There were many museums in Nanjing. For example, the palace where Hong Xiuquan lived was turned into the Taiping Rebellion Museum. Alexander? Ulyanov's family background was not low. He had been to the palace several times to participate in activities. Compared to the Chinese style of a prince's mansion, Ulyanov was very surprised. Ulyanov was more curious than amazed. Compared with the ancient buildings, the entire city of Nanjing outside the former palace left an indelible impression on the young Russians.
Of course, the former palace also shocked the young people of Russia. The museum had a large number of detailed historical introductions and displays of various objects, which gave these young people a very direct contact with the prelude of the grand China Revolution.
From the beginning of the Jintian Rebellion, the small number of people became tens of thousands. After the arduous battle in Guangxi, the Taiping army that Vézé joined began to sweep across the Yangtze River Valley like a tiger released from the pen. Tens of thousands of people soon became hundreds of thousands. Vézé marched thousands of kilometers in a month and arrived at the city of Nanjing. After the Taiping army captured Nanjing, it became hundreds of thousands of people. At that time, the Taiping Rebellion, which included famous generals such as King Of The East Yang Xiuqing, Wing King Shi Dakai, and Prince Of Qi Vézé, was flourishing and was about to sweep the world.
Alexander? Ulyanov and his young comrades were dazzled by the introduction of Vézé. From 1853 to 1855, the Taiping army was in its heyday. Vézé made great achievements as the commander of the front army between the ages of 20 and 22. This great commander fought against most of the main forces of the Manchu Qing army alone and won many victories.
As the external pressure decreased, the internal contradictions increased. The conflict between King Hong Xiuquan and King Of The East Yang Xiuqing led to the end of the Taiping Rebellion. King Hong Xiuquan assassinated Vézé, the number one general under the King Of The East, but Vézé, who had gone to his father-in-law's house for the night, escaped the assassination. He immediately incorporated the former troops that had been forcibly incorporated into the King Of The East and rushed out of Nanjing.
They saw that Wei Ze had the largest and most powerful field army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time. After he luckily escaped from the assassination, he did not immediately turn against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Instead, he chose to break all ties with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and led the army and the revolutionary masses to the south. Alexander? Ulyanov could not understand at all. The field army of the Taiping Rebellion was no match for the 40,000 elites under the command of Prince Of Qi Vézé. At that time, other field armies needed six to ten days to reach Tianjing City, but all of Vézé's troops only needed two days to reach Nanjing. But Vézé's choice delayed his ascension to the throne by at least five years. Such a great man actually made such a concession because of feelings. Alexander? Ulyanov was very surprised.
Read on. Alexander? Ulyanov's image of Vézé was completely subverted. In European propaganda, Vézé was a ruthless and murderous military dictator. However, it turned out that Vézé had never raised a butcher's knife to his former comrades. Even though the Taiping Rebellion had tried to assassinate Vézé, Vézé did not massacre the Taiping Rebellion. The only military action was after the heir of the Taiping Rebellion, Hong Tianfugui, defected to the Min dynasty, and Shi Dakai and the others went to the northwest to establish a country. Moreover, the war only lasted for a very short time. All the generals who were captured during the Taiping Rebellion were not purged. Decades had passed. Some people died of natural causes, but a large number of people were still alive and kicking. Such a Vézé was not a tyrant. He was clearly a broad-minded and benevolent ruler.
Satisfied, Ulyanov came out of the Taiping Rebellion History Museum. Ulyanov sighed and said, "With such a leader, it's no wonder the Restoration Army is getting stronger and stronger and has more men."
"No. If things are exactly as the museum said, Vézé's army should be decreasing. Those who follow Vézé can't be increasing. "The young 'professor' put forward a different opinion.
"Why do you say that?" Ulyanov and the others were puzzled.
"Because … I just feel that His Majesty Vézé seems to have a deeper idea." Even though the young 'professor' instinctively felt that things were not so simple, he could not find a reason.
Just as the other revolutionary youths were about to refute the professor, Ulyanov waved his hand. Ulyanov waved his hand. "That's not important. I believe our comrades won't kill each other. But the speed at which the Chinese people participated in the revolution was too fast. When they left Guangxi, there were only tens of thousands of soldiers, but in a few years, there were hundreds of thousands. What kind of appeal did the Taiping Rebellion have for so many Chinese people to be willing to follow them? As long as we find this key, we can find the key to the revolution. If we can get hundreds of thousands of Russian people to join the war, I believe that we can win. "
What made the people join the revolution was the fundamental question of the revolution. Not only were the young revolutionaries from Russia confused, but even a materialist like Uncle En could not help but admire the revolution in China. In Beijing, Uncle En finally decided to pack his luggage and return to Europe. Uncle En was not a wasteful person. He actually had very little luggage, and it was very easy to pack.
