The room was quiet, Yi Zhengxing, Zhao Liewen, Li Hongzhang were silent, for Germany's military strength, the three of them are very clear, the German Navy can be ignored, but the strength of the army is really the first in Europe, if you really want to face Germany in South Africa, it will not be easy, and what is more tricky is that South Africa can't be messed up now!

The annual output of gold mines in South Africa is more than 120 tons of gold, which is not only the guarantee of the implementation of the gold standard in the Qing Dynasty, but also the guarantee of Yuanqi's large-scale over-issuance of banknotes.

In addition, in order to implement the gold standard, Yuan Qi also deliberately promoted a large amount of silver outflow, investing hundreds of millions of silver in the United States alone, and also took advantage of the world agricultural crisis to use silver to import grain on a large scale, and recently conducted territorial transactions with the Ottomans, and silver gushed out like sea water.

But anyone who has a little eyesight knows that Yuanqi must be unable to make ends meet in recent years, and the banknotes must be over-issued, but with the huge income of the South African gold mine, with Yuanqi's unparalleled reputation and superb means, there has been no crisis, once a war breaks out in South Africa, it may become a spark that ignites the dry pyre, enough to burn Yuanqi!

"The ——。 of the Big Shopkeeper" Li Hongzhang broke the gloom and said: "The South African gold mine is the top priority, and there is no room for the slightest turbulence ........ ”

Yi Zhizhi said: "The problem is that the initiative is not in our hands. ”

Zhao Liewen said: "Germany dares to provoke in South Africa alone? ”

For Germany's ambitions, Yi Zhicontent can be said to be the most clear, but the first and second world war Germany is the protagonist, this is a radical, fanatical, paranoid and even somewhat extreme people, a little groaning, he slowly said, "People die for money, birds die for food."

What is gold these days? It is purchasing power, the driving force for economic recovery, and the guarantee for economic development. The huge output of gold mines in South Africa has long been coveted by the European powers, and as long as there is an opportunity, all countries will be tempted!

Germany is ambitious, vainly trying to dominate Europe, and urgently needs to expand overseas, compete for overseas colonies, and plunder overseas resources, so as to achieve a series of victories in the war of unification, and its national self-esteem and self-confidence are highly inflated. ”

"The big shopkeeper sees it thoroughly." Li Hongzhang said in a sullen voice: "If it weren't for the big shopkeeper who reminded me many times not to underestimate Germany, how could I put Germany in my eyes!" ”

"I don't think it's a bad thing to have a skirmish war with Germany in South Africa." Yi Zhizhi said unhurriedly: "England adopted a policy of appeasement and connived at Germany's expansion into the two river valleys, which was also conducive to stabilizing and consolidating the Persian Gulf. ”

Bangladesh, Tianjing City.

Tianjing is expanded on the basis of the original Dhaka city, since the Taiping army captured Bengal, Hong Xiuquan changed the name of Dhaka to Tianjing, and carried out large-scale reconstruction and expansion, and at the same time built a huge scale of the splendid Tianwang Palace, the kings also have the same example, large and small magnificent palaces all over the Tianjing City, will be extraordinarily prosperous with the large Tianjing City.

Although the city is prosperous, but the population is not large, but there are 300,000 people, the people in the city either have long hair or cut short hair, most of them are wearing Han costumes, and it is not uncommon to see them in Western costumes, and it is almost impossible to see the local indigenous people - Bengalis.

The capture of Dhaka was a massacre, and the Taiping army only believed in God and only allowed the existence of God worship, and the local natives who were lucky enough to escape the war also fled because of their religious beliefs, which led to the fact that the Tianjing City was basically Han Chinese.

The largest palace in Tianjing City is the Wing Palace, the original Wing Mansion is not conspicuous, it can be said to be the most shabby among the kings in the city, Hong Xiuquan died five years ago, there was a small infighting in Tianjing City, there was a small scale of infighting in Tianjing City, the Wing King who had Yuan Qi behind the support easily controlled Tianjing, and in less than half a year, he cut off the opposing forces and controlled Bengal in one fell swoop.

In order to show his intentions, Shi Dakai did not change his name to the Heavenly King, nor did he move into the Heavenly King Palace, but still lived in the Wing King Mansion, which made the scale of the Wing King Mansion gradually expand, but compared with the scale of the magnificent Heavenly King Palace, even the expanded Wing King Mansion is also very shabby.

