Chapter one hundred and forty-one stealing the show
Ru Feili felt that the disaster was coming and hurriedly looked for a life-saving straw. Finally, someone came up with an idea to ask the Germans for help!
The French Prime Minister was stunned. Germany was considered a feud of France, and the miserable defeat was still in the French mind. However, for the sake of the situation in the Far East, he asked his opponent for help... Ru Feili endured it! It was not the first time anyway...
On the morning of the 29th, Ru Feili, who had just woken up, hurriedly called to Berlin and asked the German government to interfere. After receiving Ru Feili's telegram, Bismarck immediately threatened the Qing government to sign a peace treaty as soon as possible in Beijing, and threatened that if the peace treaty was not signed, France would prepare for revenge. He wanted to use the method of signing a peace treaty to save the fall of Ru Feili's cabinet, but this was powerless to make the day come.
When the news of the French invading army's defeat at Zhennan Pass reached Paris on March 28, it caused great shock and great dissatisfaction among all sectors of Paris. Then there was news of the French army's defeat and ammunition exhaustion, which even more angered the French people. The entire army of the existing lonely navy was destroyed, and the existing army's Zhennan Pass and Lang Son were defeated. The French people had long begun to hate Rufeili. The radical leader Cremontso criticized Rufeili's policies in the House of Representatives.
On March 29, the Paris radical newspapers made sharp criticisms of Rufeli's cabinet, believing that the defeat of Zhennan Pass was like Napoleon's failure in Waterloo in 1815, causing a huge disaster to the country. The people of Paris were excited and the failure of the wild empire in the Far East was considered a great humiliation. People gathered on the boulevards and shouted slogans such as defeating Rufeli.
On March 31, the radical leader Cremontso made a strong condemnation to Rufeli in Parliament. He said angrily: "Now I think that no more debates occur between the Cabinet and the Republicans in the House of Parliament. We no longer need to obey you, nor can we debate the great interests of this country with you. They are no longer the gentlemen of ministers before us, they are just state criminals who have been accused!"
Rufeili and his cabinet members quietly left the House. The crowd gathered around Bourbon Palace protested and demonstrated to them. When they saw the crowds of dark outside the door, they were frightened and afraid to walk out of the main door, so they had to slip away from the side door in shame. When Rufeili crossed the bridge to Gongod Square, the people shouted that they would push him into the river.
When Rufeli, the former poor lawyer, was besieged in Paris in Paris, he used his hunger condition in the city to plunder money and seized himself the money base for his superiors. But now his political career is over... Henry Brisson took over his position.
Just as the French were preparing to welcome the end of Vietnam, the Qing people unexpectedly stopped!
Li Hongzhang returned from the Northeast for a few days and was not in a bad mood. This time, the Northeast was not in vain. He raised nearly one million Shang silver dollars with the remaining young men of the Qing Dynasty in the name of the Sino-French War. Before the money entered the capital, he was divided into 300,000 by Prince Yili of Qing. Li Hongzhang himself was not polite, so he asked Sheng Xuanhuai to divide 200,000 in the name of Beiyang. Only more than 400,000 silver dollars actually arrived in the capital, and the last one used in the Sino-French War was probably not even 100,000 yuan.
Less than ten days after returning to Tianjin, news of the victory of Zhennanguan came. Li Hongzhang was very happy, not for victory, but for peace talks. Li Hongzhang did not want the Sino-French War to continue. Firstly, the court had no money and the national treasury was empty, but it was not impossible! Moreover, the Vietnam War was led by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who was responsible for raising grain funds. Even if Old Li was responsible, it was only part of the naval battle. Secondly, this battle was fought by Feng Zicai, and the old man was the Gui army, and it had nothing to do with the Huai army. Before, his old subordinate Pan Dingxin performed poorly, but now the two were compared, which was similar to a slap in the face! The last and most important point was that Empress Dowager Cialis did not want to continue.
Cixi summoned her ministers to ask, "My dear friends, how should this battle in the south end end?"
Prince Li Shiduo stood up and said, "Empress Dowager, the situation is very good now, of course it will continue..."
Cixi glanced at her and didn't say anything.
Li Hongzhang said at this time: "I believe that it is not appropriate to continue the war. It is the best ending at this time! France is a powerful country among the great powers. Its ships and cannons are powerful. If it starts a full war with it, not to mention victory or defeat, the consumption will be huge. Our dynasty may not be able to bear it! And now it is the victory of Lang Son - the great victory of Lang Son! If you stop when you see the good, you will sign a peace agreement with France, so that the war will stop. If the French lose, they may not make any other unreasonable demands, and the Qing Dynasty does not need to cede land and pay compensation. Those foreigners can also be grateful to our country, see the style of our country, and repay the grievances with kindness, and will definitely be grateful."
"Li Aiqing said so much!" Cixi finally laughed. "Now we have won a great victory in Zhennanguan and Lang Son, and France is asking for peace from us. This is a good opportunity. You immediately draft an edict and order the front-line troops to cease fire on site, stop attacking the French army, and retreat on time."
