After Liu Kun finished listening to Liu Hai's words, he was silent for a long time. He knew exactly what those people in the court were, and it was completely impossible for them to treat Liu Hai sincerely.
Then Liu Kun sighed and thought: When he is alive, he hopes to reconcile the conflicts between the two parties. If he is gone, he won't be able to care about so much. When the time comes, when his father dies and his mother gets married, everyone will take care of themselves.
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Liu Kunyi is unable to intervene in the current situation and can only maintain the stability of the Liangjiang area.
"I heard that you met with the shipyard in Shanghai, how is the situation now?" Liu Kunyi didn't want to continue on that heavy topic, so he changed the topic.
"Back to uncle, the shipyard has been completed and can now start building new warships."
"Very good. In this way, our Nanyang Navy will truly surpass the Beiyang Navy."
Next, Liu Kunyi asked Liu Hai about the Hunan Army. Liu Kunyi was very concerned about this old army where he had been.
And Liu Hai did not hide anything. He reported everything to Liu Kun in detail, and emphatically reported back to him that he had purchased a large amount of arms from the West and equipped the new Hunan Army. Now its combat effectiveness is on par with the great powers.
Liu Kunyi was now satisfied. Although he could not mobilize the Hunan army, the one who controlled the Hunan army was his nephew after all. As long as this relationship existed, Liu Hai would not dare to disobey his orders.
With the Hunan Army controlled by Liu Hai supporting him from behind, there will be no unrest in the Liangjiang area.
Next, the uncle and nephew discussed some formal matters in the Liangjiang area, and then Liu Kun sent Liu Hai away.
Liu Hai left the Governor's Mansion in Liangjiang and first went to Zeng Guoquan's private residence to visit Zeng Guoquan. Then he talked to Zeng Yuying and his wife for a while, stayed one night in Zeng's residence, and then returned to Shanghai by boat the next day.
After Liu Hai returned to Shanghai, he was not very calm. Compared with Zeng Guoquan's full support, Liu Kunyi was a bit stubborn in his opinion.
It seems that in the next period of time, I will not be as free as before in the Liangjiang area.
At the same time, just in case, Liu Hai secretly ordered all departments of the Hunan Army to strengthen training. At the same time, in the name of Tan Ding, he secretly increased the establishment of 20,000 people. When necessary, these 20,000 people can be used as regular troops.
Besides, Liu Kunyi was in a bad mood for several days after meeting Liu Hai. He didn't expect that the Liu family, which has been loyal for generations, would have a person like Liu Hai, who doesn't know how to be generous.
Liu Kunyi was also unlucky. Before he could recover from the blow his bangs gave him, another earth-shattering thing happened in the Liangjiang area.
Once this matter is not handled properly, a shocking war may even occur.
It turns out that on April 25, the 17th year of Guangxu's reign (1891), people in Danyang County, Jiangsu Province discovered that more than 70 children's bodies were buried in the church cemetery, and there were no live babies in the nursery. Public outrage arose and the church was burned down.
This incident immediately caused a stir, and ministers from various countries jointly lodged a protest with the Qing government because of their religious beliefs.
You can imagine how weak the Qing government was at that time. As soon as these gentlemen received protests from foreigners, they immediately panicked.
But what I didn't expect was that because such a harmful thing happened in Danyang area, the news spread quickly throughout 4 weeks, and then Wuxi, Jingui, Yanghu, Jiangyin, Rugao and other counties also launched anti-foreign religion struggles.
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At this time, the imperial court was also a little numb. With such a large scale, if it is not handled properly, another Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Incident may be around the corner.
So the imperial court did not care whether these people were good or bad, and immediately ordered Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, to send troops to suppress them immediately.
As for the people under Liu Kun, except Liu Hai's Hunan Army, they are the Green Camp. As for the Eight Banners masters, let alone whether he can mobilize them, their combat effectiveness is probably not as good as ordinary strong men.
Under this situation, Liu Kun thought for a long time and decided to use the Green Camp to suppress it.
Because he considered that if he wanted to use bangs to suppress him, it would probably be a blow to Liu Hai's prestige among the people.
So as soon as Liu Kun issued an order, he ordered the nearby green camps to assemble immediately and advance into these counties to quell all the rebellious parties.
The result was naturally a huge disappointment. These green camps were totally incompetent. When people gathered, they didn’t know whether it was real or fake, and they dispersed in a hurry.
Not to mention, before the Danyang teaching case ended, a similar teaching case also happened in Wuhu.
Citizens in Wuhu, Anhui Province discovered that two female monks from a Catholic church had abducted two young children, so they detained them and sent them to the Baojia Bureau, which in turn sent them to the county office. After hearing the news, a French priest went to the county office to release them on bail. During this period, another one was released on bail.
The woman asked the church to return the child, but the church refused to return it. When the news spread, there was a huge crowd in front of the church.
Now Liu Kunyi felt a little paralyzed. If this continues, the whole Liangjiang River will not be peaceful. This reminds him of the time when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rose to power, and the people responded with one response.
