In August of the first year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the power of the autumn tiger was still raging in the south of the Yangtze River. The Central Plains and the north have gradually eliminated with several rainfalls, and the cold air has quietly arrived, making the northern land usher in the autumn high and refreshing.

But for the people in the Northern Qing Dynasty officialdom, a kind of heartburn and burning lung burning sensation did not dissipate with the drop in temperature, but became more and more intense with the aging and fermentation of time.

"The Imperial Court wants to cut the ...... of the feudal domain"

"The banner people cheered up, the court didn't need the Han army......"

"The imperial court is worried that the Han ministers will be difficult to govern......"

"The flag man is going to take the official hat. Eighty percent of the governors in the world are Jiangchen, and ninety percent of the commanders and commanders are Han soldiers, and the bannermen have no officials. Now the world is peaceful, and the world is still the ...... of the Eight Banners"

and "The Manchu and Han families, the Manchu and Han families are the blessings of the world!" ”

"The flag man has been decadent for a long time, and it cannot be cured in a short time. However, the Manchu and Han Dynasty can calm the world and avoid foreign ......"

The latter two are much weaker than the previous rumors, but the spearhead against the court is still very sharp. The whole north was panicked, only because the first object of the imperial court to cut the feudal domain in the rumors was the Hunan army, and the Huai line of Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, inherited more than half of the political heritage of the Hunan army, and stood at the pinnacle of the country.

But as the rumors say, even though Li Hongzhang is the governor of Zhili, the minister of Beiyang, and the governor of Jiangjiang under his subordinates, he does not have the 'hope of the world' that Zeng Guofan had back then, and his personal reputation is still much worse than Zeng Guofan. Therefore, Li Hongzhang couldn't deter the imperial court like Zeng Guofan did back then - as long as Zeng Guofan stood and he didn't take the initiative to reduce his troops, the imperial court would have to find a lot of excuses to reduce the Hunan army. There's no guarantee that it will work. Not to mention the official positions of the important people of the Hunan army.

Such news only circulated in the north, but many high-ranking officials in the south also knew about it. It's just that it didn't spread the news to the lower levels. In China in this era, the spread of news is still very slow. Officials still rely mainly on letters. As long as it is not openly poked out in a major national newspaper such as Ta Kung Pao, no matter how explosive the rumors are, they must wait for time to ferment.

It's just that after Liu Songshan and Liu Jintang's uncle and nephew in Guangzhou heard these rumors, their hair turned gray. They dared to swear to the sky that they had never divulged Liu Xian's complaint that night to the third person. Liu Songshan also hurriedly sent a letter to Tainan......

Rumors stop at the wise. But there are always more foolish people in the world, and everyone is in the clouds, and everyone is full of gold, accumulating and destroying bones, this is the power of rumors. Otherwise, rumors would not have run through the long history of the development of world civilization from beginning to end. And it's all intertwined with intrigue.

The most troubled people in the world about these rumors are not Liu Songshan's uncle and nephew, nor Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, Liu Changyou and other local powerful bigwigs, let alone Liu Xian himself. It is the princes and nobles of the Eight Banners in Beijing, who are the four giants of Cixi, Ci'an, Prince Gong, and Prince Alcohol.

In addition to finding a way to eliminate the influence of this 'rumor', they also have to find a way to dig out the initiator of the rumor.

Who could it be?

Li? Or Zeng Guoquan? Or Zuo Zongtang and Liu Changyou?

Anyway, the Big Four of Beijing City or the princes and ministers of the Eight Banners didn't think about Liu Xian. Because the rumors appeared in different provinces at the same time, the leaders of the Manchu Qing did not think that Liu Xian had this strength. They don't have the string of secret service organizations everywhere in their thinking, and in their old thinking, only a faction of officials with huge power and influence covering these provinces and localities can do this. So Liu Xian was directly eliminated by them. Even Liu Songshan's uncle and nephew in Guangzhou didn't think that Liu Xian himself was playing with fire. If that's true, Liu Xian is so crazy that he is simply setting himself on fire. Especially after Liu Songshan got the rumors from the north, he thought that Liu Xian had just received the news earlier.

"Queen Mother. Whether this matter is a confluence of Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guoquan still needs to be determined, and the top priority is to suppress the rumors. ”

Prince Gong still has a lot of trust in Li Hongzhang in his heart. And such rumors are enough to condemn the heart. He felt that Li Hongzhang's participation was unlikely. Compared with Li Hongzhang, who has a calm personality and has become more and more scheming in recent years. Zeng Lao Jiu is more likely to be at that time.

The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, Prince Alcohol, Wen Xiang, Bao Jun, etc. all agreed, and it was necessary to find out the initiator. But that can be done slowly. Suppressing the influence of rumors is something that must be done now. Of course, everyone present knew that as long as the imperial court stopped the formation of the Eight Banners New Army, then this rumor would naturally be self-defeating. But can they do that? The formation and training of the Eight Banners New Army is already related to the stability of the rule of the Eight Banners, and it must be done. Many of the rumors are true. For example, these Manchu princes and nobles who started from martial affairs in front of them, did they really only think about inspiring the martial arts of the Eight Banners, but didn't think about regaining the local control power? How can it be! It's just that the handle of the knife is not tough. When the handle is tough, of course they should do it.

