"I have been temporarily staying in Ryukyu for two months. During this period, I had many contacts with Ryukyu monarchs and ministers, and I also got to know the civil society atmosphere...Today's incident, in my opinion, can be explained in four words, that is' No need to rush'..."
"Oh?" The eyes of everyone present lit up. Weng Tonghe's calmness made everyone, especially the Queen Mother of the two palaces, feel a lot more at ease.
Weng Tonghe twirled his beard and said thoughtfully, "I can't tell, I mean this incident has completely exposed Xiao Letian's strategic intentions, let alone whether he wants to rebel and annex the Qing Dynasty. At least Xiao Letian’s intention to establish an independent establishment is very obvious..."
"Please forgive me for speaking frankly, the Qing Dynasty has no choice but to break away from Ryukyu. Without a navy as powerful as Europa, we will not be able to punish those overseas island countries. Regarding the matter of Ryukyu breaking away from the vassal state, the veteran believes that the court can only accept its fate. Got it!"
With a bang, Yi? punched the coffee table with an angry expression on his face, "Hateful! It's really hateful! If it hadn't been for the Changmao and Nian troops who had been in chaos in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and if it hadn't been for the turmoil in Gansu, Shaanxi and Xinjiang It hasn’t subsided yet, why can’t we even build a navy!”
"As long as we give the Qing Dynasty three or four years of peace and breathing time, we can easily collect 50 to 60 million taels of silver. When the time comes, we can spend money to buy a fleet!"
Yi? said with a sad face, "We have suffered too much, we have suffered too much. From the beginning to the end, we have suffered the loss of not having a navy... If we had a decent navy, even if it didn't fight, it would scare those foreigners on the sea, we would You won’t suffer such a big loss!”
This sentence made the two women Cixi and Ci'an's eyes suddenly light up. "What uncle said is quite reasonable. If we really have a huge navy and buy more warships, then we can put them on the sea. It will be scary." The foreigners are so scared that they don’t dare to bully us anymore…will a small country like Japan’s Ryukyu dare to fly into the sky?”
This was the thinking of women, and this was also the common thinking of the Manchu and Qing court at that time. At that time, they were completely panicked about foreign wars. They would not fight if they could not fight, and they would never use the army to settle things that could be settled with money.
In the eyes of Cixi and others, the hard-working Han people were allowed to work hard to make money, and then the Manchus collected a lot of taxes, and finally used part of the taxes as protection fees, so that foreigners would not bully them... What a beautiful picture it was!
Yi? Why weren’t you as talkative as you are today? In the past, Yi? was always talking about building a navy, clamoring to use tens of millions of taels of silver to build the first fleet in Asia, to protect the imperial waters and fight against foreigners.
Fighting with foreigners? It's scary to think about it. Things within the empire haven't been settled yet, so you want to go to the sea to fight? This brother-in-law is really worried.
But today Yi?'s unintentional words scratched the itch of the Queen Mother of the two palaces.
That's right, we don't need to fight to build a navy! Isn't it nice to put it out there to scare the foreign devils? Anyway, the Qing Dynasty has plenty of money, so spend money to buy it. When the time comes, invite foreigners to come and take a look. Our battleships are arrayed row after row in the Bohai Bay to the horizon. Don’t you think this is what Sun Tzu said in The Art of War? A subdued soldier?
"Well, the emperor is right. Our Qing Dynasty really needs a navy. We will discuss this matter in a few days! It's not a problem to be bullied like this all the time!" Cixi even looked at Cixi with her eyes. Queen Mother An, it turned out that this time Ci'an also agreed with Cixi and kept nodding.
Yi? and Weng Tonghe were a little confused, wondering what was going on? Let’s talk about Ryukyu’s separation from the feudal domain. Why did it suddenly fall on the Navy?
But being able to build a navy is of course a great thing. Yi? He quickly stood up and saluted with tears of gratitude on his face.
"Old man, go on, I'm sorry to interrupt you..." Yi? handed over to Weng Tonghe.
