I can't die

It is imperative to acquire the Hongkou Iron Works of the American flag, but the process is not very smooth.It was even more of a headache for Li Hongzhang than taking down Brand.Although the U.S. Banji Iron Works is already on the decline, when their boss knew that the Qing government was going to buy the iron factory, he still did not give up extorting money from the Qing Dynasty and offered a sky-high price of 40 taels of silver. The budget is only 10 taels.

Some people will say, isn't it 10 taels of agate to bribe Brand? Why are you so stingy at this time?I will tell you, was that stone offered by the Jiangnan Salt Chamber of Commerce as a bribe from Li Hongzhang?

"It's easy, but it's not easy." Li Hongzhang thought in his heart.He could see that the American was nothing more than seeing the Qing Dynasty's imperative to the ironworks, so the lion opened his mouth and wanted to blackmail him.

"If the Qing Dynasty doesn't buy it and ask private individuals to come forward, the price will definitely drop." Americans also know that no one is willing to take over this iron factory except the fat sheep of the Qing government. As long as private individuals come forward, it will be fine.But it's not easy.In the final analysis, it is also the reason of national conditions.The Qing Dynasty is still a feudal empire today, and if there is a private person in this military iron factory, it will definitely be known by the court, and the private person is in charge of the iron factory. . .It is conceivable how far the discussion about Li Hongzhang in the court will rise.

It should be known that Li Hongzhang is not only outstanding in ability, but also a rare person in the Qing Dynasty who is well versed in the way of being an official.He deeply knows that there are already many people in the court who dislike him, and he can no longer commit taboos. . .

Thinking of this, Li Hongzhang decided to write a letter, requesting to return to Beijing to report on his work before the end of this year.There were too many things that had to be said to the emperor in person, and with Ding Richang in Shanghai, it would be no problem to think about it. .

Unlike Li Hongzhang who was just a little "troublesome", Zai Chun at this time was about to explode!Why don't you say that Dong Yuanchun was dispatched by Zai Chun to go to Gansu to eat yellow sand? He didn't succeed enough to reveal his troubles. I didn't expect to cause such a big trouble for Zai Chun when he went to the village. I'm really not afraid God-like opponents are afraid of pig-like teammates.

Gansu is derived from the initials of Ganzhou (now Zhangye) and Suzhou (now Jiuquan). Because Xixia once set up the Gansu Military Division, the Yuan Dynasty set up Gansu Province, referred to as Gan; and because most of the province is in Long To the west of Mount Liupan, Longyou Road was set up here in the Tang Dynasty, so it is also called Long for short.This province controls the upper reaches of the Yellow River, connects the Loess Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the Inner Mongolia Plateau, connects Shaanxi in the east, overlooks Bashu and Qinghai in the south, reaches Xinjiang in the west, and connects Inner Mongolia and Ningxia in the north; it goes out from Mongolia in the northwest and radiates Central Asia. The geographical location is very important. Incomparable.

Gansu is a multi-ethnic area, including Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Yugu, Baoan, Mongolian, Kazak, Tu, Salar and other ethnic groups. The population is extremely complex and it is located in the frontier. Accident-prone.Among them, apart from the Han people, the Hui nationality has the highest proportion of the population.

In the third year of Tongzhi, one of the most rebellious rebellions in the history of the late Qing Dynasty broke out in Gansu.

Years ago, the rebellion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came to an end, and the army of Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang swept across the southeast with a brutal momentum, sweeping away all the remaining forces of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.The rebels who survived the Taiping Army had no choice but to run to the northwest of China, and the area around Gansu and Shaanxi became their first choice for these remnants.And one of these remnants was called Chen Decai.

Chen Decai is Chen Yucheng's uncle, who is the king of Fu.When the city of Tianjing fell, he was not recalled because of Hong Xiuquan's fear of the Chen family.Later, due to the large-scale suppression activities of the Qing army, the remaining troops had to be broken up into pieces, disrupted, mixed with the people, and fled to Gansu and Shaanxi.

And here, after living for a period of time, after observing the living conditions of the local Hui people, he felt that the opportunity to make a comeback had come.

