However, some people were not afraid of burning Tang Tingshu. He found Zuo Zongtang the second time. He had no friendship with Zuo Zongtang, but he knew that Zuo Zongtang needed the support of the railway company to suppress the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu. It can be said that it was at the beginning that Zuo Zongtang insisted on building the railway from Zhengzhou to Shaanxi and finally reached Xi’ an. However, Zuo Zongtang also wanted the railway to be built in Lanzhou. Because Zuo Zongtang had just leveled the Gansu border, the rebels drove the remnants of Bai Yanhu into Xinjiang, but Zuo Zongtang was still planning to attack Xinjiang and was raising the salary.
He can help Zuo Zongtang in two ways: first, money; second, asking Zuo Zongtang to promise to help. The railway company can extend the railway to barren Lanzhou, and even further follow Zuo Zongtang all the way to Xinjiang to ask Zuo Zongtang to speak the Qing court.
There is one condition, that is, Zuo Zongtang promised to help the railway company to build Jianghan Railway to connect Jiujiang and Hankou, which made Zuo Zongtang come forward to convince the Qing court to let the railway go through Hunan. It depends on how much Zuo Zongtang asked for the railway company. This is a business.
But I’m afraid a Zuo Zongtang’s energy is not enough to handle affairs in Hunan, and there is no one around him, that is Zeng Guofan.
But Zuo Zongtang’s access is easy to find. Everyone knows that Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang’s dog leg in the sea scenery.
Hu Xueyan’s family is not so high. He can still go to Tang Tingshu, but Zeng Guofan’s family is too high.
The day after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed, people once again praised Zeng Guofan as a god and washed away all the stains before him, but this person became low-key and people have always been clean, so money can’t break his way.
Tang Tingshu has to think of other ways.
His way is to take the Hunan merchant road and find some businessmen who are doing business in big cities, especially some gentry businessmen, that is, those businessmen who have the dual roles of local gentry and businessmen. These people are more likely to accept the new thing of railway and get close to Zeng Guofan because of their status as gentry.
It’s not hard to find such people. There are a group in Hunan Guild Hall.
Tang Tingshu’s combination boxing soon broke out. First, Zuo Zongtang’s court suggested that the big railway company should continue to extend the border railway, which would help stabilize the border defense
However, Zuo Zongtang, the traitor, was immediately scolded by the Manchu dynasty’s desire for a clean stream, arguing that Chen Daqing might lose Xinjiang, while Mongolia oscillated, and the capital was uneasy and urged the court to allow him to enter Xinjiang to suppress rebellion.
Xinjiang has been in chaos for many years, and it has been ten years since the Islamic government, the Han People’s Regime and the Russian armed forces split up.
In 167, the bandits entered Akubai, Xinjiang from Central Asia and occupied most of Xinjiang. Except for a few strongholds such as Tacheng and Wusu, the Qing government lost control of most of Xinjiang. In 17, Russia captured Ili and was ambushed by Xuegong Xu, a local Han people’s regiment, when sending troops to Urumqi.
After more than ten years, the Qing government was caught in the battle of Taiping Army, and it was almost out of control to visit Xinjiang in its leisure time. Agubo gangs enforced harsh religious laws in Xinjiang, forcing all ethnic groups to join the religion and levy heavy taxes. People’s resentment boiled. Xuegong Xu, on behalf of a large number of Han people’s groups, United with the local Manchu people and Oroqen and other people, and set up a camp to protect themselves, carve out land and separate themselves for a living, while Agubo chased after these people’s groups. After repeated bloody battles, the Han people and the Chinese people in Xinjiang were almost killed.
Britain and Russia, on the other hand, are scrambling to win over Agubo’s political plan and take the lead in the hegemony in Central Asia.
