The negotiation between Xiao Lotian and Jonas reached the most critical moment, and Xiao Letian's conditions were something that Jonas could not refuse at all, but Jonas's authorization was not enough at all, he could only sign a memorandum with Xiao Letian, but could not sign a formal agreement.

"I'm very sorry, I'm just a secret envoy, I'm not a plenipotentiary, and the Prime Minister didn't give me such a big mandate. How about signing a memorandum first?"

Xiao Letian knew that it would take three months to set sail from Tanggu to Hamburg, Germany, even if it was the fastest clipper boat along the way, and the Austro-Prussian War was about to start in June, and if Jonas ran back and forth, the daylily would be cold.

Jonas was also in a hurry now, he knew that he couldn't take away more than a million silver in front of him with just one memo, which was a very high-quality Mexican eagle, and all the banks in Europe would accept it.

"Mr. Xiao...... Prime Minister... I assure you by my personality that your terms will be agreed to by the Prime Minister Bismarck, and that it is the greatest luck of the Reich that Prussia can find an ally like you in the far East, and that the Prime Minister will not ignore your good intentions..."

"It's done..."Xiao Letian slapped his thigh, "Since ancient times, wealth and danger have been sought, how can I be afraid of wolves and tigers... This secret letter is addressed to Prime Minister Bismarck, only he can open it, I hope Jonas can protect him......" After speaking, Xiao Letian looked at the wooden boxes containing money distressedly, sighed and waved his hand, "Take it away..."

That morning, Jonas and Xiao Lotian signed a memorandum on top of a silver box in a warehouse in Tanggu. As the prime minister of the Ryukyus and the largest shareholder of Lotte & Co., Xiao Letian borrowed 5.5 million taels of silver from Prussia and Germany over a period of four years.

Prussian Germany, on the other hand, opened all academies to the Kingdom of the Ryukyus, even military academies. The Chinese students who set sail from Naha and Tanggu do not need to spend a penny of their own money, and they can live a very good life with the interest of this huge wealth of 5.5 million taels.

At the same time, Jonas took three companies of 300 new troops, and the Germans had to ensure that these soldiers were able to participate in actual combat and receive the best training of army officers.

The subsequent repayment of the principal will be renegotiated in four years.

This is already the most favorable contract signed by China after the Opium War, and this agreement is simply a stimulant for the sluggish national fortunes, not to mention anything else, if 2,000 Chinese intellectuals can study in Germany for six to eight years, then the technology they bring back will definitely make a qualitative leap in China's scientific and technological level.

Isn't it 5.5 million taels, which is much better than paying 200 million taels to Japan, and this investment is absolutely impossible to fail.

In the following days, all the new armies in Naha and Tanggu began a great English test, and it was not a simple matter to select 300 elites with the highest level of foreign language, the strongest receptivity, and the most important thing among the more than 1,000 new armies.

Fortunately, this army was trained by Xiao Letian himself, and they were all tested in Naha's blood and fire overnight, so there is no need to mention loyalty, as long as their foreign language foundation and military literacy are assessed.

At this time, there were no more ocean-going merchant ships of foreigners in Tanggu Port, and the shopkeeper Fan Yao carefully selected and selected, and finally decided that a Dutch medium-sized clipper ship would be used as a means of transportation across the world, and the secret envoy Jonas and the three hundred new troops would take this merchant ship to Europe.

Xiao Lotian was really worried about Naha's preparations, and when there were still fifteen days before the Spring Festival, he boarded a Dutch merchant ship and prepared to send the secret envoy and the new army to Naha in person.

Xiao Letian's decision made his harem suddenly full of grievances, these girls are looking forward to having a reunion with Xiao Letian, who wants to be in the big moon, the master actually wants to go to sea.

"Master, can't you not go? The sisters in the inner house want to celebrate the New Year with you, next year will be the wedding day of you and the two wives, why don't you hurry up and prepare for it? Yangchun March is a good time to get married......

Xiao Lotian looked at the girls with spring faces, not to mention how comfortable he was, he pinched Qingwen's face and whispered, "Are you in a hurry?"

"Oh, it's so annoying, what did you say, master?" Qingwen blushed, turned her head and left.

Xiao Letian laughed, of course he knew that these elvet girls were coming to test him on behalf of Tiger Niu and Fu Hui, and he really made up his mind to hold a wedding next spring.

"Don't worry, go back and tell Sù Tiger Niu and Fu Hui, I will come back in a few days when I go to Naha this time, and I promise to spend the New Year with you...... When the time comes, let's discuss the marriage of the spring together..."

Xiao Lotian, who had pacified the inner house, set off, and he boarded the Dutch merchant ship with Jonas and galloped away in the direction of Naha. With the strong northeast, it only took four days for Xiao Lotian to see the blue sky of Naha again.

The northern part of the continent is now unable to live in winter without cotton clothes, but Naha is now warm as spring, and a thin kaftan is enough.

"Look, sir... On the high ground south of Shuri Castle, a shore defense gun procured from the United States is being installed, and it is a 280-mm cannon, which is enough to control the entire port of Naha......"

Xiao Letian listened to Luo Huo's roar and looked at the highland where the figures flickered in the distance, countless dock workers were carrying long ropes on their backs and desperately dragging the shore defense cannon to the high ground, and now they were about to reach the top.

