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Chapter 886: Not Useful at All and Somewhat Useful
Facing Hu Biao's mouth, there was a whirring request.

In everyone's ears, there seemed to be a faint cry of 'what the hell' in a cold mechanical voice.

In the system space hall, on the wall closest to where everyone is currently gathering, the originally metallic color changed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After only five or six seconds, the wall turned into oversized screens.

Then, scenes were displayed one by one, and the content was naturally the follow-up to the details of the mission that Hu Biao and others were thinking about.

After Hu Biao and others saw it, the emotions in their hearts were mixed and complicated.

The specific situation, taken together, probably looks like this...

First, eleven days after Hu Biao and others left, Qishan, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, returned to Yangcheng from Shaoguan with a group of defeated soldiers.

Although at this time, the remaining personnel of Xuange Camp had already driven 13 warships into the vast sea.

Even before leaving, Qishan paid Shuiwei and others 10 taels of silver, which was regarded as the cost of secretly purchasing the heads of the Yin Army.

Moreover, the public sentiment of the people in Yangcheng has changed. Although they did not rebel against this trashy Daqing court, they just did not rebel.

They no longer have any respect for this court.

For a long period of time after that, the orders of the Daqing court were no longer effective outside Yangcheng. Once they left the Governor's Mansion, they immediately became inoperable.

But for Qishan and others, none of the above is important. The important thing is that the Daqing court is back.

In the first moment, Qishan sent someone to deliver a memorial to His Majesty the Emperor in the Forbidden City with a [-]-mile expedited method.

In the memorial, Qi Shan said that at the critical moment of the war between the imperial court and the Yin people, a group of rebels called Xuan Geying appeared.

Under the leadership of Hu Biao, Guifei, Yang Dongli, Cai Shen, Huang Yizhi and other bandit leaders, they assassinated three adults, including Yi Shan, Yang Fang and Long Wen, on the street.

As a result, Daqing was severely defeated in the battle with the Yin people, allowing the Yin army to attack Yangzhou City.

However, thanks to the blessings of the Manchu ancestors, His Majesty the Emperor received great blessings, Ruoding was commanded by the military officers, and Qi Shan, the former Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, turned the tide, and Daqing soldiers sacrificed their lives.

With the cooperation of some people in Yangcheng, more than [-] Yin soldiers and horses who came ashore were wiped out in the first battle.

In the second battle, the Yin fleet was defeated on the Baietan outside Yangcheng. Among them, there were 2133 heads of Yin soldiers. Later, soldiers and horses were arranged to be escorted to Beijing for verification by the court officials.

In addition, they killed a group of rebels in Xuange camp, including more than [-] bandit leaders, big and small.

In the end, only a few hundred rebels robbed a dozen Yin people's boats and fled without a trace.

Currently, the Governor-General's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi has sent relevant sea arrest documents to the coastal provinces of Daqing. Hopefully, given time, these rebels will be caught and brought to justice.

In short, Qi Shan and other Daqing officials who faced the Yin Army fleet, leaving behind Yangcheng and hundreds of thousands of people, and running faster than rabbits, showed a lot of business methods of deceiving superiors and concealing subordinates.

He took all the credit for it and put it all on his own head.

After seeing the above content, Hu Biao and everyone were almost happy and angry.

They had long known how shameless the Daqing court and bureaucrats were, but being so shameless still opened their eyes.

And if the above just makes them very angry.

Then what they saw next filled their hearts with huge anger, helplessness, and even unspeakable aggrievement.

Because after all their bloody battles and hard work, it seemed that they had not changed the history of the mission world at all.

All the consequences of those humiliations still happened...

Second, when the news that the Great Yin Empire's expeditionary force was almost completely wiped out in Yangcheng was sent back to Europe and the many colonies of the Great Yin Empire, it immediately caused an astonishing sensation.

With Charlie Elliot, the fleet commander, it was exactly as expected.

For a time, the Great Yin Empire became the laughing stock of many Guojia, such as Gaul, Degun, and Spain; the natives in many colonies were also somewhat ready to take action.

Faced with such a situation, the Great Yin Congress will soon follow.

With a result of 412 votes in favor, 71 votes against, and 50 abstentions, the decision was reached to form a stronger expeditionary force and continue the war with Daqing.

The reason is simple. Their battle outside Yangcheng did result in heavy casualties.

But for the current empire on which the sun never sets, this is not a crippling loss at all. An expeditionary force several times more powerful can be mobilized in minutes.

So after a few short months of peace, the war between Dayin and Daqing continued.

Dayin's instinct was to avoid the coast of eastern Guangdong, a place they could not understand and did not want to continue to touch, and attacked the coasts of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other regions.

