"What is Liang Aiqing's plan?"

"Qi Qi Sheng, if the armies of Japan's friends are allowed to wear my Qing military uniforms, how can the world know that they are not Qing soldiers."

Emperor Guangxu thought for a while, and then hesitated: "The military strength of Japan's friends is really strong, but Japan and Guangxi are far apart, how can the armies of Japan's friends reach Guangxi?" ”

"The Holy One doesn't have to worry too much, the generals of Japan's friendly countries have already thought about it, and the Holy One just needs to agree."

Emperor Guangxu thought for a while, and clapped his hands heavily, "Okay, I agreed, I'd rather be with a foreign thief than a domestic slave, even if I give it to a foreign devil, I won't give Lin Fei that minion!" ”

Liang Qichao hurriedly bowed, "The Holy One is wise, please send people with outstanding talents to contact Japan's friends." ”

Emperor Guangxu said with a smile: "Since you came up with this method, then this person is you, and I have appointed you as the minister of the Imperial Mission, and I have full authority to handle this matter." ”

Liang Qichao was still standing at the end of the main hall of the Hanlin Academy, at this time he became a famous minister, complacent, proud, overflowing, out of the Forbidden City, he went to Kodama Gentaro to discuss the matter of sending troops.

The reason why Kodama Gentaro wanted to send troops to help the Qing State was because of many reasons, from the perspective of Britain and France, they did not want Lin Fei to have too much territory in the Qing State, although the Qing State was large, but the total amount of land was also limited, Lin Fei occupied more of a piece, and the British and French and other powers occupied a piece of less.

Therefore, Britain and France both encouraged Japan to send troops to help Qing and attack Lin Fei, and Britain even proposed that as long as Japan attacked Lin Fei, Britain would provide Japan with a large number of battleship technology.

From Japan's point of view, on the one hand, they want to take revenge, on the other hand, they want to expand their power to the Qing Dynasty, revenge naturally needless to say, during the Nanyang World War, Lin Fei killed nearly a million Japanese, and Taiwan, if it weren't for Lin Fei, Taiwan would be Japanese now.

As for the expansion of power into the interior of the Qing Dynasty, it was also an inevitable requirement for Japan's development, and at this time, Britain, France, Germany, and the United States coveted the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty, and there were Russians in the northeast staring, and only the interior of the Qing Dynasty was in a vacuum.

Therefore, Kodama Gentaro wanted to send troops to support the Qing court and attack Lin Fei, not for the sake of the Qing court at all, but purely for Japan, but unfortunately the Qing court did whatever it took to expel Lin Fei and did not think about these things at all.

Kodama Gentaro decided to borrow the British troop carrier to transport the troops to Guangzhou first, and then set off from Guangzhou to Guangxi, but such a route would take twenty days, and in these twenty days, Lin Fei began to develop and build.

After Lin Fei conquered Guilin Mansion, he sent a message to Kang Youwei, the Qing ambassador to the Chinese Empire, asking Kang Youwei to telegraph to the Qing court and send an envoy to resolve the conflict between Huaxia and the Qing State.

Lin Fei thought that the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing State would send an envoy to surrender on his knees, but he didn't expect that the Qing State had no intention of sending an envoy, and the telegram sent to Kang Youwei was not heard from.

Seeing that the goal of intimidating the Qing court and forcing it to negotiate and compromise had not been achieved, Lin Fei immediately implemented the second set of plans, that is, to expel the Qing court forces in a down-to-earth manner and completely turn Guangxi into Chinese land.

Lin Fei once asked Xiyun to select people from all over the Qing Dynasty for secret training, including economics and politics, and when he took these places in the Qing court in the future, he sent these people to manage, these people have been quite effective after more than a year of training, and these people have unique views on how to develop the local economy and win the hearts of the people.

Lin Fei ordered people to bring over the people who were responsible for the development of Guangxi, many of these people were Zhuang people, and in Guangxi in this era, there were many more Zhuang people than Han people, so in order to develop Guangxi well, it was necessary to mobilize the Zhuang people.

The name of the chief student of the Guangxi Development Branch is "Zhang Ming", a Zhuang person, and the name "Zhang Ming" was taken by him later, although he has a Zhuang name, but he can't write it, which is not surprising, because although the Zhuang people have Zhuang script, but only a handful of people can write, and they have to take a new Chinese name.

Lin Fei met Zhang Ming and the others, and when everyone saw Lin Fei, they all bowed and worshipped, Lin Fei put loyalty training in the first place when training them, that is to say, no matter how strong or weak you are, you must first be loyal to Lin Fei, if you are not loyal to Lin Fei, you will not be promoted and reused.

Lin Fei planned to take a test of Zhang Ming to see what the results of the training were, so Lin Fei asked, "Do you know the Tusi system in Guangxi?" ”

"Returning to Your Majesty, this Tusi system, I know very well, Tusi is the emperor of each tribe, they have the power of life and death over the people, and they have the highest decision-making power over everything in the tribe, which is the biggest obstacle to your rule in Guangxi, Your Majesty."

"And if I'm going to abolish Toast, can I?"

