I can't die

However, it is very interesting that although the will of the Military Aircraft Department and Zai Chun stated that Li Hongzhang issued a call to support the U.S. Northern Army, but there were two seals on the call. Naturally, one was Zai Chun's "Tongdaotang" , one is Ci'an's "Royal Reward".Although these two seals are the most authoritative seals in the Qing court, foreigners don't know about them.Zaichun and the others also played a side ball.

Because the export of Chinese workers is led by the government, Li Hongzhang won a lot of good treatment for Chinese workers in China during the negotiations, such as providing food, and repeatedly emphasized that if a Chinese worker dies due to work, he must be paid by the head Pay the Qing government a certain amount of money.Although there are quite a few of these terms, compared with the white labor payment in the United States, it still greatly saves the economic expenditure of North American capitalists.

The first batch of Chinese workers from the Qing Dynasty to the United States totaled more than 8000 people. They were first transported to Malacca by ships of the Qing government to avoid the British naval blockade, and then sailed from the United States to Malacca, and then changed ships to the west coast of the United States.By the time these Chinese workers arrived in the continental United States, it was already July.

In a blink of an eye, it has been a year since Xianfeng passed away.According to the tradition of the ancestors, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty would go out of the palace in order to escape the summer heat.There are nothing more than two places to move, one is the Old Summer Palace, and the other is the Rehe Palace in Chengde.However, the Old Summer Palace was destroyed in the second Opium War last year, so it is definitely impossible to go there.As for the Rehe Palace, Zai Chun thought about it, and asked his two mothers-in-law for advice. Everyone felt that there were too many things to do this year, and they were afraid that they would not be able to leave, so they gave up for the time being.

Just a few days ago, the U.S. government officially issued a letter of credence to the Chinese government. Naturally, the source of this U.S. letter of credence is the northern government represented by capitalist forces. The government concluded diplomatic relations and requested diplomats to go to Beijing to meet with the head of the Qing government.

As soon as this letter of credence came to the Qing Dynasty, it aroused great attention at home and abroad.In the imperial court, everyone believed that this was the first western country to conduct diplomacy in such a polite manner, and they all expressed their goodwill to the US government, and the British government also expressed their opinions on this US letter of credence.

The British envoy to Beijing, Pacharley, immediately went to Prince Gong's Prime Minister's Office of International Affairs after he knew this, and said in such a righteous way: The United States is now divided, and there is no unified government. National etiquette for submitting credentials?Moreover, the northern government is a local government that Britain is not optimistic about, and the Qing Dynasty should not have too close contacts with it.

Bacharley's words were undoubtedly a threat.Faced with this kind of threat from Pacharley, Prince Gong was dissatisfied, but he did not dare to refuse it openly. After all, the fact that Britain had defeated the Qing Dynasty twice, he did not dare to resist too much, so he had to shirk and say that he would enter The palace discussed with the empress dowager.

Entering the palace to discuss?

Not to mention Zai Chun, even Cixi Ci'an couldn't help being furious after hearing Bacharley's words.

"What the hell?!"

No matter how good-tempered a person is, he couldn't bear it. At this moment, his aunt Ci'an couldn't help knocking the teacup on the table in anger: "This Pachari is really too much."

"I knew I should have killed him in the first place!"

Empress Dowager Cixi also had a cold gleam in her eyes at the moment.When the Second Opium War broke out, Pachari was taken hostage by the Qing government. Sushun and others once said that they would kill Pachari to sacrifice the flag. It was Cixi's words in front of Xianfeng that saved him. Let him become the dead soul of Sushun and others.Thinking about it now, it would be better to just ask Sushun to kill him!

Hearing the unfriendly tone of the two old mothers, Zai Chun felt hot and tense in his heart, and he could not help but flash the wind with his palm.Li Lianying, who was waiting on the sidelines, saw the sweat on Zai Chun's forehead, and hurriedly asked the palace people to bring a bowl of iced sour plum juice. Zai Chun drank the whole bowl before finally feeling better.

"How does the emperor feel?"

"I'm afraid the British can't afford to offend them."

In view of the previous defeat of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Gong told the truth.

"Then what does the emperor think?"

It was Cixi who was speaking at this time, listening to her tone, she seemed a bit displeased with foreigners, and her words seemed to mean she wanted to quarrel with the British.

Zai Chun was a little surprised when he heard Ci Xi's words, but after thinking about it, it was true.Cixi's temper was very bloody. In the history of the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China, Cixi's foreign policy at the beginning was also the main war, not the main peace. It was only later that she couldn't fight, so she finally chose to compromise.

"If I give up the meeting with the American envoy this time, how can there be any country that will establish diplomatic relations with my country in this normal way in the future?"

What Zai Chun said makes sense.Today, the Western powers that have established diplomatic relations with the Qing Dynasty all opened the door of the Qing Dynasty by artillery fire. There has never been a Western country that has submitted its credentials and extended a hand of friendship in such a regular manner.

Zai Chun's words fell into the ears of the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces and Prince Gong, and they couldn't help thinking deeply.After a while, Ci'an seemed to have made a decision: "Since the emperor thinks so, let's go to Rehe. Although it's a bit late to leave now, the days of this poison are still long, so it's better to avoid it for a while."

"Rehe?"

Zai Chun was puzzled.

Cixi understood what Ci'an meant, and sighed: "The Rehe Palace is in the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty. Although the Forbidden City is the capital of the country, it is too close to the sea."

Now, Zai Chun understood.The empress dowagers of the two palaces also agreed with Zai Chun.It's just that after all, we have to prepare with both hands. If Britain really launches an attack on the Qing Dynasty because of this, Beijing can't bear it. . .At least Rehe can avoid it and buy time to negotiate a peace.

"Zeng Guofan's Internal Ordnance Institute has built a British imitation warship. I suggest that the warship should be transferred to Dagukou, and then the Ministry of War will send four Amtra cannons to the warship and one to the warship. The internal ordnance station continued to imitate, and then the Hunan Army strengthened its defense from the Shandong inner road to the coast."

Prince Gong saw that both the empress dowagers and the emperor had already made up their minds, so he couldn't object, so he could only raise more details.

Zaichun and Cixi Ci'an also nodded when they heard the words: "So let's go ahead and tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs to prepare to leave for Rehe immediately."

"Prince Gong will hold Pachari back in the capital, and when I and the Queen Mothers of the Two Palaces arrive in Rehe, I will announce the meeting with the American envoy."

"The minister obeys the order."

"I'm so sorry, Uncle Huang. If you have time, Uncle Huang can go see Rong Shou and Xia Changping again. You can't be next to the blood drop, but you can still be a guard."

The empress went to Rehe by herself, leaving Prince Gong to deal with Pachari was obviously dangerous.However, it was not the first time that Prince Gong had done such an errand, and Zai Chun would not believe it if he was someone else, so he had to be wronged.

Prince Gong didn't have anything to say about it, and he expressed his loyalty not to mention it at the moment.