The Empress Dowager Cixi made the decision, and of course the ministers did not dare to object. Who would have the brains to make the Old Buddha angry? So they kowtowed and said loudly: "The Empress Dowager is wise and insightful, and I will respect you one by one."
Cixi also knew that the arrogant soldiers and generals on the front line had a decree similar to fart, so she issued several decrees in succession. The above said: "France has ordered the French army to truce on time. If we do not stop fighting, we will lose our trust and cause the French army to invade again. In this way, the war cannot be stopped and will last for a long time. They will also lose their trust in other countries and will not be able to deal with others in the future. Therefore, all officers and soldiers from all walks of life will retreat on time, otherwise they will be judged according to military law."
When Yu Sheng, he did not make every effort to expand the results of the battle. Of course, the front-line officers were unhappy, and the rebound sounded quite loud, but they were all suppressed by the Queen Mother of the Cialis with her will.
French Prime Minister Ru Feili could not imagine that after the Qing Empire won military victory, he would stick to the conditions for negotiations between Jindenggan and Ru Feili.
As for Queen Mother Cixi, the Vietnamese affairs were far away to her! Regardless of the victory her heroic troops achieved on the border of the empire, they only remembered the unpleasant and huge war consumption that brought her home, but only thought of the things that made her uncomfortable. Therefore, she never thought of withdrawing the treaty, but had to sign and ratify it immediately than in the past.
Hurd also threatened and said that long-term war against France would cause a domestic revolution. Cixi was afraid, what's the use of winning France? The money for fighting with the French doesn't need to be used to prevent the rebellion of the untouchables in China!
On April 4, 1885, Jindenggan and France were authorized to sign the Paris Armistice Agreement, recognizing the validity of the Sino-French Concise Treaty in May 1884. The two sides immediately stopped hostilities, and France sent ministers to Beijing or Tianjin to determine the detailed terms of the treaty.
On April 7, the Qing government ordered an armistice. It was agreed with the legal person that the east of Xuanguang, Vietnam would be truce on April 15; the west of Xuanguang, and the west of Xuanguang, would be truce on April 25.
Li Hongzhang specially sent a telegram to Zhang Zhidong, asking Feng Zicai's army to "retreat the troops as scheduled."
Of course, Zhang Zhidong was unhappy about this. This was his opportunity to make achievements. Why should you, Li Hongzhang, stretch your hands so far? Feng Zicai is his current subordinate of Zhang Zhidong. No matter how dirty the two of them were at the beginning, Feng Zicai was also responsible for him! At least half of the contribution he made would be divided. So he called Li Hongzhang to question the peace talks: "I send a telegram to the law: the legal person is unreasonable and has ordered a decisive battle. If there are any people who advance to the peace talks in the future, they will definitely engage in military law. Who will the peace talks in this time?"
Li Hongzhang knew that if he admitted to seeking peace, the Qingliu and the people in the country could scold him to death. Anyway, there were ready-made scapegoats, so he put all the blame on foreigner Hurd! In his telegram to Zhang Zhidong, he said that the person who entered the peace talks was Hurd.
Of course, Li Hongzhang himself knew very well who gave Heard full authority to negotiate peace, who asked Heard to take charge of peace? Who accepted the peace?
After the great victory in Zhennanguan, Heard tried his best to urge France to sign a contract as soon as possible.
On April 3, he warned the French Brixon cabinet that "a week's relocation will cause danger to the agreement, because Beijing's pro-war faction may have the upper hand." Sure enough, the Paris Armistice Agreement was signed the next day, and Heard was very satisfied with Jindengan's work in Paris.
On June 9, 1885, Li Hongzhang and French Minister Badno signed the Treaty of the Sino-French Conference in Tianjin, which is the treaty of the Sino-French New Testament. The main content is that the Qing Dynasty gave up Vietnam, recognized the French's status as the suzerain of Vietnam, opened the southwest port, and some treaties on building railways and selling French equipment.
In general, there is not much content to sell the country. Of course, giving up Vietnam is up to date. In fact, the Vietnamese sectarian state recognized by the world powers at that time was France, not the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty sent troops to Vietnam instead caused dissatisfaction among the great powers!
However, just as everyone was cheering for world peace, Wang Yi stood in front of the glass window of his office and smiled slightly: "The world is so peaceful! Unfortunately... there is also bandit number one in this world!"
Chu Yuan was behind him at this time, and Wang didn't look back and asked, "Where has the First Airship Team been?"
"This morning the report has reached Sanya!"
"Fast enough! From us to North Korea, Jinju Island, to Okinawa, then to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and to Sanya." Wang Yi turned around, walked to the map, and smiled and said, "It seems that my supporting role is time to appear!"
Chu Yuan smiled and said, "I heard from Miss Shen that I am shooting a movie with any electricity."
"Movie!"
"Oh." Chu Yuan suddenly realized: "Yes, it's a movie."
"What did the girl Chen say?"
"Supporting actors must steal the show before they can become the protagonist!"
Chapter completed!