readx; Chapter 537: The Final Ending (I)

"It's cold!"

Looking at the rows of buildings in Nan-Ning City, Huo Shan muttered in a low voice. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

However, compared with the temperature that has become cold outside, Huo Shan's emotions in his heart are extremely hot, it has been nearly 8 years since he came to this era, he has worked hard for so many years from the initial twelve years old, to the current age of the weak crown, and finally has today's results. And now he has finally set foot on this land again, haunted by his dreams.

"After 8 years of waiting, I've finally arrived!" Huo Shan shouted in his heart.

"Young Master, everyone has arrived, everyone is waiting for you to have a meeting!" Looking at the young man standing tall in front of him, Huo Shi couldn't help but feel a strong respect in his heart.

In his eyes, the young master is undoubtedly a wise and wise monarch who is comparable to Emperor Qin, Han Wu, Tang Emperor and Song Zu, and even surpassing. However, compared to these great emperors in Chinese history, Huo Shan is just one throne.

"Let's go!"

Huo Shan turned around and walked down the stairs, and Huo Shi also respectfully followed.

This is the Huo family's business headquarters in Nanning, which is a huge building with 8 floors and a height of more than 40 meters, and is also the tallest building in the entire Nanning. And there are still caves in the ground of this building.

And today, an important meeting that is enough to remember history and let countless people study and remember it has also kicked off here.

"Stand up!"

Seeing Huo Shan come in, all the senior officers in the conference room stood up suddenly.

After calmly walking to the central seat and sitting down, Huo Shan nodded. He waved his hand unchanged, "Everyone sit down!"

"Huo Shi, have all the Dragon Teng plans been arranged?" After everyone sat down. Huo Shan turned his head to Huo Shi, who was sitting first on his left hand, and asked.

"Young Master, the Dragon Teng Plan has been fully prepared!"

"Let's talk about it!"

"Yes!"

Hearing the order, Huo Shi stood up and said loudly: "The Longteng Plan began on December 1, 1887, and was divided into two stages, the first stage was to liberate the provinces south of the Yangtze River as the main goal. Phase II. Fight across the Yangtze River, overthrow the Qing government, and liberate the whole of China. ”

Hear here. Huo Shan, who was sitting on the main seat, obviously felt that everyone's breathing in the conference room had become a little thicker.

"In the first phase of the war mission, the Guangzhou-Western base area will be the first to start, and it is planned that Huo Qiguang, commander of the Third Division stationed in Guangxi, will take overall command of the war in Guangxi. ”

"Yes. Guaranteed to complete the task!" Huo Qiguang, who was sitting at the bottom, stood up with a 'Teng' voice. His expression was serious, but he replied loudly with excitement in his eyes that could not be concealed.

It is no wonder that whoever has been in one position for nearly eight years has not had any wars, while his colleagues have fought in the South Seas and the United States, and there have been hundreds of large and small wars, expanding the territory and making meritorious contributions. I don't feel happy.

Now, finally, it is their turn to make a difference. Naturally, I was very happy.

Looking at his appearance, Huo Shan didn't say anything, he knew that these people in the base area were all miserable.

"Huo Qiguang, the General Staff has authorized you to be promoted to lieutenant general, commanding the Third Division, the 103rd Division, a total of 40,000 troops, and solving the Guangzhou-Western War within half a month!"

"Command!" After a pause, Huo Qiguang continued, "But in less than half a month, it only takes three days, and I will be able to take the entire Guangxi!"

Looking at the confident look on his face, Huo Shan smiled, it is not difficult for the current Huo Jiajun to take the entire Guangzhou-Western Province in three days.

After all, from 81 to the present, in the past eight years, with money to open the way, military assistance, the power of the entire Huo family army has spread to all aspects of the entire Guangzhou-Western military, political and business three terms, as far as the entire Guangzhou-Western Province is concerned, half of the ten prefectures are from the Huo family, and there are even more village heads, town heads, and county officials.

It is precisely with these eight years of preparation that Huo Qiguang has such self-confidence.

"Qiguang, I believe that you can take the entire Quang Canton-Western Province in three days, but in the middle and late of the past and today, have you seen that the peasant uprising or mutiny in that country can be successfully resolved within three days, and it is still a province of Nuoda?"

"Young master, didn't you tell us that we should end the war as soon as possible, try to ensure local economic order, and reduce losses?"

