Chapter 275 The Qing Dynasty also wants to reverse colonization (please vote, please order)
"Your Majesty, I led my troops to fight with the bandit leader Su Sanniang outside the city of Kunshan today. I first attacked with selected fronts and advanced straight to Shuangfeng Mountain. I was blocked by the thieves and sawed back and forth. By the evening of the battle, both armies were exhausted.
However, the minister still personally supervised the formation, bombarded it with polyphonic cannons, and used cavalry to break into its caves. Then he won the battle and captured a lot. Su Sanniang was defeated and fled."
"Long live the Lord! I know that yesterday another long-haired soldier came from Changshu. They are all old Guangxi elite soldiers with many guns. Su Sanniang's army has regained strength and went out to invite the battle. Although I have a small number of soldiers, I still use Western tactics.
We marched out in formation, set up huge cannons, and lined up foreign guns. When we came to the formation at noon, the bandit troops were as turbulent as waves, retreating and advancing again, and the cycle continued until nightfall. Our army was exhausted and had to retire for a while."
"Reporting to your Majesty, I recently received help from foreign guns, cannons and ammunition from Shanghai. I also received help from the gentry from Jiading, Anting, Luodian and other places. The frontline troops have been increased to 5,000. They are all foreign gun teams. We have sent troops to Kunshan again.
, and Su Sanniang fought in the wilds of the land of fish, rice, and water. They fought fiercely until dark, and only achieved a small victory."
"Long live my lord, today I won a great victory against Su Sanniang in a field battle outside Kunshan City. Shuangfeng Mountain was about to be captured by me. I also bombarded Su Sanniang's lair with a huge cannon. Su Sanniang was defeated and retreated to Kunshan City.
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"Long live my Majesty, I have led my troops to besiege Kunshan today. Although Su Sanniang is brave, she has become a female tiger in a cage. It is difficult for her to be fierce. She will be captured by me and others soon."
"Long live my lord, I had a bad day in the field battle with Su Sanniang outside Kunshan City today. Although Su Sanniang is a trapped beast, she is still ferocious. She also received reinforcements of 5,000 men from the Zhou family, the bandit leader from the Qingpu direction. I was outnumbered and had to break up the siege and gather up my troops."
"Please rest assured, Lord Long Live. Although I have been retreated by the Su and Tuesday clans recently, my vitality is still alive, and the Changmu City of Anting-Jiading-Luodian has been built. I can defend when I retreat, and I can attack when I advance.
Undefeated!"
"Long live the Lord, the negotiations with the foreign envoys in Shanghai are very urgent. I have to temporarily withdraw my troops and return to Shanghai. After negotiating with the foreigners, I will attack Kunshan again. In this battle of Kunshan, although I failed to kill Su Sanniang, I broke into it many times.
There were many casualties in its lair, but our army suffered little losses, with only more than 600 killed, 300 to 400 more seriously injured, and more than 100 missing. It was truly a great victory."
All of the above are secret military information that was sent to Jiangbei Camp by waterway from the Qing Dynasty’s Shanghai Warden and Minister of Commerce of the Five Countries, Zhongyong Batululuo Xueyan, and then transferred from Jiangbei Camp to Beijing.
Looking at these memorials, we can see that the battle outside Kunshan City was very fierce. Although Luo Xueyan was brave and diligent, Su Sanniang had great stamina and was particularly resistant to fighting hard. Although she was subdued by Luo Xueyan for a while, she still defended Kunshan in the end and will try to conquer Kunshan and liberate Suzhou.
The trapped Luo Xueyan fought back.
Of course, the battle reports in these memorials are definitely exaggerated. However, the credibility is still quite high. Luo Xueyan and Su Sanniang did "fight every day" outside Kunshan City, and the battle was "fierce" and in the end "there was a loss of life."
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As for the sound of guns and artillery, as well as the marching out of soldiers and horses, they are all there, and there are many of them. The people in Kunshan and Anting can hear the firing of guns and artillery every day.