In 16 years, Britain sent a special envoy to meet with Akuba, and in the following year, Akuba also sent his cronies Mi Erzha Shadi to India to meet with the British Governor to win British support. Britain decided to give him a large number of arms and allowed him to recruit craftsmen in India to go back to Kashgar to set up an arsenal. In 17 years, Russia also sent people to Kashgar to meet Akuba and admit his administration.
Britain’s goal is simple. He has no power to compete with Russia on land. He intends to cultivate puppets to resist the threat of Russia’s south. India’s defense of India is the greatest foreign policy of Britain in the century. This Britain has been lobbying the Qing government to recognize Agubo’s administration in exchange for paying tribute to the Manchu government in the name of Agubo.
But Agubo went to Turkey and was canonized by the Ottoman caliph as the legal Emir of Xinjiang in Islamic law.
Russia, on the other hand, sat idly by while the Han People’s Regiment and the Agubo gang were killing each other, and at the same time constantly tempted the Qing government to express its willingness to cooperate with the Qing government against Agubo in Xinjiang in exchange for the Qing government’s permission for them to expand into the Bohai Sea.
But the Qing government was unwilling to admit that Agubo conferred the title on Agubo, nor did it want Russia to build the railway to Tianjin or Huludao, so the Xinjiang issue has been frozen.
It was not until Zuo Zongtang’s northern expedition to Wang Haiyang was fought fiercely for two years that Li Hongzhang relieved him. After that, Bao Chao entered Yunnan to fight against Du Wenxiu rebellion, while Zuo Zongtang entered Shaanxi to wipe out Bai Yanhu rebellion.
After several years, Zuo Zongtang finally wiped out the main force of the rebels and fled to Xinjiang. He believed that the situation in Xinjiang had reached an urgent point.
But at this time, the finance of the Qing Dynasty was already in jeopardy, and there were holes everywhere. Zuo Zongtang’s invasion of Xinjiang would be a huge support, which the government could not afford.
Zuo Zongtang can find a way to raise money and food by himself. Even during the period of famine and starvation in Shanxi, Zuo Zongtang was still asking Shanxi for the salary. The governor of Shanxi didn’t gather enough money. It can be seen how difficult it was for Zuo Zongtang to impeach him.
The big railway company promised money and food to support Zuo Zongtang, and even worse, when he came, he thought that railway construction was of great significance to his invasion, and the Qing government also tried its best to build it. Why not kill two birds with one stone by extending the railway line?
Zuo Zongtang got such a discount. Who would have thought that the unanimous siege of conservatives seemed to pour all the panic and oppression into Zuo Zongtang’s head for so many years? If you like this movie, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommended votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Please go to M to read the mobile phone.
Section six hundred and sixty Tang Haohe
It is shameful that Li Hongzhang is also one of this group of people who scold Zuo Zongtang and scold him fiercely.
The foreign movement didn’t succeed like the political reform, and fighting with China in court was absolutely inseparable. The foreign factions have always been converging in ideas, and a group of people have never really formed a faction.
For example, when Zeng Guofan’s family was the only one, Cixi supported Li Hongzhang against Zeng Guofan’s death. Cixi pushed Zuo Zongtang to support Zuo Zongtang’s defense policy instead of Li Hongzhang’s coastal defense policy. After Zuo Zongtang died again, he abruptly took Zhang Dong.
Don’t they know that these etiquette are like dolls, so they let an old lady play with them?
They know it well and enjoy it, because only in this way can they get an zong, a group of people who don’t want to fight for the sky and want to keep their hands ahead of the Japanese.
On the one hand, they fight to show the so-called self-cleaning technique, but can’t Cixi see it? She also looks at Zuo Zongtang’s arrogance and derogates from Zeng Guofan from time to time, but everyone knows that Zeng Guofan’s severe scolding of Zeng Guofan is just a statement, but the problem is that Zuo Zongtang’s facts are really impossible to be independent of Zeng Guofan, because when he is independent of Zeng Guofan, he has already had a number of forces relying on him.
