Chapter 142: Li Hongzhang Goes to the Old and Accepts the New (2)

The military decision of the constant victory, Li Hongzhang immediately played: the first army of the foreign guns, Wu Xu, Yang Fang, and others originally intended to use this to protect the army, the price of salaries, food, and all arms should be increased to several times according to the officers and soldiers, and there was no limit, and the number of people increased to more than 4,500 people one after another, and the long-term gunboats and steamers, the monthly salary of 780,000 taels of silver.

The previous reconquest of Songjiang, Qingpu and other cities, did not fail to invest their strength, so they became more and more arrogant, and gradually became a big trend. The ministers have been thinking for a long time, and they have been wanting to reduce it a little for a long time, and it is related to the end of China's diplomatic affairs, so it is not easier than making trouble.

This time, Bai Qiwen was fierce and domineering, and immediately withdrew his military power. At the beginning of the replacement, it is necessary to seek a remedy. The British Admiral Stiller was reluctant to be brought by the Chinese officials at first, and the ministers debated with him, and his tongue and lips were burned, and it took several days before he reached a decision.

The original treaty was 13 articles, but the number of articles was increased to 16. The terms of the treaty were as follows: if the number of victorious troops was reduced to 3,000, the number of rations for the chief husband would be reduced, and the Chinese would send personnel to bring rations to be run by the ministers, and all kinds of floating funds for wards and daily rooms would be deleted, so that the needs could be reduced slightly.

In local affairs inside and outside Songcheng, foreign officials are not allowed to interfere. The purchase of arms must be accompanied by a courtier's paperwork, and the officials in charge are not allowed to purchase or undertake them privately. Zhu Yong must listen to the ideas of the Chinese Association and lead officials, and he can gradually withdraw his troops.

The Empress Dowager Cixi took over, overjoyed, and said: Li Hongzhang is the emperor of Guangdong and the foreign system, which is indeed a talent that can be created. Xue Huan entered Beijing as soon as possible, and waited for another simple use.

Li Hongzhang received the order, was very happy, and said: When I first arrived in Shanghai, my teacher Di Shuai warned that training and learning war were the foundation of my life, and the officials and foreign affairs were all put behind. After nearly a year in Shanghai, the war is still promising, and the officials should also have a plan for foreign affairs.

Hanlin editor Guo Songtao said: Xue Huan went to Beijing yesterday, and Wu Xu and Yang Fangxiang took leave.

Li Hongzhang said: Seeking benevolence and benevolence, I will immediately ask Brother Yunxian to be the political envoy of Su Song Grain Road, and Su Hu will govern, that is, from my brother. For foreign affairs, please ask Gong Feng for advice.

Feng Guifen, a curtain guest, said: Master Yi's long skills to control Yi, if the country is strong, it must make foreign weapons, and learn from the West. The first thing to do was to set up a translation office, hire foreigners, teach Western languages, and teach scriptures, history, and arithmetic.

Li Hongzhang said: Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. The day before yesterday, I negotiated with the British about the cutting of the Changsheng Army, and the British wooed and wowed, I was like falling into the clouds; The translator is not sent by us, and he is often afraid of deceit.

On the same day, Li Hongzhang said: In negotiations between our country and foreigners, we must first understand their aspirations and desires, and know their falsehood, truth, sincerity and falsehood, and then implement the way of checks and balances.

Over the past 20 years, there have been many foreigners who have learned our language and writing, and in particular, they can read our scriptures and history, study the constitution of the dynasty, govern the people's feelings, and learn how to speak, while there are very few people among our officials and gentlemen who can learn foreign languages and Chinese.

Each country has set up one or two interpreters in Shanghai, and when it comes to meetings between Chinese and foreign ministers, they all rely on foreign interpreters to tell the story, and it is difficult to ensure that there is no bias and fabrication.

Those who can speak foreign languages in China can only rely on things. All customs bureaus and barracks negotiate affairs, but they are nothing more than hiring generalists to communicate with each other, and their people are a great harm to foreign affairs.

Check the way of Shanghai affairs, the most profitable, in addition to the nong industry and commerce, there are no more than two kinds of people: first, Guangdong, Ningbo businessmen's children. Idle, no other skills, often to learn to do things for escape. 2. Britain and France and other countries have set up voluntary schools to recruit local poor children, and teach them with food and clothing.

