Master Yuan, start!

"There are still many people willing to do practical things. Lord Yuan didn't decide to go south for promotion or wealth. He did this for the people of the world."

"I know Lord Tang has been to America, where they care about nationality and ethnicity." Tao Senjia pondered for a moment and said in a low voice:

"But the Qing Dynasty is different. The Qing Dynasty is headed by the Manchus. Even if Lord Yuan is a master of military strategy, he can conquer Jiangnan as quickly as he did during the Battle of the Overthrown Curtain.

Are we really going to hand over this country to the Manchus? But if we don't, even if Lord Yuan doesn't want to wear the yellow robe by then, his generals will probably be ready long ago.

However, from now on, I'm afraid that Master Yuan will bear the name of a regicide and be criticized forever by the people of the world."

"So what does Master Tao mean?"

Tang Shaoyi had never thought so far ahead. He did not have any big ambitions and only wanted to do his job well.

In his original time and space, he served as the Korean consul in the Qing Dynasty; he followed Yuan Shikai in diplomacy during the Republic of China; after Yuan Shikai's sudden death, he went south to join the revolutionary party; until he later became a member of the Nanjing National Government, it can be said that he fully demonstrated the saying of taking one step at a time.

So, after hearing Tao Senjia talking about the future, he also wanted to know what Liu Kunyi's plans were.

"What Mr. Tao means is," seeing Tang Shaoyi's interest, Tao Senjia came closer and said, "Instead of letting Mr. Yuan bear the name of regicide, it is better to let the Hunan Army march north and eliminate the Manchu monsters in the capital.

Anyway, Lord Liu only recognizes the court in Wuchang now, and the one in Beijing means nothing to the Hunan Army. Of course, this is also what Lord Liu meant."

Borrowing a knife to kill? This old fox

Tang Shaoyi couldn't help but worry about Guangxu in the capital.

However, before he could reply, Tao Senjia made another suggestion that shocked him.

"When the emperor in Beijing is gone, Lord Yuan will march south under the banner of revenge, attack Wuchang Prefecture, and execute that witch Cilinxi and the young emperor in Wuchang.

By then, there will be no Manchu monarchs left in the world. Even if we Han people fight among ourselves, it will just be a waste of time, right?"

Tao Senjia, the governor-general of five provinces, spoke like a sworn brother, letting himself go and giving Tang Shaoyi a big surprise.

"This is a bit..."

Tang Shaoyi didn't know what to say. In his opinion, this was too fantastical.

If the Hunan Army marches north, wouldn't it mean that the National Defense Army will have to open up the passage? What if they pretend to destroy the State of Guo and take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the National Defense Army along the way?

Besides, after the Hunan Army enters the capital, will they really come out again?

When the National Defense Army marched thousands of miles south, how could we be sure that the Hunan Army would not take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the National Defense Army?

Tang Shaoyi thought for a moment and replied, "Master Tao, if the Hunan Army really wanted to rebel against the Manchus, why would they bother with this unnecessary effort? Wouldn't they have simply marched up the Yangtze River and captured the people in the Wuchang court? Why would they have to resort to other means?"

Tang Shaoyi knew that Yuan Shikai had never publicly expressed his desire to rebel against the Manchus. On the contrary, he had always played the role of a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.

On the contrary, the Governor-General of Jiangnan in the south often boasted that he was a "loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty" and used this as an excuse to ask Cixi to promote him from the Governor-General of Liangjiang to the Governor-General of Jiangnan.

How come Liu Kunyi, who claimed to be a loyal minister, secretly became the vanguard of anti-Manchuism? Was he trying to delay the opportunity, or was he truly anti-Manchu?

Just when Tao Senjia wanted to continue persuading, he heard a panicked shouting coming from outside the house.

"Oh no, Master Kang! The French have captured your brother and are about to take him to a prison in the concession!"

"what?"

The two people in the inner room first heard a scream from the outer room, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps leaving the room.

"Master Tao, why don't you come here today and choose a good opportunity to discuss this in a few days?"