Vézé did not want Uncle En to leave, but he could not stop him. Uncle En was very open-minded. He smiled at Vézé and said, "Sir, after this trip to China, I believe that the revolution will definitely succeed, although the process of the revolution is far more complicated than I thought. The reason for the outbreak of the revolution is actually simpler than I thought. The people of China want to survive, so they are willing to throw themselves into the revolution. And a leader like you responded to the call of the revolution, and the combination of the two completed the great cause of the revolution. "
Vézé was not happy because of Uncle En's praise. He said with regret, "Mr. En, there are very few talents like you, especially those who can help us with their own thinking. After all, Europe is already an industrial country, and the possibility of a revolution in Europe is very low. Your role in the Min dynasty is far greater than in Europe. "
Uncle En could see that Vézé wanted to comfort him. He smiled and said, "Thank you for thinking so highly of me, sir. But you don't have any feelings for Europe, especially not revolutionary feelings, but I have very deep feelings for Europe. The development of the revolution in Europe is not as good as that of the Min dynasty, so I want to go back to Europe and push the European revolution forward. "
"It is very difficult to rebel in the industrial era. Even if it is only to complete the land revolution, it will inevitably lead to a tragic civil war in Europe. Mr. En, the proletariat is very weak, and the number of all kinds of small private owners is probably much more than the proletariat. We have discussed that the proletariat in the revolutionary era mentioned by Uncle Ma is not a forced proletariat, but the development of society to the point where private ownership is not efficient at all. At that time, people are willing to give up private assets and choose public ownership. That kind of future proletariat is not the same thing as the people who are forced to become proletariat now. As long as the bourgeoisie does a little propaganda, or even without the bourgeoisie's propaganda, the small bourgeoisie who owns a small piece of land, a little property, and a small shop will probably swarm to attack the revolutionaries who promote public ownership … "Vézé continued to persuade. The new China in his original world had completed an unprecedented revolution in human history. The old world was completely shattered, and public ownership had a deep foundation in the new China through propaganda and practice. Even so, the counterattack of the leftists still put such a system in danger again and again. If it was not for the great social movement that made the ideas of 'public ownership' and 'the working people are the masters of the country' accepted and believed by the people, the new China's public ownership would probably not be any better than the Soviet Union.
Uncle En rarely interrupted Vézé, "Sir, I understand. I understand what you are saying. Because the system you led occupied a dominant position in the Min dynasty, the public ownership and state ownership of the Min dynasty can operate so effectively. It is because I see that such a socialist system can operate normally that I hope to return to Europe so that the European revolutionaries can better understand what is happening in China. Of course, if Sir can guide the European revolution at an earlier time, probably I can stay in China instead of returning to Europe. "
Vézé could only smile bitterly as he listened to Uncle En's final attack on him. The result of the Soviet Union's export of revolution made Vézé not interested in such an export. 'Our bastards are still bastards,' Vézé believed in this judgment. Vézé thought that the most brilliant decision in Deng Tianzun's life was not Huairen Tang, but sending the scum abroad after 1989.
If the scum were executed, it would only artificially create a group of 'martyrs.' After sending the scum out, the scum's nature would be exposed. Some people could deceive some people in the long run, and some people could deceive everyone in the short run. But deception was deception, and no one could deceive everyone for a long time. Those overseas scum became the best counterexamples, proving many things to the Chinese people.
At this time, the Min dynasty itself was already a world. Vézé felt that even if the Min dynasty had two billion people, they could live well. As for the existence of the United Kingdom, Europe, and South America, they were different types of national cases that could prove to the future Chinese people that they would not believe and were not interested in understanding. Since Europe was just some kind of lab rat in Vézé's eyes, he naturally had no interest in promoting the revolution of the whole Europe. Even though he knew that only deep pain could make people progress, Vézé still couldn't bear to let the people of the Min dynasty suffer so much.
I really don't have the spirit of internationalism. Vézé evaluated himself. Now that he understood his original intention, Vézé no longer persuaded Uncle En to stay in the Min dynasty. And Vézé was also very utilitarian. Maybe there was an opportunity to find a case of educating the people of the Min dynasty from the persecution that Uncle En might suffer after returning to Europe.
Uncle En didn't expect Vézé to be so utilitarian. Seeing that Vézé no longer persuaded him, Uncle En sighed, "Only after coming to China did I understand what kind of pain the Chinese people have suffered. And I was worried that you would become a reactionary, but now it seems that I worried too much. Even if you are doing it for yourself, you will continue to promote the revolution. "
"The people of China have experienced great pain, so they will accept the complete destruction of private land ownership and the establishment of a new system of state ownership of land. Mr. En, your propaganda in Europe is facing such a dilemma. The people of Europe are probably unlikely to accept public ownership. Their view of public ownership is probably communism. "Vézé said half-jokingly.
