Chapter 20: The Uneasy Knife Club
The third more
The knife club that made Qingyu worry really wasn't that worry-free, these days, Li Hongzhang kept reporting to them what the knife club had done, waiting for Xianfeng and Qingyu's reply. And Xianfeng and Qingyu were in private, facing the reports of all parties, and they really didn't bother to care about this little thing in the palace at this time.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry, it seems that this time I'm self-righteous again." Qingyu looked at the telegram, her face was really like ashes. Su Shun committed suicide, what happened to the concubine in the Old Summer Palace is not a matter now, now she only has anger in her head.
Liu Lichuan and Zhou Lichun ran into walls in Shanghai, so they thought about it and decided to assassinate officials and create chaos. I also thought of getting a rifle and bullets from a foreigner, and I really practiced for a long time.
However, even if the officials of the Qing Dynasty have been trained by Qingyu and them, they are still quite **, if there is any public huó dòng, it is really not something they can get close to. What's more, when they thought about it later, how much chaos they thought it would be to kill the officials of the imperial court?
So they patted their heads again, thinking that they could actually kill foreigners. Even now, because of Qingyu's participation, the officials of the DPRK and China are not so cautious about these foreigners. But the common people are still accustomed to calling these people foreigners, Zhou Lichun feels that killing foreigners at this time also has a warning effect on the common people, these foreigners are one of the main culprits that make their lives so miserable.
Now Qingyu has established diplomatic relations with various countries at the ambassadorial level, everyone can communicate with each other, and the ports of trade are full of foreigners who come to pan for gold. It's easier than assassinating an official, setting up a gun and just looking at a few shots from below, and you can kill a few. Change places in a few days and fire a few more shots.
Their idea is very simple, as long as they kill a few more foreigners, the foreigners will be angry, the cannons will be able to hit them, and the common people will know that these barbarian courts will not protect them.
Qingyu knows that in fact, this method is really good, similar to the Boxers in history, the Boxers are killing the foreign and helping the Qing, these people are a little worse, killing the foreign and destroying the Qing. It's just a bunch of brainless people. (Little P personally thinks they are evil||.) Teach)
And Zhou Lichun, why don't Liu Lichuan want to think about it, is this an excuse for foreigners? They really used this as an excuse to rush into Shanghai Tang, and they did not provoke the revolutionary spirit of the people, so they pushed the people into the flames of war at once. This is the same as Rì Běn's attack on the Lugou Bridge under the pretext of the disappearance of officers and soldiers, and their actions are no different from traitors.
Qingyu was useless no matter how angry they were, they did a big deal with one vote, anyway, they didn't look like Chinese, so they shot indiscriminately, or several districts acted at the same time, killed twenty-four foreigners in one breath, and killed a Chinese translator by mistake.
Li Hongzhang is very shrewd, originally people were under their jiān kòng, as soon as they shot, Li Hongzhang arrested people and returned the gun. But the problem is that even if these foreigners are ordinary businessmen, they are also diplomatic disputes, and he can only urgently report to Xianfeng and ask for a holy ruling.
Qingyu can only apologize to Xianfeng now, because she doesn't care, the knife will just push them to such a dangerous point.
"Let the ambassadors of the three countries enter the palace immediately." Xianfeng was thinking about this just now, and when he came in, he asked Qingyu to go together, such an important negotiation, he didn't believe in any translation.
"Call Prince Shanghui, and Prince Gong, and by the way, Yiren." Qingyu nodded, facing it directly is the best way to solve it.
The ambassadors of the three countries have just received a telegram from Shanghai, because there is an embassy, so the consuls of various places no longer call back to China if they have something to do, but the ambassadors of the Prophet's Society. The ambassador made representations to the imperial court. This has been the practice in recent years, and the ambassadors of the three countries were about to send people to the Imperial Court, but they arrived first, and the emperor invited them to the palace to discuss matters. In this way, the three ambassadors breathed a sigh of relief, obviously, the court was not as dull as they thought.
However, they hesitated for a moment, and immediately telegraphed home, asking the bosses of the countries what they should do this time. However, there is still a time difference in various places, and not everyone can reply immediately, and the three ambassadors can only enter the palace to see Xianfeng and his wife with trepidation.
Prince Gong has been accompanying the concubine in the Old Summer Palace for the past few days, but he also heard about the outside thing, the emperor wanted to give his mother a title to fool him, and he was trying to use Su Shun's death to provoke the gap between Jingying and Xianfeng, but before he went out, Xianfeng came to call him. He could only enter the palace, read Li Hongzhang's telegram, and immediately became angry, "Your Majesty, the bandit leader of the Little Knife Society has been under control, why did he wait until it caused today's disaster before dealing with it?" ”
Everyone looked at him and kept their mouths shut. The eyes look at the nose, and the nose looks at the heart.
And Yiren is looking at why Qingyu is on the edge of Xianfeng again, this is a political matter, why did Xianfeng bring Qingyu again?
Sure enough, Prince Gong saw that everyone ignored him, and pointed to Qingyu again, "Why is the imperial sister-in-law here, the ancestral family law, and the palace is not allowed to interfere in politics." ”
"She's here to be the translator, do you know how to speak foreign? Ambassadors of the three countries, two languages, you will translate? Xianfeng glared at the sixth child and cleared his throat at everyone, "Before they come, think about it, how to deal with it?" ”
"Your Majesty, do you want to let the Jiangnan camp prepare first." Yiren also thought of the battle more than 20 years ago, and his face turned a little pale.
"This time the French died the most, sixteen. The Americans are okay, there are only two of them. But don't underestimate France, they've been expecting us to be more open to them over the years. Xianfeng pursed his lips.
This was said to Qingyu by Qingyu, but the French have been looking for opportunities over the years, hoping to expand trade. And now, they are issuing fiat currency in the French Concession in Shanghai, of course, the silver yuan of various countries has flowed into China at this time, and Qingyu is a severe blow in this regard. From time to time, we will inform all localities that this kind of behavior is firmly not allowed.
Qingyu's protest was effective, but Qingyu also knew that everyone was willing to make more money, and too fair a trade could only make them slowly impatient. France, for example, has a small market share and has hit the fiat currency, which makes them even more annoyed.
Of course, another thing is that in the "Treaty of Nanjing", the time limit for free trade is 12 years, that is, it expired last year. Britain, the United States and France naturally want to talk to Qingyu, over the years, even if the relationship is good, but they know Qingyu, Qingyu is not an inch of land in some things.
So last year, the three of them conducted a private and arduous negotiation process with Xianfeng Qingyu. For some articles of the Treaty of Nanjing, there are no changes, but notes have been added. In fact, this is also a new attempt for Qingyu. The signing of the Nanjing Treaty before, to put it bluntly, was that the Qing people were too weak at that time, and more importantly, they did not understand international law, while Qingyu happened to understand a little.
The books she has introduced over the years have not been introduced in vain, and she has talked to the three families one by one. Eventually, the three accepted the new treaty annotations. On the surface, the terms have not changed, but the three of them know in their hearts that their rights are being restricted.
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