Chapter 205: The Transformation of the Farewell Poem
Some time ago, Zhou Yu had been hiding for a certain reason.
During the battle in the South China Sea, Zhou Yu was seriously injured. Later, after he gradually recovered, he took the opportunity to hide.
In hiding, he went to visit Cixi's favorite Li Hongzhang.
However, Zhou Yu also kept it secret and only said that he was the principal of the Chinese Zhongyong Army, but did not fully reveal the fact that he was the supreme leader of the Chinese Zhongyong Army.
Because, judging from historical data, Li Hongzhang was a royalist with strong national self-esteem. He was also a representative of the Westernization reformers in the late Wanqing Dynasty. Zhou Yu hoped that Li Hongzhang would be moved by his theory of worrying about the country and strengthening the country.
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Li Hongzhang was born in 1823. He was an important military and political official in the late Qing Dynasty, the founder and commander of the Huai Army, and the main advocate of the Westernization Movement. His courtesy name was Zifu, Jianfu, Shaoquan, and Yisou. He was born in Hefei, Anhui Province. In the 27th year of Daoguang reign (1847)
Jinshi.
However, what Zhou Yu did not expect was that his meeting with Li Hongzhang ended in failure.
This phenomenon also sounded a red alarm for Zhou Yu, letting him know that not all information from later generations is 100% correct, and he cannot completely measure the people of this era based on history.
For a long time, everything Zhou Yu has done has been extremely smooth, which made Zhou Yu lose himself. Even everything he did was done according to historical trajectories and data.
And he has never thought deeply about why, and he has never regarded himself as a person in this time and space. He has always measured the problem from the perspective of a bystander.
However, now that he, a little butterfly, has inadvertently flapped his wings, the history of this time and space has deviated greatly from the history of later generations, but he has not yet realized this.
If it hadn't been for the Li Hongzhang incident, I don't know what serious consequences it would have brought to myself and my subordinates in the future, so I woke up!
Fortunately, Li Hongzhang did not embarrass Zhou Yu or inform the Manchu court. During the meeting with Zhou Yu, Li Hongzhang proposed that Zhou Yu should fully integrate the Huaxia Loyal and Brave Army into the Qing Dynasty's army sequence. However, Zhou Yu was rejected by Zhou Yu.
Yu stopped with one sentence.
Zhou Yu asked him: After the Zhongyong Army joined the Qing Dynasty, if the French proposed to execute all the senior generals of the Zhongyong Army again, would the Qing Dynasty agree?
Li Hongzhang was speechless in response to this, because Li Hongzhang knew that at that time, the Qing government would definitely act in full compliance with France's requirements, so in the end, neither of the two people could convince the other, and they ended up having a bad time.
Disperse, let it go.
In fact, what Zhou Yu didn't know was that Li Hongzhang had indeed been moved by Li Hongzhang. However, precisely because Li Hongzhang was familiar with Western affairs and the strength of Western military power, and the huge disparity in the balance of power between China and foreign countries, this caused Li Hongzhang to have a serious problem.
"Xenophobia" thinking.
Through the history of later generations, it is not difficult to see that Li Hongzhang always adhered to the policy of "seek compromise" in foreign negotiations. Deep in Li Hongzhang's heart, the serious "foreign fear" thought was the biggest reason for the ultimate failure of Zhou Yu and Li Hongzhang's negotiations.
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Now, Zhou Yu's Chinese Loyal Army seems to be very powerful, but Li Hongzhang still does not have the courage to take this risk.
Deep in his heart, he always had the childish idea that the best strategy would be to use the enemy to control the enemy.
However, Li Hongzhang did not have the idea of reporting on him.
Because he knew that if he went to the Qing court and reported on the Chinese loyal and brave army in northern Vietnam, a large-scale civil war in the country would inevitably occur, which would make the Qing Dynasty's weak national power even more unbearable.
He is still deceiving himself and imagining that the Qing Dynasty will gradually become stronger and the loyal Chinese army in Vietnam will be content with the status quo. Is this possible? The answer is no.
Therefore, everything has its two sides. If Li Hongzhang hadn't refused to cooperate, how could Zhou Yu be awakened? What about the inertial thinking brought from later generations?
