For Emperor Guangxu's distress, Hu Chuyuan did not have a particularly good way, at least not in front of him.

He gave two general suggestions, but you can't act rashly in a hurry, change too quickly, and there is always a price.

What's more, the financial situation of the Qing Zheng Axe is already good, compared to the book, it is simply a wandering on the edge of heaven, a wandering on the edge of hell.

Back at the Yongjun Palace, Hu Chuyuan discussed with Yi Xun and Yi Ye all night.

Although Yi seemed a little unkind, Hu Chuyuan could understand his hardships.

At this time, Yi He didn't want to take advantage of various opportunities to ensure his status, Hu Chuyuan just inadvertently reminded that others were father and son cooperation, if they still had a bit of infighting, then no one wanted to fish in this bowl of water.

A few days later, Hu Chuyuan finally obtained a draft of the agreement in French through the secret office of the General Information Office, which France called the "Secret Agreement of the Three Countries on Northeast China and Its Surrounding Areas" by France and Russia, and the effective areas of the agreement were China's northeast, the Liaodong Peninsula, Mongolia, the Korean Peninsula and the surrounding waters.

In this agreement, Russia will make some new provisions for the naval fleets of the two sides to ensure that there will be no accidental conflict between the two countries in the sea and surrounding waters.

The three sides further affirmed their support for the status of the main guardian state of Korea in Japan, the "rights and interests" of Tsarist Russia in Mongolia on an equal footing with China, and the "rights and interests" of France in the stationing of troops in Korea and northern China.

The news came just in time, and the three parties were likely to continue a third round of negotiations on the agreement in early 1890, culminating in the signing of a viable agreement in Nagasaki.

On the night he got the information, Hu Chuyuan pondered silently for several hours in the Yongjun Palace.

There is no doubt that the French gave Hu Chuyuan a huge excuse in terms of wording.

In the world, China is a special regional word, for example, Britain, France, Russia, the Netherlands, and Spain all have Chinese fleets, and its specific meaning is similar to what was often said to be "Greater China".

But in China, especially during this period, the "China" ...... China was the Great Qing State, that is, the Great Qing Dynasty, the central state.

What a great opportunity!

Hu Chuyuan decided to make good use of this opportunity given by the French, and late at night, he secretly recruited Wang Yirong and Miao Quansun, who were masters of counterfeiting, into the palace and asked him to continue to fabricate false information.

After waiting for a few days, also in the middle of the night, Hu Chuyuan seemed particularly urgent to go to Prince Alcohol's Mansion.

At this time, it was already the middle of the night, and Prince Alcohol had already fallen asleep, and he was woken up in the middle of the night, and he hurried out in a hazy sleep.

Entering the flower hall of the palace, he saw Hu Chuyuan walking around the room anxiously, looking anxious.

This situation made Prince Yi Yun secretly afraid, he was actually a person who did not have much ability, and in terms of ability, vision and knowledge, he was much worse than his sixth brother Prince Gong Yi.

In his life, the luckiest thing was to marry Cixi's own sister to be a great blessing, and with the power of Yi and the Manchu and Han ministers, Cixi was put under house arrest, so it was his turn to grasp the real power of this empire.

As soon as he entered the door, he and Hu Chuyuan asked in surprise: "Senior Minister Hu, why are you so anxious to call this king to discuss the matter?" ”

Hu Chuyuan immediately sighed deeply, took out the two pieces of information, one true and one false, and said to Prince Yiyun: "Lord Wang, take a look for yourself!" ”

Yi Xun hurriedly took the information, sat on the chair and read it, it was okay not to look at it, but after a look, his face turned white.

After a long while, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said angrily: "These Japanese and foreign devils, are they really deceiving me and no one in the Heavenly Empire?" It's actually bullied to this point! ”

The "Secret Agreement between France and Russia on Northeast China and Its Surrounding Areas" is very terrible, but what is even more terrifying is a "Proposal for Reclamation and Relocation to the North."

The "Proposal for the Reclamation and Relocation of the North of Korea" was a plan for the country's national policy that was secretly agreed to by Emperor Momoto, and demanded that the cabinet make proper secret arrangements to gradually monopolize the interests of Korea within four to ten years, send troops to Korea, and strive to become the suzerainty of Korea.

After that, they relied on the bridge of the Korean Peninsula to migrate to the northeast region, create disputes, and gradually occupy the northeast region of China. Within 30 years, 3 million people and Koreans will be emigrated to Northeast China, and 600,000 people will be emigrated to Korea, so that they will have a sufficient population base in Northeast China and Korea to occupy Northeast China and Korea for a long time, and become a part of the Great Empire.