The Qing government's differential treatment of the Hui people began during the Qianlong period.At that time, Muslims who committed the crimes of theft and robbery had to be exiled to Yunnan and Guizhou, and sometimes they were still in shackles for life, while Han people were only sentenced to flogging for similar cases.In Huijiang, the Qing government built two separate Hui and Han cities. The traffic between the two cities was strictly restricted, and it was stipulated that intermarriage between Hui and Han was prohibited.In addition, in official documents, "Minhui" is often referred to together to separate Hui from the people, and the names of Hui thief and Hui bandit are often used, and the word "Hui" is added with "anti dog".This not only caused harm to the Hui people's psychology, but also inadvertently made the original ethnic contradictions more complicated. Of course, this intensified the contradictions between the Qing government and the mosque-centered society.At that time, the life of the Han people was becoming more and more impoverished, and they regarded the Hui people as their opponents in land occupation and trade. The conflict between the Hui and the Han and the partiality of the officials against the Han people in the incidents caused by it further strengthened the hatred of the Hui people against the Qing government.

Just as he was gearing up to use such contradictions between the Han and Hui ethnic groups to provoke a civil uprising in France, another thing happened, which immediately made him feel even more divinely assisted.

There was a regiment in Shaanxi, armed by landlords. Its leader, Zhang Fu, suffered a disastrous defeat in the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and was dismissed and returned to his hometown. This person is a typical Han chauvinist and advocated the annihilation of all Hui people in Shaanxi.In the third year of Tongzhi, this idiot, in the name of exterminating the remnants of the Taiping Army, deliberately led Shaanxi Tuanlian to Qinjia Village where the Hui people lived, set fire to robbery, and massacred the Hui people.

Chen Decai took this opportunity to find powerful Hui landlords in the dry area of ​​Shaanxi and instigated them to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. With the support of the remnants of the Taiping Army, Chen Decai tried in vain to re-establish the Taiping regime in Shaanxi and Gansu.

The Hui people's instigation of rebellion went smoothly beyond Chen Decai's expectations. Even, because of their anger, the Hui people did not care about rebelling against the government. They only had one goal, to kill all the Han people.

Before the riot, the Hui secretaries asked the blacksmith to make a knife, and after the knife was finished, the blacksmith was killed to prevent the secret from being leaked.In order to prepare the bamboo poles for murder, the Muslims even bought up all the bamboo poles on the street.

In Dali County, Shaanxi Province, there is a village called Banujing, a large village of Han people. The Hui people’s first massacre was to kill all the Han people in this village, killing more than 1 people in one morning.Immediately afterwards, the villagers were killed, regardless of gender, age or age, and soon the villages in Dali, Weinan, and Huaxian were all killed by Muslims.After killing the countryside, attack the county town.People in some counties resisted tenaciously.In Lintong County, a well-educated Muslim teacher urgently reported to the county magistrate after receiving a homicide post the next day.The county seat was shut down urgently, only to save some people.All Han villages on both sides of the Wei River were killed.30 people were killed in the county, leaving no one behind.

This can be described as a shocking case!Such atrocities were naturally reported to Dong Yuanchun, who was guarding the Shanxi area in Gansu.According to common sense, such a major event must be reported to the imperial court immediately, but Dong Yuanchun, an idiot, felt that he had offended the emperor. If he had such a stain during his tenure, he would definitely lose his life, so he actually suppressed the news. I found a local group training team and prepared to suppress it privately.

But Dong Yuanchun was born as a censor, but he was only a civil servant, how could he understand military affairs?I thought the rebellion was only a few thousand people, but when it was time to put down the rebellion, the number of Hui rebels had reached [-]. Coupled with the comeback of the Taiping Army, the local regiment was wiped out in an instant.

After the victory in this battle, all the Muslims seemed to have seen the dawn of victory, and more people participated in the rebellion, even forming an army of 30 people.These Muslims killed people in the Guanzhong Plain. They killed 50 people in a few months. 80% of the Han people were killed. Only some counties kept a small population. Those who fled to the north were killed by the Hui people. A small number of people who fled into Lishan Because the Hui people did not dare to go into the mountains to kill people, they left their lives.