These two kinds of people are stupid, despicable, and ignorant of anything other than their good reputation. And it is only eight or nine out of ten who can speak foreign languages, and one out of ten who can also read foreign characters.

Even when there is a negotiation matter, the tone of priority often loses its original purpose. only know that the power of foreigners is used to sow and instigate in order to fulfill their desire for profit. Contempt for officials, oppression of civilians, and unscrupulous.

That is to say, it is not far from reasonable to occasionally meet and talk with the big chiefs who are fluent in Chinese, and trivial matters cannot be discussed one by one, so in the meantime, they collude with foreign soldiers to divide the fat, and they are insatiable in their demands, unreasonable in provoking, and unskilled in disbursement, deceiving and deaf, and recklessly reedging their drums, or then causing a big provocation with small suspicions.

Foreign affairs are important policies for the country, and they are paid to the hands of their peers with the hub, so that they do not know, they are indisputable, and they cannot manipulate the essentials of advancing and retreating, which is not a trivial matter.

The establishment of the Jingshi Tongwen Museum is really a good law, and it has been practiced for a long time, and there must be righteous people and gentlemen, and strange and sensitive people are out of it, and then they can do the essentials of the Westerners and think about it, so they control it, and appease the original of the frontier is really here.

However, it is the place where foreigners gather, with Shanghai and Guangxi as the most, with more types, richer books, wider knowledge, and a teaching of the coarse language and writing is sufficient.

Chen Yu plans to follow the example of the Tongwen Museum and set up a foreign Chinese language and writing museum in Shanghai, select bright literary children under the age of 14, hire Westerners to teach and learn, and also hire mainland tribute students with excellent character and learning, and teach classics, history and literature. After completing the study, send it to the provincial governor for the test, please be a student attached to the county, and allow him to take the exam.

Among the government offices, alternate deputies, miscellaneous officials, and young and intelligent learners who are willing to enter the museum, it is clear that they are issued by the township hall with good conduct, cut and sent to the bureau, and teach as one. After completing the course, they will also be given a promotion as a sign of encouragement. All of them are prepared for trial by the customs supervision and supervision, and they will be checked and detailed at any time.

Three or five years later, there is such a kind of well-read and reasonable person who is proficient in the language, and all the trade superintendents and customs superintendents should add translation halls to undertake foreign affairs, that is, they will be selected and filled in the academy. Tariffs and military supplies can be verified, and rogue affairs have disappeared.

The program of commerce and commerce is fixed in the prime minister's yamen, and the Chinese foreign affairs involved in the incident are too many to turn around, and it is impossible to take into account the students of the Eight Banners, but to take it from many ways, and to seek it anywhere, then there will be many people who learn its language and writing, and the number of people will be large, and the talents will come out.

Hongzhang faced Beijing at this turn, and the Beijing officials were divided, all saying that Guangdong was not extinguished, and Li Hongzhang was not doing his job.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Since the restoration of Anqing last year, Guangdong has been defeated and retreated, and it will be destroyed sooner or later. However, with foreigners, in the past 20 years, the exchange has been a lot, and we must not be blind and deaf. At the request of Li Hongzhang, the Cantonese dialect hall was set up in Shanghai. Li Chenhongzhang, unusual, are all national plans, and the Ministry of Communications is preferentially discussed.

Empress Dowager Ci'an and Prince Gong Yixin both said: Hunan is brave and powerful, so Li Hongzhang is promoted, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Chutian in central and southern China, and the southeast half of the wall are all included in Zeng's Hunan group.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Guangdong rebellion is raging in China, and if you don't gather together, it will be difficult to get rid of the chaos! Zeng Guofan was a minister of Qin, supervised the two rivers, and the governor of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui was under the control. Li Hongzhang is also the Minister of International Trade, or can be on a par with Zeng. One mountain can't tolerate two tigers, but what's the matter? Zuo Zongtang entered Zhejiang last year, earlier than Li Hongzhang went to Shanghai, but the progress of the left army was very slow, and it was stuck in the line of Longyou, Shouchang, Lanxi, and Tangxi, and there was no good news for a long time; Zuo Chen also said that the fortresses of the cities and attached cities were impregnable, and every time they attacked, they wounded the elites, and the more fierce the officers and troops advanced, the more casualties they had.

Yixin said: After the chief left Zhejiang to aid the Jinling rebel chieftain, the Zhejiang bandits were leaderless, and Zuo Zongtang's army would be captured.