Chapter 120 Yoshino

Foxiang Pavilion is located on the mountainside in the middle of the front of Wanshou Mountain. It is built on a 21-meter-high square platform. It is a building with three floors and four eaves on eight sides. The pavilion is 41 meters high and has eight huge iron pear wood Optimus Prime. The complex structure is the most grand project in the Summer Palace. It is said that it was designed and built by Master Qianlong himself.

In the ten years of Xianfeng, the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace, and the Foxiang Pavilion in the Summer Palace was also burned by the British and French allied forces. In the 17th year of Guangxu (1891), the Empress Dowager Buddha ordered the renovation of the Summer Palace for her 60th birthday, among which the most important project was the Foxiang Pavilion. The Empress Dowager means that the Foxiang Pavilion is related to royal decent, and no matter how much money it is, it must be repaired.

The whole Summer Palace project cost a huge amount of yuan, and the remaining Foxiang Pavilion alone cost 780,000 taels of silver. The project took four years and was just completed this year. It was ready to add luster to her 60th birthday. However, the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese began to fight.

Just yesterday, the report of the defeat of the Beiyang Marine Division spread to the garden. The old Buddha was furious and ordered the execution of Fang Boqian, the Jiyuan ship who escaped from battle.

However, Minxiu doesn't think so!

In the Battle of Dadonggou, the Beiyang navy was defeated by the Japanese, and the old Buddha shifted the responsibility to the soldiers in front of him.

However, Minxiu knew that the Empress Dowager misappropriated the funds of Beiyang Mariners in order to repair the Summer Palace.

Minxiu's father, Prince Chun Yizhen, served as the Prime Minister of the Navy and the Minister of Military aircraft at the same time, known as the "Taishang Military aircraft". When the Empress Dowager Buddha ordered the Summer Palace to be reopened, Zhili and the capital were flooded. Wu Zhaotai, a royal historian, proposed to temporarily suspend work for fear of causing trouble among the disaster victims, so he took over the official. Yi Xiao didn't say a word about this, but misappropriated a large amount of naval expenses in the Summer Palace.

A direct result of misappropriation of naval military expenditure is Yoshino!

In order to achieve leapfrog development, the Beiyang Marines customized the most advanced cruiser in the world at that time. This cruiser was the most powerful cruiser in the world at that time, especially equipped with the world's most advanced rapid-fire guns at that time. Once installed, it will make the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Marine Division jump.

After the construction of the cruiser was completed, when the British drove the ship to the East China Sea and were ready to hand it over to the Qing Dynasty, something ironic happened. The naval military expenditure of the Qing Dynasty was taken to repair the Summer Palace and could not pay.

What's more funny is that the Qing Dynasty was afraid of the British chasing the debt and played a rogue, saying that the cruiser had nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty, refusing to enter the port of the cruiser and providing coal and supplies for the cruiser.

The British transformed a lot of silver, built a cruiser, and rushed to get the silver, but fell into a wandering sea, homeless and embarrassed.

The Japanese quickly learned the news and immediately sent the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with coal-fired vegetables and freshwater supplies, ran to the East China Sea to find the British, and mercifully invited the British to Japan for a guest. The British were unlucky. As soon as they saw the Japanese coming with supplies, they were like a motherless child who saw their mother. They were so excited that they drove the cruiser to Hiroshima without saying a word.

After entertaining the British, the Japanese took advantage of the hot iron and proposed to buy the cruiser at a high price. At first, the British did not agree. These Westerners were all single-minded and regarded a commercial contract as extremely sacred, saying that they would abide by the commercial contract with the Qing Dynasty and could not resell the cruiser to Japan.

The Japanese explained patiently: the Qing Dynasty broke the contract first and should bear full responsibility. The British had no choice but to resell the cruiser, which is not a breach of contract. Besides, the contract is just a piece of paper. There is no real money. These blonde Britons stared and listened for a long time before clarifying the logic - in the minds of Oriental people, commercial contracts are not binding in the first place.

Since the contract was not binding, the British dared to sell the cruiser to the Japanese. As expected by the Japanese, the Qing Dynasty did not raise any protest against the deal. The people in the Qing Dynasty did not take the contract seriously.

The Japanese bought the cruiser and named it Yoshino. Yoshino's joining the Japanese navy made a qualitative leap in the combat capability of the Japanese navy overnight.

In the Battle of Toyoshima and the Battle of Dadonggou, Yoshino, as the main battleship, fired 1,200 shells, sank the main cruiser Zhiyuan of the Beiyang Marine Division, injuring five Qing ships, and forced Jingyuan, Laiyuan and Pingyuan to withdraw from the battle. He made great achievements in defeating the Beiyang Marine Division.

The person directly responsible for the defeat of Beiyang sailor Huang Hai is not Fang Boqian, but the Empress Dowager Buddha! It was she who gave the Yoshino ship to the Japanese, and it was also her who caused the weakness of the Beiyang navy and the strength of the Japanese navy.

However, Minxiu also knows that these words cannot be said.

The real purpose of the Empress Dowager's misappropriation of Beiyang sailor's funds is not to build the Summer Palace or her 60th birthday.

