Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 192 Conspiracy
Guan Xuqing also asked them about the basic situation of railway construction, such as land survey. After all, not all railways are built on flat plains, especially the west of Tongguan, which is full of mountains.

After chatting until around 5 pm, Guan Xuqing hurried back to the palace.Immediately allocated a fee of 100 million silver dollars to the newly established railway department office for land survey, railway line design and so on.

Back at the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Guan Xuqing was in a great mood, never thinking that he would end up getting the right result after unintentionally planting willows.

"Your Majesty, a secret telegram from the Northeast Military Region." Wang Shang handed over a telegram.

Guan Xuqing took the telegram, read it, smiled and cursed: "This Dong Liang watched me grow up, why didn't I see him so timid when he killed Cixi?"

It turned out that when Dong Liang heard that the emperor was going to tour the south, he refused to allow the local army to escort him, and did not specify the route of the tour.Just taking more than 200 imperial guards and dropping a guard group from him, he became anxious on the spot and quickly sent a power to Guan Xuqing.

The telegram said, either let the first division escort, or ask the emperor to set the route for the southern tour, so that the local troops can arrange it in advance.

Although Guan Xuqing scolded Dong Liang for being cowardly, his heart was warm.After all, Dong Liang was the main hero who helped Guan Xuqing win power, but due to various reasons, Guan Xuqing's military power was finally handed over to Feng Xianghua, but Dong Liang didn't care at all, and still worked hard to do his job well.

Inside Prince Li's mansion, there was an endless stream of people coming and going.

Shopkeeper Wang Taiyuanji, who often supplies goods to various palaces in the capital, has a smiling face when he sees people recently. Could he be unhappy?These days, the Prince Li's Mansion asked for more than double the usual amount.For this reason, shopkeeper Wang specifically asked the guy who took the order if he had made a mistake in his memory. The guy patted his chest and assured that he would never make a mistake after asking three times.And the buddy also said that he saw a lot of new faces in Prince Li's Mansion recently, so maybe that's why he asked for more goods.

Shopkeeper Wang felt strange, but with his status, he couldn't manage the affairs of the palace, and he had a lot of goods, and naturally he made a lot of money, which was really something he wished for.No, as soon as he prepared the goods, he asked a few men to send them to the palaces.

The man drove the cart to the corner gate in the backyard of Prince Li's Mansion, and the butler of the Prince's Mansion who usually received them opened the door for them.Seeing that there were too many things in the car, the butler waved his servants to go inside and called a few people out.Taiyuanji's buddies often come and go in various palaces, but these few people have never seen each other.At this time, he heard the sound of shouting and drinking from the backyard, and he couldn't help asking curiously: "Guard Hu, what's going on in the palace, it's so lively."

The steward surnamed Hu turned his face hard when he heard the words, glared at the guys and said, "It's not good for you if you know more about the affairs of the palace, so hurry back after unloading."

Several guys hurriedly lowered their heads to move things and stopped talking.

Not long after, the goods on the car were moved into the palace by the servants of the palace.At this time, a large piece of lawn in Prince Li's backyard was crowded with people. Although they were all dressed in the clothes of servants of the palace, it could be seen from the neat queue that these people were by no means ordinary servants.In fact, their identities are private soldiers of the palace.

After Guan Xuqing abolished the Eight Banners soldiers, the princes no longer had military power.Especially after the reform of the military system, all the troops were uniformly handed over to the Ministry of War by Guan Xuqing.The political commissars set up in the army also ensure the loyalty of the army, and these private soldiers are all bannermen.They are all those who have lost the privileges that bannermen could enjoy before because of Guan Xu's new policy.

These days, the mansions of several princes in the capital are full of people coming in and out. In fact, they are all replacing the servants of the palace, replacing ordinary servants with soldiers from various banners.

Prince Li Shiduo looked at the hundreds of soldiers in front of him with satisfaction. These soldiers had been carefully selected. They must be brave and capable, but also loyal. It is quite difficult to pick out so many soldiers.If it hadn’t been for Guan Xuqing’s constant crowding out of the banner people, giving neither military power nor political power, even the food and silver that the banner people could enjoy as stipulated by their ancestors would have been deprived. The suspicion has come to him, I'm afraid he still doesn't dare to go to this step so quickly.

Gangyi beside Shiduo said at this time: "A total of 780 people have been paid for the settlement according to your instructions, and we are waiting for your order."

Shi Duo's face sank like water: "Don't let them go out these days, I have already got the news, maybe they will do it in these few days."

Resolutely nodded.

In the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, between the Greater Khingan Mountains and the Changbai Mountains, there is a wide plain with an area of ​​35 square meters.It is alluvially formed by several large rivers such as Liaohe River, Songhua River, Nenjiang River, Heilongjiang River and Wusuli River. In addition to good irrigation conditions, it is also the most fertile black soil. "Sprouted" There are only three such black soils in the world, one in the Ukrainian province of Tsarist Russia, one in the Mississippi River Valley of the United States, and the other in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty.The black soil of the Qing Dynasty is the largest in the world.

