In fact, the loan itself is not wrong, the parliaments of the three countries and the top level of the government have been fully discussed, but what is wrong is that no one expected that the Qing Dynasty would collapse so quickly.

When Britain, France, and the United States used the defeat of the East India Company to force Xianfeng to sign an agreement, the Democratic Alliance Army only occupied a part of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui Province south of the Huai River, but a few years have passed, and the development of the Democratic Alliance Army has far exceeded everyone's imagination, and the south of the Yellow River, except for Sichuan and some areas in the northwest, has been fully embraced by the Democratic Alliance Army.

The more Mai Lian and Bourblon's faces became greener and greener, the hands of counting the money were soft at that time, and they couldn't sleep for a few nights, but they never expected it, this is a big stab, as the most directly related person, this responsibility can't be escaped!

"Oh my God! I'm going bankrupt, I'm going to go to jail, what should I do? What to do? ”

"We should not incite the Qing to attack the Democratic Alliance together, but should maintain the status quo, and it will be no longer our responsibility to hold on until the loan expires, oh! I regret it, God, you let time go back! ”

Mai Lian and Bourblon were anxious with gold stars in their eyes, pulling their hair, and roaring over and over again, they knew very well that if the hole of 90 million pounds could not be filled, they would be the first to die, because the bank could not bear huge losses in vain, and would do everything possible to get the money back, from the past to the present, it is not ordinary people who can open a bank, and the banker you hurt will go bankrupt, and the banker will dare to kill you!

And their political enemies will not let go of the opportunity to fall into the well.

This is directly scared silly!

"Gentlemen, anxiety will not solve the problem, we should calm down. Come up with a method that works. Bao Ling reminded from the side.

The two men forced themselves to calm down, smoking cigarette after cigarette. After a long time, Burbulon gritted his teeth and said, "We have been tied to the Qing government in the same boat. If he perishes, we will never recover, so we must keep him, at least until a hundred million pounds worth of minerals are mined. ”

Bao Ling spread his hands: "Gentlemen, do you think that the respective parliaments will approve the request to send troops to China again?" Without troops, how can we protect the Qing government? Is it just with our limited military power in Southeast Asia? ”

The glimmer of hope that had just been born of "this" was ruthlessly shattered, and senior government officials and parliamentarians were not fools, if China was a weak country. They would be happy to send troops to China to rob them, but now China is not what it used to be, and it is not good to spend a lot of money to come here, and this kind of stupidity can no longer be stopped, and the most appropriate way to contain China is to wage a proxy war against China, as proposed by Bowing.

Anyway, it's not your own people who die, and if you fail, it's nothing more than a loss of some money. If you succeed, the benefits are infinite.

Mai Lian and Bourblon's faces became difficult to look at again, if the country is unwilling to send troops, then what can be done to help the Qing State? And neither Japan nor Russia. It will take a long time to fully prepare for war against China, and with this time, the Qing Dynasty will die early. They have also been bankrupt and even thrown into prison.

"Huh?" Mai Lian suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon. How could Bao Ling not be a little worried, he was also the party who facilitated the loan to Qingguo. also shared the benefit fee, doesn't he need to be responsible?

Mai Lian couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Baoling, aren't you worried about yourself?" Or do you have a solution to the problem? ”

Bourblon immediately turned his gaze for help.

Bao Ling nodded and said: "I have an immature idea, we can discuss it, in fact, we can treat this issue from a different angle, since we can't save the Qing Kingdom, can we recover the losses from the Qing Kingdom before the Qing Kingdom perishes?" There are countless treasures in the imperial palaces of the Qing Dynasty, and there is also the Old Summer Palace outside Beijing, which is the most extravagant royal garden in the world, using a lot of ivory and gold as decorations, according to my preliminary estimates, these two places alone are worth more than 500 million pounds! ”

Suddenly, the four green eyes were almost popping out, 500 million pounds, as long as the Forbidden City and the Old Summer Palace were robbed, what is the bad debt of 100 million pounds? Maybe I can send another one!

"Hahahaha~~" Mai Lian laughed on the spot: "Then what are you waiting for?" I will now write to General Perry, asking him to come with the American troops in Edo, Mr. Bourblon, and you will also write to Mr. Genui, asking him to call in the French forces in Vietnam, and we will do it as soon as the Allied fleet arrives. ”

Burbulon was a little hesitant, and said: "Gentlemen, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army can be ignored, but against the Shanghai Democratic Alliance, we may not have much chance of winning, you know, in the external propaganda of the Democratic Alliance, they and the Qing State are the relationship between the current government and the previous government, Beijing is regarded by them as a part of China, we sack Beijing, will it provoke the intervention of the Democratic Alliance?" ”

Mai Lian's enthusiasm was extinguished, and she hurriedly looked at Bao Ling.

Bao Ling muttered: "Your question, I have carefully considered it, for now, the Qing State is the enemy of the Democratic Alliance, what does it matter to us to attack Beijing?" Besides, we cooperated with the Qing State to attack the Democratic Alliance Army a while ago, and we can use the excuse that we realized our mistake and were willing to help destroy the Qing State as compensation, so it is also morally tenable, what reason does the Democratic Alliance Army have to interfere?