Tang Shaoyi was quite impressed by Kang Youwei's younger brother whom he had just met on the road. It happened that he was just there to buy time and had no intention of having a serious talk, so he decided to go out and see what was going on.

"Then Tao will go with us."

As an aide to Liu Kunyi, he had to deal with foreigners on a daily basis. Seeing that the matter involved the French, Tao Senjia quickly got up and went out with Tang Shaoyi.

: The sign "Dogs and Chinese are not allowed to enter" was hung in the original time and space after the French gained sovereignty over Vietnam in 1885.

8 At that time, there was a garden in the French Concession, which was built by the concession authorities, but later the French Concession Municipal Council could be understood as the Concession Management Committee recruiting a colonial official who had experienced the Sino-French Vietnam War.

5 Because he had been captured by the Qing army on the front line in Vietnam, he bore a grudge against the Chinese, so he erected a sign outside the park saying "Dogs and Chinese are not allowed to enter".

Later, Zhou Zuoren, Cai Hesen, Sun Yat-sen and others in the Republic of China expressed their indignation about this matter in public.

In Lu'erben time and space, because the French had taken a lot of advantage of "our Qing Dynasty", the colonial officials went to Taiwan and Xiamen to serve, and were only transferred to Shanghai in recent years.

However, as soon as he took office, he did exactly the same thing as in the parallel universe and put up a sign prohibiting dogs and Chinese from entering.

However, this event, which seemed extremely serious to the Chinese in later generations, was completely unknown to the French Consul in Shanghai, Luban, or even if he knew about it, he would not have taken it seriously.

4. Because this was just the private behavior of a colonial official. It was not that the entire concession was off-limits, but only a small area of ​​the park was prohibited.

2. So today, after the violent storm, Consul Lu Ban pushed open the tightly closed doors and windows on the third floor.

Looking at the leaves dripping with dew by the window, Lu Ban took a few deep breaths of the fresh air after the rain and felt in a good mood.

Just as he was about to turn around and make a cup of coffee to greet a beautiful new day, he suddenly heard shouting coming from outside the consulate.

"Why is it so noisy?" Lu Ban was a little unhappy.

The original consulate was located in the heart of the French Concession, close to a busy commercial street, and would be woken up every day by the sounds of street vendors.

Lu Ban was a quiet person, so he moved the consulate to the edge of the French Concession with lush trees. However, he didn't expect to be disturbed anyway. He encountered such a disappointing thing just after waking up.

"Mr. Consul, something happened!"

The guard hurried downstairs and shouted to Lu Ban on the third floor.

"what happened?"

Seeing the guard who usually dressed neatly now in dishevel and even lost his hat, Lu Ban suddenly became nervous.

Could it be that someone is attacking the concession again?

Lu Ban recalled the day when he was a young boy and followed his parents on board a ship in the Shanghai Concession, intending to escape the Taiping Rebellion.

"The Chinese gathered and demanded to enter a park, but the Municipal Council refused, so a fight broke out. More than a dozen of them were injured, and then a riot broke out!"

"The Chinese demanded to enter the park, and more than a dozen people were injured?"

Lu Ban was confused and had no idea what the guard was talking about.

But at this moment he had no time to ask any more questions, so he quickly put on his clothes and walked out of the consulate, wanting to see what was going on outside.

The Wutong Tree Avenue, which was deserted in the past, was now filled with soldiers and policemen from the French Concession. They stood in rows, holding rifles and arrogantly looking at the Chinese people who were walking slowly towards them.

In the group of Chinese people opposite, the leader was a young man dressed as a scholar, but following him were more strong men in coarse linen clothes, and there were also Shanghai yamen runners who were included in the group. Some of them were holding sticks and swords, looking vigilantly at the fully armed concession soldiers in front of them.

The crowd shouted slogans as they walked, and eight people in the back held up banners, some of which were actually written in French.

There were more onlookers around, including blond-haired and blue-eyed Europeans and confused Chinese.

"Down with the French!"

"Strive for national sovereignty and civil rights!"

"Give me back Xiamen, give me back Taiwan!"

This was not the Republic of China, and demonstrations were far from becoming a trend.

