Why did Li Hongzhang float on the sea?

Could it be that his ship is a luxury cruise?

Nowadays, sailing at sea is still very risky. If there is a little solution, Li Hongzhang would not do this.

Yes, Li Hongzhang really has no way to do it at all, there is no fight in this battle!

What is the situation with Li Hongzhang now?

He is a bare commander!

If you say you want soldiers, then he has some men. This must be admitted. As for the Huai Army, to suppress the Nian. If Li Hongzhang said that there were no soldiers, it would be a lie. Moreover, there are really many people under him, that is, many powerful people.

For example, Zhang Shusheng, Liu Mingchuan, Zhou Shengbo, Ding Ruchang... These people are all very good at fighting, not mud!

However, you should know that fighting requires money, and the suppression has just ended. What should I do with this military pay?

Many people don’t know, even the supreme rulers of the Qing court, the Aisin Gioro family, and many of them don’t know how the Qing Dynasty fights today.

How did the Taiping Army bequeathed? How did the Suppression of Nian?

The Qing court's treasury had long been empty. She still owe the money she paid to foreigners. She is slowly paying back the interest. So where did the military expenditure for these big battles come from?

Sell ​​the red top!

It is to sell official positions and titles, and it is to obtain military expenses in this way!

As for the sale of official positions, this matter has started very early. Li Hongzhang did not care about this history, but he knew the disadvantages of this matter, which can be said to be a huge harm.

The simplest logic is that these red tops are sold, and the buyers are the officials. So after they pay the capital, will the capital have to be recovered?

How to reclaim it? Scrape the ground!

To put it bluntly, the people who paid the bill in the end were the people, and this was a war. During the war, there was no lower limit when plundering, such as all kinds of random acts and all kinds of crazy methods. Li Hongzhang has really seen and heard a lot, but can he, Li Hongzhang stop it?

If you want to fight, you have to do this! If you want to make merits, you have to do this! If you want peace in the country, you have to do this!

OK, I just did it like this, and I just passed it, but now, this time I'm going to Vietnam!

How do you search for Vietnam? How did the imperial court issue this red head?

Does someone know the magistrate of a county in Vietnam?

OK, even if the court can send it out, we can do this, but how can we find the money from this red top?

That's Vietnam. It's much poorer than the Qing Dynasty. It's just a poor mountain and a bad water. How can you scrape this land?

Let’s talk about it, no one will buy these red tops. Moreover, when the Taiping Army was suppressing the Ninth Army, they had already issued too many red tops. If you go back to Vietnam to fight France, the imperial court will not be able to issue domestic red tops to you.

So, Li Hongzhang actually understood it early in the morning. This battle has no chance at all and cannot be fought. Otherwise, he would not have been punished in London. But now the superiors still want him to supervise the Vietnam War. What should I do?

Li Hongzhang used one method, drag it out!

At the beginning, he was dragging at home, and he could drag it for a day, and then dragging it in the army. Some army would go ahead before moving the food and grass. Anyway, his Huai army would not move, but in the end he couldn't drag it. Prince Chun was about to come to the door, so Li Hongzhang ran to the sea and floated.

When he arrived at the sea, Prince Chun could not get through? Can he still kill the whole family of the Li family?

So, this move is really good, but this move is good for Li Hongzhang, but what about the current situation?

The French don’t care if you, Li Hongzhang, stop without coming. This is absolutely impossible. Therefore, since the Qing Dynasty has responded to the challenge and has sent Prince Gong to step down, you have to fight.

If Li Hongzhang doesn’t fight, Prince Chun will have to go into battle!

However, Prince Chun was not stupid when he picked up the current situation, so he soon discovered that there was no way to fight this battle!

The Qing Dynasty now has the strength to fight against France? This is simply a joke!

Prince Chun found that his brother was not a surrender faction, and the Qing Dynasty was not good at this time, and his so-called "knowing soldiers" were able to lead troops, which was actually quite nonsense. At that time, during the Xinyou coup, he brought a team of troops over, but he didn't take action at all. Without a war, the other side ended.

But this matter... there is no turning back when you open the bow!

Prince Chun came to power because Prince Gong avoided war. You said that he would not fight, so you came up. So you are cowardly now?

Prince Chun had no choice. He had gone to Empress Dowager Cixi, but Cixi's opinion was very simple, and she had to fight if she had no choice!

