Chapter 773 Tsar, you can't be afraid of being revolutionized
Chapter 775 Tsar, you can’t revolutionize yourself because you are afraid of being revolutionized!
That night, Li Hongzhang, who had become the emperor and Empress, held hands side by side with Mathilde and stepped into the dormitory of the Thunder Leaf Palace together. The bronze oil lamp swayed in the wind through the hall, casting their shadows on the loess wall, like two dormant beasts.
The copy of the draft "Russia-Tang Treaty" opened on the desk also emits ink fragrance. Mathilde took off the silk gloves covered with French lace, and stroked his fingertips through the ink traces of the "Chu River Trade Corridor" on the treaty, and sneered: "The Russians are really greedy. Alexander II's 300,000 troops were still trapped in Poland to suppress the rebellion. He worked hard for more than a year but still couldn't suppress it. Now he still wants to draw a railway corridor in the Chu River! It seems that the Tsar has forgotten how his father died? Who defeated his army in the Crimean Peninsula..."
Li Hongzhang walked with his hands behind his back. Outside the window was the cold night of Saiye City, with the north wind whistling and the cold weather. What he thought of at this moment was the Fergana Basin, where mountains block the cold wind, and after spring, the flowers bloomed, the mountains melted snow and nourished crops. Although he had never been there, he had heard from Shaanxi merchants who had been to it that it was the country of Tianfu in Central Asia. It was a good place for him and Mathilde to be "two saints of the doors".
"Queen, let's use the heaven to control Russia?" He suddenly stopped and his eyes were nailed to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the desk like an eagle. Using the barbarians to control the barbarians was Li Hongzhang's specialty when he was "in the middle hall"!
Now that he is not in the middle of the hall, he becomes the emperor, and there is also a Mathilde who is assisting him. He is still unable to repeatedly jump and play with the three great powers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Russian Empire, and the French Empire?
Mathilde smiled and looked at the man he had put in his money to support him, nodded and said, "The Russians' ambitions are always greater than their abilities, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also seems to have the ambition to dominate the world. Luo Yao Kingdom wants to be the Supreme Emperor of the Western Regions, while Alexander II wants to expand his influence in Central Asia without provoking the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. We happen to be the chess pieces of their two families, and use their strength to eat the Central Asian chessboard in one bite!"
Seven days later, in a rammed earth castle in the western suburbs of Saiye City, Li Hongzhang finally met Weng Tonghe, deputy general manager of the Western Regions Province of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who should have become his lifelong enemy. This master's student in the "Psychological Energy Department" of Taiping University still could not calm down and do scientific research. Instead, he studied hard and became an official, and ran back to Luo Yaoguo to become an official.
Luo Yaoguo did not force him to do scientific research, but sent him to Shi Dakai, the wing king of the Western Expedition, to manage the logistics - the 80,000 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Western Expedition army! He also had to establish a temporary local regime along the way. When he attacked Gansu, he was the deputy general manager of Gansu Province. After Shi Dakai's army entered the Western Regions, he became the deputy general manager of the Western Regions.
When the war in Pingxi ended, Weng Tonghe wanted to have academic qualifications, relationships, relationships, experiences, military merits, or literature, science, military three cultivation, or "science and senior brother" in Taiping University. In any position, he was a pillar of the kingdom of heaven!
"Master Li... No, it's time to call His Majesty." Weng Tonghe bowed proudly, "Prime Minister King Wu means that the affairs of us Chinese are not to rely on outsiders. We will discuss the demarcation and treaties between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and your Tang Dynasty. There is no need for Russia to participate. As for what treaties you Tang and Russia sign, we can just go through it as long as it does not harm the interests of the Heavenly Kingdom."
Li Hongzhang sighed, "Mr. Weng Mingjian, although I am known as the emperor, I am actually urged to a corner of the Qihe River and was sandwiched by the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. I really can't afford to offend any end! Moreover, my millions of exiles cannot be supported by the land of the Qihe River. If the Kingdom of Heaven wants to take back the Zhen Zhen, I can give it up, as long as the Kingdom of Heaven can give me some military expenses and arms, and let me go south to take over the land of Haohan, Bukhara and Shiva.
Weng Tonghe's pupils shrank. Of course he knew that Li Hongzhang was playing the battle between the two tigers - if the Taiping Army competed with Russia for the land of the Seven Rivers, then the Tang Dynasty would free up his hands to clean up Haohan, Bukhara and Shiva - where is the granary and pasture of the Great Western Regions...
"Your Majesty isn't afraid of the Russians turning against each other?" Weng Tonghe asked.
"Change?" Mathilde walked out of the shadow, and the latest style of Paris's trousers were faintly exposed under the Russian sable fur. "St. Petersburg was busy suppressing the Polish uprising, and there were still people in the Caucasus to make independence. Where could Alexander II take action? But if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took over the land of the Seven Rivers, the territory south of the Ili River Valley and the territory south of Lake Balkash will be bitten with the territory of Tsarist Russia, and there will be no buffering. This is probably not what His Highness the King of Wu wants, right?"