In the end, Luo Xueyan had to temporarily leave Kunshan and gave up the small goal of "capturing Su Sanniang" under repeated urging from the ministers of Britain, France and the United States.
Of course, during the time Luo Yaoguo was in Prince Wu's Mansion in Kunshan, apart from the "battle" with Su Sanniang, the official affairs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were also not left behind.
Under his supervision, the two top priorities of military reorganization and land reform were pushed forward a big step!
In terms of military reform, the two old units, Shangyi and Shangji, took the lead. They first set up the framework of two divisions, four brigades, eight regiments and thirty-two battalions according to the model of the Shanghai New Army. After passing the old French captain Jean Pierre, Wang Dalong and Li Kezhong each led a group of officers from the teaching regiment to leave the army and return to Kunshan in the name of "supporting the Hunan Army", and then joined the First and Second Army as military commanders, with specific responsibility for the two armies. "Military Reform Division".
At the same time, two old Guangxi military commanders, Li Shoucheng and Zeng Lichang, left the army and brought a group of loyal and reliable Hunan officers into the Shanghai New Army under the name of "Xue Shuai's old department from the Hunan Army" to learn how to lead troops from the foreign officers.
In addition, Luo Yaoguo also secretly ordered Wu Ruxiao to escort batches of newly arrived American-made 1842-style muskets and a batch of bullets to Kunshan, so that the "foreign gun rate" of the First and Second Armies reached one-fourth.
In terms of land reform, Luo Yaoguo was not in a hurry to advance it. Instead, he ordered Chen Ji, Ma Baocai, and Zhang Bao to organize a lecture class in Kunshan, and recruited a group of young people from Su Songtai who were proficient in writing and wanted to make progress to teach them " The true teachings in the first volume of the Anti-Sutra.
At the same time, Luo Yaoguo, together with Chen Ji, Ma Baocai, Zhang Bao and others, formulated two fundamental documents to guide Su Songtai's land reform, the "Guiding Opinions on Su Songtai's Land Reform" and the "Regulations on the Protection of Su Songtai Sangyuan Silk Industry".
In addition to formulating these two fundamental documents, Luo Yaoguo also decided to select a few townships in Kunshan County to carry out land reform pilots, striving to "no one will be killed, and no one will be copied."
In order to drive the capital from Su Songtai's area to Shanghai as much as possible, Luo Yaoguo also ordered people from the Jiangnan branch of the God Worshipers to open a green channel for Kunshan landlords to "Run Shanghai", and even had many people print "Shanghai Snow Real Estate Company" And GG of "Shanghai HSBC Bank" - as long as you deposit money into HSBC Bank or buy a house in Xue Kee Real Estate, you will have a smooth journey all the way to Shanghai!
In order to boost the confidence of Shanghai's landlords and wealthy people in Shanghai, Luo Yaoguo also ordered the Shanghai New Army and the local regiments stationed in Anting Town, Jiading County, and Luodian Town to start building a road from Anting to Anting. Luodian’s “Wood City Defense Line”.
This "Wood City Defense Line" will be built based on the natural rivers throughout the Susongtai area, and will be supplemented by hundreds of watchtowers, fortresses, and checkpoints. The main theme is full of sincerity and reassuring.
Of course, the defense line needs to be repaired and business cannot stop.
Therefore, the Taiping Army and the Shanghai New Army had a tacit understanding and established four commercial gates on the contact line near Anting, Luodian, Jiading County and Minhang Town. Among them, the Anting Commercial Gate guarded the Suzhou River and the Minhang Commercial Gate Guarding the Huangpu River, Luodian and Jiading Commercial Pass guarded the water and land passage leading to Liuhe River in Taicang - as long as they did not sell drugs, any goods could enter the Taiping Army's jurisdiction through these four gates after paying tolls.
As for the goods from the Taiping Army's territory to the Shanghai New Army's territory, it is even simpler. After the Jiangguan Customs Office collects 100 cents, no one will be refused.