After leaving the Li Mansion, Zhou Yu said goodbye to the Zhou Yu of later generations. Now Zhou Yu has completely integrated into the society of this time and space, and is completely in this mountain.
Li Hongzhang's refusal to cooperate prompted Zhou Yu to accelerate the pace of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, because Zhou Yu was afraid that the Qing government would gather national power to confront the Zhongyong Army. In that case, the civil war that Zhou Yu feared most would begin.
This is the phenomenon Zhou Yu least wants to see...
Therefore, Zhou Yu must prevent this phenomenon from happening.
There is another point that Zhou Yu must consider first, and that is the John Bull Colony ~ Kowloon Division, Xin'an County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong, China (later Hong Kong Island).
If he wanted to retake Hong Kong, he might have to confront the naval overlord John Bull Navy. Therefore, Zhou Yu had always looked at this issue very carefully.
What's left is how to quickly control the country's political power and allow it to develop healthily and stably.
Therefore, Zhou Yu ordered the loyal and brave forces across the country to begin infiltrating the army and local officials in various places to win over all the forces they could.
Order Wang Wu's intelligence department to mobilize armed forces and start moving towards Beijing and Tianjin, waiting for further orders.
Ordered the armed personnel in the underground bases in Beijing and Tianjin to begin dismantling the standard weapons and secretly transporting them to the Beijing Shunyuan Escort Bureau in Beijing and Tianjin (later moved to Guang'an Street).
Zhou Yu, who had always looked at this different time and space from the eyes of the world, was finally awakened by accidents such as Zhu Qian's 'eternal body' and Li Hongzhang's refusal to cooperate!
He suddenly woke up and realized that he was no longer in the time and space of later generations! Instead, he had arrived in the parallel time and space after 1880. The laws of this time and space, and the humanities and society of this time and space were all very different from those of later generations.
Since it is different, then why should I immerse myself in it anymore?
At this moment, Zhou Yu's thoughts have completely changed, and he has become an out-and-out parallel time and space thinker. He no longer looks at this time and space issue from the perspective of future generations. He has completely integrated into it.
Yeah~ He’s into the act!
After entering the drama, the things he did were completely different from those before, and the decisions he made were completely different from those before.
In terms of emotions, he no longer indulges in the "moral bottom line" he once thought he had. He decides to act whenever his heart moves!
He needs to be a man!
In terms of military affairs, he also changed his original ideas.
His original idea was to wait until the First World War before his Chinese loyal and brave army would suddenly break out.
Now, Zhou Yu has changed. After being awakened by Li Hongzhang and others, Zhou Yu changed.
At this time, he decided to let the Chinese Zhongyong Army forcefully capture him from the water!
Zhou Yu, who has changed his mind, believes that thinking determines the way out, and pressure drives development!
He was thinking, with his current strength, why should he keep waiting for the opportunity? If there is no opportunity, wouldn't he be able to create opportunities? Now, he already has the ability to change the world pattern!
Even if I compromise and deliberately hide my strength, in the end, for the development of the Chinese nation, I still have to say no to those ghosts and still have to fight.
Then it is better to show up strongly by yourself and become the driving force behind the development of the world!
Zhou Yu decided to be strong, and after a series of operations and arrangements, he began to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and establish a strong new Chinese empire.
In fact, as long as Zhou Yu's thinking changes, everything will be easy to do.
After nearly ten years of accumulation, Zhou Yu has a strong foundation of human, financial and military strength in the mainland of China.
In the interior of China, people who should be won over have been won over by Zhou Yu a long time ago, such as Zhang Zhidong, Liu Jintang, Cen Yuying, Hu Xueyan, Wang Wu and others.
People who cannot be won over have been under the surveillance of the Chinese Loyal and Yongjun for a long time, such as Ronglu, Yuan Shikai and others.
Waiting has become meaningless, change is the only truth.
Since they want to change and show their face forcefully, it is reasonable for the various departments of the Chinese Loyal and Brave Army to suddenly receive an order from the principal on April 4 to launch a fatal blow against the Manchu Qing government.