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When the news of China and France abolishing the Old Testament and paying compensation to the Qing Dynasty came back to the country, the entire country suddenly came. The battle between China and France was full of twists and turns. This seriously ill country concentrated all outstanding talents, all resources that could be concentrated, and then used the delicate international situation to finally defeat a country that they seemed unable to defeat.

The Qing Daily published a photo of the French Expeditionary Force surrendering to the Qing army and handing over equipment. In the photo, Lieutenant General Gu Ba handed over his command knife with a pale face.

Most of the officials of the Westernization Sect in the court and the governors of various places were relieved. This day of war would cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. If this continued, the foundation accumulated since the Westernization Movement would have been lost. Now the gun bureaus in various provinces did not even have wages to start work. If the workers had not made any noise this time, they would have been a big deal. So this time was an unprecedented voice of praise.

This Sino-French battle also shocked the whole world. If the French army was weakened by the French-Prussian War, then the world's second-largest navy, the Qing Navy, repeatedly defeated the French fleet, which had to make people from other countries look at them with admiration. Especially the people of color in Asia, Africa and other countries, they thought that no matter how brave they were, they would not be able to defeat the Europeans no matter how afraid they were, but the Chinese set an example for them.

The French army had a large number of prisoners, with a total of nearly 50,000 people. Their great republic spent a full 2 ​​million taels of silver to redeem them, plus the 5 million taels of war reparations, and the total reparations of 8 million taels of compensation in the Sino-France Beijing Treaty in the Second Opium War.

So this Sino-French War, the Qing Dynasty received 15 million taels of silver from the French. Although this was not a lot, it was a timely help for the Qing Dynasty at that time. After more than a year of war, the treasury had already bottomed out. Guan Xuqing continued to encourage the public to donate money, donate grain, arsenal workers owed wages, etc. Even Guan Xuqing also reduced the expenditure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs again and again. Without such frugality, where did 20 artillery battalions continuously bombarded the Hucheng Fortress for several days and days? The shells that were only knocked out in those days had to be built for several months.

After the war, Guan Xuqing began to worry about the land in Vietnam. He sent troops to fight against France just to help Vietnam, but now the French army has been defeated. According to normal logic, we have to withdraw from Vietnam.

At that time, people liked to describe Vietnam as "a shoulder pole carries two baskets of rice". "A shoulder pole" refers to the narrow strip of Vietnam. The "two baskets of rice" it carries refers to the two famous "granaries" of the Red River Plain in the north and the Mekong Plain in the south.

Historically, before World War II, Vietnam produced 6.5 million tons of rice every year, one-third of which was used for export, accounting for one-quarter of the total world's rice exports. At that time, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) was one of the three largest rice cities in the world that were as famous as Yangon and Bangkok. However, after the 1940s, due to years of war, agricultural production was greatly affected. Now in itself, it will definitely become China's "granary" and can make up for the shortcomings of insufficient arable land in the Qing Dynasty. There is a deep land plot in the hearts of the Chinese. But now China's arable land is basically saturated. In addition to the Northeast, there is also a fertile black soil, and other irrigation conditions are good.

The great master of level zero http://www.77nt/19181/The good land with high output has basically been reclaimed. If the population does not expand outward and increases, the number of people will be reclaimed. This will be a great loss to the efficiency of labor use.

Thinking of the Qing Dynasty's in order to increase the arable land area, it surrounded the lake and built fields, cut down trees on the mountains to build terraces, and turned the best pastures into low-yield farmland, Guan Xuqing often sighed that these Vietnamese were wasting their resources. Now that this fertile land fell into the Qing Dynasty, it can finally bring about its value.

So he decisively left the Black Flag Army in Vietnam. Liu Mingchuan's troops went from Vietnam to Guangxi and continued to guard the three provinces of Yun, Guizhou and Guangdong. Dong Liang's troops followed the troop transport ship escorted by the warships and returned directly to Zhili. Lu Yiwei's troops took a train from Guangdong to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and replaced Chen Heng's troops, who were originally stationed here, to Sichuan.

"Your Majesty, all the prisoners of the French army have returned. France's compensation has been in place. Hurry up and restore the normal expenses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It depends on your weight loss this year. I feel sorry for you!" Prince Chun felt sorry for his son.

