Li Hongzao lowered his head, and the corner of his eyes glanced at the resolute light, as sharp as a knife, as cold as the weather outside.

People will become, and this is true of him, the leader of the Qing Stream, and the same is true of the most determined hardliners in the party after the Qing court.

At the time of the first noon, the resolute force was the main battle, claiming that the Huanghuang Qing Dynasty was inviolable, and that it was necessary to bring down the small state of Japan in one fell swoop. Of course, the Great Qing Kingdom is determined not to pay for it, and it is up to Li Hongzhang to go to Zhang Luo by himself.

However, in general, he did not care about the gap between the two sides, and did not understand the achievements of Japan since the Meiji Restoration, nor did he know at all the game played by the great powers, especially Britain, to maintain the dignity of the Qing Dynasty...... I can't really say if he's smart or stupid.

In the final analysis, this guy can still see the importance of the country.

But today, the big guys are panicked like lost dogs, but the resolute adults have lost their original sharpness. Today, in the face of complex and changeable conditions, his muscular head is completely insufficient. No matter how many well-analyzed articles came from the newspapers outside, he couldn't read them at all. The Qing Dynasty was in danger, and he resolutely stood on the side of the Manchus, but he did not care about the British plot to seize Kangzang.

However, Li Hongzao did not make much calculations. For the sake of the precarious situation now, no one knows when Yang Hao will push the army from Shanxi and Henan. When the time comes, the Manchu nobles of the Qing court will not dare to stay as prisoners, and the only possibility is to retreat to their hometowns.

Ay? It's really not good, the white mountains and black waters are now being unscrupulously developed by Yang Hao, and an unprecedented magnificent coal and steel joint industrial zone is rising from the ground, and the ancestral dragon veins of the Manchurians are not just alarmed. That's basically going to be planed by the roots, how can you go back?

Speaking of this, Li Hongzao felt that Yang Hao's kid's methods were really ruthless and damaging enough. It's vicious enough!

Under the guise of opening the Forbidden Palace and enjoying the people, he developed the tombs of the Manchu ancestors into tourist attractions. Over the course of the year, at least hundreds of thousands of people have left footprints. If it weren't for the dedication of the Manchurian guards who maintain order there, there is no telling how many people would have and pee there.

This is also thanks to the death order issued by the cultural relics management department, and many inspectors with red armbands are stationed to guard against it, and those who are trying to do bad things are found. If you catch it, you will be pulled away and fined.

Speaking of which, how much the Chinese hate wild boar skin! No matter how the bureaucrats and gentry at the end of the Ming Dynasty collectively did a big death, and made a Chinese Zhengshuo into a Tartar slave, anyway, the wild boar belt was artificially opposed. Shengsheng subverted the Ming court, this is an unforgivable sin.

Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the heads of people killed have been rolling, and the sins of the piles have been listed one by one by the "Guowen Bao", and the major families that have been inherited for hundreds of years have appeared to tell about the miserable situation of their ancestors who were imprisoned by words, which is really turbulent.

With this introduction, when the Mukden Mausoleum was opened. Countless people from all over the world rushed to visit. Watching the excitement is secondary, the point is to run and scold, and it is more enjoyable to be able to pee and and throw some filthy things. Being tightly controlled, zhì cannot succeed. They had to spit on it.

In this way, the entire ancestral tomb did not know how much saliva it had eaten. The specific number cannot be counted, anyway, the income from the fines of the inspectors is enough to maintain the usual maintenance work of the entire mausoleum.......

There is no need to comment on some practices that make people speechless, and there is no need to dig into the horns of the bull, so we have to dig out the so-called inferior roots of the nation by this kind of behavior, and it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. China is so big. There are revolutionaries who die generously, so what's so strange about some cautious mortals? Isn't that the whole world like this?

The vast number of Chinese people are happy. Li Hongzao and the bureaucrats of the Qing court felt that their faces were very ugly. They took the Qing Dynasty's Yulu and were loyal and filial sons of the Manchu Dynasty. Now that the "monarch father" has been insulted, do they also have to "humiliate the lord and the minister to death" and find ways to take revenge?

It's a pity that it can't be done.

The entire Qing court was actually frightened and frightened by Yang Hao's madness!

