The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 773 That Tsar, you have to be careful! (asking for monthly tickets)
funny?

Weber couldn't quite understand what Luo Yaoguo said?
What's so funny about this?
Is it because the Tang Empire has not yet been officially restored?
Thinking of this, the Russian ambassador hurriedly explained in his not-so-fluent Chinese: "Mr. Prime Minister, do you mean that the Tang Empire has not yet been officially restored, so it is not appropriate to negotiate peace with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the name of the Tang Empire? But don't worry, Prince Li Hongzhang will soon convene the Council of Nobles in Suiye City, and he is 100% sure that he can be elected as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."

This Austrian who worked for the Tsar was really good at telling jokes! Luo Yaoguo was so amused by him that he couldn't stop laughing. He convened a noble parliament to elect the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. It turned out that Li Hongzhang had created a sacred Tang Empire!

"My dear, what are you laughing at? Do you, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, really want to exterminate all the pagans in the Tang Empire?"

Although Natalia and Luo Yaoguo had been together for two or three years, she didn't quite understand what this angel was laughing at. Was it strange to hold a noble parliament to elect the emperor of the Tang Dynasty? At least it wouldn't be stranger than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, where the "king of heaven" never came back from heaven and the country was jointly governed by the meeting of kings and the people's congress, right?

Pagans? And they wanted to kill them all? It turned out that Natalia had a sense of humor. Luo Yaoguo loosened Natalia's slender waist that was tightened by her corset, patted her plump buttocks, and then walked to the sofa in the living room and sat down, and invited the Russian ambassador to sit down with Natalia.

After the servants of the Prince of Wu's Palace served coffee, Luo Yaoguo smiled and said to Victor Weber, "Ambassador, you are welcome to work in China. However, our negotiations with the Holy Tang Dynasty do not need Russia's intervention. We Chinese will solve our own problems."

"Mr. Prime Minister," said Victor Weber, the Russian ambassador who was good at telling jokes. His expression suddenly became serious. "I hope you can understand that the Tang Empire exists as a buffer state between our Russian Empire and your Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so you must never destroy the Tang Empire! In addition, the issue of demarcation between the Russian Empire and the Mongols..."

Luo Yaoguo's face darkened slightly, and he interrupted Weber directly: "You, the Russian Empire, actually do not need this buffer state to exist, let alone consider demarcating the border with the Mongols who have surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"

"Why?" Victor Weber's expression became more serious.

Luo Yaoguo turned his head and looked at Natalia. Natalia pouted and shook her head - she didn't dare to tell Alexander II about the "video prophecy" of the "Iron Tsar's Red Square Parade".

"Because the ghost that destroyed the Russian Empire," Luo Yaoguo said word by word, "is already wandering around Europe. In a few years, it will become bigger and stronger!"

"What did you say?" Victor Weber jumped up suddenly. "You are cursing the Russian Empire. I want to protest!"

"Victor" Natalia's face turned pale with fear, "Have you forgotten who he is? His curse..."

His curses really work! As the saying goes, "When the imperialists tell you to curse them, you'd better curse a tsar to death right away!"
Victor Weber was now scared - Nicholas I was killed by this Luo Yaoguo curse! He was a German who worked for the Russian Empire, not an Orthodox priest, and his ability to resist magic was equal to zero. If the devil in front of him cursed him, he might be killed!
Thinking of this, Victor Weber immediately changed his tone and said, "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I withdraw my protest!"

Take it back. Are you afraid? Then I won't curse you. Luo Yaoguo's expression also softened. He smiled and said to Victor Weber, "Ambassador Weber, you can report my prediction to Alexander II. Ask him to pay more attention to the situation in Europe and be careful at home. His reform to abolish serfdom will not bring stability to Russia!"

Is Europe going to be in trouble again? Victor Weber in Russia dared not disbelieve Luo Yaoguo's prediction. Because in January this year, Poland in the Russian Empire had a "January Uprising" against the rule of the Tsarist Russia. In order to suppress the Polish uprising, Alexander II mobilized 34 troops to go in and bloodily suppress it, and it has not been suppressed yet!

In May of this year, representatives of workers from all over Germany met in Leipzig to establish the All-German Workers' Association, while the leaders of workers from Britain and France met in London in July to support the Polish uprising and discuss the establishment of a pan-European workers' organization. Isn't this organization the "ghost" that Luo Yaoguo mentioned? And this "ghost" was established to oppose the Russian Empire, and it will definitely cause trouble for Russia in the future!
But why didn’t the abolition of serfdom bring stability to Russia?
Victor Weber couldn't figure it out for a moment, so he shamelessly asked: "Mr. Prime Minister, isn't abolishing serfdom a good thing for Russia? The Tsar is also preparing..."

He suddenly stopped in the middle of his words.

What else is the Tsar planning to do in relation to the emancipation of the serfs? You, an angel with the power of "great prophecy", should know, right?
"Oh," Luo Yaoguo pinched his fingers, pretended to count, nodded and said, "The Tsar will issue the "Liberation Decree" for the Polish region in March next year. This is useful for disintegrating the Polish uprising. But the "Liberation Decree" issued in 1861 for the Russian Empire did not help the stability of the empire. Victor, haven't you noticed that since the promulgation of the Russian "Liberation Decree", there have been more and more peasant uprisings in Russia?"