In the spacious study, Shi Dakai, who was in his forties and had a somewhat dark complexion, was smoking silently, and when he saw Feng Yunshan, he put down the telegram in his hand, and he gently flicked the cigarette ash and said: "Unprovoked, how could you suddenly propose to send 30,000 troops to Tianjing.......?" ”

"The army stationed in Tianjing is nothing more than two possibilities." Feng Yunshan pondered: "Either it is to threaten India, or it is to prepare to include Bangladesh in the territory of the Qing Dynasty." ”

"Wanting Bengal to be annexed is just a matter of one sentence, and even if you want to garrison troops, you don't need such a big battle." Shi Dakai frowned and said, "It's strange that the relationship between the Qing Dynasty and England doesn't seem to be tense....... ”

"Why bother." Feng Yunshan said with a smile: "Go and seal the telegram, please attach it, the big shopkeeper will definitely not hide it." ”

It is a matter of time before it is attached, Shi Dakai is like a mirror in his heart, for the Qing Dynasty, the strategic geographical location of Bangladesh is very important, as early as when the Taiping army was expelled into Bangladesh, Yi Zhixin should have made up his mind to annex Bangladesh, what allowed the Taiping army to establish a country in Bangladesh, and used Bangladesh as a strategic buffer zone between the Qing and Britain, it is all a lie!

After quickly drawing up a telegram and sending it to someone, Shi Dakai had a relaxed feeling, since he took control of Bangladesh, he felt uncomfortable, and in accordance with the orders of Yi Zhi, he was angry and resentful during his reign in Bangladesh, not only the expropriation and expropriation, but also the construction of a large number of buildings, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, not to mention, the number of forced labor is also outrageous, coupled with frequent disasters and famines, so that the country is in turmoil, large and small riots one after another, the Taiping army is busy suppressing everywhere, brutally suppressed.

Of course, he knew that he wanted to reduce the population of Bengal to the greatest extent and lay the foundation for the annexation of the Qing Dynasty.

Shanghai's telegram replied quickly, just eight words - please attach the above table, gather the troops and horses.

After reading the telegram, Shi Dakai couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, he knew very well that Yi Zhi's delay in letting Bengal join him was actually worried about causing dissatisfaction with England, once the Qing Dynasty annexed Bengal, it would directly threaten India's security, he said faintly excitedly: "It seems that it is really going to openly turn against England." ”

"It's unlikely that they'll be blatantly turned against each other." Feng Yunshan said slowly: "Although South Africa was defeated by sea and land in South Africa, England's industrial strength and economic strength are still second to none, far better than the Qing Dynasty. According to the king, it is still intended to threaten. ”

Hearing this, Shi Dakai was secretly disappointed in his heart, he had always longed to fight a happy battle with the British, not for the merit of opening up the territory, but purely for the desire for war, and now the opportunity for the Qing Dynasty to launch a war is becoming less and less.

10 Downing Street, Westminster, England, Prime Minister's Residence.

A richly decorated four-wheeled carriage slowly drove into the iron gate, and stopped at the door of the hall on the first floor, Benjamin Disraeli, who was over seventy years old and in good spirits, walked forward a few steps slowly, and as soon as the door opened, an old man in his early sixties with a beautiful mustache slowly got out of the carriage, and Disraeli stepped forward with a smile and stretched out his hand and said: "Welcome to Prime Minister Bismarck." ”

Bismarck came to London at the invitation of Disraeli, but it was not a public official visit, but a secret visit, the two had dealt with each other when they were in Berlin, and they also joined forces to put Russia together, which was also considered an acquaintance, and after greeting him, Disraeli gave it into the palatial reception hall.

After sitting down for tea, Disraeli directly led the topic to Qing Guo, "Following the large-scale economic crisis that broke out in 1873 in various countries around the world, China also broke out a serious economic crisis this year, I don't know if you have noticed that Qing has developed industry for nearly 40 years, and its industrial scale has been comparable to that of the United States, but it has never broken out ....... economic crisis." ”

Bismarck was also very concerned about the ancient Qing Empire in the East, which had risen strongly and became increasingly powerful, and he knew very well that the British intended to connive at the expansion of Germany's influence in the two river valleys, and the purpose was to hope that Germany would curb the Qing kingdom and continue to expand into the two river valleys.