The Forbidden City was then opened as a tourist attraction, and the mysterious throne of the Emperor of the Qianqing Palace can also be seen up close. It is said that in just one year, the copper nail bubble button of the Forbidden City gate alone has been touched by people to shine brightly, and the copper crane and lion inside are in danger of being rubbed out of shape. The management committee had to put up a fence to prevent tourists from messing around.

In short, just a Forbidden City has stimulated the tourism industry in the capital, which has to praise Yang Hao for making money? Or is it to judge him for being mad and blind?

Anyway, the imperial power and dignity have been trampled under the soles of their feet, and the sense of mystery has been lost, and the emperor's throne no longer seems so valuable. In addition, since ancient times, China has spread the dangerous idea that "princes and princes will have a kind of Xiangning", and at this time, whoever wants to jump out and want to be the emperor is estimated to be sprayed to death by spitting stars.

This is a very dangerous atmosphere. However, the Qing court was already frightened, and they did not dare to expect to go back, and the Empress Dowager Cixi repeatedly communicated with Mongolia through her mother's family and established an escape route from northern Shaanxi to Outer Mongolia. It was really about to reach the juncture of the army's pressure, and they didn't want to go to Lanzhou, so they simply went to Mongolia in one go. Otherwise, you can only go to Tunguska.

It is said that this is their real home!

Now, the British wanted to use Kangzang as a bargaining chip in exchange for support for the Manchus and help them resist Yang Hao's revolutionary army. Is this deal going to be done? Obviously, Gangyi doesn't care if the plateau wasteland is still there, if you lose it, you will lose it, anyway, now that the southeast is gone, it's not that bad. If you can keep the Qing Dynasty, it's worth it.

This court is full of people after all!

Li Hongzao simply didn't say a word, and the other Hanchens also shut up firmly. Lose the land or not, it is a family affair full of people, it is good for Hanchen to be a filial son and grandson honestly, and it is good to watch the work of the master.

However, not all Manchurian ministers are as resolute as they are. Duan Fang, who had always been wise and understanding, stood up with a cold face and retorted: "The slave thinks it's inappropriate. The heart of the British is known to the whole world, and their desires are difficult to fill, not just to occupy Kangzang and stop it. If I agree to it tacitly, I don't care if I can get some military support from it. Just looking at his main soldiers, it is difficult to defeat Yang Shun, and it can be seen that the equipment of the British is not necessarily clever. And it is more insidious and cunning than to refuse to hand over the first-class armament to us. If I prevaricate with inferior weapons, how can I be more profitable than what I have bought from Huguang? ”

Resolute craned his neck and shouted, "That's different. Now the imperial court is in financial difficulty. Where is the money to buy ordnance? Besides, according to what you said, through Huguang's hands, I am afraid that in the end, the money will flow into Yang Dingshi's pocket, isn't this an enemy?! It is better to spend nothing, just use a barren land, and get the help of the first-class power in the West. This is a hatchback cheap also! ”

Li Hongzao heard the valve in his chest, and snorted coldly in his heart: "What a fortitude!" It is worthy of the ministers who said that 'it is better to give friends than to domestic slaves'! The joy of throwing away that Kangzang is so direct that it makes people speechless! ”

Duan Fang couldn't listen to it anymore, and shouted angrily: "How can you judge like this? This officer does not govern military science. But he also understands the truth that he knows that he and his opponent will win all battles. Obviously there are better weapons that are not used, but they want to use the rags of Westerners to make up the number, which one is this to fool? Besides, today the imperial court promised the British to give them Kangzang, and tomorrow the Russians will come to ask for the western frontier, will we give it or not?! ”

Resolute almost blurted out the words "give it, give it", but the words came to his lips. But it stopped suddenly. Because he suddenly remembered that it was not his turn to call the shots here, the silent girl behind the curtain. It's the master!

Can Xijiang be sold casually? Of course not! The greatest glory of the Qing Dynasty today is that it has a unified territory that surpasses several generations of ancient times. Look at the scale of the Great Qing Dynasty, it is a magnificent field that has never been seen in ancient times except for the Han and Tang dynasties!

