughter is six years old, and she is learning English under Shu Xuan's teaching, reading fairy tales, reciting Tang poems, and hiring a German teacher to teach German.

Song Biao has always not had too many requirements for this.

Occasionally, when he was idle and bored, he would teach his daughter a few words of Russian.

Some time ago, because the General Administration of the Inner Court started the procedure for establishing a concubine, Shu Xuan, who is the queen, was generally a little unhappy, in fact, this kind of thing is ...... If Song Biao directly bought three palaces and six courtyards after ascending the throne, then forget it, it has been quiet in the past few years, which makes Shu Xuan always a little disappointed.

Song Biao didn't say anything.

The concubine also depends on fate, he doesn't have a clear object now, and he basically hasn't thought about it, but his ideal is still quite like his father-in-law, three wives, and more than a dozen children.

That's good.

I'm afraid this is not a good example for the people, so at least five or six children can be had, right?

He and Shu Xuan have also worked hard in the past two years, but the effect is not good, just farming, not successful, he is anxious, Shu Xuan is even more anxious, and there is no way to be anxious, so it has become inevitable to set up another concubine.

Anyway, it's not something that can be influenced, Shu Xuan doesn't care too much at this time, in short, it's a matter of time.

She took her daughter and son to read and write beside her, and Song Biao walked in the corridor outside the courtyard, smoking a cigarette and pondering about snacks.

Zhang Futian hurriedly walked in at this time, and said to Song Biao, who was smoking a hookah under the window of the corridor: "Your Majesty, Ma Fuxiang and his nephew Ma Hongqing are here. ”

This itinerary has been originally arranged, and it depends on when Ma Fuxiang's uncle and nephew will arrive.

Song Biao nodded and said, "Let them go to the flower hall first, I'll go later." ”

Zhang Futian nodded yes, and went to invite Ma Fuxiang's uncle and nephew to the flower hall, while Song Biao quietly smoked the bag of hookah in the corridor, pondering the current situation and situation.

Now it's probably because he's old, or he's playing well, it's really such an era, or he's more worried about getting lung cancer or something, Song Biao only smokes hookah now, but it's not the Arab kind, but the Qing Dynasty hookah, but it's not pure.

In fact, it is just normal cigarettes that are filtered to remove the tar from the tobacco burning process.

After waiting for a while, Song Biao went to the flower hall to see the pair of uncles and nephews.

When he walked into the flower hall, the uncle and nephew hurriedly bowed.

Song Biao walked over and sat on the dragon chair without much expression, and asked Zhang Futian to give the two of them a seat, he picked out a few paper walnuts from Xinjiang Province from the plate, peeled them off with his hand, and chewed them slowly.

After waiting like this for a while, when Ma Fuxiang's uncle and nephew sat down nervously, Song Biao said to their uncle and nephew: "Have you discussed it, who will go to the Ministry of Religion to be the deputy minister's errand?" ”

Ma Fuxiang replied: "Back to the emperor, the ministers are old and can't manage the affairs of the army, so the family pondered and let the ministers go to Beijing to serve." Hongqing is still young, and staying in the patrol army to manage practical things is also a workout for him. ”

Song Biao raised his head quietly, raised his eyes slightly and glanced at Ma Hongqing, in fact, he was also twenty-seven or eighteen years old, where could he talk about being young.

He looked back at Ma Fuxiang again, and said: "Let him go to the Far East Lushi first, after graduation, I will arrange for him to go to the military school of Saint-Cyr in England or France for further study, there is a rough process, so there is a diploma, we can't put on the face of relying on the father's Yin De to be an official, there must always be a source of theory, do you say this reason?" ”

Ma Fuxiang immediately replied: "What the emperor said is very true. ”

Song Biao looked at Ma Hongqing again and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Ma Hongqing also hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, your subordinates will obey the emperor's orders, and they will not give up." ”

Song Biao raised his hand to signal that he didn't need to say it so ruthlessly, and said: "Needless to say, I, as the emperor, also have to feel sorry for the courtiers, and I will send you to a thousand knives if I have nothing to do, isn't that the king of Zhou?" ”

Ma Fuxiang was greatly frightened and hurriedly pleaded guilty.

