At this moment, Zhenyuan and several warships were hesitating fifty nautical miles outside Shanghai!

Now, Liu Kunyi has mastered the first knife on the head of the "big cake" that the British have vacated. How to cut and distribute it has attracted much attention.

If the Beiyang Navy goes to cause trouble for him and mess up the matter, he will be scolded as a traitor!

Li Hongzhang has a headache about this!

Long Hao's unreasonable retreat made him in a dilemma.

It's really hateful!

Li Hongzhang did not care about his weakness and hurriedly called for his staff to discuss. After a night of bumpyness, they came to a unified conclusion with dark eyes.

That is: no matter what, Liu Kun must not be able to successfully complete this "distribution meeting" smoothly. Otherwise, the rise of the Nanyang Navy will be unstoppable, and the Beiyang will not be able to explain to the Lafayette.

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Li Hongzhang came here for two purposes, one was to recruit the Nanyang Navy, and the other was to get back some of the tariff pricing power.

But if he continues to develop according to the current situation, he will not be able to achieve any goal!

At that time, how can he face Cixi's anger and her debt collection of one million taels of silver?

In order to prevent Liu Kunyi from becoming a national hero, Li Hongzhang gritted his teeth and made a decision: to strengthen the contact with General Far East Fleet Fleet Fleet Fleet!

Convert from the original light cooperation to urgent and in-depth cooperation.

The original strategy of attacking Shanghai with the Beiyang Navy as the main force to the British Far East Fleet’s ‘revenge’ and the Beiyang Navy as the auxiliary force.

Naturally, Li Hongzhang was not willing to see such a change. Because in this way, even if the artillery fire broke out and attacked Shanghai, he would have lost the opportunity in terms of tariff pricing power and would definitely have to suffer a lot if he lost the opportunity.

Losing.

This loss is a frustrating thing!

Especially when Li Hongzhang believed that the British Far East Fleet was not as strong as his Beiyang.

But there was no way. Who made Long Hao "retreat" with one move and blocked Li Hongzhang's "Great Power Conquest"?

If you want to continue to attack Shanghai, put pressure on the people above it, destroy Sino-British peace talks, and destroy the division of interests, then this war can only be dominated by the "divorce" British!

It is no wonder that Li Hongzhang had the illusion that the Beiyang was stronger than the Far East Fleet. It was because Feilimant was moving forward too slowly and didn't look like he was coming to take revenge at all.

Yes, your own fleet has been wiped out by others. Your rescue team is still rushing on the road. This is clearly a rhythm that requires others to misunderstand!

What's more, the information obtained by Li Hongzhang was that the Far East Fleet was severely damaged by Spanish warships in the South China Sea. When they arrived, they were mostly just pretending to deal with the national and domestic public opinion, rather than being able to attack Shanghai with the strength.

To fight Shanghai, Beiyang has to work hard!

Even though he is capable, he wants to become someone else's deputy. Even though he is the main force of the offensive, he wants to be a foil for the green leaves. In the end, he has to give up the benefits that he should have obtained.

This is no wonder Li Hongzhang was extremely depressed.

But depression is better than gaining nothing. Li Hongzhang took the least of his two evils, so he quickly contacted Feilimante. Feilimante said ok, and said he would advance and retreat with Li Hongzhang and deal with the governor Liu Kun of Liangjiang.

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Communications on the sea were extremely inconvenient. By the time Li Hongzhang and General Feilimante reached an agreement, it was already the end of December.

December 25th, a traditional Western Christmas.

Snow fell above Shanghai city, and a faint mist rose outside the port. The water surface was so cold that it could not even be seen by a duck. It was lonely and empty, boundless.

Today is Christmas, but no one in Shanghai has the intention to celebrate Christmas.

The Chinese still have braids, so they naturally don’t know who this birthday Christ is. The representatives of the countries who stayed in Shanghai have no intention of celebrating Christmas because outside Shanghai Port, lurking in the fog that is neither thick nor thin

Two big monsters!

In other words, it is two waves of large monsters eyeing Shanghai!

As early as two days ago, everyone in Shanghai knew about it: Li Zhongtang’s Beiyang Navy and the British Far East Fleet are here!

These two most powerful fleets in East Asia are here at the same time!

Of course, they are just talking about the middle-level Shanghai citizens who don’t know the truth. The real high-level leaders, such as the governor of Liangjiang Liu Kunyi, the French ambassador, the German general, and the US representative... They all know that these two fleets have actually arrived long ago.

I just chose to issue an ultimatum today, and the day after tomorrow, Jesus’ birthday will be launched on the Shanghai City, which will not surrender!

Faced with such threats, representatives of all countries were willing to surrender. After all, they had seen Britain's terrible maritime military strength and knew that once war began, Shanghai would inevitably become a sea of ​​fire.

And their precious lives cannot be wasted unnecessary in this sea of ​​fire.

Isn’t it just a negotiation? Let the Far East Fleet also send representatives to participate. Anyway, the UK’s original interest cake was so big, so it would be acceptable to let them share a little!

After all, you have to leave room for life, and you can’t kick the UK out of the big dining table in Shanghai!

That's unkind.

Compared with the fear of the instincts of representatives of various countries for the British fleet, when Liu Kun heard that Li Hongzhang was leading the team in Beiyang, his first reaction was anger!

Furious all over my chest!

Unstoppable!

fly into a rage!

Okay, when I had a misunderstanding between the Nanyang navy and the British ships, you didn't care. When I was forced to go to the forefront by the British ultimatums, I was like a rock sinking into the sea when I sent you a letter of help. Now I finally stabilize the situation.

Then, we have to sign an agreement with representatives of various countries to redistribute interests in the Shanghai Concession and the Yangtze River Basin. You are so lucky. You ran out and said you wanted to attack Shanghai, and you also said you would capture me back to Beijing for trial!

Grass, is there any shameless person like you, Li Hefei?

When you destroyed Zhang Xiaoda (Zhang Zhidong)'s War of Resistance Against France, I can see that you are just a cartilage boy, a traitor!

Now, your true colors are finally revealed?

In order to eliminate dissidents, the party is fighting against dissent, and they actually ignore the justice of the country and the nation?

Treaty of Nanjing, Treaty of Tianjin. Treaty of Beijing has been under our heads for so many years. Now I finally see a little light that can be picked. Li Hefei, you don’t help me, but instead come to drag me down and catch me. I’m so angry.

I'm here!

Not for the Son of Man. Not for the Son of Man!

I don't know if I have been together with Li Enfu for a long time during this period. Liu Kunyi, an old man in his seventies, also had a little patriotic thought in his heart. Sometimes he would think about problems. He would put national interests above national interests... Well, the country here

Of course, it still refers to the Manchu royal family in the capital.

Therefore, whether it is public or private, Liu Kunyi is not ready to give up Shanghai. He solemnly told representatives of various countries: If you want to leave Shanghai, the one he represents will be missing on the negotiating table for distributing interests in the future.

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The implication is that if you run away timidly, don’t blame other brave people for swallowing your cake!

Seeing Liu Kunyi vowing to live and die with Shanghai one by one, those foreign representatives who were reluctant to get the benefits quickly could only bite the bullet and wait with Liu Kunyi for the arrival of this "Christmas Judgment Day".

Of course, foreign representatives are not all for money and life. Some representatives from small European countries were thinking that they had limited income at the negotiation table. So they silently packed their luggage and left Shanghai simply by car.

When they left, they were still cursing: Let's fight, the more lively the fight, the better, the more dead people die, the better, wait until everything is broken, and when both of you fight, we will come back to clean up the mess, maybe we can get it

There are more benefits than now!

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In short, since Li Hongzhang and Feilimante jointly issued an ultimatum to Shanghai, Shanghai has been in a state of great chaos in the past two days.

Think about it, the top leaders and figures are all different, and they are undecided to go or stay, let alone the middle and lower-level Shanghai citizens!

They also vaguely heard the news of a war. After a long talk, panic immediately swept across the entire Shanghai. If Liu Kunyi had not urgently dispatched Qing soldiers to martial law in the center of Shanghai, I was afraid that Li Hongzhang and Feilimante would not have it yet.

If you call, Liu Kun will be ruined by the mob.

Unfortunately, without Long Hao's help, and Liu Kunyi is not a "local snake in Shanghai", so his manpower is a bit stretched after all. So, the Qing army under his command can only protect the so-called central area: the concession

He couldn't control other places in Shanghai when he was around the government.

Because of this, the rest of the areas, such as slums, civilian gathering areas, fishermen's habitats, and resting places for lower-level handicraftsmen... that's not a word of chaos to describe!

The rascals, the gangster, and the gangster, rushed out in a row. With this panic, they smashed and looted, and all the targets were selected for the "big families" and the weak families of orphans and widows... For a moment, human nature came in the end of the world.

The ugliness before were fully demonstrated.

The situation has developed to such an extent that even the Qing officials in old Shanghai cannot control it, let alone the 'outsider' Liu Kunyi.

So he simply closed his ears and ignored them!

Therefore, the surrounding areas of Shanghai have become hell on earth in a blink of an eye. Those vulnerable people are hurriedly packing their bags and preparing to escape from this purgatory-like Shanghai with their families.

It’s ridiculous. Before Shanghai could really be bombarded by the ‘Original and other countries’, the internal chaos began to begin.

Just as the situation was out of control, a mysterious organization called "Communist Aid Association" appeared. Their members were wearing soft hats and silver jackets, holding a long stick on their hands, or

Don't have a pistol, they are agile and sharp-fitting... They are in places around Shanghai where the green gangsters are ravaged by green gangsters, specifically to rescue the unlucky residents who are almost destroyed. Of course, they will also save fires and kill scum.

The emergence of the Communist Party of China was very sudden and the time it appeared was short, so until today, December 25, except for those Shanghai citizens who were favored, chanting Amitabha Buddha and chanting their good deeds, other

People don’t know much, of course, this also includes the group of foreign representatives who decided to stay and take risks.

If we press the Communist Party of China, we will not mention it, let us focus our attention on the Shanghai port.

The fog has not dissipated and the future cannot be seen clearly. The representatives of these great powers hid in high-rise buildings that they thought were safe, and used high-power telescopes to peek into the port through the window.

There, Liu Kun and his personal guards stood on a long line of docks. Next to them were the six ruined and unfinished Nanyang Navy's war ships.
To be continued...