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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 391: Changing Tian with the People

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    It is also a crisp autumn weather. Unlike the sad father and son far away in the Winter Palace, King Xi is in a good mood recently.  After nearly two years, the Sufu New Deal gradually entered a stable period, and the interests of all classes were met as necessary. Under the guidance of the King of the West, the enlightened gentry of Sufu Province began to move from one exploitative relationship to another.  An exploitative relationship.

    For those conservative forces who cling to the past, the New Deal is like a razor, peeling them off from the land they depend on for survival. Under the power of the New Deal in the West Palace, some people have lost money, and some people have lost their reputation.  Some people lost their lives, and some people lost all three things.  Social changes cannot avoid violence. The Taiping Military Government in Su Fu Province is the largest violent organization. After the adoption of the Mingzheng Code in the West Palace and the use of behind-the-scenes tactics, most of the conservative forces in Su Fu Province were wiped out.  During these processes, West Palace's methods were endless, and they even used the so-called evil forces in the Jianghu to clear the obstacles.  Although many people understand that the elimination of the conservative forces was not accidental, at least in terms of officialdom and public opinion, everything the West Palace did was kept clean from beginning to end.

    After the initial struggle with the conservative forces, the initiators of the New Deal had the last laugh. It seemed that God and God were possessed by their souls at this moment, or that they were one. In short, after the beginning of this spring, happy events in the West Hall continued one after another.  Come.

    After experiencing the episode of King Xi being ill, the first thing that happened was that Queen Xi gave birth to King Xi¡¯s second son, Xiao Youfu.  Not many people in the entire Sufu Province knew the truth about King Xi's illness. The soldiers and civilians only knew about King Xi after he recovered from his illness.  The King of the West was overjoyed to have a son, which was exactly the same as the King of the East's words about redeeming his illness.  The popular saying is.  King Xi fell ill this time to atone for everyone's sins. After King Xi recovered from his illness, everything would go smoothly.

    Then came the great victory of Fuzhou from the front. After more than a month, the 70,000-strong Southern Expeditionary Army under the command of Li Kaifang captured Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province. Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang of the Qing Army, died in the battle. Li Tingyu reluctantly broke through with a few troops.  , retreated to Quanzhou.  The Qing army showed signs of collapse in Fujian.

    A few days later, the Jiangsu-Shanghai Railway was completed. This was the first railway in China and the most important milestone after the New Deal. Therefore, the King of the West and all the officials from the West Palace attended the opening ceremony.  At the opening ceremony, ministers and consuls from various countries in China were invited and attended the ceremony. At the same time, reporters from Sufu Province's own newspapers and many foreign reporters also attended the ceremony.  Nearly tens of thousands of Suzhou soldiers and civilians came to watch this historic event.

    At the ceremony, Xiao Yungui took his first black-and-white photo since time travel, and foreign reporters used black-and-white cameras to capture the heroic appearance of the King of the West.  As the mysterious Taiping Army was gradually unveiled, and the Taiping mercenary group won the battle against Russia in the Far East, the East became a paradise for Western reporters to dig up news.  Westerners are equally curious and have great interest in the mysterious Eastern countries.  Unlike the Qing-occupied areas, journalists and missionaries from various countries in Sufu Province also have some privileges and are protected.

    The joining of Western journalists also promoted the development of the journalism industry in Sufu Province. At the beginning of the year, the first unofficial newspaper "Sufu Minsheng News" came out, although this newspaper was also registered with the Shanghai Naval Administration Department.  But its founders and operators are downright folk gentry, and this person is Yu Songnian, a famous Shanghainese person.

    Regarding Yu Songnian¡¯s original intention of founding a newspaper.  At first, many officials in the West Palace still held objections. The reason was that Yu Songnian had served as an official in the Qing court. This old guy obviously had evil intentions in running a newspaper at this time.  However, in this matter, the King of the West specifically approved Yu Songnian to run this newspaper. The reason is also very simple. The King of the West was buying horse bones for a thousand gold, and he planned to use Yu Songnian to run the newspaper to make Su Fu Province more popular.  The gentry knew that the West Palace was trying to unite them. At least the Manchus would never be so generous.  At the same time, the King of the West also warned his officials that private newspapers are also a mirror, and they can often expose some problems in the West Palace through them, which can be regarded as setting up an additional mirror for many officials and government departments.

    As expected, on the front page of the first issue of the Sufu Minsheng Newspaper, the newspaper began to criticize the scandal of Sufu exchanging farmland with the people during the construction of the railway, and using secondary farmland to offset the good land of the people.  On the day they saw the newspaper, the Criminal Department, the Official Department, and the Household Department in the West Palace could not sit still. Officials at all levels still investigated the matter thoroughly, and finally found out that this matter was involved.  In the section of Kunshan where the Jiangsu-Shanghai Railway passes, people in one village were indeed involved in exchanging their fields because their farmland was occupied. At first, the local county government did prepare the same good farmland to be traded with the people in the village, but later the land was traded because it was occupied.  The Ministry of Household Affairs allocated a factory building to a private textile factory, and the land eventually exchanged with the people of the village was indeed second-class land. However, the Kunshan County Government at that time deliberately subsidized some more money per mu to the people, but they did not expect that it would  It was reported in the newspaper.  And that textile factory has now become the largest source of income in Kunshan County, and no one seems to be interested in it.It's not appropriate.

    Yu Songnian unceremoniously criticized the Suzhou and Fujian authorities in the newspaper, saying, "They exchanged land with the people and broke their trust with the people in order to benefit the government. Although there are many silver subsidies, the current output of the land cannot support the people."  , even if you gain something but lose your trust, it is of no use."

