"Oh? Got news? ”

In the Prime Minister's Office, Tang Shaoyi put the telegram he had just received in front of Li Enfu's desk and smiled bitterly: "Liu Bingzhang and his entourage have now returned to Chengdu, and it is similar to what we expected, those Tusi and lamas seem to be unwilling to give up their rights. 【 I want: super fast update ]"

After listening to the words, Li Enfu's face also became gloomy, although he had guessed that reunification was not so simple, because Hua's policy and the Tibetans were completely different, and the liberation of all serfs alone would make a large number of Tusi and the head of the Tibetan family lose their power, so this is an irreconcilable contradiction at all.

But is there really going to be a war?

From the perspective of the Prime Minister's Office, it is unwilling, once the war starts, it will be more difficult than the northwest, the consumption will be greater, and the financial burden will be unbearable for the current government, especially at the moment when the preparation for war against Russia has quietly begun, the pressure will be great.

But if it can't be fought, then what should be done to solve it?

After thinking about it, Li Enfu picked up the telegram and asked: "I'll go to see the emperor now, just work hard Shaochuan, you go to Chen Ping and Yan Fu and ask his opinion." ”

After Shaoyi left, Li Enfu also quickly got in the car and went to the Summer Palace, but when he saw Li Mo in the garden, he suddenly found that Li Mo actually had a guest, and it was a person he had never thought of.

Zhang Zhidong!

How could he come to see Li Mo?

"Hyoda has met the Prime Minister." After seeing Li Enfu, Zhang Zhidong hurriedly got up and saluted, and while also secretly looking at the Chinese prime minister.

Li Enfu is also looking at Zhang Zhidong, who is known as the founder of Chinese industry and the founder of the Hanyang Iron Works, who is obviously a little old, but those eyes are still bright, but they still seem to be able to see the past.

"Enfu has seen Master Zhang."

"Hehe, the Prime Minister is polite, Xiaoda is just an idler in the opposition now, and he can't afford to be an adult."

"My lord has laid the foundation for the modern industry of my country, and the emperor has praised it before, so how can there be any reason to be unworthy." Li Enfu smiled and arched his hand.

"Come on, you're welcome, sit down." Li Mo smiled beside him, beckoned the two of them to sit down again, and asked, "Mr. Li, is there anything to do today?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's a little trivial." Li Enfu took out the telegram and suddenly looked at Zhang Zhidong.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhidong knew that Li Enfu must have something important to discuss with Li Mo, and was just about to get up to avoid it for a while, but Li Mo stretched out his hand to stop it, and said with a smile: "There is nothing to say to people, Mr. Zhang is not an outsider, Mr. Li might as well say it directly." ”

Enfu immediately took out the telegram, handed it to Li Mo and said: "Liu Bingzhang has sent a telegram, the Tibetan Tusi and some lamas have joined hands and rejected peaceful reunification, proposing that unless the emperor allows Tibetans to be self-governed, the army will not be allowed to enter Tibetan areas, otherwise they will never talk about joining hands." ”

"Hand in hand? Hehe, they really treat themselves as a dish, so many requests. Li Mo took the telegram, put it on the coffee table without looking at it, picked up the teacup and took a sip and asked, "Mr. Li, what are you going to do?" ”

"*** single nationality, poor geographical environment, if through military means, not to mention the difficulty, the consumption is really great, maybe it will force the Tibetan compatriots to the side of the Tusi head, so we suggest that we continue to use the previous dynasties used the strategy of changing the land and returning to the stream, weakening the rights of those heads and lamas. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. "Li Enfu thought for a while and said.

After listening to Li Enfu's words, Li Mo suddenly put down the teacup, looked at it and asked: "Elder Zhang, you are a veteran, you have governed the country for many years, and you don't know what to do about this matter?" ”

"Your Majesty, this is a state affair, the stakes are very high, and the old man has already retired."

Zhang Zhidong was stunned, he didn't expect Li Mo to ask him about *** things, and thought that Li Mo was testing him, but he was about to refuse but was stopped by Li Mo, and said with a smile: "Old Zhang, the times are different, Hua is everyone's Hua, no longer a world, what's the difference between being in the field and being a leader?" Besides, I am also going to ask you to become a member of the parliament and make further contributions to the country, so why not talk about your opinions? ”

Since Li Mo said this, Zhang Zhidong had no choice but to laugh and say: "That councilor still counts, if he is ten years younger, the old man really has that thought, but now he is not as good as before, but I have some way to do it." ”

"Elder Zhang might as well say it directly." Hearing that there was a way, Li Enfu couldn't help but lean forward and pricked up his ears.

Zhang Zhidong touched his beard, and his eyes changed in an instant: "The Prime Minister is right, the military is indeed difficult, although the previous dynasty has won several victories, but they have also consumed a lot, and they can recover their vitality for decades." ”

"The old man thinks that it is inappropriate to rush into war to recover, and although the prime minister's proposal to change the land and return to the stream is good, this trick has been used many times, and those who report to the court to recruit officials and Tusi will still not stop exploiting, but will use their power to run a private army, causing conflicts and casualties among the tribes."

