After Anton's return, in July, there was still no accurate account of the joint investigation of the murder of Shishido. However, not long after, the Qing court gave Dashang a reprimand, saying that Wang Yi killed innocent Japanese civilians and violated the peace of heaven, and asked him to compensate the Japanese people for their losses.

Wang Yixin said, you don't do so many serious things, you have nothing to do to reprimand me for what to do. Later, when I investigated, it turned out to be an excerpt from a royal historian in Beijing who had nothing to do. Now he's on fire. Princes and nobles, cabinet ministers, and feudal officials have formed parties for personal gain, perverted the law for bribes, abused the people, betrayed the country for glory, were lascivious and extravagant, and were unjustly governed. You don't care about so many things, but you come to me and say that I killed the Japanese.

Wang Yi was not polite, sent people from Beijing, got two buckets of dung and poured them in front of people's houses, and later set fire to people's kitchens and toilets. Later, he tied up the imperial historian, stripped naked, and threw him blindfolded in Bada Hutong.

Since then, this imperial historian has probably been stimulated by Yan zhòng's spirit, and he has begged for his mother. The imperial court also knew what was going on, and after saying a few words to save it, it agreed.

Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, the big people who know Wang Yi, can probably guess it, and this kind of damage can also be done by Wang Yi.

October 4, 1879, Zhili Governor's Palace.

"This Wang Yi is really ...... Not to mention, the loss point is the right way! Ding Richang laughed and said, obviously he didn't look down on the so-called Qingliu on weekdays.

"It's not the right way." Zhang Peilun next to him didn't care, he was originally Qingliu, but because he is now worried about going home, he has become Li Hongzhang's staff.

Li Hongzhang smiled but did not speak.

Zhou Fu frowned, and said, "Wang Yi, this is a small one, and if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!" The court is just the next reprimand, and it is not up to him to decide whether to pay or not. It's a big deal to have a lawsuit with the Japanese in Shengjing, so why bother to do it against Yushitai. ”

Ding Richang said at this time: "I think Wang Yi just doesn't want to pay the Japanese money!" The matter of Ryukyu here has not yet been decided, and my own people have made trouble first......"

Speaking of Ryukyu, Li Hongzhang's face was obviously not very good, and Ding Richang also knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly said: "Wang Yi too, I don't know the hardships of state affairs, I originally thought that I was a great talent, but now it seems that I am just a shaft!" ”

Li Hongzhang glanced at it and said: "Don't mention this matter again, if the Japanese minister Enomoto Takeyang comes to harass him again, he will have to go to Yingkou to find Wang Yi to reason." It is said that the incident happened in Mukden, and that General Shengjing had full authority to deal with the matter. ”

Zhou Fu and the others nodded.

While a few people were talking, copywriter Wu Rulun rushed in and said, "My lord, please look!" ”

Everyone was surprised, but Li Hongzhang, who took the telegram and looked at it a few times, his face was not very good.

"Lord Li, Wang was shocked to hear that General Sheng Jing Chonghou could not withstand coercion in Tsarist Russia, and without the permission of the imperial court, he signed the Treaty of Livadia, which is as follows...... This matter was told by a close friend of mine abroad, and although I am not very sure, it is also nine. I hope the court will make a decision quickly! ”

Also getting the same telegram letter was Zuo Zongtang in the Shaanxi and Gansu Governor's Palace, after reading this letter, the old man smashed the teacup in his hand! In the study, he scolded: "The traitor has misled the country!" Traitors have misled the country! ”

After sending the telegram, Wang Yi shook his head and turned around to call Zheng Haitao.

"Haitao, I'm Wang Yi!"

"Captain!"

"I'll tell you the news, General Sheng Jing Chonghou went to Tsarist Russia to negotiate, and in order to make a living, he sold the rights and interests of Xinjiang and Mongolia!"

"This grandson, it wasn't a good thing to look at him in the first place! Captain, what do you tell me to do? Zheng Haitao opened a mountain to mine in Mohe, had nothing to do to train the new Mongolian cavalry under his command, and watched the old scorpion lead people to have a good time on the east bank of the Heilongjiang River, but he had no choice but to look greedy.

