'Do you think these two are up to the task?' 'Yi? Road.

'Competent. Bao Jun said, his face a little astringent, "If they are not competent, there will really be no other candidate in the Qing Dynasty." Zeng Jize must stay in Jingli. 'It's a big one for me to be in the Qing Dynasty, and when it comes to dealing with foreigners, I really can't find a few officials who can do things!

Now the Qing Dynasty is a weak country in the international community, and it is not easy to engage in diplomacy with weak countries. We all know the dominance of foreigners over the years, and we remember all the hardships. But because of this, weak countries rely more on diplomacy than strong countries. ‘

'What weak country has no diplomacy?' In my view, on the contrary, the weaker a country, the more it must rely on diplomacy to protect its rights. Britain is not the only international power, but also France, Russia, the United States, Germany and Austria-Hungary. If we want to protect our own rights when dealing with them, we can't let them unite against us!

Russia, for example, is insatiable. The money and guns are far less than those of Britain and France, but they are vainly trying to swallow up the Ili River Valley. Can we get them to their liking? In that case, what do Britain and France think of us?

They gave more silver and more arms, did they want to give them Guangdong?

The diplomacy of a weak country is not the same as blindly retreating, otherwise it is not diplomacy, but surrender! Internationally, exchanges between countries are all about every advantage, and even if a weak country is against a strong country, it will fight as much as possible. Europe also has small countries and weak countries!

(So what we should fight for is still to the end!) If you want to fight for Russia, you must also fight for opium! ‘

"Lord, since we are a weak country, we should be softer in diplomacy. The British are very firm on opium......

Baojun is not for opium, but for the overall situation. But Yi? The grasp of this seems to be more precise.

The foreigners need the Qing Dynasty to deal with the Liu thief!

A number of policies implemented in the Qin military government's areas are now heard of in Beijing. That raises tariffs. Banning opium is completely cutting the flesh of foreigners. It's strange if the foreigners don't hate the Qin army.

After the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, preparations were being made to train a new army of 30,000 banners and Han mixed formations, and the ordnance would be able to be transported to the dock in Tianjin in February. This shows the eagerness of Britain, France, Russia and other countries.

This kind of eagerness is the best bargaining capital in the Qing Dynasty today!

He paused and said, "Pei Yu [Bao Jun Zi], we are still advantageous now, the foreigners have a conflict of interest with Liu Thief, and they have to rely on us to overthrow the Qin army." This is our tough capital. Of course, it is not possible to blindly take a tough diplomacy in a weak country, but no one can touch us in seeking practical benefits. When negotiating with foreigners, you should put down your shelves and try less to be famous. Got it? ‘

Prince Gong definitely knows more about the Western world at this time than he did in the original time and space. Therefore, he sneered at the lack of diplomacy of weak countries preached in Ta Kung Pao. If a weak country really has no diplomacy, then what do so many small and weak countries in Europe need to do with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? In fact, diplomacy can be done well no matter how strong or weak it is, and the problem lies in getting it right. A weak country has a weak foreign policy, and a strong country has a strong foreign policy, each pursuing different things, but they must all be pragmatic and cannot pursue impossible goals. Otherwise, no matter how strong or weak, there will be no way to do diplomacy well.

Before the Qing Dynasty, I dealt with foreigners. At a very high time, it still holds itself as a great power, and cannot put itself in the position of a weak country. If you don't take the initiative to communicate with those powerful countries, you will be isolated when something happens, and in the end the foreigners will be furious. An agreement to lose power and humiliate the country is about to be signed! If you can honestly regard yourself as a second-rate country that is inferior to others, and befriend a few second-class foreigners, just like Liu Thief befriended Germany and the United States. and did not offend Britain by force, but only by France and Russia. The latter two can't help him!

Although Yi? I know that Liu Xian's own force is behind this, but this diplomatic idea is feasible. I used it in the Qing Dynasty. Even if the effect is weaker, it is much stronger than the current diplomatic strategy.

Bao Jun came out of Prince Gong and soon met Guo Songtao.

'Bo Yan, in this visit to Europe, apart from England, France and Russia are the most important in the negotiations! ‘

Baojun had already finished reading Guo Songtao's visit plan, and his brows were furrowed, a little dissatisfied. Guo Songtao raised the position of Britain too highly, there was only one British Empire in his eyes, and at most there was France, and he ignored the four powers of Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy!

Yes, now the Manchu civil and military forces have a lot of opinions about the Russians. You say that you are too greedy for a country with little money and little support for armaments, and that you are still fighting with the Ottoman Turks in the west, and that you will be the whole Ili River Valley as soon as you open your mouth.

The princes and ministers of the Qing court now knew that there was no sympathy between Russia and Turkey, and according to past examples, the Russo-Turkish war would have to be fought for three or four years, or even longer for five or six years. In China's current form, by the time the Russians have finished the war, the Chinese battlefield should have been decided. The importance of the Russians, because this matter suddenly fell to a dispensable position in the mouths of some courtiers.

"My lord, Russia is a wolf's ambition, and it is eyeing Xinjiang and Manchuria, and it cannot be ......" Guo Songtao was stopped by Baojun before he finished speaking.

