Rebirth of the Qing Empire

Subsequent facts show that after Empress Dowager Cixi's decree to disband the Boxer Rebellion, protect the interests of various countries in the Qing Empire, and ease international conflicts was issued, it was first quickly implemented in the Beijing-Tianjin area. Countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States expressed their appreciation and support. The originally tense domestic

The international situation has tended to ease, and a political movement launched by religious groups has gradually subsided.

A number of important ministers in the imperial court, as well as Russia, Japan and other countries, were afraid of Cixi's attitude and the strength of Kang Fan and Shoushan, and no longer dared to provoke easily. And those Western missionaries in the Qing Empire also saw the Chinese people through the Boxer Rebellion.

With his formidable power, he no longer dared to act as recklessly as before, and he became well-behaved.

In this way, Kang Fan achieved his original goal: to exchange war for peace, use force to demonstrate strength, win development time, and expand development space.

"With your current strength, why bother to be so deliberate?" Judy said.

Kang Fan was stunned, "You mean you want me to remove the obstacles?"

Judy smiled and said, "I just saw that you were too tired, so I just said it casually. It's up to you what to do."

Kang Fan understood what Judy meant, but he had no intention of doing so.

Since the mid-19th century, the Qing Empire's national power has been declining due to the losses of the Taiping Rebellion at home and the invasion of powerful foreign enemies. People of all ethnic groups in China have gradually lost confidence in the Manchu Qing court, and various local forces have also shown signs of fragmentation.

The beginning of separatism, the result of more than 30 years of Westernization Movement, is that the national economy is almost completely controlled by Western comprador capital, and the Qing court has actually lost effective control over the country's political, economic, military and other fields, and is unable to exert its full influence.

The central government should play the central role of power.

The main reason for the failure of the Sino-Japanese War was actually due to the extreme corruption and incompetence of the Manchu Qing court itself. Moreover, the Manchus, who were originally only a minority in China, ruled China's main ethnic group, the Han, for two and a half centuries! Almost all the Manchus

Relying on the Han people and other ethnic minority people to support them, they have clothes to put on their hands, food to open their mouths, and they have official positions and can oppress people of all ethnic groups, who are their parents for food and clothing, but they cannot protect their homes and country and benefit the people. Instead, they cede land.

What’s the point of paying indemnities and harming the country and the people?! As a result, the conflict between the Han people and the Manchu people has become irresolvable.

Furthermore, for the vast majority of contemporary Han people, the Manchu rulers, like the Japanese, Russians, British, French, Germans, etc., are all foreigners and invaders.

Killers, enslavers, and destroyers. It is conceivable that with this kind of emotional identification, how could the Han people go all out to help the Manchus?

Therefore, the Manchu ruling group headed by Emperor Guangxu was simply unable to muster the strength of the whole country to deal with this war. In addition, the Manchu ruling group passively avoided the war. The Eight Banners Soldiers composed of Manchus basically did not participate in the war. The main force involved in the war was Han.

Minister Li Hongzhang's Han local armed forces - the Huai Army and the Beiyang Navy. Letting these Han officers and soldiers work for the Manchu ruling group is just wishful thinking of the Manchu ruling group.

Due to Li Hongzhang's lack of ability, selfishness to preserve his own strength, and lack of firm determination to serve the Qing Dynasty, most of the Huai army officers and soldiers participating in the war had no fighting spirit and no fighting spirit. In addition, other Han frontier officials across the country

Their sentiments are not even as good as those of Li Hongzhang. At least Li Hongzhang understands the truth of the coldness of lips and teeth, and he should also have a "Greater China" in his mind, that is, the concept of the people of all ethnic groups in China as a whole. He is helpless and alone, and even more

Because it was unable to call on other large armies and navies across the country to fully participate in the war, the Qing Empire's originally extremely huge war resources compared to Japan were not mobilized to fight against the outside world in a unified manner, allowing Japan, whose national strength was far inferior to its own, to achieve even Japan's

Everyone feels incomprehensible about the victory of the war!

These are the points that Kang Fan deliberately did not state explicitly when answering Emperor Guangxu's answer to the cause of the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, but Kang Fan believed that this point was the most fundamental cause of defeat.

But Kang Fan also understood that for a country as big as China, if the current Qing Dynasty was overthrown, it would be impossible for another suitable regime to rule the country in a short period of time. The regime could not be extended. As the central government of contemporary China, the Qing Dynasty

The imperial court will completely lose control of the local area, and civil strife will be inevitable. And once civil strife breaks out, in today's situation where the world's powerful countries are eager to carve up China, it will really end up in a state where the country has no country and is at the mercy of others. Although now

The Qing court was corrupt and incompetent, but after all, it was the central government and the center of power that was generally recognized by the people of all ethnic groups in China. At least on the surface, it could form a situation of national unity and national coexistence. As long as I could gain the trust and trust of the Qing court.

Support, give yourself the opportunity to develop and strengthen your own strength, and when the time comes, defending your home and country will be a matter of course.

At this moment, looking from a distance, a red sunset hung above the towering towers of the capital, gradually setting in the light sunset glow, and the cab was dyed golden.

"So beautiful!" Judy leaned on Kang Fan's chest and sighed with fascination.

Kang Fan said with regret: "It's a pity that it will get dark soon."

Empress Dowager Cixi asked Kang Fan to build a Jin army garrison base on the outskirts of the capital and allocated a symbolic amount of funds to use the Jin army to strengthen the defense of the capital while deterring and restraining the increasingly difficult to control various factions in the DPRK and China.

effect.

Prior to this, Kang Fan had selected a temporary camp for the Jin army in the Nankou Town area on the outskirts of Beijing. After receiving the order, he immediately selected the camp as the location of the base.