"Chonghou, you don't have to worry about it, I won't let him go!" Wang Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Grandpa, when the time comes, peel him and grass and light the sky lantern!" ”

Zheng Haitao smiled and said: "The rest of the bones and slag are all broken, build a toilet and bury it for him!" ”

The two burst out laughing.

Wang Yi continued: "The affairs of Xinjiang, Lord Zuo Zongtang will definitely not sit idly by, but our side can't let the Tsarist Russians stop, if necessary, cross the river and take back Yaksa, Duo Chen, and all for me." ”

"Yes, Captain!"

"Your side now counts the old scorpion's dark knife, there are 6,000 insurance team members, and counting logistics, there are not more than 9,000 people. Among them, there are nearly 4,000 cavalrymen, and I will send you another 2,000 Mongolian cavalry, 3,000 infantry, an artillery battalion, and 2,000 logistics troops. ”

Now Zheng Haitao was cola, and said: "Captain Xie, I promise to complete the task!" ”

"If you defeat Yaksa and Duo Chen, there will be no Russian man, adult or child, left! Women over the age of 35 are also not retained. As for those young Russian women, you will take them back for me, don't look ugly, and give them to the soldiers as concubines in the future. But you remember to me, arresting people is arresting people, and military discipline can't be broken! If this really doesn't work, let the old scorpion do it! ”

"Yes!" Zheng Haitao thought about it and got a bunch of Yanmar for the team members...... It's a shame that the captain figured it out.

After the conversation between the two ended, Wang Yi called Wu Xiao again, and at this time, Wu Xiao also knew about Chonghou, so he began to draw troops from all over the country.

For the affairs of Xinjiang, Wang Yi can do so much, which can be regarded as his best.

Zhao Liewen listened from the sidelines, and also nodded secretly.

After returning to the dormitory in the evening, Wang Yi lay on the bed, holding his breath indescribably. How did a huge country end up in such a field? Tsarist Russia is such a big country, and its population is so small that it is still a lot of problems, why do we have to be beaten passively, why can't we go to other people's land to create some evil? It's a big deal that I'll help shed some crocodile tears in the future, and that's fun enough. In his thoughts, Wang Yi fell asleep.

As the clock ticked into September, Wang began a new plan. General Shengjing's Mansion owed him 500,000 taels of silver, and although he had promised to postpone the return for two years, Wang Yi still decided to take out some more interest. That's the right to build a railway!

Yingkou and Dashiqiao are about 19 kilometers apart, Dashiqiao is about 30 kilometers away from Haicheng, and Haicheng is 60 kilometers away from Anshan. Wang Yi decided to connect these four places by rail! The name he gave was - well, the new land vehicles were running in real yàn.

The reason why Wang Yi built the railway, on the one hand, was because the Liao River froze in winter, and the internal transportation of the Dashang system could only rely on horse-drawn carriages, which was too laborious. On the other hand, it is also to provide new growth points for the economy. With the opening of the two major steel mills in Anshan and Benxi, Wang Yi did not want to sell most of his steel to foreigners, so after careful consideration, he decided to build a railway on a large scale.

After several years of innovation by big merchants, the people of these four regions have long been accustomed to the existence of new things. They are no longer as closed off as they used to be, and they hate new things as much as they used to. Many have abandoned the traditional way of earning a living as tenants for landlords' families and have begun to go into factories and learn techniques. Although the landlords along the road have doubts about the railway, the major families in the grain and oil price alliance are now only looking forward to the king. Wang Yi said that railways can make money, that is, they can make money. What everyone is afraid of now is not that they will not build the railway, but that Wang Yi will not take them with him when he repairs the railway.

Because Wang had asked the industrial laboratory to carry out pre-research on various power locomotives one or two years ago, two of them have been successful - steam locomotives and electric locomotives, and internal combustion engine locomotives are still under development. The real name given by Wang Yi before is actually not untargeted.