Song Biao said: "Don't be so nervous, I'm just telling a joke, the times are different, and I, the emperor, must also pursue a pro-people demeanor, not only to be close to the people, but also to be close to the courtiers." Tang Taizong said well, the monarch is the boat, the people are the water, the water can carry the boat, or it can overturn the boat. In fact, the reason why we must exterminate Qinggan, in the final analysis, is for the people of the northwest, you govern well, I won't be so angry, as I said before, the governance is extremely poor, it can be called a disaster for the country and the people, sitting on the ground and eating the people, and even colluding with foreign countries, there is no king's law, the empire is progressing, you are falling, I am angry and hateful in Beijing, otherwise there is really no need to eradicate it at one time. Today, even if more than half of this matter has passed, and you still have to continue to investigate the remnants of the party and pursue the remaining bandits, you still have to continue to work hard, strive to do a good job in the past two years, and leave yourself a merit that can be written about. ”

Ma Fuxiang replied respectfully: "Thank you for the emperor's grace, your subordinates are grateful, and you will swear to the death." ”

He said it easily, but he was extremely embarrassed in his heart, and he was going to be ruthless in the back, and he couldn't let go of it to track it down to the end, this was a big purge, and it was basically washed in the end.

A few months ago, the emperor provoked the Tongzhi Revolution in front of him, and he couldn't have made it clearer that if there was no such thing in the future, Gansu must be emptied, and those who could be relocated must be moved away, scattered and resettled in the four northern provinces, and Ningxia can only keep half of it.

Although he was sad in his heart, what could Ma Fuxiang do?

Ma Anmin, Ma Qi, Ma Lin and so on have been completely extinguished, cutting the grass and roots, not even leaving a little root, if not, why should Qingma swear to kill, others can't kill it, killing or not killing is a dead end, it's better to fight once.

It's just because of this that Ma Fuxiang's army really saw how ruthless the Imperial Central Defense Force was, and the green horses were so powerful, and half of their more than 10,000 people were killed along the way, just waiting for the First Cavalry Division to catch up, and they were easily slaughtered in a battle.

The remnants of Qingma and Ganma combined with more than 30,000 people were all killed, and the First Cavalry Division only injured a few hundred people, which really frightened the Ningma army scattered behind.

Things have come to this point, it seems to be almost the same, but for Song Biao, it is just the beginning, he has to deal with the radical faction in the sect, and it is also a faction that is inclined to read and build the country, and this also needs the help of the local faction, gradually squeezing out the radical faction in the country, leaving a peaceful northwest.

But no matter which faction is supported, the most important thing is development or prosperity, as long as poverty is born, endless new problems will be born.

Since Ma Fuxiang's uncle and nephew came, Song Biao talked with them for one more night, talked about some ideas for governing the northwest, and also asked them for some suggestions.

It was not until this period that Song Biao's affairs in the northwest were basically done, and he also clarified the ideas and policies for the cabinet and the local provincial political axes, and then returned to Beijing in mid-June 1916, and the great plan of the imperial railway westward expansion would no longer be hindered.

From Qinghai to Tibet, it was first built from the asphalt road, all the way to Lhasa, set up a military and pastoral bureau in Qinghai, and retained a cavalry brigade to stabilize Qinghai-Tibet.

Gansu's position in the empire is very important, and it is the common origin of the Han and Yi ethnic groups, the hometown of Fuxi and Nuwa. The output of gold, silver, copper, coal and iron here is enough to ensure the development of industry in the northwest, and it has the richest nickel ore in the country.

From here, the railway could go directly to Xinjiang Province, laying the foundation for the empire to control Xinjiang Province and return to Central Asia.

Only by governing Gansu well, the empire can truly stabilize the northwest, establish the northwest barrier and control the center of the northwest, Shaanxi can not afford this responsibility, so there is the Lanzhou Military Region, not the Xi'an Military Region, with the army pacifying the Ma Jiajun, the Northwest Military Department will also be further moved to Lanzhou.

