"Extra! Extra! The Russian Second Pacific Fleet sails! Far Eastern Danger! Northeast Danger! China is dangerous! ”

Early in the morning, the newsboy waved the newspaper and shouted loudly, attracting a large number of citizens to rush to buy it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and among those people, there are those who are worried, and more are people who are full of joy, almost every one of them has a happy face, and some people can't help but want to cheer loudly, but it seems that they are afraid of attracting the attention of others, but they just suppress the excitement in their hearts.

"Damn, this god has finally opened his eyes!"

Suddenly, the man with braided hair and the kind of money rat tail that was the standard of the early Qing Dynasty shouted excitedly, and his words immediately attracted the approval of the people around him.

"But no, this god really opened his eyes and didn't let the surnamed Tang give birth to ......"

"Why don't you let An Sheng, surnamed Tang, according to me, when the Russians knock down the Northeast, they will have to drag the surnamed Tang to Beijing, and they will be ......."

This is the capital of the Qing Empire, and the people here have never had any good feelings about Tang Haoran and the Northeast, it seems that for them, they stubbornly believe that if there is no Northeast, the Qing Kingdom will still be in full swing now, and if there is no Tang Haoran, there will be no current "chaos and rebellion".

The loyal ministers and righteous men in this world will naturally not stand with his surname Tang, but under the strength of the people and the strength of the Northeast soldiers, they have never seen the hope of "God opening his eyes", it seems that for them, this God is not open-eyed, and it is God who makes the traitor rampant.

Finally, some time ago, with the stalemate on the front. The old and young masters in the capital finally saw the hope of retribution for Tang Reyi as if they were celebrating the New Year - the offensive of the Northeast Army was no longer cold. No more sharp. It seems that the defeat of the Northeast is just around the corner.

But not when they were cheering for the "victory of the friendly countries", and when the old and young masters of the capital urged the imperial court to reach an agreement with the Russians as soon as possible, and "put down the rebellion with the help of the friendly countries". Even when the imperial court transferred the Praetorian Guards of the three towns to Zhangjiakou in the name of "peacekeeping" and sent them to Kulun, a thunderous news shocked everyone.

The surprise troops of the Northeast Army occupy Ulan-Ude to complete the encirclement of the Russian Far Eastern Corps!

More than 500,000 Russian troops are under siege!

Just when the people in Beijing were saddened by the defeat of their friends, when the important ministers of the court were worried about how to quell the dissatisfaction in the northeast, and when hope was about to be dashed, finally. Good news!

The Russian Second Pacific Fleet sails!

Perhaps, for the Northeast, this is not good news, but for the old and young masters in Sijiu City, this is a good news, and those newspapers are even more sworn to talk about the "crisis" in the Northeast.

"Once the Russian Second Pacific Fleet and the First Pacific Fleet meet, then what awaits the Northeast will undoubtedly be a devastating disaster, and at that time, the weak Northeast Navy will be far from being the opponent of the Russian Navy, and once the Northeast Navy fails. Then the industrial and economic centers of the northeast - Incheon and Dalian will undoubtedly be exposed to the guns of the Russian naval fleet, and even more deadly. For a long time, the Northeast stubbornly believed that the fortress batteries could not protect the entire coast, and only the fleet could defend the coast, so they did not build a strong battery, and now the batteries in Dalian are still the old batteries built during the Li Zhongtang period, and it is foreseeable that what awaits the Northeast at that time will be a catastrophic consequence......"

For the Chinese, this may be bad news, but for the bannermen of the Great Qing Kingdom, this is the best good news in several years, they believe that maybe the Northeast Army can defeat the Russians on land, but what are the foreign devils best at?

It was not a land battle, but a naval battle, and the foreign devils defeated the Qing Kingdom by relying on their ships and guns! Defeating the Northeast Army now is not like playing......

On this day, firecrackers rang out in the capital as if it were the New Year, and everyone seemed to be celebrating the victory for the Russians in advance. It was in the sound of firecrackers that three black-covered "Dongfang" cars swept past the "loyal ministers and righteous men" in the 49 city who rushed to buy newspapers and set off firecrackers, and turned into the Qingwang Mansion from a distance.

