Red Alert 1895 Chapter 179

19388704">(); Hearing that Cixi was going to attack Guangxu, Wang Guorui knew that this matter was irreversible. Classic Classic Small Speak Web update fastest. 80./Guangxu is actually overconfident, wants to regain power directly, quickly and effectively, and even pretends that Wang Guorui will go north to support the reform as a nonsense, This also made Wang Guorui very unhappy. But this time Cixi, like in the original history, has begun to completely attack Guangxu, after all, Guangxu has gone too far. And even if Wang Guorui didn't support it, Cixi would still do it, just later.

So in this situation, Wang Guorui was also calculating in his heart at what price he could sell Guangxu. Anyway, he originally supported Guangxu, just to add disgust to the Manchu Central Committee, so that Cixi didn't have much time to think about dealing with himself and set up an opponent for Cixi. But now that Guangxu has messed things up, there is no need to keep Guangxu. However, the current value of Guangxu is for Wang Guorui to estimate what is the most suitable price to sell him to Cixi.

Anyway, Wang Guoru thinks that he has lost his integrity, and since he became the governor, he has also had the idea of ​​feeding his integrity to dogs. Less than half a year ago, he supported Guangxu, and now he sold Guangxu immediately. After all, Guangxu is worthless, why don't you sell it now and wait until it is completely worthless in the future?

"If your queen mother can give me this thing, then I can give up supporting Guangxu, and even take the initiative to support the queen mother!" Wang Guorui handed a note to Li Lianying and said.

"This... I want to send a telegram to ask the queen mother for instructions!" Li Lianying said.

"Please!"

Soon, Li Lianying also secretly sent this related thing to Cixi through Taiwan's telegram. Then let Cixi prepare to discuss whether to accept Wang Guorui's conditions.

And in the Summer Palace, Cixi was meeting with some of her cronies, and then discussing the conditions of this Wang Guorui.

"Let's take a look, Taiwan wants the position of the Nanyang Minister of our Qing Dynasty, what do you think?" Cixi said.

The Minister of Nanyang, whose full official title is the Minister of Commerce and Commerce of Nanyang, is a subordinate of the Prime Minister's State Affairs Office. The Minister of Nanyang is responsible for the diplomacy of southern China. Westernization, as well as the establishment of various machinery factories. Qiushu.qiushu. even had to train the Nanyang Navy and the Nanyang Army. These are the duties of the Minister of Nanyang. At present, the Minister of Nanyang has always been concurrently held by the Governor of Liangjiang, which is a part-time job, while the Minister of Beiyang is concurrently held by the Governor of Zhili. However, the status of the Minister of Nanyang cannot be compared with that of the Minister of Beiyang.

Because although both of them are engaged in diplomacy, the consulates of various countries are all in Beijing. Beiyang ministers can get the moon first if they are close to the water. Moreover, the main targets of aggression by various countries are also northern China, which has greater interests. The main targets of aggression by countries such as Britain, Russia, Japan, etc. are in the area of ​​North China, so when negotiating, the North is the main target. Ministers are born with great power. As for the Nanyang area, that is, the colonies of the second-tier Western countries such as the Netherlands and Spain, these countries are not the main force in invading China, so the Nanyang ministers have no real power.

"Empress Dowager, I don't know what that rebellious Wang Guorui wants to do with the position of Minister of Nanyang? This Minister of Nanyang is completely worthless. It's a pity to discard it if it's tasteless!" said a senior official.

This not-so-young official is now Rong Lu, Minister of State Affairs of the Prime Minister, who is responsible for the diplomatic work of the Qing Dynasty. In name, both the Beiyang Minister and the Nanyang Minister work under his management, but in fact the Nanyang Minister and the Beiyang Minister are parallel to him, you deserve it! ();. The prime minister's national affairs office is only a nominal boss. At most, it is to convey some documents for the ministers of Beiyang and Beiyang, and be responsible for some uploading and distribution work. However, after the Sino-French War, the power of the Minister of Beiyang has surpassed that of the Prime Minister's Office of International Affairs, because the Minister of Beiyang was able to negotiate peace with France without authorization. It is conceivable that the real power of the Office of the Prime Minister's Office of International Affairs has seriously declined.

But since Wang Guorui wanted to get the position of Minister of Nanyang, he was Rong Lu's subordinate. And Rong Lu is also very toothache about the fact that he may have another Taiwan governor as his subordinate in the future. He has heard about Taiwan's strength from foreigners. Not only is the army outrageously tyrannical, but if it is not too small, it may make the Western powers feel scared. But the navy is not weak either, and the tonnage of warships alone can rank among the top eight in the world. As for the abilities of those naval sailors, it is impossible to judge for the time being, because at that time, the shells were fired with hundreds of hits, which immediately shocked Westerners. So the foreign devils can't figure out the quality of the sailors on these warships, which is why they feel afraid to mess around.

