Chapter 124: The situation is very good
The president has eaten noodles, what can Bi Yuan do?
In light of the current situation, and under the persuasion of Mr. Lin and others, Bi Futai resolutely adopted a policy of non-resistance, announced that the whole province of Shaanxi warmly supported the Emperor of the Restoration, and welcomed His Majesty the Emperor to Xi'an to inspect the work.
In the process, a handful of anti-reform elements were suppressed by Bi Yuan's order, and 29 Manchu and Han officials were arrested and imprisoned as republican traitors.
The two newly established newspapers in Xi'an City for the republican advocacy were investigated, and several Xiucai, who had slandered the six emperors of the Restoration in the newspapers as domestic slaves with three surnames, were also expelled and sent home, from top to bottom, from the official to the people, all of them sang and praised the six emperors who endured humiliation and burden, and tried their courage while lying on their backs, and the entire public opinion was also a thriving scene of the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, Bi Yuan ordered the sun and moon flags to be hung in both the city and the outer city, and enshrined the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang in the governor's yamen, and personally wrote a sacrifice for Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, which is called the "Jiashen One Hundred and Thirty Years Sacrifice", in order to express his high support for the restoration of Emperor Zhu Liu.
He also led thousands of Manchu and Han officials and soldiers to hold a braiding ceremony on the campus of Dongda University, and at the ceremony, he said impassionedly to the soldiers and civilians of Xi'an: "In the past, the era when the Aixin Jueluo pseudo-rebel family used a few knives to let all of us keep braids will never come back!" ”
At the same time, a telegram was sent to the whole country, telling those traitors who still want to resist the Restoration that if they do not abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as possible, they will be spurned by the people of the world and become sinners of history!
In order to express his loyalty to the six emperors, he even submitted an article to the "Daqing Daily" entitled "China cannot do without an emperor for a day", denouncing the so-called republic with fierce words as just a conspiracy of a small group of careerists, a means of fighting for power and profit, and only the imperial system is the future of China and the future of the world.
Bi Yuan's awakening not only brought him back into the arms of the reform officials, but also saved Xi'an, a thousand-year-old capital, from being destroyed by the war.
On the seventh day of the fourth month, the sixth emperor Luan arrived in Xi'an.
Bi Yuan led hundreds of Chinese warriors and gentry out of the city to kneel to welcome the Six Emperors, and at the same time mobilized tens of thousands of people to warmly welcome the Restoration Army into the city.
The ceremony was very lively, stepping on stilts, beating gongs and drums, playing suona, and juggling
The scene was very festive, and it completely met the needs of the six emperors.
"Are you convinced?"
"I'm convinced."
"Do you dare in the future?"
"Don't dare."
In just a few words, the monarch and the minister laid the tone for the peaceful liberation of the northwest.
Afterwards, Jia Liu said to the staff around him with emotion: "Bi Yuan, this person, has flaws in his temperament, and he has minor faults, but he also has small achievements. ”
This is to set the character for Bi Yuan to stay as governor of Shaanxi, but it is unlikely that there is much room for improvement.
There is a high probability that after the northwest is stabilized, Bi Futai will either go to Beijing to serve as a member of the Parliamentary Yuan, or he will retire early.
The important ministers of the Restoration have nothing to do with him.
In fact, although Bi Yuan is corrupt, he still has talents, and he has done a lot of practical things during his governance of Shaanxi. For example, the Yellow River, Luoshui, and Weihe rivers often flooded, and Bi Yuan often opened warehouses for relief, saving the lives of several people. He also recruited people to reclaim wasteland and dredge ditches to irrigate fields, although there were no great political achievements, but they were not useless.
Proper training can still be very useful.
The problem is that Bi Yuan's personal life style is very problematic, especially the chaotic relationship between men and women, and Jia Liu's most hated personal life style in his life, so Bi Yuan's career can only end here.
If Bi Yuan still has political ambitions, he will have to send Siberia to grow potatoes if he can't do it.
