Chapter Nine Hundred and Sixty Four: Do it boldly, if you dare to break through, you will succeed
"Young master wants to go back to his hometown in Quwo?" Xing
Shuan Zhu's question is too low-level and does not fit his positioning of Wolong at all.
It seems that the damage caused to his soul by the young master's intention to kill the old master has not yet been healed.
Even if the young master considerately married Qiu Tao from the Third Young Mistress for him, gave him Qianlong's most beautiful lady as his concubine, and gave him three years' salary from the 38th to the 40th year of Qianlong's reign,
None of them have been able to eliminate the legacy of this incident.
It will still take some time.
Understandable.
Jia Liu is not in a hurry, and has not arranged any errands for Shuan Zhu recently. Apart from being the imperial minister, he just wants him to study more.
I mainly read some human geography books from Western countries brought and translated by priests.腢
In addition, Shuan Zhu was given the title of general manager of the "Map Office", responsible for convening priests, external personnel and some experts from the Ministry of Industry and the Construction Office to specialize in making world maps, maps of various countries, collecting nautical charts, and hydrological conditions.
, as well as the history and current situation of colonial development in Western countries.
The first is to prepare for new teaching;
The second is to provide information for the military.
In addition to the Map Department, the House Committee also established a Science and Technology Department.
The department has only one responsibility, which is to purchase the latest research results from Western countries with large sums of money, and to find ways to bring these research results back to the country.
The required funds are allocated directly by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to avoid being criticized and restricted by the cabinet for spending too much money.
"What's Quwo's hometown? The emperor is going to Nanjing to pay homage to Xiaoling Mausoleum!"
It must be that Lao A is very enlightened and has already determined that the ancestor of His Majesty the Emperor is Zhu Yuanzhang, the giant dragon registered in Fengyang.
"Although the Jiangnan area obeys the central government in name, it is actually a separatist regime controlled by Prince Heshuo Zheng. His Majesty's southern tour to worship ancestors has practical and long-term far-reaching benefits. I believe that solving the Jiangnan issue is urgent. As our dynasty continues to prosper
, the reunification of the country’s territory is already a sacred mission that our country cannot shirk.”
As the Prime Minister and Deputy Minister in charge of the Ministry of War, Lao A directly said one, two, three.
The general idea is to use the name of the southern patrol to completely solve the Jiangnan area. In terms of force, the Shandong and Henan armies can be mobilized, and the third army can be mobilized from the Hubei battlefield to move eastward along the Yangtze River.
If necessary, you can ask Wuchang to cooperate. In addition, you can ask the Black Flag Army operating along the coast of Zhejiang to turn around and head north with a false shot. In this way, the north and south can use troops at the same time, and there is a high probability that the Jiangnan region can be returned to the imperial territory without spending a single soldier.
If Prince Heshuo Zheng is interested, he will come to Beijing to become the king of hats for generations and enjoy the dignity.
If you don’t know what to do, let him sweep the streets in Changping with Prince An.
After the Jiangnan area is resolved, we can use the excuse of mediating the conflict between Hangzhou General Cheng De and Zhejiang Governor Wang Danwang to send troops to Zhejiang, and then capture Xianxia Pass and take Fuzhou directly, thus achieving the unification of the southeastern region.
Since Jia Liu personally ordered people to spread rumors about Wang Danwang's massacre in Hangzhou, the city of Hangzhou can now be said to be in a state of emergency.
The Eight Banners soldiers and civilians inside the city were at odds with the Han soldiers and civilians outside the city. Both sides were afraid that the other side would retaliate against them.
Especially the Eight Banners soldiers and civilians who filled the city were even more frightened.
Books such as "Records of Visits to the Ming Yi" and "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" that had been banned by the Qing government were suddenly circulated on the market for some unknown reason. These books that exposed the Qing army's massacre of Han people in the early Republic of China further intensified the opposition between Banner and Han.
As a result, not only Hangzhou but also other places in Zhejiang are like a boiling cauldron, with corporate elements and anti-Qing righteous people ready to move.
There have been many incidents in which members of civil society assassinated local officials of the Qing court.
In late September, the Black Flag Army, which sailed from Taiwan to Dinghai, Zhejiang, captured Dinghai City in one fell swoop, and then landed on the coast of Ningbo. This rebel army, under the banner of expelling the Tartars, received enthusiastic support from the lower class Han people in Zhejiang, and was already on the coast of Zhejiang.
Create a huge momentum.
At this juncture, Hangzhou was so tense because of the opposition between the Banners and the Han that neither the Green Battalion nor the Eight Banners Army dared to mobilize troops out of the city, which would surely lead to a catastrophe.
However, even though some knowledgeable people in Zhejiang officialdom continued to persuade and explain among the governors and generals, and Wang Danwang himself came forward many times to clarify that he had no intention of attacking Mancheng, the consequences of the rumors were as hard to eradicate as the old evils.