Wang Yi had built a railway in Anshan, and the work was carried out by captured bandits, who had just completed the construction of the railway inside the Dashang No. 2 Iron and Steel Plant, that is, the Benxi Iron and Steel Plant. This time, Wang Yi was transferred to build a new railway, but this time the scale was definitely not comparable to the previous two times. Fortunately, there is no shortage of railway experts in Dashang, nor is there a lack of infrastructure construction teams. And the work of Anton's suppression of bandits, which has just been completed, has added a lot of new labor to the big businessmen.

At the launch of Dashang's FY79 semi-annual report, Wang Yi proposed a plan to establish two new companies. The first is the Dashang Railway Construction Company, and the second is the Dashang Railway Company.

Among them, the Dashang Railway Construction Company, which is in charge of Ren Bingchun, is divided into four construction teams, and one railway is promoted at both ends, striving to be completed by early next year. The first two sections from Anshan to Haicheng and Haicheng to Dashiqiao were built, which was mainly selected in consideration of the convenience of raw material supply and the difference between the morning and evening of winter in various places.

Dashang Railway Company, which is headed by German Klautz Haussen, is currently mainly producing steam locomotives, and electric locomotives need to cooperate with Shen Baiyu's Dashang Power, which still has many difficulties to overcome. In fact, the world's first electric railway has already been put into trial operation in Berlin this year, and Wang Yi and they are not ahead in this project.

Officials in Yingkou, Dashiqiao, Haicheng, and the three places expressed silence on the matter. As long as the officials in these three places know that Wang Yi wants to do something, whether you agree with it or not, he will do it. And if you stand in front of him, you will be against him, against the big businessmen, against the people, against the whole country, so this kid may do something hateful. No one in the Shengjing General's Mansion spoke, either they didn't care about themselves, or they were inextricably linked to the big businessmen or the grain and oil price alliance behind the family, or they were really afraid. And the Shengjing general Qi Yuan himself had a good impression of Wang Yi, and he also knew the news in advance about this noble matter. Coupled with the fact that he still owes 500,000 taels of silver to Dashang, he will turn a blind eye.

In order to prevent accidents, Wang Yi sent 300 Mongolian cavalry to guard the various places along the way, and at the same time began to preach correct traffic safety knowledge in nearby villages and towns. He didn't want to be like China's first railway, because it crushed people to death, and finally turned into a people's movement, which would be a tragedy.

Fortunately, the land for the construction of the railway was either bought by Wang Yizao in advance, or it was owned by the grain and oil price alliance. Occasionally, those who have the owner of the land pop up, Wang Yi will also persuade him with good words, and it is a big deal to compensate him heavily, if he really doesn't open his face, Wang Yi will not let the other party have a good time.

About three months later, Anshan-Haicheng-Dashiqiao-Yingkou, the railway was built. The main reason for this quick completion is that the area is flat.

When the vast majority of people watched the steam locomotive roaring past in front of them with a frightened and unfamiliar look, and watched him pull the more than ten heavy carriages, they felt the majestic power of the first industrial revolution for the first time!

At the train station, Mr. Wang addressed all the people who attended the opening ceremony, including both local officials and shareholders of the railway company.

The railway company is the holding company of Dashang, and the rest of the major families have shares, and the most invested is She Fatzi of the Wanguo Hotel, followed by the Chaoyang Tong family, and then the Fengtian Li family...... The Octagonal Terrace Zhang family did not enter the company, and their funds were used to build a production plant for various parts of the railway system.

After finishing his speech, Zhang Quanbao stood beside Wang Yi, looked at the brand-new locomotive, and went up and touched it a few times.

"It's so hard!"

When Wang heard this, he almost lost his mind, and his head sweated. She Fatzi heard it on the side, and he almost pumped it over.

"It's insulting!" Zhang Quanbao pointed at the two of them and sighed: "People's hearts are not ancient! People's hearts are not ancient! ”

When the train rushed away in front of everyone, listen to the long whistle and watch the white smoke billowing out of the cigarette. The steam locomotive that began to move slowly, but was full of fierce force. The steel dragon that was moving faster and farther away, everyone was amazed at the power of the train......

"That's the speed of the Industrial Revolution, it never stops, it's just going to get faster and faster, faster and faster. If we don't catch up, we'll be pulled farther and farther away until we're abandoned by the whole era! Everyone heard Wang Yi's words, and there seemed to be a place in their hearts that was touched.

