"Fuck, damn Russians. Guangxu burst into foul language because he was angry.

"The war in the Northeast has stopped, all parts of the country have to be rebuilt, the money roads have to be repaired, and the factories have to start, so they all point to this silver, and now it's troublesome." Tang Shaoyi frowned and sighed deeply.

"Who's to say no, not to mention that factories all over Jiangnan are applying for loans. The equipment purchased by the two military ports in Naha and Keelung alone has arrived on the shore, and they are waiting for the installation and testing after the payment of this silver. And here in North Korea...... Hey, I'm afraid I'm going to be yellow now. Lin Qizhao also had a black face.

Even Wang Shizhen said worriedly: "How can Russian Maozi do this." The construction of this new warship is about to start, and now the Fengtian Steel Plant and the Huludao Shipyard are waiting for money to start construction. Not to mention expanding the army now, it would be nice to be able to repair all the damaged warships at the moment. ”

Just when everyone was thinking about what to do, Wu Deren, who heard that the new warships could not be built on schedule, clamored to concentrate all the available ships and immediately go south to solve problems for the Qing Dynasty.

"Shut up, you. Even if you win the British Far East Fleet, the British still have the Indian fleet and the Australian fleet...... Have you ever beaten it? Cheng Chengcheng can't stand it anymore, this is like the commander of the navy of a big country, this is a street gangster.

Wu Deren stepped aside with a dejected face, squatted in the corner, lit a cigarette, and inhaled violently. There were other staff officers and generals in the trunk who were also irritable and smoked cigarettes, and even if the windows were opened, the carriage could not be discharged for a while. After a while, the short carriage began to emit blue smoke from various windows. From afar, it looked like it was on fire.

"Ahem, cough, cough ......" The smoke from the full carriage made Tang and Lin, who couldn't smoke, unable to hold it anymore: "Your Majesty, can you smoke in batches at the meeting in the future, it's really unbearable to be crowded together under the ministers." ”

"Yes, yes, yes. Smoking is not allowed in future meetings, and smoking is not allowed in public. After speaking, Guangxu snuffed out the cigarette in his mouth in the ashtray. Guangxu will smoke but does not smoke often: "You have to draw it out." ”

Wu Deren, who was squatting in the corner, looked up at Guangxu, stood up silently and walked out. Only two steps were taken on the platform. Squatted down, took out the cigarette case, and connected another one. Before he had time to put it back, Wang Shizhen, who was following behind, took it and took one in his mouth and lit a fire. Then he squatted beside Wu Deren without saying a word. After a while, the people who came out of the carriage were squatting all over the ground. And Wu Deren's cigarette case was also empty. Wu Deren, who has always been an iron rooster, didn't say a word. Only keep your head down and smoke.

Russia, a country that has been unruly before, in the present and in the future. People who live far away in cold regions have long been trained to be rough and savage. They don't believe in negotiations, let alone compromise. Even if the countries of the collapse of the Soviet Union were already poor, they still dared to argue with Western countries. National solidarity is one aspect. And Guangxu thinks that more importantly, because when there is no ability to develop underground resources, the country is not rich in products because of the weather, so it has the consciousness that barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes. Moreover, because the land is vast and sparsely populated, the vast territory has also become a sufficient strategic depth for military exploits. This country is not afraid of war, they prefer to believe in the knives and guns in their hands. Plundering is a part of their lives, because if they don't plunder externally. The barren land could not produce enough food to feed them.

The Chinese nation is fortunate to be located in a land with a warm climate and abundant rainfall, and the industrious Chinese nation can always cultivate its own future on the land. The Chinese nation is also unfortunate because of the steel knife hanging over their heads. The nomads, who have long been hungry for food, have always invaded the south again and again. Dog Rong, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongolian. From the beginning of the Zhou period to the Ming Dynasty, these nomads were like sickles, harvesting the prosperity and civilization established by the Han Chinese nation. But the resilient Han people can always start over again and again in the ruins. It was also from the Inurong that the northern nomads invaded the Central Plains for longer and longer periods of time, until the Jurchens ......

Guangxu, who has a Han soul, actually doesn't like this race of the body in his heart, because this race completely interrupts the process of Chinese civilization. The emperor of the Han people was not always able to do whatever he wanted, because the teachings of the ancestors and the words of the sages became the most advantageous weapons for the ministers to limit the imperial power. In the pre-Ming period, the imperial power that ruled the Chinese civilization had begun to decline, and the power of vassals began to rise. That is, after the Song Dynasty, the budding capitalism in the south developed again, and preparations were made for the future constitutional monarchy. At this time, the Manchus came. In order to consolidate the imperial power and to legitimize one's rule, a thorough servile education completely degraded a nation that was once hot-blooded but not warlike. Feudal dynasties flourished during this period.