Even if Hangzhou General Cheng De was willing to join forces with Wang Danwang to deal with the "foreign enemy" Black Flag Army, his Eight Banners officers and soldiers would not go out of the city to fight.
The reason was that they were afraid that as soon as they left Hangzhou, the wives, children, and children in the city would suffer revenge from the Han people.
All it takes now is to add more firewood, and Hangzhou will turn into a hell on earth in no time.
After learning that Guizi Liu had taken control of the capital and Qianlong and his son announced their resignation, both Chengde and Wang Danwang realized that they could no longer fight Guizi Liu, so they privately sent people to the capital to restart negotiations with the reform court.
But today is different from the past. For these two powerful factions in Zhejiang, the only condition Jia Liu gave was to obey the court unconditionally, and everyone waited to be dealt with by the court.
This condition was obviously too harsh, so neither Cheng De nor Wang Danwang dared to agree easily.
Of course, there is also a wait-and-see mentality.
After all, although Guiziliu took control of the capital, the Eight Banners outside the Pass and the Mongolian vassals, as well as the northwest, southwest, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other regions still did not make a clear stance.
Therefore, I just wanted to take another look.
Therefore, once there was civil strife in Hangzhou, the reform court could justifiably send troops to Zhejiang, and push them all the way south, which was a replica of the southern expedition of the soldiers in the early days of the Republic of China.
It's just that I have some awareness, but I still understood it wrong this time.
The Six Emperors did not tour the south, but the east.
"What I want to sacrifice is Fuling."
Jia Liu gave Shuan Zhu and Lao A an angry look.
Fuling, the mausoleum of Nurhachi, Emperor Taizu of the Qing Dynasty, is also the first imperial mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty.
The real ancestor of Aisin Gioro is buried inside.
"Fu Ling?"
The old man suddenly realized, "As a descendant of Aisin Gioro, your majesty went to the customs to burn a few pieces of paper money for Emperor Taizu. It is only natural and natural. It is a symbol of righteousness and a declaration of legal principles! As the old saying goes, rely on your friends when you go out and your parents at home.
Every ancestor has many paths."
Shuan Zhu understood: "Young Master wants to use force to deal with the Eight Banners outside the Pass?"
"Whether it is a human tragedy in the Western Liaoning Corridor in which Aisin Gioro's children kill each other, or a touching scene in which the reform emperor speaks harshly to the generals, it depends on whether the reactionaries of the Eight Banners outside the Pass are acting against nature.
It’s better to follow nature and respond to people.”
The Six Emperors were stunned for a moment when they heard Lao Ah's broadcasting accent.
However, Lao A guessed wrong again.
Jia Liu waved his hand: "I just said that the Eight Banners outside the Pass are just clowns. There is nothing to worry about. What I am worried about is Russia."
"Russia?"
Lao A and Shuan Zhu were stunned.
The former was in a daze because Russia was worried about something, while the latter didn't know whose power Russia was.
Russia is the fighting nation that netizens called Jia Liu in his previous life, and now calls him Rakshasa.
In fact, this nation has more defeats than wins in foreign wars, and basically the neighboring countries can beat it up violently. It is the kind of thing that is really strong in foreign affairs, so it is not worthy of the title of a fighting nation.
And it is China's biggest enemy.
Because this ethnic group has occupied almost one-third of China's territory.
At present, in addition to the military power Myanmar, there is another great power that can pose a threat to China.
After Kangxi signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia, allocating most of the territory of Nurgan Dusi in the area formerly controlled by the Ming Dynasty to Tsarist Russia, his son Yongzheng signed the "Treaty of Kyaktu" with Russia, again ceding hundreds of thousands of square meters
Kilometers of land given to Tsarist Russia.
Up to now, the tentacles of Tsarist Russia have extended to Heilongjiang, and about 5 million square kilometers of land have been eaten away by it in the past hundred years.
During the Qianlong reign, three disputes broke out with Russia.
In this regard, Qianlong's approach was not to use force, but to strongly protest and declare a closed-door embargo in an attempt to force the Russians to submit through a trade war.
Perhaps he knew that the Qing Dynasty was not strong enough to deal with Russia, and had no intention of taking back the land ceded by his grandfather and father.
If the "Ten Complete Martial Arts" included the Russian War, the value of the Fourth Japs in the eyes of future generations would probably rise several points.
The trade war strategy is effective in this era.
Jia Liu learned some information from Yonggui, the Minister of Household Affairs, and said that the trade volume between China and Russia twenty years ago during Qianlong's reign was 1.08 million rubles, but within three years after the embargo was announced, the trade volume dropped to 40,000 rubles.
Now the trade volume between the two sides has increased again and stabilized at around 600,000 to 800,000 rubles.
However, this figure was reported by the Heilongjiang general, and the court did not send personnel to verify it in detail.
After all, this trade volume is a huge sum of money in the eyes of the Eight Banners outside the customs, but it is not worth mentioning in the prosperous customs.
