【188】The Three Armies of the Galaxy Shadow Shake (15)

When the news of Jinan's victory reached the base areas, the morale of the Shandong People's Commune was greatly boosted, and newspapers with articles congratulating Bao Bao were quickly printed and sent to various localities.

Although the Zaofan Young Cadres Training Class has left Yao Fan and Marx, it is still in operation, and Yao Fan has left behind the Marxist-Leninist examination papers as proof of the completion of young cadres, and if they do not score more than 90 points in the examination papers, they will not be given graduation, which forces the intellectuals who come to defect must memorize the textbooks one by one.

Huang Yuntian is currently in charge of the publication of the People's Daily, and on the other hand, he is very busy as a teacher of the Zaofan Youth Cadre Training Class.

"Mr. Huang, today is the 23rd, after Chairman Yao took Jinan, the army has already crossed the Yellow River, right?"

Huang Yuntian doesn't know anything about military affairs, but at the moment Huang Jinying is Yao Fan's wife, Huang Jinying's brother Huang Jinshan has entered the Shandong Commune's Commercial and Trade Zone Committee to work, and he himself is a newspaper editor and a cadre school teacher, and the Huang family has been tied to Yao Fan's regime, so it is normal for everyone to think that he has inside information.

Huang Yuntian shook his head: "I really don't know, but the chairman sent troops on the 15th, took Jinan on the 22nd, and crossed the river on the 23rd, I'm afraid it's not so fast, right?" ”

A student named Wen Guozhen in the classroom said: "I see that Chairman Yao has paid attention to the speed of soldiers in the past, and this time it must be the same." ”

Another young man who came from Yantai to Weifang to study at the cadre school said: "The army went on a northern expedition, the grain and grass went first, and the north went up the mountains and the road was long. ”

A demobilized military cadre wearing a 65-style green military uniform said: "Chairman Yao is like a god with soldiers, why should we worry about it here, I just want to get the graduation certificate of mathematics subjects in hand as soon as possible, just this lesson, and I can graduate after the exam." ”

"Me too, just one lesson away from math." Another youth said.

Huang Yuntian learned Yao Fan's movements, pressed his hand under the classroom, and said, "Class, class, these things are discussed after class, don't take up class time." I'm going to talk about a few math problems that I assigned yesterday......"

The chatter in the classroom suddenly fell silent.

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In the Shandong base area, after learning the news of the capture of Jinan from the People's Daily, the villages that had carried out land reform beat gongs and drums one after another to celebrate the victory of the Shandong Commune.

Although the drought is continuing, all the people in the villages and towns who have completed the land reform and divided the land with the local tyrants have more or less distributed grain in their hands. Some families even prepare in advance, pick elm leaves, dry and grind flour, and mix them into their own rations to eat.

The 10 well-drilling teams of Shandong Commune worked non-stop in various villages, and although they worked hard, they did not dare to stop for a moment. Seeing that the weather is dry and rainless, the people's irrigation water is all carried on their shoulders and hands, and water is carried from distant water sources, and the work of digging wells has become even more urgent.

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Upon learning that Jinan had been captured, the British in Yantai quickly reported the news to the British minister to China. In 1842, he followed the British army to China, stayed in China for more than 30 years, and also served as a Cantonese interpreter for the Hong Kong court.

He is currently in Beijing, dealing with the Qing government over the "Margaret Incident" in which the Englishman Margaret was killed in Yunnan, and the chaos in Shandong has been spreading under his nose. However, Wei Tuma did not panic at all, and according to his understanding, the rebellion in Shandong was a bourgeois revolution, in which a group of radical communists from Europe was engulfed.

What industry does Shandong have? What is the bourgeoisie? This must have been another peasant uprising, and with Wittoma's knowledge of China, this group of people was nothing more than another Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Wei Tuma did not believe that these people could make much trouble, and with the manipulation of these peasants, the larger the territory they occupied, the more money and grain they robbed, and the more internal turmoil and corruption became.

Moreover, these mud-legged men are very acquainted, and after taking the entire Shandong Peninsula, they did not use any tough means against Yantai, a treaty port, but instead sent a few men who were proficient in business to contact the commercial banks and envoys stationed in Yantai in a way of commercial negotiations, and unilaterally promised that Yantai could "run and dance." "The revolutionary army was only responsible for the coastal defense and law and order of Yantai. Moreover, the customs tariffs are the same as during the Qing government, without any adjustments. This made the commercial houses and envoys of various countries in Yantai feel that these bald-headed revolutionary troops did not seem to be particularly barbaric, and they were easy to deal with.

Although Wei Tuma believes that this so-called "Shandong Commune" will not be a big mess and will be brutally exterminated by the Qing government sooner or later, Wei Tuma believes that the bigger the chaos in Shandong, the better.

Since the outbreak of the Margaret incident in February 1875, this matter has become more and more deadlocked, has evolved into a diplomatic incident, according to the instructions of the British government, Wei Tuma hopes to force the Qing government to sign a new unequal treaty, but Wei Tuma and the Qing General Department of Customs and Excise Hurd negotiations have never progressed, the British and the British negotiations, there has always been a feeling of punching cotton without strength.