'Bo Yan, no matter how wolf the Russians are, they can't compare to Liu Thief. Things can't be done absolutely, and the decency of the overall situation still has to be given to the Russians. This is the unanimous opinion of the top level of the Qing court, the Russians are hateful and unreliable, but they are also a great power, don't offend. Maybe what will happen in the future!

……

'Yungui's situation is a bit chaotic. ‘

On Liu Xian's side, Prime Minister Qin Jun's foreign affairs Zhang Shouyan had a very worried face. At the same time, I was also annoyed in my heart.

MD, Xianghuai's 100,000 troops stay in Yungui, Liu Changyou, Liu Mingchuan, Xianghuai's top-notch capable and famous generals, will they not be able to suppress the group of monkeys below?

There are more than a dozen rebel armies in the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou! Zhang Shouyan really wanted to scold.

'Heroes from all walks of life have taken the opportunity to rise, and Shi Dakai ......'

The situation in Guizhou, Yunnan Province is very chaotic. After the Huai army fought with the Qin army, their local majesty seemed to be gone, and the righteous armies in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces emerged one after another. Of course, Liu Changyou and Liu Mingchuan wanted to suppress them, but the terrain of these two provinces was complicated, the mountains were many and the forests were deep, and there were complicated ethnic issues, so they could not grasp them at all.

So much so that at present, the momentum of Yungui's anti-Qing is so big!

Moreover, these anti-Qing rebels have now begun to communicate with the Qin army. These people also knew in their hearts that if it weren't for the Qin army's strong combat effectiveness and defeat Zhang Shusheng and other Huai troops with weak troops, it would be impossible for them to make a big noise about the state and county. These guys are fishing in troubled waters and profiting from them.

'What's going on in Sichuan?' ‘

Compared with Yungui, Liu Xian is more concerned about the situation in Sichuan. As the land of abundance and a populous land, Sichuan has just recovered in the past few years, and if it is chaotic again, Hanzhong will not have to consider the threat from Sichuan. Moreover, the three southwestern provinces are all in chaos, and the time for the Qin army to connect with Hanzhong will definitely be advanced.

The news I just received, and the Brotherhood is ready to coax. But it still depends on whether we can take down Fuzhou. Zhang Shouyan was angry and funny. But he can't help but admit a fact. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, the gang forces and anti-Qing forces that were still rooted in the local area had much brighter eyes. And there is also Ta Kung Pao to do propaganda, now who in China does not know the key significance of the Qin army and the Chu army in Fuzhou?

Without Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang, the Qing Dynasty would have blown out the lamp and pulled out the wax during the Xianfeng period. No one can deny the contribution of Zeng Guofan's gang to the Qing Dynasty, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the Qing Dynasty was supported by the Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army.

And the battle of Fuzhou was the battle of life and death for the Chu army. Fuzhou was lost, not to mention that the main force of the Chu army was defeated, the horsetail was lost, and the shipmaster and sailor division were lost, so is the Chu army still the Chu army?

"It seems that everyone in the world is staring at Fuzhou." Liu Xian rubbed his chin, "Then let them take a good look at our combat effectiveness!" ”

……

Fan Debang, the chief of the Qin army, now gave up his position to Huo Guangzheng, jumped out of the military circle, and sat on the throne of the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong. As a matter of course, it has become the top spot in the civilian official line of the Qin army.

Liu Xian is very interesting to the old man, as long as he doesn't die, he won't kick away if he doesn't have the ability. Some of them are deputies in the army, and there are many idlers in the yamen. Fan Debang is his descendant, the old man, more than ten years before and after the saddle, isn't the picture today?

Even if Zuo Zongtang has fallen, his name will be low.

Liu Xian doesn't have any prime minister now, how big is the territory? put on the prime minister's hat, and it was a shame to say it.

Fan Debang is now reviewing this year's Guangdong budget. All the territory in the province has been taken, and the officials have been busy for a while before.

There is no such thing as a Taoist platform in the political territory of the Qin army, with a three-level structure of provinces, prefectures, and counties. The state still exists, but the jurisdiction has been greatly reduced, just like the county-level cities in later generations, the level is one level higher, and the territory is the size of a county. A typical example is Qinzhou.

The county is still seven grades, and a county is equipped with one to three deputy magistrates, which is eight grades. There are bureaus in the county, just like the original six rooms, but the number has increased a lot, and there are 16 bureaus. For a while, the bureau chief is not enough, and the deputy governor must be tenacious in person. These directors are Jiupin, and the county has townships and towns, and the township and town mayors are also Jiupin, and there are administrative villages under the townships, and the village heads belong to the civil servants who are on the staff, and they are to be paid.

And the eight or nine grades plus civil servants, in the past, they were all regarded as 'officials', and the officials were not connected, no matter how high these people were, it was impossible for them to be officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

However, Qin Jun is here, everything is possible. As long as the ability is enough and there is a meritorious service, the junior officials can also become officials.

The governor is the sixth grade, the prefect is the fifth grade, and the rank of deputy is lowered.

The governor is a three-rank governor, and there are left and right politicians below, and then a scoop of deputies, which are all four-grade. The director of the five products, each hall corresponds to the county bureau and government bureau below, and the deputy level in the hall will still be first.

Perhaps many people have already seen it. That's right, there is no such thing as seven or five grades in the officialdom of the Qin army, and the official titles are all 'positive'. (To be continued......) R1292