Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 46 The Enemy on All Sides
Xuandemen Street, inside Prince Li's Mansion.

Zai Lian smiled while eating melon seeds and said, "Look, how can there be such a coincidence in the world. Li Hongzhang's negotiation broke down here, and Keelung recovered over there?"

Prince Qing Yi Kuang shook his head and said, "The little emperor has long been determined to fight the French to the end."

Zai Lian curled his lips and said: "Look at the newspaper that praised him as if he was the reincarnation of the holy ancestor. In my opinion, he has a fart. He changed all the rules of his ancestors. How can he not give food and money to the bannermen?" The truth? Kick us royal clansmen out of the court."

At this moment, Prince Li Shiduo sighed and said: "We don't care about who the emperor wants to use for the time being, but he shouldn't care about his ancestors' family property for the sake of fame, and let go of a good peace negotiation, but he wants to fight with the French." If the French fight to the door, I am afraid that the ancestors will be lost."

Yi Kuang said: "Prince Li, you are an elder of the clan, you have to talk to the emperor."

Shi Duo shook his head and said, "Your Majesty? He will meet me? I'm a fart!"

After hearing this, Yi Kuang let out a long sigh, and Zai Lian also drank the wine.

In the Forbidden City, Guan Xuqing was still studying the map of Vietnam repeatedly.After the failure of the peace talks, the French sent another 2 troops to Vietnam.In addition, 24 ships, including the flagship "Tour" and the ironclad ship "Victory", were drawn from the French Indian Ocean Fleet to advance to the South China Sea.The "Elegance" has long been maintained at the French military port in the South China Sea.

The "Dour" was the largest cruiser in the world at the time, with a displacement of 5700 tons, which was slightly lighter than the 6000-ton "Elegance", but because it was not an ironclad ship, it was a cruiser.The speed reached a terrifying 18 knots.

In other words, the fastest "Chaoyong" and "Yang Wei" in the Qing Dynasty can't catch up with him.And the artillery equipped on the "Dour" is also very powerful, with 8 main guns and 13 smaller secondary guns. With the addition of machine guns, there are a total of 38 artillery pieces, almost double that of ordinary cruisers.

It is a pity that the German "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan", "Jiyuan" and "Weiyuan" cannot return to China in advance, and can only rely on the domestic fleet to deal with him.

The "Victory" and the "Triumph" are sister ships of the same level. Needless to say, "Elegance" has a displacement of 6000 tons.However, due to the large number of bullets, it cannot be repaired in the short term.

Now the comparison between the navies of the two countries is weak again, because there are only four ironclad ships in the Nanyang Navy, "Invincible", "Eternal Victory", "Triumph", and "Juyin".The rest are outside the four cruisers "Yang Wei", "Chao Yong", "Nan Ji" and "Nan Xiang".The other several hundreds of tons of mosquito ships are not worth mentioning at all.The only chance is that the newly formed Far East Fleet of France has not yet reached the South China Sea. If they can eat up all the French troops in Vietnam before they arrive, there will be no need for cruel naval battles.

Just as Guan Xuqing was thinking hard about a strategy to defeat the enemy, Wang Shang ran in in a panic and said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Liu called and said that he would send troops to North Korea. He has already entered the palace."

Guan Xuqing suddenly stood up, because Liu San was stationed on Jeju Island.Let him be on guard, why let them succeed?Just about to swear a few words, but all this is not over yet, the servant came to report again: "Report to the emperor, Tsarist Russia has once again sent troops to invade Xinjiang. Now it has occupied the land in the southeast of Issyk-Kul Lake. Is Nie Junmen's request correct? Tsarist Russia strikes back."

Guan Xuqing's mind buzzed after hearing this.The war in France in the south is over, and Tsarist Russia in the east and northwest can't bear their temper.I want to get a share, but now, the Qing Dynasty is tired enough to deal with a France.How can you spare your hands to deal with Tsarist Russia?

Guan Xuqing put down the telegram in his hand, turned to Wang Shang and said, "Let Zuo Zongtang return to Beijing immediately without delay."

"twitter."

At this time, Prince Gong asked to see him.