No matter if Zeng Zuoli and Li were on and off, they would not be able to twist into a rope if they each brought a helper. Because no one has different interests, this is the height of Cixi. She played in a conspiracy to compare her husband’s Xianfeng period. Every time Zeng Guofan won the battle, the emperor was worried and deducted the salary, and then let the Taiping Army do it again and again. Xianfeng was not as good as his wife.
Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang have been at odds for a long time, but the real reason is that everyone is engaged in foreign classics. If you take more, he will take less. This is the real reason, which is neither out of personal grudges nor out of different ideas, but the most direct interest is just like the conflict between the Japanese navy and the army is bigger than that of other countries in the world. It is because of the lack of resources in Japan that the fighting between foreign factions may be more intense than that between foreign factions and die-hards. It is because of the lack of funds that teen wolf will dare to kill tigers.
Nowadays, Manchu is more embarrassed than history. Just after a big disaster, the disaster area has to give up money and food. At present, one of the two major sources of income depends on opium and the other on the sea, but it is still not enough to borrow money. In this case, the competition between Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang is naturally more intense
Li Hongzhang said that the tribes in the northwest did not belong to the Central Plains. It was only in the Qianlong period that it was attached to the vassal and did not become a king for a long time. Now Yugang Jing is short of state, abandoning Xinjiang, Yu Daqing, and recognizing that Qing’s current strength really does not care about the western regions
Li Hongzhang completely ignored the Han and Tang Dynasties, which once controlled the western regions, and asserted that Xinjiang was Pingzhungeer in Qianlong period before entering the territory.
Li Hongzhang, who opposed the invasion of Xinjiang, also suggested that the court stop withdrawing the northwest troops and order them to "strictly observe the existing borders, and there is no need to rush to forge ahead."
Does Li Hongzhang wish he could banish his old rival to the northwest to farm?
In Xinjiang, he didn’t say that he would give up completely. He still wanted to use diplomatic means to make suggestions: "Enlighten Yili, Urumqi, Kashgar and other chieftains to allow them to come from their own tribes, such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Miao, Yao, Tusi, Vietnam, and North Korea." Li Hongzhang thought that this would not only defeat Britain’s and Russia’s intention to merge with China, but also help them to make an expedition.
Li Hongzhang intends to allow various tribes in Xinjiang to support each other independently and contain each other. If these tribal laws are twisted into a rope, it will not pose a threat to the Qing Dynasty. What Li Hongzhang pursues is nothing but stability
With the help of public opinion in the DPRK, it is argued that on the one hand, on the other hand, Li Hongzhang still wants to do things or is he willing to build railways.
Tang Tingshu’s proposal to connect Jiujiang with Hankou can benefit Zuo Zongtang, but it is impossible not to benefit Li Hongzhang
Li Hongzhang refuted Zuo Zongtang’s support for the railway company after he refuted Zuo Zongtang’s aggressive move to invade Xinjiang.
He said that the railway was connected to the east by the sea and the west by the Qin and Jin Dynasties, and the endless fireworks didn’t pay a cent, which caused the tax system in the Central Plains to be so lax that it was now embarrassed.
Li Hongzhang believes that the disaster relief should be overhauled by the railway, and now that the famine has been solved, the railway track restoration tax should be removed
Li Hongzhang’s suggestion catered to the idea of a group of die-hards, but no one dared to decide to tear down the big railway. Isn’t that a war?
There are some people who argue with Li Hongzhang. I don’t know if these people are arranged by Li Hongzhang, but in the end, Cixi asked Li Hongzhang to negotiate with the big railway company on behalf of the Prime Minister’s yamen, and the railway company would take Li Jin for them.
This is how Li Hongzhang’s means of doing things can be done, how to come straight and do things, how to come straight and come around when things can’t be done.
After the argument, the court agreed that if the big railway company promised to help draw Li Jin, it would not lose its profit, just as if foreigners were allowed to supervise Hai Daqing with different officials and one grain, but they could get 10 million yuan in the treasury.
