Some people are happy and some people are sad, and the two feudal domains of Satsuma and Choshu can be said to have been gloomy lately, and the forces in the feudal domains that were not in favor of the old port merchants also took the opportunity to appeal, and the daimyo of the Satsuma and Choshu domains, Morita and Matsushita Chengshi, gathered together in the water, and the joy of the 3,000 new troops that were originally trained by each of them has long been gone.

The attitude and reaction of the old port side greatly exceeded their expectations, and the British and Americans who had sworn before also learned to keep a low profile, exhorting Maorido and Matsushita to pay attention to restraint, and under the disclosure of relevant insiders, Maorido and Matsushita Chengzhong realized what kind of terrifying forces they had provoked, and they could compete with maritime powers such as Britain and France by themselves.

The most amazing thing is that he miraculously defeated the British and the French, severely damaged the British Home Fleet and the Far East Fleet, and the French Indochina Fleet also suffered unclear losses, and then strongly and directly uprooted the colonial power of the old colonial empire Netherlands in Southeast Asia, and the two ironclad ships that the Dutch were proud of also sponsored the Old Port, no wonder the Americans chose to silence in this matter.

In terms of how to deal with this behemoth that has recently appeared on the side of the shogunate, Morita's views collided with Matsushita's load-bearing, and Morita believed that the current delay should be to find an opportunity to contact him, find an opportunity to compensate the other party for his losses, and then concentrate his forces on dealing with the shogunate and return to the emperor.

But Panasonic's weight-bearing opinion is just the opposite of Maorido, since the cannons have sounded, and their own side is already bleeding, then there is no need to make a compromise, although there is still a deep fear of the Qing Dynasty, but under the huge ** trend, many people are gradually losing their minds.

In the end, Matsushita Chengzhong and Morito decided to let Guard Juro and Yamamoto Obito, two people who had personal experience, come to the scene to say what kind of force the Chinese Empire in the old port had, and how did the steel giant floating on the sea defeat the 30,000 allied forces of the Satsuma and Choshu feudatories?

For this battle, the two feudal clans of Satsuma and Changzhou paid a total of 800,000 taels of silver, which does not seem to be much, but it is not a large amount for the Qing Dynasty, which can allocate 4 million taels of silver from the customs a year to form the Beiyang Naval Division, and it is not worth mentioning compared to Lin Haijiang, who was willing to spend tens of millions of taels of silver to buy ships, train foreign students, and build fortresses.

However, this 800,000 taels is already a huge amount for the Fushou Paste who has already trapped almost the entire nation, and if it were not for the Fushou Paste merchants who ransacked the old port, the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains would probably not be able to pay such a huge amount of money to test the true strength of the shogunate.

Behind this temptation is also the background of the participation of Britain, the United States, and other countries, and in the face of the interests of countries and countries, there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies in international politics.

The description of the time by Beijuro and Yamamoto Obito made Maorido and Matsushita a little creepy, and Beijuro and Yamamoto Obito were both first-class generals in the domain, if they all felt powerless to resist the enemy, then it means that the enemy of the old port is not something they can offend at all, especially now that the attitude of the United States and Britain is very ambiguous?

The main reason is that the United States and the British are very dissatisfied with the shogunate's caution, and the shogunate's policy of opening the country and equal opportunities has always been secretly implemented a policy of non-cooperation, which makes it difficult for American and British goods to pour into the capital in large quantities, so the United States and the British side secretly reached a cooperation.

But at the beginning, no one could have predicted that Lin Haijiang, who had always been very polite to the Western powers, would suddenly go berserk, first expelled the Dutch forces, secretly reached a partition agreement with Britain and France, and then shelled the armies of the Satsuma and Choshu feudatories to attack the shogunate, which was equivalent to giving the British a big sweet date on the front foot, and slapped it with a big backhand, which made the British a little unsure of what Lin Haijiang wanted to do?

Although there has been a shipbuilding boom in Europe, it will take at least two or three years for the battleships to be launched and commissioned, but the eleven ironclad ships in Lin Haijiang's hands are not those parts waiting to be installed in the shipyard dock, but a real deterrent.

After some careful study, the Satsuma and Choshu feudatories decided to secretly send people to contact the authorities of the old port in disguise to find possible names to resolve the incident.

At the same time that Shen Tianfu was preparing to hold relevant talks with the shogunate, Zeng Guofan was carefully accompanying Su Shun and Jingshou in the yamen of the newly established Beiyang Minister and Governor General of Tianjin Wei, and was conducting an all-round cooperation negotiation with the new Russian minister, Duke Gomocherov.

Duke Gomochlov was born into the famous Molotov family, a majority of diplomats, and he himself was Tsar Nicholas's political and diplomatic adviser to the Far East.

Because of the Qing dispute with Britain and France, Russia had reaped the benefits of the fisherman, and compared to the Crimean War, which paid a heavy price but was empty-handed, the new diplomatic approach proposed by Duke Gomochlov to help friends with political help was becoming more and more popular in Russia.

If you can get land and money without going to war, why fight for life and death? The weakness and decay of the Qing state gave Duke Gomocherov's friendship a market for use.

