Master Yuan, start!

The year before last, he sent people to explore the railway route from the capital to Kulun. Last year, he even said that he wanted us Mongolians to help him build the railway.

The Han Chinese horse caravans that come from the south every year already cheat us out of a lot of money. If the railway is built, won't the cunning Han Chinese cheat us out of even more money? "

Handadorji was deeply distressed and wanted to awaken these Mongolian princes' disgust towards the mainland and the Han people.

His annual salary was only 2000 taels, but after only three years as a prince, he already owed mainland merchants more than 3 taels of silver.

Where did the money go? He searched for it and found nothing.

All he knew was that the amount of money he owed was increasing, and now he couldn't even pay the interest.

After Emperor Guangxu returned to the throne, he personally went to the capital to congratulate him, hoping to be rewarded with some silver and money.

However, the emperor, who had been quite generous to the princes of Outer Mongolia in previous years, greatly disappointed Handadorji this time.

First, he was granted the title of Qianqingmen Walker, then he was awarded a purple rein, and before leaving, he was awarded a plain sable coat.

As a dignified prince of the grassland, does he need these fur things?

Money, what Handadorji wants is money!

But Guangxu was busy with the new policies in the court at that time, so how could he have extra money to reward this Mongolian prince?

Handadorji returned without success. After returning to Outer Mongolia, he disappeared under the constant instigation of the Russians.

He was originally quite hesitant, after all, the Qing Dynasty was still wearing a tiger skin.

But first, the National Defense Army failed in its pursuit of the Jindan Dao, then Russia increased its infiltration into Mongolia, and recently news came from the south that the princes of Inner Mongolia had also rebelled.

It seems that everything is developing in a direction that is beneficial to Outer Mongolia.

The world-renowned National Defense Army was reportedly unable to adapt to the grassland climate and escaped from the Jindan Dao. They fled westward to the vicinity of the Daqing Mountains, then moved north and hid in Outer Mongolia.

Inner Mongolia was originally a tool used by the Manchus to control Outer Mongolia. Inner and Outer Mongolia have always been at odds. Now that the princes of Inner Mongolia have also rebelled, it means that Mongolian independence is no longer a fight fought by Outer Mongolia alone.

Oh, money, I can convince them with it! Hangda Dorji thought to himself, I'm not the only one who owes money to Han merchants. Every prince in Outer Mongolia owes tens of thousands of taels of silver.

I just don't believe it, they can still do it?

Handadorji was silent for a moment, and finally threw out the secret letter given to him by the Russians.

"This is the promise the Russians made to our Great Mongol Empire. As long as we incite chaos in Internal and External Mongolia and make the Great Qing Empire vulnerable to enemies from both the north and the south, the Russians will be willing to help us pay off our debts.

8. In addition, if we allow the Russians to use our route to build a railway, they have promised to help us gain independence and establish our own country.”

"Independence?"

Lu Tian, ​​who was present, frowned and thought quickly in his mind.

After failing to get help from the Russians to build a railway with the chief instructor, now you want to build it through the Mongolians?

Lu just...will they make it in time?

Lu Tian looked through the door frame at the east bank of the Heilongjiang River where the Russians were constantly gathering troops.

On the verge of war with Japan, now you are trying to split Mongolia?

What on earth are the Russians planning?

A new round of conspiracy is brewing on the grassland, but Yuan Xiangcheng on the north bank of the Yangtze River has not received any news yet.

Telegraphs did not reach the Mongolian Plateau, and it took about 20 days to travel from Kulun City to the capital. This time difference eliminated the possibility of Yuan Shikai commanding behind the scenes.

The best way is to let Lu Tian, ​​who has become the leader of the Jindan Dao, act in his favor. From the moment Lu Tian accepted the appointment, Lu Tian, ​​who was affiliated with the Intelligence Investigation Department of the Red Confucian Society, was already dead.

Active in the northern Gobi Desert, is the "Northern Sweeping Martial Saint" of the Jindan Dao.

However, even if Yuan Shikai knew the plans of the Outer Mongolian princes and Tsarist Russia, he probably would not take it to heart.

The princes and lamas on the plateau have long been left behind. Now is the era of machine guns and cannons. The only way out for the grassland people in the future is to be able to sing and dance well.

They wanted to use Tsarist Russia to restore the glory of their ancestors, but ended up with only one way to go: death.

After all, Tsarist Russia was not a group of good people. They didn't care about international influence at all.

Do you really think that the statement "Tsarist Russia was a huge prison for all ethnic groups" is false?

After World War I, Russia dared to launch a wave of massacres in Mongolia. It was only the end of the 19th century, and communication technology was far less developed than it would be 30 years later.

By cooperating with the polar bear, Mongolia ended up with a population taller than the wheels and completely wiped out. I'm afraid Yuan Shikai was not surprised at all.

Oh, and it has to be at a height where the wheels are level.

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In the autumn of 1895, the sun finally crossed the equator and headed towards the Tropic of Capricorn.

The Jianghuai area has also broken free from the control of the subtropical high-pressure belt and escaped from the summer drought.

The National Defense Army had already wiped out all the Hunan Army's active forces east of the Dabie Mountains and on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and was accumulating strength, waiting for the next battle, or in other words, the arrival of the final decisive battle.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, however, there is another scene.

In the French Concession in Shanghai, people were selling properties everywhere, and ships bound for Taipei or Annan were docked at the docks along the coast of the French Concession day and night.

The French people are running away!

In the eyes of politicians from Britain, Germany, Russia, the United States and other countries, the defeat in Yangzhou was just a mistake made by France.

But in the eyes of the French in the French Concession in Shanghai, this meant that Shanghai was no longer safe, and the army loyal to the northern emperor could rush into the concession at any time and hack them to death.

