Yang Yi's reform ended just now. Just as Yang Yi tried to change something. Xianfeng, who was already swaying, issued an order amid opposition from the court and the public, and only a month after approving the reform, he issued an order to stop Yang Yi from forcibly reducing the rent interest, and reprimanded Yang Yi in the imperial edict. When officials saw Yang Yi being reprimanded, some people impeached Yang Yi as a thief. Some people spread news among the people that Yang Yi colluded with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to rebel. If it weren't for several bloody battles with the Taiping Army, the Emperor Xianfeng's view of Yang Yi was really hard to say. Although Xianfeng had also

He issued a secret order to comfort Yang Yi privately, saying that he would never believe that Yang Yi would rebel, so that Yang Yi would rest assured that the emperor still believed in Yang Yi's loyalty. Through this failure, Yang Yi clearly realized how ridiculous it was to come to this era and place the dream of enriching the country and strengthening the army on the emperor. After defeating Yangzhou, Qishan, who fled to Xuzhou, was not punished too much, but was only fined two years of salary. He became the new governor of Liangjiang, continued to be the head of his Jiangbei camp, and continued to be Yang Yi's boss. Yang Yi saw from Qishan's arrangement that Xianfeng was wary of himself.

Yang Yi's reform failed, but in just one month of reform, Yang Yi wandered around and encouraged industry and commerce, which made some people try to start businesses.

The failure of rent reduction and interest reduction made Yang Yi understand one truth, that is, if you want to change this era, you must have it first. The failure of reform has strengthened Yang Yi's path of armed seizing power. (Some friends may think that Yang Yi should have understood such a simple truth, otherwise he is still an excellent agent. But I remember someone said this: Agents only need to obey but not understand politics. So I assume that Yang Yi had never learned politics before coming to this world. At least he had never learned Marxism-Leninist ideas. If you don't say it, I don't even believe it myself.)

Since the goal direction has been determined, Yang Yi started a new round of military expansion. In March, Liu Mingchuan and Nie Shicheng were ordered to return to Luzhou to recruit soldiers. Of course, Liu Mingchuan also wanted to bring his wife Da Ya's family, after all, he is now in a garrison.

In addition to Luzhou, Yang Yi also started a large-scale conscription plan in northern Jiangsu. Yang Yi planned to raise 10,000 troops in northern Jiangsu. It is expected that Liu Mingchuan and Nie Shicheng can bring back one or two thousand, plus the original troops, so that a reorganized division can be established.

It was also in March that after a period of training, the first batch of young children boarded a merchant ship to Prussia and began their journey to study in a foreign country.

If you want to do big things, you must have financial strength. The large textile factory jointly opened by Yang Yi and the Shen family also broke ground. The Shen family holds 60% of the shares of the factory and Yang Yi accounts for 40%. Yang Yi does not have to pay a penny for this factory. Yang Yi is responsible for the introduction of equipment, recruitment of technicians, land and official affairs.

In 1854, the steel production in Ma'anshan began to take shape and could produce a certain amount of high-quality steel every month, which greatly supported Yang Yi's military production. With the guarantee of steel, the development and production of artillery was also put on the agenda. After considering what kind of artillery to develop, Yang Yi decided to carry a lightweight mortar first. After more than a month of escalation of development, he finally produced a mortar with an outlet diameter of 82 mm and quickly put into mass production.

In April, the Taiping Army fought with Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army in Jinggang, Hunan. As a result, Zeng Guofan was defeated and was so anxious that he wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the water. Fortunately, he was stopped by his subordinates. In April, the Taiping Army attacked Xiangtan. However, due to improper command by the Taiping Army, Lin Shaozhang, the commander of the Taiping Army, he was defeated in ten battles of land and land, and more than 10,000 people were killed in battles, and nearly 2,000 ships were destroyed. In the end, he was defeated and the two sides planned to draw.

In April, Britain, the United States and France threatened the Qing government with force and began the first "commitment revision" activity.

In April, Yang Yi's recruitment plan in northern Jiangsu was completed, recruiting more than 9,000 soldiers, and the problem that followed was the problem of officers. Yang Yi first took the Prussian instructor as the officer and trained the recruits with the recruits. Then he selected outstanding soldiers from the recruits and opened the Shanghai martial arts lecture hall, as the cradle for the troops to train officers in the future.

In early May, British minister Bao Ling and American minister Mailian went to Kunshan to meet the governor of Liangjiang Qishan, and used coercion and inducement methods to make a request for revision of the contract again, threatening to go to Tianjin to handle negotiations.

This threat is to drive a warship. As for this inducement, the two ministers held dance parties many times as soon as they arrived in Shanghai, inviting officials such as Yiliang and Yang Yi to attend. Yang Yi saw the arrogant and domineering of the great powers, and hated him in his heart. He only hated Na Qishan for facing the entanglement of foreigners, but only took the method of evasion, saying that foreign affairs should be handled by Guangdong and did not take charge of themselves, and he did not have any control to fight against foreigners.

When the foreigners saw Qi Shan being sloppy, they knew that Yang Yi was a popular person in Xianfeng's eyes, so they began to make up Yang Yi's idea and invited Yang Yi to banquets and dances many times, but Yang Yi refused for various reasons. Seeing that Yang Yi ignored their invitation, the two ministers came to the door on their own initiative.

On May Day, Yang Yi had a rare day off and was planning to spend some of his wives. Early in the morning, the door came to report that the British minister and the American minister Mai Lian were visiting and were waiting in the living room. Yang Yi saw that they had actually come to the door. This Chinese people are the most respectful. They are visiting the door, so they should give some face. Although they are reluctant, Yang Yi met with the two ministers in the living room. Before he arrived at the living room, Yang Yi heard two Japanese talking in English.

"I heard that Mr. Yang is not easy to deal with, and there is information that he is a clean official."

"Haha, Mr. Bao Ling, you have filtered too much. I have never seen an official in China who doesn't like money."

"Well, what you are right, Chinese people have never had any backbone in front of money."

"Hahaha." The two of them laughed wildly.

When Yang Yi heard this, he cursed in his heart, "Damn Japanese, I want you to be nice today." Thinking of Yang Yi, he came to the living room."

"The two ministers have been waiting for a long time. Yang Yi is late. I will forgive my guilt and forgive me." Yang Yi still wants to say these polite words.

"Mr. Yang, we have long admired you for your reputation. We have heard of your great military achievements in Shanghai and Taizhou. After coming to Shanghai this time, I have always wanted to see you, but you have never given us this opportunity. This time I visited you was really abrupt." Bao Ling, when he saw Yang Yi, he was sent over with a high hat. Although he was saying flattering words, the expressions of these two foreigners were still very Ju Ao. The translator next to him was about to translate after Bao Ling finished speaking, but was stopped by Yang Yi waved his hand.

"Thank you for your praise, but I hope you hear the truth from you. Today, the two ministers came to visit. I wonder if there is any advice?" When Yang Yi replied in fluent English, the two foreigners opened their mouths and couldn't speak for a long time.

"God, Lord Yang, you surprised me so much. You actually understand English, oh!! Your accent is a standard London Cambridge accent. Have you ever been to Cambridge?" Bao Ling spoke in an exaggerated tone, with an extremely exaggerated expression.

Bao Ling is right. Yang Yi has been to Cambridge, but not in this era.

"Since Lord Yang knows English, that's really great, and it's much more convenient for everyone to communicate." Perhaps it was from Yang Yi's words that Yang Yi heard what they had just talked, Ma Lian felt embarrassed about being caught and robbed, and his expression was not as good as Ju Ao.
Chapter completed!