Prince Gong wiped his sweat and said: "Back to the Queen Mother, the British side has promised that I can buy 30,000 Enfield rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition from the British, and they will send three colonel-level officers to help us train the new army, and my Daqing can form a new army of more than 50,000 people at any time to go to Liaodong and destroy this Huaguo. ”The Empress Dowager Cixi stroked the wrench on her finger, swept the ministers, and sighed, "Li Hongzhang, tell me about it, what should I do now" Li Hongzhang didn't expect the situation to deteriorate so quickly, Xuan Yuemeng gave himself a lot of money, and the money to the imperial court, the money to the Empress Dowager Cixi, has not yet arrived, he is also worried to death, if everyone gets Xuan Yuemeng's money, it will be easier to do it, what he is most afraid of is that someone will say that he and Xuan Yuemeng are in the same group.Money is not rich, in fact, Li Hongzhang doesn't care very much, the key is that he cares about Cixi's opinion of himself.Originally, Li Hongzhang was able to grasp Cixi's psychology, and knew that Bacheng could make peace with Huaguo like last time, so he accepted Xuan Yuemeng's money, where did he expect that the situation would take a sharp turn for the worse" Empress Dowager Qiqi, such a big matter, the minister did not dare to discuss it. ”Li Hongzhang is scheming as usual, "Now it is impossible to make peace with Yiran, the other party has declared war, so it can only be according to what the Queen Mother said before, let Prince Gong preside over the overall situation, and the idea is to fight." ”Prince Gong was furious, I didn't expect Li Hongzhang to say this, right now Zuo Zongtang is in the northwest, and the only one in the court who has the ability to fight is Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, I preside over me an empty prince, what do I do to host the Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, and said to the Empress Dowager Ci'an and Emperor Tongzhi: "Sister, the emperor, you see, I have no idea what to do now, it seems that Li Hongzhang is right, this is the matter of the war in China, it seems that it can only be Prince Gong who undertakes Prince Gong, you just said that the British want to sell 30,000 guns, There are still tens of millions of bullets to cost," Prince Gong hurriedly said: "Three million taels of silver is enough." ”Empress Dowager Ci'an sighed, "Sister, I have never understood these things, but if you can not fight, it is better not to fight, we have been fighting with bandits and twisters for more than ten years, the country is weak and the people are tired, it is time to cultivate." ”Emperor Tongzhi said angrily: "These three million taels, let Prince Gong solve it himself, I heard that the palace has money Originally, Xuan Yuemeng wanted to pay tribute to the emperor two million taels, but now he wants to go out three million taels of five million taels away, presumably Prince Gong is not bad for these five million taels, when will Prince Gong take the money, when will the army be armed" The ministers were shocked, they didn't expect that Emperor Tongzhi had such a deep grudge against Prince Gong Yixun, this is all because Prince Gong Yixun opposed the construction of the Summer Palace, and Emperor Tongzhi just thought, It was because the Summer Palace had not been repaired for a long time that Cixi did not move over, and when Cixi moved to the new garden, this palace should be his master, so Emperor Tongzhi thought that Prince Gong Yixun and Cixi were in a group.In fact, Emperor Tongzhi really misunderstood Yixun, Li Hongzhang did his best for Cixi, for the sake of the officials, for the ambition of finding a marquis eight thousand miles away, and Prince Gong Yixun was indeed for the Qing Dynasty's social affairs, it can be said that the entire Qing court, the most for the country's social welfare, must be Prince Gong Prince Yixun Gong Prince Yixun has the ability to be the emperor, and did not have the life of being the emperor, if it was Yixun who was the emperor at the beginning, not Xianfeng, the Qing Dynasty did not say that it was strong, at least, it could last for a few more decades.Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice: "Lord, as far as I know, the Enfield rifle is a British gun in the fifties, the breech flintlock pistol that has long been eliminated, and now the Huai Army and the Chinese Army are all German 1871 rifles, which are currently the most advanced firearms in the world, three million taels of silver to buy outdated guns in the fifties, is it really cost-effective and, is it really useful" Li Hongzhang also fought this time, on the one hand, he recognized that the Empress Dowager Cixi did not want to fight anymore, and wanted to stand in line resolutely, Li Hongzhang had long realized that Cixi was dissatisfied with Yixun.On the other hand, the Huai army is newly defeated, without foreign aid, it is difficult for the Huai army to break through the homeland of China, at this time Yi Xun continues to fight, in Li Hongzhang's view, Yi Xun is not to dislike Xuan Yuemeng, after all, Xuan Yuemeng is just a child, and Yi Xun is a prince, besides, in Li Hongzhang's view, Xuan Yuemeng's declaration of war is not resolute, and does not put the Qing court in the first place, and the main attack is the United Kingdom, the original diplomatic letter, but also Xuan Yuemeng proposed to establish a strategic partnership with the Qing State.Prince Gong Yixun was furious, he didn't expect that Li Hongzhang, who had always thought that he was his own person, would actually defect behind his back.Cixi was very satisfied with Li Hongzhang's attitude, "Prince Gong, you also heard what the emperor meant, I think, you take the lead and donate more silver, the court is in difficulty now, and you can't get the money, and, listening to Li Hongzhang, this kind of gun is already a gun from 20 years ago, and the British sold old goods to us, this dumb loss can't be eaten."