"Queen Mother, I thought that since Wang Guorui wanted this Minister of Nanyang, he would just give it to him. This Minister of Nanyang is meaningless at all. The Nanyang Navy is completely empty, and the Nanyang Army is useless at any time. And we are completely You can use this Nanyang minister in exchange for Taiwan's support, and then let us go smoothly..." Someone said.

Although they wanted to dethrone the emperor, it was not so direct. After all, they still had some respect for the imperial power in their hearts.

"Rong Lu, you are the minister of the Prime Minister's Office of State Affairs, what's your opinion?" Cixi asked.

And Rong Lu quickly said: "Queen Mother, the Minister of Nanyang is just a name. We might as well empty out the things under the minister of Nanyang before appointing Wang Guorui as Minister of Nanyang. The Nanyang Army also One order was ordered to be reorganized into another army, and the leadership of the Nanyang Minister was deprived. Then all the military power under the Nanyang Minister was deprived of all the military power under the Governor of Liangjiang. Then we set up five trade ministers again, so that the Nanyang Minister became An empty frame. If it's just an empty frame, why don't we give it to him?"

This Rong Lu is indeed a treacherous and cunning guy. He directly wants to restore the official position of the so-called five-port trade minister and replace the Nanyang minister. You must know that the Minister of Nanyang was originally called the Minister of Commerce of the Five Ports, but it was later renamed the Minister of Nanyang. But now if the Manchu Qing restored the five ministers of trade and trade and formed a "legacy" to receive the Minister of Nanyang, then the Minister of Nanyang would become a completely empty shelf, just an empty official position. If this is the case, it doesn't matter if the Nanyang minister is given to Wang Guorui. This is like hollowing out all the high-quality assets of a company and then selling them to others again. This is also meaningless.

That's what those Manchu officials thought. They gave Wang Guorui an empty-handed Nanyang minister in exchange for Wang Guorui's support. At that time, Wang Guorui could only knock out his teeth and swallow the gods in his stomach. Read the full text ();. And they are all for the sake of preventing Wang Guorui from expanding his power to the southeast half of the wall. After all, if Wang Guorui obtains a veritable minister of Nanyang, he will inevitably use this official position to obtain the situation of stationing troops in the southeast half of the wall, so in order to avoid this In this situation, they had to curb this result, just give Wang Guorui an empty shelf.

"Well, this method deeply mourns the family!" Cixi said.

Cixi was also very satisfied with this method. Since Wang Guorui wanted the Minister of Nanyang, it was just to give him a name, and there was no point in the future. Originally, the power of the Nanyang ministers was not as great as that of the Beiyang ministers, or even a fraction of the power of the Beiyang ministers. The Beiyang Minister was the real diplomatic core of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Nanyang Minister was just an addition, almost meaningless. So they have already begun to plan to give up the position of Minister of Nanyang, in exchange for Wang Guorui's strong support for them, and then allow them to depose Emperor Guangxu.

Anyway, the Nanyang ministers will be deprived of all kinds of government-run properties, and even the military power, port management rights, and other rights of the various Nanyang ministers. Give Wang Guorui some name. Wang Guorui can use the name of this Nanyang Minister to communicate with Nanyang countries, but is this interesting? Nanyang is currently a colony of Westerners. For example, Indonesia is also a colony of the Dutch, the Philippines is also a colony of Spain, and Vietnam has long been abandoned by the Manchu Qing, and then the French became the overlord. As for India, that is the jewel on the head of the Queen of England, does Wang Guorui still dare to touch the tiger's butt?

Therefore, there are no independent countries on the table in the Nanyang area at all, they are all colonies. And these colonies belong to Westerners, and those Westerners also recognize the Beiyang Minister and the Beijing Manchu Qing government, and they don't care about the Nanyang Minister in the south, so they don't take the Nanyang Minister seriously. Therefore, even if Wang Guorui was given the position of Minister of Nanyang, it would not have much influence on the Manchu Qing, that is, he lost the name of southern contacts. But as long as you communicate with a few big countries, what is there to communicate with those Nanyang colonies?

And they didn't even know what Wang Guorui really thought about wanting to be a minister of Nanyang. If they knew what Wang Guorui really wanted to be the Minister of Nanyang, then they probably wouldn't be able to laugh. For Wang Guorui, some things really need a name. The Chinese have been paying attention to the integrity of the name since ancient times, and even the West has often paid attention to this issue. If Wang Guorui didn't have enough name, then his next actions would be really difficult. And the status of the so-called Nanyang Minister gave him this name, allowing him to develop further. (to be continued)

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