Just when the empire was pacifying the northwest, on the European battlefield, the Verdun meat grinder had torn up the will of the German and French armies to attack, and on the banks of the Somme, the two sides continued to wage a more intense war, and when the British and French forces gradually gained the advantage, the Russian army was again defeated by the main German army on the Eastern Front.

It is just that in this kind of repeated turnaround, the main force of the German army is difficult to take care of, and if it is concentrated on the western front, Britain and France will lose, and if it is concentrated on the eastern front, the Russian army will be defeated, no matter how the situation is in favor of the German army for a while, the mutual role of the east and west fronts still makes it difficult for the German army to take care of it, and it has been unable to turn the battle advantage into a strategic advantage, but has been constantly consumed in this repeated battle.

At least in terms of military materials, the Anglo-French coalition forces, supported by the export of Chinese and American arms, have played an advantage in suppressing the German army, and the large amount of equipment imported and leased by Russia from China is also enough to ensure that the Russian army continues to repeatedly form a larger army.

Whether it is Britain, Russia and France, at this time the voice of further asking China to send troops to participate in the European war is getting louder and louder, but in the "Sino-French Military Alliance Entente", the two countries have clearly stated in the agreement that the highest obligation to send to another country to fight together is 200,000, and it is very clear that China has sent more than 400,000 soldiers to the European and African battlefields at this stage, and there is no obligation to send more soldiers at all, and although there is a military mutual assistance agreement between China and Russia, there is no real alliance agreement, and the United Kingdom has no similar agreement.

After the problem in the northwest is resolved, China can certainly afford to send more land forces, but it is clear that China needs a higher price, and China is not as easy to deceive as the Kingdom of Italy, and empty promises are useless, even on paper.

China wants ready-made benefits.

If you give the emperor [***] money, you have to give gold and silver now, and if you want to allocate colonies to the empire, the empire must send troops to occupy it now, otherwise the empire will not have one more soldier.

Of course, if Britain and France feel that the price of inviting the United States to war is relatively low, then they can also invite the United States.

The Reich fully welcomed this.

In short, the empire now has an army of 2 million waiting for battle, well-equipped, 160,000 light and heavy machine guns, 300,000 submachine guns, and more than 8,000 artillery pieces, ready to land in Europe and West Asia to fight, and the only question left is how much Britain, France, and Russia are willing to give.

To put it mildly, now Germany is also in secret talks with the Empire, hoping that the Empire will not continue to participate in the European War, and the main combat mission of the Imperial Army in Europe has always been to assist Italy and Serbia in dealing with second-rate armies such as Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.

Therefore, if there is no high price tag, he would rather welcome the active participation of the United States in the First World War, so that he can concentrate on preparing for the war against Soviet Russia, although such a mysterious and strange organization as the Anglican Church is absolutely indispensable in the funds to support Soviet Russia.

Song Biao obviously can't just wait for history, history is unpredictable and ever-changing, and the only way to control it is to take the initiative and add fuel to the fire, so that what may happen becomes inevitable, as the Anglican Church did in Sarajevo.

Since might can be seen as an axiom, so conspiracy can also be seen as justice and ideals.

Whether it is military, or economic, industrial, or political, the empire is only a second-rate country in this world, and it is a relatively lower level in the second-rate, except for the land, army and economic aggregate, the rest is really not enough to worry about, and it is not at all looked down upon by the first-class old empires, it is precisely for this reason that it is all the more rational use of all conspiracy means, only in this way can the same empire compete in the same field.

In short, it is you Anglo-Saxons who think you noble white beasts who are harmed.

You think that you are the orthodox people of God, who dominate the highest civilization on earth, who occupy the supreme superiority of the human race, who have the boil, human rights, and universal values, and who can arrogantly despise all second-class races and poor worms, but in fact you are just a leukemia mutant born by a black mother.

(To be continued)