On October 27, 1894, a day after the September tragedy, the villagers were still in extreme panic, although the soldiers of the Qing court did not search the village for the "chaotic party", but the villagers were afraid of the poisonous water, Xu Feng stood up at this time, he said to the villagers: "The reason why the water poisons people to death is because the water produces toxins, which will soon pass, so that everyone should not drink the water in the well for two days." ”

In order to protect the villagers, he did not say anything about the relationship between the Russians and the poison in the water.

Because Russia dismantled all the alchemical equipment and destroyed all the documents when it left the Northeast, later historians have not been clear about the secrets of the church, and there are different opinions about the poison in the water, but although there is a great deal of controversy in the academic community about the September tragedy, one thing is certain: this incident is like the nail in the horse's horse's paw in the Western folk song, which affected the historical process of later generations.

(Popular science: nails in the horse's horse's shoes.) Western folk songs: One nail is missing, one horseshoe is lost; lost a horseshoe and flipped a warhorse; overturned a warhorse and wounded a knight; wounded a knight and lost a battle; Lost a battle, lost a country. The ballad is different from version to version, and the core is about the impact of details on big events. On October 28, 1894, the Russian minister to the Qing Dynasty, Cassini (usually written in the history books: Kahini, here for the sake of smooth reading, so changed) came to the prime minister's yamen and found Li Hongzhang.

An urgent telegram from the Jilin general Changshun was in the hands of Li Hongzhang, the conflict between the Qing soldiers and the people outside the church made him restless, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had dominated the country for more than 200 years, and they were not beaten out as early as Meng Yuan, largely because the Manchu nobles were inclined to sinicization, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was based on Han culture and reused Han Chen, but in the hearts of the high-level, the Manchu and Han defenses were deep-rooted, and the Eight Banners who did not eat food and did not work should have been eliminated long ago.

Now, there is such a thing in the land of Longxing in the Qing court, the above will not be happy, Lafayette's birthday is imminent, there is nothing more important than this matter, so the lesson plan must be turned into a big matter anyway, a small matter, and the domestic affairs are easy to arrange, this matter is set as "the White Lotus Sect instigates the people to make a rebellion", and the tricky thing is the Russians!

Hearing that Cassini was visiting, Li Hongzhang hurriedly asked his entourage to welcome him in, and the two sat down separately, and after greeting each other politely, Cassini smiled and said, "Congratulations to the middle hall!" ”

Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "I don't know where this joy comes from?" ”

Cassini smiled: "In ten days, it will be the 60th birthday of the mother of the Qing Dynasty, isn't it a happy event?" ”

Li Hongzhang didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, so he had to laugh with him, and Cassini said: "But our Russian Empire and your country have had some unpleasantness recently, and I'm afraid it will discredit this birthday." ”

Li Hongzhang said: "This matter is all provoked by the White Lotus Sect and the chaotic party, and my Qing Empire has always been untolerant of this batch of chaotic parties. Both of our countries have such rebellious ministers and thieves, and they should be in the same air. ”

The People's Will, a progressive organization in Tsarist Russia, opposed the Tsar, and Tsar Alexander II was killed by their bombs.

Cassini said with a smile: "What Lord Zhongtang said is very true, but after our emperor Alexander III heard about this lesson plan, he was extremely angry, and my life is very difficult!" ”

Li Hongzhang thought to himself: "This ** son is going to open his mouth again!" The first few times he occupied 1.5 million square kilometers of land in the Qing Dynasty, and all the land east of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers belonged to him! Where else does he want this time? Xinjiang? ”

The reason why Li Hongzhang thinks this way is because he has coveted Xinjiang for a long time, and there was a shadow of ** behind the rebellion in Xinjiang back then.

Cassini smiled: "Lord Zhongtang, I came this time to give a big gift to Lord Zhongtang. ”

Li Hongzhang knew that he was threatening him with the teaching plan as an excuse, and if he didn't agree to the following conditions, there would inevitably be more trouble, so Li Hongzhang asked: "I don't know what kind of gift Minister Lu Dao wants to give me?" ”

Cassini said with a smile: "We plan to build a railway with your country, this railway starts from Vladivostok, passes through Harbin, Kuanchengzi, Mukden to Lushun and Dalian, after this railway is repaired, it will greatly facilitate the economic exchanges between our two countries, and it is really a blessing for the people of the two countries." ”

Kuanchengzi is today's Changchun, Jilin, and Fengtian is today's Shenyang, Liaoning.

Li Hongzhang sneered in his heart and thought: "As soon as this railway is repaired, it will be easy for the first son to send troops into the northeast." So Li Hongzhang smiled: "I can't do such a big thing." ”

Cassini smiled: "It's not a big deal, what can't you do in the middle hall?" ”

Li Hongzhang sneered: "If this is not a big deal, why do you want to find me in person?" ”

Cassini was speechless when asked a word, and Cassini sneered: "Since Lord Zhongtang doesn't agree, I can't help it, but the matter of the church won't end so easily." With that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

A month later, under pressure from Russia, the Qing court finally agreed to sign the Sino-Russian Railway Cooperation Agreement, and from then on, Russia obtained the right to build railways in Northeast China, creating conditions for Russia to quickly deploy troops to Northeast China in the future.

While Li Hongzhang was bargaining with Cassini, Ito Hirobumi was in Germany, and the German Emperor Wilhelm II received him in the meeting room.

In the drawing-room, there is still a huge yellow or picture, and Wilhelm II stands in front of this oil painting, as if he were the archangel in the painting.

Wilhelm II pointed to the painting and said, "Mr. Ito, you said that no one can control this Chinese dragon anymore, right?" ”

Ito Hirobumi smiled and nodded, and Wilhelm II said: "Our German Empire is now becoming stronger and stronger, and in these few days of visiting, I believe you have also seen that we can build cars powered by internal combustion engines, running at a speed far faster than the best war horses, and we have also built generators, electricity, such things, which will change the entire history of mankind." ”

Ito Hirofumi didn't speak, he knew that the character of this emperor was so happy and arrogant. Ito Hirobumi said with a smile: "The meat of the Qing Dynasty, I'm afraid it is not so easy to eat in the mouth, not only that, I see the recent situation in the Qing Dynasty, in Shandong Province, there have been several teaching plans, and many Germans have also lost their lives in the teaching plans." ”

Unlike Britain, France and Tsarist Russia, Germany, which is also a Western power, has not been able to reap the same benefits from China as Britain, France and Russia.

Wilhelm II laughed: "To protect our diaspora, our fleet has set off!" ”