Wang Tingzan, the governor of Gansu, heard that Leer was in Shanxi anyway, and Bi Yuan surrendered in Xi'an, and after hesitating for a moment, he ordered Gansu to change banners and express his allegiance to the Emperor of the Restoration from now on.
This move was extremely sensible, because the Green Battalion soldiers in Gansu were simply unable to resist the army of the Restoration Dynasty.
So far, after the recovery of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu have successively announced their renunciation of independence and joined the big family of the Restoration.
Due to the fact that there were many Manchu troops stationed in various parts of the northwest, Jia Liu ordered Baoning, the commander of the First Army and from Manchuria, to serve as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, so as to announce to the Northwest Banner people that although the Restoration Imperial Court had personally buried the Qing Dynasty, it had not rejected the banner people, and the so-called anti-Manchu revolution was impossible to talk about.
This personnel appointment greatly appeased the Northwest Eight Banner Army, and the Northwest Garrison Banner Army, which was mainly expanded by the Xi'an Mancheng Banner Army, was also moved to the area of Naturalization and Suiyuan under the leadership of Admiral Se Xuan.
The army was officially reorganized into the 18th Army of the Restoration, which was under the control of Yingyuan, the ancestor of the Guanwai Economic Strategy, and was used for the military conquest of the foreign Zazak and the expulsion of the military forces of the Russian Far East.
Half a month ago, Zu Yingyuan was instructed to send an envoy to Irkutsk, the Russian governor who was entrenched in the appropriate map, to inform the "Treaty of Nebuchu," "Treaty of Kyakhta," and "Treaty of Burenssy" signed by the Qing Dynasty and Russia in the past through official procedures, and that the Treaty of Nebuchu, Kyakhta, and Burensy signed by the Qing Dynasty and Russia were all unequal treaties, so the Imperial Court of the Restoration would not recognize them, and demanded that the Russian side withdraw from the occupied Chinese lands, otherwise, the Restoration Government would take decisive measures to safeguard the integrity of the country's territory and sovereignty.
The cabinet was puzzled and perplexed by the emperor's unilateral announcement of the abrogation of the treaty to Russia by bypassing the cabinet, and believed that such a move might lead to another war between China and Russia, and although the reform army occupied Shengjing, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Ningguta and other places, the logistics were far from being able to afford a major war.
The cabinet's proposal to the outside of the customs is a twelve-character strategy of "recuperation, reproduction, and reproduction, and then planning for the future".
Prime Minister Bo Qing'er believes that even if the treaty signed between the Qing Dynasty and the Russian side is humiliating to the country, the current government of the Restoration should maintain the status quo in view of its lack of strength, rather than fighting with the Russians outside the border before the reunification of the country.
The Battle of Yaksa had already shown that it was difficult for the imperial court to fight a protracted war with the Russians in the face of the extreme lack of population outside the Guan.
Therefore, if the Russians really want to mobilize military forces to invade Heilongjiang and even Zaksa, with the existing road and transportation conditions, it may be difficult for the reform army to achieve great results.
In this regard, Jia Liu replied to the cabinet, saying: "Our court is powerless to go to war, and he, the Russians, is also powerless to fight against our court. ”
and handed over to the cabinet the information on the Russian side obtained from the treaty port of Canton.
In fact, Jia Liu knew that the current Russian empress was Catherine II, this was a very remarkable woman, and during her reign, the center of gravity of Russia was Poland, Sweden and Ottoman Turkey, so at the moment the Russian army should be fighting with Turkey and Poland, so it is impossible for the main force of the Russian army to travel thousands of miles from Europe to the Far East.
From a military point of view, the army that Jia Liu put outside the border is far superior to Russia in terms of strength and equipment, but both sides are facing the same problem, that is, small-scale battles can be withstanded, and no one can fight large-scale wars.
In this case, of course, there is no need for Jia Liu to continue to show weakness to Russia because he is afraid of a large-scale war.
The abrogation of the three treaties signed with Russia is only a kind of tough attitude towards the military and civilians of the whole country from the perspective of reason and law.
Since ancient times, a tough court has always won the strong support of the majority of the military and civilians in the country, and even a tough emperor will have the natural support and closeness of the people.
