Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 666 Rooted in Lingnan

  Different from the original history, the victory at Zhennan Pass did not appear. The Qing army was much stronger than in the original history and did not retreat into Zhennan Pass.

  In the battle between China and France

  Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Gu Yanchuan's new army and the veteran Feng Zicai led the green camp, and the Black Flag army worked together to achieve the "Vietnam Victory". The Qing army has occupied Taiyuan, northern Vietnam, and the Gaoping front line, facing the French expeditionary army.

  After the war, the area was divided into areas to be defined and occupied by the Qing army.

  Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Gu Yanchuan’s new army has a total of 48,000 people, divided into five armies, left and right, front and rear. The Zuoying army and the former battalion are stationed in the north of Vietnam. They are governed by the southern general Li Ping.

  The new army is equipped with the "Mauser 1871 modified magazine-type rifle" authorized by the Azure Weapons Company, a 60mm field gun, and all members have received training from Australian officers. The equipment level has reached the world's first-class army and is the main force guarding North Vietnam.

  According to Li Fushou’s suggestion;

The Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi has increased its support for the Black Flag Army under Liu Yongfu. Today, the Black Flag Army has increased its strength to more than 12,000 and is equipped with 4,200 German-made "Mauser 1871 Rifles", which are eliminated by the Australian Army. An old-fashioned rifle that came down, the power is not bad.

The   Black Flag Army is also equipped with some seized legal rifles and foreign-brand muskets. The musket equipment rate has reached 70%. The remaining are equipped with cold weapons such as broadswords and spears. The fighting power is stronger than the green camp and the fighting will is far better than the latter.

  Because the Black Flag Army recruited mostly Chinese children living in Vietnam, facing the invasion of the French Expeditionary Army, he became more enthusiastic about fighting to defend his country.

The New Army and the Black Flag Army are like two powerful crab claws, holding the French expeditionary force in Hanoi firmly in place, unable to advance north.

"France is a traditional army power in the world. The main force of the new army guarding the northern Vietnam cannot be moved, so as not to give the enemy an opportunity. In order to include all northern Vietnam in the colony and realize the colonial dream of dominating the Indochina Peninsula, the French don't mind. Launching the second Sino-French war is the biggest threat currently facing the Government of Guangdong and Guangxi."

  Li Fushou saw it very clearly, so he advocated abolishing the weak green camps and replacing them with a new army in order to maintain the security of the southern border more effectively.

   "How easy is it?"

  Gu Yanchuan shook his head and smiled bitterly. The military system of the Qing Dynasty was based on the army, and Zeng Guoquan's 100,000 Hunan troops were the capital he could dominate.

  Reducing the green camp soldiers is to take the lives of these generals!

Even with the respect of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the new army is fully promoted, but now more than half of the old army has been abolished. Not to mention, the tens of thousands of eight banner soldiers in the city of Guangzhou are only under the direct jurisdiction of the Manchu General Guangzhou, and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Gu Yanchuan couldn't move.

There are also green camp soldiers. According to the Qing military system, the green camp soldiers are Han people, and the governing generals are mostly Manchus. The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Gu Yanchuan eliminated the green camp soldiers, which directly moved the rice bowls of these Manchu generals and broke their roots. The resistance can be imagined. how old are you.

  Li Fushou has no good way to do this. Even as a minister of the governor, Gu Yanchuan can’t do whatever he wants like he did in Australia. There are so many kinds of rules.

   "Old Mount Tai, is there really no way for the Nanyang Fleet to get involved?"

"The Nanyang Fleet belongs to the sphere of influence of the Governor of Liangjiang, where the Hunan Army is dominated and will not allow others to intervene, while the Beiyang Fleet is Li Hongzhang's world. Fight against them with energy."

   "That's a pity. The Ocean Kingdom's naval fleet is not a second person in the South Pacific. With a little help, it can help the Guangdong and Guangxi regions build a small and powerful fleet, which is comparable to the Nanyang fleet."

"Yuan Ding, doing things for the Qing court does not require Zen exhaustion. How many years can I stay on the throne of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi? Even if you are desperately building a powerful army, what is the use of not rebelling? Making wedding clothes for others, and being suspected of having ambitions, why bother!"

   "Oh, this is also..."

  Li Fushou suddenly laughed. He was also trying to manage the forces. He didn't think about other things, but he never wanted to be dissatisfied in the Qing Dynasty. He died before he was born.

  It seems that I have taken it for granted. The internal forces of the Qing Dynasty are intertwined, the physique is rigid and decayed, and it is difficult to get up. It can't be cured by small repairs.

  Weng and son-in-law talked secretly for a long while, and seeing that Gu Yanchuan was running out of energy and his expression was showing fatigue, Li Fushou ended the conversation, got up and left.

  More than ten days after

Li Fushou, the prince of alcohol, Qi Shan, the governor of Guangdong, and others accompanied Wu Wang Li Fushou to inspect the city, the proposed fort at the Pearl River Estuary, and the beautiful surrounding scenery. gone.

  The more I watched, the greater Li Fushou’s disappointment.

  The 200-year rule of the Qing Dynasty has made the Chinese people deeply servile. The older the age, the deeper the poison. It cannot be changed overnight. With this in mind, he decided to limit the age of Chinese immigrants in Australia and further lowered the upper age limit to 22 years old.

   Today’s Australian immigrants can be said to have a reputation, and it is a good thing to break the head in the coastal provinces.

  Many Chinese villagers who have developed in Australia have returned to their homeland, spending huge sums of money to repair the ancestral ancestral hall, repair bridges and pave roads, benefit Sangzi, and bring more native tribes to Australia when they return. This is not uncommon.