After that, it is necessary to play a double reed. The railway company will collect Likin, but it is required to connect Jiujiang with Hankou, otherwise it will greatly affect Likin’s acceptance.
Li Hongzhang played Empress Dowager Cixi. Isn’t it just a three-or four-hundred-mile railway? Thousands of miles have been built in situ, and I don’t care about this.
The end result was that Zuo Zongtang was scolded, Li Hongzhang attacked his political enemies, got things done well, gained benefits, and the railway company got what it wanted.
Tang Tingshu will build non-stop and strive to be open to traffic as soon as possible.
At the same time, a group of Hunan gentry and businessmen met Zeng Guofan’s interest in lobbying Hunan to build a railway through various channels, hoping that Zeng Guofan would allow Hunan people to run their own railways in the imperial court, but it was better to be in the hands of Huxiang’s younger brother than to be contested by foreigners.
Zeng Guofan didn’t learn the lesson of Zuo Zongtang’s scolding, but he really wrote a letter to plead with Hunan gentry and businessmen.
The accident is that Zeng Guofan didn’t get scolded this time, because since Li Hongzhang won the preparations for the three railways of Beijing-Han, Beijing-Shanghai and Cheng Kun a few years ago and beijing-shanghai railway has been actively promoted by the British, there is a precedent for Zeng Guofan to build railways in his hometown. Li Hongzhang said at that time that it was better for foreigners to compete than Qing Dynasty to build railways themselves. Now Hunan people have to build railways themselves. What is the reason to stop it?
Of course, there must be some old fogies who can do nothing but shake their heads and sigh.
Hunan people want to build a railway, which is of course promoted by Tang Tingshu. He doesn’t care who the railway in Hunan is. The key is that this railway will be connected to the big railway network, so Hunan’s rich products will continue to enter the big and big railway companies, which will greatly benefit.
In Tang Tingshu, through its own influence, the railway companies are constantly promoting the railway network, while the big economy continues to grow at a high speed, and industrial enterprises are the biggest boosting force.
The business opportunities brought by the railway construction made heavy industry take the lead in making profits. After Hao Kejiu completed the privatization of the arsenal, no one can restrain him anymore. Then the railway business opportunities continued to expand, and the production capacity of pig iron expanded to one million tons, which has kept pace with Schneider. Since then, the arsenal is no longer a major industrial enterprise of machinery manufacturing or an iron smelting giant. The purpose is to ensure that it will continue to maintain its share in the railway construction field.
It is also the hope to continue to make profits in the railway industry, which gives Tang Tingshu an opportunity.
Tang Tingshu personally visited the house and promised that the railway company would give priority to purchasing the rails and equipment of the arsenal, but the railway construction had to continue to ask the arsenal.
The two of them had a long talk and hit it off. The railway company gave priority to purchasing the arsenal railway equipment, while the arsenal continued to support the railway construction of the railway company. Of course, they contracted the railway company’s engineering methods, which was another good business.
Hao Kejiu and Tang Tingshu made the railway construction of the railway company go smoothly, and soon the Jiujiang-Hankou railway started construction, and the Guangzhou-Guilin railway started construction. The Guangzhou-Nanning railway started construction, and four railway lines started construction at the same time. Tang Tingshu plans to issue 120 million new shares, which is also driven by this good news.
In addition to directly benefiting from railway construction, the cotton textile industry is also driven by the development of railway traffic. Dongguan has now become a cotton textile center. It is located in the middle section of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, with one end connected to Guangzhou and one end connected to Kowloon, which is the largest cotton trading center. Guangzhou is the largest cotton textile market, but the land price and labor in Dongguan are much lower than those in the two places. As a result, the cotton textile industry has taken root here and soon expanded.
Although the homespun is still everyone’s favorite, the spinning industry has developed from the raw materials of the homespun workshop. In addition, the Ministry of Industry has successfully promoted the introduction of American coarse cloth production machinery to occupy a considerable part of the homespun market
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