But looking back, the Manchus were not without trouble. It was it that made the Chinese nation completely surrender to the threat from the Mongolian steppe, and made the Great Wall that was used as a barrier by various dynasties and generations completely abandoned. The closed system of the flag boundary forbade the Mongols to learn and contact with the Han culture, and the strict nomadic boundaries strengthened the ecological isolation of the steppe peoples, so that the Mongolian people could not obtain the advanced production technology and production tools of the Han people, and they were always in a nomadic position, and could not develop further for three hundred years. A Lamaist policy states that if a Mongolian household has three to five men, two or three monks must become lamas. Lamas are not allowed to take wives, and in the long run, the population will inevitably decline. After 300 years of rule by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the population has dropped from more than 10 million in the early Qing Dynasty to more than 1 million now, and the whole nation has been subdued into a weak and small nation that is in a state of collapse, not belonging to each other, with a declining population, poverty and backwardness.

As a result, the knife of the herdsman was unloaded, and the Russian gun was ushered in. This gun is more ruthless than a knife, and the knife has to be purchased from the Central Plains after all. Thousands of years of entanglement have allowed these nomads to integrate into Chinese civilization. But the Russian guns are different, they come from another civilization, they don't need to have any dependence on the Central Plains, plundering and destroying the Chinese civilization is their goal.

It's just that their actions were completely disrupted by Guangxu, but it was not enough to dispel the ambitions of the Russians. The vast territory was an advantage when defending, but it was also a disadvantage when attacking, and the distant Siberia made Nicholas II, who was clamoring for a 500,000-strong army to build Yellow Russia, more than he could strengthen, and the only railroad was destroyed. This made the roaring Nicholas II shut up.

Russia is not Japan, and it is not you who can push Russia to the point of jumping off a building with a few warships. The Qing Dynasty won the war, but it did not come to pay reparations. Guangxu understood this truth, so he changed his way - threatening. The total number of Russian troops in the Far East was only about 70,000. The main force of 50,000 was beaten between Mukden and the Liao River. Most of the more than 10,000 troops stationed in the rear did not run back. The remnants of more than 10,000 soldiers who escaped from the death line could not be the opponent of tens of thousands of elite Qing soldiers. If the Qing Dynasty launched a war to recover its territory at this time, then Russia could only watch from the sidelines. Russia's greedy ambition is evident from the words of Putin: not an inch of Russian land is superfluous. Greedy ambition will not allow the meat that has already entered the mouth to be taken away again. And what about the untenable Far East? It's easy to do, and it's guaranteed with money. However, for Russia, which will certainly not make public reparations, it can only change the name - the ransom of prisoners of war. Guangxu and his ministers thought very well, the Russians whose railways were destroyed could not transport troops quickly, and the best way to hold the Far East was to ransom as many as 40,000 prisoners. It would only be necessary to rearm these captives. Because these captives brought back more than 10,000,000 taels of silver. Let the Qing Dynasty's finances, which are like hunger and thirst in the desert, be temporarily relieved. For this reason, the 2nd and 3rd Divisions of the Qing Imperial Army still maintained an offensive posture on the border. And the Sixth Division, which had not fought a battle, under the leadership of Nie Shicheng, frequently created conflicts near Vladivostok. It was to force Russia to agree.

The Russians were also forced to bow their heads silently at the point in front of them, and they sent back the decision on the prisoners of the Qing-Russian border conflict. But their decision was beyond the guesses of Guangxu and the ministers. Nicholas II did not care about the lives of 40,000 prisoners, and in his opinion, he could arm a million troops again at any time if he wanted to. So his decision was: to redeem only a dozen high-ranking generals and nobles.

In the eyes of Nicholas II, even if the Qing occupied the Far East, it would be impossible to hold it. Because as long as the Far Eastern Railway was repaired, the 500,000-strong army of the great Tsarist Russia could march eastward. So before the railroad was fixed. Due to the domestic economic situation, he endured it first. But the defeat in the Far East was more of a shame for him, so he also decided to reorganize the Far Eastern Fleet by building warships. Fortunately, the Russian ministers were not all paranoid like him, because the Japanese fleet, which was far superior to the Qing navy, was about to be completed, and the battle between Qing and Japan was inevitable.

"Wait for the Japanese fleet to wipe out the Qing navy. That was the best time for the Empire to send troops to the Far East. Now, what we need to do is to fix the railway as soon as possible. "Nicholas II's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sergei? Yulievich? Witte thus persuaded His Majesty the Emperor.

Yes, the Far East is a land that the Qing Dynasty will not be able to defend even if it is occupied. State finances dictate that it is impossible to invest too much in these remote places. But in this way, the estimated income of more than 10 million taels of silver suddenly became less than 2 million taels, which made the Qing Dynasty, which had already made a financial plan, suddenly fall into financial difficulties. Guangxu can overturn the captive pricing or make other decisions, anyway, going back on his word is the content of diplomacy, but to do shameless work, you must have shameless confidence, and the current Qing Dynasty does not have this confidence, so you can only admit it.

Looking at the ministers whispering outside the car, Guangxu sighed deeply. Sit down and light another cigarette.