This is really a bit unexpected! When Russian peasants were serfs, they revolted 20 to 30 times a year. It looked terrible! It would not work if serfdom was not abolished! After the abolition of serfdom, Russian peasants revolted 200 to 300 times a year, which is ten times more!

Is the direction of this reform going in the wrong direction?
Luo Yaoguo smiled and comforted Victor Weber, saying, "Ambassador, tell the Tsar that although there are many peasant uprisings in Russia now, as long as he promulgates the "Emancipation Decree" of Poland, there will be more peasant uprisings in Russia!" "Why is that?"

Luo Yaoguo said: "Confucius once said: It is not the scarcity that is worrying, but the inequality. It means that we are not afraid of poverty, but we are afraid of inequality. When Alexander II liberated Russian serfs, he asked them to buy land for farming. But four months later, when he liberated Polish serfs, he gave them land for free. This is inequality! Polish serfs often followed the Polish nobles to oppose the Tsar, but they could get land for free. But the loyal Russian serfs had to buy land. Is this fair?"

It doesn’t seem fair!

Luo Yaoguo looked at the livid Russian ambassador and then changed the subject: "But the Polish people have been in uprising for more than a year, and the Tsar couldn't suppress it. This will also greatly encourage the rebellious Russian peasants!"

Ah, so if the Polish version of the "Emancipation Decree" is promulgated now, Russian peasants will feel unfair and intensify their rebellion! If the Polish version of the "Emancipation Decree" is not promulgated, the Polish rebels will be suppressed, which will encourage Russian peasants to intensify their rebellion.

This is a case of one stubborn stick being blocked at both ends, and one end will rebel!

This Russian Empire might really be over!

"Ambassador Weber, please tell Alexander II to think more about the situation in Europe and Russia, and pay less attention to Asia." Luo Yaoguo gloated, "His empire will not perish because of gains and losses in Asia, but it will collapse because of the revolutionary storm in Europe! And in the next few years, there will be a major crisis!"

In recent years?
Victor Weber's heartbeat quickened at Luo Yaoguo's words! He was in no mood to discuss Central Asian issues or Mongolian border issues with Luo Yaoguo. He had to report Luo Yaoguo's latest prediction to the Tsar!
The khaki walls of Suiye City stood proudly in the cold wind of the Central Asian steppes, and the newly rammed walls still had dents from the wooden pestle. Li Hongzhang stood on the top of the city wrapped in a fox fur cloak, with a moat more than three meters wide under his feet. The muddy ice surface reflected the camel caravans at the city gate. Mathilde's golden hair was lifted by the north wind and flew in the wind.

"My dear," the French woman's Chinese sounded a little sweet, "Our country is really vast, but it's a little cold."

Li Hongzhang did not answer. He turned and looked at the chessboard-like streets in the city, where the blue cloth flags of Shaanxi fur merchants and the crescent moon flags of Persian caravans were mixed together. Westerners wearing sheepskin coats and carrying spice baskets passed by Confucian scholars from the Central Plains wearing straight robes under the stone plaque of "Renyifang". Those scholars wore wide robes with large sleeves and straight long swords hanging from their waists - these were the Confucian scholars of the famous religion who followed Li Hongzhang from Guanlong all the way to the west. They were not very "Confucian" when they were in the "Central Plains", but now they made the incense of the Confucius Temple thicker than the smoke from the cooking in the border market.

Camel bells suddenly rang in the west of the city, and twenty white camels carrying Sichuan brocade came winding into the city. The Shanxi merchant who led the group shouted in the "very vinegary" Shanxi dialect: "My surname is also Li, Taiyuan Li, and I am of the same clan as the King of Tang!"

Mathilde on the top of the city wall chuckled: "That's your relative."

"All the people from the Central Plains who can follow me here are my relatives!" Li Hongzhang patted the wall of Suiye. "The Han people in Suiye, no matter where they come from, who their ancestors are, rich or poor, noble or humble, are all members of the Li Tang clan!"

As Li Hongzhang spoke, he looked outside the city.

Outside Suiye City, gray tents spread from the moat to the bank of the Chu River. Those who could live in the city were more or less of status, either scholars of famous religions or soldiers of the Xiang, Huai and Lu armies or their families. The people from Shaanxi and Gansu and the Hui people from the Western Regions who were dragged here could only dig pits in the snow to set up stoves. The smoke mixed with the smell of horse manure floated up to the top of the city. In the distance, the figures of people digging holes in the ice of the Chu River to get water were as small as ants.

Li Hongzhang's chief of staff Feng Guifen hurriedly climbed the city wall on the snow.

"Your Highnesses," the old minister, his round-collared robe icing with ice, bowed and saluted, "the governors of various towns, the great scholars of famous religions, and the officials of the court have all arrived at the meeting hall, waiting for the king and queen to come."

(End of this chapter)