"Buffer?" Weng Tonghe laughed, "The Empress may have misunderstood the thoughts of His Highness of the King of Wu. What the King of Wu has never wanted is not a buffer between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Russia! Because the Russian Empire will soon face a revolutionary storm from the West, what he wants is a buffer between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Tianfang Sect!"
"What?" Li Hongzhang was stunned, "Tianfang Sect? They."
Mathilde was even more surprised: "Where did the revolutionary storm in Russia in the West? Poland, Austria, Prussia? Or."
The fireplace in the corridor of the Hermitage was burning warmly, and the sound of military boots hitting the marble floor from far to near. Alexander II stood in front of the window with the portrait of Queen Ekaterina, looking at the ice flowers floating on the Neva River, and the blunt sound of the heels hitting the boots came from behind.
"Your Majesty, the army heading to Poland is still waiting for the train!" Army Minister Mi Liujing said angrily, "But the bastards of the Warsaw Railway Bureau have stolen all the coals to the black market!"
Shuvalov, the director of the Third Hall, took off his monocle glasses and wiped it: "The garrison of the Brest Fortress shot and killed thirty-seven Polish students yesterday. The brochure of "Land and Freedom" that is currently spreading everywhere in Poland is extremely radical and very dangerous. If it is spread to Little Russia, the land of Belarus will be even more troublesome."
"Sir," Prince Vasily, who had just returned from the United States as chairman of the Peasant Affairs Committee, pulled out a blue cover from his cowhide briefcase. "When I read this Anti-Sutra in New York Harbor, I was like being hit by the Spirit of the Heavenly Spirit. The Nicholas Zhao Si used the method of bewitching black slaves and poor white people to make the Southern Confederacy persist until now. The Chinese said, "Not destruction, no establishment." Instead of letting the revolutionaries deceive serfs, we should divide the fields ourselves first!"
The Tsar turned his head and looked at the Russian "King of Conscience" and didn't know what to say for a moment. As the Tsar, of course, he was very afraid of revolution, but he couldn't revolutionize himself first because he was afraid of revolution, right?
Foreign Minister Gorchakov silently unfolded a telegram, and then his expression became extremely serious.
"What telegram?" said the Tsar, "Let me hear!"
"It was the Earl of Veber and the Female Natalia who jointly signed a secret telegram." The old diplomat's voice seemed to be reading the verdict. "His angel of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom predicted that in the next few years, the plague of revolution will spread in Europe, and then affect the Russian Empire, and even threaten the Russian Empire."
"What? Someone in Europe is going to revolution again." Army Minister Mi Liujing roared, "Why are there endless things? What did Napoleon III do for? Will he not suppress it?"
The Tsar raised his hand to stop the old general, and then said to Foreign Minister Gorchakov: "Read on."
"The prophecy points out that public grievances caused by land ransoms will lead to the reform of 1861 becoming a catalyst for the revolution. If land distribution is promoted in Poland, Gorchakov paused for a moment, and the Adam's apple rolled and swallowed a dangerous word, "Russian peasants would demand equal rights; if distribution is refused, the Polish rebels would obtain the moral flag."
OK, both ends are blocked!
This Polish land is divided, and it is not divided. It is necessary to finish it horizontally and vertically!
Alexander II suddenly strode to the fireplace, and the fire leaps in his gray-blue pupils: "What else did this Eastern wizard say?"
The Russian Foreign Minister said: "It is recommended that the empire give up the double-headed eagle strategy and focus on responding to the European revolutionary wave. Central Asia can entrust Li Hongzhang and his wife, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is willing to use Lake Balkash as the boundary."
The Army Minister reminded: "This is to give up our policy of advancing east for two hundred years and even make big strides!"
"But he said. Maybe it makes sense!" The Tsar walked a few steps. "There are ten times more farmers in the past few years than before the release of the "Liberation Act". Shuvalov, why didn't your Third Hall predict these?"
The director of the Third Hall twitched his pale face: "Your Majesty, that Chinese prophet may be provoking"
"No!" Prince Vasily suddenly opened the "Anti-Sutra" and pointed to a sloppy Russian annotation, "It says that free farmers will definitely pursue the land of ploughing people. Your Majesty, Yemeilian Pugachev incited rebellion by lies of dividing the land!"
"Your Majesty," Gorchakov took out another telegram from his arms: "Lev Balizek said that the Taiping Army was setting up a telegram line in the Ili River Valley, and their cavalry had crossed Zhaisangpo."
The tsar's hand holding the telegram swelled up and suddenly turned his head to stare at the Army Minister: "If we announce the implementation of the Liberation Act, including land allocation, in Poland, immediately."
"In four months, I can pacify the entire Poland!" Mi Liujing patted his chest and promised, "Is it just a big Russia, a little Russia, and a Belarusian farmers going to do it."
Prince Vasily suddenly fell to one knee and said, "Your Majesty, please allow me to pilot the division of land in Little Russia."
"Are you asking Your Majesty to be the leader of the revolution?" Shuvalov's sharp voice pierced the air, "Divide the land for the serfs? What's the difference between it and the red ghost? Tomorrow the "Clock" newspaper will say that the Tsar surrendered to the red ghost!"
Chapter completed!