Chapter 381: The Historical Choices the Qing Court Has to Face!
The Manchu turmoil that occurred in 1870 lasted for three months from June, and during this period, because of the double blow of the Manchu Qing and the Western powers, the movement was suppressed, and this time was still very short, and the most fortunate thing for the Manchu Central Committee was that the Eight-Nation Coalition did not enter the capital!
Why didn't you get in?
There's a lot going on here, and we have to start from the beginning.
Cixi, why did she support this Boxer Rebellion?
From Cixi's point of view, it is easy to understand, she has only killed Prince Gong's devil six now, and then the military aircraft foreman and ministers have given Prince Alcohol Yixun, but this power structure is still unstable!
The previous change of generals, it was because of the French affairs, but after Prince Alcohol came to power, he found that Prince Alcohol was a big fool at all, his level was much worse than his brother, not to mention, and the war against the French was a mess.
The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is gone, the treasure island has also been cut, and a lot of money has been lost......
is such an incompetent government, even if Cixi has great ability, she can't withstand the pressure of public opinion, so in the end, ...... I still invited Prince Gong back, but there was a small trick in it.
Prince Gong wanted not to resist France before, so he has to carry some black pots in the current situation, so you are back, it's okay, deputy foreman!
The foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, she Cixi made a deputy, which is simply something that makes people want to laugh but can't laugh.
In fact, the main reason is that Cixi doesn't want the people she arranged to go in to come out again, on the one hand, it is too much of a slap in the face. On the one hand, it's not easy to take back this position!
If it was Prince Gong before. So that's it. Deputy foreman, he will never sit. But now, Prince Gong has grown wise through one thing, and his edges and corners have been worn off a little, and for the sake of the now stormy Qing Kingdom, he endured it!
But in this case, that is to say, such a huge political power group controlled by Prince Gong has revived!
This is a resurgence. At that time, it was an inevitable result, because their strength was indeed very strong, and Cixi also realized this, but this made Cixi even more sure that she had to kill Prince Gong and his henchmen, preferably uprooted!
And what does this have to do with the Boxers?
You see, the current situation is that the central government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has weak control over the localities, and there are still two power groups fighting within the central government, so the Boxers, the royalists, have come out, and they are the emperors of Bao. It's not you, Prince Gong!
Although Cixi had not been playing politics for many years, she immediately saw the usefulness of this Boxer.
Popular hearts are available. Can the people's hearts be used......
If this Boxer Rebellion is used well, then maybe it can suppress the local governors, if some of the powers can be recovered, of course, Cixi did not solve all the things in total, and as long as part of it is solved, it is like those who shout clearly, and then return the financial power and government affairs to the central government, then this is a great merit!
And the Boxers are another force, and this power can be used to deal with Prince Gong when it is about the same.
Therefore, Cixi can easily understand that the Boxers are of great use, and if they are used well, they can get the devil six again!
As a result, this Boxer Rebellion was not controlled, and it fought with the foreigners, and the killing was quite ruthless.
As a result, Cixi immediately came to the brakes and took the initiative to suppress the Boxers, instead of declaring war on the Eight-Nation Alliance or all countries.
When Li Mengyang, the emperor of the American Empire in Washington, got the news, he immediately began to pay attention to the relevant changes.
I can't help but pay attention to it, this is different from the history he was familiar with!
The original history is that after the Boxers rose up, the Eight-Nation Alliance was introduced, and then the foreign devils entered the Beijing Division, and Cixi ran away again, and then made a Gengzi indemnity, this indemnity, I went away, this is simply the debt of the king of Hades.
Each of the Chinese owes a foreigner a silver or two!
Coupled with the previous Treaty of Shimonoseki, it is simply impossible for you to pay off this debt, and you can't afford to pay off the interest.
Regarding this matter, Li Mengyang's most touching thing is that later a well-known big V took this Gengzi compensation to say something, that is, you see how good the Americans are, return this money some, build a university, we should thank the Americans...... It's not stupid, is it? Do you know how many universities can be built in terms of the amount of this reparation?
This is the brains of some well-known big Vs...... Well, let's focus on what's in front of you first.
Will such people appear? In other words, is there any reparation left?
Yes!
It's not called Gengzi indemnity, it's called "Treaty on Compensation for Military Expenses Related to the Pacification of Turmoil in 1870"!
To put it bluntly, the Eight-Nation Coalition did not enter the capital, but the imperial court sent an ambassador for peace talks, and everyone came to talk about the price, and everyone in the Western powers felt that we had helped you fight two battles in the Great Qing Kingdom, one back to the national army, and one back to the Boxers, so ......
500 million silver!
I owe a lot this time.
However, there are a few things that are different in this case, and that is that there is nothing wrong with Japan.
That's right, Little Japan has only been a few years since the Meiji Restoration, and they don't have a guy like Li Mengyang who has crossed over, and their strength is not too strong, so they have nothing to do with forming a coalition this time.
