Chapter 18: Sprouts
As Ye Zhao expected, on the third day after the racecourse incident, the British consul Ali Guo, the French acting consul Ai Tang, and the American consul Walcott came to the Qin mission together, and demanded that the Qing envoy restrain the soldiers, otherwise they would not be willing to give up.
Two times in a row, the Qing army bravely attacked foreign merchants, obviously the killing of the township Yong in the horse race hall caused a chain reaction, most of the regimental training of the township Yong came from the same place, the same spirit and branches, the same townsman was killed by the foreigners, which will naturally cause the resentment of the enemy, not to mention the township Yong regimental training, military discipline is not easy to restrict.
Ye Zhao sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, but repeatedly expressed regret, and when the three foreign adults were sent away, Ye Zhao immediately revised a letter, which was written to Xu Naizhao, the governor of Jiangsu, and Ji Hang'a, the envoy of the inspection, asking the two to be on strict guard to prevent the foreigners from sneaking attack.
Worried that the two of them were not the same thing, Ye Zhao's words were extremely harsh, and he said that the warning message had been transmitted, and if he did not fulfill his duties, he would definitely be involved in the crime of dereliction of duty.
After asking his soldiers to secretly send the letter to the Qing army camp, Ye Zhao came to the second floor and knocked on Su Hongniang's door.
Su Hongniang changed into a rose-red small plum blossom-branded slim cheongsam, looking slender and charming, Ye Zhao smiled: "Why do you wear a tartar suit?" Do you think that the Tartars also have good people? ”
Su Hongniang ignored him and said sideways: "Come in and say." ”
Under the red candle, the boudoir is full of color, the silver screen shows the pavilion, the tassel decorates the account, and the beautiful Western-style dresser by the window brings a different style.
sat down on the soft pier, took the fragrant tea sent by Su Hongniang, and groaned, leaving a fragrance on his teeth and cheeks.
Ye Zhao no longer laughed, but said very seriously: "Write a letter, to Liu Lichuan, I estimate that it will not be more than half a month, and the foreigners will attack the Qing army camp, and I am afraid that when the time comes, I will also ask the Little Knife Club to assist, you tell Liu Lichuan that you can't agree." After a pause, he said: "If not, he will agree to come down, but when the foreigners attack together, if he takes the opportunity to lead the crowd to break through, the knife will live and die, there is only one chance, if you don't make a decision, the whole army will be destroyed." ”
I thought I would have to explain to Su Hongniang why Xiaodao would not be able to attack the Qing army with foreigners, but who knew that Su Hongniang frowned and said, "Is this news true?" I'm also worried, don't look at the foreign merchants selling Brother Liu and their weapons, but in the eyes of the foreigners, we are a chaotic army after all, and sooner or later the foreigners and the Tartars will collude to deal with Brother Liu, and then Brother Liu will not even have a way out. ”
Ye Zhao raised his thumb and said with a smile: "My wife is really getting smarter and smarter." ”
Su Hongniang was helpless, and she was serious for a while? It's starting to show its true colors again.
"Don't worry, you can't keep this letter wrong, but wife, if you want to find a brother who can speak well, you must persuade Liu Lichuan, if he really doesn't listen, then there is no way, let's just do our best and obey the destiny of heaven."
Su Hongniang nodded silently, and unconsciously the title of "wife" was gradually determined by Xiao Slippery in the middle of the conversation.
"Just tell Ah Jiu to go." Su Hongniang pondered for a while and had a candidate.
Ye Zhao nodded: "Then Ming'er asked the eldest brother to take Ah Jiu to find Hall in the morning, and he will help Ah Jiu arrange for him to enter the county seat of Shanghai." "I have a relationship with the Heaven and Earth Society, and I help the Little Knife Society to speak out, as long as Su Hongniang and Su Boss know, such as Luo Ajiu and others, it is absolutely impossible for them to know the details inside.
Su Hongniang nodded, but looked at Ye Zhao again, and said, "I really don't understand, you are the prince's elder brother, why do the rebel clansmen help us so much?" ”
Ye Zhao smiled mysteriously: "It's right to help your wife, but if you say that you are a rebel, it may not be." ”
In fact, to say that in today's world, the distinction between Manchu and Han is far less than a few decades later, not to mention the life and death described on the Internet in later generations, the Qing Dynasty has entered the customs for more than 200 years, and the idea of loyalty to the monarch has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan is to "be loyal to the monarch" as the belief and the Taiping army launched a desperate struggle, and the gentry class is more widespread in the psychology of loyalty to the monarch, and has long been at ease to be the people under the rule of the Manchurians.
Whether it was the Taiping Army or the Heaven and Earth Society, most of the people who threw themselves into it were peasants who could not eat or outlaws, or they tried in vain to gain glory and wealth from them, and although they raised anti-Qing slogans, they really had nothing to do with the dispute between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty.
Even after the Xinhai Revolution, how many so-called Han Confucians became royalists and refused to cut off their braids?
The death of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not because of the Manchu and Han disputes, but decades later, the first Wuwu was defeated in Yueben, the Westernization Movement failed, and then the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Yanjing, the Boxer Fist chaos in the world, Cixi died, the lord Shaoguo was suspicious, and the constitutional monarchy that was made out of shame was a change of soup but not a change of medicine, and the imperial family had no intention of giving up power at all, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the gentry class, and the foundation of the Qing Dynasty no longer existed.