"That's not important. As long as the cause of China continues, when the European countries can't go on, they will definitely choose a new and feasible system. Sir, I don't think you look down on the people of Europe too much. In terms of distinguishing right from wrong, they may not be as good as the people of the Min dynasty. "Uncle En couldn't help but defend the people of Europe.
He sent Uncle En to the ship and watched Uncle En leave the Tianjin dock. Vézé let out a long sigh. Uncle En could have full confidence in the people of Europe, but Vézé's view from his own experience was that the people of Europe were unreliable. When they were so poor that they couldn't persist, the people of Europe engaged in fascism. When they were rich but politically closed, the people of Europe engaged in high welfare and the Virgin Mary of the White Left. In Vézé's time and space, for more than a hundred years, the people of Europe did not seem to have made any decent decisions except killing each other, drinking poison to quench thirst, and stretching their necks to be slaughtered. Not to mention that now that the United States was gone, the power of the British Empire was stronger, and it could stir up the big pit of Europe with several times the power.
When Vézé thought of the British Empire, the British Empire had been talking about Vézé for the 12th month in a row. The British Empire was not particularly surprised to reap such a huge benefit at the end of the Sino-American War. In history, the British Empire was known for its resilience, and the people who persisted to the end could always pick up treasures from the messy battlefield, or at least eat rotten meat like crows.
The war in Southern Africa made the British Empire see the decay and rigidity of its own army. This was no longer an army that could deal with modern warfare, but this army took back the very important New England and some areas further south in North America. The area of the current New Canada was more than four million square kilometers, and the core rich area was about 1.5 million square kilometers. It should be known that the area of Great Britain was only 200,000 square kilometers, and there was Scotland and England coexisting.
"Her Majesty, please decide the date of moving the capital as soon as possible." Rhodes didn't know how many times he had brought up this issue.
If China's diplomats were to hear this question, they would definitely react violently. The Queen of India was not in India but in the United Kingdom. This was already a very funny thing. If the Queen of India and the King of England were not in the United Kingdom but in North America, there was probably no other choice but to laugh.
What does the Prime Minister think of Cecil? Minister Rhodes's attitude was too straightforward, so he rolled his eyes at the Minister of Colonization, lowered his head, and said, "I hope that the Queen can come to Canada as soon as possible and announce that Canada has once again become a province of the British Empire."
Hearing these words of the same meaning, but with a great deal of euphemism, Cecil, the Minister of Colonization, thought to himself. Rhodes immediately felt that he was too concerned. Queen Victoria of India was born in 1819 and is 73 years old this year. In this day and age, it was already a good thing for an ordinary old man to be able to walk around on his own. Asking the Queen to cross the North Atlantic Ocean, which was thousands of kilometers away, was indeed a bit too much.
"My subjects, please calm down." As she spoke, the flesh on Queen Victoria's chubby face trembled slightly. This was not because of fear or uneasiness or physical discomfort, but simply because he was old and his flesh was sagging.
"Even if we're moving the capital, we still have to decide who will stay behind. The British Empire can't let England play the Empty City Stratagem. "The Queen said what seemed to be very reasonable.
"Yes!" The Prime Minister immediately agreed.
Cecil, Minister of Colonization? Rhodes bowed his head respectfully, but he didn't agree with this statement. Although these words seemed to be correct, they were practically bullsh * t. It was the Royal Navy, not the Army, that defended England, and the Army, not the Navy, that defended Canada. The army should be sent to control the newly annexed territory, and the navy should be used to protect the sea routes. As for the Chinese, Cecil? Rhodes was too lazy to think too much about it. The emperor of the Min dynasty had an indescribable affection for the United Kingdom. Shouldn't he take this opportunity to move a large number of British people who lacked the means of production to North America so that they could have children?
"Let's send 1 million people to North America first," Queen Victoria of India finally said in a serious tone.
This made the Secretary of the Colonial Department, Cecil S. Rhodes's face became very ugly. He had been planning for this for decades, and the joints were naturally considered very clearly. Seeing that the Queen of India made such a decision that looked like progress but was actually a hundred times worse than bullsh * t, he couldn't help but say with emotion, "Your Majesty. Please set off for North America first. If you are in North America, the subjects of the British Empire will think that North America is the core of the British Empire. If you are not in North America, the subjects of the British Empire will only think that North America is just a wild colony as before. Especially now that the United States has been destroyed by China, the subjects of the British Empire have a very low opinion of North America. "
The Secretary of the Colonial Department of the British Empire was very clear about colonial issues. The Prime Minister of the British Empire was basically not given for nothing. He smiled bitterly in his heart at Rhodes's desperate remarks. He was loyal and patriotic to the point that he didn't care about the king's likes and dislikes. Rhodes even had some respect for the Prime Minister. But the kings had always protected themselves perfectly. Among the living kings in this world, the only one who had fought on the front line was the emperor of the Min dynasty.
"Ahem!" Her Majesty the Queen coughed, "This matter … will be discussed later. That's all for today. "
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