Of course, this is a fake piece of information, and the date of the payment is the 20th year of the Meiji era, that is, in 1885, Wang Yirong is responsible for making the old and making the illusion of folding the private collection many times, which seems that the information is not easy to come by.

On the "Reclamation and Relocation Proposal to the North", there are a total of six seals of the emperor and cabinet ministers, as well as signatures, all of which are the result of temporary fraud.

Wang Yirong and Miao Quansun are both masters of gold and stone science, and the forgeries are very realistic, and then the water immersion method is old and blurred, and the authenticity cannot be seen at all, unless they are real cabinet officials.

Prince Alcohol Yiyun was greatly shocked and very scared.

The Northeast has always been full of forbidden lands, and they would rather be barren and would rather have tens of millions of starving people in North China starve to death, and they don't want to open and release people, trying to use it as a retreat after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

It's good now, but I can't allow them to think like this, or it won't be long before I will occupy the northeast, and I won't leave them the slightest leeway.

His breathing was inevitably a little short, and after a while, he slowly eased his strength before he asked Hu Chuyuan: "Are these two pieces of information true or false...... Absolutely true? ”

Hu Chuyuan sighed: "Is there still a fake? In order to prevent me from assassinating me, I can give him hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year to dredge and bribe, so that he can inform me of the information. According to the severity of the information, I also have a commendation, the previous one was given by an old friend of the French Admiralty, but this piece of information, I gave that person an additional award of 200,000 taels of silver! ”

"Good...... This is a good thing. ”

Yi Xun confirmed that the news was true, and he couldn't help but feel very conflicted, but said: "Senior Minister, you must stabilize this line, no matter how much it costs, it is worth it." ”

"But isn't it, at the critical moment, these are just a small amount of money!"

Hu Chuyuan sighed and asked again, "Lord Wang, what are you going to do?" ”

Yi Xun hesitated for a while, he really couldn't come up with a specific countermeasure, and after thinking about it, he said: "Naturally, I want to negotiate this matter with myself, but now the evidence is conclusive, and they don't dare to deny it. ”

Hu Chuyuan chuckled, faintly slack, but said, "That's how it is." ”

Yi Xun was slightly apprehensive, he knew that his ability and knowledge were far inferior to those of Yi and Hu Chuyuan.

He was not ashamed to ask, and immediately asked Hu Chuyuan: "Senior Minister, you are the pillar of the society, do you have a better plan?" ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "There are no good strategies and strange strategies, but there is a stupid way, but it can also solve this matter once and for all!" ”

Yi Xun asked eagerly, "Then let's talk about it." ”

Only then did Hu Chuyuan say: "The French, the Russians, and myself, the reason why these people are plotting in the Northeast is nothing more than that the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, thinking that I am powerless to govern the Qing Dynasty and have an opportunity." If the Northeast is the same as Hebei, there are 30 or 40 million people, how dare they make such a plan? Not to mention anything else, even in North Korea, when there was a famine a few years ago, there were more than one million displaced people who fled to the northeast of our country, and the area around Yingkou, which should have been our territory, was taxed there, which was nothing more than the number of Korean residents. How can North Korea dare to be presumptuous in the Northeast, let alone France and Russia? ”

"...... this?"

Prince Yiyun secretly understood what Hu Chuyuan's stupid method was once and for all, but how could he agree.

In Cixi's words, it is better to give to foreign thieves than to domestic slaves.

Hu Chuyuan continued to persuade: "Lord, sometimes people always have to do some special things to leave a name in history, and the same is true for the emperor." You can't watch the emperor become an incompetent emperor who has lost his homeland, right? In addition, let's analyze the pros and cons in detail. If the Northeast is switched, let the hungry people in Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong enter the ...... First, since the abandonment of Caoyun, more than 10,000 unemployed villagers gathered in the area along the river, when the wind and rain are good, they can still eat together, once they encounter famine, it will inevitably cause a catastrophe, if there are more than a million people gathered to rebel, then the Beijing division is difficult to protect; Second, if these people enter the Northeast to reclaim wasteland and manage the fields, after ten years, the imperial court will be able to increase taxes by tens of millions of yuan every year; Thirdly, with these taxes, 30,000 additional regiments were trained in the northeast, which were well equipped, and they would certainly be able to resist foreign ambitions, and also prevent the infiltration of Russia and the northeast into the capital division; Fourth, the northeast was restructured into three provinces, and the governors of the three eastern provinces were set up, and virtuous people were appointed to strengthen local governance. ”

Speaking of this, he said: "This is the four benefits, if you talk about harm, of course, there are also harms, but as long as we think of a good way, we can avoid it to some extent." What I mean is that some clans can move to other places and be responsible for assisting in the management of one town and one township in the northeast, collecting grain on the spot and supporting them on the spot. In addition, they can be governed by more flag people. ”

When Prince Alcohol heard this, he couldn't help but nod slightly, but he was still a little hesitant after all.

