In the late Qing Dynasty, it was in the mutual restraint of the Empress Dowager Cixi that it was hard to support, and it was also in this set of means that caused incomparable internal friction that the country fell into the bottomless abyss step by step!

However, the country has rotted to the roots, and it is all blamed on Cixi alone, and Young Master Meng also disagrees, and it is necessary to look at Cixi as a person and a woman in order to understand many seemingly absurd policies!

Cixi's destination is actually very simple, but it is just to seize power.

Young Master Meng was actually faintly aware of the Empress Dowager Cixi's unhappiness, and felt that he had been in the limelight just now, but there was no regret medicine in the world!

Moreover, even if there is a regret pill, Master Meng will not regret it, he had to do that just now, because, the matter of sending international students is too important to him, compared to money, Master Meng values people more, and if there is no money, you can continue to earn money, to grab money, there are no people, and if you want to cultivate, it is not that money can do it, if you can't take this ride, with his own interpersonal relationships, he will definitely not be able to do this, because the US consulate told him that this matter, It must be done by the Qing court!

It's not a big deal, but it's an agreement that can only be reached between countries!

It's like buying a ship, Master Meng's money, now if you buy it with your eyes closed, you can also buy two giant ironclad ships, and be equipped with enough shells, but which country will sell them to a trading house, these things?

Anything that involves arms is an important weapon of the country, and every country protects it to the death.

Young Master Meng wants to buy hundreds of guns, and it is still a very backward breech gun, and it is still quite difficult, and he has to secretly pour it back and forth from various foreign companies to be able to achieve it.

Master Meng pinched the soft and boneless little hand of Meng Jiegege, honestly, and sat beside him in a regular manner, as if he hadn't said anything just now, try to make up for it with a low profile, and the young master Meng was worried about it, Young Master Meng is the kind of person who has finished doing things, and loves to review what he did just now, at this time, his heart has long been replaced by fear The joy he played in front of the ministers just now.

The Empress Dowager Cixi heard that Xu Tong and Li Hongzhang had expressed their positions, and knew that this matter was settled, so she said softly: "Then, Li Zhongtang, you can draw up a plan, and this matter will be handed over to your Beiyang Yamen to handle, and it will be handled as a general trade affair." ”

Li Hongzhang was secretly overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Obey the Empress Dowager's decree." ”

Originally, this wedding banquet was quite successful, Zuo Zongtang saw that such a difficult thing as sending students to go abroad had been solved, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, since this prodigy in Tianjin is so magical, Wei Chen asked the northwest to use troops, and I also want to ask the prodigy to see if he can come up with any way to solve the urgent needs of the imperial court!" ”

Young Master Meng is sweating profusely, out of Nima's method, you are millions of taels, tens of millions of taels of silver, will Lao Tzu help you out of Nima's method? This is the matter of money, it is about money, or is it such a large sum of money, who can give you an idea?

In fact, there is only one solution to this kind of thing, which is to borrow foreign debts!

The foreign debts borrowed by the Qing court have long been countless, but with the Qing court's ability to repay, it has not hurt the muscles and bones at this time!

In the original history, the Qing court was the most traumatic, and the one who was beaten and couldn't get up was the Jiawu!

Without the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Qing court would have been happy for many years.

The Chinese people are also easy to manage, as long as they don't can't survive, they will not easily follow to make democracy!

For example, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no matter what, is a very successful and positive movement, and the credit cannot be erased!

First, the Taiping Revolution reached the peak of the old Chinese peasant wars, which were dominated by the idea of the peasants demanding power-sharing, unlike the previous rebel wars at the end of the dynasty!

Second, it dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary rule of the Qing Dynasty and accelerated the decline and collapse of the Qing Dynasty's rule.

Third, it has dealt a blow to foreign invaders and hindered the process of China's semi-civilian localization, if it had not been for the Taiping Rebellion, if it had not been for the foreign devils to see the power of the Chinese people, the Qing court would have defeated the country long ago!

Fourth, the spirit of resistance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom inspired the will of the Chinese people for revolutionary struggle, and if it were not for the lack of clear ideology, it would have had the opportunity to accelerate the process of China's modernization for many years! There is even a chance to push China into the capitalist era!

Fifth, the Taiping Revolution was also part of the revolutionary struggle of the people of the world at that time, which promoted the national liberation movement in Asia and shook the European continent. It is important all over the world!

In later generations, there were many half-buckets of water, desperately trying to smear the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, talking about the private lives of the leaders, and the young master Meng disagreed, the small people have the bad roots of the small people, but they can't use small things to erase the positive meaning of the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising!

Empress Dowager Cixi was slightly displeased, a topic must be led by her, the administrator, however, Zuo Zongtang has made outstanding achievements, and he has already said it at this time, so he can't be regarded as not hearing it, so he has to follow Zuo Zongtang's words: "Yue Meng, do you have any ideas?" ”

Young Master Meng immediately said: "Thank you Lord Zuo for your love, you also think too highly of me, just now I sent students to go abroad, it happened that I knew a little bit, so I said a little bit of superficial opinions, the major affairs of the court, the military plan, I am a vulgar, how dare I participate indiscriminately?" Please forgive me! ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi said in her heart, this child is really too smart, but the more this is the case, the more people can't like it! He knows how important it is!

Zuo Zongtang is a straight-hearted person, and the matter of wanting to use soldiers in the northwest has already made Zuo Zongtang almost enchanted, and he once gave Yue Meng a priceless red jade pendant, he felt that he liked Yue Meng so much, Yue Meng helped him come up with an idea, and he should have it, and he didn't think about it, this idea, can a child come up with it?