Yes, this was thanks to the propaganda of the French colonial authorities.

When the French foreign mercenary corps was dispatched, in order to gain the support of the residents of the French Concession and raise some "funds", the propaganda machine was activated to slander the Chinese army.

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The French once again talked about the case of the 39 British and French envoys who were imprisoned and died in the Old Summer Palace in the newspapers.

They said the envoys were severely tortured in Chinese prisons, including being whipped, branded, and waterboarded, and were denied medical treatment, their wounds being allowed to rot and fester, becoming infested with maggots.

This is of course what actually happened, and it was also an excuse for the British and French forces to launch the "Second Opium War".

However, the French used this incident to stir up national sentiment among the French in the Shanghai Concession, but it had the opposite effect.

It is true that many French people living in the Far East donated money to the concession authorities.

Moreover, after the fall of Yangzhou City, the concession authorities claimed that "the French Foreign Legion would arrive in Shanghai soon", which aroused the desire of many French people in Shanghai to join the army.

However, after the British expressed support for Yuan Shikai, these people quickly disappeared.

The number of shops on the streets of the French Concession was decreasing day by day, and the streets were becoming increasingly deserted.

Obviously, even the French themselves don't have much confidence.

Yes, yes, yes, the newspaper said that the French Foreign Legion is ready in Kaohsiung and can board the ship at any time.

That’s right, the Xiang Army in Yangzhou only received “limited guidance” from French officers and did not demonstrate the French’s superb command skills, so France cannot be considered defeated.

4 However, the British cavalry had already appeared on the Jianghuai battlefield, but there was no trace of the French Foreign Legion.

It is self-evident who has more say.

In this way, the war, which was called the "Battle for the Qing Throne" by foreigners, finally saw the dawn of an end after lasting for more than a year.

The National Defense Forces frantically collected boats in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which stretches for thousands of kilometers, and were ready to cross the river at any time.

Fifth, the Hunan Army in Tongling, Wuhu, Caishiji and other places south of the Yangtze River were also prepared for a decisive battle, intending to rely on the natural barriers to make a desperate fight.

The war between the north and the south came to a brief respite.

As the events on the temple battlefield came to an end, the situation outside the battlefield began to change.

The German government has made a big fuss about the "failure of France's intervention" and is frantically hyping up the so-called "optimistic era" of the French in Europe, which is nothing more than the government deceiving the people.

After the Franco-Prussian War, France gradually washed away the shame of defeat through the development of financial capital, colonial development and annexation, and nationalism also showed signs of resurgence.

After all, the indemnity France signed in the Franco-Prussian War was more than twice the total amount paid by the Qing Dynasty from 1840 to its demise in 1911.

Even with such a large amount of money, the Qing Dynasty never paid it back until its death.

The French paid off all the debts, including principal and interest, in just two years.

Therefore, when the French regained their strength, the first people to become alert were the Germans.

However, after losing the excuse for war, it would not be easy to suppress France's development. Britain would not allow the Germans to dominate the European continent.

This means that targeting France in Europe often results in half the effort and twice the results.

As for colonies, Germany and France did not have many colonies in Africa that bordered each other, so they were completely unable to provoke colonial disputes in Africa.

But when they arrived in Asia, the Germans felt that they were unable to display their capabilities due to the backwardness of their colonial status quo.

Germany had two colonies in Asia, one of which was Lan Fang in Borneo, which it bought from the Dutch.

One is the Pearl River Estuary, the Big and Small Hengqin Islands on the west bank of the Lingdingyang, which is the southern part of Zhuhai City in later generations.

Among them, Lan Fang could still develop a plantation economy, but the Big and Small Hengqin Islands were completely a wasteland.

In order to obtain this colony located in mainland China, the Germans once promised the British in Hong Kong on the east coast of the Lingdingyang that they would not allow military ships to dock and would not set up artillery batteries.

But later the Germans regretted their decision. The Hengqin Islands were not on the main shipping channel of the Lingdingyang, so Chinese goods only needed to stop in Guangzhou for import and export, and there was no need to stop here at all.

Even if a ship wanted to resupply along the way, the facilities and services of the nearby Portuguese "Macau" were more complete.

The Big and Small Hengqin Islands have no resources, no geographical advantages, and even a small population.

We can't arrest all those fishermen, right?

At this time, Germany did not value the Hengqin Islands as much as it did Qingdao in the original time and space.

There are coal fields near Qingdao, and there is an excellent harbor. Even if it cannot be used for civilian purposes, it is very suitable as a military port. In addition, there were no other colonial forces in Shandong at the time, so the Germans could act freely.

Now the Germans’ neighbors are the Portuguese in Macau, and across the sea are the British in Hong Kong.

The "vertical" South China Sea route from Lan Fang to the Big and Small Hengqin Islands was also under the vigilance and surveillance of the French, Vietnamese and Taiwanese "horizontal" South China Sea route fleets.

Surrounded by enemies on three sides and the sea on one side, the Big and Small Hengqin Islands have become completely useless in the eyes of the Germans.

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Therefore, after the French suffered a setback in the Far East, the Germans reacted immediately and claimed to help China expel the "greedy French" in exchange for returning the "Big and Small Hengqin Islands" they had occupied at the mouth of the Pearl River.

The Parisian press was naturally furious when they received the news. The new generation of young people was born after the Franco-Prussian War. Bathed in the glory of the optimistic era, they had long forgotten the bitterness of defeat.

They took to the streets, claiming that they would fight at all costs to beat the German Empire back into a loose group of German states.

Although French politics is still controlled by dove-like old men who experienced the Franco-Prussian War, who can guarantee that the Republican government will not elect a hawkish leader?