However, street protests were a rare sight in Shanghai. The anger of local people who had been oppressed by foreigners for decades finally erupted with the fuse of "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter" in the French Concession Garden.

After several years of influence, Shanghai residents no longer regard "foreigners" as a unified concept.

They can distinguish between the British, the French, and the Americans.

Since the Jiangnan Governor Liu Kunyi took the initiative to show goodwill to the British, and Yuan Shikai did not publish any articles against the British in the newspapers, young scholars generally had no ill feelings towards Britain.

On the contrary, France is regarded as the "French barbarian" who has taken great advantage of China, and is especially disliked by ordinary people.

In addition, in recent years, the market has been flooded with a large number of French-made industrial products, which has made local business owners face fierce competition and suffer terribly. They have no good attitude towards France.

Therefore, taking advantage of the sudden storm in Shanghai and the arrival of Tang Shaoyi in Shanghai with his warships, the intelligence personnel of the Shanghai station decisively intervened, constantly fanning the flames, and eventually ignited the anger of the people.

Kang Guangren was just a "hot-blooded young man" who was kept in the dark and used as a pawn.

...

At this time, French Consul Lu Ban finally understood the whole story through the explanation of the Municipal Council officials.

"A garden caused a murder!"

Lu Ban silently summed up the incident in his mind, and then looked at the Chinese people who were confronting the soldiers.

As someone who came from an old revolutionary base, he naturally knew how insulting the words "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter" were to the people of a country.

He also didn't expect that there would be such a slogan in the French Concession. Perhaps no one would pay attention to this sentence 10 years ago, but now that China's national consciousness is rapidly rising, it is undoubtedly provoking the nerves of the Chinese people.

It seems that this is not worth the effort.

8 Since the Panama Canal corruption scandal broke out in France in 1892, the credibility of French industry, journalism and politics has been destroyed in Europe, and even its foreign relations have been seriously affected.

In Erben time and space, the Germans lowered tariffs on Russian agricultural products, leading to the great reconciliation between Russia and Germany.

The Russians were relieved on the Western Front, so they no longer felt the urgency to find allies to contain Germany. In addition, Alexander III, as an emperor, hated the French "republican system".

1893. Therefore, the series of Franco-Russian alliance treaties signed in the original time and space in are still just a plan today.

However, the French did not seem to value the alliance with the Russians. After obtaining Asian colonies that were far superior to their original time and space, they turned all the usury and financial capital that should have been invested in Russia to the colonies.

Algeria, West Africa, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Xiamen welcomed countless franc investments. The mineral resources in these places continued to expand production and were mined crazily. They were then transported to local factories to manufacture countless industrial products, which were then dumped to the colonies and exchanged for real gold and silver that flowed back to France.

This era is also called the "Age of Optimism" by the French, especially the Parisians.

They believed that the shadow of the Franco-Prussian War had passed, and that relying on colonies spread across the world, the French could recreate the glory of the Napoleonic era on a cultural level.

Haute couture began to appear in Paris. Dress codes for different occasions became more sophisticated. You couldn't wear the same clothes to a banquet and a ball. Private trains began to run on French railway tracks.

If it is said that the British began to indulge in glory and stop striving for progress after becoming the world hegemon.

The French were "weak before they became strong". In this time and space, they easily captured Taiwan and successfully annexed the three Indochinese countries, which made them ignore the necessity of strengthening their military strength and become more and more obsessed with the advantages brought by finance.

The Panama Canal? Build it! The Americans can't possibly take it over. The French have plenty of money.

The Suez Canal? Expand it! If the British don't want it, then we French will do it first, and the cost will be deducted from Britain's future profits.

However, the subsequent canal scandal caused the Paris government to lose face and dealt a heavy blow to the French financial community.

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Lu Ban knew that although France was facing some difficult times in recent years, what he should do was to stabilize the colonial situation and prevent France from bleeding again.

However, France's reputation must not be challenged!

"Do you know that this is a violation of French territory and a provocation to France?"

With the help of an interpreter, Lu Ban tried to threaten the Chinese in front of him.