In this era of contradictions, he tried to maintain the prestige of the Qing Dynasty, the passage of government decrees without hindrance, national harmony, and border tranquility, and fought alone for eight years, but alas! In the end, it will not be able to reverse the decline that has been achieved. "Speaking of the color leng, Wang Xiao is so small that he has a lot of emotion." At that time, our insurance team was not able to defend the southwest, and there was a dispute with the French, otherwise it would ......"

A cold light appeared in Wang Xiaoxiao's eyes, in his eyes, the biggest enemy in the Northeast was no longer Tsarist Russia, but Britain, which encroached on the Qing Dynasty and launched the Opium War twice. The Northeast Autonomous Region has only one goal, that is, to be the first in the world, and the British are in front of the Northeast, so they naturally become the biggest and most important target in Wang Xiaoxiao's eyes. How to put it, he is a soldier, and what he has to think about is how to defeat his opponent, and officials like Yang Qiuxing need to consider the balance between Qing and Britain.

The king nodded, although he came from the later generations, but he really hadn't heard of this person. However, when I heard Wang Xiaoxiao's introduction, my expression changed from the previous casualness to seriousness.

Seeing Wang Yi like this, Wang Xiaoxiao also knew that Wang Yi was more interested in Seleng, so he began to introduce this person as an official deed.

"In addition to dealing with Tibet, including the former and post-Tibetan issues, the minister in Tibet is mainly responsible for foreign affairs, relations with Britain and India, and relations with the three major vassals, Gorqa (Nepal), Bulkba (Bhutan), and Tsemengxiong (Sikkim)."

The Gorqs are a tribe northwest of Kathmandu in Nepal whose ancestors are Indians who believe they were born of the moon and believe in Hinduism. More than 100 years ago, after the unification of Nepal, the Shah Dynasty was established, and during the Qianlong Dynasty, because of the instigation of the living Buddha Shamarpa, launched two invasions of Tibet, with the goal of plundering the wealth accumulated over the years in the lama temple. The first time he was forced to negotiate peace, and the second time he succeeded. However, Qianlong was furious and ordered the general Fukangan and the counselor Hailancha to lead the Qing troops to support the local Tibetan troops to repel and rush back to the southern foot of the Himalayas, and even counterattacked the Relkha capital Yangbu (Kathmandu), which was 20 kilometers away, thus forcing the Gurkha to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty once every five years.

Now that the British began to invade Nepal, a small group of British troops were defeated by the Gur army, because the Qing Dynasty was the suzerainty, so Nepal presented the captured British equipment to Beijing, hoping to get a reward. However, the problem lies in the fact that although the two sides were able to communicate in language, the two sides did not agree on the translation of the British, so the Qing court thought that the British was a certain effect of the southwestern frontier, so they did not pay attention to it. At the beginning of the 19th century, the First Gur War (Anglo-Nepalese War) broke out, and the British had the advantage in numbers, and the Gur asked for help from the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately the road was too far away, and the Gur were defeated, and they were forced to sign the Treaty of Sagory, ceding a large territory to India. However, the brutality of the battle also deeply shocked the British, so they cancelled plans to invade again in the short term.

Later, Nepal entered the reign of Prime Minister Bhim Sen-Tapa, and because of the strength of the British, Thapa began to get close to the British at that time, the French. During the reign of Napoleon I, in order to limit the movement of the British, Nepal initially established a modern arsenal and developed trade and industry. It was only Tapa's behavior that also angered the British, who fanned the flames and provoked Bhim's political rival Chung Bahadur Rana to stage a coup d'état and kill, and more than 400 generals and ministers died together, and the Rana family seized real power in the military and government, and Chung appointed himself prime minister, abolished King Eugendra, and set up King Surendra as a puppet. Since then, Nepal has been declining, and Chung Ge has gradually moved closer to the British for the sake of his own domestic rule. Later, during the Great Indian Revolt, the British were allowed to conscript troops in Gorq. Even so, however, Nepal maintained a vassal relationship with the Qing Dynasty.

"By the way, since the Rana family came to power, it seems that the whole family has also been cursed. Although the Prime Minister adopted the Rana family brotherhood system, every subsequent Prime Minister died an unnatural death. In 1860, Nepal went to war with Tibet, and Tibet was defeated, resulting in the signing of the Nepal-Tibet Treaty. Nepalese have extraterritorial jurisdiction in Tibet, and Tibet pays 10,000 rupees of tribute to Nepal every year. ”

Wang Xiaoxiao introduced Wang Yi in great detail, and it was obvious that he had already started to study the enemy in the southwest direction.

When Sereng was the minister in Tibet, the specific time was on the night of the third month of the ninth year of Guangxu, that is, on April 9, 1883, a Nepalese merchant was robbed in Lhasa. At this time, I also received relevant information at that time, but at that time, the intelligence bureau had limited ability to gather intelligence in the southwest, so I didn't know very well. It is said that two Tibetan women bought coral necklaces in the shop pù of a Nepalese merchant, and were later framed for stealing by a Nepalese businessman, and were seen by a Tibetan monk. It was only after several mediations that Nepal did not retaliate militarily. Of course, as compensation, he asked Ding Baozhen, the governor of Sichuan, to pay for the losses of Nepalese merchants with salt taxes. However, this matter is not as simple as it seems, and there are not only the contradictions between the privileged Nepalese merchant groups in Lhasa and the three major monasteries, but also the plot of some people in Tibet who saw that Nepal was getting closer to the Qing court at that time, and hoped to use this incident to promote self-determination. Although this incident may have happened by accident, it was so strict later, and it was obviously fueled by people with good intentions. ”

Wang Xiaoxiao later added a lot of things that Seleng did in the position of minister in Tibet, such as handling the Weiqing incident, often inspecting the Tibetan area, liaising with Bulukpa and Zhe Mengxiong, quelling the civil strife in Brookpa, and blocking the British from entering Tibet.

It is not easy to be an official in the Qing Dynasty, and it is even more difficult to do it in the position of minister stationed in Tibet. Approaching a strong enemy, and the country is weak and weak, it is not easy for Selen to not let Tibet and its surrounding vassal states suffer too much loss during his tenure.

"Before, there was a seven-grade Xiaojing official named Chen Chi, who asked to rectify Tibetan affairs and set up trade, Huigong, Kaitun, persuasion, etc., and Qingliu applauded. However, they were rejected by Ding Baozhen and Seleng, and the two of them gained a lot of infamy for this. ”

Wang Yiyi smiled and said: "If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, that little Jingguan probably thinks that things are simple, and you can do it in one sentence." "At that time, Taizu directly abolished serfdom and reformed after he didn't conquer Tibet, and I didn't fight local tyrants and inferior gentry in the northeast. Why did the lama run away later, didn't he just move their cake!

"Captain, shouldn't we also get involved in the Tibetan vassals?"