At this point, Jia Liumenqing.
However, although his assertive attitude towards the outside world was a political illusion, he prepared for the worst.
In order to prevent the Russian tsaress from sending a sizable army to the Far East, Jia Liu ordered Zu Yingyuan to speed up his control over Outer Mongolia.
Militarily, in addition to leaving one army in Heilongjiang to curb the Russian bandit gangs that existed on the basis of hundreds, the other army was stationed in Outer Mongolia, and at the same time, the newly reorganized Eighteenth Army was stationed in southern Mongolia, and after completing the adaptation, it advanced to the Outer Mongolia region, so as to strengthen the garrison strength of the new government in Mobei and improve the effective governance of the imperial court over the princes and ministers of Zasak.
As soon as Moscow sent troops to the east, the two armies that entered the Outer Mongolia region would move north from the Tangnu Suliang Sea, cutting off Moscow from any connection with the Far East.
The Russians seem to have a huge map, but at a strategic level they are actually about the same as Vietnam in the south.
As long as it is cut off, Moscow simply cannot take into account the Far East, which is millions of square kilometers of land.
The Russian armed forces in the Far East are not at all able to threaten China, because their population in the Far East is smaller than that of China.
A strong Russia is by no means a friend of China, but only China's worst enemy, because of the aggressive nature of this nation, which history has proven countless times.
Therefore, Jia Liu must cut off the black hand of the Russians to the East in advance for the nation, and turn them from a great power that collapsed Europe and Asia into a European state.
He can do that.
It is much easier than going on an expedition to England and inciting the people of the old French district to make a revolution.
Even a campaign of 10,000 people can achieve this goal.
For this reason, he invested countless times more resources in Guanwai and Outer Mongolia than the Qing court.
On top of that, he has Jarterin.
After the ceremony of entering the city, Jia Liu stayed in Xi'an, and stayed in Xi'an for at least a month, in order to solve Xining, Kulun, Ili and other places, so as to complete the real unification of the northwest region.
There is no doubt that the reunification of the northwest will inevitably doom a peaceful settlement between the southeast and the southwest.
If nothing else, his eldest cousin, Prince Shuo Zheng, will soon announce Shimono's return to Beijing.
Hao Shuo, the governor of Jiangsu, took assassination measures against Prince Zheng, but Jia Liu disagreed, because he valued family affection, and the old man of the National People's Congress helped him wave his flag to support the field, how could he unload the mill and kill the donkey.
So he only asked Hao Shuo to solve the big old watch, not kill the big old watch.
The accommodation that Bi Yuan arranged for His Majesty the Emperor was Huaqingchi, where Kangxi once lived.
This place is backed by the mountain and faces Wei, leans on the Li mountain and builds, it is called the hot spring palace in the Han Dynasty, and the Huaqing Palace is more in the Tang Dynasty. Although this place was destroyed in the Anshi Rebellion, but all dynasties have built, the current Huaqing Palace is built by Kangxi during his western tour, and now Bi Yuan borrowed flowers to offer Buddha to become the western palace of the six emperors of the Restoration.
Leerjin's telegram had already been sent to all parts of the country, and Jia Liu's decree had also been sent to Ili, Kulun, Xining, and other places, which was nothing more than to make the ministers of these places give up their illusions and abandon their attempts at armed confrontation and reform.
In line with these intentions, an army of 30,000 set sail from Xi'an to Gansu.
During the days when he lived in Huaqingchi, Jia Liu, in addition to listening to the progress reports of relevant departments, and giving feasible suggestions on the issue of long-term peace and stability in the northwest and a series of personnel appointments, approved the "Customization of the Rank Evaluation of Restoration Generals" drafted by the Ministry of War.
This will put an end to the malpractice of chaotic military management, unclear military system, and complicated command system since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
It's July.
Within two months, the north and south of the river have undergone earth-shaking changes.
In Jia Liu's words to the staff around him, that is, the situation is very good, very good.
How good is it, the kind that destroys the withering and decaying.
(End of chapter)