"This change in the Russians is due to the incompetence of the ministers and their failure to anticipate in advance, and they also asked the emperor to surrender. In order to repay the emperor's kindness, his subordinates discussed a plan and asked the emperor to decide. The ministers all came up, and Tang Shaoyi stood at the head of the class and said.

"It has nothing to do with Qing and the others." Guangxu casually extinguished the smoke. In China, if the prisoners are not ransomed, they will lose the morale of the army. Because traditional Chinese culture is to put people first, but Europe has no problem doing this, because of the captured defeated soldiers. It may be understandable that the ministers below did not think of this, that China must have only been in contact with the world, and that there was nothing wrong with them adhering to Confucianism. But this kind of cultural difference Guangxu himself should pay attention to, but he and Ben didn't think so. It seems that he has been assimilated by this era, just as the entire Manchu people have been assimilated by the Han people.

Seeing that the emperor motioned for himself to continue, Tang Shaoyi played: "Although there is no 1,000 taels of silver as originally expected, 2 million taels can be recovered." After the war, Russia would not pose a land threat to the Qing Dynasty for a short time, so the army restored and maintained the existing ten divisions and did not expand it. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese fleet was about to return to China and became the biggest threat to the Qing Dynasty at the moment, so the Jiahua Navy was the first place. However, due to the financial situation of the imperial court, the ministers and others agreed to suspend the construction of all small ships, including destroyers and below, and suspend the formation of the coast guard force. In addition to ensuring the financial expenses for the purchased ships and the normal training of the navy, only the funds for the next four ships in Huludao will be guaranteed. ”

"It seems that this is the only way to go. Tell Cassini that the money is going to be released. In addition, we will completely blockade Japan and try to make up for it from Japan as much as possible. Let's go back to Beijing tomorrow. ”

The emperor does not walk at night. This was told to Guangxu by Liu Kun, who had returned from Shandong to quell the turmoil, so whenever night fell, Guangxu's special train would stop. As for Guangxu going from the capital to the northeast, there is no such rule, it is because he is in the war zone. You Liu Kun is meritorious in quelling the chaos in Shandong, you will go back to the Northeast when you go back to the Northeast, and a major matter in the Northeast is still waiting for you to go back to deal with it, come here to report something. Guangxu didn't listen, saying that this was a rule passed down from his ancestors. Liu Kun said for a long time before Guangxu reacted, and the same was true when he returned to Beijing that year, but he didn't pay attention to it at that time. This time it was Guangxu who was not calm this time, and accidentally discovered this problem while thinking about it. After all, this time I will return to Beijing to have a complete showdown with Cixi, and I haven't figured out what the charter is. Anyway, there are two points, the first is not to cause domestic turmoil, and the current Qing Dynasty cannot withstand any bit of internal friction. Second, it is necessary to completely take over power, and no one wants to repeat the Yiwei Palace change again.

Liu Kunyi's opinion cannot be refused, because it is the righteousness of the world and the law of the ancestors when they open their mouths. Well, listen this time. After all, when the palace changed, Liu Kun was under house arrest due to the fish pond, and he had not compensated others.

Guangxu was not quiet and could only think crankily, now the speed of the train is not high, and the time to stop at night to return to Beijing is longer. It's okay, just calm down, write down the unfinished metal craftsmanship, and then care about the return of the Guangxu Islands experimental ship. Through Cheng Cheng's explanation, Guangxu also understood why the rate of fire of the 152-mm naval gun, known as the water pipe, was only one and a half minutes. That's because the experimental ship is equipped with a 203-mm naval gun feeding system, which must be a preparation for a triple 203-mm naval gun. Guangxu, who couldn't face Cixi's charter, went to the front of the car to check the steam turbine of the small-horsepower oil-fired boiler that had just been finalized......

When night fell again, the emperor's special train slowly stopped at Shanhaiguan Railway Station. Guangxu praised the guard general Gao Cheng for sticking to his duties, and promoted Gao Cheng, who was still a major battalion commander, to colonel and regiment commander. Although his new military uniform and new official position will not be issued by the military department until the emperor returns to Beijing, Gao Cheng still shouted long live the emperor. Guangxu didn't have the heart to play haha, so he went back to the room early to rest.

Shanhaiguan, this is the dividing line inside and outside the customs. Outside the customs, it doesn't matter how the first division of the army drives with it, but after passing the Shanhaiguan Pass, it is called bringing troops into the customs, and its nature is different. Whether to bring the first division into the customs or not, this is the question that Guangxu has been worrying about in the past few days. Although it is no problem to have the royal guard camp on the side, once the troops are brought into the customs and the ministers of the DPRK and China are revolted, then the turmoil in the Qing Dynasty is just around the corner. After all, the alternation of imperial power has been bloody since ancient times. But this kind of thing is not easy to discuss with the ministers, and Guangxu, who can't think of an idea, can only stay for another day. But the hesitation in Guangxu's eyes made Tang Shaoyi see it in his eyes.