Chapter 241: Vassal
After successfully occupying the entire territory of the Philippines, the Tiger Army immediately supported the new government established by the Philippine Peasant Rebel Army. Aquinas served as president for many times and quickly introduced a new constitution. Of course, Ren Chao is not a living Lei Feng, and he has no obligation to help these Filipino monkeys fight for independence.
However, Ren Chao is not in the mood to clean them up for the time being, because it is not only Americans who are interested in this part of the Philippines. Just after the South China Sea Fleet annihilated the Spanish fleet, five German warships suddenly arrived in Manila Bay. After the reunification, Germany's strength increased dramatically, and at this time, it was also actively seeking to expand its strength overseas. The Germans are always looking for opportunities, and there is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, once Ren Chao is not interested in the Philippines, the Germans will unceremoniously plunder the Philippines as their own colony. But unfortunately, Ren Chao is very interested in this place, as early as in the edict of declaration of war against Spain, it has been clearly stated that this place has been a subject country of China for hundreds of years. At this time, Germany did not dare to offend the increasingly powerful Qing Dynasty, and the Americans were still working hard in the Americas and Spain, and they had no time to take care of this side at this time. If it was against the original Spaniards, the Americans still had that strength, but now that it was the Qing Dynasty, they could only give up their plan to plunder the Philippines as a colony.
Finally, under the coercion and inducement of Ren Chao, the newly formed Philippine government recognized Huaxia as its suzerain. In this way, the Germans and Americans can only die. However, the Americans also made a lot of money this time, taking the Spanish colonies in the Americas and occupying Hawaii. It also temporarily satisfies its needs for external expansion, after all, the current United States is far from being as powerful as later generations, and it is good to be able to eat these. As for the Germans, they got nothing in the end, but they can't complain about anything, after all, they didn't put in any effort, how can there be a pie in the sky! If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for being too cautious and making a late start. No one else's fault.
Successfully recovered a subject country, Ren Chao was naturally very happy in his heart, although the control of this subject country is extremely limited now, and the Philippines is also forced by pressure from all sides, so he reluctantly accepted as a subject country of the Qing Dynasty, these monkeys are not very convinced. But Ren Chao didn't let them go, and there was an opportunity to clean them up in the future.
During this time, Ren Chao deliberately looked through the history and found that when the Qing Dynasty was strong in the past, there were nineteen subject states.
The first is North Korea. This country has always been a subject country of China, and now it is also under the control of the Tiger Ben Army, and he is at ease in front of his younger brother.
Second, the Ryukyu Kingdom, a small country that has a history of paying tribute to China for hundreds of years, starting from the Ming Dynasty, and was later annexed by Japan, and later after Japan's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Tiger Ben Army successfully recovered the Ryukyus.
Third. Vietnam, after the end of the Sino-French War in 1885, became a French colony.
Fourth, the southern state (Laos). During the Yongzheng period, he was naturalized to the Qing Dynasty, and in 1893 he became a French protectorate, and then terminated the suzerain-vassal relationship with China.
Fifth, Siam (Thailand). This country must be very familiar to everyone, this country was not a colony of the Western powers, but in 1855. took advantage of the fact that the Qing Dynasty was in a hurry, and took the initiative to sever the father-son relationship with the Qing Dynasty.
Sixth, Burma, which in 1886 broke away from the Qing Dynasty under the British policy of carrots and sticks, and finally became a British colony.
Seventh, Nepal, a country that has always maintained a suzerain-vassal relationship with the Qing Dynasty, but now the power has been controlled by the pro-British faction.
Eighth, Sulu, which is now the Philippines, has just been successfully recovered by the Tiger Army.
Ninth, Khamjuti (in Pakistan), became a British colony.
The tenth, Kokand, was annexed by Tsarist Russia.
The eleventh, Brut, was annexed by Tsarist Russia.
The twelfth, Sark, was annexed by Tsarist Russia.
The thirteenth, Andijan, was annexed by Tsarist Russia.
Fourth, Margalang (in present-day Uzbekistan) was annexed by Tsarist Russia.
Fifteenth, the wooden pole (in present-day Uzbekistan) was annexed by Tsarist Russia.
Sixteenth, Tashkent (on the territory of Uzbekistan), annexed by Tsarist Russia.
Seventeenth, Afghanistan, was occupied by the British in 1878, and the Qing Dynasty's contacts with Afghanistan were interrupted.
Eighteenth, Sikkim, in 1887, the British forcibly occupied Sikkim and sent commissioners. In 1888, the British sent troops to Tibet and captured key passes such as Longtu Mountain and Yadong. The Chinese Qing court was bent on compromise and quickly dispatched the assistant minister to Tibet, Shengtai, to negotiate peace. On February 27, 1890, Shengtai and the British Governor in India, Langston, signed the Sino-British Conference Tibet-India Treaty in Calcutta, with a total of eight articles. The main contents are: the Qing court recognized Sikkim as a British protector; demarcation of the border between China and Sikkim; Issues such as nomadism and trade will be left to be discussed later. As a result, Sikkim became a British "protectorate".
The nineteenth, Bhutan, later became a British colony.
In other words, when the Qing Dynasty was strong, there were once nineteen vassal states, but now most of them have been divided between Britain, France and Russia. Thailand, the only country that was not a colony, also voluntarily seceded from the Qing Dynasty. In other words, at present, there are only three subject countries of Korea, Ryukyu, and the Philippines in the Qing Dynasty, and there is also Nepal, but it is only nominal.
It won't be long before I build an even more powerful Chinese empire and recreate the prosperity of all nations. Those European and American powers owe Huaxia will be returned little by little, Ren Chao secretly swore in his heart.
Just when Ren Chao was swearing to the map, Sun Junping suddenly walked in in a hurry, "Qiqi Marshal, Bian Baoquan, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, has passed away!" ”
"Oh! This old guy is finally dead! Ren Chao couldn't help but say excitedly, "Prepare the car immediately, I want to enter the palace to face the saint." ”
Ren Chao thought that his speed was fast enough, but he didn't expect that Li Hongzhang's old guy was also fast. The two of them rushed to the Forbidden City almost front and back, and were summoned by Emperor Guangxu together.
After Emperor Guangxu learned the news of Bian Baoquan's illness and death, he deliberately pretended to have a sad expression, and then issued a decree to posthumously award him as the crown prince and give him preferential pension.
"Obey the order!" Li Hongzhang was the first to speak, "Bian Baoquan died of illness, and the post of governor of Fujian cannot be suspended for a long time, so the old ministers discussed with the ministers of the cabinet and jointly recommended Xu Yingqi as the new governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. (To be continued......)
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