This is a port city full of life, all kinds of supplies purchased from the United States are in full swing on the docks, field artillery, rear-loading foreign guns, boxes of bullets, and even a modern explosives production workshop has been relocated as a whole, and even Spencer engineers have rushed to Naha to investigate.

"Your Excellency is really a man of God, just because of your close relationship with the United States, now the largest number of foreigners in Naha are Americans, they come to the royal family of the Ryukyus with countless investment intentions, and now more than sixty percent of the ships on the dock are from the United States......"

Luo Huo was the last officer to leave Naha, and he was very aware of the changes in Naha Port in the past six months, and in his introduction, a promising new port appeared in front of everyone.

"We invested 100,000 silver dollars to build the southern shipyard, and now we have invited technicians from the United States, and the tonnage level of the current maintenance ships has reached the first in East Asia, and the ships of various countries sailing in Asia in the future will definitely come to Naha for anchor and maintenance, and this business will definitely make a lot ......of money."

"There are also ten universities founded by adults, don't look at the school building is only half built now, but there are already more than 3,000 students enrolled, according to your orders, our school only teaches in Chinese and English, and if Little Japan wants to promote the Japanese language, it is a dream......

Jonas was the first time he came to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and he had the impression that the Ryukyus were nothing more than a series of insignificant island states in the western Pacific, basically equivalent to the small islands of the Pacific inhabited by savages, which were not even as good as the decaying Manchu Qing Dynasty, and were not worth paying attention to at all.

But today, after seeing the bustling city with his own eyes and hearing Xiao Letian's construction plan with his own ears, this Nordic knight is finally convinced, Xiao Letian, the prime minister of the Ryukyu Kingdom, is really a great master of Western learning, and his economic layout is indeed clear-eyed.

"Mr. Jonas, we will only stay here for three days, I'm afraid you won't have time to enjoy the beauty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and when the war is over, I will personally entertain you at Shuri Castle and let you enjoy the wonderful scenery of the Pacific Ocean......"

During the chat, the merchant ship slowly approached the dock, and at this time everyone realized that the dock was already full of troops in blue uniforms, and the more than 700 people in Xiao Lotian's new army who stayed in Naha were all concentrated on the dock.

"All of them...... Salute to the Prime Minister......" With a long command, the seven hundred tigers collectively saluted the merchant ship, and Xiao Letian, who was standing at the bow of the ship, and the fifty soldiers around him also returned the salute to the dock.

"My lord, you can count it back, I received a rumor from your carrier pigeon that the Naha camp has been noisy, and everyone is going to fight in Europe, even if they desperately press down, and the blood letters of the petition are stacked higher than the mountain......"

Liang Kun is still that fiery temper, Xiao Letian got off the boat and he took someone to block it, "My lord, let me go too, as soon as I heard that there was a national war, my blood boiled, and I haven't fallen asleep for three days in a row......"

", I don't know your kid's level of foreign language? Can you know ten of the ABC letters? If you can know more than ten, I'll let you ......."

Liang Kun made Xiao Letian unable to say a word, and he also knew that the main mission of going to Europe this time was to study, and participating in the war was just a piggybacking thing, and the ink in his stomach was really not enough.

Just when Liang Kun racked his brains to organize the language, a company at the far corner of the dock attracted Xiao Letian's attention, this is an unusually silent company, not saying or making trouble, but it does not mean that there is no expectation in their eyes.

At the front of the team, Xiao Ye Heita and Xiao Bingtaro looked at Xiao Lotian with a stern expression, and they also wanted to go up to fight for the task of this European trip for the foreign company. But they didn't dare, as Japanese, they always couldn't raise their heads in Xiao Letian's new army, after all, the crimes of their Japanese were still in front of their eyes on the night of the bloody battle of Naha.

Xiao Lotian keenly discovered this layer of estrangement, this is not the blessing of the new army, it is good for friendly forces to compete with each other, but it is not okay to have emotional rifts.

"You two don't have anything to say, don't you have any aggressiveness?" Xiao Letian stood in front of them, his tone unusually cold.

Xiao Yepingtai, who was a new yin, was suddenly excited, and his face turned red, and he suddenly replied to Xiao Letian in not very proficient English, "Of course we are enterprising, but we in the Foreign Legion know better, if we want to be respected, we don't rely on our mouths but on our actions, see you on the training ground and see you on the battlefield......

Xiao Letian was stunned at the time, he never expected that Ye Pingtai's English had improved so much, although it was a little stumbling and the accent was not accurate, but the meaning was very clear.

At this time, Hyotaro also spoke, "Father, I want to go to Europe, I want to see with my own eyes what the modern war you depict looks like, but I won't go through the back door, I will use my own ability to fight for this opportunity......"

Good guys, the two of them sang and harmonized, and gave Luo Huo and them a big red face: "What do you say? Who is playing tricks? Who is going through the back door again? When have you beaten us on the training ground? You are not an opponent even more than you are learning foreign languages......

Xiao Letian saw that the two sides were about to start arguing, and hurriedly waved his hand to stop it, "Why is there so much nonsense? I have seen all the results of your training ground, and I also saw your war courage on the night of the bloody battle, I only stayed in Naha for three days, and these three days only took cultural classes, arithmetic, natural science and foreign languages, and I took three tests, whoever has the highest score will go, and one by one will shout in front of me, all of them will disperse......"

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