After the Beiyuan meeting, for a week, there was no contact between Tsarist Russia and the Chinese, including the Qing Dynasty. The people in the capital did not care about such negotiations without much conflict and were completely uninterested!
Ulan Geli has been waiting for a reply from Moscow, but there has been no reply at all for seven days.
"The conditions of the Chinese must be too harsh. The great tsar will never agree to such conditions! Damn it, should I send another telegram..."
"That's right, I want to scold the Chinese people severely in the telegram. Only in this way can I shirk my responsibility to the minimum! It's not that I don't work hard, it's that the Chinese people are too greedy..."
Just when Ulan Geli made up his mind to send the report, the military attache of the embassy suddenly ran over panting, "It's a big deal... Your Excellency the Minister... the Manchu and Qing Dynasties... the Manchu and Qing Dynasties are going to hold a military parade at the Qinghe construction site tomorrow. There’s a military parade!”
"Emperor Tongzhi invites envoys from various countries to participate... They will gather in the northern suburbs tomorrow morning!"
The military parade of any country is the best opportunity for envoys to spy on intelligence. Ulan Geli immediately gave up the idea of sending a telegram. He planned to take a closer look at the details of the Chinese tomorrow before making any plans!
Seven days was enough time for the Chinese and the Qing Dynasty to make a lot of preparations. Ulan Geli got up at five o'clock the next day to change clothes. He did not take a carriage, but rode a war horse and went straight to the north of the city accompanied by several officers!
Along the way, he met the viewing teams from Britain, France, and the United States. A large group of people rushed north from Dongjiaomin Lane!
After leaving Deshengmen, people can clearly see three huge mounds of earth on the east side of the road, which are like hills, and they are already covered with grass!
Everyone who walks here can't help but feel the hair on their hair stand up, because these are three Beijing temples, and everyone knows that the bones of slaughtered factory slaves are piled under the seal. These three Beijing temples shocked the entire Qing Dynasty. Any official would dare to challenge the authority of Emperor Tongzhi again!
Zai Chun can really be said to have kept his promise at this moment!
Choose to parade here? What kind of medicine did Zaichun buy? Each of these envoys began to think.
The Qinghe construction site is not far away. The foreigners from the embassy arrived one after another at six o'clock. The parade ground is located on the south bank of the Qinghe River. Across the river, people can see a large busy construction site!
As far as the eye can see, carpenters, bricklayers, porters... tens of thousands of people are just like worker ants completing the huge industrial area depicted on the drawings!
Roads, drainage ditches, culverts, stockyards, factories, blast furnaces, workers' dormitories...the land originally full of crops is completely occupied by these stacked wood-like buildings!
Like germs, industrial demons are multiplying faster and faster on the earth, eating away at the originally lush land one by one, causing the pastoral pictures to fragment, and finally turning everything into black and gray!
What excites the British even more is that countless tons of stones are pouring in the east. There are two to three thousand people here alone. The huge stones are broken into small stones by sledge hammers, and the small stones are broken by small hammers. Smashed into stones!
This is the lowest roadbed of the railway, and two kilometers of track have been laid!
Witoma smiled happily, "Railway! I own one-third of the shares of the British Empire! The Qing Empire has finally come to its senses and has finally begun to accept the power of civilization in the new world!"
While he was muttering to himself in a low voice, suddenly there was a violent sound of horse hooves behind him, followed by soldiers shouting loudly, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Empire has arrived!"
"Dismount...kneel down!"
Boom... everyone at the scene jumped off their horses, the foreigners took off their hats and bowed, and Qing officials, soldiers and civilians knelt on the ground to welcome the emperor's arrival!
Zai Chun was wearing a bright yellow cloak, underneath was a generalissimo uniform in the style of the Yulin New Army uniform. He was riding a pure white tall horse, riding from the south with his neck raised!
Without saying a word, Zai Chun proudly raised his riding whip, and the officer immediately shouted, "The ceremony is over! Mount your horse!"
Today's military parade did not have any seats or straw huts. In fact, there were not many people watching the parade around Ulan Geli. Including the protective soldiers, there were only more than 300 people in the audience!
There were no common people, only a few civil servants, and the atmosphere was very strong!
Zai Chun rode up to the crowd and let the horse pace easily: "Dear envoys... Dear friends! I am going to parade on the bank of the Qinghe River today... for what purpose?"
"Haha... the reason is very simple! Because Zuo Zongtang played well in Dihua, I want to celebrate!"
"Why didn't you celebrate before? That gave Marshal Zuo time to investigate carefully! After all, what the Marshal reported was the total annihilation of the enemy. Many people in the court didn't believe it. They thought the Marshal was bragging!"
"Haha... So I sent Mongolian officials, Manchu officials from the Western Expedition Army, and a Chinese military observation group, including local Uyghur and Kazakh elders, to go and do an inventory together!"
"Hahaha... I'm also afraid that the handsome old man's eyesight will be dim and he won't be able to count clearly!"
"What do you think of the result? Hahaha... I'm very relieved! After checking from many parties, the encirclement and suppression reported by the commander is an ironclad fact that cannot be disputed!"
"There is no falsehood in the victory of Dihua! Our Qing Dynasty has a wild victory in the Western Regions! Agubai has escaped, and his end is right in front of him!"
"Commander Zuo gave me a memorial, which said that we should postpone the attack, garrison troops, and establish a province in Xinjiang... I am correct about all these!"
"Not only will the performance be accurate, but I will also take practical actions to support the commander-in-chief and create a permanent Western Frontier border for thousands of years!"
"Everything displayed in today's military parade... is all sent to the Western Regions! All is given to Marshal Zuo, Laojun! We cannot let the heroes bleed and shed tears!"
"Sound a salute!"
After Zai Chun's sonorous and powerful speech, the salute roared. At this time, a faint sound of vibration began to be heard from the east. After a while, the cavalry formation began to appear in people's eyes!
Wulan Geli didn't dare to blink, staring at Dongfang's every move, but unexpectedly, a man suddenly rode up to his side.
Cai Bixia rode a war horse and stopped next to Wulan Geli and whispered, "Your Excellency, Minister, do you mind if I explain it to you?"
"Huh? Ah...it turns out to be Special Envoy Cai...haha...I couldn't ask for more!"
Ulan Geli forced himself to smile a little, finally not violating the politeness of diplomatic situations.
"Your Excellency, there are ten cavalry battle formations in front of us. Each battle formation contains 300 people. There are a total of 3,000 elite cavalry..."
"The Qing Dynasty Army consists of about three hundred people at the head of a battalion. There are ten battalions in total!"
"Among them, the Far East Guaizima removed two battalions of troops, the Xishan Camp produced five elite battalions, and the last three battalions are His Majesty's new Yulin Army..."
"Look...all the equipment has been changed. They are all Mauser guns..."