But for Germany, this is not an extremely rare opportunity to move eastward, standing in Germany's position, he even has a little gratitude for the strength of the Qing Empire, if it is not for the Qing Empire to threaten the position of England, how can there be such a pie-in-the-sky good thing?

The Baghdad Railway gave him a taste of sweetness, and this time he was invited to come in a hurry, hoping that there would be this kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing, and the other party who listened to him talked about the threat of the Qing Kingdom, and he did not echo it, and put on a posture of listening to him.

"Since the implementation of the industrial revolution in the sixties, serious economic crises have broken out more than ten times, and the development of industry in European countries has also frequently suffered from economic crises.

Disraeli paused intentionally at this point, and after the translation, he continued: "Perhaps in another twenty years, the industrial strength of the Qing Kingdom will far exceed that of your two countries, and now that the Qing Kingdom's maritime power has expanded to South Africa, and its land power has expanded to the coast of the Persian Gulf, what will happen if the Qing State occupies North Africa and the Ottomans?" Your Excellency will not forget the three Yellow Perils in European history, right? ”

The first of the three Yellow Perils in European history was called the 'Whip of God' – in the middle of the fifth century, the Xiongnu army invaded the Balkans twice, besieged Constantinople, and also made an expedition to the Orleans region of Gaul, and finally stopped its westward march at the Battle of Chalon. Then he turned the spearhead to Italy, and captured Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, and drove out Emperor Valentinian III, so that the Western Roman Empire existed in name only.

The second was from the end of the sixth century to the beginning of the seventh century, when the Turks founded a state in Asia Minor and went westward, and Southeast Europe and the Balkan Peninsula were devastated, and then the conquest of the Eastern Roman Empire triggered the famous Crusades, and finally the Turks established the Ottoman Empire on the basis of the destruction of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The third time was in the 13th century, the Mongols marched westward, the Mongols marched westward three times, and the third time the Mongol army led by Batu divided the troops into three routes, invaded Poland on the north road, attacked Hungary on the west road, and crossed the Danube River into Italy on the south road, pointing directly to Venice. In just two months, 120,000 Mongol troops defeated and wiped out a total of 600,000 European troops, all the way to Austria and Hungary, the Danube was stained with blood, and the whole of Europe was in a panic.

Bismarck did not think that the current Qing State was capable of launching another large-scale westward expedition and had disastrous consequences for the whole of Europe, but the Qing State's strength grew too fast and the expansion rate was too fast, which was indeed not a good thing for Germany, and a huge Eastern Empire was not a good thing for all European powers, not to mention that the Qing State was still ally with Russia.

After a slight hesitation, he spoke: "All the countries of Europe do not want to see the threat from the east, and Germany is the same, but we cannot stop the strong rise of the Qing State. ”

"If I can't stop it, I won't invite Your Excellency to come to London." Disraeli said slowly: "Your Excellency must know that Yuan Qi's status and role in the Qing Kingdom, it is no exaggeration to say that Yuan Qi is the spine of the Qing Kingdom, and if this spine is transferred, the Qing Kingdom will collapse with a bang." ”

Bismarck hesitated: "Is your country planning to attack Yuanqi through finance?" ”

"For the Qing country, for Yuanqi, my country has always maintained a high degree of attention." Disraeli said unhurriedly: "Yuanqi is implementing the gold standard and exporting silver abroad by any means. The drought in the nine northern provinces of the Qing Dynasty has lasted for 4 years, and the number of victims is as high as more than 100 million.

To put it simply, Yuanqi is issuing a large amount of over-issued banknotes, and there is no margin for huge banknotes, so to speak, Yuanqi is now the weakest time, and if we miss this opportunity, we can only watch the Qing Kingdom become stronger step by step.

Considering that Yuan Qi's position in the Qing Kingdom is extremely transcendent, and the opportunity is only this once, we must try to be foolproof, therefore, in addition to the financial blow, we need a war, the battle of South Africa! ”

Transvaal Gold Mine! Bismarck reacted instantly, and when he knocked out Yuanqi's gold mine in the Transvaal, he cut off Yuanqi's source of gold, which was a two-pronged approach!

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