"Any country is entangled with many forces. Running a country is like running a family. Either the east wind overwhelms the west, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind. Absolute single-mindedness seems to have only appeared in the years when the First Emperor ascended the throne..."
"But it only managed to maintain its majestic power for a few years with its invincible empire. Then the Qin Empire collapsed, leaving a highly controversial historical topic for all generations..."
"What can the Tang Zong and Song Zu do? Didn't Li Shimin also ascend the throne by virtue of the Xuanwu Gate Incident? The internal aristocratic families of the Tang Dynasty cannot be eliminated. The various factions related to Long, Shandong, Jiangnan, and Hedong are entangled. All the emperors of the Tang Dynasty are entangled. It’s also a struggle..."
"Not to mention the allusion of Song Taizu's candlelight and shadow of his axe. In addition, during the Song Dynasty, the class of civil servants who took imperial examinations had become stronger and stronger. Throughout the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, the imperial power has always been in a state of suppression..."
Seeing the post-war summary meeting again, Xiao Letian's Xiaozao class in the secret stronghold started again. Under the stage were a group of hungry officers, and even a few Enyangzong who were in their teens and were about to leave the army.
"China is really too big. There is a hundred thousand miles difference between the southeast and the northwest. The people's sentiments, customs, and customs are all different. Even people from the north can't understand what people from the south are talking about. It's definitely not possible for such a big country to have a monologue. , especially the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who settled in the Central Plains with alien races and pursued absolute centralization. What would be the end result? It would be endless civil war..."
"There is no need to mention the rebellion of the Three Feudatories during the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although the three generations of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong boasted about unparalleled prosperity, in fact, brothers, the peasant uprisings and riots throughout the Qing Dynasty have never stopped at all, let alone the immediate ones. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Nian Army were in turmoil..."
"Not only that, but now there are signs of instability in the northwest, including the Uighur unrest in Xinjiang that has begun to gradually spread. In at least ten years, war will break out everywhere in the northwest of the Qing Dynasty. This war seems inevitable. …”
Having said this, Xiao Letian took a sip of tea to moisten his throat a little. "I have said this sentence more than once, 'Great changes unseen in three thousand years.' This is not nonsense. This is a true portrayal of China's current political situation..."
"How many forces are entangled in China now? I can give you a good calculation. The Manchu royal family, the entire Eight Banners, is the first force. The Qingliu literati represented by Weng Tong and them are the second The two forces represent the conservative landlord class. At present, these two forces belong to an absolute alliance, and their interests are the same."
"The third force is the Hunan Army that suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The core members of this military group that rose up to quell the rebellion are ambitious and capable radical landlords. We dare not say that they will rebel yet, at least they There are already attempts at innovation.”
"The fourth force is the failed peasant uprising. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Nian Army have been suppressed, the source of chaos has not been eliminated. Under the brutal rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there will only be more and more rebellions in the future. Temporary silence only accumulates strength for future outbursts.”
In front of Xiao Letian, the officers and students under the podium were concentrating on shorthand. They did not dare to miss a word, because what Xiao Letian was teaching them now was real politics and the emperor's mind, which could not be found in any book. Will teach them the art of slaying dragons.
"The four forces are not finished yet. The Mongols, Uighurs, Hui tribes, and Tibetans in Tibetan areas are even more forces that cannot be underestimated. Although the Manchus have been wooing them, people's hearts are always full of desires. , there has been instability in the land of these four tribes, and there will definitely be unspeakable things in the future..."
"Brothers, don't worry. This is not the most chaotic thing. The foreign forces have begun to expand into the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty. This is the more terrifying thing. Britain is now the most powerful country on earth, and the empire on which the sun never sets is in full swing. They are the overlords of the entire ocean, and they control almost half of the ocean trade on the planet..."
"Russia in the north has been trying to expand to the south. Their desire for warm water ports is beyond your imagination. Russia's failure in the Crimean War in 1853 forced them to look to the east. The long coastline of the Qing Dynasty, countless Excellent ports are what the Russians covet most..."
"France, the United States, Prussia, which is destined to rise in the future, and the small Japanese island country that is the neighbor of the Qing Dynasty will all have closer ties with China in the years to come, and the situation will only become more chaotic and complicated..."
Xiao Letian patiently analyzed the current global situation to his officers. Under Xiao Letian's explanation, the intricate political situation was as clear as the lines on the palm of a hand.
This is the advantage of time travellers. The evolution of human society in the entire 19th century was a thick fog for the authorities, but for Xiao Letian, this fog was completely transparent.
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten a force. What about us? Aren't we a force together? And now that we are winning consecutive battles, who dares to underestimate us? How should we go in the future? ?" Someone in the crowd suddenly asked.
"Well, your question is very good..." Just when Xiao Letian was about to continue talking about this question, Master Long suddenly opened the secret door, walked quickly to Xiao Letian and whispered a few words.
The officers present watched as Xiao Letian's eyes opened wider and wider, and watched as his mouth opened wider and wider, until finally he could fit a duck egg inside.
"Everyone is free to discuss, just discuss the question just now. I will take the test in person in three days, and each of you will submit an answer sheet to me..." After speaking, Xiao Letian opened the secret door and left the secret club.