Duke Gomocherov, like all previous Russian ministers, was still a greedy polar bear, except that he seemed to eat much better.

Su Shun, as the minister of plenipotentiary negotiations, has completely pinned his hopes on the Russians at this moment, because Britain, France, the United States and other countries do not want to be too involved in China's current war, and the three countries have said that they can sell ships to the Qing court, but investment in the construction of steel mills, singing, weapons production, etc., need to consult their own domestic clouds.

Su Shun could feel that these mercenary foreigners were not interested in helping the Qing Dynasty build the so-called industrial system at all, and they had no intention of helping the Qing Dynasty in their war to quell the chaos, and the foreigners needed nothing more than a big market for the goods they dumped.

In desperation, Su Shun had no choice but to pin his hopes on the Russians, who were not very ideal, and felt extremely tired of the Russians' greed for land, and relied on betraying the country that his ancestors had beaten down to maintain the status quo? This Qing Dynasty is really not a few days away.

Su Shun glanced at Jing Shou beside him, Jing Shou was full of smiles, before leaving Beijing, Xianfeng secretly edicted Su Shun, and coordinated with Jing Shou, Su Shun also knew this truth, it is better to be happy alone than to be happy, and to block other people's financial roads is to find others to block themselves, and even the ancestral grave may have to be dug up.

The reason why Lin Haijiang is called a thousand people is because he blocked the way of other people's wealth, but he made a lot of money and refused to take the road of common prosperity.

In other words, Jingshou is the same, they are all for the emperor to run errands, to fight for face, and to get benefits, so after Xianfeng's mediation, Su Shun and Jingshou can be said to work together, Britain, France, and the United States talked about it one by one, and they realized that the Lin Haijiang of the original Liangguang is really not simple?

Just being able to sit at the same table with those people is a kind of learning, and he can't stand the arrogance and rudeness of those foreigners, but he still remembers that when he summoned Lin Haijiang, Lin Haijiang didn't take foreigners seriously at all, and his words were full of disdain and contempt.

Maybe there is also a talent for dealing with foreigners? Since this secret talk involved the national capital of the Qing Dynasty, Su Shun specially transferred six patrol battalions at the head of the battalion to strengthen the vigilance, but in this way, Lin Haijiang's special intelligence and reconnaissance team from the North China Bureau sent a team to focus on it.

As the head of the dispatch group, Li Wenjun, as the head of the dispatch group, is naturally even more unlikely to let go of this opportunity, and the old port side has named the intensification of intelligence detection of exchanges between the Qing court and the European powers.

So several Hua Yinzi dredged the nails that drove into the Beiyang Yamen and began to play their own roles, but because the meeting was confidential, the Beiyang Yamen was also ten steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and several secret nails failed because their level was too low to get close to the venue.

But Su Shun and Zeng Guofan never thought that their Russian translator Xie Jinsheng was a secret nail of the old port intelligence department.

Duke Gomocherov bowed his hand to Su Shun and Jingshou with a smile, and then after chatting a few inconsequential words in half-baked Chinese, Duke Gomocherov began to intervene in the topic, and Tsar Alexander II gave him specific instructions before leaving.

Because Tsar Alexander I's several land claims to the Qing had historically made the Qing very hostile to the Empire, Tsar Alexander II was prepared to take advantage of this rare opportunity to bring the Qing closer and ease the tensions.

In the mid-16th century, Russia became a centralized feudal state, and serfdom prevailed. By the middle of the 19th century, due to the hindrance of serfdom, Russia's capitalist industry was developing slowly, lagging behind the other major capitalist countries, and the slave conditions were very miserable and riots were frequent.

The frequent riots of serfs in the country have actually shaken the foundation of Tsar Alexander II's rule, and the original serf-owning class as a class of vested interests is unwilling to give in, Tsar Alexander II can only choose to use lightning fast means to relieve the pain, if this means is placed in the eyes of Lin Haijiang, it is equivalent to the shock therapy of later Russian President Putin.

Tsar Alexander II also realized that as a huge empire, he should not only have enemies, but also friends, conservative, backward, ignorant, like to be clever whipping people is undoubtedly a good choice to be a friend, and this friend is also very rich, a cowardly and rich friend, who doesn't like it?

Duke Gomocherov had already translated the prepared copy into Mongolian, Manchu, Chinese, Hui, and Russian languages, and sent them to Su Shun and Jing Shou in turn, although Zeng Guofan was the commander of the Beiyang Navy, and this time he was rewarded as the prime minister of Beiyang.

The purpose of Xianfeng's move was to make Lin Haijiang extremely embarrassed when he met Zeng Guofan, but he forgot that the possible surnames of these two northern and southern governors meeting were simply greater than or equal to zero.

The so-called agreement submitted by Duke Gomochlov is not much, Su Shun quickly read it, there is no railway and the claim to the territory of the Qing Dynasty, just this point also made him breathe a long sigh of relief, the Russians still know some advances and retreats, they just want to make more money, the money is gone, you can increase taxes, as long as the Qing Dynasty is still in everything, it is easy to say, otherwise there will really be territorial entanglements, I am afraid that in the end, the court will be unable to deal with it, there have been too many such things in recent years.