"The prince is too worried. Now the money has to be paid to the soldiers who are fighting as military pay first. I have promised them to pay for the soldiers who are fighting for two years and to provide the pensions for the dead martyrs. I have no choice but to say anything. In addition, the money paid to the workers of the gun bureaus of various provinces must be paid to them as soon as possible. Without their work, what will the soldiers in front of me use to fight the French? The reconstruction of Mawei Port, the renovation of the Lushun Military Port, the reconstruction of the Dagu Fort in Tianjin, and the reconstruction of the three cruisers from Germany and Britain have not paid the money yet. Alas..." Guan Xuqing said as he spoke, his head hurt.

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon body. Kick, chew..." Prince Chun not only started coughing.

"Prince, please be careful." Guan Xuqing still respects and cares about this "father" in his heart.

Prince Chun saw Guan Xuqing's eyes and burst into tears, he blurted out: "Your Majesty, my inner person misses the emperor very much... I hope to meet him."

Guan Xuqing was originally a person who traveled through time from later generations. He had no impression of this "mother" who had not met for several years. After Prince Chun said this, he was shocked, and the past suddenly came to his heart. In order to prevent his son from entering the palace, his arrogant spirit was really a bit like Cixi.

"Oh, please bring Fujin into the palace and stay for a while. I miss her."

Prince Chun was about to say something, but eunuch Wang Shang hurried over.

"Emperor, North Korea Telegram."

Guan Xuqing received the telegram and looked carefully, and showed a smile from the bottom of his heart. He then handed the telegram to Prince Chun and murmured: "The Japanese have withdrawn their troops in Korea, and the Koreans who helped the Japanese have also been wiped out by Liu San and the others. The result of the Sino-French war may have shocked the entire Japan. Now the Japanese pirates dare not be enemies of our Qing Dynasty."

"A small country, the emperor only needs to send a navy and one standard army to flatten them." Prince Chun said loudly.

Guan Xuqing looked at the birth of this general, brave but unscrupulous "no relatives". He smiled and shook his head, and did not answer.

In the Japanese Emperor's palace, the Japanese Emperor is also discussing the development of the situation in Korea with the ministers.

"So we failed?" The Japanese Emperor Meiji said with a expressionless face.

Inoue Kin stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is a matter that is not thought well by me. I underestimated China's strength in North Korea. Please punish Your Majesty."

Emperor Meiji made a gesture and said, "Forget it, the Chinese have defeated France. Even if there is no such thing, we will withdraw our troops."

Hirobuki Ito, who was sitting cross-legged next to him, said: "We could have quickly increased our troops in Goryeo. This created a fait accompli and forced the Qing people to compromise! But I didn't expect that China, the old empire, was already corrupt and could still defeat the French."

Yupeng of Shanxian said a little unwillingly: "Now the empire's new army has seven towns, and the Qing army is still far away in Vietnam. As long as we put all our troops in, we can quickly occupy North Korea. Please consider the withdrawal of troops."

Emperor Meiji did not speak, Navy Minister Shikichi Kawayama said: "Originally, the empire had maritime advantages. We could rely on new ships such as 'Fusang' to ensure the security of the empire's landing army, deter China's Beijing-Tianjin region, and threaten China's maritime transportation routes. But now the situation has changed, and we have lost our maritime advantages over the Qing Dynasty. Although the Qing Navy was severely damaged in the Mawei naval battle, the results of the later naval battles showed that the Chinese could fully utilize the combat effectiveness of capturing French ships and after the capture of the Red River Army Port

There are new French ships captured by China. I believe that the Chinese have repaired these ships now and can be put into combat at any time. If we start a war with China at this time, even if we quickly occupy North Korea, the Qing Dynasty can calmly mobilize its troops with their naval advantages, and even use the navy to cut off our supply line! We only have four main battleships, "Fusang", "Kingang", "Hire", and "Zhu Zi", and we cannot stop the Qing people at all. I heard that they have bought five giant warships from Germany recently. The situation is even less optimistic."

Emperor Meiji thought slightly after hearing Shiki Karayama's words: "So the strength of the Chinese navy is far greater than that of us?"

"I'm afraid that's the case, Your Majesty." Shiki Karayama said with his head down.

Emperor Meiji looked ahead at this time, and his bearded face showed his might.

"I deeply feel that strong soldiers are the foundation of a rich country. For our strong soldiers, Japan is first of all, the navy. Only when Japan promotes the power of the emperor on the sea can Japan survive and develop. Without a navy, there would be no Japan. Have you read the order to conquer the Qing Dynasty?"

"Yes." The ministers all bowed their heads.
Chapter completed!