"Your Majesty, no. Tusi is the emperor of the various tribes, can easily mobilize the people to resist, when the Qing court engaged in a big 'change of land and return to the stream', to abolish the Tusi, the result was countless resistance. ”

"Then how do you think I should solve the problem of toast?"

"Solve those toasts, it is difficult to say, it is simple to say simple, in fact, Your Majesty, you have already thought of a clever strategy, that is, to carry out a thorough land reform, as long as the land of Tusi is distributed to the people, Tusi will have no room for survival, and the people who get the land will naturally support Your Majesty, and they are not afraid of Tusi resistance."

Lin Fei nodded with satisfaction when he heard Zhang Ming's answer, and then asked, "What are your views on the development of Guangxi's economy?" ”

"Your Majesty, the most in Guangxi is minerals, so it should be based on ore mining and processing, Your Majesty should build a railway to connect Guangxi and Vietnam, Your Majesty has recently built several factories in Hanoi, Vietnam, I think, factories can be built in Nanning and Guilin and other places to process ore."

Lin Fei nodded lightly, "Very good, your idea is good, I am relieved, I will announce that Guangxi has officially become a province of the Huaxia Empire, and you will be the governor." ”

Zhang Ming hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, I will definitely take this governor well." ”

The next day, Lin Fei officially announced that Guangxi had become the eleventh province of the Chinese Empire, and at this time, Lin Fei already had eleven provinces, including Taiwan Province, Luzon Province, Visayas, Mindanao Province, Sulawesi Province, Borneo Province, Java Province, Sumatra Province, Hainan Province, and Guangxi Province, which had just been annexed.

As for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and the Kingdom of the Ryukyus, although they are similar to the provinces of the Chinese Empire, they are all subject countries of the Chinese Empire and cannot be counted as provinces.

The Chinese Empire also had large mining areas in Western Australia, but administratively these mining areas were not considered provinces of the Chinese Empire.

After Lin Fei announced the annexation of Guangxi, he thought that the Qing court would take action, but he didn't expect that the Qing State would take no action except for asking Kang Youwei to submit a letter of protest, which couldn't help but make Lin Fei a little worried, whether the Qing State was thinking about some conspiracy.

The Qing court not only did the Guangxu Emperor in Beijing not take action, but even the Qing court officials in Guangxi did not take any action, and the officials and lords of the prefectures and counties in Guangxi, when they heard that Lin Fei of the Chinese Empire was coming, did not have any intention of organizing Qing soldiers to resist, but fled with their families and fled to Hunan, Yunnan and Guangdong.

Lin Fei instructed his subordinates that if they caught the Qing court officials, they would let them go and leave the money, and for those guys who had a very bad reputation among the people, they could be killed in public without mercy.

Lin Fei announced the annexation of Guangxi, and then began to build in Guangxi, Guangxi is mountainous, Lin Fei decided not to move the people in the mountains first, because it is too troublesome to enter the villages in the mountains, Lin Fei decided to build in the plains first.

In order to facilitate the rule, Lin Fei set up the capital of Guangxi Province in Nanning, and transferred Zhan Tianyou to preside over the construction of a railway through Vietnam and Guangxi, which started from Saigon and ended in Guilin, so it was called the "Xigui Railway", passing through Da Nang, Hue, Hanoi, Chongzuo, Nanning, Liuzhou and other places on the way, connecting the whole of Vietnam and Guangxi.

Education is also fully rolled out, Lin Fei in order to completely control the land, attaches great importance to education, in the Chinese Empire, there are many universities that specialize in training teachers, in the Chinese Empire, universities are free to study, college students do not have to pay for anything, they only need to pay for their own meals, and in the universities that train teachers, they don't even need money for food.

The university spends so much money, so where does Lin Fei's money come from, a considerable part of it comes from foreign trade, synthetic materials, petroleum products and other products earn a lot of money for foreign trade companies, and these money are at Lin Fei's disposal, Lin Fei will certainly not use this money for himself, so he invests a lot of money in education and military industry.

The imperial system of the Chinese Empire showed great superiority at this time, so much money was invested in the field of education and military industry, which was just a matter of Lin Fei's words, and if it was replaced by other countries, it would face endless ridicule and prevarication.

At the same time as the development of railways and education, industry has also developed, various mineral materials have been developed one after another, Guangxi is rich in non-ferrous metal deposits, and in time, Guangxi will become the non-ferrous metal mining and processing center of the entire Chinese Empire.

The officials trained by Lin Fei played a major role in the construction of Guangxi, and none of them had ever been officials, so they did not know anything about the officialdom, which brought a new atmosphere to the officialdom and accelerated the pace of construction.

The most gratifying thing about owning Guangxi is that Guangxi is a land with many Chinese people, unlike Indonesia, the Philippines and other places, where the Chinese do not have a population advantage, and once a rebellion breaks out, it will inevitably bring a bloody storm.

As Guangxi's development gradually got on the right track, the Japanese army, disguised as the Qing army, finally arrived near Guilin and prepared to compete with Lin Fei's rapid reaction force.