There is no suspense at all, or perhaps history always has amazing inertia.Daqing suffered successive defeats in the subsequent wars, displaying all its corruption, backwardness, ignorance, etc. in front of a group of great powers who were accustomed to the weak and the strong.

These robbers felt greedy in their hearts.

After the final battle, Daqing representatives signed the "Jinling Treaty" on the Yin Army's flagship outside Jinling City, which was considered the beginning of a hundred years of humiliation for the flower growers.

The contents and representative meanings include:

The cession of Hong Kong Island is regarded as the loss of territorial power.

The total compensation for Dayin's losses in duck slices, military expenses, etc. was 100 million taels, resulting in a large outflow of silver.

Five ports including Yangcheng and Magic City were opened to trade, and trade sovereignty was lost.

Agreement on tariffs, from then on Daqing, as a Guo Jia, actually had no right to decide independently on the taxes on imported goods.

There are also various other unequal conditions. After everyone saw it, even their belief in participating in system tasks was greatly shaken.

Fortunately, in some of the content shown later, it still has some meaning to let Hu Biao and others know that they acted, fought to the death, were shot, etc.

I am also full of expectations for the follow-up tasks that should be related in the future.

Because compared to this mission, that unprepared situation, after sufficient preparation, the result will definitely not be so helpless...

Third, after such a humiliating war that even Daqing's pants were pulled down.

Many officials, lords, and gentry naturally continue to enjoy their lives. To use a sentence on the modern plane network to describe it, that is:
Then play music, then dance.

But it still made many knowledgeable people in Daqing completely wake up from the false illusion that Daqing is a kingdom of heaven and realize the current situation, which is a major change that has not happened in 3000 years.

First of all, based on the defeat in this battle, they came to the conclusion that the Yin people had strong ships and powerful artillery, and Daqing was simply incapable of defeating them.

But why can the Yin people have strong ships and powerful guns, and how can they catch up? After being ruled by Da Qing's ignorance for 200 years, how can they, who are learning the eight-legged essay, think clearly in one moment?
At this time, in addition to the book "Hai Guo Tu Zhi", there were also some books that were banned by the imperial court, but they were circulated at an alarming speed.

The reason why these books are banned is because these books were written by the bandit leaders of Xuange Camp.

The problem is that as time goes by, the fact that the entire Yin army was wiped out in the Battle of Yangcheng was actually fought by a group of common people led by Xuan Geying, has been widely circulated among the people.

The more popular these facts are spread secretly, the greater the temptation for these people.

After all, this victory made them understand that the Yin people are not invincible, and the flower growers are no worse than these foreign devils. The key is to master the correct method.
Because they all got these manuscripts through various channels; because there were so many people, Daqing's ban on these books became a joke.

So, in front of Hu Biao and the others, scenes like this appeared:
In a private house in Yanjing, the 32-year-old Daqing Imperial Academy criticizes Zeng Guofan. After putting down a pamphlet in his hand, the sky outside the window has already dimmed.

He just didn't sleep all night, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

Because after reading a book all night, he saw the world clearly for the first time and understood that Daqing was already far behind.

If you want to catch up, the court has too many restrictions and it is extremely difficult.

Thinking of this, he looked at the pamphlet on the table with "The Rise of a Great Power, The Great Yin Chapter" on the cover, and let out a long sigh.

At the same time, in a small courtyard in Luzhou Prefecture.

Li Hongzhang, who was only 20 years old and had a reputation as a scholar, also put down a pamphlet.

Mr. Li Er, who has had great ambitions since he was a child and wanted to become an important minister of the imperial court, has always had a reputation for studying deeply in Luzhou Prefecture.

Especially in the past year, it has become even more profound in the eyes of my classmates. I often stay up all night reading.

What his classmates didn't know was that Mr. Li Er spent the first half of the night reading various Confucian classics.

But once it's after midnight, what I read becomes the singer and others, who originally wrote banned books such as "Elementary School Mathematics", "Elementary School Physics", and "Elementary School Chemistry".

Because Mr. Li Er, who is still young, knows that Confucian classics are just a means for him to advance to Daqing in the future.

If we want to make this young people prosperous in the current great changes that have not been seen in 3000 years, we can only use these things called science.

And there are many more scenes with similar actions.

Among them, in addition to important figures in modern history such as Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zhongtang, and Peng Yulin, there are also some ordinary scholars and even traffickers and pawns.

After reading various pamphlets left by Xuange Camp, they obviously had various thoughts in their minds.

It's like the fire that Hu Biao and the others left behind is slowly burning and spreading on this land...

(End of this chapter)