Is there anyone in the capital who doesn't know ******?

This ******, who became an important minister of the country after the death of King Gong, can be said to be the most authoritative person in this Sijiu City, except for the Queen Mother, and it can even be said that in many things, he is more in charge than the Queen Mother, and the Qing Kingdom can be maintained here by the ******.

And the British diplomat said in a report sent to London: "Among the leading statesmen of Beijing, after the death of Prince Gong, ****** and the scholar Ronglu seem to have become the only central political figure in the country." At the same time, the famous "Times", "New York Times", etc., also mentioned that his house is a "bazaar" of Chinese officialdom, and even the concierge has set up a "toll station".

However, this does not prevent ****** as an important minister of the country after Prince Gong, continue to preside over the government, painstakingly maintain the current situation, especially rare, no matter after the death of King Gong, in the face of the reality of no successor, Yi Xuan has shown no less than Prince Gong Yi's enlightened posture and flexible figure, and with its special status, escort for Duanfang and others to implement the new policy, and become committed to practice and exploration of the "turbidity" (and advocating empty talk of the "clear stream" opposite) behind-the-scenes supporter. British Minister Douglas even considered him "a lever for the progress of the Chinese government." ”。

Of course, Yixuan's hands, while promoting reforms, also unabashedly made a lot of money into his pockets, and became one of the "richest men" in the Qing Dynasty in a high-profile manner. It is rumored that Yixuan interacts with people, regardless of intimacy or intimacy, only about money, giving more money is close, and giving less money is estranged. In the officialdom of Sijiu City, Yixuan's reputation as a "good goods" is outside, that is, everyone knows that he is greedy for money.

Not only do Chinese people know that ****** Yixuan is greedy for money, but even foreigners know that if they want to deal with him, they must first come up with money, even foreigners. Sometimes. Unspoken rules: After a long time, it is the rule. Just like now. There is a fact circulating among the legations in the capital - if you want to reach an agreement with the Great Qing Kingdom, you must first knock on the door of King Qing with silver.

After the three "Dongfang" cars stopped in front of Qingwangfu, several foreigners got off the car, and one of the foreigners was surrounded by several foreigners and walked into Qingwangfu.

Almost as soon as the group approached, a young man who had been waiting for a long time greeted the older foreigner in fluent Russian, in an official and formulaic language.

"Mr. Minister. The prince has been waiting for a long time. ”

And this minister was the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Russian Empire in the Great Qing State Ressar, when the young man said that the prince had been waiting for a long time, Yegilev, the secretary next to the minister, quietly took out a cashier's note from his suit, which was a silver note of 10,000 taels issued by HSBC, which was not a bribe for King Qing.

This 10,000 taels is just a ticket!

The unspoken rules are also rules, if it is in the Prime Minister's Yamen, it only costs a thousand taels! But here, ten thousand taels. Just get a chance to meet!

After receiving the check, the young man took Minister Ressar with a proud face. Walked into the palace, and then led Ressar and his party into a room in the Ming Hall, this small room was lit by electric lights, and the current chief military minister of the Great Qing Kingdom, Yi Xuan, was sitting in them.

"Your Royal Highness, good news is that our government has ratified the new treaty and authorized us to formally enter into a secret treaty with your country."

Ressar said straight to the point, with a smile on his face, as if he were telling him good news.

"In accordance with this treaty, after our defeat of your country's rebel army in the northeast, we will completely withdraw from the northeast within three months, and agree to transfer to you all captured materiel, including warships, if less than two warships are captured......"

What Ressar said was an extremely generous treaty, the "Russian-Qing Secret Treaty", which was proposed by Russia to be re-amended, and it could be said to be an extremely generous treaty for the Manchu government.

According to the provisions of this treaty, when quelling the rebellion in the northeastern region of the Qing Dynasty, Russia and the Qing Dynasty should provide mutual assistance with army and navy, as well as arms and food, and during the war, all ports of the Qing State were open to Russian warships. After the war, all government assets in Northeast China were to be returned to the Qing state, which allowed Russia to lease the railway from Heilongjiang and Jilin to Vladivostok, and Russia had the right to use the railway to transport troops, food, and ordnance in wartime and peacetime. And more importantly, after the end of the war, Russia will assist the Qing to train troops to quell the rebellion at home.