Taking a step back, even if the Democratic Alliance forces intervened, his front line was in Jinan, 270 miles away from Beijing, and Tianjin was only 80 miles away from Beijing, and he still needed to prepare for a few days to dispatch troops when he got the news. He can only suffer a dumb loss! ”

"Okay, okay, there's hope now, haha, fuck the damn vote, we don't have to go bankrupt!" Suddenly, Mai Lian and Bourblon were full of green light and screamed excitedly!

Bao Ling waved his hand: "Gentlemen, this is a matter of our net worth and life, we must not act hastily, with our current strength, it is a little weak, and it is impossible for European countries to send troops to China, so I hope that the United States will send at least 5,000 troops!" ”

The military strength of the United States in the Far East is very weak, there is only a fleet docked in Edo, an armed force of about a thousand people, which is disproportionate to the military presence of Britain and France in the Far East, and the contribution is small, so why give you a big head? Mai Lian obviously understood this, nodded and said, "I will negotiate with Washington immediately." ”

"Good!" Bao Ling said: "We have diplomatic relations with the Qing State, and we can't attack Beijing for no reason, so we still need to create an excuse, which is left to me, in short, we must keep it secret, and sooner rather than later, come, now let's celebrate the success in advance." ”

Bowling walked straight to the wine cabinet, opened a bottle of wine, poured three small glasses, and handed them to Merlin and Bourblon.

"Cheers!" The three of them looked at each other and smiled, and drank slowly.

"Gentlemen, the envoy of the Qing Kingdom is waiting outside, and Prince Gong invites you to a banquet at the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen." At this moment, a guard called out.

"Mr. Bowling!" Mai Lian hurriedly asked, "Prince Gong must have asked us for help for the defeat, how should we deal with it?" ”

Bao Ling spread his hands: "If you say a few good words, you can't die, if there is a substantive request, we will push it to the government, huh?" Let's go, let's go to Prince Gong's place and sit down. ”

"Hahahaha~~" Mai Lian and Bourblon understood each other, and together with Bao Ling, laughed and walked out

At Yixun's place, the three of them were given a grand reception, but when it came to aid, they immediately avoided the truth and said that they needed to return to China to negotiate with the government, and Yixun had no choice, but fortunately, the Democratic Alliance Army did not show any signs of crossing the Yellow River in a short time, but it was not too urgent.

Unconsciously, five days passed, 200,000 troops surrendered to the Democratic Alliance Army on the Huaibei and Huaixi battlefields, and the remaining 180,000 were initially reorganized into the 17th to 23rd armies, a total of seven armies, with Zhang Shusheng, Li Xubin, Zhou Shunbo, Liu Mingchuan, Zhang Zongyu, Hu Yihuang and Xie Anbang from the Little Knife Society as commanders.

However, from the 16th Army to the 23rd Army, Wang Feng did not set up a group army, but only temporarily handed it over to Shi Dakai for moderation, because in addition to Xie Anbang, several army commanders still need to be carefully investigated, not only to observe their abilities, but also to have requirements for people's hearts, and at the same time to leave suspense, it can also promote a certain degree of competition, and only the most prominent three can serve as the commander of the group army.

As for Peng Yulin, another member of the Hunan Army, his strength was the navy, so Wang Feng arranged for him to go to the East China Sea Fleet for a period of training to learn new naval combat ideas, and then decide whether to entrust him with important tasks according to the situation.

From Shandong to Jingxiang, all the land south of the Yellow River except for Sichuan belonged to the Democratic League, and for Sichuan, because Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan at the time, Li Hongzhang, Jiang Zhongji, Peng Yulin and others were all old acquaintances, Wang Feng asked them to write a joint letter to him to persuade him to surrender.

Of course, Wang Feng will not make any concessions to Sichuan, everything is according to the rules of the Democratic League, Luo Bingzhang must go to Nanjing to take office, the army must be reorganized by the Democratic League, officials at all levels must be the same as civilians, participate in the civil service assessment before they can be re-employed, those who have talent and no bad performance can do special things, before the re-selection of officials, the Democratic League army will be stationed, and at the same time, land reform must be carried out, and the local tyrants and inferior gentry must be raided and exterminated!

This is a very harsh condition, for many people, there is no difference between surrendering and not descending, both horizontal and vertical are death, but Wang Feng cannot surrender to mercy outside the law because Sichuan does not fight, now the times are different, Sichuan has no conditions for secession, just one province, what can you do if you don't surrender? However, Wang Feng gave Sichuan a one-year buffer period, and if it did not surrender within a year, it would send a large army to attack.

Five days later, that is, on March 3, Wang Feng and the generals went to Bozhou to pay homage to Zhang Lexing in order to take care of Zhang Zongyu's feelings.

At this point, Zhang Zongyu also admitted it, and Li Hongzhang couldn't be killed, so what's the point of making trouble again? (To be continued......)

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