Ding daily appeased foreigners, but it caused hostility between the whole clean and conservative forces. Gading’s daily prestige was really insufficient. Cixi could not keep him, and then she handed over the handling of Tianjin religious plans to another Han minister, Li Hongzhang.
And the Qing court didn’t give up being scolded by the day reader, but instead re-emphasized Zeng Guofan’s direct life, Zeng Guofan’s governor of Liangjiang made him responsible for controlling the entire Qing army along the Yangtze River and coping with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s offensive.
If Zeng Guofan’s reputation had not been damaged in this lesson plan, the Qing court would not dare him. Now Zeng Guofan’s reputation stinks, but the Qing court would be bold. This is politics.
Zeng Guofan made a handover with Li Hongzhang before going south and asked Li Hongzhang if he planned to deal with the problem of lesson plans.
Li Hongzhang told Zeng Guofan that he was going to fight against foreigners. The popular point is to fool, that is, to deal with the best in your mouth. When it comes to perfunctory past, you can’t cash it.
This is that Li Hongzhang is different from Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan is sincere and deceives Zeng Guofan. He also advises Li Hongzhang to say that he can’t talk nonsense and promise that what he can’t do is to leave trouble for the future.
Did Li Hongzhang learn Zeng Guofan’s advice? I don’t know. Anyway, Li Hongzhang’s situation at this time is much better than that before Zeng Guofan
First Zeng Guofan has attracted all the clean, die-hards and scholars’ firepower, and then Ding Richang appeased the foreigners. Ding Richang is Li Hongzhang’s recommendation. Is there any agreement between the two? It’s hard to say, but after Li Hongzhang’s practice, it was obviously borrowed from Ding Richang.
Zeng Guofan attracted all the blame, and Ding Richang calmed the foreigners. Now Li Hongzhang needs to give the Chinese a step to make both sides accept it.
The most important thing is that when Li Hongzhang came to Tianjin, France was too busy fighting to attend to Tianjin.
Although France can’t get by because it is a Patriarchal country and many people die, France is no longer the main problem at this time
Li Hongzhang’s energy is fair to Russia. He told the Russians that if you consider the long-term interests, you’d better not cause China people’s resentment. He said that the Qing court was willing to give generous pensions to the Russian deceased and also to give the Russians an account in law.
Li Hongzhang reached a private agreement with the Russians, promised an apology and compensation, and other conditions that foreigners value most. First of all, he said the only country that could really use force against the Qing court, Russia
Later, Li Hongzhang found some death row inmates and told them that anyway, you would all die worse than your country. Li Hongzhang gave his own money to the family members of death row for more than 20,000 taels of pension to calm them down. At the same time, he didn’t punish those officials who were the focus of this lesson plan, such as Liu Jie, the county magistrate. Even those criminals who were arrested and really killed foreigners, he didn’t motivate them. These people have become heroes in some people’s eyes at this time.
This matter will not continue to expand after Li Hongzhang resolved the counterattack of public opinion by various means, and no matter whether the families of death row prisoners or the families of real prisoners do not make trouble.
Finally, he gave the Russians more than 100,000 taels of silver and killed a dozen death row inmates. The Russians expressed their acceptance. When the French saw that the Russians accepted it, they could also express their acceptance. They reached an agreement with Li Hongzhang on the same terms. There were no dead people in Britain and the United States. They were involved in the Puritan countries mainly to safeguard their trade interests, so they accepted it happily.
Clean people saw that Li Hongzhang released many people involved in the case, and they didn’t hold on to Li Hongzhang. As a result, Zeng Guofan took all the blame, and Li Hongzhang got all the credit. Even he himself gave the throne to Cixi, and he was complacent and very satisfied with his handling methods.
Of course, the Qing court was also satisfied with Li Hongzhang, so the Qing court promoted him to the governor of Zhili. There is no doubt that Li Hongzhang has become the biggest beneficiary of Tianjin’s religious plan by means of novelty, but he has shown that Zeng Guofan has become the biggest loser because of his principle.
Russians and French people are unwilling to bear a sigh of relief. Americans just want to try to control the situation. It is difficult for the British Empire to be somewhat frustrated. They found that in the end, Britain was actually excluded from China.
As soon as they were pushed aside, they watched a group of China dignitaries having sex. What made them feel more powerful was that the Taiping rebels completely drove the British forces out of the sea, which made the British feel that their power in the East was too weak. They urgently needed to strengthen their power in the Far East and maintain the influence and control of the British Empire in this region.
The Tianjin religious plan has been such a step, which is also related to the actual interests or the sea issue. At this time, the British Empire still has to rely on great strength. Fortunately, it really helped to send Xu Rongcun, a foreign official, to mediate in the sea
Section five hundred and fifty-one Sea of Li Xiucheng
When Xu Rongcun arrived at the sea, it was the end of the month, and Prussia and France were still at war. The British Parliament was discussing whether to form an expeditionary force
Whether Xu Rongcun can mediate successfully may determine whether Britain will launch the third Opium War.
