Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 656 The Queen Mother repairs the garden

  Beiping, Forbidden City

  September 2nd, 1891, around ten o'clock in the morning

  Military Aircraft Department South Study Room

  Although it has entered September, the weather in Peking City is still extremely hot.

The Dibao reported that Shanxi, Shaanxi, Dezhou Prefecture, Beizhili Prefecture, and Hejian Prefecture all suffered a severe drought for several months. The rain did not fall, and it was worthy of migratory locusts. Millions of victims went out begging for their lives, hungry everywhere, and closed down. There are countless people on the way.

  Under the shade of the trees, the doors and windows of a row of bungalows in the South Study Room of the Military Aircraft Department are staggered, allowing the hot air to circulate into the room, which can handle some things.

  Several military ministers sat around and chatted with their folding fans in their hands. The topic was not about the immediate relief of disaster victims, but about the construction of the Summer Palace for the Empress Dowager Cixi. The conversation was enthusiastic.

"Let me say, if you want to inquire about Peking City, your filial piety to Galeries Lafayette has to be counted by Prince Yizhen. In the first two years, Prince Yizhen, the Prince of the Premier Navy, spent 2.6 million taels of silver to build the Summer Palace. This is not... In the name of buying guns for the Beiyang Navy, Prince Yizhen raised more than 2 million taels of silver and sent them to the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is a commendable filial piety."

  "The navy of the North and South Seas was a lot of waste. Building those iron-clad ships benefited the Westerners. The silver of the sea was thrown into the water. It would be better to use it to repair the garden for the Lafayette. It would be a good way to see the light."

"Master Elle said that the current state day is limited, and silver must always be used wherever it is useful. Recently, Shangshu Weng Tonghe from Hubu asked the court to say that the purchase of Western guns is harmful, and the purchase of Western guns will be suspended. After three years of foreign guns and ships, Prince Shiduo, the prince of ceremonies, has attached an order, and the court has allowed him to play it. This time, he can finally save a lot of money."

   "Huh, the ministers of the Westernization Movement are afraid that they are going to make trouble again, so I have fun watching them now."

   "Especially Hanchen Li Hongzhang, who is in charge of the naval yamen. He is not a worry-free person. It sounds like a set of things. Few people can speak of him."

"Why is he afraid of him? In other words, he is also a Han servant, a dog-like character, but a fortunate man who rose up through the suppression of the Mao bandits. These years, through the preparations for the Beiyang Navy, he has made no little money. Li Hongzhang is secretly ignorant. There is always a few million taels of silver. If the court really wipes its face and investigates it, it would be a trivial matter to punish the Nine Clan."

  "Master Xu said this is reasonable. I and others are all born under the banner of the Han Dynasty. We are not the same people with those Hanchens. We are the masters and they are the slaves."

   "Hahaha... This is exactly what I want."

   "Master Sun, you are close to the **** in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. How is the garden of Galeries Lafayette?"

"I don’t dare to work, Lord Elle, and I talked about it with the chief **** a few days ago. The Summer Palace has already spent 178 million taels of silver, which is worth half of the construction, and it looks a little bit after all. It's a royal garden, and there can be no difference in specifications and imposing manner."

"By the way, building a garden for Galeries Lafayette is an important matter. The few iron-clad ships built by the Northern and Southern navies will have everything. Those Han Chinese governors hold great power. It's time to control them so as not to go too far. Presumptuous and defiant."

   "Master Elle, this is the words of the veteran minister for seeking the country, and the ministers and others seconded it."

"Seconded."

   "Of course I seconded."

  The three military ministers of the Han military banner nodded their heads like smashing garlic. Elle and Bu looked around arrogantly, then looked up and laughed, feeling unspeakably proud.

  In 1887, Emperor Guangxu took charge of the administration. Empress Dowager Cixi appeared to be in charge of the emperor, but in fact she still clung to the power of the court. The poor Emperor Guangxu was just a puppet.

  In order to quell the criticism from the ministers in the court, the Empress Dowager Cixi said that if she wanted to build a garden to maintain her life, let the emperor Guangxu take care of the affairs of the court in the future.

  Don’t care if it’s the Queen Mother’s tactics, you can always see some hope.

It takes a lot of money to build a royal garden, but this way Empress Dowager Empress Cixi can retire and raise Emperor Guangxu alone. Prince Yizhen, the mellow prince of the prime minister’s naval affairs office, is the father of Emperor Guangxu, so he has to help his son because of reason. A handful.

   So he handed it, and Prince Jin Yizhen tried his best to get money from the Prime Minister’s Beiyang Affairs Office. This is already a thing everyone knows.

at this time

The Minister of Military Aircraft Department Zhang Zhiwan walked in hurriedly from the outside. He was holding a diplomatic note in his hand. After entering the door, he looked around, and saw the Minister of Military Aircraft and Aircraft Secretary Elle and Bu Gao sitting on the upper seat, holding a folding fan in his hand. Fan the wind back and forth.

So Zhang Zhiwan walked up in three steps and two steps, and presented the diplomatic note with both hands and said; "Master Elle and Bo, this is an emergency diplomatic note from the United Kingdom. British Minister Hendry is still waiting for news and needs to be urgent. manage."

   "Oh, let me take a look." When Elle and Bu heard that it was a matter of foreigners, they quickly put down their folding fans, took a diplomatic note and took a closer look, and their faces suddenly changed color.

  This is too big for him to be the lord!

  "Wait and wait a minute, I want to present the gift to the prince in person."