Looking at the stunned look on Huo Qiguang's face, Huo Shan continued: "I said it, but won't you be flexible? After the overall situation of Guangxi-West has been decided, it is not enough to make trouble in a place where there are many foreigners' eyes and ears for half a month!"

After receiving the instructions, Huo Qiguang hurriedly rejoiced: "Yes, young master!"

Seeing this, Huo Shan nodded, and then turned to the others, "You are the same, after overthrowing the ruling institutions of the Qing governments in the provinces in the shortest possible time, it is enough to create a little chaos and last for a month!"

"Yes, young master!" everyone nodded hurriedly.

Seeing this, Huo Shan nodded at Huo Shi and motioned for him to continue to lay out the battle plan.

"Liang Wendong, the General Staff authorized the decision to promote you to lieutenant general, command the second division, the provisional 102nd division, a total of 40,000 troops, a week after the outbreak of the Canton-West War, declare an uprising, and lead the subordinate troops to solve the war in Canton-Dong Province!"

"Yes!"

"Qian Gang ,......!"

Then one order after another was issued, and the Huojia Army base troops in all the provinces south of the Yangtze River received combat missions!

The battle meeting lasted until 12 o'clock in the evening, when everyone dispersed and made their own preparations.

"Huo Shi, when will the war start in Indochina?" Looking at the dark night sky outside the window, Huo Shan asked instead.

"On December 25th, it was Christmas in the West, when all the French ships in Annam would return to their anchorages for Christmas, and the army would be the most lax. I believe it can save us a lot of trouble!"

Hearing this, Huo Shan nodded.

"In the matter of seizing the warship, let the Sea Lion Special Forces and the Military Intelligence Bureau cooperate, and there will be no mistakes!"

"Yes!"

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On December 1, 1887, history will forever remember this day.

The 12th Battalion of the Green Battalion in Guangxi garrisoned 'Huoshan' (this person was a stand-in arranged long ago), because he was dissatisfied with the compromise of the imperial court with the French. When an uprising was declared, the soldiers under his command responded in drove, electing him as their leader. Launched a brazen attack on Gui-Lin, the capital of Guangxi.

After a day of fighting, Sun Fugui, the governor of Guangxi, abandoned the city and fled, the general soldier A Shiji was killed, and the whole of Guilin fell into the hands of the rebel soldiers.

After the news spread, the entire Guangzhou-Western Province was in an uproar. But before everyone could react.

Huo Shan, the leader of the rebel soldiers, declared himself the governor of Guangzhou-West, and recruited soldiers under the name of 'Qing Junfang'. In four attacks, they occupied the entire Guangxi and Western regions in more than half a month.

And at this time, the news also reached the capital. The news of the uprising of the soldiers of Guangxi and Guangxi shook the entire Jinluan Palace. However, although the Qing court was a soft bone in foreign wars, it was ruthless in suppressing domestic uprisings.

At that time, he sent the Minister of Military Aircraft, Duanjun Wang Zaiyi, as the Minister of Banditry, to exterminate the rebellion in Guangxi.

But I haven't waited for Zaiyi to go out of the north = capital. Liang Wendong, a guerrilla in the green camp of Guangdong-Dong Province, also launched an uprising under the banner of 'Qing Jun's side'. In less than a month, the province of Guangdong-Dong was also freed from Qing rule.

Next, Yunnan-Nan, Jiangxi-Xi, Fujian-Jian, Guizhou-Zhou, including Hu-Bei, appeared one after another in the flames of uprising, although the banners were different, but in less than two months, the entire province south of the Yangtze River was plunged into the flames of war. Even Jiangbei has sporadic signs.

At this moment, not only the entire Qing court was shaken, but even the eyes of the world's major powers were shifted to this ancient Eastern Empire. Because it's so important. No country can afford to ignore such a huge market.

However, with the exception of the Qing government, which was making all-out efforts to deploy troops, the other European powers were all waiting to see what happened, and such civil strife could not help but continue to weaken the strength of the Qing government, and it was also convenient for them to take advantage of the opportunity to expand their own interests.

But in these countries, the French are destined to have no such idle time.

On December 25, this day, an anti-French armed force under the banner of the Annan Self-Salvation Army appeared in the narrow land of Annam. Because after winning the Qing government and forcing the old empire to sign the Sino-French New Treaty, the French colonial officials relaxed their vigilance, and it was Christmas again, so the French colonial army in Annam was unprepared.

Therefore, the French Far East Fleet, which was staying in Haiphong and Da Nang, was all opened by the Annam Self-Salvation Army and silenced inside the harbor.

