"No matter what China will become in the future... I'm afraid I won't be able to see that day. You young people will have your own choices..." Zeng Guofan grabbed Xiao Letian's wrist, and his nails almost broke through his flesh. .
"No matter what kind of constitutional monarchy, republic, or democracy you have in the future... Even if you, Xiao Letian, want to enjoy your time as emperor, I, Zeng Guofan, don't care, but I have two conditions."
"First of all, you can't lose these more than 10 million square kilometers of land to me. If you end up with a piece of territory that is the ruins of the Song Dynasty... I will take your life even if you are a ghost."
"Second, you cannot have a civil war. At least you must assure me that you have no intention of starting a civil war... Except for those traitors and traitors who must be killed, you are not allowed to use knives or guns against dissidents."
Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and said, "Commander, you don't know my temper. Until now, I have been hiding in Ryukyu to develop in peace, and I don't dare to interfere in domestic interest disputes. This is what I am afraid of... The first one is that I I can guarantee that what you want is what I want, but the second one..."
He shook his head and took out his hand, "You know better than me what the virtues of the Chinese are. They are good at fighting among themselves."
Zeng Guofan almost burst into tears with one sentence. He sighed and shouted, "Give me wine." After a while, Ermao brought in a bottle of Western wine. He didn't dare to let the commander drink strong liquor this early in the morning.
After draining the red wine in one gulp, Zeng Guofan's eyes were a little blurred. He seemed to be lost in memories. "There are no roosters for thousands of miles, and there are withered bones in the wilderness... I will never forget that scene in my life. The people were so miserable when the civil war started. Do you know this?" After more than ten years of suppressing Changmao, how many people have died in Jiangnan."
"Actually, I know that you have gathered a group of remnants of the Taiping Army. I have known it for a long time...but I don't care anymore. The culprit has been eliminated, and the military calamity has passed. Leave them a way to survive..."
"My ninth brother has been urging me to take another step, but I know that our Zeng family has committed too many crimes. Even if there is an emperor's order, we have already ruined it..."
Xiao Letian originally didn't believe in this kind of fatalism, but since he has become a time traveler, he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous about this kind of causal reincarnation and other fatalistic theories.
"Commander, you must be overthinking. There is no emperor in the world who doesn't kill people. That dynasty didn't come with mountains of corpses and seas of blood."
"Haha..." Zeng Guofan smiled bitterly, "It's different. In all dynasties, the founding emperors killed people to stop killing. The Ming Taizu killed the Yuan Dynasty because the Han people really couldn't live anymore and were about to starve to death and bully them. Yes, at that time he could bear the consequences of the murder, because countless Han people applauded in unison and helped him take away the guilt of the murder."
"When Liu Bang founded the country, he also used killing to stop killing. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos and thieves were everywhere, and the people were miserable. Liu Bang was able to kill to stop killing. Naturally, killing people would gain popularity, and all the people in the world would share the guilt of killing for him. This was also true when the Tang Dynasty was founded, and this is true for all prosperous dynasties..."
"Forget it, let's not talk about it. Anyway, I, nicknamed Zeng Guofan, once shaved my head and killed so many long-haired people. In the end, the Han people hated me and the Manchus were also afraid of me. I am not human inside and outside, so people like me have already We can't get any closer... Tell us about your plan and see if you and I are in sync with each other."
Xiao Letian nodded, "In fact, the two requirements of the Marshal are not impossible to achieve, but the difficulty is a bit high. Let's talk about the first question first, which is the existing territory of the Qing Dynasty. If you want to not lose any of it or say If the general is not lost, then we must firmly hold on to the righteousness of the Manchu people."
"Whether we like it or not, the Manchus have united the Mongols, Tibetans, Hui tribes and other ethnic groups. They jointly serve the Manchus as their masters and accept their rule. It is for this reason that if they want their land, they cannot let it go. The Manchus’ righteousness has been lost…”
"But according to the current virtues of the Manchus, it is completely impossible to manage this country well. Didn't Cixi say that considering China's material resources and the happiness of the country, in the final analysis, the Manchus still do not regard us as a family. .”
"Once there is a conflict, what these group of Tatars want is to exchange the interests of the Han people for the safety of their family. In the final analysis, they are betraying the country. Anyway, in their hearts, they have never thought about ruling this land forever and selling it out. They fled back to their customs."
"So it can be foreseen that in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, the Manchu Qing group will continue to betray the country for their own interests. Of course, the main betrayal is the interests of the Han people. In exchange for their country and life extension, it is like a blood transfusion... "
Zeng Guofan was not angry. He calmed down at this moment and said, "The plan will be settled."
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"Haha..." Xiao Letian smiled sinisterly, "We Han people cannot fight or tolerate this kind of people. If you beat him too hard, he will betray the country and break up the country and give it to foreigners to borrow money." The power of foreigners is fighting with us..."
"But you can't follow them, because the final result of following them is to cut the flesh with a slow knife, consuming the national power bit by bit, and finally giving us the last chance to become stronger... I can tell you clearly that in the next twenty or thirty years, This will be the last chance for a weak country to jump on the train of a strong country. If you are slow, you will lose a hundred years."
Zeng Guofan nodded, "I believe in you. I have always believed in you. I have read the book you wrote more than ten times. The more I read it, the more interesting it becomes. The more I read it, the more chilled and scared I am. As you guessed, if thirty years in the future The new year is really an era of great changes in science and technology, so naturally it is also an era of great chaos in the world, and it is only right to take advantage of the chaos and take advantage of it."
"So..." Xiao Letian gritted his molars and sneered, "So, we have to let the Manchus kill themselves. The Qing reformists represented by Zai Chun and the conservatives represented by Yi? There will definitely be a battle in four years."
"The moment Emperor Tongzhi came into power was when the bayonets of the two factions saw red... We must be mentally prepared from now on. I, Xiao Letian, have never been a butcher, and I have never thought about killing all the Manchus. "
"However, we must dig out this cancer in the Manchu people. Otherwise, the Manchu people will not be able to integrate into the Chinese nation, and they will not truly become a part of China."
This was what Zeng Guofan was waiting for. He asked nervously, "What about the Western powers? How can you guarantee that they will support His Majesty? As you said, is a powerful Tongzhi Emperor in line with the interests of Westerners?"
Xiao Letian's lips twisted and he smiled evilly, "This matter is easy to handle... How about joining Aixinjueluo Zaichun and marrying a European princess."
"Ah." Zeng Guofan was completely stunned by Xiao Letian's bold plan. Sure enough, he was still a Confucian with medieval thinking. His vision was not as international as Xiao Letian's.