A few years ago, Zuo Zongtang carried the coffin back to Xinjiang, and it has only been more than ten years. This matter has received a great meritorious service from Yang Hao and the revolutionaries. No matter how great the sins of the Qing Dynasty were, this kind of practice of safeguarding the territorial integrity of the country. I can't praise it enough.

The master in the curtain was the real family member who was planning behind the scenes. I don't know how many times secretly, I took the special issue of "Guowen Daily" to praise it as a proud move.

Now in order to protect himself, Fortitude wants to give up the land that has shed countless blood, paid a huge price, and preserved it, is this a self-defeating face? Or do you sincerely want to get along with the Queen Mother Lafayette?

The sweat on Gangyi's face seeped out, and his body trembled like chaff.

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Duan Fang snorted coldly and added: "The imperial court is in temporary difficulties, but it is still the right thing in China, and the land of ancestors cannot be given up lightly." The great powers have always ganged up, once the British are allowed to Kangzang, not only the Russians will take advantage of the fire to rob, but the French have been plotting Yunnan for a long time. ”

The rest of the words, without him being said, everyone knows it, this opening is opened, and everyone will be infamous as a traitor in the future.

The Manchu officials did not mention it, at least the Han officials were absolutely unwilling to bear the black pot. The so-called clear stream, seeking is a clear name that has been famous for centuries. Although history is generally written by them, and it can be erased at will, the facts cannot be erased after all, and the truth will still be passed on in the mouths of the people.

It's not easy to be a traitor.

The ministers had nothing to say, and they all waited for the one in the curtain to make a decision.

When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard this, she sighed faintly: "The court is seeing difficulties day by day, Yang is aggressive, and we can't lock them up to make housework." The so-called Tao has a lot of help, and the foreigners are just trying to make money, you can talk to them, and the land should not be given away. ”

She is no longer an old lady who has a Summer Palace for the elderly and plans to live in peace. The Qing Dynasty is in danger, how can she support this family, otherwise the orphans and widows may end up in something.

Foreigners are greedy, who doesn't know? But in order to preserve the ancestral inheritance, you can only get by.

The two ends of the mud, the meaning of the big guys also understood, you can't sell the land as Gangyi said, but you can't just take out no benefits as Duan Fang said. Foreign devils can't afford to be early, so they have to come up with some benefits to hang them first.

There was no objection, and the Qing court finally planned to have Duan Fang serve as a special envoy to negotiate with the British.

The British have always had diplomats to follow the Qing court, and now they have set up a temporary chargé d'affaires in Xi'an.

The paper could not contain the fire, and the news that the Qing court planned to negotiate cooperation with the British spread to the world in a blink of an eye.

Tsarist Russia and France, which also have diplomats in Xi'an, can't wait to jump out at the expense of the sovereignty of Western Xinjiang and Yunnan. In exchange for their full support for the Great Qing Kingdom. If you want money for loans, you want a bunch of arms, and you want a military advisory group, you can also send them generously.

They wish they had the opportunity to make trouble for Yang Hao, so that the Great Qing Kingdom could fight with great spirits. It has torn China apart and is riddled with holes, but it just allows them to make profits from it.

When the news reached Tianjin, Yang Hao immediately publicly stated: "China's interests should be decided by the Chinese people." The reactionary Manchu court was not now a sovereign representative recognized by the Chinese people, so it was not qualified to conclude agreements with any country or force. Whatever the purpose, the nations attempted to conclude an entente with the Manchus. will not be recognized by the Chinese people. Here, I would like to warn everyone in the Qing court that they must not be dizzy for a moment and commit crimes that cannot be eliminated forever! ”

For the great powers, Yang Hao did not need more warnings. Anyway, everyone will have to fight sooner or later, and now you are making small moves. It's just a matter of having an extra debt in a small notebook.

The media publicized this matter, and the Manchu Qing were as clumsy as three-year-olds, and they were not even as good as the peasant rebels who had rebelled since ancient times. Li Zicheng will spread some slogans of "the king will not pay for food when he comes" to fool people, but now they have completely lost public opinion control over the entire country!

In all parts of the country, wherever the telegram could reach, the overwhelming opposition was pushed by Yang Hao and swept away, and everyone believed that the Manchu court was a traitor who wanted to jump over the wall!