    Xiao Yungui admired Yu Songnian's fault-finding, but Zuo Zongtang said that Yu Gong had good intentions. He was reminding the Taiping Army that no matter what, the Taiping Army were rebels. Whether they wanted to implement the New Deal or build a country, first of all  It is to win the trust of the people. Although Yitian's matter is small, it is related to the credibility of the government. It also involves issues of public and private interests, and cannot be treated lightly.

    In the end, West Palace spent a sum of money to buy good land from a nearby gentry and exchanged the land for the people of the village. They did not recover the subsidy money. In the words of the government, it was compensated by the state.  At the same time, officials at all levels in Kunshan involved in this matter were punished to varying degrees. This incident caused an uproar in Sufu Province. When in thousands of years have we seen a government that is so trustworthy to the people?  After this incident, the people became more supportive of the New Deal, and their views on the government also changed. The reputation of the Taiping Army rose instead of falling.

    It was then that the private newspapers in Su Fu Province began to play a role, and the first person to eat crabs was born.  Various civil strata and groups also began to try to run their own newspapers, so Su Fu Province gave birth to the first batch of private journalists.

    At the opening ceremony.  The image of the Western King and the ministers from various countries cutting the ribbon was photographed by Western reporters with black-and-white cameras. More than two months later, The Times reported the event on its front page. The newspaper called the Western King the Prince of Wales of the East. This was obviously not true.  Find out the relationship between King Xi and the princes in Tianjing.

    ¡°However, the Chinese reporters in Shanghai and Suzhou were very envious of the equipment in the hands of their Western counterparts. The camera could record the scene. It was a very intuitive and magical machine, so various newspapers began to introduce cameras.  It further promotes the development of journalism.

    When the steam engine train roared slowly out of Suzhou Station, the entire ceremony was filled with cheers.  Even Chen Chengrong, the Marquis of Dingtian sent by Tianjing to watch the ceremony, was very horrified. This iron cow eats black charcoal and spits thick smoke. It is extremely powerful and can travel thousands of miles in a day without stopping.  Similarly, the soldiers and civilians were also very frightened by this thing and the places the train passed along the way.  Some people even burned incense and worshiped it, calling it a sacred beast.  Although various newspapers have published columns about trains since then to correct this superstitious and ignorant idea among the people, they have had little effect. It seems that only after the people are familiar with this thing can they slowly understand that it is scientific.  product.  At present, there is no harm in letting the common people think that the train is a mythical beast, at least no one dares to destroy the train.

    King Xi and ministers and distinguished guests from various countries naturally became the first batch of passengers. King Xi invited ministers from various countries to Suzhou in advance. After the ceremony, they boarded the train directly to Shanghai.  Russian Minister Tuzhkov and his party came to Shanghai.  Prepare for negotiations in the Far Eastern Theater as a defeated nation.  He was waiting to conduct negotiations in the Far East.  Two old foxes, Baoling and Blomble, also learned a trick. They left Tuzhkov hanging out in Shanghai and went to Suzhou to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Suzhou-Shanghai Railway. Naturally, they wanted to make Tuzhkov suffer for a few more days.

    Also completed at the same time as the railway was the telegraph line from Suzhou to Shanghai. The flying line of the telegraph line was developed along the side of the Suzhou-Shanghai Railway. Although the telegraph line was relatively simple to set up, it should have been completed earlier than the railway. But according to experience, the telegraph line  It is better to lay the flying line along the railway line, which facilitates inspection and maintenance, and can also reduce some costs.  Inspectors along the railway line can work part-time as telegraph line inspectors. Xiao Yungui is still worried that the telegraph wires will be cut off every three days. After all, this weird thing still attracts the curiosity of the Chinese people.  There are several wires hanging on the wooden telegraph poles. Both adults and children may be curious to study them. There is no guarantee that the telegraph wires will not be damaged.  Therefore, laying telegraph lines along the railway has become the only choice. So far, no one has noticed these flying lines. People have gone to worship the mythical beasts. The timid ones even dare to worship from a distance.  Close to the railway line.

    Xiao Yungui went to Shanghai to participate in the post-war negotiations between Britain, France and Russia. Originally, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not a participant in the war, but the Taiping Army was unwilling to withdraw its troops from Temple Street and Sakhalin Island, which became the biggest obstacle to the negotiations.  The conditions for Baoling and Blomble's return to the country before were only remuneration from the Taiping Army mercenary group. Moreover, the Taiping Army had to pay for the ships ordered by Britain and France. In this military operation to the north, the Taiping Army had to bear a large responsibility on its own.  Part of the supplies, ammunition, materials, and soldier casualty pensions, and the Taiping Army even provided medical logistics services to the British and French fleets. Therefore, it is reasonable for the Taiping Army to propose using three British sailing battleships and two French cruisers as employment remuneration.  You must know that in the Crimean War, the troops hired by the British from Prussia, Sweden and other countries cost several times as much as the Taiping Army.

    The Taipings now occupy several important Russian fortressesAt the military port, when Baker and Blomble discussed with Zuo Zongtang, the No. 2 figure in Sufu Province, they found that the other party seemed to intend to delay, or that the Taiping Army simply wanted to withdraw troops from Temple Street and Sakhalin Island.  The few military ports on the Kamchatka Peninsula are okay, and the Taiping Army may not be interested. Temple Street is different from Sakhalin Island. Both the Manchu and the Taiping Army believe that it is Chinese territory.  At this point, Baoling and Blomble felt a headache. If the Taiping Army did not withdraw its troops, Russia would not agree to the harsh conditions proposed by Britain and France.  The bold frontline commander of the Taiping Army, Tan Shaoguang, has begun to command the army to intimidate local Russian prisoners and residents to build fortifications and buildings on Temple Street and Sakhalin Island. It seems that the Taiping Army wants to hang on.
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