The gunboats of the Beiyang Naval Division are all under the name of "Town", six in the southeast, northwest, and middle of the town, and there are two cruisers of 1,350 tons, Chaoyong and Yangwei, and the rest of the training ships and cruisers are all under the name "Yuan". The Empress Dowager Cixi spoke cleanly: "It's called Zhenyuan!" ”

"Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, this is called Zhenyuan, and the next three German-built 7,000-ton ironclad ships are called Fuyuan, Dingyuan, and Jingyuan!"

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"Since it is called Zhenyuan, then it must be worthy of the name," Empress Dowager Cixi's eyes flashed, "In the next few years, the first thing to do is to learn the skills of the Germans, and the Zhenyuan must use Ruyi." ”

"The French are ready to move in Annam, although I don't want to use troops, but I also have to beware of them making trouble on the sponge, when the Tianjin teaching case, they opened a warship to threaten us, if there is a dispute in the South China Sea in the future, the sailor will be the first to rush ahead."

The sailor and the others retired, the whistle whimpered, and the Empress Dowager Cixi also stepped on the train, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was drowsy in the car, but she didn't expect to be very excited today, and drank a few sips of ginseng soup, he ordered, "Xiao Lizi, pass it on, and in the future, the salaries of the officers and soldiers such as the Zhenyuan Pipe Belt will be paid by the Inner Treasury, and not allocated by the Ministry of Users!" ”

"Huh." Li Lianying responded, and put a brocade quilt on the Empress Dowager Cixi's knees, "Niangniang, it will take a few hours to return to Beijing, let's sleep for a while." ”

"I can't sleep now," the Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "Zhenyuan Zhenyuan, really majestic, looking at the tonnage is larger than the British warships," even larger than the naval tonnage of later generations, if you don't understand the 7,000-ton ironclad ships of this era, then use the aircraft carriers of later generations to compare it, everyone will understand."

"I don't know what happened to the Japanese," the Empress Dowager Cixi gloated, "there will be five ironclad ships all at once, and they must be peeing their pants in fear?" Hahaha. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi laughed, obviously very proud, "Little Lizi, have you seen the expressions of those officials today?" ”

"Yes." Li Lianying also replied with a smile, "I saw a warship as big as the British before, although the big guy didn't say anything, his face was ugly and tight. In the final analysis, the British warships overwhelmed the Beiyang side, and as soon as the Zhenyuan arrived, they became angry again. ”

"What's the spirit," the Empress Dowager Cixi scoffed. "This is just a fleet of the British, if the British all the warships from all over the world go to Tianjin, I am afraid that the port of Dagukou will not be able to be plugged, and they will see the ironclad ship of more than 10,000 tons, and they will have to pee their pants like the Japanese."

"I don't see the reaction of the Japanese in a hurry," Li Lianying said, "and the French have made a move." ”

Empress Dowager Cixi's eyes froze, "What move?" ”

"The negotiations with the French that began in the seventh year of Guangxu have not progressed. They were already a little impatient, and several businessmen in Hue received orders from the French consul to make a fuss. ”

"Oh?" The Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, and the so-called negotiations on the exchange of shares for Vietnam have been going on one after another, but on the Chinese side, the Empress Dowager Cixi has already issued an order, "If there is no 20 million francs, the shares will not be transferred." ”

The shares that had been bought for the British for 10 million francs were now doubled as soon as they changed hands. The French would certainly not agree, and the French ambassador Albert had already declared: "If such conditions are accepted, the French operation in Vietnam will never stop." "The subtext is not to continue to maintain the independence of Vietnam's northern and central kiet.

Then China, of course, wants Vietnam to remain under Chinese jurisdiction, the most subordinate. There should also be no official French power in the Beiqi area, and then China and France will be the suzerainty of Vietnam.

However, the issue of the transfer of shares in the Suez Canal could not be agreed, and the French lost patience, so it became inevitable to continue to fan the flames in Vietnam or go shirtless. "What are they going to do in Hue?"

"It's not clear, but it's just that the French used merchant ships to transport a lot of muskets to the French trading house in Hue City, so the slave guesses. Since he used a musket, he probably wanted to contact the pro-French faction to carry out a coup d'état and oust the Vietnamese Shoufu or the Vietnamese king, after all, the Vietnamese king now has a reliance and is very tough on the French. ”

"He's tough?" The Empress Dowager Cixi said in surprise, and then realized, "Such a wall grass is nothing more than looking at us to support him, so he is tough on the French, as long as we leave it alone, he will immediately be a French pug again." "The Empress Dowager Cixi said very harshly, "It's a pity, mixed between the two big countries, if you make a difference between the left and right, it may not be able to let Vietnam maintain a certain degree of independence, now it's good, I was the first to be dissatisfied with him and the French signed the Saigon Treaty, so he immediately changed his mind and refused to fulfill the treaty, in this way, he deeply offended the French, and he didn't believe in the wind and turned the rudder, this comment can't escape." ”

"Please the queen mother's decree, do you want to serve their firm?"

"End?" The Empress Dowager Cixi thought slightly, "No, at least we can't do it, we are in the dark, and we can't show our strength." ”

She looked at the vast land outside the train and thought for a while, "Now the king of Vietnam can't die, Prime Minister Nguyen Van Xiang is closer to China, naturally he can't change a pro-French faction to come to power, Vietnam can't be chaotic now, let's not do it ourselves, send someone to tell Chen Van Dinh, let him watch it himself." Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "Chen Wending has done a good job in Thang Long Mansion, and his relationship with the Black Flag Army has also been good, so it seems that he is a figure worth cultivating." ”

"The Queen Mother has a long vision, and in the past, she let the students of the vassal families of various countries enter the Heavenly Dynasty in my Tian1 Dynasty, and these people are naturally oriented towards the Heavenly Dynasty."

"He's just going to do it, at least we can have some role in Beiqi, so that the waste of the Ruan Dynasty and his own Longxing land are all ceded to France, and I don't know if the ancestors and ancestors will come back to life from the ground. How is Ege in Vietnam? It's been half a year. ”

"He lived a very comfortable life in Vietnam, and many students hugged him every day, praising him as a Vietnamese scholar," Li Lianying said with a smile, "It's a little fun, but I haven't forgotten the errand assigned by the Queen Mother, not only summoning the Vietnamese king from time to time to reprimand, but also going south to Saigon several times to negotiate with the French consul." ”

"Negotiations? How's the negotiation? ”

"He is pedantic, he can't say anything about diplomatic wit, he just talks with the French about the distinction between heaven and one dynasty, one dynasty and one country, and Huayi, and even denounces the French as barbarians and shameless and obscene, not only the French consul, but also the French in Vietnam are very annoyed, because Ege not only insults France here, but also emboldens the Vietnamese." (To be continued.) )