This train show was deliberately arranged by Wang Yi, how is a country's pride and national cohesion cultivated? It is gradually cast after defeating disasters again and again, after achieving achievements again and again, and after brilliant victories again and again. Wang Yi will not waste such an opportunity!

"Everyone is scattered, the train will be put into trial operation for half a year, and the loopholes in each link will be found out, and then we will start passenger service."

Everyone coaxed, and they were all a little disappointed. But I also know that this is a foolproof arrangement, everyone is invested in it, and if there is a real car accident, it will not be good. Wang Yi said this, to reassure everyone, although Wang Yi usually looks at people more radically, but he does things step by step.

Because of the construction of this railway line, it directly dealt a blow to the shipping industry of the Liaohe River. The vast majority of the steel at the Anshan Iron and Steel Works began to be transported by rail, and Swire and Jardine were helpless. Qichang has now changed its route and started to take the route of ocean trade, although it is also done in the offshore and river channels, but it is all some old ships running. The main reason for doing this is that they don't want to run Li Hongzhang's steamship China Merchants too much, and the two sides can be regarded as having a tacit understanding at this point.

At this time, Li Hongzhang had already obtained a photo of Wang Yi building the railway, and the scene of the people cheering and thundering on it was in stark contrast to the scene of the public enemy of the Wusong Railway back then! Lao Li was silent for a long time and sighed.

"I'm not as good as Wang Yi!"

When the news of the completion of the construction of the Ying'an Line Railway was announced, only a few people cared about the news. Because now people are protesting against Chonghou, after the signing of the treaty, domestic public opinion was in an uproar, and they condemned Chonghou for losing power and humiliating the country. Even Yi Su, who has always been the main peacemaker, believes that this treaty has lost too many rights, and it is better not to sign it.

Zhang Zhidong said: "If it is as good as the New Testament, the empty name of the word Ili will be gained, and the reality of Xinjiang will be thousands of miles away." He asked the imperial court to immediately hand over the lofty "misguided country and flattering the enemy" to the Criminal Department, and Ming Zhengzheng was punished, thinking that the latecomers would be punished.

After Zuo Zongtang heard the news of the signing of the treaty, he was even more angry and said: "I have only a desert left in Ili, and there are Russian subordinates for one or two hundred miles in the north. ”

The Qing Dynasty government also used this covenant to 'cause great harm', refused to approve it, and handed over Chonghou's dismissal to the Criminal Department for punishment, and sentenced him to prison and execution, but the people waited for a long time and did not wait for Chonghou's head.

After that, the Qing court issued an edict to send the British and French envoys Zeng Jize (Zeng Guofan's eldest son) to concurrently serve as the envoy to Russia to negotiate the change of the treaty. When Zeng Jize arrived in Russia, Russia had already sent an envoy to urge the treaty to be signed. When Zeng Jize learned of this, he asked the Russian Foreign Ministry to order Bu Ce to turn back and renegotiate the Ili issue. At Zeng's insistence, Russia's acting foreign minister, Gilles, and deputy ministers Rzemeni and Butzer participated in the negotiations.

In order to increase the bargaining chips in the negotiations, the Qing government sent Zuo Zongtang to personally lead a large army to leave Suzhou (now Jiuquan City), leave Jiayu Pass, and advance to Ili. In order to show his determination to recover Ili, the old marshal Zuo Zongtang ordered people to prepare a coffin and "carry the coffin to the expedition" to boost morale. After Zuo Zongtang's army arrived in Hami, Xinjiang, he prepared to deploy three routes to regain Ili: one route was Jinshun stationed in Jinghe and made a feint attack from the front; One route, Zhang Yao, crossed the Tianshan Mountains from Aksu to attack southern Ili; One route is the back road for Liu Jintang to the west of Ili through the Wushi Bingling Ridge.

However, no one expected that Zuo Laoshuai's side had not moved, and Heilongjiang began to rumble with cannons!

Dawn on December 3, 1880.