After finishing all these things, Luo Yaoguo left Su Sanniang, who had been diagnosed with Ximai, and returned to the Anting Camp of the Shanghai New Army. After that, in the name of Luo Xueyan, he led a regiment of "Victory Victory" "The army" returned to Shanghai County with great vigor and high spirits.
"Mr. Luo, you have been delayed on the Anting front line for too long this time, and it has seriously affected your job as Minister of Commerce and Industry! For this reason, I protest to you on behalf of the United States of America!"
"Lord Luo, the British Empire has also expressed doubts about your efficiency in handling diplomatic issues. You may not know yet, but your colleagues in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have just signed a very progressive provisional agreement with me!"
"Lord Luo, although our French Empire is leaning towards the Qing Empire, our goodwill should be reciprocated accordingly, rather than being ignored again and again!"
Shanghai Yuyuan Dianchuntang, I just returned to Shanghai, and before I had time to say goodbye to Zhou Xiuying, the British Minister Wen Xian, the French Minister Bourblon, and the American Minister Marsali came with their translators, aggressively " "Kill" is coming.
In order to force Luo Xueyan to submit, the British Minister Wen Xian was very ungentlemanly and presented an agreement said to be signed between him and Luo Yaoguo to the unshaven Luo Xueyan with a tired face and a hoarse voice.
Of course, the content of the agreement would not be told to Luo Xueyan. Luo Xueyan only needed to know that the British Empire and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom might become friends.
Luo Xueyan, as Wenxian expected, really showed a worried look, then sighed and said in Oxford accent: "Mr. Wenxian, if you really think that the agreement you signed with Luo Yaoguo is progressive, something like I can also accept the conditions! Not only can I give such conditions to Britain, but I can also give the same conditions to France and the United States, and even more!
But before I make enough concessions, Mr. Wenxian, can you tell me what Luo Yaoguo promised?"
Wen Xian did not expect that Luo Xueyan would give in so quickly. It seemed that he was indeed much easier to talk to than Ye Mingchen.
"I'm sorry, this is our country's diplomatic secret! Our agreement with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not public!" Wenxian did not intend to inform Luo Xueyan of the content of the agreement he signed with Luo Yaoguo.
"But the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made public the treaty they signed with their British brothers!" Luo Xueyan looked at Wen Xian, a sarcastic smile suddenly appeared on his tired face, "They also said that your Queen Victoria is Hong Xiuquan's sister in heaven who came down to earth. .I really don’t know if the Queen of England and the leader of the Taiping Rebellion are related!”
"Pfft."
"Hahaha"
The dianchun hall was filled with the joyful laughter of Americans and French people.
"This, this is nonsense they are talking about!"
Wen Xian roared angrily, but he also knew that Luo Xueyan really knew what he signed with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? So he looked at Luo Xueyan with a livid face.
Luo Xueyan smiled and said: "The first one is to set up consulates in each other's country. You set up a consulate in Kunshan, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom set up a consulate in the Straits Settlements. You already have a consulate in our Qing Dynasty, so our Qing Dynasty's consulate should also be set up in Singapore! I Let Wu Chaoyue be the consul general. He is a good friend of you British people!
The second article is free trade and labor export. OK, no problem! As much as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom exports, our Qing Dynasty also exports! Our Qing Dynasty just has a lot of people! Minister Marsali, your western United States is vast and sparsely populated, do you want some? Chinese workers? Is one hundred thousand enough? If not, two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand! But don’t be anti-Chinese! By the way, our Qing Consulate General in the United States should be located in California!
The third article is freedom of preaching. OK, no problem if you preach Christianity, we will preach Buddhism! I will find some monks to go to London, Paris, and New York to chant sutras. Isn’t this fair?
Mr. Wenxian, what the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can have, our Qing Dynasty should also have, this is called the most favored nation treatment!"
Chapter completed!