Chapter 682: Great Powers, It's Out! Ask for a guarantee
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Old Summer Palace, Changchun Immortal Hall.
"Her Royal Highness! Do you know what His Majesty of China said? He said: The Kingdom of Siam is a solid ally of the Ming Empire, and their army and navy will participate in the war to liberate the Kingdom of the Ryukyus...... He also said: According to the "Triple Alliance of the Ming Dynasty, Japan and Siam", the Ming Dynasty is obliged to guarantee the territorial and sovereign integrity of Siam and its vassals Chenla......"
An old French man was sitting in the living room of the Changchun Immortal Pavilion, talking endlessly in French to the concubine Maria of the Ming Dynasty. Clementina spoke. Lady Aledley was the only one around. Changchun Immortal Pavilion is already Emperor Zhu's harem, and men outside can't enter at all without permission. Clementina is a relative (the aristocratic circle in France is so big, it is normal to be a relative), and now she came in under the guise of visiting relatives. But the things he said were all military affairs.
After hearing this, Maria smiled: "Earl, the Ming Empire, like any European land power, needs to find allies in neighboring countries. Siam and Japan are to the Ming what Sardinia and Spain are to France. Doesn't France still guarantee Spain's ownership of the Philippines? ”
Hearing Maria's words, Bourblon snorted: "Your Majesty the Chinese has completely forgotten who is the most solid ally of the Ming Dynasty in Europe!" If Emperor Napoleon III had been annoyed by his actions, the Ming would soon have been isolated in Europe! Your Royal Highness, you should truthfully convey these words to His Majesty the People's Republic of China! ”
Maria just pursed her lips and smiled. Aledley, who was beside her, also smiled lightly. Said softly: "Mr. Ambassador." You have not yet considered the Ming as a great power, but Emperor Napoleon III already regarded the Ming as a first-class power. Otherwise Princess Mathilde would not have come to China at all, and Monsieur Henry would not have received the surname Bonaparte. ”
Having said that, it is also clear that Mathilde's eastward trip has already shown that France has recognized China's status as a great power. It was also recognized that the Ming Dynasty and the Bonaparte Dynasty could sit on an equal footing. Therefore, Daming can have several younger brothers in Asia, one in Japan and one in Siam, all of which cannot be moved casually.
Bourblon was lectured by a female official of the Chinese court, and his face was a little unbearable. Maria. Clementina smiled slightly, "Aledley is the head of Fort Maria. There is also the title of baroness, who is a nobleman of the Ming Empire. ”
Bourblon was stunned and glanced at Aledlai, where the woman stood motionless, like a sculpture. Burbulon groaned for a moment and said with a look of regret: "Can't the Empire attack Zhenla?" That's a pretty fertile land......"
Maria. Clementina exhaled and pondered for a long time before she said, "...... It's not that it can't, but that the French army doesn't come forward. If there is a border conflict between the Vietnamese and the Chenla people, there is always room to turn around. Mr. Ambassador, you don't think it's worth going to the Ming Empire for a little Zhenla, do you? ”
Bourblon groaned again. Cai reluctantly nodded: "Okay, I will convey this opinion to the French Governor's Mansion of Annan." ”
After speaking. He got up and said goodbye, and under the guidance of Aledlai, he walked out of the Changchun Immortal Pavilion. As soon as he walked out of the front foot, Zhu Jishi walked out of the inner room connected to the living room with a cold face.
"Maria, it seems that this relative of yours does not see my empire as a great power!"
Maria just smiled faintly: "After all, the status of the great powers is not seen, but fought in war...... Your Majesty, has your army begun its military campaign to reclaim Mobei? ”
Zhu Jishi touched his beard, as if he wanted to think of the Jin Ge Iron Horse on the Mobei grassland in his mind. After being filled for a while, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked confident: "The action has begun!" My generals Luo Junqi and Miao Peilin have already commanded 150,000 Ming troops, and 120,000 Mongolian tribesmen in Mobei and Monan, and the troops are divided into two routes, step by step, and forced to Kulun! ”
The Northern Expedition to the Northern Mongols began after the beginning of spring, and did not wait until the summer when the horses were fat and strong, as was the tradition of the Mongols in the past. This is because the results of the development of the northeast have already begun to appear, and last autumn, the grain harvest in the northeast was once again bumper. It not only helped to ensure the supply of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops stationed in the northeast and the Horqin grassland, but also provided fodder for hundreds of thousands of military horses.