Weighing the pros and cons, he knew that the time had come to switch it off.

If they don't open it again, before they retreat to the northeast, the northeast will become the territory of themselves and the Russians.

But it's just too big.

After pondering for a moment, he said to Hu Chuyuan: "Senior Minister, this matter is very important, this king alone does not dare to make a decision, you need to discuss with the kings of the clan, you go back to rest first, in a few days, if this king has news in the clan, then I will tell you to deal with the follow-up matters." At this time, don't worry, the more important it is, the more we have to be cautious and think about it in the long run. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "I'm afraid it needs to be done quickly, and when this matter is finalized, and the follow-up issues in the northeast can be decided, I will immediately go to Europe to lobby Britain and Germany to put pressure on France and Russia, and try to dismantle the Franco-Russian three-country entente." ”

Prince Alcohol couldn't help but be overjoyed and said, "Can you do this well?" ”

Hu Chuyuan sighed: "I don't have much certainty, I just do my best, I need to go as soon as possible, there must be a big event, I will leave for Europe and have a good deal in the UK." This is gone...... It has to be at least three or four months, otherwise you won't be able to accomplish a few decent good deeds! ”

Prince Alcohol is already very happy, if even this kind of thing can be done well, Hu Chuyuan's value can be seen.

He immediately said, "Okay, then the king will hurry up all the matters, and tomorrow he will convene the kings of the clan to discuss." ”

Hu Chuyuan arched his hand and said: "Whether you can achieve this great cause, change the momentum of this dynasty, and reverse the situation in the Northeast is all due to the feat of the prince this time." ”

Prince Alcohol smiled bitterly, thinking to himself, is this king willing to do this, thinking about it carefully, this is the first time in the history of this dynasty to change the "ancestral law" so deeply.

The two talked a few more words, talked about other things, exchanged opinions with each other, and then Hu Chuyuan returned to the Yongjun Mansion next door.

The next time, Prince Alcohol found Prince Gong Yi and Prince Su Longqin, and the three of them set a tone first, and then convened the kings of the clan and the county kings to discuss, and the conversation was always very difficult, but everyone was helpless.

In particular, Hu Chuyuan's concoction of the "Reclamation and Relocation of the North Reclamation Case" frightened the Manchurian nobles into not daring to have any major objections.

Even without this false information, as the Korean people continued to flee north, the Joseon Kingdom was also very shameless and absurd to secretly set up a government in the northeast, trying to create a real state of governance to occupy the borders, and the Qing government axe would gradually open up and tighten, and Prince Cho and Li Hongzhang also set a basic strategy in 1890, trying to build a railway in the northeast and strictly govern it...... Eventually, the matter was declared bankrupt due to the inexplicable death of Prince Alcohol.

As for how Prince Yiyun died in the end, this is only clear to Cixi and Tai Hospital, and the struggle between the imperial party and the later party that plagued the political situation at the end of the late Qing Dynasty also kicked off the real prelude.

After several internal discussions within the clan, in the end, due to the strong support of Prince Alcohol and Emperor Guangxu Zaiyan and Prince Gong, the Manchu magnates had to agree to officially lift the ban, allow the North China refugees to enter the northeast to open up the wasteland, and set up the governors of the three eastern provinces in the northeast to replace the original Shengjing general.

The three eastern provinces have also decided to speed up the construction of railways, and the two sections of railways from Tianjin to Jinzhou and from Jinzhou to Shengjing (Shenyang) should be completed first, and strive to complete them within one and a half years.

After that, the key issue was the selection of the governors of the three eastern provinces, and some people suggested that Qingyu should be used, but Qingyu's ability was ...... Everyone knows it.

There is only one best candidate, that is Rong Lu, the governor of Huguang, the question is that Rong Lu went to the northeast, who can sit in Huguang, and this is also the fat that people don't want to lose.

After thinking about it, he had to exchange Qingyu for Ronglu, and Ronglu went north to serve as the governor of the three eastern provinces.

For Hu Chuyuan, it is a good thing for Rong Lu to go to the Northeast, which means that it will be much easier for him to seize commercial territory in the Northeast, especially Anshan Iron and Steel, Dalian and Lushun, which are all pieces of fat that he wants.

In order to ensure his safety and avoid accidents, he was accompanied by two Xinchaowu and a Weikang-class ironclad ship, and Lin Yongsheng was responsible for serving as the named commander and commander.

(To be continued)