So Wei Tuoma used his connections to get Qing Guo to replace the negotiator with Li Hongzhang. Wei Tuma likes to negotiate with Li Hongzhang, this Qing official is very smart and rational, but this is not important, the important thing is that this person is too rational, so that he can't distinguish between diplomatic intimidation and actual threats, when he sees tough foreigners and foreign forces, under continuous coercion, he always thinks that other people's intimidation will become a fact, so it is easy to compromise and make concessions.

Wittoma thought it was probably because he was from England, a country that could strip the Qing at any time and whip him with a whip, and had done so several times since the Opium Wars.

After receiving the news of the capture of Jinan, Wei Tuma proposed to negotiate with Li Hongzhang face-to-face to solve the "Margaret Incident" at one time, and his attitude was tougher than before. This time, Li Hongzhang's attitude changed from procrastinating as much as possible to being anxious and at a loss, and he finally agreed to stop trying to negotiate and conduct formal negotiations.

After five days of negotiations, the historical "Yantai Treaty" was signed in advance, but the name became the "Treaty of the Dian Case", and the content was almost exactly the same as the original Yantai Treaty in history: "1. The Qing government apologized, paid reparations, and punished the local officials in the Margaret incident; 2. British merchants, officials, and pathfinders could enter Tibet from all directions in Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, and India, and the Qing government should take proper care of and protect them along the way; 3. Expand the extraterritoriality of the United Kingdom, so that crimes committed by the British in the inland areas of Chinese mainland outside the treaty port colonies will also be handed over to British officials for trial; Fourth, Yichang, Wuhu, Wenzhou, and Beihai were added as treaty ports, and Britain was allowed to berth merchant ships and load and unload goods at many ports on the Yangtze River; 5. In the future, foreign goods will no longer be paid for transportation and sales in Chinese mainland; Six........................ Seven 、........................"

For each clause, Wei Tuma is very satisfied with the abolition of centijin, you must know that in the past, a box of opium had to pay an import tax of 30 taels and 80 centigold, but now it is no longer paid, which means that opium sold to the Chinese mainland will have a cheaper price, sales and profits will inevitably soar, and the same is true for other goods, exempting centijin, which means that the last hidden tariff means of the Qing Dynasty has also been abolished, and foreign goods will be sold unhindered throughout China. The English merchants would rejoice, and he would become a hero to them. In accordance with the principle of equalization of interests, the other powers would also continue to get a share of the British blackmail victory.

The only difference between this treaty and the historical Yantai Treaty was that while the Qing government compensated 200,000 taels of silver, Britain and other powers with equal interests were obliged to organize an army of at least 1,000 men to assist the Qing government in encircling and suppressing the rebellion in Shandong. In addition, the Qing government will also purchase a batch of new rifles and artillery from Britain to arm eight battalions of new troops, and British instructors will be responsible for training these new troops in Tianjin.

When the treaty was published in the Shanghai newspapers, it was quickly sent to Qingdao, and Yao Fan soon learned of the treaty from a telegram.

"I bought a watch last year!" Yao Fan looked at the translated message and scolded angrily.

On May 23, Yao Fan led the headquarters of the First Army and the General Staff to Jinan. The first thing was to rush to the governor's yamen in a rage to meet with Ding Baozhen, who was imprisoned.

Ding Baozhen heard that Yao Fan was waiting for him in the back hall, so he tidied up his clothes and walked out of the detention room.

"It's hard for people to ask each other, but the cold house is unique." As Ding Baozhen walked, a poem popped up inexplicably in his mind. He shook his head, focusing on how to talk to Yao Fan.

Ding Baozhen's description is haggard, in the past two days he has looked through "Yao Fan's works" and Marxist books, and the more he reads, the more frightened he becomes, in addition to the fierce words "revolution", "battle", "iron blood", "destruction" and so on.

The first part of Yao Fan's Selected Works compiled by Yao Peng based on the "Selected Works of Lenin" is not so much an article as an excerpt from Lenin's original text, which has been edited and revised in the text to piece together one work after another. But for this era, this kind of ideological impact is as powerful as an atomic bomb, Ding Baozhen kept reading all night, but still didn't have time to read all these books, but he was completely shocked by the power of this thought! This kind of violent and uncompromising revolutionary thought made Ding Baozhen find that the logic is impeccable, and it is basically impossible to rely on dogmatic preaching to refute the other party logically, Confucianism is not good at strict Western philosophical logic, and the slaved Confucianism that has been tampered with by the Manchu Qing Dynasty is even more idealistic.

Ding Baozhen gave up his plan to refute Yao Fan after pondering for a long time, and he understood that a dangerous person like Yao Fan, who rebelled and even prepared a complete set of theories, was completely the natural enemy of any regime throughout the ages, and it was completely impossible for such a person to compromise, and the relationship between them and the regime they opposed was bound to be incompatible.