It can be said that the Qing government is completely borrowing troops to help the crackdown, trying to restore colonial rule in Chinese, but this is not "help" without a price.

In fact, any help had to be paid for it, and the help that the Manchus needed was very simple: to declare the Northeast as a rebellion to China and send troops to suppress the "rebellion", that is, the Qing government would participate in the war as an ally of Russia.

For the Qing government, the risk was too great.

In the face of the good news delivered by Minister Ressar, Yixuan was not confused by the other party's smile, and did not even show any joy, just said a soft "oh", and then said softly.

"Your fleet was sent out, right?"

"Yes...... Your Royal Highness, you must know that our fleet ......"

"Well, you are on the side of Trans-Baikal, and you are surrounded by Tang Wei with an army of 800,000!"

Yixiao's casual words made Ressar's face suddenly change, Kuropatkin fell into the trap of the Chinese, almost the whole world is saying this, yes, this is a fact, now Russia does not even have the strength to rescue that army, Russia is pulling troops from Europe as much as possible to save the current situation.

It was for this reason that St. Petersburg made a fundamental concession and authorized him to sign the treaty. In exchange for sending troops to attack the northeast, or cutting off the rear of the left flank of the Northeast Army from Kulen, thus breaking the current stalemate and paving the way for the next step of the operation, Russia is now forming a new corps to save nearly 600,000 Russian troops in Trans-Baikal.

"Oops...... It's hard......"

With a long sigh, Yixuan took a sip of tea, and then said slowly.

“…… The whole world knows that the Northeast Army has more than one million troops, even if they send one million troops to the front line, in the rear, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops, and the imperial court only has a few troops, but there are only three towns, less than 40,000 troops, and now they are all in Zhangjiakou, Your Excellency the minister, this, this is what you hoped for at the beginning, if you don't swear to say anything, what is the library, you will definitely defeat Tang Shun, but what is the result? Now ......"

After a pause, Yixuan looked at Ressar and sighed.

"How can you still trust me? How can I trust you? ”

Then, without waiting for the other party to answer, Yixuan paused, pursed his lips, and glanced at Ressar:

"Mr. Minister, in fact, now, with you sending a fleet, let me use 40,000 men to fight the northeast, doesn't this make me fall into the Great Qing Kingdom in a dead end? When I put forward these conditions, you thought about it for a long time, and if it weren't for the Northeast Army encircling you, how would you have made these concessions......"

"Concessions?"

Resal pretended to be taken aback:

"What? How is this possible? It's a collaboration between AIA and AIA. ”

In fact, the fundamental reason why Russia did not agree to these conditions was because Russia was not at a disadvantage at that time, and naturally there was no need to make any concessions.

And now, with the development of the situation in Trans-Baikal, everything has changed, and now, for Russia, Russia needs to use every ounce of its strength to save the situation on land, and now, no matter how hypocritical this surprise is, in short, today it is necessary to sign a treaty with the Qing people, which has the crucial practical significance - to support an enemy from the rear of the northeast.

As long as this enemy can throw his forces into the Northeast at the right time, the result will undoubtedly be devastating for the Northeast, and at that time, Russia will inevitably win the war, as for the rest...... Well, the treaty was signed to tear it up, otherwise why would it be signed?

As he spoke, Resal gently put a check on the table, which was a check from HSBC - a check for 1 million yuan! This was an extremely large expense, but it was worth it in Ressar's opinion, if the Qing agreed to sign the treaty......

"Your Excellency, you need to know ......"

Looking at the check on the table, he said hesitantly for a while.

"Now the dispute between the DPRK and China is very big, if ......"

Without waiting for the other party to hesitate, another bait came out of Ressar's mouth,

"Prince, we believe that as long as you are willing to help, the treaty can definitely be signed, and out of help to our friends, we are willing to provide you with a loan of 10 million taels!" (To be continued.) )