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Chapter 32 Dagukou Warship

This "killing with a knife" played by Dagukou, in fact, any bystander with a little brain knows the tricks in it. Although Daqing put all his brains on the rebels of the White Lotus Sect, those high-ranking British officials did not all Like those sailors who only know how to spend their days and nights, when they thought about it, they knew that even if the Qing government didn't directly participate in it, it might have pushed a lot.

Britain in the [-]th century had just gone through the industrial revolution, its science and technology developed rapidly, and its colonies spread all over the world. At this time, it is the hegemony of the world. It is an empire known as the sun on which the sun never sets. How can it endure being smashed by the Qing Dynasty?Immediately, Pachari, the envoy stationed in the Qing Dynasty, was sent to the capital to question the crime.

Speaking of Pacharley, I really have to mention that this person is the highest diplomatic representative of the British side in China. He can be seen in various things between China and Britain in the late Qing Dynasty. He is the second time The Opium War, Britain and France decided to break into Beijing's most direct fuse.At that time, during the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French allied forces only planned to fight to Tianjin and gave up. They sent Pacharley to persuade them to surrender. It never occurred to the Qing that they pretended to surrender, but in fact they took Pacharley as a hostage. This made Britain and France angry and broke into Beijing at once.

Therefore, Bacharley's attitude towards the Qing Dynasty took a sharp turn for the worse after the Second Opium War, and he became a rare main combatant.

At that time, when Parker learned about the British warship incident, he was still in Shanghai having secret talks with the envoys of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.Although the British and French powers seem to be biased towards the Qing Dynasty, they are actually the masters who have made two-handed preparations.

However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty had completely different policies in terms of their attitudes towards the great powers.

The Qing Dynasty has always advocated "Ning to foreign thieves, not to domestic slaves." That is to say, to fight against the outside world, you must first settle the inside, but this is not the case in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Not as good as the Qing government.Naturally, Parker had a difficult time in Shanghai, and the two parties broke up unhappy.

In this way, he also fell into a rare embarrassment.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must not be able to support it, but it seems that the Qing Dynasty is also making small moves. In this way, how to obtain greater benefits for the United Kingdom has become the primary issue.

Therefore, after he came to Beijing, he put forward such an embarrassing condition to Prince Gong on the issue of warships: If he is not used, the ship guns should be returned to the UK, and the Qing Dynasty must provide up to 10 troops to the sailors of the British Empire. Two consolation payments.

When Prince Gong heard the news, he was almost so angry that he almost ordered someone to throw Bacharley out of the Prime Minister's Office of State Affairs.However, due to the powerful British artillery, Prince Gong could only suppress his anger, and then immediately entered the palace to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and at the same time called people to call the queen dowagers of the two palaces together.

Although Cixi Ci'an holds great power, she is a woman in the deep palace who has just officially started to take power. Under Zai Chun and Prince Gong's intentional concealment, she finally found out that on the Dagukou warship "White Lotus Knife" plan to kill "British sailors".

After being shocked, the two of them couldn't help feeling a little bit of anger. It was a great challenge to the authority of the two empress dowagers that such a big incident happened and they were notified at the end.It is rare that the empress dowagers of the two palaces attacked Zai Chun together.

"My lord, why don't we know about this?"

"The emperor is only 6 years old now, so he makes arbitrary decisions based on Qiankun. It seems that we no longer need the assistance of the two of us, women and children."

"It's said that children can't help their mothers. Now that the emperor is so young, can't he tolerate the opinions of our two wives?"

The two empress dowagers of the first day women's regiment of the Qing Dynasty sang together and played both sides, spitting stars and bombarding Zai Chun, which made Zai Chun very upset.He also didn't expect that a good plan at the beginning would turn into this.

In the final analysis, the fist is not hard enough, otherwise it will be the turn of the foreign devils to say that the wind is the rain?

"Okay. My two sisters. I have something to say."

Zai Chun was also made one head and two big by the two sisters, and when his temper came up, he couldn't help growling, and was immediately shocked by the two flowery and girly foreheads on the spot.

"Uncle Huang, tell me first, how much does Bacharley want us to pay?"

"10 million taels."

Prince Gong quietly glanced at the two empress dowagers who were sitting behind the curtain of the dragon chair, and felt quite embarrassed to say this number.

It's really a lion's mouth.The crown of Queen Elizabeth of England is not worth the 10 taels of silver!

"If he wants it, I'll give it to him. The smuggling warehouse will pay him 10 taels, and ask the household department to take out 5 taels and give it to him together. I want to see if the 15 taels of silver can shut his mouth!" "

At the beginning, Jiao Youying went to Prince Gong's mansion once, and squeezed out 70 taels, and 50 taels were given to Cixi for the Qianqiu Holy Banquet. Now there are 20 taels, and 10 taels are still left.

"Your Majesty, the household department is afraid at this time..."

When Prince Gong heard that he wanted the Ministry of Households to give up the money himself, he was about to refute.Unexpectedly, Zaichun swept his eyebrows this time: "Uncle, when Mr. Jiao went to your house, you know that I am not a fool. So the 5 taels, what happened at the Summer Resort back then, I pretended it never happened .”

How Jiao Youying went to Prince Gong's mansion to squeeze out the 70 taels of silver back then, Prince Gong and Zai Chun, Jiao Youying knew very well.On the one hand, Prince Gong and his old father-in-law, Minister of the Household Department, Gui Liang, have just copied the homes of the eight ministers, and they are indeed very rich; Chun came across Zhang Nanny being hanged and used it as the reason for the beating.

Prince Gong heard Zai Chun clearly pointing out this matter now, and he knew that the little emperor was really annoyed, besides, this nanny was given to Zai Chun by Cixi, not only Zai Chun's person, It is Cixi's confidant.Indeed, if there is a quarrel with the emperor and empress through this, I'm afraid it will be really hard for me.

"The emperor is wise. I don't know what other orders the emperor has?"

Prince Gong had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

"Go and tell Pashali that the 10 taels are for him to appease the wounded, and the 5 taels are for him. Tell him that the warship can be returned to him, but I paid so much money to buy things. It’s too embarrassing for me to return it before it’s hot, so tell him to return it to him in three months.”

"Calculating the time, Zeng Guofan's internal ordnance station should have a good look after so long. You immediately dispatch the military department to the military aircraft department and ask him to transfer all the craftsmen who can be transferred to Dagukou. Send them all. On the warship. I have to copy this warship within three months even if it is a stroke. I don’t believe it. With my skilled craftsman in the Qing Dynasty, can’t I copy a warship?!”

I still can't believe it!Self-innovation is not enough, is it not possible for me to copycat?

Don't talk to me about independent intellectual property rights, what is the king's law?I am Wang Fa!When I fight for global hegemony in the Qing Dynasty, I will be the law of the world!

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