Why did the Empire's Righteousness seem so detestable? It was because the Empire's Righteousness was far more powerful than others. Moreover, the Empire's Righteousness never cared about using this power to fight for benefits.
A mature Empire Justice intervened everywhere in the world and caused disputes everywhere, but it was not necessarily for immediate benefits. Just like playing Go, it was to first create resources for the robbery. As the saying goes, every dog has its day. A disadvantage at one time did not mean a disadvantage at all times. But if the Empire Justice could not intervene at all, there would be no basis for negotiation in the future.
Vézé never thought that the territory of China he created would be limited to Asia or Europe. Alaska might not be a good strategic fulcrum, but it was not a bad thing to have a strategic fulcrum in the Americas.
After giving Zuo Zhidan the order, Vézé even held the possibility that Alaska would be taken away by others after he bought it. As long as they had enough strength, it was not a bad thing for Vézé to take Alaska by force. Wars needed reasons and excuses. The more reasons and excuses could motivate the people, the more likely it was to win. Moreover, the expansion of the war needed a good excuse. In the eyes of modern nation-states, it was an unacceptable problem for their territory to be taken away. After regaining their territory, the war might not end there. It was normal to cut more land from the defeated country.
All of this could not be explained in public at the Standing Committee meeting. Vézé only told comrades with little historical knowledge that those areas were land that China had no interest in. But since the new China was a modern nation-state, there was no reason to ignore it and let other countries do as they pleased.
Before Vézé talked about this, the comrades had no idea where Alaska was. After looking at the map, the comrade was also a little surprised. The ghost land of the extreme north was completely beyond the imagination of this group of people. When did the Chinese go to the legendary Arctic to settle down?
But the comrades believed that Vézé would not lie. Since their beloved Vézé said that the people there had Chinese blood, then the people there must have Chinese blood. In fact, they did not care whether they really had Chinese blood or not. When Vézé inspected in Guangdong, he was concerned about the cleansing of the islands in the South China Sea. At this time, Japan was in a civil war, so the progress of contacting the Japanese Ronin was not fast. The Liberation Army could only let the Chinese armed forces deal with the men with Spanish blood in Luzon. They had no objection to sending women with Spanish blood to China to be wives of widows.
To put it bluntly, Chinese people did not care much about maternal lineage. China only cared about culture. Chinese people with a deep cultural accumulation basically had this understanding.
These matters were handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was not busy at all. The Central Committee was discussing how to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Manchurian Qing Dynasty could basically be ignored, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had received a large amount of military aid from the Liberation Army. After the Northern Expedition, they naturally had to come up with a plan to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Although their attitude was not too firm, most comrades believed that there was no reason to let the Taiping Rebellion go again.
Vézé looked at Prime Minister Bi Qingshan and said with a smile, "Comrades, look at Prime Minister Bi's expression. Do you think he will agree to come up with so much budget this year?"
Looking at Bi Qingshan's somewhat green face, everyone laughed. Although they laughed, everyone understood that the purpose of Vézé's words was not a joke. It was a very implicit statement that there was no immediate plan to eliminate the Taiping Rebellion. It was easy to understand. Hebei, Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi, these four provinces were so large that they really did not have that much energy to solve more problems in a short time.
Time flew, and in the blink of an eye, it was May. In southern Shandong, Miao Peilin was lying on a soft bed. He had already driven several concubines who served him out of the room, and was planning in his heart. Not long ago, Miao Peilin received two guests. One was, of course, a representative of the Manchu Qing court. Because there were 30,000 to 40,000 Eight Banners Army stationed in northern Shandong, the Manchu Qing representative spoke in a tough tone, demanding that Miao Peilin send troops to help destroy the Nian Army. If Miao Peilin did not agree, the tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers would go south to kill him.
The other guest was from the Nian Army, which was fighting against the Qing Army. The Nian Army did not mention Miao Peilin's dirty tricks against the Eastern Nian Army. Instead, they invited Miao Peilin to join the anti-Qing camp. The representative even said that the Taiping Rebellion was willing to recognize Miao Peilin as the "Prince Of Qi".
In the past, Miao Peilin did not know much about the Taiping Rebellion. Later, he learned that the Taiping Rebellion originally had a Prince Of Qi, and that the Prince Of Qi was the current emperor, Vézé. With this new knowledge, Miao Peilin "figured out" why the Liberation Army had turned a blind eye to the title of "Prince Of Qi" from the Liberation Army. It was easy to understand. Vézé was the Prince Of Qi, and then he became the emperor. After Miao Peilin received the title of "Prince Of Qi" from the Liberation Army, did this not imply that Miao Peilin also had the opportunity to walk the path of Vézé's life?
But because of this, Miao Peilin had a strong desire for the title of "Prince Of Qi". Miao Peilin was very eager to get a higher status and more power. There was no doubt that Vézé was now the most powerful force in China, but more than a decade ago, Vézé was just a peasant from a poor mountain. Miao Peilin, on the other hand, was a scholar with the status of a proper Elementary Scholar. There was no reason that if Wei Ze could do it, he, Miao Peilin, could not.
Miao Peilin did not make a choice now because he was waiting for news from the Liberation Army. The battle between the Qing Army and the Nian Army was so fierce that the Liberation Army had to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. But now, seven or eight days had passed, and there was no movement from the Liberation Army. Miao Peilin became more and more anxious. He suddenly stood up from the soft bed and went straight to the meeting hall in front of him. At the same time, he ordered his bodyguard, "Summon the generals to talk!"
Miao Peilin now only had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and there were only a dozen real military leaders. The military leaders guarding the city in the south of Shandong could not come now, and there were only seven or eight people in the meeting hall. Looking at these people, Miao Peilin said loudly, "I'm ready to be the Prince Of Qi of the Taiping Army!"
The military leaders were stunned at first, and then someone hurriedly objected, "Your Excellency, the imperial court has tens of thousands of soldiers in Jinan and Dezhou. Can we defeat them now?"
"Those tens of thousands of people are running amok in the north of Shandong. Recently, many people can't stand it and have fled to our side. There are too many people in the north in Shandong who want us to send troops to help them. They also said that as long as we are willing to go north, they will definitely be our spies. "Miao Peilin told the military leaders about some of the more confidential matters that he had recently been involved in.
The Eight Banners Army originally did not want to leave Beijing, but after arriving in the north of Shandong, the Eight Banners Army suddenly revealed their identity, so even if they looted everywhere, no one dared to resist. The Eight Banners Army, which had been relatively well-behaved in Beijing, finally realized the benefits of being an army. They looted wantonly near the various garrisons and in the areas they passed through. The looted things that could be sold were sold, and the gold, silver, and other valuables were naturally transported back to Beijing and handed over to their families.
The people in the north of Shandong could only choose to avoid these hungry wolf-like Eight Banners Army. The south of Shandong had been relatively peaceful in the past few years, so people could only flee to the south. Miao Peilin was, after all, a scholar. He had read the saying, "Those who win the hearts of the people win the world." The Manchu Qing's Eight Banners Army's actions had undoubtedly greatly lost the hearts of the people, and their attitude was becoming more and more intense.
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