"Summing up the former, we must not do anything to increase their rights, but we should reduce them, and we must do everything possible to pull those lowly serfs to our side, and make them afraid, and take the initiative to come to us."

"The old man thinks that if the emperor is not in a hurry, he can use the method of boiling frogs in warm water, while sending troops in, spreading the army, and using the army control as the reason to establish a political district, push the administration in the region, liberate those serfs, and bring them all over, and wait until the political region is accepted by the Tibetans, and then it can continue to expand, so that the consumption will be much smaller, and when this pot of water is boiled, those people in Lhasa will have no strength to resist!"

"Good way! Boiled frog in warm water, what a boiled frog in warm water! After hearing this, Li Enfu slapped his thigh, but turned his head and asked, "However, in what name do we establish a political district?"

"Isn't that easy? Mr. Li, I've heard that bandits in the southwest are very serious! After Li Mo finished speaking, he suddenly blinked his eyes naughtily, Li Enfu and Zhang Zhidong glanced at each other, and laughed loudly at the same time.

With Li Mo's words, the General Staff immediately ordered the Third Infantry Division, which had just been gradually withdrawn from Borneo, to start stationing in Yunnan and Guizhou, and at the same time the Eighth Infantry Division that came back and also entered Tibet along Hunan through Sichuan, and there were four Royal National Guard divisions that acted at the same time as them.

Tens of thousands of troops entered Tibet from three routes at the same time, and suddenly there was a great panic among those Tusi and the headmen, who concentrated their armed guards and asked for help from the Potala Palace.

Surprisingly, these troops did not pay attention to them when they arrived, but scattered in regiments, and began to build roads and telegraph stations with a large number of coolies who did not know where to find them, and who could not understand how to speak.

But this kind of ordeal has just begun, and then they are in big trouble, because these arriving troops began to recruit local Tibetans, establish a bandit suppression area, and also issued an official document, all Tibetans who enter the bandit suppression area will be able to recover their body, have the rights of ordinary people, and no longer need to hand over cattle and sheep to the head and Tusi, and if his original head dares to come to hunt down, he will be protected!

This order is simply a livelihood for the decapitated people and the toasts! Because they don't produce, they usually rely on exploitation for what they eat, and this trick of the Chinese army is completely to cut off their financial routes, if this goes on for a long time, let alone control the serfs below, it is extremely difficult to even keep their positions!

Some of the bold leaders began to gather together, ready to gather forces to capture the escaped serfs, but in front of the Chinese army, who was better equipped than them, they all broke their heads, and then they were finally swept into the garbage heap in the name of attacking the army and financing bandits.

In addition to expanding the bandit area, step by step, the nighthawk has also become a busy person, there are constantly evil township leaders and Tusi in the southwest disappeared and killed inexplicably, and after their death, it will cause local instability, which just gave the army an excuse to station, with the expansion of a section of the bandit area, the Potala Palace finally couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to send people into Beijing to negotiate.

But this time they didn't have such a good card, Li Enfu directly rejected the request for autonomy, and took Mongolia as an example, demanding that the Tibetan area must completely emancipate the serfs, and at the same time adopt the government, which is jointly governed by Tibetan and Han officials, in addition, the choice of the reincarnation of the two living Buddhas must also be confirmed by the central government, in addition, Lhasa must garrison troops, and the army does not care about the usual law and order, and the police department is responsible for the formation of public security.

Such harsh conditions naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the big toasts, but they could not find any excuse, because no matter how provocative they were, the Chinese army ignored them at all and continued to encroach steadily and steadily in the name of suppressing the bandit area.

Many people were anxious and even said that they should send out a sortie to attack the Chinese army, but the situation in the northwest has told them that there is no good end to fighting against the Chinese army, and some people even said that they could contact the British army in India, but proposed that they would either be killed or violently corpsed in the grassland.

On the one hand, the ants were anxious to enter the hot pot, and on the other hand, they were drinking tea, directing the construction corps to erect telegraph lines all the way, forming a government, educating serfs, and approaching Lhasa like a walk.

Later, the Potala Palace finally lowered its head and resumed negotiations in Chengdu.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the negotiations, it was not how to resolve the contradictions between the two sides, but for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor's railway disputes, because Li Mo asked for permission to immediately send people to Lhasa to survey the terrain and prepare for the construction of the railway.

When it couldn't be beaten and there was no way out, the Potala Palace agreed to the request.

After achieving his wish, Li Mo did not care about the progress of the negotiations at all, and immediately brought into Lhasa the first batch of 50,000 Han immigrants recruited from Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan-Guizhou and other places that had been prepared for a long time, and arrived at the same time with an infantry regiment protecting them.

This result made the Potala Palace, which promised to build the railway, stunned, they couldn't imagine that Li Mo would be so shameless, and he would bring so many Han people on the pretext of sending technicians!

