The Treaty of Canton was not peace, but a brief armistice.

Whether it is the Western European and American powers, or the Qing Dynasty and Vietnam, they all know this and know each other. Everyone understood that France would not endure this disgrace for long. When the French Third Republic stabilized its own country, and when the French army units that had suffered heavy losses in the Franco-Prussian War were restored, a new war would be indisputable.

Therefore, shortly after the signing of the Entente, when Nguyen Van Xiang went to Beijing as a Vietnamese envoy to give thanks, and Nguyen Phuc Thanh made a detour to Guangxi and returned to Vietnam, Emperor Si Duc personally had secret talks with Liu Xian and personally signed the first vassal treaty between the Nguyen Dynasty and the Qin army.

After the treaty was signed, the Nguyen Dynasty would seize the time to train a new army, and strive to train a new army of 30,000 within two years. Then whether to further expand depends on whether the Nguyen Dynasty's finances can support it! The military training of the new army, as well as the actual command of the 30,000 new army, were completely entrusted to the Qin army. That is, the Ruan Dynasty will be completely vassal to the Qin army militarily.

This treaty is known as the Treaty of Annan. It has played a crucial role in the future positioning of Vietnam!

Liu Xian was naturally happy to take refuge in the Ruan Dynasty, so he gave 30% of the shares of Hongji Coal Mine to Emperor Si De. Although Emperor Ide only has dividends, but no management rights. But this is also a kind of reward that Liu Xian gave him. Hongji Coal Mine is now an old hen that lays golden eggs, and the three-point dividend is almost comparable to the tax paid by a province in Vietnam. And more importantly, the money was completely handed over to the royal family of the Nguyen Dynasty.

The Treaty of Canton is like the Paris Treaty after the end of World War I, not peace. And just a truce of five to ten years. Liu Xian even thought about it when he pulled the flag and rebelled. Will France take the opportunity to send troops. Therefore, it is necessary to firmly win over Vietnam. At the time of the expansion of the new army in Vietnam. Liu Xian would send corresponding personnel to train a personal guard army of two or three thousand people for Emperor Side, and the command was completely handed over to Emperor Side, and all weapons were completely equivalent to the Qin army. Like the shares of Hongji Coal Mine, it is an investment!

Liu Xian returned to Liuzhou from Vietnam at the end of October. I rested at home for half a month, accompanied my daughter, looked at my son, and then talked to my daughters-in-law about yin and yang, and then fell into absolute busyness.

A local industrial park in Liuzhou. The inspection of the Qinzhou Iron and Steel Plant, and the laying of a short section of the railway between the Qinnan Iron and Steel Plant and the port, and then the expansion of Shilu Iron Mine, Qinzhou Port, Shilu Port [Changhua], Shilu Cement Factory, Hongji Port and other wholly-owned 'enterprises' of the Qin Army, as well as the replacement of new and old soldiers in various departments of the Qin Army, this kind of scene of veterans retiring from the army and new recruits joining the army, the Qin army has every year, the difference is only in the number of people. Of course, the arrangement of veterans after they are discharged from the army is also an important task. After the veterans of the Qin army are discharged, they are not really discharged, and most of them will be arranged to security positions in many industries of the Qin army. Such as industrial parks, such as Qinnan Iron and Steel Plant, such as many ports, such as Hongji Coal Mine, Shilu Iron Mine, two population bases. When the army is raised in the future, if it is recruited again, it will be tens of thousands of tigers! Finally, it is a wire laying from Liuzhou to Qinzhou......

In China the telegraph is already available. The waterlines from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Nagasaki to Shanghai laid by the United Kingdom, Russia and Denmark have a total length of 2,237 nautical miles. Denmark's Great Northern Telegraph Company secretly introduced submarine cables from the sea into Chinese mainland without the permission of the Qing government. And communicated the route from Tianjin to Shanghai. But these telegraph offices are completely in the hands of foreigners, and there is no telegraph office run by the Chinese themselves.

This year is a milestone year in the history of the development of Chinese telegraph, just when Liu Xian and the French fought in Vietnam, the French Legation in China staff member Wei Jijie referred to the radical arrangement method of the "Kangxi Dictionary", selected more than 6,800 commonly used Chinese characters, and compiled the first Chinese character code book, called "The New Book of Telegraph". Later, Zheng Guanying of China adapted it into the "New Edition of China Telegraph". This is the earliest Chinese character code book in China. At the same time, after returning from France, Wang Chengrong, an overseas Chinese businessman, and Wang Bin of Fuzhou developed China's first telegraph and petitioned the government to run the telegram itself, but the Qing government naturally refused to accept it without exception.

The fact that the Manchu authorities did not adopt it did not mean that the Qin army did not adopt it. Although Liu Xian was still in Vietnam at that time, it was impossible to deal with this matter at the first time, but Fan Debang, the great butler of the Qin army, did not eat rice. Immediately ordered the personnel of the Beijing station to contact Erwang and invite them to come to Liuzhou, and then it would not be a problem. As for the Beijing authorities' refusal to allow the laying of electric wires, Liu Xian ignored them. He even dared to lay the dozens of miles long railway from the Qinnan Iron and Steel Plant to the port by himself, and how many wires could he make him tremble?

