Eastern Bloodline
by Fu Zegang
About This Novel
On September 27, 1825, the first train invented by Stephenson ran for the first time in the wilderness of Stockton, England. The speed and convenience it brought amazed people. Since then, the Western powers have been eager to extend railways to every corner of the world in order to control the world. As early as 1885, the Qing government was forced to sign the "Sino-French Peace Treaty" with France and proposed to build a railway in Yunnan, China. In 1895, China failed in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895. The Qing government was forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan. Chinese territory was ceded and occupied. Seeing that Japan had gained too much, Western powers intervened and demanded rewards from China for "meritful intervention." In the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, that is, in 1898, Banlu, the French minister to China, received instructions from the French government. On March 13, he submitted a note to the Prime Minister's Yamen of the Qing government, requesting the construction of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and warned: If he does not agree, he will send ships to take action...
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