According to recent intelligence information, there seem to have been some twists and turns in the bandit puppet Beijing, and the winged king Shi Dakai angrily waved 150,000 elite soldiers into the hinterland of Sichuan? It is said that Yang Xiuqing went on a killing spree after quelling the last riot and injured the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan.

So at this moment, he was able to easily take Zeng Guofan and Jingshou to negotiate with the Russians, Duke Gomochelov saw that the three representatives of the Qing Kingdom exchanged opinions in a whisper, and they all looked contemptuous, and secretly scolded Su Shun and others in his heart for being pigs who did not understand the economy.

In fact, the conditions put forward by the Russians were almost extremely harsh, and they took advantage of the help of the Qing court to form a new army at the same time, and extended their hands into the economic system of the Qing Dynasty.

To put it simply, Britain and France were slowly bleeding, hoping for a long stream, while the Russians took the opportunity of building basic industries, forming a new army, and buying ships to use China's customs as collateral for arms payments, and directly inserted the pipe into the lifeblood of the Qing court, so I am afraid that the day when the Qing court defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not be far from the day when the Qing Dynasty will die.

Originally, Zeng Guofan had an understanding person next to him, Li Hongzhang! It's a pity that this Huainan person's surname is upright and unbearable, after all, there are too few people who can really face their own problems, and Zeng Guofan, who is stubborn and self-serving, is definitely not, so Li Hongzhang is somewhat unpopular, and he naturally can't enter this venue with his role as a five-pin bookstore.

Xie Jinsheng listened attentively to Duke Gomocherov's explanations of some of the terms, while paying attention to the inquiries of Su Shun and others, because when these were restored, they were similar to most of the contents of the draft text.

Two hours later, Su Shun, as Minister Plenipotentiary, signed the agreement on the cooperation and development of the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire brought by Duke Gomochlov.

Duke Gomocherov was extremely shocked, such an important agreement they actually just consulted? The three of them nodded to each other and signed directly? The whole process was almost sloppy, he almost couldn't help but remind Lord Su Shun on the other side that he was looking at the agreement, and he even suspected that the guy named Jingshou next to Su Shun was not looking at the agreement carefully?

Such negotiations made Duke Gomocherov, a self-proclaimed negotiator, feel no sense of victory? There's even a sense of humiliation?

The only thing that was not signed was the annexed Lushun Lend-Lease Agreement, the Russian Empire would lease Lushun for 99 years, pay 300,000 taels of rent to the Qing Empire every year, and after 99 years, it would be returned to the Qing State free of charge along with port facilities, defensive batteries, shipyards, etc., and help train the Qing Dynasty's Beiyang Navy and the new army in Lushun.

After the meeting, China and Russia went to celebrate, but the Russians seemed to lack the necessary preparations, because such an important cooperation agreement involving the national economic system was signed immediately two hours after the other side saw the text?

"No wonder the mysterious East is known as the Land of Miracles! Dear gentlemen, let us witness the miracle! Music, ladies please dance! Duke Gomocherov raised his glass aloft, and the bright red wine rippled back and forth in the glass.

On the other side, Su Shun, Jing Shou, and Zeng Guofan praised each other, but in fact, Su Shun, Jing Shou, and Zeng Guofan are really all stupid? They won't be able to see where it is, especially the deadlines in the Russian clauses that almost take a lifetime, as long as the deadline is not enough, the Russians will be able to justifiably lie on the body of the Qing Dynasty and knock on the marrow.

But these are no longer their business, they have done their best according to the emperor's arrangement, there is no need for people to get along with themselves, it can be said that it has always been the first principle of the rulers of the Great Qing Dynasty to give thieves instead of domestic slaves, thinking that this can put an end to rebellion and chaos? Facts have proved that this point of formality drove the Qing Dynasty to its downfall.

The secret conclusion of the "Qing Russian Treaty of Tianjin" also made Zeng Guofan really relieved, he, the prime minister of Beiyang, is finally no longer the commander of the light pole, as long as Beiyang is on the ground, he believes that with his talent and connections, Beiyang can be operated into a second Nanyang, and he even wants to surpass Nanyang and become the prime minister of Nanyang!

Expelled Yangyi, Pinglong-haired bandits, Jingnanyang, and returned to Gyeonggi, ten thousand empty alleys! Xianfeng walked thirty miles out of the capital to greet him, big and small officials, full of flowers and laughter! In a blink of an eye, Zeng Guofan suddenly realized that he was actually wearing a dragon robe? Xianfeng is gone? Su Shun, who was covered in blood, scolded his rebellious ministers and thieves?

Another turn, Zeng Guofan saw the corpses of the soldiers of the Hunan army who died in the river, the eyes that could never be closed were looking at him, and the three big characters of Banbi Mountain swayed in front of his eyes, and suddenly turned into blood.

Slowly, Zeng Guofan leaned on the Taishi chair with some drunkenness, and a few Goshha outside the door stared at each other with big eyes, not knowing what to do!

(To be continued)