At the beginning of 1897, Ren Chao coerced Emperor Guangxu to order the abolition of the Military Aircraft Department and other institutions, announced the establishment of a cabinet official system, formed a new cabinet, and appointed Li Hongzhang as the prime minister of the cabinet, and Ren Chao and Zhang Chaoyi as assistant ministers. However, Li Hongzhang refused to return to Beijing to take up his post under the pretext of illness, and was temporarily appointed as acting prime minister.

The newly established Cabinet announced the abolition of the original six ministries and the establishment of 10 new ministries of foreign affairs, civil affairs, government affairs, academic affairs, army, navy, justice, agriculture and commerce, post and telecommunications, and the Imperial Academy. Ren Chao also served as the secretary of the Ministry of the Army, and Ding Ruchang served as the secretary of the Ministry of the Navy. The Beiyang Naval Division and the Jiaolong Fleet were reorganized into the Jiaolong Fleet, and Kun was appointed as the commander. In addition, in order to increase the control of the new government, Ren Chao also raised a large number of system talents and placed them in various ministries to hold important positions. At the same time, Kang, Liang and other leaders of the reform faction were also reused by Ren Chao and were arranged to hold important positions in various ministries. When Cixi launched a coup d'état, Kang, Liang and others had already gotten the news, as soon as they found out that something was wrong, they fled immediately from the Jingshi, Tan Si and others were arrested by Cixi before, and they were going to be beheaded immediately, but then Ren Chao broke through the city of Beijing, and these so-called six gentlemen of Wuxu in later generations failed to be heroic and were rescued by the Tiger Ben Army, and these people also held important positions in the newly established ministries.

At this time, the situation in the country was still not too stable, and Li Hongzhang and other local governors secretly formed an alliance, although they did not openly rebel. However, most of the newly formed governments have also taken a blind attitude. Ren Chao's decree could only be conveyed to Shandong, Zhili, and Liaodong, which had just been occupied. As for the rest of the country, it is basically semi-independent. However, Ren Chao is not in the mood to take care of these disobedient princes from all over the country now, the so-called gun shot the first bird, according to Ren Chao's plan, of course, these rebels in the northeast were eliminated first. And then it's better to go back to them.

So soon after the establishment of the new cabinet, tens of thousands of tiger troops who had been prepared in Mukden immediately sent troops north to march into Jilin. In Jilin, Yiktang'a, who escaped from Mukden, and the Jilin general Guo Buluo Changshun and others gathered nearly 100,000 rebels in an attempt to annihilate the Tiger Ben army that broke into Jilin in one fell swoop. But how could these rebels resist the attack of the wolf-like tiger army, and after a fierce battle, the tiger army defeated the rebels in Jilin. The 100,000 rebels were completely defeated, and only a small number of rebels fled into Heilongjiang with Yiketanga, Changshun and others. The Tiger Ben Army successfully regained Jilin. and soon occupied the major cities of Jilin.

But just when the Tiger Ben Army was marching all the way and beating the rebels to the ground, the old man of Tsarist Russia finally couldn't do it. The Russian government secretly signed treaties with the Heilongjiang general Enze, the Jilin general Changshun, and the Shengjing general Yiketanga in Qiqihar. On behalf of the Qing government, Enze, Changshun, and Yiketanga ceded most of the territory of Heilongjiang and part of Jilin to Tsarist Russia, and leased Port Arthur to Tsarist Russia in perpetuity. In return. The Tsarist government agreed to send troops to the northeast to help the Qing government quell the rebellion, of course, in their mouths, the so-called rebels were naturally Ren Chao's tiger army.

Ren Chao after receiving the news. Furious, he immediately notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and lodged a strong protest against the Tsarist government, accusing the Tsarist government of wanton interference in China's internal affairs. At the same time, it was pointed out that Enze and others were rebel generals of the Qing Dynasty, and they had no right to sign any treaties with foreign countries on behalf of the government, and the so-called "Qiqihar Treaty" was signed. The Qing government would never recognize it.

At the same time, Ren Chao ordered the Tiger Ben army in the northeast to send troops to recover Heilongjiang and annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop, so as to prevent future troubles.

But I didn't expect the Tsarist government to move just as quickly, as early as the beginning of the Tiger Ben Army sending troops to the northeast to quell the rebellion, the Tsarist government appointed Admiral Yevgeny? Ivanovic? Alekseev was Governor-General of the Far East and Commander of the Garrison and Commander of the Pacific Navy.

After Alekseev arrived, he immediately ordered people to get in touch with Enze and other rebels, and under some coercion and inducement, the two sides signed the so-called "Qiqihar Treaty", and at the same time, the Tsarist Russian troops stationed in the Far East also began to secretly prepare for war, ready to intervene by force at any time.

Immediately after the signing of the treaty, Alekseev ordered all the garrisons in the Far Eastern provinces to enter a state of war. Military mobilization was carried out simultaneously in the Amur Military District and the Siberian Military District.

Hailanpao is located at the confluence of the two rivers on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River and the right bank of the Jingqili River, and was originally a village in China. In 1858, the Governor of Eastern Siberia in Tsarist Russia, Nikolai? Nikolaevich? Muravyov signed the unequal Treaty of Aihui with the Qing general Yishan of Heilongjiang, forcibly occupied Hailan Pao and renamed it Blagoveshchensk (meaning "Annunciation"), which later became the capital of Amur Province. By 1897, Hailanpao had about 40,000 residents, and the Chinese living in the city were mainly engaged in commerce, including nearly 240 large merchants, in addition to a large number of itinerant hired workers, small traders and craftsmen, and many peasants lived in the suburbs, totaling nearly 15,000 Chinese expatriates.

At Alekseev's behest, in February 1897, the Russian troops stationed in Hailanpao began a large-scale manhunt, and heavily armed Tsarist soldiers broke into the homes and shops of Chinese, arrested and escorted all men, women, and children, "even the baby in their arms was forcibly pulled out." More than 1,500 Chinese fled to hide outside the city, and were also searched by Russian soldiers, many were stabbed to death with bayonets, and the arrested Chinese were immediately escorted to the river, and then driven into the river by Russian soldiers wielding bayonets, and the Russian army opened fire, killing thousands of innocent people.

In addition, troops were sent to Jiangdong 64 Tun and carried out "many sweeps" against Chinese residents. The Russian soldiers "drove the residents of each tun into a large house" and set fire to them, and most of them were burned alive. The Russian soldiers also "set fire along the village", destroying all the houses and shooting the residents, killing thousands of people in Bordotun alone. The Russian army "smashed all the villages" of Chinese residents, and except for a few who escaped and survived, the rest of the thousands of residents were brutally killed.

But these were only a small episode, and then Alekseev mobilized more than 100,000 troops, organized into four armies, and invaded our northeastern region on a large scale. The most ridiculous thing is that Alekseev went so far as to shamelessly claim that the Russian army sent troops to help the Qing government quell the rebellion at the invitation of the Qing government, and to find a fair and honest excuse for his aggression. Alekseev even put forward very arrogantly, "Break through the city of Beijing and kill Ren Chao!" slogan. (To be continued......)