The person who talked about this matter, of course, is Prince Gong, he is very good at diplomacy, and for this 500 million taels, it is really hard to talk about, those foreign devils offered 600 million at the beginning!
However, this is also a reparation, loss of power and humiliation of the country, so isn't this a black spot? How can Prince Gong explain in the future?
Prince Gong was careful in this treaty, he knew how Cixi would deal with him after he signed it, although everyone knew that it was only Cixi who asked him to sign, but if the old lady turned her face and didn't recognize people, you didn't have a problem.
So, what is this heart's eye?
“…… I, Britain, France and other countries. It is urgent to hope that the Qing Dynasty will carry out institutional reforms...... This reform. On the one hand, it is adapting to today's times. On the other hand, it is also for the safety of envoys and merchants and people in the Qing Dynasty......"
Reform! Or ask you to reform in the Qing Dynasty! Moreover, our coalition forces ask you to reform for the good of your Qing Dynasty! It is also for the good of our Western countries!
Isn't this reform imperative?
Moreover, there are some clauses in this reform, which are to correct the names of some officials, and these officials are all in the Boxer Rebellion, and these foreigners have presided over a certain amount of justice, but because they are anti-Boxer, that is, they are anti-court. That is, anti-Cixi, so these officials are either dead or imprisoned!
Hey, from this point of view, it is obvious that this reform is what Prince Gong wants to do, let's just say that these officials are naturally towards Prince Gong, so to speak, now as long as it is anti-Cixi, it is Prince Gong's natural ally, so. In doing so, he will win over a lot of people politically.
In addition, this reform is also imperative in Prince Gong's view. It should be said that at the beginning of the negotiations, Prince Gong's side was so determined, and the one who advocated this reform was Guerjia. Wen Xiang.
So how do you reform it?
Constitutional monarchy!
Why do you need to change this aspect?
Judging from it now, let's talk about it not far away, let's just talk about these foreign devils, the Eight-Nation Alliance, they are all constitutional monarchies!
Before, the United States of America was not that one, but now the United States has been defeated, and it just so happens that it is all a constitutional monarchy!
Again, the United States has been defeated, so who has lost it?
New Tang Dynasty, what is the system of New Tang Dynasty?
Constitutional monarchy!
The most important thing is that the emperor of this new Tang state is a Chinese, and the Chinese have defeated the foreign devils, so what does this mean?
All of the above things are summed up to tell everyone that as long as the monarchy is constitutional, then there will be no soreness in the waist and no pain in the legs, and it will be ...... Oh, as long as the constitutional monarchy is carried out, the Qing Dynasty will be able to become rich and strong, and it will be able to defeat foreign devils like the New Tang Dynasty!
These arguments may sound a little unreliable, but everything that happened in front of him is telling Prince Gong that what Wen Xiang said is right.
Therefore, Prince Gong proposed this reform, and he was very smart to hope that this reform could be proposed by foreigners!
It's high, it's really high!
Obviously, as far as Cixi's old lady is concerned, if you talk to Prince Gong, she will probably not listen, but when a foreigner speaks, it will be difficult for Cixi not to listen, right?
But how did these foreigners agree?
Yes, what do you say Prince Gong, they all listen? Are they your sons?
has nothing to do with his son, these foreigners themselves also hope that the Qing Dynasty can be reformed!
This...... Weird, right?
No, it's not strange at all, because if you reform this reform according to the will of foreigners, then what's so strange about it?
That's right, before Prussia and now Germany made a "Yellow Peril Diagram", and now the Yellow Peril theory is also very loud, but what if this Great Qing State is reformed according to our European ideas?
Is there still any yellow peril?
That's right, this is the way to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, if the Europeans can completely control the direction of the Great Qing Kingdom, then they naturally don't worry about any Yellow Peril, and they can also look at it the other way around, it is because of this Yellow Peril theory that these guys want the Great Qing Kingdom to reform so much.
After doing this, Prince Gong still has a backhand, and he immediately found some good pens and began to talk about the benefits of this constitutional monarchy, that is, he began to attack in public opinion!
Don't say it, as soon as this reform thing was moved out, it really caused a wide range of discussions, and the government and the opposition, and even the country wilds, had to talk about two sentences.
Things have come to this point, both within the Qing court and foreign forces, hoping that the Manchus can be reformed, so how will Cixi decide? (To be continued......)
PS: What, the Nobel Prize in Economics is out, it's an upset, it's a scholar named Deaton who won the award, no one predicted this person before, any economist was slapped in the face, but it's not ...... The black car is a little worried, because this phenomenon may be a manifestation that Europe and the United States have slightly understood, why do you say that?
Because of this Deaton, his theory, his AIDS model, is actually a slap in the face of the previous policies of the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank!
Well, without further ado, this person actually has research on us in China, and he thinks that the situation on our side seems to be different...... Black car asks for support! Thanks!