Weng Tonghe said with a wry smile, "Prince Qi Gong has made it very clear just now. Without the navy, we really can't deal with Ryukyu. Don't expect to fight against the foreign concession ships. To defeat Ryukyu, you need an army of 100,000. I have seen Ryukyu." The largest fort, Shuri Fort, the caliber of that huge cannon is enough to stuff a big watermelon..."
"When the French warships invaded Ryukyu, the French ship, which exploded with just one fort, did not dare to approach and shoot. They only dared to move and shoot outside Naha Bay... The Ryukyu island had long been built into a steel fortress by Xiao Letian! "
"Not only is the military situation bad, but the introduction of the Chinese Order is also a bad phenomenon in terms of people's hearts. Xiao Letian's intention is obvious. He just wants to split the saint's wall and sneak out a concept on his own. ...This evil spirit is really terrifying. It is foreseeable that his fallacies and heresies will confuse a large number of people, especially some literati in Jiangnan. I am afraid it will be difficult to escape his temptation!"
Weng Tonghe's words made everyone present very worried. Yixuan sighed, "Can't we deal with him? Even if we can't deal with him, we have to rescue the emperor quickly..."
The old man shook his head, "It's time to say don't rush. The current situation is very unfavorable to us, but our disadvantage is not an acute illness, but a chronic illness!"
"Our court still has time. I have always felt that Xiao Letian's issuance of the Chinese Order was very hasty. He was not prepared in many places. The pot of rice porridge has not yet been cooked..."
"First of all, the Far East Volunteer Army that appeared inexplicably in Vladivostok was arranged by Xiao Letian. Although I don't understand why he insisted on going to war with the Russians, but now that the outcome is not decided, he should not throw this away prematurely. Hua Clan Order?”
"Then there is Fuso, who Xiao Letian has just infiltrated. I have had secret conversations with senior officials of the shogunate, local samurai daimyo, and even ministers in Kyoto... There are still a large number of people in Fuso who are not convinced by Xiao Letian. Only those who can The big names who have received benefits and the low-level warriors who are eager to change their destiny are of the same mind as Xiao Letian!"
"I think the premature introduction of the Chinese Ordinance will only further stimulate the opposing forces. This is a very unwise behavior!"
Weng Tonghe clenched his fists tightly and said, "To sum up, I personally feel that Xiao Letian must have encountered a very big difficulty. The introduction of the Chinese order is probably not aimed at us. It is now detrimental to us. It’s just a sign of help!”
Note: The previous chapter talked about the feng shui issues in the Forbidden City. In fact, there are quite a lot of stories there and they are quite interesting. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Manchu royal family did a lot of damage to the Feng Shui pattern of the Forbidden City.
Let me tell you a little story. When Empress Dowager Cixi lived in Changchun Palace, she connected Changchun Palace with Qixiang Palace in front of this palace, demolished the palace walls and gates between the two palaces, and built a new Tiyuan Palace on the site. Qixiang Palace was renamed Taiji Palace, and it was generally used as the front hall of Changchun Palace along with Tiyuan Palace.
In other words, when we go to the Forbidden City now, the Tiyuan Hall actually has a very short history, and the Taiji Hall used to be called Qixiang Hall.
Later, Cixi opened up the Yikun Palace in front of the Chuxiu Palace. After demolishing the palace walls and gates that separated the two palaces, a new Tihe Palace was built on the site as a connecting palace between the Yikun Palace and Chuxiu Palace. .
With such a change, the original Feng Shui pattern of the harem was completely destroyed. The huge Kun hexagram pattern in the West Sixth Palace completely turned into nothing, completely unable to correspond to the Kun hexagram pattern in the East Sixth Palace.
With such large-scale destruction of the Forbidden City's feng shui pattern, it's no wonder that the Qing Dynasty fell.
The above is just a legendary story, just laugh at it, don't take it seriously, and don't use it to argue with others!
