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Chapter 26 There will never be a free lunch in the world

.To be honest, this kind of organization in the Weihai Special Zone is also a fatal thing for the Russians, and they are also facing considerable pressure and tests.

Cixi issued the edict that would soon cause a sensation in the capital in the name of the young Emperor Tongzhi who could not even say anything, let alone the "I have thought about it again and again", which was released because of the unanimous appeal of the members of the "Inspectorate Team", and the theoretical inspiration of Li Hongzhang, Ronglu, Qiying, and Hua Shana, who was promoted to the Minister of Military Affairs and Minister of Revenue for the successful issuance of the waste paper-like "Da Qing Dragon Coin". Of course, the great power of the pillow wind cannot be expelled. Isn't it often like to say that women will become cruel because of love, and at the same time they are willing to give everything they have because of love.

In fact, even Muravyov, Bodhiyatin and Ignatiev did not expect that the establishment of the Weihai Special Zone was because someone wanted to put a shackle on them. These people were not those rich men and young men, but emerging political forces led by Li Hongzhang.

The central idea of ​​the theorists such as Li Hongzhang really touched Cixi and several major bureaucrats in the court was to temporarily borrow the greed of the Russians and use a small place in Weihai to completely pull the Russians into the water and trap the Russians. In their opinion, since the Russians participated in the management of the local area, they could not sit idly by and watch the local economy be ruined without caring about it. People all have to write in person, and the same is true for the Russians. When they are under pressure, they naturally have to try every means to revitalize Weihai and cause great changes in Weihai. In this way, the irreconcilable contradiction between the Russians and the people of Jiaodong is all alleviated. The Chinese people are all forgetful of their righteousness when they see profits. As long as they get the sweetness from the Russians, they will soon heal their scars and forget their pain, and will chase them closely behind the Russians' butts without relaxing. This is a great thing that can kill two birds with one stone, and it will also find a shortcut for the real revival of the Qing Dynasty in the future.

Unfortunately, Li Hongzhang was able to calculate the fate of the Chinese, but he did not count the Russians. Tsarist Russians only recognized their interests and were shameless. They were not as good as Li Hongzhang and others imagined.

The Tsarist Russians just made up everything, and they had no intention of calling a powerful China around them. But even if they made up, they could not find so many "professional talents" for a while.

Therefore, Barushka and Dasamov invented a way to select officials, which is to take the list of officers and soldiers and talk to soldiers who may be "talents". Generally speaking, they have had business experience, or even if they were involved in business, they were all outstanding talents who helped the Qing Dynasty's economic construction.

Therefore, there will inevitably be one joke after another in such a selection of officials. It is said that such a joke happened in the selection of officials, which was to find a consultant responsible for managing environmental sanitation in Wendeng County. In the eyes of Tsarist Russians, the people here have a poor sense of hygiene and have to be caught. However, after many twists and turns, they finally found one. The reason is very simple, because before coming to China, this soldier was a prisoner who was locked in a prison and was responsible for cleaning up the pits. When his appointment was issued, all the Tsarist Russian officers and soldiers in the camp laughed. It turned out that this guy was a famous sloppy soldier. The lice books in broad daylight would wander around him, which made all the officers and soldiers in the same team hate him.

As soon as the Weihai Special District was established, the first thing these Tsarist Russians who could already earn the Qing Dynasty salary was to build an Orthodox church. The cost was naturally due to the construction costs of the military port. Sooner and later, they would ask the Qing Dynasty to reimburse. Secondly, they forced the officials of the Special District Government to borrow money and even blackmailed those wealthy families to donate money and materials, established several new learning bars, carried out three years of compulsory "free compulsory education" and began to popularize Russian in the special district. Regardless of men, women, young and old, it would be impossible not to speak Russian, and it would be even worse if they didn't teach. Even if the special district government issued or delivered official documents to the Russian military base, they would always use Russian, and Russian became the official language of the Weihai Special District.