In fact, it is obvious that Cixi and Prince Chun are wearing pairs of pants now. Of course, this matter is a bit wrong. Prince Chun’s wife is Cixi’s own sister. This is why Prince Chun stabbed her own brother.

But the current situation is that you have difficulties and have no difficulties, and you have to go to create difficulties!

Let's go, Li Hongzhang is stumbling there, just look for someone else.

Who is it?

Li Hongzao!

This guy was so clamoring before. He was the one who wrote the most books to denounce Prince Gong to avoid war. Now no one is going. You, Li Hongzao, are such a war-oriented faction, so why don’t you ‘supervise the Vietnam War’?

Li Hongzao said... This is a death toll!

He was a Jinshi who was a serious candidate. When did Li Hongzao fight? He was just stubborn and swearing at someone else when he was fighting. He said this and that, Qingliu. This guy is still a high-ranking figure in Qingliu, and he cursed people in different ways!

But how could Qingliu go to war?

So, Li Hongzao was the same, pretending to be sick!

This move is not bad, at least Li Hongzao avoided it, but don’t forget that you, Li Hongzao, can you avoid it, how can the Qing Dynasty avoid it?

So, after bazan knocked the Vietnamese king to the ground and begged for mercy, he quickly turned the gun around and French warships appeared along the coast of the Qing Dynasty.

Boom! Boom!

After half an hour of shelling, the newly established Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, which was supervised by Zeng Guofan, met Li Hongzhang here before. After the shelling, it was a ruin!

The actions of the French army are in line with the international norms at this time, that is, the Qing Dynasty is declaring war with France now. If the two sides fight, how could they watch the French just because your Qing generals did not come on stage?

This is absolutely impossible!

And when I see this, I can't fight anymore. The Westernization Affairs, which had just improved a little, was almost devastating. Fortunately, Mr. Zeng Guofan, who supervised the Westernization Affairs, was fine, but he was fine.

So what to do now?

It seems that I can’t fight, so there is only one way, so just negotiate!

Then how do the French talk about it?

"We want Taiwan..."

"We want Taiwan..."

"We want Taiwan..."

Just this sentence, these guys are talking back and forth over and over again.

This is cede land, so who can decide?

Prince Chun decided to do it simply. This is not a solution, and he still has to fight!

then……

Boom! Boom!

Another cannon, and the pond was blown up in turmoil!

It seems that the old story of the second film war is about to happen again, so what should I do?

I had no choice but to return to the negotiating table. This time, I was really helpless. Not only did I lose 100 million taels of silver, but I also ceded the treasure island...

I really don’t want to cut the land. As for the Qing Dynasty, they were easy to say about everything else, but I really don’t want to cut the land, but now I really have no way to do anything, and there is no way at all.

So, this guy Bazan achieved great success in his strategy to the Far East. Before the negotiations were over, Napoleon III of France appointed Bazan as the marshal of the French Empire!

And the treasure island was lost like this. Why did the French want the treasure island?

In fact, Li Mengyang has studied this matter based on some of the information in his hand. There are several reasons. One of them is that the treasure island is really a treasure island at this time and is very rich.

How rich are you?

Just now there is a saying on the treasure island, called Qian Yanjiao!

Oh yes, that's all, Li Mengyang remembers that when he traveled through time, he sometimes liked to say this when he saw his fellow compatriots bragging on the Internet, but it seemed that they were all about the treasure island in the 1980s. At that time, the treasure island took off in the economy.

But I didn’t expect that there was such a saying in Baodao now, which shows how rich this place is.

The reason for this is that the treasure island is very good. It can be used as a cargo transit center in the Far East. This was the case with the Dutch in the past, including the Zheng family later. The key is that this center is to do business with the Qing Dynasty!

But don't forget that the Qing Dynasty is now open, and their customs are controlled by the British, and the French can enjoy a lot of preferential treatment when they signed the treaty before.

So, if you look at it this way, the French are not stupid at all. They have found such a good place, which can really make up for their losses in Mexico.

But if all this happens, it seems that the performance of the Qing Dynasty is simply incredible. It is because of internal political struggles to sacrifice the interests of the entire country. The key is that they are still from the Aisin Gioro family...

So many things have happened in the Far East, but there are also many changes in Europe, and I feel these changes that are the British.

What changes have happened to this?

The British found that some businesses felt wrong and a little strange!

These businesses are either done with others or with the American Empire. Anyway, these businesses seem to be at a disadvantage, but they don't seem to be...

How could this happen? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!