But for a long time, such a fertile land has been left unused. If it is suitable for forest, then it will be forested, if it is suitable for grazing, then it will be grazing, and the fertile soil that can be planted with grain will yield a bumper harvest. There are only some low-utilization pastures in the fertile land, which is really reckless.

Regarding the land policy, what Guan Xuqing did was exactly the opposite of what the Chinese emperors had done in the past. Instead of suppressing mergers, he encouraged mergers. He even issued a decree that when a household owns a certain amount of land, it can reduce or exempt taxes.For this reason, the folks have almost set off a wave of mergers and acquisitions of land, and the price of land has also risen again and again.

This has the same effect as the "enclosure movement" in the United Kingdom back then, creating a large number of cheap labor who lost their land.Although it has experienced several years of war in a row.However, because the main battlefields were all abroad and did not affect the prosperous domestic areas, industry and commerce still developed rapidly.In the southeast coast where the basic conditions are better, signs of the industrial revolution have begun to appear.The influx of a large number of people into the city has injected impetus into the development of industry and commerce in a disguised form.

And those merged lands constitute large farms similar to the German Junker Manor.They no longer use the backward chartered farming system of the past, but employ free farmers.The farmer is no longer closely related to the land, but has become an employee of the farm.Due to the increasing demand for raw material land due to industrial development, these farms began to concentrate on large-scale planting of some cash crops, which also became the beginning of agricultural area planting in the Qing Dynasty.

But Tsarist Russia has been coveting this land for a long time, and Shiduo has his own plans for daring to kill the king at this time. First, he has already secretly contacted Tsarist Russia. As long as the emperor dies, he will kill the infant brother , Tsarist Russia will come forward to make Zai Lian ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.And the price is this 35 square kilometers of black soil! !
And at the very top of the Sanjiang Plain, at the junction of the Heilongjiang and the Ussuri Rivers, a place called Khabarovsk by the Qing Dynasty and Khabarovsk by Russia, a fleet of several gunboats and a dozen wooden boats sailed come over.

Several gunboats belonged to the Russian Heilongjiang Fleet. At this time, a Russian officer stepped down from the leading "Birobidzhan".He had already been waiting on the shore for a group of people to greet him quickly.

"General Enze, we meet again, are your people ready?" the Russian officer in long riding boots asked.

Opposite him, a fat and broad officer in the uniform of a major general of the Qing Army nodded and bowed his promise, and said flatteringly: "General Brosk, it is too small for you to come here from the other side for such a small matter." Please. My men are all ready and looking around."

Brosk nodded and said, "General, you must transport these munitions away as secretly as possible."

"Understood, understood." Fat Enze said with a smile all over his face, "Don't worry, this area has been designated as a forbidden area, and what we do will never be revealed."

"That's good, then let's start." As he spoke, Brosk asked his soldiers to remove the boxes from several gunboats and a dozen wooden boats. These are Russian-made three-year-style rifles and bullets. , As for artillery, even the Russian army lacks it, so of course it is impossible to give it.

To be honest, this Russian rifle is really not very good. It is not as good as the German Mauser, nor is it comparable to the rifles made by the Qing Dynasty's own Hanyang Arsenal. These Russian-made munitions are used to equip the local security forces.

But for Shiduo, it is very good to be able to obtain these arms at this time.

Tie Liang, head of the 17rd Regiment of the 51st Brigade of the 153th Division of the Northeast Army, was in charge of the security of the delivery.It is really an extraordinary honor to be the captain of the colonel.He also knew that this was the grace of Prince Li. Normally, he would be grateful to Dade, but now.

Although the above has not said it, but with the soldier's intuition, he can guess something.Now Daqing and Tsarist Russia are at war. Some time ago, the brigade commander just came back from a meeting at the division headquarters and said that he would keep an eye on Tsarist Russia.Now Prince Li has been ordered by the Ministry of War to start an arms deal with Tsarist Russia, and it was when the emperor announced that he would go on a southern tour.It seems that the rumors in the court that the princes and the emperor are at odds are not groundless.And it's almost time for the needle to point to the wheat.

But is the combined power of several princes as great as that of the emperor?Let’s just say that the soldier in this hand is the leader of the soldiers. This kind of thing is the clearest.The military power is firmly with the emperor, even if a few soldiers of the Eight Banners before the princes managed to scrape together 10,000+, they are not the opponents of the Qing army now!There are basically two grades, one is the fierce general who has survived a hundred battles, and the other is the prince soldier who smoked opium.How does this compare!

But Tie Liang is not stupid, he knows that there must be someone around him staring at him, at this time he can only take one step at a time, if the trouble really succeeds, he will definitely not be missing from the heroes.If it doesn't work, with the military power in his hands, he can also play by ear.

Just when the undercurrent in the capital was surging and the clouds outside the pass were mysterious, the various forces that might have noticed this abnormality were too busy at the same time.Everyone was busy with the emperor's southern tour, and Dong Liang also focused on the selection of escort troops for the emperor.

Guan Xuqing didn't even think that the catastrophe of extinction was just around the corner.

(End of this chapter)