Prince Gong couldn't think of a legal system to dispel the impact of rumors. Because these rumors tell the real thoughts and thoughts of these banner people, princes and ministers. These thoughts and thoughts are all related to the 'world society', these have been lost, they have all changed, they have changed, and the country of the Qing Dynasty will also change.

Some people in the original time and space commented that the failure of the Westernization Movement in China and the success of the Meiji Restoration in Japan were due to the racial differences between the imperial families of the two countries as a major reason that could not be ignored. While enhancing China's strength, the Manchus also paid more attention to maintaining their own ruling power, but the Manchus' own 'national capital' Eight Banners had long been useless and decaying, and those who controlled foreign pragmatic, military, and local rights were all Han Chinese. In other words, the interests of the Manchu imperial family were not exactly the same as the interests of the state and the interests of the main ethnic group of the country, and in some places they were even irreconcilably opposed. This is very different from the situation of the Japanese imperial family. The interests of the little devil emperor are completely consistent with the interests of the state and the nation.

This is the problem now facing the Manchu princes and nobles. Even Westerners and famous ministers like Prince Gong, Wenxiang, and Baojun can't think of any way to get the best of both worlds.

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At a time when the world's bigwigs were distressed by the rumors, Liu Xian of Tainan held a large meeting of all the state and county officials in Taiwan in the newly established Taiwan Governor's Yamen.

Today's Taiwan is no longer only one Taiwan government, after the Qin army a series of 'open mountain gates', attacking mountains and plundering land, Taiwan Province now has jurisdiction over Taipei, Taiwan, Tainan three prefectures, and Yilan County, Tamsui County, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Taichung County, Changhua County, Yunlin County, Zhuluo County, Anping County, Fengshan County, Hengchun County and other eleven counties, plus Keelung Hall, Nanya Hall, Puli Community Hall, Penghu Hall four halls and a Taitung Zhili Prefecture.

Although many prefectures and counties are newly established, the allocation of officials and county towns are very simple. But the establishment is finally there, and so is the official grandfather. The next thing should be the construction of people's livelihood.

Because many prefectures and counties here were captured by the Qin army, not to mention the killings during the period, anyway, there was a lot of vacant land after the army was defeated, and some of them were ripe fields. And whether it is a ripe field or a raw land, it is a precious and huge wealth. Liu Xian will not let those naturalized natives continue to stay in the same place, and most of them will be relocated to the Han land in Taixi, so the vacated fields will need a large number of Han people to cultivate and reclaim. Part of the land has been given to the Japanese members of the forward team as 'money' by Liu Xian, and these people will live in Taiwan in the future, and when their families are brought to Taiwan from Japan, the nationality of these people will also be changed to Chinese. Liu Xian does not think that this is a loss, this is an example set by him, which will be very attractive to the current poor and white Japanese low-level samurai. And the so-called national hatred and family feud between Qin and Japan, in the current Japan, in this era, does not seem to be really irresolvable.

The words 'the same text and the same species' are still very marketable and powerful. After the humiliation of the little devil who slaughtered Lushun in the Sino-Japanese War, blackmailed 200 million taels of silver, and ceded Taiwan, so many Chinese still regard Japan as a 'friendly neighbor', so don't take last year's war more seriously. In the eyes of many Japanese samurai who responded to the team, after last year's World War I, it only proved that the Qing Empire was still strong and Japan was still weak. The national identity of the Japanese, their obedience to the strong, is it difficult to resolve this kind of hatred?

Modern society is a typical elite society, with a small number of elites leading a large number of foolish people. Those elites in the upper echelons of Japan may be ambitious, regard China as a big rival of Japan, and yearn for the moment when Japan will trample China under their feet, but what about the Japanese at the bottom? They don't have such a high level of awareness. It's not a decade from now, and Japan is just getting started.

"The ripe and raw land collected in various parts of Taitung, excluding some military land, has at least 1.2 million mu of cultivated land. The counties of Taitung urgently need a large number of people to fill the gap, and I have convened you today to discuss this matter. How many landless people and proletarians can there be in Taixi counties, or how many clans, family branches, and branches are willing to move to Taixi counties. If there is a shortage of money and grain, the government can solve part of it, and borrow a part of it, and even the cost of agricultural things, and even the cost of acres of land, can also be loaned.

The branches of Minsheng Bank set up in various parts of Taiwan can lend up to 10 silver dollars without interest as long as they rely on the documents issued by the government, regardless of the age or age. Remember, it's interest-free, interest-free. As long as the money is repaid within three years, then there is no need to pay more than half a penny......"

Liu Dian and Xu Yanxu, who were sitting under Liu Xian, were both smiling and relieved at this time. The money that Liu Xian took out from the hands of the gentry and landlords in Taiwan was finally spent on the people of Taiwan this time. Instead of building railways, roads, ports, official offices, and county towns as before, reorganizing armaments, and reinforcing the Penghu Fort...... (To be continued......)