It is better to let the British fight Huaguo, and we will provide them with more food and silver, that is, we can not send troops ourselves, and it is better not to send troops. ”Prince Gong Yixun is called a fussy three, this is a matter of the entire imperial court, and now it seems to be his own business, fortunately, there is a group of ministers who support Yixun to help speak, Wen Xiang, Bao Jun, have said that they want to teach Huaguo a lesson, and they want to recover the land.In their opinion, Xuan Yuemeng is Li Hongzao's closed disciple, this is one of them, and since the territory has been given to others, this time the Huai army took the initiative to provoke trouble, and now they can't beat people, and they are looking for foreigners, looking for the British to help fight, who the British are, everyone knows that the Qing court, including the whole country, does not hate the British and the French, these two countries are directly harming the Qing country.For these reasons, the most radical diehards have collectively remained silent this time.The Empress Dowager Cixi saw that Wen Xiang Baojun and the others had spoken, and she was even more disgusted, thinking that Yixun had reached some kind of agreement with the British, and wanted to take the opportunity to make waves, "Sixth Master, let's not talk about it first, now that China has declared war on our Qing Dynasty and Britain, what should we do We also declare war The attitude of the British, in addition to selling us old guns, is there anything else Will they send troops" Prince Gong Yixun was very angry, how did he know that the British could help the court like this, for Yixun, he already felt very surprisedOf course, I also know that the British are not a good thing, and if the British are really willing to send troops, then I don't know how far the war funds will go.At the beginning, a foreign gun team recruited by itself cost more than one million taels of silver, and there were only a few people" Back to the Queen Mother's words, the minister did not know, the British did not say that they would send troops. ”Prince Gong replied honestly.The Empress Dowager Cixi said coldly: "Disperse, Sixth Master, you are responsible for this matter, you don't know anything, what else to say, wait until you figure out what the British mean, and then talk about it" There were disputes within the Qing court, and there was no result, mainly because Cixi's attitude was unclear, and she wanted to wait for the situation to improve, and then see what the situation was.The British Minister Wei Tuma was simply not mad, he didn't expect Xuan Yuemeng to declare war when he said that he would declare war, declaring war was like child's play, Wei Tuma felt a lot of pressure, Britain did not let him fight, he did not have military power in his hands, and if he wanted to fight, he had to ask the commander of the British Far East Fleet, Burleigh, to ask for instructions at home again.It's not a British colonial dispute now, it's not someone who has violated Britain's rights and interests, the most important thing is that Britain is meddling in things now, this situation is different, if Xuan Yuemeng is fighting Hong Kong at the moment, Wei Tuoma will not have so much pressure.Chief Tax Secretary Hurd sighed, "Lord Consul, you really miscalculated this time, why do you want to get involved in their Chinese affairs, we just need to make money, really fight, what is the use of this small northern country A bunch of old machines he bought from Germany and France are not worth the British Empire." ”t1706231537: