The loan from France made the big finance a little looser, and immediately announced the establishment of a cotton yarn and cotton cloth factory for five years, which not only paid taxes, but also enjoyed tax refund when importing cotton yarn, machinery and equipment, and gave a certain proportion of loans in terms of financing.
Results In the first few months of 179, large cotton yarn and cotton cloth factories continued to be built on a large scale.
"Gong Bao" devoted a lot of space to publicizing the government policy to the industrial and commercial circles, saying that the government would do its best to protect the textile industry, calling on the big industry to make great efforts to modernize spinning, and textile factories to promote the development of big industries and pay more taxes to more workers.
The development of large textile industry and the deepening of cooperation with France have caused Britain to feel anxious and dissatisfied with the impact of the economic crisis in China, which has made the British government admit that it has suffered a failure in its diplomacy in the Far East.
However, Britain is used to being arrogant in this area. Instead of accommodating the big with a low profile, they take a confrontational stance to get into big trouble.
They formally intervened in the ongoing territorial exchange negotiations between Daiwa and Manchu.
Last year, Datong reached a consensus with the Qing court that Yunnan should be exchanged for Jiangnan, and then it was entangled for a long time because of the sea issue. Finally, the sea issue became an unsolved case for later settlement.
However, the agreement has not yet been signed, because the Qing Dynasty has not yet played Tianjing, and there is no way to complete the implementation of the agreement.
Before the Qing court fought Tianjing, they had no spare capacity to withdraw their troops from Tianjing. Now the control army controls Huizhou and other places.
Britain knew about this agreement before, but they didn’t intervene and adopted a default attitude.
Because Britain’s biggest purpose in helping the Qing court is to build a railway from Kolkata, India to Haida Asia, this railway passes through Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Changsha, Guiyang and Kunming in China, including Zhejiang and Jiangxi, and Yunnan, where a long-term Hui rebellion broke out. Britain also believes that great control here can better ensure the stability of this region, so it has no objection.
But now it’s obvious to jump out against it.
Either out of checks and balances or simply to find a diplomatic card that can make concessions.
Therefore, Britain said that the territorial exchange case in Jiangnan of Yunnan affected Britain’s interests in Yunnan and did not want the Manchu Dynasty to exchange territory with Dalian.
At the same time, it secretly encouraged the Qing court to take a tough attitude towards the big country, and Britain would strongly support the Qing court’s demands
Obviously, the British have been worried that the rapid development will affect their interests in China. In order to prevent economic backwardness, Russia will not hesitate to form an alliance with Japan. Now Britain has expanded its territory to the outskirts of the sea. If it is not worried, it will be abnormal.
However, Britain did not have the habit of personally fighting, so it planned to adopt a set of United continental countries in Europe to check and balance the mainland countries, and the only thing that could play such a check and balance in East Asia was Manchu.
But now the first goal of the Qing court army is to invade Tianjing and completely eradicate the last nest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Seeing the success, Zeng Guofan became more and more steady. His actions in Tianjing were no longer steady, but showed a timid illusion
Xiang’s winning rate in the battle with Taiping rebels is getting higher and higher. The victory over World War I wiped out tens of thousands of Taiping rebels and then marched into Tianjing, but Tianjing’s outer city is 100 kilometers long. Most of the outer city walls are also some earthen walls, which are still decaying.
There is no point in encircling this kind of city. Only by really advancing to the city wall can Tianjing be completely surrounded.
Therefore, it makes sense to occupy strategic places like Yuhuatai and Shishan. It is also Ceng Guoquan who forcibly occupied these places, and then 10,000 soldiers desperately stopped Li Xiucheng from organizing hundreds of thousands of troops to attack.
However, this time, Zeng Guofan had advanced to Yuhuatai. Because he was caught in the attack of Li Xiucheng’s army, Zeng Guofan decisively ordered to retreat, and the military action was extremely conservative. The slow progress has caused suspicion of Manchu civil and military affairs, but Zeng Guofan still went his own way.
I’m afraid the Qing court didn’t have the guts to turn against the British at any cost under such circumstances.
However, the Qing court didn’t have the guts to learn that Britain was behind the Manchu, but decided to start work with the Manchu.
Almost all of the big fleet set out to make a fire and anchor to get to Tianjing, which is still in the war zone!
Section six hundred and thirty The last hope of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Starting from his own heart, Li Xiucheng really doesn’t want to fight another battle to defend Tianjing, but he doesn’t even want to move the capital like this.
All this is due to the change of time. Now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is no longer the balance heaven in the past, and now Li Xiucheng is not the Li Xiucheng in the past.
Since the second army helped successfully break Ceng Guoquan’s siege of Tianjing, the national policy base of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was drawn up by Li Xiucheng.
Although there are many constraints in the Ministry, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is generally operating according to Li Xiucheng’s will. Li Xiucheng reformed Anqing in Shida in the past, and later he accumulated experience in Pisufu Province to redraw the facts. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is becoming a normal country, less a country with normal Asian meaning, that is, unifying the country and the country.
Li Xiucheng absorbed a large number of scholars and asked them to give them high-ranking officials in secondary vocational schools in the government, and made a reconciliation with the local scholars. This is why Wang Tao, the scholar, wrote a suggestion to Li Xiucheng because Li Xiucheng was the only one in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who did not oppose Confucius.
In Li Xiucheng, efforts have been made to establish a local government throughout the country. Although the efficiency is still not high, it can be unified to a certain extent.
So in fact, Li Xiucheng, they already have a country now.
After owning the country, he is no longer a rogue. He can achieve the habit of mobile warfare in those years. If he wants to break through, his first thought is not where to start a new stove, but to consider hundreds of thousands of people starting food and grass. Such as support from local forces and so on?
The more he thinks about these problems, the more desperate Li Xiucheng is to break through, because he finds that Tianda has no Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
A few years ago, when Tianjing was besieged, Chen Decai, who went on an expedition to northwest help the king, returned to the army for rescue. However, when he arrived in Henan and Anhui, he found that the local people did not support them as much as they did in those years.
To put it mildly, when they started fighting, they almost accepted the defection directly for half a day in the south, and rarely fought hard. This is also the biggest difference between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Zhu Yuanzhang when they revolted. Zhu Yuanzhang exercised himself through bloody battles again and again, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was too smooth and peaceful.