However, the military operation of the Ming army was not carried out quickly, and there was no long drive to attack Kulun. Instead, they continued to build castle strongholds along the way to house the Mongolian nomadic tribes that had followed from Monan. According to the plan of the General Staff, it is not a problem at all to collect Kulun and chase Yixin. The problem is that if the provinces and counties are established in Mobei Mongolia, it will lay a good foundation for the future Sinicization of Mongolia - this process of sinicization is of course a win-win situation, the Ming court and the Mongolian nobles are both big winners, and the vast number of Mongolians are poor and herdsmen, and Emperor Zhu can't control it...... Fortunately, Mongolia is not yet an era of class contradictions, as long as the tribal leaders and the monks and nobles support Tengri Khan, then everything will be fine.
Everything is fine here in Zhu Ming, and in the so-called Khan court of Boktor Khan in Kulen City, it is naturally gloomy and bleak. This Khan's court, located in the yamen of the former Kulun minister of the Qing Dynasty in Kulun City, was not hoisting the white flag admired by the Mongols, but a faded yellow and gold dragon flag, fluttering weakly. Since the revival of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has encountered such a panicked and bleak atmosphere many times. The fall of this great Mongolian state was taken for granted even by its masters.
Yi Xin sat in the dimly lit hall of the palace, looking a little numb, listening to his military ministers report the news of the approaching Ming army, but he didn't say a word. After the report ended, there was silence in the lobby, and everyone wanted to say a few words of encouragement, but they didn't know how to speak for a while.
Although another war with the Ming Dynasty has just begun, everyone knows that the Tao is bound to lose. The reason why they raised the flag of rebellion was just because they didn't want to go to Ying Tianfu to be a "prisoner". They are all the most hardcore Qing Zhongliang, most of them are Manchurians, and only Zhuo Bingtian is a Han Chinese. And they are all in power, who doesn't have hundreds of thousands of savings and millions? Even if you go to Petersburg and Moscow, you can be rich and noble for a lifetime, so why bother to go to Yingtianfu to live a precarious life?
Who knows when Lu Dao will send some poison, daggers, and white silk to his home to ask for his life? How did the Qing Dynasty treat the descendants of the Ming Dynasty? How did you deal with the three feudal kings who worked hard to help them fight the world? How did you rectify the surrendered Taiwanese Zheng family? Who dares to go to the heavens to be descended by these Manchurian nobles who know the insiders!
With this in mind, since the day of its listing, probably no one in this great Mongolia has been doing things seriously. The Manchurians with status and status in the city of Kulen have already sent their family property to the city of trading and even Irkutsk. In Kulen, they are all "naked officials". And those little minions are counting one day at a time, and at the beginning they kept the rules for a few days. Later, I saw that the leading people in the city of Kulen sent their family belongings to the north. They still don't know the general trend there?
Looking at the speechless Minister of Military Aircraft below, Yi Xin remembered the words of his elder brother Shang Shu Yi of the Mongolian Military Department: "Sixth, this soldier can't be brought, really, the hearts of our banner people have been scattered!" What the Eight Banners New Army, what Russian-style training, it's all fucking bullshit...... At the beginning, everyone rushed to be an official, there were few vests and step armors, and there were thousands of leading staff and leading assistants! They were made officials, and they refused to practice, and the noses of the Russian advisers were crooked. He also made money all day long, saying that the emperor did not send hungry soldiers, who starved them! They all ate fat stomachs, and if they couldn't get paid, they went to steal and rob them, and they ate white food with foreign guns on their backs! The Mongols around a Kulen were miserable. Someone also put their claws into the Yellow Temple, stole all the gilded Buddha statues and sold them to Russian merchants! If such an army can win the battle, it will be the sun coming out of the west......" (to be continued......