Chapter 425: The roof leak happened to rain overnight

In the history of the original time and space, Kang Youwei did have the idea of selling Tibet, Xinjiang and other places to the great powers around the Wuxu year. According to Xia Suntong, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, in "Shusun Wenzheng Official Affairs", Sun Jianai, an important minister of the Qing court, once questioned Kang Youwei's idea of "all ends of the new policy" (the meaning of many new policies being launched at the same time) and how the funds would be raised; Kang Youwei's answer was: Selling Xinjiang to Tsarist Russia and Tibet to Britain "can be used for the New Deal at a good price."

I don't know if Zuo Zongtang, who has been dead for ten years at this time, will lift the coffin board to beat people when he hears Kang Youwei's remarks, thinking that in order to maintain the territorial integrity of China, Zuo Jigao carried the coffin into Xinjiang. At that time, he must have never imagined that after a hundred years, someone would want to sell the land that he had held with 80,000 Xiang Chu Erlang to Tsarist Russia.

However, Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong actually don't understand what it is like to buy and sell territory between countries. In one of Kang Youwei's works submitted to Emperor Guangxu, "Examination of the Japanese Regime", Kang Youwei cites two examples: Sakhalin Island (i.e., Huatai Island, as the footbasin chicken is called), and Alaska's sale of the United States, to prove that his idea of selling territory and changing the law is correct. However, the Japanese-Russian "Birch Tai Thousand Islands Exchange Treaty" is not a "land sale" by the Footbasin Chicken government, as Kang Youwei said, but a border survey between the two countries.

As for Maozi's sale of Alaska to Eagle Sauce, his purpose was not to sell it for money to deal with internal affairs. Maozi, who was mired in the quagmire of the Crimean War, did not have the troops to take care of the great wilderness of Alaska at that time, in order to prevent Alaska from falling into the hands of opium cattle, and also to get the support of Eagle Sauce, Maozi sold Alaska.

Moreover, Maozi's income from selling Alaska was not, as Kang Youwei said, selling "tens of trillions (billions of dollars)" (in fact, it was only sold for 7.2 million US dollars), let alone "building railways, building schools, buying iron ships, and increasing the navy". Later critics pointed out that Kang Youwei distorted the historical facts in his writings submitted to Guangxu in such a way that he was either ignorant of his own understanding, or he deliberately misinterpreted them to induce Guangxu to agree to selling his territory and changing the law. Considering that Kang Youwei has been learning all his life, as Liang Qichao said, he is always good at seeking differences, and in order to prove his own theory, he does not hesitate to erase the facts and distort the evidence, I am afraid that the possibility of the latter is relatively large.

Although the old witch hid in the summer resort of Chengde, she still arranged a large number of eyeliner by Guangxu's side. Kang Youwei's instigation of Guangxu to sell the territory was soon spread by the ears and eyes left by those old witches, and Rong Lu, who was left in the capital by Cixi, immediately transferred the news to the traversals, and he was repeatedly told by the traversers that any information involving the territory should be sent out as soon as possible.

"Spicy next door, in order to defend the territory of China, we are busy, and we don't even know how much fuel and ammunition to save our lives are put in, it's good, this is said to be sold!?" Seeing the information sent back by Rong Lu, Hao Dajian was so angry that he was about to flip the table.

"Isn't this Kang Youwei a reformer? How did you come up with the act of selling out the territory? Zhao Yi asked.

"Ya is an official fan, what kind of gentleman do you really think he is? Tan Sitong is a true gentleman! In the history of the original time and space, Ya also tinkered with Yuan Shikai's restoration, and later went to make suggestions for Puyi's restoration in order to cheat some money to play chicken, I really don't think there is anything strange about his remarks. Wang He said.

"Kang Youwei is going to do something with us, we have already said that we will not recognize any treaty to divide the territory of China, even the footbasin chicken was forced to change the treaty by us with 406 cannons, this Kang Youwei is still making a fuss to sell the territory, he treats us as air!" Lu Xiangyang said.

"Why don't I kill him, it's a waste of food to keep this kind of goods that think about selling territory all day long." Tian Buzi said.

"Hey, you haven't done anything in a while, haven't you? Don't think about who you want to kill at every turn, what we have is the means to deter those who have the idea of attacking the territory of China, and we don't need to use assassination. You can stay here and prepare for medical school. Zhao Yi said to Tian Buzi.

"For those who have the idea of splitting the territory, we want to let them be ruined, and the assassination has given them a good reputation for being loyal to the Manchus, then it is too cheap for this kind of thief!" Lu Xiangyang said.

"Kang Youwei threw out a proposal to sell the territory at this time, and I guess he still has a deeper idea. Now that we and Mao Zi are like fire and water, and John Bull and we have also passed the honeymoon period, Kang Youwei should be very clear about our tough stance on the territorial issue, will he want to use the territory in exchange for the isolation of the foreign powers? Wang He said after thinking for a while.

"When did these sourmen have such a deep understanding of the international situation? I still believe that if the operator is replaced by an old fox like Li Hongzhang, but Kang Youwei is afraid that he can't think of such a ruthless trick. Zhao Yi said.

"Well, I guess this is the worst time that the old fox has been hacked, although Li Hongzhang has signed many unequal treaties in the history of the original time and space, but he personally should have no intention of selling his territory." Hao Dajian said.

"No, the unequal treaties signed by the old fox are all forced to do so, what can I do if I can't beat others? At least with his efforts, he lost a lot of money and cut a lot of land, which is different from Kang Youwei's idea of taking the initiative to sell his territory. Tian Buzi said that he had no less dealings with Li Hongzhang in Tianjin.

"Don't be crooked, no matter whether Kang Youwei has the original intention of provoking contradictions between us and Tsarist Russia and Britain, once the Manchus put this plan into practice, in order to maintain territorial integrity, the contradictions between us and the great powers may intensify, and this matter must be strangled to infancy!" Zhao Yi said.

Just as the traversers were still racking their brains about how to stop the Manchus from selling their territory, Huang Xiaolei came back from Tianjin with a piece of news that she didn't know whether it was good or bad for the traversers at that time. A Chinese journalist with no name in the history of the original time and space revealed the inside story of the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty" in his own small newspaper, and the article even mentioned that the reformers had the intention of selling territory to Tsarist Russia and Britain.

In fact, due to the existence of Rong Lu, a high-level undercover agent, after the signing of the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty", the Crossing Masses quickly grasped all the contents of this humiliating treaty, and even knew all the supplementary clauses added after the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In order to make John Bull and Hans stumble over Maozi, the Crossing Crowd also revealed this information to British and German diplomats. In other words, except for the Chinese people who were fooled by the Manchurians, this "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty" is no secret.

It is also because of the above reasons that the crossing people did not pay much attention to the intelligence that the reporter named Li Baomei was arrested for revealing the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty", and no one paid attention to this matter except for Wang He's routine order to the military intelligence department to investigate the intelligence source of this nobody.

However, Cixi soon refreshed the perception of her ignorance among the traversers, and the old witch was so angry that she was so angry that she ordered the reporter named Li Baomei to be killed with a cane.

The mainstream media in the West condemned Cixi's barbaric acts, among which the "Times" even called Li Baomei the first journalist in China to die in the line of duty, and reported in detail the beginning and end of the case, so the proposal of the reformers to Guangxu to sell Chinese territory to Britain and Russia was finally known to the world.

The news, which was originally unknown to the people who traveled through the country, finally gained certainty, and the British Minister Sir Dou Nale, who had just arrived in China, asked Huang Xiaolei about the possibility of the British buying Tibet.