Jia Liu had read several stories about time travelers in his previous life. Most of the time travelers chose to compete with Western countries on the sea after they came to govern the country, and even went on an expedition to the Americas. It seemed that only in this way could they become a beacon to the world.
This approach cannot be said to be wrong, but it seems that there is a more practical way to go.
For example, going north to kill Tsarist Russia and going south to seize Southeast Asia and India would be enough for a lighthouse to stand in the east.
The difficulty of using troops on land is definitely less than that of using troops thousands of miles on the sea.
Especially in India, it can be called the jewel in the crown of the Queen of the Empire on which the sun never sets, which already illustrates its importance.
At present, Jia Liulian has not been able to achieve complete domestic unification, so he cannot spare the time to launch an expedition to seize Burma as a springboard. However, he wants to keep the border outside the country no matter what, and then push Tsarist Russia out of Asia.
In fact, Russia was able to acquire millions of square kilometers of land in the east, not because they could conquer it, nor because the Qing government could not conquer it, but because there was no one outside the border!
The reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to extend the actual control area of its territory all the way to the north and establish the Nurgan Dusi was because the Ming Dynasty had people and troops stationed in this vast area.
However, after the rise of the Qing Dynasty outside the customs, millions of Han people were slaughtered and neglected. Then they regarded the outside of the customs as the place where Longxing made his fortune and did not allow the Han people to leave the customs to live. The result was that there were only a few soldiers and civilians living on millions of square kilometers of land.
One hundred thousand people.
These people include the Eight Banners who stayed outside the Pass, Sauron, Mongolia, and the so-called Yellow Sheep Savages.
Except for larger cities such as Shengjing, residential areas in other places can be called larger if they have hundreds of people.
It is truly uninhabited.
No matter how large the land is, no one lives in it, which means there is no stable logistical support, and the lack of stable logistical support means that there is no way to garrison the land.
In the event of a war, troops can only be mobilized from areas thousands of miles away, so just transporting grain and grass would be a huge trouble.
Therefore, Russia marched eastward without encountering any obstruction until it reached the Heilongjiang area, which the Manchus regarded as their heartland.
No one knows the strategic value of Guanwai better than Jia Liu, and how far Tsarist Russia is about to expand, so he must capture Guanwai and then continue to attract people from outside Guan.
Whether it is the official government or the beggars' gangs of old and wealthy people, if they don't bring millions of idle laborers to thrive outside the customs, this land will definitely be taken away by others.
In the previous life, it was not until the Qing Dynasty was about to fall that it realized the importance of the outside world and began to lift the wicker border ban. Then there was a large-scale invasion of Guandong by the government and the private sector. It took more than 20 years for the Northeast to have a population of tens of millions, and then it was successfully preserved.
The hometown of the Pianhan family.
Therefore, Jia Liu preferred to use force to deal with the reactionary forces of the Eight Banners outside the Pass, and to deal with the more than 30,000 Eight Banner cavalry who claimed to be bloody, laying the foundation for the large-scale departure of the Han people from the Pass.
You must know that the Northeast not only has fertile land, but also has various high-quality coal and iron mines needed for industrial development, as well as ice-free ports.
This should be done sooner rather than later.
And we must thoroughly and completely eliminate the legacy of Manchuria outside the customs, so that the homeland outside the customs can truly be rebuilt on a clean sheet of paper.
It is planned to mobilize two main forces for the eastward expedition, first to attack Shengjing, then to capture Jilin, and finally to sweep away Ninggu Pagoda. This matter is as important as the Beiyang trade.
"You are in charge of the Ministry of War. You must come up with a detailed plan for dispatching troops by the end of the month at the latest."
Jia Liu still recognized Lao A's ability. Although Qianlong called him an incompetent waste, he found that Lao A was like that big Western clock.
This word moves very vigorously. 腢
As long as you set goals and focus, you can get things done.
This is probably a common problem among bureaucrats in this era.
After explaining the eastward inspection, Jia Liu summoned Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin, his second brother-in-law Gao Delu, who is currently Daotai, Zhu Dawen, who is proposed to be the deputy supervisor of Tianjin Customs, and heads of relevant departments such as customs and merchants, a total of 23 people.
It mainly talks about some important points on how to handle trade matters well.
"This time we are doing business with Western countries in the hinterland of the capital. You should be bolder, don't be conservative, and don't have any ideas. Being bolder is better than anything else! Opportunities are created by breaking out, how can you calculate them?
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If you dare to venture, you will definitely succeed. This year I will earn ten million taels first, next year I will try to earn fifty million taels, and in a few years I will make hundreds of millions of taels."
Having said this, Jia Liu took out his cigarette case and motioned to the staff to give each of the people present a cigarette, and then said to Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin:
"I told you that Guangdong can earn 50 million taels a year from sea trade, so as a Futai master, don't think it's impossible to earn hundreds of millions a year. I've given you policies. Just do it boldly and don't have any worries.