The town of Albazin, this is the ghost name given to this Yaksa by the Tsars. Garrisoned here were two Russian infantry regiments, about 2,500 men. While they were still asleep in the warm bed, there were a few loud noises, and a large section of the low city wall was in ruins.

Horsemen in white cloaks came out of nowhere, and began to rush into the city, which had been taken by the Russians, in the rising sun of dawn. Then the infantry followed, and the rapid sound of gunfire echoed through the city. The first to be attacked was the Russian barracks, and the Russian officers, who were still trying to organize a counterattack, shouted loudly, only to be shot through the chest by a sniper. Then the infantry rushed in, grenades were thrown into the barracks full of Russians, and then the Prop-1 general-purpose machine gun began to fire in the barracks, and only stopped firing when all the Russians had been shattered.

Cavalry began to wreak havoc in the city, and anyone who matched the characteristics of a man and an elderly Russian woman was fired at by a Bol-1 carbine.

The old scorpion led people to follow behind the cavalry, and with them was the logistics team, where there were more than a dozen four-wheeled* carriages. The young women were all taken away by the old scorpion's men, and at the same time, the Hermes-Epitek of Yaksa would also leave, and it would not end well if they stayed.

Two hours later, Yaksa returned to calm. The brigade began to rush towards Duo Chen, and part of the artillery was already under the cover of cavalry and infantry, and set off in advance, with Zheng Haitao personally leading the team. There was a regiment of foreign Cossack cavalry with more than one thousand six hundred Tunguska. However, Zheng Haitao's men have 3,000 cavalry, and even if there is no cooperation from other troops, he can clean up the other party.

Because it was already dark, the Russians of Duo Chen quickly noticed the anomaly, and then the cavalry began to rush out in full armor, but as soon as they started the formation, they were caught off guard by the infantry's Bao 1 general-purpose machine gun.

The force of the machine-gun bullets made the Russians and their mounts look like rags, shattered and shattered, and the mess of entrails scattered on the snow. Thirty machine guns seemed a bit petty against more than a thousand people, and the desperate charge of the Cossack cavalry turned out to be more like moths throwing fire. But after a few hundred men were shattered, the remaining Tunguska finally understood that the army in front of them from nowhere was very different. They need a leader, but at this time, they find that the officers have become dead souls at any time. The large blood stains on his chest could not be covered even by wearing a thick cotton jacket.

Finally someone began to break down, and the fear was contagious like a plague for a short time. They began to show their backs, allowing the snipers to pick happily. At this time, six teams of 500 horses each charged like blades, and the Bao 1 carbine began to go berserk, spitting out tongues of fire that devoured all enemy lives. In a quarter of an hour, the battle came to an end.

When the last foreign Cossack cavalryman knelt on the ground and said something that no one could understand, the answer was only a gunshot.

Zheng Haitao did not participate in the battle, or the massacre, but just watched from the sidelines, and the cavalry under his command, whether Han or Mongolian or other nationalities, now had only one task, to clean up the battlefield. A squad of cavalry with infantry had already stormed the town, doing the same work as Yaksa.

The logistics team was late at this time, and everyone began to replenish ammunition and rescue the wounded, while the rest began to collect the booty.

At this time, fifteen scout cavalrymen rushed over and saluted: "Report to the regimental commander!" ”

Zheng Haitao returned the salute and said, "How is the situation?" ”

"We deliberately did not cut the telegraph line, and the vicinity was normal."

Zheng Haitao nodded, and Zhang Quande rode back with people at this time. The guy was happy and said with a smile: "It's so cool to fight!" ”

"Uncle Quande, you can't hide from me on the battlefield in the future, otherwise there will be something wrong, and the captain will have to kill me."

"I'm afraid of what he's doing!" Zhang Quande waved the Bao-1 carbine in his hand and shouted, escaping a bandit alive. "By the way, did the stakes send back any news?"

Zheng Haitao said with a smile: "The Tsarist Russian army on Temple Street has begun to assemble, it seems that we can play a big game this time." ”

"Is this still big? It's not promising, if you can serve Vladivostok, then it's enjoyable! ”

While the two were talking, another group of Tsarist women came over crying.