"Your Majesty, I respectfully welcome the emperor's peace." Prince Gong said.

"Uncle Six is ​​here, I was looking for you." Guan Xuqing said excitedly.

Prince Gong said with a stern face: "Your Majesty, I heard that Xinjiang and North Korea are in chaos again. I rushed here. I don't know how the Emperor is going to deal with it?"

Guan Xuqing sighed, and said slowly: "Now I, the Qing Dynasty, are at war with the French, and China, Russia all want to come here to make a profit. Sixth Uncle, I don't know how you think we should deal with it?"

"I believe that when dealing with the three, we should distinguish between priorities, so that we can calmly make decisions."

"What is the primary? What is the secondary? How should we distinguish the priority?"

"I think it is a small country. Although it has developed rapidly since the Meiji Restoration, it is still not enough to compete with our Qing Dynasty; Russia has not recovered from the defeat of the Crimea, and it is unable to invade eastward, so it only sends a small team of horses to harass it. Our frontiers; both countries took the opportunity to send troops because of the war between the Qing Dynasty and the French, and wanted to take advantage of it. So the two countries are secondary, and France is the main one. We should concentrate on dealing with France. As long as the legal person leaves, the two countries will retreat. "

Guan Xuqing looked at Prince Gong with burning eyes and said, "Then how do we repel the legal person?"

Prince Gong paused for a moment and said: "I see that the emperor has the upper hand in everything he does. Annan has sent troops to the south before the chaos. Sneak attack on the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau. However, the troops are divided into four places and garrisoned on all sides, but they can only defend and be beaten, but they cannot injure the enemy. It is better to concentrate on entering Vietnam. , With or without these five battalions, everyone will attack North Korea. It is actually meaningless to let go or not to let go."

Hearing what Prince Gong said, it was like seeing the sun through the clouds.Yes, North Korea's deployment of five battalions can only be a display, and the people will attack in large numbers.What is the use of the five camps?It's better to ignore the riots in the frontier and let him make trouble.When the matter in the south is resolved, a part of the troops will be sent to Xinjiang.There was no need to fight a battle, and the Russians ran away.

It seems that this sixth uncle is really a rare talent in the Qing Dynasty, and he is calm and stable when dealing with people.You must win him over and work for yourself!

"Well, not bad. It's a way." Guan Xuqing nodded in satisfaction.

Prince Gong continued: "I also thought that since the legal person, China, and Russia have united to attack the Qing Dynasty, it is not impossible for the Qing Dynasty to unite with other countries and use the barbarians to control the barbarians."

This Guan Xuqing has also considered it, but he has paid too much attention to internal development for a long time.External development is less.Wasn't it developed by relying on the Anglo-Japanese alliance back then?Didn't the industrial development of the People's Republic of China also rely on the strength of the Soviet Union?When the Qing Dynasty is so weak now, it is really necessary to find a long-term and stable ally.But who should I turn to?
Although the United Kingdom is an established power, its alliance with Britain and Japan is not considered; the United States is also strong enough, but now its domestic isolationist forces are rampant, and it is doing its best to develop its own industry. responsibility.And Russia, France, the north and the south are staring at the Qing Dynasty, and they are not considered; then only Germany is left. Germany has also been the fastest-growing country since reunification. He is the number one army in the world.And after dividing Poland with Russia, it has already bordered Russia.The two countries are suspicious and guard against each other.It is even more incompatible with France, but it is a good ally candidate.

"Uncle Six, who do you think will be your ally?" Guan Xuqing asked tentatively.

Prince Gong thought for a while, and said: "Diplomacy focuses on the strategy of long-distance friendship and short-term attack. It is necessary to find a country that is a neighbor of our Qing Dynasty's enemy, but far away from our Qing Dynasty. From this point of view, only France and Russia are far away from our Qing Dynasty. Germany is the most suitable."

Guan Xuqing stood up happily, I thought of going together.

He hurriedly said: "I am thousands of miles away from Germany, and the two countries complement each other a lot. If we can form an alliance, we can have a win-win situation."

Prince Gong nodded, "Your Majesty knows a thousand miles."

(End of this chapter)