This is a wide alluvial valley located at the foot of Yanshan Mountain. A small river flows out from the depths of Yanshan Mountain. After leaving the valley, it goes eastward along the foot of the mountain. The surrounding mountains are beautiful, with forests and shrubs densely covered. The Beijing-Taiwan Railway passes under the mountain from the north and extends into

After Beijing, turn southeast towards Tianjin, with convenient transportation.

After that, Jin Army engineering troops recruited from Shanxi and new construction machinery such as bulldozers, tractors, excavators, and transport vehicles were successively transported by train. A railway station was first built. After the railway station was completed, steel, cement, wood and bricks were

As construction materials, personnel, equipment and supplies were continuously delivered from Shanxi via railway, large-scale base construction began, which was named Nankou Base.

The overall layout of the Nankou base is planned with the train station as the center. In the first phase of the project, a reservoir, diesel unit power station, water supply/heating/power supply/sewage system, roads and other infrastructure were built. In the second phase of the project, 10 spacious buildings were built.

The bright three-story officers and soldiers dormitory building and supporting boiler rooms, canteens, public bathhouses, hospitals, classrooms, libraries and other living facilities. The third phase of the project has built a fully functional modern training ground, headquarters, communication center, ordnance repair factory.

, garages, material warehouses, and solid underground ammunition depots, oil depots, and defense facilities. Finally, the base was greened, beautified, and a large farm was opened on the remaining idle land, combined with aquaculture in the reservoir, to solve the problem.

This solved the supply problem of some agricultural and sideline products for the garrison and improved the living conditions of the garrison.

The Nankou base was designed to support the stationing of a Jin army division-level unit, and it stocked a huge amount of weapons and equipment and various military supplies. In addition to Commander Zhou's mechanized regiment, Kang Fan transferred another one from Shanxi

The infantry regiment and an artillery battalion equipped with 12 130mm cannons strengthen the defense force of the base. The daily management and combat operations of the base are responsible for the working group transferred from the staff department, and the intelligence and special service work are responsible for the working group transferred from the Security Bureau.

Taking into account the other service personnel working in the base, the permanent personnel of the base exceeds 10,000 people.

In this way, the Jin army established a force presence in the capital. They often went out from the Nankou base to the suburbs of Beijing and stared at the Forbidden City. This formed an effective deterrent to the various factions in North Korea and China. It also provided a new strategic deployment for defending the Beijing-Taiwan Railway line and the Tianjin base.

A vital strategic support point has been added.

During the construction of the Nankou base, Kang Fan had been living with Judy in Judy's apartment. After the second phase of the base project was completed, Kang Fan took some officers and soldiers from the guard battalion to the newly built barracks on the base and shared meals with the officers and soldiers.

They lived together and jointly participated in the construction work of the follow-up projects of the base. Since Judy was relatively close, she came whenever she had free time. This happened so often that most of the officers and soldiers in the base knew her.

"I have good news for you: President William McKinley has approved my proposal and is ready to carry out extensive exchanges and cooperation with you in the fields of politics, economy, military, science and technology, culture, medical care, etc." Judy said.

If he had heard this news five years ago, Kang Fan would have definitely been so happy that he would fly to the sky. But now, through the joint efforts of Mei Xiang’s classmates and contemporary elites gathered from all over the country, the Chinese people themselves

With their own power, they have already achieved the upgrading of industrial and agricultural industries. From a technical perspective, Kang Fan and the others are already ahead of contemporary world powers such as the United States. The next step is just a matter of scale. Moreover, Kang Fan does not want to take these advanced

Sharing its technology with other countries is the magic weapon for Shanxi to maintain an asymmetric advantage over the contemporary world powers, and it is the greatest wealth that Kang Fan and others hold in this era.

But on the other hand, by cooperating with the United States, Shanxi and Heilongjiang, which generally still retain backward, closed, and decadent feudal traditions, will be able to have full access to ideas, speech, systems, culture, and technology that are in sync with today's world.

, people's livelihood and other aspects, this is quite beneficial to the people in both places who have strong expectations for a better life.

As contact increases, the way of thinking and behavioral norms of the people in the two places will change subtly, and it will be easier to accept the modern ideas promoted by Kang Fan and others, from passive following to active pursuit, until it transforms into

Enthusiasm for common progress. Especially after cooperating with the United States, the biggest benefit that can be obtained is the protection of force. If you have a stronger support than the weak and sluggish Qing government, you can enjoy a more favorable existence in the world.

The most important thing about the environment is to have safe global ocean trade channels, which is of great significance to Shanxi's future development.

The United States can also exchange and cooperate while getting what they desire at preferential prices, such as those novel drugs and medical equipment produced in Shanxi, industrial products and related technologies, etc. This is what the U.S. government intends to achieve cooperation with.

purpose.

So, this is still good news. But how to communicate and cooperate with the United States is a really troublesome issue, and we must discuss it with Mei Xiang’s classmates before we can make a plan.

"I hired you as my plenipotentiary representative to be responsible for cooperation with your country in various fields. How about that?" Kang Fan asked.

Judy shook her head, "You have to tell me first what kind of compensation you are going to give me before I will consider this issue."

Kang Fan changed his look and asked, "What kind of remuneration does Diplomat Wood want?"

Seeing him like this, Judy knew that he was going to do mischief again, so she giggled and hid back. Kang Fan grabbed her.

"Want to run away? Don't you want a reward? I'll give it to you right now." Kang Fan said through gritted teeth.

Judy felt so weak all of a sudden, how could she run away? She had to let Kang Fan handle it.

"Kang Fan, I don't want your reward, can I work for you at a loss?" Judy said dreamily.