On the first day of the first year of Tongzhi, there were more than 20 vassal states of the Qing Dynasty, including Korea, Ryukyu, Vietnam, Nanzhang, Burma, Kokand, Burut, Sak, Andijan, Margelang, Tashkent, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Sikkim, Gurkha, etc., in the Taihe Hall with hundreds of civil and military officials to congratulate the new emperor of the suzerainty on his ascension, the beginning of the first yuan. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Sulu and Siam are not in the court.

The next day, the Empress Dowager Cixi met with the envoys of various countries in the main hall of the Yangxin Palace, and comforted each other, in addition to many rewards, but also gave the "Xianfeng Dictionary", in order to highlight the culture of the Heavenly Dynasty, and gave a banquet to the Ziguang Pavilion, Prince Gong personally accompanied, on the third day, he made it into the Old Summer Palace to play and view, the envoys were amazed, but also added how much yearning for the Heavenly Empire, so Prince Gong and the Imperial Court, Honglu Temple and other officials surrounded the group.

"Burma has been oppressed by the British for a long time, during the Daoguang period, the British and Burma launched two wars, Myanmar has been defeated, now is the time to survive, one-third of the territory has been occupied by foreigners, Nanzhang since Yongzheng nine years into the dynasty naturalization, but now it is also precarious, day and night by the French bullying, the ministers have asked clearly, the whole of Sulu has been occupied by Portugal, the king is under house arrest, it is considered to be the destruction of the country. Siam was defeated in the war with the British in the fifth year of Xianfeng, and the British representative, the governor of Hong Kong, Pauling, forced Siam to sign the "Anglo-Siamese Treaty of Commerce". These two countries are involuntarily separated," although Prince Gong was not very interested in these small vassal states, but the Queen Mother inquired and had to inquire about the good news, "and Afghanistan, Bhutan, and Sikkim have been bullied by the English for a long time, and Kokand, Brut, Sak, Andijan, and Margelang have also been exploited by the Russians, and there are many complaints, and the ministers have been troubled by those seasons every day. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi frowned slightly, at this time she was alone with Prince Gong, so the screen was removed, and the Empress Dowager Cixi sat peacefully behind the throne of Emperor Tongzhi, "I didn't expect these subject countries to be stormy, hey,"

"Yes. There are even Kokand who are loyal to the outside and traitors at home, and wantonly occupy the territory of Xinjiang in the name of tribute, and General Ili has played several times. ”

Kokand, the name of the ancient country. Early XVI century. Genghis Khan's eldest son, Jochi's descendant, Shabani, traveled south from the steppe, occupied the Transoxiana region, and established the Shaban dynasty of the Uzbek Khanate on the ruins of the Timurid Empire. The khanate then gradually fragmented. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the tribe, one of the 92 Uzbek tribes, established the Kokand Khanate in Ferghana, with the city of Kokand as its capital. Feudal rule with the dictatorship of the aristocracy. Develop agriculture and animal husbandry economy, and trade with Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the khanates of Central Asia were at war with each other, and Kokand conquered Tashkent, an important commercial and military center of Central Asia. In the thirties of the nineteenth century, the country was at its strongest.

"Take the map," Yang Qingxi and a few little eunuchs opened the map on the ground of the Yangxin Palace, the Queen Mother stood up, and looked at the northwest corner, the map of this era is a little unreal, the Outer Mongolia region of Tangnu Ulianghai and Wusu Yalitai is very scary, and the location of Kokand is in the northwest of Ili, the southeast corner of the Tsarist Empire. The territory is about the western territory of what is now Uzbekistan, and the Queen Mother nodded, "The place is important, the east and west must rush, colluding with China and Russia, what do you mean?" How to deal with it? How? ”

"Now that the long hair is not leveled, the country is empty, and the slaves think that it is better to be virtuous and wait for the future to free up. And then the cooking is. Prince Gong replied.

"With virtue, well, it can only be like this," no money and no soldiers. It's not good to do anything, the Empress Dowager Cixi was a little frustrated, but she could only accept this reality, "Sixth Master, you are busy with government affairs, so leave these things to the Lifan Yuan, there is nothing important to do it." The errand of the Prime Minister's Yamen is important. ”

"Yes."

"Have the ambassadors of Britain, France, and the United States arrived?"

"It has arrived, but the Russian ambassador is still on his way," replied Prince Gong, "and the envoys of Japan, Italy, Portugal, and Spain have not yet arrived. ”

"The country is waiting to meet the emperor and deliver the credentials in person?"

"Yes, the slave thinks that the emperor is young, and the foreigners of all countries are strange, so the emperor is not in charge of the government, and the queen mother and queen mother are inconvenient to see the foreign ministers to refuse, and the English ambassador seems to be displeased."

"It's not too busy to do this, it's better to say that the ambassadors of all countries have not arrived, and when the envoys of various countries have arrived, it's not too late to meet again," the Empress Dowager Cixi smiled, "The emperor's courage is very big now." ”

"Yes." Prince Gong replied, "What about the vassal states such as Sulu and Siam?" ”

"These two countries are put aside, now the foreigners are powerful, it is not suitable to fight hard, and although Siam is on land, it is also separated by the Yunnan-Guizhou Mountain woodland, which is difficult to continue, and now we do not have a navy, and the warships purchased from Britain and France have not yet arrived, and when the new army is trained, let's talk about it," the Empress Dowager Cixi clapped her hands, for a vassal to offend the foreigners, if it leads to war again, I am afraid that there will be people talking about it, and recently it has been full of bullets from some science and technology officials, saying that they have suspended the construction of the mountain mausoleum, Putting the emperor in the position of unfilial piety, which is obviously a good idea to save national use, how can it be related to filial piety, "When the Portuguese minister came, he sent a note to the French and Portuguese envoys to protest against the behavior of the two countries towards Siam and Sulu. ”

"Yes."

"Ming Jianrui Camp will exercise, the Seventh Master has already asked for an order to go to the Labor Army, and asked the Li Fan Yuan to take envoys from various countries to take a look, especially Kokand, and tell the Seventh Master to go loose, and also give him a dismount, thinking that there is no one in the Celestial Empire, and he can't deal with his small country!"

"Yes," said Prince Gong, and made a small suggestion of his own, "Nepal is the most diligent among the vassals, and when the first emperor was there, he also asked to go into the interior to help suppress the Hongyang thieves through the minister stationed in Tibet, but Su Shun politely refused. And Nepal has been bullied by the British for a long time, so it is better to reward it generously," In the early Qing Dynasty, Ladakh, Zhemengxiong, Bhutan and other countries outside the Himalayas were all Chinese vassals. Later, Britain and India began to annex and invade these countries, and all countries complained to China one after another. However, in its newspapers, the British and Indian countries referred to it as "Phileng", and the dim-witted Qing Dynasty did not know that "Phileng" was Britain, thinking that it was a small country far away, and ignored it. Ladakh, Jemengxiong, Bhutan and other countries outside the Himalayas fell to Britain one after another, and Britain further pointed the spearhead of aggression at China's Tibet and Nepal. "Ladakh, Jemengxiong, and Bhutan have been invaded and occupied by the British one after another, and Nepal is a big country in the south of the mountain, if Nepal falls into the hands of the British again, I am afraid that Tibet will never have peace." (To be continued.) )