Li Hongzhang and Li Hongzao were both anxious for Yuemeng, and the two of them also secretly scolded this Zuo Zongtang in their hearts for being confused, how could they let a child take the lead in such a big military event on such an occasion? Not to mention that Yue Meng has no idea, even if she knows how to do it, she can't say it, but the two of them stand in the position of the minister, and on such a major occasion, they have no ability to stop Zuo Zongtang.

Zuo Zongtang said loudly: "Yuemeng, it doesn't matter if you don't know the situation, wait for me to talk about it briefly!" As early as the fifth year of Tongzhi, Tsarist Russia reached an informal agreement with the Agubo regime, agreeing not to interfere in each other's actions and giving each other the right to enter the country to hunt down fugitives. Shortly thereafter, Tsarist Russia seized the two Karens west of the Khorgos River, took control of the Turks Valley in the upper reaches of the Ili River, and continued to carry out armed provocations. In July of the ninth year of Tongzhi, the Russian army occupied the Muzart Mountains and choked the throat of Ili leading to southern Xinjiang. At the beginning of May of the 10th year of Tongzhi, when Tsarist Russia took advantage of Agubai's invasion of Urumqi and invaded eastward, under the pretext of stabilizing the border order, it sent Golpakovsky to lead his troops to drive straight into Ili and invade Ili on a large scale. On 17 May, it captured the nine cities of Ili and the surrounding areas. Divide the government and settle the country, settle the land, and colonize the Ili region. At the same time, it sent troops to expand in all directions, controlling the western part of the Junggar Basin from Tacheng and Emin River in the north to Jinghe and Kurkha Lawusu in the south, and infiltrated other places. If the imperial court does not curb it, there will be no peace in the northern Xinjiang, and even the Beijing division will be threatened! The northwest half of the Qing Dynasty has fallen into the invasion of foreign enemies! ”

Young Master Meng, although he was shocked to hear it, he knew that the situation in the northwest had deteriorated so much, but if you tell me this, what can I do? You're insane, aren't you? Forcing me like this in front of so many people, do you want to die?

Young Master Meng lowered his head sullenly.

Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Xuan Yuemeng and said, "Yuemeng, since Lord Zuo values your opinion so much, you can talk about it!" ”

Young Master Meng is sweating profusely, Cixi also came to force herself, I'll say a hair! Seeing Emperor Tongzhi's strange eyes looking at him, he felt even more chilled in his heart, special mother, waiting to see himself ugly, at this time, it is wrong to say it, and it is wrong not to say it.

Young Master Meng stubbornly said: "The land of the Great Qing Dynasty is sacred and inviolable!" Come one, fight one, and since the strong enemy has invaded, resolutely kill them all! This is my opinion as a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, and I can't take it seriously, but I can only represent myself. ”

Zuo Zongtang was overjoyed, what he wanted was this sentence, what he wanted was this attitude, and hurriedly asked: "However, the household department has been pushing that there is no silver tael, what should I do?" ”

It's time to be Nima!

Young Master Meng scolded Zuo Zongtang angrily in his heart, and asked Lao Tzu everything, is Lao Tzu the emperor, or is Lao Tzu the queen mother?

"I don't know!" Young Master Meng directly closed the door this time, just said his opinion, that is the minimum national integrity of a Chinese, and further down, Lao Tzu can't care about it, and then down, isn't it just for me to donate gold to you? Last time, I heard them say that they wanted seven million taels, but the household department couldn't even take out one million taels, I know what to do?

Wen Xiang smiled: "The prodigy is not a fairy, Lord Zuo, there is no silver in the household, do you want a child to turn silver out for you?" ”

Zuo Zongtang said angrily: "You can ignore even the invasion of the country, so why do your Prime Minister Yamen and Beiyang Yamen keep going on the fold to establish a steamship China Merchants Bureau and form a navy?" Your expenses will not be less than that of the Northwest, right? I only need seven million taels! ”

Wen Xiang smiled bitterly, "You saw it all, right?" I kindly persuaded him, but he came at me! When the house is broken, they try their best to repair it, and what's the use of complaining? What's the use of being in a hurry? I heard that Lord Zuo's Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau has lost a lot of silver in the Qing Dynasty, what did we say? If you save the money of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, let alone use troops in the northwest, or even move the steamship China Merchants Bureau, the money is enough! ”

Zuo Zongtang said angrily: "What am I doing at you? As long as you can take out the silver and resist foreign insults, what if I, Zuo Zongtang, kneel down for you? No matter how much money my Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau loses, it's better than you fooling around with this and that all day long! I've at least made something! What about you? What do you have to get out of other than spending money? ”

With Zuo Zongtang's grief and indignation, Young Master Meng is also a little disgusted, you have such a sense of honor, you can do it yourself! Hu Xueyan is not without money, and you are not without money in your hands! What is light called here?

However, Young Master Meng thinks that the use of troops in the northwest should definitely be a priority, and there is nothing to argue about coastal defense and blockade defense at all, there is no blockade defense, there is no army, so he came to the navy? Can't climb yet, just learn to walk? Why not develop the Air Force directly?

A country like China has developed its army to the second-rate level of Europe, and all the aggressors have run out.

Young Master Meng also thinks that Zuo Zongtang is not good, but he really can't do it, you can make up a little first! As the governor, get some money on your own one-acre and three-cent land.

Young Master Meng knows the details of these people, no one is short of money, and they really want to do something for the country, but are there any personal selfishness mixed with these things?

Young Master Meng thinks that there is, they are all dressed in the coat of the Virgin, secretly gathering prestige, and improving their own strength, anyway, things will be done, money can't be taken out, and other departments have to be forced to take money, this is the best logic for everyone to restrain each other, don't do anything, do a big thing, and quarrel for several years! (To be continued.) )