But Ye Zhao knew that no matter from which point of view, he would eventually restore the name of the Han people, and the change that he could not bring about by himself was the eternal iron bucket of the Qing Dynasty. It's just that it may be more than ten or even decades later, and now I just have to accumulate strength, if I have an unusually strong armed force in my hand, and then I can defend the frontier in the coastal places such as Jiangnan and Guangdong, then I can carry out a real Westernization movement, unite the gentry, improve the people's livelihood, and interact with the West on an equal footing, so as to make the territory I defend rich and prosperous.
If he can really go this far, in fact, even if he holds the title of Manchurian nobleman, no one will be troubled by his bloodline, and maybe he will support himself as the first king under the constitutional monarchy, but he is not willing to bear the name of a Manchurian nobleman for the rest of his life.
Of course, now that I only dare to dream, it is too far away, and this world will not develop step by step because of my arrival, and I can only take one step at a time and work hard towards the goal of my dreams.
As for the children of the Eight Banners, if this country is really changed by themselves, it can be said to be their blessing, at least they will go to the self-reliant son in peace and betray the clansmen, it is categorically not to talk about.
Of course, Ye Zhao wouldn't tell Su Hongniang these words, but just said goodbye with a hippie smile, which was completely in line with his mysterious image in Su Hongniang's mind.
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A typical 19th-century western-style building, with its lavish colored glass, a church-like structure and a grassy garden, resembles a condensed small palace. The white and immaculate marble statue of the girl in the antechamber is vivid, as if it will come to life at any moment.
In the hall paved with the red carpet, Ye Zhao saw ten teenagers selected by Lawyer Hall from the church schools in Shanghai and Hong Kong to be sent to study in England, all of them boys, all of them with braided hair and bright eyes looking at Ye Zhao curiously.
All of them were orphans adopted by church orphanages, although the descriptions of these orphanages by the Qing Dynasty were extremely terrifying, some said that they abducted and sold children to dig out their hearts to make medicine, and some said that they gouged out their eyes to give foreign demons a trick. But no matter how unbelievable the rumors were, these young children were in their own spirits, and their faces did not have the dishes common to country children.
"Braids, when you get to England, you don't want to keep them!" After Lawyer Hall introduced to the young children that this is Mr. Ye Zhao, who sponsored your study abroad, Ye Zhao's opening remarks confused these young children.
Ye Zhao asked their names one by one, smiled slightly, and said: "Going abroad to study, and your hometown is far away from thousands of rivers and mountains, you will encounter many challenges in your future life, I only have one sentence to tell you, that is, study for the rise of China!" "I plagiarized the words of a great man, but I think it's appropriate to say it at the moment.
"Let's read it to me, come, raise your hand, like this." Ye Zhao clenched his right hand into a fist to make an oath on his chest, and asked the children to learn his posture, and said loudly: "Study for the rise of China!" ”
"Study for the rise of China!" The children shouted after Ye Zhao.
"Louder!" Ye Zhao shouted.
"Study for the rise of China!" The young children shouted loudly together, neat and childish voices, although their faces were somewhat confused, Ye Zhao didn't know why, his nose suddenly sour.
"Well, that's it, you'll understand what it means one day." Ye Zhao smiled and gently patted the shoulder of the tallest boy closest to him, just now the boy reported his name, called Shen Chenglong, the word ten thousand liters.
"Sir, I will study hard, live up to Mr.'s expectations, and serve Mr. when I return to China!" This young man is the oldest and the most sensible, and he knows that this Mr. Ye Zhao has actually changed his fate.
Ye Zhao smiled slightly and said, "It's not for me, you will understand this truth in the future." ”
"Yes, everything is up to you!" Not daring to look at Ye Zhao, the young man bowed his head respectfully.
Looking at these teenagers, Ye Zhao's mood didn't know why, and suddenly became cheerful.
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It's eight o'clock in the morning, and I've just read a few comments, and by the way.
Khan Khan Khan, I saw that a few friends said that they were confused, and they were entangled in the identity of the protagonist, so there was no way, and in this chapter I slightly mentioned the direction of the possible development of pig's feet, in fact, it shouldn't have been written now, but I added a few sentences temporarily.
Of course, the protagonist won't play an anti-Qing slogan.,Haha,I guess there are friends who are confused by this.,So how is it possible.,The protagonist ran out to rebel and shout to expel the Tartars? Khan died, and it was too spoofed. And in those days, the slogan was not the slightest bit appealing.
Not anti-Qing but anti-Qing, is the highest level, this book, even if it really comes to the day when the world is turned upside down, there will not be many Manchurians who feel that the protagonist is anti-Qing, and in the end, most Manchurian Han people will regard the protagonist as a hero or even a British master, so that it can be written reasonably is the fun of this book. Hehe.
In the final analysis, what this book wants to write about is some changes that cannot be touched in the official road, and the Manchu and Han are not the focus at all.
If it is clear, the ultimate goal of the protagonist is to establish a constitutional monarchy similar to some European countries, and the first king is called Ye Zhao. In fact, it can't be said to be the goal of the protagonist, it can be regarded as the goal of this book, it depends on the promotion of various people and things in the development of history, Ye Zhao wants the country to be rich and strong, even if he is a constitutional monarch, he is not willing to be in a yellow robe. Of course, he may also be the president, or he may fail and go into exile, hehe, let's see how history develops step by step with the addition ......of Ye Zhao's element.
Finally, today, Monday, the new book list, ask for votes, to soothe my wounded heart......