Originally, this Jordanian battle had no obvious benefit to the Far East and Germany, but it could be regarded as helping the Saudi Kingdom and obtaining the right to develop independently. Li Ningyu felt that it was just a peace business.
But as chaos arose in the Balkans, William II sent a secret telegram to Li Ningyu, mainly hoping that after the Jordan campaign, the Far East and Germany would continue to join forces and advance into the Ottoman territory. Originally, according to Li Ningyu's plan, he would wait until
After the Battle of Jordan, he immediately went to Berlin to marry Princess Louise.
But since the future father-in-law had spoken, Li Ningyu still agreed readily to save face. After all, William II owed a favor, and it would be much easier to go to Berlin to talk about the African artery. But in the end, Li Ningyu also got involved
Britain and Saudi Arabia continued to attack the Ottoman Empire together, thus activating the two forces of the Four-Nation Alliance. This made Hamid II, who had already been roasted on the fire, live a life of ice and fire every day.
On February 2, 1901, a group of people came from afar to Riyadh. The ten of them were representatives of Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, who came to negotiate with the Far East Allied Forces.
Youdao was Hedong in the 30th year, and Hexi in the 30th year. This is how the Ottoman Empire is today.
In less than a month, the situation in Europe was the most turbulent. Hamid II gradually discovered that it was impossible for the Ottoman Empire to fight against two coalition forces at the same time, so he was stubborn and had to adopt the opinions of his subordinates to fight against
The outside must first be settled within.
At the same time, the domestic situation in Asia is also changing day by day. After the confrontation between the revolutionary army and Yuan Shikai in Wuhan, Hengyang, Hunan, and Jiujiang, Jiangxi, successively declared independence. This forced the late Qing government to make a comprehensive compromise, including the release of imprisoned revolutionaries and preparations.
Peace negotiations were held, but then thirteen provinces, including Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and Sichuan, successively declared independence.
Only the five provinces of Zhili, Henan, Gansu, Shanxi, and Shandong were under Yuan Shikai's control. Then Shanxi, Shandong, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, and parts of Xinjiang declared independence, but were later controlled.
Yuan Shikai is now not only the imperial envoy of the late Qing government, but also in charge of the Beiyang New Army in four provinces. Currently, part of the New Army led by Yuan Shikai is resting in the Xiaogan area of Hubei.
On the evening of February 1, the Qing government announced the formation of a cabinet and appointed Yuan Shikai to return to Beijing as the Prime Minister. However, he was opposed by the revolutionary army, which believed that the Prime Minister must be a revolutionary. This made Yuan Shikai very angry, so he ordered
The Beiyang New Army on standby in the area attacked the three towns of Wuhan, but in the end the war ceased again because the naval fleet flying the Far Eastern flag appeared on the Yangtze River in the Wuhan basin.
That is the largest mixed fleet in the Far East Navy fleet, the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet.
It was Li Ningyu who suggested to Emperor Guangxu that Yuan Shikai should serve as Prime Minister of the Cabinet. He wanted to divide Yuan Shikai and the revolutionary army, and at the same time let the revolutionary army see Yuan Shikai's face clearly in advance.
The Beiyang Fleet is currently on its way to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and is accompanied by a frigate squadron from the East China Sea Fleet. This makes the Far East Navy the uncrowned king in the entire Asian waters, in addition to the naval fleet of the Northern Russian Empire.
The Western powers have also been mediating, including the British consul in Wuhan, who hopes that the Wuhan Revolutionary Army and the late Qing government can reach an agreement to cease the war.
Li Ningyu knew Yuan Shikai's next conspiracy, so in order to force the revolutionary army and Yuan Shikai not to ignore the existence of the Far East, he sent the Yellow Sea Fleet to patrol the Yangtze River. This was also the first time the Far East Navy sailed in the waters of the Yangtze River. In order to commemorate such an important event
At that moment, the Yellow Sea Fleet fired a 21-gun salute all the way.
But this made some die-hards in the late Qing Dynasty think that the Far East was coming to protect the late Qing government again. Therefore, during the meeting of the princes of the late Qing Dynasty, Yikuang advocated that the power could be handed over under preferential conditions, and Shanqi and Liangbi
, Tie Liang, Yu Lang and others opposed it and claimed that they would fight to the death against the Southern Revolutionary Party and fall to the ground.
But then, under Yuan Shikai's private instruction, Duan Qirui and others led a total of 47 Beiyang generals to jointly send a joint call to the cabinet of the late Qing Dynasty and the princes and ministers, proposing a two-month truce. First, Beiyang could raise pay and increase troops, so that soldiers could be deployed throughout the territory.
Because the current Beiyang New Army has no backup and is too weak, it also requires an increase in military pay and so on.
On February 2, Yuan Shikai returned to Beijing. On his way back from the palace, he was assassinated by a bomb from the Beijing-Tianjin revolutionary organization. It was also on this day that representatives from the Far East, Britain, Ottoman, and Saudi Arabian cities, including Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
Also had the first meeting.
However, Li Ningyu, Edward VII, Dule Azzi and others watched the singing and dancing together and praised each other.
For so many days, Edward seemed to have no intention of leaving, because in Riyadh he lived a happy life where he was respected and drunk, and he was extremely carefree.
It doesn't matter to Duleazi, because he also wants to climb the British tree. Although he hopes to build the alliance between the two sides on the basis of equality and win-win, the disadvantaged Saudi Kingdom is only a second-rate force after all, but with Li Ning
Yu's mediation did not lose the face of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Now Li Ningyu is mainly concerned about three things. First, the domestic situation. He has communicated with Emperor Guangxu several times and has clearly clarified the position of the Far East. Emperor Guangxu, who was already frustrated, has also done so.
are ready to give up; secondly, the internal situation in the Middle East, although there is now a peaceful and stable scene of power transfer in various parts of Saudi Arabia, potential crises still exist; thirdly, the situation of local war in the Balkans and the negotiations between the Far East Allied Forces and the Ottomans
develop.
This time, the talks held in Riyadh, Li Ningyu, Edward, William II, and Al-Dulazi did not participate. William II was far away from Berlin and could not come. Li Ningyu and others made up their minds not to participate. They
The main purpose was to give Hamid II a decisive blow and at the same time let the representatives of the Ottoman Empire understand the formality.
This meeting was secret, and even the top leaders of the ministries did not know about it. It saved a little face for Hamid II. However, according to Li Ningyu’s direction of the meeting, the Iron Soldier, who represented the coalition forces on the first day,
The conditions of the coalition were stated.
First: The Ottoman Empire completely gives up its jurisdiction in the Middle East, all troops return to Turkey within one month, and permanently abandon Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and other regions; second, pay the four parties of the coalition a total military expenditure of 30 million pounds; third:
Reached a permanent peace and non-aggression treaty with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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