   Elle and Bu stood up and straightened their clothes, then took the diplomatic note and went to the back room.

  The South Study Room of the Military Aircraft Department is a general wing room, where all the military ministers and the traveling ministers of the military aircraft department all work here and review the memorials.

  Prince Shiduo, the Minister of the Military Aircraft Department, is inside, separated by a separate door, and ordinary people are not allowed to trespass unless they have important things, reflecting the distinction of superiority and inferiority.

"King of the Ocean Kingdom, the queen is planning to go to the Guangzhou prefecture in the near future?" Prince Shiduo looked at the diplomatic note in surprise, and looked a little at a loss; "When will such a country emerge, what is the number? "

"Returning to the prince, this ocean kingdom is located in the southeast of Luzon, and thousands of miles away. There is a continent called Australia, which is a subordinate of the British nation. This ocean kingdom is a powerful force on the Australian road. The newly established kingdom is recognized by the European countries, and the prince does not know that it is normal."

   "A small country in Dongyi, so what is it!"

"Wang Ye Rongzhen, this Ocean Kingdom is not a small country in Dongyi. It has a vast territory, and it is only a little bit inferior to my celestial dynasty. Its remote location, of course, can’t compare with my celestial treasure, Hua Tianbao, but He is a brave and cruel temperament. He has fought a few **** battles with the Westerners, but he even won by chance. In addition, he humiliated the Easterners a few years ago. That is an unstoppable wild horse temperament, even The English country also had to let it establish a new country, which shows the clues."

  "Ah...Is this so tricky?"" Prince Li's face suddenly changed.

He knows that the Westerners are really powerful with their boats and guns. Even the Easterners are not good friends. In the early years, the Easterners used the excuse of Taiwan’s indigenous torture and kill the fishermen who had suffered storms and sent troops to invade Taiwan. The court paid a lot of money. It took 500,000 taels of silver to settle the incident.

  This Raoshizi Oceanic Kingdom was able to beat both the Orientals and the Westerners to disgrace. Naturally, it was not easy to be the same. The original contempt disappeared immediately, replaced by deep worries.

After careful consideration, Prince Li frowned and asked; "As far as the king knows, these ghosts and red fans of Europa are also against the king, who are brave and ruthless, so how can they allow the eyelids of the Ocean Kingdom. Is it established underneath?"

  "The prince did not know that the Ocean Kingdom’s army is very powerful. Fighting will lead to two defeats, and cooperation will lead to a win-win situation. The ancestors of the English people were born as pirates, and they were originally tempered to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages."

   "Oh, that's how it is!"

Elle and Bu took a step in favor and whispered back; "The prince, this Ocean Kingdom is a ruthless character. I heard that the dead people who killed the white people in Australia are like a sea of ​​blood. We can't wait to take it lightly. ."

  "How did you know that Nanyang affairs are so detailed, you monkey who walks with birds and dogs?" Prince Li Shiduo looked more solemn than ever.

  He knows that El and Bu are different from the Manchu noble ointment children who are eating and waiting to die in the middle of the capital. They are rare and capable ministers. This "monkey" implies closeness and is not a derogatory term.

"Hey...Lord, I have business dealings with Normandy, England. The leather goods over there are good first-class, and there are cheap and good-quality canned sausages, which can be stored for a long time at room temperature, and milk powder with toffee. They are also must-haves for the big family, so the ministers often read some Nanyang newspapers given by Normandy foreign companies, knowing that these are some cruel characters that are not easy to provoke. The family was also killed, tusk tusk... and I won the battle."

  Elehebu was born in the Manchu inlaid blue flag. He was born as a jinshi in the first class. He once worked as a custody officer, under the command of General Shengjing, and investigated Hardutong.

  Zuo Zongtang used troops in Xinjiang, Elle and Bu brokered grain transport, and mobilized the Eight Banners officers and soldiers to assist in the suppression, and scuttled General Ulya Sutai, but the thieves were repeated.

In the 6th year of Guangxu (1880), Elehebu served as the capital of the Han army of the Xiangbai Banner and transferred to Mongolia.

  "This diplomatic note will not be easy to return!" Prince Shiduo, the prince of Li, was in trouble, and felt like he had taken a hot potato. Regardless of the East, West, South, and North Russia, everything involved in the ocean was nothing trivial.

  The Empress Dowager Cixi of the Lafayette is in the late stage of foreign-phobia, and other Manchu ministers are not much better.

   During the war between China and France in the south, the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Forbidden City could not sleep day and night, for fear that those blue-eyed and yellow-haired foreigners would come to Peking City again.

  Those things back then have left a deep psychological shadow.

The leader of the military minister, Prince Shiduo, was not a brave and decisive temperament, but he was reborn. In addition, the Baqi Guibao children all over the capital were raised and discarded. The generals were drawn from the army, and they were able to sit in this military office. Location.

  It looks like a big belly, but in fact there are straw bags inside.

Since the beginning of the Yongzheng dynasty, in order to deal with the Qinghai Lobzang Tenzin's rebellion, the military department was established. Prince Yunxiang of the thirteenth Wang Yeyi, the minister of the military department, has passed the rules, and the minister of the military must be the prince. For more than 100 years It has never been changed.

  Suddenly encountering such a major event, Prince Shiduo, the leading military minister, immediately had no idea; "This is a big matter, and this prince should not be good at being a master. You and I will enter the palace immediately to see the Queen Mother, please ask the holy judge."

   "That's good, as the prince said."

  (End of this chapter)