If anyone dares to disobey the above order, it is natural that it is easy for officials to say, and you immediately roll up the bedding for me and leave. The Tsarist Russians don’t believe it. With such generous treatment here, there will be officials who are unwilling to come? As for the people, there is also a way to deal with the Tsarist Russians, that is, to detain your good citizen certificate (note, friends, this kind of good citizen certificate is different from the good citizen certificate invented by the Japanese known to everyone. The good citizen certificate here has the function of a household registration and the function of later generations to call the border defense certificate). Without the good citizen certificate, the people’s homes are amazing, let alone farming and working and digging for food.

After this, it is not about construction, but about economic plunder. According to the grand development blueprint formulated by Tsarist Russia for the Weihai Special Zone, the vast majority of the fiscal revenue in the special zone will first be used to import a large number of Russian equipment (in fact, it is just rags, and they are also crazy poor in their own country, not much better than the Qing Dynasty). The reason is simple. Without imported equipment, the Qing Dynasty will only have a dead end, let alone any development.

Fortunately, three months later, Weihai was restored by the brave Red Army of the Celestial Dynasty. Otherwise, it would be unimaginable what kind of book Weihai would develop into under the condonation of the dirty Qing Dynasty colonial government.

Having written this, Little Nvshu herself was a little confused at first. Since Cixi wanted to create an open model, why didn’t she choose Lushun? After thinking about it for several days, Little Nvshu finally figured it out. After all, Cixi was still smart. When Cixi listened to Li Hongzhang and other theorists talking a lot, she had a more vicious idea in her mind.

What kind of great move of the Holy Ancestor Qianlong did to achieve the complete destruction of Han civilization was simply a pediatrician in her eyes. She was thinking, is Shandong not the hometown of Kong Laoer, the most sage ancestor of the Han people? OK, then I will change you from the root. Although Kong Laoer's little book scammers are now only a few of the most trasty things left, and it has indelible achievements for her colonial rule, Cixi was also uncomfortable.

Because, when she thinks of Kong Lao Er sitting in the Confucius Family Ancestral Hall in Qufu and Confucius Temples everywhere, she will smoke from all over the place. She hates her. If it weren't for this bastard Kong Lao Er, she would have become emperor.

Therefore, Cixi wanted to use the greed of the Russians for her. Starting from Shandong, it is best to ask the damn Kong Lao Er to disappear from the earth in a short time. Others would not say that she was willing to do this. She had already thought about it. By that day, she would definitely pretend to be extremely uncomfortable and personally issue an imperial edict to mourn Kong Lao Er.

Sometimes, she even regretted it to death. Why did she just ask the mud-legged books in the south to shout the slogan "Women's Liberation" first? Otherwise, she wanted to put forward this slogan, but unfortunately, it was a step too late. Alas, the enemy liked it, I, the Qing Dynasty, must firmly oppose it!

What a pity? There are still many things she will regret in the future.

However, the first thing Cixi has to do is that her partners are not good at doing well now. The Russians do not understand the economy at all, otherwise it would not fail everywhere, otherwise the domestic economy would not decline again and again, otherwise there would be no serfdom that was even more backward than her Qing Dynasty. If her partners were to be gentler, and to give you a sweet date first, and then slapped you with a big mouth, the result might be much harder to say. At least there would be more Han people, or Chinese people, who could be proud of being with foreigners. At least when the Red Army of the Celestial Dynasty came, they would not be like this. Everyone treated Tsarist Russia as a blow, and they would have to beat it if they were individuals.

Of course, the most regrettable thing is that Cixi met a person she shouldn't meet, that is, Lin Haifeng, who actually led the Red Heavenly Kingdom. No wonder many people in later generations like to say that even if the Chinese nation does not have Confucius' book, nothing will be affected. But if our Grand Marshal Lin Haifeng is not without our Chinese nation, then the Chinese nation will never have its own backbone! Listen, this is the call of the people.

That's it. In more than a year, Wendeng and Rongcheng, who originally had a population of nearly two million, or just called Weihai Special District, now only less than 100,000 people are left. Such a tragic situation, let alone the people of Jiaodong, even the local Qing officials and wealthy families who helped Tsarist Russia were shocking and chilling.

What foreigners bring will definitely not be true civilization, but a blatant trampling on their own national civilization. Whether it is his initial friendship or his initial cruelty, the result will always be the same.

In fact, there will never be a free lunch in this world.
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