Especially from the map. The three provinces of Western Xinjiang, Kangzang and Yunnan are connected to a large land, which is simply like half of the country! The Qing court wanted to sell such a large piece of land. There is no limit to what you want to do!

The governors of the provinces, nominally under the rule of the Manchus, petitioned to "think twice before acting" and sent telegrams to the whole country to publicly declare their attitude: "We absolutely do not support the secession of the country. ”

I'm afraid of being infamous as a traitor!

Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, who bore the brunt, received not only a rumor, but also a telegram from Yang Hao and Cixi respectively, and the meaning was very clear. Let him recognize the shape clearly, don't stand in the wrong line!

Zhang Zhidong is already old, and he is almost out of shape. The lean little old man looked like he could be blown away by a gust of wind, but he still firmly sat firmly in the position of governor of the two lakes. The position of the nine major feudal territories in the world. That's not just the point. He is stuck in the strategic center of China's territory, and the gains and losses of advance and retreat determine the changes in the general trend of the world.

Occupying such a position, the pressure on his body is also beyond others. The bureaucrats in the coastal provinces were broken jars, and they waited for the day when Yang Hao drove the warship over, and the army crushed it all the way, and then recognized it.

The two lakes are different after all. From south to north, this is the gateway to the south of the Yangtze River. At the beginning, the Southern Song Dynasty withstood the Mongol army in Xiangyang for 70 years! It can be said that if you can't Jingxiang, it will be unfavorable to go south.

To the west, the Yangtze River is guarded here, which is the key pass into the Sichuan. If the two lakes are not lost, the southwest half of the wall is stable.

As long as he Zhang Zhidong sits firmly in his position and does not waver, Yang Hao wants to take a large area of land in the west, so it is not so smooth. On the other hand, as long as the two lakes were in hand, the Qing court had enough strength, and it could not raise troops to the east to recover the old land.

Well, at least that's how the staff analyzed, and Zhang Zhidong also thought so.

However, this ignores a crucial precondition, that is, there will not be too much gap between the two hostile sides in terms of military equipment.

At the beginning, the Southern Song Dynasty was able to resist Meng Yuan, but it was also full of national strength and not much backward weapons and equipment.

How does today's Qing court compare with Yang Hao's revolutionary army? Zhang Zhidong felt extremely helpless when he thought about it, this is not just a world away, it is not in the same era at all!

Era is also two words that Zhang Zhidong has often figured out recently. He studied all his life, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was endless. Shuntian is the old people, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the emperor, it is the dust of history after all. If the general trend is rolling forward today, they have entered an unprecedented era, and these old guys will definitely be replaced by new forces.

Unstoppable!

Zhang Zhidong read the two telegrams backwards, thought about it for a long time, and ordered someone to call the important staff and the leaders of the New Army, Zhang Biao and Li Yuanhong.

In the face of everyone, the old man didn't talk nonsense, and asked bluntly: "Now that the contradiction between the imperial court and Yang Dingshi has risen again, Huguang is in a dilemma in the middle, can you have a good way to share the worries of the governor?" ”

Staff, you look at me, and it's hard to speak for a while.

How so? Your old man's thoughts are not unclear, and he doesn't want to be a minister, and he doesn't want to immediately give up his rights and retire. Occupying the place like this, relying on a breath of anger, he was just waiting for Yang Hao to come over and be forced to step down that day.

Now that the court is persecuted, Yang Hao has also issued an ultimatum-like telegram, openly declaring that whoever supports the Qing court may become a national thief. Dare or?

must be unwilling, so I want everyone to help me!

There is no solution to this problem. Everyone had nothing to say, and they all stared dryly.

Zhang Zhidong looked disappointed at this group of staff members who were raised with a lot of money, and they couldn't be relied on at the critical moment. Turning his head to look at the officers who were in the limelight, Zhang Biao stiffened his face and remained silent.

Li Yuanhong stood up and said slowly: "In my humble opinion, the opportunity for the revolutionary army to advance westward should be within a few months. Now that the land reform of Huanghuai has been completed, it will be Hubei's turn next. The governor may take refuge in Hunan, or it is better to return to the army. ”

Everyone stared, wondering what this kid meant? Let the Doge surrender?! (To be continued)