In addition, more than 10,000 people of the French Second Division stationed in Hanoi were attacked by surprise, and the division commander Ross was killed in battle, except for no more than 1,000 people who fled, the rest were either taken prisoner or killed on the battlefield.

Then the whole of Annan was once again plunged into war.

On February 28, 1888, when Japan saw that its former neighbor, the huge Qing Empire, was plunged into civil strife and had to send troops from the north to the south to suppress the war, it brazenly mobilized troops to launch an invasion of Korea under the pretext that the soldiers were missing.

Faced with Japan's modern army, the rotten army of the Lee dynasty of Korea was almost crushed at the touch of a button. Losing the coastal city of Busan in one day and Masan in three days, the entire southern part of Korea was plunged into war in less than a month, and nearly 70,000 soldiers of the second, third, and fourth divisions of the Japanese Army burned, killed, and plundered in southern Korea.

Concubine Min and her cousin Min Qianhao, the leader of the old school, as well as Yuan Shikai, who was guarding Korea in the Qing court, saw that they could not resist the Japanese invasion and had to think of the capital for help, but at this time, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was all her energy to suppress the internal soldiers' uprising, had time to take care of North Korea.

However, she also knew that Korea was the barrier of the Qing Dynasty, so she ordered Li Hongzhang to leave the harbor to threaten the Japanese side, and sent Huang Yuanji, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to negotiate with the Japanese.

However, it is clear that the Japanese, who have long formulated a mainland policy, will naturally not compromise at this time.

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"Young Master, this is Huo Long's call!" Huo Shi hurriedly walked in and handed over the telegram in his hand to Huo Shan.

And Huo Shan also knew that the matter was urgent now, so he read it at a glance, and then nodded after a little contemplation.

"I agreed to his plan, the Ryukyu Islands are a barrier between the Taiwan Bay and the mainland, and can no longer be held by the Japanese. Also, since it was decided to fight this time, then the meat should be eaten more, so that the navy can take Hokkaido after destroying the Japanese navy. There are few Japanese people there, and it is relatively easy to get their hands on them! Moreover, the development of the Americas requires manpower, and the Japanese are no less hard-working than us Han Chinese, and they are the labor we need the most!"

"Yes, young master!"

After getting the order. Huo Shi took the order and left!

On March 5, 1888, Yue Shan, the leader of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Uprising and the commander of the Sixth Division of the Huojia Army, conquered Nanjing. Subsequently, the Qing government established the Jiangbei camp on the north bank of the Yangtze River, transferred 500,000 troops, and commanded it by Prince Gong Aixin Jueluo Yi, the minister of military aircraft, and was fully responsible for the entire anti-bandit war.

In the face of pressure from the Qing court, the leaders of the rebel armies in the southern provinces met in Nanjing to deliberate, and finally decided to establish the Yanhuang Empire. Implement a constitutional monarchy, and elect Huo Shan as the emperor and Huo Shi as the prime minister of the empire. The heads of the other provinces are members of the House of Lords and command their respective forces.

Of course, this conference room is for outsiders to see, in fact, these resolutions have been set a year ago.

However, the establishment of the Yanhuang Empire was shocking, and there were signs of a change of dynasty in the eastern lands again.

The Qing court was furious. Immediately ordered Aisin Jueluo Yi to attack. As a result, the 500,000 troops of the Qing government and the 200,000 troops of the newly established Yanhuang Empire fought a series of battles in Nanjing, Wuhan, and other places, and the two sides fought for more than two months. In the end, the Qing court was defeated, and the 500,000-strong army was crushed and sunk. However, the Yanhuang Empire also suffered heavy losses, and the country had just been established and was internally unstable, so the two sides began to confront each other along the river.

On June 2, 1888, the Yanhuang Empire signed the Treaty of Nanking with the Federal Republic of China, which occupied parts of the South Seas and part of the Americas, recognizing Taiwan-Bay Island and Hai-South Island. and that the Nanyang Islands belonged to the Federal Republic of China, allowing the Federal Republic of China to enter the Yanhuang Empire for business.

Subsequently. Within half a year, the two sides signed a series of cooperation treaties, a large number of Chinese federal weapons armed the army of the Yanhuang Empire, and a large number of railways, highways, ports, docks and industrial projects blossomed everywhere in the land of the Yanhuang Empire.