But his mediation method was very informal. As soon as he got to the sea, he met Li Xiucheng.
At this time, Li Xiucheng is still in the sea. After he conquered the sea, he stayed here and let the soldiers have a rest. After that, he has launched an offensive against Taicang. It is the county such as Baoshan in Taicang that will drive the Qing army out of the Yangtze River. If Zuo Zongtang is not driven out of the sea, it will not be stable enough. If foreigners make trouble from it, it will not be able to become a continuous source of income in Li Xiucheng.
"Last year, the total import value of the sea was flat, and the total export value was 10,000,000, totaling more than 10,000,000. When I was old, I was only a few days old."
While drinking Longjing in Li Xiucheng West Lake, Xu Rongcun introduced the economic situation of the sea to Li Xiucheng.
Li Xiucheng doesn’t care about this. "Just tell me how much silver I can get a year?"
Xu Rongcun laughed. "That depends on how Jiunian does it."
Li Xiucheng grunted, "Do what you can to get the silver!"
Xu Rongcun sighed, "What’s the difference between how a vault guarding the sea can get silver?"
Li Xiucheng was impatient. "Then you can calculate for me how much I can get at most?"
Xu Rongcun said, "I can get 32 million yuan from Dafa!"
Li Xiucheng couldn’t help but gasp at the air conditioning. Last year, the revenue of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was just so much. It was still poor to scrape land. As a result, what taxes and land taxes add up to so much, and mainly it is to collect ordinary people’s land, Ding Yin, a sea without scraping land, which can double the national treasury every year? Li Xiucheng doesn’t believe that he is rich in the sea, of course, but he also knows that the Qing court can only get a few million dollars in taxes in the sea. How can he get more than the Qing court? Li Xiucheng, however, is prepared to collect less. After all, a large number of taxes will naturally be less after a war.
"What is Dafa?"
Li Xiucheng asked.
Xu Rongcun said, "A few years ago, I had to pay a heavy opium tax, which was five times as high as the value of opium collected at the opium dens."
Li Xiucheng nodded. "That’s double!"
He knew that opium accounted for 70% of the opium trade and sea imports.
Xu Rongcun shook his head. "Fifteen times!"
The tax and the business tax of opium dens are not added but multiplied.
Li Xiucheng was surprised again. "Then there are people who eat smoky soil?"
Fifteen times that, opium will become sky-high
Xu Rongcun nodded. "There are fewer smokers, but some people still smoke. Before that, I bought foreign cigarettes as much as 22 million a year. It was only a few years ago that I imported foreign cigarettes, but the tax from them was as high as 32 million, which was my first big tax."
Li Xiucheng is a little worried. "So if the sea levies heavy taxes, wouldn’t there be less foreign smoke?"
Xu Rongcun nodded. "Naturally, there are fewer foreign cigarettes, but some people can’t stop smoking. Some poor people smoke less and some rich people smoke taxes, but the value of opium will increase a lot. Even if it is reduced by 90%, there will be three million lessons and ten times the tax will be thirty-two million."
"Ten times?"
Li Xiucheng frowned.
Xu Rongcun said, "Taxes don’t need to be so high. If taxes are too high, fugitives will smuggle me into the country. I have suffered greatly in the past two years, but opium dens can also be taxed. It is said that there are many opium dens in Tianjing, which are no worse than me."
These opium dens are the cause of Li Xiucheng’s frown, because they are all based on various princes. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a whole is poor, there are a large number of rich people, thousands of princes and the cunning tycoon Park Jung Su who colluded with these nobles to grab wealth at an amazing speed.
But can these cigarette houses be taxed? Even if it’s not the report, there are often various reports, especially the report of Hong surname, but there are fewer real ones who lead the troops outside.
"Just collect taxes!"
Li Xiucheng said categorically that he couldn’t move the cigarette houses. According to the truth, those cigarette houses shouldn’t have the roots of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In this law, opium sales are all lanterns. In the trade treaty signed with foreigners, the opium trade has never been recognized as legal. They are the only official anti-smoking policy in the Qing court and the junior high school. Unfortunately, the official ban is superficial, but it makes those who dare to make smuggling bigger than legitimate trade make a fortune.
Xu Rongcun still doesn’t know enough about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Department. He knows that Li Xiucheng is nine years old. Since he has to levy a huge tax, it’s up to him.
Nodded and said, "If you want to collect taxes at the age of nine, you can collect taxes. It is mandatory to levy ten times the tax. Smuggling is bound to be banned. Even if you can get two million people to go to the sea every year, it will be good. Ten times the maximum tax is 20 million."
Li Xiucheng nodded 20 million, but the problem was not how much, but that the money was given to him. Li Xiucheng and he had a great deal of fun in recent years. Apart from knowing that he was powerful and powerful, the most important reason was that the tax collected in Ningbo was handed over to his master in the hands of the heavenly government in accordance with formal channels, rather than through those princes. This is the same reason that the Qing Dynasty relied on the British to control the sea. Once the money passed through, there were few officials in the country. This is the biggest problem.