In the face of questioning, Li Enfu was very relaxed, it was the family of the technician, because the road was difficult, it may take more than ten years to survey, so it is normal to bring the family.

Under the protection of the Chinese army along the way, the Tusi could not stop the Han people from entering Tibet, although the Tibetans were afraid of these strangers, but they did not disturb the people, and did not rob them, not to mention that the large-scale entry of the Han people into Tibet was not a precedent in history, and then they could only watch them arrive in Lhasa step by step, and began to build residential areas and pioneer.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Construction, the number of railway workers who will finally arrive in *** will reach 500,000, and it is not the Potala Palace that can't sit still, but the British!

Britain is not afraid that you will build the Tibet Railway, because this railway will not be repaired at all in a few decades, and the cost will be a bottomless pit, but no one expected that Li Mo would use the railway as an excuse to migrate and send troops to *** on a large scale!

50,000 people is not much, and even 500,000 in the huge *** can't see the fireworks, but the problem is that protecting an infantry regiment they are stationed in is too eye-catching, if it is only the army, then it doesn't matter, because they can't get the support of the Tibetans, but now there are 50,000 more Han people, so once there is a war, these armies can get the support of the Han people at any time!

Before the British digested the news that the Chinese army was stationed in the country under the pretext of building a railway, another thunderbolt came on another sunny day, and the Prime Minister's Office of the Chinese Empire began to discuss with Siam the digging of the Grand Canal on the Kra Isthmus, and sent hundreds of experts to land on the Malay Peninsula under the protection of soldiers for advance surveys.

This news immediately attracted the attention of France and Germany, who expressed their willingness to provide loans and technical support, and Britain finally could not sit still.

After nearly a year of publicity, the matter of the railway into Tibet has already caused a stir in various countries, although all countries think that Li Mo is wasting his efforts, and Britain has not paid much attention to it, but who would have thought that Li Mo would send tens of thousands of immigrants and troops to Lhasa under the pretext of railway survey, and at this moment the Grand Canal will be built, and Prime Minister Salisbury will have to start worrying about India.

At the moment when Boer was still deadlocked and the first battleship was still in dock, Prime Minister Salisbury asked Sadaoyi to immediately start negotiations with China on the *** issue, but he was rejected before he could start, for the simple reason that the *** issue is China's internal affair and no country has the right to interfere.

Under these circumstances, Sa Daoyi could only turn to Hua to threaten India, while pressuring the King of Siam, and on the other hand, demanding that Hua immediately stop sending troops and digging the Grand Canal in the name of building a railway into Tibet, but Li Enfu was shameless and directly said that this was a private property invested by the emperor, which brought the negotiations into a deadlock.

Housa Daoyi had to ask Li Mo to guarantee that he would not invade ***, and promised that he would not help Russia build battleships except for the warships that were being built again, and that Russia would not be allowed to use any military base in the British Far East for supplies, in exchange for Li Mo's commitment to postpone the start of the construction of the railway into Tibet and not to build the Kra Isthmus Grand Canal.

This is good news for China, because Russia's domestic shipyards and technical level are limited, and even if Britain sells its technology to them, it will take at least two or three years to complete it with Russia's capabilities.

At the same time, after seeing the army and the Han people slowly entering Tibet and Lhasa, the Potala Palace had to agree to all the conditions, and under the condition that the government promised not to interfere with Tibetan Buddhism, *** followed ***, announced the establishment of a province, and accepted the leadership of the Chinese central government.

On October 1, 1901, Li Enfu, the first prime minister of the Chinese Empire, issued a letter to the whole country, announcing the liberation of all Tibetan serfs, and on behalf of hundreds of millions of Chinese sons and daughters, he welcomed the return of Tibetan compatriots to the Chinese family, and announced the withdrawal of the current three army divisions, but would retain a royal national guard division in the first place to help the provincial government suppress bandits and help the construction of the Canadian government structure.

In addition, in order to solve the problems of the difficult life of Tibetan compatriots and the low education literacy rate, the Prime Minister's Office for the first time began to convene aspiring scholars from all over the country to teach and educate people in Tibet, and at the same time said that it would allocate 50 million yuan to speed up the construction of transportation and communications in Tibetan areas, and also said that the central government will purchase at least one million cattle and sheep from Tibet every year in proportion to help them vigorously develop the breeding industry and improve the living standards of Tibetans.

After *** and *** returned to Greater China one after another, the announcement of the Prime Minister's Office of the Chinese Empire did not mention half of the word unification, which made the scholars who were still ready to celebrate incomprehensibly, especially the emperor also remained silent.

This mystery was solved until the end of the year, when the Chinese Emperor Li Mo said for the first time in front of hundreds of Chinese and foreign reporters in his New Year's message that China had not yet been reunified, and that China would abolish all unequal treaties signed in the Manchu era from the first month of the lunar year in 1902, and declare that China has sovereignty over East Siberia, including Vladivostok, Sakhalin, and Lake Belga!

Li Mo's words made the Far East and Europe lightning and thunder!

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