Her purpose is to weaken the Beiyang sailors!

Because the Beiyang Marine is in the hands of Li Hongzhang! Li Hongzhang is a Han man!

Manchu and Han defense, this is the basic political pattern of the Qing Dynasty.

Minxiu's father, Prince Yizhen, understood this truth, so he dared to misappropriate naval military expenses unscrupulously.

The so-called Man-Han family of the Qing Dynasty has actually been full of cracks.

Minxiu knows this well. As a Manchu, she must stand with her family and resolutely support the Manchu nobles led by the Empress Dowager Buddha to guard against the Han people.

However, the Empress Dowager Buddha pushed the responsibility for the defeat to the soldiers ahead, which made Minxiu extremely disgusted.

Foxiang Pavilion was built with the misappropriation of naval military expenditure, which is the direct reason for the defeat of the Beiyang Marine Division! The magnificent and exquisite pavilions have reached the peak of architecture in the Qing Dynasty and are the pride of architecture, but it is a pillar of shame of the Qing Dynasty!

A Buddha incense pavilion, the decay of the Qing Dynasty can be seen at a glance.

It is incredible that the Empress Dowager Buddha actually has a face to sit here.

Minxiu was summoned to the Foxiang Pavilion and was extremely unhappy.

Of course, she is not happy. When she saw the old Buddha, Minxiu did not dare to make trouble. She knew the old Buddha too well. Usually, after a few fools, the old Buddha also laughed it, but if anyone dares to challenge her authority, he will definitely die ugly.

In this way, Minxiu absent-mindedly pulled the "home" with the old Buddha. The prince, the prince, the Baylor, the emperor's family, and the eastern parents were short. As he spoke, the old Buddha changed his words and said a name that could not fight with the royal eight poles, but made Minxiu frightened Zhou Charter.

In Tianjin Wubei School, Minxiu was careless and was seen by Zhou Charter, a bad species. Speaking of which, he also blamed Minxiu for a good day. However, he ran to Tianjin Wubei School to pretend to be a man. As a result, Zhou Charter took advantage of it. This matter is her eternal pain. Not only does it hurt, but she can't say it. She can only swallow it in her front teeth.

I thought I would kill Zhou Charter, but this matter was fooled. Unexpectedly, the old pedantic Jin actually came to "ssever his life for righteousness" and let go of Zhou Charter. Since then, Minxiu has lived a life of fear for fear that Zhou Charter would tell the matter of peeking at her bath.

Later, Minxiu heard that Zhou Charter went to North Korea. The Qing army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties in North Korea. It is said that in the Qing army in North Korea, fewer officials died and more soldiers died, because the officials ran faster than soldiers. Judging from this, Zhou Charter is a small soldier. It is estimated that he will die more and live less. Minxiu is secretly relieved.

Minxiu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, the name Zhou Charter actually came out of the mouth of the Empress Dowager Buddha!

Minxiu's first reaction was that the Empress Dowager Buddha knew about Zhou Charter peeking at her bathing. Even the Empress Dowager Buddha knew about it, and everyone must know it!

Where does this put Minxiu's face?

Minxiu suddenly messed up.

Fortunately, after a few words, the Empress Dowager Buddha didn't seem to care about anything about men's and women's defense. Instead, she asked Minxiu if she had heard of Zhou Charter?

It turned out that the old Buddha did not know that she had seen Zhou Charter, so Minxiu was relieved. From the mouth of the old Buddha, it was learned that the Zhou Charter was not dead. Not only did he not die, but he also inexplicably became the president of Qian. He led a group of people to occupy Yizhou in North Korea and became the only remaining force of the Qing Dynasty in North Korea, which saved a little face for the Qing Dynasty.

Listen to the meaning of the old Buddha, the court wants to promote Zhou Charter! In particular, her brother, who was the emperor, seemed to be determined to add the title to Zhou Charter.

If Zhou Charter is a small soldier, it's okay. A small soldier speaks softly. Even if he opens his mouth and talks nonsense, his credibility will be greatly reduced. However, if this guy becomes a member of the court and runs to the temple and talks nonsense, nine out of ten people will believe it!

Minxiu was shocked and hurriedly said a lot of bad words about Zhou Charter, such as humble origin, unknown origin, lazy, cheating in exams, cheating, slippery, no respect, etc. Of course, Zhou Charter's most unobvious business, Minxiu can't say it.

In a word, Minxiu tried her best to prevent the Empress Dowager from promoting Zhou Charter and used all the bad words she could think of. Finally, the old Buddha said suspiciously: "Minxiu, do you know Zhou Charter? Did she offend you?

Minxiu hurriedly defended: "No, no, he hasn't offended me. Well, I heard from the people of Tianjin Military Academy. This guy has a very bad reputation in the school. Everyone says that he is not a good guy."

"In this case, why did Jin take him as an apprentice?" The old Buddha asked, "Jin is a decent man." Jin is a famous guardian.

"He was blinded by Zhou Charter. He regretted it very much and regretted his heart. Now he is scolding Zhou Charter at home all day." Minxiu gritted her teeth and made up lies.

The old Buddha's face sank: "Minxiu, is there anything you are hiding from me?"