Liu Xian is in the limelight at the moment, and the big victory against the law has made the previous troubles a thing of the past. Not only will Beijing no longer ask for a railroad to find him, but it also has to give him the title of 'Nanyang Admiral', so that Liu Xian can prove that he is the prime minister of Nanyang Military in the future. The admirals of Guangdong, both on land and water, thus became his subordinates. Shortly after the birth of his sons, he got a first-class male MG. It can be said that as long as Liu Xian does not rebel now, whatever he wants to do, the bigwigs in Beijing and even Liangguang will turn a blind eye.

Build a railway? Wires? It is a great disaster to put it on others. Resting on him, five words fell from the sky, that was not a thing......

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Zhenning Town, which is more than 20 miles away from the capital city of Liuzhou, is an ordinary agricultural town in Guangxi. There are no minerals, no easy waterways to trade with, and only fertile farmland. For generations, the people here have exhausted their lives in acres and acres of paddy fields.

Because of the distance from the Jintian area, and the fact that life was still passable, in the twenty years since the rise of the Taiping Army, although Zhenning Town has also been affected by something, it is not really big. The landlords and gentry here still have absolute power, and the clan continues to be the heaven of the people. The people are still like their grandparents, from their living environment to the means of subsistence, there is no major change.

Liang Ping is an ordinary person in Zhenning Town, Liang Ping has four children, two boys and two girls, two acres of water land at home, and then rents five acres of land from the Liang family in the east of the town. Every year, the food is just enough for the whole family to eat.

Liang Ping has lived a life like this, he has no big aspirations, he just looks forward to his son growing up and getting married, giving birth to grandchildren, and the Liang family will be passed on from generation to generation.

But since last year, Liang Ping's life has changed.

The Liang family in Zhendong changed the land rent from 50% to 50%. Originally, Liang Ping was the same clan of the Liang family in the east of the town, and the land rent was reduced by five points, but now it is reduced by five points, which is half.

Five acres of land, two crops a year, can make more than 20 loads of rice grain, five cents is more than a load of grain, saving this point is almost a person's rations.

Liang Ping regarded the Zong family as a great benevolent person. I thought in my heart that my family would live a more relaxed life in the future.

But unexpected surprises came wave after wave, and this year, the Liang family in the east of the town took the initiative to lease three more acres of land to Liang Ping. His family was able to cultivate 10 acres of paddy fields. This couldn't help but make Liang Ping extremely happy, but it made Liang Ping feel very uncomfortable. Why did you suddenly rent an extra three acres of land? This is no small matter. For a family like Liang Ping, whether or not a few acres of land can be rented is related to the livelihood and fate of a family!

In the past, because of the matter of renting land, quarrels and fights, and bleeding heads were common.

Liang Ping knew that he had received such a benefit, and someone must have lost the land. This matter is obvious, and people who have less land will naturally have to have a hard time.

Liang Ping is a kind-hearted person, he is a townsman, this kind of thing came out, he suddenly felt a little indebted in his heart, and he was a little afraid of seeing people. So when he saw his neighbors and fellow villagers, Liang Ping felt a little timid in his heart. After more than a month of such time, Liang Ping also knew that the rented land of those families was stripped by the Zong family, but he slowly found that the villagers who had been rented by the villagers seemed to have a more comfortable life, rather than a difficult and unsustainable life! After inquiring again, Liang Ping learned that the leaders of the original families and the young men had all gone to work in Fucheng. The wages for working are brought back every month, which is much better than farming! The cowardice in Liang Ping's heart dissipated, but he found that he had a strange and indescribable feeling in his heart.

Liang Ping, the industrial park in Fucheng, knows it. In the past three or two years, not only has the land changed in Zhenning Town, but there have also been many other places. For example, there are more people who grow sugarcane, more people who grow mulberry trees and silkworms, more people who grow tobacco leaves, and fewer people who weave cloth. The homespun cloth on the market is becoming less and less popular, that is, Liang Ping himself, in addition to the homespun cloth woven by his mother-in-law at home, the fabrics he bought are all foreign cloths. Although the foreign cloth is not as strong and durable as the homespun cloth, it is light and breathable, and in Guangxi, this advantage is more popular than that of Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

There is also salt and sugar, the price is falling.

And what Liang Ping likes the most is that the price of iron has also fallen sharply.

There are very few iron mines and coal mines in Guangxi and Guangdong, and although the iron-making industry in Foshan has been developed for hundreds of years, most of the iron materials are imported from outside. In the realm of Liangguang, a good piece of iron is precious among the people. Swap it for a bucket or two of rice.

Before this year, Zhenning Town was still like this. A sickle costs dozens of copper, the iron material is still poor, the appearance is black, it is easy to rust, and it is very undurable. But this year, the shop pù opened in Zhenning Town has kitchen knives, axes, scissors, sickles, shovels, shovels, etc., all of which are sold. The edges of all the objects are white and shiny, and it is pleasing to look at.

The sickle that Liang Ping bought from that shop pù had a sharp edge and a hard blade, and when he was harvesting rice, he cut all the ground with three sickles, and they were only sharpened once. He is an ordinary person, he doesn't know what pig iron and wrought iron are, but he has never believed that these good sickles in front of him are the same iron as those black sickles in the past. (To be continued......) R1292