The sky is filled with stars outside the club now, and more than a dozen fast horses are galloping towards Tanggu Port. On the second floor of Lotte Matheson, just an hour ago, a group of mysterious guests came. When the guests revealed their identities, Shopkeeper Fan Jian's legs went weak and he fell to the ground, almost having a heart attack.
"I am Zeng Guofan. I want to meet the great master of Western learning when I come to Tanggu this time. Can I ask the old shopkeeper to introduce him to him?"
Zeng Guofan, this important minister of the late Qing Dynasty who changed the modern history of China, did not follow his army all the way north. Instead, he split up and went straight to Tanggu. If this information was known to the imperial court, the sky would collapse.
Wang Huaiyuan, Long Ye and more than a dozen Guards Cavalry surrounded Xiao Letian and ran towards Yanghang. Xiao Letian was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, "Strictly block Yanghang... No, no, no, block all three streets around Yanghang." Get up, let all our soldiers take to the streets, and the information about this meeting must not be leaked..."
"Wang Huaiyuan, all your execution halls are dispatched. First, block the main road from Tanggu to the outside world. No suspicious characters can be let go... The court must not let the court know that I have met with Zeng Guofan. Only by showing the hostility between us to the outside world , it is possible for the imperial court to let us go. At this juncture, we must not irritate the Manchus anymore..."
Zeng Guofan's unexpected appearance really caught Xiao Letian off guard. According to his plan, Xiao Letian will not form an alliance with any force in the country in the next few years. He wants to profit from the chaos, and she wants to strike a balance between the various forces. , it will take four or five years to build the Tanggu Industrial Zone and the Ryukyu Kingdom first.
Keep a low profile, do things in a low profile, make a fortune in silence, and first create a prototype navy and marines. With Xiao Letian's current money-making speed, there is no problem in building a navy that is not inferior to Beiyang in five to ten years. of. The two ironclad ships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan manufactured in Germany at that time only cost a total of three million taels of silver. This was nothing at all compared to the economic scale of the entire Qing Dynasty.
You dare to pay 200 million taels of silver, let alone a few million taels. Xiao Letian’s plan is very simple. If you spend 10 million taels of silver in ten years, you will not be able to create a brand new Beiyang, let alone Beiyang. When the time comes, they can even smash out a dark blue fleet.
But everything takes time. Xiao Letian must fight for time for peaceful development. If he continues to fight and kill like this year, nothing will be accomplished.
"Zeng Guofan, Marshal Zeng! Aren't you deliberately trying to cause trouble for me? What grudge do I have against you? What grudge!"
Just when Xiao Letian was sighing, suddenly a pile of haystacks beside the road exploded with a bang, and a ghost rushed out of it as fast as lightning. Two real-looking arrows were shot at Xiao Letian.
"Damn the devil of Western learning, you dare to insult the imperial court, you must die..."
"Who is it? Mr. Protector!" Mr. Long slapped the horse's back and flew out sideways, just in front of the attacker. Unexpectedly, Mr. Long hadn't seen it clearly yet, and his chest suddenly felt like it was burned with a soldering iron. The attacker I don't know why, but I slapped him on the chest.
"What a fast movement! Who are you..." Long Ye's throat sweetened, and a mouthful of blood welled up, but Long Ye did not give up, and wrapped his arms around the intruder like a thread, tightly clinging to the intruder. body shape.
"Haha, you are worthy of being the Northern Dragon Master. His kung fu is so handsome! But it's a pity that you are still too young. If you want to defeat me, you should practice for another thirty years..." As he spoke, he made another ghostly palm seal. On the chest.
Master Long's entire body flew backwards. He opened his mouth in anger and spurted out blood arrows, heading straight for the attacker's face.
"I know who you are. This is the big handprint of Tibet. Are you the protector of the Red Sect? You are the legendary ancestor in the Forbidden City..." Mr. Long was seriously injured. After falling to the ground, he vomited out two mouthfuls of blood. go.
"Mr. Protector, retreat, free fire!" Wang Huaiyuan took out his revolver and fired three shots. What was incredible was that the ancestor with white hair and beard actually flashed his strange identity and dodged all three bullets. .
"What the hell? Can you dodge a gun?" Xiao Letian didn't believe this evil anymore. He raised his hand and fired three more times. Then the surrounding guards also pulled Spencer's trigger, and a hail of bullets hit the old man. Gone from the ancestors.
Something that goes against natural science has happened. The mysterious old man in the wilderness is not a person at all. He can always dodge fatal bullets by twisting his body easily. From a distance, it looks as bizarre as the science fiction movie Xiao Letian watched in his previous life.
"Sir, don't be obsessed with fighting anymore, cough cough... He is not hiding from bullets, he is hiding from everyone's thoughts... This is a secret magical power in Tibet. He can feel the direction and trajectory of our attack, and his magical power has been locked We..."
When Xiao Letian heard this, white hair broke out in sweat, "What is this? Magical powers? Are there really magical powers in this world? Damn it, I better run..." After saying this, Xiao Letian grabbed Mr. Long with one hand and pushed him to the horse with all his strength. .
Regardless of the seriousness of his injury, Lord Long restrained Xiao Letian with his backhand and threw him onto the horse's back. Then the sword flashed and hit the horse's butt. The horse rushed towards Tanggu in pain.
"Sir, don't look back. The faster you go, the better... Set off fireworks and emergency signals..."
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