Seeing that this rich benefit was swallowed by the Huaxia Federation, all countries naturally did not do it, and immediately came to the door one after another. However, a clause that 'cooperation is okay, first of all, the Yanhuang Empire must be recognized' made the ministers of various countries hesitate.

After all, now the Yanhuang Empire and the Qing Dynasty are facing each other, if the Yanhuang Empire is recognized and a cooperation agreement is signed, it will obviously offend the Qing Dynasty, although the countries don't care about this, but what they care about is the market under the control of the Northern Qing Dynasty.

However, at this time, the Germans, who were eager to open the Eastern market, did not care about this, and soon agreed to the terms proposed by Huo Shan, and signed a cooperation agreement worth 200 million German marks.

And when Huo Shan was arguing with the envoys of European countries, the other two wars did not stop.

In order to completely destroy the Qing government's Beiyang Fleet, the Japanese chose to take risks.

On September 9, 1888, the Japanese Navy ambushed the Beiyang Fleet near Xiaoshan Island in the Yellow Sea, which had come to intervene in the Sino-Korean War.

However, what the Japanese did not expect was that the 'praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches are behind', and the Pacific Fleet of the Huo Family Army, which had been waiting here for a long time, joined the battlefield when the two sides were just at war, and attacked the Japanese Navy with the Beiyang Fleet.

The two sides fought for two hours, and the Japanese Navy's commander Yuhiro Ito, the captain of the Naniwa Heihachiro Togo, and other officers, the elite talents cultivated by the Japanese Navy for decades were wiped out.

Not to mention the return of the Beiyang Fleet to recuperate, more than a dozen warships of the Pacific Fleet of the Huojia Army began to bombard the coastal cities of Japan to strike at Japan's war potential, and the Federal Republic of China also dispatched soldiers under the pretext of "recovering the lost territory" to launch a series of wars against the Ryukyu Islands and volcanic islands with the cooperation of warships.

On December 8, 1888, most of Japan's overseas islands were occupied by the Federal Republic of China, with the exception of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.

Subsequently, on December 12, the Federal Republic of China launched an attack on the island of Hokkaido.

Because of the loss of the navy, the most elite six divisions, three in Korea, three on the more important islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, and only one of the 24th divisions in Hokkaido was formed after the outbreak of the war with the Federal Republic of China. Not only is the combat effectiveness limited, but the weapons are also not neat. Hokkaido, on the other hand, has a small population due to its undulating, mountainous and cold climate, and with the Maori people who have lived on the island for generations, Hokkaido has a population of less than two million.

Therefore, although it took a lot of effort, by the time the time came to February 5, 1889, the entire island had been occupied by the Federal Republic of China.

Seeing that the Chinese warships had already started their posture on the periphery of Shikoku Island, the Japanese Emperor Meiji could no longer sit still, and hurriedly sent Ito Hirobumi to the British for help.

Although Britain was limited to the war in Egypt, it did not want the Chinese Republic to continue to expand its power. And Huo Shan saw that the strategic goals set at the beginning had been fully realized, and now was not the time to turn his face with the British, so he agreed to the situation.

Subsequently, the two sides began negotiations in Taipei, Taiwan-Bay Island.

After half a month of arguing, the Japanese had no choice but to sign the Sino-Japanese "Taiwan Treaty" under the threat of the navy of the Republic of China, which stipulated: 1. Return the Ryukyu Islands to the Federal Republic of China.

2. Ceded Tanegashima, Goto Island, Tsushima Island, Izu Islands, Hokkaido, Setojima, Kunashir Island, Shikotan Island and other northern islands to Huaxia.

3. Indemnity of 10 million pounds.

4. Fourteen coastal cities such as Yokohama, Kobe, and Osaka should be opened up as commercial ports, and Chinese people should be allowed to do business in Japan.

5. One-sided most-favored-nation treatment.

6. Withdraw troops from the DPRK, not interfere in the internal affairs of the DPRK and respect the territorial integrity of the DPRK.

and so on, a total of 14 articles, Huo Shan took out the contents of the later "Treaty of Shimonoseki" and let the Japanese recognize them one by one.

Although extremely reluctant, in the face of the Chinese warships, Ito Hirobumi still had to sign the treaty again, and as a coordinating country, Britain also gained a lot of benefits.

However, since the beginning of the Qing-French War, the whole East has become turbulent, with the establishment of the Yanhuang Empire, the Japanese-Korean War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the uprising wars of the countries of the Indochina Peninsula. The once stable order in the East has become chaotic. (To be continued.) )