But the trouble was still behind. Just when Liu Kun was undecided whether he should immediately send the Hunan army to suppress it, another frightening thing happened in Wuhu.
The leaders of this movement, Wang Guangquan and Fu Youshun, led a crowd of 5,000 people, surrounded the church, and then set it on fire. The British consul in Wuhu asked Wuhu Dao to send troops to suppress it.
Wang Guangquan and Fu Youshun didn't know where they got the news, which was the pressure exerted by the British on the imperial court, so they gathered nearly ten thousand people, besieged the British Consulate, and burned down the residences of foreign customs personnel.
At this time, the situation was so serious that Liu Kun could no longer hesitate.
Because the Liangjiang area is now in chaos, if these two chaotic areas are allowed to be connected, accidents like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom may happen.
So Liu Kun immediately issued an order to Liu Hai in Shanghai, ordering Liu Hai to dispatch the Hunan Army to suppress the rebellion in these two places, and at the same time dispatch the navy to blockade the Yangtze River to prevent the unrest from spreading to other places.
Liu Hai was living his life peacefully in Shanghai, but when he suddenly received an order from Liu Kun to send troops, he was really caught off guard.
He was a little undecided after inquiring about the situation. This matter was really difficult to deal with. Liu Hai has a very good relationship with the British now. If they don't send troops and let the British know about it, I'm afraid the relationship between the two parties will break out.
If he breaks up, if he sends troops, he will bear the reputation of an executioner in the future.
Just when Liu Hai was hesitant, Liu Kunyi's second telegram was also sent to him.
It seems that Liu Kun is already anxious. Those green camp troops are unable to suppress the rebellion. If this continues, he will not be able to retain his position as Governor of Liangjiang.
At this point, Liu Hai had no choice but to order two prime ministers to advance to Danyang and Wuhu respectively. However, before sending troops, Liu Hai issued an order to the leaders of the two armies, telling them not to shoot at their positions.
Can use wooden sticks to disperse crowds.
After the two troops arrived in Danyang and Wuhu, they followed Liu Hai's order to isolate the crowd from the consulates and churches, then fired warning shots and used wooden sticks to disperse the crowd.
When these common people saw the true nature of the imperial court's move, they were actually frightened in their hearts. Except for some leaders, the others secretly went home.
As a result, the turbulent public sentiment in these two places quickly subsided, and the situation returned to calm.
However, the imperial court did not intend to just give up on these two turmoils. It immediately issued orders to the Governor of Liangjiang, Liu Kunyi, asking him to immediately send capable personnel to investigate and severely punish the leaders in the uprising.
As soon as Liu Kun received the order from the court, he immediately sent Wang Renkan, the prefect of Zhenjiang, to Danyang to investigate.
At this point, we have to say that the magistrate of Danyang County at that time was Zha Wenqing, the grandfather of the famous Mr. Jin Yong.
When Zha Wenqing and Wang Renkan visited the cemetery, they couldn't bear to look at the tragic situation of the children. They were faced with a dilemma: the neighboring county had arrested the person who burned the church, and they themselves were also facing pressure from the court. But the common people were not satisfied with this.
It was an act of justice, and I couldn't bear to arrest the people who burned the church.
So these two people colluded and secretly released the captured Danyang people.
What these two men did was soon discovered by the British and French. When they found out, they became furious and immediately lodged a protest with Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang.
What can Liu Kunyi do now? He can only settle the matter and immediately issue an order to dismiss these two people and investigate them.
At the same time, in order to quell the anger of the great powers, Wang Guangquan and Fu Youshun, the two leaders who besieged the British Consulate in the Wuhu Mission Case, were all executed.
Then he punished the magistrates in the area and spent more than 240,000 taels of silver in the treasury. Only then did he calm down the anger of the great powers.
Because of this incident, Liu Kunyi's prestige in the court and the people was greatly damaged. The court believed that he was ineffective, which led to popular uprisings, while the people believed that he killed innocent people indiscriminately in order to please foreigners.
Liu Kun had just taken office as the governor of Liangjiang, and he encountered such a thing within a few months, which immediately turned his original enthusiasm to death.
However, Liu Kunyi was so sophisticated after all that he immediately adjusted his mood and began to stabilize the affairs of the Liangjiang area. In addition, he had a high reputation among the Hunan Army, and Liu Hai was his nephew, so he still had control over the Liangjiang area.
It's considered stable.
As for Liu Kunyi being able to survive such a thing unscathed, the most angry person should be Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili.
It turns out that Li Hongzhang and Liu Kunyi were life-and-death rivals. They had a falling out over the Shanghai County incident, although in the end Li Hongzhang actually got angry and impeached Liu Kunyi several times.
In the end, even the Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't stand it. Fortunately, Liu Kunyi's mother died of illness, which gave the court an excuse to let Liu Kunyi return to his hometown to Dingyou. Otherwise, the two of them, one in the south and one in the north, would not know what would happen.