  One pass ten, ten pass one hundred. Everyone knows that Australia is a good place for milk and honey, and it can realize the wealth dream of Chinese immigrants.

  So, Australia’s immigration agencies nowadays are not so much to guide immigration, but to restrict immigration.

  Open the door to young people with knowledge and ability, and close the door to adults with no skills. Comparatively speaking, the immigration of young women is easier to get through, which helps to balance Australia's disparate male-to-female ratio.

  For ordinary people

  Immigrating to Australia is not such an easy task. First of all, the huge boat fare is an insurmountable mountain. Take the immigrants whose destination is Borneo as an example;

A minimum fourth-class immigration big cabin ticket costs 6 pounds 7 shillings, and a second-class ticket 18 pounds 6 shillings. Based on one pound exchange for Kuping six taels, the value of a fourth-class ticket is almost equivalent to 38 taels of silver. , The second-class ticket is worth 110 taels of silver.

  If you arrive in Australia, the ticket price will increase by 30%.

Such a high ticket price has prevented almost 9% of the Chinese immigrants. If you want to immigrate to Australia, you must first obtain the Shangri-La Bank loan review qualification. In addition to the lack of arms and legs, the immigration guidance policy is the most important factor. .

  Whether you can achieve your dream of immigration depends on whether you do not meet the Australian immigration guidelines. Those who do not meet the immigration policy cannot get preferential immigration loans and can only go at their own expense.

Before arriving at the place of immigration, Chinese immigrants who apply for preferential immigration loans cannot see cash. The most important thing is to get a ferry ticket, and then enter the waiting area with the ferry ticket, where you can get enough to fill your stomach. Food, accept policy announcements, and prepare for boarding.

  Australian immigrants have now become a major industrial chain. In addition to Pan-Asian shipping companies, Shangri-La Bank and other service industries can benefit from it and get good returns.

The only money paid is the immigration to Mozambique. Due to the long distance, it takes 60 to 70 days for a one-way at sea. The cheapest ferry ticket costs 14 pounds and 3 shillings. The Royal Ministry of the Interior provides subsidies of more than 5 pounds for each immigrant. Used to support the reclamation plan.

  According to the average annual migration scale of 300,000 people in Mozambique, this alone will cost more than 1.5 million pounds a year. This also largely limits the scale of migration to Africa, and there is no way to quickly increase it in a short time.

  Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong Province

After visiting the Wuwei army barracks stationed here, accompanied by the governor of Qishan in Guangdong and Gu Zhiwen, the propaganda envoy of Guangdong, Li Fushou and the queen visited the famous Qixing Rock in Zhaoqing Prefecture and a Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain. Rest your feet.

  In the Abode

  Li Fushou admired a painting on the wall with his hand. This is a painting of "Fishing Return" by Huang Shen among the Eight Monsters of Yangzhou in the early Qing Dynasty.

  Gu Zhiwen walked over from the veranda outside and raised his hand to stop the secretary Li Siyi who was about to report. He walked in from the door and said with a smile on his face; "Your Majesty, is the scenery of Lingnan still eye-catching?"

  “It’s more than just eye-catching. The language, humanities and customs, and eating habits here are different from those of the Central Plains. It has a unique charm. It can be said that every Lao Guang is a gourmet, and it is indeed a place of outstanding people and spirituality, which is impressive!"

"Your Majesty said that the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, especially the coastal towns along the coast of Guangdong and the Pearl River, are the richest. They are not inferior to the south of the Yangtze River. They also have a unique Lingnan culture, which makes people linger." Gu Zhiwen walked over and stood still and said with emotion; "I have been working here for several years, I feel I love it here, and I have some plans to take root in Lingnan and live here..."

"Oh…"

  Li Fushou glanced at him, and understood what Gu Zhiwen meant.

  Gu Mansion has a tendency to build the Lingnan area into the traditional sphere of influence of the family and cultivate this land deeply.

  This requires Gu Zhiwen, Gu Zhixue, and Li Ping as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to rise to high positions in succession, firmly control the military power and economic lifeline of Guangdong and Guangxi, and become the de facto local giants.

  Now it seems that the 48,000 new army compiled and trained is undoubtedly in your hands. With the huge strength of Normandy Bank and Huitong Bank, Gu's has a decisive voice in Guangzhou Thirteenth Bank, and there is no doubt about its economic strength.

  What is lacking now is to control the local authority.

  Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Gu Yanchuan did not evade relatives, and appointed his nephew, Gu Zhiwen, as the consolation of Guangdong in a few days. He is in charge of the new army and local public security in Guangdong. This is the first step.

  In the next step, through the channel of Prince Yiyi, the prince of alcohol, you can directly submit the papers to the case of Emperor Guangxu. Gu Zhixue, Li Ping, the two generals of Wenyiwu and Li Ping, are about to take off. There is no suspense.

The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Gu Yanchuan, paid a big price, 70,000 pounds is equivalent to 420,000 taels of snowflake silver, to buy a third-grade imperial court Yudu Yushi, plus a second-grade Guangxi military officer is more than enough, it can be said to be full of sincerity. There should be no ups and downs.

  Comparatively speaking, the military position of Xuan Comfortzhi is not enough.

  Do not suffer from lack and unevenness.

Gu Zhiwen was also the eldest son of the eldest son of the Gu family anyway. It felt a little bit awkward for the second uncle to spend a lot of money to pave the way for the younger brother and a domestic slave.

   So, Li Fushou understood it.

  (End of this chapter)